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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Here's an interesting note I've been chomping at the bit to share with you. I'm today old when it comes to knowing this about Jimmy Carter. Yes, yes, one of the worst presidents of all time. Right behind Barack Hussein Obama. Definitely right behind Joe Biden. But Jimmy Carter was a naval officer and nuclear engineer. I knew he was in the Navy. I just, I don't remember picking that up as far as nuclear engineering. Back in the 1950s, there was a research facility in Canada suffered a partial meltdown. Millions of gallons of contaminated radio wastewater flooded the area. They brought in Carter, one of the few people with the clearance and knowledge to deal with that kind of nuclear radioactive disaster. Some training Carter was physically lowered into the reactor and helped to avert further disaster. Fascinating. Healthcare and self-care. Hot topics on social media this year. The most Googled questions 2024 included topics like whether bronchitis, pneumonia, or strep throat are contagious. Americans also wanted to know how much water they need to drink every day. And Bernie Madoff in the news. Final payments from the fund for his victims, the late Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff. The final payment sent out this week, $131 million. All in all, $4.3 billion sent out to his victims. From South Texas, you're listening to The Dana Show.
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We're going to get this done. Look, I'm humbled and honored to have President Trump's endorsement for the
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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?
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Oh, fantastic. Thank you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Okay. Who is it you said that was not going to support Speaker Johnson on this one?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.
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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?
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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.
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We need to change those rules when it comes to immigration, in my opinion, when it comes to H-1B visas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Be well, my friend. Success in 2025. Good to talk to you again.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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And it's the green that is going into the PBI's pockets, those politics or politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties. And they are under this Biden administration on his way out. He is giving. Billions of dollars to this industry and that's going right into the pockets of cronies there. So let's go to our word of the day is edify. It's a transitive verb and it could be number one to instruct, especially so to encourage intellectual, moral or spiritual improvement. So again, edify is spelled E-D-I-F-Y. Number two, it could be to build or to construct. And number three, to instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge, and to teach. And so our challenge is to use the word edify in a sentence today. And I think as parents and grandparents, our work is to edify in our children moral values, moral values, as well as resiliency. And so that is our challenge as parents and grandparents and community members to edify and build up our children. 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.
SPEAKER 15 :
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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.
SPEAKER 15 :
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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ColoradoParents.org.
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Okay, ColoradoParents.org. Let's stay in touch, keep up the great work, and love what you're doing for our children.
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Thank you, Kim. I hope you have a blessed year ahead.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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Join Kim Munson as she dives into a thought-provoking conversation with Susan Harris about the political events of 2024 and what lies ahead in 2025. In this episode, you'll hear a discussion on the role of independent media, the manipulation by mainstream outlets, and the significant political shifts that have occurred over the past year. Kim and Susan discuss the major societal challenges, dissect the ongoing battle of ideas, and emphasize the importance of choice and liberty over force. Explore how coverage and perceptions of Donald Trump have evolved and the implications this has for future political discourse. Kim shares insights on how media bias has been counteracted by independent voices. This episode is a call to action to continue preserving the principles of freedom and individual rights against growing government control. Dive into a narrative that seeks to uncover truth and maintain the ideals passed down from America's founders. Reflect on the lessons learned from the past year, as Susan Harris shares her optimism for the future and insights into how individuals can contribute to reclaiming and preserving the integrity of their states, like Colorado and Arizona. Through her candid reflections, listeners are encouraged to consider their own roles in advocating for truth and justice in their communities.
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Indeed, and welcome to 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 I get to work with an amazing team. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa. and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Be sure and check out my website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays, and 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. 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 that. And it's never compassionate to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, or lives. And force obviously can be a weapon. But it can be policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation and fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites in the United Nations, the Colorado State Legislature, the Colorado governor, the World Health Organization, zoning codes, zoning regulations, force fees, and conservation easements. And the list keeps growing. Remember, if something's a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. On the show, we focus on issues, and we'll talk about the people that are pushing those issues, but we're really trying to stay out of the personalities. Eighth grade girl fighting is what it seems like they do in politics, and we want to stay out of that. You can listen to the show on all KLZ 560 platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app, and then podcasts of the shows are on the streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify. So with that, let's get into it. First of all, Happy New Year. 2025 I know that we're all looking to 2025 with anticipation and hope and yet also a dose of reality and so we want to talk about that and I am thrilled to have on the line with me Susan Harris the Harris family has been great sponsors of the show for many many years and it's because of sponsors sponsorships like this is our independent voices on the air Susan Harris friend sponsor welcome Oh, thank you so much, Kim. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. And you had lived in Colorado for many years. You're now in Arizona, which I think both of these are really battleground states for our country. But let's look back a bit, get your perspective, looking back, and then let's look forward into 2025. So what are some key things that you think about regarding, as you look in the rearview mirror?
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Well, you know, surprisingly, looking back on 2024, going through it, it seemed very hectic and kind of a roller coaster ride all the time. But now that we're at the end of it, I can see that that roller coaster ride really had an upward trajectory the whole time. And it was hard to see that while we were in it. But it's almost as if the last few years, but especially this last year, all of the kind of antics that the Biden administration and I don't know if you want to call it the deep state, whoever it is that's running the country, which actually I'm not sure who it is, but whoever these people are, they really showed their true colors. And because of independent media like yours and many others and elon's takeover of twitter which is now x and people's ability to speak freely the word got out the truth started escaping and it and it escaped faster than they could control it for once and it was really kind of crazy but exciting as well and i think honestly that's why we're seeing or why we saw success in the election was because voices were actually able to be heard. And they had been stifled before.
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Well, they really have been, and I talked about this headline the other day, and it is that MSNBC hosts Rule and Read, they're being asked to take pay cuts with a major ratings slump. And I find that a really interesting development, Susan Harris.
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Yeah, and, you know, it seems like that's across the board at most of what we call mainstream or legacy media. that all of that media is struggling to survive even. And they're being forced to really make some changes. And I don't know how deep those changes will go. But regardless of that, most of the public is aware now of what the biases are. And I think many, many more people than not listen with a lot of skepticism now, and just really don't believe much that comes out of those mainstream media channels.
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Well, and there's really been such indoctrination on that, Susan. I've talked with many friends, colleagues, where they may have family members or friends that only watch that mainstream media, and there still is a significant... I would say indoctrination that is going on. And I was talking with a friend of mine the other day, and she said that one of her friends who is Democrat wanted to talk about why, you know, my friend was supportive of Donald Trump. And What ultimately came out was this significant hatred for Donald Trump. And I've experienced that as well. People that I know, that I actually had a former friend, I would say, really by her choice, that she said, and this was in the 2020 election, she said, I hate him. And I'm just shocked when I hear people say that, Susan Harris.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's very interesting. The campaign was very effective against him. And, you know, when you look back historically at how the media treated Donald Trump before he ran for president, it's shocking. They adored him. They thought he should run for president. And then when he did it, you know, and of course, he didn't run under the circumstances that they wanted him to. And he ran as a Republican. Then they piled on and, you know, ran a campaign for us to definitely all hate him. And even me as a supporter of him, I would say things like, well, I support his policy, but not him. You know, at first, because I too was kind of, affected by all of that propaganda but now i see that they're just able to say whatever they want it doesn't matter how deep the lies go and they will destroy a person if that's what needs to happen for them to accomplish their objective and the real donald trump i don't know if a person like me will ever have um any idea what the real man is like because of their um vicious campaign against him.
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I cannot believe what he has walked through to get to this point. It's incredible. People are saying the next 20 days from now until his inauguration, it's a very important time in our country. The next 20 days are super important, Susan.
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I think they are, and it's been really interesting. He has not been saying a whole lot, but what he has been saying has been pretty significant, and some of the things he's been saying are quite surprising, and people, even people who support him, I think, have been a little bit surprised by some of the things he has said, or not said, even.
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You mean like annexing Canada?
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some of those types of things and you know this morning at least i only thought this morning maybe it came out sooner but he has endorsed speaker johnson as the next speaker to continue and i think that's a little surprising to most people um you know there's there's so much going on in the background that we don't know about and and we only get to see little bits and pieces of it so It's just interesting how it's playing out. And now, based on my history with this whole thing over the last 10 years, I'm really learning to be patient and let it play out because it never turns out the way I expected. And usually, in the long run, it turns out better than I expected or going in a whole different direction than I thought it would.
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Well, and what is so interesting, like you say, is to be somewhat patient. Because even like going through COVID, as we were going through it, I thought I didn't understand what was going on. But as we move forward, looking back now... the truth comes out. These people that were pushing mistruths and coercion and force and all that, uh, they're on record and video saying different things. And, uh, so that's, I think that's, um, a really important thing to remember.
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Well, and you know, I, I think when they, when they did all of those things, um, They weren't used to the idea that the Internet is forever. And so, you know, they would contradict themselves constantly and not remembering the fact that it's so easy to go back and see what they said before. So, you know, you're right. They're tripping over their own feet. And it's an interesting process. And, you know, thank goodness people saved some of those videos because some of them were even taken down, I think. But there were some patriot warriors out there that saved them.
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So it's kind of nice. Yeah, and screenshots are important as well. Yes, yes. Yes, all that is so super important. And I have said, in fact, Marlee Hornick with United Sovereign Americans, we had a conversation, and I said, I really think that we are in the third founding of our country. And this is a battle of ideas. And I'm very encouraged, but... I really do think that we are in the battle to reclaim our country and, of course, in Colorado to reclaim our state.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, absolutely. You know, and Arizona is kind of similar to Colorado in that we've had a huge influx of people from California and outside money coming in that is from various leftist groups, maybe even George Soros' people himself. Just some really nefarious people. entities have moved into the state because I think they practiced in Colorado and figured out what would work. And now they're going to try to do the same thing here. They have been trying. But luckily, we have some pretty strong organizations here that kind of watch for that stuff and see it coming and file lawsuits immediately and, you know, are working very hard to try to keep Arizona a red state. But we're seeing very similar players that worked in Colorado come into this state to try to accomplish the same thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and that's why here in Colorado, we need to not give up on Colorado. We need to work to hold the line and then start to reclaim territory. And so that's why we do the show. I'm talking with Susan Harris, and I so appreciate the Harris family and their great sponsorship of the show. We're pre-recording the show for New Year's Day. We wish you all a very happy New Year's. Another great sponsor of the show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And Roger's been in business for 48 years, taking care of his clients. and his family, giving back to the community. And give them a call for a complimentary appointment. That number is 303-795-8855. Because if you bundle your insurance together, you might be able to save some money. So like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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SPEAKER 06 :
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 we wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year 2025. And we are pre-recording the shows for New Year's Day. Pleased to have on the line with me, Susan Harris. And the Harris family is great sponsors of the show. And I greatly appreciate your friendship and your sponsorship, Susan.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, gosh, it's our pleasure, Kim. We're just so happy that we're able to support you and all the great work that you do.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and we are in this, we're an independent voice, this battle of ideas. That is where it's at. And looking back and looking forward to looking back at 2024 and forward to 2025, the Department of Justice, it was unbelievable what they had done regarding political opponents, if you will, and all of this lawfare and particularly Donald Trump. I cannot believe all of the stuff that they threw at him.
SPEAKER 07 :
It really is incredible. And, you know, I just can't even imagine not just the energy it took for him to deal with those issues, although I think he's pretty good at compartmentalizing, but the resources and just the personnel and the finances and the organization required to defend him on every level of his life, political, personal, past political, you know, past presidential issues, really from the day he was elected president till right now, currently, it's still going on. And it just is mind-blowing the efforts that were made to destroy his life personally, politically, on every level that you can imagine.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, don't you remember when there was the raid on Mar-a-Lago? I remember I was actually driving through Arizona when I heard it, and I couldn't believe it, that we would actually have, I guess, was it the FBI or the Department of Justice going through former First Lady's underwear drawer? Really?
SPEAKER 07 :
And their children. Barron's room was also, you know, gone through and ransacked. And it just made no sense to me, especially when all they had to do probably was ask for whatever they wanted, and they would have been given access to it.
SPEAKER 06 :
And meanwhile, back at the ranch, because they said that they were looking for documents from his presidency, Joe Biden had documents in his garage.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, not just in his garage. It was everywhere at – what is it? Penn State or University of Pennsylvania, I can't remember now, and I hate to misspeak, but there were documents all across the country, really. Wherever he had been, they were finding documents, and probably they're still there. Who knows?
SPEAKER 06 :
I know. So this this is really banana republic stuff that we've seen with the FBI and the Department of Justice. And my understanding is, is really it's been at the top that there are still fine people that work for the FBI. But at the top, it was out of control.
SPEAKER 07 :
I hope that's the case. You know, you talk about brainwashing. You wonder how deep the brainwashing goes. But I hope that it is true that the rank-and-file members of the Department of Justice can still be relied on to be patriots and to work for the Constitution. But it's hard to say at this point because, you know, since 2016, I feel like when Donald Trump ran for president in 2015 and took office in 2016, it just seems like that the department was weaponized from that point forward. And, you know, so we'll see how much housecleaning has to be done before we can really trust the Department of Justice again. Even me personally, I feel somewhat threatened that if they ever wanted to come after me, they would find a way. because I've said things, I've stood for things, I've donated money to things that are not on the approved list, I'm sure.
SPEAKER 06 :
But, Susan, that's what it takes to reclaim our country. When we think about what the founders did, that they put everything on the line, their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. And why did they do that? Because they were looking forward to the next generations to preserve liberty, to pass that on to the next generations. And we have that same responsibility.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I agree 100%. I tease my family sometimes that when I go to my HIIT workout classes, I'm really just preparing for time in the gulag. I need to be in great shape.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's not funny, Susan.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know, I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Although, I know, I've thought about the same thing, but... And Susan, it may be, you know, my other show, America's Veterans Stories, 2016, I went to Normandy with a group that accompanied 40 day veterans to Normandy and then sitting across the table or on the phone line with all of these regular veterans. But they weren't just, well, they were Americans that put their lives on the line because of duty and because, again, wanting to make sure that we preserve liberty and freedom for the next generation. And it's like I can do no less. If they can do it, I can do it. And I know that that runs through your veins as well. Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
It definitely does. And, you know, I'm in my 60s now. And quite frankly, I have lived a charmed life on many levels. And I just feel I've lived a great life. And I do feel like the rest of my life, if need be, I will spend making sure my children and grandchildren have at least the opportunity to live the American dream the way I have. And it's very important to me. And I refuse to allow it to be destroyed by nefarious people and organizations. I'm not even sure how to describe what some of these institutions seem to be doing. But I'm undetermined to fight back in any way that I can. And, you know, there have been a lot of people that have done that, and they have paid – some pretty dear prices. You know, I feel like a lot of the January six people that are now in prison went to Washington with the best of intention and little did they know what was waiting for them there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and we've all seen pictures of January 6th where there's Capitol Hill police that are basically welcoming people into the Capitol. And people are walking on the carpet between the roped off area, looking around. And. I was talking to a young person. This was last January 6th. And he said, I knew when I saw the horned man walking into the inner chambers with the Capitol Police right behind him, not trying to stand in his way or stop him at all. He said, I knew that it wasn't all true. And I thought, that's a really excellent point.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and again, the media played their role and made people think that it was a violent situation. Armed people came with guns ready to do battle. And that was not true. There were no guns. The only guns were the ones that the police had. And people were not killed except for one person who was killed by a police officer. And, you know, they made it seem like there was all this violence, and that just wasn't the case at all.
SPEAKER 06 :
I had some friends that were there, and she said when they got back to their hotel and they turned on the television, they're like, that's not what we saw. That's not what it was. It was probably at least a half million people there. that were there she said it was it was very upbeat people were smiling um but she did say that they had actually hung back a little bit because the only bathroom facilities were some porta potties that had been were being put up for the inauguration and um She said that in that particular area that there were buses that showed up and people in black got off. And she said that they actually were going through the crowd going. They shot her. They shot her. I took that as that there were people trying to get people ramped up in the crowd. And that didn't really happen. And it's a credit to the American people, I think. Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 07 :
It really is. And quite frankly, if a group of Americans wanted to really take over the government, that is not the way they would do it. It just makes no sense. You know, if they really wanted to have an insurrection, you would know. You would know for sure. There would be no question whether or not it was an insurrection. The American people would have made it clear, I'm sure. And so there's no way that that was the intention of the people that were there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and apparently the Capitol Hill police had taken down some of the barriers around the Capitol, welcoming people into the Capitol. And quite frankly, if, in fact, we are the most powerful nation on the face of the earth as any, And if that's the case, the idea that a guy dressed up with horns on his head could breach the Capitol and get all the way to the inner chambers, well, that's pretty embarrassing for the most powerful nation on the face of the earth, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. In fact, the fact that anyone was able to get into that building that day at all when the seriousness of the meetings that were happening were happening, it makes no sense that they would have allowed anyone access to the Capitol that day. And so it's so obvious to most of us what was going on, that it was, you know, kind of an instigated, something instigated by our own government and blown up by the media, something that didn't even happen. Just for political purposes. You know, Nancy Pelosi filming the whole thing with her daughter. None of it adds up that it would have been an actual insurrection. And these folks that are in prison still, after all this time, really for what I don't even consider crimes, although I guess you can you know, turn just about anything into a crime, it's just heartbreaking to me what those families are going through.
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
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 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 shouldn't have to force people to do it. And another nonprofit that I dearly love is the Center for American Values. Located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk, Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because there are four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up there. And so the center was founded by Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War and Brad Padula. who is an Emmy Award-winning documentary maker. And they wanted to have a place with educational programs to, I would say, reclaim these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism, these American values, and also to honor our Medal of Honor recipients. And so check out the center. It's a very special place. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org, AmericanValuesCenter.org. And Happy New Year to all of you. Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous 2025. We're pre-recording the show for New Year's Day. And on the line with me is my friend and great sponsor of the show, Susan Harris. Susan, we were talking about lawfare. in the last segment. And someone that they have really tried to destroy is John Eastman. And I've gotten to know John and Elizabeth Eastman. I consider them friends. And in fact, I interviewed him shortly after January 6th, about three weeks after. I took my rig up to Boulder. He'd been canceled by the university there. He had been the visiting professor of conservative thought and policy. And Basically, they canceled him.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't know if you remember this, but you and I attended a dinner together. Oh, that's right. And he gave a talk that evening about what happened. And it was very, very interesting and informative.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the media did not explain it the way he did, and he was the guy that was there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right. Oh, well, I think they wanted... their story to send a certain message, which it did.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and they have really tried to destroy him. But he reached out just recently and said that there were some Hollywood people that wanted to make a movie about his story, a documentary. And that documentary is... Being released on January 6th, which is appropriate. It's going to have a screening on January 4th at Mar-a-Lago. And it's called The Eastman Dilemma, Lawfare or Justice. And I think it's going to be super interesting. But they have done everything they can to try to... break his spirit and destroy him. And he is still standing strong. I saw him at an event earlier this year and I said, how are you doing? He said, I'm doing great. There was a paper in California, now I can't remember which one, that they wanted to do an interview about how depressed he is. And he said, I'm not depressed. And then he quoted the founders that they had pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. And he's like, I can do no other. I'm like, wow. That's amazing. But they have thrown the book at him or the encyclopedia.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, yes, they certainly have. And, you know, not just his teaching credentials, but also his law license and his ability to practice law.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that begs the question, I always think, do we really need to have those licenses? And, of course, I really questioned that during COVID as well, where people, businesses were threatened that they would lose their licenses if they did not, you know, adhere to the fear and coercion. But that's a whole different discussion for that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. But I know what you're saying. Well, you know, he was practicing law when he was serving President Trump during that week. of January 6. And that's what he was doing. He was practicing law and advising. He was not making policy. He was not determining outcomes. He was just practicing law.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and the real question, because in both the presentation that you and I attended and then also with the interview that I did, is he was in a room, I think, on January 4th. It was him and Trump. He was there as Trump's attorney. Mike Pence and Mike Pence's chief of staff and Mike Pence's attorney interviewed. And if I remember this right, they were trying to figure out from a constitutional standpoint, because Eastman is one of the most respected constitutional scholars in the country, just what the Constitution said about the certification of the electoral college votes. And there were so many questions out there. And many of the legislatures who are in charge of their elections were not back in session until that first or second week of January. And so the question on the table was, could Pence, as vice president, overturn the results of the electoral college? And the answer was no. But could he delay certifying the election until these legislatures got into session? The answer was yes. So that was really the question on the table, Susan.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And that's all it was, was whether or not he was allowed to delay, well, to cancel. And the answer was no, but yes. would be allowed to delay and send things back to the legislators for approval, for review. That's all. Just to have them review and send it right back and then business as usual going forward based on those decisions.
SPEAKER 06 :
And my understanding is that is what Trump, from the stage on January 6th, has said, is go down to the Capitol peacefully and make your voices heard with, I think, the goal to delay until we could really get our brain around what had happened. What had happened. That's right. And Pence did not do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. He did not. He said he was going to, at least that's my understanding according to what John said, that that was the agreement at the end of the meeting, but that he changed his mind.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I then changed my mind about Mike Pence.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly, exactly. Yeah, and, you know, we don't know what kind of pressures he was under from the outside. That forced him to change his mind. You know, I'm not sure. We'll never know, I guess. But he did change his mind.
SPEAKER 06 :
And then what happened? It unleashed the O'Biden-Harris presidency, which really did not have the American people's best interests in mind. You can look anywhere from the open border where millions of people came across the border. We don't know who they are. We don't know their health status. We, as Americans, have to show ID and go through scanners to get onto an airplane. But my understanding is... that came in here illegally were put on airplanes without ID, without going through this security, and they were flown all over our country. So there's that. There's the billions of dollars that was given to Ukraine to secure their border creating and that money that was spent created inflation for everyday people where we have people on fixed incomes young families all of us are trying to keep it together but high inflation all these things did not have the the American people's best interests in mind Susan Harris and then victims of disaster here for example in Hawaii in Florida North Carolina Georgia
SPEAKER 07 :
The southern states that were hit by hurricanes just this year, you know, it's almost like a let them eat cake mentality when you say here's your $800 or $750 to get you through this disaster. Yet we can spend billions on unknown, who knows where the money ended up. that went to Ukraine, and even Israel, for that matter. And I'm a supporter of Israel, don't get me wrong. But, you know, billions of dollars went to Israel as well. And that's what we know about. There's plenty of money going places we don't know about that the press doesn't report on. So it literally is... ignoring the plight of the American citizen.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I think people, obviously, they understood that at the ballot box with Donald Trump being elected. My concern is Susan Harris, is that what they cannot get done right now at the federal level, they're going to push those agendas, though, at the local, the county, and the state level. And particularly here in Colorado, which I think is the petri dish for all of this. I'm concerned about that, and I've... I've suggested that we have our own DOGE Colorado Department of Government Efficiency. And one of the first things that we do is we as citizens really demand that our government, local, county, and state not take government grants. We would save so much money in doing so. And we would also, I think, regain control of our communities and our state. What do you think about that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, absolutely. Well, I think that is critical over the next four years while the Trump administration accomplishes what it's going to try to do at the federal level. We, the people, have got to stay down at the local level and make sure we even know what is going on. And I think over the last four to eight years, we've started to get an understanding of what's happening and But we need to be very proactive at the local level and make our voices heard and also run for office if you can or if you have skills that could be used because it is imperative that your right is exactly where the power is going to lie. In the near term, anyway.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's the power of the purse. If we can cut the money off, then we can start to reclaim our state and reclaim our country. And that's why there's all this billions of dollars going to Ukraine. We need to cut that money off. But it seems like the Biden administration or the Biden administration is trying to get all that money out the door as fast as they can before Donald Trump takes office on January 20th.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and you know, None of that money can be accounted for for some reason. It just disappears.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it's going somewhere.
SPEAKER 07 :
We don't really know what it's being used for. They claim it's going to Ukraine. We don't really even know if that's the case because none of it can be accounted for.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and that's unconscionable, and we've got to get that turned around. So I'm talking with Susan Harris. And again, thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. Another great sponsor is Lorne Levy, and it's for everything mortgages. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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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. 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 Susan Harris is on the line, and I so thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. We pre-recorded for New Year's Day. And Susan Harris, looking forward. I didn't even realize how kind of on my shoulders I was so concerned about about this last election. And if the Biden-Harris administration got four more years, I was really concerned for our country. And I can feel hope. In fact, I was at church the other day, and a father with three young children said, I'm really looking forward to 2025. I didn't really ask him why. But there seems to be a kind of a skip in the step of people and hopeful and entrepreneurs looking forward to new opportunities. What's your thoughts about 2025?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I have a lot of optimism. I mean, I just feel like we have this risk that right now with Donald Trump going back into the White House, We have a chance to take a breath and to actually get some things done that we've been trying to work on for so long that most of the American people would like to see done, especially getting the border taken care of. But I am very optimistic, and I have a tendency, Kim, to be kind of a worrier. So it's a big deal, I feel like, if I'm optimistic. I feel like that is a really good sign. And I keep a little... a little note next to my sink in my bathroom. And it's a little note that says, what if it turns out better than you could have ever imagined? And then just keeping that thought in my mind regularly is really helpful for me because it just seems like that tends to be the case, that my imagination tends to lead to things that are worrisome. instead of focusing on all the good things that are happening which at this point i feel like there are more good things that are happening that we need to really be aware of and to keep that in our in the forefront of our minds so that we can continue to move forward and not get bogged down into details that don't really matter
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I can be a worrier as well. And I say this daily prayer where I, a variety of things, but my worries I send to the cross of Christ. And then when I start to worry, I'm like, wait a minute. I'm sending that over there. He's going to take care of that. I need to take care of business here. Move forward with optimism and hope. But there was a lot to worry about as well. I think so, too. I like you. I'm making this conscious effort to focus on the optimism and the hope and the opportunity here. That is really the American idea. And so I'm excited about 2025 and what it'll bring.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I really am, too. And, you know, there are so many youthful faces that are headed to Washington and they have this vibrant energy and they're from all walks of life. I mean, you could not, in my opinion, ask for a more diverse group than Trump has put in place. to lead, that he's going to lead in this next phase of our country. And, you know, I rely heavily on Jeremiah 29, 11, when the Lord is speaking through Jeremiah, but he says, he's saying to the Jews, listen, I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. then you'll call on me and pray to me and i will listen to you you'll seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart and to me he's just saying hey listen israelites you're my people i want the best for you and so i really um i really think he wants the best for america and that's why we're here in the first place our founding fathers were certainly followers of jesus and of god and um i i really believe that god wants the best for our country he wants the best for each individual person um in the world really but i think he is really working through us right now and we have to keep that hope in our heart so that he can accomplish what he what he wants to accomplish
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and sometimes, Susan, I wonder, what is it I am supposed to do? And this has been attributed to George Washington, who truly was a great man, the father of our country. But he says, we pray, we work, and we leave the rest to God. And so prayer is certainly super important, but we also have to take action. And so I really and it can seem overwhelming anywhere from school board all the way up to the federal government. And so each of us needs to do one thing. We have a civic duty to do one thing. And if we take on that one thing that we're most concerned about that keeps us up at night, if every one of us did that one thing, it's a slam dunk to reclaim our country.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, I think that's very true. And I think if each of us, you know, kind of looks at what gifts we've been given, you know, you have done an amazing job with your radio program and your ability to bring people in and talk to people about the issues of the day and to really keep your finger on the pulse of the issues. And then people like me, I feel like God has just given me financial resources to to support people like you. And I feel so fortunate to be able to do that because I don't have the gifts that you have, um, to communicate the way that you do. So, um, you know, I think each of us, we need to look at what we've been given and really use that, um, to move this country forward.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I thank you, Susan, because we are an independent voice, and I buy my airtime, which means I have total control over guest selection, subject selection, but that means that I'm truly an entrepreneur, so... Working together, this has just been so great, and I so appreciate it. And I feel that this has been a long time for me to get to this point, because I'd gone through an angry period where my communication skills were very... They were challenging. And I continue to want to become a better communicator. But it's been a journey. I remember the kids would come home from school. And that was really when things were kind of starting that public education in many places was kind of pushing an agenda. And I didn't quite understand it. And I was angry about it. And so it's been a real progression to get to this point, Susan.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm sure that it has. And, you know, I still struggle relating to people that I disagree with vehemently. I think that's one of my big challenges. And, you know, loving our enemies. And really, I feel like President Trump has made it clear from his perspective that that's what's going to happen. We're going to bring in as many different kinds of people as possible with all kinds of ideas and then let's let the ideas speak for themselves. Instead of tearing down the people that have the ideas, let's let the ideas speak for themselves and let's do what's best for the country regardless of the person that idea comes from. And I'm so happy to see that because it resets my frame of mind too to see that happening. really check my emotions when people that I have disagreed with in the past might have a good idea about something we should at least consider talking about.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, in our byline regarding searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if there's force involved, that can be a big litmus test on whether or not it's a good idea. But then we need to kick around. that idea and and talk about it but force i think seems to be a good litmus test on all of that susan harris we're just about out of time and this is gone so quickly and i certainly i wish you and yours a very prosperous and healthy 2025 how would you like to button this this up this has been a great conversation i would just like to encourage everyone to have a
SPEAKER 07 :
a great year to really spend some time thinking about what their priorities are. And quite frankly, Kim, I don't know if this is appropriate to say on your show, but read your Bible. I have searched my whole life for wisdom and answers, and I was raised in a very religious But I stopped reading the Bible for probably 40 years of my life, and I stopped practicing religion of any kind. And when about maybe five or six years ago, when I started moving back in that direction, I just found my life really changed for the better. And I have found so much peace and happiness, even amongst all the turmoil that goes on out in the world. And I would just encourage everyone, Just open your Bible and start reading it. And if you don't understand it, then open it in a different place another day or ask God to help you understand it. It really makes a huge difference. And that's just what I would encourage people to do.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, thank you. And I have started daily Bible reading as well. Because when we interviewed Dr. Don Sweeting for Christmas week, he said the Bible is one of the most unread books in the country. And I thought I need to change that. So Susan Harris, thank you so much. Again, just wish you and yours a very happy new year.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Kim. Same to you. I can't wait for the new year. And I look forward to hearing from you even more this year. It's going to be great.
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It's going to be great. And this is our quote for the end of the show is from Donald Trump. He said, as long as we have faith in each other and trust in God, then there is no goal at all beyond our reach. There is no dream too large. no task too great. 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 hour number two.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Happy New Year, Kim. Thank you. Thanks for having me back in the new year. I thought I'd get cut from a broadcast schedule.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, we have to continue to shed light on the people that feed and fuel us and how that is so under attack, Trent Luce. And so we will continue to do that. First of all, do you have a New Year's resolution?
SPEAKER 03 :
No.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. You probably don't need one, huh? No.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't need a New Year's resolution that by January 9th, I forgot that I made one.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is true. That is true.
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I do have a commitment in 2025, though.
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What's that?
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I am going to seek every avenue possible to explain the importance to life of the ruminant revival. Ruminants have been getting a bad name. And I've been just I do quite a bit about how ruminants help us. But I'm just going to do a concerted effort. And, you know, your whole climate conversation that you did so well putting that together and voicing that. I want to do like a regular documentary and call it the series of the ruminant revival. So I do not do New Year's resolutions, but my commitment to myself is to make that information readily available.
SPEAKER 06 :
So explain to our listeners, what is a ruminant?
SPEAKER 03 :
A ruminant is an animal that has one stomach, but it has four chambers to that stomach. And the value of the ruminant is the fact that it can consume cellulose material, things that you and I cannot eat, and then upcycles that into the nutrient-dense food substances such as Lavaca meats, beef, or what Lavaca doesn't do, which would be lamb. Your main remnants are lamb, goats, and cattle. But if you look at what they accomplish and how they upcycle the 72% of the Earth's land mass into the most nutrient-dense food substance on the planet, and then by grazing they actually improve the absorption of these plants, the whole life cycle continues. And then what do they do? The ruminant generates this energy, this protein, all of these components of nutrient-dense beef or lamb or goat, And then they excrete them out back onto the land to continue the cycle of life. It's just a wonderful cycle. And I want to do a better job explaining this in terms of people who know nothing about ruminants. And the fact that you asked me that question was perfect because it sets me up to say, what are ruminants? Well, mostly those three animals. And I'm not excluding a bison either, by the way. Bison were the ruminants that were here. Before we came and we ultimately eliminate the bison to try to starve out the Indians and put them in a vulnerable position. And look what's happening now. Who is trying to eliminate the ruminants again? To create what kind of a vulnerability? There's nothing new about this.
SPEAKER 06 :
There is nothing new about this. And so ruminants, one of the ways that they are under attack is because they emit flatulation, let's say. So they emit methane. What would you say to that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Of course they emit methane. That's part of the natural cycle. The ocean emits methane. Fire, wildfire, when ruminants do not graze, consume the land. And they emit methane and nitrous oxide and CO2. These greenhouse gases, number one, are called greenhouse gases because they improve the plant life, period. And number two, they're part of the natural life cycle. So, of course, ruminants emit methane. That's what keeps the cycle going.
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And this is all under attack. And why, it's the big why. Why are ruminants that are able, as you say, to take what they eat and turn it into, upload it, or however you said that, to very protein-orientated meats that help us be strong and live our lives. Why, I guess I just kind of answered that question, but why would you say that ruminants are under attack?
SPEAKER 03 :
Professor Munson, it's very easy to answer the question when you give me the answer in the question.
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I'm sorry about that.
SPEAKER 03 :
But I did find, and I've been saying this for several years, that ruminants are vital to individual liberty and freedom. You show me a country in the world that does not have a strong ruminant population, and I'll show you a country in the world where people are struggling with freedom. They can't find freedom. Now, the interesting scenario in this whole story, if you wanted me to describe why this is such a fallacy. So if, in fact, ruminants, i.e. cows, because it's the most populated ruminant on Earth, is a problem for flatulence, as you said, and emitting greenhouse gases, what country on Earth And I'm putting you on the spot. You know, that's why you have me on here, to put you on the spot all the time. And I don't give you the answer to my questions, so you're going to have to work hard. Okay. What country in the world has the most cows?
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The United States.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's incorrect. The United States is fourth on the list at just under 90 million head.
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Okay. Argentina. Argentina.
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Argentina is about seventh on the list, so significantly less than the United States. But Argentina, great story for you to bring up, is the number one beef consumer in the world in terms of per capita. We in the United States consume about 60 pounds of beef each year. The Argentinians consume 103 pounds of beef per person per year.
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Are they fat?
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No, they're very lean.
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Okay, I had to ask that because... And very muscular. Ah, good point.
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In fact, I am seeing a tremendous, and I'm not on a lot of social media because I'm banned from most of them that I don't want to name, but I am on Twitter and I'm on Substack. And I am seeing a large number of people on Twitter who are now showing pictures of themselves four years ago and today after they've been on the carnivore diet for four years.
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And they look a lot better?
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Oh, they look like Olympic athletes.
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That is so interesting. We're going to continue the discussion with Trent Luce. But I wanted to mention our sponsors. One of those is Hooters Restaurants. And they have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. And they are known for their chicken wings. So be sure and check that out. They are sponsors of both the Kim Munson Show and America's Veterans Stories, How I Got to Know Them. It's a freedom story, and you can find that at my website. And as I mentioned, we have prerecorded for New Year's Day. Happy New Year's to all of you. And the show comes to you because of great sponsors. One of those is Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages. He can help you with a new mortgage, a second mortgage, a reverse mortgage. And he can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. Lorne Levy, Happy New Year.
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It's hard to believe that it's 2025. Looking forward with great anticipation. What's your thoughts about 2025, Lorne Levy?
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My first thought is that I'm old. I don't like to see that number of years. But secondly, I'm looking forward to stability in the economy and the marketplace with it not being an election year and hopefully things normalizing and going in the direction we all want it to go. Business-wise, I'm hoping that the housing market picks up and that rates stay lower than they are now or move lower, which would be great for everybody involved and help people save money. And I think it'll just, you know, with stability and certainty comes, you know, the market just performs properly, which is great.
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So what about interest rates? I've been reporting that it seems like the Biden-Harris administration on their way out is trying to put all kinds of marbles in front of the Trump administration. And one of the things is the Biden administration. is pushing more and more money to Ukraine. In fact, the other day it was $6 billion. We don't have that money. We're printing that money. It's causing inflation. I hope that we're gonna get this under control.
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Yeah, that would be the key, because the more we print, the more we have inflation, which would keep rates higher. The role of the Fed is to mitigate the best they can, but they don't have any control over the legislative branch, which includes Congress, and then what the president can do on his own without Congress. So they have to kind of be the opposite guy, the good parent, bad parent. Hopefully they can do with, you know, control inflation on their end. Unemployment is not high. It's staying low, which is good for the economy, good for all Americans. I think they thought by raising rates, unemployment will be a little bit higher. That's what's taking them longer to come down. But that's a good thing for working Americans. So, you know, hopefully just over time, we'll see a little bit more of a pullback in inflation, which will let the Fed lower rates more and help everybody.
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Okay. So you have always said, Lauren, to, let's see, marry the house and date the rate. And if people do that, and let's say we get down six months from here and interest rates have come down, is there any cost, any like prepayment penalties to refinance?
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Okay. That seems to make a lot of sense. And looking forward into 2025, of course, people – I love all housing options. If people want to rent and be in an apartment, okay. But it seems that there's been public policy that's pushed people there. I love the idea for people that want to own their own home, create equity there. I think that's a really great idea. And that's where you can come in. You can help people in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. And so what's the best way for people to reach out to you to get pre-qualified as they look into 2025?
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And again, that's Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages, 303-880-8881. Lauren, I so appreciate your partnership with The Kim Munson Show and America's Veterans Stories. And I think 2025 is going to be a really exciting year for everything that we have going on. So I wish you and yours a very prosperous 2025.
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Same to you and your family, and I'm looking forward to it. Thank you so much, Kim.
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Absolutely. And we will be right back and continue our discussion.
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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. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. And Happy New Year to all of you. We have prerecorded this show for New Year's. And it's Wednesday, so it's a Trent Luce Wednesday. You know him, sixth-generation farmer and rancher who continues to shed light on the importance of the people that feed and fuel us. So, Trent, you had a question that you posed to me, and that is, what country has the most cattle? And I guess the United States, Argentina. Okay, how about Brazil?
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Brazil's... Fifth, right behind us. No, third. Excuse me, right in front of us at third.
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Okay. Japan?
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No, Japan, they're our best beef customer. We sell more dollars worth of beef to Japan than any other country in the world.
SPEAKER 06 :
Don't they have Kobe beef? Isn't that Japanese?
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That is Japanese, you're correct.
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Okay, tell me what continent.
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But now we sell Kobe beef to Japan. Well, they just don't have land mass. I mean, they don't have the ability to do that. And that's a great case in point where Japan is completely dependent upon other countries. India has 300 million head of bovine animals. Their Hindu religion does not allow them to eat bovine animals. but they do have a large water buffalo population, and they have become a force in exporting water buffalo to the tune of 4.4 million metric tons of what they call beef, which is actually water buffalo. But I have a story that I want to intertwine within this whole scenario. Okay. So I mentioned to you that India, and by the way, China's second on the list in terms of total beef cows. Yes.
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Huh.
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So India and China are one and two, and Brazil is three, and we are four. Of those four countries, which country in the world produces the most consumable beef? The United States. Yeah, the United States, but it was a trick question because India has 3.5 times more cows than the United States, and China has twice as many cows as the United States. And yet the United States produces 12.4 million metric tons of beef. Brazil is second on the list at 10.7 million metric tons. Do you ever hear – we hear about every European country – Ireland is trying to reduce 30% of their beef and dairy cows. The Netherlands has a burp tax, which is going into place today, another one of these taxes on food and protein food, by the way, to eliminate the emissions from cows. That's the purpose of the burp tax. You have the United States and Canada who are being targeted for eliminating these ruminant animals because of their, as you said, their flatulence. So we have to protect the environment for all of these flatulence, except there's two countries that never have any discussion or pressure to reduce the number of animals. And that is India and China.
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And they're also the ones that are building coal plants, coal-fired power plants as well.
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Every week.
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Isn't that something? Yeah, they're permitting them every week. Every week. Uh-huh.
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So this isn't anything about the cow. It isn't anything about the environment. It's a transfer of wealth. And all you have to look is at that data. That data clearly shows how that is playing out right in front of us. And too many people are willingly just going along with it.
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Well, and changing the point just a little bit on these ruminant animals is, and you mentioned this, they graze areas and turn those grasses into ultimately energy for us as we consume these beef and other meat products. But the other thing is it is a part of this whole circle of life, and that is the grazing helps to keep the grass wildfires in check a little bit. And if we don't have these ruminant animals, The prairie fires are going to be more intense and more often and create more damage. And, of course, the smoke from those fires then pollute the air that they say that they're trying to protect by getting rid of animals that flatulate. And so you can see that it's not really about what they say it's about. It's about control is what it really is.
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This is EPA data. The EPA says in, I believe it was 2017, there was one fire in Nevada that burned one million acres of wildlife, or excuse me, of the range, just like you described. One million acres, one fire, 2017. The EPA itself admits that one fire that burned one million acres contributed more emissions to the atmosphere than the top 10 petroleum polluters, according to the EPA, for 10 years. For a 10-year period of time, the 10 top petroleum companies contributed fewer emissions to the atmosphere than one million acre fire.
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Right. And we can prevent this. We can be good stewards of this earth. But being good stewards doesn't mean that everything just is going back to just, well, they want to take man out of the equation. That's ultimately what they want to do. And human beings have been part of this whole circle of life as well.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, absolutely. Human beings are part of the life cycle. They want to contribute. We continually are told that we're part of the problem when, in fact, we manage all of these resources to make it better. And this comes from information from the CO2 Coalition, which was referenced in a big part of that climate conversation. There's great data out today. This came out since the first of the year. talking about how much one part per million of CO2 in the atmosphere improves plant growth and improves yields of crops produced by farmers who feed people. One part per million of CO2 in the atmosphere, one increased part per million of CO2 in the atmosphere, will increase corn yields by 0.4%, soybean yields by 0.6%, and wheat yields by 0.6% or by 0.4%. So why are we talking about CO2 contributing to environmental degradation when, in fact, it contributes to plant growth? That's something we learned in fifth grade, Kim.
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Well, and so, again, it begs the question, why? Because if we have better yields... with our crops, then we are able to feed more people. And so it comes back to those activists that are pushing this forward, A, don't really like humans, but the other thing that I've learned about with the Green New Deal trend is that the billions and trillions of dollars that have gone into it, the Green and the Green New Deal is what is going into the pockets of PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. That's what the green in the Green New Deal is, Trent.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, absolutely. You're right. It's a transfer of wealth, period.
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It's a credit to the system and what we've been able to put together. And if you look at what we've accomplished, and there are still people alive today that can tell you about the cattle that we raised in the 40s and the 50s. They just did not possess the same amount of total meat. We literally have about one third of the breeding animals that we had in 1952. And with one third of the breeding animals, we produced three times as much total meat on the whole complex. That's an amazing story when you really look at the efficiency. And that's what we should be talking about is How can we become more efficient with every acre that we have to feed the world?
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Well, and we can do that. And that's one of the things about capitalism, about this idea of property rights, of people being able to use their creativity and innovation to create more. And what comes to mind immediately is capitalism. Jimmy Carter just passed on, and I was watching one of the evening shows recently, and they gave excerpts from his sweater speech, where he said that we all need to sacrifice, that we're running out of oil and gas. Of course, the earth was cooler, much cooler at that time. We were having very cool temperatures many times back in the 70s. And So instead of unleashing creativity and innovation, the answer by the PBIs is always that we have to make things worse, more control over everyday people. But then you unleash the creativity and innovation of the oil and gas industry, and they come up with horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and now that's under attack, but To your point, creativity, innovation by the American farmer, the American rancher, our energy producers, we need to unleash that. But there are those that want to control it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Anybody who hears me on this program knows that I'm not a fan of the federal government. I think the federal government really should just focus on one thing, and that's having a strong military, leave everything else up to us. Case in point, and it ties right into what you and I are talking about. Three weeks ago, I was coming home. I was driving home from Fargo, North Dakota. I had an event up there, and I think you and I visited about that event. But I've learned something about my trip home that I have not shared with you or your audience, and that is on my drive between Wahpeton and Brookings, South Dakota, home, I noticed that there was, I'm going to call it a severe amount of tillage. For those that may not know the movements really since 1980 has been decreased the amount of tillage because tillage is a catastrophic event. The reason that we had the Dust Bowl in the 30s was not as much about the drought and the high temperatures, as it was about we were moldboard plowing everything. We didn't build the organic matter in the soil, and one of those organic matters that we're talking about is carbon. Carbon is vital. The human body is 18% carbon, and we need to continue to build carbon in the soil to maintain soil health. It's all about the soil health. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows. And some farmers tried no tillage or minimum tillage, and they didn't like how it worked. Maybe they didn't get enough time. Maybe it didn't work for them. But they still go back to some amount of tillage less than what we used to because we know that when we expose that earth and we turn that earth over, we're destroying the microbes. There's a billion microbes in every tablespoon of soil that you find. And so it's important to not disturb those and let those microbes do their work. So with that as a baseline, I'm driving home on Interstate 29. And, you know, on the interstate, you see limited amount of things from the field. But I'm always monitoring the fields. I'm like my grandfather and a windshield farmer. Always got to be driving around, see what the fields look like.
SPEAKER 06 :
I remember that. Yes.
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And I see all these fields. with a, what I'm calling a severe amount of tillage. Some of them with a moldboard plow, some of those with those aggressive chisel plow. And what that means is it has brought that earth and turned it over. And so on my next across the pond, I actually talked about that. And across the pond I do every Monday morning with Damien Buckley from New Zealand, who is a soil health guy. I said, Damien, I don't know what's going on. I see these farmers in South Dakota and North Dakota. Right on the Minnesota border doing a high amount of tillage. We went away from tillage 30 years ago. I don't know what's happening for that. Well, fortunately, with my viewing audience, I had a friend, a longtime friend from Minnesota who lives in that area. Gayla Schmitz, her name. And she said, Trent, my husband has been going to meetings that are put on by people who have climate smart money to grant to farmers from this whole CO2 nonsense. And these administrators of this program are telling the farmer, you must plow your fields in order to be in the program. Wow. That made zero sense to me. So I called Jay Fair, who is the master. I mean, he knows more about soil health than anybody I've ever met. And he's in Bismarck. I called him. I said, Jay, why is the government telling you? In order to get in the program, you have to go back to these aggressive tillage practices, he says, Trent. They want to destroy all of the organic matter that the farmer has built so that they can take the baseline back to zero so that they can show the improvement of what their climate smart money is doing. That is what the federal government is doing to your land so that they can pay farmers to prove that the farmers making progress thanks to these climate-smart practices, they leave out of the equation. They force them to destroy what they've accomplished in the last 30 years before they start over.
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Well, and the farmer is getting so squeezed as well with their input costs, so their energy, their fertilizer costs. They're getting so squeezed. Property taxes, number one. Yeah, and so the government comes along and dangles this money out in front of them. They're trying to keep it together, to keep the farm together. Can we get this turned around? What do you think?
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We have to turn it around. We have no choice. I mean, it's about to come crashing down. But my answer to turning it around, even though that's a federal program, the answer is at the local level. Because the reason that I emphasize property taxes is those property taxes are caused by what happens in your school board and your county commission. And we have got to stop the abusive spending at those two local levels to release the pressure so farmers are not so squeezed. They feel like they've got to jump. at every program which is just hijacking their entire operation.
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I think that really is important. And I don't think I mentioned this to you yet, Trent, but, of course, DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is Musk and Ramaswamy, is going to try to do some things at the federal level. But I think we need to do DOGE Colorado and DOGE Douglas County and DOGE Lone Tree. And the first thing is, is we need to encourage – strongly encourage or do something about all these federal grants that are being accepted at the local county state level school districts we need to say don't take that anymore and so i think we need to get into the the finances of each of these entities and understand what's going on and then as you say we need to get loud about that there you are once again answering your own questions
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You're getting good about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sorry. Okay, why don't you ask me a question? Okay, I've got another question for you. When we were talking about climate change, in one of our recent Climate Conversation podcasts, I asked the guest, I can't remember which one it is now, but we're talking about in 100 years that the temperature is going to be just a little bit more. First of all, They can't even get the weather right many times within 24 hours. How the heck do we know what that temperature is going to be in 100 years? But also, Trent, I asked the question, I said, what is the perfect temperature and who decides? And they didn't really have an answer. So I'm going to ask you that. What's the perfect temperature and who decides?
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The owner of the greenhouse. Yes. That's a true story. The purpose of the greenhouse is to provide an ideal growing environment for these plants. And they pipe CO2 in there to have 800 parts per million, and we're worried about 340 parts per million or 430 in our atmosphere. Makes no sense whatsoever.
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And if we continue having fewer and fewer parts per million, the temperature could get cooler and cooler. And that is so we won't have as much production with our plants. There will not be as much thriving and flourishing. And again, I guess I will answer my own question. The question is why. So we'll have one more segment with Trent Luce. And I'm going to ask you, I was looking for quotes about the cowboy. and I found one by Charles Goodnight, and I didn't know who he is, and I said, do you know him? You said, oh, you could talk about him for an hour. Well, let's do a segment on that, talking with Trent Luce. All this happens because of our sponsors, and one of those great sponsors is John Boson with Boson Law.
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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. And 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. Check out the USMC Memorial Foundation. Their website is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. and you can see the plans for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. It was dedicated in 1977, and it's time for a facelift, and Paula Sarles and her team is working diligently on that. So check that out at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And Happy New Year to all of you. We have prerecorded this show for New Year's Day. And it's Wednesday, so it's a Trent Luce Wednesday. And Trent, we really have covered some really, we always do, really important subjects. But I was looking for a quote about a cowboy to give at the end of the show. And I came up with one from Charles Goodnight that I really like. And I said, do you know Charles Goodnight? And you said, oh, I could talk for an hour about him. So tell me about Charles Goodnight.
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Did you want to share his quote first?
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Okay, I will, and then I'll do it at the end of the show.
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I think that sets the tone, because for those, you misled people there a bit. Charlie Goodnight was born March 5th, 1836, so I didn't actually know him.
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I thought you went to school with him. Yeah, we were old school buddies.
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Okay.
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Okay, so here's the quote from Charles Goodnight. Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys. Okay, so tell us about him.
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And you don't know about Charles Goodnight?
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No, I don't.
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He had a ranch in Colorado. Oh, okay. He owned part of the J.A. Ranch, which was a ranch that spanned from near Castle Rock into New Mexico into Texas. It was a one-million-acre ranch, and it was instrumental in converting Texas into ranch country, to be honest. But the thing that makes Charlie Goodnight most famous, you know, I find it interesting that a lot of people don't even know what makes him most famous. What did all of the trail drives use to feed the cowboys, the drovers, on the trail?
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The chuck wagon? The chuck wagon?
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How do you think the chuck wagon got its name?
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Charlie Goodnight?
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Charlie Goodnight invented the chuck wagon and found a way to feed the hands while they were working. The interesting thing about Charlie Goodnight is he was born in Macoupin County, Illinois. And I had a dear friend, the late Chick Bishop, who was a retired history professor and actually a retired veteran in the United States Army as well. And he passed seven years ago now. But he had written a book about the 87 people from Illinois who had gone west to make the West tameable and were Illinoisans that never got any credit for being from Illinois. And there's another one that you probably know very well that was a part of creating a viable West and was from Illinois, and nobody knows he's from Illinois.
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Give me a hint, and I'll guess.
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There's probably more movies made about this guy than any other Western figure.
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More guys. Well, I'm thinking John Wayne.
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He was from Madison County, Iowa. Winterset, Iowa, to be exact. Okay. But he made the movies. The person I'm talking about, they made movies about.
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Okay.
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I don't know. I'm stumped. Who?
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Wyatt Earp.
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Oh, Wyatt Earp was from Illinois. Weren't you from Illinois, too?
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Correct. I grew up Quincy, Illinois. Wyatt Earp grew up Monmouth, Illinois. But Charlie Goodnight is probably the most instrumental figure in the United States post-Civil War because as we're trailing six million head of cattle from Texas to northern markets, i.e. the first one was in Abilene, Kansas, and then put those cattle on a rail car, which that was organized by a guy named Joseph McCoy, who was from Ashland, Illinois. And they shipped those cattle back into Illinois, and they ultimately go into Chicago, then put them on a refrigerator rail car and ship the meat to the east. That was what rebuilt the United States post-Civil War. And without the ingenuity and the veracity of Charlie Goodnight, none of that would have ever happened.
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Interesting. OK, I'm going to ask you a question about meat processing. When I was in well, I won't date myself, but when I was in school, I read a book called The Jungle, which was, I think, by Sinclair. I think that was in Upton Sinclair, Upton Sinclair. And it was. It did not paint the meat processing business in a good light. In fact, it seemed like they were child labor, all those kinds of things. And then just recently, somebody said that a bunch of that stuff was fabricated. So what's the truth on the book The Jungle?
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Nothing was fabricated. Let me restate this. What you said is absolutely true. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906. As a result of Upton Sinclair writing that book, and he really did talk about the way that people and children were treated, primarily in Chicago, because the majority of the meatpacking world, and the beef world in particular, was in Chicago at this period of time. In 1900, 20% of the entire city of Chicago, the people who lived in Chicago worked in the meatpacking industry. Upton Sinclair wrote a very scathing book called The Jungle. And I know it was 1906 because I just did an intro for the National Western video, which the first National Western, as we know it today, started in 1906. So this is the 119th year of the National Western. And that book, as Theodore Roosevelt was president, then led to the Meat Inspection Act, which passed in 1907, which basically completely reorganized how meatpacking was taking place. Now, I think what you were alluding to that somebody told you is that Upton Sinclair was not as much of an investigative journalist as he was an activist for the vegan community, which is way before its time in 1906. Although not as much before its time as people think, because Helen White, who's the founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, who had been hired by the Kellogg's brothers, their main job wasn't really to sell cereal. It was to convert the world to a vegan diet. So it was kind of in that ear, and Upton Sinclair came along after that point in time for the same exact purpose. But what never gets told, here's the big lie, it never gets shared, before Upton Sinclair died at relatively a young age, His doctor told him, he said, you are extremely unhealthy. If you do not start eating animal fat and animal protein in your diet, you are going to die. And he ultimately did die a premature death, but he did go back to meat eating because he recognized that he was not healthy.
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Well, in these industries, the dairy industry, the poultry industry, the eggs here in Colorado, the meat industry, and one of the things that we're seeing is this movement that we've talked about, the 30 by 30, and returning the land back to, what do you call that? What do they say? They want to return it back to what?
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They want to rewild America.
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And so ultimately, people will starve if we continue to head down this road. And so they really have been trying to demonize things in our diet that help us be stronger and healthier. And I think people are wising up, though. What do you think, Trent Luce?
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No, I think the smoke is clearing and people are beginning to see That animal products are absolutely essential in human health. Look at the move back to butter. The butter craze has become absolutely incredible. And it's fat. We have been so schooled to stay away from fat of all kinds. And we now recognize that fat is one of the essential nutrients in the fact that we have, you said it earlier in the program, we want to put these kids on a path of starvation and depredation, and we eliminate the very nutritional items that feed their brain and feed their immune system and feed their overall health.
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And I think people are recognizing that. But this attack upon the people that feed and fuel us is real. I think that everyday people are waking up and starting to understand that. That's why the work that you're doing is so important. Trent Luce, you've been doing this, what, this will be your 22nd year shedding light on this?
SPEAKER 03 :
My very first Luce Tales radio broadcast was January 7th. 2001 from the National Western, so I have just completed my 24th year. When I get back to the National Western next week, it'll be my 25th year broadcasting.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, congratulations. That is super awesome. And I am starting my seventh year of solo broadcasting. And so we've got a lot of work to do over this next year, Trent Luce. And before we finish up here, there will be a Stanford Property Rights event in Akron, Colorado on the 12th. Is that right?
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from Sunday afternoon, January 12th, from 2 to 4 or 5 o'clock, kind of whenever it ends. And this really feeds into what I've been talking about the entire time, and that is the folks of Washington County recognize that the government, federal government, rules with a heavy hand. And we do have two success stories, by the way. The transmission line that we've talked about down in southern Colorado and Pueblo, Kansas and Oklahoma have both now gotten that project off of the table. And so we're now working at making sure Colorado follows the same suit. But that is the theme of what we're going to be doing. And while the transmission line does not go through Washington County, we're just going to emphasize the importance of property rights. And what do people do to make sure we maintain this control at the local level? That's what we do in Akron on January 12th.
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OK, well, that is awesome. I'm going to be traveling, so I'm not going to be able to make that. And I'm really bummed about that. But again, that will be January 12th in Akron, Colorado. And Trent Luce, that is so important. I'm excited to work on these important issues with you here in 2025. And it is time that we reclaim our country and that we reclaim Colorado. So Trent Luce, thank you so much. I wish you and yours a very joyful, healthy, and prosperous 2025.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, now I do ask you to have one New Year's resolution. And that New Year's resolution from Kim Munson is that I'm going to stop fabricating trips I need to go on when Trent plans an event that I should be at.
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I promise. I promise, okay? Thank you, Kim. Thank you. And our quote for the end of the show is Charles Goodnight. He says, cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys. 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 Happy New Year.
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No one to cry. But tell them if I don't survive, I was born.
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In this episode, Lee Elsie tackles the massively debated topics from education to migration, while sharing personal experiences commuting to the Big Apple. Listen in as Elsie interviews Judge John Nazaro on the constitutionality of deporting immigrants, and discusses the implications of Trump's legal battles. The episode also touches on the significant decline in educational competency in America, with a thought-provoking discussion provoking listeners to rethink our national education strategies.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, sitting in for Mike today, here's Lee Elsie.
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All right, here we go. In the Big Apple, ladies and gentlemen. My name is, in fact, Lee Elsie. This is the Mike Gallagher Show. You can call in. Love to hear from you across the entire country. 1-800-655-MIKE. That's 800-655-6453 in the state of the art. This is a state of the art Relief Factor Studios. Once again, I've done this for Mike a number of times in the past, but I did get a chance today to get... the opportunity to sit here in this amazing studio right here in New York City. I took the train in like I did a million times in the past when I was trying to be an actor. So here I am again, and I can't thank everybody enough, but start with Mike. He's the nicest guy in the business, so a shout-out to Mike Gallagher first and foremost, Eric and the rest of the crew behind the scenes, making it all go without them. it would be a disaster for sure. But I'd love to hear from you. If you're on anywhere, you can go on MikeOnline.com and listen up that way and watch up that way. But I did want to start today with this feeling of... Exhilaration, a feeling of relief, a sense of a new chapter. This is the last day of this colossal disaster known as the Biden administration. Technically, not really the last day, but the last day of this year. 20 more days. I mean, 20 days and we finally get a chance to turn the page again. on this failed leadership. Joe Biden and his entire crew have led us down a road to ruin. And there's no question that the country got a chance to take a step back, take a deep breath, And say, yeah, I think we can now do this. I think we can move forward and we can change the dynamic again. Biden gave us instability. He gave us a disastrous economy, mismanagement. The world is essentially in chaos. It's one of the darkest chapters in the history of this country. And he is going to go down as the worst president in the history of this country. He's essentially a mob boss, a mafia mob boss. And now Donald Trump gets a second shot. Right. Wiser battle tested. Ready to get in there, I think, with the crew that he wants to surround himself with, which is vitally important. Something he did not do the first go around. So Trump is going to I know he's going to hit the ground running. But what we leave in the wake is this. Feeling of almost an un-American feeling, right? Almost as if you were ashamed to show your patriotic pride. And I do believe that we're going to get that back. I'm sure of it. The global chaos under Biden, it has been a disaster. Think about it. We've got a full-out war in Ukraine. We've got Israel and Gaza. This whole situation could have been averted. Here in this country, and we're going to hear from Tom Holman a little bit later on some of the things with him, but here in this country, the immigration situation has been absolutely destructive. It's been a disaster. In fact, when you think about it, the last four years, I mean, a hundred years from now, scholars will look back at these four years and study it and say, this is unbelievable what happened. You literally have got the most crooked person in history to run this country. And all of his minions, all of his family members, I'm the doll. And you could see him parting his son. We all knew he was going to do it. But who is going to be pardoned next? What sort of insulation is he going to give himself as he walks out the door? Again, 100 years from now, they're going to look back at this time in the history of this country and say, yeah, this is the most corrupt president we have ever had. Somewhere along the line, they'll dig up all of the nastiness, all of the money trails. Not that they already haven't done that, but they'll undo it and they'll show the American public at that time, this is what happened. This disaster actually happened. So Trump restores, he restores stability. He restores that to this country. And you know what's funny, too, about this round with Trump? You don't get this feeling from the progressive left that the sky is falling. They've accepted it. They know that he is not going to push the button and end us because that was probably a fear the first go around. No, he is going to stabilize the country. And it's a renewed hope. There's a renewed sense of patriotism. I can feel it. The flag will be flying higher. You know, you think about unity. This is the one thing that Biden kept preaching, unity, unity, unity. Never was able to deliver that because every speech he ever gave was divisive. But there's no question that everybody has a sense now. It's a different sense. It's a different feeling. There's momentum here. And, you know, Trump comes in and I feel as though him and the Doge and all of that surrounding that with Vivek and the way that they can trim down this colossal, massive, bloated budget that we're witnessing. If we can get that thing under control, we can actually, you know, we can actually get back to a place where we all want to be. And, you know, I tell you. There's got to be a call to action from all of us, too. We can't just sit on the sidelines. We can't just sit on our hands. We have to be proactive, more proactive. than reactive. And I think that is actually a part of the equation with Trump as well. I think that he makes people want to be part of this. And again, as I've said before, the symbols of this country, the flag, American pride, patriotism, all of that, there's going to be a resurgence of that, a moral foundation that we need to return to. I mean... Every time Biden got up and I can go down a laundry list and I don't want to spend all three hours talking about the negativeness of Biden. I want to do a lot of different things. But I know chapter and verse could go one after another, whether it's Afghanistan, whether it's the border, whether it's the economy, whether it's inflation. Do it over and over and over again. But I don't necessarily want to do that. I want to show that. I think Americans have turned the corner. And there's optimism. And we should celebrate the exceptionalism of each one of us. I came in here today via the train. I live in Connecticut. So it takes me a train to get here, then a subway ride. And, you know, we've all heard the horror stories of the subways and the trains and all of that. But you could see. I mean, these are people who go to work every day. They get up. I mean, I was on the train today by like 5 o'clock in the morning. I mean, I've done this trip a million times in my life. I grew up in Connecticut, come to New York all the time. But you see people who are just crazy. Battling it out every single day, trying to make a way in this world. And I swear I can feel that there's a different sense of optimism. In their eyes, in their presence. I got that today when I was on the subway. Honest, I know the New York subway is chaotic. In fact, today, all the headlines are saying New York is not the place to be, right? So there's terror watch alerts, there's cops on every single corner, there's tons of cops in the subway, which is a good thing in particular because today is New Year's Eve, last day of 2024. But I honestly believe that there's a sense of true optimism in this country right now, and I think that's 100% because we've got a turning of the page and a changing from... poor, callous, destructive, manipulative leadership into something that really is more nationalistic. I also want to talk about that, too, because I think there's a thought that nationalism is a bad thing. And I do want to talk about that as we move forward throughout the show today. Once again, my name is Lee Elsie. If you want to email me, you can do that. It's L-E-E-E-L-C-I radio at gmail.com. Send it my way. I'd love to hear from you, but I would love to hear from you guys. If you want to call in, we can open those phones up and take some calls. I do have a guest coming up at the bottom of the hour. We're going to talk about the constitutionality of Tom Holman and deporting folks. So keep it right here. My name is Lee Elsie filling in for the one and only Mike Gallagher right here on The Mike Gallagher Show.
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All right, welcome back.
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It's the Mike Gallagher Show. You can call in at 800-655-MIKE, mikeonline.com. And before we get to, if we can squeeze in a call, we will. At the bottom of the hour, I will be talking with Judge John Nazaro about the constitutionality of Tom Homan and deporting 12 million illegal aliens. But before we get there, Biden. The 37 death row inmates, Dan Muser, Republican, South Carolina, on him commuting those 37 death row inmates.
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I think it's outrageous. You know, it's senseless. But most of what they've done for the last four years is senseless. I mean, where does this ideology come from? Why do they leave the borders open? Why do one third of the women that come across be getting raped? Why do they, which is true. Why? Do they allow all the drugs? And why did they let the cartels become millionaires and billionaires and destroy much of the Mexico government? Why did they destroy American energy? It's impossible to understand their ideology. because it backfires all the time. Look what they did in Afghanistan. I mean, very little that the Biden administration has done makes any sense. It's really upside down and backwards, and we're going to turn it upside right, and the American people are going to appreciate the benefits. Their ideology is awful. It's an unbelievable level of liberalism. I mean, we've been giving billions of dollars to Afghanistan, for crying out loud, since the Taliban took over. Meanwhile, we have American hostages over there not accused of a crime. I mean, this administration needs to go ASAP.
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It's one of two things. It's either complete incompetence or it's nefarious. It's one or the other. Because, you know, you can't rise to this level of power and not be... Not be at least somewhat competent of what you're doing. I mean, it's simple. In my mind, either you're stupid or you're doing it on purpose.
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Period.
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End of story. We have time for one call. You want to grab Tom in Sarasota, Florida?
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Tom, what's on your mind today? Hey, Happy New Year. I'll tell you, the optimism that you're talking about, the enthusiasm. I mean, it doesn't matter what side you stand on. This is unconscionable what's happened the last four years, even with the passing of Jimmy Carter. All of a sudden, I look at him differently, like he actually had an America that fundamentally was sound in so many areas, like you're talking about ideology and such. I cannot believe what we've just been through. But I think the onus is on Trump, Musk, and Ramaswamy. They got to turn this federal government sloth upside down, get under the carpet, expose everything. And that's going to expose a Republican Party. By and large, it went bad, too. I mean, these people are standing in our House and Senate, and they're permitting so much mess. You know, and I want to be friends with Putin. I want to be friends with Xi again. I think economically, if you look at Europe, Europe has peace because of economics. They might bitch and moan like old ladies, Lee, but they got peace.
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Right.
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And it's because of economics.
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I like what you said, too.
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You got to be.
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No, I just want to jump in. I like what you said about Carter. And we can we can disagree with Carter's philosophy and the way he ran the country. But you know what? He wasn't out to bring us down. I truly believe that Biden wanted to destroy this country. And he came close to doing a second term. He would have did it. So, listen, have a great New Year, Tom. I appreciate you calling in from down there in Tampa. And, again, maybe later on, although I know it's very cliche, maybe we'll do resolutions. I don't get resolutions. I mean, I'm almost perfect, so I don't do resolutions. But if you want to call in, it's 800-655-MIKE. And, like, I do want to get to a couple other things. I want to get to honesty. I want to get to truthfulness and how important that is. I also want to talk about education before my time is up today and how important that is. There's a story in Connecticut, and I bring it up because it's my home state. where there's a young lady who was accepted to UConn, okay? Accepted to UConn. She graduated with honors, guys, and she can't read. She cannot read. This is a story that blew up. She's suing the state of Connecticut because of it. But I want to go down a laundry list. I have a bunch of numbers, and we'll do that later on. about the education system. And that's something else Trump has to attack. And as Mark said, the last caller, Trump does need to hit the ground running. It's very important that there's not a slow start here for Donald Trump. All right. My name again is Lee Elsie filling in for the one and only Mike Gallagher, who I think has been missing for like seven, eight weeks. Is that something that's not right now? I think he's going back Thursday. So keep it right here. Don't go anywhere. You're listening to The Mike Gallagher Show.
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All right, back here we are. And thank you, Mike, as always. Mike's the nicest. I've been doing this business for a long time. He's the nicest guy in it. All right, joining me right now is a retired Connecticut Superior Court judge. And we call him the truth teller. It's John Nazaro. Judge, good morning. How are you, sir? Good morning.
SPEAKER 06 :
So glad to be here with you this morning.
SPEAKER 03 :
Listen, I want to cover a couple of things, and there's nobody better out there to do that than you. And we've talked about this a couple of times on my morning show, but I want to bring it to everybody across the country. And I just want to start with the constitutionality of the deportation of 12 million people. Now, this is what Trump says he's going to do. Homan is on board with this. But some of these states and some of these governors, some of these mayors and some of these sanctuary cities don't want to do it, Judge. So how does that work?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, this is gonna be a big ask because I don't think the federal government has the infrastructure. They don't have the judges that are necessary, the lawyers that are necessary. There are thousands and thousands of cases. What we've seen under the Biden administration and even under the Obama administration was a policy of non-enforcement. So now if we're gonna call in millions of cases Just think about the logistics. I know that each attorney with ICE, Homeland Security, has approximately 6,000 cases. And that's a lot of cases. And that means when they get a continuance... They're continuing them out a couple of years. So what do we know? The Constitution protects naturalized citizens. So if you were born here on terra firma, that's considered the United States of America, arguably you cannot deport that person. That person has inalienable rights. On the other hand, if you're a foreign born individual, a resident alien who there exists a final order of deportation, you got a serious problem. And there are folks who have that order. But ICE has not come to get them. And I think that's what the president will be focusing on.
SPEAKER 03 :
Talk to me about, though, the individual, let's say, obstacles that are in the way, because some of these states, Connecticut's one, California's one, New York maybe not so much in the city anymore because they've seen the error of their ways, Judge. But if they say, you can't come and get these folks, how does Holman and the crew handle that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, this is a problem and it exists in the blue states. Like you said, a lack of cooperation in our state of Connecticut. The chief justice and indeed the governor and other states have indicated they will not cooperate. It's an impediment. It doesn't mean that ICE can't do their job, but you have a confrontation. And there have been situations where you have ICE agents with their Kevlar vests literally waiting outside the state courthouses, waiting to legitimately take a person into custody. So states will not cooperate, can't go into the courthouse, arguably. And we don't want a constitutional confrontation, an 11th Amendment issue, conflict between states' rights versus the federal government. The federal government has a right to execute its policy. And I think under President Trump, he's made it clear he's going to endeavor to do that.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, but what happens? Just give me a scenario, if you can. And we're talking to Judge Nazaro, a Superior Court judge in Connecticut. And what happens if We'll continue to use Connecticut as an example. Let's say Lamont says, no, we're not going to allow ICE to do this. Can Homan come and charge these people with obstruction of justice? He actually said the word treason a couple of times.
SPEAKER 06 :
How does that work? I mean, it could happen in the theoretical. Will it? It's not a good thing. And again, practically, how do you handle that? And you're going to have a legitimate basis of the government denying the federal government, state government denying federal authorities to come in. And this has happened and it's been frustrating. I know there have been situations anecdotally where you have a person with a final order of deportation. ISIS requested the state to hold that person. They go into state court and then they're released into the community. And the state snubs its nose at the federal government. It's happening all the time. But I'll bet that there will be legislative consequences. President Trump will push the congressman to indicate penalties, denying federal relief for those states who do not cooperate. It's the same concept with not cooperating with sanctuary cities or states. And so how far do we want to push the issue? How much resources do we want to devote to it? That's yet to be seen.
SPEAKER 03 :
Judge John Nazaro is with us on the Mike Gallagher show. And we always appreciate him coming on. He's a great guest on my morning show, bringing him on again to the national stage so everybody else can get a look at him. We have similar hairstyles. I don't think that I think that was an accident. Let me ask you, Barbara. Yeah. Donald Trump, he's dominated the legal landscape in 2024, and there's a lot there. What do you see happening to him, for him, as far as 2025 comes rolling around?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it's fascinating because one of the big things, and we've talked about this, is he has conservative justices controlling the United States Supreme Court. And that means that they're going to be sympathetic to the concept of a president exercising authority. They've already ruled in this past case, probably the most significant case, about the president is immune from criminal prosecution for those acts which could be considered in an official capacity. That doesn't mean he's going to escape justice in the civil arena. Just yesterday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict involving Gene Carroll, and he was ordered to pay $5 million by a jury, and that apparently is going to stand. The president's going to challenge that, and it's going to probably go to the United States Supreme Court. These are questions that have never been dealt with before. We saw for the first time a former president indicted and convicted on felony offenses. And I don't think that the U.S. attorneys will back down those that survive. And you can rest assured every Democratic, every left leaning U.S. attorney, if you can find one, they're going to be asked to tender their resignations and there's going to be a huge policy shift. So Donald Trump is going to push the envelope. We know that he's done it before. Past behavior is an indication of future performance.
SPEAKER 03 :
So this case that he just You know, they decided against them and technically lost. From what I heard, and please correct me if I'm wrong, she just needed to prove that it might have happened? Does that sound right?
SPEAKER 06 :
You know what? Actually, the civil standard in most states and in this particular jurisdiction is proof by a fair preponderance. Did it probably? Probably more probable than not. OK, 50 percent, 51 percent. It's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. And this was a civil judgment. And the law is that a former president is not immune from a civil judgment. Former presidents such as William Clinton, you might remember, was ordered to sit for a deposition in a sexual misconduct type of claim. So the verdict stands, and that's the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Opinions out of New York. And so we'll see. He will challenge it. I'm sure he will attempt to have the United States Supreme Court review it. With a majority of conservative justices, they may take it, case of first impression.
SPEAKER 03 :
How about in the rest of these felonies, supposedly, that he has been convicted of? What happens with those?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, you know, Jack Smith saw fit to abandon his quest and arguably the felony convictions. These are not going to stand. And we have some saber rattling that maybe the charges will be brought in the future. It's clear a president cannot be convicted of crime during his time in office. So that's the question. What happens when he gets out? And there's so many different policy considerations. Do they want to pursue it? The state courts, the president is not protected in the state courts. Do we want the states going forward with these prosecutions? Clearly, for the next four years, assuming President Trump completes the term, he's untouchable. But we'll see what happens after. And again, he'll keep pushing it. His lawyers will keep pushing it. They were successful in a related situation with CNN and George Stephanopoulos. They exacted $16 million, if I recall, $15 million plus a million for counsel fees for the libelous action filed against CNN. That was very interesting. I know Mr. Stephanopoulos reportedly was not too happy about that result.
SPEAKER 03 :
Circle back to the pardons. Biden seems to pardon another hundred people every single day. And, you know, another round, another round, another round. And we're all sort of waiting for him to pre pardon his family members. What do you think is going to happen here in 2025? Well, it's.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's tough. And as they said, when they gave me the robe, they gave me a robe as a judge, but not a crystal ball. But I will say this. I think that he will exercise that power to the nth degree. I wasn't at all surprised at the pardoning of his son, even though he said he would not. Some thought that maybe that extended meeting with President Trump was to hatch a deal that President Trump would pardon his son. No. I think we can anticipate family members being pardoned. This is an exercise in the Constitution. It's not liked by many scholars because it is basically unfettered. And let's remember that President Trump exercised the pardon power as well with Paul Manafort and others. And General Smith in Washington, this is a privilege of the president granted in the Constitution. A lot of people don't like it. And I expect President Biden will exercise it fully for all his friends and family members.
SPEAKER 03 :
If you could explain to everybody across the country. So now there is a caveat, a hiccup in this is that if he's called to testify, if Hunter now is called to testify, he has to testify now, right? He can't just plead the fifth on this, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think arguably that is correct because there is no criminal exposure. Having been granted this blanket pardon for a 10-year period, one cannot invoke the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. On the other hand, I think he could use the advice of counsel defense that he may unknowingly say something that could expose him to criminality on the state or federal level. So he might invoke the Fifth. You might see a contempt charge brought. And once again, how far are we going to test these boundaries?
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. Let me ask you one more. It's a heavy one, though. These states now there's a battle with abortion and throwing it back to the states. Clearly, constitutionally, I mean, at least seems like to me that it made the most sense in your world. How do you see that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, you know, I don't think Congress is going to monkey with it anytime soon. And the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe versus Wade, it's now up to states. I don't see Congress weighing in. I don't think the courts are going to weigh in. There's no particular case that's percolating to the United States Supreme Court. There's so many issues. And I think arguably... The border and the economy drove this vote in the election. Right. And those there are many one issue candidates, whether it's abortion, whether it's guns. And although these are legitimate issues, everybody's concerned about it. I think there's a lot of other things going on, not the least of which now are these the conflict in the Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East. There's a lot on the table for Congress to deal with.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, I lied. I got one more quick one for you. If you see something big, do you see something big legally coming up on the horizon, something that the Supreme Court will have to jump in on and make a decision on?
SPEAKER 06 :
The Supreme Court moving away, pivoting from President Trump for a moment, this AI, this AI and TikTok in particular. There is an order by Congress banning TikTok. It's supposed to go into effect January 19th. The U.S. Supreme Court has fast-tracked this issue and will be dealing with it on January 10th. And this is interesting. They've been ordered to divest to a U.S. entity. We have a social platform, First Amendment issues, but we've also got the intertangling of a government. The Chinese government is involved with this platform, and we all know they're mining information. This is not conspiracy theorist stuff. This is what's going on. So you have a clash. You have a clash of the national interest. You have the First Amendment rights of a platform. Where does it go? The Supreme Court will weigh in on January 10th.
SPEAKER 03 :
Judge John Nazaro, a former, again, retired, once a judge, always a judge, retired Supreme Court justice in Connecticut.
SPEAKER 01 :
What did I say? Supreme Court?
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Superior. All right. I want to give you a promotion. What can I tell you? You deserve one. Thank you, brother. I appreciate you coming on today. Judge John Nazaro. All right. You're listening to The Mike Gallagher Show. We'll take a short break. We'll come right back. Stick around, everybody.
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Best in the business. There he is, Mike Gallagher, 1-800-655-MIKE. A reminder, if you guys want to call in, I do want to change gears a little bit. And I don't have this committed to memory, but I want to just read a couple things, if you don't mind, because it's about one of the most important topics that we can possibly cover. And I'd love to hear from teachers if you're out there during this next break. So 800-655-MIKE. A former student. is suing the Hartford Public School system because she did not get the services she needed to address her deficiencies. This student was, I guess, had kindergarten, first grade reading level in the sixth grade and was continuously promoted to the next grade. She then graduated with honors, honors from high school, even though she is technically illiterate. She applied to the University of Connecticut. She was accepted. Failure on all accounts. Now, in the 80s, the U.S. ranked among the top in global literacy. However, disparities in education funding began to grow. This is the 80s. So we were at the top of the heap in the 80s. In the 90s, focus shifted to standardized testing, goals 2,000, but reading and math scores stagnated, particularly among lower-income students. 2,000 came along. Despite No Child Left Behind, U.S. students ranked 25th in math and 21st in science globally by the decade's end. 2010 reading and math scores on the National Assessment Education Progress, NAEP, showed no significant improvement with declines noted as 2015 and 2019. And finally, in the 2020s, the pandemic disruptions led to historic drops in test scores with the NAEP reporting the largest declines in reading and math proficiencies since it began. In 2023, nearly 25% of high school graduates were found to be functionally illiterate. 2023, listen to that again. In 2023, 25% of high school graduates were found to be functionally illiterate, unable to read or unable to write at a basic level. One in four. Why? Here's the reason. Schools now focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, right? They focus on sexual education, gender ideology, partisan topics, throwing politics into just about every single aspect of it. Nobody focuses in on what you really have to do. And now we live, by the way, in a time where artificial intelligence, it's here. It's not going anywhere. It's here to stay. And the power behind AI. is it's actually a magical thing, believe it or not. And I say that in a very trepidatious way because AI actually can, I mean, it's going to dumb down even further these kids. I thought about this. I said, okay, so you get something that opens up the entire world for you. You can just type into AI, find me X, Y, and Z, and bang, it finds everything you could want in a second. But you had gone through no work to get there. When we were kids, and again, I know the old when we were kids kind of scenario is always sort of like, like I said, cliché. But the truth is we had to go out and actually dig for information. We had to find stuff out. We had to read stuff. And we sort of kept things. How can you be a high school student and graduate and can't read? How could 25% of the high school graduates not be able to read? So, yeah, Trump. And I know I tried to get Linda McMahon to come on the show today, who is going to be in charge supposedly of dismantling the Department of Education. She wouldn't come on. But it's time to make America smart again. MAGA turned into something maybe like a NASA outcry. But make America smart again. Where are my teachers? Why is this happening? Why are there so many kids that can't read or can't write when they have all of these artificial intelligence tools at their fingertips? I don't understand that. And somebody needs to explain that to me. I know kids get left behind. I know there are different speeds that kids learn at. But there's no excuse. You know, you're not doing the kid any service. If you say, okay, sure, go on, go on, go on. What happens when they get to be this point? Like this woman, this high school senior who graduated and then got accepted supposedly to a good school, UConn. She gets in. She can't read. So who's the loser? She's the loser. We're all the loser in that case. All right. I just wanted to throw that out there. We'll grab a couple of calls. We'll go to Connecticut, where Leo is on. Leo, you are a teacher. What's on your mind? Why are kids unable to read when they graduate high school?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you kind of hit the nail on the head. These high-stakes tests, performance tests, And it becomes a check-the-box scenario. Schools and school districts are under the gun because of the federal government and their expectations. So it's the analogy I would use is, you know, you're trying to climb over a fence and you can't make it, so I push you over the top, and they check that off as, okay, VLC made it.
SPEAKER 1 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that happens more often than not. And it's unfortunate. And we've gotten away from... the basics. We've got all these avant-garde, you know, psychology and this and that. We need to go back to the old reading, writing, arithmetic, and science and get the basics. I find that a lot of the kids that I have as freshmen, they don't know the metric side of a ruler from the English side of the ruler. And, you know, it's important. It's the system.
SPEAKER 03 :
Leo, is a teacher left alone if the kids just pass? If they just keep passing these kids alone, you know, there's no waves, no mess for the teacher themselves. Is that part of the equation too?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I think so. And unfortunately, these teachers unions are like a dog, a pit bull with no teeth in it. You know, they throw these teachers under the bus the minute there's any kind of pushback. And it's unfortunate. You know?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, Leo, listen, I thank you for checking in. I got a million to get to, but I appreciate your call and your insight from the great state of, of, well, I was going to say, I was going to make some joke, but I'm not going to, I'm going to keep it on the up and up. Let's go to Columbus, Ohio, where Catherine is waiting. Catherine's also a teacher. Am I wrong on any of this stuff? Catherine?
SPEAKER 01 :
No, you're not. Um, I taught, um, high school English 20 years ago, and one of the things that I noticed is their disconnect from English literature. The kids? Yeah, the children are disconnected from it. Sometimes it's because many of my students were, I was teaching in Los Angeles, so many of my students were from another country, but still, they needed to understand English literature to write, And it's really important in English literature that the children have children's literature as well, like Hansel and Gretel and, you know, the three bears and all of that. And my students didn't have that. So what I did was I took out some time and I read those things to them or they read them. And I had them have a journal every day so that they had a practice of writing every day. And I really noticed that compared to my education, And their education, they had gaping holes in literature. And there was this trend of saying that, you know, English literature was kind of white supremacy, and they were trying to incorporate other types of literature. But it wasn't working because it's not English literature. So that's what I did. And my students became very engaged and very interested. And that's what you have to do.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're not a teacher anymore, though? You're not a teacher?
SPEAKER 01 :
No, I'm retired, and I work as an assistant teacher.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm curious. Do they assign – like how many books would they assign to a junior in high school now to read during the course of a year? I remember we had to read probably half a dozen at least, right, when I was a kid. So do they even do that?
SPEAKER 01 :
They do, but a lot of the literature was irrelevant, and they didn't really – address, you know, the enhancing the child's perception of literature or their involvement in it. And and then, you know, the question would always come up like, like, what does this have to do with us? You know, that was their focus. Like everything has to do with us. And I'm thinking and I'm saying, you know, this isn't Disneyland, you know, and I'm not your mommy. You're here to learn something outside of. What you're used to, you know, you need to learn something new and you need to expand your cognitive, you know, skills. And that was the thing is overcoming their self-centeredness. Now, kids can be very self-centered anyway. Sure. especially I saw a lot of it 20 years ago and how they were just pushing the kids along and just trying to make them happy and trying to really education. This isn't education anymore. It's just not.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, Catherine, thank you for that. I listen. Great call. Appreciate that very much. I want to grab one more before we take a break, but she made an interesting point, which is how much is the, The decline right now in the school system is a result of a lot of non-English speaking kids in class that have to be catered to. Let's go to Mitch in Atlanta, Georgia. Mitch, you are a teacher as well?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, Mike Hourly. I worked as a grief counselor and did some work with the Educational Foundation to revamp some of the curriculum in Georgia. But I just wanted to point out that school was intended or came along in the mid-1800s Because we wanted to migrate a workforce, an agricultural workforce, into the factories. We've never retooled that mindset. We're still trying to create factory workers in Googles and Ford, and we forgot that individuals have to have an emotional attachment to their education so they'll want to study it. We've still got an agricultural sector. We've got a small business or entrepreneurial sector, and we're not teaching that. So everybody's being crammed into a box, and it goes to your first subject about freedom of speech. And, you know, you've got to have the maturity to let things go. I mean, we're just creating drones for Google, and we're not developing their self-esteem. And there's a lot of emotional problems, but the educational system is not teaching them how to take care of themselves.
SPEAKER 03 :
Do magnet schools, in your mind, do magnet schools, would that be a better way to teach these kids, give them an opportunity to sort of flourish in what they love?
SPEAKER 13 :
Individuality, just like with food, not everybody's going to eat the same thing. It's the same way with education. You have to offer a well-rounded post-secondary. You've got to give them agricultural. You've got to give them mentorship. We just have to expand the boundaries in order to meet the individual needs. We're just cramming every, you know, we're taking square pegs and pounding them into round holes. and they're just not able to take care of themselves. They hate my work. I'm home at night.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I get it, Mitch. I think you're onto something. That's sort of why I thought maybe a magnet school, because at least that directs kids in an interest level. And, you know, also these trade schools, some of these trade schools are amazing, too, for kids to get involved with those as well. All right, so we've obviously struck a chord with this, so we're going to come back and we'll talk a little bit more about education. So please don't go anywhere. My name is Lee Elsie, and I am filling in for the one. And only Mike Gallagher.
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The discussion extends to a contrast between the legacies of Jimmy Carter and current perceptions of Joe Biden's presidency. We analyze how Biden's administration is being evaluated amidst critiques of his accomplishments and cognitive abilities. As we advance, the episode captures the political dynamics surrounding the recent House Speaker vote and Trump's endorsement of Mike Johnson. Engage with us in this thoughtful exploration of political legacies, media narratives, and the evolving landscape of leadership.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, sitting in for Mike today, here's Joey Hudson.
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Welcome in on this Monday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. And yes, it is rolling in a new year. Time to say Happy New Year. Time to make those New Year's resolutions. Do you make resolutions? We're going to talk about that a little later in today's show. Of course, the news over the weekend, 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 very active with various charities. Of course, he started the Carter Center upon leaving the White House and was able to accomplish more. 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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Decency.
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Decency. Decency. Everybody deserves a shot. Everybody.
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Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone and you need 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. Of course, Joe Biden concerned, as are Democrats, about what his legacy is going to look like as he leaves office in just a few weeks. In these final weeks of the Biden-Harris administration, you're going to hear a lot of talk about Biden's legacy. what it is, how people will remember him, short-term and long-term. Former Hillary Clinton advisor and CNN contributor Karen Finney argued yesterday that President Biden's record will stand the test of time, she said. Stand the test of time. Finney conceded that some critics, such as her fellow panelists yesterday, Scott Jennings, have called out the administration as rightfully so, she said, over Biden not disclosing his true cognitive ability. We have recently learned that even going into the Oval Office four years ago, there was questions about Joe Biden's cognitive abilities even then. As you can imagine, Scott Jennings pushed back a bit in what became a, let's just call it a spirited discussion on CNN's State of the Union. Jennings issued a sharp rebuke of President Biden's legacy, saying that he feels like that Joe Biden will be leaving office in disgrace. This is cut number one.
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Companies and small businesses were falling off a cliff, and he helped to get vaccines, get us out of our homes, get us back to work and invested in this country. One of the things that you'll see him doing with the time that he has left is more around investments in the Chips and Science Act. I think that's actually going to be transformational in communities around the country. I think Donald Trump will take credit for it, but Joe Biden's record record With regard to the things that he's accomplished, I think we'll stand the test of time. Now, what my dear friend Scott and others will talk about, and quite frankly, I'm going to say this, rightfully so, it was very disturbing to learn late in the year about just how – bad, how poor his health has become. And like many, I did not realize that it had gotten to that point. That being said, I think he's still, look, he showed up for the job. He got the work done. I think some of the accomplishments also in the Middle East and foreign policy will also stand the test of time.
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You think the Middle East is in better shape today than when he took office?
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Well, I think he got our hostages home. I think that's a big deal. I think it's important.
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I'm sorry, which hostages?
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He's gotten a number of people home.
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There's still 100 people over there.
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Well, there were more than that.
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Including some Americans. Look, I think he's going to leave office. In disgrace, the Hunter Biden pardon was disgraceful. He's going to be remembered largely for inflation and for the disastrous Afghanistan pullout. And I think as we continue to we're just getting the first draft of this now. But as we continue to learn about the massive cover up that went on. not about his health, but about his mental acuity, to cover that up, the efforts that were undertaken by the White House staff, by his family, not in the last couple of months, but for all four years, I think it's going to be a really ugly chapter. It's a diminished presidency because of it. And I think we still don't know the full extent of what they did to try to hide what they've been doing over in the West Wing.
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So what is Joe Biden's legacy? You agree with Scott Jennings? He's going to leave in disgrace? Or do you agree with Ms. Finney? If you're watching us on the Salem News Channel, and I hope you are, you saw when Scott Jennings said, which hostages? She was stunned. She didn't quite know how to get out of that one. She didn't know how to respond. It was a great response because that is a valid question. She's talking about, well, Joe Biden got our hostages back. Well, there's still hostages there. Over 100. And some of those are Americans. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. Glad to have you join me on this Monday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Your phone calls are welcome. Teresa will put you in queue. We'll talk as time permits. You can text me on the MyPillow text line. I always use promo code MikeG to get the very best deal on MyPillows when you go to MyPillow.com. And you can email me directly, joey at joeyhudson.com. Regardless of how you do it, I hope you'll join today's conversation on the Mike Gallagher Show. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike.
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Yeah, the inauguration is going to be great. I hope to meet whoever wins that great trip. We're going to have a great time in Washington, D.C. as we celebrate Trump 2-0. And it's just going to be exciting. We hear a lot of talk about the first 100 days. And it's going to be fun to watch that and see what President Trump is able to do. He said last week he's going to go to work at 2 o'clock on January the 20th. Someone asked him, well, when will the administration start working? He's ready to go. As soon as the inauguration is over, he has the inaugural lunch, he's ready to go to work. And that's going to be fun to watch. Breaking news yesterday, at least 179 people were were killed yesterday morning when a commercial airliner crashed on landing at South Korea's Muon Airport. Two people, both crew members, working for the airline Jeju Air, survived what is believed to be the worst air disaster in that country's history. Early reports suggested that the aircraft, it was a Boeing 737-800 en route from Bangkok, may have been struck by a bird, though it was unclear whether It was the engine or elsewhere. Now, what was kind of odd about this, too, the control tower, and there's a couple of videos out there that you can watch, the control tower received a mayday call. The airplane did a belly landing, which means, of course, the landing gear did not deploy, which is a little odd because a bird strike would not have affected whether or not the airplane was able to deploy properly. the landing gear in most situations. And the other thing that was odd, too, you know, sometimes aircraft will make a belly landing in an emergency situation if they're having trouble with the landing gear. But this plane made contact with the ground about midway down the airfield. Typically, if you're going to do a belly landing like this, you would have given yourself as much uh air uh much much space there on on the airport property that's possible in this case of course at that rate of speeds uh sliding off of the end of the runway hitting the concrete wall uh it's it's just a a horrible horrible tragedy i'm sure that there'll be lots of investigation and we will eventually know if there was some type of malfunction with the landing gear as well we're talking about Jimmy Carter's legacy, many of you are texting in. Your comments are welcome on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-6453, 800-655. Mike Texter says, good morning, Joey. Yeah, bottom line, Jimmy Carter was actually a very good man. Even though he was terrible as president, he meant well. Now, on the other hand, they write, Biden is a terrible human being, both in and out of his presidency. It will be interesting to see the legacy of these two men because there were a lot of similarities. Yes, Jimmy Carter was a nice person. He had a strong faith, a Christian man. He seemed to really care about people, care about others and himself. Joe Biden, on the other hand, I believe all he cares about is himself and his family, his son. I think Joe Biden probably is one of the most crooked presidents we've had. And we're eventually going to find out just how crooked he is, because I think eventually we're going to find out about the millions and millions of dollars that his son received from these foreign entities. Texter says, Joey, Biden's legacy will boil down to corruption, lies, failure, and destroying everything he stuck his nose in and being more divisive than Barack Obama. Another texter says, Joey, we need to impeach Joe Biden as soon as possible. I think that cow's probably out of the barn. I don't know that we're going to have time to impeach Joe Biden. I think we let the old man go home and retire. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. Your phone calls are welcome. We'll put you in queue and take as many as we possibly can. Comments on the MyPillow text line, emails joey at joeyhudson.com. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike today.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studio, sitting in for Mike today, here's Joey Hudson.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike. Happy New Year to you as we will soon be rolling into 2025. And boy, is it going to be an exciting year for sure. January 20th, the inauguration. Yours truly will be there to tell you all about it. Just looking forward to it for sure. Looking forward to a change in what we have seen these past four years with Joe Biden. Of course, there's been a lot of speculation, a lot of political analysis of Joe Biden's legacy. We're going to get into that in just a moment. Of course, the sad news over the weekend, President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the U.S., passing away at his home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100 years old. Jimmy Carter was the longest-living U.S. president in our country's history, and a lot of people expressing concern their condolences to the family. He is remembered as just a solid Christian man who served others, who loved others, did a lot of good, wasn't a great president necessarily, but was a good man, I believe. He had good intentions and, of course, served the community of Plains and the entire nation. I would say that Jimmy Carter probably served more people when he left the Oval Office than during his term as presidency. He was, of course, really involved in Habitat for Humanity, built 4,000-plus houses during that period of time, and really just put that charity on the map. People knew more about Habitat for Humanity because of Jimmy Carter, so... We pray for his family and those close to President Carter, his funeral arrangements, and just all the details to that will be announced today, we're told. And Jimmy Carter, 100 years old. Wow. Wow. And seemed to be in pretty good health just until the recent couple of years or so. A lot of comments about Joe Biden and his legacy, of course, with the passing of Jimmy Carter. It's made people think about, well, what is Jimmy Carter's legacy versus what is Joe Biden's legacy? I have often said that Jimmy Carter was the happiest president around with Joe Biden coming along because it took some of the heat off of him. Because Jimmy Carter had been known as probably one of the worst modern-day presidents until Joe Biden. And Joe Biden has easily surpassed that. And Biden, as he's leaving office, and those around him are now trying to shape what that legacy looks like. I don't think that you can do anything for the damage that's already been done. 800-655-6453. 800-655-MIKE is how you join the conversation today. Your calls are welcome. Teresa will put you in queue. We'll talk as time permits. Send me a quick text message on the MyFellow text line. Always use promo code MikeG when you go to MyFellow.com and place your orders. And, of course, e-mails directly to Joey at JoeyHudson.com. I just received this e-mail. from Joseph, says, We disagree 100%. If Speaker Johnson continues as Speaker, the Republicans will lose the midterm elections. He put that in all caps. And Trump's presidency, his mandate, will be nonexistent and doing anything will be a higher mountain to climb than in his first term after his China virus debacle. And why does there have to be a Speaker fight? Why doesn't the Christian Speaker, I'm assuming you're talking about Speaker Johnson, just step aside? And who do the Republicans in the House represent, the Speaker or the American people? Well, you know, I'd love to know who you propose to be Speaker. If it's not Mike Johnson, then who? Mike Johnson has a lot of support. There are those who have already suggested that they will not support him. But I don't think at this point in time we can afford a fight. Now, the vote is scheduled for this Friday. We need a speaker. We need the House in session and in business to certify the votes so Donald Trump can be inaugurated on January the 20th. There's starting to be this growing concern about Mike Johnson, primarily because of the continuing resolution, the spending bill, that really turned into chaos last week. It started out as pretty clean, and then some believe that Mike Johnson allowed the Democrats to just tack on things to the point that it went from reportedly 20-plus pages initially to over 1,500. And Mike Johnson is being faulted because of that. But he didn't do it by himself. And the question is, can we afford at this point, and I hear all the time about Republicans have to be united. We can't be fighting among ourselves, and we can't. We have a lot of work to do and little time to do it. Yes, I know Donald Trump has four years. He really has a couple of years. We don't know what's going to happen in the midterms. Traditionally, sitting presidents don't do well in midterms. I think we can change that. I think we can turn that around. But I don't know. I do know we have two years. And our job is to keep pressure on the members of the U.S. House and the members of the U.S. Senate. Keep reminding them of what the American people said on November the 5th. The mandate that the American people gave to Donald Trump. Fight inflation. Make things more affordable. And close our border. Those were the two top priorities. That was the message that Trump, I believe, heard loud and clear. I hope that those in the U.S. Congress heard that as well. I think they did. I think they did. Republican New York Representative Mike Lawler said on ABC News that he would support Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson for re-election, warning his fellow lawmakers that the speaker is essential for issues like certifying President-elect Donald Trump as the winner.
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First of all, let's start right there with Mike Johnson. Does he get re-elected Speaker of the House? Should he be?
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Yes and yes. The fact is that Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when Matt Gaetz and several of my colleagues teamed up with 208 Democrats to remove Kevin McCarthy, which will go down as the single stupidest thing I've ever seen in politics. With that said, removing Mike Johnson would equally be as stupid. The fact is that these folks are playing with fire. And if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they're kidding themselves. Mike Johnson is arguably the most conservative speaker that's ever been elected to the office. He's done a great job keeping the conference unified, getting elected. major things off the plate and ultimately keeping the majority, which, frankly, despite the best efforts of some of these same people that are now calling for Johnson's removal, we held on to the House because of seats like mine. And I'll be very clear, as I was during the Kevin McCarthy fight, I'm not going to bend to their will.
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Wow. I agree with Mike Lawler. We can't afford a fight right now. Some of you texting saying, well, here are some other ideas. Do we really want to be having this discussion right now? You tell me. Is Mike Lawler right that we can't afford a fight right now? Or do we need to be talking with people like Representative Thomas Massey? who has said that he will not vote for Speaker Johnson. Hasn't said who he will vote for, but has made it clear he will not cast a vote for Speaker Johnson. Pennsylvania Representative Scott Perry also declined to commit to Speaker Johnson. So who is it if it's not Mike Johnson? and how to do this without just tearing things apart. I'm Joey Hudson. In for Mike, 800-655-6453. Your phone calls are welcome. Your text messages are welcome, as are your emails. Joey at joeyhudson.com.
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We saw what everybody else saw on Tuesday night. Here's despite what the so-called experts in Washington say. With their NPR tote bags and their organic broccoli, this was a really simple message from the people. Republicans aren't perfect, but the other side is crazy.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike today on the MyPillow text line, getting a lot of text messages. We're talking, of course, about the vote that will be taken this week on Speaker of the House. You have different opinions here. A texter says, hey, Joey, Speaker Johnson is so great. How can he be so stupid to not know that we, the people, are sick and tired and disgusted with pork barrel spending? Texter says keep Johnson until after the inauguration. They can remove him at any time. Can't reelect Trump. Texter, Speaker Johnson recognized who was boss when Trump said no and went to work to implement his plan the best he could. That's worth a lot, don't you think? Well, we may have settled this discussion because just a few minutes ago, breaking this morning, President-elect Donald Trump made his wishes be known. Up until now, we weren't quite sure. Here's a post that the president just posted on Truth Social. He says, A primary reason that we won in a landslide, the magnificent and historic presidential election of 2024, all seven swing states, 312 electoral college votes, and the popular vote by millions of voters, despite large-scale voter fraud taking place in numerous states, including California, where votes are ridiculously still being counted or under review. All won with ease, calm, and professionalism. Republicans are being praised for having run a legendary campaign. Democrats are being exorcerated for their effort, having wasted $2.5 billion, much of it unaccounted for, with some being used to illegally buy endorsements. $11 million to Beyonce, he gives as an example, who never even sang a song. $2 million to Oprah for doing next to nothing. And even $500,000 to Reverend Al, a professional con man and instigator, who agreed to interview their star-spangled candidates, Kamala and Joe. We ran a flawless campaign, having spent far less with lots of money left over. They ran a very expensive sinking ship embracing DOJ and FBI weaponization against their political opponent, me. But it didn't work. It was a disaster, Trump writes. Let's not blow this great opportunity which we have been given. The American people need immediate relief from all the destructive policies of the last administration. Trump says Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hardworking religious man. He will do the right thing and we will continue to win. Mike has my complete and total endorsement, MAGA, Make America Great Again. So Donald Trump has endorsed the reelection of Speaker Mike Johnson. Again, a vote is expected to take place this Friday. So that may settle the question. For those of you who have questions about Mike Johnson, does that change it? Do you support who President Trump supports? Because it's clear with that endorsement and that post that President Trump doesn't want chaos because he wants to be certified as the winner. He wants to be inaugurated on January the 20th. And it kind of goes back to the same argument that we have made over the past few weeks about some of his nominees. Yes, some maybe aren't ones that we would have chosen, but if that's the team he wants, give President Trump the team he wants so that he can be successful, so that he can do what the American people elected him to do. You agree? 800-655-6453, 1-800-655-MIKE. Let me take a minute to remind you and to thank you for the great job you did in responding to our Angel Tree campaign this year. Wow. Over 7,000, actually over 7,500 kids you sponsored. These kids who have a mom or a dad in prison or in some cases maybe both. We're down to the wire now. We have one more day tomorrow. It ends tomorrow night at midnight. And I think we can do better. I think we can do more. Could we round that off to maybe 8,000? Can we get a few hundred more in there? If you take a moment to donate today, you can still help, and you can score a great end-of-the-year tax deduction as well. Your donation today can literally change a child's life just $30. Or you can do five kids for $150. Go to MikeOnline.com. Click on the Change Prisoners' Lives in 2025. It's the banner right across the top of the website. You can't miss it. MikeOnline.com. You can phone your gift in as well. 888-206-2788. 888-206-2788. And remember, your 2024 year-end tax deduction, you've got to make that before... December the 31st. So why not just stop what you're doing right now and go to mikeonline.com, click on the banner, and give as generously as possible. Back to the phones. Let's start in Atlanta, Georgia with Tila. Tila, how are you?
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Oh, stunningly well in God's economy. Thanks. How about yourself?
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I am wonderful. Happy New Year to you.
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Thank you, and to you as well. I just have a question out of pure ignorance. When they continually say there's a concern for when Trump is pulling and putting people into the administration and the numbers are at 219, 218, 217, et cetera, and the numbers are getting lower, do those positions not get refilled? Are people not nominated, Republicans not nominated to go back into those open slots? I don't understand how they're just gone now.
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Yeah, good question, Taylor. In 99.9% of cases, yes. It's a little bit different in each state, and it depends on who the person is, how much time they have left in their term. For example, a U.S. senator could have a certain amount of time left in his or her term, And so the vacancy could be filled by the governor of that state, and then that person would have to run for reelection to serve the rest of the term. In some cases, the governor can just appoint someone. So it's going to vary from case to case, but to answer your overall question, It's every one of those Republican seats should be retained by another Republican. It just depends on the state they're in and and how much time they have left as to whether or not there is a primary to fill that seat or someone is appointed. Does that answer your question?
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It does somewhat. So we're not just totally lost at that point. It just sounds like, oh, you know, we're never the numbers are going to be so tight. What will we do? And I'm thinking, well, won't we refill them? That's what I was thinking. And can I text you another question since I know I don't need to ask? Sure, yeah.
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And, Tila, you know, that's a good question. I mean, it's a valid question. And there may be some times initially until all of that is sorted out that we're short a seat here or there. But I think I can promise you that Trump is watching those numbers as are leadership in both the Senate and the House. And they're going to do their best and the governors who will play a role in this as well. And they're going to do their best to give President Trump the votes that he needs in these first 100 days. So we're going to see Republicans back in those seats.
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Okay. And we have some hope that maybe some Democrats might swing a little bit towards the Republican side, don't we?
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Well, in other races, possibly. I mean, we saw the overall result as the entire country leaned to the right this year. Even in some heavily blue states and some blue areas, we saw the general population leaning to the right. So I think we're going to see some of the elected politicians see what they need to do for political survival. And that means, you know, go to the right themselves. So I think we'll see that as well. Hey, Teela, happy New Year to you. Appreciate your phone call. 800-655-6453, one line open for you. Let's go to Jim, who is in Washington, D.C. Welcome, Jim. You're on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Joey, I'm just sick of the deification of Jimmy Carter. He was a terrible president. He was a terrible man. He was utterly incompetent and irresponsible. His treatment of the Shah was outrageous. The Shah had been a 37-year ally of the United States. Carter didn't even want to let him into the United States for treatment of his leukemia. It took Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller to convince Carter to let the Shah come to the United States to Cornell University Medical Center for treatment.
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Well, Jim, I don't think anyone's going to argue with you, and I'm certainly not going to argue with you that Jimmy Carter wasn't the best president we've ever had. In fact, until Joe Biden came along, I would say Carter probably was the worst president. Of course, you know, the man just died yesterday, and I think what we're seeing is people are recognizing the good things in Jimmy Carter because I do think he was a good person. I think he was a God-fearing man. He seemed to have a strong faith. He taught his Sunday school for many, many decades at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. So I think he was a good man. He just wasn't a great politician. And, you know, it's going to be tough these next few days because, yes, you know, those of us who didn't think he did a very good job as president, I think we have to be respectful, though, of the Carter family. They just lost the head of their family. And the nation lost the longest living president, whether you liked what he did or not. He was, I believe, a decent human being. I can't say that. For Joe Biden, I'm sorry, because I think Joe Biden lies. I think Joe Biden has sold his power, his influence over the years. I think Joe Biden would do it again, given the chance. I don't think Jimmy Carter ever did things like that. 800-655-6453. Your comments are welcome on the My Fellow text line. Text me, email me, joey at joeyhudson.com. Your phone calls are welcome as well. Teresa will put you in queue. We will talk as time permits. 800-655-6453. I'm Joey Hudson. In for Mike today.
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All right. Welcome, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Welcome. Appreciate you guys listening very much. Myself, Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, and Al Smith. We let him, or we made him, I should say, hang around after his program from 2 to 2.30. We're going to talk a little bit about some year-end stuff. Al from Golden Eagle. So, Al, welcome.
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Well, thank you, John. I love being on your show.
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Al brought his, how should I say this, his pocket lint roller for his furry friend that's with him today, who's beautiful, by the way.
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Well, thank you. My service dog, my husky Klondike, is here. He enjoys it. He doesn't like being left in the office alone, however.
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You can hear him. He's all right. He's great. He's beautiful, by the way, Al, so congratulations. He's a very pretty dog, so congratulations. All right, as we talk to Al here, again, we have Al normally try to get him to hang around mainly because it fits with his schedule. He's already here doing his show from 2 to 2.30. On top of that, I say it all the time, having your finances as much in order as you can. And for some of you that maybe are a little bit older and have done a really good job continuing down that path. But Al, as we talk all the time, stress is a big thing, especially when it comes to health and wellness, and having our finances dialed in can help us not necessarily be stress-free, but it does help us handle that stress a little better is probably the best way for me to say that.
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Well, I would agree, and when people have a nest egg they believe is large enough to get them through retirement, they can be thinking about other things, like how you can give back, how you can help through your church, how you can do some volunteer work. If you're not sure you have enough money to get through retirement, It's hard to think about how you can help somebody else.
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Absolutely. Okay, so year-end stuff, Albert, that time where there are some things that, yeah, you can do some contributions to your IRA and things like that, even next year before you file your taxes. The deadline is the 15th of April, of course. But there's also things that folks might want to look at with you directly before the end of the year and time is running out. What are some of those things they should be looking at?
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Well, the two big things, obviously, if you are 73 years old or older, you need to take out your required minimum distribution from your IRA. And I would suggest that it needs to be done by December 31st, but I would not wait until the week of Christmas to do that because the big financial companies, the insurance companies, investment companies, get very busy that time of year, and they often have to hire people who are not the most financially knowledgeable.
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Agreed.
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Also, you may be on hold. If you do it probably this week or next, you'll be able to take care of it a lot easier. That's for your RMDs. If you're thinking about converting part of your traditional IRA to Roth, you can kind of sit down and look at your last pay stub or second to last pay stub and estimate what tax bracket you're in and decide if you want to do that. because that also has to be done by December 31st. Regular IRA contribution, as you mentioned, John, that can be done when you file your taxes or as late as April 15th.
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Okay, now, everything else spot on. I've been telling even my business clients that are looking at the year end, the tax planning and so on, that essentially because of the way Christmas falls this year, Christmas and New Year's both being on Wednesdays, it really does put a damper, I guess you could say, on some of the normal business things you might go ahead and get done because of the way it falls. So what I'm telling everybody is like you, we have literally until not this coming Friday, but next Friday, Friday. So let me get that date to make sure that I'm saying the correct date. The 20th. So you really have until, you know, as far as business functions go, I've been telling everybody, I think you'll be safe in doing this. Have your stuff done by December 20th this year.
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I think that makes the most sense. I mean, it sounds like it's 10 days before the end of the year, but with holidays in there and with businesses and individuals taking time off, I would get some of these things done that we're talking about before Christmas. The 20th.
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And the reason we say that for all of you listening is the last thing you want is to have to try to come back and prove that you had everything done by the 31st, Al, to your point. Just the amount of, again, stress. This is Health and Wellness Wednesday. We talk about reducing stress and so on. So guess what? Reduce that stress. Get these things done by the 20th. Enjoy the holidays then after that, and you can do that stress-free, Al.
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Well, absolutely. It's much easier to enjoy the holidays when some of the major stressful things are behind you.
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Exactly. All right, so folks looking to do that. And I've also been telling folks, Al, that if they don't have a plan or they've had a plan maybe for years that hasn't been reviewed and they haven't seen their financial planner that did some of that in multiple years, reality is they need to seek you out. They need to sit down, have a very – open-ended conversation as to here's where i am here's some of the things that you know we've already got going on they show you all those things and guess what here's where i want to be am i gonna make it with my current plan or do i need to make any adjustments to make sure that i get there and by the way it's very uncommon i'm guessing i'm not you but i'm guessing it's uncommon for there not to be some changes along the way because things happen in life right
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Well, exactly. The reason plans need to be reviewed is because people's circumstances change. And we all have heard the great financial sage Mike Tyson say, everybody has a plan until you get hit in the face.
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That's right. It's a fact. So, again, folks, you can call Al. I say it all the time. KLZRadio.com is where you can find him. Now, Al, I was going to ask, given we're very close to that 20th date, business day-wise, because today's pretty much over, that gives them seven business days to get in and get going. Time-wise for you, are you able to take some folks and actually help them during that time?
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Well, yes, I may be taking a little time off, but I'll probably only be doing it like a half a day at a time or something so that you can reach me right up to the year end. Some of the time I'll be taking off will be in 2025, and you can reach my office at 303-744-1128. And if you get my voicemail, I respond to those quickly.
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Al, as always, I appreciate it. Look forward to 2025. Have fun with your furry friend here as well and hope you have a fabulous Christmas. And for all of you listening, again, if you haven't gotten in to see Al, you need to do that before the end of the year because there might be some adjustments you need to make tax-wise to make all of that happen. And or get an appointment set early 2025 and get yourself established and on the way towards the retirement. And back to what Al said a little bit ago, so that you can actually do some things later on in life that benefit others and do some things that you would like to do. Because when you're busy working and trying to work everything out, Al, you don't have time to even do some of the other volunteer things that a lot of people enjoy doing.
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No, you're absolutely right. And the happiest people I know are in retirement are those who are getting some joy and fulfillment from doing things for some other people.
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Okay, last week I talked about the ice display or the event that's out at the Gaylord of the Rockies Hotel. It's Christmas at Gaylord. In fact, the website is Christmas at GaylordRockies.com. I also told you that I would do my best to have some tickets to potentially give away for that. Now, here's how this is going to work. I do have some to give away that we'll do right now. I've got four sets of two. I'm sorry I can't do more than that, but that's how they distributed the tickets to me. And the way this works is I'm going to email you back a voucher. That then allows you to go on and make whatever appointment you want to do. If you want to add some tickets to that, even some of the discounted prices, maybe there's more than just two of you that want to go. I get that. But this will help at least get, in your family, two of you to go. And kids under three, I believe, are free anyway. So some of you that have small children, you might only need two tickets when it's all said and done. Anyway, so here's how this is going to work. You're going to call in now to our main number, 303. four seven seven five six zero zero and the first four people that call charlie's gonna just give you the text line number specifically and then you can email or you can text me your info now please this is the honor system a lot of you know the text line anyways Don't just start texting me for those tickets because I'll know based upon timing and names as to what Charlie's taking as to whether these are legit or not. And I don't really worry about that with you guys as listeners. And if I had more, folks, I would do more. But that's what they were able to get me. And I appreciate that very much. So thank you, by the way, Gaylord of the Rockies. I do appreciate that very much. It's a great event. You'll have a great time. I've already had some family members that went the other day and gave us a report back that it's absolutely a wonderful display, things that you will not see anywhere else. So if you've got the ability to go and you would like to have a pair of tickets, call us and we will get you dialed in and the phones are ringing now. So give Charlie a moment to get back to you, you know, to get your number and all of that. And then I will handle getting you the tickets emailed out. And by the way, I may not be able to do that until first thing in the morning. I've got a few things going on even after the show tonight. So I may not be able to email you until first thing in the morning. I will do my best to do it prior to that, but it might be morning before I actually get all of that done. But if you got, if you want to go lines are full right now so there's i'm guessing three sets of these pairs already going out so as soon as somebody drops off i can take one more caller 303-477-5600 all right health and wellness wednesday i've got troy dual from centurion labs is going to talk to us about desserts here at about 3 30 in the meantime I found an interesting article this week, and I didn't have a special guest or anything for this. This just happened to be an article in BBC Science Focus magazine, and it's about night sweats. Some people have them awful, and it sort of runs in, quote-unquote, my family, my side of the family, I should say. And some of my kids even had night sweats. So it's something that a lot of people can experience. Now, I didn't know until I started reading this particular article that... They might be an indication of another health issue that you may have going on in your life. And those of you that just called in, hang tight. Charlie will get to you in just one second. So hang tight. He'll be right with you. He's answering other calls as we speak. But number one, night sweats might be a sleep-related breathing disorder. In other words, there might be a link to folks that have persistent night sweats that And you could have a sleep-related breathing disorder. Now, again, some of you that experience this... Number two. could be a different health issue there's all sorts of other sleep disorders that might be going on as well uh... your body by the way as you guys all know is regulating its temperature during the night now i also will say this is not necessarily in this article but What you sleep on, you know, mattress wise sheets and so on can have a lot to do with some of the things that we're talking about. So that's one of those things, too, where, you know, do some of your research and make sure that you're actually sleeping on things that help you. mitigate, best words I guess I could use, night sweats if you're somebody that actually experiences that. But again, a lot of sleep disorders can come from a sign of night sweats. And by the way, not necessarily the only symptom. There might be some other things that those that you're around or depending upon your situation, this could even be with your kids and so on. Now also, One thing to look at, too, is some medications may trigger this as well. So, for example, medications that are used to treat diabetes and some things along those lines, they may actually cause some night sweats as well. So that's one of those things, too, that you really need to look at. And if that's you, of course, you may know that already. Another common culprit, which, again, after reading this makes total sense, hormones. Low hormone levels can disrupt your body's temperature regulation. And that can be, by the way, for both men and women. Estrogen and testosterone both play a role in balancing those levels. At night and you're basically regulating your internal thermostat. So that's another thing to look at where if you've got it. And by the way, maybe this is something that you've never experienced before. And all of a sudden they start to come on. There is an onset. That would be something that you'd really want to take a closer look at to make sure that. that you're getting things handled correctly on that end of things as well. And if you try to call in now, you won't be able to get in. We've put all the lines on permanent hold because we've given them all away. So thank you all very much. It didn't take very long, so I appreciate that. And, yes, I will do my best to get those out. this evening, even maybe at the top of the hour. But if I don't, I will definitely get those things out to you guys first thing in the morning. And that event is going on all the way through the rest of this month, I believe even into early January. So you'll have plenty of time to make sure that you go. So again, Going back to the hormonal end of things, and you guys all know this, and we don't talk about this a lot during this hour because this is really, in my opinion, kind of one of those personal things that everybody experiences differently. These are things where you need to be talking to your doctor closely, especially as we start to age, because things, again, change. Things start to slow down as we age, for example. Your hormones will start to change. Sometimes we need to add some things back into our bodies to balance those hormones out. And again, I'm not going to get technical. I'm not a doctor. This is really more up the alley of Dr. Scott Faulkner, who, by the way, is really great on all of this as well. So not only is he a great doctor. just regular internal medicine doctor, but he does some of the things that we're talking about as well and understands that fully. So if you're somebody that is struggling a little bit on that whole balance of things, and one thing about Dr. Scott I should mention as well, is he's not always going to be a guy to just say, you know, here, take this. You know, take some testosterone, for example. He may ask you all sorts of things like, what's your diet like? What's your exercise like? What is your sleep like? Which is what we're talking about right now. And then combination of, what do we need to do to get some of these levels back on track? He's going to take the whole picture because, again, he's a – what I would call more of a whole doctor. He's not burdened by big pharma and big insurance, so he can take the time necessary to sit and have a conversation with you, run the labs, do the things necessary to figure out exactly what you need to be doing along those lines. So just put a quick plug in for Dr. Scott, who you'll also hear from. in a commercial this hour. But yeah, if you're really looking for somebody that will help you with that end of things, which again can be, you know, night sweats can be a sign of that imbalance, please give Dr. Scott a call and he'd love to help you out. Switch up your evening routine. So something, you know, sometimes it says here you can't avoid sweating at night. You can minimize it based upon your daily habits, even hours before going to bed. Everybody sweats after a workout, of course, but the timing and intensity of your exercise can change your sleeping temperature. High intensity workouts raise your core temperature, speed up your metabolism. So working out later in the evening could make you more prone to night sweats. Now, by the way, that could even just be Hey, you know, it's summertime and you are outside working in the yard all the way up until you decided to come in and go to bed. Those things can also be a contributing factor to that. So, again, your brain responds to that overheating in your body by making you sweat. That's one of the ways, you know, God made us. It's how we cool ourselves down. And at the end of a workout, of course. you're going to naturally be more hot, and your body's going to be doing things to try to get that temperature back down, of course. Now, this I talked a little bit about a moment ago briefly. Your sleep setup might be wrong. And again, this is one of those things where what you had even as a mattress and sheets for the last decades, plural, maybe that's not the right setup now, depending upon where you are at your stage in life. Maybe you need to take another look at that, and maybe you need something different when it comes to how you're actually, you know, what you're actually sleeping on and in is what I mean to say. you know, breathable-type fabrics. They've got mattresses even that some do a better job of keeping you warm, some do a better job of keeping you cool. There's even these devices that a lot of you have seen to where they'll even, like, air-condition the bed itself. It actually goes up in between the sheets, and it'll actually blow, you know, cool air or warm air, I guess, depending upon what you want, you know, inside of, quote-unquote, the cover. So it's one of those things where And again, I'm not an expert when it comes to mattresses and bedding and all of that. My wife is more of an expert on that than I am. But I do know that there is a gazillion. I mean, that's one of the things that's a lot different even than when Charlie, you and I were kids. The amount of mattress choices today. And even the materials that you can actually buy for sheets is far different than what I grew up with. So along those lines, make sure that you have what you need setup wise to sleep well. Because, again, one of the things we talk about during health and wellness is sleep is something we need. Everybody needs a different amount. It's not, you know, used to be when we were told for years and years, everybody needs eight hours. That's not necessarily true. Some can go on less. Some need more. You know you, and you know what you need, and you still have to get adequate sleep for you so that as... You're resting and your brain is trying to rejuvenate itself. One of the things we've learned with dementia and Alzheimer's is that can come also early onsets of it, especially can come from not sleeping well. You know, people that work night jobs and things like that. Those are things that you really need to be careful of. So this whole, you know, sweating while you sleep. And some of the other health issues that this may be a sign of, you want to make sure you have those things taken care of because you want a good night's sleep because when you're not getting a good night's sleep, it's just not healthy for your whole well-being. And that means everything from your physical side to the mental side to what's going on inside of your brain and so on. Just a few tips there. If some of you suffer from night sweats, there might be other things going on. You might want to have a conversation even with somebody like Dr. Scott when it comes to that. Golden Eagle Financial is coming up next. We just talked to Al a moment ago. And, yes, as we head down to the final stretch here of 2024, make sure you're dialed in when it comes to your finances. Al is more than willing to help you with that. We just talked to him a moment ago. And, again, find Al at klzradio.com.
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And we are back, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Troy Duhl joining us now. Troy, welcome back. How are you, sir? Doing great, John. How are you? Always a joy having you. Troy is our resident health educator, founder of Centurion Labs as well. All right. We're going to talk about the holidays and desserts. And, you know, everybody this time of the year, Troy, is looking forward to being able to get together with friends and family. And yet there's all these temptations that are out there. And in some cases, depending upon, you know, where you're at and whose home you're at, You know, you don't want to be rude and not take something. On the same token, you're trying to watch the waistline, and we talk about eating healthy on a routine basis. So people are trying to stay in check. How do they balance all of that?
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Man, that is the million-dollar question, isn't it? Because we all kind of are our own worst enemies because of nostalgia. We get over to Grandma's house. We get over to our parents' house. Whatever it is, and there are those certain treats that we want to have. And I think the big thing we have to do is really become somewhat strategic with it and say, you know what, I'm going to have three or four cheat days over the month of December. And those are the parties or whatever it may be. And you pick those that you think are going to have the best opportunity for you to have a good cheat day with the foods that you want. And, you know, save one of those days for when you go to your grandmother's house or your parents' house or whoever it is that has that dessert that you have a tough time resisting. And then during the week, you really just work on eliminating the sugar and the processed foods to get you where you need to go.
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Well, and for a lot of you listening, that means, because it's even here, Troy, I mean, there'll be things in a lot of the kitchen, or the office kitchens, I should say, or even at home, and things will be given to you depending upon what your job is, and pretty soon you'll have this plethora of goodies kicking around, and And I'll be the first to admit it, Troy, in some cases it may not even be what you mostly desire. You're just having this sugar craving. So you're going to go ahead and just say, oh, it's a holidays. I'm going to go ahead and just kick that in anyways. Well, yeah, you're going to kick that in and you decide to start doing it, you know, maybe even two or three times a day. And pretty soon you do that for two weeks straight and the New Year's comes around. And oh, by the way, yeah, we had to eat grandma's pie because otherwise we hurt her feelings. And just now it's this whole, you know, we're this endless pit of sugar.
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There is no doubt about it. I mean, the little Christmas tree cakes, the Santa cookies, the peppermint ice cream, whatever it is that comes out this time of year, we love them and they're good. But I think we just have to really be very, very disciplined, like you said, because the sugar piece is so addictive. I mean, we've talked about it before.
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Yeah, and I know we've talked about it, you and I have, although we get different people that listen at different times and different days and so on, and people may not have heard us actually talk about this with you specifically. What generates those cravings in the first place, Troy? And then on top of that, when we succumb to those temptations, what happens?
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Well, they've done lots of studies, and I think we mentioned this, And it shows that sugar lights up the same area of the brain that cocaine does for those who are addicted to cocaine. So it is truly addictive. So those cravings are exactly that.
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In other words, they are legit.
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They are very legit. And then to think about the other piece, which is, all right, I'm not going to do sugar. We'll do some kind of artificial sweetener. Well, those artificial sweeteners are 700 times sweeter than sugar. So they're created to create those cravings as well. So you may have the artificial sweetener, but you're still getting the calories and you're thinking you can eat more and more and more of it. But the old adage is you can't make an unhealthy food healthy by adding artificial sweeteners. So kind of get that out of your head. So if you're walking down the aisle and you see a peppermint ice cream that you love to have this time of year and one of those, and you see some kind of version that has sugar alcohols in it or artificial sweeteners in it, it's still going to have the calories and the fat that is not going to be good for you overall.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so in other words, be careful just because we feel like we may be, you know, quote-unquote, substituting the real sugar for some of these imitations that are out there. And my wife says this all the time. No offense, Troy, you might as well just have the sugar.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is true. The sugar actually is probably better for you in the long run. Now, the processed sugars that they throw into the processed foods, not so much. But if you're trying to choose between an artificial sweetener and the sugar itself, I think there are plenty of studies that show sugar is probably the better of the two alternatives. And really, it gets back to what you were saying is how do we minimize those cravings And I think it starts with just making sure that you're setting yourself up right by before you get to the dessert, by eating those things that are protein rich. We know that the more protein you have, the more stable your blood sugar is going to be. Therefore, you'll have less cravings for that sugar. Get those healthy fats, get high fiber in your in your system and you'll have less.
SPEAKER 13 :
craving for that sugar which is what we're all about how does our sugar intake you know we've talked about this before again but some folks may not have heard this how does that sugar intake affect our liver because we usually this time of the year hear more about you know alcohol and all of that and how that affects the liver nobody ever talks about how sugar is affecting the liver
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and I think a great way to look at it is to understand that alcohol basically turns straight to sugar. So sugar is really the detriment to the liver that alcohol is causing. So you've got to limit that sugar because it is just taxing your liver. Your liver is working overtime, especially this time of year, to try to regulate your insulin levels within your body. When we flood it with so much sugar, it gets to the point where it just can't keep up. And it can eventually, if we continue to pound it with sugar and alcohol, which turns to sugar, then we become insulin resistant, which then causes us to get to that point of being pre-diabetic or diabetic itself.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. And everything you just said, I had never really, even before you and I had talked about this whole liver thing before, never really had, I mean, you would think common sense, you put two and two together because you're exactly right. The alcohol just turns right to sugar, just like carbs do and so on. And we sort of I guess you could say, Troy, in a way we we either forget it or we choose to ignore it or we just haven't been educated enough, maybe along those lines. And, you know, I've talked about this. You know, the reality is and for all of you listening, please. Some of you know this. Some of you may not know this. The sugar lobby, some, Troy, 60 plus years ago, did a very good job in making us blame a lot of other things for bad health and not sugar because they wanted to, frankly, sell more sugar. And it becomes, to your point, it's an addiction. It's like a drug. They knew if they got you addicted, they would sell more of it. And so we've been sort of trained in a way, Troy, to where we really don't think sugar is as bad as it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is very, very true and well said because we have tricked ourselves into thinking that, hey, this isn't that bad, or if I do just a little bit of this, it's not going to lead to something down the road. But we've already talked about how we can start to have those cravings. Every processed food, every food that you get out of a package has added sugar in order to increase that addiction that we have to sugar, which then creates those cravings when we go somewhere and see that dessert. So it's all about setting it up correctly. And here's one good piece. It's not real good for me because I'm not a big chocolate guy. But they do suggest dark chocolate is a great alternative to chew on or to have at dinner because it does help reduce sugar cravings. Now, it's got to be a 70% chocolate level or cocoa level. So that's what you're looking for. And they say that that can help reduce sugar cravings. So that may be one option. positive to this whole conversation when we're looking to help reduce sugar.
SPEAKER 13 :
Like you, not my favorite. Chocolate's great. I'm one of those even, Troy, if I have the choice between vanilla ice cream and chocolate ice cream, I'll pick the vanilla all day long. It's just kind of me and my taste buds. It's not that I don't like chocolate, but if I have other options, you know, vanilla cake versus chocolate cake, for example, or, you know, white frosting versus dark frosting. I mean, I'm just more of that individual. So for me, it's not a huge deal. Downside is I'm not a huge dark chocolate fan because of that.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm right there with you. But for those who are, there's a little cheat for you. For you and I who don't like chocolate all that much, One way that we can satisfy our sugar cravings maybe during this time of year when we're not on our cheat days is find some blueberries, apples, pears, something along those lines that is a fruit that satisfies that sweetness, but it has all the other added benefits that go along with it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. All right. Talk to us about as we go through all of this, and we're going to do our very best to do things correctly. Have as little of all of this as we can, things you and I are talking about. I want to get into some of the supplements in a moment as well, but things are done because you and I probably won't talk now until January. So things are done. We've gotten through the holidays. How do we detox from all of this stuff?
SPEAKER 07 :
That is a great question, and as we go through this, I would suggest some of these same things that we're talking about detoxing afterwards that we're doing during this season as well. And the number one thing is to exercise. We know that exercising helps the liver really process all those sugars and other additives that we're getting in our food. So exercise is key. So do not take off two, three weeks during the Christmas season and not exercise. That's super important. So remember, Keep up the exercise. Limit your alcohol intake. So, you know, if you're wanting to have an alcoholic drink, that's great, but just limit it because we've already talked about how reducing that sugar is super important. So limiting alcohol. Reduce sugar intake after the season's over. Stay well hydrated. Get great sleep. And then eat those fiber-rich foods that we've talked about, like the fruits and vegetables and whole grains, because we know that all that supports your liver. And then the final thing is look to support your liver with some supplementation. So look for things that are going to help with methylation, which would be your B vitamins like folate and B12 and B6. and then other supplements like NAC or selenium or phosphatidylcholine. All those we know really just help your liver function a little bit better. So you want to look for things like that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. Now, which, again, Centurion Labs. And really quick, Troy, before we move on, give folks the website, how they can actually find you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you can go to centurionlabs.com, so it's C-E-N-T-U-R-I-O-N-L-A-B-S.com, or you can go to our podcast, which is called Frontline Health Podcast, and we talk about different things. like sugar and other health issues that are out there. And you can find that pretty much anywhere podcasts are found.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so we're going to do our best to eat correctly from now until really the end of the year because it goes through the first of the year with football games and all the other things that will happen. Frankly, it even goes on after that with the Super Bowl, et cetera. But we'll keep talking and keep people informed. on track. So we're going to be very mindful of all of this and make sure that we're monitoring our sugar intake. We're going to make sure that we continue to exercise and do the things that we would normally do along those lines. We're going to detox when we're all done and do some supplementation as well. What else should we be doing? In other words, as we're Maybe going through the holidays, and this was a suggestion from somebody that I interviewed last week. So those of you that maybe are drinking alcohol, for example, you drink a drink and then have a full glass of water. And then maybe if you want a second one, fine, after you've had that full drink of water. I guess, Troy, in a way, what you're doing, number one, you're slowing down that intake in general and giving your body some time to recuperate. Plus, we're hydrating very well, which alcohol, despite what people might think, doesn't hydrate you.
SPEAKER 07 :
It does not. And I think that is a great practical step that anybody can take when you're having alcohol because it will help hydrate, flush that out of your system a little bit faster and make sure that those toxins are getting out. And it'll help the liver just support that a little bit more where it's not going to be overtaxed with all the sugar that's in there.
SPEAKER 13 :
Is there any, and this may be a dumb question on my part, are there any supplements that help either break down the sugar faster and or keep those cravings at bay, or is it just because it's so addictive like cocaine that it is what it is?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I don't know if there are any supplements that will help reduce sugar cravings. Now, we know that there are supplements that, again, support the liver, but which helps break down that sugar a little bit faster and keeps it from being too taxed. So I would say I don't know if there are supplements specifically that would reduce sugar cravings. I tend to say probably not. But we do know that there are foods that can help reduce that because your – you're reducing some of the blood sugar levels and helping regulate that. So you can have that. I suppose if there is that going on with food, that there are probably some supplements that would help as well. I just don't know what they are on hand.
SPEAKER 13 :
Not to poke at the pharmaceutical companies, but my guess is, Troy, if there was even something, for example, a drug that people could take that would reduce sugar cravings, I'm guessing that one probably gets buried because the folks that sell sugar wouldn't want that.
SPEAKER 07 :
The folks that sell sugar wouldn't want that, and honestly, the folks that sell diabetes medication and other things probably wouldn't want it either.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I'm guessing that even if that existed, that's one of those things that probably gets bought and buried because nobody wants that out there, although it would be a huge benefit to a lot of individuals because it would change a lot of things that they do in their life health-wise. And again, Troy, I know this full well just from being down this journey myself. These things, to your point earlier, how we open up, they are very addictive. You can have withdrawals when you go off of sugar completely. In fact, my recommendation to folks is unless you can do cold turkey and handle some of the headaches and sweats and so on that come along with it, and yes, those things do happen when you're fully addicted to sugar. I know. I'm a testament to that some time. 15 years ago, Troy, so yes, I know those things exist when you come off of it, and the reality is if you're not able to do cold turkey, you've got to slowly wean yourself off, but that's also difficult.
SPEAKER 07 :
There really is no easy way to do it, and it takes discipline. I mean, it's an easy thing. I think we all recognize that we should just eat less sugar and We should look at labels. We should do those things. And it's not hard to do, but the discipline piece is where it comes in. And we all like the taste of sugar a lot more sometimes than we do the health benefits that go along with cutting it.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I will be sympathetic to a lot of folks because I'm somebody that loves food. In fact, my addiction, Troy, is that. I talked about this on another program I was on recently where I don't have a lot of other addictions, alcohol, et cetera. I don't abuse drugs, those sorts of things. Never have been a problem in my life. But I love food. Now, the difference is cocaine isn't on every street corner. Alcohol even, Troy, isn't on every street corner. But food is everywhere, and I have to have food to survive. And unfortunately, a lot of the foods that we get today in America contain some of the very things you and I are talking about that you want to get rid of. So the reality is those people that have food addictions, in my opinion, have it a whole lot worse than even folks that are addicted to cocaine and alcohol.
SPEAKER 07 :
I would totally agree with that from the standpoint of it is just hard to get away from it because it's so easy. And we're so busy that we may see a packaged food or we may see a fast food drive through as we're going by. And we think, you know what, I'm just going to slip in there real quick, grab it and go without really looking at the labels or understanding what's in it. to a greater extent, and that truly affects our health and can be devastating for us if that's all we're doing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Founder of Centurion Labs, Troy Duhl. Troy, have a really Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I know we'll talk again first of the year, but thank you so much for all that you do. It's been a joy. The more we talk, the more I get to know you. I just appreciate your time and effort in coming on our program.
SPEAKER 07 :
John, I appreciate it and hope you guys have a great Christmas out that way as well.
SPEAKER 13 :
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All right. Hour three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Jay Bieber joining us now, Executive Director of Policy at the National Motorist Association. Welcome back, Jay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Pleasure to be back with you.
SPEAKER 15 :
I was reading today, and I know this is going to be our topic anyways, but I was reading today that in California and across the country, the government, whether it's locally or nationally, has spent billions of dollars and yet have very few charge stations installed.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. That is true. Are you shocked at that, by the way? No. Do I sound shocked? No, not at all. That the government actually didn't do something efficiently? No. I'm shocked. Shocked that there's gambling going on.
SPEAKER 15 :
And, you know, these mandates. The other thing I was reading today is that, you know, Newsom is really having a hard time now with some of his California, you know, EV mandates. They're backpedaling on some of those things because the reality is, and it's our topic today, the reality is the demand for electric vehicles, shockingly, is not there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. That's absolutely true. I mean, here's the thing. No matter how much the government tries to mandate something or tries to muck up the market, the market's going to do what the market does. And if people don't want to buy something and it doesn't work for the majority of people, they're not going to buy it.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 04 :
They're just not going to. And the market for this has already been saturated. Yeah, really quick, Jay.
SPEAKER 15 :
For those of you listening, as we all know, Jay, there are in every industry and every type of product, there's what we call early adopters that want to go out. They've got the money. They can have the high tech and so on. Or they're curious about that particular technology. Or, you know, in my case where I wanted to learn about them so I could talk intelligently on air about them on the different programs that I have. Right. Bottom line, Jay, is there are those people that will adopt early. And in some cases, I hate to say this, but in some cases may give a false premise of, hey, these things are really taking off and they're going to do well. You probably ought to sit back for a moment and wait and see how that pans out, because there's always this bell curve of early adopters and then things fall off. And guess where we're at, Jay?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it is exactly right, and that's exactly what has happened with the EV market, because what we're seeing is that the initial market for EVs overwhelmingly composed of upper-income liberals. That's who bought the initials. So, California EV registrations overwhelmingly concentrated in the wealthiest episodes. The UC Berkeley study showed that close to half of EVs registered nationally over the last decade were clustered in the top 10% of the most Democratic counties nationally, over a third in the top 5%. And here's the thing. Here's what everybody should be really angry about. Not that those people bought cars. They were all subsidized.
SPEAKER 15 :
I was just going to say, they all got help.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. They got your tax dollars to help wealthy people feel good about themselves that they were saving the environment, which a lot of people don't necessarily do. Right. And you should be really angry that your tax dollars went to rich people, liberal or not, who want to, you know... who want to buy a new car that works for them or that they think works for them and make them feel good about driving around with an electric vehicle.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. No, you are spot on. Things that we've talked about on this program for some time, and I've had conversation after conversation, again, being somebody, Jay, that's owned one since 2020, and I did that early on just so that I could – I really wanted to be able to talk intelligently, you know, as a talk show host and as a conservative and as somebody that has an actual, you know, call in drive radio, we call it an actual call in car show. I wanted to be able to talk intelligently about things which I felt at the time no one on either side of the aisle was doing, you know. The left wasn't doing it well. The right wasn't doing it well. They were both wrong in some of the things that they were talking about with EVs. So I wanted to buy one and actually own it and know, okay, here are the realities of what this is like and what it entails and so on. And I'll say, Jay, that for some people, key word, for some people, they work extremely well. Are they something that 100% of the driving population can own? Absolutely not.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, and I mean, just the reality of it, just logically thinking about it. I mean, I don't know where you live, but for people who have their own home and can have a charger there, can charge overnight, that's really helpful. That really makes that much less burdensome. But let's say you live in an apartment building with a whole bunch of apartments. Not going to work. Everybody has an EV. How is that going to work? It's just impossible. And who is going to be living in apartments? For the most part, people who can't necessarily own their own home. So the poor people, the ones who are subsidizing this through tax dollars, and the people who can own homes and can be subsidized with the cars and the chargers, those are the people that are using the tax dollars. And here's the thing. You said it exactly. It works great for some people. I don't know how many cars you own, but for a lot of people, it's a great second car. For some people, it's their first car.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm a car addict, so more than I need. Let's just say that.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's like one of whatever your collection is.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm an enthusiast. Well, but really, and I've said this many times, and it's not to brag. I just need simple facts of, Jay, I'm a guy that is, of course, further along in life. I've owned multiple businesses over the years in real estate and so on. And I've got my own home with my own garage with... the fact that I'm handy enough to even install my own charge station, so I didn't have to pay the big bucks to actually have that done. I mean, I am sort of one of those owners where everything fits perfectly. I drive roughly 30 miles each way to work, and on and on we go. I mean, at the end of the day, it's about as ideal as it gets, but I'm not the typical car owner.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's true, but you also have other options for when you need something different. Absolutely. And that's why the free market should work for people who want it, and it's whatever, first car, second car, third car, fifteenth car, I don't know. You know, if that works for them, great. People should be free to buy whatever kind of car they want. It shouldn't be the government cramming it down.
SPEAKER 15 :
By the way, Jay, this includes even, you know, the fleet operators, which, you know, I am one of and so on. I mean, this includes those types of individuals as well. If they feel like for their fleet, it works well and they can. possibly save time and money and so on. At the end of the day, they have to do the math and figure that out on their own, but they should not be either A, incentivized to buy and or forced to.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And here's the thing. When people have a choice, we can see what their choices are. I was traveling over the holidays, so I was talking to a guy at a Hertz rental, and he was telling me, they can't get rid of most of their EVs because people didn't want to rent them. I mean, that just shows you what the market is. You take them, you put them out there, you give people an opportunity to rent them, they choose something else. That just tells you what the demand is.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. No, Oh, and you're exactly right. And on the other side of the Hertz thing, I had the opportunity at the Barrett-Jackson auto auction last year to sit next to some of those same executives, by the way, just ironically, and was asking them a little bit about some of those things. And that was a combination of not only what was in the rental fleet, but they did some big leases to a lot of companies whereby those companies thought, hey, this will be great for us. It'll save us money. Well, fact of the matter is, Jay, it didn't. And as you know, and the rest of the folks out there know Hertz ended up having to take a lot of those back and then figure out what they're going to do with them. And in turn, it costs them a boatload of money.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep, exactly. And part of the reason is because repairs on an EV are more expensive than a regular car. Tires. The tires, the batteries, long-term maybe are going to be more expensive. Look, I still have my 94 Celica. It's running fine. I just rebuilt the rack and pinion on it. And it's a 94 Celica. It's a gas engine. I don't have to worry about replacing the battery battery. But not the electric battery on it. And that car will last another 30 or 40 years.
SPEAKER 15 :
You just stated something a moment ago, too, that there's a misconception of. And by the way, one of the biggest complaints that I have had is because most of the folks involved with EVs, whether it be press or even the guy at the dealership selling it. aren't informing people well enough of actually what they're buying. The reality is they are not maintenance-free. There are things that you have to do on them. They do even have fluids and things like that that you still have to monitor, maintain, and take care of. And yes, things still break, and there's accidents and so on. At the end of the day, it's not as rosy red as what everybody says. And Jay, to me, that's where a lot of consumers have done a disservice because the folks selling them aren't trained well enough in even the things you and I are talking about.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's exactly right. And this is why about 46% of EV purchasers said they weren't going to go back to an internal combustion vehicle. I mean, that's just, again, that's what's telling about what this thing is. And look, I understand that there are those in government who have this aspirational idea that we're going to save the planet by everybody buying an electric vehicle. But I'm going to tell you a little secret here, which is the really hardcore environmentalists They don't see electric vehicles as the, you know, the savior of the environment. They see you not driving and having a car as the savior of the environment.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right. You and your car are the things that need to be eliminated, not going to an EV.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's exactly right. Internally, they talk about this all the time. Yeah, EVs are harder for people to get around. Maybe they'll drive less or whatever. But really, the goal is for you not to get in your car. You take public transit, get on a bicycle, walk somewhere, don't consume as much. We hate consumerism. We hate capitalism. You know, we hate the free market. You know, everybody has to be part of the collective. That's right. And that's the way they want everybody to live their lives. Look, they want to live their lives like that and live in a commune. God bless them. Let them go. That's not me, though. Don't tell us that.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's exactly right. Jay Bieber, again, executive director of policy at the National Motors Association. Jay, how do folks find you?
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 15 :
We are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Mike, you are next. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, John. I, uh... I retired last July, a year ago July, from the post office. So you're one of those liabilities now. Yeah, I am. And they took my machine away. I started out as a clerk sorting the mail on a machine, and then I moved into the maintenance side and worked on the magazine machine that put... that in sequence order and because it didn't work right good enough for them they got rid of it after 10 years so at a million dollars a piece for each machine they trashed all 110 flat sorters wow i am sure and i'm only guessing mike that you can give story after story of some of the waste and inefficiencies that you saw over your career am i correct Oh, yeah. I mean, when I first started there, you had to be a citizen for five years, and you had to speak English. Now we have people coming in here from Africa or the Middle East that are in-country a year, and they put them into supervision.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Is that not a security risk?
SPEAKER 06 :
You would think. I mean, when they had the... what, anthrax?
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 06 :
They put in these big sorters to sniff for anthrax, and the thing about that, even if it picks it up, you won't find out for two hours because it has to be changed out every two hours.
SPEAKER 15 :
I see.
SPEAKER 06 :
And then they'll shut down the plant, and everybody's already been subjected to it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 06 :
I always thought that We should, as a country, just for instance, we'll use me. If I started working today, my Social Security should, 50% would go for my private retirement. Can't touch it until I get to X age. But that way, it would be there and the government couldn't take it. And then, The other one, 25% would be for those like me that are already on it until we all go away.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And then 25% would be for... Future. Catastrophic.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, I see. Okay. Sure, sure, sure.
SPEAKER 06 :
But that way, the biggest thing is to get it out from under... the thieves in Washington.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right. What are your thoughts since you've been in the postal end of things, and this talk has happened, and I know that for the, you know, technically the post office is private, although it's a, it's kind of a quasi-government slash private organization. What if the post office went totally private?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, they'd have to, the problem with that is they don't get rid of the dead weight when that happens. I think it would work really well if you got some people in there that are there to get the mail out. But you have people, I had supervisors that would just go sit in the office for half the night. I worked graveyard. And you wouldn't see them until 4 o'clock when day shift came in.
SPEAKER 15 :
So, dumb question, what were they doing during that time?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, let's see. One was watching a basketball game or a football game, and the other one was... The other two were playing video games.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. So basically proving the point of what Joe and I were talking about earlier.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah. It needs a healthy God through. And I feel sorry for the people. My carrier I have, she's only been with the post office eight years. And I feel real sorry for her because I don't know that we'll be around that much longer.
SPEAKER 15 :
Got it. Got it. Yeah, and for those of you listening, I have a great mail carrier. We are, I guess you could say, friends to a large extent. Mike, we'll do something for him for Christmas and so on, and we love our mail carriers, and it's not those guys that I feel animosity towards. It's the folks that you're talking about and just the inefficiencies and the fact that we as taxpayers have to subsidize that thing every single year. It's ridiculous. Shouldn't have to.
SPEAKER 06 :
They can't even keep new hires in the post office they work for especially on the street they work for a week maybe a month maybe two and they just say to hell with it and they leave If you go by any post office, you'll see signs up that says, we're hiring now.
SPEAKER 15 :
You're right. No, you're right. And I've had family members that have worked for the post office, so I know some of what you're talking about from the inside out, like you're saying, and you are not the only one like you that's ever said this. So reality is I've heard this story many times.
SPEAKER 06 :
I've kind of given the post office a nickname. I call it the United States Refugee Employment Service. Because they always, wherever we screw up a war, they bring those people in and put them into the post office. And it's been going on since Korea. Wow.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's some things I did not know. I mean, I guess I should have known that, but I've never had anybody directly say that before like you are.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I had people when I was testing couldn't speak English, so they had one of their – buddies who are Vietnamese translating to her, and they didn't kick them out during the test like they're supposed to because they had to translate.
SPEAKER 15 :
Interesting. Wow. I'm learning a lot. Again, Mike, just more proof that that thing needs a revamp, complete revamp.
SPEAKER 06 :
I always said that the post office should have an ad out there that says nobody goes where we go for the price we do anywhere in the world. But they never advertise like that because they don't want to piss off FedEx and UPS and all that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right. No, you're right, though. You're correct. Absolutely. I can't argue with that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mike, I'll let you go.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, appreciate that. Thank you for the update. Again, every time I talk to somebody that's internal like that, I learn something new. All right, one other thing I want to talk about before we go to Scott Garlis, and we'll do that here in just a few minutes. So hang tight. We'll get to Scott, and he's got some updates for us on what's happening on Wall Street, I should say. So you may have seen the news today, something we've talked about here a few times in the past because I never felt like the Kroger merger with Albertsons. I never felt like it should have had the scrutiny the FTC was giving it. It's ridiculous, actually. And I've talked about that. I've had interviews along those lines. And I'm not really in the grocery world any way, shape, or form, but I felt like that would have been a good merger. Let it go. Move on. Be done with it. Well, Albertsons has now backed out. They are suing Kroger for failing to win approval of their proposed merger. Now, I don't think that suit's going to go anywhere, frankly. And who knows, this merger under Trump might be able to be saved and rectified, and you may still see this happen later in 2025 or maybe even early in 2025. I don't know. I'm not privy to any of that inside knowledge. I would be hard-pressed to believe that Albertsons could win anything over Kroger, given the fact that this isn't Kroger's doing. This is a Joe Biden FTC that made this happen. And FTC, by the way, that has stopped numerous mergers, but yet have allowed some to take place. Sort of whatever they feel like should happen versus shouldn't happen. Not what's best for the consumer. It's more of what do they feel should be happening. And again, in the case of Kroger, we've even got our own stupid AG here in Colorado. And yes, I'll call Phil that. Phil Weiser. Guy's a moron. Tool, basically, has never tried a case in his life, and yet he's the AG of Colorado because enough stupid voters in Colorado voted for that clown. He's another one that got involved and spent Colorado tax dollars fighting this merger. Stupid. Have no business doing it at all. But yet our AG office in Colorado, I guess, just feels like money is endless, and why not spend the taxpayer money on this? He did. He did. and now really at this point, really wasted money because Albertsons has now pulled out because of what nationally the FTC, you know, what the feds did. Again, why we don't have more accountability, this goes back to even the whole post office conversation we just had a moment ago with Mike and then Joe earlier, why we don't have more accountability along these lines is, to where somebody like a Phil Weiser spending Colorado taxpayer dollars fighting something he has no business sticking his nose into, none, and yet did, and spent, I'd have to go look at what the total is, and that I hope would be a public record that we could go and see exactly how much money Phil wasted. on fighting the kroger merger here in colorado i don't know what that answer is maybe one of you out there who have a lot more time on your hands than i do maybe you could find out for me how much money we've wasted as a state fighting this which now literally just, I guess, goes away. We'll end up seeing what happens again under the Trump administration. I would be shocked to not see this get resurrected under Donald Trump. And I think Albertsons, by the way, they're posturing with some of this, I believe. They're probably trying to get a little more value out of this when it's all said and done, maybe. I don't know. I don't know what their their whole slant would be on this and why they're going this direction, because if they were smart, they just sort of kick back, sit back, I should say, wait and see what happens. And most likely under Donald Trump and a new FTC chair, which we will get. you most likely would see all of this go away and that merger would take place. So I think Albertson's number one is being very premature. I don't really know what their angle is here in all of this. I guess time will tell. But I believe, again, wholeheartedly that they're being very premature in this. And again, do I have a dog in the fight in this? No, I don't care one way or the other. I mean, it doesn't matter to me whether they merge or not. I think that typically in the I do know this in the grocery business. We've talked to Joe from Jersey about this many times. Their margins are thin. Anytime they can figure out a way to, you know, tighten things up, consolidate even and get more efficiencies in what they're doing. Yeah, they can actually make that work. And Kroger, being as large as they are, has the ability to help that out and even help some of the Albertsons slash Safeway stores do so. And I think they already had some agreements out there to where they were going to go ahead and take certain stores off and sell them to somebody else and make all that work in regards to the FTC complaints and so on. And I understand all of that. But again, at the end of the day, Albertson's pulling out now because they feel somehow slighted, I guess you could say, on the Kroger end of things. And, again, I think they're very wrong in doing this. They should have just sat back and waited a little bit and figured things out. But they didn't do that. So, at any rate. 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SPEAKER 15 :
All right. That time of the week, Scott Garlis joining us now and his company, Bent Pine Capital. Scott, welcome. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, John, I'm well. How are you?
SPEAKER 15 :
Doing very well. Appreciate you joining us. Hopefully we're not interrupting you. Sorry we got a little bit behind tonight, but I appreciate you joining us. All right, I saw today, and of course the news media gets all hyped up over inflation numbers, which I know you and I have talked about numerous times, and we've even gone into how they manipulate these numbers around and what the actual true numbers are. But explain for those listening, because there's a lot of hype around it today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so what happened today was annualized CPI data came out. They showed 2.7% growth year over year. Now, that's actually up over the last three months from, geez, I want to say it was like 2.2%, 2.4%. Right. It was 2.4% just a few months ago. So what's really interesting to these numbers, to me anyway, is So the media is really locked into the accelerating growth, but they're not looking at the sort of the forward-looking projections of what these numbers are telling you. We're losing these really easy comparisons from late last year right now, and we're hanging on to these really difficult comparisons from the beginning of 24. But as we start to go out into March, and maybe April, we'll drop those numbers. And all of a sudden what it looks like right now is we could see inflation growth sub 1%, you know, within the next six months.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. So a lot of the hype, and I read some of these stories today, you know, oh, we're really doing our best to try to fight inflation, but it's not working. It's just, you know, it's just this number that just won't come down no matter what we do. And I'm like, oh, there's so many other factors in that. You guys have no idea what you're talking about.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, exactly. It's really a big deal. Yes, it is starting to come down. And look, I think a big part of it, and we've talked about this a bit too, that inflation has proven to be transitory like the Fed originally said it would be. It's just taken longer to get there because, I mean, you know, we threw $2.1 trillion worth of stimulus at the economy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
We did that.
SPEAKER 15 :
We also had, as you know, and they've started to trickle down ever so slightly of late. And I think once Trump gets in office, they'll even come down more. But, you know, oil prices were not, you know, in our favor as far as some of this goes. And any time oil prices are up, so is everything else.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and then think about, you know, Russia has dealt with all these crippling sanctions since 2014 when they took the Crimean Peninsula. If Trump can negotiate some sort of deal between Russia and Ukraine, Russia's not going to take a deal unless all those sanctions go away. True. If that happens, you know, what's Russia's number one export? Oil. Oil. And natural gas.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oil and gas, yeah. Oil and gas.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and not to mention, let's not forget about what... aluminum is another big thing. And so, you know, what's Russia going to do? It's going to try to sell all that stuff on the open market that it can. And that's just going to drive those prices down a bit more and help inflation ease further. Now, I point that out for a couple of reasons. One, you know, there's this big thing like, oh, my God, if Trump goes after China and introduces tariffs, it could drive headline inflation up by 0.6 to 0.9 percent. Well, If inflation's running sub-1% right now... Who cares? Yeah, and we drive it back up by 0.6 to 0.9, it's still below the Fed's 2% target.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 05 :
So that's also important because not only that, but that also tells us, you know, the Fed funds rates around 4.7% right now, I think is the overnight rate.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think that's right, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so... You know, to come back to neutral, which the Fed is talking about, let's say we put this 1% on for Trump tariffs, we're 2%. They can still cut by 270 basis points before they get to neutral.
SPEAKER 15 :
True. Good point.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's a lot of economic growth. And so if I'm an investor... That doesn't mean the Fed's going to immediately cut by 270 basis points, but they have the ability to. So if the economy were to slow down at all, there's tons of room to help it out. If I'm an investor, I like that. Because that means the stock market can keep going for a while.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right. And I mean, you know my feelings on that, and I do think they've got room. I think also one of the things the Fed never looks at, but yet we in business, small, medium-sized businesses especially, because we don't get the same deals that the big guys get, borrowing costs, whether it be on equipment, whether it be your line of credit, the reality is they're higher now than they were before. And because of that, and, of course, also the cost of labor is also up, those two things alone create inflation. Those are things that, again, Scott, I just – I mean, I get it. The Fed is the Fed, and these guys think they're smarter than the rest of us. But the reality is they're not because they never look at the things I just said as a part of inflation.
SPEAKER 05 :
So to reaffirm and support exactly what you just said is if you look at the real federal funds rate, which again is overnight borrowing costs minus inflation, and that's where you get that 200 basis points worth of room to cut rates. Well, if we go back and look at that historically, I've run these numbers. If you look at it from 2000 to 2020, sort of pre-pandemic and pre-crazy stimulus numbers, the typical real rate of interest based on CPI was negative 0.3%. That's massively different. And so, again, if you think of the Fed as trying to run interest rates at neutral, and this, I don't want to get too deep in the weeds, but the Fed really looks at PCE, which is personal consumption expenditures. It's a little bit different way to measure inflation. You know, the average... real Fed funds rate based on PCE on that same timeframe was negative 0.3%, so effectively zero. So again, the Fed has a lot of room to cut interest rates, and that's not a great story for CNBC to tell you, but that's what's going on. That's what can happen. Even if Trump does introduce these tariffs and they drive inflation up by 1%, 0.6%, whichever, you know, they still have a lot of room to cut.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree. And we talked about this a little bit throughout the week, a little bit yesterday, even, Scott, when it comes to some of the tariffs and so on. And you and I have talked, and I'm a big one on most, not all, but most people that are anti-tariff are globalists. They look at things way different than even... You and I do. They are naysayers when it comes that they would not if they had their way about it, there wouldn't be any terrorists anywhere. And they could care less whether, you know, China runs rip shot over us or not. I know you know me. There is no love lost between me and China whatsoever. They have been a intelligent, you know, a thief. of our intelligence for 50-plus years now, and the reality is they are not our friend. Anything we can do to, in my opinion, cripple them and their economy, go for it. I'll take a little bit higher price here if that's what it means.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, China's out for China. That's right.
SPEAKER 15 :
They don't care about us or our people, any way, shape, or form.
SPEAKER 05 :
They don't. And the President of China, Xi Jinping, he doesn't have to worry about an election every four years. Xi Jinping's there for as long as he wants to be, more or less. And look, China's playing a long game. They're not playing a short game here. If they have one guy in there for 50 years, I doubt he'd be there that long. But he can affect these policies that stay around for a long time. Yes, and taking intellectual property, stealing it from people, and then building products not having spent the money on the R&D, and then going and crushing somebody else's property. That's just not the spirit of business whatsoever.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm here to tell you, Scott, that if we started cracking down on some of the things you and I just said, including even the corporate espionage and so on that China is very good at, if we started cracking down on that and they didn't have the access to the things that literally at times we just hand over to them – They would not be – I mean, they're not technologically as advanced as most people think. They copy and redo a lot of the things that they steal from us. If they didn't have that in the first place, they wouldn't be where they're at.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, China's economy really took off because of all the manufacturing business they picked up, gosh, you know, in like the 80s and 90s when it really started. And China turned around and started to weaponize that against Europe and the U.S. And I think Trump was the first person to really step in and say, hey, we're not putting up with this anymore. And it's, you know, China's economy is being crippled now because All of these companies that manufactured goods there from Europe and the U.S., they have left. And we talked about this years ago. When a company leaves, they're not coming back. That's a big investment, and they have to make a huge investment somewhere else. I think China's got some real economic problems for the foreseeable future.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree. And, you know, we are doing not as quick of a job here as we should be. But eventually some of the things we've even started here, you know, TSMC as far as chips and so on. I mean, we're doing some things here, whether we agree with how it's been funded or not. At the end of the day, we are bringing some things here to make happen that those those sorts of things, especially, Scott, as you know, that does not help China out at all. In fact, doesn't really help. help Taiwan either, even though right now Taiwan's the largest manufacturer of that when it's all said and done. But if we get some of those things moved here and we start doing some things here along those lines, that affects those particular industries greatly, and China won't have the power they've got right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
They won't. And to your point, yeah, it really helps the U.S. as well. I agree. I mean, think about all the manufacturing jobs that would, you know, the skilled labor jobs that will pick up here in the U.S. because of that. And, you know, I can't tell you how many times I heard people complain about during COVID that, oh, my God, the supply chain. Think about all these medical products that were made in China that could have been made here. Well, We're being presented with the opportunity to have exactly that thing happen. So why would that be so bad?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's not. We should take advantage of that. I think Trump will make some of those things happen. He'll incentivize. And by the way, I'm a big one on if we can cut some of the just. you know total government waste that's out there you know doing studies in other countries we shouldn't be doing to you know some of the different things that we we just waste money on literally waste money i mean no offense scott the amount of money we spent on ukraine we could have tooled up and done all sorts of manufacturing here Thank you very much. I'm all in, and the reality is we could cut government waste in a lot of areas and put it into the things you and I are talking about. Whether that's right, wrong, or otherwise, and depending upon what your belief is on whether we should help private companies or not, that's irrelevant. The reality is we could cut in some places and do those things very easily.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and sort of going back to some of the China stuff as it relates to this, too. I mean, people don't remember, I feel like, all the time that a lot of these companies in China that are making these goods are government-owned, controlled. That's right. Basically, they're state-sponsored entities.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 05 :
So China is dumping tons and tons of money. They're not worried about costs. They're not worried about these things. You don't have to be. Yeah, and it's really an unfair advantage versus the rest of the world. This is why China is able to dump all of these goods into different markets.
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That's right. Exactly right.
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Because they don't care.
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That's right. All right, so how do folks find you and learn more? And as we look into 2025, we'll have another show here before we close out the year and head into the holidays. But how do folks find you?
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Yeah, sure. You can go to Twitter. You can go to LinkedIn. Look for C. Scott Garlis.
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All right. We'll talk more about next week and stocks and where folks can invest and so on. I'm a little tight on time today, Scott, but I appreciate you, and we'll talk again next week. Thanks so much for your time, John. I bet you, man. I appreciate you. Have a great evening. Affordable interest mortgage is next. Speaking of interest rates and all of that, how does that work when it comes to a mortgage? Give Kurt a call today and find out. 720-895-0500.
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It's time to leave your safe space. This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Tomorrow, Dr. Kelly Victory should be with us. Steve House for sure will be. And we're going to talk about a little bit of inside knowledge on some of Trump's cabinet picks, especially the Surgeon General pick. We've got a little bit of insight on that we will share with you all tomorrow. tomorrow. And as you guys know, there's a pick there right now that Dr. Kelly and Steve will both comment on that, frankly, none of us, myself included, are very happy about, because this is a person that, frankly, was all in on the vaccine mandates and masks and social distancing and so on. And why in the world Trump has picked that particular individual, we really do not know. But We'll share some insight maybe on that tomorrow. And then I've also got a business expert that's going to talk about the wokeness in the DEI end of things and the fact that it is now leaving some of the larger corporations. So that, plus much more. We'll see you tomorrow. Have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.