HR1 Rush To Reason December 16, 2024 by John Rush
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This is Rush to Reason.
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With your host, John Rush.
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And it is. Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Tom from High Five joining us now. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. How are you doing today? I'm doing very well. So you guys all ready for Christmas and New Year's, I should say?
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Yeah, absolutely. You know, we're gearing up as the holidays come in. So do the calls, as you probably know.
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So, yeah, absolutely.
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We're gearing up.
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So a little bit of advice from you guys on, you know, as we go through the holidays and people will do all sorts of things, there'll be. Everything from extra load on the plumbing, sewer, pipes, all of that, also on the electrical end of things, depending upon how many folks you have in your home. What things should folks be – how should I say this? If there's anything they could do on the front side, what would that be?
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Yeah, absolutely. I mean, one of the things that we're definitely recommending people do, and I talked about this last time you and I spoke, but we always recommend now's a good time of year to get your sewer line inspected. Make sure you're not going to run into any big issues, especially, you know, it's hard to get in touch with people. Obviously, it's not hard to get in touch with High Five, but we'll get out to your house and make sure that you're prepped for the holidays so that you don't find yourself on Christmas Day without, you know, with some kind of clog or anything like that. So we're here to help and Yeah, you kind of touched on electrical as well. You know, with Christmas lights and everything like that, just greater use and wear and tear on your electrical systems, it's just good to make sure that your home is prepared to face all that extra wear. So we're currently offering $500 off any electrical panel upgrade as well. So that's obviously a huge perk that we're extending to your listeners right now. So, yeah, all parts of your house need to be cared for, especially during the holidays.
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That's awesome. And for some of you listening where you may – I don't know, you know, Tom, there's everything from, you know, people do, you know, Christmas lights this time of the year to all sorts of other things that may be happening. And, you know, they maybe are, you know, running an extension cord in some places where, you know, let's face it, there could be some trip hazards and just not a good situation at the end of the day. You guys can add. And for those of you listening, believe me, you can add outlets. In fact, is there really any limitation on where you can't put an outlet?
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Not really. You know, there might be certain regulations and obviously our professional certified electricians will make sure that we're following everything that needs to be followed, make sure you and your family are safe. But yeah, exactly like you're saying, electrical outlets outside have been, you know, one of our main things that we've been getting lots of calls about because it just adds a lot of ease and comfort to the homeowner. Like you mentioned, trip hazards and other issues with extension cords. So absolutely, we can equip your home for whatever it is that you need.
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Especially for those of you that are listening where you find yourself always, you know, man, I've got to drag a cord out to do whatever. And, again, Tom, it could be any number of different things. And, again, with all the different folks that I have listening, we've got a lot of do-it-yourselfers and so on that are out there that do things out of the garage or the shop or whatever. And nothing worse than having to drag an extension cord out every time you want to do something where if there was an outlet there, you just wouldn't have to do it. So for a lot of you listening, it could be not only – You know, Tom, the safety factor, but just the whole time savings factor as well.
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Yeah, absolutely. It's a huge time saver. And, you know, we always talk about, you know, how to avoid those sort of scary things that can happen when things go wrong. But obviously your home is one of your biggest assets, and it's great to invest in the things that are going to actually add value to your home, add value to your day-to-day life. You know, we're currently offering $500 off tanked water heaters. So, you know, if you're not getting as much hot water as you need or if your water is too hard, we've got water treatment systems available. touchless faucets, touchless toilets. So really whatever it is that people want to add to their home, it really contributes more to the day-to-day life than people even know. So absolutely the holidays are the right time to start those projects.
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And you guys know when I talk a lot on Fix It Radio on Saturday mornings about the upgrades and things you can do to your home, things that add value to your home, whereby maybe it makes your home worth more dollars, or, Tom, it makes that home more sellable. Somebody's looking between two different houses, but yours has a few added touches that the next one doesn't have. All of these things at the end of the day can actually help you on that end of things also.
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Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what, I'm currently on the house market, and when I go into a house and I see outdated systems and things like that, it's a headache I don't want to deal with. So 100%, I think that it adds more value than people even realize.
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Absolutely. And folks, even the whole lighting end of things and looking at some of the smart lighting, maybe, Tom, next month when I have you on, we can get into a little bit more of kind of how the smart end of things works, which on the electrical side, which... They're doing some things even on the plumbing side now as well. I mean, bottom line, you can really get things dialed in if you really want to.
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Yeah, absolutely. Add value to your home. Add value to your life. And, yeah, you know what? I want to get our electrician service manager on the phone with you so that he can tell you more about all that. Perfect.
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So absolutely, let's chat about that. Okay, we'll do that. We'll do that. All right, in the meantime, Merry Christmas to all of you guys, to Levi, Cassie, everybody there, the whole team. We really appreciate you guys and wish you guys the best for Christmas and New Year's. And, man, this year has flown by. That's all I'm going to say.
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I know. I know. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. And thank you for the call. And yeah, to all your listeners, God bless and Merry Christmas.
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God Country Reason Now back to John Rush.
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All right, as a reminder also, before I do question of the day, we need Christmas song requests for Christmas Day. And if there's any short stories, videos that would make good audio that you would like to hear on Christmas Eve, we would welcome those as well. Just either send them to me in an email or text message, either one, and I'll get those to Charlie, and he can get those set for those two days. 307-282-22, of course, is our text line. Or you can send us an email. Just go right to rushtoreason.com. The impossible question of the day. This is from Friday. What do the residents of the Galapagos Island use in place of a formal postage system? It is a barrel. There you go. I guess it's a small enough item or small enough island. You just go throw your mail in the barrel and there you go. Today's impossible question. Who wrote Christmas doesn't come from a store? Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more. So who wrote that? Now, that's all, you know, in fun, and Christmas is great, and we want to, you know, have as many of the songs and different things that we can play for Christmas Day in more sad news. And I have to mention this because it's all over the news. I do not know all of the details. This came out not long before actually driving down to the station today, and that is the tragedy, the shooting that's happened in Madison, Wisconsin. It was at a private school, Abundant Life Christian School. At this point, there are two dead, six injured, and that's about all the details at this point. We know, and you guys know my rules on this, I will not make any sorts of speculations as to who it was or what happened or any of the details because, frankly, we won't know until more comes out here in the few days left. But it's never good when these sorts of things happen. And, of course, as we know, the other thing that will happen is, you know, the left will jump on this. And this is where they really start pushing, you know, gun control and all sorts of things along those lines. It will be interesting in this particular case, though. And I feel free to say this. It will be interesting to see what happens in this case, given it's a Christian school and not a public school. In other words, how the left reacts to this. So, again, I don't know the details, don't know exactly what happened, don't know who was involved, who was even injured or killed. Again, we don't—there's way too much information. unknowns, I guess I should say, to really understand what's happening at this point. And more will be unfolding as, of course, the day and the weeks go on. But, of course, our prayers go out to all of those individuals that have been affected by that. And I think it's just one of those reminders that, you know, You never know on any given day what may happen. So love your family, love your kids, give them a hug before they leave, give them a kiss, all those things. And sometimes we get so busy and so involved in what's going on with life. And yes, life becomes that way. I get that. But sometimes we forget to sort of take those moments. And yet, you know, there's no guarantees. I talk about that with Michael Bailey. He's our mobile estate planner. You'll hear from him in this next block, and the reality is we don't know. We really don't. We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, and this is a reminder of that, and it can be any time, any place. Unfortunately, we live in a fallen world with some very sick individuals, and I mean that sincerely. Anybody that would take someone else's life is sick, literally sick and twisted in one way or another. There's a screw loose somewhere. Sorry. You don't take another person's life without having something like that. And I don't care if you're a mass murderer and it's premeditated or it's a school shooter or it's a whatever. You don't take someone else's life without having a screw loose. That I can guarantee you. I don't know this whole situation, but that's one of those things that I can guarantee. So at any rate, we will see how this all plays out. But, yeah, that's all over the news. I just want to make sure that I mention that in case you hadn't seen the news yet. So be keeping those people in your prayers. All right, other big news. And this has been going on for a little bit now. I didn't talk about it much last week, and several people even asked me if I would. I didn't have a lot of opinions last week. And as I watched through the weekend and followed a few different people and saw some different video and so on, and I've had several of you text and ask me, what are my thoughts on all of the drones back east, New Jersey, that area? What's my thought? And I am no expert in drones. I'll be the first to admit, although I feel like and I do my best to have common sense and apply that to most things. You guys also know that I am about as anti-conspiratorial as it gets. Now, I was on the side of anti-vaccines and all the COVID stuff and so on, although I didn't see any of those as being conspiratorial because there was facts to back those things up. So a lot of people maybe on the left thought I was a conspiracy theorist, but I was not. I was using real data, real science, and things that we and Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House talked about every single Thursday, so I didn't put myself in that camp at that time, nor do I now. I don't in the case of these drones. Now, I know that the new name for UFOs is something different, still UFOs. Do I think this has anything to do with that? No, I do not. Do I believe in extraterrestrials and, you know, aliens from other planets? No, I do not. And some of you would say, well, why? I don't. No proof. No proof. In fact, the little bit that you see is sort of like Bigfoot. Why is it that every picture of every flying saucer and every alien is fuzzy? Just like every picture of Bigfoot is fuzzy. Has anybody ever seen a clear image of Bigfoot? Charlie, have you ever seen a clear image of Bigfoot? No. They don't exist. And part of that's because he doesn't or whatever it is. She does. Is Bigfoot married, Charlie? Is there a little Bigfoot? I mean, Littlefoot? I don't know. I guess there's a cartoon Littlefoot or something. Wasn't there a movie or something, Littlefoot, at one time, Charlie? Disney something or other? I don't know. Anyways, do I believe in any of these things? No, I do not. I know some people probably think that I'm weird for not believing in these things, but I don't believe in these things. Folks, I don't even believe in ghosts at all. It's not scriptural. Now, before you go off on me and talk to me about the few, few minor places in Scripture that talk about ghosts, remember that what was happening there was very, very specific to a certain situation going on that Scripture and or, you know, God himself was involved with. And I don't believe that's on an everyday level. And I know I'm going to get all sorts of messages and videos and stuff sent my way, but no, I don't believe in ghosts. Just don't. I have my own theory of where we go when we die. Yes, we go to heaven, but I have my own theory on even that whole end of things, which is different than most. And I will not get into that today because I'm not going to debate people and get into a deep discussion on something that, frankly, no one can prove. Most people can't even prove what they think happens when you die as far as heaven and all of that goes. Do I believe we'll spend eternity with Christ, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit? Absolutely. Yes, I do. How that all happens, though, honestly... is open for debate on all sorts of levels, and the Church itself has been debating those things, Charlie, for, what, the last 2,000-plus years or so, I'm guessing? And with some really getting out there on different beliefs and even breaking communion over certain things along those lines, which, by the way, is really stupid. But I'm digressing, going back to these... Drones in New Jersey. Do I believe it has anything to do with some sort of an extraterrestrial spaceship out in the ocean that these things are flying up out of and so on? Hogwash. No, I do not. Do I think that there are a lot of people out there that would like you to think that? Yes. I think there's even some folks inside of government that would like you to think that. I really do. And I say that to say this, going back to Scripture. Scripture is very clear about the second coming of Christ. Again, lots of debate over when that would take place. And I'm not going to get into that. That's not what I'm here for. That's not what this program is about. But we all, at least I do as a Christian, believe in the second coming of Christ. Now, with that second coming of Christ, and I think most people believe, it's a matter of when that happens, of course, but most people believe there will be a rapture, what it's called, of the saints. And you've seen the movie, you know, a lot of people have anyways, the movie Left Behind where, you know, folks are doing different things. And when that event takes place, some people just vanish, go missing. They're caught up, if you would, quote unquote. My own personal belief is as we get closer to that, this whole UFO nonsense is so when that does take place, that's what they'll blame it on. They won't blame it on a second coming of Christ. They'll blame it on—or attribute it to, I should say. Blame is not the right word. They won't attribute it to Christ bringing all of his followers to him. They'll attribute it to aliens and things along those lines. That's my own belief. And, again, you can debate me on that, but that's what I feel. I think we're being conditioned— if you would, for that event. Does it mean we're getting closer to that event? Folks, we're closer every day. When is it coming? I don't know. And by the way, if anybody tells you they do, they're a wackadoodle. They don't know either. Run, because they don't know either. Many a Christian leader... Over the course of my time, even, because I grew up in the church, as did Charlie, I can't tell you how many times I've heard somebody give a somewhat specific time frame as to when Christ would return. And it, as we know, hasn't happened yet. But I do believe that a lot of this whole UFO thing that is going on out there and even more folks trying to dig into different things and even Capitol Hill the other day talking about underwater beings and cities and so on, I just feel like a lot of that, and unfortunately there's even Christians involved in some of that, I just think that we're being conditioned to have that event attributed to something other than what it really is. Because they're not going to want to attribute that to something spiritual, something godly. No, they're going to try to attribute it to something else, because that's what man does, by the way. We try to take everything away from God and replace it with something else. In this case, I believe it is aliens and UFOs. So that, to me, is why you're seeing a lot of different things, even with these drones, regarding that. I don't think any of those are true. And the problem in today's world with AI and everything else we have going on, you can't even believe half of the images and videos that you see. I say half. It's probably way above that even. You have to be really careful with what you're seeing in a video and believing it's true or not because with all of what goes on with AI and manipulation of video and even sound and pictures and so on, yeah, you cannot believe most of what you see. So be really careful when you tell somebody, well, I saw a video that – okay. Sorry. Sorry. Do I see it with my own two eyes? Yeah, I'm not believing that. Now, what I will say in closing, because I've got an expert that's somewhat of an expert that's going to join us at 4 o'clock to talk about this. Do I believe these drones, you know, do I believe they've come from inside the U.S.? Yes. Do I believe these are a foreign player? No. No. I believe these are coming from our own either military, Department of Energy, something along those lines. And there's even theories on the Department of Energy that there's some nuclear warheads and things like that that they may be looking for and so on. Folks, again, I don't know. What I do know is this. All of these drones that I've seen images of have the lights on them, which, by the way, are FAA required. All of them are flying at 400 feet or below, which is also an FAA requirement. So I would kindly ask anybody that would think this is a foreign adversary that's doing these things and or an alien, why would a foreign adversary or aliens abide by what the FAA says? That's a really simple question if you ask me. Why would an alien ship sending drones in and or a foreign adversary play by the rules as to what the FAA has set? And the answer is they wouldn't. They wouldn't. And, again, I don't believe there's any extraterrestrials anyway, so that's out of the picture for me. But a foreign adversary, would they abide by what the FAA has set? No. They would not. And there's even some discussions out there that this is a foreign adversary trying to take out Donald Trump before ever taking office January 20th. Again, folks, common sense would tell you, would tell me, why would they be doing that now when we're over a month out from inauguration? Why would they not be doing this the day of or a day before? Why do this well over a month out? Now, I've got other theories. We'll talk about some of that at 4 o'clock as to why I think our own military may be doing these things and why they may not be owning up to this at this point. I've got my own thoughts and feelings on that. Does any of this make me nervous? No. I've had that question come in on the text line as well. Do any of these make me nervous? No, they do not. Haven't lost an ounce of sleep over these things at all. Again, we'll talk more about that at 4 o'clock. Hi-Fi Plumbing is next. We talked to Tom there a moment ago. And, of course, Levi Cassie, the owners there, great people. 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We are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Jeremy Beck joining me now, filling in for Eric Roark. Appreciate you, Jeremy, by the way. Vice President of Initiatives and Activism at Numbers USA. Welcome back, by the way. Thank you very much. Good to be back. Always a joy having you. Donald Trump has vowed, or pledged, I should say, to limit birthright citizenship as soon as he enters office. Talk to us about that.
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Yeah, so the key word there is limit. Some people say, you know, it's end or abolish, but it's really to clarify the automatic granting of U.S. citizenship to children who are born inside the United States. The problem is, the United States and Canada are the only countries in the developed world who haven't gotten rid of this practice because it's just completely incompatible with the modern world of travel, flights, etc. Right, right. Right now, you could come into the country on a tourist visa or cross the border illegally, spend the weekend, go to an amusement park, deliver a baby, and that baby will be granted U.S. citizenship. And when that baby turns 21, it can then sponsor the parents as well as adult siblings and so on, creating this chain migration. It adds about 400,000 people a year, and those are numbers... That predate the border surge that we've just seen. So we know that the numbers could be so much bigger right now because we've just had 8 million people over the last four years either cross the border illegally, get released into the United States when they were inadmissible, or overstay. a U.S. visitor visa. So these numbers could really be a lot bigger in the coming years, and they make it incredibly difficult for President Trump to fulfill his other campaign promise, which was to basically rectify the mistakes of the Biden administration at the border. It makes it very hard to just say, like, hey, we're going to correct these mistakes. if you are at the same time granting a green card, granting U.S. citizenship to the children born of the people who should not have been admitted in the first place.
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Should there be any exceptions to that?
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Well, first of all, again, we're talking about limiting it, so this doesn't touch U.S. citizens or legal permanent immigrants. If you have a green card here, you're essentially a member of the national community just without the U.S. citizenship. There are proposals in Congress right now for bills to also make exceptions for legal immigrants who aren't necessarily green card holders but are in the country legally and who are serving in the armed forces. Those are the exceptions that bills tend to have.
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You know what, I can get behind that. I wouldn't have any issues with that. My issue, like you were saying in your explanation, is we call them anchor babies for a reason because in a lot of cases, Jeremy, as you know, and for those of you listening maybe that don't know this, there are some, Jeremy, as you know, will time this just right to where what you just said happens, and that's their shoe-in.
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There's a birth tourism industry around the world, and very occasionally, every few years or so, there'll be some CBS or PBS or somebody would do some story on it. But it's around the world. They offer tourism packages to come to the United States. to have a baby. Now, you're not supposed to come to the United States for the purpose of having a baby, but it's very easy to say like, oh, I'm not coming to have a baby. I'm coming to visit my family or to, I wanted to see SeaWorld or something like that. And these packages range from the luxurious high-end shopping, you know, get your nails done, all that kind of stuff, to truly dangerous. There's been stories out of New York City and Queens uh... birth tourists who end up uh... you're dying because they've given birth in the squalid conditions uh... but that alone tells you that it's a it's a practice that again is just incompatible with the modern world we shouldn't be uh... we shouldn't have a practice that supports aid global birth tourism industry u.s citizenship should be the most cherished possession in the world agree shouldn't be something that you you know you go to a travel agent pick for to get
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I'm a big proponent, and we've talked about this before, of a merit-based immigration system. I know this is a little bit of a side jaunt off of what we were talking about in regards to the birthright citizenship. But when it comes to merit-based immigration, do you feel like that's anything at all that Donald Trump can at least start working towards?
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Well, I think there's a lot of merit to that discussion. You know, one of our spiritual godmothers of numbers, USA, who chaired the last bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, said, you know, immigration is not a privilege, or it's not a right, it's a privilege. We get to choose, you know, who comes here. And part of that is you want to choose people who you feel, you know, are going to contribute to the society. And we basically have We basically have two kinds of choices. You choose what kind of family members do you want to prioritize. And we support the Barbara Jordan recommendations of you prioritize spouses and minor children. Immigration policy shouldn't be an obstacle to marrying the person you want to marry or adopting or bringing in your minor children. And then the other side is, you know, what kind of workers do we want? What kind of skills do we want to bring in? And there can be an argument for any number of kinds of skills, but how many people in certain industries do we need? And the problem with things like birthright citizenship is it's a complete roll of the dice. It has nothing to do with either of those things. It's not even the minor child of capitalism. a citizen or legal permanent residence, the minor child of a foreign national who's a citizen of another country. And so it's random in that sense. It's very similar to something like the visa lottery, which literally raffles off 50,000 green cards every year. We've got things like that in our immigration system. Part of our legal system that needs to be reformed and a merit-based system could certainly be part of that. President Trump in his first term endorsed the RAISE Act, which was a bill that would it would eliminate extended family automatic chain migration. So you could still sponsor your spouse and your minor child, but you wouldn't then be bringing in adult siblings and their spouses and their children and your parents. Your parents could come and stay on a renewable visa, but they wouldn't be a gateway for entire communities and villages to come here completely regardless of their skill. So that would be something that we'll be looking for. This goes back to the border promises again. Part of the issue, you know, right now you talk about people who are having children here, then they get citizenship, and then because of things like chain migration, they can start sponsoring this new chain of immigration that has nothing to do with the priorities of the American people or the American Congress.
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And from what I've talked to, Jeremy, when it comes to folks that have already immigrated here, they've gone through the arduous process of making that happen, the very lengthy process of becoming a citizen. I will tell you, Jeremy, that they are probably, in relation to who wants to see things revamped, fixed, and borders shut down, it's them more than it is a lot of regular citizens.
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That's absolutely right. People who know that immigration... is hard, and in many ways it should be hard. It shouldn't be something that we take lightly, and the people who have gone through the process all the way understand the respect for that. And they tend to be people who truly value it because they've gone through the long, arduous process.
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Yeah, actually, Jeremy, I think in a lot of cases, I know some of these folks individually, they appreciate and love our country more than some of our own natural citizens do.
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That's very fair because I didn't choose to become a U.S. citizen. I was granted automatic birthright citizenship because my parents were citizens. But somebody who chooses to join another country's national community and to go through the steps and hoops knowing that there's a chance that they may not make the cut. And ultimately, that is what immigration policy is about. You're setting limits. There are 8 billion people in the world. About a billion people would like to move to the United States here today, if they could, according to polling. And we can't accept a billion people, so we've got to set limits, and we've got to find people who will respect them. And we have to have a government that also respects its own limits. we tend to lose faith in immigration itself, which is not something that we want.
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Yeah, it's not sustainable. I mean, there's no way we could add another billion people on top of the 350 million we have roughly. Not that size-wise we couldn't do it, Jeremy, but just economically speaking and so on, there's just no way we could handle that and be solvent when it's all said and done. We're having a hard time being solvent with what we've got going on, Jeremy, nonetheless adding that.
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well that's right and you're exactly right it's not a question of how many people we can physically contain you could fit everybody in the state of texas but they'd all be dead in a week right but uh... but it's about how many people we can sustain and we've just seen we've had the the largest wave of immigration in world history over the last four years and really the largest wave of in u.s history over the last thirty years and you've seen what's happened When it comes to housing or roads, traffic, schools, these communities that we heard about all throughout the campaign, when you take a town of 60,000 people and you add 20,000 people to that, you just can't sustain those kinds of numbers.
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Jeremy, you can't be... You've seen the stories. You can't be the city of Denver and take in what they've taken in and add that budget end of things to it when it's all said and done. I mean, we have a crisis right here in our own back door with the city of Denver. We're in Aurora, so we're right next door as we're talking to you right now. The reality is even a large city can't do it.
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That's right. You talk about Denver, Aurora, New York City, Chicago. These cities all said, this is bankrupting us. This is bringing us to our knees. I mean, New York City has 8 million people in it, and they couldn't handle the influx. It's just too much too fast. We live in a world of limits, and we have to be responsible with them.
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I hate to use this analogy, but it's like drinking out of a water fountain correctly versus trying to drink out of a hydrant. I mean, the reality is water is great, it's good, but too much of it will kill us. It's the same situation here.
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That's exactly right. And on the one hand, you're hydrating yourself, and on the other one, you're blowing your hat off and... And drowning yourself, basically. Yeah, exactly. You're drowning.
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Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, I mean, and again, I've made this very well known on our program. I am not against immigration at all. In fact, I know there are certain areas where we definitely need it. Our birth rate is such right now where we really, Jeremy, we don't have a choice, but I'm a big one on... It has to be merit-based. You've got to be bringing something to the table that adds value to what we have going on. Otherwise, I'm sorry, we're going to have to keep the door closed, and you're going to have to either go get some skills that add some value to be able to be here, or you're just going to have to stay where you're at indefinitely. And I know that sounds really harsh, Jeremy, but that's just the reality of it. Question I have for you, because I don't know this answer. How many other countries – let me rephrase this. Are we one of the few countries out there that don't do a merit-based immigration?
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There are a few. Canada has something like a points system, but we really, our system is pretty unique. You have some countries that basically are nothing but merit and You have cases where they essentially have huge guest worker systems, but people who can never, ever become citizens of those countries. And we have something sort of quite the opposite. Our system has been overwhelmed by extended family chain migration loophole that was not intended in the 1965 Immigration Act. And it's just never been corrected. It's a broken promise that Washington has failed to fix. uh, for 60 years now. And, uh, this is the, this is the time to do it. It was the last time that we moderated our immigration numbers, uh, was a hundred years ago in 1924. It happened to kick off the biggest expansion of the middle class in U S history. It's what made America a middle-class nation. It was one of maybe the five contributing
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factors yeah needs to happen again and i mean i just know in closing jeremy that if you know you or i and a lot of americans as they get older they look at other places to go and maybe immigrate to or retire to maybe the cost of living is less and so on and jeremy i can't think of a single country that doesn't have some sort of stipulations around what i just said in other words you don't just show up and say okay you know i'm gonna stay until i'm dead it doesn't work that way
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No. No, you know, you put the shoe on the other foot and you just imagine some country you'd like to visit and say, what if I just never left? What if I wanted to stay forever? And would that be allowable? In most cases, that's not the case. You're going to be said. Very politely, hopefully, but, sir, it looks like you've extended your stay. It's time for you to go home now. And that's a system that everybody can believe in at home and abroad.
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Yeah, I always say that even going south, it's funny. You can come north, and we have one system, and yet you and I going south would not be allowed to stay.
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Of course, everybody is going to have to enforce their own borders in the interest of their own national community. That's the responsibility of government, is to say, what's the policy here that's going to be most beneficial to our national community? Those are the people that we work for. Those are the people we're responsible for. Absolutely.
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All right, folks listening, how do they find you, Jeremy?
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You can find me just anywhere you find NumbersUSA, NumbersUSA.com, and on X at NumbersUSA.
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All right, we are back. Got a few minutes left of this first hour. And again, as I said earlier, at 4 o'clock, we've got a special guest joining us, Brandon. I hope I'm saying this right. Weikert. I'll make sure I get his name right once we get him on here. But he's got some opinions and is a little bit more of an expert when it comes to drones and things along those lines. So we'll talk to him at 4 o'clock as well. All right, this was sent to me. I believe Joe sent me this. Jersey Joe. National spelling bee. Charlie, I don't know if you saw this or not. The national spelling bee, because I think of Charlie first when I see these sorts of things, because in our world, Charlie is the grammar spelling expert. I'm not. A lot of what I do, I get tips from Charlie or he'll say, hey, we should probably say this instead of that. Even when I do some promos and things like that, he'll make last minute, last second changes because that's right up his alley. So I thought he would enjoy this as much as anyone. So the National Spelling Bee is now under fire for allowing feminist spellings for third graders. The word is woman. We all know how it's spelled, W-O-M-E-N, woman, or M-A-N, either way, plural for women, singular for woman. Well, you can now put a Y in place, I guess, Charlie, of either the E or the A. I'm not sure which, to be honest with you. you know that's thank you for pointing that out because if it's more than one what would the spelling would it be an s at the end woman's w-o-m-y-n-s i i don't know this is insanity folks and again this is to pacify the left you're essentially – think of this and what they're doing, and they're very upfront about this. They're taking man or men out of the word woman or woman. It's what they're doing here. That's why they're allowing these third graders to now put Y in place of either of those two letters. So we're basically – changing wording around and then allowing the spelling of to be okay and promoting it, actually. Charlie, this would be like taking any other word out there that has been spelled a particular way and has a particular meaning for years and changing it completely around. I realize it's one letter, but it's still, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, it's a complete change of our language. That's how I see it. or the spelling of, and it's wrong. And those of you that are like Charlie, that are sticklers when it comes to spelling and punctuation and things like that, this has to drive you crazy. It drives me crazy, and I'm the worst speller on the planet, and it drives me crazy. Again, because it's not – number one, we're not teaching kids the correct spelling. And by the way, even pronunciation, Charlie, we know how the English language is a little bit messed up when it comes to pronouncing words and so on, and things can do different things at different times. So by putting the Y – where there would be an E or an A because we pronounce those two words differently, woman, woman, right? We pronounce them differently. So how are we going to teach a third grader now to pronounce it with the Y? Charlie's shaking his head at me. I don't know the answer. This is just total insanity. And, you know, you guys hear me all the time talk about how the left is mentally ill. This is living proof. This is living proof. We're going to change the way a word is spelled because we're so against one particular sex. That's really what this is about. We're so offended by the word man or man that we're just going to eliminate it altogether. That's insanity. That's a mental illness, not being able to face what is real, what is factual. There are two sexes, and only two, by the way, male and female. So, again, I look at this as just a complete utter nonsense. It is not living in reality. It's changing things to fit whatever you feel they need to be, not what they actually are. And this, according to what I'm reading, Charlie, the Y will be used mainly to replace the E, I guess not the A. But again, how are you going to teach a third grader the difference? Because essentially you're trying to just take man or men out of the word altogether. So how are you going to teach a third grader? In my opinion, this even gets more messy than what it was prior. Because, again, you're teaching even youngsters when it comes to the two different spellings, M-E-N-M-A-N. We know as adults, and once you learn, one is singular, one is plural, but a third grader doesn't necessarily know that. So now we're going to add a why into the midst of this and then wonder why kids don't have any idea what's going on later on. Instead of teaching them how to have a job later in life and have the knowledge to do so, we're getting into this nonsense. And it is absolute, utter nonsense. 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Well, the first thing when somebody calls me up, you know, how much money can I save? What are the rates? I'm going to ask them. I said, how much are you looking at saving to where it makes it worth it? Normally, if you can start to save, depending on the loan size, $100, even $100 a month can actually benefit you. But the average person is going to save anywhere from $150 to $400 a month on a refinance. And that's not taking into consideration that in most cases, you're going to skip two payments. They're going to be deferred. So if your payment's $2,000 or $2,500, now all of a sudden you've saved $5,000. That $5,000 can go a long way to pay off credit card debt.
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Somebody out there listening says, well, yeah, but rates aren't quite as low as I'd like to see them go. I mean, Kurt, let's say they go ahead and do it now. Can they do it a year from now again if they really drop substantially?
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If they drop substantially, you can do it in seven months.
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Okay, seven months. So for those of you listening, don't worry about that end of things. If you can be saving money today and then do it again on down the road, why not?
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And if you're saving two months' payment, it basically pays for the refinance. So it's not costing you anything if it's seven months down the road either.
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All right. Talk to us about down payments. Somebody out there listening, maybe they're looking at potentially, you know, Kurt, they're looking to maybe buy their first home. Or, you know, maybe they'd like to take some equity out of what they have, change areas, do something a little different. What are they looking at for down payments?
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Most people believe you've got to put 20% down. Otherwise, you've got to pay mortgage insurance. While that is true, that's not necessarily costly because the mortgage insurance that they're having on most of these homes, if you're doing a loan for 85% or 90% loan to value, they're nominal. And you're getting such a great rate up front on it, it really doesn't bother you to pay the money because you're still saving so much. So right now you're seeing banks with special programs that you know, 10% down or 5% down on a first-time homebuyer. There's some great programs for that.
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Okay. Again, all of you listening, 720-895-0500 is the number to call. That's Affordable Interest Mortgage. Kurt, you take over Haystack Help Radio on Wednesdays from noon to 1. What are you guys doing tomorrow?
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We're going to be talking about a lot of questions customers have called in and asked me, and I'm going to be answering them on air tomorrow.
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Awesome. Kurt, as always, I appreciate it. And if I don't see you, well, I'm going to see you Thursday, so never mind. Kurt's going to join us Thursday. We're going to talk Thursday. Yeah, all of you listening, Kurt's going to be with us an entire hour on Thursday evening at 5 o'clock, so join us then. Otherwise, Kurt, I will see you then.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And again, appreciate you all listening. And again, those of you that are in the whole mortgage end of things, if there's a question, by the way, specifically you'd like me to ask Kurt Rogers on Thursday, on any level, everything from construction loans to you name it, if there's something you'd like me to ask Kurt, please let me know. You can send me a text message, 307-200-8222, and I can sure add that into my notes to ask him questions. on Thursday. Then don't forget, you can always call in live during the Thursday show as well, during that five o'clock hour, third hour, and ask questions as well. Kurt's always happy to answer them. And as far as mortgage brokers go, I will just tell you right now, one of the not only nicest guys you'll meet, but one of the smartest guys in that industry as well. So Elizabeth Mitchell joining us now. Welcome back, Elizabeth. How are you?
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Yes, it is absolutely shocking. So to summarize Clementine's story, when she was 12, she was experiencing some discomfort related to her body. She'd been sexually assaulted as a child and had some trauma related to that. But unfortunately, she was diagnosed as transgender, was placed on puberty blockers, hormones, and was eventually got a double mastectomy at age only 14. Later ended up regretting it in college, went to therapy, realized it was just that trauma she had from her childhood. that she hadn't dealt with and that she really was a girl, decided to start living in accordance with her biological sex, and now she's suing the doctor that allowed her to make a decision that is irreversible that she'd later regret at such a young age.
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Now, again, I'm I'm a parent, but I'm not her parent and wasn't there. So I don't know what all went on. And, you know, the advice that, you know, a parent was getting. I do know, though, Elizabeth, as parents, we listen a lot to what the medical staff and doctors and so on say. Now, I will say there's times where I still think we as parents need to step in and, you know, do what we know is right for our kids. But on the same token. I will at times give parents a little bit of grace because we rely heavily on the medical community, correct?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. So that's pretty much what happened here. The doctor, Dr. Joanna Olson-Kennedy, a very controversial child transgender doctor, she told these parents that if they didn't let their child take these transgender drugs, that even though they might affect fertility of other side effects, then she would probably commit suicide. They said you can choose between having a living son and a dead daughter. Even though Clementine wasn't even suicidal at the time, this is just a classic, classic motto of these transgender doctors of you can choose between suicide and being transgender, and it's just a lie, and Clementine knows that now, and so do her parents.
SPEAKER 05 :
And again, I apologize because I should have paid more attention to the video that I was watching, but I believe she testified on Capitol Hill about all of this as well. Am I right in saying that?
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm not sure. She's currently at UCLA studying theater. There are other detransitioners, though, who have been very prominent here on Capitol Hill, such as Chloe Cole. She's testified several times about her experience talking about how transgenderism stole her childhood, took away what should have been innocent, young, fun years of her life, ended up leaving her in a hospital for years and years. And so it really does create lifelong patients in a way that kids can't consent to at the age they're being allowed to in many states.
SPEAKER 05 :
The reason I ask that is because the particular testimony that I watched, basically the doctor said the exact same thing that you just said about Clementine. So I'm thinking, okay, wait a minute, is this the same person? And if not, it tells you the rhetoric those doctors continue to use is my point.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, that really is the prevailing rhetoric around this, is that kids will commit suicide if the parents don't let this happen, and it really is a scare tactic that I think is used by these doctors to make a lot of money and to push their political narrative.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and thank you for saying that, by the way. I've talked about this before in my program. It's been probably... I know it's been a while since I've done this. And as you may or may not know, Trinidad, Colorado, which is a town south of Denver, quite a ways south of us, almost to the New Mexico border, not quite that far, but it's getting close, way closer to New Mexico than it is actually to the Denver area. And a lot of this whole transgender sex change end of things was pioneered, if you would, just here in Trinidad, Colorado. Colorado. And my point with all of that is the money side of it. You are spot on. It is huge money that these doctors get into when they get somebody to agree to do a transition or sex change or whatever the case may be.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and it's not just one procedure, one prescription. They're creating a patient for life. That's right. Surgery, it's not a one-time thing. That would be expensive if it was, but it's not. There's going to be upkeep. They're going to have to do repeat surgeries to deal with the side effects. It's going to be drug prescriptions for life. It really is just a repeating, just endless money stream for these doctors.
SPEAKER 05 :
Elizabeth, I coach small businesses on the side outside of what I do here. And in that world, anytime you've got especially a retail business or any business, you're trying to get as many repeat customers as you can because it's much less costly to keep somebody that's already coming in to come in than it is to try to go out and find a new customer. These doctors have it made. Literally, they've got built-in business for the life of that patient. Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're completely right. They're having people who are not just getting their product once, but are going to be getting it many, many, many times, and that is very lucrative.
SPEAKER 05 :
And nobody, by the way, other than folks like yourself and me, nobody's talking about that side of it. Everybody's looking at this like, Oh, the poor kid, you know, they don't know what they're doing and they don't know what body they're in and blah, blah, blah. And I'm not trying to make light of kids and the struggles they have. But, Elizabeth, these struggles that kids have had going through puberty, frankly, have existed since the beginning of mankind. It's a change in your whole world, your body. Kids change at different times in different ways. And, you know, no two kids are the same. And I've raised plenty to know that. I mean, every one of them goes through these things differently. Some adapt, by the way, very, very well. Some really struggle. It's just part of life. Am I right?
SPEAKER 03 :
You're totally right. That's pretty much Clementine's message as well, was that she wishes the people had just told her that growing up, going through puberty, being an adolescent is difficult for everyone. Everyone has a lot of complicated feelings during that time. And that doesn't mean you should change your body. It just means you've got to get through it. And those in your life should just love and accept you for where you are and shouldn't tell you that you need to change your body to make your body match your feelings, which will pass.
SPEAKER 05 :
What do you think, outside of making these doctors accountable for what they're doing, which I believe they need to be, so that's one side of it, but outside of that, how do we change that whole narrative of, well, you were assigned this gender at birth, not you were born this way? I mean, how do we start to turn that tide back, frankly, the direction that it needs to go, because, Elizabeth, I say it on air all the time, and I don't mince any words. I look at the whole transgender end of things very much like Clementine to where there's some mental things going on that really need to be addressed. This is more of a mental illness end of things that we really need to help these kids get through as opposed to changing their bodies. How do we change that narrative? I mean, what I'm saying makes it sound really, really bad when, frankly, it's a whole lot less – damaging to the child to talk about a mental illness and how do we overcome that versus changing your gender. Am I correct in my thoughts?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. You are right. We need to tell it like it is. We need to stop using these euphemisms that have become so common. Even conservatives are sometimes using these words. We should not be saying sex assigned at birth. We should be talking about God-given biological sex. You're either male or female. That's all there is to it. We should not be using the phrase gender-affirming care to refer to these irreversible medical interventions for children. That is not what it is. It's lying to children. And I think you're completely right that we need to win this not only by helping kids to accept their biological sex, but we also need to make sure the way we're talking about it is truthful. And that comes with not using phrases like sex assigned at birth and gender-affirming care.
SPEAKER 05 :
And for everybody listening, and Elizabeth, I think you probably would agree with me on this. This is, in my opinion, all part of the master plan of the Marxist movement, because if they can, A, confuse kids, B, get kids to change gender. C, that means these kids will not be reproducing on down the road. Therefore, what we do as far as our population is concerned changes. And ultimately, it's all about control over the population as much as it is helping these kids out. Am I right or wrong?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think that we're seeing a lot of these efforts to kind of make people not have as many children among the left. Not only are we seeing that with abortion, of course, is a really obvious example, but also with having people... do things to their bodies that make them infertile. And the saddest thing about that to me is that these kids are making the decision to be infertile when they're children themselves. They don't even know they want children. They don't even know what that means. They have no idea what they're committing to. They're committing to not being able to be mothers and fathers one day, and that's an extremely weighty decision that... I think it's really sad that kids are able to do that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I agree. I mean, and you're proving it with a young lady named Clementine. Reality is as they grow up and they get a little older, and by the way, their brain matures and they mature and they start looking at life a little bit differently and they think, oh, crap. I guess I've ruined all of my chances to actually have kids and have a family and do what some of my peers I see doing are. They've eliminated themselves from that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and I think we can all pray and hope that maybe it'll be possible for these people to get married and have children and have normal lives. That's really what they want looking back. And I think the biggest way that we can... The biggest thing we can do here is to just prevent that from happening to more people by saying you're making a change to your body that you're never going to be able to go back on that and you really need to be an adult before you can make that kind of decision.
SPEAKER 05 :
I want to close with that because you hear some of the left come out and lie to people by saying, oh, these things are reversible. There's nothing that's going on that's irreversible. Elizabeth, nothing could be farther from the truth.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're completely right. This is reversible. If you regret it, you can go back. You can get your old body back. You can change your mind. You can go back to being a girl if you want. But it really wasn't that simple.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it's not. Elizabeth, thank you again. Daily Signal, Daily Signal podcast. And again, I'm sure the podcast, they can just go find it, any of their favorite podcast sources, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
That's correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Elizabeth, Merry Christmas. Thank you, by the way, for all the time you spend with us. I appreciate it very much.
SPEAKER 03 :
Merry Christmas. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 05 :
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All right, I have something I'm going to play. I was going to play actually last Thursday, but we ran out of time. Had enough other stuff that went on during that particular day that I didn't have a chance to do it. So this is John Stossel, and he's talking about why government can't build anything. You guys hear me talk about that quite often, but he's really solid, as you know, and I'm going to let him go through. This is going to talk about charging stations for EVs and broadband. Here we go.
SPEAKER 01 :
Both parties visibly happy to announce agreement.
SPEAKER 10 :
Three years ago, Republicans and Democrats grabbed your money promising.
SPEAKER 13 :
To build thousands of miles of fiber optic cable.
SPEAKER 10 :
Cable that would provide high speed internet to all of America.
SPEAKER 03 :
$65 billion broadband push.
SPEAKER 10 :
Three years later, no one's been connected. Not a single project is underway.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, really quick. That's dated October 4th of this year. So probably hasn't been anything hooked up in the last two months either. So there you go.
SPEAKER 10 :
Why? Because governments aren't good at building anything.
SPEAKER 19 :
As Milton Friedman put it, Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own.
SPEAKER 10 :
Politicians spending other people's money wasted it. Private companies laid miles of cable while government officials obsessed about giving broadband to the right people. Boys, girls, people of color, people living in rural America. Aging individuals, prisoners, LGBTQ persons. Any company that wants funds to build broadband has to hire certain people.
SPEAKER 09 :
You have to hire these certain people based on their color, based on their sex, and you have to use unions.
SPEAKER 10 :
Matt Cole's investment company researched the government's funding and made this ad. What am I looking at here?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, there's nothing more important than making sure you're representing all the right causes. You have all these companies that could actually do this, and they say, this is unimplementable with the restrictions, so they just walk away.
SPEAKER 10 :
Eventually, government will probably succeed in installing some broadband. But by then, this hard-to-install cable may be totally unnecessary because of satellite internet like Starlink. Starlink already exists and costs much less.
SPEAKER 09 :
They could do it literally today. You could have devices in these people's homes within the next couple months, and they could have high-speed internet access.
SPEAKER 10 :
So why didn't administration officials do that? They said Starlink failed to demonstrate it had the ability. Then, once it became clear that Starlink obviously did, the administration said it won't use Starlink because it's a monopoly.
SPEAKER 09 :
So first they're not functional. Now they have a monopoly. The reality is that they didn't want that to be the solution. They don't want to give money to Elon Musk.
SPEAKER 08 :
Take over, Elon! Yes, take over!
SPEAKER 10 :
But now, Musk has a friend in government, so things may change. But that's not a good way to spend your money. Politicians doling it out to their friends. In fact, politicians have a bad track record when they decide what to build. They pump billions into high-speed rail. Fifteen years later, we still don't have it. They lost $500 million on Solyndra. Almost a billion trying to create synthetic fuels. More recently, a Biden meatpacking scheme starved a million chickens. And although Biden promised government would build 500,000 charging stations. Two years later, how many have they built for $7 billion? Seven. And again, government's failure at building things is not just a Democrat thing. Republicans joined Democrats in grabbing your money to build computer chip factories. We will enable advanced semiconductor manufacturing to make a comeback here in America. Democrats bragged about adding strings.
SPEAKER 01 :
Diversity, equity, and inclusion. The CHIPS Act contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups.
SPEAKER 09 :
You already have a talent problem. Now you're looking at only being able to recruit from a very small minority of individuals. Then you have to do climate pledges. Then you have to hire from unions. But diversity is good. And there's been horrible discrimination in this country. That doesn't mean that you should shift the pendulum back to hire someone because of their race or their skin color if they're a diverse candidate.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, I'll leave it at that. John from Cheyenne, you are next. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm sorry. I was just thinking about your last guest. She was great. But we have to think about this as Christians, and God's perfect. He doesn't make mistakes. So when somebody who claims to be Christian comes out and says, well, I think I was born in the wrong body, you're saying, no, God made a mistake and created me wrong. And we have to start saying that back to these people when they say, well, the child's confused. No, the child needs a little bit of Christianity and religion, or maybe even Judaism, brought into their lives. to teach them that they were made in God's image.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Agree. John, that's been my whole mantra from the transgender standpoint for the longest time, and I've taken heat from the left on that and don't really care because they're loonies anyway, so at the end of the day, you know, you're correct. I mean, I stand by, and again, I know it's fundamental, I believe that God... created the world and all of us as well, and creates each child as well. And no, God doesn't make mistakes. Now, I also—some would say, well, then how can you say that, you know, some kids aren't born with some developmental problems and things like that? Well, we live in a fallen world, and some things happen because of that. That's all.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. But to say, I was created wrong, is wrong. And the whole thing with the trans thing— is the LGBTQ, when they got the Supreme Court ruling that gays could marriage and everything, they didn't just say enough is enough. They veered to trans because they didn't want to lose all that money they were getting.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and I think, though, and along those lines, John, I do think that as time goes by, it's already happening. You're going to find the gay community, quote-unquote, separating or dividing themselves once again from the trans end of things because at the end of the day, they're realizing that these trans people, for the most part, number one, are not on the same wavelength and doing the same agenda that the gay side is.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, and there's already a group out there online that's read some of their posts called Gays Against Groomers.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
And they consider a lot of these trans people groomers. They're just looking to groom.
SPEAKER 05 :
Looking to groom. They're looking to, you know, men wanting to be women to go hang out in the women's restroom and things like that. I mean, again, at the end of the day, these guys... A man wanting to be a woman, going through the whole change, then quote-unquote is a woman, but then still likes women. No offense, John, that person's not gay. That's still a heterosexual man that just figured out how to get in with women.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Sorry, that's all it is.
SPEAKER 11 :
I know that I'll probably wind up in jail, but if I see somebody that was born a man, and I can tell that they're not a woman... going into a restroom where my wife or my daughter or my granddaughters are, we're going to have a problem.
SPEAKER 05 :
I can't disagree with that. No, I'm the same. That's just not going to be allowed.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's not going to happen. If I am 63-year-old, I'm just not going to allow it to happen. Right. But going to Stossel, I follow him on Twitter or X, and I saw that video last week. I mean, he's so phenomenal with just pointing out a waste. And that first one with the broadband, I mean, I've lived in the middle of nowhere for 20 years. I've had internet since I've lived here. Yes, it was crappy when I first got it in 2004. Now, I don't have any problem with it at all. And that's all through the free market getting better. And I look at it this way. Every time the government steps in, they make it worse.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, I don't think there's an exception to that.
SPEAKER 11 :
The only thing the government does well is the military for the most part.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and here's a question for you because you've been in it. Do they?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know what? If you took the Washington bureaucrats, the generals who became bureaucrats out of it, and you say from a corps commander down, they do a pretty good job. But once you get above that, like, core command, then it's all politics anyway.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that's what I mean by, you know, do they. By the way, I didn't say that to go against any servicemen or women that are out there, you know, fighting for our country. I'm talking about the higher-ups, government, if you would, and what they do. Because at the end of the day, I would even argue they don't do that very well.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, but even if, you know, if a core commander got an order saying, you've got to defend this, you know, 10 miles. they would know how to do it and do it well. Because that's what they do. That's what they train for. From that level, which is a three-star general on down, most of them have common sense. And if you get to where Pete Hegseth was before he got out of the military, he was a low-level officer. He was on the ground, so he knew what's really all about. But to go back to what Stossel was saying, if Elon and Vivek and the rest of that crew could just stop programs like that, how much better off would we be?
SPEAKER 05 :
And, John, as you know, I interview folks on here, as you know, all the time, and the reality is it's widespread. It's not even just one area of government. It's one after another after another after another. That's the main issue, as you know.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'll give you a prime example. Do you know that there's a tax on your telephone bill? And I believe it's on cell phone bills, too. That goes back to the mid-1910s, where they were charging a small tax to extend telephone lines. Yep, telecom tax. Yep. And they've never gotten rid of it, nor will they ever get rid of it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Once it gets started, it never stops.
SPEAKER 11 :
It goes in there. Until somebody stands up and says enough is enough, it goes in their pocket. Like the part Stossel was saying where you've got to hire... two of this and three of that and four of those, that's not the way business runs. If you hire 10 guys, you know those 10 guys are going to do the job. Why do you care if they're all, for instance, they're all gay? If there's 10 guys that can do the job and do it well and they're all gay, I don't care. I don't care. Can they do the job? That's the question. So, John, you have a good day.
SPEAKER 05 :
You too, man. Appreciate you, John, very much. Have a great rest of your night. Joe, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 12 :
And, John, I had heard the Stossel thing last week, but what I had heard actually a couple years ago, and I'm looking for it right now to send it to you, you know Prager University, right? They actually did a piece a couple years back that goes even back several hundred years where they do a deep dive on government's repeated failures to get things done. I think they started with the construction of the Intercontinental Railroad, how much time and money the government wasted and how little track got laid there. And then they finally decided to give up on it. Privatize it. Well, they didn't actually fund anybody.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, at that time they called them the Barons. Those guys did.
SPEAKER 12 :
The Barons decided, screw it, we're going to do it. Not a dollar's worth of government money. They laid down, they got the entire Continental Railroad coast-to-coast built in like three years. And the government has skewered around for something like five and didn't even get 100 miles of track laid.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm still surprised, Joe, that we built things like the highways and Hoover Dam and so on, which, by the way, I don't think we could even do today.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, and by the way, and it all got built, of course, by private contractors.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And they weren't tied up in knots by environmental impact statements, by Davis-Bacon wage laws. They didn't have DEI quotas they had to make. Eisenhower just said, who was Republican, by the way, just said, here's the money.
SPEAKER 05 :
Build it.
SPEAKER 12 :
We're going to specify what the road has to be, you know, what it's got to be made of.
SPEAKER 05 :
By the way, one thing, I doubt this would happen, but one of the ways that Doge would save the everybody money, by the way, across the board as far as governments are concerned, is to eliminate the whole Davis Act in and of itself, Joe. They would save gazillions of dollars coast to coast by doing so, as you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Excuse me, not just at the federal level.
SPEAKER 05 :
Every level.
SPEAKER 12 :
When the I-25 expansion, John, any... Any county, city, road in this, any building, the state of Colorado, you know, if a new school gets built in this state, it's Davis-Bacon wages. A new county road gets built with no government money, it's Davis-Bacon. These people standing out there holding the little slow stop sign where they stop you and then turn the sign, you know, they're getting paid.
SPEAKER 05 :
Flagman, they're called. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
They're getting paid $30 an hour.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. And for all of you listening, there's a table, there's a list, by the way, for every contractor that agrees to sign up for that. And as a contractor, because I know I do this, you have to provide proof that you're paying those employees on those particular jobs that particular wage. Even that employee, Joe, doesn't normally make that wage. If you go out and even do some subcontracting work for those particular individuals, you've got to pay that particular wage, even if that worker is working for you, for less money doing it on a daily basis otherwise.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. And, John, I've got to tell you how far back some of this stuff goes with the DEI hiring. I'm going to go back 40 years. I was working at a New York City area for Carrier, and we do big industrial air conditioning units. So we had this massive project to rehab a unit at LaGuardia Airport. That was one of their main – and, John, this unit is as big as a tractor trailer, as big as a – it was massive. You could work on it from the inside. Anyway, so we had this big 150-page contract from the LaGuardia Airport Authority, whatever, And, of course, we were a union company. We were employing union employees. So it wasn't a Davis-Bacon issue. But buried in this contract, they had some minority labor utilization provisions. And I had called the business agent and said, hey, look, I need, you know, so many minorities, you know. And he said, well, I'll send you what I got. Anyway, about two weeks into the project, I get a visit from one of their inspectors. And they said, let me see your payroll, you know, who's – How many of these are minorities? And I said, well, this one, this one, and this one. And she said, you're four short. I said, well, I called the union. They don't have them. And her answer to me was, not my problem.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, she didn't care.
SPEAKER 12 :
She doesn't care that I tried and couldn't get them. They were not available.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And she said, not my problem. And she was going to start assessing me penalties. So I literally had to get with the business agent and said, look, I need to hire some people literally off the street. I need you to give them a temporary work card. And, John, these people were completely unskilled. Unreal. And we basically gave them some lenient work.
SPEAKER 05 :
All those things do, to your point, Joe, to cut to the chase, is add costs.
SPEAKER 12 :
So all it did was add costs to the project.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. Everybody thinks that our taxes are this and our taxes are that and this is that and that's that. I mean, the reality, Joe, is there is so much of that utter nonsense that goes on that drives the price of everything up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. And so from that point forward, John, every time I bid a job for the city of New York— or the state of New York, I always – and I would look to what the minority – because, again, we were a union shop. I always looked at the minority hiring provision, and I just added in – if it was five additional bodies, I just added in the cost of five additional bodies that were going to be basically nonproductive.
SPEAKER 05 :
That you had to have there on the job just because.
SPEAKER 12 :
That I just had to have on the job just to meet the quota. And when I say – I shouldn't say no. They were mentally, you know, we had them doing cleanup work. We had them basically hauling.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, but they're not as efficient as they would be doing something else. You'd have a skilled laborer working.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, but can you imagine paying somebody, by the way, right about now it's about $45 an hour. Can you imagine paying $45 to push a broom?
SPEAKER 05 :
No. Ridiculous.
SPEAKER 12 :
But that's what, you know, but if you're working in New York City right now, either for the city or the state, and every contract you get will have a DEI quota, and you'll just, and if You're not, you know, and if you're a union contractor, you'll just have to.
SPEAKER 05 :
You don't have any choice.
SPEAKER 12 :
You've got no choice.
SPEAKER 05 :
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All right, we are back. A few minutes left here of this Monday edition, and one thing I wanted to talk about, which this applies all the time. Yes, it's more important during the holidays right now, but really this particular PSA, public service announcement, can apply any time, and that is the scammers that are out there. And I have a 12 frauds of Christmas that I will not have time to go through all 12. I might be able to do that a little bit later this week, but... I was, I shouldn't say almost victim of, but a reminder to me, I already had this in my notes, and then this happened earlier today to me. And some of you have probably experienced the same thing. But I had one today that was really hard to tell that it was a scam. Phishing is what I should say. And it was a text message that had come from the USPS, which I'm like, I don't know that I have any packages coming, but it's Christmas time. There might be. I don't know. Who knows? A lot of things going on right now as far as that. And they needed to verify the zip code, my address, zip code, to make sure that it would come through customs. So it could be something coming from overseas or whatever, which, by the way, a lot of things do. And so at first I'm like, oh, I'm not sure. So I went ahead and just copied. I didn't reply to the message or anything. I just copied and pasted the link that they had. And sure enough, it went to the USPS.com website with all of the right letters in front, the SSL certificate, the whole nine yards. And, yes, I can look at those things. And trust me, it was accurate as far as all of that was concerned. Okay. What wasn't accurate was the last part of the URL, and it was asking me to fill out all the personal information. Not social security or anything like that, but name, address, phone number, verifying all this information that they were asking for. And I'm like, man, this just doesn't seem right. And I went to the main, for me to figure this out, two things. I went to just USPS.com and went to the tab that this particular page that I was on was under, and I did a side-by-side comparison, and there was no link to what I was looking at. If you go to USPS.com and you go to the tools section or whatever it is, there is no place to verify an address. So that was the first clue that I had was this thing is a phish is because that doesn't exist as a link on their website. The second thing, because once I saw that, I'm like, OK, where did this message actually originate from? What phone number? And as I looked, there was an out of country code first and then the phone number. And I'm like, OK, there's there's my real, you know, there's my real message. clue as to what's going on here. And then I went ahead and just went to USPS.com and looked at their scam end of things and their phishing sides of the fence, which is what somebody was trying to do to me, was phish for some information. And again, in this first page, I didn't see anything that wasn't pretty easy to gain on someone anyways, but you don't need to give anybody anything they don't already have. So I just went ahead, deleted, reported that. I use an iPhone with Apple. You can actually report that as junk spam, whatever, to where hopefully it blocks those in the future. My point is this. You have to be extremely, extremely diligent and sharp on some of these messages, emails, and things that you'll have come in because even somebody like myself who is – I'm just telling you, I'm very on top of these things and knock on wood, I've never been scammed yet – But today, I'll tell you what, they're just getting more and more sophisticated all the time. And as I just said a moment ago, there was only a couple of things on this one that were a little bit out of whack. And had you not been paying attention and you're expecting a package to come in, which, by the way, is what they're expecting right now because it's Christmas time. It's the holidays. Even after Christmas, this will apply because people will be getting returns and things like that. So this will apply immediately. Honestly, all year round because people order stuff all the time. But they're expecting you to not be on top of your game. Just click on here. Respond to the page that looks like the USPS.com website, which it was identical to. carbon copy of and they're expecting you to fill all that information in and i don't know what would have been on the next page had you done that who knows maybe they would have asked for other pertinent information that you know would really be then getting into some of your your personal id which they ultimately that's what they're after by the way when it's all said and done so bottom line be really careful right now when it comes to all of those things out there because there is a ton of scammers so really watch it veteran windows and doors is next What isn't a scam right now is his ability, Dave's ability, to give you 40% off entry doors with free labor to install. Call Dave today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 05 :
All right, that's it for today, folks. Thank you all for listening very much. I appreciate it. You can always listen to a past episode, by the way. Just go to the website, rushtoreason.com, and find us there. Myself and Andy will be back tomorrow. Enjoy your evening. This is Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
Are we on the brink of discovering new frontiers, or is the truth more terrestrial than fiction would have us believe? This episode unfurls the layers of rumors surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena and the U.S. Department of Energy's clandestine search for lost radioactive materials. Tune in for a discussion that challenges our perceptions and offers informed speculation about the current state of affairs, all while emphasizing a need for careful consideration before succumbing to sensational conspiracy theories.
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right. Welcome back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. As I said earlier, we've got a special guest joining us, Brandon Weikert, joining us now. And he is senior editor at 1945, a leading national defense news and opinion website, which I was on today, Brandon. So thank you for joining us.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, thank you for having me, and thanks for the nice plug. Happy to be here.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're very welcome. Okay, talk to us. I did a little bit in the first hour. I didn't get into a lot of details because I knew you would be joining us, and frankly, I am no drone expert, but I do have some common sense, and I feel like I've got a pretty good grip on what's going on. I'm not a conspiracy theorist as well. I mean, I think there can be some things that get really, really outlandish, and it's kind of what's happening right now in regards to this. What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, we've reached the hysteria portion of what I can only describe as a social media phenomenon. What's really going on, and now that Daily Mail is reporting the story that I broke on Twitter, I was retweeting another individual who made this point, and they looked into sort of what the Department of Energy was doing with radioactive waste, and it's been discovered, and they were covering this up, the Biden regime was, it's been discovered that the Department of Energy on December 2nd lost radioactive waste shipment in New Jersey. And it is my contention, and this is speculation on my part, but it's informed speculation, it is my contention that what we are witnessing in terms of these drone operations is this is the Biden administration using nuclear sniffers at night so as not to, ironically, to arouse suspicion, but I think they are desperately searching for this missing radioactive waste shipment, and they don't want to admit it to the public because, of course, Biden is already leaving under a hail of embarrassment. Why leave even more embarrassment? Yeah, why pile on? Yeah. That's right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And, you know, it's funny. Some of the things that I've been reading and listening to, and, again, I take a lot of different social media videos and so on with a grain of salt, and some I put a little more credibility in than others. And I'd heard some similar things, you know, theories along these lines. So, by the way, I don't think that's too far-fetched at all, the other theory I've heard, and I don't know how true this is.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, if you follow me on Twitter, you should see the pile on right now from these big-name accounts who are attacking me, calling me the conspiracy theorist, while they're out there saying it's Little Great Ben.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, well, number one, it ain't that. That one I can assure you of, because there isn't any. So that's not it at all. Now, the other theory that I've heard, and this one I don't know either, that there was supposedly a nuke from Ukraine that has been lost. And again, I don't think you can lose a nuke that easily, but supposedly there was one of those lost as well, and we don't know where it's at.
SPEAKER 16 :
It is interesting because I was contacted, and now I don't communicate with Russia, but I was contacted by several people that I once knew who are in Russia who are affiliated with their media there, and they were asking what I knew about Russia. This this NATO nuke that's being moved into Ukraine right now. And of course, I don't I don't know anything about that. But I think it's interesting that you say that because you're like the third person now in the last two weeks who's brought up Ukraine and nukes. And I have a book out on Ukraine. I would not surprise me. If the Biden regime was actually possibly using this drone story to distract the media from the fact that they are actually moving nuclear weapons into Ukraine to hand off to the Ukrainians. But again, that is a significant escalation. And even though I do believe the Biden regime would love to leave a smoldering problem for Trump, I don't know if they're crazy enough to do that because they know, and this is what the globalists fear, that if we do that to Ukraine, the Russians will hand off nukes to Iran. and maybe even venezuela right and so i don't think we're going to get there yet i really think the the first thing i said which is that this is a department of energy has misplaced radioactive waste i think this is probably the most likely explanation i'm with you i i number one
SPEAKER 14 :
Enough research that I did over the weekend, I really feel like this is a DOE situation, and they have some anonymity, as you know, and have a lot of high-tech things that most people don't realize they have. And they've got the ability to do some things outside of the, quote-unquote, armed forces, which is why the military may not know what's going on, although you'd think they'd talk to one another. But, again, that's a whole other discussion probably for another day.
SPEAKER 16 :
The military did know. Trump said today in his statement the military does know, and he was confounded as to why the government wasn't just saying what it is. And so it's possible the military does know, at least part of them know, and they're not – left hand's not talking to the right hand type situation.
SPEAKER 14 :
My theory on that – again, this is my theory. I'm just a talk show host, car guy talk show host. That's who I am, by the way, Brandon. Okay. At the end of the day, I'm no super intelligent individual by any stretch of the imagination. But number one, I think they're not being honest because, number one, if in fact even what you said, no matter what, whether it's a lost nuke or it's what you're saying, either way, that drives panic in the public, which they're most likely trying to keep down as much as they can. On the same token, by what they're doing, they're driving panic.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, yes. And also, by the way, I mean, just think about it from the Biden regime's perspective. They have been totally outmaneuvered by a man, Donald Trump, they said was literally Hitler. And he has humiliated them for the last year. So why would they want to go out now admitting that, hey, we've also either lost a nuke or we've lost radioactive material? They'd rather create panic and chaos. that admit that they're just totally incompetent.
SPEAKER 14 :
And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't somebody that is pretty high-ranking in regards to the nuclear end of things one of their transgendered weirdo dude dresses in a dress and lipstick and the whole nine yards? Am I correct in that? No.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, if you want to talk about aliens, I mean, this guy or girl or whatever who looks like an alien, it is a cross-dressing bald man who says it's a woman who was arrested for stealing people's luggage at airports. And so that's who's in control of our nuclear was, at least until they might have resigned.
SPEAKER 14 :
But that is who was in control for several years of the Biden regime's nuclear security. That's what I thought. So given all of that, on a serious note... Given all of what we just said would be all the more reason why you want all of this covered up. Because, again, that just now adds to, you know, the other side, Donald Trump and so on. You know, my side, I should say, just adds to our fodder that, hey, you guys are totally incompetent. And all of your DEI nonsense just almost cost us as a nation.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's right. That's right. And, you know, ultimately, the one thing your audience should know is, first of all, it's not aliens. Second of all, the likelihood that it's a foreign threat actor like Iran or even China is not likely. So please don't shoot at the sky because you are probably shooting at a civilian airliner, which actually apparently happened over the weekend. In New Jersey, where they shot up at the sky and it was actually a civilian airline.
SPEAKER 14 :
I saw that. I saw some of those clips of that. And it's like, people, please, you know, number one, gun safety. You don't do that. Number two, you have no idea where the rest, you know, you're not going to hit it, most likely, which was very apparent.
SPEAKER 16 :
You're going to hit somebody else.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's right. Right. You're going to hurt somebody else when it's all said and done. And I'm like you, again, part of where my synopsis of all of this came in, not even from the videos and other things, Brandon, but just, number one, these things have lights. Number two, they're flying at an elevation that they're supposed to fly at or under to be FAA approved, if you would. So, I mean, I'm looking at all this and saying, OK, wait a minute. And I said this in the first hour. First of all, aliens wouldn't do that, which... again, there's no such thing, but number two, a foreign adversary is not going to do that either. Foreign adversary is not going to play by the rules.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. Absolutely. Absolutely. And then the one thing question you should ask yourself is if I'm an alien coming from across the universe, why would I be visiting New Jersey?
SPEAKER 14 :
Good one, actually. Good one. I mean, but I've seen even some of the, you know, and I know they're AI generated, but you know, it's showing ships coming up out of the water and this, that, and the other. And it's like, Oh my word, people.
SPEAKER 16 :
And by the way, that, That's an interesting thing, because I have seen some of the videos as well, and I will say, before this morning I saw the thing about the lost radioactive waste, I was wondering if the U.S. Navy was testing their new transmedium drones. And those are drones that the Navy has been developing for about a decade, which basically can travel underwater and then fly like a normal drone in the air and go back underwater.
SPEAKER 14 :
I just learned something. I didn't know that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. Well, not many people did. I consult for the DOD, so I see and hear a lot of things. But you can actually find the Naval Surface Workers Center's paper on it from about a decade ago. China is developing similar tech. But the key thing here to understand is even that has a terrestrial explanation. It is not little green men. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, furthermore, when you look at these particular drones, how they're made, how they fly, what they do and so on, not that other countries couldn't do the same. But let's face it, Brandon, there's just a few countries with that technology that have the ability to do that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, China's one of them, but I don't think it's them. I really don't think it's them right now.
SPEAKER 14 :
No offense, they've got too much other stuff going on at the homeland to worry about that right now, and I'm being very honest.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's right. I agree. I agree. I really think this is us, and I think that the scary part is that just like East Palestine, Ohio, the Biden regime has taken a natural disaster and probably made it worse.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. You know what? I'm glad I had you on. You think much like I do. I didn't think that I was crazy over the weekend, and I'm I know now that I'm not. And for all of you out there listening, and I got a lot of text messages and things over the weekend, Brandon asking me what I thought. And again, my number one answer was, it's us. I don't know exactly how, but believe me, it's us. And no, I'm not going to lose an ounce of sleep over this until we know more.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's right. That's right. And don't shoot at the sky. And don't shoot at the sky.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, before I let you go, last thing, because this one I don't know. If, in fact, they misplaced...
SPEAKER 16 :
radioactive waste which by the way i don't know how you do that um apparently it's quite normal i found out it happens quite a bit really okay i found that out school me yeah well i don't again this is i i don't normally work with the department of energy this is not normally my area but apparently that some small traces of radioactive waste medical radioactive waste have been known to be lost into the ether of our elephant time bureaucracy. So my little spin on this is, because they tried to community note me on Twitter when I said this, now my thought was, okay, maybe this is something that happens routinely, but I actually think that if it was something that was routine that was lost, possibly it was a large quantity because that's the only explanation that I can think of. If you look at where these drones are appearing, they first appear in the East Coast. They can't find what they're looking for. So then they appear where I live in Florida. Then they're appearing on the West Coast. It's like they're looking for something.
SPEAKER 14 :
And to me, it's also, and again, correct me if I'm wrong, but it also seems to me like it's a grid search.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's exactly right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. All right. So, again, you're confirming what I've thought through the weekend. So, Brandon, I appreciate it. If anything else comes out, we'd love to have you back. And it's been a joy. You're welcome any time. I appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you, sir.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're very welcome. And really quick, what's the website? How do folks find you?
SPEAKER 16 :
You can find me on 1945, F-O-R-T-Y-F-I-V-E.com.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. Appreciate you, Brandon. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. You bet. Have a great night. So there you go, folks. That really confirmed a lot of even what I was talking about in the first hour, other than it being radioactive waste, not necessarily a loose nuke, although I think even he said at this point, Who knows? It really boils down to this particular regime doesn't want that on their record because they've already got enough there as it is, showing how incompetent they are. They don't need one more level of. So thank you, Brandon, if you're still listening. Thank you, by the way. I appreciate that very much. Hi-Fi Plumbing is next. 877-WE-HIGH-5. Electrical, plumbing, whatever it is, give them a call today. 877-WE-HIGH-5.
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, some of the other things that you may hear regarding the drones, and this one, you know, there may be some truth to this. I don't know. There may not be. I don't know. It may just be coincidental. If what we just heard a moment ago is true, then it's coincidence in the timing of. But there's a big $895 billion, with a B, pork-filled defense bill that they're trying to get pushed through before Trump takes office. And... There's a lot of things in it that have nothing to do with defense, by the way, as usual. And so they're trying to get this nearly trillion dollar defense bill, you know, pumped through. And so you kind of wonder is some of what they're here's what I'm going to say. I don't think the drone thing has anything to do with this. Now, that isn't to say that politicians won't take every opportunity they can to use something going on in our world or in our country to then further their bill along. That I do know would happen. So do I think the drone activity happened because of the bill, which you're going to see all over social media also? No, I don't see it that way. Do I think those that are trying to get this bill rammed through will use what's going on in the drone world as a way to push that bill forward? Yes, I do. I'm more of what we were talking about in the last segment, that it's some sort of nuclear waste, hazardous something, something along those lines that they're doing some grid searches on to try to figure out. And is it a lost nuke? I don't know. Maybe. I have a hard time believing you can lose a nuke. But in this incompetent government we have right now, I think anything's possible. So I'm not ruling that out. Now, does that make me lose sleep at night? No. And I got that question over the weekend. Are you losing sleep over any of this? Does any of this bother you? No. I sleep just fine. I know where I'm going. Something happens and all of a sudden, you know, the U.S. is obliterated. I know where I'm going. I'm not worried about that. It doesn't mean I'm coy about it or that I don't care about loved ones and so on. You know, I do. But at the end of the day, number one, what am I going to do to stop it? Absolutely nothing. come on air and talk about some of these things, I guess, but even that's not going to stop it. I will tell you this, all of these loony tunes that are out there running around talking about this being some sort of an alien invasion, that's not helping. These people are loons. And please, if you're somebody that's on our side, on the conservative side, don't go down that path. Just don't go. Don't go down that path. There are no little green men. There are no aliens. There are no underground alien societies that live on Earth. And no, they haven't been here for a gazillion years before we got here. And they're not under the ocean either, Charlie. No, they're not there. Charlie's making fun. No, they're not. And I mean this in all seriousness. Please, if you're a conservative, especially a conservative Christian, don't go there. There are no such thing as aliens. I don't care what anybody says. I don't care what you've read or what you've even seen. Number one, I don't know anybody that's ever seen one, and even some of the ones that say they do, I don't think have a lot of credibility. I go back to what I said a little bit ago. If Charlie gave me great information, great wisdom years ago, and it's this phrase, two words, people talk. People talk. In other words, a lot of the things that we think are one way, and there's all sorts of conspiracies around, people talk. I mean, it's the number one way that criminals get caught, by the way. People talk. Oh, yeah, I know what happened on such and such a night, or I'm going to give up such and such, or whatever. I mean, people talk. And they talk about all sorts of things. It's why when folks win the big lottery— they don't immediately run down and cash in because, again, people talk. When you find something out, people blab. It's sort of, you know, it's part of the sin nature, of course, but it's ingrained in us. If you know something, you're going to say something. So when it comes to some of these things, aliens and, you know, all this other nonsense that's out there, if it were true, there'd be proof of it. And there's not. And believe me, when I say proof, I mean real, literal, up close, you know, personal pictures, you name it. Believe me, they'd be there and we'd all see it by now if there were little green men. The fact of the matter is, folks, there's not. Quit believing it. That is a lie of Satan, by the way. Stop believing in that nonsense because it is utter nonsense. And yes, I do believe that's satanic in and of itself because there is no such thing. And I could go on and on about how vast our universe is and how God in all of his glory made us and made our earth and did what he did inside of our vast universe and how blessed we are to have what we have and on and on. I could go on for hours, literally. I won't. But that's the reality of it. And my feeling is to claim that there's little green men somewhere out there in some outer space, you know, galaxy, shortchange is God. And some of you say, well, why? How so, John? We are made in God's image. Scripture is very clear in that. We are made in his image. We were set on this earth with free will, by the way, to love on our own, not because we have to, but because we want to, a holy God, the holiest of all. No one, nothing comes close to him. He is it. And anybody that would think otherwise is a fool, and Scripture is very clear on that as well. 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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Somebody asked also, would I go to a large football game, stadium event, something along those lines, and or travel with all of what's going on with drones and so on? My son Richard joining me now. And Richard, you already know the answer to that. Yeah, I don't change my life at all because there's drones flying around.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, you've always said this, and maybe you haven't said it on air, so I'm going to be busting your secret, which is, you know, obviously there's a time to, you know, sort of be, you know, cautious and you don't want to put yourself in unnecessary harm, you know, with certain things, but you've always been a firm believer that you're not going to let someone else determine, you know, how you live your life or, you know, kind of what you do or where you go and, you know, whether it's a you know, drones flying around or, you know, unfortunately this, you know, the shooting that happened in, you know, Wisconsin and stuff like, you know, the minute we start doing that, the minute that these people win.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that's what happened during COVID and I didn't stop doing anything then and I wouldn't stop now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Precisely. And that's kind of what you and I, you and I have talked about many times, right? Especially with COVID is, you know, they were trying to restrict that and, you know, how you lived your life and everything else. And that's kind of the fundamental thing. nature of America, which is the government can't tell you or they should not be telling you how to do those things. And whether the government's action or inaction on this drone type of stuff is whatever it is. I guess, Dad, actions speak louder than words, right? And the fact that the government, you know, Pentagon isn't shooting these things out of the sky tells me that they are, obviously, they know what they are.
SPEAKER 14 :
Another factor in all of what we talked about in the last segment. All right, really quick, to change subjects and to get into something, you know, a little more fun, because I think this is, to me, this was absolutely awesome over the weekend. And I know that our Heisman Trophy winner, Hunter took a lot of heat. I watched it. I looked at it on X and social media and so on. And, you know, a lot of people saying that, you know, the guy from Boise State got gypped and this, that, and the other. And I didn't comment. I felt like commenting on each one of those that, you know, they're not even in, literally, literally, they're not in the same league. And you cannot, I'm sorry, folks. I'm sorry if I'm going to step on toes. You cannot compare the Mountain West in that division to the rest of what's going on in Division I football.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, you can't, Dad. It's different. And here's the deal. That's not to say that what Ashton Gentry has done is not crazy, because it is. He's done a really good job, and he's really great, and he's already had a top-two rushing season in the entirety of college football. But if you're going to say that the competition is the same from – You know, the Mountain West themes that Boise State played to the Big 12 that CU played, and it's just different. And now, granted, I will say this, folks. The Big 12 is not as strong as the SEC or the ACC. But here's the other piece of it, Dan. If you take Travis Hunter off of this CU team, and you saw what happened, he sat out the back half of that Kansas State game. CU lost.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, big time.
SPEAKER 03 :
By three points or whatever it is, right? If he plays the back end of that game, he likely wins. That's right. Yes, he played against Kansas, and they still lost and some other things. But the point being is the level of competition. is not the same. And I'll just stand by and say that. There's been other running backs that have had just as good a season as Ashton Genting, believe it or not, right? Melvin Gordon, he played for the Chargers and the Broncos out of Wisconsin. He had, honestly, very similar stats to that of Ashton Genting. He played at Wisconsin, right? Power 4 school in the Big Ten. And he didn't win the Heisman. Now, you can argue maybe he should have, but ultimately it comes down to And the way I define it, Dad, and you're kind of, if everything's equal, and honestly, any other year, Gen. T probably should have won. The biggest issue, though, is I don't know if we will ever see a guy like Travis Hunter again. What he did on the field both ways... Right, both sides of the ball, right. He was... And it's a... stinking shame, in one of his other words, that he was not voted the best defense. He wasn't even a finalist for the best defensive back. That's a whole different conversation. But he was voted the best wide receiver in the country. I think he's a better corner than he is wide receiver, but that's a different conversation. The AP Player of the Year, the Walter Kemp which I think is the same award. He was, I think, the Bednarik, which is the best defensive player, which I don't know how you get the best defensive player, but you don't get the best defensive back. I feel like they've got to go together in a way. And so it's just insane what he was able to do, Dad, the level of conditioning and just the level, the high level, elite level, that he was able to perform two positions at. And again, not taking anything away from Ashton Gentry. It was incredible. And I'll be honest, Dad, I was saying this to some family and stuff over the weekend. I never thought, obviously I was basically two years old when Roshan Salam won, but the direction that CU was heading over the past number of years, everything going on, I would never have thought that CU would have another Heisman Trophy winner just because of their direction, that college football is going, and the Big Ten, the SEC, you may get a few. But to have what Travis Hunter did and to be able to witness it, obviously, in a time where I can remember it, is just surreal. And you can, obviously, you remember the Rashawn Salon season better than I do, but... And that was kind of special in its own right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. Anytime your team, a player from your team, wins the Heisman, that's a big deal. It doesn't happen very often, as you know, Richard. I mean, that's a very select thing that typically, as you know, doesn't even happen outside of the SEC and some of those conferences, some of those schools, I guess I should say, Richard, at the end of the day. I also will say this, and I'm not trying to beat up the kid from Boise State. Great player. I think he's a good kid when it's all said and done. It'd be interesting to see how well he would do up against stronger defenses. I will say this, after watching Hunter play, honestly, you can put him on any team you want to.
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Well, you can do anything you want to do. He immediately goes to the top of, again, most teams' best cornerback and best receiver the minute that you do it. And I'll be fascinated what he does in the pros, to be honest with you, Dad, because I think that he's that special. And, again, it's just really cool for CU and what Deion has done. And, honestly, that's crazy. This kid out of high school, I'll be the first to admit I thought he was crazy. You know, he foregoes Florida State. where he's from Florida, moved to Georgia, but he was going to go to Florida State. He says, no, I'm going to go with Deion to Jackson State. Deion has a great year, gets hired, obviously, last year at CU. He transfers over, has a decent year last year, but kind of set the stage for this year, had this. It's just crazy, his story. It really is inspirational. I don't know the full story of his dad. If I had to guess, you're probably in and out of, kind of in some trouble and some other things going on. He talks about pulling himself out. The crazy part is that his whole speech wasn't written down. And that goes to tell you that all of those people that sort of impacted him, that he remembered, made a difference in his life because he remembered them off the top of his head, you know, from the guy that took him to get his first pair of, I mean, honestly, that you could, and I think Ashton Gentry is a good man. I actually think he's a good Christian guy, to be honest with you. I think the Boise State coach is, but you know, there's a kid, you know, if there's someone for your kids to, you know, aspire to be or whatever else it might, he's pretty good, right? Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't party. you know, the worst thing you could argue is, you know, I'm not sure the dude, you know, I'm not sure what him and his girlfriend got going on. He seems to be unhappy with them a lot of the time, but that's probably the worst thing you can say about the kid. Outside of that, he, you know, plays video games and wears onesies. You know, there's, He's a pretty simple kid. I actually think he's a pretty cool guy. It's a cool thing, Dad. Honestly, I'm pretty excited about it. It's something that I never thought I'd see again, in all honesty.
SPEAKER 14 :
Talk about change in coaching. Belichick now going back to college, which is sort of a trend to do some things differently on the college level, correct?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, who would have thought? Honestly, if you had asked Andy and I, we thought maybe Belichick would go to Dallas, the Cowboys after this year, or even the Eagles, depending on their struggle, or even the Jets. But, yeah, he's going to North Carolina, Dad, taking over for Mack Brown. So you've got an old guy taking over for an old guy. But it's interesting because more and more of these programs with how they're being run, Dad, is more almost like the minor leagues, right? And everyone's always referred to college football as that. But it's even more so now. with just some of the things that's going on, right? These players are being paid, and in some cases they're being paid lots of money. And it's not as much about you sort of recruiting these kids, right? Yes, facilities matter and coaching. And Belichick can say he's got the coaching, right? He's going to bring in the staff that's going to develop these kids. But it's really what Deion got all the flack for last year, which is saying, hey, I'm going to start treating these kids like professionals. because that's what they want to be, right? If you want to be a professional athlete, I'm going to start treating you like one. And Belichick essentially came out and said, that's what we're going to do. I'm going to basically build a staff that can really coach and develop you and prepare you for the next level. And everyone said, oh, no, you've got to get these kids out of high school. I'll be curious to, number one, see how long Belichick stays. But number two, I'll really be curious with him how much he recruits high school, similar to Deion, versus how much he pulls in the transfer portal. Because, again, Deion has said that over and over again. I'm only going to get a select number of high school kids, and then I'm really going to pull from the portal because these kids are ready to play, and it's like free agency.
SPEAKER 14 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 03 :
So it's an interesting major shift, Dad, and I think this is just the start. I don't think it's the end.
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All right, we are back, and it's that time of the week where we do our car reviews. Richard, you just drove a 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser, and it's not like the Land Cruisers of old, or maybe it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I was going to say, there's sort of a play on words here, right? It's not like the Land Cruisers... Of the recent old, right? It's not the ones that they just got rid of. And so for some of you, I guess, buffs or car buffs, we'll call it, right? You're more used to the bigger Land Cruiser, right? The more luxurious one. It had the TVs and all sorts of stuff on it. That is no longer the case. They actually got rid of that for a year, brought this back. But it's not to be confused. This is a midsize SUV, five passengers. It's right between like a 4Runner and a Sequoia, if you're familiar with kind of the truck-based SUVs. There's no longer a V8. It is a V6, and in this case, this was actually the hybrid version of it. I'll kind of get to the details here. Yeah, basically, it's got a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine with the hybrid system, 326 horsepower. 465 pound feet of torque. This thing, Dad, is sort of meant to be bought and go out on the road, or I should say off the road in a lot of cases, right? This is meant to do that. And like you said, you are more familiar of the Land Cruisers of, I guess I'm going to call them yesteryear. This much more aligns with that.
SPEAKER 14 :
It does. I mean, yeah, way back in the day with the FJ40s, FJ60s, some of, again, you old car buffs that Richard just mentioned. I remember some of those vehicles from way back when. They were sort of a runoff of the Jeep CJs back in the day. And then the Land Cruisers, of course, came along. And they ran that way for a very long time until they really... I guess I could say, Richard, modernize that platform, and it was very popular around the world, not just here in the U.S., and people would drive those things for half a million miles and not exaggerating and came to love that vehicle. Well, as you said a moment ago, that particular model ended. You can get... You can basically get that vehicle only in a lot more luxurious form on the Lexus end of things, but it is not one of the same. That's, I think, some of the confusion as well. In the past, Richard, you could buy the Land Cruiser or get a little bit fancier Lexus of the same basic vehicle. That is not the case anymore. This is more of that old traditional Land Cruiser style.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is. I mean, it's related to the new Lexus GX in a way, but it's different, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
But it's not, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because that GX, you can get with a third row and such, and this Land Cruiser, you can't. And I'll kind of get into the specifics, and then we'll finish talking about the rest. Three trim levels, Dad, for this model year, 2024, 1958, which is, again, a throwback to kind of the no-nonsense, no-frills origin of the Land Cruiser. the medium edition, literally just called Land Cruiser, or the first edition, which is, you know, sort of, well, it's what it sounds like, right? It's kind of a special one. You can get some different things on it. You can spruce this vehicle up. The one we drove was not spruced up, right? It had cloth seats. It had, honestly, Dad, heck, it had a, it didn't even have a power driver's seat. I'm manually, you know, pumping myself up if I wanted to sit higher or lower myself down or scoot forward. Whatever it might be there does have some things as far as dual zone climate. And it's got a smaller center screen. Again, we drove the 1958 edition, I want to specify there, which, again, is supposed to be an ode to the older generation. As it sat, Dad, again, not a whole lot of options on it. As it sat, $60,790, which, again, you have to be the judge of it. I will say this. At our altitude, and I think off-road, which we didn't get a chance to take it and we're even limited in what we can or can't do, this vehicle ran really well up here at our altitude, Dad, with the I-Force Max. underneath the hood. This thing got up and went. It went when you wanted it to. Some people argue that the braking was a little bit subpar, but what I would say, Dad, is it's still a big SUV. I mean, it's not a small car by any stretch of the imagination. So, again, it's not meant to be a little sports car that's going to be able to slam on the brakes in that sense. But they've done a nice job at allowing for some upgrades if you want to, depending on what you're looking for. This particular model had a roof rack, had some rock rails on it, In terms of styling, Dad, it's not like the Land Cruisers of yesteryear. It's more modernized, right? It is. It's got some sleek, a little bit boxy. Again, folks, if you've seen the new Lexus GXs running around, you've seen these. But this is not the Land Cruiser of the outgoing model, Dad. And that's not to say it's a bad thing. And like you say, sort of an ode, and a lot of people are going to know this car, your Land Cruisers from... from many years ago, that's kind of where they want to get back to, right? They want this thing to be the do-it-all car for you, the do-it-all SUV, right? You can take the kids to school and you can go off-road. You can take this thing camping. You can tow your camper depending on how you want to do it. It really is meant to be that sport utility vehicle, right, the SUV. Mm-hmm. It's really meant to do that in a lot of cases. And so I think they've done a nice job on it. My only, honestly, nitpick, Dad, is just for the 1958, you're paying $60,000 for a car, and you don't get any of the frills that I mentioned.
SPEAKER 05 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 03 :
But that's just a personal experience, right? That's more of my personal opinion. Some of you, Dad, and some of your listeners may say, hey, when I'm off-road and I'm doing some of this other stuff, I don't want to mess with any of that, right? I don't want to have the risk of my seat not working because I get some water in it or whatever it might be. So outside of that, very comfortable, quiet. The roof rack did add a little bit of wind noise driving down the road, but that's to be expected pretty much on any vehicle when you start adding noise. some additional accessories, Dad, as far as that goes. That's right. Overall, was really pleased with it. Fuel economy, let me get that for folks really quick, was an average of 23. And again, this is partly, it's a heavy vehicle, Dad, but due to that hybrid technology where you can actually hear and feel the engine, shut off at times. 22 city, 25 highway. And again, we were actually right there about 23, 24 miles per gallon. So for folks that want to learn more, they're starting to get some leads on the dealership data. I've seen several of them driving around town. They are out there. We encourage folks to get out as we always do test drive it because what we think that and what we like or don't like is someone may differ completely from that. And so that's why we encourage you to get out to your Toyota dealership and let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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All right, 30 seconds or so left before I let you go. One last thing, never drop the ball before crossing the goal line as you head into the end zone, right?
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Dad, in sports, there's singular plays that change the trajectory of a game, and this could change the trajectory of a season. The Broncos were close to going down 20-7, and momentum is a crazy thing that they probably wouldn't have gotten back. But because the Colts running back Jonathan Taylor decides to drop the ball literally a half a foot from the goal line, and I think they got the call right, it literally— Yeah, it came out of his hands before he got across the plane. It changed it from the Broncos needing to win two of their next three to where they can get in without actually winning any of their next three at the right combination. But they need to win one of their next three games, and the Broncos will be in the playoffs since the first time since they won the Super Bowl.
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Florida man exposes himself in public after asking a woman to take his picture.
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On the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team, and we now have guidance coming from the state. And that guidance does say two different things. First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we are immediately to call the bomb squad of our county. And second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits.
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So if something falls out of the sky that people have seen, and some of these things are as big as an SUV, if that happens, you're to treat this more than a plane crash. It's treated like an attack on the homeland?
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That is correct, because they're not quite sure if there's a payload or not.
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Oh, what? They're not quite sure that it's a... Okay, I got concerns. I got concerns. Where's the good old boy network? Get them out here. Call them up. Because they need it. Okay, first off, greetings and salutations. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. I... So it's – this is like a what came first, the chicken or the egg question. Does it seem like there's more drones flying out and around everywhere or is it that people are just paying attention to the fact that there are all of these drones flying out everywhere? Right.
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I think it's both. I think there is more and now more people are paying attention. I think it's both.
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So you think it goes both ways?
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I think it does.
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Because, I mean... especially like in some of the airspace that I've seen them, they've said that they've been flying like near military bases. I mean, this is like restricted stuff, right? I mean, this is like restricted, you know, areas. So I've got concerns because I'm like, well, if you and I flew a drone over there, what would happen to us? Because you have to register them. That's the other thing. Like, are these not registered? No. And if they're not registered, like I was under the impression that, oh, if you don't register your stuff with the FAA or the appropriate agency, then, you know, you're going to get it shot out the sky. That's kind of what I was under the impression.
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Do you want a little morsel of how deep I got into the rabbit hole on this over the weekend? Oh, my gosh.
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Is this what you did all weekend?
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Well, not all weekend. It's just that, you know.
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Okay, so that's Kane for yes.
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I had a little, I may have bought more Reynolds wrap.
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What, what? Get into it. Well. Aliens, right? Tell me.
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There was a rabbit hole that said that, hey, imagine these are, you know, obviously they're not shooting them down. They're over our military bases. It's near military bases. It's clearly us, you know, up there with those FAA lights and everything. Under that assumption, there was talk of radioactive material being shipped into the United States.
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Okay, that was one guy's like... Now, hold on.
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That wasn't just one guy's.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Why do you always do this? Okay, go ahead. Why do you always do this?
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Go on, go on, go on.
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So they are drones at night. The only time you're going to fly at night, because as a drone, you're not going to see much unless you have special detection equipment, i.e. looking for radioactive signatures while in the air. So...
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that was one of the rabbit holes that i went down so saturday night you're you so you so because i saw that and it was this dude for those of you who are not following the drone thing like kane or ir i mean i'm not saying that i stayed up like you know till 1 30 in the morning reading about drone stuff but maybe i stayed up till 1 30 in the morning reading about drone stuff i don't know look at the time stamp with some of the audio i sent you yeah me neither Yeah, none of us did. But it's just, you know, I don't know.
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I wasn't able to verify what that guy's saying, the guy we're talking about.
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Because he was a guy who worked, wasn't he like, he worked in aerospace engineering or something like that. And it was like his, it was some rando's thought process on social media. And of course, the media sees a rando and they're like, it's a slow news cycle. We got to publish it and print everything he's saying.
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That is true.
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Yeah. So, you know, I mean, I'm just, you know, I'm just saying. So, again, welcome to the program. We've got, oh, my gosh, a lot for you today. It's Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast. You can also follow the radio program on the simulcast of the radio program. You can find that out. Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat set. Rumble. You can find us on X. All those good things. And we got Kentonji Brown Jackson on Broadway. We got Palace Intrigue. We got all kinds of stuff. It's the week before Christmas. Half of you are mentally checked out. I'll be real. Y'all are. Half of you are mentally checked out. And that's okay because it's the season. It is the season, right? So... We're going to get you set up as we roll into Christmas, all those good things, and get you all set up for the week. It's going to be our show the last week before Christmas. I'm going to warn you. It's weird because the news cycle is dry except for like every time we do this. There are always one or two wild stories going into Christmas break. I said UFO. The drone thing. It's one of them. And I am upset because you guys know I'm obsessed with ancient aliens. I'm obsessed with aliens. One of my dream vacations is to get my photo pictured right outside the gate where after you go past it, they'll shoot you at Area 51. I planned a whole road trip from Vegas once in Shacho going all the way up the two hours that it would take to get to Shacho. the area to Roswell and then the little truck stop outside and the little hotel and all this. I know where the gravel road... I mean, I know all this. I'm totally on a government watch list. Listen to me. I sound like Charlie from Always Sunny in Philadelphia right now. Like his stalker wall. That's what I sound like. So... I know where the I mean, I'm obsessed, obsessed. So I'm like, I really desperately want this to be aliens, because if it's just us looking for radioactive stuff, that's super boring. Unless there's a kaiju somewhere in New Jersey. And that's what we're looking for. Because, you know, as you know, according to canon, canonically, kaijus cane, they feast upon radioactive nuclear things. And so that would make sense. That's kind of a stretch. But here we are. It's 2024. You know, just saying. So we got a lot. I did say Ketanji Brown-Jackson on. How do you guys send me? What in the world? How do you guys send stuff this fast? Already, I got a comment like, what do you mean Ketanji Brown-Jackson's Supreme Court on Broadway? Yes, we'll get to that. That was quick. We'll get to it. So as we got a lot of stuff to hit, just trust. All right. So first up, like we said, we've been talking about all this drone stuff. There was one. Listen to this. We played three coming in, right? That was audio sent by three? Okay, play three. This is Channel 7, ABC affiliate. It's a glowing orb on camera in the New Jersey sky.
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You know, when things like this are happening, it seems everyone starts to look up, like my crew and I have been here in Mendham recording this video that you're looking at right now. We have no idea what it is, if it's a natural phenomenon, because it could be. But this is why so many municipalities are now asking people to reach out and send their videos to them or to experts who might be able to sort out what they're seeing in the skies. But I guarantee there are so many people looking up and making those recordings because...
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For those of you who are not watching the simulcast of the radio program, so back in the day, it's still there. It's called the Magic House. It's in Kirkwood. Right? First neighborhood I lived in after I moved out of my house. And they had this thing and it was... What was it? It was like the static electricity ball where you touched it and your hair would stand up. And everybody would touch it and they would get their photo taken and you'd put it on a pen saying, I visited the Magic House. Right? So... It looks like they sent that up into the air over Jersey. That's what it looks like. It looks like the Magic House orb completely. Juan says it looks like a lens flare. Or, guys, the obvious answer here, it's aliens. Just saying. Gotta be. Gotta be aliens. See, you all are going to be surprised when, like, the saucer lands, when they finally feel safe enough to land and are... our high crime planet. And when they get out and they're like, who is your leader? Take us to your leader. You all are going to be surprised. Your girl's not. I'm just going to be like, I expected this. I saw it coming. Sup aliens. You know, don't, don't laser nuke us, bro. I can't breathe. I, you know, that's how. Just it's just so much more interesting if it's aliens, if it's just like basic government stuff. How long have we lived with basic government conspiracy theories? Right. That go nowhere. Show us some aliens. Just saying. All right. So, I mean, there's a lot. I mean, they so there's OK. Here's a military drone expert. He says he knows in audio somebody seven. What is happening here? This is. Oh, this is the guy. Okay. This is the rando. So I thought this is the rando that's okay. All right. This is the rando that was on X who is taught. I don't know. Maybe it's an interesting theory. Just go ahead and listen.
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I'm making this video because I have figured out what the drone situation is. I was in the Army, active duty. I worked on drones. I was a maintenance NCO for some surveillance drones. And before that, I worked on the Apache, the Kiowa. I know aviation. So what people are not noticing is that you have two separate types of drones and two separate types of things in the air right now. First off, the drones that you see with flight lights or anti-collision lights or the things that the FAA requires, those are drones that are probably operated by the United States government. Now, the orbs that you've been seeing on the Internet, that is the reason why all those drones are up there. And that is also why the government isn't telling you what's going on. And that's because the drones that you see that look like regular aircraft, those drones are up there to get some information on the actual orbs.
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Yeah, it's aliens. It's aliens. It's all aliens. I don't care what this guy. You know what? I'm also not a military expert, but I am an expert in stuff I see in the sky. Like I can look up and I'm like, that's a bird. That's the sun. That's the moon. That's a cloud. That's a damn alien. I can look right up and see it. That's my expertise. Take it or leave it. Take it or leave it. I will say this News Nation reporter, Audio Sunbite 8, was like, he said that his entire view of this changed because he witnessed 50 of them. You need to watch this. 50 of them flying into the Garden State from the Atlantic. Watch this.
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Hi, Elizabeth. Well, I gotta be honest here. You know, when this story first came out a few weeks ago, as a resident of New Jersey, as a journalist, I didn't pay it much credence. I thought it would turn out to be a bunch of pranksters and this would all be over by now. The experience I had last night, however, changed the way I feel about this story completely. What I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined.
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More sophisticated. Than he ever imagined. There's there's video and there there are there are different videos and different photographs of like a whole herd of them. I don't know what you call like if it's a bunch of crows, it's a murder of crows. Right. I don't know what you just a bunch of bunch of drones. A buttload of drones. How about that? It's an actual measurement. symmetric system so they there was video show them all coming in from the atlantic and that was kind of creepy right that was a little creepy but then i'm like how did you get that footage did you send a drone up how many of that is just drones watching for drones and then how many of them are you know the uaps uja federation of new york is caring for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds and responding to crises close to home and far away
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So I wanted to get this story. It's from the Hill that we had last segment. Saved over a millionaire. Boomers are less likely to share their wealth, according to a study. So it's their money. And who is you? Forty five percent of wealthy boomers, they say, intend to enjoy their fortunes while alive. And they they said that millennials plan to share their for a good job for you. You can't take it when you kick the bucket. So what are you doing? Like, you know, who cares? Who cares? They said millionaires, millionaire millennials and Gen Xers are twice as more likely as boomers to prioritize sharing. I don't share. First off, I didn't even teach my kids to share. Do you know why? Because it is all about mental conditioning for socialism. And I think it's overrated. If you want to play with the toy that my kid has at the playground, buy your own damn toy for your kid. I don't care how mean it sounds. I don't do that. I'm all about kindness, but I don't believe in this forced idea of sharing. You don't have to share your wealth unless you want to, because forced charity is just resentment and action. And it is not anything biblical or anything or kind. That's all it is. So cry harder. Let's see here. Apple is taking heat over a like a false AI generated news alert. Luigi Mangione had shot. It was apparently like a fake thing that went out. I could have probably said that's false, you know, looking at it. He hired a powerhouse attorney. Nobody who makes the moves that he's made is going to know. An open AI whistleblower was found dead, dead in their San Francisco apartment. Yeah, he was blowing the whistle on AI, and there was a ton of lawsuits over its business model. The 26-year-old, I'm sure it was just from old age, right? I'm sure it was just totally... I don't know. He accused OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT. All kinds of lawsuits were filed. The medical examiner has not released his cause of death, but they said, well, currently there's no evidence of foul play. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Apple plans thinner foldable iPhones to revive growth because they've been plateauing. That will happen when you release basically the same phone every other year, I got to say. I got the new phone. I don't think you need to get the new phone. If you got the 15, it's fine. The 16 does not any. I mean, the camera's not bad. I think the cameras have gotten worse. Am I the only person who thinks that? I think the photos actually are worse. Yeah, I do. I actually do. But they said that they're going to change and they want to revive growth because they've only done drip, drip incremental upgrades over the years. So now they want to introduce a super thin iPhone that you can fold in half. I might be interested. You know, I like gadgets. Let's see. Hawaii's population continues to decline as more people move to California. And you want to know why? Because the high taxes, the insane cost of living and the incessant Democrat leadership has ruined everything. That's why. That's why. And then they go to another state that has just the same thing. A passenger stood for a seven hour flight and a lot of people were talking about it. It was a seven hour flight and they said she wouldn't sit down. They said that she stood in the aisle for the entire flight. Maybe she had just, you know, had surgery or was uncomfortable or has deep vein thrombosis or something. She didn't bother anybody. She moved out of the way when she needed to. I wanted to touch on this audio that I it's the Raphael Warnock audio. Or interview. This interview that Raphael Warnock gave, which was... pretty wild. He was speaking about abortion. Now, if you remember, Raphael Warnock has always been very, very far left, right? A very, very far left, a huge time, a huge abortion supporter. And he had given this interview where he said he supports abortion because it's what Jesus would have done. I put this up on Facebook and a lot of you lost your minds deservedly. He was talking with MSNBC and he was on her program this past week. And now we know that he's further on the left because – or all the – I mean we know where he stands on abortion and we know that he's – been supportive of it up till the moment of birth, because he was the guy who sponsored that Senate bill that was going to codify a taxpayer funded abortion on demand up until the moment of birth. And they were they slipped it or he he sponsored this provision. They were slipping it into the really weird name Women's Protection Act, which was just goofy. It had nothing to do about protecting women. And he defended it. And this was during that, when he was facing off against, he was fighting for the seat, fighting for the Senate seat. And he was going up against Herschel Walker. And remember that whole thing and his fight with Herschel Walker on that? So he was asked about this. I want you to listen to this audio. This was him talking to Joy Reid. And this is how he justifies it. Remember, he calls himself a quote-unquote reverend. Listen.
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It's one of the things that's on the ballot. And, you know, I get a lot of pushback from people who seem to think that they own the interpretation of the gospel. But I've been studying the scriptures my whole life. I'm committed to the faith. And as a pastor, I have a profound reverence for life. And as a pastor and a person of faith, I have a deep respect for choice. And I still think, as I've said time and time again, that a patient's room is too small and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government. But if we care about life, you know, black women are dying three to four times the rate of white women dying. And childbirth as a result of childbirth. And so if you care about life, we ought to find a way. That's a place where government could show up and address the obvious bias in our health care system. It's what Jesus would do. I think it's exactly what Jesus would do.
SPEAKER 09 :
Senator and Reverend.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. Wow. Wow. First off, I don't know where he gets that weird idea. I keep hearing that statistic, and I've seen it, you know, a number of different entities try to debunk it or put context on it. What he just said there is one of the most demonic things I think I've ever heard. Now, again, his position on abortion, I'm not exaggerating when I say up till the moment of birth. The language of the proposal that he had sponsored... was just that up until, I mean, quite literally as the baby is, is being delivered through the birth canal. That's demonic. Because you don't need – you should have made up your damn mind first off if you're an abortion supporter and you like to say safe and rare. Shouldn't you have made your mind up like, I don't know, a heck of a lot earlier? Actually, the question is shouldn't you have made your mind up when you were looking at what kind of prophylactic to use or what kind of birth control pill to use or what kind of million other things that you have at your disposal that you could have used or when you just engaged in the act anyway? So I'm not exaggerating when I say that he I mean, he believes in murder, murder. This is not just abortion. This is murder, murder, murder. Abortion is murder. But this is like the baby's alive and here on Earth. Let's kill it. Don't want to decide. I didn't want it. That's how far this and every Democrat senator. Agreed with it. They were all co-sponsoring it. So that's why I say the party has gotten so extreme on this. That's not just I'm not exaggerating. That's pretty extreme. And it's incredibly extreme. When you look at Democrat voters, they actually don't support it after 15 weeks. They don't support abortion after 15 weeks. So even by Democrat measures, that's super extreme for the left. But that's where every Democrat senator was. Not to his point that somehow it's what Jesus would have done. That's what Reid said. And Warnock goes, yeah, I think it's exactly what Jesus did. That's literally the opposite of what Jesus had said to do. In your womb, I knew you. Do not murder. I mean, it's pretty clear. And I just found that absolutely reprehensible. Even the devil can quote scripture. And the fact that Raphael Warnock can label himself a reverend is proof of that. The fact that he can just do this 30,000 foot, I'm going to cherry pick what I want to cite out of the Bible and not provide any context or just pretend that it affirms my worldview. It's demonic. And there is a great warning biblically against people like Raphael Warnock who are cosplaying as shepherds of the flock and misleading people, leading them astray. The Bible is very clear all throughout the New Testament. Have a millstone hang around your neck and thrown into the sea, the depths of the sea. If you cause one of these little ones to stumble, he wasn't just talking about children. He was talking about people new in faith. People were coming to Jesus. Wow. And there is a higher, there's a serious level of accountability for people in positions of shepherding. A high level of accountability. Wow. and a high penalty for it when you abuse your power and you mislead people. And that's exactly... Man, there is not anything rude or hateful that I could say about Raphael Warnock that is even going to compare to the penalty that awaits him upon his death. Because the good Lord above is... It's pretty clear. I guess he missed that part of Scripture. You know, I guess he missed that part of Scripture. Maybe it was when he was hitting on his wife or something. I don't know. Beating on her. I don't know. Maybe he was... He just didn't have time to read it.
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SPEAKER 07 :
On the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team, and we now have guidance coming from the state. And that guidance does say two different things. First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we are immediately to call the bomb squad of our county. And second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits.
SPEAKER 18 :
So if something falls out of the sky that people have seen, and some of these things are as big as an SUV, if that happens, you're to treat this more than a plane crash. It's treated like an attack on the homeland?
SPEAKER 07 :
That is correct, because they're not quite sure if there's a payload or not.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, what? They're not quite sure that it's a... Okay, I got concerns. I got concerns. Where's the good old boy network? Get them out here. Call them up. Because they need it. Okay, first off, greetings and salutations. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. I... So this is like a what came first, the chicken or the egg question. Does it seem like there's more drones flying out and around everywhere? Or is it that people are just paying attention to the fact that there are all of these drones flying out everywhere?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it's both. I think there is more and now more people are paying attention. I think it's both.
SPEAKER 17 :
So you think it goes both ways?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it does.
SPEAKER 17 :
Because, I mean... especially like in some of the airspace that I've seen them, they've said that they've been flying like near military bases. I mean, this is like restricted stuff, right? I mean, this is like restricted, you know, areas. So I've got concerns because I'm like, well, if you and I flew a drone over there, what would happen to us? Because you have to register them. That's the other thing. Like, are these not registered? And if they're not registered, like I was under the impression that, oh, if you don't register your stuff with the FAA or the appropriate agency, then, you know, you're going to get it shot out the sky. That's kind of what I was under the impression.
SPEAKER 12 :
Do you want a little morsel of how deep I got into the rabbit hole on this over the weekend?
SPEAKER 17 :
Is this what you did all weekend?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, not all weekend.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, so that's Kane for yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
I had a little, I may have bought more Reynolds wrap.
SPEAKER 17 :
Get into it. Aliens, right? Tell me.
SPEAKER 12 :
there was a rabbit hole that said that hey imagine these are you know obviously they're not shooting them down they're over our military bases it's near military bases it's clearly us you know up there with those faa lights and everything under that assumption there was a there was talk of radioactive material being shipped into the United States.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, that was one guy's, like... Now, hold on.
SPEAKER 12 :
That wasn't just one guy's.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 12 :
Why do you always do this? Okay, go ahead. Why do you always do this?
SPEAKER 17 :
Go on, go on, go on.
SPEAKER 12 :
So, they are drones at night. The only time you're going to fly at night, because as a drone, you're not going to see much unless you have special detection equipment, i.e., looking for radioactive signatures while in the air. So...
SPEAKER 17 :
that was one of the rabbit holes that i went down so saturday night you're you so you so because i saw that and it was this dude for those of you who are not following the drone thing like kane or ir i mean i'm not saying that i stayed up like you know till 1 30 in the morning reading about drone stuff but maybe i stayed up till 1 30 in the morning reading about drone stuff i don't know look at the time stamp with some of the audio i sent you yeah me neither Yeah, none of us did. But it's just, you know, I don't know.
SPEAKER 12 :
I wasn't able to verify what that guy's saying, the guy we're talking about.
SPEAKER 17 :
Because he was a guy who worked, wasn't he like, he worked in aerospace engineering or something like that. And it was like his, it was some rando's thought process on social media. And of course, the media sees a rando and they're like, it's a slow news cycle. We got to publish and print everything he's saying.
SPEAKER 11 :
That is true.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. So, you know, I mean, I'm just, you know, I'm just saying. So, again, welcome to the program. We've got, oh, my gosh, a lot for you today. It's Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast. You can also follow the radio program on the simulcast of the radio program. You can find that out. Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat set. Rumble. You can find us on X. All those good things. And we got Kentonji Brown Jackson on Broadway. We got Palace Intrigue. We got all kinds of stuff. It's the week before Christmas. Half of you are mentally checked out. I'll be real. Y'all are. Half of you are mentally checked out. And that's okay because it's the season. It is the season, right? So... We're going to get you set up as we roll into Christmas, all those good things, and get you all set up for the week. It's going to be our show the last week before Christmas. I'm going to warn you. It's weird because the news cycle is dry, except for like every time we do this, there are always one or two wild stories going into Christmas break. I said UFO. The drone thing. It's one of them. And I am upset because you guys know I'm obsessed with ancient aliens. I'm obsessed with aliens. One of my dream vacations is to get my photo pictured right outside the gate where after you go past it, they'll shoot you at Area 51. I planned a whole road trip from Vegas once in Shacho going all the way up the two hours that it would take to get to Shacho. uh, the area to Roswell and then the little truck stop outside and the little hotel and then all this. And you got, I know where the gravel road, I mean, I know all this. I'm totally on a government watch list. Listen to me. I sound like Charlie from always sunny in Philadelphia right now. Like his stalker wall. That's what I sound like. So. I know where the I mean, I'm obsessed, obsessed. So I'm like, I really desperately want this to be aliens, because if it's just us looking for radioactive stuff, that's super boring. Unless there's a kaiju somewhere in New Jersey. And that's what we're looking for. Because, you know, as you know, according to canon, canonically, kaijus came, they feast upon radioactive nuclear things. And so that would make sense. That's kind of a stretch. But here we are. It's 2024. You know, just saying. So we got a lot. I did say Ketanji Brown-Jackson on. How do you guys send me? What in the world? How do you guys send stuff this fast? Already, I got a comment like, what do you mean Ketanji Brown-Jackson's Supreme Court on Broadway? Yes, we'll get to that. That was quick. We'll get to it. So as we got a lot of stuff to hit, just trust. All right, so first up, like we said, we've been talking about all this drone stuff. There was one. Listen to this. We played three coming in, right? That was audio 7x3? Okay, play three. This is Channel 7, ABC affiliate. It's a glowing orb on camera in the New Jersey sky.
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You know, when things like this are happening, it seems everyone starts to look up, like my crew and I have been here in Mendham recording this video that you're looking at right now. We have no idea what it is, if it's a natural phenomenon, because it could be. But this is why so many municipalities are now asking people to reach out and send their videos to them or to experts who might be able to sort out what they're seeing in the skies. But I guarantee there are so many people looking up and making those recordings because this
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So for those of you who are not watching the simulcast of the radio program, so back in the day, it's still there, it's called the Magic House, it's in Kirkwood. Right? First neighborhood I lived in after I moved out of my house. And they had this thing, and it was, what came, what was it? It was like the static electricity ball where you touched it and your hair would stand up. And everybody would touch it, and they would get their photo taken, and you'd put it on a pin saying, I visited the Magic House. Right? So... It looks like they sent that up into the air over Jersey. That's what it looks like. It looks like the Magic House orb completely. Juan says it looks like a lens flare. Or, guys, the obvious answer here, it's aliens. Just saying. Gotta be. Gotta be aliens. See, you all are going to be surprised when, like, the saucer lands, when they finally feel safe enough to land and are... our high crime planet, and when they get out and they're like, who is your leader? Take us to your leader. You all are going to be surprised. Your girl's not. I'm just going to be like, I expected this. I saw it coming. Sup, aliens? You know, don't laser nuke us, bro. I can't breathe. You know, that's... just it's just so much more interesting if it's aliens if it's just like basic government stuff how long have we lived with basic government conspiracy theories right that go nowhere show us some aliens just saying all right so i mean there's a lot i mean they so there's okay here's a military drone expert he says he knows in audio somebody seven what is happening here this is Oh, this is the guy. Okay. This is the rando. So I thought this is the rando that's okay. All right. This is the rando that was on X who is taught. I don't know. Maybe it's an interesting theory. Just go ahead and listen.
SPEAKER 04 :
making this video because i have figured out this is a different guy situation is i was in the army active duty i worked on drones i was a maintenance nco for some surveillance drones and before that i worked on the apache the kiowa i know aviation so what people are not noticing is that you have two separate types of drones and two separate types of things in the air right now First off, the drones that you see with flight lights or anti-collision lights or the things that the FAA requires, those are drones that are probably operated by the United States government. Now, the orbs that you've been seeing on the Internet, that is the reason why all those drones are up there. And that is also why the government isn't telling you what's going on. And that's because the drones that you see that look like regular aircraft, those drones are up there to get some information on the actual orbs. Yeah, it's aliens.
SPEAKER 17 :
It's aliens. It's all aliens. I don't care what this guy. You know what? I'm also not a military expert, but I am an expert in stuff I see in the sky. Like I can look up and I'm like, that's a bird. That's the sun. That's the moon. That's a cloud. That's a damn alien. I can look right up and see it. That's my expertise. Take it or leave it. Take it or leave it. I will say this News Nation reporter, Audio Sunbite 8, was like, he said that his entire view of this changed because he witnessed 50 of them. You need to watch this. 50 of them flying into the Garden State from the Atlantic. Watch this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hi, Elizabeth. Well, I got to be honest here. You know, when this story first came out a few weeks ago, as a resident of New Jersey, as a journalist, I didn't pay it much credence. I thought it would turn out to be a bunch of pranksters and this would all be over by now. The experience I had last night, however, changed the way I feel about this story completely. What I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined.
SPEAKER 17 :
More sophisticated. Than he ever imagined. There's there's video and there there are there are different videos and different photographs of like a whole herd of them. I don't know what you call like if it's a bunch of crows, it's a murder of crows. Right. I don't know what you just a bunch of bunch of drones. A buttload of drones. How about that? It's an actual measurement. Symmetric system. So there was video to show them all coming in from the Atlantic. And that was kind of creepy, right? That was a little creepy. But then I'm like, how did you get that footage? Did you send a drone up? How many of that is just drones watching for drones? And then how many of them are the UAPs? That's the other thing. Like, I don't want to, but it is weird, but we don't have any questions from the government. I do have more answers. I do have more. So we got the drones. We're going to come back to this. We also, a couple other things before we, I can't believe, really already the first segment? Ketanji Brown-Jackson was on Broadway in And Juliet, a queer twist on Romeo and Juliet. Why couldn't you just write your own story? Why do you have to appropriate Romeo and Juliet? Like, why do we got to do this stuff? It looks weird, guys. I think it's beneath the dignity of a Supreme Court justice to play theater kid. Right. We got to talk more about this because she's on stage. And she said that she wanted to, I guess, check the box of being the first black female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage. That's like the weirdest thing. want ever right it's like i would like to be the first person to wear two shoes on my left foot at the same time i you know it's why really weird stuff we're going to come back to this we got a lot in addition to that we've got the palace intrigue the cabinet picks we're going to talk about the sec def drama a lot more and uh our partners over at burn a gun the non-firearm firearm And it's always good to diversify your self-defense arsenal because, you know, I would love to. I carry all the time and I have zero problem using lethal force. You come at me, UFA, UFO. That's kind of how I look at it. But I know that there are areas that are gun-free zones or gun-free buildings, private property or whatever it is. And sometimes, you know, you don't have the luxury of declining to go there. Maybe you got to go there as part of your job, but you also don't want to be a statistic. This is where burn a gun comes in. Stun guns, regular ones, are restricted to like one or two shots. Burna's most popular model, the Burna SD, has a five round capacity and shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. They have a whole carry bundle that you can get. This is a great holiday gift, too, by the way. You can get defense spray. They have a launcher carry bundle. They got all kinds of stuff. But it provides to you instant readiness, no recoil, easy target acquisition. It's legal in all 50 states. No background checks, no permits. They can ship it right to your front porch and it doesn't care about gun-free zone signs. It's an effective deterrent. And it's another option that you can have for self-defense, particularly when the state's trying to deny you or maybe a property owner wants to deny you. You can visit Byrna.com slash Dana and get 10% off your purchase. That's Byrna.com slash Dana for 10% off.
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Today in why we need to beat more A-double snakes, spare the rod and spoil the child, massive brawl involving 100-plus Chicago students, three school floors, and it left four police officers injured. This is crazy. It was a Chicago high school. The police department said five people were arrested per ABC7. They didn't provide any details, but apparently... It involved like 14 and 15 year olds. It escalated into a brawl between, I mean, it started between girls. And then it just expanded into like a multi-floor brawl. And then everybody started fighting. It was a Southside High School. Students were in handcuffs. 100 students were fighting on three different floors. They had to use mace. It was just going crazy. And they put the building on lockdown. That's great. I mean, that's, you know, my gosh. Come on, parents. Come on, parents. We got to get your kids in check here. Chris Rock stunned the SNL. Apparently it was called one of the funniest monologues in the past 50 years. Chris Rock on SNL. I didn't watch SNL because I don't think anybody watches SNL except their families and like 90 year olds. And they said that he apparently had a super brutal Bill Clinton dig and was savaging, absolutely savaging, like people who irrationally hate, not dislike or disagree with, but irrationally hate Trump. I'm going to have to watch it because it sounds very interesting. Jamie Foxx says he got hit in the mouth with a glass during a dinner altercation and he needed stitches. Man, this man has been going through it, like a stroke and then now this. Apparently people were being rude and vulgar. And then he asked them to stop because his family was present. And then somebody at the table threw glass that hit him in the face. And so the cops are involved, stitches, et cetera. We've got a lot more to get into. The economy. We got Trump's remarks. UAP's the sec def stuff. Stick with us. Our partners over at Preborn. Great organization that's out there saving lives right and left. And they're meeting with mothers. And they're helping them as these mothers are facing an unexpected pregnancy. unplanned pregnancy I should say and a lot of people are searching for hope and a lot of people feel like this is that's you know a lot of women they think that that's their last resort and it's not and that's what pre-born ministry steps in to help with they meet these women they introduce them to their babies ultrasounds they listen to the heartbeat when that happens studies shown that a child's chance of surviving doubles at that point but that's not all they partner with these women up until the toddler years making sure that these families get the best start. And that just goes so much. That's exactly what is needed. They steward these women. They help this new life. And they're able to do it because of your generous donations. Save a life this Christmas. It starts at just $28. I mean, by donating that amount, you can help support women and babies in need and provide vital care and resources. You can make even a larger, life-changing donation, $5,000, $10,000, $15,000. You can use that to save countless babies, maximize your year-end tax deduction. It's doubled with a special matching grant as well, so your gift will have double the impact. Any donation matters. So if you want to know how to donate, it's simple and easy. You just dial pound or 4millennials, hashtag pound. Pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250, keyword baby. You can also visit preborn.com slash Dana to donate online. Every contribution counts. Pound 250, say the keyword baby, preborn.com slash Dana.
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Mr. President. Yes, please.
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Do you expect Ron DeVantis to appoint Laura Trump to sign a Marco Rubio deal?
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No, I don't. I probably don't, but I don't know. Ron's doing a good job. That's his choice. Nothing to do with me. Laura's unbelievable. I mean, she was incredible. The job she did at the RNC as chairman, along with Michael Watley, the combination. But I can just speak for Laura. She is so highly respected by women. I mean, even her workout routines are through the roof. She lifts 150 pounds. I don't know how the hell she does it. She's a bad example for men and women's sports. I wouldn't be able to beat her, I don't believe. I'd try like hell. But no, she's an incredible woman. You know, it's funny. People oftentimes talk about nepotism. I never had... When I put her there, people said, how did you get her to do it? You know, she could have run for the Senate in North Carolina. Ted Budd would be the first to say. And he wouldn't have run. Nobody would have run. And she just said, no, I want to really focus on my children. When the election... And my family. She has a great family. When the election... Started getting closer. I asked her, would she go to Washington and work on the, you know, as chairman of the committee along with Michael Watley. And they did such an unbelievable job, especially on cheating. They stopped it. Or at least they stymied it. Too big to rig. And we won in a landslide. You know, we won tremendously. She did an amazing job. Now Ron is going to have to make, because Marco has been really a star already. And we haven't started, but, you know, we see signs of, from some people, very early, we see signs of stardom. And Marco has done incredibly well. he's sort of born for it. It was such an easy decision. The Marco decision was such an easy, but he leaves a vacancy in Florida and Ron's going to have to make that decision and he'll make the right decision. I also know that Laura's got so many other things. I mean, she's got so many other things.
SPEAKER 17 :
So this was a really good soundbite from a POTUS elect just actually a little bit ago. This was right before I, we came out on air and he was asked about, uh, this, uh, possibility of Lara Trump being put in Marco Rubio Senate seat, which we've talked a lot about. And Trump just gave the answer right there. He also mentioned that she could go to North Carolina. And, you know, really perform well if she were to challenge, you know, Tom Tillis, who is the Republican senator there in North Carolina. And I think that that's a more realistic approach because it's her home state. You know, she was there and then she was in New York and that's where and she's only just moved to Florida. That makes the most sense. Welcome back to the program. Bottom of the first hour, Dana Lash with you. There was a lot of discussion about this over the weekend because the Army-Navy game. And there were there was this do we have this Maggie Haberman quote? I sent this in. I know we have it. What? What? What? Fifty million and twenty four that. OK, that one. Can we play this? Because so in conjunction with what Trump just said, this is what was really kicking off a lot of this. The rumor mill and the rumor mongering.
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Listen, the president elect Trump had grown tired of hearing all the negative stories about him and was poised to move on. But what's changed his mind?
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Sure, John, I think it's still true that he was tired and is tired of negative stories, and what changed was a couple of things. One was he could not find, Trump could not find a single person in his orbit or even really outside of it who liked this idea of making Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, the Defense Secretary choice. And it was not, you know, we're going to drop Hegseth and going to look for a bunch of other people. It was Hegseth or DeSantis at that point. And so Trump was persuaded, also after a call from Pete Hegseth, to let Hegseth go out and see if he could fight his way past some of these stories.
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Now that actually is more in line with kind of how Trump approaches stuff if you look back at the Kavanaugh thing. But I mentioned this. I saw this over the weekend. And I know a lot of people don't like Maggie Haberman. And I don't need to sit here and explain having been busting my ass for a decade and a half going after the mainstream press. I don't have to explain my thoughts on her or legacy press. But here's one thing that I do want to point out. And there's a lot of leaks going on. I have a lot of friends who work actually in his inner circle, in POTUS Elect's inner circle. I have a lot of friends who work with various, I mean, when you've been in broadcasting and in political commentary for a long time, you meet a lot of different people. You develop associates. Some are associates, some are friends. Some are just people that you've met a couple of times. But I've heard a lot of chatter from a lot of people who are A, have no reason to make it up, and B, they're known for chatter. And I've been hearing this for like a couple of weeks now. The... The issue here is that there are some operatives that that are in Trump's orbit that are very keen to maintain influence. So there's there are people that always try to one up each other. And this was something that plagued his first administration. And by the way, because I have to set this as an aside, because the right has some of the right has adopted some of the personality traits of the left and that we can't have honest conversations about anything without people defecating their britches. You're not passing judgment on Trump, but what I'm telling you is what we've all seen, is what we've all observed. We saw this in the first administration. There were people who were leaking. You would have people try to – they were competing. They would try to get one up on each other, and it's like they would leak stories because they thought it would put them on a better track. to professionally ascend. And Trump's management style is somewhat loose. And I've known Trump personally for over a decade. His management style is very loose. And he likes people to work hard and people will compete against each other. And that's one of the things that's a management style that he has. You got to make sure you're controlling your circle. However, so these are some of these are operatives that are really trying to maintain influence because all this is this whole thing with Hegseth and DeSantis and all this stuff. And I know both of them. I like both of them. This is all a proxy war from influencers who are trying to maintain their influence in four years when Trump leaves office. This it's a proxy war for that. That's all this is. These are operatives who are trying to power jockey. That's exactly because those are the people who are talking. Those are the ones who are chattering. Someone leaked this to her. She didn't just Maggie Haberman might be a hack, but she didn't just like pull this out of her backside. There are people in his circle. Some of them are repeat offenders at leaking to legacy press. And we saw this happen in the first term. That his first term. You can't deny it. You don't have to. You don't have to dislike Trump to acknowledge this. You can love Trump and you can still acknowledge that there were people who leaked like hell in his first administration. It's always been a problem. And I think he's gotten rid of a lot of them, but I think some of them are still there because some of the stuff is getting leaked out. She's not the first person to say this. I have been hearing this chatter for three weeks. I've been hearing it circulate. It has been written in like mentioned in little Politico pieces here and there. And I knew people were building up to it. And I wanted to see what because sometimes you can tell who's leaking by the reporter that says this stuff on news. Right. So I'm watching this. She's not saying anything that I've not heard for like literally two and a half, three weeks. And it's not just me. Everyone who's in commentary, because we are nerds. We have to watch this for our living. Like you have a living. And then you also got to keep a roof over your head. You got to spend time with your family. You're busy. You don't want to play in the sandbox of this political petty, you know, palace intrigue. That's what I do. I got to do that. It's part of my job. And I enjoy it. So we've been all seeing this for a while and it and it built up. So she's not just making something up. I know people are mad at her. And granted, there's a million things you can be mad at her for. This ain't one of them. She's just repeating stuff that's been leaked out there for the past couple of weeks now because people thought. that it would be advantageous for them. There are people who are, and by proxy war, I mean, and I don't even know why we're focusing on this right now. It's the dumbest thing ever. But there are operatives who are new to the game of being an operative who think that they have to have their proxy battle for 28 now. They think that this is a proxy between Vance and DeSantis. And they think that if they have Hegseth and SecDef, then they can keep DeSantis out because SecDef is a very, very powerful role. I mean, I know vice president is the vice president, but SecDef actually has more weight and influence. It's the most powerful cabinet position you can have. From what I was told, the offer was made twice. It was on the table. And I think DeSantis wanted to finish out Florida and keep that commitment to Florida and finish out what he was elected to do. Not like it was a rejection or something like that of Trump. But that was just kind of, you know, and I get that there are people who want to do that, you know, and they think that, well, maybe later will be a better time. I get it. But. It doesn't make any sense for these operatives to play this game right now. And the reason I say that is because we got to hit the ground running in January. What have I been saying? All gas, no brakes. Trump has two years before midterms. Actually, if you want to be really frank about it or really precise, a year and a half before the midterm cycle kicks off. He has got to outmaneuver all of these bureaucrats that have been entrenched in D.C. for longer than he's been interested in politics. And to do that, he's got to have speed and he has to have everybody in their position ready to rock. They got to blast through confirmation hearings and get to it. Because in order to get things done, speed is his main weapon right now. That is his biggest advantage. The longer he waits, if he drags his feet, if things get bogged down in palace entry, guess what? The likelihood of accomplishing the agenda you voted for begins to dissipate. So that's why I get aggravated when I see these little petty wars like this. And that's what this is. It is an operative battle. It's people who are trying to shore up Their advantage in 28, maintain influence, and they're using this as a one-sided proxy war because I don't think that DeSantis is engaged in it. I think it's just these operatives that are having this proxy war. They're not doing their boss any favors. If you want to have a discussion about who's best facilitating his agenda, it's not by doing this. It's not by leaking to members of the press. And it's not by doing all this palace intrigue. He's been meeting with people to fill cabinet positions. He's been cementing policy. You have to have people in your inner circle that you can trust to not get involved in this stuff. He needs the assistance to hit the ground full speed, not with any of this stuff. And so I said, I'm like, all this reads, and this is how I view it too. It looks like his insiders are questioning his judgment and authority. If you're the inner circle and you're creating distracting headlines for the boss, you're not on the same team as the boss for that moment. You're questioning his authority and you're undermining what he's trying to do. These palace entry games do no favors for our side. You've got to secure these positions. Getting bogged down in all this is fruitless. Loose lips sink ships, right? What's one of the best movies that's ever been made, Kane? It's The Godfather. And do you guys remember what Vito Corleone... What he told Sonny when they were sitting at that meeting, right? Remember that? They're sitting at a meeting. He's talking to Salazzo. And Salazzo's wanting to get into the drugs game, right? And he brings this offer to Vito Corleone. Vito's like, hey, you know, drugs is not like other, you know, it's not like gambling. It's not like women. He goes, and he's talking about the corrupt cops on his payroll. He's like, you know, they'll look the other way for that, but drugs is something different. He's like, that's why I must decline. Because they wanted Vito Corleone's protection and access to his political capital. And he declined. So that kicked off this war. Salazzo, you know, they all fired back. And Sonny in this meeting voiced his opinion. And it was a little bit challenging to what Vito Corleone was saying. So afterwards, Vito looks at Sonny. And he gives him advice and he says, never, ever, ever tell anybody outside of the family what you're thinking again. Now, I'm not saying you got to be like the godfather, but I'm saying that's a rule that any political group should have. And that's the rule that Trump's insiders need to follow. You don't tell people outside your circle what you're thinking. You don't leak to the press like this. You don't speak against the family and the press. You got to run it like that. And if you're not running it like that, you're not running with the team. You're challenging your boss. You're questioning his authority and you're undermining his agenda. Stop it because that's not what we voted for. We don't vote for you. We voted for him. Some of these operatives need a little bit humility and they need to check themselves. They're getting a little too ahead on their skis here. We got a lot more on the way as we roll towards conclusion of this first hour. If you're looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust, all family pharmacy has you covered. 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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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Female empowerment! Sick! I like it too! I think what I like about it is that I am having a very strongly negative reaction to it. Like I hate it. Which makes me think it must be brilliant.
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oh my gosh okay so that was Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court Justice who said she wanted to be the first black Supreme Court Justice to be on Broadway I don't think there's been any Supreme Court Justice that's been on Broadway so you don't even need the black asterisk on it you don't even need that extra check box on it why I just I don't think I don't think you need to debase yourself it just seems now don't get mad at me Don't get mad at me because I'm sure you guys don't like Warhammer. So, you know, you don't like it. So I don't like theater. We can not like different things, right? It's okay. I don't like musicals. I hate musicals to death. Actually to death. If my hate could manifest as a fatal weapon, it would be. Because I cannot suspend my disbelief. It's very uncomfortable. I'm not a theater person. I do like orchestras and I like operas and things like that. I'm just not a theater person. Or as Kane notes, I love the theater of war. I like that more than like the theater theater, which also is its own war. And I blame, first off, I blame Nana because the very first thing she ever took me to was cats. Don't even know what the hell, I don't know what is happening. I still don't know. It was a bunch of furries and they sang sad songs. That's all I know. And then the second thing I was made to go to was rent. And that was about, and I said this 15 years ago, it was about AIDS and jazz hands. And then, yeah, so that's, I don't know. So that's where I just why is she doing this? Is it weird? Does it make you I mean, she's a Supreme Court justice. Does it feel like it's beneath the dignity of that illustrious position? Because I feel like it does. Right. It's weird. And was she overacting? Yes. Was it good? No. I don't know. Just doesn't do any favors for theater. Second hour on the way. Stick with us. We're partners over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there. Your money does not go towards... the things that you vote against. And that's incredibly important when you're talking about spending your money and everything that you need to be worried about in this Biden economy up until January, guys. But they have an Every Friday Matters special, which is ongoing. It's a limited time offer, though, so while supplies last, where you can get a free smartphone when you make the switch. And you can take advantage of this Every Friday Matters special. It's for a limited time. When you switch your service, you can get a brand new smartphone. And that's the part of their Every Friday Matters special. It's a great way to enjoy their nationwide coverage on all three major networks, support what matters, and work with their U.S.-based customer service team. So it's a free smartphone. Offers eligible only with promo code FRIDAY. Limited time offer until supplies run out. Terms and conditions apply. So make the switch today at patriotmobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT.
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But now we ordered an additional 200 miles of wall. It's very expensive. And now it's about double the price of what it would have been six years ago. And the administration is trying to sell it for $0.05 on the dollar, knowing that we're getting ready to put it up. And what they're doing is really an act. It's almost a criminal act. They know we're going to use it. If we don't have it, we're going to have to rebuild it. And it'll cost double what it cost years ago. And that's hundreds of millions of dollars because you're talking about a lot of a lot of wall.
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Well, and he's he's right. This is that story that we had from last week that we were discussing how Biden was they're selling off parts of the border wall that we bought and paid for for like nothing. What's to stop us from buying it again with our money? Is that a tax write-off? I feel like it should be. I feel like if you're doing anything for the betterment of the public with your own private money, it should be a tax write-off. Anything. Anything. That's what it feels like. We shouldn't have to pay it in the first place, but I digress. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour here on Monday. That's the week before Christmas. It's Christmas Eve week. And we're here at the top of our second hour. Chats at Rumble. 347 is the simulcast of the radio program. You can listen to the radio program on a station terrestrially in your state. They... I mean, it's... Kind of weird that you would sell it. What would you even use that for, Cain? Could you scrap it? You could. I'm just trying to figure out why anybody would buy it.
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You'd probably scrap it for even more than just pennies on the dollar.
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Yeah. That's just so wasteful and dumb. We're just going to go right on this wall that you all voted for. You voted for the wall. You wanted it. I think this was the first I've heard Trump mention it in a while. So I'm glad he mentioned it because it's a no, we can't have this. I'm not going to be selling off the stuff that we already purchased. This is not a buyback program for walls. You know, if they're selling it off, they need to give us money. And I think we should be able to dictate the price. And then we should. But really, ultimately, we should just erect it down there. That's just pretty, pretty simple. The other big debacle for the Biden administration. Have you seen? Well, first off. You saw the story. This was I think it was last year when we first started talking about it. Excuse me. The EV, the electric delivery trucks that the administration wanted for like the post office. Right. And the post office, which they got more money, right, Cain? They got more money, and I don't know why, for what purpose. They got more money, and they've been running a deficit, and they needed, I don't know. I don't know what they spend their money on. So they had this proposal for electric vehicles for the post office. They were going to retrofit the entire fleet, right? And the postal service, it was all going to be electric delivery vehicles. And I'm sure you're going to be very shocked to learn that this has not been successful. I mean, they really haven't done anything. They promised all this stuff on EVs, like all the electric charging stations and everything else. But they've not done anything with it. And I'm wondering if the DEI stuff is to blame for this as much as it was for those charging stations. Remember? The charging station debacle was the restrictions on who they could work with, who the government could work with and who Department of Transportation and who they couldn't. So if you were going to be a contractor and you were going to accept a job building one of those charging stations, you had to be like X, like X percent of your company had to be minority. It had to be like what minority owned. You had to have a translator. You had to do parties in your community, like block parties and stuff. It was the dumbest stuff I've ever seen. So bad that even some of the leftists working in the Department of Transportation were discussing how stupid all of this was and how it was impeding their ability to actually get anything built because they only built like seven, I think. And so now there's this EV bus manufacturer that and pull this up. It's being called Biden's Solyndra. It's where Jennifer Granholm, she served on the board of this company, Proterra. Ever hear of it? Probably not. It's an EV transport company. Jennifer Granholm was on the board and they got a lot of taxpayer dollars. They were heavily subsidized, heavily subsidized. And He was pushing, you know, this retrofitting of all the post offices vehicles. Well, they waited for the close of trading last. This is back in what, August? They waited for the close of trading and they went under. And now they're, I mean, they are really going under. This whole thing is belly up. It's belly up. There hasn't been a lot of discussion about it. And this was one of the companies that Poot Booty Juice had celebrated. It was a company that Joe Biden had talked a lot about. It was, you know, I mean, it's they had. Oh, I said seven charge. I'm sorry. Eight EV charging stations. Yeah. And this was after they spent eight billion dollars on this. So that's a billion dollars per charging station, basically. Wow. Wow. And so part of their spending spree in the Inflation Reduction Act was to revamp these fleets. They wanted 60,000 new EV postal trucks. It was going to be called the NGDVs, the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle. And it was a defense contractor and they were going to do this stuff. And it was just like, you know, the Biden Solyndra. Now, everything that they touch just turns, as Trump said, to excrement. So they're not doing... They got... By the way, do you know they only have a dozen trucks. The cost per vehicle was like $80,000. And it was like, what, $32 million that they had set aside for these vehicles. Where is Doge? They can't start recommending stuff fast enough. Here's a story. I'm going to make sure I get this right. This was from... red state has this it says one of the sources from inside the company this is a legitimate quote quote this is the bottom line we don't know how to make a damn truck end quote but you got a big old contract to make ev trucks what so yeah how unbelievable is this It's another disaster from Biden. Switching gears, there's some breaking news that's coming out of Wisconsin, I believe. The Abundant Life School. Apparently there was a shooting that took place. The perpetrator is down, according to local media. It was Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. The Madison police are investigating. It was reported just before 11 a.m. Multiple injuries. They've closed all the roads off and they think. One of the reports apparently from sources in the school, they were saying that it could have potentially been a student. I want to wait for law enforcement on that. I don't want to just speculate. But the perpetrator is down. And five apparently were shot, at least five people. That's all that's been confirmed at this point. No fatalities have been reported yet. But that's the latest. And they're going to be staging a press conference today. on that and that's at the abundant life christian school in madison wisconsin it's a school where obviously you have students all the way from kindergarten through the 12th grade i don't know what particular campus or if it's all one campus i i don't know they have 230 k through 12 students and it's a 28 acre campus uh it is uh a city it's a with a city church and a campus for kids uh but i was in madison wisconsin And so police were saying that it's still an active and ongoing investigation. So obviously everything's locked down. You're not going to get close to the school. They have everything blocked off. The media is staging at a nearby gas station. But apparently, you know, someone busted into the school and was able to open fire. And we don't have anything from law enforcement. I'm sure we will when they do stage press avail. I'm sure they're going to give information about the perpetrator, especially considering the perpetrator is down. So and I don't know what that means. I don't know if that means, you know, neutralized in a fatal way or non fatal way. But that's that's some of the latest and we'll bring more information as we get it. But as you know, with these things, because we've been on air and it's rare, but. You know, it's still rare, one too many. I'm not going to speculate. I'm not going to rush to be first on because a lot, 85% of those times it's wrong. And people like to share, they like to get out there and, you know, it's a turns into like a new cycle frenzy. So I only want to kind of discuss the stuff that's been confirmed. So I know that there have been a few things floating around about the perpetrator, but nothing's been confirmed by law enforcement. And I've even seen a couple of contradictory things to it. So when we get more information, I'll share that with you. But but the perpetrator. is uh is is they are saying that that person is down now i have not seen any uh local media law enforcement or u.s media discuss any kind of fatalities at this point so uh but we'll bring you all the latest with that but that's and i and i'm sure because as usually is the case unfortunately with these tragedies is you always have the left that wants to rush out there and start talking about how can we punish the law abiding and the innocent for the actions of a murderer. And I'm sure that there's they're not going to waste any time doing that with this. But like I said, we'll bring you any any information as we get it. But it is still I don't I don't I don't know, like I it's a Christian school. So you know where my thoughts immediately went. Because what happened the last time there was a shooting at a Christian school? It was targeted. It was a member of Trans-Tifa. And it was a woman who wanted to be a man, and she got into the school, and she started shooting children. And she should never have been armed. I don't know if that's the case here, but it just seems like in a lot of these incidents as of lately, it's been a Trans-Tifa member. So I'm saying just I'll bring you I'll bring you confirmed information as we get up. A police are going to be they're going to be staging a press conference. And maybe we'll get I would imagine we're going to learn a little bit more about the perpetrator when they do. So we're going to follow up with that. We have headlines on the way. Let me just tell you what else we have on the rundown. First off, we've got the settlement, the defamation settlement between ABC and. And Trump, because it was defamation. Now, the media is very upset. They're saying that Trump is weaponizing. He's going after the media already, except he wasn't. I mean, they said that he was a rapist and the actual court documentation. Lorraine's written tons about this, by the way, over at Substack. And the actual court documentation, they reject the rape aspect of it. So and we'll dive into that. It's a weird it's it's nuance that's important because that's why they got their liable. So and they they paid because they didn't want to go through discovery. They paid 15 million dollars so they could avoid discovery. So we'll dive into all of that here coming up as we move towards the bottom of this second hour discussion. Our partners who help make it so ready-wise, they're always ready, even if you're not. Free and fast shipping on most orders. This is premium survival food, and they have an array of product choices to meet every budget. They have an emergency one-month supply. They have a three-month emergency food supply. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So, I wanted to, there's two, I wanted to get this story. It's from the hill that we had last segment saved over. Millionaire boomers are less likely to share their wealth, according to a study, so it's their money. And who is you? 45% of wealthy boomers, they say, intend to enjoy their fortunes while alive. And they said that millennials plan to share their fortune. Good job for you. You can't take it when you kick the bucket. So what are you doing? Like, you know, who cares? Who cares? They said millionaires, millionaire millennials and Gen Xers are twice as more likely as boomers to prioritize sharing. I don't share. First off, I didn't even teach my kids to share. Do you know why? Because it is all about mental conditioning for socialism. And I think it's overrated. If you want to play with the toy that my kid has at the playground, buy your own damn toy for your kid. I don't care how mean it sounds. I don't do that. I'm all about kindness, but I don't believe in this forced idea of sharing. You don't have to share your wealth unless you want to, because forced charity is just resentment and action. And it is not anything biblical or anything or kind. That's all it is. So cry harder. Let's see here. Apple is taking heat over a like a false AI generated news alert. Luigi Mangione had shot. It was apparently like a fake thing that went out. I could have probably said that's false, you know, looking at it. He hired a powerhouse attorney. Nobody who makes the moves that he's made is going to, no. An open AI whistleblower was found dead. Dead in their San Francisco apartment. Yeah, he was blowing the whistle on AI and there was a ton of lawsuits over its business model. The 26-year-old, I'm sure it was just from old age, right? I'm sure it was just totally... I don't know. He accused OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT. All kinds of lawsuits were filed. The medical examiner has not released his cause of death, but they said, well, currently there's no evidence of foul play. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Apple plans thinner foldable iPhones to revive growth because they've been plateauing. That will happen when you release basically the same phone every other year, I got to say. I got the new phone. I don't think you need to get the new phone. If you got the 15, it's fine. The 16 does not any. I mean, the camera's not bad. I think the cameras have gotten worse. Am I the only person who thinks that? I think the photos actually are worse. Yeah, I do. I actually do. But they said that they're going to change and they want to revive growth because they've only done drip, drip incremental upgrades over the years. So now they want to introduce a super thin iPhone that you can fold in half. I might be interested. You know, I like gadgets. Let's see. Hawaii's population continues to decline as more people move to California. And you want to know why? Because the high taxes, the insane cost of living and the incessant Democrat leadership has ruined everything. That's why. That's why. And then they go to another state that has just the same thing. A passenger stood for a seven hour flight and a lot of people were talking about it. It was a seven hour flight and they said she wouldn't sit down. They said that she stood in the aisle for the entire flight. Maybe she had just, you know, had surgery or was uncomfortable or has deep vein thrombosis or something. She didn't bother anybody. She moved out of the way when she needed to. Stick with us. We've got more in store. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Black Rifle Coffee. The only coffee worth drinking because everything else is commie swill. Black Rifle Coffee has a new roast. Their Freedom Roast. It's what the founders would have drank. Would have drunk. Would have drank. They would have drank it. Totally. 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So the Freedom Roast, Black Rifle Coffee, taste the other Top Shelf Roast as well. Whatever you decide, though, you get 20% off with Code Dana. 20% off using Code Dana at BlackRifleCoffee.com. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. We're at the bottom of this second hour. You can listen coast to coast as well. So we're getting more. There was a very short briefing that was it was South Central Wisconsin. The police chief, Sean Barnes. said that was talking about the school shooting that just took place at a Christian school. We're getting more information about it now. It was a private Christian school, Abundant Life Christian in Madison, Wisconsin. And just shortly after, actually right before 11, it was 1057, from what the police chief said, that they responded to the reports of the shooting. They found multiple victims. And it was a juvenile who appeared to be responsible. That juvenile, who they say appears to be responsible, is deceased. Seven transported. Originally, they said three fatalities, including the killer. I never include the killer. So two fatalities. But then I read that apparently they had two other victims that just passed. So now five... total fatalities. If you include the killer, I would say four total fatalities and nothing reported about the type of weapon used, anything like that. The ATF is on scene and they're going to be probably after we're off air, they're going to have another press conference with more updates. They also have five wounded as well. So we don't really have any we don't know anything about the victims. We just we don't know how many were students or how many of them were staff. We don't know anything about that. But the police did say that. It looks as though the perpetrator, the killer, was a juvenile and that the perpetrator is deceased. So they are down. And I don't know if that's because they killed themselves or the police did it. We're going to get more information about that. But like I said, this was at Abundant Life Christian School, private Christian school. And they are... working still the whole area shut down and they're working still to make sure the area is contained etc so that's that's all we know at this point like I said we don't really know a whole lot more but that's that is what we what we do know at this point and the and again and looking at some of this that's in Wisconsin it was about what 1057 I think has been police so that they were called And they have four fatalities, five if you include the killer, and they have five injured as well. That's number seven now. Is it now seven? Yeah. Okay. So now it's... Seven injured now. So the the wounded is the wounded being reported. They said up to 12 may have been injured, but they're now confirming police are confirming that there were seven. Now, it's a smaller school, but it's kindergarten through 12th grade that attend the school. And so there are police are saying that. And again, four killed. The killer is not included in that number. So that's why I don't say five, because I don't include the killer. So four, we only include innocent victims. So four fatalities, four innocents. And that is multiple injuries. And they said that they confirmed, again, they confirmed the injuries. I think of what, what did you say, seven now? Seven injuries? On the roads are still all blocked off. And we don't know anything about the perpetrator. We don't know anything about the weapon used. Nothing, nothing about that. And, you know, as we get it from as we get it confirmed, we'll share it with you. But I would imagine that we won't know anything else about it until I think everything else is going to be speculation until you get confirmation from law enforcement. And that press conference isn't expected to happen until I think it's two thirty central. So it'll be after we're off air. But very I mean, it's incredibly I mean, it's just horrifying. It's absolutely horrifying. We don't know anything about the perpetrator, but a juvenile in possession. So I'm already hearing I'm already thinking that this is, you know, obviously, depending on I don't know what the type of weapon used was. But, you know, if they were a juvenile, I don't know what grade they were in. If it was a teenager, if it was an under 18, that might be. Might be someone who is prohibited to possess, depending on some of the other factors. So we'll get that information to you as we get it. And I want to make sure that it's confirmed information and not just speculation. So we'll have all of that for you. But that was Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. It's incredibly unfortunate. Loss of life is always incredibly unfortunate. Speaking of loss of life and several other things, I wanted to touch on this audio. that I... It's the Raphael Warnock interview. This interview that Raphael Warnock gave, which was... pretty wild. He was speaking about abortion. Now, if you remember, Raphael Warnock has always been very, very far left, right? Very, very far left. A huge time, a huge abortion supporter. And he had given this interview where he said he supports abortion because it's what Jesus would have done. I put this up on Facebook and a lot of you lost your minds deservedly. He was talking with MSNBC and he was on her program this past week and he's – and now we know that he's further on the left because – or all the – I mean we know where he stands on abortion and we know that he's – And been supportive of it up till the moment of birth because he was the guy who sponsored that Senate bill that was going to codify a taxpayer funded abortion on demand up until the moment of birth. And they were they slipped it or he he sponsored this provision. They were slipping it into the really weird name Women's Protection Act, which was just goofy. Yeah. It had nothing to do about protecting women. And he defended it. And this was during that, when he was facing off against, he was fighting for the seat, fighting for the Senate seat. And he was going up against Herschel Walker. And remember that whole thing? And his fight with Herschel Walker on that? So he was asked about this. I want you to listen to this audio. This was him talking to Joy Reid. And this is how he justifies it. Remember, he calls himself a quote-unquote reverend. Listen.
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It's one of the things that's on the ballot. And, you know, I get a lot of pushback from people who seem to think that they own the interpretation of the gospel. But I've been studying the scriptures my whole life. I'm committed to the faith. And as a pastor, I have a profound reverence for life. And as a pastor and a person of faith, I have a deep respect for choice. And I still think, as I've said time and time again, that a patient's room is too small and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government. But if we care about life, you know, black women are dying three to four times the rate of white women in childbirth as a result of childbirth and so if you care about life we ought to find a way that's a place where government could show up yeah and address the obvious bias in our health care system it's what jesus would do i think it's exactly what jesus uh senator and reverend wow wow wow first off i don't know where he gets that weird
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I keep hearing that, that statistic, and I've seen it, you know, a number of different entities try to debunk it or put context on it. What he just said there is one of the most demonic things I think I've ever heard. Now, again, his position on abortion, I'm not exaggerating when I say up till the moment of birth. The language of the proposal that he had sponsored... was just that up until, I mean, quite literally as the baby is being delivered through the birth canal. That's demonic. Because you don't need you should have made up your damn mind. First off, if you're an abortion supporter and you like to say safe and rare, shouldn't you made your mind up like, I don't know, a heck of a lot earlier? Actually, the question is, shouldn't you made your mind up when you were looking at what kind of prophylactic to use or what kind of birth control pill to use or what kind of million other things that you have at your disposal that you could have used or when you just engaged in the act anyway? So I'm not exaggerating when I say that he I mean, he believes in murder, murder. This is not just abortion. This is murder, murder, murder. Abortion is murder. But this is like the baby's alive and here on Earth. Let's kill it. Don't want to decide I didn't want it. That's how far this and every Democrat senator. Agreed with it. They were all co-sponsoring it. So that's why I say the party has gotten so extreme on this. That's not just I'm not exaggerating. That's pretty extreme. And it's incredibly extreme. When you look at Democrat voters, they actually don't support it after 15 weeks. They don't support abortion after 15 weeks. So even by Democrat measures, that's super extreme for the left. But that's where every Democrat senator was. Not to his point that somehow it's what Jesus would have done. That's what Reid said. And Warnock goes, yeah, I think it's exactly what Jesus did. That's literally the opposite of what Jesus had said to do. In your womb, I knew you. Do not murder. I mean, it's pretty clear. And I just found that absolutely reprehensible. Even the devil can quote scripture. And the fact that Raphael Warnock can label himself a reverend is proof of that. The fact that he can just do this 30,000 foot, I'm going to cherry pick what I want to cite out of the Bible and not provide any context or just pretend that it affirms my worldview. It's demonic. And there is a great warning, biblically, against people like Raphael Warnock, who are cosplaying as shepherds of the flock and misleading people, leading them astray. The Bible is very clear all throughout the New Testament. Have a millstone hang around your neck and thrown into the sea, the depths of the sea. If you cause one of these little ones to stumble, there were, he wasn't just talking about children. He was talking about people new in faith. People were coming to Jesus. Wow. And there is a higher, there's a serious level of accountability for people in positions of shepherding, a high level of accountability and a high penalty for it when you abuse your power. and you mislead people. And that's exactly, man, there is not anything rude or hateful that I could say about Raphael Warnock that is even going to compare to the penalty that awaits him upon his death. Because the good Lord above is that there, it's pretty clear. I guess he missed that part of scripture. You know, I guess he missed that part of scripture. Maybe it was when he was hitting on his wife or something. I don't know, beating on her. I don't know. Maybe he was He just didn't have time to read it. We have a Florida man on the way as well. Some of the other things we're going to be touching on just to just to keep you updated as to what else is on the table. Why you don't hate the press enough. A Z-list actress masquerading as a reporter flexes for clicks about releasing a notorious torturer in Syria. We're going to discuss that. We're also going to get into this issue. this piece. Kamala Harris is considering another run for elected office. Why? I don't. Really? So we got to talk about that. Also, Ireland and Israel. Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland. And there are a lot of people apparently that are like I saw Matt Gates tweet something and I was like this. Sorry, but this is ignorant of the history of Ireland and where they have stood on this issue for a couple of generations now. So we need to have a little quick history lesson on that. We got a lot of stuff to hit.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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Florida Man exposes himself in public after asking a woman to take his picture. A 36-year-old illegal... alien from Guatemala, he came into the country illegally, was arrested for the second time for the same crime. He goes up to women says, Can you take my picture? And if they're nice and say yes, then he whips out his male copulatory organ. So a Florida woman and her 11 year old daughter, they were in Martin County. They were taking pictures of holiday decorations, the Christmas lights and everything. And a man asked to have his picture taken using his cell phone. And like he was going to get pictures of himself with the lights. And she was nice and said she would do it. And then... Once she took one photo and then he just gestured below his waist to get her to look down. And when she did, everything was out and out in the wind. And yeah, so she immediately notified law enforcement. He was arrested before that. exposed because he exposed himself. And he apparently I mean, this is he had asked two women to take his picture literally almost a year to the day and did the exact same thing. So ICE, I mean, Homeland Security Investigations, they put a detainer on him. He was going to be charged with illegal reentry after this other case concludes. But oh, my gosh. And they think that there's probably more victims. that this guy has. That's so weird. Why are people like that? I mean, just stop it. Stop being weird little perverts. Weird. A Lyft passenger was arrested after a shocked driver found him naked in the back seat. The suspect told police that he, quote, got a little naked after he was overcome with a, quote, feeling. Oh, gross. 48-year-old passenger, excuse me, who was not named. He was picked up in Lakeland near Tampa and the driver heard a strange noise from the backseat. He was shocked to find that the passenger had taken off all his clothes and he immediately told him to stop. He contacted the police. and reported that Lyft actually, I guess you can notify Lyft with a button, you know, like if you're a driver. They contacted police, said one of their drivers was in a very uncomfortable situation, and the suspect said, yeah, he only got a little naked, and that was, you know, that's all, no big deal. So he was charged with exposure of sexual organs, and he was taken into custody. What is up? Is it a full moon? What was happening? Good night. Let's see this. Oh, no. Oh, here's one. This one may be one for the books. A meth-smoking Florida man attacked a mattress in a jealous rage. Fort Walton Beach. A Florida man used a bedpost to attack a mattress because he thought it was a man hiding. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, they reported that 37-year-old Felipe Oquendo was saying that he thought that his girlfriend was cheating on him, and he thought the mattress was a man, and so he tried to beat it to death. He literally ripped off a bedpost and then locked the bedroom door. She was able to escape, and then he beat the mattress. Good Lord. And then he later admitted to having smoked meth. Oh. Obviously. Yeah. Stick with us. Our third hour is on the way. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour here on Monday. And you can obviously you're listening to the radio program in some capacity. Channel 347, the simulcast, DirecTV, as well as on X, the chats at Rumble. We're following this ongoing story of the shooting at the Abundant Life. Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin. And already there are, I mean, I see, we don't even have all the facts in. And I'm, you know, I'm stunned at, I mean, always stunned. It never stops being stunning the way that the left rushes to politicize this stuff. You already had the Giffords organization out there saying school shootings should not be common. Well, they're not common. And, you know, the amazing thing is that First off, if it's a juvenile, then how did the juvenile get possession of a firearm anyway? Number one, they can't just go out and purchase one. So they're already barred from legal carry. Number two, it's been for 30 plus years now. Schools are gun free zones. You can't bring a gun on school grounds. You can't. I mean, I don't know why we have these anti-gun lobbyists out there that try to insist otherwise. But for 30 plus years, that has never been that's never been the case. It's their gun free zones. So immediately they're out there trying to politicize all of this. But this school was a gun free zone because the. The. I mean, they're all gun free zones, all of them, all of them. And then I don't know. I just I we need to get more information about the maybe the motive. Maybe we can find out what even they don't even know if it was a handgun or a rifle. They don't know. Police have not released those that information. They've not released those details. But the problem is, is it is another gun free zone? I don't know if Abundant Life School has an SRO program. I don't know if they allow teachers who prove capable and who are willing to carry carry. I don't know if that's something that's allowed. These are all things that we have no idea. No idea. We know nothing about it, nothing about any of it. But yet we already have lawmakers out here trying to politicize it. I'm just not quite sure how you can propose solutions when you don't even know exactly the full scope of what the issue. I mean, obviously, murder is also illegal, but instead of nobody again, mental health. How was this? If this was a juvenile, what what led this? this juvenile to this position of killing people at their school at a christian school could it be trans tifa because the last time there was a shooting at a christian school you had it was the issue of trans tifa so i'm just wondering there's a lot of information here and marquis had said quote there should be no school shootings i'm heartbroken we must act now to end gun violence again what law would have been, what law would you have passed to prevent this? They've been banned on school grounds for 30 plus years. Maybe we could ask questions as to how did this juvenile get a firearm? What led to this juvenile getting a firearm? Also, maybe something, but no, they're not going to bring any of that up. Heaven forbid. Gun-free zones are magnets, as my friend John Lott has said, for this murderous criminality. I mean, they're magnets for it. He noted, too, in the thousands of schools where teachers are permitted to carry, no one has been wounded or killed in an attack during school hours. Only kids. Where the schools make no exceptions to federal law. By the way, that's like a you have to go through a whole program and you have to work with law enforcement and you have to be like specially trained and all that stuff. If you're a faculty member carrying at school. This has only happened where there's been a complete ban on any kind of use of lethal force in defense of the children there. And they've never I mean, the the anti-gun lobbyists have always said, well, if you're going to allow teachers to carry, they're going to get stolen. And nothing has ever come to light that supports that claim that has never materialized into something that's real. And no one wants to force teachers to carry. I don't want a teacher who doesn't want to carry to carry. You know, at my kid's school, there were a lot of, you don't know who's armed, but a lot of people are armed. And they have the double locking doors and all that. That's the other thing. How was this individual able to get a weapon in school? What was happening in the student's home life that the parents were unaware that the student was able to get something, a weapon into the school? They had no idea. No idea. So, when you create a gun-free zone, what you're doing is you're advertising a place where someone with murderous intent is not going to receive any kind of strong resistance. That's why gun-free zones are targeted. It is insane that this has to be explained to anybody, but, you know, anti-gun lobbyists. I mean, remember, in the previous... tragic cases, there have been numerous instances where certain areas or certain prime targets were abandoned because they were deemed to be too hard, too hard of a target for a killer. And so they went somewhere else where they knew there would be less resistance. And when you go into a gun-free zone and you're a murderer and you have the intent to kill, you have guaranteed that you are the only person that has the means to to lethal force. You're the only person. I mean, it's, in fact, one of the things that Lott has noted is that the Covenant School or the perpetrator of the 2022 supermarket shooting that was in Buffalo, that killer wrote in his manifesto verbatim this sentence, quote, areas where CCW permits are outlawed or prohibited may be good areas of attack, end quote. But see, nobody in the press discusses this. Because it's inconvenient to their narrative that they need to peddle in order to punish the innocent and make you a greater target in the face of evil. I mean, I don't like gun-free zones. Don't like them. And I think you need to be able to have access to lethal force. Especially when you're talking about protecting the lives of your children. Why is it that anti-gun lobbyists, they're willing to use lethal force for other things. They're willing to drone people overseas. But oh my gosh, if you've got someone looking to shoot up a kindergarten classroom, heaven forbid they have anyone there that uses lethal force to resist that. I do not understand that concept. So it doesn't matter what laws you pass. This person, if what has said that they were a juvenile, if they were a student and they were under the age of 18, they're not going to be able to buy anything anyway. What are you talking about? They're going to be able to run and you can't take it to school anyway. That's already a law. You can't make the law more illegal or doesn't work. Gun-free zones are what people who hate the innocent create. And they give them a false sense of security. Just for instance, I try to avoid and I will only go to a gun-free zone if I absolutely have to for work. Otherwise, I don't go. Like for instance, a restaurant that I hate, the Cheesecake Factory. I hate the Cheesecake Factory. I do. Their portions are comically huge. The menu is too big. I have a very John Taffer approach to restaurants. I worked in food service all going through college. You know, I had grandparents that ran a tavern. Are you a fan of the Cheesecake Factory, Kane? I think there's too much. There's too much.
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It's a novel, that damn menu.
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The menu is like a Harry Potter book. It's like 30 pages. It's ridiculous. You don't need that many food items. Rotate it out. You know what I'm saying? Keep it fresh. But they're a gun-free zone. They're in my town. And I never liked going there anyway. I had a kid that liked going there because, obviously, cheesecake. So I walked up to the doors one day and saw they had fresh new signage. And in Texas, you have to post your signage. They were so petty how they did this. I love it. they're like, if you're going to demand that no one carry on your premises and as a private property owner, you have that right. We're going to make it super ridiculous, the signage. And I think it's funny because you have to have English and Spanish and it has to be a certain type of font, no smaller than a certain type of size. It has to be posted in a very specific location. It has to be posted this way. It can have this on it. It can't have this on it. And anything else is not legal signage. Well, they went to the effort of putting up legal signage. And I just reached out to grab the door. I saw that sign. I dropped my hand down. Ask their manager. We're like, well, so what is your security here? They go, what do you mean? Like, well, OK, you're what? You're the manager. We had to go above the manager because it's very curious. And apparently it was their corporate office. It's their policy. I'm like, OK, well, what's your security then? What do you mean? What's our security? Seriously? Do you have armed security then if you're demanding that patrons enter your establishment? And by the way, if you were going to go into that restaurant, say you're going there for dinner at night, you have to park in a dark parking lot that honestly I think needs more lighting and walk, you know, a block to get to it. And it's, you know, at the back end of the town. So, you know, there's not a lot happening back there. If I was going to attack someone, I would attack them there completely. Can't agree since he knows exactly what I'm talking about. You know where this one is. And they're like, yeah, we don't have armed security. So they don't have any security, but they don't want you to be able to protect yourself. So we don't eat there. I do not eat at Cheesecake Factory. I haven't been into a Cheesecake Factory at least eight years, probably longer. It's been a long time. I see it and I don't go in. But I do make a show of it. I'm not going to lie. I'm not drama, but I can be on this issue because I'll act like I'm opening the door. And then if I see the sign, like, oh, I can't go in here. Everyone's defenseless. I don't want to be a sitting duck. Heaven forbid that someone with less training than I have and someone who knows less about gun law than I do make up the policies in order to keep your patrons sitting ducks. You know, they know more than me, clearly. So I don't go there. Just, you know, it's just, it's too, I don't want anyone's product or food enough to risk my life. And you might think that that's, Dana, you're being dramatic. I had someone try to break into my house and kill me. They flew halfway across the country because they hated me. So yeah, I think I do. Absolutely. Absolutely. And maybe I really envy the luxury that some of these anti-gun lobbyists have, the luxury of never having to worry about their safety and security because they live in an ivory tower or never having to worry about it because they outsource it to their security, which I've always thought was fascinating. That is one of the most bigoted things I've ever seen anybody do. You're an anti-gun person, but you're fine with allowing someone else to take the bullet for you. You hire security, someone else to do the work of defending yourself. I find that to be grotesque. You're an anti-gun, but you're really not. You're just anti-poor people being able to defend themselves. That's what it is.
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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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All right, so first up, now they're saying that cooking oil is fueling colon cancer in young Americans. Cooking oil.
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Seed oil.
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Cooking oil. identified seed oils are culprits behind colon cancer. But how long has this been in grocery stores? How long could you go and get seed oils in the supermarket, Kane?
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Yeah, vegetable oils and seed oils for decades.
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Yeah, a really long time. So, I mean, I just use like olive oil or tallow or ghee. Which is great. There's nothing wrong with it. Let's see. A man... Good heavens. A man tells police that he's a professional drinker, Othifer, following a multi-vehicle crash. This is in Colorado. He was caught on body camera saying, I'm a professional drinker. And he said he probably had 10 drinks.
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Did he get paid for that?
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And then at the conversation, he goes, okay, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm a professional drinker. So, all right. And the officer goes, I gotcha. Like, I mean, he had a blood alcohol content of 0.326. He's made of liquor.
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Yeah, it's pretty, pretty crazy. Oh my gosh. How do you know he's walking?
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A woman was charged after allegedly crashing into ice on Lake Winnisquam. I'm pretty sure if I said that wrong, somebody will tell me. It was in New Hampshire. She was driving under the influence. Man, this is just screaming some Chappaquiddick kind of stuff, isn't it? It's got Kennedy all over it. It happened near, it was a lake in Lake Winnisquam. The woman escaped through the car window, crawled across the ice, but her blood alcohol concentration was, they said, a little above the legal limit. So that's her. Apparently it's going to go to trial in February, her case. Let's see another. A mother receives an eviction notice after waking up from a coma caused by a stroke. So in Washington State, she lives at the Wandering Creek Apartments. She suffered a stroke. It left her in a coma in a hospital for a month. When she awoke, she had received an eviction notice. She has limited use of her body. She has no idea how she's going to care for her. you know, moving and her two sons who are 12 and seven. She's gone to physical therapy twice a week. Her disability prevents her from finding work to help pay for rent. And she said that she's always been a hard worker. She was like, she just can't. She struggles to like cook and clean and do things like what she wants to do. Her mother and aunt are trying to help her. And the help, you know, they have a long waiting list. But that's just horrible. They have a GoFundMe established to help support her. But, man, it would be nice if the landlord is financially able to maybe just assist a little bit. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe they have their reasons. I don't know. But horrible story all around. Stick with us.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you here at the bottom of this third hour. And we've covered a lot of ground in this somewhat busy news day. Now, the week before Christmas, so it's good to be with you. You can listen across the country, Channel 347, DirecTV, also at X and Z. Rumble where the chat happens. Joining us now, our very good friend, our expert friend, and he's been involved in two presidential administrations. So he knows his stuff. Senior research fellow for China, Nat Sec Issues at Heritage. And you can follow him on X at Yates Coms. He joins us now. First up, I got to ask you about the drones. I figured, you know, you've been, you know, you've probably seen some, you know, in politics and in government, you've probably seen some spooky stuff. I'm like, you know, been aware of some of that, you know, is this, are these all Chinese and Iranian drones or are these aliens? I just feel like the government's response is so cagey. I'm kind of hoping for aliens, but also it just seems like it's probably going to be China or Iran, or is it a drone off? Are they doing something and it's our military using drones as a way to like push back? I just am curious as to your thoughts on this.
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Well, Dana, for someone who is my age, it was kind of fun for everyone to have an X-Files reboot over the last few days, just assuming that the truth is out there and that there's a government program going on. Now, when it comes to drones and where they're made, there really isn't a lot of mystery in that. The primary manufacturing platform for drones these days is China. And when it comes to chips, hardware, the drones, all of that, a lot of that is China, China, China. And especially if you're a cost efficient shopper, you're probably buying from China. So whether you're government or private sector, it's a lot of work to try to get China out of that supply chain. Elise Stefanik, who's been nominated to be our ambassador to the United Nations, actually ran a bill that was trying to get exactly that, to get the CCP out of our drone supply chains. So it's really a topic that matters a lot, but it'll come as a shock to your audience that for the four years of the Biden administration, not a lot's been done to clean up that supply chain. And to make matters worse, we have a lot of questionable people coming into our country. Some of them are military age and unaccompanied by family and might be drone operators for all we know. The only thing we know for sure is that Secretary Mayorkas definitely didn't tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Because he sort of said, this isn't a government op and there is an investigation, but there's no foreign involvement. And it's just not possible to hold those three balls in the air without something else in the juggle.
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Ooh, that's a very good point. This is so creepy. We're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates, who has better insight on this than most people. It kind of worries me to think that it could be an Iranian-Chinese sort of effort to do what? I don't know, as like a test run to see how far in the interior they could get? I mean, I don't know if that's the... But the fact that there doesn't seem to be... A swarm. A swarm. Yeah, it's like a murder for a bunch of crows. So, you know, a swarm of them coming in from the Atlantic into New Jersey. One of the creepiest things I've ever seen. That bothers me. So how serious is this? Is this like some kind of like war game? Are they testing it out? Because it can't be ours.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, so I strongly suspect it is ours. And I strongly suspect that we have a government with no one meaningfully in charge of the top coordinating across different stovepipes. It would not shock me at all to know that the children running with scissors in the White House don't know what other parts of our government are doing. The fact that they sort of seem to cut off at a set time at night, there's nothing about the Iranian terror network that would suggest to me that they would want to to do something like that. I don't know if the Chinese like take a break to take a nap to continue their spy operations at a set time every day. But there's just so much odd going on in this that I sort of suspect it is something going on in the US. But the problem is drones do present a massive significant security problem. And that what our government is telling us from the very top our airspace isn't safe and is not secured by the people under the constitution whose first job it is to do exactly that uh so if you take the highest priority issue to me because what happened to my family and you add fentanyl into drone swarms that no one is in charge of supposedly and you have, say, a highly attended outdoor event, that is a recipe for terror and panic and devastation, the likes of which we haven't seen on the continental United States since 9-11 at the very least. I don't like that. I would much rather have someone I trust in charge. We just don't have that right now. So no matter who's behind this, Obviously, we have to get through this next 30 plus days to get people that we might have a shot at believing telling us, friend or foe, are you keeping us safe or not? Is this an iron dome for the United States in the making? If so, just tell us.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's a wow. An iron dome for the United States. That's actually very. Oh, that's very interesting to think that that we could be in that kind of same situation. We're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates comes on X. I was looking at this. Trump invited Xi Jinping to his inauguration. Is that like a power move? I'm kind of looking at it like it might be.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I have to say I throw up a little bit every time I hear this idea.
SPEAKER 17 :
But, you know, you love the guy who hates Winnie the Pooh.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, well, you know how in DC and some other cities, there's a giant inflatable rat that labor protesters put out. My gosh, yeah, it's my favorite. If there was a giant inflatable poo that was on the National Mall and Xi Jinping or his particular delegates were forced to be proximate to that, then I'm cool with floating this idea. I just don't think Xi Jinping is gonna come for something like this. So it is a power move to say, we wanna talk, I wanna hold you accountable on fentanyl and COVID and stiffing me on the phase one trade agreement, but you're a big country, we wanna lower tensions and wanna push you back from this aggression, but let's work something out for peace and prosperity. All that fun stuff. I get the logic. I don't like the idea of throwing these invites out to the inauguration. I think the inauguration day is one for ceremony, but also rocking and rolling on some things here at home. I think the Trump team is prepared for that. We might have a world record of executive orders that undo the badness of the Biden four years and maybe throw in some deregulation and some goodness to do big things for America. But I say make a make Inauguration Day all about American revival and renewal and let the foreigners come a little bit later. But that's just me. No one asked. And the man did win by a lot. He can do what he wants with this. But I'm not a fan of the the Chinese cheese coming to the mall on Inauguration Day.
SPEAKER 17 :
If Trump had a giant inflatable pooh bear, though.
SPEAKER 06 :
You might like that. Then I'd persuade it. This is the antidote to all things crazy by making the world bad guys have to be crazy to show up. You know, if they stay at a particular hotel, that Pooh Bear needs to be outside that hotel, just like the rats outside the other labor protests.
SPEAKER 17 :
And they could have people with free Jimmy Lai signs out there as well. I mean, it does seem like if you know if you're going to invite I don't know if he's invited Keir Starmer or anybody British government, but that might be because, you know, Jimmy Lai is a British citizen. I mean, couldn't there be some kind of, well, you come and then maybe we can make the case like for I mean, is that something that would be in the cards for Trump to do during inauguration? Is that like a weird proposition?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, frankly, it's something that in free America with freedom of speech and assembly, you'd like to think that a First Amendment committed revival would say, you know what? This isn't the president's doing. But you know what, Mr. Xi? In our country, yeah, I'll give you some courtesy to come and chat and all that. But my people are going to be able to free, are going to be free to peaceably express their views. And guess what? You need to meet America. Because you freaking poisoned America over the last few years. You need to meet America. And I'd be cool with that. But I'm a little harder edge on these things than the average diplomat, perhaps.
SPEAKER 17 :
Last question for you as we roll into the new year. We're not going to see you again until the new year. So we hope you have a wonderful Christmas, you and your bride. But I wanted to kind of... looking towards January, because I know the tone of things are already changing, especially we saw it when Trump was over at the Notre Dame, the reopening of that after being rebuilt after the fires and the way that world leaders reacted. We've talked about Europe, but what are you... going to be watching for as his team moves from transition to occupying the White House and we have our new Congress seated? What are you going to be watching for in the Pacific with China, with maybe perhaps their relationship with Iran or any overtures towards the U.S.? Like what is on your radar? What are you going to be looking at in January?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, there's a lot that's China, but there's also a lot around China that matters. It's really, really important that one of the richest people in Japan, who was CEO of SoftBank, came to Mar-a-Lago and promised to invest $100 billion in America. And on camera, Trump negotiated and promised to make it $200 billion. And so the idea that we're a magnet for investment, that we are a place that people want to put their money to grow an economy. I just look for it out of the blocks, deregulate, open up federal lands for the resources the creator blessed us with to allow us to have the roughest, toughest engine of growth. uh that is the envy of the world i mean that's basically what the president has promised uh and i think it is doable that sets the table for renegotiation with china and others but japan wants to be a part of it hopefully their government stabilizes this korean political madness has to settle down if we're going to have a reliable ally there i hope it does uh but With China, I expect that they're going to need to focus on tariffs and economic negotiations right out of the blocks. And we'll see what they get by way of a visit or early talks with the president. But I think that's where it's going to start out. Rev up America, engage China and other leaders, and let's push what this new era can deliver for us.
SPEAKER 17 :
Got a lot to look forward to. Stephen Yates, as always, we're so grateful to you that you give us so much of your time and your talent and your expertise on all of these issues. And you really help set the perspective. And you've been such a treasure for all of us here and for our audience. So we're really grateful to you and wishing you the best Christmas and the happiest New Year. So thank you so much. God bless you and your family.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right, back at you, Dana, and to the audience, Michelle and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a glorious 2025.
SPEAKER 17 :
Amen to that. Good to see you, my friend. Travel safe. We'll talk again. Take care. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I was I saw this one of these stories that over the weekend that had to do with Ireland and the Israeli embassy. They're closing their embassy in Ireland due to what they say are extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government. And that I mean, it's not entirely true. surprising to see that. But what I thought was funny, because I saw Matt Gaetz and a couple other people tweet something out similar to this, where they were saying that it was due to the immigration in Ireland that made it so, like unchecked immigration ruins nations. Well, that's a true statement. But an immigration is a problem, illegal immigration and the influx of people from where you have culturally incompatible You know, I mean, you can't, like, beat people in the street if they're walking around unveiled. You can't, you know, women have rights, things like that. But in Ireland, they kind of have a history of this. I mean, it's not always been the best of relations. I mean, this is just kind of, they've dealt with anti-Semitism in Ireland. And obviously, you know, you have the... world war ii the the neutral the neutrality stance that they had they even sent i think even their government sent like condolences after hitler offed himself uh in at the end of world war ii i think they sent condolences to germany they're like the only country that actually did that and they did not want to accept refugees fleeing during World War II. Every other nation was taking in legitimate refugees, not like what you see happening at our southern border. There have been some issues with us for quite some time. It's pretty historical. They were... I mean, there's... It's a lot. So it's not just this unmitigated immigration. It's a problem that predates this issue for Europe and has been several generations now in Ireland where it's been like this. So I think to say that it's just immigration kind of ignores the historical problem they've had and the fraught relationship that they've had with Israel this entire time. So I just wanted to point that out because I saw a lot of discussion about it. I'm like, well... That's not actually historically accurate. I mean, yes, immigration, there is a problem, but they have had this issue because they've always supported Gaza and I mean, they've been friendly towards Hamas. They've supported, you know, everything that Gaza has demanded. So it's been a weird they've always had a weird relationship with Israel. And not wanting to accept those refugees in World War II. And then, you know, it's more than just the situation with immigration. We'll talk about it some more in depth tomorrow. We're out of time today. Today in stupidity came.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. Apparently at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, the DNC was having their holiday reception this morning. Biden was speaking. And apparently Biden thinks he's leaving tomorrow. The best economy to Trump. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 19 :
The one thing I've always believed about public service, especially about the presidency, is the importance of asking yourself, have we left the country better in shape than we found it? No. Today, I can say with every fiber of my being, with all my heart, the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it isn't. And you may need to supplement some fiber. I think about it.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'm stunned. OK, there you go.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. All right. That's our president. He's still president, right? Is he still?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. I mean, you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
OK.
SPEAKER 17 :
Entitled.
SPEAKER 12 :
Anyway, he is. Yeah. Checking.
SPEAKER 17 :
That does it for us today, folks. We're going to get set up for the rest of the year with this week. And make sure you go sign up over at Substack. Chapter and verse. Always stuff that comes out regularly on the newsletter. Find us at YouTube, Facebook. Like and subscribe. Have a great night. Back with you tomorrow.
In this intriguing episode of Shooting the Breeze, Karen Murray dives into a snowy yet bustling holiday season, sprinkled with reflections on Franktown Firearms’ offerings and the anticipation of long-awaited family traditions. Karen unravels the mystery of House Bill 1174, ensuring listeners stay informed about upcoming legal changes without unnecessary confusion. Listeners are also treated to lively debates on daylight savings time, evaluating its historical background and impacts on health. The conversation shifts to the controversial realm of gender-affirming care and the role of government and healthcare professionals in these sensitive matters. With a passionate narrative, Karen challenges the current understanding of youth gender medicine, urging the necessity of thorough mental evaluations before life-altering decisions. Additionally, Karen discusses the swirling theories around drones sighted in New Jersey and introspects on the latest COVID-19 vaccine reports, questioning the intertwining of politics and health. The episode wraps up with a heartfelt thank you and a gentle reminder of Franktown Firearms' valuable services, building a bridge between community and confidence.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome to Shooting the Breeze, brought to you by the team at Franktown Firearms, a family-owned, family-friendly shooting range in Franktown, Colorado. Franktown Firearms offers practical, defensive training, as well as an impressive selection of firearms at the lowest tax rate, so you can develop confidence with your firearm. The team at Franktown Firearms believes the only difference between a beginner and an expert is practice. so they equip you to keep yourself and your family safe in a welcoming atmosphere. And now, here are your hosts of Shooting the Breeze.
SPEAKER 01 :
Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone. It is Monday, and we are getting so close to Christmas, and oh my gosh, I'm not ready. Are you guys ready? Well, I'm kind of ready. I'm going to spend my evening wrapping presents tonight, I can tell you that. Yeah, it's crazy times. So fun, though. So welcome to Shooting the Breeze, today brought to you by Franktown Firearms. My name is Karen Murray, and I'm the lead instructor at Franktown Firearms. You know, if it's been a hot minute since you guys have been into Franktown Firearms, you don't know what you're missing. The entire store has gotten a big facelift, completely remodeled, rearranged, new sales displays, more inventory, new people, even a new smell. Franktown Firearms is now a staccato dealer. So if you know, you know with that whole thing. And soon to be a dealer of the laser training systems that I talk about all the time from Mantis X that are so integral in your home training sort of regimen. You have to practice at home. You've heard me talk about it a million times. So training classes are ongoing. We've got the SimHouse training classes up and running. I have a Pistol 1 class scheduled for this Saturday, which is a concealed carry class, December 21st. You can go to the website, franktownfirearms.com. You can click on the date, click on the sign-up link, and you're good to go. My quarterly Pistol 2 class is coming up on January 4th. We've begun using our newly built sim house for training, as I said, and stay tuned for more and more classes to be popping up in the sim house as well. If private training... is what you're looking for and you don't want to sit in a classroom with a dozen other people, you can email me directly at karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com. My last name is spelled M-U-R-R-A-Y. And we can get you scheduled for an hour or two. And you can either learn to use a handgun or you can just refresh your skills and get back into the game. Gift certificates. Gift certificates. from Franktown Firearms are a fantastic Christmas present. If you are struggling with what to give that person who is really hard to buy for, consider getting them two hours of private training or get a certificate for $150 for a class. The store is open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6, Sunday from noon to 6, You can reach us by phone at 720-770-7777 or stop by. Somebody will be more than happy to help you out. We're located just east of the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 86 in Franktown. So we hope to see you soon. Oh, and one last thing that I have to mention as just a little reminder. So many people have asked about the new training requirements that are going into effect per House Bill 1174. which passed. Governor Polis signed it. Even some gun stores in the area are telling people that the stricter requirements to apply for your concealed handgun permit and this new law goes into effect on January 1st, but it does not. Read your bills, people. This law doesn't go into effect until July 1st of 2025. So look it up. first paragraph of the summary. It says, under existing law, an applicant for a permit to carry a concealed handgun must demonstrate competence with a handgun. An applicant may demonstrate competence with a handgun in a number of ways, including by completing a training class offered by a certified instructor within 10 years before submitting an application for a permit. Pursuant to the act, beginning July 1st, 2025, an applicant may demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing a training class only if the class satisfies the minimum standards for a training class described below. And the applicant completes the class within one year before submitting an application for a permit. And the rest of the, it's not for you. It's for me to worry about and people like me. This all instructor's job to create a course that meets the legal requirements. So there you go. Just wanted to set that record straight for those of you who may be panicking. because you think that you're running out of time as we're heading into the new year. You're not. You have plenty of time to do what you need to do. So as you know, I like to talk about the stuff that most other people don't talk about, or at least I guess in a way or from a perspective that others won't talk about or don't think about. So if you want to discuss anything I'm talking about today, please give us a call at 303-477-5600 and let's chat about it. We received our yearly Christmas package from my in-laws today. Oh, my gosh. Not only are there the pretty gifts that are always in there, which is so exciting, but my mother-in-law includes shortbread and cookies and a couple different flavors of quick breads. And might I add that my mother-in-law makes the best shortbread in the entire world. And that's a problem. Her cookies melt in your mouth fast. it's just insane. Although I can say that UPS or USPS or whoever delivers it, they don't really take much care in these packages because the cookies always come in pieces, but damn, those pieces are good. I always look forward to this package every year, but my waistline hates me for it, so whatever. I will be embarking on my yearly candy making on Thursday and Friday. I always make soft buttery caramels, like salted caramels and almond toffee. And of course, I have to sample everything I make. So it's a problem, you guys. I'm sure many of you are in the same boat. So I'm going to start today talking about the possibility of Trump doing away with daylight savings time. We're going to start light. And I'll start by saying this. Why do we recognize daylight saving time anyway? What is the point? They use all kinds of reasoning like better energy consumption or giving farmers an extra hour to work their fields or whatever. From the History Channel, I want you guys to hear this. Here's how Daylight Savings Time got its start. Check this out. Daylight Savings.
SPEAKER 02 :
Twice a year, we change the clocks to get an extra hour of sunshine. But this practice has much darker origins than you might expect. History explains Daylight Savings Time. Benjamin Franklin jokingly theorized about shifting daylight hours while he lived in France. Yet the idea wouldn't gain momentum until Englishman William Willett published his Waste of Daylight pamphlet in 1907. If the clock was shifted up an hour in the spring, he argued, people would save money by not lighting their homes for an additional hour at night. The British government didn't enact Willett's proposal, but nine years later, the enemy did. Germany and Austria-Hungary decided to adopt Willett's plan in an effort to conserve resources in the heat of World War I. Most other countries fighting in the war soon followed. So remember, the next time you spring forward or fall back, it took a world war to give us our first national taste of daylight savings.
SPEAKER 01 :
So that's how it got its start in a nutshell. And I know people on both sides of this argument, but personally, I hate it. I hate it. I don't mind the fallback, I guess, so much because, you know, I mean, I don't like it to get darker early or whatever. But I'm going to explain more about that in a second. At least we get an extra hour of sleep, right? On that Sunday morning, you wake up and, you know, you feel a little bit more refreshed and you think, oh, my gosh, I feel so great. And you look at the clock and it's 7 o'clock. That means your body thinks it's 8 o'clock. So whatever. But think about this. Just because the clock changes doesn't mean there are more or fewer hours in the day. The sun still rotates around us in the same amount of time. You see what I did there as a flat earther? Luke, you see what I did there? The sun rotates around us. But the number of daylight hours doesn't change. Only the clocks change, right? And I have to insert here a problem with Word Editor, okay? As I'm writing out my notes... And I'm typing the above sentence. The sentence reads, just because the clock changes doesn't mean there are more or fewer hours in the day. That was the sentence. The editor in Word wanted me to change the word doesn't to don't. What is that? As I'm typing the paragraph, I just spoke, it did it again. Who programs this Word editor? Because I'm sorry, that's not proper. Just because the clock changes don't mean there are more or fewer hours? Does that sound right to you? Oh, my gosh. Anyway, good grief. Anyway, the reason for implementing daylight savings time turned out to be all a bunch of BS. The idea of energy consumption goes out the window. They wanted more daylight hours in the summer to keep people from having to turn on their lights. But that point is moot when you consider that our AC units are running like crazy for an extra hour. So that's going to be a wash, right? At least a wash. I think AC probably runs, consumes a little more energy than a light bulb, right? So there are also studies that suggest a change in time, particularly the one in the spring where we spring forward. They have negative effects on your health. A professor from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, and she's also the director of the sleep division, her name is Beth Ann Morrow, she suggests there is a link between daylight savings time and incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and a disruption in the circadian rhythm, leading to more health problems. In an article from theconversation.com, springing forward is hard on the body. This is because our clock time is moved an hour later. In other words, it feels like 7 a.m., even though our clocks say it's 8 a.m. So it's a permanent shift to later morning for almost eight months. This is particularly notable because morning light is valuable for helping to set the body's natural rhythm. It wakes us up and improves alertness. Although the exact reasons are not yet known, this may be due to light's effects on increasing levels of cortisol. a hormone that modulates the stress response or the effect of light on the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotions. In contrast, exposure to light later into the evening delays the brain's release of melatonin, the hormone that promotes a drowsiness. This can interfere with sleep and cause us to sleep less overall, and the effect can last even after most people adjust to losing that hour of sleep in the start of daylight savings time. Because puberty also causes melatonin to be released later at night, meaning that teenagers have a delay in the natural signal that helps them fall asleep, adolescents are particularly susceptible to sleep problems from the extended evening light of daylight savings time. This shift in melatonin during puberty lasts into our 20s. Adolescents may also be chronically sleep deprived due to school, sports, and social activity schedules. For instance, many children start school around 8 a.m. or earlier. This means that during daylight savings time, many young people get up and travel to school in pitch darkness. And then there is the western edge effect. So geography can also make a difference in how daylight savings time affects people. One study showed that people living on the western edge of a time zone who get light later in the morning and light later in the evening got less sleep than their counterparts on the eastern edge of a time zone. This study found that Western Edge residents had higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and breast cancer, as well as lower per capita income and higher health care costs. Other research has found that rates of certain other cancers are higher on the Western Edge of a time zone. Scientists believe that these health problems may result from a combination of chronic sleep deprivation and circadian misalignment. Circadian misalignment refers to a mismatch in timing between our biological rhythms and the outside world. In other words, the timing of daily work, school, or sleep routines is based on the clock rather than the sun's rise and set. So I can attest to this western edge thing. My husband's parents live in Great Falls, Montana. And I noticed immediately when I was there that it stays light much longer than it does here. Because, you know, if you look at the – I don't know if it's longitude or latitude, whatever. It doesn't matter to me because I'm a flat earther, right? Oh, my gosh. But it just stays light there much longer because we're on the western part of this time zone. So when we travel there in the summer, there's still light in the sky at 10, 10 p.m., 10.30 p.m. So Trump, if you're listening, just get rid of it. Get rid of it. I think it's ridiculous. Like I said, the light does not change. The daylight hours do not change. It's just the clock that changes, and then we have to adapt to the clock, and it's ridiculous. We do enough adapting. We don't have to adapt to that. So the burning question on everyone's mind, and this Kim just was talking about this. The hour before me is about these drones. She kind of finished up the show with the drones. What's up with the drones over New Jersey and elsewhere? And before I came on the air today, I actually saw a – let me see. I've got to find it here. The Gateway Pundit has a headline. It's kind of a breaking news headline, and it reads this. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission releases report confirming radioactive material lost in transit. Do you guys remember that? A while back, like maybe six months ago, eight months ago, where the radioactive stuff was lost and nobody knew where it was. A shipping container arrives damaged and empty in New Jersey. So it could have something to do with that. It seems like Kim Monson's guest had kind of suggested that it could be a sniffer, some kind of a sniffer looking for radioactive materials and stuff like that. So my thinking goes back to that whole Chinese spy balloon thing that was floating around over the country. You guys remember that. I mean, who could forget, right? flying over sensitive military installations and just continued floating through the country until we finally destroyed it over the Atlantic Ocean, I think off the coast of South Carolina or something. But I'm sorry, you can't tell me that our government doesn't know what these things are and what they're doing. If they really don't know anything about them, then we're in more trouble than we can possibly fathom. I want you guys to listen to this piece that I found today from TikTok on the possible origins of these drones. Check this out.
SPEAKER 04 :
So we now have an update on the origin of the drones, thanks to some amazing research by FFA Family over on X. It seems to be that the drones belong to one of three companies, all of which have Department of Defense contracts. From every image we've seen of these drones, they match what these companies produce. So the only real question is, What is the government trying to hide here? Because really, like I said before, there's only two realities. One, where it was government doing this. Or two, we have a government so incompetent that we can't protect our own skies. And look, I know that our government is incompetent. I know that they generally suck at everything they do, but they've rarely been so blatantly bad at their jobs that things could just fly in the sky above New Jersey, New York, and Langley, all these important places. But now we're pretty sure these drones are coming from companies here in the United States, and each of those companies has government contracts. So again, the only question is... What's the government trying to hide? What are they trying to do to the American people? And if they're not trying to do anything and they're just trying to distract us, what could they possibly be distracting us from?
SPEAKER 01 :
So, yeah, yeah. What what is this? What is this? Is it a distraction? Speculation is off the chart right now, as you know. You guys probably have your own opinions and speculations on what these could be. Some people say it's Iran and they launched these drones from an underwater mothership. I think there was actually a legislator that came out with something like that. Maybe it's our own government spying on us. Maybe it's aliens from outer space, whatever. Y'all know how I feel about that. But and some people think that it is Iran and that they're all here to in some kind of a major plan to take Trump out before the inauguration. So I don't know. I don't know what they are. I don't know what they're doing, why they're doing it. But up Chuck Schumer is taking full advantage of this mystery and asking for more money from the Department of Homeland Security or for the Department of Homeland Security to investigate them. But I'm sure that all that money that we don't even have will be put to good use, investigating something that they likely already know about, if for no other reason than to launder that money through a couple defense contractors and stick it back in Schumer's pocket. Because that's usually how it goes, right? I don't have a clue what they could be, but I'm pretty confident in saying they're probably not up there doing us any favors. That's just my opinion. If you have an opinion on that, give me a call, 303-477-5600. I'd love to hear what you think. Until then, let's talk a little bit about health. Now, I want to see what kind of impact RFK Jr. is going to have as head of HHS. And before we get into that whole thing, I want to touch on a form of what I would consider medical malpractice and what they call gender affirming care. Now, you guys know, if you've listened to me at all, you know how I feel about this whole gender affirming trans thing. I think I said it last week that if you're over the age of 18 and you think you're in the wrong body, then you're mentally ill. And if you're under the age of 18 and you think you're in the wrong body, your parents are mentally ill. But I've had arguments with people on social media who seem to be willfully ignorant to what's actually happening with these doctors who are all on board with this kind of medical intervention. They'll tell me, doctors are not doing these procedures on minors. And I would like to say, yes, they are. It is complete BS that you even have that assertion. And if you did any kind of research, you would know better. And I suggest that you do it. From an article in the Daily Wire, celebrated trans doctor sued for medical negligence over removal of 14-year-old girl's breasts. The article says, a doctor... celebrated as America's best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine, is being sued for medical negligence by a former patient, a young girl who underwent transition and now feels she was deeply betrayed. 20-year-old Kaya Clementine Breen accuses Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy of fast-tracking her attempted gender transition, including puberty blockers, hormones, and a double mastectomy. when she was a young teenager. Her lawyers argue that Olson Kennedy, the therapist she referred Breen to, the surgeon who removed Breen's breasts, and other medical professionals are all guilty of medical negligence for rushing Breen through procedures that have deeply and negatively impacted her future. It says, quote, Clementine is a female who suffered from a complex, multifaceted array of mental health symptoms as a child and adolescent, the complaint states. She is also a survivor of multiple instances of sexual abuse as a child and adolescent, something that was never explored, addressed, or discussed by defendants in the course of their purported treatment. The lawsuit continues. Her presentation of symptoms and concerns included, among other things, anxiety, depression, autism, undiagnosed PTSD, potential bipolarism, as has been suggested by one of her psychiatrists, ongoing confusion regarding her gender, and eventually psychosis, including audio and visual hallucinations, panic attacks, and paranoia. Her family also has a lengthy history of mental health issues. She needed psychotherapy to evaluate, assess, and treat her complex comorbid mental health symptoms. She didn't get these things. Quote, instead, she was fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging puberty blockers at age 12, cross-sex hormones at age 13, and gender-affirming surgery at age 14. It goes on, Clementine's providers deliberately, grossly, and recklessly breached the standard of care in this case, as discussed above, by, among other things, failing to adequately assess and treat Clementine's complex array of mental health symptoms and prior trauma before prescribing irreversible and life-altering medications and performing surgery, the complaint states. Instead, the defendants coerced Clementine and her parents with the threat of suicide, presentation of false information, and concealment of full information into an ill-advised experimental course of chemical-slash-surgical imitation sex change treatment that was utterly unsupported by any reliable medical research. This so-called treatment of Clementine by her providers represents a despicable failed medical experiment by a knowing, deliberate, and gross breach of the standard of care that was substantially certain to cause serious harm. But here's the kicker. This is what I want you to hear. The lawsuit is one of a number of cases brought by the detransitioners in recent years, okay? a number of cases. This one is particularly significant given that Olson Kennedy leads the Center for Trans Youth at Los Angeles Children's Hospital and is widely considered the most notable youth gender medicine clinician in the world. It goes on. Last month, Olson Kennedy revealed to New York Times that she purposefully stopped the publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study into puberty blockers and their effects on American children. Olson-Kennedy had hoped the study would show that puberty blockers improve children's mental health, and her study found no evidence that was the case. She said, quote, I do not want our work to be weaponized, she told the Times. It has to be exactly on point, clear, and concise, and that takes time. Notes from Olson-Kennedy's meetings with Breen indicate that Olson-Kennedy immediately started Breen on the transition route during their first visit. Breen had not yet met with a gender therapist nor seen a psychologist about her gender dysphoria, and Olson-Kennedy had not performed a mental health evaluation. Three months later, three months, people, Breen was able to get puberty blockers. Less than a year later, Olsen-Kennedy prescribed her testosterone, and in May of 2019, 14-year-old Breen underwent a double mastectomy. Olsen-Kennedy reportedly told Breen's parents that she was suicidal and would kill herself if they did not agree to cross-sex hormone therapy. So this doctor, if that's what you want to call this cretin, also wrote in a letter to Breen's surgeon that Breen had, quote, endorsed a male gender identity since childhood, a statement that contradicted Olson's own records. Olson Kennedy, that doctor, whatever you want to call her. So don't sit here and tell me that this stuff isn't happening and that there aren't doctors out there who are willing to do whatever it takes to to get these kids this gender-affirming care without even diving into their history, without diving into their mental health. They'll just start chopping stuff off, start giving hormones, pumping them full of these puberty blockers and hormones, and then start chopping stuff off. Don't tell me it doesn't happen because it does. It does. And, you know, these incidents of people wanting to detransition, Not all of them end up in lawsuits, so we only hear about a few of them. So if you're one of those people who don't believe this kind of thing happens, and I could name names right now, and I'm not going to, but I've argued with people left and right about this stuff. I've posted articles. I've posted research, all the things, and they either tell me that I'm ridiculous and that I'm in a cult, and then they block me or whatever. So they just don't want to hear it. Maybe it's rare. Obviously, it's quite rare, but that's no excuse. It shouldn't be happening at all. Even one of these cases is too many, if you ask me, right? So when we come back from break, I'm going to dive a little bit into Karen Kingston on Substack. I'm telling you, you've got to follow Karen Kingston on Substack. We'll be right back with all this stuff about COVID and the upcoming shenanigans that might be pulled. We'll be right back.
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And we are back. I was just kind of going off about this lawsuit that was filed by a young person who underwent a double mastectomy at the behest of this doctor named Olson Kennedy. And, you know, my beef with the medical industrial complex is what it is. But there are so many people involved in this medical... tyranny, I'll call it, that it goes above and beyond doctors and nurses and that kind of stuff. So Karen Kingston has a sub stack. If you don't know who Karen Kingston is, she is a researcher that dove deep into the whole COVID-19 pandemic, if you want to call it that, the vaccines and so on. So on December 4th, 2024, the coronavirus pandemic report came out and has inspired hope for justice in prosecuting U.S. federal agencies and individuals who engaged in egregious acts of willful injury against Americans and global citizens while frequently citing 18 U.S.C. 1001 that states it's a crime to lie to Congress. The congressional report also ignited controversy amongst many members of the medical freedom movement. The major point of controversy comes from one bullet point on page two of Chairman Brad Wenstrup's opening letter for the 557-page subcommittee report. And it says, quote, Operation Warp Speed was a tremendous success and a model to build upon in the future. The vaccines, which are now probably better characterized as therapeutics, undoubtedly save millions of lives by diminishing likelihood of severe disease and death. Okay, now stay with me on this. This statement, combined with Trump's and RFK Jr.' 's recent Mar-a-Lago meeting with the CEO of Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Pharma, it's P-H-R-M-A, are causing many health freedom leaders to contemplate if every current and even future government official of our federal legislative and judicial branches under Trump is inevitably a deep state operative. Some medical freedom influencers continue to assert that we are simply watching more good cop, bad cop theater. A question naysayers raise is, why would House Representative Winstrip make a key point in the coronavirus pandemic report be the COVID-19 vaccines undoubtedly saved millions of lives, unless everyone involved in the government, including Congress, were deep state operatives? because naysayers and their followers only read the first two pages of the 557-page report. Select experts, again, jumped to conclusions about the intentions of President Trump and Congress without reading the complete document that they provided their expert opinions on. Just like with the Operation Warp Speed contract, which separates Pfizer from the U.S. military and government, thereby opening Pfizer up for liability. Pfizer's internal SBDD research and development on the invention and manufacturing of the SARS-2 spike proteins, verifying the ingredient of graphene oxide, and the laws regarding childhood vaccines, which hold manufacturers liable if they intentionally misrepresent or withhold safety or injury and death data. What the coronavirus pandemic congressional report actually says about vaccine safety, efficacy, and injuries and data says Biden administration unlawfully issued vaccine mandates causing mass harm and injuries. The COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective and not vaccines. Page 2, bullet 3 of Winstrip's introductory letter opens up the legitimate debate to drop legal immunity for the federal government as well as those corporations that mandated the shots by delineating the COVID-19 injections as therapeutics, not vaccines. The vaccines, which are now probably better characterized as therapeutics. Safety and efficacy claims were based on political agendas, not science. The report calls out that not only did the vaccine mandates cause unintended consequences, disease, disabilities, and death, but the mandates were not based in science. When Biden issued the September 9th, 2021 federal vaccine mandate, the federal government had evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infections from or protect against transmission of the virus. Ninth Circuit rules that Americans have the right to challenge CDC and government COVID-19 facts in court. Ted, I'm going to take your call real quick. What do you got for me?
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I haven't heard this said before about transitioning, and I don't get it. If the medical establishment believes that you can give a girl boy hormones and turn a girl into a boy or vice versa, then certainly giving a confused girl girl hormones or a confused boy boy hormones to strengthen their natural identity is Does that ever even get tried if someone is uncertain or feeling?
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Yeah, that's a really, really good point. Like maybe they're just deficient in those hormones and maybe bolstering that would give them a little, you know, a little boost in identifying as their natural sex. That's a really good point. I've never even heard that before. So, yay. Thank you. Just give it a try. Okay.
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You know, I'd like to see this talked up. Thank you very much for your show.
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Yep. Absolutely. Ted, thank you for calling. So Ninth Circuit rules that Americans have the right to challenge CDC and government COVID-19 facts in court. Congress's assertion that the COVID-19 vaccines clinical claims were based on politics, not science. is in alignment with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in June 2024 ruling that plaintiffs have the right to reasonably challenge the government's claim that COVID-19 injections are safe and effective vaccines in a court of law. Congress appears to be more willing to open up the federal government and employers to a litany of lawsuits for mandating the shots. The Ninth Circuit Court ruled, quote, but we do not take judicial notice of the truth of the claims made in such written or oral statements. denying request for judicial notice of article where the government does not concede that the facts included are beyond dispute. For these reasons, LAUSD's motion to dismiss is denied, vacated, and remanded. Congress concludes COVID-19 facts were CCP propaganda. Are you with me on this? The Ninth Circuit's ruling is critical because the U.S. government acted in a coordinated and coercive way to harm the American people under the guise of public health safety. The U.S. government uses propaganda to control what information the American people accept as true information. by labeling anything that challenges the official narrative as Russian disinformation, as we all know, right? And that's kind of a thing. We always hear, no matter what it is, it's Russian disinformation, whether it's Hunter's laptop or COVID-19 stuff or any of the dossier or the Russia, Russia, Russia impeachment stuff, whatever it is. So the congressional report points out that what the U.S. government and government representatives called Russian disinformation regarding the origins of COVID and likely the safety of the vaccines was not Russian disinformation, but propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party perpetuated by the WHO and the NIH. Congress asserts COVID-19 vaccines had adverse events that must be investigated. Not only does Congress support RFK Jr.' 's efforts to audit the COVID-19 vaccines injuries, But Congress provides guidance on which government databases RFK Jr. with the HHS must audit, differentiating between passive and active surveillance systems. And then so passive surveillance, the congressional report explains federal health agencies participate in a variety of interwoven pharma covigilance efforts, including both passive and active surveillance. Passive surveillance is the collection of unsolicited reports from adverse events that are sent to a centralized database. The federal government's preemptive or preeminent passive surveillance system is VAERS. And we all know what VAERS is, right? That's the vaccine adverse event recording system, I think. Per the October 22, 2022 Kingston report, passive surveillance is defined as prior to FDA approval, The reporting of any side effect, so that's symptom disease or death, caused by Pfizer's COVID-19 injections was passive, consisting mostly of VAERS and Pfizer's responsibility to notify the FDA if they observed any safety outcomes of interest. Active surveillance includes the BEST and CMS database. The congressional report goes on to explain that HHS had a responsibility responsibility to also engage in active surveillance of serious adverse events and deaths caused by the COVID-19 injections using the best CMS, VSD, and V-safe database. It says, quote, active surveillance involves proactively gathering and analyzing data to verify signals found via passive surveillance or to detect new ones. 1378, the federal government's primary avenues for active surveillance are FDA, CBER, Sentinel, Best System, CMS data, CDC's VSD, and V-safe systems. Then U.S. Congress, this is the report in December 2024. Per the October 22, 2022 Kingston report, she says active surveillance means that HHS and the FDA's CBER-CDRH were obligated to take an active role with near real-time surveillance of side effects and safety outcomes of interest caused by the COVID-19 injections using the best incentives for Medicare and Medicaid services. I guess that's what CMS is, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. So their electronic records system that they have. So that's what was in her report in 2022. Best in CMS provided access to over 300 million lives and billions of health care claims. The congressional report goes on to explain how departments and individuals with HHS abdicated their legal duties to present the health claims. of the American people by failing or duties to protect the health of the American people by failing to inform the public of safety signals. In other words, HHS and Pfizer failed in their legal duties to inform the American people of the millions of serious diseases, disabilities, hospitalizations, birth defects, including stillbirths and deaths that were recorded in these government databases post COVID-19 injections. The next heading, is Congress going to act on behalf of the deep state and thwart RFK Jr.' 's COVID-19 vaccine data audit or to stop the recall? She says, no, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Congress is going to attempt to stop RFK Jr.' 's data audit of the COVID-19 vaccine injuries and deaths, nor is Congress going to try and stop RFK Jr.' 's order to recall the mRNA injections from the market. which will happen within a hundred days of Trump taking office and likely much, much sooner. A typical recall takes seven days or less to complete. Congress will demand RFK Jr. run the vaccine injury reports. Reagan's National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, or NCVIA, requires Health and Human Services to provide reporting of adverse reactions so that the government can recall reactogenic, which means harmful or lethal, vaccine batches and lots quickly in order to reduce the risk of adverse reactions to vaccines. 42 USC 300 AA specifically states, In the administration of this part and other pertinent laws under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, the Secretary shall, and it says, make or assure improvements in and otherwise use the authorities of the Secretary with respect to the licensing, manufacturing, processing, testing, labeling, warning, use instructions, distribution, storage, administration, field surveillance, adverse reaction reporting and recall of reactogenic lots or batches of vaccines and research on vaccines in order to reduce the risk of adverse reactions to vaccines. The NCVIA laws also require HHS to submit a vaccine safety report across all childhood vaccines to Congress within two years of December 1987 and periodically thereafter. So there you have it. Of course, you're not hearing about this congressional report because, I mean, I know many of you have taken the vaccine. Maybe some of you are happy that you took it and continue to get boosted. I'm not really sure why, but, you know, it's something that was never – as you know, was never fully researched. The package inserts on these vaccine vials were left blank intentionally. There's a reason for that. And there's a reason why, I mean, why would they mandate something that hasn't been fully tested? And this is one point of contention that I have with Trump as well, that he continued to talk about the vaccine and how great it was and how it was his greatest accomplishment ever. And on and on and on. And I just, I don't get it other than something nefarious. Sorry. That's the way that I feel about it. So go follow Karen Kingston. She is a firebrand when it comes to researching these vaccines. And of course the deep state hates her for it. She has been hit from every angle that one could possibly be hit for putting her research out there. And along the same lines and with respect to vaccines, and what's still in the works for we the people. Bill Gates is in the news again, and it seems it's never for anything good. As I sit here and type on my computer with a Windows 11 operating system that Microsoft developed, I think to myself, how odd is it that he went from creating computer software to helping create and promote medical interventions? How does that work? But he is full steam ahead with his depopulation agenda through disease X now. And we will be hearing more about this, trust me. This new disease will be the catalyst for forever lockdowns in 15-minute cities across the Western world. Bill Gates has been doing tabletop exercises with the World Economic Forum. Governments are quietly implementing laws requiring forced vaccination and And Klaus Schwab is dropping hints about the end of America. Now, Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum. In a name, World Economic Forum, what the hell do they have to do with any medical mandates or pandemics or any – what do they have to do with any of that? Don't you think that's kind of a front for something else? Yeah, because it kind of is. So three years ago, Bill Gates was on Stephen Colbert's show, and he was talking about the final solution for humanity. And that's how he worded it, the final solution. And then Colbert called him out and said that he probably shouldn't rile up the conspiracy theorists by using that term final solution. And Gates just laughed and laughed, and they laughed together, and he's like, right, yeah, right. So the return to normal solution, he kind of corrected himself and said the return to normal solution, which we all know is BS, right? So you guys know how I feel about the COVID vaccine. I've kind of made that crystal clear, I think. And now that more time has passed and the stuff that I've read and the stuff that I've watched, a lot of information regarding the entire childhood vaccine schedule of like 17 different or 72 different vaccines before the kids, even two years old or something. I believe all vaccines are terrible and cause a myriad of problems, including autism, as you guys all know, but it doesn't stop with just your typical childhood and COVID vaccines. The World Health Organization says that disease X is looming, and they're giving warnings. And ironically, a vaccine has already been developed for it. But it's fine. I'm sure it's fine. I'm sure everybody is just going to line up and roll up their sleeves and give me that needle. Tedros, what's his face? I don't even try to pronounce his name. He says that we can consider COVID-19 as the first disease X, and it may happen again, is what he says. So there is a lab in Great Britain. I think Porton Down is what I heard, known for its work. Now, the lab is infamous or known for their work in chemical warfare. and they are experimenting with disease X. So much like the SARS-CoV-2 gain-of-function lab experiments that were taking place at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in conjunction with the Department of Defense, right? So the fact that there's already a vaccine for disease X that was developed in a lab that also produces compounds used in chemical warfare shouldn't that tell you all you need to know even they're saying that the 2025 flu vaccine likely contains some hideous cocktail that's going to make everyone who takes it very sick and it's all by design and you hear this stuff and i read this stuff and i'm like okay So why is it then that people will continue? I mean, I still know people that get boosted. They go in and get their boost, the whole booster thing. Why is that? So when disease X comes around this time, are you going to take it? Are you going to take the shot? Will you believe the narrative? And run to the store and just take yourself back to the summer of 2020. Or, you know, the end of 2019 when they started ramping up all the propaganda and all the tickers started showing up on your TV screen. And the number of deaths, the number of cases. And everything's in red. And they just scared the pants off of everybody. Right? Right. But, you know, of course, me watching and listening to the sources that I watch and listen to, I wasn't convinced. I mean, like I've always said, I was scared for a minute. Everybody was because we fell for it right off the bat because these people are very convincing in what they do and what they put out there. So I was convinced for a short time. that COVID may be more than just a bad cold. I was convinced that, I mean, I remember walking through the store and I, you know, for, for a while there, I was following those ridiculous arrows on the floor and I was trying to stay six feet away from people. And they, you know, the floor, the little feet prints that they had on the floor that were six feet apart and all that stuff. I did it. I did it and I fell for it. I sanitized my groceries when I got home. I sanitized things that I got from Amazon, you know, with a rag with some bleach water on it and, you know, wiped everything down before I put it away and wore my mask. And I remember walking through the store and somebody was walking in front of me and I'm thinking to myself, ooh, I'm passing through their air. Like they just passed through this space and now I'm breathing in the air that they breathed out. Ew! And I just remember thinking that way. And I think a lot of people did, some longer than others, obviously. I still see people running around in their cars with their masks on. But are you going to fall for it again? I really would love to know that if anybody is out there thinking, yeah, I kind of believe what they've got going on. I believe what they're saying, and I really think that we're going to – You know, this is going to be the end of civilization as we know it. But like I said, I'm sure it's fine, right? It's vital work to keep us all safe, according to a news report out of the UK. So this lab that's working on this compound or working on chemical warfare already has developed the vaccine for disease X, and it's fine. So yeah, you're going to go run out and stock up on toilet paper and willingly lock yourself in your house and wear a mask when you're out in public and all that stuff again, because I'm not. I sure as hell am not going to be doing any of those things. They can all get bent. You know, there's a part of me that wonders, though, and this is where You know, you kind of flip-flop and you go back and forth and you kind of try to think like them. And, you know, it gets very confusing. But was COVID a test run to see how compliant we would all be? And then just launch this virus that's, you know, 90% fatal or something. And then those of us who give them the double-barrel middle finger are aren't wearing our masks, we're not getting vaccinated, we're not staying six feet apart, you know, the whole thing. Is that designed to take the rebels of this whole situation and, you know, eliminate us? Is that how it's going to roll? Who knows? I don't know. But the people who resist may end up taking a dirt nap, whatever. And to that, I say, oh, well, when it's my time to go, it's my time to go. I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. And I hope a lot of you were in that same kind of boat. But here's the deal. It was never about your health. Dr. Simon Goddick put this out on X and said, they told the unvaccinated to get the shot because it worked. Then they told the vaccinated to get a booster because it didn't. Then they claimed the unvaccinated were endangering the vaccinated by not getting the shot that failed to protect the vaccinated. The circus was never about health. It was always about depopulation and control. So I guess we will see what kind of lies they can gin up this time and scare the bejesus out of everyone, the population at large. And we'll see how many people comply with their new mandates and their new rules. Because as we know, we still see it. You can spend any amount of time at the airport and you're going to see people running around with masks on their face. Spend any amount of time driving around and you're going to see people running around in their cars with masks on their face. So alone. So that's going to do it for me today, you guys. Thank you so much for spending the last 58 minutes with me on She and the Breeze. I appreciate it. Come down to Franktown Firearms and check us out. Until next Monday, same time, same bat channel. I'm out for now. Mama Glock says see ya, and God bless, everyone.
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ABC News' George Stephanopoulos – in addition to deleting his X (formerly Twitter) account – failed to mention on his Sunday show, "This Week," that ABC News was ordered to pay $15 million to President Donald Trump's presidential library in a defamation lawsuit. The Sekulow team discusses the fallout for ABC News and Stephanopoulos, CNN helping to free a dangerous criminal from a Syrian prison, Richard Grenell's new post in the Trump Administration as Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, the Deep State FBI's corruption, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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Today on Sekulow, Trump awarded millions of dollars from ABC News and a big update on our fight for life in Massachusetts.
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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.
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And now your host, Logan Sekula. Welcome to Sekula. We've got a great show lined up for you today. Obviously, we're talking about the big news where President Trump was awarded a significant amount of money, $15 million. And we'll talk about where that money's going to go. It doesn't just go into his pockets because that's not how he usually plays it. So ABC News reached a settlement, as you may have heard. ABC News slash George Stephanopoulos, because of his reporting, had to not only issue an official apology... to president Trump. They also had to give $15 million. And that $15 million is going to go on to whether it was the Trump's library. That's right. Or something like that. Something nice and historical to memorialize president Trump's, uh, Historic administration.
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That's right. I envision a nice plaque that says courtesy of ABC News and George Stephanopoulos.
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They'll say ABC fake news.
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When the Trump presidential library is completed after his second term sometime in the future. Yeah. But what this is, is this stems from reporting when ABC News had on Nancy Mace, a congresswoman from South Carolina, and George Stephanopoulos aggressively was pushing her on the issue of how she could support Trump when she had been a victim of violence in the past at the hands of a man. and trying to use President Trump in the civil cases that he had been facing in New York as kind of a bait and switch of like, well, how can you do this to support this man who has these civil judgments, but he miscategorized what they were. He doubled and tripled down on it, too. And kept going, even though what he claimed they were out of New York wasn't indeed the truth. And therefore, the president filed a defamation lawsuit, something that is very difficult when you are someone in the public eye. Usually it's often impossible to win something like this. And now the question that is before is ABC News felt like now after the election was the time to settle this, make it go away instead of getting to discovery or even trying to have it thrown out of court. Before it even got to those stages, they decided to settle with discovery. President-elect Trump in the tune of about $15 million, which will go to his presidential foundation and memorial library in the future. So they got out of it. George Stephanopoulos deleted his Twitter account in the wake of this. And they haven't addressed it at all. I'm sorry. I'm still stuck in my old ways calling it Twitter. But he deleted his ex account and they haven't addressed it, which may be some of the terms of the settlement because this was settled out of court that maybe both sides aren't going to talk about it. But it's a big win for the president. And, you know, the vindication here is that they settled in a case of defamation, which many times I would say most of the time when it's against a very public figure. The person who is the defendee who has the allegations of defamation against them wins out in high-profile cases because it is so hard to prove you are acting with malicious intent.
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It's not just free speech and you're having these discussions. We're going to keep this conversation going as well. My dad, Jay Sekulow, is going to be joining us in the next segment because we've all had our run-ins with George Stephanopoulos over the years. And you will find and watch a very specific clip. featuring my father and george stefanopoulos from just a couple years back you're going to find that pretty interesting in light of all of this and again he is someone who i think has been friendly to us over the years as well so i don't want to like just disparage the guy but it is nice to see when there are moments like this where you don't want to say justice was served but where you can't just go on there and lie and an issue apology had a big you know sum of money And then hopefully everyone gets to move on with their day. We also have a major update in our fight for life in the pregnancy resource centers in Massachusetts. You heard about our new counter campaign last week. And on Friday, they had to respond. The state had to respond. And what they put in their letter, some of it you're going to find disturbing, but not shocking. I'll say that. How about that? Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. We'd love to take your calls as well. And Jeff Balabot will be joining us from Israel. And of course, we've got to send a congratulations to our friend Rick Grinnell. We're going to be talking about that later on as well as he has a new appointment. 1-800-684-3110 to call in. We are in the last two weeks of our ACLJ year-end Faith and Freedom Drive. Make your donation today. Your gifts will be doubled. Welcome back to Sekulo. Thanks for joining us. My dad, Jay Sekulo, is going to be joining us here in just a moment. You can give us a call at 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. Of course, we're talking about the news where George Stephanopoulos and the ABC News Department had to pay out. settlement 15 million big ones and offer an apology to President Trump over some of their false claims and again a pretty interesting win because as Will stated not always easy to win in this type of situation or to even get to that point so the fact that ABC decided let's settle and let's settle this before Trump takes office is very telling at the same time you have a weekend where Tim Cook is flying down to Mar-a-Lago meeting with Elon and and President Trump it's a pretty wild time Right now, as we're moving into just 35, 36 days away from President Trump taking office once again. My dad, again, Jay Sekulow, has joined us. I want to start this, Dad, first, because we've all had a bit of run-ins with George Stephanopoulos. Not necessarily a person that has been a bad guy. We've worked with him for years. But there was a moment, a pretty iconic moment. It goes back, back in the impeachment trial. You were out doing press. And this one still lives on because I saw many people posting this over the weekend saying, remember this? And maybe this was sort of the beginning of the end for some of the bias that's coming out and some of the ways that the news kind of lies to the public. So take a look at this. This is my dad, Jay Sekulow. out uh you know talking to the press immediately following or right before one of the hearings one of the sessions during the impeachment trial right so so that's happening and this is what happened live on television go ahead
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Because our position is you still have to meet basic fundamental constitutional obligations, and they haven't. Next.
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How much more work do you think you have ahead to try and convince that rumor?
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And that is Jay Sekulow right there. And let's bring in our panel to talk a little bit about that. You just saw something a little bit new from Jay Sekulow.
SPEAKER 07 :
There you go. Something a little bit new from Jay Sekulow. But of course, right before that, what they cut to was him going like this, giving the ax to cut off on your neck, basically saying, cut this off, probably because this is too good of an argument. But dad, I want to get your, obviously your initial thoughts of this, but then your thoughts on this settlement over the weekend.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, first of all, you know, I have a good relationship with George Stephanopoulos, and I got along with most of me. And, you know, in those days, Logan, I was doing sometimes nine, ten news hits a day, and those were right during the impeachment. So I'd come off the floor of the Senate and then go do that one. I'll never forget that one, though, because... evidently he knew he got caught doing the cutoff sign. And I was about to say, what I was about to do was they made a major gap that morning in their argument, the impeachment managers. And I was to get into the guts of it, which was just going to be a couple of seconds, but he did not want it to go there. So look, I mean, this is the problem the media gets into. And then, of course, the accusation that ABC News and George Stephanopoulos individually said, made on air accusing the president of a federal crime and a state crime is what's called defamation per se. So they really had no choice but to settle it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because usually in this situation, and Will brought this up, often if it's a, let's say it's a celebrity or public figure versus somebody who's saying, well, they're saying bad things about me on the news or saying bad things about me on the Internet. It's often a hard case to win. I've been in many of those discussions where people get very upset because they feel like the news is just flat out lying about them. But sometimes there's nothing you can do. So this is a bit of a big moment.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so the interesting thing here is in the defamation laws in the United States, if you're a public figure, which is clearly the situation here, that the president's a public figure, you have a very high standard to show a defamation case. The knowledge of the false statement has to be laid at the feet of the reporter or whoever made the statement. The difference is, though... when it's a crime that you've accused somebody of a criminal act, that is defamation per se. That means it is defamation on its face and the normal defenses don't work. And that's why they settled it for hold your breath. $15 million. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
$15 million are probably what hurt the most. The official apology. I feel like probably too.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and, uh, we do also look at this, this fact that it is something novel. I feel like for a lot of our audience seeing the, uh, news media, uh, admit that they were wrong and having to actually pay out for things that they were wrong about uh do you think going forward in the new administration we know that that the media is not going to back off but we're seeing the cratering numbers of msnbc that comcast is thinking about spinning off all of their cable division cnn's numbers are low and we've got a story we'll talk about there with their reporting in syria but now this almost seems to be uh A sign on the wall for many of those news organizations that maybe they will be a little bit more careful about some of the, dare I say, misinformation that they put out there during this next administration.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think it's a couple of things. Well, one is that and I think this is part of it. They have all the media has recalibrated itself. and are trying to reset with the incoming president of the United States, who was the 45th president, will now be the 47th president. I think the perfect example of that is Joe Scarborough and his wife, Mika, who's the co-host of Morning Joe. They went down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with the president to try to reset everything. Same thing here. This is a lot of resetting because what they had tried to do to President Trump in 2016 And that term, they're not going to be able to pull off this time. They're just not. It's a different we're in a different world. So I think the media is having to do a recalibration. I think that the liberal media, the MSNBC, the CNNs of the world are in serious, serious trouble financially. I think that you're going to see a total redo and Fox and the others are up 12, 14 percent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they're thriving, and I think you're going to see that too. And like I said, I think for a lot of these companies, you may see it for ABC as well at some point. Now, ABC News, because it's over-the-air network, it's a little different than the way NBC runs, because I look at MSNBC, and I've always told you, I felt like MSNBC is a weird piece in the portfolio of NBCUniversal, of Xfinity Comcast, as really an entertainment brand, as a company that's a provider of a lot of people's internet and cable, to then all of a sudden have this... You know, very distinct leftist network on MSNBC, something that really takes away 50 percent of your audience, who is just your average customer, who a lot of them rely on you for for service. That's why I think in NBC, it makes total sense for them to get out of that business. For CNN, it's a little different. And for ABC, it's a little different because ABC, like I said, has more of that crossover. They don't have the cable news. affiliate. But you saw CNN. They lost one of their big anchors last week with Allison Camerata, left the network. And you're going to see that happen over and over. As you said, the idea that we'll just go after President Trump for four years so he can't run again, obviously that doesn't happen this time. So what are you going to have to do? They still have to figure out how to get access, how to have things happen and if he's talking about tariffs and what does it all end up looking like i'm sure there's a little bit of being scared there but we're at that point where now they're reacting and i find that to be pretty interesting and pretty fun you're going to see like you said a shake-up uh in the news media when you have really what i believe one of the big things that won president trump the election this time was the uh it was new media where the last time The embracing of TikTok and some of these other outlets by the Democrats, I think, highly helped them. You then had the opposite effect, which is President Trump saying, forget about traditional media. Let's go to Joe Rogan. Let's go to Theo Vaughn. Let's go to where there are tens of millions of people who no one else is talking to. and go to the guy that they trust the most in some ways, this audience trusts the most, and then got all these big endorsements. And that happened over and over and over again. And I think it changed. That and obviously putting together a team with people like our friends, Tulsi Gabbard or with RFK Jr. And now again with Rick Grinnell, we'll talk about that in the next segment about how Rick's got a new spot, but he'll still be around. So don't worry. We'll talk to him a little bit later this week. Obviously he's a busy guy, always a busy guy. But dad, as we wrap up this segment, I also want to give an opportunity. We're two weeks left in our Faith and Freedom drive. It is the end of the year. This is the most important time. As I've said, 25% of our budget for the entire year comes in during this month. And right now, honestly, we're a little down. It's a big year to match. We got to make sure we get there. All donations are matched, but it's a very important time. And as Christmas and the holidays all fall and New Year's fall in kind of weird spots this year, this should be the time that you decide to give your year in giving right now.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I really want to say first a huge thank you to all the people who are supporting the ACLJ with their gifts and especially, of course, our ACLJ champions. But I also want to say, as Logan just mentioned, that we are at the last two weeks of the year here. And these are the most important two weeks for the ACLJ financially. What happens, as Logan said, 25%. A little bit more than that, actually, of our budget comes in in one month, if you can believe that. But that's what happens at the end of the year. And that's true for a lot of nonprofits, but for us particularly. And then what that allows us to do is then set our budgets on what we can and cannot handle next year. There's going to be a lot of legal challenges. The president's going to move swiftly on things. You know the left's going to attack, and we have to be the voice to counter that attack. So your support of the ACLJ right now really does make a huge difference. And again, a huge thank you to everyone. But if you're in a position to make a gift, I encourage you to do it today at ACLJ.org.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's right. Thank you, Dad, for joining us. And again, as he said, if you're watching right now, also, you can scan the QR code we'll put up on the screen right now. You'll see it in the corner. If not, just go to ACLJ.org or if it's easier to you, go to ACLJ.org. All gifts. You don't have to opt in. All gifts are matched and doubled by other ACLJ members, ACLJ champions, people that support on a monthly recurring basis. We love those ACLJ champions. But some of you just give one time a year. Or maybe you've never given at all and you've enjoyed this broadcast and you enjoy the legal work and we're there fighting for people. We got a big response from the state of Massachusetts. We're going to talk about this a little bit later on that anti-pregnancy resource center campaign they've been running. We've challenged it in court and now we're taking it to the streets literally with our counter campaign, Choice Begins Here. I'm going to show you a preview of that as well as give you that update coming up in just a moment. And we're going to talk about our friend, like I said, Rick Grinnell. He's got a new position. We're excited about that. It's a brand new position. Very cool. Again, though, support the work of the ACLJ. You're going to hear me talk about it today, and you really need to. We are at the year end. I'm going to keep talking about it until I can't talk anymore because it means so much to us right now. If you ever thought about doing it, this is the time. Go to ACLJ.org. We'll be right back. Welcome back. Phone lines are still open for you, by the way. We got about four lines open. It's a great time to call in as we will take all those calls coming up later in the broadcast, whether in the next segment or at the end of the show. So call in now. 1-800-684-3110. Jeff Balaban is going to be joining us from ACLJ Jerusalem in the next segment with some interesting updates from there as well. But I wanted to first lead with this. As you know, we have been for the last six or seven months. Been working on this project because I went through the streets of Massachusetts. I was hanging out in Boston and I saw these ads that said avoid anti-abortion centers. And they were very targeted specifically at pro-life pregnancy resource centers, which I've worked with and the ACLJ has worked with for decades. And these are places that have just incredible hearts and incredible, a lot of incredible technology. And they work with future mothers to give them real options. That's what we say. It's not just going in and saying abortion is your option, which is sadly what happened so many times. for women who are scared or don't know where to go. When they walk into a Planned Parenthood, sadly, that's the way they make their money. So they pitch it that way. But these pro-life pregnancy resources provide amazing things. Whether that's, by the way, pre and postnatal. So you have, you know, obviously all the stuff you need, ultrasounds, everything to be taken care of before you have the baby. And then post, a lot of them have days where you go and you get free clothes. You get free formula. They take care of you. They'll take your baby for a few hours. They'll do a lot of things. There's so many great things these resource centers do. So when a multi-million dollar ad campaign comes out from your own state, from your own commonwealth of Massachusetts, you can feel pretty defeated. And when I saw that, we made some contacts, realized this is what was happening in Massachusetts. They were spending millions of dollars, some with... pro-choice groups they were working with, but taxpayer money as well to do this. And the people felt horrible and defeated, the actual people of Massachusetts. Because a lot of them, even the ones that are, I guess, Democrat voters, if you will, a lot of them are pro-life. This is a large Catholic community there that you know of. Everyone knows that. And a lot of them are hardcore in terms of pro-life. So there's some great pro-life pregnancy resource centers around there. And we said, how can we help? And there's two ways we just determined. ACLJ, what are we known for? The law. So we took him to court. We got a response on Friday. We're about to tell you that. And of course, the media. And that's where I came in and said, all right, let's work with my team, put together a really amazing counter campaign. It's full of hope and full of joy. Where theirs is full of sadness and regret and all this stuff. Ours is going to be full of joy, hope, sadness, and what it can look like in the future. And of course they tell you in their documents, make sure you, if you see the word hope, that's a red flag that this is a pro-life pregnancy resource center. Do not go in there. They're not going to help you. They're going to make sure you have a safe and healthy baby. They're not going to make sure that you terminate your pregnancy. But we filed this.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. And I'll give a little bit of background on the case. So we filed a lawsuit against the governor, the commissioner of this organization within the Massachusetts government, as well as the organization that was putting the ads forward. And we allege that. There was an overt viewpoint-based discrimination campaign, including harassment, suppression, and threats against Your Options Medical and other pregnancy resource centers directed by the governor. The pro-abortion smear campaign involves selective law enforcement, prosecution, public threats, and even state-sponsored advertising campaign with the singular goal to deprive Your Options Medical and their counterparts of their First Amendment rights, voiced to freely... freely exercise their religious and political viewpoints. And we filed the lawsuit. In the steps of the lawsuit, kind of one of the first things you have is a motion to dismiss by the defendants.
SPEAKER 07 :
And very expected that this would come.
SPEAKER 11 :
So what they're trying to say to the court is, hey, here's why you should just throw this out. And that's what we got. We got their first reasoning about our lawsuit on Friday. And one of the first things they say is the complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted because this government speech is permitted by the First Amendment. It does not burden Your Options Medical's free exercise of its religious beliefs, and it does not violate the Equal Protection Clause. They also say qualified immunity bars Your Options Medical claims against Governor Healey and Commissioner Goldstein. It's interesting. they're using qualified immunity here because that is kind of a a bad word on the left because that is the same doctrine that covers police officers for what their actions are during the course of their duties they're using that same legal argument here to give protection to the governor and the commissioner here for their liberal views well i'm reading this thing of course what you say sure that's that's what they're doing because they're gonna use all options because you know what
SPEAKER 07 :
Maybe the Commonwealth of Massachusetts saw the American Center for Law and Justice, the ACLJ, and said, uh-oh, this is the real deal coming for us right now. This is not some fly-by-night organization that's going to back off and go away. No, of course we're going to respond. And also in their text, by the way, a few statements. One, the government free speech. Sure, the government has their own speech. Who's determining that speech? The government. So does that represent the people? From what I can tell in the state of Massachusetts, not always. There's a lot of people who are very upset about this. But also, this is what it says specifically, and I think you should be a little worked up about this. Of course, it says, I'll read this to you. It says, on March 22nd, 2023, the Massachusetts legislature enacted a supplemental budget signed by Governor Healey on March 29th, which provided not less than $1 million shall be expended for public awareness campaigns to educate providers about crisis pregnancy centers and pregnancy resource centers and the center's lack of medical services. Provided further, the campaign should include information on the availability of providers across the Commonwealth that provide legitimate medical and family planning services. And then later on, earlier on, specifically says, because they don't provide abortions, these are illegitimate services.
SPEAKER 11 :
resources and place in illegitimate places for our you know parents potential parents to go to because they do not provide the option of killing their child that's right it says on page six of this motion to dismiss it says as the complaint alleges the department explained that anti-abortion centers provide information and counseling to individuals who are or may be pregnant some provide testing for stds pregnancy test and ultrasounds to determine how far along the pregnancy may be sounds accurate yeah Many of these centers advertise themselves as full-service reproductive health care clinics, the department noted, yet they do not provide abortion care or abortion referrals and other important reproductive health care services. So they can't say that they're a full-service clinic when they're not giving abortions out.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's part of the argument here within the motion to dismiss that was filed. You have to understand the mentality that's going on within the left on this issue right now. That if you are just... not providing one service. A service that is illegal now, by the way, in about probably a dozen states. You can't even get one. Abortion doesn't exist in the state of Tennessee. It is pretty much impossible. It's only a life of the mother kind of exceptions here. It doesn't exist. In certain states, obviously there's a lot more. Massachusetts, it's actually probably one of the most liberal states in the country in terms of life. So these options, pro-life pregnancy resource centers, it's not like there's not other options for them to go to. If you're stepping in one of these, you probably know what you're getting yourself into and you're actually looking for real compassion, real care. When you hear the stories of these real people, it really moves you. You should watch our special we did for the love of God, Save Our Country, which came out earlier this year, came out in October. You should look at that because you can hear what amazing stories from Save the Storks and what they're doing. You'll connect with these groups. They're doing amazing, amazing, beautiful work. But you have states that are going to do whatever they can to shut them down. And that's why the ACLJ has to be there, everybody. We've got to be there two prongs. Media, and I'm going to play when we get back. Make sure you're watching the second half hour. I'm going to play for you our first preview. You may have seen it last week. Our first preview on our Choice Begins Here campaign, which is going to start in the state of Massachusetts early next year if we get enough funds to support it. So where a mother is walking around, or expectant mother's walking around, they see an ad that says, avoid anti-abortion centers. They're not going to help you. We're going to provide hope and care and push them to these incredible resource centers that are going to help them through their pregnancy and beyond. I encourage you to go to ACLJ.org to make that donation. We are trying to raise $500,000 for that campaign. It is an uphill battle. But know how important that battle is. Again, go to ACLJ.org. Support the work of the ACLJ. Donations are doubled right now during our year-end drive. Ends in just a couple weeks. Do it today.
SPEAKER 10 :
keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever. This is Sekulow.
SPEAKER 07 :
And now your host, Logan Sekulow. Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open. We're going to take them coming up later in the broadcast. 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. If you're just joining us, you may have heard the story about ABC News having to award President Trump $15 million for an official apology. We discussed that in the first half of the broadcast. And then we also just talked about the response from the state of Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on our fight to help protect Americans. pro-life pregnancy resource centers from the state getting involved, spending taxpayer dollars, millions, the tune of millions of dollars to try to get these organizations out of business, essentially shut them down. And we believe it's targeting. And of course, they're going to say, oh, it's our freedom of speech. We got a lot to fight back on. And look, we're going to start it in Massachusetts. And if you guys all support it, we hope to take this new campaign around the country to all the states that need it the most. I'll be honest, I came on here, we had a big ask. I said, we gotta raise $500,000 to get this ad campaign going. It's supposed to start in March. When it gets a little warmer in Massachusetts, people are walking around, you're gonna start seeing it in billboards, you're gonna start seeing it on buses, you're gonna start seeing it in restrooms. It's gonna be wherever people are. to the tune of millions of impressions. We got to make sure we are there and you're going to be able to see it and in the right places. We're talking about specifically where? College campus areas, areas where Planned Parenthood and other essentially abortion centers are located. So we're going to make sure we are hitting those spots very intentionally. But we can't do it without you. I know you go, hey, I may not live in the state of Massachusetts. Why do I care? Because again, we want to take this to other states. And also it is how you fight back against really government overreach saying their voice is stronger than the voice of the people. So right now, support that work at ACLJ.org. I want to show you a preview of our campaign, Choice Begins Here. Most people think, oh, you're going to do some gory, disturbing show. When I grew up in the 80s and 90s, it was a lot of that. It was a lot of imagery, graphic imageries of abortions. And look, I think that when you do see those, it does affect you. But what if we took a different look at it? What if we gave a completely different spin on it? We tried to reach people's hearts in a different way. And our team developed this new campaign, Choice Begins Here. And I want you to take a look at the first video ad. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 02 :
I'll never forget that day. Scariest moment of my life. I had just started my business and then this. Pregnant? Really? I just thought about all of my dreams falling apart. I needed help, I needed answers. Places I heard of, they seemed to only offer one option. Then I found a pregnancy resource center and they talked to me about my options. She listened, she actually cared about me. No shame, no judgment. I'll never forget that day either. The day that I realized maybe this wasn't the end of my dreams, but just the start of one I hadn't even imagined. To find a pregnancy resource center near you, go to choicebeginshere.org.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that is the first look at Choice Begins Here. Again, of course, paid for by you, ACLJ supporters. Brought to you by the ACLJ and couldn't happen without you. So we want that to blanket the state of Massachusetts to fight their anti, you know, what they call the anti-abortion centers, what they're really targeting is people giving real choice. So I'm gonna encourage you right now, make that donation at ACLJ.org. You're gonna hear me say it a bunch of times. But when I see that video and I see what we're trying to do, we're seeing the imagery that we're going to be rolling out around the country and starting in Massachusetts. We're doing it with the best of intentions, the best of hearts. And that's real cold, hard dollars that have to be spent to get that advertising space. And we need your help to do that. So I encourage you again, go to ACLJ.org. Next segment, we're going to be joined by Jeff Balaban from ACLJ Jerusalem with a critical update. I know some of you have asked specifically about Rick Grinnell because we didn't get to that as much. We'll have him on later in the broadcast later in the week. But he was named presidential envoy for special missions. And some of you asked, does that mean that he is off the show? No, I believe it means he will still be seeing Rick Grinnell in this broadcast quite a bit. So don't worry about that. We are very proud, very excited for him to have this new opportunity to be, you know, being a part of the conversation in places like North Korea. And of course, we couldn't have those amazing people on our ACLJ team because now we have him and we had Tulsi. We've put together an amazing crew the last few years and look where a lot of them ended up. It's pretty fantastic. And we're very proud of all of them. And of course, I'm sure we'll look forward to them checking in regularly as well. Again, phone lines are open 1-800-684-3110. Next segment, we're going to Israel with Jeff Balaban. Welcome back to Sekulow. Jeff Balaban's joining us from ACLJ Jerusalem. We had some pretty interesting updates going on over there. And of course, we had some interesting updates, Will, coming on over here in regards to the current conflict between Gaza and Israel and what that looks like. And of course, that war that's been ongoing. But of course, it can't have to, you know, just as something has been positive, something negative had to come out of this, something a bit controversial, and we're responding.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right. So as we told you last week, we uncovered among a ceremony, graduation ceremony of the National Academy, which is an FBI training academy for local law enforcement and some international police groups, that the day after Chris Wray announced that he would be resigning from his position at the end of the term, he was handing out diplomas. And he gave one to a man who was from an intelligence police force in the Palestinian Authority's control. and announced him as from Ramallah, state of Palestine. ACLJ did not take that and just, hey, okay, it's bad policy at the end of a presidency. We got a FOIA out, sending it out today. Can we play the clip of this?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, this is fight four. I think you can see how egregious it is when you just see how casual, it's not like they said, you know, made a statement. It's just very casual, like a graduation ceremony. Right. Take a look.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hossam Abu Aisha, Preventative Security Organization, Ramallah, State of Palestine.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you hear that though, of course, just again, casually, nice little claps. And probably a lot of people not even thinking about it, but of course you hear that and you go, oh, this is a recognition of what they consider a state of Palestine.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and so we've got a FOIA request out. We're going to get to the bottom of this. It's going to the FBI. I mean, I'm sure that they will sit on it on this administration, but Jeff, hopefully, In the coming administration with Kash Patel at the helm and new leadership, we'll be able to actually find out what is going on within the Federal Bureau of Investigation when they so cavalierly announce someone as being from a place that the U.S. does not officially recognize as the state of Palestine, but they are clearly dishing out statehood at the FBI here in the last few weeks of the Biden administration. What are your thoughts on it when you saw it?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, thank God that we are taking this to a foyer and trying to dig up what lies underneath this. Because, you know, from the beginning of this administration, Team Biden has done everything it could to claim it's friendly to Israel, but undermine Israel's sovereignty, push for the idea of a Palestinian state there has never been, and God willing, there never will be. a state of Palestine. It's a terrible idea. It was an idea that Israel was pressured into to even go through negotiations. And the Palestinian Authority, which is legally just a successor to the PLO, a terrorist organization, has never dropped its actual behavior as a terrorist organization. And to recognize them as a state is not only illegal, it's not only against American law. It is a way to incite violence and hostility around the world against the country that is Israel. And so, yeah, it's a disaster. I'm very glad that the ACLJ jumped on this. And yes, people didn't hear about it so much in Israel yet, because there's so much else going on here. But it's necessary to find this out. It's necessary to uproot this.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and Jeff, what's so shocking to me about it, and as someone who follows this closely, when I saw the clip, I actually started digging to make sure it was, one, not AI, because it's an announcer's voice. And so did someone create some misinformation to try to stir something up? Or did this happen years ago and no one just saw it? No, it was when I saw it had happened the afternoon prior. And to me, it raises so many questions because we know what the Obama administration did when they stabbed Israel in the back on their way out the door when President-elect Trump was coming in 2017, where they abstained from a vote in the UN General Assembly that was trying to recognize the Palestinians as an observer state. Now you look at this, and we have been talking about what kind of bad moves are going to come out against Israel. We've seen quite a few, but... To me, it was more shocking that that was said from the MC, which was reading from a script. So who wrote it? And two, that there wasn't even like a grimace on Chris Ray's face when that was announced that way. Everyone just seemed okay with the way the language was being used. And I think that speaks to a larger problem that we need to be looking at and rooting out within holdovers, within bureaucrats that are embedded there, because the ideology is no longer we really want a two-state solution and this pipe dream that we can achieve that with peace and equal territory and whatnot. But that it appears people within the U.S. government already believe there is a Palestinian state and are okay with calling it that in official ceremonies.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're making a very important point, William, which is exactly right. Part of this is, it could be malice, people who are trying to undermine the federal government and American law by creating a state de facto. But it could be that people just believe there is such a thing. If you go on social media, so many people talk about Israel-Palestine as though there's such a thing as a state of Palestine. People on Capitol Hill, talk about Palestine as though it's a country or it's a state. It's not. There's the Palestinian Authority. Again, the Palestinian Authority is a successor legal entity to the PLO, a terrorist organization that has been given control over vast swaths of Judea and Samaria. And yes, there is some, there has to be some balance of security cooperation between the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority. But at the same token, In Israel, what the news really is here that you don't hear about there so much is the rash and the huge increase in Palestinian versus Palestinian, meaning Judea and Samaria, the Arabs killing each other now, as right now, including members of the same security forces, which America has been training, which America has been arming. And now apparently, which America is educating and giving awards to or diplomas to at the FBI. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Jeff, I want to bring up something you and I talked about actually before the show today is that the world looks on and they see the weakening of Iran. We see Hamas being decimated. Yes, they're still fighting between Israel and Hamas right now, but Israel is not subject to the types of rocket attacks from Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas that they have been over the past years. And then you see the leadership of Hezbollah taken out. You see that Israel was able to go in and get rid of a lot of strategic Assad regime sites so that whatever the future of that country, failed state may be that there is a security buffer there for the Israelis. But one group that hasn't been talked about as much are the Houthis in Yemen, which is still an Iranian proxy, which has been firing directly at Jerusalem where you are over the past several days. Could you give our audience and listeners a little bit of an update on what's going on? Because it's sometimes easy to forget that with all these proxies falling, that there's still very real danger for the citizens of Israel, even to this day.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, that's true. And, you know, people are thinking right now that they've really degraded the ability of Israel's enemies to launch weapons into Israeli civilian areas, because let's face it, the world yells about Israel, but they take for granted that it's OK that on all these different, all these different entities and groups have been firing missiles, rockets into Israel's population centers. And there's always been a thesis that, well, they avoid Jerusalem, A, because of the very large Arab Muslim population, B, because some of Islam's self-proclaimed holiest sites are here, like on the Temple Mount, where they have two major holy sites on the Temple Mount. the Al-Aqsa Moqs and the Dome of the Rock. And so people assume they wouldn't, but that's not true. Of course they'll fire at this because it seems that the one religious principle for many of these groups above all else is the genocide of the Jews. And so on Thursday, I believe it was, shortly after it got off the air with you, we had alarms here in Jerusalem in my building. We were told to go to the bomb shelter. And then there was the all clear about 15 minutes, 10 minutes later. And when we first walked out, we were told what was a false alarm. And then we found out later it wasn't a false alarm. Again, earlier today, the same thing happened. Missiles were launched from Houthi territory, from Yemen. And the alarms are actually given because Israel tries to and successfully has shot them down in air. But what that also means is that fragments can land. So number one, where they're coming from Yemen, it's a very long distance. They're trying to estimate, they're trying to be very careful when they put sirens here, which neighborhood, like within square blocks, rockets are going to land. When it comes to this, they have to do large areas. So today, the sirens were all across the center of Israel, like everywhere. But some of the fragments actually landed here in North Jerusalem. Thank God nobody was hurt. And last time, again, they blew it out of the sky. But yes, it's still a war zone, even in the major civilian population centers in Israel.
SPEAKER 07 :
Jeff, thank you so much for joining us. I want to give you a minute also. Stick around. We've got one minute left here. And just a moment, as we are telling people, it's the last two weeks of the year from fundraising. It's the end of our Faith and Freedom year in drive. The ACLJ Jerusalem is there at a very important time. And these are the reasons, because we're making sure we are on top of things that are even American-centered there in Jerusalem, like what we saw earlier.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, look, it's obviously, I do this with ACLJ, by ACLJ, as ACLJ Jerusalem, because I believe that ACLJ plays a really unique role of all of the organizations that I'm aware of, in and out of Washington and out of the media for a very long time. In terms of, and you just look at the kind of people who join with us when they cycled out of the last Trump administration. The fact that we had the former Secretary of State, the fact that we had Rick Grinnell, who, by the way, is now the man with the coolest title in all of Washington. right right uh tulsi gabbard others uh the fact that they officially uh come with us and work with us it's because this is not just uh you know it's supposed to be a law firm but it's so much more than that absolutely jeff thank you so much we're gonna head to heartbreakaclj.org thanks for joining us
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Welcome back to Secular. We're still taking your calls at 1-800-684-3110. We've got a few lines open. If you've ever wanted to be on the show, this is a great time to call, but this is also kind of the last chance to call. 1-800-684-3110. Ronald's calling from South Carolina. Let's go ahead and take Ronald, who watches on Rumble. We love his calls. Ronald, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, yes. Thanks for taking my call. The question I had was about the settlement. Does Trump have to take the settlement, or could he still go through with the suit and sue for more?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, Ronald, they have settled, so that puts an end to the lawsuit.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. He could have. not taking the settlement and move forward it wasn't imposed upon him that this is the settlement but uh the attorneys in a settlement they get together like let's try to avoid moving forward let's negotiate judges like it when you do that because it clears up the docket it doesn't have to go forward with a full thing uh but so they came to an agreement and this was the agreement between the two parties 15 million that goes to the presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for the plaintiff which is by the way
SPEAKER 07 :
A typical Trump, pretty hilarious move. Right. Very funny moment to kind of be like, fine, ABC News is going to pay for my presidential library, essentially my monument to myself.
SPEAKER 11 :
And then also there is an additional million dollars in attorney's fees. So it's actually a $16 million settlement. But the $15 million is what the big meat of that is. And so, no, he didn't have to take it. The attorneys didn't have to take it. But when you have the opportunity to get also ABC to admit wrongdoing and pay a settlement and get that headline instead of continuing to pay for legal work and fighting that out i mean he's going to be a busy man and i mean already is but coming up um yeah i feel like he was probably in the best interest of his legal team as well to be like we're gonna have a lot of other fights everyone want to wrap it up that they're ready to end this yeah let's do it and go forward so hopefully that answers your question ronald it was it was a settlement between the two parties not just a imposed you have to do this that was abc news but also you flip over to cnn they had kind of an update here
SPEAKER 07 :
This one was pretty interesting and we're going to briefly talk about it. I'm sure Jordan and the team and you will talk about it later on this week as well. Oh yeah, this is my, by the way, I'm not going anywhere. This is just my last day before my vacation, before my break. So, you know, enjoy the rest of your time with Jordan and the team. They're going to have a great time. You're going to have a great shows coming up. But I did want to briefly talk about this as we do discuss the media quite a bit.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right. And we can play a short clip of this. This was CNN's Clarissa Ward, who is known for being kind of their war correspondent. One of the best of the best, yeah. She was in Ukraine and did great reporting there and was on the ground immediately in Syria after the fall of Assad.
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And so this... By the way, I take nothing away from her in this situation in many ways because you're putting a very...
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uh peculiar situation but she's clearly been a very brave journalist over the decades that she's been working so i don't want to to defame her in that sense but this is a very cnn moment yeah so they're here we'll play a short clip of it but essentially they found a secret prison they were with uh rebel escorts and found a secret prison and there was a surprise prisoner left over we'll play this clip and then we'll give some of the revelations that have come to light after this reporting so let's go ahead and play bite one
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I can't tell though, it might just be a blanket. But it's the only cell that's locked.
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Is he gonna shoot it? Oh, it moved.
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Is there someone there? I thought he thought it moved. Is someone there?
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You're okay, you're okay.
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Mike. You're okay.
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Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. Okay, it's water.
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So this was a prisoner in a secret prison that all the other prisoners had been let free.
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It claimed he had no food and water for multiple days. And red flags started to go up immediately. People started going, this feels odd. They had to shoot off the lock, but he still didn't get stirred from that.
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And then also he had been in there without sunlight for months, but yet he was still kind of well-kempt in some ways. I mean, maybe not perfectly healthy, but looked fine. decently well for what you'd expect out of a secret Syrian prison well it turns out after a lot of ridicule from even like Mediaite who's not known for being necessarily unfair to CNN Mediaite kind of was picking it apart but it turns out Verify Psy, which is a fact-checking organization that was created specifically to look at the Syrian war in 2016 is when this organization, they're kind of vetting footage and videos that come out to kind of put a tamper on on propaganda that may come out this individual who was liberated on that day with cnn was actually a part of the assad regime so it wasn't a rebel that was kept in captivity and it turns out that his name is salama muhammad salama He was a first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, notorious for his activities in Homs, and resident of the Al Bayada neighborhood. They identified him that he was frequently stationed at a checkpoint in the area's western entrance, famous for its abuses, including theft, extortion, coercion of residents, and torture. So CNN... put out this piece where they were almost seen as like look we're liberating someone who turns out may have been not the type of person that they would be praising that they liberated as they were celebrating the fall of Assad best case scenario they freed someone who was doing horrible things for the other side of which they like worse or the other option is this was all performance
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And I think we're going to find out more. CNN and the Daily Mail have both said they're going to launch an internal investigation. As they should. So we got to be careful what you put on the air before you go to air. Let's go ahead and take another call. Michelle's calling in California on line one. ACLJ champion, you're up.
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Hi. Okay. So I wanted to give a congratulations to Rick and his new position. And the ad that you put out for the Pregnancy Center is wonderful. And you guys are spending my money wisely. So thank you.
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Michelle, thank you so much. Of course, Michelle is an ACLJ champion. That's someone that gives on a recurring basis automatically. So that means someone who's just giving a certain amount of money each month, essentially almost like a membership program. fee if you will but it's a donation each month the aclj you can set that up very easily at aclj.org when you're making your donation you just opt in and become an aclj champion uh we love our aclj champions people approach us on the streets and say i'm a champion i love that so much when i hear from them uh so again thanks to michelle and so many people who are joining us uh in this journey towards the end of the year here as we are in that faith and freedom year-end drive be a part of that right now all you got to do is go to aclj.org scan that qr code and i love tracking in this hour Because we can kind of tell, what did you react to or what did you not react to? And of course we have that new pro-life campaign, Choice Begins Here. And I'll be honest, I want to see more people show an interest in that one because I think it's going to make a huge impact. And it's creative and it's a little different. So I know that. Again, we're trying to raise $500,000 to blanket the city of Boston and the surrounding areas for this option to hopefully save these pro-life pregnancy resource centers. So do that today. Go to aclj.org. I also wanted to quickly say, Quickly say our film, our Christmas movie last year, Jingle Smells, our Christmas comedy for the whole family when we did it. And Sean Hannity was one of the executive producers as well. Stars John Schneider, Eric Roberts, Dylan Hornswoggle Postal, SNL. We're in the SNL 50th anniversary. So we got Jim Brewer and Victoria Jackson. Of course, Ben Davies from The Daily Wire. great cast and a lot of fun will haynes is in it i'm briefly in it you hear my voice a few times it is available now brad stein incredible uh comedic actor and stand-up comedian an awesome lineup of people and it's a really funny movie i co-wrote it with one of our team members and will also contributed a lot to sort of the funny part specifically that victoria jackson moment you'll see during the movie It's a great movie to watch right now around the holidays. And what's also really cool, and we're able to say this, is available for free right now on Tubi. That's one of the top streaming services. All you gotta do is really, a lot of them talk in your remote. Say you want Jingle Smells, it'll come up absolutely free on Tubi and on the Roku channel. You can rent it as well on a few different streaming options, Fandango at home, and on our platform from last year, Rumble. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Join us on this episode of Washington Watch as guest host Jody Heiss navigates through a myriad of pressing issues affecting our nation today. In an impactful opening, he reflects on the tragic school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, and leads a call for prayer and healing. As we delve into governmental affairs, Congressman Chuck Fleischman provides insights into the USA's ongoing struggles with budget appropriations and the looming threat of a government shutdown.
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From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, welcome to this Monday edition of Washington Watch. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. I am Jody Heiss, the Senior Vice President here at the Family Research Council and President of FRC Action. It's a tremendous honor, as always, when able to, to fill in for Tony. Thank you so much for joining us today as well. And certainly before we begin, I want to encourage everyone who's watching and listening to the program right now just to join me in praying for the community of Madison, Wisconsin, where details of yet another school shooting earlier this morning are even still unfolding.
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Today, around 1057 a.m., our officers were responding to a call of an active shooter at the Abundant Life Christian School here in Madison. When officers arrived, they found multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds.
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That was Madison, Wisconsin Police Chief Shawn Barnes speaking today at a press conference. And if we could, even right now, let's just take a moment to pray for this situation. Lord, you know what's happening right now in Madison, Wisconsin and the broken hearts, the lives that are absolutely shattered. by this yet another vicious mass murder. And Lord, we pray for the families involved. We pray for this community. We pray that the presence of God would be real and intervene in their behalf. And Lord, we just recognize all across this country the deep need for you. And so we pray, Father, for an outpouring of your spirit upon this country, and particularly right now for those in Madison, Wisconsin. Show yourself strong in their behalf, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. As I said, details of that tragedy continue to unfold, but we want to pray for them and encourage you to do the same. All right, we've got a lot coming up on the program today. We're going to start with the text of a stopgap measure to fund the government. It was expected today, but at least as of a few moments ago, it still has not been released. And yet we're just days away from a potential government shutdown. So what's the holdup? I'll be joined here in just a few moments with Congressman Chuck Fleischman, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, to discuss that. And President-elect Trump held a press conference today and was asked about a number of items, including the mysterious drones that have now been spotted flying over New Jersey and New York and elsewhere across the country.
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Our military knows and our president knows, and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. I can't imagine it's the enemy because if it was the enemy, they'd blast it out. Even if they were late, they'd blast it out. something strange is going on for some reason they don't want to tell the people
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, the Biden administration continues to insist that there is no threat and no nefarious activity related to the drones, and yet they continue not to provide any more details to anyone, including lawmakers. And given the dangerous times in which we live, is our government responding appropriately to all of this? Or are we inviting bad actors who will have nefarious motives? Well, we'll be discussing this later when I'm joined by Gordon Chang, so you don't want to miss that. And speaking of bad actors, there's concern that a hole left behind by the collapse of brutal Assad regime in Syria could be filled by terrorist groups, including ISIS.
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ISIS fighters are killing machines. They want to purify our Islam. They want to take down the King of Jordan, the King of Saudi Arabia. They want to replace the UAE with a theocracy. You don't want these people in charge of the Mideast.
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That was Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press. So what sorts of threats do the Islamist rebel forces pose to the people of Syria, including, of course, the Christians who are there? Well, Jeff King of International Christian Concern will be joining me to discuss that. in a little bit as we get into the program a little bit later and then there's some pleasant news coming from the washington post editorial board if you can believe that they have admitted that the so-called science behind puberty blockers and hormones for minors suffering from gender dysphoria is not clear at all so what are we to make of all of this Well, Dr. Quentin Van Meter of the American College of Pediatricians will join me for that discussion. So as always, we've got a lot coming your way. And of course, as always, you don't want to miss any of it. But I know sometimes things happen. And if by chance you do miss a portion of this program, you can go back and catch it at our website, TonyPerkins.com. Of course, not only this edition of Washington Watch, but tons of other past editions also available for you, as well as lots and lots of resources. So be sure to bookmark that page, tonyperkins.com. All right, let's jump into the details of today's program. And we're going to begin with the mysterious drones that have been flying over New Jersey, New York, and other places across the country. They certainly have captured the attention of many. Is there a potential threat? Is it coming from Washington? Who knows what's going on? But we also have another looming problem. a potential government shutdown, and that's to take place potentially on Friday. The text of the continuing resolution for the funding package was expected today, but at least as of just a little while ago, it still has not come through. And reportedly, that's because of the late round haggling that's taking place. So where do things stand right now? Well, here to give us the latest is Congressman Chuck Fleischman, who serves on the House Appropriations Committee and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He represents the third congressional district of the great state of Tennessee. Congressman Fleischman, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to see you, my friend.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you, Jody. Nice to see you. Merry Christmas. Thank you for your kind, kind prayer, thoughtful prayer for the school in Wisconsin. Our prayers go out to those people. My sons were all privileged to go to private Christian schools in Chattanooga. They were great schools. We want our children to be safe. Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, we do. And thank you for joining us in that prayer. And look, it's happened in Tennessee. It's happened in my home state of Georgia. It seems like more and more of these type of tragedies are occurring, and we must have the good hand of God in all of this. Thank you for your comments. Now, let's talk about some of the other chatter that's taking place in Washington, D.C. right now, specifically as it relates to the continuing resolution. What's the latest that you're hearing?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, right now, they've bogged down in some very important details. Jody, putting this in context, the fiscal year for the United States began October 1st of this year. At that time, we kept the government open and passed a continuing resolution, kept the government open until December the 20th. We are currently working on a continuing resolution that will give President Trump time in March to basically work out a full funding deal to September 30th, the end of the next fiscal year, fiscal 25. What has happened, candidly, Jody, is that the supplemental, that disaster supplemental, which needs to be passed and funded, has bogged down largely due to the agricultural portion of that. Folks in farming states, understandably so, want to make sure that in addition to the forest fires, in addition to the flooding that we saw in your great state of Georgia and my great state of Tennessee in North Carolina, that there be a portion of that bill dedicated to our nation's farmers who are hurting right now in many ways. And those are where we've bogged down. I thought that we would have text of a bill candidly by Sunday night that could have gotten us out of Washington, D.C. and back into our districts for Christmas by Wednesday. Now, with no bill there, it's looking more like late Thursday or Friday. Under our rules, we've got to have three days to obviously read the bill, interpret the bill. and then ultimately vote on it. So we've just hit loggerheads right now. We will get it done. We will keep the government open and hopefully give President Trump and the new administration an opportunity to look at the bill so that we can vote on a full package in March.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that's your expectation, then, that later on in the week, originally you had hoped by Wednesday. And look, we were all expecting the text of the bill to come out. In fact, I kept telling our team, surely it's coming today. We'll just hang on. And I said, if anybody knows, Chuck will know what the latest is with all of this. But do you expect, then, that now it's going to be Thursday or Friday before a vote comes to the floor? If that happens, obviously the text still has to come on out tonight or tomorrow.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's correct. A lot of the bill where there are agreements is already written, Jody, and that part is good. But this is a little bit different than the usual continuing resolution because it's got a very large disaster supplemental attached to it. That's going to make it easier for some members to vote for it. I understand that. But once they get final agreement, they will actually have to draft the actual final bill, post it, and give all members under House rules an opportunity to actually read it, go through it, comment on it, and then... ideal, probably Thursday, maybe potentially Friday now. Obviously, we want to get it done before the 20th. No one in this city wants to see a government shutdown. There won't be a government shutdown. But the reality is we're going to have to get it done. And it's just going to take longer due to the magnitude of the supplemental for disaster relief.
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Well, I had alluded to this coming into the program in the opening monologue and some comments, but Speaker Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, from my understanding at least, they both have been urged to include a measure in this CR that addresses the recent drone sightings. And I think that obviously speaks to the bipartisan dissatisfaction that everyone seems to have towards the government. What do you make of the response? Is that going to happen?
SPEAKER 05 :
The question is time. Homeland Security is one of the bills of the 12 appropriation bills where something could be put in for that, potentially under defense, but probably Homeland Security. As you know, Jody, I chair the Energy and Water Subcommittee of Appropriations, funds the Department of Energy, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Reclamation. There's not a lot of drama right there. Ours is largely done, but there could be something put in once again the enemy becomes the clock time. We've got to get something done sooner than later so that we can keep the government open, get everything funded, and then move on into the next year, next calendar year, at which time President Trump and his folks will be able to look at this with the new House, with the new Senate, and hopefully get it voted on for the rest of the fiscal bill until September 30th.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it's a very interesting process that's taking place. It seems like, you know, and I've been there too, it seems like this always seems to happen right before Christmas. But the outcome should be vastly different this go-around, and we're certainly praying for you and all your colleagues there, both in the House and the Senate. Thank you so much, Congressman Chuck Fleischman of Tennessee. Always an honor to see you, and glad to have you back on Washington Watch. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
SPEAKER 05 :
Jody, my friend, thank you. It's a privilege to serve with you when you served. It's great to have you at the Family Research Council. Tony and your organization are incredible. Thank you for your strong biblical commitment to everything. And I mean to everything. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas. All right, friends, much more after the break, all about what's happening in our world. How do we deal with it? So stay tuned. We'll be back in a moment.
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Let's not be discouraged. Don't lose heart. Don't lose the faith. Stand now strong because the Lord has given us the great privilege of living in a time when our choices matter, when our lives matter, when our courage matters. So let's stand together and save this great country. God bless the United States of America.
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The American Republic has a freedom like no other. It has roots in the scriptures far more than any other heritage. And if we as followers of Jesus and conservatives don't defend it, who will?
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Neutrality is not an option. There are many Christians who believe that if we just keep our heads down, if we just don't say the wrong thing, that somehow we will come out of this unscathed. You're naive if you think that, because what they want from us is not our silence. What they want from us is our submission.
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Part of the dilemma of Christianity in our generation is that we've relied a little too much on human wisdom and human reasoning, human strength, human resource, and we've relied too little on the power of God and God's ability to open doors that we can't open and do things that we couldn't even hope to begin to do.
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This may not be an easy task, But we are living in a moment of challenge, but also a great opportunity. And we know always that we are not alone, that His Spirit empowers us and protects us, and that He can do the unimaginable. Dobbs, after all, was never supposed to happen.
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Father, we thank you. You have entrusted us with this moment in history, and I pray that we would be found faithful, and that as a result of our faithfulness to you, that thousands, millions would come into the kingdom as they would experience the forgiveness of sin and the new life that is found only in Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you joining us today. All right, during the Biden administration, we have most certainly seen a significant increase in conflicts, the escalation of conflicts all around the world, prompting many fears, literally, about a potential World War III. And while we also saw a decisive victory for President-elect Trump last month, and that has given many Americans at least a breath of relief, we're certainly not out of the water. I mean, the axis of autocracies led by places like Russia and China, Iran, North Korea, they continue to challenge the democratic world order. And the sudden collapse now of the brutal Assad regime in Syria has highlighted really how interconnected a growing number of global conflicts really are. And even, we've talked about it already, but the appearance of all these mystery drones across the Northeast and other places have people whispering about some involvement from Iran. So what are we to make of all this? Well, joining me now to discuss this is Gordon Chang. He is a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of many books, including his latest, Plan Red, China's Project to Destroy America. You, of course, can follow him on X under the handle at Gordon G. Chang. We encourage you to do so. Gordon, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to have you. Well, thank you so much, Jody. All right, so how dangerous is the world? How dangerous are the times in which we're living right now?
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This could very well be the most dangerous moment in history. A lot of people will say that was 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or 1961, the Checkpoint Charlie Crisis in Berlin. But we know from the archives that neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev were willing to use their most dangerous weapons. Now, we don't know that about Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin. And we are seeing a very bold Chinese regime, for instance, and a very bold Russian one. So yes, the world is falling apart and they fell apart under Biden's watch because he did not understand the use of American power. And by the way, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, yes, they're evil.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and when you say the world, in essence, it's on fire. I mean, it really is. You watch it, all these countries that are flexing their muscles, and none of them really would lead in a place that is for the well-being of humanity as a whole. And then we have Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made waves, frankly, last week when seem to at least indicate President-elect Trump's First America slogan was somehow tied to the 1930s before World War II. So what do you make of those kind of comments, especially at such a time as this?
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Well, obviously, those policies that sounded good to the ear and, you know, Biden talks about cooperation, friendliness, trying to find ways where we can work with China. Those policies, even though they are soothing, they have created one disaster after another. And when you look at what Mitch McConnell said, you know, it is, again, a failure of the American elites to protect the American people. And now, Jody, I think that it's possible that the axis of evil has brought the fight to the United States, because we're talking about drones. And we don't know yet whether those drones are foreign or not. Yes, I know the Pentagon says that they're not, but there are a number of people in the Air Force, for instance, who believe that a majority of those drones are being operated by foreign powers.
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Yeah, and I'm glad you brought this up because I wanted to bounce this off you, these drones. I mean, we saw one of our own crucial air forces close for several hours the other day because of the drone activity that was taking place. So what do you make of these drones? And how should our government be handling this situation?
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Well, first of all, there's two alternative explanations. One of them is that these are operated by foreigners. If that's not true, then it's even more ominous because they're operated by the U.S. government. Because these are too big, they are too sophisticated to be operated by hobbyists. Then the question is, what is the federal government doing with these drones? And we have seen, for instance, those two radiation spikes that have been reported in the New York metropolitan area, one in New York City, the other just across the Hudson River in New Jersey. And that leads us to believe that maybe the federal government is looking for a nuclear weapon that has been planted there by a terrorist state or somebody. We don't know that, but one thing we do know, and that is that for more than a decade, the federal government has been worried about this very scenario, about North Korea in particular, taking a nuclear device, tearing it apart, smuggling in the portions of it into the U.S., and then reassembling it in the city of their choice. So that's very well what the federal government may be doing. Whether you believe these are foreign or whether these are DHS or CIA or FBI, there are no good explanations for what's occurring.
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Yeah, absolutely. And we saw, of course, a similar, if you will, response previously with the Chinese spy balloon that floated across the US. But looking at that versus this, should we be concerned that at least our adversaries are watching the response of the American people to these drones right now, and maybe they're seeing an opportunity?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, clearly China saw the failure of not only the U.S. military, but also President Biden and his national security team to the balloon in January and February of last year. Just a non-response. And so I think China then said, well, look what it could do if it tried something else. And so we've seen a lot of drone penetrations of U.S. military bases by Chinese nationals. So I think Beijing learned a lesson there. And right now, God knows what's occurring. But the point here is that the federal government needs to talk to the American people. I believe President Biden needs to address the American people and tell us what he knows and what he doesn't know. And he has to understand this. Yeah, it might cause panic, but I also think the American people are mature enough to understand what's going on. In the absence of information, we have to assume the worst. We need to have the President of the United States talk to us.
SPEAKER 08 :
And there's panic being created by the silence as well. And if it's a classified operation, just say so. It's classified, but you don't need to be fearful. We're just doing some, it's a classified mission we're involved in. You know, whatever, but the silence is unacceptable. Thank you, Gordon Chang, Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute. Always an honor to have you on Washington Watch. It's an honor for me to be here, and thank you so much, Jody. Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you. All right, don't go anywhere. We'll take a look at the situation facing Syrian Christians after the stunning fall of Assad. Well, that's coming on the other side of the break, so stay tuned.
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Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. Welcome back. I'm Jody Heiss. Honored to be filling in today for Tony. All right. Earlier this morning, a telegram message purportedly from deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad claimed that his departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles. Assad, by the way, as you may recall, fled into the arms of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this month. It all came about when his regime collapsed. In fact, it collapsed with stunning speed, quite frankly, much to the shock of the international community. But with Syria now in a state of chaos, where does that leave Syrian Christians who are still in that country? Well, joining me now to discuss this is Jeff King. He's the president of International Christian Concern. Jeff, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always an honor to have you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good to be with you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so let's start with just reminding our audience just how big the Christian community was, at least, let me put it that way, how big the Christian community was in Syria before Assad's fall.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I can't remember the exact number, but it was massive. It's been probably about an 80% reduction. So it used to be the safe haven for Christians in the Middle East. He's a tough dictator, nasty, but the Christians were protected there, and there's been a massive fleeing of Christians.
SPEAKER 08 :
So whatever that number was, as you said, and that's why I wanted to bring it up because this was kind of a safe haven area for Christians. Did I hear you correctly that some 80% of those Christians, or at least it's expected that up to that number have fled?
SPEAKER 09 :
I think so. Yeah. And that kind of reflects, Jody, the whole picture of the Middle East and with Iraq. Again, this is, you know, this is the birthplace of Christianity. But look, with radicals, you know, free to do what they want and war and with Christians without protection, you know, they have a lot of connections around the world. So the ones that can flee do.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that would say to me, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm just trying to connect dots right along with so many others, and you probably have more information than anyone else I know on this issue. But if you have 80%, give or take, of the Christians who are in Syria who have already or are in process of leaving, that would say to me, are fearful for their lives with the new power that is coming into place there. So are you at all hopeful about what lies ahead with the Assad regime now history, or is it still a very dangerous place?
SPEAKER 09 :
Let's see, I'm just as hopeful about the situation in Syria as I am about Afghanistan. So Jody, the guys that took over, this is Al-Qaeda and ISIS combined. That's who these guys are. They're radical Islamists. They rebranded and they're very politically savvy. They came out and they said, boy, we're gonna be good boys and girls. And this, we're all about being modern and tolerant. I don't believe it for a second. The leopard doesn't change its spots. These guys are radical Islamists. They are interested in only one thing.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that would explain why so many Christians are fleeing. So they, as you say, they're saying perhaps the right things, but do we have, maybe from historical background, is there any indication whatsoever as to how the rebel leader, Abu Muhammad al-Jilani, is there any indication as to how he might deal with Christians there?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and just to clarify, that 80% figure, I'm looking back over the course of the last 14 years, you know, since the Civil War started. So just make sure everybody understands. And the only thing I say is with the leader, the leader is he's put forward as the spokesman and the political operative, but his views aren't going to differ from the group as a whole. So again, these guys are very savvy, so they know what to say. They don't want to be attacked. They've just taken power, very fragile hold on power. Israel is attacking, you know, we're attacking, so they're going to keep their head low and say the right things. But there's no indication that these guys are going to be pleasant or at all safe in terms of the Christians.
SPEAKER 08 :
So you don't think that the Christians are likely to have a haven there any longer in the future?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, definitely not.
SPEAKER 08 :
How does the upcoming Trump administration fit into all of this, as far as you would guess?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it's a very complicated question even before Trump, because with wars, they take a massive amount of money and training and material. So these things, these movements, they don't just spring up out of the blue. Even the first war, these were foreign fighters, and they were unleashed, at least originally, to topple the Assad regime. It was in our interest to topple the Assad regime and to break Iran's hold on the region. So it was already interesting. We wanted Assad to fall. We wanted to break Russia's hold on power, which now that's happened. So it was already interesting before Trump, and now he's got such an anti-war stance, but this is an untenable situation. My guess is we're gonna slowly clean up and push these guys out, but it's gonna be long and interesting.
SPEAKER 08 :
very messy real quickly we've only got about uh 30 seconds or so how can we be praying for and assisting for that matter our syrian brothers and sisters in the lord
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, Christians have fled already. Some Christians have fled. So the broad Arab population, the Syrian population, is relieved to have Assad gone, but they are terrified. And so we're, you know, us and other groups, we're, you know, forming a war chest to get people out. We've already had to get people out and to provide emergency relief. So go to persecution.org.
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All right. Thank you, Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, persecution.org. Merry Christmas to you. Thank you for joining us on Washington Watch. You too, sir. All right, friends, don't go anywhere. Washington Post, the Washington Post editorial board, boy, they've had an about face on this whole trans issue, and we want to discuss more of that right after the break, so don't go anywhere.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. An honor to have you joining us today. Thank you so much. All right. Yesterday, the Washington Post editorial board, frankly, did the unthinkable. As I mentioned a while ago, it's like they just had an about face. But they admitted in writing that the so-called science behind puberty blockers and hormones for minors suffering from gender dysphoria is not clear at all. Now that's shocking to say the least, but also it's very welcome. But might we now see others in the media begin to move away from the trans cult and actually speak truth on the issue of gender confusion? We're here now to share some of his thoughts is Dr. Quentin Van Meter. He's the immediate past president of the American College of Pediatricians and now a member of that executive committee. Dr. Van Meter, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to see you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Always glad to be here. Good to see you, Jody.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, listen, your reaction, I was kind of stunned by all of this, but what was your reaction to the Washington Post editorial column?
SPEAKER 10 :
I didn't believe it was the Washington Post. I thought I was reading a reasonable publication that sort of spoke the truth and didn't have an agenda behind it. So it was very welcome. I mean, from beginning of their editorial to the end, they essentially spoke spoke the truth. They indicated that they had agreed that the science wasn't there, that this direction perhaps was not the direction that we should be doing medical care in the United States with these kids who have confusion between their gender identity and their biologic sex. And so it comes out of, I think, a realization that the rest of the world is going in a correct direction and protecting these kids who are suffering emotionally with this concept in their head, trying to live the life of happiness but not finding it in their current situation and grasping at straws for someplace to go to be happy without realizing that the issue is deep inside of them and it's depression and it's anxiety and it's founded in a number of things which had been previously glossed over by those advocates who wish to intervene and essentially create a new persona, somebody who appears to be the opposite sex from their biologic sex. And so it's it's like a big breath of fresh air. It follows the rest of the world in finding this out. Those progressive countries in Europe in particular who are 10 years ahead of us in this experimentation on children and found out with their evaluations that there was no reason to continue blocking puberty and giving cross-sex hormones and then eventually doing surgical interventions, which forever scar the body.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's exceptionally well said. Everything you just laid out before us there. And of course, at the end of the day, this is a spiritual problem. When you talk about the depression and all the other things, and you can't fix that by making matters worse, by doing these kind of horrible, radical surgeries and so forth. So I'd like to, I don't want to go there just yet, but I'd really like to know your thoughts as to why the seeming shift is taking place. And maybe you alluded to it when you were talking about Europe and some other countries, because the column that we referenced did bring up some of these other European health authorities and the assessments that they have come up with. So why don't we just start there? What did they all seem to conclude that so many here in America were just unwilling to admit?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think Europe has always been focused on some semblance of science. They have a bureaucracy which reviews and allows medications to be used within the European Union healthcare countries. And so it's essentially the equivalent of the FDA, which we have here. And I think they heard some echoes from some pretty impressive people. The UK health system was embroiled in a lawsuit about three or four years ago from a patient at the Tavistock Clinic who sued Cara Bell as that individual. And I think that woke them up to say, well, wait a minute, if there is a lawsuit, we'd better be on the right side of that case. And they started looking at the data from the Tavistock Clinic in the UK and said, oh, my gosh, look what we found. And then we started having some defections from the UK, the system, the people who quit, who said this was not going in the right direction. It was really taking these kids into task and possibly hurting them instead of benefiting them. And that kind of dialogue in the background got the sort of the governmental agencies that run these health care systems and these socialized medicine countries to say, wait a minute, are we on the right side of the issue here? Perhaps we should go look deeply, and they did. So I think theirs was more of an administrative review. Here in the United States, I think it's the legal battles which are now beginning to come forth with the Folks, these kids who were transitioned both medically and surgically as minors here in the country, who are now speaking up and bringing lawsuits against not only the physicians that did this to them, but the health care systems that support those physicians. And in some cases, it may expand to the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies who have facilitated this kind of thing happening, wittingly or unwittingly. And so I think that is where in the U.S. we're seeing is the litigation that's ahead and the fear of these educational institutions and the suit lawsuits in Texas with the attorney general suing the individuals who have been doing this under the radar in the in the in the state of Texas. This becomes an issue where it says, oh, my gosh, We're going to see more and more of these lawsuits, and we better maybe rethink what we're doing. So I think it's the money here.
SPEAKER 08 :
Very interesting. When you first said a little while ago that Europe always seems to at least had some semblance of desire to embrace science, my first thoughts were, well, we used to have that here in the United States. Where did that ever come from? go, where do we drop the ball on that? But I agree with you. Europe has tended to remain more scientifically focused. But a great observation that here the change in the United States seems to be taking place not because of the science, but because of the legal battles and the litigation, which is you referenced ultimately comes down to the money. Are we that corrupt? Are we that morally just so backward that all of this still in America, most of it at least, is a result of following the money trail rather than the science and that which is really in the best interest of children?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think what happened here also is it became a political football, sort of a civil rights issue, if you will, based on something that really is not genetically predetermined. Unlike race, unlike sex, which is it's in the genes, you cannot hold somebody accountable for something where they are born in an identity that is based on biology. This was all about a manufactured, non-biologic entity called gender identity. And that became a cause celebre as a civil rights issue, saying these kids must be protected. They must be treated with respect for their gender identity because that's the real issue, not their biologic sex. And the cases all the way up to the Supreme Court, the Bostock decision in particular, there was confusion about whether or not gender identity actually had biologic basis. And the one jurist on the Supreme Court who didn't understand that was Gorsuch, who voted for the Bostock decision based on really something that I don't believe he understood. I don't know Justice Gorsuch personally, have no bone to pick other than from the outside it appears as if he really believed there was a biologic basis to this. And it's sort of in front of the Supreme Court with a decision against Tennessee and their law with the Scrimetian case in action right now. There just has to be understanding this was not biology, this is not civil rights, this is not discrimination to not want to have these kids get these things done to them. It's a lifesaving circumstance to keep them from harm that runs the motivation for us on this issue. We cherish these children. We care for them. We're compassionate about their outcomes, but we know the right answer. And that is counseling, counseling, counseling, right down to the root of the problem, as opposed to putting a Band-Aid over a volcano and hoping that it stays quiet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, absolutely, and it is exceedingly frightening to take your assessment there, which I think is 100% accurate, by the way, and look at where this type of mindset can take us. When considering why the American medical community has embraced all these gender-denying treatments so blindly, and you come to the conclusion that it's all politically driven, or financially driven, where does that type of nonsense end? I mean, if we, for political reasons, for financial reasons, if we can no longer tell the difference between a man and a woman, if we can no longer believe that you are born either male or female and you can't change that and for political or financial reasons, we're gonna tell people that you can change your gender, you can think otherwise than what you are and that's okay and it's some sort of discriminatory action to do otherwise. Where does that type of thing take us if we kick science out of the room?
SPEAKER 10 :
It's somewhat laughable to think that you can just decide who you are because of what you want to be. Life doesn't work that way. I am not a 35-year-old bodybuilder, okay? I am a much older gentleman who realizes where I am physically and who I am physically to say, I can't just declare. I might say that I'm, in terms of any law that is based on age, I might be able to just deny that and say I'm something else. I mean, it's a little ludicrous to think you could do that with your biologic sex and say, I don't want to be the sex I am. Therefore, I declare I am the opposite sex and you'll have to give me all the attributes and privileges thereof. It doesn't work that way. So it's a ruse and it's a sad thing to do to these poor kids who really are crying for help. There's no question they're suffering. You know, we get blamed all the time and labeled as anti-trans because of our stance on this issue. And we are so pro these kids. We just are anti-harm. And so that's where we come from as the American College of Pediatricians. We stand so firmly for what is best for children to do no harm to these kids. And we are part of an overarching organization called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, whose entire fiber of being in existence is to promote medicine that does no harm.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, there is absolutely a such thing as truth. And male is male, female is female. That's one of those things that's just true. Along with that, there is a such thing as moral truth. There is a such thing as right, and wrong and the way we treat people is right and wrong the way we are treating these children right or wrong do you believe that somehow in the midst of all of this that somehow science is having an impact or are people just becoming so disgusted with the radical direction that all this is taking us does it seem at the end of the day that more people here in america are catching on to the fallacies of the radical pro-trans ideology
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, clearly, if you look at the statistics during this past election where they said 70% of the American population is not in favor of interventions that try to change somebody's appearance and believe they are the opposite sex. So that came from communication that broke through on the political trail. I mean, I think the political ads of the two candidates for president were night and day different. And I think that resonated with the American people saying, I'm sure there's some science about that, but this at the core level, at just the gut level doesn't feel right. There's something really not right about this. And I'm not, you know, I don't look at the studies. I don't understand the studies, but you know, everyone's saying there are studies that say it's helpful. And then there are people who say that it's harmful, but just the core issue of this ain't right. Okay. And I think that's what woke up the American people.
SPEAKER 08 :
not so much the science but just sort of the moral ethics of it all yeah absolutely i i get it people are waking up to right and wrong certainly at least on this issue it appears to me and you know hopefully that is the beginning of something much much greater and more national as it relates to a spiritual and moral uh awakening and changing the moral climate
SPEAKER 10 :
If you see that the door is opening for people to listen and then people demand that people be able to talk, people be able to publish, people be able to take a stage and not be condemned as racist or bigoted or phobic, then we can listen to the science. We have had the science on our side since square one. We have just been shut out by the major press. We've been shut out by the academic publications. We've been shut out at conferences where we are not allowed to speak or be invited or we're thrown off the campus just because of what we believe is presenting the true science. Now, hopefully, this will begin to thaw and we will be able to talk to each other. I really greatly desire a dialogue in front of an audience of my peers to say, look, this is what we believe, and this is why we believe science, and let the advocates for these interventions come back with their answers, but to have a civil dialogue instead of just having the door shut in your face all the time. So I'm optimistic we're in a good place. We're getting to a good place.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely fascinating discussion. Dr. Quentin Van Meter from the American College of Pediatricians, thank you so much for your incredible work over the years, and thank you for coming on Washington Watch yet again and breaking all this down for us. We appreciate it. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 10 :
We are looking forward to it. Same to you and yours. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 08 :
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Join professional money manager Bill Gundersen for another insightful episode of the Best Stocks Now show. Today, Bill, alongside chartered financial analyst Barry Kite, dives into the current state of the stock market, highlighting significant movements in the NASDAQ, S&P 500, and the intriguing rise of Bitcoin past $105,000. With a focus on upcoming Federal Reserve decisions, the episode analyzes the potential quarter-point rate cut and its anticipated effects on various markets.
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And welcome to the Monday. It is the Monday, December 16th edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunnarsson, president of Gunnarsson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kider, chartered financial analyst. The market licking its chops. For our rate cut this week, get better, get one, Jerome. The NASDAQ is up 106 points right now, 20,033. What a trip, what a long, strange trip it's been in the NASDAQ since the big sell-off. back in 2001, 2002. The Dow is up 89 now, gathering a little bit of steam here. We're at 43,917 on the Dow. It has been above 45,000, however. The S&P 500 is up 20 right now. And the small caps are also up. So you've got across the board green in the equities market. Now over at the bond market, You've got a little bit of a rally in the bonds, not much, but the 10-year is up or is down. The interest rate is down a couple of points right now in anticipation, obviously, of a quarter-point rate cut this week. And then you've got Bitcoin above $105,000 right now on a nice rally to a new all-time high. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show. With professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we're here with no bull commentary, right, Barry, on what we observe in the market.
SPEAKER 06 :
The only bull right now is the market, I guess, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, the bull. There is a bull in the market, obviously, but a lot of bull out there in the media these days. We don't know what they are, but we know they're not any threat to us, you know, that kind of thing. All right, so here's where we ended the week last week. We had the NASDAQ up 24 points on Friday. It barely held on to its gains despite a huge day out of Broadcom. Broadcom had a huge day. And you also had a big hike in interest rates last week. You ended the week at 4.40 on the five-year. And we're down a couple of basis points here today. I think the inflation overall when you added the two together, the PPI and the CPI, what does that spell? A little too hot for Wall Street's taste. And that took a bite out of equities last week. Broadcom again was the stock of the day on Friday. And in fact, Broadcom closed at a trillion dollars for the first time. AVGO, let's just take a look at how it's doing today. Oh man, it's up another 10% today. Wow. It's got the AI fever right now going for it. You know, on the other side, you would think it would be lifting NVIDIA. But I looked at NVIDIA. NVIDIA is just sitting there on its support line. It's down another $2 a share today. It's down to $1.32 after hitting $1.52 just three weeks ago. So just dead in the water stock right now is NVIDIA. Not a lot of further around that one, huh? No. Well, I mean, is that the kiss of death to put it in the Dow? Maybe it is. Maybe that's the kiss of death. I don't know. I've noticed Sherwood Williams is way down, too, since they added it to the Dow. Okay. All right. So the FOMC, Federal Open Market Committee, in the last meeting of the year, is expected to deliver on Wednesday, usually around 2 o'clock, 2.30.
SPEAKER 06 :
A 25-point cut. And 230 will usually be that news conference, which will probably be, usually as is, the most important piece of the announcement. Right now we've got just over 95% chance of a quarter-point cut. And there's 4.6% of folks out there out on a limb who are saying no change.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and it's usually the guys that are always out on a limb and never right. That's usually the way that goes. Now, I mean, the FOMC, you know, has made some bad calls and some big mistakes. They called inflation transitory back in 2020. And then they went on that vicious rate cycle, four 75-point hikes in a row. They were way behind the curve. They had to catch up. And I think now, I don't think they want to go too fast here with rate cuts. I could see them slowing down next year. I'm sure the market's going to start expecting one in January and one in February. That'll be the expectations after Wednesday. But, you know, with those inflation reports last week, we're not down around two yet where they want to go, and we still have some of the hottest inflation in the world right now. Well, there's always earnings. There's going to be just a handful this week. BlackBerry, which was once a big star in the wireless, in the phone area. People using BlackBerrys way before they were using iPhones and Android phones. FedEx will report this week. Micron will report. They're always a little dicey. Both of those companies are dicey, FedEx and Micron. And Nike is dicey. It's been really dicey recently. They're going to report. Carnival's going to report. Accenture, General Mills, Lenar, ConAgra, and Paychex. Hopefully there will be one on Friday, Barry, you know, right in front of Christmas and all that. I hope my paycheck comes in the mail. You never know. Anyways, so those are some of the stocks that will be in the HICO. That's another good little aerospace stock. Red Cat, I've been watching Red Cat. It's in the drone business. And that's obviously been in the news here recently.
SPEAKER 06 :
Just a little bit.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, okay, now listen, I'm just going to say something here. About three weeks ago, There's a stock that I never heard of heating up and breaking out. I go, what in the world is going on there? It was Mirion. M-E, I can't remember the symbol off the top of my head right now. Maybe it was, oh, it was M-I-R-I, I believe. M-I-R-I. And I go, what do they do for a living? No, it's M-I-R. M-I-R, yeah, I just found it. All right. They provide radiation detection. through applications in medical, nuclear, and defense markets and laboratories.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's the one you messaged us about.
SPEAKER 07 :
I did, and I put it out there on X. Yeah, well, okay, so this is not a company that makes nuclear energy or is coming in with the smaller reactors and whatnot. This is one that is out there that detects radiation. Okay. Why in the world is that stock going up? And, of course, the story that came out on Saturday, I believe, and Joe Rogan retweeted it. I did watch the video of the guy. He's claiming that there's a nuclear warhead missing somewhere up in the New Jersey area. And these drones are trying to find it by sniffing and looking for radiation leaks. So, anyways, look, I'm just saying. Now, I'm just going to also say, and if you go back to the newsletter, before COVID really broke, I saw a big movement in environmental protection clothing stocks and gloves and whatnot. And then the big news broke that COVID had come to America. You know, the stock market gets info. The stock market, a lot of times, there's a lot of sleuths out there and a lot of people that are connected in the stock market. And, you know, that Marion is hitting a new high today, MIR, which is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. And they detect radiation. Okay. Now, as we look around the world, it's slow. I see slow economies everywhere. I mean, we talk about China on almost a daily basis. how slow things are in China. Japan's factory activity shrinks for the sixth straight month. They're really slow. I mean, basically no growth. And German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, there's also trouble out there. They've got a divided government, and they're going to have a snap election. You have the same thing going on in France, but Germany's economy has been facing persistent headwinds with political parties disagreeing on how to boost growth. The economy contracted 0.3% last year, Barry. They had a negative economy for the entire year. And it's expected to decline 0.2% this year, 2024, and stagnate in 2025. So you have no growth Germany. You have political issues in Germany. You've got South Korea, which impeached their leader over the weekend. And you have issues in France, politically and economy. And the U.K. has gone into contraction. So anyways, I watch those around the world because they're indicators of what's to come down the road. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show with just 15 days left in the year. We're watching the markets. The earnings season obviously over. There's still just a few laggards here trickling in. We're lining up earnings estimates for next year, 2025, and the year after that, 2026. I'll be at a bell-ringing ceremony, Barry, on Wednesday, and I hope it's not my bell getting rung, but we're going to close the NASDAQ on Wednesday. Nice, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
You talked about that last week, so I'm glad you're going to get to go. Yes.
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I'm in the group for Granite Shares ETFs. I've been interviewed by him, the CEO of Granite Shares. It's kind of a different concept. You know, what was the original purpose of ETFs? You didn't have single stock risk, right? And GraniteShares, a lot of their ETFs, yeah, spreading your risk so you don't, it's different from owning one stock. GraniteShares has gone in a direction where they'll take one stock, such as Tesla, create an ETF that is double long or short. So, you know, in a way, there is a big need for that because if you own an IRA, you can't do shorting. Well, you can buy the inverse ETFs, but now you can short select stocks if you're really negative on Tesla or if you're negative, I think, They've got several that they've chosen so far to go either long or short. And then they also have just some more traditional ETFs. But it's a pretty innovative company. They're a disruptor. Disruptors like to hang around with disruptors and they even have a disruptor ETF. So somehow they found me and we've been communicating and they've interviewed me on X and then they invited me to the my wife and I to the so the Wednesday's close of the NASDAQ. I don't know. Some of them film it. I think CNBC and Fox Business and maybe Bloomberg will be up there.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'll record it on a couple of channels and see if we catch a glimpse.
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Yeah, I hope it's not on the cartoon channel or something like that. But anyways... I've done it once before, the opening bell over at the New York Stock Exchange many years ago. Okay, now, back to business here. We've got, you know, everybody wants to kiss the ring now. You notice that? Trump's ring. You've got a couple big CEOs last week donating a hundred grand to, or no, a million to Trump's big party, his... His coronation. Another one is ponying up a million dollars today. Sam Altman, who is OpenAI's controversial CEO. He's the one that got fired by OpenAI. Microsoft hired him. And then OpenAI took him back. He's going to donate a million dollars to Trump's inauguration. He is basically, I mean, the biggest driver behind AI right now. And there's been a lot of controversy at that company. Recently, one of their developers committed suicide. He did not like the road that this OpenAI is going down. And that's why they fired Altman. And people quit because they were going down a road that he said he wouldn't go down. As far as I know, they're back to going down that road wherever it leads us. SoftBank's chief. Which has been around, I remember SoftBank when I first got into the business. It was his father back then. Now it's Masayoshi's son, who is the son of the founder of SoftBank. And just like the name, I mean, they are a bank. They invest their private equity mostly, but they do own a lot of publicly traded companies. They were one of the original venture capitalists investing in good companies. I remember they owned Yahoo and others way back when. They haven't done as well recently. You can buy SoftBank, S-F-T-B-Y. He's going to promise $100 billion in investments in America. during his visit to Trump. So he came and kissed the ring and met with Trump on Friday night. And brought a truckload of cash. Yes, and sushi. No, truckload of cash. You're right, $100 billion. Bitcoin, no, well, before we get to Bitcoin, also Tim Cook Friday night. Apple's leader sitting at Miralago at the head table. Tech leaders across the globe are shaking hands with the new president-elect as big tech looks to improve ties. Well, you know, they've all come around now, pretty much all of them. I haven't seen Bill Gates at the head table yet. I don't know that we'll ever see that, but it's supposedly going to be a more favorable environment for tech. Several of them are under fire right now from the FTC, the, you know, what's Google, who's going at, not the Department of Justice, but the antitrust department. is after them. Bitcoin surges above 106,000 as Fed decision looms. There just doesn't seem to be any stopping it. You know, it's the greater fool theory. It's just one guy buys it for a higher price and the next guy buys it and it lasts until the greater fool theory doesn't last anymore. could go to a million who knows it could be nary very near the top who knows there's really no way to value it other than its supply and demand and that's the way that works argentinian bank stocks attract wall street amid success of mele's shock therapy well I would just say that Argentina decided to do something drastically different, and he put government spending on a massive diet. Argentina is the best performing market in the world. Now, whether it's sustainable, whether it lasts, Argentina is up 65%. I own one of the little banks in the incubator fund. It's doing great right now. But Javier Mille, what he's done has just boosted the Argentinian stocks. Now, whether or not jobs and it's trickling down, I don't know any of that. But the bank stocks are up 151% so far this year. And one could say that we're doing a very similar thing here in the U.S. with the DOGE effort. Department of Government, what is it, Government Expenses?
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Department of Government Efficiency.
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Okay, I like that even better. We should be efficient in everything that we do. I believe in efficiency. As a CEO of a company, I believe in running an efficient company. Otherwise, you become Morgan Stanley or the government, you know. Okay, when we come back, some of the hottest stocks in the market, they just continue to pound out new highs. Where are they? Who are they? What are the best stocks now? We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GundersonCapital.com. To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. And the market seems optimistic about a quarter point rate cut.
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Later this week, we've got the NASDAQ is up 151. The S&P is up 26. The Dow is up 64. And the small caps are up 9. And in the meantime, the 10-year is down a little bit. to 4.39. It closed at 4.40 on Friday. And of course, we've got crypto, Bitcoin right now, sitting at 106,020. That's a new all-time high on the Bitcoin, the crypto. Okay, stocks that will not stop. Full speed ahead. Tesla lands higher price targets from Wedbush. They're going from 515 to 650. Dan Ives said the firm believes the Trump White House over the next four years will be a total game changer for the autonomous and AI story for Tesla. Well, that's all I can say. He's sitting in a pretty good spot, is Elon Musk right now. Tesla's stock today is hitting a new all-time high, $446.77. We did a good job there getting in that stock after the election. We paid $354. So it's up almost $100 a share since we made that call on Tesla. And it is one of the chosen ones in the premier growth portfolio. You can't really – it doesn't make sense on evaluation on what's known today about the stock. I think they're buying it on what is unknown down the road about the stock, Barry. And with GM dropping out of the – the autonomous race that does narrow it down the race to uh three three companies really google tesla and that aura innovations so tesla is pounding out a new high today 447 it's up to 1.4 trillion who's the richest man in the world by far now Taking the big lead is Elon Musk. Target price from Wedbush today is $6.50. Wow, it's at $4.47 right now. No stopping Tesla. Maybe it'll end up in the Dow someday. Palantir to be added to the NASDAQ 100. That's another unstoppable stock. Palantir, we've done well with Palantir, really well with it. And now it goes into the NASDAQ 100. It's also in the S&P 500.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's pretty big that it's going in the NASDAQ 100.
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Yeah, that's a pretty select list of stocks. There is the NASDAQ composite, which is a lot of stocks, but that NASDAQ 100 is the nucleus of the NASDAQ. Palantir was an $8 stock in 2020. They came public the year of COVID, and now it is a $72.88 stock. It's not hitting a new high today, but we do own Palantir also. Added to the NASDAQ 100, who are they replacing? Supermicrocomputer, SMCI. which has been all over the map. I see Super Micros going for trying to float some shares. They need some cash. They need some money to continue their growth trajectory. Bank of America's top chip stocks for 2025. Well, you know what? I could have said this. NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Marvell. Those are the three stocks. And they're pretty much, I mean, those are the heavyweights out there right now. They also like LAM research on semiconductor and cadence design systems. But having said that. It's slow. Other than Broadcom breaking out on Friday in a big way, it continues to be a very, very slow. NVIDIA is just dead in the water. I think between the money going into Tesla and the money going into Bitcoin, there's no money left over to go into NVIDIA, Barry. Maybe that's the case. I don't know. That flow of funds has maxed out. Well, you know, I've seen a little bit of the bloom come off the rose in AI. In fact, I've seen some estimates that only 5% or 6% of the companies out there are going to really use AI for anything. So maybe we got ahead of ourselves. in this AI. But they like those three, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Marvell. And MRVL, they made a big breakthrough in quantum computing last week, which was big news. The quantum stocks continue to do well. The biggest issue that the semiconductor chips have is China. Okay, William Blair, their top 2025 picks include Broadcom, again, Workday, and monday.com, also CloudFlare. Those are all pretty good stocks. I can't argue with those. Those are some very fast-moving stocks. Workday had kind of a weak report recently, but it's out there in the Silicon Valley. It should do okay next year. And Cloudflare has always been a very good stock, NET. They also like pure storage. I have issues with the storage stocks. I think they're too commoditized myself. Arm Qualcomm head to court over chip design license dispute. Well, Qualcomm's been a dead stock. Qualcomm seems to be kind of really looking anywhere they can for some kind of growth. They considered buying Intel there for a while. They turned away from that. I mean, there's no growth in Intel. And then they tried to do AI. That has not worked out. And Qualcomm is just scraping paint down there on the $150 area, going nowhere in a hurry. And they're looking for ways to grow, but it's not on anybody's list right now. Maybe they'll win this court case. I don't know if that helps or not. But anyways, Qualcomm seems to be pretty much dead in the water right now. They claim that iPhone, okay, so we've been saying that iPhone needs some kind of a catalyst in their next phone, and maybe this is it. I know I've been looking ahead for a bigger screen. How about a foldable, oh I see it's an iPad. I thought it was an iPhone. A foldable iPad. Okay, I don't see that as big a thing as a foldable phone. It's been Android that's come out with the, on Huawei. Huawei came out with the foldable phone. Apparently, Apple's next phone. Yeah, you highlighted it in that article that time. When Apple really came out with nothing on that day, Huawei came out with a foldable phone that you can fold up and put in your pocket. Apparently, Apple's next phone is going to be a lot thinner. Okay, a lot thinner. Maybe that's what they got to do first before they can get it down to where it will fold up. Novo Nordisk is parking $1.2 billion for new rare disease drugs plant in Denmark. That's another couple of stocks that have been pretty dead in the water here recently. Now, Novo was going down, going down. Finally, it bottomed out at $100. It's back to $109, but doesn't really look that exciting right now, even though they've got the weight loss drugs. And Lilly is looking better. It got down to $711. It's back to $791. It's up $80 per share in the last three or four weeks. It's up a little bit today. And it does seem that now I'm hearing that the new people going in to the health and human services and the CDC and all that, they are for the weight loss drugs. And, you know, I also read that the obesity rate in America has come down for the first time in many years. I mean, it's still way up there.
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That's pretty amazing.
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Yeah, I mean, that's like moving an aircraft carrier, right? And, you know, I just see all the benefits that come along with. Lily wanted a separate designation for sleep apnea, and they didn't get it. But, you know, I mean, look, it just makes people healthier to get the weight off. Okay, when we come back, I'm going to talk about a company. It takes a long time to enrich uranium. This is another race. This is almost as hot as the AI race right now. These nuclear stocks, getting nuclear reactors down in size. possibly getting them portable, building smaller nuclear reactors to run these data farms, and being able to enrich uranium at a much faster pace. There's a letter that came out from one of these companies today showing some pretty good progress. And that stock is up 19.4% today. We own it in the incubator account. We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, the short sellers have gone after ASPI. And it looks like they better run for cover because they're getting clobbered now. They're short selling as this stock continues to take off. Now, look, this is a small one. It's $420 million in market cap. It's not even a billion-dollar stock. That puts it down. It's not a micro cap, but it's a very small, small-cap stock. And they're the one that is coming up with a faster way. In fact, listen to this. This is a letter that the CEO sent out today saying, This is a letter from the CEO Paul Mann. As the year comes towards the end, I want to personally write to you to summarize some of the more significant milestones the company has achieved. during 2024 and discuss our future goals for 2025. The company completed the construction of two ASP isotope enrichment facilities, with one awaiting the delivery of feedstock, which is carbon-14, and the second currently in the commissioning phase, which is silicon-28. The company completed the construction of the first quantum enrichment facility, Whatever that is, I think it means it enriches it a lot faster. That's usually when I hear the word quant, quantum, it means fast, speed.
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Like quantum computing, yeah. Like that Google announcement last week.
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One of the radiation products that we're working on is Ytterbium-176. which is a precursor for the production of luteum-177, the active component of Novartis pluvecto, a potential blockbuster for the treatment of prostate cancer. So, yeah, I mean, obviously, radiation is used in the treatment of cancers. And they're also coming up with better, right, better types of the radiation treatments. The company signed two contracts with U.S.-based customers for the supply of highly enriched silicon-28 products. to enable the next generation of semiconductors for quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and large data centers. I mean, this stock, this little stock, is in all the hottest areas of the market.
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It does everything, doesn't it? Yes.
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Now, it's a long-term, it has no sales, no earnings yet, but obviously it looks like they're moving in the right direction. And the stock today is up 18.2%. That's one in the, I mean, obviously, where are you going to own a little stock like that? It's in an incubator portfolio that maybe someday, this is way down in the farm system, maybe someday this thing will start really advancing here. But they're definitely working in the right areas as ASPI. Okay, now we're going to look at the overall markets and just have a kind of a dive underneath the surface here. We're going to go to the NASDAQ. I want to go to the NASDAQ 100 here real quickly where we're getting a new member there. Let's see, who was the member of the, it is our friends at, not Cloudflare, but the other one, CrowdStrike. No, not CrowdStrike, the other one. You know, we just talked about it.
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Anyways. Palo Alto?
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Yeah, Palantir. Palantir. Okay, now. Palantir, yeah. All right, let's go to the NASDAQ components.
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Named off the whole cybersecurity group right there.
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I have so many symbols swimming around in my head. You know, sometimes they get clogged. Okay, now. The biggest winners in the NASDAQ today, and the NASDAQ is having a good day. I'm pretty shocked at the Broadcom. Wow. All of a sudden, you know, that thing was dead in the water for a long time, months and months last year. And it's like, you know, you can't count these big tech companies out. It's up 6.3 and it's tacking that on, I think it was up 20% or something on Friday. Micron's up 6.1% today. Micron's going to be reporting this week. The other one that has really woken up, with a vengeance, and we did buy it last week, is Alphabet. Pete Chai, the CEO, he was at the main table with Trump down in Mar-a-Lago. Alphabet is breaking out today, and that's a new all-time high. Alphabet, Google, is now $2.4 billion, despite a big antitrust case against it by the U.S. government. The current administration is after it. They better hurry up. I don't think they'll get that one done in time, and we'll have to see whether or not the Trump administration carries that one on. And then cadence design, which is pretty good. You know, that's out there on maybe the second ring of AI. Cadence design systems, they help with software for designing a chip, circuit design, etc., And then Tesla's up 2.5% today. So these are kind of the unstoppables right now in the market. Down at the bottom, oh, man, NVIDIA's down another 2% today. What is wrong? I don't see anything out there. other than maybe it got way ahead of itself. It's barely holding on to its support level here at around 132.
SPEAKER 06 :
Could folks be rebalancing? I wonder if there could be some big institutions rebalancing right at the end of the year where they've got it and essentially they're going to sell their winners and buy more of their losers?
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I don't know. Now, I would think in January you're going to see some selling. In the first few weeks of January, people putting off those capital gains. I mean, why would you sell now and log in?
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For another 12 months, right?
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That's what I would think. But, man, it's just dead in the water. It just came to a screeching halt. And it is under pressure, NVIDIA is. Okay, and then the other loser there are the losers. Starbucks is a loser, in my opinion. Walgreens is a loser. Microchip Technologies is a loser. Qualcomm is a loser. The losers continue to be losers. And even AMD is a loser, okay? There's only a couple of chip stocks that are doing any good at all right now. Now, if we look at the S&P 500, we'll go out... on this. Do we have time here? No, we don't have time. We're out of time. I just want to see what the biggest winner in the S&P 500 is. Well, again, it's Broadcom and Micron, those two. All right, now, we're going to continue the four-week trial, at least until the end of the year, of the live trading. I'm having a great time. I hope you're having a good time with it. You're getting a lesson on the market. Hopefully, you're getting some under-the-radar types of stocks here. And, of course, obviously, the above-the-radar investments that we make in the big companies. Go to GundersenCapital.com. And if you'd like to speak with us, set up an appointment about managing your portfolio, give us a call at 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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