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It’s finally Friday, and John Rush kicks off the weekend with insights, laughter, and debate. In this episode, reverse mortgage expert Bruce Simmons joins to bust myths and explain how families can approach tough financial conversations during the holidays.
Andy Pate delivers his latest movie reviews, tackling Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter and the animated The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. Are they worth your time and money? Hear his unfiltered takes.
Plus, a spirited discussion on left-leaning Hollywood actors: can conservatives separate art from ideology? Tune in for all this and more, only on Denver’s Afternoon Rush!
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It's finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. So I tell him I'm a pro jack. And who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama himself. So we finish 18, and he's going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says, oh, it won't be any money. When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that going. And movie reviews with Andy Payne.
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I think you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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What do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I'm done. Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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John Rush.
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All right, we are ready. Friday edition, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. How's Andy this fine Friday? I'm doing very well, sir, and yourself? Very good. Heading into the weekend. What's wrong with that? Oh, nothing. We'll take it. Nothing. Bruce Simmons joining us as well, our reverse mortgage professor. Bruce, how are you, sir?
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I'm fantastic. Happy Friday the 13th. Ready for Christmas, Bruce? I'm never ready for Christmas. I love it, but I'm never ready for it.
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Yeah, I think you, well, this year, especially as short as it is between the two holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas, you're not the only one.
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Yeah, yeah. It'll be fun, though. Lots of family and friends, so it's always good.
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Speaking of family and friends, a lot of people this time of the year to where, you know, as we all age and different conversations come up and so on, and this is something that, you know, I wanted you to address, whereby... It's not always mom, dad, grandma, grandpa that thinks about the reverse mortgage. Sometimes as a family, you can start down that path and start asking some of those conversations and so on. And I guess the question I would have for you is if somebody's around the dinner table and you kind of get to where that topic might be able to be broached, how do you start down that path? that's a good question um as far as like the family member mentioning yeah in other words hey you know i hear this guy on the radio all the time he's on john's show uh he talks about reverse mortgages you know hey mom dad is that something that you know we maybe ought to you know address a little bit or have a conversation over i guess it would depend on on what you know about their finances to begin with if
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If you know that things are maybe a little tight, or maybe they're concerned about long-term care, for example. They own their home free and clear. Okay. Money's not an issue, but they don't have long-term care insurance. Okay. That would be a very good point.
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And typically, Bruce, I mean, maybe not every kid knows that, but... For the most part, I think a lot of kids, siblings and so on would kind of know, you know, where's mom and dad at? I mean, those conversations typically happen. I know they happen among siblings. You have those conversations just to say, hey, you know, we got to make sure that everything's all, you know, dialed in with mom and dad as we kind of head down this road. We know that, you know, they're not spring chickens anymore and not that we're trying to put anybody, you know, in a home or in the grave early. But these are conversations that families start having. And I've got to believe that you could be a part of that.
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I think that, and I do meet with a lot of families, adult children or even grandchildren, attorneys, financial advisors, but I think that the way I would approach it is trying to explain to your parents that it's not the devil. Right. You know, I hear this guy on the radio, and reverse mortgages have gone through some changes recently, and I think a lot of financial advisors are starting to realize the value of them if properly used. Have you guys ever considered something like that? Oh, no, we don't need it. We don't need it. Well, maybe we could take a look at it just to see if it's possible, if it makes sense. Are you open to gathering information? Something like that, because the way I've run into more often than not is adult children are interested in the reverse mortgage, and the parents are like, well, I don't want to Give the house to my bank. I want to give the bank my house. I want to give it to you guys. Make sure you have it. And they just don't understand it. And the kids need to explain, look, Mom, I don't want your house. I want you to be happy. There you go.
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And by the way, at the end, depending on how things work out, the bank's not necessarily going to have it anyways because we have options. Let's talk about those.
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Exactly. That's one of the misconceptions that I've been battling for 21 years, almost 22 years about reverse mortgages. The bank's going to take your house. No, no, they're not.
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Bruce, so what's your experience usually in these meetings? Do people usually come in a little tense and leave very relaxed?
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Yeah, it depends on how open they are to it. Some people, I have had some where it was very tense. They're almost If one spouse is against it and one spouse is for it, that can create some tension because I've run into that a number of times. And if the spouse that's against it is willing to listen, a lot of times they'll leave, okay, that gives us something to think about. And not that they're going to sign on the dotted line, and I never ask people to do that, but open up. the conversation. Let's talk about it. And what happens is maybe six months, a year, two years later, I'm talking to them about more details. Okay, let's take a closer look at this now.
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Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. And my point is, you know, a lot of people will gather around families and so on. And again, some of these conversations will just sort of naturally occurring, you know, occur depending upon you know, what you're doing and what you're watching and so on. You know how that is, Bruce. Some things just spur a long conversation. And my thought was, hey, let's put a plug in for you because you're able to then, you know, after the holidays, sit down, have a conversation, and really get down to the brass tacks of is this a good fit or not.
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Yeah, especially if you hear them say, oh, yeah, it would be nice to go visit – Johnny and Sally and their new great-grandbaby, you know, in California, but we can't afford it right now. We just can't afford it.
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That's right. Hey, the other one that might come up around the dinner table this time of the year for everyone is going to be, hey, property taxes are like at an all-time high. Mom, Dad, how are you going to handle that next April?
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Insurance as well, too, both. All property charges are just going through the roof. My insurance went up $900 this year. And taxes are crazy, too. So, yeah, that's inflation. That's a great point, John.
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Yeah. So my point is, as you're around the table this year and some of those conversations might come up to sort of, you know, ease the pain, I guess you could say, Bruce, or, you know, put a little bit of ease into the room. You know, hey, all of you listening have that conversation. You know, there's never a guarantee, but at least have that conversation. Say, hey, mom, dad, there may be an answer for this and it may be a lot closer to us than you think. You know, let's go ahead and call John's guy and have a conversation and see how it goes.
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That's great advice. I think that's an excellent idea.
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Okay. How do they do that, Bruce? How do they get a hold of you?
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Give me a call at 303-467-7821. 303-467-7821. Or you can go to my website or KLZ's website as well.
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KLZradio.com or our website, RushToReason.com as well. Bruce, again, I probably won't see you before Christmas. Merry Christmas to you and your family, and we appreciate all you do, sir.
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Yeah, Merry Christmas to both of you guys. Keep up the good work. We'll do it. And fight the good fight.
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We'll do it. Thank you, Bruce, very much. We appreciate it. And yeah, for a lot of you listening, those conversations could easily come up. And we have, you know, Bruce could very well have a solution for you. And you don't know until you have that conversation. And ultimately, Andy, a lot of people, I think, get afraid of them because they've heard so many bad things that really they should stop and just have a conversation to find out.
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Yeah, they feel they're risking their home right now.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for a movie?
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Which one are we doing first? I didn't ask you that earlier. I apologize.
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Well, let me lead into it. How's this sound?
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Let's do that.
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Like Venom and Morbius, another Spider-Man villain becomes a hero in Kraven the Hunter.
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I stared death in the face and for the first time I saw my true self. My son, they are prey. We are predators.
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Why do you hunt?
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My father puts evil into the world. I take it out. is about strength. Tell me about this hunter. Once you're on his list, there's only one way off. Who's next?
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Embrace who you really are, son.
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And you will become that weapon.
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You are exactly like our father. Just another man hunting for a trophy. There is an animal in each one of us.
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Don't you want to know why they call me the Rhine?
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All right. That was actually The Rhino. Don't you want to know why they call me The Rhino? He was kind of trailing off there, wasn't he? Well, what do you think, John? Kraven the Hunter.
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Got some good actors in it.
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Yeah, it's another Marvel movie. Actually, it has a heck of a cast.
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Yeah, I see that. Well, let's jump in.
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Aaron Taylor Johnson, he stars as Sergei Kravenov, the muscular hunter known as Kraven the Hunter. In the Spider-Man cartoon world, which, as you know, I'm very much into, I watch Spider-Man cartoons, I watch all the cartoons, have for many years. Well, in that world, Kraven was given great power through a serum from his scientist girlfriend, um... Yeah, scientist girlfriend. That's really what she is. And her name is Calypso. And as a big game hunter, you see, he goes out and hunts animals. As a big game hunter, he hears about Spider-Man, and he wants to hunt the most dangerous game of all. Therefore, he becomes an enemy to Spider-Man. And that's the story of Kraven the Hunter. But, hey, let's throw that all out and make this movie instead. What do you think?
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Okay.
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This has nothing to do with that. Unreal. They just threw all of that out to make this movie. Here we go. Here, a young Sergei is given a magical potion, not scientific, magical potion from Calypso. And rather than being a scientist, she comes from a line of mystic priestesses.
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Hmm.
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And she later becomes a lawyer, which I guess is similar to being a mystic priestess in a lot of ways. I don't know. As a teenager, Sergei is on a safari with his father, Nikolai, played by the great Russell Crowe. Right? We were saying great cast here. And his brother, Dmitry. Dad is a Russian gangster, by the way. So he's a bad guy. I gathered that. Yeah. Anyhow, there's an accent. And he does a great job with the accent, just so you know.
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Mm-hmm.
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Anyhow, there's an accident with a CGI lion attack, and one thing leads to another, and Sergei gets Calypso's potion. Well, now Sergei has great powers like speed, leaping ability, night vision, and even relating to animals. As such, he becomes a great anti-poacher, a vigilante defending the animal kingdom. Kind of, John, he's kind of the punisher for our furry friends. So who does Kraven hunt? Bad guys! He hunts those poachers. He hunts the criminal. Maybe he hunts fishermen who catch over their limit. I'm not really sure. But whatever you do, don't mess with the animals around this guy. Well, Craven becomes the scourge of the criminal underworld, as they call him the hunter. But he tries to leave his father alone. Anyway, he's too much for the bad guys until one becomes a badder guy, and that's the rhino. No, he's not a Republican in name only, though it would have been fun to see Craven face off against Liz Cheney. What do you think?
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Good point.
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That would have been good. Action, action, action. I'd love it. Well, the rhino, he becomes huge, incredibly powerful with impervious skin and a horn. And this sets up a big battle. And ultimately, Kraven must stop evil and rescue basically all of nature and stop bad guys everywhere. And that is Kraven the Hunter. What do you think?
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Okay.
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Hard to tell, right?
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Yeah, okay. You tell me.
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What works in Craven the Hunter? Well, first of all, Aaron Taylor Johnson is really ripped. The guy is really, you know, he's gone all Wolverine. He's got the muscles. He's ready to go. And the family development with Russell Crowe and the two sons is interesting. It's very interesting watching the two because he is a very active son, and his brother is actually a very quiet son. piano playing son. And so watching that kind of a dynamic and then of course you just have such great acting going on. That's very interesting. Next there are some good action sequences. And Kraven, he moves like a lion. Because This potion basically combined lion skills with the magic of the potion with him, and that's why he has what he can do. And, of course, they make it so you have the CGI of him moving like a lion. That's interesting. What else works in Kraven the Hunter? Nothing. John? Nothing. That was it.
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That bad, huh?
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Yeah, that was it. Sorry, Charlie.
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Just one of the star-studded cast.
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I should have had Charlie queue up crickets for this. I didn't get to it. Yeah. Well, we'll get to that in a moment. What doesn't work in Craving the Hunter? Well, first of all, you've got some laughable CGI at points. I thought the line was pretty good early on, but that was about it. I thought Kraven was fighting the logo from Rhino Watch at one point. It was just like crazy. Go Kraven, right? There was virtually no humor. This is like the anti-Deadpool. I mean, come on, man. It's a Marvel movie.
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It didn't sound like there was much...
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Yeah, and just so you know, this is made by the Sony line of the Marvel movies, and I think this is going to be the last one. It kind of looks like this will be the last one. Real low-grade Wolverine kind of feel to the movie, right? Just not very funny, not that entertaining. Next, only a little content is added to make it R-rated. This is an R-rated film, barely. Now, that's really stupid, John.
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Yeah, why?
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Right. They should either have gone all in on the R rating, right, and jacked it up, kind of gone all John Wick with it, with the action, right? Go all the way. Or back away, since the R rating limits the audience. You don't want to do that. That was really dumb. I don't know why they did that. And it's going to cost them money. It seems none of the classic characters are developed anything like the cartoon. Now, granted, this isn't going to bother John Rush, but for people like Andy Pate, this is a problem. The foreigner, he has these weird hypnotic powers. I'm sorry, he was nothing like the cartoon. The chameleon came from a totally different place than the cartoon. I mean, he became like the cartoon character, the chameleon. But he wasn't that person. OK, the rhino was a totally different person from who he comes from in the cartoon. Heck, even Craven, as I told you, was developed totally different from the cartoon. Why not just make a different movie altogether? Why even have Craven make a different movie or something? I don't get it. Not since Ishtar have I seen so many great actors performing in a bad film. All right. The award-winning Ariana DeBose, she struggles as Calypso. Does her best, I guess, but her role was boring. Russell Crowe, he looked happier in prison during Gladiator than he did in this movie. I mean, I'm sorry, it wasn't working. Not that he wasn't doing his best with the role. You know, Russell Crowe always does his best as he can with a role, right? He always brings it. He doesn't just cash the check and go home. But what are you going to do with this role? This movie should have starred everyone who got turned down for all the other good jobs. I mean, seriously. In fact, it should have been shown, you know, as the cast at the end. That should have been shown as the cast at the end, right? Instead of rolling the cast, it should have been everyone who was turned down for good jobs in other movies. That should have been the cast of this movie. This movie... Look, I'm not going to say it was horrible, right? What was it, a couple weeks ago or last week that I did the zero-star movie of the year that was unbelievably bad? Look, it's not that bad. It's got the action here and there. You know, you've got some tense moments and so forth. But honestly, I never really cared about the characters. I didn't care about him at all. I didn't care about Kraven. I didn't care about Calypso. I didn't really care about his dad. I cared a little bit about his brother, but not a heck of a lot. And... Honestly, the rhino, I didn't care at all about. He was a boring kind of villain. This was just bad. And so for quality, I'm going to give it one star. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 14%. That's not good either. No, no. That's actually, I mean, that's actually leaning toward a half star right there. I'm not going to be quite that mean. It wasn't that bad. But it certainly wasn't good. So I'm going to give it one star. A political... I'm going to give it two and a half stars just for the, you know, animals thing. I don't know. No, you know what? Make it three. I don't really care.
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Okay.
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There was nothing said in this movie that I cared enough about to make it have a political... Yeah, yeah. More religious, three, whatever. I mean, it is R-rated, but, you know, it's not showing... Sounds barely. Yeah, but it's not showing a bunch of skin that I can remember. If it did, I'd just... You know, I may have blacked out portions of this movie, just so you know. It was that bad. I stayed in there, though. I stayed in there. This thing, another thing, John, for a lousy little film like this that has really not much story. I mean, the storyline is worth an hour of film, okay? This was like 207, over two hours. Solidly over two hours. That's a long watch.
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That's a big burden.
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Yeah. I went the distance. Yeah, you did. I went the distance. I went 15 rounds. I did my best. Folks, do I recommend going to Kraven the Hunter? Of course I do not. This was pretty bad. Madam Web, which also came from the Sony line of these Marvel movies. This is actually, I think, a tad beneath Madam Web. We're about the same. It's right in that range, guys. This is not worth seeing. Don't waste your money. Don't waste your time. Don't even rent it. Just the moment you feel like renting Craven the Hunter, just watch Avengers for the 18th time and enjoy yourself.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for another movie?
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It's another series I've never seen. I know. You? Someday I'm going to have to stop and watch them, I guess.
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Folks, I am speaking with perhaps the only person in America who has not seen Lord of the Rings.
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I have not. That amazes me. Never even read the books. Just never did.
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Now, I've only read part of one book. I didn't really get into the books.
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My wife's read them all. I know a lot of people that did, but I didn't.
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Okay, well, here we go. John, a Lord of the Rings cartoon at Christmastime? Heck yeah, in Lord of the Rings, The War of the Rohirrim.
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We have faced down death, famine, war to hold these lands together.
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You do not command the loyalty you think you do. Brothers of Rohan, arise! We have to get our people out.
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You're stronger than I knew. Rohan still stands!
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Rohan still stands, John. I know you were worried, so I'm just letting you know Rohan still stands. You feel better?
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I'll show you how out of the loop I am. I didn't know this was a cartoon.
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You didn't, huh?
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No. Or animated, I should say.
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I just want to ask, can you imagine Joe Biden saying the word Rohirrim? I'm just saying it like it's kind of funny. Okay. Well, in this prequel, we are brought over 180 years prior to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Okay. So this is, and even before that, this is before Bilbo, who you don't know. Yeah, you don't know these guys. They're short. I'll just tell you that. How's that? Well, let's set the characters. Gaeli, she stars as Hera, the daughter of Helm Hammerhand, king of Rohan. Now, Helm, he's a powerful king, and he has two sons who couldn't be more different. You got Haleth, who's like Helm, and you got a Hama, who is more sensitive. Kind of reminds me of Jacob and Esau, you know what I mean? Okay. Well, Hera is, well, a woman, so she's their sister. Well, Helm has a very powerful rival named Freyka, who calls a meeting to campaign for a wedding between Hera and his son, Wolf. And Wolf is voiced by Luke Pasqualino. Well, Helm fights Freyja. He's not going to go for this, so they get in a fight. All right, so you got the king against his biggest critic. They get in a fight, tragedy ensues, and Wolf vows vengeance. Well, leading his army, Wolf lays siege to Rohan, bringing destruction everywhere we turn. Now, who can rise up against him? Hera? It's got to be Hera. Why? Because pretty much no one has left. She always has been a tomboy, and now she unleashes her warrior side against a man who was once a friend. Now this story, John, it's not written by J.R.R. Tolkien. It's not canonical, so to speak, right? And it's the first one to put a woman front and center as the hero. So can Hera save Rohan? And what price must she pay? We find out in Lord of the Rings, The War of the Rohirrim.
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Okay.
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Does that at least sound interesting?
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Yeah, not bad.
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I mean, it sounds like battles and sword fights and so forth. Okay, what works in Lord of the Rings, the War of the Rohirrim? Well, first of all, the backgrounds, they feature great artistry, and you would expect that. Just beautiful. watching some of the eagles fly over these vast lands. It's pretty impressive, and that's one of the things that is a real signature aspect of all the Lord of the Rings movies is that the backgrounds are just spectacular. Hera. She's a good heroine with a blend of strength, courage, intellect, and femininity. She's the total package, John. Okay. Gotta like Hera. Okay. Wolf is an interesting villain, driven by rage over his loss. He's ruthless, but he's vulnerable. I kind of like that. The battle and fight scenes are well choreographed and very brutal at times. So that's what works in this movie. Now, what doesn't work in Lord of the Rings, The War of the Rohirrim? Wow, this is big, really. The characters use a truly annoying cheap cartoonistry with too few frames for their movements. It's like flipping pages to see a character move. Now, I mean, for instance, let's say they do a cartoon and you're just watching a character walk across a long room. And ordinarily it would take like 30 frames to do this, right? And so you have that nice smooth motion as the character walks. Imagine using only 10 to 15 frames. Chop, chop, chop. So this gives a choppy feel to the action, unlike the smooth style we've grown to enjoy, say, with Pixar and DreamWorks. This is totally different. And it's on purpose. This is actually a style. But I'm telling you, it's an annoying style. Next. There's about 90 minutes of story in a movie that goes over two hours. I think it was 214. So this really drags at times. It really does. Next. The stereotype of the strong-willed woman who won't be told who to marry, it's threadbare. We've seen this stereotype how many times, right?
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Right.
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Yeah. Do something new. But anyway, despite all the battles, the film feels very predictable, which is tough for a two-hour and 15-minute movie, John. I don't want predictability when I've got to sit there that long. Here's a biggie. It needed more humor. It needed snappier dialogue. So I guess it had that in common with Craven. Not very funny at all. And Lord of the Rings has a number of very funny moments. Not here. This is huge. No elves, dwarves, trolls, and very few orcs. This is barely a Lord of the Rings film. It's almost all people. Come on, man. We're watching Lord of the Rings. I want to see these magical creatures that we normally don't get to see in all the other movies. Right?
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Right.
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I mean, why don't I just pop in Braveheart and watch that again? OK, I thought I was going to see something new or at least see some of these classic characters or different ones. They really didn't. There was like one creature, a couple of orcs, and that was it. It was really, really stripped down and basically just people. Finally, this is clearly a feminist film as if Lord of the Rings needed one. I mean, why can't warrior princesses fall in love anymore? And why do the men have to make so many stupid decisions in these movies? It's driving me nuts. By the way, let's take a step out of this movie for a moment. I got to do a study here real soon on Disney princesses. And by princesses, I don't just mean those who are princesses. I mean Disney female leads. When's the last time one fell in love with a guy? I mean, he had Tangled. I mean, there was a time when almost every single Disney female lead.
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Good point.
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Ariel from Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast and so forth fell in love with a man. Now, the last bunch of Disney movies and Disney and Pixar movies have had virtually none of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Never thought about that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. In fact, one of the female leads, of course, in Lightyear married a woman.
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Right.
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Okay. You had a female lead in Strange World. Of course, that didn't matter because the boy was, you know... He was gay. But even movies where you don't have any of that, these female leads, almost none of them are falling in love with men anymore. They don't need men. Never thought about that. Right. And this one's exactly the same. Hera in this movie, she doesn't need a man either. She just says flat out she doesn't want to marry. You know, and that's okay, as I got nothing against that. You choose your lifestyle, whatever. What gets me, though, is that that has become so prevalent in these kids' films. It is a very obvious thing, a very, very, very obvious trend now, that with kids' films, the last thing they want to show is a woman, is a girl who wants to marry a boy. And they don't have it in this movie either. I mean, have you noticed this?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, no, not until you just said that. Now that you say it, yes.
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I've got to check the numbers.
SPEAKER 03 :
I never really thought about it before, Andy, but you're right.
SPEAKER 07 :
My wife and I were talking about it, and in the last few years, there was one or two females who wanted to date or marry a boy, and that was their big thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Maybe they should turn some of the writing over to Hallmark.
SPEAKER 07 :
Maybe. You know, maybe. Okay, let's jump in here. Rotten Tomatoes gave Lord of the Rings The War of the Rohirrim 54%, not a real ringing endorsement.
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Not great, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no, no. And you know what? I'm going to go right about there, too. Quality, two and a half stars out of five. This is a dead average movie. It's too long. It has too little story for too much picture. The way the characters move, yes, you do get more used to it as the movie goes on, but it is... Well, it's cheap and annoying. It's like, look, draw more pictures.
SPEAKER 03 :
Spend a little more money.
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Spend a little more money. Have these people move much more fluidly. Right. And by the way, how about having a little bit of humor in this movie? Lighten it up a little bit. And you know what? It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for this beautiful woman and a handsome man to fall in love. I guess I'm getting old-fashioned. I'm just getting tired.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I can't argue with you on that one.
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Although it's not their fault that the last several movies have been like that. Political, I'm going to take it down just to two stars because of the kind of feminist angle to this. The men really do a lot of stupid things in this movie. It gets old. And at the end, two women ride off together, not in love, just as cohorts. More religious, I'll give it a three. It was pretty neutral. There was nothing wrong with it. The thing about it is J.R.R. Tolkien was actually a very moral-centered man. And so it's just kind of wild that this has been done with his storyline. So there you go. Do I recommend going to Lord of the Rings or the Rohirrim? You know, folks, at least it's interesting to see a Lord of the Rings cartoon come out. This thing is of the quality that it should have been released on TV. It's cheaper. And the characters, like I've been saying, they need to simply draw more and add some humor. It's not that well written. It's not that well drawn, at least with the characters. It's just not that good of a movie. I wouldn't waste the money. There you go.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Friday edition, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, and movie reviews, by the way. You can always go to the website and find out even some of the past movies that Andy has done. Just go to the show notes section of our website, rushtoreason.com, and you can find those there. Yesterday's impossible question, why do books smell, or old books smell, I should say. And Charlie actually got this right in my ear yesterday. Because they're made of paperwood, they're decomposing.
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Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
So that's the smell that you smell with old books. Today's impossible question. What do the residents of the Galapagos Island use in place of a formal postal system?
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Finches to fly messages around.
SPEAKER 03 :
Pigeons.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I'm just saying because of Darwin's finches.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know. I got nothing. I wouldn't have gotten this one either. Charlie, any ideas? Nope. Nope. Charlie said tree mail, but no. So anyways, answer that on the Rush to Reason Facebook page.
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Maybe they just yell at each other.
SPEAKER 03 :
That could be.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, it's not a very big place. No, it is not. Okay, just thinking.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm surprised there's residents even there. They use turtles, Charlie says. That's not a bad idea.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure. Maybe they have literal snail mail. That could be. I don't know.
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Anyways.
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Okay. Can we talk a little about lefty loonies?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, we got a few minutes here. Go for it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Well, you know, last week we looked at some lefty loony movies. You know, these big time leftist, you know, wacko liberal actors. But you got more today. We're doing part two today. We're going to do part two. I'm going to take a little different angle to it, though, because I'm going to list some off and just say, would you go to this? Would you not? Because we it's a real difference. Some of them anger us so much that we don't even want to see their movies. And that takes a lot. But what I wanted to ask is, why do we go to these movies with these super liberal actors? I mean, are we just entertainment addicts? Because I think there's another reason that we conservatives do that. I think there's a good reason that we conservatives go to their movies.
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Well, I mean, personally, it has to be a pretty good movie for me to actually go in the first place or even take time at night to watch it on TV or watch a movie, rent it, do whatever. It has to be a really good movie for me to even do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. What you just gave was a businessman's answer and a very good one. In other words, it's the same reason you'll hire a liberal person. You go on merit. Right. Okay. Does the movie merit my watching it? Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't any who go so far as their conduct makes them no longer merit watching. And that gets really extreme.
SPEAKER 03 :
I've got a few of those, though. Right. I talked about that last week.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure. And we'll get into some of those today. But for the most part, we look at merit. And it's like, look, if you've made a good product, I want to admire your product and what you did. But I got another thing, too, I want to add. Conservatives don't want to control people. Right. So we don't want to look at everybody and say, the moment you don't think like I do, I want to cancel you out of my viewing. I want to cancel you out of my world. I want to silence you out of my world. We want to celebrate their talents. We want to celebrate their abilities. And this is why it was so painful when NFL players would kneel during games and were basically kneeling in favor of racism. Right.
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Right.
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Is really what they were doing. That's right. Against America and for racism. That's right. You're right. You know, they were denying the incredible advances we've made in America, you know, regarding racism.
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Absolutely.
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And, you know, and did I stop watching for a long time? Yes, I did. I stopped watching the NFL period. It was my way of protesting. And those of us who did protest in that way, we obviously brought about big results. The crashing TV ratings did what? They drove away the kneeling and guess what? Now we got NFL players openly doing the Trump dance.
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It's way the opposite.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's totally the opposite.
SPEAKER 03 :
We got them wearing MAGA hats.
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Right. I think that we go to these movies because we want to celebrate greatness and we don't want to control even the liberal actors. I don't want to only like you and not just actors, but friends. I don't want to only like you insofar as you agree with me. What do you think?
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No, I would agree with that. I mean, we we base things off, you know, for example, we all at times. Well, not weekly, but pretty close to it. We go to Costco. Now, we know that Costco isn't super conservative, although anymore they're not.
SPEAKER 07 :
See, I go to Sam's Club because I'm an American, but go ahead.
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And what I was going to say is if you look at even where the donations and things like that go, they're not as far left as they once were. If they are, Andy, they don't publicize it like they once did. Right. that's one of those to where, okay, why would you shop in a place where you know it's a bunch of liberals that own it? Well, no offense, you're probably not going to buy anything if you use that standard because there's a lot in the marketplace that is controlled by the liberal. I mean, let's face it, most of Wall Street is very liberal when it's all said and done. We know that on a, you know, we talk about that on a monthly basis.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, Sam's Club is definitely a little more conservative than Costco, but only a little more. Let's face it, we go to the one that's closest.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, Andor has the right product mix. They both have different product mixes as well. They're not the same.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, they're a little different, but they're similar. I mean, the style is similar, what they do. I've been to Costco. Although Sam's Club does not have the chicken bakes that you can get in the deli at Costco.
SPEAKER 03 :
And those are delicious. The way I look at it, and it's not exactly this way, but if you're more business-oriented and you need things for your vending machine business or your regular business or you have a restaurant or whatever, you're typically going to be more on the Sam's Club end of things. If you're looking more for the retail aspect of things and you're looking for maybe even that one-off special that they have running right now or even some of the things you mentioned a moment ago. A little more variety on that end of things at Costco. I can see that. Point being, we all shop at different places, even though you know that the owners of may be very liberal. Right. Why? Because we like what they're selling, Andy. Well, let's talk really quick. Which really, in a movie, that's what they're doing as well. Right. We like what they're selling.
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We like what they're selling. Let me give an example here. We'll talk about them in the next hour. Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen hates America. Seth Rogen hates Trump, hates America, and those are not the same. I'm saying this guy has a lot of hate in him. He's a very hateful guy. He would deny that. I don't care.
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No, he is. I would agree with you on that one.
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And yet I love watching Seth Rogen. I like his movies for the most part. They've gotten lesser because he's getting old. But, you know, I mean, he's done some great stuff.
SPEAKER 03 :
He's getting old and he's getting too angry. That's what happens when they get angry.
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When they let their anger through to the movie, to the movies, right, to the films. But when you watch Seth Rogen and he just cuts you up, he has some great lines and his delivery of the lines is so great. Don't you just admire the artistry? Absolutely. Absolutely. And isn't it fun to admire the artistry? In fact, I almost feel better knowing I'm admiring the artistry of somebody I disagree with. There's something freeing about that. It's like, look, I'm not valuing people just because they agree with me. Because if I do that, all I care about is me. And I want to be better than that. And liberals, the moment a conservative comes out as a conservative in Hollywood, not only do a lot of people in Hollywood refuse to work with that conservative, but liberals don't want to go to their movies at all. They lash out at Clint Eastwood. It's crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
True. And others like him. You're exactly right. And a lot of those, as we know, a lot of those actors, actresses will get, how do you want to say it, turned away from other type of deals that might come along because of their views. Yes. Yeah, they're canceled. Thank you, Charlie.
SPEAKER 07 :
They get canceled. Now, we on the right, we tear into some liberal actors, too, and we'll do it today on the show. But guess what? They're not losing any jobs over this.
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No.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, they aren't.
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. All right, we are back. Got a few seconds left of this hour, then we'll come back and do loony lefty movies along with NFL picks.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, one thing I'd really like to hear in Hour 2, in the second half of Hour 2, of course, is I'd like to hear from anyone who has an actor or actress they just won't watch. Or they will rarely watch. Maybe watch old movies that they made, so forth. You know, meet the parents with De Niro.
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Senile.
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Yeah, but I'd like to hear it. Or if you want to say, nope, I'll watch any of them. I would like to hear some people's opinions on this. I really would.
SPEAKER 03 :
I have some that I won't watch. Some of it's not just because they're liberal. Some of it is because I really don't think they're as great of an actress or actor as maybe they think they are. That's some of it for me as well, but that's another conversation.
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They often are not as great as they think they are.
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That's typically true. Very well said. All right, so we've got Hour 2 coming up next. Don't go anywhere. Remember, again, movie reviews. We're going to go back and list some of the previous ones as we head into the holidays because there's a lot of things that you're going to still see out in the theater right now that Andy's already done. Go back into our show notes section and look at what some of those reviews are like before you go spend the money at the theater. We'll be back. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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That I am, Andy. Okay, let's cue up the music. Here we go. Okay, Richard, we've got to start with the Kansas City Chiefs. They are favored by four and a half of the Cleveland Browns. It seems like the Chiefs could play the greatest team ever, or they could play a high school team, and they're going to win by three either way.
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And they're still going to take over, aren't they, Andy?
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It's crazy, isn't it? I still don't have much hope for the Chiefs in the playoffs, but what do you think?
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Yeah, I'm with you, Andy, which makes me happy, obviously, as a Broncos fan, because I just want to see them lose, you know? Yeah, they should win, Andy, although, again, the Chiefs never seem to blow out their competition. It doesn't matter if it's the Browns or whoever it is, but I just think they're too good. Unless Jameis has one of his famous Jameis games, right? You have famous Jameis, that's right? Yeah. I don't think that they will pull it out. I mean, it's possible, but I think that the Chiefs will get them here.
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I'll take the Chiefs as well. Next game, the Bengals are favored by five at the Titans.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, the Bengals, I don't want to say coming on, but maybe if their defense can figure it out, the Titans are sort of a mess, right, Andy, in their own rights? I like the Bengals. I like how their offense looks. It's just the defense. But, yeah, they should win this game, Andy. They should win most of them down the stretch, hopefully, except for the Broncos. And they need to, right? Because if they don't, they're likely out of the playoffs.
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Yeah, I look at the Bengals. Look, the question is, what's worse, the Bengals' defense or the Titans' entire team? And no, I do not believe the Bengals can beat the Broncos when they play. I don't think they have a chance. So I'll take the Bengals as well in this one. Next game, the Commanders are favored by 7.5 on the road at the Saints.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Andy, the Saints are playing their backup to their backup. I don't know why Rattler's out or what the deal is, but the Saints are playing... Jake Hainer for his first career start. They're tanking. Yeah, the commander should win. And you are correct, they are tanking, which they should, Andy. Yeah, the commander should win this one, should win it handily. Honestly, Jaden Daniels should have a heck of a game, so I'll be curious to see how this one plays out. And to me, it's just a matter of how much they beat them by.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I agree. You know, it's kind of the point where teams like, even when they're not playing each other, the Saints, the Titans, the Giants, the Raiders, these teams, they're already in the draft bowl. That's what they're playing in every week. They are tanking for the draft. They should. They should, yes. I'll take the commanders as well. Okay, let's whip through these. The Ravens are favored by 16 at the Giants. Whatever. Go ahead and make that pick.
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The Giants, Andy. Again, another team that is tanking for the draft, you know, depending on which quarterback they want and how this season ends, whether they're going to be ahead of the Raiders or maybe even the Jaguars, depends. And obviously the Ravens have got to win, Andy, right? So all those style points don't matter in the NFL. It's just a matter of if you win or not. In most cases, I mean, there is point differential at some point, one of the tiebreakers, but This should be bad, Andy. The Ravens should handle them. Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson should be on ice by midway through the second quarter, but if not the third quarter, yeah, it should be a bloodbath.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, the only thing I wonder is will the Ravens look past them entirely, but yeah, I'll take the Ravens next game. The Cowboys are on the road at the Panthers. The Carolina Panthers are actually favored by three in a game.
SPEAKER 11 :
Andy, I think it's the first time they've been favored in like two years or something like that, three years or something. It's crazy. I mean, touche. Honestly, and credit to Bryce Young, Andy. The time that he was not playing again, and Dalton was playing, and then he sort of came back against the Broncos. The Broncos handled them. But he actually didn't look too bad, and he's really come along. Honestly, should have beat the Eagles last week or at least tied them late if Xavier Leggett makes that catch. Yeah, and the Cowboys, another team that if Jerry was smart, he would really just be coaching for whatever. Although, Andy, my choice for where Belichick was going to go was the Cowboys.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but he looked at that roster and said, nope.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, he looked at that roster, looked at that contract with Dak and said, yeah, that one's not going to happen. So, yeah, I'm going to go. I actually know what the Panthers here, Andy. I like them. Even though they're favored, I just think that they're a scrappy team. I think that they're going to compete. and I think that they'll take this over the old Cowboys, although I think it'll be an exciting game.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think the Panthers deserve to be favored, but you know what? I'm going to pick the upset. This just has the smell of a game where the team that's lost it all comes together angrily and plays an angry game. I'll let the Cowboys beat the Panthers here. Next game, the Jets, for whatever reason, are favored by 3.5 over the Jaguars. A team that's totally good.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't know, Andy. I don't know, Andy. Yeah, the Jets are a disaster, but the Jaguars are equally, or if not, a worse disaster, which I don't even know if that makes any sense to me. But yeah, Andy, the Jags, Trevor Lawrence is shut down. They should be competing for that number one draft pick just for the idea that you either take Travis Hunter or you can trade out of it for a ransom for one of these top quarterbacks, what your flavor is there. Yeah, Andy, and then the Jets, a whole other thing. They should actually be benching Aaron Rodgers, although maybe, Andy, Aaron Rodgers gives them the best chance to lose. Maybe we're thinking about this all wrong, right? Maybe the Jets are looking at it, oh, Rodgers has been playing terrible. So, Andy, I think that overall I think the Jets will win. I think they have a better team. That's not saying much. I just think the Jags are in need of a massive, massive reset, and they'll get that at the end of the year.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. I think the Jets' ownership is not thinking either way because I think they've stopped watching their own team. I don't think they care anymore. As for the Jaguars, absolutely they are thinking of getting that top pick and ransoming it off for a future, but I'll take the Jets. Dolphins are on the road. This is a good game. Dolphins are on the road at the Texans. Texans are favored by three, but neither team is impressive.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, they're not. The Dolphins have got an easier schedule, Andy, to kind of finish off the year, and the Texans need to win because if they don't and the Colts win a few more games, the Colts could eventually catch them for the division, believe it or not. So I think the Texans will be playing hard. They've been playing better as of late, and I think that gives them a shot here. I'll go with the Texans. The Texans are at home, right, Andy? Yep. Yeah, I'll take the Texans just because they're at home.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm going to take the upset. I'm going to take the Dolphins just because I think both teams suck, so I'll take the Dolphins. Why not? Next game, the Colts are coming into Denver playing the Broncos. Broncos favored by four. It does not seem like enough.
SPEAKER 11 :
I like to hear you say that, Andy. I'm still nervous. I don't even know if this one should be a... a one-point game or not. I think so, Andy. I think the Colts are reliant on big plays from Anthony Richardson, and they're really reliant on him sort of chucking it up and getting the defense to fall asleep, which can happen to my Broncos at times. I'll just say it 100%. So, ultimately, Andy, I think the Broncos will come out winner. I think it'll be closer. the Broncos pulling away.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I think the Broncos blow them out. Next game will be the Bills at the Lions. That's the game of the week. The Lions are favored by two and a half at home.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Andy, and the Bills, you know, dropping one to the Rams last week. I know. A few of these teams that are struggling. Well, again, the Bills, that was a bad one to drop because Kansas City can almost lock up the one seed with a few more wins against these lowly opponents. They may lose two in a row here, Andy, because I think that the Lions are a really a really good team, although they're reeling a little bit from all of their injuries. Right. You know what, Andy? I'll go with the Bills because maybe you and I will split this. I'll go with the Bills just because I think they'll be looking to get back on the winning side of things.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, I don't know. I'll take the Lions because they're at home. But honestly, the Lions, once they get healthy down the final stretch, you know, for the playoffs, they're the best team in the league. But they're not healthy right now. But I'll take them by a field goal over the Bills. Next game, Steelers are on the road at the Eagles. Eagles favored by five and a half. And the Eagles are red hot. Richard?
SPEAKER 11 :
Nope. Oh, are you there? Sorry, Andy. Sorry, you said the Eagles what?
SPEAKER 06 :
They're red hot. You dropped out for a moment. Go ahead. Eagles are favored by five and a half over the Steelers.
SPEAKER 11 :
They are red hot, Andy. The Steelers are hot in their own right. They have a chance. They actually still have a chance at the one seed themselves or even the two seed. You're playing, obviously, with the Bills, I should say. The Steelers have a tough game upcoming here in a few weeks, Andy. This is another tough one. Which Russell do we get here? I'll go with the home team. I'll go with Philly. I don't necessarily love that pick because I think the Steelers are just a hard-nosed team. They're going to muck up this game a little bit. It'll be a Tomlin special, but I think the Eagles will pull it out.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. They're too athletic. I'll take the Eagles. Next game, the Patriots are on the road at the Cardinals. Cardinals favored by six.
SPEAKER 11 :
Andy, I almost was right with my Patriots pick last week. You almost called that. That impressed me. I was close. If we were playing against the spread, I would have been, but alas, we're not. I'll take the Cardinals, Andy. Patriots traveling cross country. I do think it's an exciting game. I think that the Patriots will give, and Drake may make it more exciting, but the Cardinals should win. They're just a little bit more talented, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. I like Drake May, but he's a year away. I'll take the Cardinals. Next game, the Bucs are on the road at the Chargers. Chargers favored by three between these two very even teams.
SPEAKER 11 :
Very even Andy and the Chargers. They're going to do what they've done all year, Andy. They should have beat the Chiefs last week if they got their stuff figured out and Jim Harbaugh realizes you can't give the ball back to Patrick Mahomes. At any point in the game with just needing a field goal especially. Yeah, that wasn't too bright. Yeah, it wasn't too bright at all, Andy. The Bucs are a tough team. Baker can get hot. You know what, Andy? I'll go with the home team out of nothing. Just sheer, I think that We'll see the Chargers. I think they need to get back on the win here after their loss against the Chiefs last week. I'll go with the Chargers.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, you've got two teams that are average to maybe a little above average. I'll take the Chargers. Okay, the Packers are favored by 2.5. They're on the road at the Seahawks. Maybe one of the better games of the weekend, Andy. Yeah, I think so. I mean, I still think Bill's Lions is the one to watch, but my Packers going up there to Seattle. I mean, maybe my Packers can go downtown and seize the city block. I hear that's all the rage there.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, hey, well, maybe they'll just seize Lumen Field and they'll call it there. Yes. I think the Packers will get them here, Andy. I think that the Seahawks are a tough team. I just think that Geno can only take them so far, and I think the Packers have more weapons. They almost had it, well, yeah, last week. Yeah, I'll take the Packers here, Andy. On the road in tough, looming field.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I think Jordan Love's starting to put it together. I'll take the Packers. Two more games. The Bears are on the road at the Vikings. Vikings only favored by seven. I think that they'll be up by seven minutes into the game. So I'm not sure. What do you think?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Andy, if there wasn't a, you know, if Caleb Williams, I mean, I still think he's got a shot, but, man, you know, there's a lot of – He did a few things that made me question him before the draft, and those are sort of coming to fruition. I'll be 100% honest with you. Yeah, and the Vikings against Sam Donald looking good, Andy. I just think they're going to come back to earth at some point in time. But that's not this week against a lowly Bears team.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, this is an easy win for the Vikings. Next game, last game, the Falcons. They're actually favored by four on the road. Why? They're going to Vegas to play the Raiders. What do you think, sir?
SPEAKER 11 :
The Falcons, one of the most underwhelming teams of the year at some point in time. Maybe they just finished out this year with Kirk, but as much as I like Kirk, I think he's a good guy. You've got to try Pennix at some point in time, and it probably won't happen this year because I think they'll be fighting for a playoff spot up until the very last week of the season. But next year, I think you've almost got to get a chance at it because you can't let a dude sit here. You're not the Packers over here. You can't let a guy sit for four years and not do anything with him, especially Penix, an older guy. And the Raiders, again, they're shooting for that top spot, Andy. To me, they are going for Shador Sanders. I think they're going to blow out that coaching staff at the end of the season. and we'll see what they decide to do. But, yeah, I'll take the Falcons on the road.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I would take the Raiders because I would take anyone against the Falcons' defense. I believe the Falcons are going to draft nothing but defense for two solid years coming up. But the Raiders are tanking. They are determined to lose every single game to get you there. I think they're going to continue. I think the Falcons win. John, back to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Richard, are you going to head out?
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm going to head out. I'll talk to you guys next week.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Last week we started off on loony lefties, movies starring crazy left-wingers, and we went through a few, but we decided last week, because there was still a lot left on the list, that we would do the same thing this week. By the way, next Friday we will be doing your favorite Christmas movie, so you can start gearing up for that already, because it's the Friday before Christmas, and that's what we'll do.
SPEAKER 06 :
I like Christmas movies. I really do. They're fun.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's a fun day.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm one of those people, though, who will watch Christmas movies when it's not Christmas time. Oh, me too. Yeah, I don't care. Yeah. Okay, let's start with one. And each time I'm going to ask you, John, would you watch movies with this person? Which ones would you? Which ones wouldn't you? Perfect. Now, with the first one, I'm going to make it easy because you wouldn't watch anything with this person because she sings. Okay? But I've got to start with Rachel Zegler. I've got to start with the wacko leftist who is ruining... Snow White coming up and who has been attacking what? Trump supporters.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, she's one where I won't watch her, period.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, she's the one who came out and said after the election, I understand it's very painful. Your side loses. I've been there. I've been angry. Suck it up. But to say, I hope all Trump supporters know no peace. And then she said blank Trump and so forth. But... I want you to understand what a talent this woman is, this young woman. You know, a lot of actors and actresses can sing. And it's one thing to be able to sing and even be able to sing powerfully. It's another thing to have a crystal clear, truly beautiful voice. True. So I want you to hear a little of her singing I Feel Pretty from West Side Story. Here we go. And?
SPEAKER 08 :
You're not plugged in.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I'm not.
SPEAKER 08 :
There's the cable right there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 08 :
You've got to be plugged in, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
I've got to be plugged in.
SPEAKER 08 :
That helps.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, well, it helps a little bit. Okay, here we go.
SPEAKER 1 :
I'm Marie.
SPEAKER 03 :
See that pretty girl in that mirror there? Who can that attractive girl be? Such a pretty face, such a pretty dress, such a pretty smile, such a pretty face. You like running and dancing for joy, but I'm
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, what a crystal clear, gorgeous voice. Pretty good. That is rare. That's incredibly rare. And by the way, she's tiny. This is a tiny little female. You got that incredible voice coming out of that. It blows my mind. But that's Rachel Zegler. You wouldn't go to anything with her in it. Nope. But I'll throw a few out really quick here. West Side Story, of course, you wouldn't want to see. I thought it was a pretty good movie, actually, directed by Spielberg. Shazam!
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I didn't see it either.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
SPEAKER 08 :
That was the last one, right? Yes, it was. Yeah, I've seen all the ones but that one.
SPEAKER 06 :
It wasn't too bad. It was pretty good. Pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. And finally, Snow White. That's coming up. Do you look at Snow White and just say, look, I just don't want to see that. This person is so repulsive.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you just cringe. Yeah. Besides that, what they did with the dwarfs and so on, it's like, yeah, no, not going. Sorry. Done.
SPEAKER 06 :
And by the way, you know, this idea, and I think I've said it before on here, this idea that she is the fairest of them all versus the evil queen. The evil queen is played by Wonder Woman.
SPEAKER 1 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sorry, but she's not the fairest of them all. No, she is.
SPEAKER 08 :
The evil queen is the fairest of them all. Yeah. No, I'm with you there.
SPEAKER 06 :
So there you go. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Who do you hate?
SPEAKER 06 :
Who is really mean? We're talking mean lefties today.
SPEAKER 08 :
Chelsea Handler. That's another one I won't watch anything that she's in, period, at all. Done.
SPEAKER 06 :
And what has she been in? I know I've done movies with her.
SPEAKER 08 :
She's been in a few scenes. She's got parts in some different movies and so on. Yeah, she's a talk-house comedian, and she's done movies, and I can't stand her.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, well, that's fair. I'm just going to say a name here, and I just want to say a quote from him, John Cusack.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, he's on my list, too.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and he says the election wasn't quite finished yet, and he says, Harris may well come through Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, he wrote. The fact that the country would choose to destroy itself by voting in a convicted felon rapist and Nazi is a sign of deep nihilism, to put it mildly. That's what he said in this last election. He is a disgrace, just in the way he is. He's full of hate, and yet he's a wonderful actor, and I love what he does. So let me list a few. Identity.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Would you watch it? Yeah. Me too. Con Air.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Definitely. Of course. Con Air is the movie I've probably seen more than any other. I love watching it. Say Anything.
SPEAKER 08 :
Never saw it.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's classic. Trust me, it's worth seeing. Excellent romantic comedy. One of his earliest movies. Better Off Dead.
SPEAKER 08 :
I've seen it, but it's been a long time.
SPEAKER 06 :
A ridiculous comedy, very funny, gross point blank.
SPEAKER 08 :
Never saw it.
SPEAKER 06 :
He plays a hitman, but it's a love story.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, never did see it.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it's a comedy. Didn't see it. Okay, once again, it's very good. There is, as a conservative, am I willing to watch John Cusack? Yes, absolutely. But does it take a little, just a little tweak of the fun off it, knowing how much he hates me? I'll be honest, it does. Of course. But he's a wonderful actor. He has one of the most, well, yeah, one of the most unique deliveries of a line I've ever seen in my life. I love the way the guy delivers a line, but yeah, he's a hard one.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's hard. He's one of those guys, though, that I feel, me personally, maybe because of his anger from the left to us, his earlier movies were better than his later ones.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, they were.
SPEAKER 08 :
My opinion.
SPEAKER 06 :
He hasn't made anything in a while.
SPEAKER 08 :
He had a lot more fun when he was younger, let's just say that. He's become the NFL.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. He became angry and embittered as he grew older.
SPEAKER 08 :
A lot of his movies when he was younger were fun.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I don't know when he was younger if he even cared that much about politics.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think in the movies he made, you could tell he didn't.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think with some of these guys and girls, they become Hollywoodized. Yeah. And the more they're around—now, some of them are just lefties right from the get-go. Obviously, Rachel Zegler.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
But with some of them, I think Hollywood just kind of takes over their psyche, and they become hateful. Can't argue that. And he is.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we'll let John fill in here before I go. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, I got one that's kind of old, but George Takai has lost his mind, too. Yes, he has.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it's tough for an old Star Trek fan not to want to watch the old ones, but I can deal with it because some of the other cast was better. And they're all liberal, but he's mean. James Doohan wasn't. Do you know he went ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day? No, I didn't know that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I actually saw James Doohan and shook his hand in person. And I saw him speak. And the neat thing about him, he's known as Scotty and he does that incredible Scottish accent. He's actually British. Or is he Irish? I think he's Irish. But he does several incredible dialects from many countries. And that's what he was known for. I don't know anything about him politically.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don't either, but I know most guys that went offshore at Omaha Beach, I don't think were super liberal. You know what I mean? For the most part, no. On D-Day? Yeah. I agree. There's just so many out there, and there's some that are worth watching, and then there's some that are just like, no, I can't do it. We talked about it last week, but... It's really hard to watch some of the great De Niro movies now.
SPEAKER 06 :
It can be.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, but then you've got to look at maybe some of the other actors will make you go for it.
SPEAKER 06 :
One second. While you're on here, let me put this to both you and John. And I'm going to go first with John and Cheyenne. John, I'm going to list a few of these De Niro movies. Just say yes or no whether you'd go to them, okay? Or whether you'd obviously watch them again. Awakenings.
SPEAKER 12 :
No. No. No, I wasn't a fan of that movie when it first came out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Great acting, but boy, it was depressing. Midnight Run, my favorite De Niro movie.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I could probably watch that again because Charles Grodin was hilarious. They both were, actually.
SPEAKER 06 :
Silver Linings Playbook.
SPEAKER 08 :
No. No. Never seen it. Oh, it's the most depressing movie you'll ever see.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, here's a great one, a good one, with Edward Norton about a heist, The Score.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, good movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
Have you seen that, John?
SPEAKER 12 :
That was a good movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
And he was great in it. Here's an obvious one. I know you're both going to say yes. Meet the Parents. You guys like that kind of movie, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
Eh, okay. Yeah, I could probably watch it again if it was on.
SPEAKER 06 :
But it's an older De Niro, and it's a little harder to watch him now. Did you ever see Copland?
SPEAKER 12 :
He was really good in that. That was a good movie top to bottom. Who was in that with him?
SPEAKER 08 :
Stallone. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Stallone was the star.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wasn't Ray Liotta in that too, Andy? Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was. And Stallone put on like 50 pounds of fat for the role.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, he was a big old fat local cop. And he did a terrific job in that movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, a couple more here. I'm going to throw them to John and Cheyenne. Heat.
SPEAKER 12 :
I like Val Kilmer. If I'm thinking of the right one, maybe.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can't remember if Kilmer. If there's nothing else on. Okay, John, I know you'd probably watch Heat, right? What about... Goodfellas. Come on.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's a classic mafia.
SPEAKER 08 :
I've got to watch it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, and last two, and these are older movies. John, I know you like older movies. Raging Bull and Taxi Driver.
SPEAKER 12 :
Neither. Yeah. Yes and yes, but here's one of his first movies that he did with Scorsese that's one of the best movies I've ever seen. What? Have you ever seen Bang the Drum Slowly? No. Oh. It's It's about a baseball player that gets diagnosed with cancer. Wow. And it's in the late 60s, early 70s. And it's got a great cast. And it's just an early, it was before Taxi Driver. And if you want to watch, it's a little, I won't say it's depressing because it's got a good story. But it is a really good movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know. That sounds pretty Brian-songy. That sounds pretty depressing. Now, you just like watching it because it's De Niro and you're a commie, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, and they filmed it on location at the old Shea Stadium back in... And it had... Michael Moriarty was the other star. Okay. And it had... If you look at it, though, if you look at the cast, you'll be like, oh, I know that guy. I know that guy. It had a lot of the late 60s, early 70s, what they used to call bit part actors that had that great supporting role.
SPEAKER 06 :
OK.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it's. Andy, if you're looking for something to watch, it's definitely worth a watch.
SPEAKER 06 :
Bang the drum slowly. All right, John. Thanks, sir.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, no, appreciate that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Have a good night, guys.
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, one of you asked if next week Andy and I would sing Christmas songs on air, kind of like radio karaoke, and the answer is no. No. Easy answer.
SPEAKER 06 :
No. Well, you see, here's the thing. We're 12 stories up. Right next to us are two very large windows.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And for those to shatter would be very dangerous.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, we don't want to go out the window.
SPEAKER 06 :
Scattering glass over the people below. I mean, we could get sued.
SPEAKER 08 :
Not going to happen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it's not going to happen. Okay. Let's take a look at Seth Rogen. Now, here's what he said about Ted Cruz. They had a back and forth. He says he inspired a deadly mob to storm the Capitol.
SPEAKER 08 :
First of all, that's sure he did.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. The only killing that happened that day was a Trump supporter who was unarmed being shot by a cop. Right. But and I think that deserves ridicule. So blank him talking about Ted Cruz. Your lies got people killed. You have blood on your hands. Ted Cruz is a fascist.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, that's Seth Rowe. Far from it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now let's play Seth in a movie, and this was in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. We played this before with him. Who's the star from Ant-Man? Anyway, the two of them are talking why you're gay. Here we go.
SPEAKER 10 :
You're gay now? No, I'm not gay. I'm just celibate. I think, I mean, that sounds gay. I just want you to know that this is like the first conversation of like three conversations that leads to you being gay. Like, there's this, and then in a year it's like, oh, you know, I'm kind of going to want to get back out there, but I think I like guys. And then there's the big, oh, I'm a gay guy now.
SPEAKER 09 :
You're gay for saying that. I'm gay for saying that? You know how I know you're gay? How? How do you know I'm gay? Because you macromade yourself a pair of jean shorts.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know how I know you're gay?
SPEAKER 09 :
You just told me you're not sleeping with women anymore. You know how I know that you're gay? How? Because you're gay and you can tell who other gay people are? You know how I know you're gay? How? You like Coldplay.
SPEAKER 07 :
A couple losers playing video games. You're like Coldplay.
SPEAKER 06 :
See, his delivery is awesome.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is. Seth Rogen has some of the best delivery out there. Fantastic. Now, he hasn't done anything recently, and I wonder if he's another one of these people who his bitterness ideologically might be affecting the art for him. Because, man, when you're full of that much anger and rage, it's hard to be funny. I don't know. I'm just saying.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, you're up. Chris Evans. Chris Evans. And he's one where I can hardly watch anything he's in anymore. Yes. Period. Even old stuff.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and let me throw a few out here. Would you? No, you'd watch Captain America, right? It's rough, isn't it? It is. Because he's ruined.
SPEAKER 08 :
He has tarnished the shield. Yes, he has. Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
The Avengers, well, that's more than just him.
SPEAKER 08 :
Kind of a given, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Lightyear, no way.
SPEAKER 08 :
No.
SPEAKER 06 :
Not another teen movie, which he made in the beginning. Hilarious. It is hilarious. And then Knives Out. Knives Out was okay. Knives Out was pretty good, yeah. It was okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Granted, and fortunately for, especially Knives Out, he wasn't like the only one in the movie. I mean, there was lots of other things going on besides him. I agree. Where Captain America, it's pretty much him. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of other characters, but it is all about him.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, next actor. And here's a quick quote, and this actor was just talking about politics. Red is dead, do blue instead. Do you know who that is? That's Jim Carrey.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, and here he is in Dumb and Dumber. What are my chances?
SPEAKER 16 :
Not good.
SPEAKER 04 :
You mean not good like one out of a hundred?
SPEAKER 16 :
I'd say... More like one out of a million.
SPEAKER 08 :
So I still have a chance.
SPEAKER 06 :
There he gets a smile.
SPEAKER 08 :
So you're telling me there's a chance. What a dork.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, look, quite possibly the funniest, most physically funny actor of all time. Probably. But again, another guy who, when the bitterness took over, when the rage took over, guess what happened to his movies? They crashed and burned.
SPEAKER 08 :
He became boring. The other guy that was similar to him, much older, and got worse as he got older as well, but was also a funny physical actor, Dick Van Dyke.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Same thing happened to him.
SPEAKER 06 :
He got political, and that kind of killed it. You know, it's interesting because Sonic 3, Jim Carrey had said he was going to take a long time, take a few years off from acting. But Sonic 3 is coming out, and he's reprising his role as the villain. And they asked him why, and he said flat out, I need the money. I bought a bunch of stuff, and honestly, I need the money.
SPEAKER 1 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm like, with the money you've made? My gosh.
SPEAKER 08 :
They blow through it, though, Andy. He needs Al Smith. They blow through it. All right, John, you're up.
SPEAKER 06 :
But there's a lot. I won't even go through all his movies because most of his movies, at least the early stuff you'd watch in a heartbeat.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'd watch a lot of them. George Lopez, I can't hardly watch anything with him in it anymore. And he used to be really funny.
SPEAKER 06 :
He's mean. He is very mean, isn't he?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And I just it's like, again, you draw the line and it's like, I just I can't do that anymore.
SPEAKER 06 :
OK, well, here's another one. And let's just take a quote here. When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up who called me a N-word and tried to keep me in my place. Who do you think that is? No, I don't know. Samuel Jackson.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, that's too bad because his movies are good.
SPEAKER 06 :
They can be very good. Now, will I still watch Samuel Jackson movies? Yes, I would because he's great.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, in The Avengers, you got The Avengers, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Shaft, Pulp Fiction, The Incredibles, Coach Carter. Now, here's a couple. Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight. He really does bring the racism in those.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, those were very good movies.
SPEAKER 06 :
Big time.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, next.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. Bette Midler. Another one I can't watch at all. And her hate's been there for a long time, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's been there for a long time, but my goodness, what a talent. What a singing talent. Ruthless People, funny. Down and Out in Beverly Hills, funny. Beaches, obviously it's a tearjerker. And Get Shorty was a good movie. Is she worth watching? Yes. But does having her on the screen make the movie worse for me? Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. 100%, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because she's full of hate.
SPEAKER 08 :
I can't. Again, it's one of those where if she's on, I'm moving on to the next movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
Let's just do an easy one. Whoopi Goldberg.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, same.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I can't do it. Sister Act was still awfully good. But yeah, she's rough.
SPEAKER 08 :
Rand, you're up. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 19 :
I think there's one you may not have caught, but I think it's the King of Liberal... um acting and that would be uh larry david yeah yeah he's a hater i'll buy that one yeah you're right i was watching that and they larry david actually did a picture of himself he got arrested on the show and he's posed in the same pose as trump was posing for his mugshot yeah
SPEAKER 06 :
Also... That's when you know somebody's a little too fixated. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right. Also, Larry David, they had Colonel Vindman on two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
SPEAKER 06 :
Did they really? Oh, he's a nut job.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, they had him on two episodes. And here's another funny thing. The woman that played Larry David's wife in the show is married to...
SPEAKER 08 :
rfk jr no are you serious charlie just said that in my ear yeah well that's got to be rough for him yeah oh man the cast definitely wanted to bring no you're right no that's good ran thank you that was one i didn't have i did not have him on my list at all i've still got a bunch on here so no thank you for that very much okay let me throw one out really quick here sean penn Yeah, it was on my list. I was going to say that one next, actually.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, Dead Man Walking, would you watch it?
SPEAKER 08 :
No.
SPEAKER 06 :
Fast Time at Ridgemont High.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, just because it was when he was young.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mystic River. It's really good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, no.
SPEAKER 06 :
But at that point, he's getting older and meaner.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, no.
SPEAKER 06 :
Tough to watch, man. Just tough to watch. Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Miley Cyrus.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Can't hardly watch anything with her in it, either.
SPEAKER 06 :
Cher. Cher.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think I mentioned her last week.
SPEAKER 06 :
She was great in Mask, great in Moonstruck. I just, it's hard to even watch her. She's so full of hate. Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, another one where, and he was good for the longest time, but again, if he's on or he's in the movie, I just won't watch it as Tom Arnold.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. He was funny as could be in True Lies, but he is so mean. Okay, what about Alec Baldwin, Hunt for Red October? I'll watch it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'll watch a lot of his older ones.
SPEAKER 06 :
He's really good in the new Mission Impossible movies. He really is. Yeah, he is. But man, oh man.
SPEAKER 08 :
He is.
SPEAKER 06 :
He's so hateful. And he needs to not handle a gun. Just a little piece of advice.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point. Go ahead. Now this one, I never liked her anyways, but I really didn't like her once her politics got worse and worse as Meryl Streep.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was just about to say her. I love Defending Your Life. But, you know, the other movies, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Devil Wears Prada. You know what? I don't want to see it just because she's on the screen. I'm getting that same way. Yeah. Shia LaBeouf is one of the tough ones for me. I know I mentioned him last week. What a great actor. Greatest game ever played. Peanut Butter Falcon, Honey Boy. Yeah, I'll watch his movies. But, jeez, I don't like him.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, here's one I know. She's a bleeding-heart liberal, but I will still watch most of her movies as Scarlett Johansson.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Just because I like her movies.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and she is yeesh. Jennifer Lawrence. X-Men First Class, The Hunger Games.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think with her I'll watch the older ones but not the newer ones.
SPEAKER 06 :
She's all hate, though.
SPEAKER 08 :
I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it's a little rough even to watch The Hunger Games, which are so good.
SPEAKER 08 :
I can't argue that, Andy. Oh, gosh, she's so mean. I cannot argue that. You're correct. Okay, go. Another one, Julianna Moore.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
It fits into that same. And I always really liked her. I agree. Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Great actress, Susan Sarandon, Bull Durham, Dead Man Walking Again.
SPEAKER 08 :
Another one where I just can't hardly watch those movies. They're great movies, but I can't watch them. My gosh. She's pure hate. I know. Go. Last one, then we'll take a break.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
Gwyneth Paltrow.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, that's a rough one. Yeah. And she had a lot of great early movies. I know. They were good. When she really was angering me with all her politics stuff and then she did Seven, I decided to like the movie just because she got her head cut off. So bad. No, I would never do anything like that. But she was being so mean. Oh, she was? She still is. But, you know, the fact is, I think Gwyneth Paltrow is a terrific talent. I think she's a wonderful actress. I've always really liked her movies.
SPEAKER 08 :
She let her politics get in the way. Just mean.
SPEAKER 06 :
Another one.
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Here's your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. All right, it is Ready Radio, KLZ 560, Friday the 13th. It's today's program. If you're listening to a replay, you know what day it is. Going to talk today, as I said last week, I would. I'm going to talk today as much as I can. And if I run out of time, I'll continue next week. But I should be able to get all of this in today. And if I get all of this done, I've got a few other things we can discuss as well. But like I said last week, I'm going to talk today about some gifts, gift ideas. that you could get that person in your life that you know does some preparedness stuff. I hate the word prepping because I think it just takes a bad connotation for a lot of folks. Some don't mind it. I personally do because, again, I think it takes on this connotation that you're some outlandish individual, want to live in a cave person, You know, store all your food and belongings away and so on, and that's not what we talk about here the majority of the time. As I say all the time, we're just trying to prepare people to be ready for the what-ifs of life, and lots of things can come along. One of the things I may... Cover today, if I have enough time, which, again, because we're end of the year and there's different things happening and so on, is a lot of people go out and buy cars and do things like that over the holiday. So I may even touch on a little bit of that end of things. Again, how are you prepared? when it comes to all of the different things that you go through life with. So I wanted to go through some things, especially because we're only really a week out. So we're a little over that, two weekends. Two weekends away from Christmas is probably the best way to say it. Again, if you're listening to a replay show, you'll have to do the math on that yourself. But on Friday the 13th, there's this weekend and next. And then that's it. We are into Christmas, especially with Christmas being on or since Christmas is on a Wednesday, I should say. It falls a lot different than it normally does. And in turn, we literally have three weeks between Christmas and Thanksgiving. And the way everything falls, it just will be a really busy time of the year, I guess the best way for me to say that. InstaFarm, first thing I'll start with. Not only are they a great partner of ours, and not only do I have one, I have family members now that also do. And this is a product where, again, you're not going to live off of InstaFarm. I mean, it's not going to be something that you're going to grow your own food through. What it is is the ability to take the microgreens, the really good microgreens, greens and plants that have a lot more nutrition than what you would even buy at the grocery store and the idea is to grow a tray and the tray is about four by four four and a half by four and a half something like that grow a tray of whatever your favorite is broccoli arugula there's a smoothie blend there's all sorts of different micro greens and each one has a little different taste Some seem similar, although the nutritional value might be a little different from one to the other, idea being you can. Again, put these into a smoothie, put them on top of an existing salad, put them on top of other dishes that you might do, and they're great. I have one. Fabulous. No complaints whatsoever. You go to instafarm.com. There's some specials right now as we go through the holidays where if that's something that you're really interested in or want to get a great gift for someone, they are fabulous, and I'll be the first to testify to it. It works exactly the way they say. It is literally trouble-free, has a container on it where even you put your water in, in that actually waters the different plants and it's smart enough to know that if there's an empty slot if there's an empty tray for example it will not water that area it has sensors and it knows if there's a tray there or not and on average it takes about a week to grow a tray kind of think of it as about seven seven to ten days roughly but you'll you'll have enough there in seven days to to eat now also if you have kids It would be a great thing for them to learn this is how things work outside of even this, so out in the real world, farming and so on. This is on a micro scale, but this is how we grow food. This is where you're all around the world. Food is grown here in America, South America, et cetera. This is how normal food works, and a lot of kids that live in cities, for example, have never seen that. They don't know how that part of it works. So anyways, Instafarm, Instafarm.com, a great partner of ours and really enjoy their product. And I'll keep talking about it. So I'll go through some other things here when it comes to. What do you get that person? In some cases, these could just be regular gifts for anyone, especially those of you that are always struggling with what do you buy that, you know, especially man, dad, husband, father, whatever the case may be, son in some cases. You know, what do you get them? Because they're always the hardest to buy for. And yes, we are. I'll be the first to admit. So these items on here could even get thrown into that category as well. So it doesn't have to just be for that prepper in your life, but could be somebody that you have a hard time buying for. Now, on top of that, if you have suggestions... Text line, of course, is always open, 307-200-8222, 307-200-8222. You can call in. We'll put you on air as well today. We're live on the 13th of December, 303-477-5600. So if there's something you've run across where you just think, hey, this is an item that everybody should have, Tell us what it is and we'll add it on to the list and producer and can take this list and it'll be in our our notes. And of course, this this particular broadcast we save and you can relisten to it again and again through the podcast end of things as well. So that's also there. So. And, you know, funny enough, people do go back and listen to these. I had a message yesterday from somebody that was a part of our programming sponsor, but part of our programming, oh gosh, over two years ago. that sent me a message yesterday and said that they had received a call from somebody that was listening to one of our recorded episodes from two-plus years ago and just said, hey, you always had a great time. They had other things that had come up in their life and couldn't be a part of what we were doing anymore time-wise. But point being, yes, people go back and re-listen to these on a routine basis, and that was an example yesterday of that actually happening. So, all right, first things first. This probably is true for anyone. This is something I think everybody should have, whether you're a prepper or not, because there's lots of ideas and lots of how to's in these books. And I have one. In fact, I may in 2025 just start taking some pages out of that book and we'll go through it. I meant to do that this last year. We had so much other stuff to talk about that I didn't get to it. But I have one of these books and they're guides to prepping. They make full-bore books that are, oh, not the size of an encyclopedia book, but probably a fourth or a third of that. They're not hardbound. They're softbound, but they're full-color pages and so on. And in most cases, the one that I've got, it'll take a couple of pages and tell you how to do X. You know, how to build a chicken coop, how to make fresh water, how to dig a shallow well, on and on we go. All sorts of different things that you could think of will be in these how-to guides. And the point is, if something were to really happen, grid goes completely down, we have some sort of a cyber attack. Lately, there's been the drones flying around the East Coast that nobody wants to admit to having, military or otherwise. Reality is, anything could happen. Will it? I have no idea. I don't have a crystal ball. I just want to be ready no matter what. So the idea being, if everything goes haywire and you have no Internet access any longer, where's your how-to guides? What do you go to to figure out how to do something? So many of us, even in my world, the automotive world, years and years ago, I still have some of these from cleaning out some of my dad's stuff. But years and years ago, everything was in a book. Every service manual, owner's manual, how-to guides, or guides for fixing cars, I should say, wiring diagrams and so on. Everything was in a book. And they were super expensive, by the way, back then. To acquire those books cost money. They didn't give them out. It didn't matter whether it was something as simple as a Chilton's or the OEM manual. And everybody used a book to do so. Well, as time went by, because of convenience, cost, looking things up faster and so on, we became computerized. And things started coming on. At one point in time, they were on, believe it or not, CDs. And then came DVDs. And then everything became online. And here's where we're at today. In a lot of cases, even the owner's manual for your car will be in an app on your phone. It's not in the glove box anymore. So my point is, since everything has gotten so electronic, if that were to go away, how would you know how to do X, Y, Z? How do you build a rain barrel? What are the steps in doing so? Keep in mind, there's a lot of folks that are really, really handy and could probably figure most anything out and might be able to even write the book. But they're the one percenters. Most people need help with how do I properly plant a garden? We talked about that a moment ago with InstaFarm. Some have never planted a garden. They've never, never, you know, quote, unquote, toiled the soil. Tilled the soil, I should say. They don't know how to do that. They don't even know how far apart to even plant the seeds. How often should they be watered? On and on we go. I mean, these books that I'm talking about have all of that plus much more. How do you do basic repairs on things and how do you build basic things and so on? And remember, too, that if we get to a point where we have a complete, you know, utter grid failure and we're in that particular predicament, you probably should have some basic hand tools, saws and the like, that don't require power. even the old-fashioned drills that don't require power. most likely your power tools will not be functioning. And even if they are, you'll have to have some sort of a solar charger or something along those lines to even keep the batteries up, and I wouldn't rely on that. I would have a backup plan, an alternative. Again, these books talk about all those different things, and they make them in a large guide like I have. And one thing I haven't gotten yet, which I think I will after doing some reading this past week on this particular topic, they make pocket-sized guides as well where you could slip that in your bug-out bag. How do you build a shelter? How do you do this? How do you do that? How do you, for some people that have never killed any kind of animals, wild game and so on, how do you properly clean and skin an animal? Those things are in these books. And not everybody's been taught that. Again, we live in a world today where a good portion of our world doesn't know those things. I know you all listening are a little different, but what I'm getting at is these are gift ideas for some of those people in your world, and some of these you might want to give to somebody that has no experience in this end of things whatsoever, but it'd be a good guide for them to have. So pocket guide and the big book, I think both of those would make a nice little gift set and plenty of time to still pick those up in this next week. A knife. Now, this list is long. And you kind of have to know your person that's going to receive it. this gift as to what do they like although i will tell you as somebody that has a lot of i you can get me anything i don't care if you give me a knife i'm saving it i'm not i'm not doing anything with it i mean i don't care big little small whatever i i don't care so it's army knife folding knife regular knife you know sheath knife machete i don't care And whatever it is, I'll keep it. I'm not doing anything with it. I'm one of those weirdos that probably has, I don't know, 50 knives or more. And you just sort of over time, because again, if you don't lose it, and they don't break that often, if it's a good knife, they don't break. So if you don't lose it, you'll have it for all of your life. I've had some knives for 40 years plus. So that's one of those items that, by the way, for the person you don't know what to buy for, that's kind of a given. It's like, and I'll get into it as well, but on the flashlight end of things I talked about last week, it's one of those items where they'll never turn it down. You can't have enough of. you can always have a backup of. And, you know, one of those things where, you know, you can put one in each car and put one in your go bag and put one in your toolbox, put one in your tackle box. You know, again, you just go down the list of all the different places you can have one and each one of them, you know, maybe has its own specific use or you just have generic ones here and there. So knives, that one is easy, and if they don't have especially a nice folding knife that probably has a serrated edge on one portion with a straight edge on the other to where it's pretty versatile on what it's going to do and cut and so on, not only can you use it to survive, cut things and skin and do the things I mentioned a little bit earlier, but even for self-defense, most of those knives would suffice for that. But again, even just a regular pocket knife. Again, I was one of those weird kids in school, Charlie, where from probably the time I was six or seven, had a, which, yes, you could carry to school back then, pocket knife and a watch. I think I've had a pocket knife and a watch my whole life. I mean, even way before I was an adult. And, yes, I grew up in a time where you could have a pocket knife on your persons and still go to school. And nobody said a thing about it. It was common. I wasn't the only kid that way. Most did, by the way. So, side note, and some of you listening grew up in the same time that I did, and that wasn't a big deal. I know today, if you brought even a penknife to school, your kid would be suspended or expelled. So, I understand times are different. Don't agree with that, but yes, times are different. So, anyways, knife. Next one, and this one we've covered a little bit in the past, and I would think by now a lot of you listening probably have already got this covered. But again, these are for people that you would be buying things for, and they may not have said item. And by the way, most of what I'm going to put on my list today are pretty inexpensive. There'll be a few more expensive items as I get to the end of our list. But the majority of the items I'm going through right now, you could spend as little or as much as you want. Knife is a great example. You can spend literally $10 on a knife or, in some cases, add a few zeros to it if you want, depending upon how fancy you want it to be. So this next one, though, is pretty inexpensive. They're not as expensive as you think, and they, in some cases, have all sorts of gadgetry built into them. That's an emergency radio. Some of them you can wind up, and it charges the battery that way. Some have solar power. Some have built-in battery packs that are also driven by solar power that will also power something else and still have the emergency radio in it. Pick your flavor. There's a bunch of them. As I was looking this one up and even just typed in emergency radio into a search bar, a ton come up. And again, not that expensive. Not as much as you would think. This is one of those items that has come down in price significantly from what it once was. And some would say, well, if it's the end of the world and there's no power, then how is anybody going to be transmitting anything? Well, you'd never know. Some will. Some will even transmit for a while as long as they've got the ability to be on air with you know, generation and things like that. And even after that, some people will figure out ways to, you know, battery power up different things. And again, all the different books that I've gone through and so on. These are the things that may not be there or they may be there initially. They may go away and they may come back. And having the ability to listen in on that is not a bad idea, especially on the initial sides of things. All right, this next one, and I've even had guests on and talk about this one, and this is one where I personally need to shore up a little more because I don't have enough of. That is the heirloom or forever seeds. Most people don't know that seeds typically have a shelf life. unless it's an heirloom or what we call forever seeds. They don't. Keep them in a nice, cool, dry place. They literally have until they germinate a long, long, long life. And it would be a good idea to get some heirloom slash forever seeds and put those into some sort of a nice airtight container and give that as a gift. Again, not that expensive to do these. And you can find them probably not locally. These are things that you most likely are going to have to order, although there are a few people around. And I've interviewed some folks even down in the Elizabeth area and so on. Colorado Greenhouse Builders has access to some heirloom seeds and so on. So you can always find them if need be. But you can order them online. As well. All right. I've got a lot more to go through. I'll do my best to get through all of these today. And if I do and I run through the list, I've got a few other things to talk about as well. Again, if you'd like to add to this list or comment on anything, 303-477-5600. You can text me as well, 307-282-22. And don't forget our website, ready-radio.com. We'll be right back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today, by the way. I do appreciate it very much. Don't forget, text the line 307-200-8222, and you can call the main number here as well, 303-477-5600. All right, continuing on with our list of things, ideas. to buy that person that either, A, you don't know what to buy for, or they're in this world of prepping and they've got some starts on it, or maybe they've got a lot of start on this. But here's the reality. I don't know of a single person that does this that won't take more. So you're never going to go wrong buying a person that's prepping that's a prepper whatever you want to say that won't take some of the items that are on the list we're going to do today period in some cases they'll just tell you you can't have enough of these because either they know somebody that needs it that they'll pass it along to or when it gets to the point where the crap hits the fan you know they'll have extras and it'll be barter material and so on so again these are things that nothing on the list Do I feel you could ever have enough of, you know, backing up and going through the things we've already been through? There's not enough of them. So LifeStraws is next. And those are on sale at a lot of times at the big box stores, Costco and the like, for not a lot of money. And what a LifeStraw is, we talk about it from time to time here on the program. John from Cheyenne will call in with it periodically. But LifeStraws are exactly what they say. They're made for filtering water, and you literally can either fill up a container that would just come out of the stream or wherever, and you put the LifeStraw in it, suck through the straw itself, and it will clean that water as it goes through the straw itself. And every one of them, you know, there's different variations, but there's even a brand called LifeStraw. And it'll tell you right on there how many times you can use it, so on and so forth. Pretty simple. And, again, one of those items that even if somebody has a bunch of, could they add to their collection? Of course, they're not going to go bad. And some guys that even backpack and do things like that will use these periodically anyway, so getting them some extras isn't going to hurt anything. So live straws, great gift idea, not that expensive. You can buy them singly, or typically they come in like a three-pack, and again, they just don't cost that much, and they're a great gift idea. All right, next. This one's a little bit different because if you're going to have one of these, well, as a gift, it doesn't matter, but if somebody owns one, you may want to protect this a little differently. In fact, this may be one of those things you put in your Faraday cage, bag, whatever, and that's a solar charger. Now, there's a wide range here. You can spend as little as $20, get one that will charge a cell phone type device, GPS unit, something along those lines. Typically, they'll take a full day to recharge. It's got a built-in battery that charges off the solar panel that's built onto the charger itself. I have one. I've tested it, and that's exactly how it works. They work very well. You can also charge it manually or through 120 volt if you want. You know, a USB-type connector. It's not 120. It's charging it back down to DC. But you get the drift there. You can charge it that way. Now, that's the smallest. And they go up from there, literally. And it really comes down to how much do you want to spend. There is power packs now that you can carry around that, again, depending upon the size... You could power several different devices for multiple hours, sometimes even well over a day. Some of these you can use to, you know, where people would normally take a generator out to the ballgame and tailgating or, you know, in the RV or whatever. These things are starting to replace generators because they become so much more efficient than they used to be. Pack more of a punch even. And are also chargeable. You've got to buy the solar panels, typically extra, although there's times where, again, the Costco, Sam's Clubs of the world and so on, even Amazon will have specials whereby you can buy that, you know, lunchbox style. Power pack, make sure I'm using the right terminology here. It'll come with solar panels built in, you know, as a part of the kit. They're not built in because you always have to stick the solar panels out somewhere to where, of course, there's sun and the power pack may not be. In fact, typically you want it out of the sun. If you're even out in the daylight, you want it out of the sun in the shade so it doesn't get too hot and put the panels out. So, again, this is one of those items where you can spend as little energy Or as much as you would like, and I am not exaggerating. Some of the higher-powered units that even come with a little dolly and wheels and so on, they can be a couple of grand. Some will even go up higher than that. Some of them are stackable. You can stack them on top of one another. So, again, one of those items. It's a great gift idea. They make them extremely small, or you can go as large as you would like. Next one. Firestarters. Now, fire starters could be anything from... fireproof, windproof matches to you name it. Forever lighters, and there's all sorts of names for these things. You can get them where they're even just the very, very simple where there's a, you know, I've got one, an old one that I've had forever that, you know, has the magnesium stick with like a cutoff hacksaw blade, and you scrape that off and make sparks, and pretty soon you've got a fire and off you go, and there's everything in between. So pick your poison. Again, one of those items where even if somebody has several of these, they'll take more. One of the things, I will say this, in almost every book that I've gone through and read, and I've been doing this now as far as either reading them or listening to them on Audible for two-plus years now, one of the things... that the majority of the characters in these books eventually run out of is the ability to start a fire quickly. Lighters go out, they lose them, they fall, whatever, and all of a sudden their backpack gets stolen that had all of these things in it. My point is you can't have enough of these. Kind of one of those items where even that person that might be bugging out, you know, you may want a couple in your pack and a couple to put in your cargo pants pockets so that you've always got one with you. You can't have enough of that is my point. So even if somebody has some of these items, you can get them more, give them as a gift, and they're going to thank you for it. And by the way, I don't think there's any of these that are wrong, right? Joe sent me an article last night whereby you can even build your own fire starter. There's some people out there that are giving you this idea. I saw it on Facebook the other day. It's the link that Joe sent me to where you take an old, like, tuna can. And you take really small wood chips that you can either make out of like a larger pencil sharpener and some sticks and take some hardwood or whatever your choice is, and you pack those down into this can and then take hot wax and pour it on top, add some more, pour it on top, and pretty soon you've got a nice wax-filled hard container that's an automatic fire starter. Kindling, I should say. Spark that, light it, off you go. So lots of ideas. You can look that up for yourself. And there's a lot of them now made in a kit form, very inexpensive. And, again, nothing else. Get them a pack of your windproof, waterproof matches. You're never going to go wrong buying somebody that end of things. I talked about this one last week a little bit. And, again, flashlight headlamps. John from Cheyenne sent us a nice link on those that will be on the website now. And another one of those items where you can't have enough of. They get broken. They get lost. You name it. And I would advise, again, on the rechargeable side, you go back to what I talked about earlier with the rechargeable little battery pack, and you have a flashlight that's rechargeable. That little pack and a rechargeable flashlight you could use for quite some time. It's also another one of those items in every one of these books that eventually they don't have. It's dead. They don't have batteries any longer. Things have gone long enough to where there's no more supply. Nobody thought to do what I just said, and they end up with no way to see at night. And I know it sounds funny, but. You go long enough without these things, and eventually you run out, and they're no longer out there. And I don't think, by the way, these authors are too far off on that because most people don't think through this enough and probably don't have enough supply in the first place. And even if they do, how many of these can you carry with you? But I've mentioned this in previous shows, the bartering end of things, having some of these things even to barter with down the road is great. Now, this is one thing I've never mentioned before. But I do have some experience with it. I've used them at times. In fact, in the racing end of things and so on, in fact, even in, I believe, even my truck right now, I have some of these, and they are the, I don't know if people, it's hard for me to describe this, but they call them compressed towels. Have you seen any of these, Charlie, ever? You can literally take a towel that would normally be the size of a large paper towel Not a roll, but just a single sheet paper towel. And I'm not joking you. You can compress it down to the size of a nickel. So instead of having these big packs of things that you're putting into your backpack and so on, besides the fact they're all self-contained, waterproof, they're usually in a little cellophane, and they won't get wet, so you don't have any issues of that particular towel being a burden to carry around. You can get packs of these things that literally they stick them into a little container that's about the size of a nickel. And their cloths are called compressed towels. And they're thicker than a paper towel. I'm explaining it as a paper towel, but they're thicker than that and reusable. They're not like you would have with a terrycloth towel or something along, you know, microfiber towel. They're not that thick and reusable, but they're still better than a paper towel and can be used again and again and again. And one of those items, again, in every one of these books I read where they run out of those things, whether it be to help out medically or you're just trying to keep yourself clean or towel off because you've gotten wet or you're super hot, you name it. Every one of these books I read, that's one of the things they never have enough of. And these compressed towels aren't that expensive. Again, another one of those gift ideas where they're super, super inexpensive. Now, one thing that I didn't put in here, but it goes along with this compressed towel thing is – Believe it or not, they do the same thing now with T-shirts. You can actually order online, depending upon what size it is, a compressed T-shirt. And my point with that is, also in these books, every single person starts running out of clothing at some point. Gets trashed, dirty, torn, whatever. Whatever. Keep in mind, if something really bad happens and you're on the run and your life depends on it, you're not worried about what do you run into or run through, bushes and so on, and the clothing starts to get all torn up and ragged. Well, again, in these books, if they would have even had these in their go bags, some compressed T-shirts, literally they can get down to the size of, I'm trying to think, Charlie, I explained earlier the tuna can size. they'll compress them down to not much bigger than that. And not exaggerating, they have some way of just machine, sucking all those things, you know, all the air out and everything and compressing them down to the point where literally it's almost like they put them in a press and they get them down into a very, very small footprint. Not like you would normally have to take a T-shirt, roll it up and then stick it in your bag. Literally, you could put three of these in the place of where you would normally put a regular T-shirt. So that's another idea for the prepper end of things is the compressed towels. And or a compressed t-shirt. I don't think they do it with any other clothing other than t-shirts and towels. And really quick, the way the towels work is the minute you get them a little bit wet, they grow and expand. Just a little bit of water and all of a sudden, poof, they blow right up. And they're actually really, they're kind of fun just to, you know, kind of play around with and show your kids how they work and so on. It's amazing how they can get them that small and then just a little bit of water and all of a sudden, poof, they blow up. Now, T-shirts are a little different. Take them out of the can and, you know, you've got to kind of shake them out and so on and they'll expand as well. But the compressed towels, you can even pull them out of the little thing that they're in. and they'll take a little water to expand all the way. They've got them that far compacted that you need some water to have them actually grow. But they work very, very well. Again, another one of those handy things, I should say, to potentially even carry around in your car, throw them in your go bag, your bug out bag, whatever. They work extremely well on that end of things, mainly because they just don't take up much space. You know, it'd be great to carry around a roll of paper towels all the time, but that's just not going to happen. They're too big and bulky, and you're not going to be able to do that. This is an answer to that. So next one, and then I'll take a break right after that. Multi-tool pens. Now, the nice thing about that is you typically always have them with you. I carry one with me all the time. And a multi-tool pen will have everything on it from sometimes a built-in knife. It'll have the real sharp point where if you need to break glass, it'll break glass. They'll have typically a bottle opener of some kind and a flashlight. And they also write. And they can even be used for self-defense because they're that sturdy of a pen. They're machine aluminum and so on. And, again, I don't have a particular brand I'm going to tell you to get. Pick your poison. And, again, we're talking about gift ideas for Christmas. These are great because anybody can have one. A woman can throw it in her purse. You can have it in your bag, put it in your go bag, whatever. Throw it in the console of the car. Give this one of those items where can you have enough of them? Probably not. I only have one. Literally, I could have four or five more and throw them in some of the vehicles that I've got and just always have them there just in case. And they're great because, again, not only can you use them to write, but they do all of the other things as well, and there's a built-in flashlight on them also. Now, is it a kind of flashlight where you're going to, you know, trek all across town? No, they're not that large. But could it get you by in a pinch if it's pitch dark and you need a little bit of light to see where you're going and what's going on and so on? Absolutely. Absolutely. They're good enough for that. I mean, keep in mind, they're running off of the little hearing aid type battery, so they're not going to last forever, but they do give you enough light to where you could see with it if needed. So multi-tool pens, they call them. And again, they're sold by... I don't know, a dozen different manufacturers probably or more, and each one having a little different idiosyncrasy to it. So just pick the one that you like best, and there you go. It would either be a great gift for yourself or a gift idea as we head into Christmas here in the next couple of weeks. So we'll be right back. Ready-radio.com. This is KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560 website, ready-radio.com. Going through a list of items you can get that person in your life where either A, you don't know what to buy them, or B, they are into the prepping end of things, the things that we talk about here on a routine basis. And again, you don't ever know what to buy them, so I'm giving you a list of things that you could buy. Get them. And again, most of what I've put on this list so far have been very inexpensive. I don't think we've had one item here yet that really is super expensive. Everything so far, the book and guide, by the way, might be one of the most expensive items on this list so far, depending upon how fancy you want to get with said item. But in general, most of these are $30, $40 or less. Next one. Talked about this a little bit last week. John from Cheyenne called in. Candles. And by the way, we're not talking about going to the fancy aroma candles in the store that give you a headache the minute you walk in. Not those. Just regular candles. Wax candles. White candles. Short, tall, long, skinny, whatever. Pick your poison. Doesn't matter. Again, one of those items that in an end-of-the-world type scenario, power is completely out. You can't have enough of these. The more, the merrier. So, you know, could you buy somebody a 12-pack of them, and would they be ever thankful for that? Absolutely. And would you spend a lot of money doing so? No, you would not because they're just not that expensive. They're really, really inexpensive. So candles. Next one, same thing. This is another one of those where you can't have enough of. I don't care if you have a dozen. You'll take another dozen. The Mylar space blankets. One more item that kind of going back to some of the other things we've already talked about that no matter how many of these you have, can you use another one? Sure. Because, again, when things get that bad, you will use them. Even Mylar blankets, by the way, could be used for all sorts of things, whether it's you've gotten stuck in a snowstorm in the car and you want to get some extra warmth and so on. There are so many uses for these that this isn't even an end of the world thing. So can you have enough of them? No. No. And they're really inexpensive. I mean, you literally can buy, I think the other day I bought a 24 pack for 30 or 40 bucks. I mean, they're a buck and a half, two bucks a piece. They're just not that expensive. So if you want to give somebody a great gift idea, same thing. Now this next one, this one would cost a little bit of money depending upon how you decide to do it. But for some of you that maybe are in this world and you're thinking, yep, I've got somebody that I know would use this and this would be a great gift, a dehydrator. They can make some of their own food that way. And most of them are going to be electric. I know there's some that aren't, but for the most part, they're electric. And again, they come in every shape and size you can think of, from tabletop units to full standalone refrigerator size. Literally, you name it. And everything in between. And again, that'll depend upon your budget. You know, if you're looking to do something for, you know, your significant other, either side of the could be male, female, doesn't matter. But again, a way for them to make some of their own stuff. And this is one of those items where this doesn't have to be end of the world. You can make your own beef jerky, dried fruit, all sorts of things that you can take and make in a dehydrator. And there's tons of recipes for it. So, you know, when I was a kid growing up, you know, we didn't have a dehydrator. My dad had this way of using the oven to do it. And we made our own jerky in the oven. And it worked out great. So, again, a dehydrator, and they're much easier nowadays and easier to clean in the whole nine yards. So, again, one of those items, this one is a little bit more expensive, but a great gift idea depending upon, you know, you, your family, and so on, and what you're trying to accomplish. So, again, another great gift idea for folks that you're trying to figure out what to buy for. Next, but, you know, I don't want to say last but not least, but next, and some people think, well, if they have one, do they need another? And that's a really good compass. And I'm not talking the cheesy compasses, but a really good solid compass where it'll even have the ability to, you know, look at different waypoints and so on and really – you know, solid, well-built, typically protected compass. Now, this is another item where you'll probably spend a little more money on it than this is not a $3, $4 item. You're not going to get a good compass for $3 or $4. So a really good, solid compass. And again, this is another one of those items where you can't have enough of. So you can throw a compass in your glove box of your car. You can put a compass in your go bag. Again, just have one in the house. You name it. You can't have enough of them. And so many of us now rely on our phones and other devices that have GPS units that have compasses built in that we really don't think about having an actual compass. readable, needle, analog-type compass. Nobody really thinks about that. So just a side note, one of those items that, again, even if somebody has one, would they take another? They absolutely would. They're not going to turn that down. So that's something else to think about as well. So next one. No one thinks about this. In fact, I hadn't either. Until I read one of the books that, again, as you guys know, I listen to all the time. And this isn't in every book. This just happened to be in one book that I listened to. And I thought, man, what a great idea. A stopwatch. Now, some of you are thinking, what in the world would you use a stopwatch for? Are you going to time people rolling by? Well, maybe. Lots of uses. For example, a stopwatch, and you've got to play with it a little bit on the front side to know what your stride and such is, but a stopwatch will even tell you how far you've gone. You start walking, click it, you know what your average length of stride is. In other words, how many steps can you get in, how much distance can you cover in X amount of time. With a stopwatch, you would know almost to the exact point how far have I walked. Or how far is it to such and such? Or you're in a situation where maybe you're surveilling something and you're trying to figure out what the bad guys, because there'll be plenty of those running around, what are they doing? How often do they show up and what are they doing and so on and so forth? And stopwatches come in very handy for things like that. And again, a mechanical stopwatch. Now, that's something, by the way, where you may be able to find a mechanical stopwatch Online, eBay, whatever. I mean, back in the day, every coach had a stopwatch. A lot of race car guys had stopwatches. We didn't have digital things back then. So everybody used something mechanical in this particular way. And I'm guessing that a lot of those have been thrown in drawers over the years. You might even find them at the thrift store. You might find them at garage sales. You might find them, again, online, marketplace, whatever. But as I was listening to the one book that I was reading and the way that that particular character in the book was using the stopwatch, I thought, oh, wow, that is a really, really good idea. in a lot of ways to know exactly where am I at, what am I doing, and so on. So something most people don't think about. You're not going to find that, by the way, on most prepper lists. That was something that I learned by listening to some of these books. So some author actually put that idea in my head, but a good stopwatch. Now, to go along with the compass and the stopwatch, again, you should be getting someone that's in this realm, MAPS. Not digital, actual printed maps. And not necessarily street maps, although they would need those too, but topo-type maps. So we live in Colorado, so in our particular area, having some topo maps of some areas near wherever they live would not be a bad idea to have. And most topo maps are done in sections, so you've got to kind of figure out where they are and what sections do you need and so on. But even on top of that, just regular city, state-type maps as to where are roads and so on and how would I get from A to B. If I couldn't drive there and I had to walk, what's my best route? And when everything's down and you can't pull your phone up and punch into Waze or Google where you're going, how are you going to get there? They need a map. Okay, I'm going to try to run through the rest of these as quickly as I can. We don't have a lot of time left. I don't want to do this next week, so I do want to get through the rest of these. Ammo, I'm going to just kind of leave that what it is. Now, some would say, well, I don't even know what kind of gun they own. I can tell you one thing. Every person out there that does any kind of prepping at all, the one caliber of ammo they will always take, because they'll use it themselves and it's great bartering on down the road, is .22. So any type of .22 rimfire ammo, doesn't matter what it is, most people that are in that world, if not all, will take the .22 ammo, and it's pretty inexpensive on a per-box basis. And I don't care if you give them a box in their stocking, they'll take it and love it and thank you for it. So it's as good as gold to them, and down the road it will be. So that's the kind of ammo that I'm talking about. I wouldn't get into anything else other than probably that if you're getting it as a gift. All right, they talk about these CAT Gen 7 tourniquets, which are more of a military-type tourniquet where if something happens and you're trying to cut off the blood flow and so on and save somebody, that would be another idea to get someone. Not that expensive, but something worth getting. Something very simple and easy, 5-gallon stackable water containers. not buckets, but actual stackable water containers. Again, these are not that expensive. And if you get a good brand where they can add to their cadre of or their inventory of, again, none of those items you can't have enough of. This one, again, you won't find on a lot of lists, but I added it, mini binoculars. Now, by the way, mini binoculars can be used for all sorts of things. You might just use them at the local ball game you're going to, sporting event, concert, whatever. But to have them and be able to see distances... And again, we're talking about the compass, the map, the waypoints, and so on. Binoculars and the mini ones you'd want because you don't want to lug around these big, huge binoculars. But little, nice, high-quality mini binoculars, you can't go wrong. That one's really easy. This one, I wouldn't have added to the list, but I did look at a prepper list and somebody threw it on there and I thought, well, I'll throw it on as well because, you know, and John from Cheyenne talks about it a lot. That's the, you know, defensive sprays, bear sprays and so on. They make them in little, big, whatever. And that's the kind of stuff that, you know, you may not want to be lethal or you may not have the ability to even be lethal at that point in time. Depends on where you're at, what's happening and so on. But the defensive spray will always at least slow someone down long enough for you to get away. You know, the pepper sprays, bear sprays, whatever. And again, can you have enough of that? Probably not. You know, especially some of you ladies that are out there listening, you know, you think about different situations you may wind up in and so on. That stuff works. It will always slow down an attacker. Very easy to use. Hit the button and go. It's that simple. So another one of those items you can't have enough of, and the people that are in this realm that I talk about weekly, it's another one of those where I don't care if they have four or five of them already, will they take another one? Absolutely. Lastly, and this one I did steal from somebody online, if they have a dog, would not be a bad idea, and this is for all of you listening, even yourselves, would not be a bad idea to have a dog pack. So maybe you've got a little bitty dog and it wouldn't make any sense, but if you've got a mid-sized to a large-sized dog, not a bad idea to have a pack for them because if you're going to set out, let them carry their own stuff. They're going to need food and things along those lines, food, water, and so on. Let the dog carry their own stuff so you're not – and by the way, they might even be able to carry a few other things for you that you're not – depending upon the size of the dog, but having the pack in the first place is what you would need. Otherwise, good luck. You're not just going to tie things to them. It doesn't work that way. So a good dog pack would be another one of those items you might want to get as a gift idea this holiday season for, again, this particular person that we're talking about. All right, that's it for today. Ready-radio.com. You can always go to the website, listen to past episodes, and find the list of things we talk about weekly. Ready-radio.com.
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Critical Thinking Skills - Part 1
Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 610 aired on May 7, 2017
Good morning and welcome to The FLOT Line. I'm your host Rick Hughes and for the next few
minutes I ask you to stay with me. Listen to me, hang in there. It’s going to be a few minutes of
motivation, some inspirations, some education, all done without any type of manipulation. We’re
not trying to con you. We are not trying to hustle you. We’re simply trying to give you
information that I believe will help you verify as well as identify the plan of God for your life.
You can orient and adjust to the plan or you can continue to live your life as you wish. That's up
to you. I'm not here to coerce you to do anything. I'm here to give you the facts and it’s between
you and God the Holy Spirit. On this radio show we’re going to be accurate. We’re going to give
you the accurate facts and we’re not going to hustle you in any way whatsoever. We have been
on this radio show for over 10 years now. It's been an amazing journey for me. I never thought I
would have a radio ministry and yet here we are, you’re listening to me this morning and I'm
excited about this. I'm excited about the letters that we get and the testimonies from those of you
who are getting it, you’re understanding. We predicate our show on you developing a FLOT line
in your soul. FLOT is a military acronym for a forward line of troops. We are teaching that there
are 10 problem-solving devices that if you will learn them and use them, deploy them in your
soul staying in this military vernacular, then you can stop the outside sources of adversity before
they ever become the inside sources of stress. We've learned that adversity is inevitable and most
of the time it comes from our own bad decisions. We've also learned from the Word of God, that
because of our unique life, stress is optional. We have the most unique life in the history of the
world. We live in the Church Age and we have the indwelling of God the Holy Spirit. We have
the indwelling of Jesus Christ. We have the indwelling of the Father. We have the living Word of
God, the canon of Scripture. We have a local church and assets in that local church of Christians
with different spiritual gifts. We have a qualified pastor.
Look at the resources we have
available to us, there’s no reason we should ever fail.
There's no reason that we should ever
fall behind. There's no reason that we should ever forget the wonderful things that God has for
us. So as we continue to broadcast this radio show, trusting the Lord to expand our ministry,
expand our horizons and give us more venues, I covet your prayers for these opportunities and
ask you to always stick with us. If you ever have a question you can always go to my website
and you can contact us there. You can order material there. It's all free of charge, no charge ever
and we’ll be glad to respond in any way whatsoever. Today we want to dive into your mind. I
know it's a dangerous pool to dive into but we want to talk about your mind. We want to talk
about your
nous,
that’s the word mind in the Bible. There's also another word in the Bible called
kardia,
meaning your heart. These are two Greek words and both of these are involved in the
human IQ and spiritual IQ. This is what we're going to talk about today. If you are a believer in
Jesus Christ, you've accepted Him as your Savior, I pray you have and there's no one listening to
me that hasn't made this decision.
It is the single most significant decision you can make in
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your entire life, Matthew 22:42,
“What think ye of Christ?”
Paul told the Roman
jailer,
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved”
(Romans 6:31). It's a simple act
of faith. That's why Ephesians 2:8-9 says,
“For by grace are you saved through faith. It's a gift
from God not of works lest we would brag about it.”
If you’ve made this decision, then spiritual
IQ far outweighs any human IQ you may have. We’re not all geniuses. We’re not all smart. Some
of us including myself have to have help from time to time with various math or English things
because we’re not geniuses. Some of you are geniuses. You can spell any word, diagram any
sentence, add up any calculation, but human IQ doesn’t cut it with God.
It’s spiritual IQ that
counts and that comes from equal privilege and equal opportunity.
See, we all have the
privilege to receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. It's a free gift from God and 2 Peter 3:9 says,
“He
is not willing that any should perish.”
We all have the opportunity to take in the Word of
God and be filled with the Holy Spirit, to use these two power sources
. If we use the filling of
the Holy Spirit and we use the Word of God metabolized and stored in our soul, this is
technically called wisdom, there's no reason for us ever to fail. As goes your thought life, so goes
your spiritual life. You are a product of what you think and by the way, if the Lord wants to
check you out this is how He does it.
“I am He who searches the minds and the hearts and I will
give to each one of you according to your production”
(Revelation 2:23). This was a message to
the church at Thyatira, the Lord Jesus Christ was giving a message to the pastor there. Notice
“I
search the minds and the hearts.”
Then Isaiah 26:3,
“You will keep him in total peace
[perfect
peace, total rest]
whose mind is stayed on Thee because He trusts in Thee.”
If you're using the
faith-rest drill, problem-solving device #3, and you have mental dependence upon your
Heavenly Father, upon the Word of God, He will give you total rest, perfect peace.
Your
mind, this is where the battle rages most of the time. Your mind is your source of thought and
one of the thoughts is called recall. Recall is like watching a movie projector. We can recall
thoughts and we can remember. In Lamentations 3:21 it is written,
“This I recall to mind
[this is
remembering the Scripture, recalling what you’ve learned] t
herefore I have hope.”
Let me
repeat,
“This I recall to mind, therefore I have hope.”
Hope here is not like “I hope it doesn't rain
today” or “I hope we get to make it on time.” It's a different hope. This is absolute confidence. In
the Greek New Testament the word for hope is
elpis
and means assurance. I have assurance, I
have confidence.
Lamentations 3:22-23,
“The Lord's mercies never cease, His compassions
never fail. They are new every morning; great is His faithfulness.”
We see His mercy, His
compassion and His faithfulness, this is what we recall.
This is what we remember. This
should be the source of your thought when you get up each day. Write this down, Lamentations
3:21-23, you should read this every morning if you can.
“This I recall to mind, therefore I have
hope. It is because of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. The Lord's mercies never
cease, His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is His faithfulness.”
In 2
Corinthians 11:3 Paul said,
“I do not want your minds to be led astray from the simplicity that
is in Christ Jesus.”
This is what Satan likes to do.
He likes to recapture your thinking,
recapture your thoughts. Satan tricked Eve through his own craftiness and do not think that he
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cannot trick you. He certainly can trick you. He always wants to neutralize your spiritual life and
oddly enough, sometimes you wind up doing it for him, don’t you? There are five objectives that
you need to be careful about.
Satan wants to neutralize your spiritual life by always trying to
reclaim your affections.
1 John 2:15 tells us,
“Do not love the world neither love the things that
are in the world. Because if any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
This
is occupation with the details of life. You are told in the Scripture not to be preoccupied with the
details of life. This is not your home. You're not going to stay here forever. You are called a
sojourner in 1 Peter 2:11. You have a different home, your home is
ouranos,
the Greek word
heaven, that’s where you're headed. So anything in this world that God gives you can be enjoyed
but don't fall in love with it.
Happiness is not dependent on circumstances or people.
Jesus
Christ our Lord told us in Luke 11:28,
“Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father's
Word and keep it.”
If you want to have some real happiness in your life, it comes from
developing momentum, hearing and keeping the Word of God on a consistent basis. This is what
Satan does not want you to do. He would like to neutralize your spiritual life by reclaiming your
affections. If he can do this, then he can recapture your thoughts. You cannot let him recapture
your thoughts. 2 Corinthians 10:5,
“Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of
Jesus Christ.”
This is where Satan attacks. He tries to get to your thinking. Recapturing your
thoughts means you can think in one of two ways. You can think in terms of humility as Romans
12:3 says,
“Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance which is beyond what we should
think, but think in terms of humility which is God's plan.”
When you're thinking in terms of
arrogance, then you have an unrealistic self-image. Casting down imaginations is an unrealistic
self-image. Every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, that's human
viewpoint thinking. Someone is telling you they’re smarter than God, they know the solution,
God's not real, you can't trust the Bible, you know how it goes. The humanist has all sorts of
reasons why the Bible is not true, why it's not real, and you will face this all of your life. You will
face all sorts of pushback, “Well, man really wrote it so is full of mistakes, yada, yada, yada.” We
have to bring every thought into captivity because this is where Satan will attack you. He will
attack your mind. He will attack what you think. Satan wants to recapture your thoughts by
appealing to your arrogance. 2 Corinthians 10:5 says,
“Bring every thought into the obedience of
Christ,”
to obey Him.
“If you love Me you will obey Me and My mandates are not hard”
(1 John
5:3).
Satan wants to reclaim your affections. He wants to recapture your thoughts. He
wants to redirect your focus in life.
What is your focus in life? What is your primary desire in
life? It should be to glorify God to the max. It should be to reach spiritual maturity. It should be
to be an invisible hero, to be a silent professional in the plan of God. See, you can have an
invisible impact, a historical impact, a national impact all by becoming a mature believer, all by
being a member of the pivot that we talk about, that group of mature believers that sustains the
nation. This is what Gideon had to have, 300 pivot members. God delivered the nation Israel
through the ministry of Gideon with 300 solid people. God doesn't need 35 million, God needs a
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few like you to be consistent, to stay filled with the Holy Spirit, to be consistent with
“Grow in
the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”
(2 Peter 3:18), to keep your
affections where they should be, to keep your thoughts where they should be, and to keep your
focus where it should be. What should our focus be? Satan wants to redirect my focus. What
does 2 Corinthians 4:18 say?
“We look not at the things which are seen, but the things which are
not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are
eternal.”
Satan would love for you to get your eyes on the temporary, on those things that don't
really mean anything, things that you think could make you happy. If you covet your neighbor's
property, you covet your neighbor's house, you covet your neighbor's whatever, your eyes are on
the wrong things. You think, “Well he's got it made. Look at the money he's got. Look at the
house he's got. Look at the car he drives.” Don't look at those things. They are not the things that
make you happy. They are temporary things. You don’t take them with you to heaven, that's for
sure.
We are to focus on the things which are not seen, things that are eternal. This is the
plan of God for you.
This is the promise of God for you, you will have a resurrection body. You
will never hurt again.
“You will have no more tears, no more pain, no more sorrow. All of these
things are passed away”
(Revelation 21:4). You will rule and reign with Jesus Christ our Lord in
the Millennium for 1,000 years. You will live an eternal life with God the Father in heaven.
These are promises you can focus on. When you leave this body which is getting older and hurts
and gets sick, don't worry, you’ll have a new body, a resurrection body. This is Matthew 6:19-20,
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon this earth where moth and rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves break in and steal but instead lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves cannot break through and steal.”
The
treasures that you have are eternal treasures. If you stay filled the Spirit and grow in grace,
if you magnify Jesus Christ, you’re going to have divine good production.
Your divine good
production is going to be gold, silver, and precious stones as per 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. Gold,
silver and precious stones, that's anything you do for God while you are filled with the Holy
Spirit. This is divine good production. No one can steal it from you. No one can take it away
from you. This divine good production are your rewards throughout all eternity. We have to keep
our values. What are our values today? What we acquire in time or what we acquire in eternity?
Remember, Satan wants to neutralize your spiritual life. He wants to recapture your
thoughts, reclaim your affections, redirect your focus and redefine your values. Lastly be
careful because Satan would love for you to reorder your priorities.
In other words, to get
you off track, to get you to go down the My Way Highway. Matthew 6:33 says,
“Seek first the
Kingdom of God and seek first His righteousness and then all these other things will be added to
you.”
These are logistical details, things that you need to sustain your life, things that you need
to handle the details of life. The Lord promises He will not hang you out to dry. He promises He
will meet your logistical needs. This says
“seek first” protos
in the Greek meaning our first
priority must be the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, then all these other things will be
added to you.
There's a whole sermon right there, a whole message right there. You must have as
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priority number one, learning God's Word. Why? So you can replicate the thinking of Christ and
you can reflect Christ in your life so that your life becomes a light or a testimony and you are salt
or a preservative, this is why God left you here.
God mandates that you think divine
viewpoint, not human viewpoint. Divine viewpoint comes through the Scripture. It's called
the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:16,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord and who will
instruct Him?”
Paul said,
“We have the mind of Christ.”
The mind of Christ is the New
Testament, the Word of God. So here you have it. Learning the Word of God, learning to think
like Christ thought, it's a perspective of life based on the infallible Word of God. He won't lie to
you. He won't mislead you. He won't manipulate you, not like Satan will, and so that's what you
have to think.
You have to learn to think divine viewpoint. This is why Philippians 2:5 says,
“Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus.”
Here's an interesting thing. God can
read your mind. He knows what you're thinking. He can read you like an open book. He knows
your thoughts, He knows your attitudes, He certainly can see your actions, and He knows the
results. Your thoughts, “This is him, this is it, this is great, this is bad.” Your attitude, “I can do it,
I can't do it, I will, I enjoy, I don't, etc.” Hebrews 4:13 says,
“There's not a creature hidden from
before Him but all things are bare, having been exposed to the eyes of Him to whom our account
is given.”
God can read your mind. You can't go in your room, turn off the light, pull the
curtains, get under the covers, and hide from God. He is omniscient and He is omnipresent. He is
with you and He knows what you're thinking. He holds us responsible for what we think and
what we choose. Our thinking is very important.
Proverbs 23:7 clearly says,
“As we think in
our heart so we are.”
The real you is what you think.
The real you is not what you look like,
not the image you project, not how you might promenade around and act like you’re something
really holy when in fact you’re not. He knows what we think and He sees our hearts and so
Proverbs 23:7,
“As you think in your heart so you are,”
your
kardia.
Here's what you are. You
are the sum total of your motives. You are the sum total of your intentions and you are the sum
total of your desires. This is you - what you intend to do, what you desire to do and what
motivates you to do those things. The Bible always relates our thought pattern to our heart or the
right lobe of the brain. The left lobe is the
nous,
that's where the information comes in and
information in the
nous
or in the mind is just information. That information has to be transferred
by faith to the right lobe or to the heart. There are two lobes of the brain, left lobe, right lobe.
When information gets in the right lobe or in the
kardia
it's called
sophia,
it’s called wisdom in
the Bible. So God is always is looking at our hearts and this is where you can apply the Word of
God to any experience in your life. Whenever you learn the Word of God it goes into your frame
of reference. It goes into your memory center and you retain it there and store it there until you
need it. Listen, the rate of forgetting can be greater than the rate of learning. That's why I started
this off by telling you you have to recall,
“This I recall,”
I remember. Going to church and
taking notes and getting a big notebook and then putting it on the shelf and not ever looking at it
again, you’re going to forget it. You’ve got to recall, you’ve got to remember. That's part of the
pastor’s job by teaching with repetition. He repeats himself and if you ever say, “I’ve heard that
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before preacher,” you're totally out of line.
Repetition in learning is important.
My pastor used
to say, “Repetition, repetition, repetition.” He drilled it into us so we didn't forget it. That's the
way it has to be. You have to learn it. The Bible relates our thought pattern to our heart and the
right lobe of our soul. This is where we apply God's Word into our frame of reference, our
memory center, and retain it and pull it out and use it.
The effectiveness of our Christian
spiritual life depends on what we think.
It does. If you say, “I'm worried sick,” well there’s a
connection between your physical health and your thought patterns. Did you know that? Any
psychiatrist can tell you that. Any mental attitude of fear or worry or anxiety or continuous
mental tension is going to eventually overflow and affect your body. It has to, that’s the way it
goes. It’s common for people to suffer from such ailments as eczema, skin rash, warts, allergies,
asthma, hypertension, ulcers, and other disorders that come from the overflow or pressure in
their life, from the overflow from the mind to the body. Sometimes when the mental attitude is
stabilized these symptoms go away. Physiological problems can indeed be related to the thought
process. When your heart or the right lobe of your soul thinks divine viewpoint thinking, you can
have what the world doesn't have and that's an inner peace, a relaxed mental attitude, a stability
of thinking with inner happiness. When we think human viewpoint or when we get involved in
mental attitude sins like jealousy and arrogance, then we wind up in self-induced misery. If
you're miserable today there may be a reason for that. Maybe you created it yourself. There are
many different attitudes but there are only two basic viewpoints in life, divine viewpoint or
human viewpoint.
Divine viewpoint, God said in Isaiah 55:8-9,
“I don't think like you think.
My thoughts are not your thoughts.”
Our objective is to think like He thinks,
“To think in
terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His
Word”
(Romans 12:3).
I sure hope you're listening and I sure hope you're learning. I thank you
for being a part of this program for all these years. I pray you’ll continue to stick with me and
find a qualified pastor you can sit under and study and take in the Word of God on a daily basis.
That's my prayer for you. Thank you for being with me. This is Rick Hughes, the host of The
FLOT Line. We’ll see you next week, same time, same place
Transitioning from the hilarious to the more intellectually curious, Dana tackles the bewildering world of trans-blindness—a newly emerged identity in the complex spectrum of societal identities. With anecdotes of individuals self-affecting disabilities and the debates surrounding such identities, Dana and her co-host engage in a thought-provoking discussion that is as informative as it is entertaining. The episode caps off with an analysis of Washington D.C.'s divided culinary scene, where politics even dictate the choice of dining ambience.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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So do you guys remember the story that we had of the guy who shot a drone down? Florida Man who shot a drone down above his property and we're all like, meh. Yeah, so he did. I mean, it was on his property. Well, they're ordering him to pay $5,000 for shooting down this Walmart delivery drone. He had no idea what it was, but he was tired of this stuff. I mean, he could see it from inside his house and hear it. 72 years old, they demanded that he pay $5,000 in restitution. Oh, I got a way I'd do that. Oh, I definitely got away. I do that. They said that it was in Lake County, Florida, because we were waiting to see if because we had because we were trying to figure out what's the penalty for shooting. They hadn't they hadn't gotten there yet. So Dennis Wynn, they did charge him with multiple offenses. He shot deadly missiles or including shooting deadly missiles into vessels or vehicles and criminal mischief. It's not a missile. It's a bullet or whatever. He fired the drone with a nine millimeter. It was a mock delivery operation. And I don't know. Would I have shot it down like that? I don't know what his neighborhood's like, so I can't pass any judgment.
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So that's the cost then, right?
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Yeah, that's the cost, $5,000 for one of these stupid things.
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So if you've got the money to burn.
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But if it flies, look, I'm going to tell you something. If you're in a neighborhood where you're worried about firing off your gun because they've got rules on it, get you a long bat. And I'm just saying, if the drone were to fly so low as to be hit by your bat real hard, That's not your problem. You were out there practicing, right? You were out there practicing with your kids in the yard. Yeah, yeah. And you happened to have your bat and you thought that was a ball, fly ball.
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All right, hear me out.
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Yeah.
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Flamethrower.
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Yeah, but what if it has good loot? I mean, I feel like it's a video game come to life, right? Like, one of our friends was just talking about Borderlands loot and shoot. And I'm like, even though it's a woke game. But what if it's like, you know, loot? You know, in COD, they drop you those little welcome packages, those little care boxes. Like, what if it's like that, you know?
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Yeah, I wouldn't want to shoot it at all. I'd want the care pack.
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You would want the loot is what I'm saying, right? So I don't know, man. It's just the same. So anyway, $5,000. He got in trouble for that. So that's what you need to know. Stolen AirPods led deputies to a fired Florida man accused of stealing $100,000 in tools from former coworkers. And he stole somebody's earbuds. Why would you steal somebody's earbuds? Because they can legit trace it to you. Michael Hohner, he unloaded all these toolboxes into this facility, and he blamed all his coworkers for getting fired. He was let go from his job, and he blamed all his coworkers. So he was arrested for larceny, grand theft, and burglary. That's what they charged him with. That's wild. I mean, when you – and the reason they – he was at a storage unit. They caught him at his storage unit because the person who owned the AirPods that he stole, they pinged them. And they found out where he was and they called police. And I don't, I mean, would they, would he steal my AirPods, arrest him? I don't even know exactly how that works. But a Florida mayor was arrested for slapping his girlfriend in the face with a cheeseburger in Martin County, Florida. 30-year-old Kyle Jamison Jones and his girlfriend, he didn't get his way. His girlfriend called the police. He was upset. He apparently woke her up by slapping her in the face with a cheeseburger in And but then he then he pulled her hair and kicked her down the stairs. So he was charged with battery taken to Martin County Jail at Cheeseburger didn't do anything to you. Yeah, I did not do anything to you at all. Let's see. A Florida man was denied the use of stranger ground in a dog park shooting. So they rejected this guy's defense and they set a trial date. Gerald Radford, 66, is charged with second degree murder and a hate crime enhancement, which is stupid. for the shooting death of John Walter Lay. According to Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, he repeatedly harassed Lay and made derogatory remarks about him and then apparently at a dog park during a struggle, he shot and killed him. So yeah, probably sounds like stand your ground is not a permissible defense for him here or a legitimate one. Just saying, just saying. Florida man robbed an elderly woman and his payback was he got locked in the elevator. It was a knife-wielding Florida man's robbery of a senior citizen, and he could not make an immediate escape. Broward County sheriffs, they're still looking for him, but he walked up to a 77-year-old woman, told her to give him her purse, tried to exit the elevator. Doors locked and both inside. That's awkward. Our partners that help bring you this portion of our program, it's our friends over at Caltech, the P15. is the lightest, thinnest double stack nine millimeter that's on the market. And with the lightness, I mean, it's just so thin. It's so easily concealable. And there's two versions. You have the metal version, the metal frame with the walnut wood grip panel, gorgeous. And then you have the polymer version, gator grip texture, tritium fiber optic front side, fully adjustable fiber optic two dot rear, 1.27 inches wide, four inch barrel, lifetime warranty, compact, striker fire. It's awesome. I mean, this thing is so light and thin. Previously, my 43X was my lightest, thinnest, so ladies if you like to conceal carry you got to have it dudes if you want to be like ultra concealable you got to have a two mag standard capacity one 15 round minimal pinky extension the second 12 rounds double stack mag flush fit you have to check it out it's the p15 at caltech innovation performance caltech learn more at caltechweapons.com that's keltecweapons.com tell them that dana sent you have you guys heard of transblind No, it is not a type of window blind. No. It's a new alphabet flag. Trans-blind is a trans-abled identity where someone desires to physically lose sight from an eye or from both eyes or to a physical non-blind individual who internally feels or identifies as blind without necessarily desiring to become... Oh my gosh.
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Why? Why?
SPEAKER 01 :
I would say it's reality blind. Why do people... Why did they make a flag for people who can't see?
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That doesn't make sense, does it?
SPEAKER 01 :
I mean, that's the first obvious question. If it's supposed to be trans-blind, you're appropriating blindness, why would you make a flag that they can't see? Like, y'all didn't even try to put Braille up in this. What in the world? That doesn't make any sense, does it? There was a story that I found... Someone had shared it's from a few years ago. Speaking of trans blind, this woman identified as trans blind. And back then, and this was in 2015, they called it body integrity identity disorder. Now it's just trans blind. What other people would call crazy. All right. You can put all these words and affix it to it. B is crazy. All right. 30-year-old woman in North Carolina. This is back in 2015. She had wanted to be blind since she was a little girl. So she poured drain cleaner in her eyes, didn't get medical attention, and lost her vision. She is now almost completely blind. And she says that this is the way I was supposed to be born. And they write in the piece, and it's Women's Health Mag that has the story. They write in the piece that she... because she wanted to be blind and she says it's the way I was supposed to be. They go, it's insane. And she suffers from a condition called body integrity identity disorder. And it makes people that they're supposed to be disabled. Like people who want to be paraplegic. That's a thing. That's a real thing. And so it's trans something. So this is trans blind. I think they call it transabled or something or trans. I don't know what they call it. It's an actual thing. I went down the rabbit hole. It's wild. So... What? I mean... I have no words, Cain.
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I don't have many more than that.
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I don't have any... I don't even... I can't even believe just... I mean, all they gotta do... You don't have to pour drain cleaner in your eyes. Can't you just close your eyes?
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Close your eyes?
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You dummy.
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They sell those pirate patches, too. They sell pirate patches. You can get not only for Halloween, but you can buy them at the medical store, too.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah.
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Get those eye patches.
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Get you an eye patch. It's super simple.
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And then if you ever feel like later you want to reverse this trans-blind desire, you just take the patch off, and then you're good.
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Why doesn't anyone over at Cane, as you know, go, I'm a trans-billionaire? Right. I identify as a billionaire. Give me my money. Give me my plane. You're hurting my mental health by not giving me a billion dollars.
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Where's my FAA authorized takeoff on my private plane?
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Where's my G6? Come on. I mean, you see what I'm saying? Just give me the money or it's hurting my mental health. Why can't I say that and make that happen? Why can't any of you? I'm a trans billionaire. I'm saying that now. That's official. I'm identifying as a billionaire. I need my money to affirm my...
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wealth i just think you're dreaming small i'm a trans trillionaire and you you know whatever you're doing it's fine that's what you want to do but wait does that mean that that's a bigger identity box than mine yeah well what's after trillionaire quadrillionaire yeah okay can i be that you can be that if you want to i mean you're only doing it because i'm a trans no i really feel that way i really identify like that i feel like you're doing it just because i became a trans trillionaire
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Yeah, but you just can't become it. You've got to feel it. I feel it. I feel like you're appropriating.
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I feel like I'm becoming it.
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But I feel like you're appropriating, though. I don't know.
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I'm not sure that's how it's going down.
SPEAKER 01 :
I love when people say that, too. When they're like, I feel like that's just them trying to soften the blow of bitchery. I really feel like, no, just say it. Just say it. You don't feel like that. Obviously, that's redundant because you're saying an opinion. So you feel that way. You moron. Stop saying it. Shut up. Transblind. Just close your eyes. Put a headband on. Get one of them headbands on Amazon. Pull it over your face. It would probably be an improvement for some of them. Just pull it over your face. There's this crazy invention that they made. I don't know when they made it, Cain. But it's really amazing. Real modern, right? I guess they don't have them where these people come from. But it's like a pillow shaped like sunglasses and it has a strap on it. And you can put it on your head over your eyes.
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Wow.
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Yeah. Some people use it when they sleep, you know, to get the... I take it on red eyes. It's an amazing invention. These people should meet it.
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pretty common invention though, right?
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No, no, these people don't know it exists. I mean, they're willing to pour bleach in their damn eyes for crying out loud. They don't know it exists. Clearly. How many flags are there? Hang on. I'm afraid to look at those.
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It's unlimited, I'm sure, right? Just like the genders is unlimited, its flags are unlimited too, right?
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Oh, well, there's just pride flags also. That's like a whole thing. There's like 72 gender flags. I know that the Department of Defense had put out something a little bit ago where they had... What were they talking about? They mentioned some kind of... It was like some kind of woke flag that they had. And they put it out. And I'm like, why is the DOD doing this? You want to know why you have problems with recruitment and all this other stuff? And they put out something for what was like a trans flag whatever day. I don't even know. I don't even know. But they said that there's... I don't know what a demiflux is or a gender puck, but these are things. 72 flags. There's 72 flags. They said there are 72 different genders.
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That's 70 more.
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I don't even think that the people who say that they're one of these genders know what the hell these flags are.
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No, but there's not one person that could identify all of them and recognize them on site. Like, there's so many.
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I mean, what is the point of it? And then everybody wants government. They want government preference. Oh, there's mirror gender. Do you hear about this? What? So this sounds like a really bad superpower to have. You're changing your gender type based on the people that are surrounding you. It's like mystery men and completely lame powers that don't serve anybody. Like the guy who can be invisible, but only when no one's looking.
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It's like a gender chameleon.
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Yeah, you can change your gender type based on the people around you.
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So if I'm next to a woman, I can identify as a woman?
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Yeah.
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And if I'm next to a guy, then I can then identify as a guy?
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Yeah. That's stupid. I don't know about the magic that makes you morph for frankenbeans or not or have it demorph. Is that a word? Because it can be. I mean, hell, if they can create a flag, I can make up words. Why not? Everyone's Lewis Carroll today. I don't understand some of this stuff. Some of it, I don't know. What's going to happen in the future when people look back? When we look back on people in the dark ages, what are they going to think when they look back on us? These people couldn't even figure out their genders. Look at all their flags. Everybody has to have a flag. You could not tell me. All the people who advocate this, they could not tell me what all these flags stand for. 72 different ones. This is dumb. If you're looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust, all family pharmacy has you covered. Whether it's the flu or parasites, cancer support, or general well-being, all family pharmacies online service makes getting the medications you need hassle-free. With All Family, it's simple. You can choose the individual medications that best suit your needs or opt for one of their comprehensive treatment packages designed to give you everything that you need in one convenient order. And every order comes with a doctor's prescription included. Ivermectin. hydroxychloroquine, or any other effective medications, they have it all. And you can get fast shipping with most order shipping in two to three business days. Medications start as low as $3 per capsule, making it really easy to take charge of your health without breaking the bank. No insurance needed. You can skip the paperwork and get the treatments you need directly. Stock up with their emergency preparedness bundles and access over 200 medications online anytime. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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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 Google founder Sergey Brin is the latest tech titan to make Mar-a-Lago the Mar-a-Lago pilgrimage. You got to go there and then you have to walk around the fountain three times. And then I'm joking. But you know what? They're all going there because they're all terrified that. They're all terrified that Trump is like very close with Elon Musk. And so now all the other tech bros are like, wait a minute. We want to be friends, too. What's up? So they're all going down there to bend the knee. Interesting. Elton John says legalizing cannabis is one of the greatest mistakes of all time. He says that marijuana is addictive and it leads to other drugs, says the singer who wears gold jackets. No. Yeah. But I I mean, it's Elton John. Isn't he part made of drugs? I think his DNA is cocaine, isn't it? Maybe. I don't know, because wouldn't he be a big old druggie back in the day? Maybe. What do you mean, maybe?
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I don't know. I think I heard he might have done a few.
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I think you're being a smartass now. No. He's made of drugs, isn't he? I can't confirm or deny it. He's literally a cocaine snowman who's wearing these Gucci glasses and a gold jacket. He said that it's addictive and leads to other drugs. And he goes, and when you're stoned and I've been stoned, you don't think normally. That's what he said. He goes, it's one of the greatest mistakes of all time. I don't know. That's interesting. Well, he knows a little something about this, though. He knows, man. Let's see. Norway is building the world's longest, deepest undersea road tunnel. Interesting. Interesting. It's called ROGFAST. It's going to be collecting two places you know intimately, Randenburg and Bochum. Yes, we're separated by a 16-mile-wide body of water. So they're going to build this tunnel. and a four-lane undersea tunnel. It's going to be the world's longest and deepest, and it will connect these two districts. So it eliminates the need for ferries, and the tunnel will slash 11 hours from a 21-hour journey on their E39 coastal highway, which, as you all know, runs to the fan favorite Trondheim in the north to Kristiansand in the south. Very important, because people need to be able to commute, Kane, to the Stavanger cities. It's very important. So they got this underwater tunnel. Japan is auctioning off fresh fin whale meat at $1,300 for two pounds for the first time in nearly five decades. That's oddly specific. I mean, when you're, I get that they're foodies, you know, and I love watching like, you know, I love watching like these food documentaries, but thin whale meat, like the fin of a whale, right? Like that's the part you want to eat. Like out of all the other parts of the world, you're like, give me that thin meat, right? Like that just, it seems cartilage-y. Yeah, well, why would you want to eat that? It's not like Wagyu marbling or anything or ribeye marbling. It's just, why would you want to eat that? $1,300 for two pounds. 2.2 pounds, sorry. That's how much it was sold for an auction. Fin whales are one of three whale species. Okay, so I guess it's the type of whale that they hunt for consumption. I mean, if it's just like regular whale meat, sure, that looks tasty. It's like a red meat in it. Looks good. All right, I'm down with it. I'm not supposed to say that, am I? Look, I eat animals, okay? Don't know if this is going to shock people or not, but it happens. Let's see. A statue was discovered at Cleopatra's alleged tomb to reveal her true face. So was she a hottie or a naughty? I don't know. I mean, it's just the stone figure of a face and it's really hard to gauge and it's all covered in dirt and grime and ick. So it's kind of hard to assuage whether or not she's gorge. You know, we'll see. We got a lot more on the way, including D.C. food workers are vowing that Trump officials are not going to feel welcomed when dining out at the nation's capital. We'll talk. Stick with us. I got to tell you about the story with these D.C. food workers. This is wild. This is so crazy. So D.C. food workers are vowing that Trump officials are not going to feel welcome when dining out in the nation's capital. They said one of these restaurant workers said, And you would think they'd just be happy for the business, right? One of these restaurant workers said, you expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on Sunday morning just after a few mimosas and not throw a drink in his face? Yeah, because you're not an animal. I mean, maybe you are. I don't know. Maybe these people are. But they said that they're refusing to provide service and they want to make it inconvenient for other members of the public. That's really going to get the public on your side, by the way. When you do that, when you interrupt everyone else's When you interrupt everyone else's experience, when you interrupt their dinner that they worked hard to afford, they want to go out and have a nice dinner. When you do all of that, that's really going to persuade people to come to your side. Food workers are pledging. They said that they're going to refuse services if they see Trump officials in their restaurants. They said industry veterans, bartenders and servers. in the nation's capital, told the Washingtonian that resistance to these figures in their city was inevitable and a matter of conscience. They said they're going to shun certain officials or employ other small acts of resistance against these figures to, quote unquote, take their power back. What? This is so stupid. Then don't work in food service. Just simply just don't work in food service then. I mean, businesses have the right to refuse entry. I believe the businesses can do what they want. But I was also told, Cain, that these people need to make the cake. Make the cake, bigots. You got to make the cake. Remember, that's what you all screamed about for 10 years. make the cake forcing bakers. They would go and find these Christian bakers and they would demand that they make like really offensive, like the Jack Phil, I can't even, don't even know if I can say what the trans activist was trying to get Jack Phillips to make the baker in Denver that they've been suing on and off for 10 years now. And it went all the way up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court affirmed his rights because out of all the bakers in Denver, they wanted Jack Phillips, who is a devout Christian, to make this dude who pretends to be a chick, I think, sued him. And at first they wanted a same sex marriage cake and he didn't he doesn't do those. He doesn't even do Halloween cakes because I've asked him and he told me no. He doesn't do a divorce. He doesn't do anything like that. He is very he is he's one of those who says he's devout and is actually devout. Not everyone who says it is. He genuinely is. Very soft-spoken man. And he's a very talented baker and cake decorator. And so there was this guy who was cosplaying as a chick after he'd been sued by a same-sex couple who purposefully targeted his business because of his faith. And they... With this, they ended up – I guess it got the attention of some of these trans activists, so they started going after him for that. One guy – did you remember what one guy wanted? It was basically a male copulatory organ as a cake with some – I can't even say what they wanted written on the cake. So they purposefully – tried to order the most offensive thing that you could. And obviously Jack Phillips was like, no. And they sued over that request. Now imagine you're not even a devout Christian baker and you just find it in bad taste to make stuff like this. And you said no. And I think with anyone else that probably would have been fine, but he couldn't refuse it because he's a Christian. So they've been target. They were targeting him forever. So I look at this stuff and I'm like, you know, this is you got to bake the cake. You just said you don't have a choice anymore. You you by your own design, you have to bake the cake. So you're going to have to serve these Trump officials. You don't get to not serve the Trump officials. You've got to suck it up, buttercup, or find a new line of work. It's just that simple. But I got to say, I don't know that I would want to go in a restaurant where I know that people don't like me. And I'm really weird, as Kane can attest about this. How weird am I? Pretty weird. Yeah, about where I go out to eat and I have like places. I'm very particular. You have to be. You have to be. I mean, when you've had people threatening to kill you out and about, you know, before, obviously things are calmer now. But it's a little, you know, you got to be a little careful. And I just like good food. I don't like to go and... If I'm going to spend the money to eat food that I didn't prepare, it better be damn good. So I don't know that I would want to go to a restaurant where people don't want me there or where I feel like they're going to spit it. Although that would be... Isn't that like a criminal act? That's a criminal act. You spit in someone's food. If you spit on them, that can be like battery. I don't know what it is if you... You'd probably lose your license if you spit in their food. But I don't know. I... Interesting. Very interesting. So they shouldn't then just get out of the business. Then just don't serve food. Remember when they ran Sarah Huckabee Sanders out of a restaurant? The left did. Remember that? I can't remember what that dive restaurant was called. She's like the nicest person. She was in the nicest person in the first Trump campaign. administration she legit was like the nicest most inoffensive person and not because by design she just did her work and she just didn't have time for your nonsense and they ran her out of a restaurant Sarah Huckabee Sanders like the nicest person ever they just don't care they don't care I don't even want to eat at a restaurant in DC if I'm being real There's like only a couple of places that you can go if you're known to be conservative where you don't get grief. Apparently, I got a lot of friends who live in D.C. and this is what I'm told. So I don't know. These people need to suck it up or find a new line of work. I'm so tired of this stuff. It's just so bad. Yeah. And Steve is like, Steve, like, tell people people who don't go to D.C. often or maybe who have never been to D.C. This is a weird culture about D.C. Tell people because you can you I can tell you the name of a restaurant and you'll be like, oh, yeah, that's a Democrat or Republican place.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I'm not going to name drop restaurants because I don't want to do that. Oh, totally not. But there are certain pockets of neighborhoods and certain restaurants and certain neighborhoods that are just like safe. I hate the word safe space, but that's when people know where to go. It's kind of sad.
SPEAKER 01 :
It's like games, but like with political parties.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I know them, but I'm not going to say them on the air.
SPEAKER 01 :
So if you're a Republican and you roll up in a Democrat part of the town in a Democrat restaurant, what's that like? Is that like the blood going into the crypt zone?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, it's like the entire town. But people just kind of congregate with people who are like-minded sometimes, and people know where that place is.
SPEAKER 01 :
That's funny. That is so funny. Because aren't there a Democrat steakhouse and a Republican steakhouse?
SPEAKER 02 :
That might be for the upper class, but I don't attend those very often.
SPEAKER 01 :
I've heard I heard that there was a Republican steakhouse to illustrate how little I try to go to D.C. and a Democrat one. The whole thing fascinates me. So I'm like, don't I don't even think Republicans would go into some of these places where they would have these workers if it's going to be that hardcore.
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Join us as we explore the credibility of governmental responses and the lack of concrete information on a pressing issue—the nature and purpose of large six-foot drones. Despite extensive discussions and public inquiries, authorities have not been able to provide clarity. As we question potential oversight and vested interests, we can't help but consider extraterrestrial explanations. The episode also examines the broader political climate, from drone secrecy to political donations, and the dynamics of power and public trust.
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It was worthless. It was the biggest amateur hour presentation I've ever seen about anything, okay? It was ridiculous. There were no answers. Every question that was asked by a member of the state legislature, great questions, no answers, no resolution. They don't know where the drones are coming from. They don't know who's doing it. They don't know why they're doing it, but they say there's no credible threat. It was annoying to be there. I drove two hours to be here today, spent an hour in there. I got to drive two hours back. The biggest waste of five hours in my entire life.
SPEAKER 14 :
So why do you think they called this meeting?
SPEAKER 13 :
No idea. Why would you call a meeting to tell people you don't know anything? I have no idea. And then when the legislators would ask questions, there were no answers. Here's the most frustrating part. The colonel of the state police said that he had a helicopter of his flying over, above one of these drones, a six-foot drone or something, I can't remember exactly what he said. And he just, he felt unsafe for his helicopter, so he just let it go. Just let it go. Where'd it go? Who knows? You know, didn't want to follow it because you didn't feel safe. Is that not the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard? I mean, honestly.
SPEAKER 05 :
Do they have any idea where these drones are originating?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, they don't. They would. Maybe if they followed that sucker when it landed, they would know. But they don't. This is a complete lack of effort, in my opinion, on trying to figure this out.
SPEAKER 09 :
So a complete lack of effort at trying to figure out, you know, who... what these things are it's bizarre and apparently there was even one in Texas so this is I mean it's pretty wild in that it's a bunch of drones we have no idea at all whatsoever where they're from We're not shooting them down. We have no clue. And I don't know. I just feel like we're owed some questions here. It's pretty crazy. And we still have no... I mean, they were in like, what, four other states, I think, at this point, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
In New Jersey, obviously, Cory Booker is in New Jersey. Cut nine, he's also frustrated with the lack of transparency.
SPEAKER 13 :
How the hell do they know?
SPEAKER 14 :
I've been a little frustrated. There hasn't been enough transparency, letting people know what's happening. It's allowing a lot of potentially misinformation to spread, or at least fear. We should know what's going on over our skies, and I've asked for a lot more information.
SPEAKER 09 :
And they said that these are like, they're not like the hobbyist drones. These are the drones that are like six feet long. They're huge. I just, why do we not have any answers on this? I mean, you've got, and I don't believe John Kirby. I don't think anybody believes John Kirby when he goes out and says, well, you know, these drones are, this is a fake drone. It's a fake, not a real thing. It's not a real thing. And it very much is. I saw a video of... I'm going to pull this up. I saw some video. Somebody posted it on X. And they were saying that what they got was in... It was like Fort Worth. Do we have this? I think I may have it on the rundown. But someone had tweeted it to me. I retweeted it. And they were like huge triangle-shaped drones that were in like Eagle Mountain Lake near Fort Worth. I mean, I'm not a drone expert, but I don't know. I just feel like that's not normal. Right? Did you see that? Yeah. Or is it aliens? Or could it be aliens? Could be. We don't know at this point. Nobody knows. I mean, it'd be great if we had, like, I don't know, a president of the United States who could maybe inform us about some of this stuff, but it's not going to happen. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this first hour here on Friday and going to get through all this stuff as we roll on through. I mean, the drone thing is the thing that fascinates me the most, I think, of all of the stories that are out there. Absolutely fascinates me the most. Because... We, I mean, it could be. I'm still praying for aliens simply because I don't, I'm so tired of politics. And if I have to just talk about political influencers or anything else, I'd rather break my legs off, stab myself through the neck, and then beat all of you to death with them. So that's, I'd rather not do that. Just saying, I would rather not. So welcome. Okay, so Juan has this footage. This is footage that's in Fort Worth. Yeah. Look at this. Now that could be, it's kind of hard to tell from this far away. It's really hard to tell. What does that look like to you? I mean, it looks like just a ball of light to me. I'm not going to lie. I don't know what the hell I'm looking at.
SPEAKER 03 :
If I'm just glancing and see it, I don't think twice.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, if you tell me it's aliens, I'd be like, sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
But I think it's the movement and the fact that they shut off and come back on in different locations like quickly. That's making people a little nervous.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm just, I don't know. Could it be? If this is a bunch of, if they're trying to do a Red Dawn, please. I have years of pent-up angst and rage. I am, I'm willing, I will totally take it out on some Iranian Terrys that want to come over here and try to start something. I mean, seriously, make our day. We've planned our whole lives for this. Make our day. Just do it. Please, I beg you. Oh my gosh. You won't have nothing to have sent home back to Iran in body bags. It won't even happen. It'll just be bits. It'll be bits of meat confetti. Do not. And when Biden says do not, it's a pansy. When we say do not, we mean please do. See how that works out for you. I don't know. It could be. Nobody trusts any of these government agencies. And again, this is another reason why you want to be able to trust your government. And that's because times like this, if it's aliens, you want to be able to look to somebody credible within your government. And, you know, is it aliens? Might be aliens. Maybe it's not. We can't trust the government to tell us yes or no. So we have no idea. I don't know. I'm just, you know, I got a lot, got a lot of, got a lot of, got a lot of questions for this, but it's in a number of cities and nobody knows any, nobody knows anything about, I mean, they had multiple that entered the airspace at a Jersey Naval Station. They, and their USA Today had a piece that they ran this morning where they were saying, oh, the FBI is also saying they're not from a foreign country. Stop it. You also said the laptop wasn't real. I don't believe you. Nobody believes you. They said no, they have no malicious activity. You don't have authority with us anymore. You have no influence with us anymore. We don't trust you. So whatever you tell us, we're going to believe that the opposite is true. We're going to believe that the opposite is true. So they got the FAA, the FBI, the DHS. They got the alphabet soup of government agencies. And I don't know. It's just we'll see. We got a number of other things to touch on, too, including not just this, but apparently Nancy Pelosi's was hospitalized in Luxembourg. That's that came out just this morning. Nobody knows what for. They said she was she was traveling with a congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and that she got an injury during an engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation. So we don't know anything else beyond that. So, OK, she was admitted to the hospital for evaluation and there's no other. I mean, she is 84 years old. I mean, Cain says, go ahead. Well, she's still on her vodka drip. That's what Cain said.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, still on her vodka IV drip.
SPEAKER 09 :
Her vodka IV drip. She's still on it. So, I mean, I don't know. We don't know anything else about that. But there is a point to be made about how old people are. I don't believe in term limits, as you know, because I think term limits is the abdication of the voters' responsibility. You are the term limit. Your vote is the term limit. Do people not realize this is what their votes do? This is what happens with your vote? I don't know if they realize that or not. But if you give that power away to the government, you're never going to give it back. And I don't know why people are... I agree with the founders and the Federalist Papers on this issue. I just don't think that we need to have... term limits. So if people in San Francisco want to punish themselves over and over again by having Nancy Pelosi represent them for all of our lives, I mean, they can vote like that, but I don't know how they get out of their house with a mountain of needles and feces to do it. It just hasn't worked for anybody. It hasn't changed anything for anybody. So She's hospitalized. In addition, now we also have whistleblowers urging Doge to take action after they discovered federal employees raking in the cash. There was one Republican senator working with Doge, which is a glorified consultancy. Let's be real. Some of my friends have harsher words. I am remaining optimistic and I am going to assume the intent is real when people say that they are very serious about cutting waste and bureaucracy. I really want to believe that. So I need this to be true from them. I need this. I need them to do this because they're so... What we're spending our taxpayer dollars on is asinine. So a Republican senator said that the one federal worker in particular has been raking in pay while living on the beach in Florida. That's crazy. It was somebody at HUD. They've been living in Miami for years. Antonio Carraway, he gets paid the same, like he was walking into the front door of the agency, except he hasn't been going into work. He's just literally been sitting on the beach and he's been pulling a paycheck this whole time. And he's been lying about his location so he could get the full pay because he's supposed to be in DC and just fascinating. Very fascinating. Lots of money going to this guy. So I hope that I do hope that these suggestions that Doge makes, I hope that Congress take because you got to get Congress to do it. That's the problem is Congress. And the not the Congress per se, but the big spending, even the Republicans in Congress, it's going to be very difficult to get around them. So that's where the public pressure campaign comes in. So instead of the public pressure campaign being going towards settling petty squabbles between elected officials, which kill me now if we have to go through any more of that for the next four years. I don't want to have I don't want to see, you know, Beavis, Representative Beavis fight Representative Butthead on the floor in Congress. I don't nobody wants to stop it. They need to get serious about this and make sure that some of these suggestions actually get passed because that's how it's going to have to happen. Otherwise, this is all going to be for naught. It'll all be for nothing. We're going to dive into all of this stuff. We have headlines on the way as well as we roll towards the bottom of this first hour. our partners over at ReadyWise, because that's where we're all going, right? Society is going to be just such a cluster that we're all going to have to go underground and eat our survival food. And some of you are going to have cardboard tasting nastiness. Some of you, pinkies out, are going to have ReadyWise because ReadyWise is premium survival food legitimately. And you know the chain of command for your food because you have your U.S. ingredients, and then it's all put together and packed in a U.S. plant. They have an actual team of in-house culinary experts. So they devise these menus, and they make sure that you have your caloric needs met, your healthy carbs met, your protein met, and they have an array of product choices to meet every budget, like the emergency one-month supply, two-bucket bundle, or the three-month emergency food supply. Everything is super nutritious. It's the best taste that you're going to get in survival food. That's why it's premium. Comfort in a crisis and beyond. Affordable with a 25-year shelf life. So visit ReadyWise.com and use promo code Dana20 at checkout for 20% off your entire purchase. That's ReadyWise.com. Promo code Dana20 for 20% off.
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SPEAKER 03 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 09 :
So Google founder Sergey Brin is the latest tech titan to make Mar-a-Lago the Mar-a-Lago pilgrimage. You got to go there and then you have to walk around the fountain three times. And then I'm joking. But you know what? They're all going there because they're all terrified that. They're all terrified that Trump is like very close with Elon Musk. And so now all the other tech bros are like, wait a minute, we want to be friends, too. What's up? So they're all going down there to bend the knee. Interesting. Elton John says legalizing cannabis is one of the greatest mistakes of all time. He says that marijuana is addictive and it leads to other drugs, says the singer who wears gold jacket. No, but I I mean, it's Elton John. Isn't he part made of drugs? I think his DNA is cocaine. Isn't it? Maybe. I don't know. Because wouldn't he be a big old druggie back in the day? Maybe. What do you mean, maybe?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know. I think I heard he might have done a few.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think you're being a smartass now. No. He's made of drugs, isn't he? I can't confirm or deny it. He's literally a cocaine snowman who's wearing these Gucci glasses and a gold jacket. He said that it's addictive and leads to other drugs. And he goes, and when you're stoned and I've been stoned, you don't think normally. That's what he said. He goes, it's one of the greatest mistakes of all time. I don't know. That's interesting. Well, he knows a little something about this, though. He knows, man. Let's see. Norway is building the world's longest, deepest undersea road tunnel. Interesting. Interesting. It's called ROGFAST. It's going to be collecting two places you know intimately. Randenburg and Bochum, yes, were separated by a 16-mile-wide body of water. So they're going to build this tunnel. and a four-lane undersea tunnel. It's going to be the world's longest and deepest, and it will connect these two districts. So it eliminates the need for ferries, and the tunnel will slash 11 hours from a 21-hour journey on their E39 coastal highway, which, as you all know, runs to the fan favorite Trondheim in the north to Kristiansand in the south. Very important, because people need to be able to commute, Kane, to the Stavanger cities. It's very important. So they got this underwater tunnel. Japan is auctioning off fresh fin whale meat at $1,300 for two pounds for the first time in nearly five decades. That's oddly specific. I mean, when you're, I get that they're foodies, you know, and I love watching like, you know, I love watching like these food documentaries, but fin whale meat, like the fin of a whale, right? Like that's the part you want to eat. Like out of all the other parts of the world, you're like, give me that fin meat, right? Like that just, it seems cartilage-y. Yeah, well, why would you want to eat that? It's not like Wagyu marbling or anything or ribeye marbling. It's just, why would you want to eat that? $1,300 for two pounds. 2.2 pounds, sorry. That's how much it was sold for an auction. Fin whales are one of three whale species. Okay, so I guess it's the type of whale that they hunt for consumption. I mean, if it's just like regular whale meat, sure, that looks tasty. It's like a red meat in it. Looks good. Alright, I'm down with it. I'm not supposed to say that anyway. Look, I eat animals, okay? Don't know if this is going to shock people or not, but it happens. Let's see. A statue was discovered at Cleopatra's alleged tomb to reveal her true face. So was she a hottie or a naughty? I don't know. I mean, it's just the stone figure of a face and it's really hard to gauge and it's all covered in dirt and grime and ick. So it's kind of hard to... sage whether or not she's gorge you know we'll see we got a lot more on the way including dc food workers are vowing that trump officials are not going to feel welcomed when dining out at the nation's capital we'll talk stick with us if you're looking for a convenient affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust all family pharmacy has you covered whether it's the flu or parasites cancer support or general well-being all family pharmacies online service makes getting the medications you need hassle-free With All Family, it's simple. You can choose the individual medications that best suit your needs or opt for one of their comprehensive treatment packages designed to give you everything that you need in one convenient order. And every order comes with a doctor's prescription included. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, or any other effective medications, they have it all. And you can get fast shipping with most order shipping in two to three business days. Medications start as low as $3 per capsule, making it really easy to take charge of your health without breaking the bank. No insurance needed. You can skip the paperwork and get the treatments you need directly. Stock up with their emergency preparedness bundles and access over 200 medications online anytime. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Man, so Zuck gave Trump the inauguration for a million dollars for the inauguration because they have an organization that puts together every president's inauguration. And Jeff Bezos has also given a million dollars. And so has open AI CEO Sam Altman. They're all giving him money now. Because Elon Musk got in on the ground floor is why. So now they're playing kiss up. That's what it is. That's exactly what it is. They each are making a $1 million donation, according to the Wall Street Journal. And interesting because Altman and Musk don't really get along. And so they're donating that much money to the inaugural fund. So that follows up giving a million. So that's $3 million that he just bagged. That better be some inauguration. You know, I want to see like a multiple gun salute and fireworks and I want to see like a ganache tower. I don't know, like all kinds of crazy stuff. So they said that. I think Altman is planning, Bezos has, Altman is going to. But interesting. Very interesting. He made the donation through the firm. He's their company's largest shareholder, so he made his donation through the firm. Very interesting. Is that not a very different position than what these guys were all in just like not too long ago? I am fascinated by this. So now they're all... They're all getting involved. They're all donating money because Elon Musk, he's very close to Trump, and they see Musk as a competitor who now has an advantage. And it's true. He got in on that, and that's, I mean, I think that's part of the reasons why he was doing what he was doing, to be honest. But interesting. So keeping an eye on that. Nancy Pelosi apparently is, they're saying that she may have broken her hip. That's what, one news item, said that she may have broken a hip. But I don't know. Axios said that she was just injured. They're not giving any details out about she was in Luxembourg on this congressional delegation. So Mitch McConnell fell last week. And Pelosi fell today. At some point, I think some of these cats need to realize it's time to bring in the next gen. Let's raise money for them. Let's promote them. Bring them in. Right? Because they can't be falling all over the damn place like this. Just saying. This is just pretty wild. So I hope everybody's okay. But still, good night. Speaking of... I'm going to pull this up. Because I saw... And bear with me here because it flew by. This... He's very active on X. I think he makes content and things like that. But this guy ended up going to the hospital. He lives in Canada. And apparently had symptoms of a heart attack. And ends up dying of a heart attack or an aneurysm the next day. Adam Berguignon, he suffered an aortic aneurysm. And he said he went to the hospital. He said he didn't feel so great, went to the hospital, and this was December 5th. Nobody had heard from him. And then it came out today that the guy's dead. And he said, not sure what it was, though, because once they made sure I wasn't dying, I was thrown out into the waiting room. And six hours later, I just went home. And he goes, Canadian health care folks. He's making fun of how bad their health care is. He goes, best in the world. And so he ended up having an aneurysm and it killed him. And so he is no longer alive. For all the people who talk about how great Canada's health care is. And. That's pretty wild. There are a lot of stories of that. I saw this flying by. There are a lot of stories of this. Nancy Pelosi doesn't have to worry about anything like that, though. She has United States health care. And as a congressional member, part of the delegation, she's going to get the best care ever in Luxembourg. So she'll get great care. They're not going to make her sit there for six hours like everybody else would. Everybody else would have to. I don't think people are mad enough over trying to adopt this Canadian-style health care in the United States. People are not mad enough over this. Still, they've just sort of accepted it, which is what Democrats intended the entire time. They just wanted it to be accepted. I'm just, it's a fascinating thing. They just, they think it's, I mean, we went from having like pretty, you know, it's not the best care, of course, when you have that much government involved and they're tethering it to your employer. But man alive with some of this stuff. So that's the latest. And if we get any information about that, then I'll share it, obviously. I got to tell you about the story with these DC food workers. This is wild. This is so crazy. So DC food workers are vowing that Trump officials are not going to feel welcome when dining out in the nation's capital. They said one of these restaurant workers said, And you would think they'd just be happy for the business, right? One of these restaurant workers said, you expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on Sunday morning just after a few mimosas and not throw a drink in his face? Yeah, because you're not an animal. I mean, maybe you are. I don't know. Maybe there maybe these people are. But they said that they're refusing to provide service and they want to cause they want to they want to make it inconvenient for other members of the public. That's really going to get the public on your side, by the way, is when you do that, when you when you when you interrupt everyone else's. when you interrupt everyone else's experience, when you interrupt their dinner that they worked hard to afford, they want to go out and have a nice dinner, when you do all of that, that's really going to persuade people to come to your side. Food workers are pledging. They said that they're going to refuse services if they see Trump officials in their restaurants. They said industry veterans, bartenders, and servers... in the nation's capital, told the Washingtonian that resistance to these figures in their city was inevitable and a matter of conscience. They said they're going to shun certain officials or employ other small acts of resistance against these figures to, quote unquote, take their power back. What? This is so stupid. Then don't work in food service. Just simply just don't work in food service then. I mean, businesses have the right to refuse entry. I believe the businesses can do what they want. But I was also told, Cain, that these people need to make the cake. Make the cake, bigots. You got to make the cake. Remember, that's what you all screamed about for 10 years. Make the cake forcing bakers. They would go and find these Christian bakers and they would demand that they make like really offensive like the Jack Phil. I can't even don't even know if I can say what the trans activist was trying to get Jack Phillips to make the baker in Denver that they've been suing on and off for 10 years now. And it went all the way up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court affirmed his rights because out of all the bakers in Denver, they wanted Jack Phillips, who is a devout Christian, to make this dude who pretends to be a chick, I think, sued him. And at first they wanted a same sex marriage cake and he didn't he doesn't do those. He doesn't even do Halloween cakes because I've asked him and he told me no. He doesn't do a divorce. He doesn't do anything like that. He is very he is he's one of those who says he's devout and is actually devout. Not everyone who says it is. He genuinely is. Very soft-spoken man. And he's a very talented baker and cake decorator. And so there was this guy who was cosplaying as a chick after he'd been sued by a same-sex couple who purposefully targeted his business because of his faith. And they... With this, they ended up... I guess it got the attention of some of these trans activists, so they started going after him for that. One guy... Did you remember what one guy wanted? It was basically a male copulatory organ as a cake with some... I can't even say what they wanted written on the cake. So they purposefully... tried to order the most offensive thing that you could. And obviously Jack Phillips was like, no. And they sued over that request. Now imagine you're not even a devout Christian baker and you just find it in bad taste to make stuff like this. And you said no. And I think with anyone else that probably would have been fine, but he couldn't refuse it because he's a Christian. So they've been target. They were targeting him forever. So I look at this stuff and I'm like, you know, this is you got to bake the cake. You just said you don't have a choice anymore. You you by your own design, you have to bake the cake. So you're going to have to serve these Trump officials. You don't get to not serve the Trump officials. You've got to suck it up, buttercup, or find a new line of work. It's just that simple. But I got to say, I don't know that I would want to go in a restaurant where I know that people don't like me. And I'm really weird, as Kane can attest about this. How weird am I? You're pretty weird. Yeah, about where I go out to eat and I have like places. I'm very particular. You have to be. You have to be. I mean, when you've had people threatening to kill you out and about, you know, before, obviously things are calmer now. But it's a little, you know, you got to be a little careful. And so, and I just like good food. I don't like to go and, you know, I, if I, if I'm going to spend the money to eat food that I didn't prepare, it better be damn good. So I don't know that I would want to go to a restaurant where people don't want me there or where I feel like they're going to spit it. Although that would be, isn't that like a criminal? That's a criminal act. You spit in someone's food. If you spit on them, that can be like battery. I don't know what it is. If you, you probably lose your license if you spend their food, but I don't know. I, um, interesting very interesting so they shouldn't then just get out of the business then just don't serve food remember when they ran uh sarah huckabee sanders out of a restaurant the left did remember that i can't remember what that that uh dive restaurant was called she's like the nicest person in the she was in the nicest person in the the first trump administration she legit was like the nicest most inoffensive person and the not because by design she just did her work and she just didn't have time for your nonsense and they ran her out of a restaurant Sarah Huckabee Sanders like the nicest person ever they just don't care they don't care I don't even want to eat at a restaurant in DC if I'm being real There's like only a couple of places that you can go if you're known to be conservative where you don't get grief. Apparently, I got a lot of friends who live in D.C. and this is what I'm told. So I don't know. These people need to suck it up or find a new line of work. I'm so tired of this stuff. It's just so bad. Yeah. And Steve is like, Steve, like, tell people people who don't go to D.C. often or maybe who have never been to D.C. This is a weird culture about D.C. Tell people because you can you I can tell you the name of a restaurant and you'll be like, oh, yeah, that's a Democrat or Republican place.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I'm not going to name drop restaurants because I don't want to do that. Oh, totally not. But there are certain pockets of neighborhoods and certain restaurants in certain neighborhoods that are just like safe. I hate the word safe space, but that's when people know where to go. It's kind of sad.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's like games, but like with political parties.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I know them, but I'm not going to say them on the air.
SPEAKER 09 :
So if you're a Republican and you roll up in a Democrat part of the town and a Democrat restaurant, what's that like? Is that like a blood going into the crip zone?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, it's like the entire town. But people just kind of congregate with people who are like-minded sometimes and people know where that place is.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's funny. That is so funny. Because aren't there a Democrat steakhouse and a Republican steakhouse?
SPEAKER 11 :
That might be for the upper class, but I don't attend those very often.
SPEAKER 09 :
I've heard that there was a Republican steakhouse, to illustrate how little I try to go to D.C., and a Democrat one. The whole thing fascinates me. So I'm like, I don't even think Republicans would go into some of these places where they would have these workers if it's going to be that hardcore. We have a lot more to discuss, including... The latest on these drones. This is just wild. All the tech bros are now trying to bend the knee. They're all scurrying because they think they're reading the tea leaves. Also, Woken Video Games. There's one title. They had their big release of their latest edition in their title. And it looks about as trash as I thought it was going to look. Because the woke scolds want to ruin everything. We're going to get into all of that and more. We've got a whole bunch coming up. Oh, that's right. Days of these United States coming up as well. As we move our partners that help bring you the program, our friends over at Burn a Gun, the non-firearm firearm. That's the best way to put it. It's not a firearm. It's a non-firearm firearm. it's a non-firearm defensive tool i think it's always fine to diversify what you have for self-defense especially when some places and you you know you have to go in there when some places bar your ability to carry and that's you know you don't want to be left defenseless especially when you know what the crime statistics are so here's where burn a gun comes in so burn a gun I'll give you an example. Their best-selling model is the SD, right, the Burna SD. That can stop threats from up to 50 feet away with chemical irritant projectiles. It's a pretty powerful deterrent. It's legal in all 50 states. There's no background checks. It gives the middle finger to the gun-free zone sign. It doesn't care about it. it can be shipped right to your door. And great target acquisition, no recoil. I mean, it's just easy to use. Five-round capacity. Standard stun guns are like one or two rounds. So this is a great tool to have if you're diversifying your defensive array. So you should check it out. Visit Burna.com slash Dana. Get 10% off your purchase. That's B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Dana for 10% off.
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You have someone on the cover of your magazine who is an adjudicated assaulter.
SPEAKER 08 :
Assaulter?
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You have someone who inspired an insurrection. You have someone who, without a doubt, the evidence is there, tried to overturn a free and fair election. You had someone who had multiple criminal counts and found guilty on multiple criminal counts. And you name them person of the year? Is this a joke? Did we get something wrong? Did someone scam us? Are we sure about this, producers?
SPEAKER 09 :
You have producers for this?
SPEAKER 05 :
There is a convicted felon on the cover of Time magazine as the person of the year. Maybe we're being scammed.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 05 :
Did someone put out a fake tweet or something?
SPEAKER 09 :
He's got producers for that? What I just saw? Because that's the real scam. He can't do it by himself. What the hell? He's not even looking at the camera. He's not even facing the camera. How do you, and producers, I mean, that suggests more than one. For that? I don't even know. Okay. All right. It's pretty wild. Jeez. They're mad. They're still mad because Trump's on the cover of Time. How many covers have they've gotten? Get over it. It's a nice cover. They're all mad. We had a big convo about it yesterday. They're all mad, and that's fine. Maybe the left needs to worry about more important things. Like one of the stories we're going to talk about. Have you seen these numbers just fluctuate wildly? Because I have. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that they have 500,000 kids who have sponsors in the country that they can't find. We're going to talk about this coming up and play that audio for you. But remember... it who was it it was dhs that was trying to say it was only a couple hundred thousand which is still like one too many but is it 500 000 is it a half a million kids like i'm not talking like 22 year olds pretending to be kids i mean like under 18 year olds minors i got that's a problem that's a huge issue so we're gonna we're gonna jump into that because that's pretty it's pretty pretty wild Now, also, I'm going to pull this up, too. We got the latest with the drones because nobody's given any answers. And yet people are still seeing more of them. We're going to get into that. NFL commissioner has broken his silence on Jay-Z and they're calling for Jay-Z to lose the Super Bowl deal. That's huge. We got to touch on that as well. Stick with us. A lot more on the way. new to the show. They're Preborn. It's a great organization that works with women as they determine how to handle an unexpected, unplanned pregnancy. And Preborn gives women the opportunity to meet their babies, to have an ultrasound, to hear their heartbeat. And when that happens, a child's chance at life doubles. And it's a pretty amazing thing. And when you consider that abortions are actually increasing, especially with the abortion pill. It's more usually with the abortion pill than even going into these clinics. And so that's what makes pre-borns work all the more important. And they have matching grants. So when you donate, because all of this is possible because you donate and you can start I mean, you can save a life at just $28. They have a matching grant, so your donation goes twice as far in saving lives. And in addition to the ultrasound, you're also helping pre-born partner with these women to make sure that their babies get the best start all the way up until two years of life. So it's pretty amazing what they do. Your donations are what power it. And it's very simple. Dial pound 250, say the keyword baby. and uh that's how you do it pound 250 keyword baby you can also visit preborn.com slash dana and donate online every contribution counts preborn.com slash dana pound 250 say the keyword baby
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Also, as President Trump has committed, we're going to deputize every U.S. citizen in this country to help us find 340,000 missing children because we need the public's help on this. Every mom and dad knows what it's like. They have a gut feeling when they see something out there in public that there's something ain't right with that child. So we're going to deputize every one of them to help us find these children.
SPEAKER 09 :
I like that. I mean, he says that there are 340,000 kids missing. That's Tom Homan. Incoming borders are. Welcome back to the program. Top of this second hour. Dana Lash with you. And you can find us, Channel 347, DirecTV as well. The chat's at Rumble. If you're not listening, coast to coast. The deputizing of America. I'm good with that. You know, again, I mentioned this yesterday. Just get out the GOB network, man. The good old boy network. That's right. All Tom Homan needs to do is... Put that searchlight in the sky with the silhouette of a mullet. And the GOB network, they're going to find these kids. That's just how it works, man. Put it into practice. I mean, we got a doge for crying out loud. We need a GOB network. That's how that needs to happen. You can just empower average everyday citizens to go and do what they need to do in order to not only find these kids, but maybe get rid of the drone issue. I don't know, like all kinds of stuff. And so... In I mean, that's the numbers keep going up. It's several hundred thousand. That's how much we know. It's several hundred thousand kids missing. And I just for the Democrats were so concerned about kids at one point. Remember? So let's go back to when it was Obama, Biden, and they were allowing every everybody and their brother to come to come through the border. They were allowing everybody to come in. Right. And so at some point, it ended up that they... were unable to confirm whether or not some of the minors traveling with some of these adults, whether or not they were actually like with the adults, whether or not they were actually part of it, this family group. And so they separated them and they held them for X amount of hours while they determined that the child that a group of adults was bringing with them across the border to take advantage of the Flores Amendment, which was fast tracking them because they had youth, then they had to determine whether or not that they were legitimately like a family and not, you know, some rando who was trafficking a kid across the border. And nobody on the left said anything about that. So Trump comes in and is dealing with the border and kept that practice in place until they could get rid of the Flores Amendment that Obama had put in. And then Democrats are like, oh my gosh, the kids at the border, they're putting them in cages. And then they went at Trump for a policy that Barack Obama literally created and had to create because he had opened the border that it was difficult for them to deal with the deluge that was coming in. So now we have 340,000 some odd missing kids, actual kids brought over by coyotes or adults or who knows. And All those people that were real upset about the kids in cages, they don't care about them kids no more. Do you see AOC down at the border crying over anybody? Do you see her at the detention center when people are bringing kids across the border? Do you see her at any one of the places in the interior of the United States of America to where these apparently the paperwork says these kids are apparently being shipped to? You don't see her there pretending to cry. bending over with her hand pressed up to her face because she is in such great extreme distress emotionally. They don't care about these kids. They don't give a rat's ass about these kids. You don't hear anybody on the left talking about the missing kids. They don't care. Oh, they pretended to care so much about the kids in cages from Obama, and then Trump ended that, by the way. They pretended to care so much about that, but oh, they don't care about these missing kids. What missing kids? These missing kids? What? Now, don't you find that incredibly ironic? And also hypocritical. And it also betrays their stated purpose of complaining. Because it's not about the kids at all. They don't care if it's their admin. How much you want to bet that they try to pin this on Trump too after he takes office in January? What about these missing kids, Trump? You're going to hear it. I guarantee you, mark my word, you're going to hear it. They're going to do it like they did it by blaming him with the kids in cages. They're going to do the same thing. By the way, you wouldn't have kids in cages if you just didn't allow every Tom, Dick, and Harry to come in. And, oh, you got a kid? You get to go up to the front of the line. This is not like bringing a can of food to your kid's assembly, right? Oh, if you bring a kid to the border, you'll get fast-tracked. They treated it like that, though, did they not? They absolutely treated it like that. Just unbelievable. But it betrays their stated purpose. They don't care about any of those. Have you guys heard of transblind? No, it is not a type of window blind. No. It's a new alphabet flag. Trans-blind is a trans-abled identity where someone desires to physically lose sight from an eye or from both eyes or to a physical non-blind individual who internally feels or identifies as blind without necessarily desiring to become... Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why?
SPEAKER 09 :
I would say it's reality blind. Why do people... Why did they make a flag for people who can't see?
SPEAKER 03 :
That doesn't make sense, does it?
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, that's just that's the first obvious question. If it's supposed to be trans blind, you're appropriating blindness. Why would you make a flag that they can't see? Like y'all didn't even try to put Braille up in this. What in the world? That doesn't make any sense, does it? There was a story that I found. Someone had shared. It's from a few years ago. Speaking of trans blind, this woman identified as trans blind. And back then, and this was in 2015, they called it body integrity identity disorder. Now it's just trans blind. What other people would call crazy. All right. You can put all these words and affix it to it. B is crazy. All right. 30-year-old woman in North Carolina. This is back in 2015. She had wanted to be blind since she was a little girl. So she poured drain cleaner in her eyes. Didn't get medical attention and lost her vision. She is now almost completely blind. And she says that this is the way I was supposed to be born. And they write in the piece, and it's Women's Health Mag that has the story. They write in the piece that she... because she wanted to be blind. And she says, it's the way I was supposed to be. They go, it's insane. And she suffers from a condition called body integrity identity disorder. And it makes people that they're supposed to be disabled. Like people who want to be paraplegic. That's a thing. That's a real thing. And so it's trans something. So this is trans blind. I think they call it transabled or something or trans. I don't know what they call it. It's an actual thing. I went down the rabbit hole. It's wild. So... What? I mean... I have no words, Cain.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't have many more than that.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't have any... I don't even... I can't even believe just... I mean, all they gotta do... You don't have to pour drain cleaner in your eyes. Can't you just close your eyes?
SPEAKER 03 :
Close your eyes? You dummy. They sell those pirate patches, too. They sell pirate patches. You can get not only for Halloween, but you can buy them at the medical store, too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Get those eye patches.
SPEAKER 09 :
Get you an eye patch. It's super simple.
SPEAKER 03 :
And then if you ever feel like later you want to reverse this trans-blind desire, you just take the patch off, and then you're good.
SPEAKER 09 :
Why doesn't anyone ever, Cain, as you know, go, I'm a trans-billionaire? Right. I identify as a billionaire. Give me my money.
SPEAKER 03 :
Give me my plane.
SPEAKER 09 :
You're hurting my mental health by not giving me a billion dollars.
SPEAKER 03 :
Where's my FAA authorized takeoff on my private plane?
SPEAKER 09 :
Where's my G6? Come on. I mean, you see what I'm saying? Just give me the money or it's hurting my mental health. Why can't I say that and make that happen? Why can't any of you? I'm a trans billionaire. I'm saying that now. That's official. I'm identifying as a billionaire. I need my money to affirm my...
SPEAKER 03 :
wealth i just think you're dreaming small i'm a trans trillionaire and you you know whatever you're doing it's fine that's what you want to do but wait does that mean that that's a bigger identity box than mine yeah well what's after trillionaire quadrillionaire yeah okay can i be that it can be that if you want to i mean you're only doing it because i'm a trans no i really feel that way i really identify like that i feel like you're doing it just because i became a trans trillionaire
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but you just can't become it. You've got to feel it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I feel it. I feel like you're appropriating. I feel like I'm becoming it.
SPEAKER 09 :
But I feel like you're appropriating, though.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know. I'm not sure that's how it's going down.
SPEAKER 09 :
I love when people say that, too. When they're like, I feel like that's just them trying to soften the blow of bitchery. I really feel like, no, just say it. Just say it. You don't feel like that. Obviously, that's redundant because you're saying an opinion. So you feel that way. You moron. Stop saying it. I really felt it. Shut up. Transblind. Just close your eyes. Put a headband on. Get one of them headbands on Amazon. Pull it over your face. You know, it would probably be an improvement for some of them. Just pull it over your face. You know, there's this crazy invention that they made. I don't know when they made it, Cain. But it's really amazing. Real modern, right? I guess they don't have them where these people come from. But it's like a pillow shaped like sunglasses. And it has a strap on it. And you can put it on your head over your eyes. Wow. Yeah. Some people use it when they sleep, you know, to get the... I take it on red eyes. It's an amazing invention. These people should meet it. pretty common invention though right it's not no no these people don't know it exists i mean they're willing to pour bleach in their damn eyes for crying out loud they don't know it exists clearly how many flags are there hang on oh my i'm afraid it's unlimited i'm sure right just like the genders is unlimited its flags are unlimited too right um oh well there's just pride flags also that's like a whole thing there's like 72 gender flags And I know that the Department of Defense had put out something a little bit ago where they had, what were they talking about? They were mentioned some kind of, like, it was like some kind of woke flag that they had. And they put it out. And I'm like, why is the DOD doing this? Like, you want to know why you have problems with recruitment and all this other stuff. And they had, they put out something for what was like a trans flag, whatever day. I don't even know. I don't even know. But they said that there's, I don't know what a demiflux is or a gender puck, but these are things. 72 flags. There's 72 flags. They said there are 72 different genders.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's 70 more.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't even think that the people who say that they're one of these genders know what the hell these flags are.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, but there's not one person that could identify all of them and recognize them on site. There's so many.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, what is the point of it? And then everybody wants government. They want government preference. Oh, there's mirror gender. Do you hear about this?
SPEAKER 06 :
What?
SPEAKER 09 :
So this sounds like a really bad superpower to have. You're changing your gender type based on the people that are surrounding you. It's like mystery men and completely lame powers that don't serve anybody. Like the guy who can be invisible, but only when no one's looking.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's like a gender chameleon.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you can change your gender type based on the people around you.
SPEAKER 03 :
So if I'm next to a woman, I can identify as a woman? Yeah. And if I'm next to a guy, then I can then identify as a guy?
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Yeah. That's stupid. I don't know about the magic that makes you morph for frankenbeans or not, or have it demorph. Is that a word? Because it can be. I mean, hell, if they can create a flag, I can make up words. Why not? Everyone's Lewis Carroll today. I don't understand some of this stuff. Some of it, I don't know. What's going to happen in the future when people look back? When we look back on people in the dark ages, what are they going to think when they look back on us? These people couldn't even figure out their genders. Look at all their flags. Everybody has to have a flag. You could not tell me. All the people who advocate this, they could not tell me what all these flags stand for. 72 different ones. This is dumb. Our partners that help bring you this portion of our program. It's our friends over at Caltech. The P15 is the lightest, thinnest double stack nine millimeter that's on the market. And with the lightness, I mean, it's just so thin. It's so easily concealable. and there's two versions you have the metal version the metal frame with the walnut wood grip panel gorgeous and then you have the polymer version gator grip texture tritium fiber optic front side fully adjustable fiber optic two dot rear 1.27 inches wide four inch barrel lifetime warranty compact striker fire it's awesome i mean this thing is so light and thin previously my 43x was my lightest thinnest so ladies if you like to conceal carry you got to have it dudes if you want to be like ultra concealable You've got to have a two mag, standard capacity, one 15-round minimal pinky extension, the second 12 rounds, double stack mag, flush fit. You have to check it out. It's the P15 at Caltech. Innovation, performance, Caltech. Learn more at caltechweapons.com. That's K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them that Dana sent you.
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So, as I said earlier, Zuckerberg gave a million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund, and so now have Sergey Brin and, who else did, the AI CEO. That's like $3 million that they've been able to bag for the inaugural fund. So, super interesting. Ontario is threatening to cut off U.S. energy exports if Trump makes good on his tariff plan. This coming in from... MSN, their most populous province, has no plans to allow, they're obviously opposing the tariffs that he's promoting on Canadian goods if they don't help get the illegal immigration stuff under wraps. The Ontario premier, Doug Ford, said his province was putting together a list of retaliatory measures that would go so far as to cut off energy exports. If the POTUS-elect slapped Canadian products with a 25% tax as promised. You know, one of the things in the tariff discussion that everyone misses is why is every other country allowed to issue tariffs on our stuff, but we're not? And then they accuse us of not having a free market if we put the same amount of restrictions or tariffs on products that they do. That doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand why that's allowed to flourish as a narrative. People, oh, this is wild. A power outage stranded New York City subway riders during a storm. They had to go out and relieve themselves between the train cars. That's so gross. I mean, I told you it smelled like pee and eggs down there, didn't I? The replica of the famous Christmas story leg lamp was stolen from a Walmart store. Well, how much is it? I'm curious. $10. It's fragile, but it was made of, well, his was made of glass, but the ones you get are plastic. But they said that the window of a plumbing store, they had their leg lamp up and it was stolen. And they said it's like the 4th of July and glorious if you want to return it to them. Stick with us. We've got more in store. 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 commies will. 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 had Black Rifle Coffee been around then. Veteran owned company. They employ veterans active duty and their Freedom Roast so smooth. and full of flavor and you can save 20 using code dana and while you're there subscribe to the black rifle coffee club you get free shipping automated orders right to your doorstep of your favorite brew so you never have to ever go out of a morning all like stressed out and caffeine free because you ran out of coffee you never have to do that always convenient And you don't have to just get the Freedom Roast. You can also check out the Silence or Smooth, the Just Black. They have many, many, many different types of roasts. And if you're good on, you know, your coffee, which they have whole bean cake cups and ready to drink ground as well, then you can get apparel, kettles, grinders, mugs, and more. Perfect Christmas present also helps everything. you to get everything you need for the perfect brew. 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.
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I'm not going to lie, like all break, all I do is look at the drone stuff. I follow every drone thread. I'm looking at all of it. Some of them look like jets, but not all of them do. Some of them definitely don't look like jets. And it's just weird that because there have been a couple of these like couple of people who record they're recording these jets and then they see these drones and then they see shortly later like jets flying nearby. So I don't know. I mean, I just, I think anything is possible. I'm still praying for aliens. I think anything is possible, but it's just weird. Like they had United States Northern Command, they released a statement about the drone activity in Jersey and they said that they are watching, they're aware and monitoring. That's pretty much all they said. They haven't really said anything from that. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if there's anything sensitive beyond Bedminster that's in New Jersey, right? It's weird that it would be. But it's in other states now, too. This drone activity. Super interesting. So I don't know. It's... I don't know. But there have been a lot of them that have been spotted. Tons of video all over social media. So I don't know. Do you think it's a... I don't think we're going to get any answers out of it like we didn't really get a lot out of the spy balloon stuff. Right? Exactly. Do you think it's foreign? They said that it's not foreign and it's not civilian. So what option does that leave?
SPEAKER 03 :
Alien? The fact we didn't shoot any of these down and that we don't have any explanation as to how they know that this isn't a threat to the United States. They just say that it's not a threat. They haven't shot them down. You have to assume it's domestic. You have to assume it's from here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, they didn't shoot down the Chinese spy balloon until public furor allowed, pushed them to do it. So I don't know if that's similar with this. I'm just super fascinated. A lot of you out there are emailing me about it now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I remember during the spy balloon time, they never claimed it was the United States.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, at first, remember, they were trying to say that, well, maybe it was recreational, but they never said it was. They said maybe it's, you know. Right. And then when they finally were going to shoot something down, didn't they shoot down this kid's weather project?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
It was like this junior high school. They had like this whole, it was a legit like a weather balloon project. They were supposed to get graded on it. Can you imagine? My project was so good, it got shot down by the government. I hope those kids got an A. No one ever followed up on that. I just now realized that. It was. They better. It was so convincing the government shut it down. Like literally shot it down. So I don't know. Some say that it looks like some of them look like a Cessna. Like a small Cessna. Some of them look a lot like drones. Someone else was saying who listens to the show that oh, they have standard aviation lighting, so they're not worried about anything that has the standard aviation lighting and things like that on it. It was somebody who had been in the Air Force before. They're retired, and they're like, yeah. So I kind of take what they're saying seriously.
SPEAKER 03 :
There's still other layers, though. So they have the FAA lights. Great. Are they squawking? What other identifiers are they using? It's not just the lights.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know what would be really helpful is if, if it was, if there were Iranian drones, if they were just like painted the colors of the Iranian flag or something, or just said like, we are Iranian drones on the belly of them, that would be really helpful. Or if it was like alien, maybe they'd spied on us enough that they know how to at least recreate our language. And they could, you know, say we are aliens and they could paint that on the belly of the drone. That would be like super helpful. Also like help us out. Right. We just were curious people. We're curious Americans. We want to know what's flying over us.
SPEAKER 03 :
But we literally have no answers, like none.
SPEAKER 09 :
Whenever the government doesn't give me answers, that's when they're definitely hiding something. I just don't know what's the big deal for them to come out and be like, well, it's either civilian craft or it's a secret military project. I'd even be happy with that. If you said it's a secret military project, I'd be like, oh, finally, you're using my tax dollars for something that I consented to according to Article 1, Section 8. Great. OK, I'm going to let you have that because that's what I want. I want my military to not spend any money on. I don't want my government spending money on anything else. I don't want no Department of Education. I don't want anything that's not Article 1, Section 8. And I want them to not treat defense spending like a sacred cow, but use my money wisely. And by that, I mean you need to be coming up with some super scary boogeyman type stuff. Right. Like I want like super scary, crazy stuff for you to develop because I want to have the craziest stuff as the number one country in the world. You know what I mean? I want us to be so freakish that other countries are like, we have no idea what they are going to throw at us. We don't even want to look at them. We're just like, yeah, yeah. That's like a smile away. You know, I don't, that's what I want our money to go to. So if it's something like that, fine come out with them be like all right for all you wondering it's a super secretive military project we're making some crazy freaky stuff back here guys so all you need to know i'd be like i will accept that would you accept that i'd be like okay i kind of want more than that but i don't want my enemies to know more true yeah so i don't know i'd be happy with that yeah Just tell me and I'm like, all right, all right. I got it. You're doing actual constitutional stuff with my tax dollars. Because that's what I want to buy. I want to buy R&D into some crazy stuff that can be used to defend us offensively. You know what I'm saying? That's what I want. So I'm okay with that. I'm all right with that. But this other stuff, I don't know. Now Lorraine says by them saying it's not foreign and not civilian, it means it's some sort of military op.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that would make sense.
SPEAKER 09 :
Why don't they just, like, come out and say it? And set a plate, well, it's not a foreign entity. And it's not civilian. Because Lorraine's answer, she's like, well, it's military. That's not where my mind went. My mind went, aliens. That's immediately what I thought.
SPEAKER 1 :
Aliens.
SPEAKER 03 :
The military's counting on you to be that way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I mean, I thought it because I want it. Right? Like my plan is to ingratiate myself with our alien overlords. And then I can be like that one right there. I don't like them. And then they'll take care of it. Yeah. Lather. You know, kind of like how all the tech bros are trying to do with Trump right now. So... I don't know. I just I think it's it sounds a lot better if they just come out and say it because people are going to figure it out. Right. I mean, Lauren's like, well, it's military. That was my second guess after aliens was military. But if it's not. If it's not for not foreign, not civilian. So, yeah. Although alien, I guess, would still be foreign. Yeah. OK. So what are they just like? What are they doing? Just like flying over, hanging out over New Jersey? doing some test flights. Why would you do, but then where's the basis where these things would take off at and why over New Jersey? I mean, I don't get it. I got a lot of questions. I am obsessing unnecessarily in an unhealthy manner over this issue. Last night, Chris, he fell asleep before I could ask him a question.
SPEAKER 03 :
What was your question?
SPEAKER 09 :
How many of those little aliens do you think you can fit on a drone? That was my question. I was like, how big do you think the drone is and how many of them little aliens do you think you could shove in there? And he was already asleep or pretending to be asleep. So I didn't get an answer to my question, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Smart man.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and I was just thinking of all this stuff. And then I'm like, would it be like Independence Day if one of them crashed? Because remember, there was a report of one of these crashing. And if one of them crashed, like... if they're aliens, are they the same size as humans? Like, can we fit in their seats? Like, are there helmets? Like, what's up? And that was my other question. And he was asleep. Or pretending. So I didn't get an answer to that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I saw this, and this was about the New Jersey drones. Officials are saying that, and they're telling this to fire and rescue crews, that in the case of a downed drone, to evacuate 330 feet in all directions from the drone, and that it should not be approached.
SPEAKER 09 :
Don't taunt the drone.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So here, I'm going to put this in Slack.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sounds like happy fun ball from SNL. Do not taunt happy fun ball. That's what it sounds like. So I guess it would blow up or they're just telling you that to make you think it would so that you don't go near it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know. I mean, this is also indicative of them not knowing too. Like if they don't, you know, it's just better to be safe. But 330 feet seems oddly specific.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's like six feet of separation.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, but why not 300 feet or 350 feet? Why 330 feet? 332 feet. Just so that you're extra obedient. 332 feet. That's how you need to do it. But that's crazy.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm endlessly fascinated by this. So anyway, the whole thing is wild. The whole thing is just really crazy. And so the... I don't know. Maybe we'll get answers. Maybe not. But I think we'd get answers if some GOBs start shooting them down, though. I know that much. I still say if I see one of them suckers above my property, we're going to free skeet. That's how I look at it. All right. So a few other things we got to hit. Although I could stay on this topic forever because, you know, one of my favorite shows is Ancient Aliens. Dude, I've seen every episode of Ancient Aliens. What do you want to talk about? You want to talk about like the way that the stone was cut? You want to talk about how the aliens probably like lifted them up and put them in place for the people and how they look like some of the, they look like aliens and some of the hieroglyphics and all. Anyway, I'm not going to dive into that. Not going to do it. So in a reader, and I'm going to talk more about this coming up in our third hour. So a reader shared this with me. The New Jersey Attorney General, Matt Plattkin, had said that he's suing Glock to put the homemade machine gun industry out of business. He writes the days of an Austrian company putting profits ahead of the safety of American residents and law enforcement officers are over. He thinks he's real big bad. That's dumb. It's not a machine gun. There is literally not a machine gun. It's not a machine gun. The way that it was designed was to have, to take out the, to not have a hammer. So it's like, it's simpler to, basically simpler to operate. It doesn't make it a machine gun. This is so stupid. We're going to talk about this more coming up. I mean, I like Glock. It's a, I mean, I have some. I've done a lot of training with, I got a G19 and a 43X, which used to be my lightest 9mm until I got the P15. But this is them just, they're trying to go after these manufacturers for absolutely everything possible because it's a part of gun control. It's part of gun control. We've got Florida Man on the way. Life can take a toll on our bodies. There's no way around it. And whether it's just sitting for hours on end at your computer or if you're working a physical job, over time, your body pays the price. There is, however, an effective way to turn back the clock on pain. Relief Factor. Developed by doctors, Relief Factor helps support your body's response to inflammation. And the difference, instead of just masking pain, Relief Factor helps eliminate it for good. And it's 100% drug-free. My husband, Chris, has taken Relief Factor with incredible results. So if the pains that come with living a full life are affecting you, do as many others have done and turn back the clock on pain with Relief Factor. Their three-week quick start is just $19.95. That's less than a dollar a day. And when you feel good, it's amazing how much more you get out of life. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF. Try it for only $19.95 and turn back the clock on pain with Relief Factor. ReliefFactor.com.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 09 :
So do you guys remember the story that we had of the guy who shot a drone down? Florida man who shot a drone down above his property and we're all like, meh. Yeah, so he did. I mean, it was on his property. Well, they're ordering him to pay $5,000 for shooting down this Walmart delivery drone. He had no idea what it was, but he was tired of this stuff. I mean, he could see it from inside his house and hear it. 72 years old, they demanded that he pay $5,000 in restitution. Oh, I got a way I'd do that. Oh, I definitely got away. I do that. They said that it was in Lake County, Florida, because we were waiting to see if because we had because we were trying to figure out what's the penalty for shooting. They hadn't they hadn't gotten there yet. So Dennis Wynn, they did charge him with multiple offenses. He shot deadly missiles or including shooting deadly missiles into vessels or vehicles and criminal mischief. It's not a missile. It's a bullet or whatever. He fired the drone with a nine millimeter. It was a mock delivery operation. And I don't know. Would I have shot it down like that? I don't know what his neighborhood's like, so I can't pass any judgment.
SPEAKER 03 :
So that's the cost then, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that's the cost, $5,000 for one of these stupid things.
SPEAKER 03 :
So if you've got the money to burn.
SPEAKER 09 :
But if it flies, look, I'm going to tell you something. If you're in a neighborhood where you're worried about firing off your gun because they've got rules on it, get you a long bat. And I'm just saying, if the drone were to fly so low as to be hit by your bat real hard, That's not your problem. You were out there practicing, right? You were out there practicing with your kids in the yard. Yeah, yeah. And you happened to have your bat and you thought that was a ball, fly ball.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, hear me out.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Flamethrower.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but what if it has good loot? I mean, I feel like it's a video game come to life, right? Like, one of our friends was just talking about Borderlands Loot and Shoot. And I'm like, even though it's a woke game. But what if it's like, you know, loot? You know, in COD, they drop you those little welcome packages, those little care boxes. Like, what if it's like that, you know?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I wouldn't want to shoot it at all. I'd want the care pack.
SPEAKER 09 :
You would want the loot is what I'm saying, right? So I don't know, man. It's just saying. So anyway, $5,000. He got in trouble for that. So that's what you need to know. Stolen AirPods led deputies to a fired Florida man accused of stealing $100,000 in tools from former coworkers. And he stole somebody's earbuds. Why would you steal somebody's earbuds? Because they can legit trace it to you. Michael Hohner, he unloaded all these toolboxes into his facility, and he blamed all his coworkers for getting fired. He was let go from his job, and he blamed all his coworkers. So he was arrested for larceny, grand theft, and burglary. That's what they charged him with. That's wild. I mean, when you... And the reason they... He was at a storage unit. They caught him at his storage unit because the person who owned the AirPods that he stole, they pinged them. And they found out where he was and they called police. And I don't, I mean, would they, would he steal my AirPods, arrest him? I don't even know exactly how that works. But a Florida mayor was arrested for slapping his girlfriend in the face with a cheeseburger in Martin County, Florida. 30-year-old Kyle Jamison Jones and his girlfriend, he didn't get his way. His girlfriend called the police. He was upset. He apparently woke her up by slapping her in the face with a cheeseburger in But then he pulled her hair and kicked her down the stairs. So he was charged with battery, taken to Martin County Jail. That cheeseburger didn't do anything to you. Yeah, it did not do anything to you at all. Let's see. Ooh, a Florida man was denied the use of stanger ground in a dog park shooting. So they rejected this guy's defense and they set a trial date. Gerald Radford, 66, is charged with second degree murder and a hate crime enhancement, which is stupid. for the shooting death of John Walter Lay. According to Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, he repeatedly harassed Lay and made derogatory remarks about him and then apparently at a dog park during a struggle, he shot and killed him. So yeah, probably sounds like stand your ground is not a permissible defense for him here or a legitimate one. Just saying, just saying. Florida man robbed an elderly woman and his payback was he got locked in the elevator. It was a knife-wielding Florida man's robbery of a senior citizen, and he could not make an immediate escape. Broward County sheriffs, they're still looking for him, but he walked up to a 77-year-old woman, told her to give him her purse to try to exit the elevator. Doors locked and both inside. That's awkward. Stick with us. Third hour on the way. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour. And you can also follow along the chat at Rumble and then the newsletter over at Substack, chapter and verse. So apparently, I'm coming back to the drone story because there's more. I'm fascinated with this. So apparently, they're saying that there's a I guess it's an air base of ours. I dropped this in Slack for you guys. The drone invasion, or what they're saying, multiple states, but also apparently over our U.S. base in Germany. The first drone sightings, according to this, because it was over the Picatinny Arsenal and then also Trump's Bedminster golf course. This is back in November. And then over a U.S. military bases in the U.K. last month, a British intel chief has warned that there could be they thought they could be Russian. And they said that these UAVs, these unmanned aerial vehicles, they were hovering over RAF Lakenheath and Mildenhall and a couple of bases. So they were looking at British bases. And then, of course, over our bases in Germany. That's OK. It gets you see why it's weird. And that one's got one. That's just like one photo. one unaltered photo. So that's how many, I mean, you've got six of them just in actually more than six, eight in that one. So I don't know. Like, I mean, it's like the military confirmed that they were at Rammstein, the U S air base in Rammstein. This was just a week ago. And that was according to air force base. They said there were no impacts to, there's no impact to anything. But they'd already said that they'd seen them over there. So what's up? What gives? I mean, good heavens. I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but if it's a military testing thing, then that's a pretty widespread thing. Maybe there's a reason why they want to be very quiet about it because I don't know. it's like part of the way that they're trying to freak out the opposition, which would be a good, you know, kind of very Sun Tzu way, make you think like, make your opposition think that you got a lot more than you have. I don't know. It's weird. I don't, it's hard to say. I don't know. Kane thoughts now that it's over the air bases in Germany.
SPEAKER 03 :
I've been down so many rabbit holes on this particular subject that, honestly, I don't even know what to think. There's so much void as it relates to answers that people are filling that void with all of their speculation. So now we just have this question of what the hell's going on? And we can't even get that answered.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. I don't... I think that there's going to be more. I think the more that you that you lack transparency, the more that the conspiracy theories grow. I mean, if it's going to be this visible to the public, then you need to tell the public something about it if it's a military thing. So I don't know. Just very, very wild. We've got more. We'll come back to that. We've got more on the way. But I've got a number of other things to touch on as well here because we want to get you set up for the weekend. I'm pulling up my... Here it is. I've got to pull up all my notes on everything. So... We talked a little bit earlier how the AG in Jersey is suing Glock to put what he's calling the homemade machine gun industry out of business. This is probably one of the dumbest things I think I've seen in quite some time. Going after manufacturers because criminals choose to use them in a certain way. Now, there's been a lot of really good victories as it pertains to 2A lately. Although, I mean, there's some stuff in the Fifth Circuit. There's been a couple of other fights. But this, I don't think he's going to be successful in that just simply because it's not a modification that is even promoted or... Because someone chooses to do something illegal with a product that's legal to sell and legal to purchase doesn't mean that it's the product's fault. It's like if you, in certain states, you can't tint all your windows, right? It's like if you tint all your windows and you break the law, that's not the auto manufacturer's responsibility. It's the responsibility of the person who can do those modifications on the vehicle. It would be like going after, you know, Ford or Lexus or whatever for somebody tinting their windows when that's not, you know what I mean? So this is stupid. I don't even know how this can be justified to stand in court. But it's really, I think, kind of showcases the absence of education on the issue, particularly when you are an attorney general of a state. So we've seen AGs use their authority like Andrew Bailey, Eric Schmidt before he became senator, Ken Paxton here, use their influence to do a lot of good. Well, you're also going to probably start seeing a lot of very lefty AGs in blue states do the opposite, use their influence to try to wage war against the incoming administration so they're gearing up for that that's and this is going to be this is just one of the ways where they're they're trying to flex and see what all they can do but i cannot see this case going anywhere i just can't speaking of justice or injustice biden is being really harshly more criticized for his commutations more is coming to light we talked to you about the chinese pederast that he released in like a prisoner swap that was part of this whole deal the the the commutations and everything that he did yesterday One of them, one of the people that he commuted the sentence of is a notorious kids for cash judge. This he's this like crooked Pennsylvania judge. And he funneled juveniles to detention facilities that were for profit. And he got paid off of that. He got over two million dollars in kickbacks. for sending these kids to these for-profit detention centers. The Luzerne County judge, Michael Conahan, he's the guy at the center of it. He was among the 1,499 commutations and I mean, one of the mothers was livid. Sandy Fonzo, her son committed suicide because his detention was extended as part of this operation where this judge was getting kickbacks. And as a result, her son killed himself. He committed suicide. And I can't even imagine, I can't believe that you would partner a guy like this who would use his authority not only in this expanded scope of big state, but to so callously, soullessly go after disadvantaged or troubled youth as a way to make money off of it if they're in detention for longer and then shipping them off to these for-profit facilities. I mean, that gives credence to the accusations about the business of incarceration. I got to tell you, it does. It gives a lot of credence to it when you hear stories like this. And remember, who's the party that just commuted the sentence of one of the biggest abusers of it? I mean, this is just, it's crazy that this is what he's doing with his, he just doesn't care. He just doesn't care. And then, of course, there's the preemptive pardons. which he's thinking of handing out, which I think says so much more about the left than it does the right. I get real aggravated because I've had some drive-bys say, you know, it's so nice that you're not talking about the need for these preemptive pardons. I've had some real hateful people in the past few days like try to comment on that. Okay, so here's my question to the drive-bys. When did Trump do that his first term? When did he go after people his first term? Like, look at Hillary Clinton. He literally chanted lock her up at every damn event that he did in 2016. Where and going up to the 2016 election, where did he lock her up? He didn't remember what when they asked him about it. He had said he was just going to leave her alone. And that was it. He just kind of shrugged it off and she was never locked up. He doesn't even talk about Hunter anymore. When did he ever go after people? That's what the left does. The left anticipates it because that's literally what they do. They weaponize agencies and go after people. So they're trying to think, they're assuming that the incoming administration is going to do exactly what they would do. So they got to get all these preemptive pardons as much as possible. They got to get all this, they got to get it as much, they got to get set. Audio soundbite 17. Senator Coons, he talks about this. Listen.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think the president's got to weigh a lot of different factors. How seriously he believes that Kash Patel, the nominee to be FBI director and the other nominees to lead the Trump administration's law enforcement agencies, how seriously they are determined to go after their enemies list and whether or not some of those who are on that list and who are reasonably foreseeably going to be investigated want a pardon. If they talk through this issue and decide that there's no one who is seeking a pardon, that will lead them down one path. If there's others who are petitioning urgently for some relief, I think you should seriously consider it.
SPEAKER 09 :
So they're wanting relief. They want preemptive pardons. But then then he says this. I'll give somebody 18 about January 6. Listen.
SPEAKER 10 :
President-elect Trump says he is going to pardon January 6th rioters, we don't know which ones or how many, in the first hour after he is inaugurated. How do you feel about that?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think that is a terrible idea. These are people who have been duly tried and convicted in a court of law of having assaulted police officers, swarmed, stormed into the Capitol, in many cases attempted directly, physically, and violently to interrupt the peaceful transfer
SPEAKER 09 :
No, not all of them were. And look, I don't think and I think I can pretty much speak for everybody on this. Not not all of them were. And the ones who were violent and who engaged in violence or engaged in property destruction. I don't think any of us have a problem with those people meeting justice. I mean, we said that we've said it at the time. We've said it now. I don't think anybody has a problem with them receiving justice. But. There were so many, and they always ignore this other part of it. There were hundreds of people who did not engage in anything like that, but they were targeted with stupid charges. Like one of the ones that I most remember is the unlawful parading where they went after like this elderly woman because they said she'd engaged in unlawful parading and they were gonna throw her in jail. Like they were throwing not just the book, all the books at these people. So that's, I mean, for him to just kind of, that's hypocritical. You want you want to have preemptive pardons for people because you're anticipating a lot of criminal action or or the administration is going to target you. But that's exactly what the left did with a lot of these J6 people. Notice how there's no consistency in any of their answers.
SPEAKER 03 :
And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is actually crazy. The shocking toll of getting six hours of sleep per night has been revealed in horrifying images. It's a British bedding and mattress company, and they illustrate what people might look like in 25 years if they regularly don't get enough sleep. and they are nasty looking i mean they look like cave dwellers let's be real like they look like legit cave dwellers with us their skin is saggy they're all droopy their hair is like weird it's just they look like golems from lord of the rings it's one of the one's gonna show you i gotta i gotta wait for you to see this chick this is apparently now she looks like she's on meth too But they said that's what you look like if you're not going to get six hours of sleep a night. Good Lord. Good heavens. Why is she punched over like that? Weird. So the, let's see, the kit sold, the gyro kit sold at Sam's Club is, they have possibly tainted cucumbers. Why do you have to get a kit? But it's called the Beef and Lamb Utero Sandwich Express Meal Kit. The gyro sandwiches. They said that the cucumbers are tainted, basically. They're nasty.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that's tzatziki sauce.
SPEAKER 09 :
I love tzatziki sauce, though. Let's see. This. Oh, Daniel Penny was invited to be J.D. Vance's guest at the Army-Navy game this weekend. Good for him. Good for him. The intermittent fasting. I disagree with us. The intermittent fasting that millions of people do because I do intermittent fasting. They said that it is driving hair loss. And they said that they have researchers, but it's from a university in China. But they say that the diet starves the cells of energy that they need to encourage healthy hair growth. Okay, that's a lie because I do intermittent fasting and I have more hair than known on earth. I have an insane amount of hair. When I cut my hair, everyone's like, oh, you removed your extensions. I legit did not have to have any. I've never had them. I just have that much hair and I've done intermittent fasting for a couple of years now, so... I don't believe that. I don't think that's true. Jewelry thieves were arrested after an SUV crash. After they crashed their SUV. And they tried to escape on a rowboat. Golly. This was in Port Gamble. They tried to get away on a little bitty dinky rowboat. Nope. It didn't work. They stole $11,000 in jewelry. They were totally caught. It did not work. And it looked lame. And at one point it looked like the boat was taking on water. I mean, they didn't get very far at all whatsoever. I mean, they're not the brightest people, you know. Let's see. Ooh, the world's most expensive Christmas tree was unveiled in Germany and it's 10 foot of solid gold and it's worth about $5 million and it's ugly as all get out. It's ugly. It's made of gold coins. It's 10 feet tall. It's worth $4 million and it's literally all Vienna Philharmonic coins. 2,024 of them. And it's a 24-carat gold coin that sits right at the top of the giant pyramid. It's not a tree. Stop it. It's a giant pyramid. So, I don't know. They wanted to because they could, I guess. We have a lot more on the way, including the latest on everything drones and cabinet and foreign policy. And also, we've got to get into the sold story involving Al Sharpton. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. This was wild. I wanted to play this audio for you of this Crystal Mangum. She was the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case. She accused three lacrosse players of rape. And now she says, oh, she lied. Listen.
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And... testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't and that was wrong and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me And made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God. And that was wrong. And I hope that they can forgive me.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, wow. She tried ruining the lives of these guys. And she ended up, I still think that all of the whole believe her, believe all women, me too, all of that stuff. One of the reasons that that really had a lot of momentum is because of her story. I mean, how Al Sharpton was involved in this. I mean, they went after these dudes. This was very similar to the UVA story. Remember the chick who accused those fraternity brothers of raping her? Rolling Stone didn't even check, didn't even verify anything with the story. And they ran it. And then as it turned out, she lied about everything. All of her friends were turning her in. They were like, this absolutely did not happen. Turned out the chick was obsessed with one of the frat boys. And when she told the story as a way to, I guess, try to make him like her or something. It was just crazy. This chick. I mean, she fabricated this whole thing. They went after these dudes. I mean... This was... This is horrific. Can you imagine having to prove a negative? It's just wild. And I just... I don't know. This was back in... It was back in... She's in jail now. This was back in 2006. In 2013, she stabbed... Because she's in jail. She stabbed and killed her boyfriend, didn't she? That's why she's in jail right now. Good heavens. This case... It was sad. And this she I mean, she made false allegations. If you read the stories of these guys lives after I mean, they tried to like ruin their lives. I don't know how you come back from stuff like that. I don't know how you reenter the day you go into the dating world knowing that a simple accusation can ruin your life. And then people wonder why birth rates are low and nobody's dating anymore and people are getting married later and later because of stuff like this. There was no punishment for her for this. She's in jail for an entirely separate crime. She isn't for something entirely different. There's never any kind of accountability or reckoning for her on behalf of what they did to these guys. Just awful. I mean, one of the lacrosse players was like, you know, said that he came out and he didn't make his name public. But he had said at the time that he didn't even want to say that he played lacrosse for Duke because everyone assumed that he was, you know, all you, you know, a bunch of rapists, etc. Just I mean, just horrible. This really kind of kick started all of that stuff. I mean it it it really did and it and it was and that's why you were able to get the UVA story. You had the UVA story as well. But this is when the believe all women the Weinstein stuff. That's when it really all started like kicking off. I mean, can you imagine being accused or having a brother or a son accused of falsely of something like this? Why is there no accountability for the people who make these false accusations? The punishment should at least be at the minimum as severe as what one would get for doing for actually carrying out and perpetuating the crime. I think it has to be that strong in order to dissuade people from doing this stuff. Because there are so many stories of this. It's crazy. All it takes is one accusation and your life. If you're a dude, your life is ruined. That's when all these feminists, when they bitch and moan about, oh, well, it's, you know, you don't have to worry about someone owning your body. Yeah, actually, men have a hell of a lot more to worry about, not only because of the draft issue, but also they can be wrecked with one accusation. That's all it takes. One accusation. How shameful is that? I would be terrified to be a dude in today's society. No offense, guys, but no way, because you have no power. And it's not by my design, not by my desire. It's the third and fourth waivers. The matriarchy and everybody who bends the knee to the matriarchy. I mean, do you know how difficult it is to raise young men and make sure that they know that they are empowered and have power in a society that just rails against them every damn day? I don't know who hates the matriarchy more, the dudes or the women of the mothers of sons. I don't know who hates it more. Because that's exactly what it is. And then women get this idea that they can just behave like trash. They can behave like trash to men, be abusive to men, falsely accuse them of stuff. It's just horrific. So I don't. Don't blame all women for what third and fourth waivers do. Don't blame all women for that. But this was, I just, I don't know if she, I don't know. I'm not going to sit here and talk about forgiveness and all that stuff because I'm just, no. I mean, those those dudes, their lives were almost upended. You guys remember the UVA story, right? They were trying to find out everything about these the dudes at UVA and their families and everything. And then they and then the frat brothers sued and they ended up winning. They won against Rolling Stone. Same thing like with the false accusations, like with the Coventry school kids, the Nick Sandman and those the Covington school kids. But this is really where all of that kicked off. Because people saw, as long as you're just aggressive about a false accusation, then you can... It's believable. And of course, Al Sharpton had to sniff around because he's never found any kind of false accusation that he hasn't wanted to be a part of. I don't know. It's sad. But it's... I don't envy... Dudes. I don't envy you dudes. And this chick, everybody believed her. Man, she had Al Sharpton there with her. She hasn't aged well. I mean, it's been, what, 18 years, 20 years? It's been a while. But, man, just awful. A few other things to touch on. We were talking about all the drone stuff because now they had sightings over bases in Germany. The NFL commissioner has broke his silence on Jay-Z. And calling for the rapper to lose the Super Bowl deal amid the allegation. Now, here's another aspect of this whole thing. How many people knew what Diddy was doing, by the way? And nobody said anything. Like with Weinstein. All the outrage and everything comes after somebody gets busted. Isn't that interesting? Roger Goodell has broken his silence and he's called for him to lose his... Super Bowl halftime gig because he produces it. Rock Nation, Jay-Z's company, produces the Super Bowl halftime show. And Goodell said at a press conference that the relationship between the league and Jay-Z is not changing. And he said, we're aware of the civil litigation. And this is after the calls for it because people want Jay-Z to get the boot. Now, I think, again, You can't just say stuff like this. I think you have to have evidence. You have to have evidence. And I think you got to be consistent in that. I mean, clearly with Diddy, something's going on. Jay-Z, I don't know, maybe. That's why you have, you know, legal processes that look at all this stuff. Because how bad would somebody feel if they falsely accused a guy of something only to like extort money out of them or try to get something and it was false? I don't know. People keep bringing up the fact that he was like, how old was he? Like 28 or 30 when Beyonce was like 19 when they first met. Although everyone's saying that they met a lot younger. Her mom was like pretty much with her the whole time because her parents apparently were very terrified of the industry. So I don't know. But I think consistently, to be consistent on it, you got to have proof where you start stripping people's jobs and stuff away from them, right? Is that fair, Kane? I'm not defending him, but I'm just saying you got to have some evidence before you start punishing people like this. You got to be consistent on it. Yeah, due process. I get that it's fun to not have due process for some people, including the current nominee for AG. I get it. Ha ha. Remember how I told you it was just a variable. Guns are just a variable. I told you. I don't know. Do I think he's guilty? I don't know. I don't know enough about him to have an opinion on it. But all I know is that I see people who are accused and I just think maybe you need to have evidence before you start demanding that someone have their jobs or their associations or something like that stripped away from them. I mean, again, this is just right after I was telling you about the chick in the Duke lacrosse story admits that she lied. There's a Tawana Brawley lied. I mean, there's a lot of people who've lied. Just saying. And somebody could be like they maybe they could be using it as a way to exploit. I don't know. Maybe he's guilty. I don't know. I don't think guilt by association is a total thing. But if there's evidence there, it'll come out. But I don't think I think you got to wait for you start stripping stuff from people. You know, you got to be consistent about all this stuff. I don't think he's going to lose his gig there. I think if something were to come out, it probably would have already come out, right? That's just what I think of it. Something would have already, I think probably would have already come out. And I can't imagine. I got it for whatever your opinion of Beyonce. She's so meticulous and methodical and very much a control freak. It seems like I can't imagine her not knowing about any of this stuff and like risking, you know, your entire future and hoping that something like that didn't crop up. I just can't imagine it.
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Well, we finally found Kamala. Audio Somebody 21. She was enjoying the drinkies at the Christmas party in D.C. What? Audio Somebody 21.
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And I give you permission that if you are going to someone's house who doesn't know how to cook, bring your own dish.
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She's laughing way too hard. You know what I'm saying? I'm all about no regrets.
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I'm happy. Wow. That's believable, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's totally believable. Then you have this, Senator Warren. Oh, geez. Laiwatha. Audio soundbite 11. I just got to play this. So bad.
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Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio. You know, I would laugh if it weren't so scary. Donald Trump just picked RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. This is a man who wants to stop kids from getting their polio and measles shots. He's actually welcoming a return to polio, a disease we nearly eradicated. But it doesn't stop there. RFK Jr. also doesn't believe fluoride should be in your water. And that's what keeps your teeth from rotting.
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That's just like brushing your damn teeth, you lazy-ass big government commie. Oh, my gosh. Can we talk about this for a minute? You know what? If you take care of your teeth and you brush your teeth, you don't have to have the government put fluoride in your water. You can't be prevailed upon to take care of your own teeths? I mean, it's a toothbrush.
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You brush them. What in the world? You got to have the government go, these poor dumb people are too stupid to keep their teeth clean. We're going to have to put fluoride in their water, stupid dumb people. Keep their dumb stupid teeth in their stupid dumb heads. Thanks, government. Yeah, thanks, government. I wouldn't have no teeth if it wasn't for you putting that fluoride in my water. Stop it.
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It's true. They assume you're so stupid and helpless. And she's like, say hello to polio. You all right over there? But Kane, you have to have fluoride in your water.
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People are too stupid to brush their teeth.
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I get it.
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There's things to criticize RFK Jr. over. The fluoride thing is not one of them. You know. If you want to be like, maybe you shouldn't talk about having brain worms. That's a good criticism. You can ask, do you still want to put to death all the people who run oil and gas companies? That's a good thing to say, to ask. But this, I don't remember him out there going, I'm going to ban all of the things that have eradicated diseases. There's a difference between certain types of vaccines and things that have been tried and tried. I'm not against vaccines. I'm against government stupidity.
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Don't sit here and be like, here's a brand new shot of something. We don't know what the hell it is or what it does. We don't have any long term studies, but we're going to demand that you get it in order to work, leave your house, live, whatever. You got to get it. You got to get injected. And if you don't, you're going to have a stigma follows you around.
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I I'm not I don't feel compelled to do that. And there's no long term anything that's way different than, you know, something that has like 60 some odd years of data with it. And I hate it when people are like, well, because you're against the government experimental injection that we have no information about, then you must be against all vaccines. No one said that, Brenda. Nobody said it. Nobody. I don't get it. So he's just mad. I mean, she verbal typo and it stays verbal typo and it stays. And last but not least, do I have time? Do I have time for anything else? Or we're kind of out of time, aren't we? Okay, go ahead and hit me with today in stupidity.
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All right. You know, it is that time of year where you're going to the stores and other places, maybe even the post office, and they say the words, happy holidays. How many of you are like, why can't you just say Merry Christmas? I mean, this is the season. So here's what a kid did when Jill Biden said that. Listen to this.
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Hello. How are you? Hi. Happy holidays. Hi. Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas. Aw, yeah.
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That kid got the first lady.
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That kid's getting extra credit, eh?
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Yeah. He got the first lady to say Merry Christmas.
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That kid's like, nah, we ain't doing this. Happy Christmas. Good on him. Good on him. All right, folks, that does it for us for this week. Now, tomorrow is our last. No, tomorrow. Next week is our last week of 2024 before our annual Christmas break. So we're going to get you all set up and chock ready to just fight it out with your family. Those lefties that I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Don't miss. We'll have a lot of fun next week. God bless. Take care, guys.
In this compelling episode, the Sekulow team delves into a striking inspector general report that reveals an expanded role of the FBI in the events of January 6th. Explore the layers of controversy unfolding as the official narrative is challenged, prompting questions about government transparency and accountability. With insights from figures like Congress and Kash Patel, the conversation tackles the critical implications for U.S. intelligence handling and public perception. We also address the sudden resignation of Christopher Wray and his controversial tenure. As political dynamics shift, the need for transparency in intelligence agencies becomes more critical. The episode further explores Middle Eastern geopolitics, examining new diplomatic movements and the changing landscape of U.S. foreign policy. Drawing insights from Rick Grinnell and special guest, Secretary Mike Pompeo, the Sekulow hosts engage listeners in strategies for ensuring national security and regional stability. Finally, the ACLJ unveils a groundbreaking pro-life initiative aimed at countering anti-life messaging in Massachusetts. Discover how this initiative seeks to empower women with authentic choices while challenging misleading state-sponsored campaigns. Tune in to understand the significance of these developments and join the movement for accountability and life-affirming change.
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Today on Seculo, a bombshell inspector general report exposes January 6th.
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Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever, this is Sekulow. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Jordan Sekulow.
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You dangerous conspiracy theorist, you, right? Because you believe, hey, the FBI, what kind of role did they play in January 6th? Listen, we wouldn't bring this topic up on this show if we didn't think this news was groundbreaking and really does... again, makes sense now to go back to the past to do new research, obviously get Kash Patel in at the FBI to really understand what the FBI was doing on January 6th. Because all we had heard before the newest report is that, of course, When you've got a large event and you've got the President of the United States involved in Washington DC there's going to be ununiformed FBI within the crowd just like there would be other security events and concerts you even go to where there's police that are out of uniform as well trying to make sure that the crowd is safe but when you're using confidential informants Those are typically people, those are not staff, payroll FBI agents. They are paid for the work that they do. They are independent contractors, if you want to think about it that way. And many of them became confidential informants to the FBI because they were caught by the FBI in some kind of criminal conduct and offered the opportunity to turn provide information and thus not go to jail so we know the FBI at least sent three of those people not to watch over against security basically like their their FBI agents would in the crowd but that they sent three people to be part of January 6th to try and get information on the groups. Now, we know the FBI was told, hey, things could get pretty wild here. We know Washington, D.C. knew that. Everyone knew it, and they wouldn't call in the correct authorities. And remember, that authority lied with Speaker Pelosi. But remember, just a week ago, as Vice President-elect J.D. Vance pointed out, a theory that the FBI could have been involved in an active way in any of the events on January 6th that involved illegal activity. For instance, these informants, were they near Ashley Babbitt? Could they have been one of those informants, those 23 that weren't even asked directly to be there, but thought they could make some money by being there and giving information to the FBI? They were texting them real-time info. Could one of them been in that crowd, in that section, and encouraged extra violence? Could they be in the ear of someone who says, you know, smash that police officer. Let's attack. And then you've got people who, yes, were about to or were engaged in illegal conduct of trespassing. And, of course, you have those who took the next step and got into physical confrontations with police. That is a crime. But we do always want to know how in these situations does it appear that our government knows about the problem, but won't prepare for the problem, and then we learn was inside the problem. So you had three confidential informants sent by the FBI, but the inspector general has now found of the FBI that 23 others were there and providing information. Will, to me, what this does is to everybody out there who's been labeled a conspiracy theorist, whose content has been stopped from being shared on social media outlets, I mean, whether it's Russia, whether it's the laptop, or whether it's the actual activity on January 6th, if you question that activity, you were treated like Marcus Allen if you were in the FBI. So you were completely not fired, but you were based on administrative unpaid leave. And so you were stuck. But now these aren't just conspiracy theories. These are facts. Let's take your calls on it. 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. I will tell you this, folks. Yesterday, if you would have asked me before this story, do I want to re-litigate and have more congressional hearings on January 6th, the answer would be no. And maybe we don't need those. Maybe we just need Kash Patel as attorney general that oversees the FBI to make sure that as FBI director and Pam Bondi as attorney general to make sure they are confirmed so they can get to the bottom of it with the information they have. Support the work of the ACLJ. A lot to do. Donate now. Your impact is doubled at ACLJ.org. All right, welcome back to Sekulow. A lot to talk about. If the phone lines, by the way, we're having trouble with them. So if you dialed in and couldn't get through, you can get in now at 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. So I want to go to Rick Grinnell right on this. Rick, you're former acting director of national intelligence. You've been an ambassador to Germany. You find out now that if we had said statements like this last week, on many social media platforms that would not have been served. We might have even been warned or taken down. I mean, that's to the point this was. It was considered dangerous, if you even discuss this. Now it's a headline as truth that we know that the FBI had 26 informants at the January 6th Capitol riots. And the way that Christopher Wray walked Congress away from whether or not the FBI was on the ground in a bigger way than they had previously admitted to is that he would say, no, I'm only talking about are agents that are on the ground and not these informants, which are really like independent contractors or former criminals, criminals who were people who were caught and turned. And again, just a week ago, Rick, we would have been called literally dangerous for even asserting that we should look at what role they had to play in this.
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So frustrating because Washington is just so corrupt. Christopher Wray had multiple chances in front of Congress to come clean on this issue. I don't understand why transparency in Washington is so difficult. People act like if there are mistakes or the public learns information that somehow there's gonna be chaos. I actually think the public wants transparency because they wanna be able to be a part of the conversation about how to make our government better. They certainly know that mistakes are made, but why we cover up so much when there's a PR issue is beyond me. These people need to be fired. Chris Wray needs to leave in shame. He knew this information. He had ample opportunities to share this information to come clean. He chose to evade the public. And now we're finding out as he's basically out the door that he has been less than transparent. I would argue lying about these issues to the public for years. And if anything is pointing to the fact that we need Kash Patel at the FBI. It's this story. We need transparency and cash will demand transparency for the American people, not for the bureaucracies in Washington, D.C.
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Yeah, I mean, Rick, this gets to that point of if we are going to clean up Washington, you want your attorney general and your FBI director to go in and be able to focus on their number one job as attorney general enforcing those laws, as FBI director getting the bad guys. But that secondary focus, and it is right up there up top, is that really to get job number one done, we have to get job number two done, which is cleaning this up. Because The first job can't be fully done. We can't be fully operational when we have these kinds of problems deep inside these law enforcement and intelligence bureaucracies.
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Yeah, it's, it's frustrating. I think the public is watching this and just saying, how is this happening? Why were we duped yet again by our intelligence agencies? And these are agencies that really have an extra responsibility to protect the the truth and to be transparent because they are the individual agencies that get access to information, explosive information, information that can be very damaging to people. And when there's a question from the public about what the real story is, they have to be the first ones to come clean and to talk about what the real situation is. I'll give you another example, Jordan, is we don't know what's happening with these drones all over. Now there's a report that some of the drones are at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. We know they're in New Jersey and along the East Coast. What are they? And it's not acceptable for the White House or the NSC or the intelligence communities just to say, don't worry about that. Now, we are worried about that. We want to know. And they have a responsibility to come clean. We've talked about this before. Where's Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence? Why isn't she becoming accessible? Why don't we know what's going on? And the same with Chris Wray.
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Rick, I wanted to bring this up as well, because as we look at these issues, the politics of the FBI and the DOJ just become more and more apparent every day. And we've been saying this for four years. But now at the end, all these document dumps, if you will, are coming out that show how bad things are. And I wanted to play this for the audience and for you as well, because instead of focusing on keeping America safe, the drone issue that you mentioned, the border issue, all of the things that are harming America right now. You have something like this where it demands more questions than we have answers for right now. But at the National Academy graduation of the FBI yesterday, so the National Academy being a program that that local law enforcement or international law enforcement can send individuals to to get FBI training and they get a diploma and yesterday the day after Chris Wray announced his retirement or resignation at the end of the term he goes to hand out diplomas to the people graduating this program. It's the 292nd academy that they've done And this very curious statement from the MC makes us wonder what else is going on in this executive branch and what sort of policy maneuvers and changes that haven't necessarily been announced are happening. Let's play bite two from this graduation ceremony, and you'll see Christopher Wray handing the diploma to one of these graduates.
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Assam Abu Aisha Preventative Security Organization, Ramallah, State of Palestine.
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So in this clip, and I want to get your reaction, Rick, this is an individual from the security services of the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria or the West Bank. And they refer to it not as Palestinian territories or anything of that nature. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation apparently is taking the line that this is the state of Palestine, even though we don't recognize it as that.
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Look, this is the problem of the bureaucracy in Washington and the power of the bureaucrats. They take issues and they just decide that they're gonna make policy. And that's what we have to dial back. We cannot have bureaucrats making policy. They have to follow the lead of the president of the United States who's duly elected by the president, by the American people. We hear a lot about the rule of law and the rule of law is that bureaucrats shouldn't be deciding to change US policy. And what this announcer did just now is completely changed the policy of how we recognize the Palestinian territories. This is a dispute. It would have been fine to introduce this individual just from Ramallah. You could have said the Palestinian territories, but to create a place that the US government has not recognized just creates problems. This clip has gone viral. People are very upset that they're making this It's going to be used now to kind of push forward the issue and the definition. And this is a definition that needs to be done by U.S. officials, by policymakers who are duly elected, whether it's Congress. whether it's the president of the United States to make these policies. But for a bureaucrat and an announcer who's very comfortable, and that's the other thing, is how comfortable are you to completely create a new state and to change policy all from the microphone at the FBI? You got a big ego if you can think that you can get away with this.
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Yeah, I mean, Rick, I think it points to the issue as we started with that inside these agencies like you said they're very comfortable in doing things they know they shouldn't necessarily be doing whether it's claiming there's this state of Palestine recognized by the U.S. government as you said it was done smoothly no one said wait this doesn't sound right maybe check this that didn't happen at all and it just underscores I mean when you say you've got to go through every layer of the bureaucracy you have to go down to the layer of the person you know who's behind the door making the announcements at a ceremony
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But, you know, I talk about this. I've said this before, but the joke's on the rest of us who live outside of Washington, because these people in Washington are really comfortable with just creating policy and using our tax dollars to do it and ignoring us. And they're buttressed by the fact that the media support them, their fellow bureaucrats support them, the lobbyists in Washington DC, everybody who lives in Washington literally protects each other. It's this big, huge city that protects itself. And the joke is on us because they don't wanna change. They don't wanna give up their power. They wanna wait out Donald Trump for four years. We, the rest of the American people, have to demand change. We can't expect these people in Washington DC to do their own change because they love the way that it is and they love the power that they have.
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Rick, as always, we appreciate your insight. Folks, support the work of the ACLJ at ACLJ.org. We filed a major lawsuit against Massachusetts, and today is their deadline to respond in court. This is on their attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers. We've got more to talk about there as well coming up in the second half hour. of the broadcast donate today your gift will be doubled at aclj.org again to find out more about that program you go to aclj.org save babies and we're going to talk about that more second half hour of the broadcast but your support today is critical we talk about these confirmations we talk about clearing out the bureaucracy aclj.org To Secular, we are joined by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Secretary Pompeo, I have a lot to talk about in the Middle East. I want to go specifically to Israel and Iran and Prime Minister Netanyahu. It's always unique when there's a video issued in English with a Farsi translation, so really speaking directly to the people of Iran and the English-speaking world as well, where he called on the people of Iran to be free and to take advantage of the situation where they see the proxies falling, whether it's Syria, whether it's Hamas and these leadership in Hezbollah, that after these proxies fall, that you have a chance and an opportunity to do something to be free once again in Iran. Do you think the... And then America likely sees the strategic opportunity. What's the best way of action first off is to do what like Prime Minister Netanyahu is doing and kind of encouraging the people who have done it before at great risk and loss of life to take to the streets.
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Jordan, we've always known that the Iranian people deserve freedom in the same way that people all across the world do. We've also known the enormous power of the regime inside of Iran, its capacity, they call it the Basij, its internal police force. We've always known its capability to just tamp down any riots or protests. Things are fundamentally different today than they were just a year ago. Iran is weaker. Sadly, it still has more money. The Biden administration has given them billions of dollars, so it still has resources and wealth. But make no mistake, their external terror proxies have now been diminished. And so I think what you saw Prime Minister Netanyahu do was the same thing that President Trump did for four years, was talk directly to the Iranian people, tell them that we're not against you. When we sanction Iran, it's not to hurt you. When we punish Iran, it's not to hurt you. It's to help you create the path towards you throwing off the yoke of this thing. theocratic thug, the Ayatollah. And so I do think that the best strategy is to provide all the support that we can for the Iranian people in a way that in 2009, when President Obama had a chance to do that, the last time there was really an opportunity for the people, for Iran to arise, he refused to support them. and i hope that the israelis will continue to do that i hope the gulf arab states who know it's in their best interest if there's a change in leadership in iran and the american people will continue to support the iranians in their efforts to change the nature of that regime
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We know. And so many times before, they've been burned. People have been burned there. And I think they will want to probably likely wait to see the next administration in to know if the U.S. will have their back, if they're going to take to the streets at that great risk. You talk about the Free Iran Movement really being the last time we saw it reach that threshold. And the signs were in English, just like Prime Minister Netanyahu's message, trying to call out for the United States and Western world support. to help free the people of Iran and there was basically silence in the western world's governments. That wasn't the case in the Trump administration though again because they've been built up once again you have to take them back down I guess we're in their economy especially but we also seen we talked about Syria and the difficulty and kind of knowing where that leadership is going to be and whether it's going to look more like an Islamic state and another caliphate or is it does it do these groups unravel and become almost like a failed state? We just don't know yet. Maybe it surprises us. We hope it does. But And because of that action, Israel and the United States have been able to take out almost all of Syria's air capabilities. That makes it a lot easier for Israel to attack Iranian nuclear sites, much easier. It's a totally different path when one of the nations you had to fly over was armed by the nation with those nuclear facilities to make sure it was more difficult to get to.
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There's no doubt about that. There is no doubt that there is much more room to maneuver a much weaker set of air defenses, a much less capable. And we shouldn't forget this command and control structure. Many of the senior strategic and military leaders of Iran are no longer there and capable of actually responding to a direct attack on these nuclear sites. And we should never forget all the covert capabilities. We saw it with the pagers in Lebanon. One should surmise that that's not the only action that has been prepared and laid down in anticipation of this one moment, this chance where there is really a pathway to reduce this nuclear threat to the world, especially to Israel and the United States. What is required is certainly Israel's determination to do that. I think you can see they're beginning to think their way through how to achieve it. But they're going to need the United States. They're going to need to know at the very least that the United States will, as we talked about earlier with the people of Iran, the United States will have their back that will be serious about providing them the tools, the infrastructure that they need to actually carry out a strike which will degrade the Ukrainian nuclear program. But to your point, all the work that's been done, frankly, in the face of American resistance, America saying don't do it. All the work that's been done has created a pathway where for once there is there is a method to achieving this risk reduction from an Iranian potential nuclear weapons program.
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Mr. Secretary, I know it can't be lost on you that all of the great accomplishments of the first Trump administration and with you as Secretary of State, the Abraham Accords, seeing relative quiet in the Middle East, putting down ISIS during that time, and then this interim period of four years all of the negative news items, if you want to put it even just lightly, that have come out of that region. And now all of a sudden, since November 5th, you see positive things ramping up in the direction that could lead to more peace and more destruction of the enemies of the United States and Western ideology, Western civilization. Do you it's kind of a gotcha question, I guess, but there's no coincidence here that we're seeing all these things moving at this time, is there?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, goodness, no, it's not remotely coincidental. It's also not coincidental or accidental to see the transition from the four Trump years to the four Biden years. Right. The reason that the Middle East became on fire, the reason that risk was created was because America walked away from its central role. Not a role of putting thousands of soldiers on the ground in the region, but a role of a leadership understanding who the bad guys are, where moral clarity is right. Secretary Blinken is prepared to recognize this new guy in Syria. I'm not sure I'd be prepared to do that, but he's at the same time won't talk to the Israeli foreign minister. This shows an absence of clarity about who the bad actor is in the region. The demand for Israel to stand down and conduct ceasefires over the last seven or eight months would have left enormous power in Iran. And so, no, it's not remotely accidental that the fact that there's going to be a new leader in America The team that will be put around President Trump will be serious about taking down risk for the United States, putting America first. And so you see the beginnings, the seedlings, the green sprouts of good things happening, more peace, more stability, more prosperity for people all across the region, including as we began, an opportunity for the Iranian people as well.
SPEAKER 12 :
Secretary Pompeo, as always, thank you for your time. Thank you for supporting and for being a member of the team here at the ACLJ. Folks, all of these issues, whether we're talking domestic, whether we're talking international, we are going to be working on at the ACLJ. Of course, we already are working on at the ACLJ and our international offices are working on. But we need your support. This month is critical. Because we're able to base kind of the budget for the entire next year. As my brother Logan said, this month of December in the fundraising there for the ACLJ, your donations make up close to a quarter of our entire budget in just the month of December. Now, this is a great time to donate because your donation will be effectively doubled. So you double the impact of that donation. Whether it's a $20 donation or a $50 donation, you can do that today at ACLJ.org. We've got a big pro-life campaign that we want to launch. But we're going to need your support for it financially. This is something new. Logan's going to come in as well. ACLJ.org. We will explain to you and show you what we want to do at the ACLJ to save lives.
SPEAKER 09 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Jordan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 12 :
So we've been talking, of course, the issues at the FBI with Christopher Wray, and of course he has submitted his resignation that he'll leave before President Trump is in office because he was going to be fired. His replacement has already been named, Kash Patel. And I think, you know, there's not a better time to get someone like Kash Patel into the FBI or Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice because of this information we found out about January 6th. And, you know, you're told that you are a conspiracy theorist, even a dangerous conspiracy theorist, if you talk about it and even ask the question about how involved was the FBI on January 6th and were they just there really to watch the crowd and issue back reports about security status and why did we know that there were three but now we find out they're an additional 23 by the way none of them got charged so it wasn't like the FBI said they were like doing it on their own accord and and not acting as confidential informants and why did Christopher Wray get away for so many years with saying that those there were no agents involved in going into the Capitol is that agents are different than informants. And he would never really get to the bottom of the truth about trying to deflect. It's typical Washington that a week ago you could have gotten banned on social media for saying now what's in the headlines in mainstream media. And, of course, calls for more. investigation and we'll get that done if Kash Patel's there and Pam Bondi are there so it ties up directly to those confirmation battles as well I want to take a call on it uh we're going to talk about some of these new efforts that we want to launch brand new from the ACLJ uh Logan's joining us in the studio live but let me go to Linda first in New York online too hey Linda hey guys hey um
SPEAKER 02 :
On the topic of Christopher Wray, an abominable embarrassment to the United States of America since the day President Trump allowed him to stay in his position. He's been laughing at us ever since, and you can see it on his smirk every time he's being questioned on Capitol Hill. It's disgusting. And my prayer is that you guys get into the inside workings of all these people
SPEAKER 12 :
it's it's abominable what's going on yeah i mean listen what what we're going to do is everything we can to get help get the information out that people deserve because you don't deserve to be called a nut a conspiracy theorist and then a report comes out from the inspector general confirming everything that you were being told you were a nut and dangerous for even thinking might have been the option it's actually worse than what a lot of people thought there were a lot more involvement with these informants and you have to ask what part where were they Did they help break the door down? Did they tell people, break the door down? Did they tell people, smack that cop, let's push through, and encourage that kind of violence? That's the kind of info we need after an event where, you know, you've got people serving long jail sentences, and you're called... really a danger or threat to the country if you even ask questions about our institutions involvement when you know that they were involved to a certain extent and now we know it was an extent it was up to 26 FBI connected individuals are there more it's I don't think that's going to come for Christopher Wray and there's certainly more work we've got to do with the ACLJ with FOIA and we'll get we'll get you on that I want to take that call it's just important we got to get the right nominees confirmed for these positions that is a major battle that's coming up in Washington, D.C. Those meetings are already occurring in the U.S. Senate, but we have to be ready for those fights. Support our work, too, and our government affairs work at ACLJ.org. Now, Logan, I told people we want to do something new in the realm of fighting for life. Now that this fight... has been taken out of Washington, D.C., and Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The fight has gone local, and it's gone to the states. And in some of these blue states, the fight is directly with pro-life, not just activists, but pro-life even pregnancy centers that offer other solutions than abortion.
SPEAKER 11 :
head on and we get back from the next segment i'm going to so happy to premiere our new campaign specifically based on that story you heard me tell over the summer when i was visiting boston and we saw those you know horrific ads against pregnancy resource centers my team has been putting together an incredible campaign over the next over the last five or six months and now we are ready to roll it out first in massachusetts and then by God's grace and with your support around the world. I can't wait for you to see it. It is filled with hope. It's filled with joy. And it's coming up in the next segment. So stay tuned. Of course, you can support the work of the ACLJ at ACLJ.org. And I'm going to be tracking it today because today is the big fundraising day for this life-saving campaign.
SPEAKER 12 :
Welcome back to Seculo. We are taking your calls to 1-800-684-3110. But we've got a new fight that we can engage in the fight for life. You know, these attacks, we've talked about it here. You know, the lawsuits are continuing and it's actually Massachusetts has to respond to our deadline today in court where we represent a PRC pro-life pregnancy resource center fighting back because of the way they have been described in these official ads that have been sponsored by pro-abortion organizations and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts using people's taxpayer dollars. And I mean, really defaming these pro-life pregnancy centers. And so Logan, the idea here is that it's not just always about legislation. It can also be about the messaging and they want to destroy these pregnancy resource centers and make them out to be places of evil or wrongdoing and act as if they're criminal.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, that's exactly what happened is back in July, I was in Boston walking around having a great day. I walked out of my hotel and this billboard struck me and said, avoid anti-abortion centers. I thought that's strange. I mean, it's not that, you know, you always hear pro-choice ads here and there. And then we saw that it was something run by the state, by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And we said, we got to do something about this, whether that's legally, but also in my heart, I knew we needed to take our own message to the streets. So we reached out to some of our friends in Massachusetts, found out that they were also appalled by what was happening there, that this did not represent even the values. They may be a very pro-choice state, but this did not represent the values of the people in Boston and in Massachusetts. So we've spent the last six months or so working on a brand new campaign, an outdoor ad campaign, a digital video ad campaign that is called Choice Begins Here. It is beautifully done. Our team has done an amazing job. It provides hope. You see their ads, sadness, you know, sad faces, all this. You see our versions of this. It is completely opposite. It is to make sure people have the opportunity to visit pro-life pregnancy resource centers to have a real choice in the matter. So we're going to see billboards. You're going to see advertisements. You're going to see digital billboards here and there throughout Massachusetts. Then you're going to have these video ads that I'm going to show you the preview of the very first one in just a minute. You're going to have these that are going to be running throughout social media. They're going to be running on television. You're going to be able to find them wherever. But actually, they only happen if you support this. And you may say, Logan, what about Massachusetts? Why do I care about Massachusetts? Well, that's just the start. That's the epicenter, if you will, because that is where the need is right now. But our goal, if you support this, is to take this across the country to all pro-choice, you'd say, states. States where abortion is still not only legal, but is running wild. food for mothers, that are providing clothing for babies, that are providing obviously prenatal and postnatal services. There's always this lie that you hear from the left saying, oh, pro-lifers only care about babies when they're in the womb and then they're born and no one cares. And that is the exact opposite of what's going on at these pro-life pregnancy resource centers. We've worked with so many of them throughout the years. So we have developed a resource that people can go on to find a pregnancy resource center in their area to contact people who are going to give them true options. Because you know, when you go into a Planned Parenthood, they're really only going to be pushing one choice. And that choice, of course, is abortion. Now with this, we decided let's take this a very different way. Let's provide hope, provide light in the darkness instead of these horrible options that you see from the left. And I'm really excited to premiere this. And after you watch this first sample ad, I'm gonna tell you how you can support it. Because we have a lofty goal. Because to get outdoor ad campaign, to get videos put up, you've seen them in bathrooms, you'll see them all over the place, this is not cheap. And by the way, this isn't really a traditional ACLJ fundraiser in the sense. So we are paying for this, but it's not like an ad for ACLJ, go support, go donate. That's not the goal. The goal is to spread the good news of these mostly Christian pro-life pregnancy resource centers. They're doing amazing work in communities where it's needed the most. So take a look. The first look of the first ad for Choice begins here.
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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.
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To find a pregnancy resource center near you, go to choicebeginshere.org.
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And that is your first look, again, at our hopeful ad campaign to hopefully get more people to go to Pro-Life Pregnancy Resource Centers to actually see that there are real choices, real hope. And, of course, they provide an incredible amount of coverage, whether that, again, prenatal, postnatal, food, baby food, formula, clothes. They offer so much, and we've seen the amazing work they do. But the state of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is trying to shut them down. They're trying to say, avoid them, ignore them, pretend they don't, do not go to them. Here's a list. Their website is, here's a list of places to avoid. And of course they also say, look for words like hope in the title. It says that on their website. So you know what they're pushing. But what choice begins here, again, a project of the ACLJ. We're going to change the way pro-life activism is done. And we can do that as we head into this Christmas season with you. And I'm going to ask you for this because I know what the budget is because I just got off the phone and I have a call later today about the budgets that we have to spend to really blanket these cities. And it is lofty. Go back to me. I want to talk to people directly. It is lofty. Okay. So I'm going to tell you right now to do this in just one market, it's $500,000. So again, you've showed up for me before. when I've said that that is a number we needed. And I'm going to ask you right now to do it again. And what if we could do it today? What if we do it in the next 24 hours? So I'm encouraged you go to aclj.org or if you want to know more about the campaign, aclj.org slash save babies. You've heard about the Massachusetts deception. They've been running the mass deception as we've been calling it. But now it's time to turn the table and give hope to people who need it. And it is Christmas and it is an important time for us to give back. And this is an incredible opportunity. And again, if it works, if this works, we're going to take it well beyond Massachusetts. We'll be coming to your home state if it's necessary. Obviously, we're going to pick out where it needs to go. And this is going to all start, by the way, in the first quarter of next year. So it took months to get all the pieces together, the billboard art, the television ads, and there's still more to be created. And I can't wait to share even the more real stories that have come out of this that are going to blow your mind that only God could orchestrate. But right now, I'm going to encourage you to make that donation. I'm going to play the ad one more time. And during that, I'm going to ask you to make your donation. Go to aclj.org and let's throw the QR code up. We're scanning that QR code right now. And then let's take a look one more time at our Choice Begins Here premiere ad.
SPEAKER 03 :
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.
SPEAKER 04 :
To find a pregnancy resource center near you, go to choicebeginshere.org.
SPEAKER 12 :
from Logan about what it takes for us to make this happen. So we can, again, for us to produce here, to put all the parts together, that's step one. It's done. I mean, it's ready to go. It can go as big as we're able to have the resources to put it. And as Logan said, if this is a success in Massachusetts, we're going to go to these other states that are targeting these pro-life pregnancy resource centers. that are they're trying to run them out of business make them out to be these places of somehow illegal conduct that they're doing something wrong and damaging and scary and you have to stay away because they offer options other than abortion and they again they're doing this in part and part remember the state here the commonwealth of Massachusetts and pro-abortion organizations are working together So they're sharing taxpayer money. Millions of dollars. Millions of dollars to run their campaign. But we believe with a counter campaign, as you heard Logan say, to really do it in Massachusetts, it could turn on ready to go, you know, January 1. But it's going to cost $500,000 to do that, to really blanket the media and the people with different kinds of advertising. So are you going to be there when we need you the most? Again, to fight back for these pregnancy resource centers, you can go to aclj.org right now and donate. If you go to aclj.org slash savebabies, it has more about the campaign as well. You can donate to either of those places. Your gift will be doubled.
SPEAKER 1 :
$500,000.
SPEAKER 12 :
The quicker we can raise that, the quicker we can be in the next state and the next state. Go to aclj.org. Double your impact today to help save lives. Welcome back to SecU. People have got calls in on the FBI as well. I want to go to that. But we do want to underscore this new campaign that we want to launch, the ACLJ. It's ready to go. We've already previewed it for you here today. So we'll talk about that again in a moment, kind of what the facets are of that. We know it can be a big number to hear, and it's been a different kind of economy, but you're seeing the difference in already what a Trump potential— presidency beginning in january has already done to the place like the stock market of course that's not always immediate impacts but the idea so we are hoping again that you can help us launch uh what it would be new for the aclj in the sense of using these kind of resources to fight back but it's also because in the past the pro-abortion organizations and some of these pro-abortion state leaders certainly didn't like pregnancy centers but they weren't really demonizing them And now that Roe versus Wade has been overturned, it's like they've now turned their attention to the places that provide women other options than just killing their unborn child. So we'll talk about that in a minute again and kind of what that full scope means. But I do want to go to the phones with Lewis in Colorado on line one. Hey, Lewis.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, thanks for taking my call. I was just wondering if Kash Patel will consider hiring the two whistleblowers and if they would consider coming back to the FBI and be put in a leadership position.
SPEAKER 12 :
You know, I don't know if Marcus Allen would ever want to go back to the FBI after what they put him through. I mean, he's still in the moment, as we talked to Tristan Levin earlier this week, from Empower Oversight, where they're still fighting over his back pay. I mean, most of it he's gotten now, but they're still fighting. I mean, so even after winning in court, getting your security clearance restored so that you can move on in the private sector and really move on with your life, but then getting the resources, the financial resources that were held back, still fighting for to this day. Now, I don't want to speak for them, but with Garrett O'Boyle, we're still fighting in court. He hasn't gotten to that point yet that Marcus Allen did where the FBI is settled and determined that back pay and his security clearance. So could there be some interesting things there available, especially to provide advice. I think what you look for there, Lewis, is they may not want to go back inside the agency because, again, you might know that Cash Patel is going to be there for a handful of years, but then it's going to turn to the next, you know, who's next as president? Who do they put in? Is it somebody like Cash Patel, or is it somebody who turns into Christopher Wray and does exactly what the FBI didn't need, which is turn it more into a swampy, and secretive and just bureaucratically run agency that he was happy to oversee and now run out of D.C. before the Republicans come in and before President Trump comes back to fire him. So I do think they could be useful in the sense of advisers. you know, how did this happen to you so that we can prevent this from happening to people in the future? So the idea itself, I think, is a good idea. And I think people like Kash Patel would be open to listening and hearing from those individuals who have gone through that process, because when they're trying to clean up the FBI, they're going to be looking for whistleblowers to come to them. And if those people aren't protected by law and you can treat them differently as the FBI, which is how the law stands right now, then it's kind of tough to really encourage people to come forward when you even as the director can't protect them from potential real legal jeopardy like their entire salaries and their lives and their jobs. So a great point there. It's something that we're going to watch very carefully. We're defending Garrett O'Boyle and others.
SPEAKER 11 :
It'd be interesting to bring those people in also in like an advisory role, you know, somewhere just briefly, you know, a contract or something like that.
SPEAKER 12 :
It doesn't have to be an employee. What happened to you and how did it happen to you So that you had to take on lawsuits because you had a different idea or you wanted to raise your voice as a whistleblower.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I think about Frank Abagnale, who was the master check forger who they made the movie about, and then eventually he went up going to work for the government to help stop...
SPEAKER 12 :
forgery yeah because he was a mastermind at it yeah i mean a lot of his they on the whistleblower front there's not a lot of protection for fbi for certain kinds of whistleblowers and the government utilizes that protection you know to say this is security information so they get put on this unpaid leave so they hold over your head well if you quit we're going to take away your security clearance The money's gone, so you've got to stick with us through your entire review. And if we deem you, if you take us to court maybe and it's imposed or through settlement, that they move on. But yeah, certainly they have a lot to add in a different way now that there will be different leadership at the fbi so it won't just be testifying to a congress who feels for them it'll be also testified talking to and working with the fbi director who who needs more of them to actually clean up the fbi and and and logan i to these points all are these are big big initiatives i want to go back to the campaign in massachusetts because uh just to let people know you know we it putting the ads together figuring out where to place them and tell them how we got to that five hundred thousand dollar number
SPEAKER 11 :
Sure. Yeah. I mean, we've been working intensely with people in Massachusetts, different ad placement companies, the ones that will be happily work with us, by the way. And there are some of these companies and some are our partners like at Salem who were very emotional when we pitched this because they've seen these billboards. They've seen these ads and they're defeated. These pro-life pregnancy resource centers do not have the funds. to go and counter run a counter campaign like this. They don't have the resources to do it. Most of their staffs are volunteers. You know, many are really involved in the personal side of this. These aren't huge organizations. So when they heard about it, they were thrilled and we were able to work with them as well as Groups who specifically work with marketing to people who are in need of resources, pregnancy resources. And how do we talk to them? We don't talk to them with shame. We don't talk to them, you know, with some sort of fire and brimstone. You talk to them to provide hope that they can go in, be heard, listen, be a part of that conversation, be presented with their options, and then hopefully, you know, maybe get an ultrasound. Hopefully they make that choice for life. And you'll see some of the billboards. We can put some of those up that we're working on right now. Planned or not, we can help. Whatever you decide, we're here for you in the pregnancy resource centers. So it's a different kind of message. You've created a life. Help someone else create a family. So obviously that's one that's more aimed towards adoption. And they can do that. No shame, no pressure. Free services for people who care. And of course, this is showing a younger woman and what that would look like. Sacrifice today and shine tomorrow. There's so many great ones that also that are marketed towards professional women. Because you're hearing that a lot. I saw just a disgusting campaign that ran that was specifically, hey, your life's destroyed because you got pregnant. Here's how you can fix it. And it broke my heart. So now we're able to do this incredible counter campaign. It is different. It is interesting. It is not typically what you see from the ACLJ, but that is why it's precisely needed right now. So again, I'm watching the fundraising come in. I'm seeing some of your response and it's amazing so far. Be a part of it. If we can raise that $500,000 today, who knows where we can take this next? And I know that sounds like a lofty number, but there's thousands of people that are watching right now. There's millions that will be listening later on. So I encourage you to go to ACLJ.org or if you want to know more about the campaign, ACLJ.org slash save babies. You can also scan the QR code right now. Do it. We know if you're going to do it right now that you are there to say you support this initiative. So we encourage you to do it right now. The pro-life movement is changing rapidly. We are having to adjust and change as now is moved to the state level. And some of these states have gone so radical that we have to respond correctly.
SPEAKER 12 :
And so, folks, what you do, you go to ACLJ.org today. ACLJ.org or ACLJ.org slash Save Babies. You can use that QR code if you're watching right now. And you donate today, and if we get to that number, we're able to launch the full campaign in Massachusetts. The information is prepared, as Logan said, it's all been put together, and this is to fight back for those pregnancy resource centers. If we can do it in Massachusetts, we can take it to other states where the pro-life viewpoint and these pregnancy resource centers who serve on the front lines of the movement to save lives, are under attack. They really are. And we want to make sure this goes off in Massachusetts and that we can do it in other states. But we've got to have the resources to do this. As Logan said, this is new. It's not something we planned for a year ago that we'd necessarily need to launch as the ACLJ. So donate today at ACLJ.org. Double the impact of that donation. Critical time, ACLJ.org.
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In this episode, professional money manager Bill Gunderson discusses the latest earnings and market movements with co-host Barry Kite. Learn about the impact of Broadcom's significant earnings publication and their role within the evolving tech landscape. The episode further explores Tesla's advances in autonomous driving technology and how AI continues to redefine markets globally. Additionally, discover why leading tech companies are fostering political ties and what this means for the future of innovation.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gunderson Capital Management. Here is professional money manager, Bill Gunderson.
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And welcome to the Friday the 13th edition of the 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. We've had a yo-yo kind of week for sure this week. PPI sends the market higher, or the CPI, then the PPI sends the market lower. And today it's all about Broadcom. big earnings from broadcom they're up 21 right now and that's carrying the nasdaq although the nasdaq was higher starting to give up a bit of its gains it's up 95 that's a half a percent it's at 19 997 right now we've surrendered that 20 000 high but we do have a little bit of uh oomph today from coming along from broadcom the dow is down nine points however the dow continues to be fairly soft the dow's at 43 905 the s&p is up 11 to 6062 the 10-year is uh right now uh Up a little bit. We have had a lot of volatility also this week in the bond market. And we've got Bitcoin right now is, let's see, Bitcoin is up $1,000. to just over $100,000. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, a nationwide fee-based only firm. Here we are on Freaky Friday, and not only is it Freaky Friday, where a lot of times you see the gains in the morning dissipate during the day as we head into the weekend. Kind of seeing that here this morning, but it's also Friday the 13th, so that adds a little bit more of some spookiness to today's market. We were up, you know, more than we are now, but we still are. The NASDAQ is still up. It's mostly Broadcom, A-V-G-O, and that's carrying the chip stocks higher.
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Screaming up today. Hit over $1 trillion for the first time for Broadcom, so congratulations to them. Yes.
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And they always have been on kind of the circle of AI, but in kind of the outer perimeter of the AI circle, not right smack dab in the middle like NVIDIA and ASML and Microsoft, but definitely a player. And I think there must have been some short interest also in Broadcom. It hasn't been... trading all that well. They come along with a blowout report. I think the CEO mentioned AI in the press conference. And up goes the stock carrying the Nasdaq with it. And you've also got Bitcoin holding on to $100,000. It's kind of a risk-on indicator. And the Dow remains soft right now. There's valuation concerns. We had a down day yesterday in the market. You know, on Wednesday, we have this huge update because we have a favorable CPI inflation report. And then yesterday, the market reacted to the unfavorable, just slightly unfavorable, PPI report. And we had a sell-off throughout the day in the market yesterday. The NASDAQ was down 132. It's not gaining back that 132. It's gaining back a percentage of that. The Dow was down 234 yesterday and it's adding on a little bit. We continue to have a lot of toppy looking chart patterns. That is the main pattern in the market right now. I've been drawing a lot of tops. resistance levels that are forming in stocks you know maybe they're a week two weeks four or five days but definitely a leveling off in the market here this past week with up days down days up days down days but uh A few stocks breaking out to the upside, but more stocks than not, 80% to 90% of the stocks are tracing out those number three top patterns, which I'll be emphasizing a lot in the newsletter this week.
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And not a lot of volumes. not a lot of volume this week i was looking at the average volume and some of the uh some of the indices and and certainly has been a lot more volume in those few weeks uh after uh the election and uh than what we've uh you know it's dissipating and my you know i don't have 1200 charts to look at anymore 1300 i'm down to about 800 we're getting back to a more normal level
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The biggest problem the market has right now are valuations. The forward P.E. of the S&P 500 is currently at 22.2, somewhere around there. The NASDAQ's forward P.E. is 35.3. And the Dow is at 20.4. And I've been printing charts each week. I'll do it again this week of where that sits. Those levels sit. You can look at a 10-year chart of these valuation levels we're at. You can see that we're at the upper band. where the market in the past when it's hit this upper band evaluations you've had a pretty good correction so you know there's no guarantees it'll do it again this time but I'm a probabilities kind of guy and the numbers what are the chances of it you know your risk to reward ratio right now it is not very favorable for the investor So anyways, we had Adobe also send the market down yesterday, and today, look how one stock can impact the market. Today you've got Broadcom pretty much propping the market up on its shoulders as Broadcom results bring cheer. Okay, well, we begin around the world. The only world news today of note that concerns the stock market, UK, United Kingdom's economy, shrank 0.1% in October. If you get another negative print on GDP in November, you have an official... recession in place two straight quarters of uh... of uh... you know of contraction with the gdp and they have a record trade deficit which we do also of three point seven billion over there in the u k so i continue to point to weakness weakness in the european markets uh they're backing off they don't look good i do have an inverse position against europe which is doing okay it's up so far since i bought it that's in the uh in the trading portfolio epv is the inverse uh etf on europe i think it has some room to go higher here We shall see. So that's a way to hedge your portfolio. And don't forget that Europe is going to face a tough environment, a very tough trading environment next year with a new regime coming to town and throwing the tariff word all around. Okay, so Broadcom. Here's what they had to say. Broadcom soars as Wall Street sees the possibilities of custom AI revenue ramp. So, you know, look, NVIDIA and ChatGTP are not customized AI. It's pretty much for the public. But maybe Broadcom is going to offer more customers. customized ai solutions for instance if you're in the financial industry if you're in the drug discovery industry uh if you're in the uh you know whatever industry it is uh consumer discretionary retail etc it looks like they'll be able to customize the ai and and go after that kind of business as it kind of spreads out to other areas of the market. There's no question that that would happen at some point in time. And the chief executive, Hawk Tan, said the serviceable addressable market for custom AI accelerators, or XPUs, That's a new term for you. XPUs will be in the range of $60 to $90 billion in 2027 alone. So this is a big market and they're looking to get a foothold in that. I haven't heard a lot of other companies that are in on this. I think Marvell would be another one. but being able to customize that AI more specific to your industry, okay? So anyways, Morgan Stanley Analyst ups his target price after the outlook was seen as a relief. Like I say, the stock has not been trading very well. It's been trading okay, but it needed some kind of a catalyst. It looks like it has one. Their inline quarter and outlook is a relief versus fears of a worse scenario with the longer term AI commentary to add to longer term enthusiasm. They upped their target price by $53 a share. That's pretty good. Fortunately, the stock is gaining most of that already.
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I was going to say, maybe it could mean they were behind the eight ball a little bit in terms of trying to catch back up.
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Well, it's almost hit their target price already. Their target price was $180, then it raised it to $230, and it's currently at $220. There you go. It's up 21%. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks. Now, let's just take a look at Broadcom's valuation. Last time I looked, it met my valuation criteria. It did not meet my momentum criteria. Well, Broadcom was ranked number 230 yesterday out of 4,800 stocks. The stock is up 63.6%. It's had a good year, not counting today's big move. So, you know, I just didn't really like the way Broadcom's been behaving. We've been out of it for maybe six months, something like that. But, well, you can't count these big tech stocks out.
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Yeah, I think we had a decent run, I believe. It was when we were tapering off some chip exposure. I think it was towards maybe the end of July or maybe going into the summertime. Yes, and their sales were up 51%. Wow, that's a huge quarter.
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And their earnings were up 28%. No wonder the stock's up 22.5%. 10 times normal volume and it's a trillion dollar company just like that i've actually uh driven by they think they moved their headquarters they used to have a big facility uh by hollywood park racetrack uh when it was there now it's uh it's the ram stadium sofi stadium and now they're headquartered up in uh palo alto but i mean originally they were singapore they were and they bought broadcom they were a vago technology they bought yeah broadcom to become an american company and so that's kind of the history there but definitely a couple of their bonds too so yes we own a couple bonds of broadcom believe it or not So, you know, I mean, they've been a big winner over the years. What can I say? But they have the chip. The chip stocks themselves have been really soft. For the last, AMD looks horrible. We don't own AMD. We're out of AMD. We got out of AMD some time ago. And maybe it's getting a bump today. But let's just look at the other two big chip stocks I consider.
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I think AMD actually is down a tiny bit today.
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I know. That's just a horrible chart on AMD. And in the meantime, NVIDIA, last time I looked, was up today a little bit. Not much. 21 cents. NVIDIA came to a screeching halt in early October and has been going sideways ever since. I currently have a support line drawn and I have a resistance line drawn. And right now it's trading between those two lines for the last several months. Okay, Trump advisors said to explore consolidating or eliminating bank regulators. I don't know that I would eliminate them. I was around in 2008 and 2009. I saw the crash of 2000, which was the worst one, 2001.
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They could use some regulation.
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They caused a lot of trouble for us in 2008 when Bank of America, they did a shotgun wedding there at Bank of America. You're taking Merrill Lynch. Someone else got another one.
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I think Bank of America was accepting a lot at the time, right? Like Wachovia, wasn't it? Wachovia was back then. They had a lot of those Charlotte banks. It was a tough time in Charlotte during that time.
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Keep an eye on those banks. You can ease up a little bit, but let's keep an eye on those guys. uh now this is big news for tesla okay so the race and that's been one of the stories this past week robo taxis big story because you had one of the major players cruise which is gm's venture into it totally drop out and microsoft wrote off 800 million investment in cruise oh well and they didn't have a stop loss i guess in there And so that leaves kind of down to three, right? Google, Tesla, and this Aurora Innovations, which bought that from Uber. Okay, and I have a story on Uber coming up here in a minute. Tesla is now running big tests in China, and they're adding a new autonomous driving feature in China as their robo-taxi vision progresses. And a lot of people are saying that's the next big catalyst for Tesla. And there's one other one that dropped out, but they never really were in. Apple had a license in California for road, and they totally let that thing lapse. They don't want any part of it.
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And I think they announced that almost a year ago or so, if not more, because the iCar dreams were dashed.
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Yes, okay, so Tesla's hitting a new all-time high. Don't cry for Elon. He's become the richest man of all time, you know, by a numbers point of view. Tesla is up another $11 per share today to $4.28, $4.29 today on this news out of China. on Tesla's advances that they're making with the robo-taxi. In the meantime, with the last few months of the Biden administration, you're down to one month and one week. I think a lot of people are counting the days. Elon Musk discloses that they're demanding a settlement from him. This goes clear back... Ah, Neuralink, it goes back even further than that, where they're demanding money from him to settle this dispute. No, and it was about him acquiring Twitter. Okay. And, uh, you know, I mean, he's become arch enemy number two behind Donald Trump since he acquired Twitter and the SEC has been investigating whether Musk knowingly violated securities law when he delayed disclosing that he was accumulating Twitter in 2022. This allowed him to build a large stake at a lower price. Well, you know what? How much is his stake down? Way down. He paid $42 billion. It's worth about $10 billion is what I've seen recently. So they still want him to settle up and pay up. I think Musk is going to play the delay game for five, six more weeks when a new SEC chairman is coming in and that Gary Gensler will be out the door. So anyways, there's a lot going on over the next six weeks. Now, it's also interesting that these big tech giant CEOs are warming up to the Trump. Well, they better, I guess. It's in their best interest. Amazon and Meta are donating $1 million each to the Trump inauguration. Maybe they'll have robots there. I don't know. As big tech seeks better ties. And then I know that he's meeting with Pichai from Google today. So all of these guys want a seat at the table. And, of course, Bezos is the owner of the Washington Post. who hasn't been very friendly to Trump in the past. And Zuckerberg raised all that money the last four years ago. What was it, $450 million to help defeat Trump and help elect Biden four years ago. Now they're having an about face. We'll be right back with one of Goldman Sachs' top picks for 2025. This might surprise you. 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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Because there's something in the air We've got to get together sooner or later
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, one of the stocks in the news this past week is a top pick for 2025 by Goldman Sachs. I was really surprised to see this because the stock got whacked this past week. I think you can argue that Uber was a big major disruptor. Just ask any New York taxi cab driver in New York City. You don't even see taxi cabs anymore hardly at all. You see Ubers everywhere, however. Uber is named a top pick for 2025 by Goldman Sachs. Which is surprising. The shot of confidence from the firm followed a 15% decline in Uber's share price over the last six weeks. due in part to robotaxi developments. Well, they were part of that GM Cruise effort, and now that's over. But the analyst at Goldman Sachs thinks Uber's risk-to-reward balance is among the most attractive heading into 2025. From a stock selection standpoint, we see the most compelling risk-reward in companies that have lagged A robust market environment, he said. So anyways, you know, I had one follower, listener, email me and say that Uber was a big beneficiary this past year on the federal government moving the immigrants around. Now, I don't know if that's true, but I wouldn't doubt it. Okay. Yes, they flew. We've been to airports where we've seen plane loads of immigrants being moved around and uh the country this past year and uh obviously they got to get to their destinations you know and uh i would not be surprised at all if if they weren't uh using uber to uh well yeah they don't they don't have like we don't have transportation right they didn't didn't drive didn't drive across didn't drive across the border right No, so anyways, there's that. Now, the arguments against Uber, they have a lot of short-term debates going on. Pricing, inflation, it's not cheap to get in an Uber, that's for sure. You've got medium to long-term industry concerns over the impact of autonomous vehicles. I would think that would help Uber myself.
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Potentially help Uber, but hurt their driving base, obviously.
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So anyways, this is one of their top picks. And they have a target price of 96. Uber's at 61 right now. So that's significant. The chart, I will say this about the chart. I have not sold, that's one of the stocks we own in the premier growth large cap portfolio. Because Uber is over 100 billion in market cap. It's $128 billion. It's sitting way down at $60 a share. It was $87 just two months ago. And, you know, I have a good valuation on it. What Uber lacks right now is momentum. In fact, it's in danger of breaking its big support level here. It has a very good support level at $60. We'll see if it holds. Okay, another theme that has not worked out, and I know Kathy Wood was a big investor in the gene editing. I remember a special on 60 Minutes when they had the guy from Hong Kong on, kind of the father of all of this, taking a gene out of your body, taking a cell out of your body. putting it in a test tube, using a computer to change the DNA sequences, and then put it back in the body. So far, that has not really worked out, okay? And a lot of money has been thrown at it. And one of the big players in that is editists. I mean, that's what they do. They edit your DNA in your cells and then replant them in your body. Edited was a $99 stock in 2021. Now it's $1.45. Ouch. That's pretty much terminal, I would think. They're going to cut 65%. Maybe they should buy Bitcoin with what they've got left. 65% of their workforce in a strategy shift. And so the gene editing has not really worked out. I mean, there was a lot of investment taking place in the gene editing companies. CRISPR was the big one. Let's see how CRISPR is doing these days. CRSP, well, it's hanging in there. It's $43, but it's hitting a new 52-week low. It was at one time $220. It's down to $43. I know ARC Funds had a big investment, I think in Editus. So anyways, that's one that you can kind of scratch off that didn't, hasn't worked yet uh needs a needs a big and here's another one i remember when nicola which is the first name of nicola tesla right tesla that's right nikolai tesla nicola came along the guy was real you know when i saw him being interviewed i go this guy's a huckster i can see right through the guy Uh, he's a promoter and a man that stock went way up. Nicola was supposed to, it was the one that ran on water. Uh, and he, uh, faked all of these, uh, you know, downhill, he rolled it downhill. Yeah. Stuff like that. Nikola split adjusted was $2,819 in 2020. And that was the year where you reached the extreme valuations in the market. And we're back up in that territory. And you had all that COVID money splashing around. Nikola has gone from $2,819 to $1.49. The CEO that I smelled the rat on, I think he's in prison. He's serving time of being a huckster and a promoter. And this stock is probably terminal also, struggling to stay afloat. I remember I was in Phoenix a couple years ago and I was driving to a destination and I drove right by the Nikola plant there. And it was pretty sizable, pretty good office building and everything. But it looks to me like it's terminal. And you've got to wonder about a few others. Fisker, you know, went under. You've got to wonder about the next one I think that's in trouble is Lucid. Lucid's got big backing from Amazon and Saudi Arabia. That's probably keeping them afloat. But you can see, you know, we've seen some things go down. They go down and they ride them off. You just ride it off. Now Meta getting in, not only are they donating a hundred million to the Trump inauguration, they're launching an AI model Motivo for humanoid agents. Leave it to Zuckerberg. He still wants us to enter into this metaverse. They will have mind reasoning programs for machine learning, these humanoid agents. And obviously he's taking on not Nikolai, but Tesla, his surname, with the robots. And some people say that that's one of the hottest things that Musk has going are the humanoid robots. Everybody's going to need one at some point in time, he says. Can they detail your car? I don't know. Can they cook dinner? Can they do the dishes? Can they vacuum? Can they do the wood floors? I don't know what they can do, mow the lawns, but maybe we will need some going forward. But don't count out Meta. And by the way, Meta hit a new all-time high yesterday, breaking out. It's pulling back a little bit today, but it's now at $1.57 billion, $1.57 billion, and they're still growing by 20% to 25% per year. Meta is one of the chosen. Few. Many are cold, but few are chosen that end up in our portfolios. Meta is one. And I like, you know, I think this robot, humanoid thing, deliveries. You know, if you're going to drone, I don't know how you're going to get all these deliveries, you know, and packages to your door. But I'm sure the robots maybe are in that. Costco reports earnings last night. It's pretty amazing. That they just continue to come up with products that keeps their growth going, right? I mean, how long has Costco been around? They can't expand their space at all. So now it comes down to innovations within the stores. And, you know, just think of all the things that they've added over the years. You know, fresh seafood, the butcher department, the alcohol, the liquors, and everything. I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on. Costco hitting a new all-time high today, $439 billion. Almost a new all-time high, just $9 away from it. We'll be right back.
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And welcome back to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, as Friday the 13th would have it, the market giving up most of its gains here on this Friday. That's kind of typical. Seems like the traders kind of like to go into the weekend with a neutral position and clear the books, you know, on Fridays. Freaky Fridays, I call them. One stock I want to bring up here. Here's your terminology here, Barry. It is called, let's see here. I just had it. Highly enriched. Where did that go? Anyways, it's, oh, there it is. High assay. low enriched uranium well that's what they've been doing in iran okay enriching uranium and it's a very slow process and right now there's a race on here in the u.s for a potential wave of next generation small modular reactors and they're going to need the enriched uranium as fuel for these things. The uranium fuel currently is enriched up to 5%, but there's some new techniques coming along, including one by ASP Isotopes, ASPI, which is TerraPower-backed, and TerraPower is backed by Bill Gates, they want to make a new HALAU nuclear fuel, which can be made a lot faster. Well, I bet Iran would love to get their hands on that technology. But right now, it's ASP Isotopes, ASPI, that says they can make a much better fuel in a lot less time. Well, it's in the news today because there's a short report out there on the stock. Fuzzy something, fuzzy navel or something, fuzzy panda, that's it, fuzzy panda. And the company is refuting the report and the stock is up 10% today. It went way up to $9.33, okay, after the news that they were in cahoots, kind of connected to Gates, and that they had, this was back during nuclear fever, which has dissipated a little, but it hasn't gone away. I think this is still a very viable long-term investment. In the sudden move, and especially with all these tech guys coming into the Trump administration, I've got to believe that they're going to be pro-nuclear because they're pro-AI. AI needs lots of power. The sun and wind aren't going to do it. Nuclear is by far the next best solution for this.
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Yeah, sounds like a logical conclusion to me, right? You're connecting the dots.
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So this is one of the stocks we own. Now, this is why we call it the incubator portfolio, okay? This is like, okay, we own this stock, but realizing that this is way out there on the horizon, but it also allows opportunity for trading, okay? I had a big gain in this thing. I decided to hang onto it. It had a really bad day about two weeks ago. I got in it at $5.74 per share, and it went clear up to $9.33. In retrospect, I should have sold it. I had a 70% profit there in about three or four weeks. And I decided, yeah, you know, I really like this burgeoning nuclear industry and didn't sell it. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. And now it's back to $4.82 per share. But I think there's something to it, okay? And Fuzzy Panda doesn't agree with me. He's trying to knock the shares down. So anyways, the tug of war goes on between the longs and the shorts. ASPI is up 10.1% today.
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That's what makes the market, right?
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Well, you know, if you're going to delve into trading stock, You're not going to trade Pachter and Gamble and Kimberly-Clark. You have to have volatile stocks. You have to have volatility, stocks that move, high beta types of stocks. I mean, that's about as high beta as it gets, ASPI. They don't know they're going to build the plant. It looks like the plant may be in South Africa where they do this enrichment process. I've got to believe that you'd have to keep that formula top secret because you've got bad actors out there going at enriching uranium, break that pace, which isn't very fast, trying to come up with a devious use of nuclear weapons. So ASPI, one of the players in that whole nuclear space right now. Okay, now I just want to take a look here real quickly at, let's take a look at the S&P 500. I think we're going to end up probably having kind of another soft day in the market. The bias is definitely negative right now, and I would blame valuations. You definitely want to read this week's newsletter as we update the valuations. We had some more earnings reports this week. But, you know, those valuation measures like price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-forward earnings, price-to-cash flow, price-to-book, price-to-sales, those are currently very important. They always have been important. Those are numbers that have guided the market for, you know, ever since the beginning of the market. And yes, we're in a much faster growth period right now with tech innovation happening much quicker. But you still can't deviate too much from those long-term averages as it relates to price to, especially price to earnings. And I'll be updating that just to show you where we're at currently. That's why it's a stock picker's market. I totally agree with that. I mean, you go out there and you buy the S&P 500, you're paying 23 times next year's earnings for it. You go out there and buy QQQ and the NASDAQ, you're paying 35 times. uh... next year's estimates so i'm not a fan right now of etf's that have a broad exposure to very expensive indexes right now okay so if we go to the s&p one stock that's doing well and i read that we're getting one in charleston downtown charleston we're getting a restoration hardware I went to one in Minneapolis, and it had the restaurant on top and everything. It was pretty cool, actually. Like three stories of really nice furniture and then a really upscale restaurant on the top. I think they have 42 of those around the country. Let me take a look there.
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Join Kim Monson in this thought-provoking episode as she and her guests engage in discussions on freedom versus force within the American political landscape. From tackling the challenges posed by bureaucratic governance and the threat to fundamental freedoms, to recognizing the courage of Medal of Honor recipients through their compelling stories. The episode also navigates the thorny issue of educational materials deemed inappropriate for children and the role of parental consent in protecting young minds. Don't miss this enlightening conversation that underscores the battle for truth and clarity in today's media-driven society.
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It's the Kim Munson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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An early childhood taxing district? What on earth is that?
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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I don't think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can't understand that.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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indeed let's have a conversation and welcome to the kim munson show thank you so much for joining us you are each treasured you're valued you have purpose today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history and thank you to the team that's producer joe luke rachel zach echo charlie mike theresa all the people here at crawford broadcasting it is friday producer joe
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Thank goodness it's Friday. It's been a long week.
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We have been working like crazy. We have, after today, we will have recorded seven additional hours, which will be both AVS, America's Veterans Stories, and the shows for Christmas week. We still have some to do next week, but we have, it's been a lot of work, but oh my gosh, the interviews are so awesome, aren't they?
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The stories, the stories have been incredible and just awestrucking.
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Okay. And let's see, this Sunday for America's Veterans Stories is the part one of Carl Leppard, isn't it? I think it is. And Vietnam veteran, and he was in three battles that people don't really know much about. You will not want to miss it. It is this Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m., and then we recorded part two, which I think we'll probably play that in January. Joe, you and I have to work on that scheduling because we've got a lot of great stuff here. And then, let's see, next... I'm getting mixed up on my days. You know what? I'll have to check that. Let me check that, and we'll get back with everybody on that because I may have myself... Telling you the wrong thing. So we'll make sure that we get that. I'll confirm that in the break. In studio with me is my friend Kane. Yes, ma'am. And you are a founder of Task Force Freedom in northern Colorado, caring about our children. I so appreciate you.
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Yes, ma'am. So it's I would encourage people to go to our website, Task Force Freedom, no code dot com. And I have one ask. OK, just simply go click on school districts, then click on the list of books and go in and take a look at the books. Go in and take it. In fact, they're rated. We use the company called Book Looks dot org. They rate these books from one to five. Look at the fours and the fives. The ones are horrible. The fours and fives are 100% triple X material. And so, this is what I would encourage you to do. Go and take a look, read the excerpts. You can see, once you get the list, you'll see the book covers. Click on the book cover. It'll give you another button you can push and you can see excerpts from the book. You can read those. It'll have pictures, illustrations. And then you tell me if that's appropriate for little kids. And then I would encourage you to share. your grandkids, your kids, tell the world this is what's going on. They can take a look and see it for themselves. It is a violation of federal law to give pornographic material to children.
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So, Kane, and we'll get into this, but there are those that are accusing you or those that are trying to prevent this pornographic material being offered to our children as book banners. What would you say to that?
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We have never, ever asked the school districts, the school boards, to ban the books. We've simply said a parent should have the right to decide whether their children can view, read, or look at any pornographic materials. We just say set it aside and require parental approval. It's a parental rights issue. Why these people will not do that, that's very simple. There are school districts around our country that have said, We're gonna isolate the books so that parents can decide if they want their kids to look at pornographic materials. Why the school districts in Colorado refuse to do it, I don't know, you have to ask them. I simply say though, we're gonna hold these people accountable for what they've done to our children. They think that they're gonna skirt the responsibility, they're gonna skirt the laws and not be held accountable for what they've done to these children. There is no statute of limitation on child sexual abuse. So Mr. and Mrs. school board member, librarians, teachers that are providing these materials to children, When you're 90 years old and you're sitting in your diaper in a wheelchair, someone can knock on your door and go, we're going to hold you accountable for what you did to these kids, criminally and civilly. And you're not giving up. Never, ever will I stop protecting these kids. These people, in fact, you go to our website, we have pictures of the school board members. We have their names. And at the very top, it says, never forget what they've done to your children. You can look at their pictures. They're normal looking folks. In fact, I'm sure they're church going and they're happy-go-lucky parents, friends, relatives. It's pure evil what they're allowing to happen to our children.
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Okay, well, we'll talk more about that and what we can do about it. Kane, it's great to have you here, and we've got some other things to chat about, and I did check that. Yes, this Sunday will be part one of Carl Leppard's interview. You will not want to miss it, and that is 3 to 4 p.m. on Sunday on all KLC 560 platforms. It will rebroadcast the next Sunday, 10 to 11 p.m., and then the Saturday after that, 10 to 11 p.m. as well. Let's see here. Check out the website. That's kimmunson.com and sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at all of our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmunson.com and our text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice. And what that means is I buy my airtime, which means I'm an entrepreneur. And all these sponsors and all of your support is what keeps us on the air. But being an independent voice, that means that I have full control of subject selection, our guests. And that doesn't happen very often these days in media. So that's a pretty good deal. And you can hear us on all KLZ 560 platforms. We're on 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 560, or excuse me, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. And we look at these issues, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And under a kind of compassion, so like Mike Johnston, I'll give you an example. Mayor Mike Johnston wanted to be compassionate to all of these people that have come here illegally illegally. and be compassionate because public policy is making housing more and more expensive so to be compassionate he proposed to tax you more in saying that he wants to help these people but you can never give something to one person that you've not taken from somebody else so it's never compassionate to take other people's stuff whether or not it's their rights their property freedom livelihoods opportunities or lives And force can be a weapon, but it can be policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum, the globalist elites, the United Nations, the Colorado State Legislature, Colorado governor. We're going to have to talk about that in just a minute. World Health Organization, land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, and the list goes on and on and on. And we are going to have to reduce that list, Producer Joe. That's what you and I are working on every week. Every day, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, ma'am. It's a critical moment in history, and we've got to work to make it great.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I so appreciate, out of the voice of a 26-year-old, does that not give you a lot of hope?
SPEAKER 12 :
I've talked to him before the show. He's a smart young man.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know he is. I know he is. And remember, my friends, if something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to use force to implement it. On the show, we focus on the issues, not the personalities. We're trying to stay out of all the eighth-grade girl things. political fighting that happens. And we want to just bring the truth to you.
SPEAKER 12 :
And so I'll try to keep the name calling that base.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. We do try to limit that as much as possible. Now, since it is Friday, that means that we will be sharing a quote from the Medal of Honor quote book. And the citations start out with the word conspicuous in it. So I thought, well, let's have conspicuous be our word of the day. It's spelled C-O-N-S-P-I-C-U-O-U-S, conspicuous. And it could be easy to notice or obvious. and uh... noticeable attracting attention unusual remarkable and uh... so the quote of the day comes to us and it's a variation we've heard this quote several different times from great people but this is from charles c Hagemeister, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient born 1946, died 2021 for actions on March 20, 1967. And this is his citation. It says, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in the action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. While conducting combat operations against a hostile force, Hagemeister's platoon suddenly came under heavy attack from three sides by an enemy force occupying well-concealed fortified positions and supported by machine guns and mortars. Seeing two of his comrades seriously wounded in the initial action, Hagemeister unhesitatingly, he didn't stop him, with total disregard for his safety, raced through the deadly hail of enemy fire to provide them medical aid. Upon learning that the platoon leader and several other soldiers had been wounded, Hagemeister continued to brave the withering enemy fire and crawled forward to render life-saving treatment and to offer words of encouragement. Attempting to evacuate the seriously wounded soldiers, he was taken under fire at close range by an enemy sniper. Realizing that the lives of his fellow soldiers depended on his actions, he seized a rifle from a fallen comrade, killed the sniper, three other enemy soldiers who were attempting to encircle his position, and silenced an enemy machine gun that covered the area with deadly fire. Unable to remove the wounded to a less exposed location and aware of the enemy efforts to isolate his unit, he dashed through the fuselage of fire to secure help from a nearby platoon. Returning with help, he placed men in positions to cover his advance as he moved to evacuate the wounded forward of his location. These efforts successfully completed, he then moved to the other flank and evacuated additional wounded men despite the fact that his every move drew fire from the enemy. His repeated heroic and selfless actions at the risk of his life saved the lives of many of his comrades and inspired their actions in repelling the enemy assault. Hagemeister's indomitable courage was in the highest traditions of the armed forces and reflect great credit upon himself. And this is his quote. He said, integrity is when you do the right thing when no one is watching. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 03 :
You like that one?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I'm actually, Cain, I'm emotional about this, very emotional about it. So I'll mention the Center for American Values located in Pueblo. Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because there are four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up there. But as we've been doing these interviews and also been promoting Doyle Glass's book, Swift Sword, we recorded yesterday Dennis Bush, and he has written a book, The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach. And I got the book and I started it last night. But he talked about a young guy, Jimmy Monteef, I think it was. And he was on Omaha Beach and he received the Medal of Honor, but he posthumously because he was killed in those actions. And so we're in this battle of ideas now, Cain. Yeah. I believe we're in our third founding.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, ma'am.
SPEAKER 03 :
And ideas are very important. In fact, it's been attributed to Stalin that ideas are more powerful than guns. We wouldn't let our enemies have guns. Why would we let them have ideas?
SPEAKER 12 :
The ideas and then information matters. It's important that we understand what the media is doing to us, what the politicians, what Hollywood is doing. They've hijacked the truth. And so I love these stories that you tell because it reminds me that, dude, have courage. And I hope people that are listening, they can hear these stories and go, I'm going to stand in the gap with the patriots to protect our children, to protect our country, to protect our future. If we as men and women, if we don't stand in that gap, have courage. It's okay to be afraid. I used to be a police officer. There were many, many days I was terrified. But you still go forward because you're held to a certain standard where you're going to protect the innocent. And so I would just call upon us to stand in the gap. Listen to these stories. These men, they're facing physical, 100% physical harm and death, and they go forward anyway. Now, I do believe with today's environment, with the latest current events, We're facing physical harm and physical damage from the left, from these folks that I call them the Black KKK, the BLM, inciting violence against white people. And so we need to prepare for those things. And at the same time, I've said this since I started Task Force Freedom, speak the truth, period.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 13 :
It's Friday.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. It is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity. by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And I mentioned the Center for American Values, located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And their portraits of valor, over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients, with their quotes is so inspiring. I would highly recommend that over the Christmas break that you take the fam down to Pueblo, Visit the center, and they've got great restaurants on the Riverwalk. It'll just be a great day. That website, for more information, is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. And thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams. That industry cane is under attack. from a bureaucratic standpoint, administratively, legislative, really under attack. But what really is under attack is what I just said, the things that fuel our hopes and dreams, empowers our lives.
SPEAKER 12 :
The American people are under attack from every angle possible. If they're dog catchers, I'm sure that is being manipulated to attack the American people. I didn't know it was such an issue. I've listened to you and Trent. I've talked with Trent Luce a couple times. And I was shocked. I never knew that that was going on in the farming industry, how the government is absolutely controlling everything. So they take my tax dollars. And they turn around, they use that money to fight against us with the policies, with the rules. There are certain laws that they set up that go against the American, against my freedoms, my constitutional rights. We are being under attack by our own government. And the power we have is our voices. Speak the truth. Talk to your neighbors. Tell your neighbors we can replace. Our founding fathers gave us the ability to replace these people by voting. They did that so that we never have another war where we try to kill one another. It's unfortunate because I think we're pretty close to losing that voting, the integrity of voting. I think we're going to get it back. If we don't get it back, get it back, what's left? And so what we need to do is we need to start right now by talking to our neighbors, talking to our friends, talking to the left, to our Democrat. It's coming from a guy that fights them every day. Most of them are misguided. They're misunderstood because they are lied to. I call the media, here comes a name, the teleprompter reading harlots.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sorry, I speak the truth. And so what's worse, me calling them teleprompter reading harlots or them hiding the truth or lying where people get hurt?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think what you're saying is right, is that those that only watch this mainstream media, which truly is mistruths, I guess I'll call it. It's a lie.
SPEAKER 12 :
I can call they misrepresent the truth. They're disingenuous. You can do all those fancy words. They are liars. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
So with that, but if people only watch that, I... talk to friends of mine that say they have family members That just won't listen to anything else. And so I moderated some debates this last election season. And what I noticed was the Democrat, the radical activist Democrat, would always make sure that they parroted what was being said on mainstream media, even though this might be a statehouse debate for a statehouse or local government. And so it's very...
SPEAKER 12 :
It's a coordinated effort.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is a coordinated effort. And those that, as you say, are well-meaning, but they're just, they're not, they have no intellectual curiosity.
SPEAKER 12 :
My mom is a Democrat, and we have some conversation. She listens to CNN. She watches those people.
SPEAKER 07 :
The View?
SPEAKER 12 :
The View. I started to call them a name. Okay. She watches, and so she's, it's like Stockholm syndrome. And it's hard to reach them. I explained the history of the Democrat Party to my mom a few months ago. She had no idea. My mom's a smart lady. It didn't change her mind. There's no reason why anyone should be involved and support the Democrat Party. If you look at what they did to Negroes, American Negroes, there's no reason at all where you should ever support that party. They destroyed us. They killed us. The KKK, they hanged us from trees, Kim. They cut off our genitals and they set us on fire.
SPEAKER 03 :
Isn't that happening now to our children?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, ma'am. I've said this often, in fact, for the last three years. Everything that has happened to the American Negro from the Emancipation Proclamation to today is what they're doing to the American culture, what they consider the white culture. Every single thing that has happened to the American Negro, that is what they're doing to the white culture. They have to destroy this American culture, meaning Primarily, they have to destroy the white male.
SPEAKER 03 :
So speaking of that, as with the America's Veterans stories and as you and I were talking during break, many of these Medal of Honor recipients, 18, 19, 20, 21. So this is our fighting age men. So think about what China's doing with the fentanyl. Getting our kids addicted to drugs, our young men, and destroying them. And I have several families in my life who I care deeply about who have lost a son, a talented, great son, to drug overdoses.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I have a good friend of mine, another radio host, Stephan Tubbs. Okay. And he produced a documentary called Devastated. I would encourage you to check it out. It's probably about an hour and ten minutes. Okay. And it's on YouTube. It's called Devastated, and he covers the fentanyl problem here in Colorado. Okay. It is mind-boggling that our own government, that our government officials are not saying a word about this. Thousands and thousands of young people die every day. They're not trying to die. They're just trying to get high. And they're being destroyed. There's a family that they highlighted in this documentary, both brothers. They died overnight. And so I would encourage you, it's called Devastated by Stephen Tubbs. Okay. I don't know if I can do that. Talk about another radio host on your show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sure, that's fine. Okay. I'm an independent. Yes, ma'am. That can happen. So from a military strategic standpoint. Ultimately, you try to destroy, you try to eliminate the other side's soldiers.
SPEAKER 12 :
Of course. So look what LBJ did back in the 60s. He implemented the social welfare program and went out and told women... Not all black women, but told women, I'm going to give you money for every child you have, but Bubba, your husband, he can't be here. And look at this community now. Prior to the 1960s, 80% of black families had a mom and dad. They had a lot of kids, but they had a mom and dad. Today, it may be 20%. And that's directly involving LBJ. Now, the men failed because they didn't have to take that money. They could have told their wife, I don't care. I'm not leaving my family. So they failed.
SPEAKER 03 :
But the other thing, though, that happened also then, it became more like a... How am I going to say this on the air here? So men then like, wow, well, I can have sex and I don't have to be responsible for the results of that. And I can have sex with different baby mamas and the government will take care of that's exactly what happened.
SPEAKER 12 :
And we cannot, we can look at the government, we can look at what the situation they set up for men, but it still comes down to personal responsibility. Good sir, you didn't have to take that money. Good sir, you didn't have to go out and sleep with four, five, six, seven baby mamas. It's still personal responsibility.
SPEAKER 03 :
But we're not teaching that in our schools.
SPEAKER 12 :
No.
SPEAKER 03 :
And we used to. And with The Greatest Generation, they came out of many of these little two-room school houses. But they came out with these educations of understanding so many different things. I would recommend all of you do a web search for the Saline County, Kansas, 8th grade exam in 1895. Okay. And it explains a lot on why they were the greatest generation.
SPEAKER 12 :
But we also have to understand, all of these things that are happening is because that's what they want. They, as in the government, the deep state, the politicians, they don't want an informed society. They don't want people to be intelligent. So that's why we do this show. They dumb down everything.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. Hooters Restaurants has been a sponsor of the show since before COVID. It was the Kim Munson Show. And Kane is in studio with me. Kane, I will be starting my seventh year of solo broadcasting January 1.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's pretty awesome because that's about the time I moved to Colorado. And I would drive down from Wellington to Commerce City. And I started listening to your show because you played the national anthem.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that's something that Crawford Broadcasting does. And it's a God and country station.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I have to remind the public. This is a true American woman. She stands, faces the flag and puts her right hand over her heart. So you think about that every morning when you hear that song, you know that this amazing lady is standing at attention and facing that flag.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, Kane. Yeah. Okay. So Hooters restaurants, five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great place to get together with friends to watch the games. Great lunch specials Monday through Friday and happy hour. And Kane, we've talked about it this week. Colonel Rutledge. Have you met Colonel Rutledge in person yet? I have not. I would love to meet him. We're going to make that happen. Yeah, I would love to. And he's 96 years young. And talk about intellectual curiosity. He's traveled the world. And he just is a sponge. And he's sharing that with us now, which is so awesome. And we done an interview last year, a couple years ago, regarding John Heisman. He said, Kim, a lot of people don't know who John Heisman is. So we ran that interview the other day. And this young Travis Hunter from University of Colorado who plays both offense and defense is the favorite to win. So he's in New York. That announcement will be tomorrow evening. He's one of three finalists. So that's pretty exciting.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think he's got a really good shot. I think so. He's a great kid. I was listening to Coach Deion Sanders talk about him because he's not only just a great athlete. This guy's got a 4.0 grade point average. No.
SPEAKER 03 :
What an inspiration.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, gosh. Just a really neat kid. Okay. And those should be our examples.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like we should lift those folks up so that the young people can see you too can make it. Maybe not in sports, but what people don't understand about athletes is they spend their entire life honing their skills. And that's if you want to be an engineer, spend your entire life honing that skill. If you want to work in oil and gas, as I do, spend your life honing that skill, and it'll pay off for you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, practice.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so I wish him a lot of great luck on that. I think he'll do well. I hope so. A couple of things else to mention is we did send out our email yesterday. Pam Long brought this to our attention, that down here at Fort Carson— In fact, we have the picture. It's a piece of toast and some lima beans. Our soldiers are not being fed properly at Fort Carson, and the quality of the food is questionable. And yet here we've got an administration that is sending billions of dollars to Ukraine. Biden just promised a billion dollars to Africa, and we can't make sure that our soldiers are fed properly. So we sent a standalone email yesterday. We normally only send one email each week on Sundays. But Zach and I decided to send a standalone so that you had all that information to call these people, our representatives, and the people down at Fort Carson to say, fix this.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
And many of you have responded back and said, you got on it and you did it immediately. I love you all. Thank you for doing that.
SPEAKER 12 :
And if you have politicians, so-called leaders, not willing to stand and protect we the people, get rid of them. I think our memories are short. We forget how horrible some of these people are. And when it comes time to vote, we vote for them again. Never forget, never ever forget what these people continue to do to we the people.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and that's why our election project is so important. Thank you to all of you. We have two lawsuits that are out there regarding our elections here in Colorado. And so that's in this legal back and forth now. And so thank you. One of them is through the United Sovereign Americans team, Marlee Hornick. Give a shout out to Mike Cahoon. I tell you, he's the Colorado director. Amazing guy. And so that lawsuit is out there because Colorado is not even meeting the minimum standards set forth by Congress for our elections. It's a civil rights issue. And so that lawsuit is there. Then the lawsuit through Peter Berneger with Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, we've gone through and looked at voter rolls, and the voter rolls are not clean. And that's what that lawsuit is about. So, Kane, I think, though, the Colorado 2024 election project will be morphing into Reclaim Colorado 2025. We're going to, I think— file another lawsuit because of this BIOS password security breach and fraudulent ballots that got through in Mesa County. So stay tuned. So that means we'll be raising money for that.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm very optimistic about our future. Yeah. I'm very optimistic about the voting issues being corrected. When it is corrected, we will take over our country, 100%. We will. But there's suffering and sacrifice getting to that stage. And I will say it again, never forget what they've done. It's always been, it seems like it's always been just individuals that step up and go, we have to make our politicians do their job. You would think our politicians would be screaming every day down at the Dome of Dummies. They should be screaming every day. I'm sorry. They should be screaming every day. They should be on the news every day talking about how our elections, they're fraud. They're flawed. But they don't. It's people like you. It's just regular folks that say, you're going to enforce the rules. You're going to enforce the law. And what we're going to do, because you're not standing up and leading, we're going to get rid of you.
SPEAKER 03 :
And when you say that, you mean at the ballot box. We want to clarify that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, at the ballot box.
SPEAKER 03 :
Clarify that. Thank you very much. The other thing is, Colorado, I feel, is at the, I don't feel, I know, is the petri dish for all of this questionable stuff. Tip of the spear. That happens on our elections. And so there are things that are legal, but they're not right. And so we are going to work to present legislation to fix that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, this kind of like Jim Crow laws. They were legal.
SPEAKER 03 :
They weren't right. They weren't right. A lot of people don't realize that 15 year olds can pre register to vote in Colorado. It used to be 16 year olds. And this last legislative session. And here I'll give the plug to cut. Colorado Union of Taxpayers. This is my fellow volunteers. And when you see these folks, say thank you to Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Carl Honiger, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Joseph O'Loughlin, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, and Mary Jansen. And these folks review legislation that is scheduled for hearing each week down at the statehouse, takes a position, and we focus on things regarding your pocketbook and property rights. So with this, we have this – we pay for this technology. It's called Bill Track 50. and it will populate all of the bills that are scheduled for hearing for that week. My job as president is to go through all those bills and then determine which ones that I'll present to the board for their review. Then they work all weekend, get back with those positions. I look at it, if we have a majority to take a position, then we will include that in an email that goes to all of the legislators, the governor, and if you'd like to be on that list, Join us. It's only $25. Think about the value you get all these hours for $25, and you can be informed.
SPEAKER 12 :
We have a coordinator on our team that handles that. legislative issues. And so we'll get that person to sign up and follow it because she will organize folks to call in to the Capitol and to go down and protest and that kind of thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that'll be very helpful for her. Yes. And the other great tool is Sue Moore and her group with Liberty Scorecard. They do a great job as well. So, Cain, it always goes too quickly here. I had a few. I do this day in history, and I think it's important because we've got to remember all these people before and things that happened. So I'm going to share just a few things. 1577, Francis Drake set sail from England on an epic three-year circumnavigation of the world aboard the Pelican, later renamed the Golden Hind. Then in 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequoy Indians, recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
SPEAKER 12 :
Interesting. 1774.
SPEAKER 03 :
Paul Revere and Wentworth Cheswell arrived to warn Portsmouth of the approach of British warships. The British are coming. This tragic 1916, an avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol. yeah wow i know that's a wow uh okay 1920 the league of nations establishes the international court of justice in the hague so that's during that whole progressive era and now we see that there's a lot of naughty stuff that comes out of the hague these days yep 1920 that's when women were given the right to vote too as well i don't know i know that but yeah Okay. We'll just let that stay out there.
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Sorry, that was just floating in my head. I love that you do this, and I hope people see this and listen and see that the courage that was required to do this. I think... We're fighting the British again. I think we're Paul Revere's again. It's not a right now, not a physical war, but we're being attacked. And it's by our own government that turned against us that I think I told you I call these people Marxicoms. Marx is communist. They're Marxicoms. They're no longer Democrats. I look at my mom. She's a sweet lady. She's a loving lady. She's a Democrat. She's not a marxicom, though. She is not. But she doesn't know that it's being run by marxicoms. Right.
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She does not know that. To your point, there's a lot of very well-meaning people. And that's why I continue to try to explain that this Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of your grandpa and your grandma. No, it's not. This is something totally different. It's been taken over by radical activists. So several other things. Remember when, well, it used to be that we were going to freeze. The whole earth was going to freeze. This was in the 70s and 80s. And then it was global warming. And now because it's weather, it's climate change. But 1938. Didn't you grow up in Los Angeles?
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I did.
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It freezes at 28 degrees Fahrenheit. That was Los Angeles. 1944, this is during World War II. Japanese kamikaze crashes into the U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138. Now this one, 1964 in El Paso, Texas, LBJ and Mexican President Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting the Rio Grande to reshape the US-Mexico border. I didn't know that.
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No.
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I wonder if they did an environmental study on that.
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I don't think so. I wonder. No, no.
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Okay, two others.
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But the environmental studies are used to, and I'm sure Trent Luce will tell you this, they're used to control us. That's it.
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They are, because industrial solar projects and wind projects, they don't have to go through those. No.
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And why aren't we using nuclear power plants? They're the cleanest thing you can ever use. And they're safe.
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You might have missed the show. Who was it? I can't remember which guest it was. But Gates is now, Bill Gates is very pro-nuclear. Reason is, is because he needs electricity for all of his AI stuff. And I think... Was it Daniel Turner? Okay, thanks, Joe.
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I think I heard that show, and they were talking about using Three Mile Island. Yes. Yeah, activating one, because it's safe. It's safe energy. And it shows you how hypocritical these people are. We have this source of power, and we won't use it. It's the cleanest. In fact, it creates clean water.
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So, yeah. Okay, then.
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Or uses clean water, should I say.
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Then two other things. 1967, San Diego, California, records snow at zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees in eight hours. Again, that's why you need to watch our A Climate Conversation documentary. You can find that at aclimateconversation.com.
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It's Walt Johnson's... So I was raised in the hood in Southern California. Okay. And I don't like the men's words. That's why I'm okay and I feel all right calling them liars. I was talking to my wife last night. I'm like, we just gotta speak the truth. Like even all this transgender stuff, when these people are lying to you, call them liars. When they're trying to make you use terms or believe that the sky is falling, call them liars. You have to point at them. You have to embarrass them. You're a fool. I'm sorry. Is that a bad word? Maybe. But I know when I fought bad guys as a police officer, I didn't say, excuse me, Mr. Sir, would you get on one knee or two knees? Would you lay on your back? I said some horrible things to that person because he was bad. Yeah. And he needed to know that I meant business. These leftists, these marxicoms, they don't know that we mean business because we're so polite and we're so politically correct. I'm not advocating violence. I'm simply saying. As we said in the hood, don't start none, it won't be none.
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Okay, I like it. Okay, I'm going to give one more this day in history. We'll go to break, and then we're going to talk about some other important issues. 1983, we see the highest NBA scoring game. Detroit, 186, defeats Denver with 184 points, three overtimes. Wow. Wow.
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That's insane. And so I have this, I was telling myself, I'm like, well, I'm gonna have some truth bombs. And I'm like, I can't say truth bombs. They're gonna call me a terrorist or something. I call them chocolate drops. So throughout the rest of the segment, I'm gonna have chocolate drops. I have a chocolate drop for the NBA. 75% of them are black. Where's the outrage? Right. You know, diversity, equity, inclusion. Where's the outrage? Fifty percent of the NFL, they're black. Where's the outrage? You know why there's no outrage? Because they're liars. They're using that to try to tell us that we need to have equality and black people or they're being mistreated and what do you call it? discriminated against, they're lying. They have no, not one of them has stood up to say anything about the NBA having 75% of them are Negroes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, because you want the best. And they're really good at that, you know?
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Which should apply to every area of the country. Absolutely. Every single area of the country.
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And not teach these kids that they're victims and oppressors. So we're going to go to break. And Lorne Levy is also going to be in studio here in the second hour. And for everything mortgages, he can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. Do check out the USMC Memorial Foundation website. That is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. My friends, it is important that we honor and remember those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And so make a contribution sometime between now and the end of the year. Kane, my friend, is in studio. He is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. You're very concerned about the issue of our children. And Gammy, one of our callers, listeners, also is. And she had said that she wanted to make a couple of comments when you were on the show. So, Gammy, you've got about a minute and a half. What's on your radar?
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Good morning. Hugs to both of you. All right. This goes in line with everything you guys are saying. And I know people have heard of the American College of Pediatricians. You can Google them. And they did a press release of 17 minutes that is stunning in their complete destruction of transgender medical, chemical procedures, everything, through the conduit of Doctors for Children, okay? That was the group. It's actually Doctors Protecting Children. So you can Google both of those. And they made a statement with hundreds of doctors saying, affirming also that this is nothing but just mutilation of children, sterilization. The word sterilization came. Same drill, you know, about Western civilization being demolished. This is just part and parcel of the methods that are being done. to destroy the women, the young people. This is not a joke. This is for real. And parents are being completely brainwashed in the schools by counselors. In three meetings, they can turn around and put a kid on puberty blockers, which is going to devastate them. But nobody is standing up to the schools and saying, you don't have this right. So all this legislative stuff that you all are talking about, needs to be addressed on a huge national level. And I want to throw in one more caveat. I was on the phone with Rich Guggenheim last night for quite a long time, and he has been made director of legislation for GAG nationally, but they don't have enough funds to send him everywhere he needs to go to speak where people are asking him
SPEAKER 03 :
you know to come speak about it he helped write the amicus brief 56 right right right right right and he was on earlier this week and you're absolutely correct and gammy i thank you she is so informed on all of these issues and and we're lighting a fire she's right it needs to be national but we're lighting a fire here in colorado and it takes a gammy it
SPEAKER 12 :
Justice moves slow, and it's supposed to because when the consequences come down, you want it to be correct. And so it will take time. For decades to come, these issues will be addressed with these folks that cause harm to these kids.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so we're working on that. A couple of other things. I wanted to ask you, Cain, about this whole Daniel Penny case, which he is the Marine veteran that protected people on a subway. And then he was brought up on manslaughter charges.
SPEAKER 12 :
And so I want to start with this. I've been saying for years that the Caucasian culture, the American culture has been under attack and they've been attacking us. the Caucasian male. They went after this young man trying to defend others on the subway. He was just trying to defend them. He put him, this criminal, in a control hold where he held onto him waiting for the police. Now he may have applied pressure and put him to sleep a little bit, but that's part of that process. But look what they did. They started with Mark McCloskey The attorney in St. Louis that stood out in front of his home when BLM was walking on his property, they had to make an example. Hey, you white people, don't you push back. You take it. Kyle Rittenhouse, they tried to put this kid in prison. This kid in prison for defending himself. They called him a racist. He didn't shoot not one American Negro. Not one. Never threatened one. But they classified him as a racist and a bigot. They're saying to you, Caucasian people, you shut up and you take it. This young man, Danny Penny, was protecting innocent men, women, and children, all races. I know. These morons, these KKK black folks, set out and made a statement that you... that you're under attack, that we are going to incite violence against white people. He said that on, why didn't Barack Obama, why didn't the politicians stand up and go, that's a terrorist threat. You can't make comments like that where you want to harm people now because you didn't like the outcome of a legitimate trial.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's remarkable when I say that. It means it's unspeakable. I don't know what else to say about it. Kane, we're out of time. There's other things we wanted to talk about. But we'll do it again. Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Maybe I'll have a couple of chocolate drops in the next seven years.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, sounds great. So our quote for the end of the show, I wanted to go to quotes about bravery or I guess this one isn't about bravery. But this was one with Albert Einstein that just I thought it was important. And he said this. He said, whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. So today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, ma'am. And I forgot to mention, I am a proud American Negro.
SPEAKER 03 :
So Karen Levine, it's great to have you. You are everything residential real estate. And I have some people that I know that you've helped them buy and sell or sell their home and buy a new one. And
SPEAKER 20 :
uh it's impressive what the experience that they've had with you and there's a lot of different moving parts and and thank you it's just pretty great well it was a pleasure truly truly a pleasure and to receive the photo of this beautiful family in front of their new home and the smiles and that's why i love what i do that's why i get up every morning to help people achieve homeownership The dream, the American dream, right? The American dream.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. And it's been a tough market to navigate through, but you help people do that, and that's awesome. You and I have been friends for a long time. We're not saying how long, but a while. But you've been a sponsor of The Kim Munson Show since before, and we're going to be starting our seventh year. So I so thank you for your support.
SPEAKER 20 :
well it has been a pleasure and you know when i made the commitment to join the team and be a sponsor it wasn't about building my business it was about the message and the education you wanted to get out to the listeners about what's happening here in Colorado and in America and I just believed in that mission and I appreciate that I've been able to help listeners with their residential real estate needs and that's just been a bonus ah well thank you and Lauren Levy everything mortgages a new first mortgage second mortgage reverse mortgage and you've been with me since almost day one of the Kim Munson show so I've
SPEAKER 03 :
it's been quite a i remember you sitting there when interest rates you're like well i think you could get an interest rate below three percent remember that absolutely you have been here a while it's been a minute but i remember yeah so and you can help people in 49 of the 50 states just not new york we don't have a lot of people going to new york do we
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Not that I'm aware of.
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No, no. And Jim May, Lavaca Meat Company. Cattleman, it is great to have you here as well. And I love Fridays and the cowboy poem. And so hopefully you've got one for us.
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You know, I always try to make it fun. I got to meet Kane here this morning and been listening to you for a while. You're right on the money on everything that I believe. So, yeah, I can do a quick cowboy poem. I'm sitting here thinking. I was passing out these books, and I didn't really want to read one. And Karen already heard How to Buy a Bra. I thought I wanted to do something funny. Should we do something funny? Okay. Have you heard How to Buy a Bra? I have not. This pertains to – I live – our ranches are in very remote areas up in – like on the Oregon, Idaho, Nevada line, right up in that corner, it's about two hours, two and a half hours to the nearest civilization in terms of a Walmart and stuff like that. And, you know, you got to drive 30 or 40 miles just to get a cup of coffee. So this, I identified with this poem. It's not mine, but I loved it because when you go to town on one of these ranches, you got to have a little list of, Everybody doesn't run into town every day, two and a half hours. So this is how you buy a bra in Nevada. You know, I ain't too much for shopping, nor for even going into town. And except at cattle shipping time, I'm not that easy to be found. But that day came and I had to go. So I left the kids with Ma. But before I left, she asked me, would you pick me up a bra? Without thinking, I said, sure. How tough could that job be? I bent down and kissed her and said, I'll be back by three. Well, I got done the things I needed to. But I started to regret ever saying I would buy that thing. I was working up a sweat. Ha, ha, ha. I went down to that lady's shop with my hat down below my eyes. I didn't want to take a chance on being recognized. I walked up to that sales clerk, and I did not hem nor haw. I told that lady right straight out, ma'am, I am here to buy a bra. Behind me, someone giggles, and I turned around to see that every woman in that store was laughing and pointing right at me. What kind would you be looking for? Well, that made me scratch my head. I'd only seen one kind before. I thought bras was bras, I said. Well, she gave me a disgusted look and said, Mr., that's where you're wrong. Come back here and I'll show you. So, like a dog, I tagged along. She led me down this alley where bras was on display. I thought my jaw would hit the floor when I seen all that lingerie. They had bras of every kind, like I'd never seen before. I thought I'd go plum crazy before I left that woman's store. They had bras that you could wear for 18 hours. And bras that cross your heart. And bras that lift and separate. And that was just a start. They had bras that made you feel like you weren't wearing one at all. And bras that you could train in when you start out when you're small. Well, I finally made my mind up and I picked out a black and lacy one and I told that gal to pack it up and figured I was done. But then she asked me for the size. But I did not hesitate. I looked her right between the eyes and said, she's a six and seven eighths. Six and seven eighths, she said. Oh, that can't be right. Oh, yes, ma'am. I'm sure it is. I measured them last night.
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I thought she'd go into shock. Must have caught her by surprise when I told her that my wife's breast was the same as my hat size.
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It's what I used to measure with, and I do believe it's fair, but if I'm wrong, I'm sorry, ma'am. Well, that just drew another stare. By now, a crowd had gathered, and they was all just cracking up, so I gave the gal my hat so she could measure for the cup. And when she had it figured, I gave that gal her pay. I tipped my hat, turned around, and bid them all a good day. My wife had heard the story long before I got home. She talked to 15 other women that called her on the phone, and she was still laughing when I got there, but by then I didn't care. Now, she don't ask, and I don't shop for no more women's underwear.
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Oh, my gosh. How did I ever... Is that in the book? It is.
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It's in the book. It's not mine. And my wife, she says, now you don't tell them that you didn't write that. I did not write that one. She's pretty well built, but I mean, I don't know about six and seven. So anyway, just for fun, just like to have fun. And Merry Christmas, everybody.
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I come in here on Fridays and just try to put a little levity on what we're doing because it's been a crazy world. But I think we're headed in the right direction now, don't you guys?
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I think we are. I really feel like it. For everything Lavaca Meat Company, be sure and check out their website. That is lavacameat.com. And we're going to go to break. It's hail, hail, the gang's all here. We'll be right back.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. The word of the day is conspicuous. That's C-O-N-S-P-I-C-U-O-U-S. Could be easy to notice or obvious. Attracting attention as by being unusual or remarkable, noticeable. And I chose that word because... friday we share our quote of the day is from the medal of honor quote book from the center for american values and it always starts out with for conspicuous gallantry and i thought conspicuous would be a great word so your challenge is to use conspicuous in a sentence today and i mentioned the center for american values which is located in pueblo And these little Medal of Honor quote books are really special and could be a great Christmas gift. So you can find more information about that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. But this is a quote from Medal of Honor recipient, Charles C. Hagmeister, United States Army, Medal of Honor, born 1946, died 2021. This is for actions taken on March 20, 1967. And he said this, integrity is when you do the right thing when no one is watching. And Kane, founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. Those are the kinds of things that our greatest generation, that they were taught. And that's not being taught in many schools these days.
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It is not because our system is set up to fight against us. And I know people don't want to believe that. I know I sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist. These folks, these government agencies are fighting against us. They're taking our tax dollars and they're fighting against our freedoms, our liberty, our property rights at every angle. So until we start speaking out and telling the truth, speak loud and often.
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And to that point, you mentioned these government agencies. And my hope is with the new Trump administration that we're going to reduce these government agencies. And of course, he has Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, which is the DOJ, or Department of Governmental Efficiency. And Karen, I think we're going to try to start DOJ Colorado and DOJ our cities and our counties. And I was trying to think about how could we reduce the effects of that government, because all of them have gotten too big. And I think with Trump at the federal level, I think that the radical activists are really going to try to push their policies at the local, the county, and the state level. So how can we be effective? We need to cut off these government grants is what I think we need to do. So I've been thinking about that. Any thoughts on that?
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I'm feeling a bit speechless. I think you and I have had these conversations that more public policy is never to the benefit of the consumer. And certainly in home ownership, the added policies, the added requirements that are made on housing have caused prices to go up and taken away the opportunity of choice. And the beauty of America is we have always had choices. And choices were made in the marketplace. And when you control the marketplace or take away that, prices go up. It's an amazing phenomena.
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It is. And I think that they realize what's happening with that. But there's still opportunity. Just give us an update. What's happening in the market? Real estate market now.
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I follow a coaching organization. It's called Buffini and Company. And Brian Buffini does a podcast twice a year. It's called Bold Predictions. And he spoke on Monday. And overall housing sales are the lowest. They're going to close out in 2024. It's the lowest amount of housing we have sold, units of housing we have sold since 1995. um it'll be just shy of four million and his hope is that that will increase he believes there's opportunity in 2025 because of potential new leadership well we are having new leadership and that new leadership will help in the marketplace and that we'll see maybe 4.5 million housing units sold so there's going to be opportunity out there he also believes that interest rates and i'd love lauren to weigh in on that will hover around six moving up and down about a half a percent throughout the year and there was a time in my career where interest rates literally change daily if not hourly and he believes that type a market is gonna return so we want people to reach out to learn who are interested in buying and get themselves pre-approved so that when interest rates start to move downward and it's positive, they can act in the market effectively and be ahead of the competition. And you've been busy. I know you have. I have. It's been a really exciting November and December, and I thank the dear Lord for the opportunity to serve everyone. Actually, several listeners. And we're going to close a transaction today of a lovely woman who we're selling a home of a dear, dear friend of hers who has passed away and who she provided care for over his last years. And this home is a special home to her. He was a special man to her and her family. And we have a lovely family moving into that home. So we're excited.
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And a great way to support the show is to support my sponsors. That's a great way to do that. So, Lauren Levy, I have a question for you because, Lauren Levy, everything mortgages. Let's give your phone number, Karen, before we do that.
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Oh, yes. My phone number is 303-877-7516.
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So, Lauren Levy, Everything Mortgages, in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York, first mortgage, second mortgage, reverse mortgage. And we've talked about, you said you marry the house and date the rate, right? But are there prepayment penalties for people if they've taken out a mortgage and interest rates drop quickly? Are there prepayment penalties if they refinance?
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No, those kind of went away with loans that were called stated income loans we used to have where people could just, you know, if you fit into this category or this, we used to be able to go to a website and let's say someone said they were a doctor and we said they made $150,000. As long as it fit into this area that this website would provide, it would work. You didn't have to show pay stubs. Those types of loans went away, as did the prepayment penalties. So those are no longer a thing.
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Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Unless on some home equity lines and things like that. But for the most part, they're not around anymore. I tell people all the time, the consumer can refinance whenever they want. The people that do their loans for them, like me, usually have a recapture of whatever we were compensated within the first six months. So I tell my people, if you could wait six months and a day, that'd be amazing. But truthfully, they don't have to. So yeah, there's no rules as to when and how often you can do it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so interest rates, where are they right now?
SPEAKER 08 :
They're not quite where Karen was saying. I wish they were. They're in the upper sixes, mid to upper sixes. It's been stubborn. I spend a lot of time educating people the best I can. There's a lot of people that have decided to wait to do things like refinance. You call people and say, look, this is an opportunity right now. I think you should do it because this is where we're at. They're like, well, I think the Fed's going to lower in November and then lower in December, and let's just hold off. But Just because the Fed lowers doesn't always work out well. It doesn't mean mortgage rates come down. Because some people now are looking at it, if the Fed lowers, it could cause inflation to rear its ugly head back. And we're seeing that a little bit. Even today there was some data where some of the prices index were a little higher.
SPEAKER 03 :
But do you not think, I've been watching these headlines on the way out, the old Biden-Harris administration is just doling money out to their cronies like crazy. This is money that they're printing that we don't have. When government prints money, that causes inflation. But it seems like the Fed doesn't seem to have a conversation about that.
SPEAKER 08 :
They have no control over that technically, right? I mean, they don't make money. The Fed, they just buy and sell bonds, you know? they print money though right but the legislative branch is the one that they've tried to control a little bit to be like hey you guys may not want to do this you know you may not want to give out another trillion dollars or yeah think you know they're so careful to not want to step on that toe you know because they want to be independent but There's other factors besides the printing of money. There's some worries right now, and I don't know what's going to come of it. I agree with some of these tariffs that President-elect Trump is talking about, but that could be inflationary as well. Because if we charge tariffs and those prices get just passed on to the consumer, that's inflationary. is all i'm trying to say they haven't been coming down like people thought they might okay okay taking longer okay excuse me lauren i think you mentioned in the past that it's the 10-year bond that dictates what the the rate is what i watch like all the time all day long yeah the reason it's the 10-year u.s treasury is because people like well if i do a 30-year loan why do i follow the 10-year treasury and it's because the majority of people don't stay in their loan for 30 years they refinance at some point to get cash out to put kids through college whatever where they just move and sell their home. No one really stays in it for 30 years anymore like they used to, like our parents maybe. And so it's what they call loosely tied. So if the 10-year treasury goes up, rates go up and vice versa. So I'm looking right now, the 10-year treasury is 435, which when rates were in the sub-3, the 10-year treasury was 0.5.
SPEAKER 03 :
Which is almost zero. That's unhealthy.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, that's not right. That's not a normal market, but... The rates in September, right before the Fed cut in September, were sub 4, you know, 3.63, I think is where it got. And that's when we started seeing rates that were down, you know, back down in the fives. But we're back up now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. But people just need to be in contact with you would be a good idea.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, always. And then when there's opportunity, I would just say to strike. Because back to your point, there are people that I have called six months ago that if they'd gotten that loan, they're like, well, let's just wait. Well, they've missed out on six, seven months now of having a lower rate while they've been waiting for it to go lower.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I'm like, well, we'll just do it again. And there are fees, but I help with the fees with all of my customers as we do repetitive loans. I try not to charge them too many times.
SPEAKER 03 :
And for all of the Kim Munson Show listeners, what do you do?
SPEAKER 08 :
I cover the appraisal for them. So that's a huge cost.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's nice. That's nice. How can people reach you?
SPEAKER 08 :
The best is just call 303-880-8881.
SPEAKER 03 :
And Jim May, everything cattle. And you go, okay, Karen's everything real estate, Lauren's everything mortgages, and you're everything cattle.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I kind of made that up the other day. So my brothers and I, this is a third-generation family business, and our biggest expense is always interest. We have to buy all those cattle, and we have to feed them by the feed. And hang on until we sell them. And then it's just a rolling, you know, on the front end and, of course, on our ranches. And a lot of that is long term bought over time that we. So although we are at almost historic high cattle prices right now, all this interest and the cost of fuel and the cost of labor. And it's all tied together. But doing a lot of things wrong at all at the same time is really put a stranglehold on our economy. And I'm just so cautiously optimistic now to see. I think it's really good that Trump went through this four years ago. And I think what we're seeing in the last month or two is like, OK, he's. He's putting some people in there that can hold their place. They're smart. They're people like Elon Musk and Ramaswamy, the people that they're not even going to take any money for it. They don't need any money, right? And that's cool because they're just giving their service back to a country that gave them so much. And I think that's the best repayment we can have. I'm really excited about most of the people that are going in there. Homan on the border, that guy – you can't you can't fire him now that's just an appointment and he's gonna be tough and i hey 75 of my workforce is latino i love immigration in terms of getting those people in here and doing it right i hope we i hope we have a lot of doors in the wall that we can get them but we can't just let everybody walk in here you can see what's happening the crime and the uh it's just killing our And you think about it, we give a cell phone and maybe a $300 a night hotel room to people that have broken our laws. And it just, as an old cowboy sitting there, I'm like, man, you are rewarding people that are tearing us up.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think there's, I heard this morning, there's Ironland down there on the border and Biden's trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar. That's our steal. Our taxes paid for all that. And he has no right really to go do that. He's breaking our country. He's hurting us again. And so many of his policies have, in my opinion. But I tell my kids when they're fairly young, I say, Economy 101 is if you took people 200 years ago, now it's almost been 250, but just came over here with their shirts on their backs. And in the span of less than 200 years, we became the most powerful country in the world. Kingdoms like England and everything over there, they had bigger – some of these people had kings for 4,000 years. And in 200 years, we became the powerhouse of the world. And that's important to think about. That's how good our capitalist system is, if you can leave it alone and don't foul it up too bad. And I'm hoping that Trump's going to get back to –
SPEAKER 03 :
doing some of the things that make sense i think he's a businessman and i think that's exactly what we need right now there's a lot of truth in that jim make we're from the same yeah area my dad would say things like that as well and and dad isms all the time so i appreciate that kane we're going to go to break here in just a minute but any comments on on this particular segment
SPEAKER 12 :
First of all, I love your poem. Thank you. If I can say this just real quick, I'd like to clarify. When I say white people are under attack, I like to be able to prove it, okay? And so if we look at the examples I just gave with Rittenhouse, with Penny, with McCloskey. In the first. In the first segment, yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
First hour, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's happening all over the country. But let's compare it to what happens in the black community. I'm gonna tell a couple names. Cash Gernon, G-E-R-N-O-N, four year old child was stabbed to death four years ago by a negro. You don't know the name because the media won't cover it. Jaslyn Adams, seven years old, out of Chicago, was targeted and killed sitting in a car in the passenger seat sitting in a McDonald's drive-thru. Why aren't they talking about this? Why aren't they talking about the three men that shot this child, targeted this child, killed her and her dad? So we contrast that with every time a Caucasian person chokes, shoots a person who needs to be shot or choked, it makes the news. It's all over the country. Politicians are demanding. And then we have 200 American Negroes killed every single week. A plane full of Negroes go down and are killed every week by whom, Cain? Other Negroes. And nobody says a word. It's an outrage. That is done on purpose. Jim, they want to divide us. They don't want a city slicker and a cowboy to ever join hands and go, we're going to take back our country. And so I would challenge you, the name is Jocelyn Adams, you can Google the name, Jocelyn Adams death, you'll see the picture of this cutest little girl, and then Cash Gernon, G-E-R-N-O-N, death. Look it up, in fact we're probably gonna start a website that A loving memory of these victims that have been killed, these men, women, and children, innocent victims, where people can go to the site and learn about them because no one talks about these innocent babies.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. In studio with me is Kane, founder of... Task Force Freedom, Northern Colorado, Karen Levine, Remax Realtor, Lauren Levy, Everything Mortgages, and Cattleman with Lavaca Meat Company, Jim May. A couple of things here. First of all, I did want to make sure that I mentioned the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team as well. Roger's been in business for 48 years, taking care of his clients and his family and giving back to the community, and give them a call for a complimentary appointment. That's 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there. I had mentioned this, and Pam Long brought this to our attention, and she was our guest yesterday, and her essay, The Best and the Worst of Colorado Politics 2024, will publish this weekend today. But our soldiers at Fort Carson, apparently the reports are food is scarce and the quality is crummy. So Zach and I decided that we wanted to do a standalone email that went out yesterday. So if you're on our email list, that's in your inbox with all these different representatives and people down at Fort Carson to reach out and say, Fix this. This is not okay. And the picture was a piece of toast and some lima beans. And the most vulnerable are the youngest soldiers who may not have transportation to get off the base. And money is deducted from what they're paid to pay for this. And so be sure and reach out. And I want to say thank you to Connie. She texted me and said that she said, I emailed my letters about Fort Carson last night before going to sleep. And I know Gammy, she was on it, of course.
SPEAKER 01 :
For sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
She was on it. And many of you have reached out. So we need to be loud on this for sure. And let's see here. I wanted to ask you, Cain, I want to talk a little bit more about Daniel Penny. And you mentioned BLM, and that's not the Bureau of Land Management, Jim May, but BLM, Black Lives Matter. They destroyed, the thing about it was in the Summer of Love, they destroyed not just white businesses, but all businesses, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
They did, and it's interesting because when they go into these areas and they attack predominantly white people, they're not asking them their affiliation. They're not, are you a Democrat? Because if you are, we're gonna go next door. No, they're there to create chaos and to divide us. These are horrible, horrible, let me ask you this. How many people denounced these two fools that stood up there and was inciting violence against American citizens? Tell me one politician, Barack Obama, Barry Satoru, whatever his name is, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the black cock ass.
SPEAKER 07 :
How many, did I say it wrong?
SPEAKER 12 :
The black caucus. I'm just wondering, can we say that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you need to dump that?
SPEAKER 12 :
We'll leave that up to the FCC.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
I said it wrong? Okay, maybe so. Where do they stand up and go, what are you doing? Shut your pie hole. You cannot, that's a terrorist threat. A police officer is obligated to go on that stage and put that person in handcuffs. Okay. Okay, so he has activated people throughout the country that are going to go out and harm folks. His words, his rhetoric. Who is this? So there were two BLM leaders that were on the podium outside of the courthouse during the... Transgender thing? No, this is during the Penny case. Oh, okay. During the Penny case and calling for violence because the system worked. This young man was found innocent and he didn't like it. And so he's activating people to go out and commit violence against Americans because of this young man who defended himself and others.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I used to go back. I used to be in the ladies clothing business. I used to go back to New York four times a year for each of the seasons. end up on the subway. I didn't like the subway. I didn't like it that much. I did like going down and then getting into this car, this train car, and something happened, it'd be difficult to get out, and there were people that And we're kind of saying some weird stuff. And so I didn't really like it. And so if I was in a situation where this Jordan Neely was making all of these threats, I know that right now, even as I talk about it, I'm getting a knot in my stomach. For somebody to step up and protect us, to be a protector.
SPEAKER 12 :
That car was full of men, women, children, all races, women. one guy one guy stepped up and goes he's gonna kill someone and i'm gonna stop him and you know what he said the other day after him he was found innocent i'd do it again oh my god do it again right now he goes we are obligated to protect the innocent i'd do it again i'd suffer i he's gonna suffer for decades to come behind this i'd suffer again to protect the innocent we as American citizens need to follow that young man. Now, let me say this. A friend of mine received a threat. He sent it to me last night. Some moron, I'm gonna say his name, is saying, I'm gonna find out where you live, and I'm gonna come to your house. And he said, I've already arranged for bail. And I said, that's hilarious, because he believes that he's going to go to jail. Well, you know... Right, Taz? Right, Taz? I know you hear me, girl. He believes he's going to jail. I know her husband. He's not going to jail. You cannot make those kind of threats. You don't ever want to show up to a defender's home threatening to harm him and his family. This person doesn't understand. He's a fool. He doesn't understand what he's doing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you know... What I've seen, and actually I had, Kurt Gerwitz is on the show regularly. And right after the election, he said, Kim, I wanted to listen to the show because I wanted to, after Trump had won, to hear you kind of gloat or something. I'm like, no gloating here. I said, we have work to do. And we need to work to come together. And, you know, spiking the ball in front is not gonna be bringing us together. So we need to bring each other together.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think that's important, Kim, that we do. We come together with the left, the right, the middle. We come together as American citizens. However, When individuals threaten your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness and your property rights, you have every right to defend yourself. And we have to understand and recognize when a person says, I'm going to come and get you, you need to prepare for their arrival. That's all I'm saying.
SPEAKER 03 :
So, well, I think we'll go to break. And I kind of got my breaks mixed up this last time around. And we have in studio Kane, founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, Karen Levine, Remax Alliance, Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages, and Cattleman Jim May. And I think I'll get this right. Now, we don't have John Bosen here. But if you have been injured, be sure and reach out as soon as possible to Bosen Law.
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SPEAKER 03 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. something's a good idea. You shouldn't have to force people to do it. And sometime between now and the end of the year, you can make a tax-deductible donation to the USMC Memorial Foundation. And I think it's really important that we continue to support this organization that remembers and honors those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. The text line is 720-605-0647. And Karen, we've got a question for you, and I think it goes to Lauren as well. How much has government housing taken away sales in the private sector?
SPEAKER 20 :
I think that's a really valuable question. And if we look over the last three to five years and the activity in the marketplace with interest rates that were held artificially low, that got a lot of activity into the marketplace. But what we saw was equity firms coming into our communities and because they were able to pay cash, that looked more favorable to a seller. And so equity firms came in and took to many, many communities, suburbs, cities, and bought up an abundant, and I don't have statistics to share with your listener, abundant amount of single family homeownership type units because they put guidelines on that they were going to go to the median price range. and and buy up all those homes which then caused those price of homes to go up because we had less and less inventory and then the average american homeowner home buyer was not able to achieve that dream or they achieved it at a higher cost so yeah it was a domino effect i would say
SPEAKER 03 :
The other dot to connect on that is then those home values go up, and we get rid of Gallagher, the Gallagher Amendment here in Colorado, which had been the guardrails on property taxes. And so the next thing you know is property taxes go up significantly as well, right?
SPEAKER 20 :
Right. And I find it interesting that the one thing Colorado has had in our favor has been Tabor and Gallagher and Bruce, right? All the things that were to... question or hold true those we elected to keep our taxes down, to be thoughtful, and to make good financial decisions on our behalf. And interesting, I think Kane and everyone in this room has alluded to, is that we were sold a bill of goods, that getting rid of those things was a good thing. And I remember when I was not as educated being in rooms when our elected officials, our representatives would come in and tell us that their biggest problem to do anything for us was Tabor. And then one day you talk about connecting dots. I said to myself, wait a minute, the majority of the citizens in our state voted for that. Shouldn't they be upholding it? You think? But they do not and have not. So yeah, the dots continue to get connected. And I think you made an important point also, Kim, which is government subsidies in the rental arena allowed developers to come in with more favorable financing to build rental units, not homeownership units. And then you... Add to that the layer of construction defects, which was passed almost 15 years ago, and we have not been able to roll that back either.
SPEAKER 03 :
Curious. Very curious. So Lorne Levy, Everything Mortgages, it was a big aha for me really a few months ago. When I did not realize that government, the federal government, through their financing tools, have made it favorable for these apartments to be built. And so they get favorable financing and also maybe subsidies from local or county or state government. Because I drive up and down the corridor, the I-25 corridor, and I'm like, these help more people. apartments and they look like a lot of them look like soviet style apartments and there's one i just saw it's so ugly but then they painted a picture of flowers or something on the side of it but it's a government has been put a government agency's been pushing this
SPEAKER 08 :
Totally. You and I have been talking about this for years and years and years when I used to say that, you know, Karen mentioned these hedge funds that were buying all these rental properties, and we tried to find evidence, and I would send you articles. It wasn't just BlackRock. It was other ones that were the cash buyers out there that were screwing everything up. And then, yeah, I know from being on the investment side, too, that these apartment complexes get FHA financing, which is lower rates. It's a form of governments picking winners and losers, like you said. Mm-hmm. Builders that are building condos and stuff have to get bank financing, which is normal rates, we'll call it, not reduced and not subsidized. But you mentioned the I-25 corridor. That's totally true. But just drive around anywhere. It seems like anywhere there's an open field or a strip mall has been torn down and all of a sudden there's a huge apartment building going up. It seems crazy. You go up by the airport now or by the Gaylord Hotel. I was out there the other day. I'm like, look at all these apartments going up. It's insane how they're being incentivized to do that rather than build homes.
SPEAKER 20 :
I'm curious, huh, Karen Levine? Yes, it is curious. And what somewhat unrelated, but what came to mind is the other threat that we are seeing nationwide, but particularly here in Colorado, is insurance. And so what's happening is that our homeowners are trying to get their insurance renewed and they're being denied. And without insurance, they can't get financing. And so another roadblock, young lady, first time home buyer called me in tears yesterday. She was in training for a new job opportunity that would better her income and her education and all the things. And She's young and she did not really pay attention to the snail mail that came through her mailbox. And apparently the lender was short $16 in her escrow account to pay her insurance. And so they sent the bill to her. She didn't pay it. Her insurance lapsed. She went to reinstate it and they wouldn't reinstate it for her. And we, because of relationships that I have, went to my insurance person, and we were able to get her insurance at a little bit higher rate. Didn't really, you know, rape her, the rate. It was doable and got her out of this mess. But one of our rental renewals came across this week, and it was 100% increase.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and we've talked with Roger Mangin, State Admin Insurance. In his different interviews, we're trying to explain what's happening with this. And I think all of these things isn't just an accident. I think, Kane, that there are those that are pushing these agendas, Kane.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. And one of the things I have a question about is public housing. I understand that if you want to develop, don't you have to make a percentage of those apartments affordable housing? And whether you agree with that or not, I think the government, that's overreach. Why do I have to negotiate with you to have affordable housing so I can build this business? And it's just continuous government overreach and involved in our lives. And we need to change that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Especially if you want to build condo units, they make a percentage of them be a certain price or lower.
SPEAKER 03 :
And what does that do to people in the elevator when you see each other? It's division. It creates division. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell. Did I yell, Joe?
SPEAKER 03 :
You said your wife said no yelling. She told me not to yell. No yelling. Jim May and your industry, which provides, well, the cattleman, I think is, it's really the picture of the entrepreneur. The cattleman is freedom. And I think that that industry is under attack as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
It is. It is. The one and the 99 thing I always use, and I guess you're from my same background, but one farmer or rancher produces for 99 other people. So we're the 1%. And the things we do have to be done. I I think this is so interesting, your conversation about the real estate and everything. I heard since COVID in Washington, D.C., about 6% of the people now go to an office to work, right? Everybody just calls it in and works at home. And I think Elon and those guys are going to look at that. So we've got how many square feet of massive offices that are just sitting empty? And we're sitting there talking about, well, you know, real estate is so high, this and that and the other. And we're giving out free hotel rooms and taking that away from the other people. And maybe you want to stay in a hotel. We've been so stupid. And what I love what Cain's saying about, I have felt more unification in the last month than I felt in previous four or five years. Yes, sir. And he called himself the unifier Biden did when he came. I'm going to unify. He was the biggest divider that I can ever think of. It almost came. The press was here. Everybody else was over here. And the election showed where we were. We came to our, I think, to our senses, but. I don't know. I live in a business where if you don't get out there and swing it, the cattle don't get fed. It's all in front of you. I respect the people and love the people that work with me. They are hardworking folks. I love my industry. It's a great life and I'm proud to do it. I just hope we get a little bit of that same thing going through our system now. You know, Cain, I've enjoyed you so much and I'm so pleasured to meet you, but I'm thinking back to my childhood or the 70s and 80s when, you know, I think we were really growing together then. I think of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. I think of Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder sitting around playing Ebony and Ivory. And people stopped worrying about what color somebody's skin was. And now it seems to me the most racist people are the ones that... on the other side of it and they're just to dig it to to to stick i think i think i think jim i'm a truth teller i think it started with barack obama yeah i'm sorry our first black president caused some of these problems 100 okay anyway well we're going to do this again next
SPEAKER 03 :
Maybe I'm stepping on toes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Maybe I should shut up.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're so radical, Jim. Cain, thank you. Karen Levine, thank you. Lauren Levy, thank you. Jim May, thank you. Our quote for the end of the show is Albert Einstein, who said this, whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. And today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 05 :
Merry Christmas. And I don't want no one to cry. But tell them if I don't survive, I was born.
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