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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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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How about that? And restoration is up 14% today. It's the biggest winner in the S&P 500. Okay, the offer is still out there for a trade with Bill or watch Bill masterclass on buying and selling on a daily basis for four weeks. Free trial. Go to GundersenCapital.com to set up an appointment with us. 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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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.
SPEAKER 03 :
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?
SPEAKER 12 :
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.
SPEAKER 03 :
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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SPEAKER 03 :
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.
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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.
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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.
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Interesting. 1774.
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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.
SPEAKER 03 :
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?
SPEAKER 12 :
I did.
SPEAKER 03 :
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.
SPEAKER 03 :
I wonder if they did an environmental study on that.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't think so. I wonder. No, no.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, two others.
SPEAKER 12 :
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.
SPEAKER 12 :
And why aren't we using nuclear power plants? They're the cleanest thing you can ever use. And they're safe.
SPEAKER 03 :
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.
SPEAKER 03 :
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.
SPEAKER 12 :
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?
SPEAKER 12 :
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.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, my gosh. How did I ever... Is that in the book? It is.
SPEAKER 10 :
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.
SPEAKER 20 :
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.
SPEAKER 03 :
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.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, yes. My phone number is 303-877-7516.
SPEAKER 03 :
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?
SPEAKER 08 :
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.
SPEAKER 03 :
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 :
Well, and the point is, is the Marxist ideology is to divide us. And we'll talk more about that when we come back. This show comes to you because of our sponsors, Karen Levine, Lauren Levy, La Vaca Meat Company. I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. Bob Boswell was on the studio or on the show yesterday. And then I dropped his little gift off yesterday afternoon. We had a great conversation about that. But Laramie Energy provides this reliable, efficient, affordable and abundant energy source that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams. And so greatly appreciate that. And right now we're also promoting Doyle Glass's book, Swift Sword, which is about some Marines that got pinned down in Vietnam.
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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
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Maybe I'm stepping on toes.
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Maybe I should shut up.
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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.
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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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The views and opinions expressed on KLZ 560 are those of the speaker, commentators, hosts, their guests, and callers. They are not necessarily the views and opinions of Crawford Broadcasting or KLZ management, employees, associates, or advertisers. KLZ 560 is a Crawford Broadcasting God and country station.
If security is more important to you than your freedom, you are misled. Don’t sell your freedom for security. The only security we have is the confidence we have in the grace of God to protect us and to provide for our every need. “My grace is sufficient for thee” (2 Cor 12:9). God has a master plan revealed in His Word. National and personal problems are solved by learning and applying God’s Word. “I would seek unto God and unto God will I commit my cause” (Job 5:8). Soul food, the Word of God, is more important than physical food. As a believer growing to spiritual maturity God will deliver you from imminent danger. “Man is born into trouble” (Job 5:7). This is why you need a FLOT line in your soul.
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The Challenge to America
Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 609 aired on April 29, 2017
Good morning and welcome to The FLOT Line. I'm your host Rick Hughes and for the next few
minutes I'd like to invite you to stay tuned. As usual, 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration,
some education, and we’ll do it all without any type of manipulation because we don't try to con
people. We just simply try to give you accurate information, not some sort of human speculation,
but accurate information that comes from the Word of God, information designed to help you
clarify and identify God's plan for your life. If you can do this, then it’s certainly my prayer you
can orient and adjust to this plan. Thank you for listening to The FLOT Line. I love to hear from
you and you tell me the amazing things that God the Holy Spirit is doing with God’s Word in
your life as I deliver this to you. It's always a great inspiration to me. We continue to pray for
new cities, new venues where we can take our broadcast and see what will happen in other parts
of the country. It's always amazing to see what God does and how He does it. Thank you for
listening to this radio show. We have been covering a lot of different things lately. We covered
the Resurrection quite extensively. Then we have been dealing with how time does not shout, but
it just runs out and we did a couple of shows on that, something that I taught in Houston recently.
Today we want to talk about something that's dear to my heart. We’re living in some pretty
troubled times today. No one really knows what's about to happen in this country. We have all
sorts of threats, both vocal threats and veiled threats from foreign enemies. We have enemies
abroad, we have enemies at home. It seems like the news does everything they can to scare us, to
tell us that we’re going to be in a war, to tell us that we’re going to get nuked, to tell us all of
these things, 24 hours a day news. I think we were better off when we just had news twice a day,
30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes in the evening. Being assaulted with every sort of bad
news you can get, 24 hours a day, sometimes it’s just a little bit too much. Do you ever get this
strange feeling that something terrible is about to happen? I don't have that feeling but I do think
that this nation is in serious trouble. America is hated, you know this. We’re hated across the
globe. We’re hated in North Korea as their dictator threatens to nuke us today. We’re hated in
China. We’re hated in Russia. We’re hated in Cuba. We’re hated in Venezuela. We’re hated in
Iraq. We’re hated in Iran. All of these people seem to want us dead. They all seem to hate
America. We have Muslim terrorists that want to kill us. We have political forces that seek to
control us at every venue. We have religious voices that want to condemn you if you don't live up
to their expectations. Of course your own conscience can assault you from time to time when
you violate the norms and standards in your own soul. The circumstances attack us, people hate
us, and sometimes people that we don't even know hate us because of the color of our skin or
because we’re a Democrat or a Republican. The world is full of hatred and bitterness, in this
country especially. It appears that we have local officials, state officials, as well as federal
officials that are totally divorced from reality and it concerns me. The prisons are so full that
many convicted offenders just get a year or two, slapped on the hand, and let go, sent on down
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the road. I’ll tell you something, we better learn to appreciate the police officer. The police
officer is our last line of defense. You can get on the phone and call a police officer and hopefully
he'll come and help you, he'll come and assist you but when he's gone, we've had it. There's been
an assault on police officers for a long time. You need to pray for these men and women, for the
jobs they do because it's a treacherous, lonely job. Everybody hates the police officer it appears,
and so here we are. Many of us wonder what to do. What's the solution? Do we just sit here and
pray that terrorists don't sneak a nuclear weapon into New York or Los Angeles? Do we just sit
here and pray that our enemies don't decide to take advantage of our confused political scene at
home? The two sides seem to hate each other. Is this president any good, people ask. Will the
next one be any better? Is he going to be better than the last president? What about it? People
really don't know what to think.
The answers are found in the Word of God but you must
know how to find these answers. The solution with our national dilemma begins with God.
He's not a genie in the eight ball. He's not going to pop out of the bottle and help you make
things go away if you push the button. He does have a master plan for each one of us. It is our
responsibility to find this plan, how to understand the plan, where we fit into it. It's called getting
your personal sense of destiny. This is our problem-solving device #6 on the FLOT line of your
soul. God has a viewpoint. This is, what does He want you to think? See, He says in Isaiah 55:8,
“‘My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways’ sayeth the Lord.”
He doesn't
think like we think and He doesn't act like we act. In 2 Corinthians 10:5 we are told to,
“Bring
every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
We can see how thinking can be
arrogant. When we begin to think arrogantly we begin to be disobedient.
God does have a
viewpoint will. He has something that He wants you to think. He says,
“Let this mind be in
you that was also in Christ Jesus”
(Philippians 2:5).
You have to learn how Christ thought.
What He thought is equal to what He did. We have the viewpoint will of God and then the
operational will of God, what He wants me to do. What should I do, what should I not do? How
can I glorify Him? We have the geographical will of God and this means where does He want me
to be? Where does He want me to live? If you do what God wants you to do will you eventually
be where God wants you to be? I hope so because there is a directive will of God. He does have a
direct plan for your life. There is the permissive will of God where He may allow you to go
down the My Way Highway. He will allow you to make your own decisions even though it might
not be His desire but sometimes you're so arrogant you have to learn the hard way. I’ve been
there. I know exactly what I'm talking about. There is finally the overruling will of God and this
is how we know Jesus Christ our Lord controls history. He exercises His sovereign power to stop
Satan or ourselves from altering history and the divine frustration of Satan's desires. You can
read about this in the book of Esther, how Haman sought to kill all the Jews but God overruled.
This is the overruling will of God. So yes, God does have something for you.
God does have a
master plan and this plan is revealed in His Word.
It's our responsibility to find out how to get
in His plan, how to understand the plan, and where we fit into the plan because it is revealed in
His Word. The solution for every problem that we face is there.
National problems, personal
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problems, they're all solved by learning God's Word and applying God's Word into our
lives.
The only way this is ever going to happen is for us to have a hunger to know it. This is
where I get frustrated because I talk to a lot of people and I don't find a whole lot of hunger for
God's Word. I find people that are satisfied. They're satisfied going to church. They’re satisfied
doing their Sunday morning nod to God sort of deal, ritual. I don't find many people that are
really very hungry to learn new things, not like you. Those of you that are listening to me, you're
hungry. You’ve been listening for a long time now and many of you are growing and you have
begun to see the need for a well-qualified pastor. Maybe you've contacted me and even gotten
under the ministry of a good pastor. That's my objective by the way, to help you locate that man
so that you can start studying at your home, there at your table, and you can start growing until
God reveals to you exactly where you are to be. You’ve got to start somewhere, it’s like a diet.
My prayer is that you will find that one man that God has equipped that can teach you and feed
you and you can learn and study and grow on a daily basis. Positive volition, hunger for God's
Word, this is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for those of you that are listening to me today that
are saying, “You know Rick, I cannot get enough of it. I want more.” It's kind of like anything
else you do that you really love, you like doing it. Do you really like studying the Bible? Do you
really like sitting down with your Bible and with a notebook and being taught God's Word every
day, do you like this? If you do, you're the person I'm looking for because you're the person that
has this hunger, this desire, this positive volition. I know people that like to fish and they go
fishing every day. I know people that like to hunt, they go hunting every day. I know people that
like to do certain things and they do it repeatedly, exercise, workout, ride their bike, whatever.
Do you have a hunger to study God's Word every day? Because if you don't, you're never going
to grow up. You're never going to get there by just going to church once a week, twice a week.
Until you see the need to start taking in God's Word on a daily basis, you're not going to
grow up.
Job 5:8 says,
“I would seek unto God and unto God will I commit my cause.”
“
I would
seek”
is an expression here in the Hebrew of continuous positive volition toward God's Word. It
is Job continually seeking God's Word. There are several different types of people that I meet
that have some volition. I meet people that have instant inspiration. By this I mean their volition
is weak, it's unstable, but they get temporarily inspired to learn the Bible because of one reason
or another. Something happens in their life. Some disaster, some calamity, some affliction enters
their life and all of a sudden they're all interested in knowing what the Bible has to say because
that's where the answers are. That's the solution to what they face and then something else
happens and these people get easily distracted, they get easily bored, maybe even offended, and
they walk away. They can't stay with it. They have instant inspiration. I'm not looking for people
like this. I've met those kind of people all my life, instant inspiration. They have a kid that's in
trouble, they're in trouble, they’ve got this going on, that going on. “Tell me what I've got to do,”
and I can't tell anybody what to do. I can tell you what the Bible says. Then, once the problem is
solved is there still a hunger there to want to know more? Usually the answer is no. Usually they
move on down the road. There's always that troubled inspiration in times of trouble, when
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marriage problems pop up or financial problems pop up or what we may be facing, national
catastrophe. I was speaking in a church in Greenwood, Mississippi the day that the Muslims
attacked the World Trade Center, the day they flew those airplanes into those buildings and I
watched on television like maybe you did. I even had a daughter in New York City that I was
talking with at the time and it was a tragic thing to see. That night at church, it was packed out
with people. I talked to some other pastors that I know across the country and their congregations
were packed out too. But it didn't take long, maybe a month, maybe less, that the crowds began
to go away and they began to diminish because they had troubled inspiration. A national
catastrophe and they wanted a quick Biblical solution, an easy way out so they didn’t have to
worry or be afraid or get God to make it go away, or God to help us to get even with these
people. The hunger to study, the hunger to grow, the hunger to want to learn has never been
there. They move from one project to another, from one mission trip to another, from one
something to another, and then another catastrophe hits and then it's back to the Bible and then
it's back to whatever they want to do again. There's no real positive volition there. There's no
humility where that person can sit down and be teachable.
You can't learn anything if you're
not humble. Humility is the key to teachability.
A person that has enough humility can open
his Bible and get a notebook and sit down each day and listen to God's Word being taught to him
and not get distracted, not get turned off, not get discouraged, this is the winner believer. This is
the man or woman that has the true positive volition, the true inspiration, the ones who know that
they must get it every day regardless of whatever situation is in their lives. Some of them would
get up an hour early before work just to take in the Word of God, just to put in a DVD, or to turn
on an MP3 and listen. Maybe they'll get up 30 minutes early and maybe they’ll stay up an hour
late at night just so they’ll be sure that they get it. I know people that work out every night. They
won't go to bed until they're sure that they’ve worked out, until they’ve done their exercise
routine, until they've done their walking. They're not going to go to bed until they make sure that
they've done that. When it comes to making sure that you feed on God's Word, is there the same
motivation? You see, soul food is Bible doctrine. That's the food for your soul. It's the Word of
God.
Soul food is more important than physical food.
The Bible tells us in Matthew 4:4,
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God.”
This
is soul food. And by the way, Satan, 1 Peter 5:8 says something about what he likes to eat. Did
you know this? Satan wants to devour you.
“He goes around seeking whom he can devour.”
This
means to swallow up and here's a little gross thought, but it’s a true thought. People that buy into
Satan's plan, who reject the gospel of Jesus Christ, are swallowed up by Satan or eaten by Satan,
they wind up being a big pile of satanic poop at the Great White Throne of Judgment. Did you
hear me? That's right, I said a big pile of satanic poop at the Great White Throne of Judgment.
This is a pretty literal interpretation but that’s what it is.
You will be eaten alive by Satan when
you don't receive the truth of the Word of God.
If you reject Jesus Christ as your Savior
because of some arrogant notion that God doesn't exist or some arrogant idea that God gave you
a raw deal in life and you turn down Jesus Christ, you get discouraged, you walk away from the
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gospel, you will not walk in the light and receive the Light, this is what you’re going to wind up
being, a big pile of satantic poop at the Great White Throne of Judgment. Think about this. This
is kind of gross and I certainly don't mean to be gross, but I mean to be vivid.
Job said,
“I will
commit my cause to God”
(Job 5:8).
This means I’m going to put it in His hands. It means that
he's going to live by the faith-rest drill, problem-solving device #3. This is yours too. You must
learn how to live the problem-solving devices. In Exodus 14:13 Moses said,
“Stand still. Watch
what God is about to do.”
If you’re going to break the sound barrier, you’re going to go about a
million miles an hour through space but if you want to break the faith barrier, you stand still and
watch what God does. Standing on the promises of God, over 7,000 of them in the Bible,
claiming the promises of God, having a relaxed mental attitude, turning it over to the Supreme
Court of Heaven and letting the Lord handle the details. I’m going to put my life in His hands.
I’m going to put my cause in His hands. He said He has great, unsearchable, and marvelous
things He can do. What can God do for you? Why can you have this sort of confidence to put
your life in the Lord's hands? Well, Job 5:9,
“Who does great things, unsearchable and
marvelous things without number.”
This simply means that God can manufacture something out
of nothing in your life. Out of His essence He provides a wonderful plan of grace, a free plan for
you and I to have fellowship with Him so that we can be brought into His Kingdom by faith
alone in Christ alone, He provides every need that we have, every solution to any dilemma that
we have. He might not make it go away but He will equip you to endure the test. This is what
Paul discovered in 2 Corinthians 12:7 when he had a thorn in the flesh, and he kept asking God
to make it go away and the Lord finally said no.
“My grace is sufficient for thee”
(2 Corinthians
12:9). This thorn was a type of teaching aid. It was the thing that kept him humble.
God may
introduce some humility into your life so He can teach you something also.
In Job 5:19 there
is a promise,
“He will deliver you in six troubles, yea, even in seven no evil will touch you.”
This
means to rescue you, deliver you from imminent danger. The danger we face in this country, a lot
of people freak out. A lot of people are going to bed scared tonight and afraid something might
happen or maybe life as we know it is not going to be the same way tomorrow. God will deliver
you.
As a mature believer, as a member of His pivot, a winner believer who is growing
spiritually, taking in His Word on a consistent basis, He will deliver you from imminent
danger.
This means He will cause you to be rescued.
“He will deliver you in six troubles, yea,
even in seven no evil will touch you.”
You are born into trouble, Job 5:7,
“Yet man is born into
trouble even as sparks fly upward.”
Your life and my life is a life of trouble. There is economic
disaster. There is warfare or military catastrophe, social disaster, death, weather-related disaster.
Everywhere we turn, there's trouble. By using your FLOT line, by using the Word of God
you can stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside sources of
stress.
I mean adversity, that's inevitable. According to Job 5:7, we’re born into trouble and yet
stress is optional. Economic catastrophe, yes.
“In famine He will deliver you from death”
(Job
5:20). I mean when Moses wrote it, we’re talking about an agricultural economy, famine meant
starvation because of no food. Today we live in a little bit of a different economy. Famine could
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be depression or recession or economic disaster. We don't base our wealth on agriculture. We
need the food to eat. Why would God cause a hardship to fall on America? Why would God
allow something like this to happen? Well, there are several reasons.
Job 5:17 says,
“Happy is
the man whom God correcteth.”
Divine discipline is a wonderful thing.
We don’t like it. We
don't want to hurt. We don't want it, but it brings us to a point of humility where we can orient
and adjust to reality. Without divine discipline you will go down the My Way Highway and never
adjust to reality. You will never see yourself as you are. Proverbs 15:10,
“Correction is grievous
to the one that forsaketh the way.”
It's not fun. There is national discipline coming on this
country. We have focused on the gifts and we have thrown the Giver under the bus. We can't talk
about Him in the public venue. We can't tell kids about Him in a school. We can’t even put a
nativity scene on the city hall square. We can't put a copy of the 10 Commandments anywhere,
it's a violation of the code of some goofy sort. We have really thrown God under the bus, haven’t
we? In Proverbs 15:33,
“Respect for the Lord is the instruction of wisdom and before honor there
must be humility.”
America has lost its humility. We are so proud and so arrogant and so self-
righteous. We think we have all the answers and we don't.
We are products of the grace of
God.
If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you have been graced out. You have been given a free
gift by God. Someone you didn't even know died for you, put His life on the cross in your place,
suffered and bled for you, and you didn't earn it, you didn't deserve it, but He did it. Then if
you're a free American it's the same thing again. People you don't know died on foreign
battlefields and foreign arenas. Men and women died for you so you could be free, so you could
live a life of freedom and choice as a free American but some people are doing everything they
can to give it all away in the name of security.
If security is more important to you than your
freedom, you are misled. Don’t sell your freedom for security. The only security we have is
the confidence we have in the grace of God to protect us and to provide for our every need.
Think about this. Pray for your nation. Pray for your leaders. Pray for your men and women in
foreign countries that are standing for you today. Ask God to open our eyes and deliver us before
it's too late. I hope you're listening. I hope you’ll continue to stick with me. Until next week, this
is Rick Hughes saying thank you for listening to The FLOT Line
In this episode, join John and Richard as they delve into the luxurious world of the 2025 Genesis GV80. From its array of high-tech features to the smooth driving experience it offers, the Genesis GV80 challenges the very definition of a large luxury SUV. Discover why this vehicle is garnering attention for providing a lot of car for the money and how it stands out in a competitive market. As Richard passionately recounts his experience behind the wheel, listeners are treated to insights on the vehicle’s incredible features, such as its color-changing interiors, infotainment enhancements, and the advanced suspension system that anticipates and adapts to road conditions. Get the scoop on why this model is a game-changer in the luxury segment, offering exceptional value without compromise.
SPEAKER 01 :
But Richard, you recently drove a 2025 Genesis GV80 3.5 Turbo Prestige all-wheel drive.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, so this is kind of a mouthful, Dad, but yeah, 2025 GV80. There's several different trim levels to choose from, as you know and as some of the listeners know. Genesis sort of does it kind of. You sort of buy the trim level, right? There's not necessarily additional add-ons and stuff you do. They're definitely available, but you kind of buy the trim level you want. And you can get this car, Dad, for less than $60,000 if you want to opt for that a little bit smaller engine, the four-cylinder turbocharged, which still works great. Or you can kind of go to the higher end, which is where we were at, which is the V6, twin-turbo V6, I should say, which worked really, really well. Fuel economy, 16 and 22 for an average of 19. And, Dad, the one we had is right up there. This class of car, this not extra-large SUV, but I'm still going to call it a large SUV, right? This larger size SUV class SUV. that doesn't necessarily have the third row, but got plenty of room in the second row, is becoming a very, very competitive class, especially in the luxury segment, which is where this Genesis is meant to be. And at $81,000, you would expect that. And some of you listeners are going, Richard and John, $81,000. What I would say, folks, is look at some other competitors. And for a car similarly equipped, you're going to be $10,000, even $20,000 higher for a very similarly equipped car. So what has Genesis done, Dad? Well, they introduced this car, let me see here, back in 2021, kind of the first GV80 generation. So this year, not a whole lot's changed. Some subtle exterior changes, enhancements, whatever you want to say it. And the instrument cluster is now one nice big 27-inch display. It's got a lot of the creature comforts that you would expect on a vehicle of this price point in size. Massaging front seats, heated and cooled. You've got heated seats in the back. I think you've even got cooled seats in the second row. This one, Dad, was outfitted not with the third row seats, but sort of with the... I'm going to call it, and I'm probably going to butcher it, so my apologies, Genesis. I'm going to call it the chauffeur's second row. And what I mean by that is basically the second row is more of a... Well, it's more of a you can have it as a chauffeur car, right? If you're an executive, you want someone to drive you around, it's got the ability to do that because the second row passenger can actually move forward the front passenger seat if they desire, give them some more legroom. They can actually recline those seats a little bit. It's got your color-changing interior. It's got a fragrance dispenser in it. I could go on and on, Dad, about the list of technology in it. But Genesis has done that, and you see this badge, and honestly, Dad, you see this car, and I'll say it, even at $80,000, you think this car's worth a lot more money than that. And they've done a phenomenal job at it. They really have some cool tech, Dad, and you can sort of speak to this as far as suspension-wise goes to where it actually has cameras. that search the road in front of you and find, basically, find potholes, whatever it might be, and essentially prepare the suspension for said environment, right, that it's getting ready to go over. So, yeah, so maybe the right side is going to go over a bump Well, it can actually anticipate that, have the suspension system plan for that just on the right side and keep you going as smoothly as you can. And I will say this, Dad, driving down the road in this car, it is smooth, it is quiet, and it's just something that you get in this car and you feel luxurious. It's even got this mood, Dad, or this mode where it sets the mood or kind of lets you be in this zen mode where you can sit in the car and it can massage you and it plays this relaxing music. So you can just kind of You know, veg out for a second, to be honest with you. So it's a really cool vehicle. You've driven some Genesis over the years, and they've honestly kind of, they tend to impress every time you get in them, don't they?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, you know, Genesis is a brand that for a lot of folks, and they're becoming more and more popular because you get a lot of car for the money. And I've said it numerous times, you know, you're going to go spend in a lot of cases, you know, depending upon the model of Genesis and so on and what you're competing against. But anywhere from... $20,000 to $50,000 more to go find another like luxury vehicle like the one you're looking at on the Genesis side. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. That's how much of a better value they are than some of the other vehicles that are on the road. And for those that are listening, yes, Hyundai is... the parent company, but there is no other Hyundai Kia that matches what Genesis is doing. It literally is its own line. It's a lot like what some of the other luxury car makers do that are out there as well. So, no, it is not like the other sister companies that are there underneath the Hyundai brand or the Hyundai label, if you would. Richard, Genesis is its own deal, if you would, and they build a very nice luxury car for a very great value.
SPEAKER 02 :
They do. And the other thing is, as we've talked about this before, they are willing to stand behind it in terms of their warranty, right? Right. unlimited mile anti-perforation warranty this is on top of some complimentary rate maintenance and some service valet that that you get by buying the genesis which like you said is in is in direct competition to some of the other manufacturers right some of the other luxury brands right that are kind of doing some of that so overall that i i was i was pleased with it like you say business is getting to the end of the year i don't know if it's necessarily you know fits your requirements, whatever you're looking to do. But I would strongly encourage you, if you're looking for a large luxury SUV or whatever you want to refer to it as, right, enough for four full-size adults without any issues at all, I would encourage folks, head to your local Genesis dealer, test drive it, get out and experience this car. And if it's been a while since you have, I really encourage you to do that because I think you'll be really happy. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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Join John Rush and guest Leighton Gray as they unpack the controversy surrounding Canadian gun confiscation and its relevance to American listeners. From Canada's significant firearm restrictions to its paradoxical role in arming nations abroad, this episode navigates through the complexity of international politics and domestic policies. Through a detailed discussion, they uncover the deeper societal changes at play, including the erosion of private property rights and the rise of totalitarian tendencies. Listen in to understand the geopolitical threats, the media's portrayal of firearm-related incidents, and the real impact of policy decisions on law-abiding citizens. This episode challenges the narratives and explores the connection between gun ownership and societal freedom.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for listening today. And I didn't get a chance at the top of the hour, 3 o'clock hour, to do this. I'll do the question of the day here momentarily. But don't forget, we are looking for Christmas Day. We will play Christmas songs on Christmas Day. Another thing we're looking for, nominations of, you can send us either email, email them to me, or you can text me, either one, doesn't matter. On Christmas Eve, Charlie and I have decided that we're going to play a compilation of musings or stories, things like maybe Paul Harvey have done or things along those lines. So in other words, we want to keep them within about four to five minutes long at most. But maybe some things that you've seen on the Internet, YouTube, whatever, places where you're like, hey, yeah, that would be a fun thing to have, you know, to listen to along with some other things. And it could be serious, could be heartwarming, could be funny. You name it. We'll put a compilation of those things together. We need a couple of hours worth of that. So the way this would work is because we do things kind of in, you know, 13 to 15 minute segments. If you can come up with a few of those, we really need about, let's see, roughly 3, 6, 9, 12. So we need about 24 of those. A little more, a little less, doesn't matter. We can always make that work. But if you have one of those that's a favorite and you'd like to hear it played on Christmas Eve, please let us know and we'll add it to the list for that particular day. And again, text line 307. Or you can send me an email. And I'll get those to Charlie, and we'll make that happen for Christmas Eve. Leighton Gray joining us now. Leighton, welcome. How are you? I should say welcome back, Leighton. Always a joy having you, a host of the Gray Matter podcast, Europe and Canada. And what I'm reading in front of me is, and I knew this, Canada bans more types of firearms than probably, well, definitely than what the U.S. does. But yet, you guys are going to donate a bunch of guns to Ukraine. How ironic.
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Yeah, it really is insanity. I think after the United States, Canada has donated more per capita to the Ukraine war in any other country. And our government has been very interested in gun confiscation going all the way back to 1977 when our current prime minister's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who's sort of like Canada's Woodrow Wilson, he's a rank communist, club of Rome guy, really started a lot of the problems that we're experiencing today. And this gun confiscation has just got more and more serious. And, of course, anybody who's studied the history of gun confiscation, as I have, knows that gun confiscation is right out of the totalitarian government playbook. That's right. All the totalitarian governments of the 20th century, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Nazi Germany to Castro's Cuba, all of them have made gun confiscation fundamental to and disarmament of the citizenry, you know, fundamental to to their plans to really deny human rights and to abuse their citizens. That's what's going on in Canada right now. But what's really idiotic about this, Ted, These are guns that people would use to shoot at ducks and moose.
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Thank you for kind of switching out. I wanted to ask you, because it's been a while since I've had much affiliation with Canada. I had a son-in-law that was up there for a long time. So I, years ago, knew a little bit about the types of guns that Canadians could actually own and a little bit about how all of that worked. But what you're saying is this... ban, I guess you could say, is going even farther than what it's been before. Because in the past, they had to have a specific use, like hunting and things like that. Am I right?
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Yeah, and these guns right now, the ones that they're talking about setting up a use rate, are not weapons of war. In fact, our government talks about something called an assault-style rifle. Well, that actually doesn't exist. There's no such thing as an assault-style rifle. No. But these guns actually are useless in terms of being things that could be used to fight the Russians. Trying to use a duck gun or a .22 caliber or something like that in wartime is ludicrous. And, of course, anybody who knows anything about guns knows this. But the deeper problem that we're experiencing in Canada is, is that we are, and I think Mr. Trump and his new administration realize this, we're descending into communism. We're being made into a CCP client state. And what this is really about, when you look deeper, is really destruction of the concept of private property. And of course, as you know, or you probably do realize, One of the genius things about the Second Amendment in your country is that implicitly it guarantees the right to keep and hold private property. Because what is a gun? A gun is nothing other than a species of private property. And so in guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms in the United States, it guarantees the right to hold private property because we know that everywhere private property exists, so does freedom.
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So when you talk the additional 324 varieties of firearms, and make sure that I'm following this correct, in Canada, if you already owned one of these, do you have to now give it up? Do you turn it into the government? How is that going to work?
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It's a mandatory slash voluntary buyback program. In other words, they expect you to turn in your gun. They price them out at what they think they're worth. and then you have to turn them in. The problem is, there hasn't been a single gun turned in in all of Canada. Nobody's doing it. The province I live in, Alberta, the provincial government, which operates much like state governments do in the United States, has no constitutional authority. One of the things it doesn't have to do is to enforce federal law. Same thing is true in the United States. And so our province has told the federal government, Trudeau, Go pound sand. We're not going to enforce these laws. But really, you know, what we're dealing with, unfortunately, is a deep level of virtue signaling. Canada wants to appear virtuous in the eyes of the world. And they're also really interested in disarming the populace. The problem, though, in Canada is that we have 160% hike in gun violence in the past nine years. And there's actually no connection. I'm sure you realize this. There's no connection between restricting the ability of lawful gun holders to hold firearms and reduction of crime.
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No, actually, it's typically the opposite, as you know.
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Exactly. And the thing is, Canada, the United States, actually are... for children for responsible gun ownership because when you consider how many guns, there's millions of guns just in Canada, I'm sure, probably hundreds of millions of guns in the United States.
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Oh, yeah. Actually, I believe last figures, and this is where it's always a debate as to, you know, how many do we actually have? Because a lot of folks, you know, myself included, nobody knows what I actually have. I mean, I guess they could go back and see how many have been produced and so on. But it's a very vague number, but it's more than our population. Let's just say that.
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Sure. And so if responses to lawful gun violence really were dangerous,
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these countries would be unlivable.
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Right. If what you're saying or what Canada is saying is true or what the liberals say is true, you shouldn't be able to walk anywhere in the U.S. safely.
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No, absolutely not. The irony is, as gun complication has gained steam in Canada, we've had an influx of guns from the United States And most of them are illegal. And then, of course, Canada reciprocates by being a net exporter of fentanyl to the United States. And that's why Mr. Trump is saying to Mr. Trudeau, hey, you've got to do something about this border. or we're going to impose 25 tariffs on you.
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Right. Yeah, no, you and I talked about that here, I believe, last week, or maybe it was a couple of weeks ago. Reality is, and I think a lot of that is saber-rattling from Donald Trump. Will those tariffs actually go in? I highly doubt it. But what he's trying to get done is for you guys and Mexico both to pay more attention to what's happening at the border, which can be very, as you know, can be very lax. Although I will say this when it comes to Canada. It might be lax coming our way, but it's not lax going the other way, is it?
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Well, it isn't. I think you're right about the border, but I think it's deeper than that. The reality is Canada poses a geopolitical threat to the safety and security of the United States for the first time maybe since 1812 because of the kind of control and infiltration that the CCP has, and not only in our government, but in all of our systems. And I think when Mr. Trudeau was summoned down to Mar-a-Lago recently, I think he got told that. I think he got told that the Communist Party in Canada is over, and you're seeing this from other members of Mr. Trump's cabinet, J.D. Vance, um rf key jr tulsi gabbard that elon musk they're all i mean the level of trolling that donald trump has done with our prime ministers just it's hilarious but it's got people up here you know especially in government are really really concerned because for the first time in a long time the united states is going to pay a lot of attention to the domestic politics of canada i think it's out of necessity
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I can't disagree with that at all. Okay, how do folks follow you, Leighton? How do they listen to the podcast and follow you?
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Well, the podcast is everywhere you'll find podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, Apple. But the best way to find us and follow our content is on our X page, at graymatterconvo. That's the only platform that Trudeau has not been able to successfully censor in our country yet. So we're going to keep plugging away. But, you know, my next interview with you might be from jail.
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Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Well, let's hope not.
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Yeah, well, thanks for having me on.
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Oh, you're very welcome, and we will follow you. In fact, I'm clicking that right now to make that happen, and we'll get other folks to do the same. Leighton, it's always a joy having you. Appreciate you very much. Happy Christmas. You bet. Happy Christmas to you as well. Have a great rest of your day. Hi-Fi Plumbing and Electrical is next. And again, you may want something upgraded. You want to make a change. Maybe you've got a leak or you've got a drain that's not doing what it needs to. And as we head into the holiday season, make sure that you're all dialed in across the board. Hi-Fi Plumbing and Electrical, 877-WE-HI-5.
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All right, question of the day from yesterday. Who made this statement? I came in with Haley's Comet, and I expect to go out with it. That would be Mark Twain. Today's impossible question of the day. Why do books smell? Why do books smell? Any ideas, Charlie? Good answer. So Charlie just got it right. So those of you that can't hear Charlie, you'll have to answer that on your own. Go to the Facebook page and answer it there. And again, I want to remind everybody, please, for Christmas Day and for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, we're looking for just your favorite Christmas songs. We'll put a compilation of those together and we'll play those during this three to six. Actually, let's see, that's a Wednesday. So, yeah, the three to six hour that day will actually do that. Now, Christmas Eve. We are looking for just a compilation of things. You could have a short story. It could be something you've heard from Paul Harvey. It could be something you've seen on YouTube or something that somebody sent you. It can be serious. It can be funny. It can be heartwarming. It doesn't matter, but if you've got a three- to five-minute little video that we can – understand by listening to sometimes videos need all of the video to understand what's going on in other cases it doesn't so make it where it can be radio playable as what i should say understandable on the radio i should say and give us what those requests are and i'll get them into charlie and we'll put that together for christmas eve and christmas day okay The shooter of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, and I'm not going to say his name because I don't like giving people that do these things any more credit than what they're already getting or any more publicity, which, side note, there's so many whack jobs out there that are siding with this guy that it's just mind-boggling to me. But we've got individuals like... the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, saying, I have no tolerance, nor should anyone, for one man using an illegal ghost gun to murder someone because he thinks his opinion matters most. He said that at a press conference on Monday. So I have a few answers to Josh Shapiro. This person could have legally bought a gun. Why they chose to make their own, I have no idea. But this particular individual didn't have any kind of a record prior and could have easily bought a gun. OK, so let's just make sure we get that out there. Because, again, Josh is criticizing, quote unquote, ghost guns. And there's now all sorts of press about them. I can get into more of that maybe in the next particular segment. But reality is they're getting a lot of bad press right now. And I'll explain some of what that even means. I think there's a lot of misconceptions when it comes to ghost guns. But he could have legally bought one. The suppressor that he had even on the ghost gun is heavily regulated. you have to, A, they're not cheap, B, you have to have what they call a tax stamp to own one, and the background check to go through is arduous at best. So it takes a lot to make that happen. So my point is, if he legally owned the suppressor, he could have easily owned a gun. So the ghost gun part of this is, frankly, irrelevant. This shows, number one, that gun laws don't work, by the way. And I think the biggest part that the left misses, like Josh, is unless something has changed, and Charlie, correct me if I'm wrong, but is it not illegal in every state in the United States of America to take someone's life? Last I checked, that's kind of one of the number one rules, don't murder someone. This guy did it in cold blood. So regardless of the gun conversation, he did. So as always, the left wants to blame the item rather than the person. Typical. Never fails. Now, I also will go out on a limb, and I think I'm fair to say it this way. If this young man were any other race or was transgender or was probably even a female, would this be getting as much press as it's getting? And would you even be hearing about the quote unquote ghost gun? My gut feeling is probably not. For example, if a young black male had done this, this story is already dead. It's gone. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. It's because it was a young white male from a wealthy family, by the way. In fact, in fact, a wealthy conservative family doesn't mean he was because he was a raging liberal. But it's because of that, I believe he's getting more press than you would otherwise see. Anybody else does this, you know, literally anybody else. In fact, make this a white transgender female or male. I always get mixed up which is which, by the way. Yeah, they. If it was a they-them, you know, transgender female being a man wanting to be a woman and a transgender male that's a female wanting to be a man. If it had been that, this story is done, gone. Overnight, it's gone. They bury it. But because it wasn't, and it's a fairly normal-looking young white male, it's not normal to kill someone, so I'm not going to go that far to say this guy was normal because he's a wackadoodle. He's not normal. You don't take someone else's life and claim to be normal. Ever. Ever. no matter how much of the left is praising this guy for this, it shows you, by the way, the mental illness on the left. I keep saying that because liberalism is a mental illness, and I mean that wholeheartedly. And the proof this week has really come out because the majority of people that are behind this young man and what he did, supporting him in what he did, accusing McDonald's and the workers there of being traitors, yes, they have, for calling the police and outing this guy, shows you the mental illness on the left. And I'm not saying that lightly. I mean that sincerely. There is a deep mental illness on the left because you can't do the things I just said and not be mentally ill, not have a screw loose. Don't tell me it's because of your conviction or it's because of this or it's because of that hogwash. You have a screw loose. I, as a conservative older male, would not be supporting anyone, anywhere, anytime, anyplace that takes someone else's life. Period. As much as there are people I don't like and I don't care for and I may disagree with a thousand percent. It's not OK to take their life. Ever. Now, maybe there is some exceptions. We talked about this a little bit on the podcast where you take a guy like Osama bin Laden. who we took out, okay, there might be some exceptions to what I just said in that regard, where that guy is a mass murderer and killed thousands of Americans and who knows how many else around the world because of the terrorist activities he was in charge of. That's different. You take a lead of one of the cartels in Mexico and all of a sudden that guy is off. Am I going to lose any sleep or shed a tear for that? That's a different situation. And I know some on the left would say, well, that's no different than the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Yeah, there's a huge difference. Huge difference. You cannot put a cartel leader and the head of UnitedHealthcare in the same sentence. I'm sorry. If you do that, you're mentally ill because there is not a comparison there at all. And if you try to make a comparison there, you're mentally ill. You're not thinking straight. You have a screw loose. So those of you that are on that side of the aisle that are thinking what this young man did was OK and you're somehow justifying it because of the way health care in the country works. And we spend an entire hour from three to four with Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House talking about some of those things. And yes, does the health care industry in America need a complete revamp? Absolutely. But keep in mind, those of you that are on the left, Obamacare made it worse, not better, worse. frankly, a lot worse. Look at your premiums. And no, you can't keep your doctor and choose your plan, and it's all hogwash. It was a lie. Obama lied through his teeth. And it's been one of the worst things, in my opinion, outside of legalizing marijuana, it's been one of the worst things to ever happen to America, was Obamacare. did nothing but create more problems in health care than what they were trying to solve. So those of you that are on the left, if you really want to get down to the core of what's wrong with health care, it started with Obamacare. I mean, it started before that, but Obamacare just fueled the fire. Did not help it at all. So please, if you're somebody out there that thinks what this young man did was great, you need a self-check big time because you have a screw loose if you think that's the case. All right, we'll be right back. Golden Eagle Financial is up next. And Al Smith wants to help you with all of your financial needs as we close out 2024 and head into 2025. Give Al a call today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And I said during the last segment I would explain what a ghost gun is because I think there's a lot of misconceptions, number one, around them. Some know exactly what they are. Some just hear the term, and I think they think, wrong about what one actually is. So I'll do my best to explain this. And yes, I'm very knowledgeable when it comes to guns and the like, and I've been around them since I was a wee boy, I guess would be the way to say that. Literally, I've been shooting a firearm since I was... Six, seven years of age, and yeah, before all of you on the left say that was child abuse, no, it wasn't. My dad taught me properly how to handle, use, respect a firearm all through my not only childhood, teen years, and now my adult life as well. And he did a very good job of teaching myself and my brother exactly all of that. So just a side note, no, that wasn't child abuse. In fact, I think a lot of kids would benefit from what I learned as a kid, and you'd have a lot less accidents. if they actually were taught the way I was growing up. So I have very good familiarity, very familiar, I should say, with guns in general. So the other thing you're going to see before I explain what a ghost gun is, is lots of data in the news media as far as how many have been confiscated, how many ghost guns have been confiscated. Now, what I've learned and I believe to be true from what I've read, is the authorities will consider a ghost gun anything without a serial number. So be careful when you see them talk about all these confiscated ghost guns because serial numbers can be removed from production firearms also. It's called a grinder. And some would say, well, why doesn't everybody do that? Well, because nobody wants to ruin their gun. And sometimes you may need that for other things, getting parts and so on. And reality is you don't want to. We're law-abiding gun owners. We don't need to. So also be careful when you look at the data on confiscated ghost guns because they consider a ghost gun an untraceable gun. Everything I've read when it comes to the authorities, FBI and so on, that's kind of their definition. It doesn't necessarily have to be homemade. and you're going to see all sorts of things about homemade, printed, this, that, and the other. I'm going to explain to you the ways that you can actually have a ghost gun. So my point is you're going to see a lot of things in the media and a lot of gun control advocates pushing now this whole ghost gun narrative, and we've got to stop this, we have to end this tomorrow, that sort of stuff. Remember that not every ghost gun is either a printed gun, quote-unquote, or one that's even been assembled by their owner. These again could be firearms where they just shaved off. ground off basically the serial number so i want to make sure that i'm very clear on that because uh they'll call these ghost guns you know they put a wide label i guess what i'm trying to say when it comes to ghost guns and the reality is in a lot of cases those labels these this data is not exact so real quick before i go to joe there's several ways to do this In some cases, you can buy a quote-unquote kit, which will give you pieces of said gun, pistol or rifle, and then you do the rest of the assembly. And a lot of guys, by the way, some would say, well, why would you ever do this? Well, because a lot of guys do things custom because it's a hobby. They enjoy it. It's fun. And by the way, by the time they're done, typically speaking, it will cost far more than if they just went and bought a production gun. And most people aren't doing it so they can run under the radar. They're doing it for the reasons I just stated. They want to build something custom for themselves that's different than what somebody else has. And it's not because they're going to go use it nefariously. It's because they want something different, unique, special to them. That's why people do that. Now, you're also going to hear a lot about printed guns. Yes, you can print one. There's these at-home printers now even where you can print all sorts of different things, parts, components, and so on. And what I will tell you is especially with printed guns, even more so than what I just explained a moment ago, their reliability, which you saw even with this particular shooter, is not very high. The possibility of them jamming, per se, is very high because they're not done to the same specifications you would get done with a production-type firearm out of all of the major production companies that are out there, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Glock, etc., So don't kid yourself. The news media is going to make it sound like this is some, you know, everybody's out there in their backyard or, you know, sorry, in their basement or their garage making guns. That is not the case at all. If you look at the amount of firearms we actually have nationwide and even the amount that they have, quote unquote, confiscated is still a very, very, very small number all in all. And again, don't be misled by the data is my point. Joe, go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, a couple of things. And you touched on one of them first with regard to printed guns. If anybody looks closely at the video of the shooting, you can see the guy, the gun wouldn't function, it wouldn't cycle. He had to manually pull back the slide to eject the shell. In fact, he had to eject three unspent rounds on the pavement because the gun just wouldn't cycle. Which is not unusual. And you can't print a barrel.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, still got to buy that from somebody. I guess, you know, you could if you're really, really sharp and know how to do it. Could you make your own? Yeah, you could. You need a machine shop and some tooling and things, you know, Joe, at your disposal to do that. But the average person can't do that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, the pressure from a fired bullet is around 60,000 PSI. So you need a steel barrel, and you can't, with a 3D plastic printer, you can't print a steel barrel for your gun. So you have to have a steel component. And then ghost guns. In New York City, John, that's a cottage industry. About twice a month in New York City, they show a raid where they've broken into some place, and there's 15 or 20 ghost guns. There are people literally who are doing this as an industry. Now, do we need a law? No, it's already highly illegal. But I think, by the way, last year, if you look at the video clips, the news clips of the press conferences, behind one of the people from the New York City Police Department, on the left, you'll see 19,000 guns confiscated so far this year. And most of these, John, are stolen guns or guns that have been bought out of state and illegally brought into New York State.
SPEAKER 15 :
Used in crimes, things along those lines, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Used in crimes. By the way, there are more than 250,000 guns stolen in this country per year, and the inventory of illegal guns on the street is estimated to be about 10 million. You know, if there are 100 or 200 ghost guns being used, you know, it's, as my father used to say, a fart and a gala win. Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, big deal. I mean, no offense. If that's what the feds, the ATF, and so on are going to go after, that is chump change.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is chump change. You know, if New York City—and trust me, I would be stunned if out of the 19,000 guns New York City police have taken off the street in the past year— I would be stunned if more than 50 were ghost guns. So in my mind, what they ought to be doing is focusing on where did the other 18,000, 950 come from.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
And if they can trace them back, you know, people are buying these in Virginia or Ohio and bringing them into New York. In terms of your bang for the buck, I think that's where they need to be spending their efforts, tracing them. Where do these guns originate and how did they get into New York City?
SPEAKER 15 :
Joe, if they were really concerned, and I say this all the time, if they were really concerned about fighting crime and deterring the things that they constantly go after regular citizens like yourself and I, you would concentrate more on these illegals that have come in, the cartels and what they're doing, you know, the coyote movement and all the different things that are happening there. I mean, the reality, Joe, is you could spend your time in a lot of other places and have a lot more bang for the buck than worrying about some, you know, Joe Schmoe owning a ghost gun.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. And to that point, John, yesterday, New York, maybe it was the day before yesterday, because I get up in the morning, Western New York City News. They had a gang, a mini gang war. They had a Haitian gang shooting it out, three Haitian gang members having a shootout with three Venezuelan gang members. Right on the sidewalk streets in New York, you know, and they all had guns. Now, if you're a Venezuelan Haitian gang member, you can't legally acquire or even possess a gun in New York City. Correct. Yet all six of these thugs had guns. What's wrong with that picture? Yeah, I guarantee you they weren't ghost guns, John. These were not ghost guns. They were all functioning perfectly.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and Joe, I go back to even this particular young man. Again, I'm not using his name because I don't want to give credit anywhere where it's not due and it's not due. But this particular individual had a silencer, which as we've talked about before, even you and I, that's a tax-stamped item. There's a lot of scrutiny that goes in. They're very expensive to buy in the first place, and you don't get delivery of it same day.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's correct. You've got background check, fingerprints. It's a federal. So I think there's an outfit out there that might be able to get you one in 10 days if you've got a squeaky clean background.
SPEAKER 15 :
And that's really fast because in not the too distant past, that was a 90-day process.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely correct. But even then, it has to be shipped. You have to sign for it. You just can't go to the store and pick it up.
SPEAKER 15 :
And for all of you listening, some of you maybe that are on the left that don't know as much about guns as we do, not every gun store, Joe, in fact, it's a small percentage of gun stores that even do what you just said. In other words, most gun stores don't sell silencers, don't sell suppressors, we call them.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, in fact, I've never seen a gun store ever. And I've been in a lot of gun stores. I've never seen a gun store that sells.
SPEAKER 15 :
Very, very, very few do because, Joe, number one, there's not super popular. There probably isn't a lot of markup in it when it's all said and done. And the hassle factor is huge.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it's not a it's not an over the counter item. No, no. If you want to buy one, it's OK. We'll set it aside for you here. Fill out this paperwork and we'll hold it for you for a month.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, because they can't give it to you until you've passed all of the checks and you're paying up front for it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, you're going to pay them up front to hold it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Meaning felons and bad guys aren't buying them that way, Joe. That's my other point.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
So this guy, I don't know, they haven't told us whether he acquired that legally, illegally, did he buy it off the street, whatever. I mean, my gut feeling is, Joe, knowing that this kid probably had a squeaky clean record, he might very well have bought that legally.
SPEAKER 05 :
You mean that gun that he used?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, the suppressor.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, the suppressor. He might have bought the suppressor legally.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
But if you're going to take it with you after you shoot somebody... Oh, jeez.
SPEAKER 15 :
What a knucklehead, by the way.
SPEAKER 05 :
But if I was going to take it with me, I'm going to dispose of it, which is never going to be found, by the way.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. I mean, again, what a knucklehead. Why would that thing still be in your backpack, Joe?
SPEAKER 05 :
Knucklehead, John. I mean, you got it. For some people...
SPEAKER 15 :
This kid was obviously, I mean, he was valedictorian of his class, so on paper... He wasn't stupid, but he was definitely... He had a mental screw loose, mentally ill, as I said earlier, Joe, or you wouldn't do the things he did.
SPEAKER 05 :
100% correct. 100% correct. It's that simple.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, even after the shooting effect of things and what we're talking about right now, a sane person wouldn't do.
SPEAKER 05 :
He kept the... In fact, he kept the... fake New Jersey driver's license that he used to check into the hostel in New York City. You know, he checked in under an assumed name. Right. And he used a fake New Jersey driver's license when he checked into the hostel where he was staying in Manhattan. Well, he kept that fake driver's license, which ties him directly to that city on those dates.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, not smart. Not smart. Not smart. Anyways, Joe, appreciate you as always.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're welcome, John.
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SPEAKER 15 :
All right, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. John and Cheyenne, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, John, listening to you and Joe talk about it and following a little bit of the news, I think this guy wanted to get caught.
SPEAKER 15 :
Possible.
SPEAKER 06 :
And hear me out. He made it from the shooting spot into Central Park. If you've never been to New York, Central Park is huge.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. Yep, have been.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Very wooded. They got lakes. They got sewers everywhere. If he didn't want to get caught, he could have walked through the park because he headed all the way up to 178th Street, what they call the George Washington Bridge bus terminal, to get out of the city. That was probably 100 blocks where he could have dropped the gun, the jacket, the backpack. He could have got rid of all that and they would have never found it. But he kept it all. What does that tell you?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, one of two things. Either, to your point, he wanted to be caught or he's got a screw loose. One of the two.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I'm thinking of, well, if he wanted to be caught, that definitely means he's a nut.
SPEAKER 15 :
On the same token, if you wanted to be, you know, just devil's advocate, if you wanted to be caught, why didn't you just stand there after you killed him?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, if you wanted to be a martyr about it. I just think, you know, this guy, they say he's got a master's degree in computer science. Yeah, he's book smart. But does he have the common sense that... God gave a five-year-old? It doesn't seem like it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, probably not.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know what I'm saying? There's street smarts and then there's book smarts. Absolutely. He might have gotten all the book smarts and none of the street smarts.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, again, to your point, something is awry with this guy. I mean, either A, he wanted to be caught, and I don't know what his thought process was because there was even better ways to make that happen when it was all said and done, unless he just wanted to be dramatic about it, which maybe that was part of it as well. I don't know. On the same token, he could have just gotten caught because he's a nut job and
SPEAKER 06 :
you know again john who knows i mean again all i know is the left is is fond you know is is so fond of this guy and are and are just gloating over this guy it's ridiculous well what would it be you know you if you take it a step further one of those lefties that wrote an article from i think she got fired from uh the washington post or one of those and she's now on her own she's a you know, she writes online. What if somebody walked up to her and put a bullet in her head and said, well, she wrote things out I didn't like, so I just killed her. Would anybody defend that?
SPEAKER 15 :
No. Well, and even in that case, again, John, as you know, I mean, I would be upset, period, on any level along those lines, because you don't take someone else's life. No matter how much you disagree with them, you don't take their life.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, you don't. But what I'm saying is it's acceptable to they dislike. So, and here's the other question I had on this. Do you notice how his, what they call the manifesto that he had in his backpack has already been released?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
And everybody knows it's We still haven't seen the national trans shooters.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nope.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, that's my, where is it?
SPEAKER 15 :
That's a great question. No, you are correct. And I had a couple of different text messages along those lines as well. It's like, yeah, there's such a lack of consistency, it's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, hopefully that Kash Patel will release all that stuff.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think he will, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
One other thing.
SPEAKER 15 :
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SPEAKER 15 :
Nice. Good job. All right. Appreciate you, John. Nope. Thank you very much. And that's it for this second hour. We've got another full hour, of course, coming your way. Linda Hanson, she's been with us before. She'll be joining us, Prosperity 101. We're going to talk about companies that are going from woke to what. We'll do that next hour. Don't go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Join John Rush, Dr. Kelly Victory, and Steve House on Rush to Reason as they dive into pressing healthcare issues, from skyrocketing drug prices driven by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to the Biden administration’s recent decisions on mRNA vaccine liability protections. They discuss Donald Trump’s surprising cabinet picks, the Surgeon General's role, and what it takes to revolutionize healthcare in America. Don’t miss this episode packed with hard-hitting analysis, expert insights, and a call for transformative change in health and policy.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right. Happy Thursday, everybody. Welcome Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Hope you guys have all had a great week up to this point. Dr. Kelly Victory joining us now. Let me bring her up as well as Steve House. But Dr. Kelly, how are you to start off with?
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm doing great. Had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I'm skating right into the big holiday season.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, man, it is coming fast. Steve House as well. Welcome, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm doing well, too, except for I kind of threw up on my mouth a little bit a little bit ago when Biden gave the mRNA vaccine manufacturers liability protection until 2029 today. Some of my Thanksgiving dinner came back. Otherwise, it was pretty good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Until 2029. In other words, I guess what he's planning on is somebody else besides a Republican winning in 2028, therefore never having any issues there. Is that what his thought process is?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, when you really think about this, I don't know if this was on our agenda, but we saw two things this week. That happened, and then the PBM legislation to try to, you know, de-link it from drug pricing, which would have done so much for the American people. And that bill basically is dead at the moment, even though it has bipartisan support. It's never going to make it through the process, and that's... Because the pharma industry is so damn strong, and $29 million of the lobbying effort, and they've slowed it to the point where it's just not going to make it, and that's insane based on what it does for us.
SPEAKER 03 :
And for those that maybe are tuning in for the first time, Dr. Kelly Victory, she's been with us for a very, very long time over. I guess we're going on five years now since COVID. Steve House has been with us for much longer than I've been talking to Steve on air for 10 years plus. And Steve was instrumental in having Dr. Kelly join us on a weekly basis long ago. Dr. Kelly, really quick, though, for folks that maybe don't understand all of the acronyms and things that Steve just mentioned to go explain that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, with regard to giving liability protection to the mRNA vaccines, I think that that is absolute insanity. First of all, you're giving a pardon or giving liability protection to something. That hasn't been charged yet. We've been seeing a lot of that lately. I'm hopeful that we will sidestep around that particular, quote, liability protection by eliminating mRNA technology entirely or taking it off the market until it's ready for primetime, which it's not at this point. And I think that that's my biggest takeaway from all of this. I think we are seeing a doubling down of the Biden administration trying to hand out passes to everybody and their brother. And it's happening certainly very much with those people who are involved in the COVID debacle. It remains to be seen whether or not any of this actually holds up or is deemed to be even constitutional.
SPEAKER 03 :
Makes total sense. No, go ahead, Steve. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 13 :
Jump in. I'm sorry. You were also asking about the PBM issue. Yes. Yes. The PBM, a pharmacy benefit manager, is what we refer to colloquially as, quote, the middleman. They are the people who sort of broker the deals, if you will, between the pharmaceutical companies and those agencies that actually sell or provide the drugs, whether it's a doctor's office or a hospital or the government. They are a middleman. They are a broker. It would be known in any other industry as racketeering. The middlemen essentially take a piece of the action. It's a pay-to-play scheme. They say to the pharmaceutical companies, if you give us a kickback, we'll get you the big juicy contract at UnitedHealthcare or at Hospital ABC or for the Department of Defense. It is racketeering by any other name, and it's something that I'm hoping that Bobby Kennedy Jr. will absolutely eradicate, ultimately, because, as Steve said, it is the single biggest cost driver for pharmaceuticals.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, let's talk about that for just one moment. Sorry, John.
SPEAKER 15 :
Go ahead. Just one comment, and that is, I really believe that Biden did this pardon because, you know, the pharma industry is a huge donor. But I think the other reason why he did it is they're afraid that Kennedy is going to release all of the information from the trials. And you know what? They can't stop him from doing this just by this. What they can do, though, is they're going to be dealing with an American public that's going to hear more and more and more about how bad this was and how much they cheated. And yet they're going to want to sue, but they're just going to stop their ability to sue. So that's why they're doing this. And then lastly, I was at the American Society of Healthcare Pharmacists meeting this week in New Orleans. And the one thing I will say, Kelly, is almost all of them struggle with PBMs themselves. And they're sitting there looking at this and high-cost drugs, and they're saying to themselves, how could we possibly be allowing this to happen? And then what you get is a hospital system signs with Mark Cuban to get 100 drugs from Mark Cuban that is going to reduce their cost. which would theoretically be passed on to the patient, but then they send out a note publicly in a news release saying it won't necessarily impact the patient's payment amount because that is really dependent upon the agreement they have with their health insurance company. So what's going to happen is they're going to take the profit at the hospital level rather than the PBM level, and they're not going to give it to the patient, and that has to be stopped by Bobby Kennedy Jr. as well.
SPEAKER 13 :
Correct. These things that have been called for years, John, rebates. The rebates should be going to the patient, but the rebates end up getting scooped up by the hospital system or the doctor's office or whoever else takes it back and puts it in their coffers. So the patient is constantly on the losing end of this. It's really a complete racket. And we've got to get this exposed. It's part of the fraud, corruption, deception and graft that's gone on for decades. It's perhaps come to light more recently during everything we saw because of COVID. But this has been going on for decades.
SPEAKER 03 :
So a question, I'll start with you, Dr. Kelly. With the changes in the administration, granted we're not quite a little under 40 days out roughly. We're counting down. We keep getting closer and closer to the time where the Trump administration will come in. We'll then have to, of course, go through some confirmations and things along those lines. But once everything is in place, I mean – I'm very hopeful, I hope that I'm hopeful in the right way, that the team, not just RFK Jr., but a lot of others that will be involved with different things that will be happening there, DOJ, etc., do you feel like this new team can tackle some of the things you and Steve just got done talking about?
SPEAKER 13 :
I certainly think that they can. That said, I am... realistic with regard to how Washington works. It would never fly in the private sector. They are so slow to act. And I guarantee you that although you and I would like to believe that this stuff is going to get addressed day one, it won't. It takes months and months and months to even get up to speed. So everybody's going to be new. Everybody's going to be feeling their way around. Everybody Everybody's jockeying per position.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
And the wheels turn so slowly in Washington that I think we will be lucky if they get a fraction of the things done that they've talked about. The most I think we can hope for is that Bobby Kennedy and the rest of his team at each of the independent agencies, whether it's the FDA, NIH, CDC, whatever it is, HHS, in general, that they will address and expose some of these conflicts of interest and start right now eradicating those things, teasing them out. And I think rather than focusing on any one initiative, like decreasing the amount of fluoride or regulating the amount of fluoride in water or making ivermectin over-the-counter, We need to really expose the rampant fraud and corruption. So, yes, I do think they'll be able to do it. But I have been reminded very recently in some communications I've had with people in Washington just how slowly and frankly how disorganized the whole thing is. You have to remember, you know, most of these people who are going to be stepping into new roles come January, you know, moving to Bethesda or moving to D.C. or moving to Atlanta to work at the CDC. This is, you know, not only are they moving themselves and their families, but it's a brand-new job, a brand-new day, and it takes, you know, when you start a new job, you don't just hit the ground running. It takes months to learn all the players and to figure out what it is you're supposed to be doing. So I think, you know, people should just sort of prepare themselves that it's not going to happen overnight.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
This is Rush to Reason. And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dr. Kelly Victory with us today, as well as Steve House. And Steve, I asked you before we went to break, what can Donald Trump, the executive committee, and I get it, there's, as Dr. Kelly said, lots of facets to this, and yes, things move slowly. Is there anything, though, that Donald Trump himself could fast-track?
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, John, if it were me and I had the ability, and I have to talk to a constitutional lawyer about this, but I would write an executive order on day one that would drop a small grenade into health care by ordering the delinking of pricing for PBMs so that PBMs could not link their cost or their price, their rebate structure to the price of the drug. They would have to become a service-oriented scenario where what they did was what they got paid for, not just, you know, if a drug cost, if it was an oncology drug and cost $30,000, what they get for that versus metformin at $80, it's not fair to pay them on the price of the drug because the work involved, the process involved is fundamentally not any different. So I would do that right off the bat, and that would drive people crazy, but it would sure break up the industry a bit.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, so an analogy that people might understand better, because I think you're exactly right, Steve. The analogy might be if you tip, there's a reason why you don't tip, for example, at a restaurant on a bottle of wine, because it doesn't take the waiter. It's no more difficult to open a $100 bottle of wine than a $20 bottle of wine. And why should they make five times more in terms of the tip? And that's what the PBMs are doing. They charge a percentage. Now, the other thing that people don't know, and Steve and I are well aware of this, is that the way the law was written, PBMs are allowed to charge a fee for the work that they do, for being that middleman, for brokering the deal, if you will, the same way that a realtor does.
SPEAKER 03 :
I got to start for just one second, Dr. Kelly. Why do we need them at all? Can you tell me why? You know, is there a justification? Is there a real solid reason we should have them? I mean, does it benefit anybody at the end of the day? Or is it just, frankly, there's a middleman there and there always has been?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, they do provide a service in the way, for example, that a realtor does. They do the paperwork. They do a lot of the stuff that you and I don't know the intricacies of the legalities of the paperwork, so they provide a service. But they were supposed to do that for a determined fee, and it was 2.3% that they were allowed to charge. by law, but nobody in Congress has ever paid any attention to it, and many of them now are charging 100%. So it would be as if your realtor, rather than making a 5% or 6% commission on the sale of the house, instead was making an 80% commission on the sale of the house. Can you imagine what the house would cost?
SPEAKER 03 :
And really quick, make sure that I'm also explaining this correctly. The difference between what we're talking about in a house is the house is your money that you're spending and paying the realtor and so on. In the case of what, Stephen, you were talking about, in a lot of cases, it's tax dollars that are paying for that or your health insurance dollars that you're paying for that's paying for that. Am I correct?
SPEAKER 13 :
Exactly, and you end up paying more for the house because the person selling the house is saying, well, I'm not going to take it on the chin that the realtor is charging 80%. I'll just jack the price of my house up. Well, when you're buying a house, you have the choice not to buy the house if it's too expensive. If it's a drug that your child needs for his or her cancer or a medication that you need to treat your diabetes, you don't have the choice. to not buy that drug necessarily. And so you are being fundamentally squeezed by the people who are trying to pass the cost on. So yes, the PBMs did provide a service, but the service was, number one, supposed to be capped in what they could charge for it, And number two, as Steve rightly points out, the percentage should not be directly linked to the cost of the medication because some medications are wildly more expensive than others and there's no more work for the PBM to broker the deal.
SPEAKER 03 :
Steve, as a moment ago, I just gave a commercial little ad for affordable interest mortgage. And I know in the mortgage brokerage end of things, there were some rules that came out, laws that came out not long ago to where they could no longer charge percentages. They make flat fees, I believe, in most cases, and they are limited to what that fee can be. So if we're doing that, Steve, for mortgage brokers, why can't we do the same here?
SPEAKER 15 :
We should do it here. In fact, if you see a couple of things, I'll add it to Kelly's comment. Sometimes the fee from the PBM is 3000 percent. So it's not always under 100 percent. And then on top of that, you're right. It should be a flat fee of some nature. However, most of the PBMs now are stock market listed there. You know, they've got investors in Wall Street and, you know, they've purchased the health insurance.
SPEAKER 03 :
All the more reason why we know it's wrong.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. So here's an example that was kind of a turning point beyond. By the way, all American diabetics should gather together in a class action lawsuit, sue the Health and Human Services and the federal government against the safe harbor law that set a 2.3 percent fee and that was never enforced. That means diabetics have been paying more. boatloads more money than they should have for all these years because the federal government failed to enforce their own laws. But here's the deal. Gleevec, and I know that Kelly knows this drug really well, in theory was the first $100,000 drug to come to the market. And people thought they were crazy, right? So PBMs come in and they thump their chest. They say, we're going to get discounts of, you know, 80% off the drug. But they took the $80,000 discount and they gave it to your health insurance company who never lowered your premium ever. So it became racketeering. She described it perfectly right. So I'm going to say, well, all right, insurance car pharma, why don't you make a drug that costs, you know, $80,000 like Harvoni and I'm going to buy it from you, put it on formulary by you giving it to me for a 55% or 60% discount, but I'm going to take a portion of that money and keep it for myself, make my investors happy. I'm going to give the rest back to the insurance companies because they're asking me to allow it. And by the way, the only person who loses is the patient.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
The patient loses big every time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Okay. I want to shift gears for just one second because you guys have some inside knowledge. And feel free to share as much or as little as you feel you can. But we've got cabinet picks that have come out. Of course, RFK Jr., we've talked about that. And there's been many others as well. But then we also have Surgeon General, which right now the pick that Donald Trump has thrown out at least, I am not a huge fan of. I don't think either one of you are as well. Why are we headed in a direction that I don't feel we should be, Dr. Kelly?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I will refrain from saying too much about any individual candidates prior to their upcoming election. confirmation hearings, I agree with you. There are some choices that have been, let's use the word, perplexing to me in terms of what their histories are when there are a few of us. And, you know, here Steve and I are just bantering around. I would guarantee you that Steve and I know more about the issues related to PDMs and the impact that they have had on drug pricing that any of the current cabinet nominees have.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm not so sure that after listening to you guys as long as I have, I don't have that much experience. I have more than they do, Dr. Kelly.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and so I think that as all things in politics, they're political. So many of these nominations are political nominations. And I think that President Trump would do well to stop making purely political nominations and appointees because there are people who have been deep in the trenches and certainly those of us who got it right during COVID, rather than people who clearly got it wrong. And he has nominated quite a few of those people to high positions. when they were people who were on the wrong side of history for the better part of the pandemic. So much of many of these appointees are political and are paybacks for things that they've done to support the president. And I don't think that that puts us necessarily in the best position. All that said, I think that Bobby Kennedy Jr., who is going to be clearly the leader and setting the leadership on HHS and on the health care side in general, I think that he is an excellent pick, and although I don't agree with every single one of his policies or initiatives, I think that directionally he is correct, and he will drive the bus, I think, in the right direction.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Steve, you want to comment on that as well?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and I just add one more piece to it. Kelly's right, but the other piece I would add to it is you stand up in a campaign, and I think Donald Trump is a unique and amazing individual with a lot of opportunity to do things, but he stands up in a campaign and talks a lot about the deep state. Well, part of the deep state has always existed because political graft, you know, someone gets elected, I helped you get elected, and I put you in a position to give you back the favor of you helping me. That's part of why the deep state exists. And I really wish, as Kelly said, he would look at people for their skill set and see what they're talking about. I mean, quite frankly, I want the Surgeon General to be somebody who understands, you know, COVID-like events. major catastrophes and things that are happening because in Australia somehow we've lost 383 viruses over a hundred of them in the hantavirus and other categories this week I mean I don't I don't want to I mean well don't do respect to primary care I just don't want I want somebody who understands catastrophes and somebody who understands health well enough to teach I don't want a surgeon general that looks like our last one that's for sure because they're not a good example in any respect
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. And I, so I would say the current, just so that in case people who are listening, don't know the current nominee and she has not been confirmed is Dr. Jeanette Nashwa. She's a family practitioner. She went to a foreign medical school. She went to medical school in the Caribbean. Um, she, uh, worked at an urgent care center in New York city, uh, and was very much on the record for the duration of the pandemic. praising not only the vaccines and recommending that people continue to get the boosters, but praising censorship. She said that she applauded Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook for censoring people like me who spread, quote, disinformation. And she, quote, prayed to God that other social media platforms would do the same. She supported not only wearing one mask, but thought the two was better, agreed with the lockdown and the closure of schools. and strongly promoted things like social distancing. She now has done a 180 very, very late, just very recently, on a number of these issues. And I understand that she says that she was bamboozled, quote unquote, her word, not mine, that she was bamboozled and bought into it, and now she sees the light. I would like To say that that's fine, I'm glad that she sees the light now, but I think we should be rewarding the people who got it right the first time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 13 :
Who got it right at the beginning.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. Yeah, because that shows discernment on the front side, not the back side. Okay, really quick, because I know we're going to have to take another break here shortly. Somebody texted again, and I know we've already explained this, but listeners are asking, would you please, Steve, again, explain what a PBM is?
SPEAKER 15 :
I think essentially what Kelly said was right. It's like a real estate broker. So you have drug manufacturers who come out with new drugs constantly. It was 12 new Alzheimer's drugs last month, for example. So the hospitals and pharmacies themselves do not have time. to figure out and negotiate directly with pharma companies like Pfizer and J&J. They don't have the time to negotiate with them on pricing and distribution of the drug. So they hire a middleman, in this case called a pharmacy benefit manager. They literally manage how pharmacy benefits are playing out. And they set up a price structure. They are the ones who provide the rebates back. to the health insurance companies on the negotiated discounts. They get paid that way, but they also do a lot of the paperwork to bill for that drug. So they'll help hospitals get the billing right so that they bill the insurance company who has agreed to pay for it. Quite frankly, if you have a high deductible, the insurance company is getting the rebate back. You're paying for the cost of the drug anyway because your deductible is too high, and they're not paying anything for it anyway. But that's a side note. That's basically how they do it, yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Another thing that they do, and people may be familiar with this, hearing that a particular drug, quote, isn't on the formulary. It either is or isn't on the hospital's formulary. So hospitals set up a formulary, meaning what are the things that they stock in their pharmacy at the hospital? No hospital, no doctor's office, no pharmacy stocks that. 100% of drugs that are available. They make a decision. So if a hospital needs to have a drug, for example, to treat influenza or a drug to treat whatever it is, the pharmacy, the PBM, is the one who goes and says, well, we're going to stock this drug and this drug and this drug and not these other three. And a big part of the way they make those decisions is they say to drug company A, how much are you going to give me? I'll put your antibiotic on the formulary, depending on how much you pay me.
SPEAKER 03 :
So in a lot of ways, Dr. Kelly, really quick, in a lot of ways, this isn't much different than Kroger wanting to stock certain things, and even the shelf position of is a lot of times dictated by who's kicking in the most for that shelf space and so on. As far as inventory control goes, it's not much different is what you're telling me.
SPEAKER 13 :
Correct. And if you go back to the time of the big racketeering scandals in New York City, it was because they were, quote, contrary to the people working for the city, you know, and said, well, I'll give you the contract to do the roofing or the plumbing or the electricity city buildings. it depending on how much you pay me under the is a back alley deal you know how much you're going to give me in the back alley because this other electrician company they're going to give me you know 10 and you're going you give me 12 great when you go back and see if i can get 13 they're negotiating a kickback it's called racketeering and that's exactly what the pbms do they get kickbacks and that's how they decide what drug they're going to contract for a particular hospital or for a particular pharmacy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Makes total sense. And, again, whoever texted that, thank you. I hope I explained or we explained that well enough. I think we have. I mean, I've got a really good understanding of what happens here as far as that goes. And mainly, I guess, guys, because of my background even in the automotive side, there's a lot of things that happen even internally with – different, you know, parts distributors and so on and so forth. And it's really, I hate to say this, Dr. Kelly, it's not a lot different in a lot of other worlds, although I will tell you that the markups and the money side of it is far different.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. And you're right, though. It happens in many, many industries that how something gets priced. But generally what happens is when one side has to pay more, when the hospital has to pay more because the PBM, the middleman, is taking a cut, and so all of a sudden the The prices on that drug are more because God knows a big pharmaceutical company is going to pass it on. They're not going to take it on the chin. They're going to say, fine, I'll jack the cost of the drug up so that I can cover what I need to pay this extortionist called a middleman. I'll jack up the price of my drug to cover that. And then it gets passed on to the hospital. The hospital says, well, I'm not taking it on the chin either. It's going to roll downhill. I'll pass it on to the patient. So the patient's the one who's always stuck holding the bag.
SPEAKER 03 :
Steve, it sounds like your idea, number one, of executive orders to get the process started, which I'm not in opposition of. I think that's a great idea. Although to keep this moving forward in that direction, in other words, if he gets that done, let's say, still we need some... congressional support and a law, I guess you could say, that becomes permanent that would then have to be changed on down the road if another administration came in. Because as you know, the next president, if they don't like what Donald Trump did in this particular area with a stroke of a pen, all of that could be reversed and we're right back to square one. So I see this as, you know, to part one, get the problem immediately fixed if you can through executive action. And then after that, we need Congress to go to work and get this set in stone for good. Am I right, Steve?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and the whole set in stone for good thing is kind of mushy these days, right? Because you can wipe something out with an executive order. I mean, I think what happens is, I mean, truly, if you do this right, if you de-link it, if you peel it back to that 2.3% number or something rational like that, what happens is the industry is going to change. And it's more than just Congress being lobbied to change it back. I mean, people are going to start to see the real value of, you know, this change in what's going on because literally drug pricing should go down if you do it right. I mean, it has a huge impact on drug pricing. I think, you know, A, it starts out with a change because structurally you'll make a change, and B, I think the industry will get used to it being done a new way, and then it'll probably fight it itself. If you're a hospital or if you're, you know, a patient advocate, you'll fight changing back yourself. So I'm not as worried about Congress. I just want to have enough time for people to see what happens when you do it.
SPEAKER 03 :
So in other words, once they start seeing the results, that will become permanent in and of itself.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think because it'll become industry standard. I mean, it's industry standard now at 100%, and people expect it. I don't want them to expect it anymore.
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And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House with us. And Steve, we've got a question that came in. I'll direct this to you first, and Dr. Kelly, you can chime in afterwards. If people... want to help or want to have a voice, want to chime in on some of the cabinet picks, for example. In this case, let's talk, you know, Surgeon General. Is there any kind of a platform or a way for people to, you know, tastefully either oppose and or, you know, give kudos to somebody that's been recommended already? Stephen, do we have anything in place like that at all?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I mean, the simple answer is yes. And there's two things I would do. One is I would write a letter to my congressman. I mean, or to all four of the GOP congressmen in Colorado would take a letter from any of the listeners there. And you could send them a letter, tell them what their concern is and send it on to them. Now, do congressmen read every letter? They don't. But it would be worthy. of the process. And the second thing is, if you know somebody on the Trump transition team, send them a note and tell them what their concerns are. Now, by doing so, you're ultimately opposing Donald Trump. So I would rather than sending him a letter saying this person is not not capable or whatever, talk to them about what you're looking for and what you might what you believe the skill set of someone is who would be a better choice rather than tearing down the other person.
SPEAKER 13 :
I agree with both those things. I would absolutely, however, put out, if you have specific people in mind, give those names. Don't just say, I would like somebody who has these qualities. State the person's name. The other thing is, do not overlook the power of social media. People like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and, God knows, Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump spend a lot of their day and their teams spend a lot of their days scouring social media correct so put those names out there tag you know somebody that you think is worthy and say this person please you know donald trump bobby kennedy jr whoever it is you know elon musk please consider this person as you know a uh a pick for your team this person would be an excellent choice for x y and z reasons i think social media i would never have said this obviously 10 years ago but in today's world It's far more important than you might realize.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, no, thank you, Dr. Kelly, for saying that. For all of you listening, your voice and some of the things that you put out there, and, you know, we see this all the time, Dr. Kelly and Steve, when somebody has a problem, for example, with an airline, and they'll go to X and they'll post something about it. In a lot of cases, you'll get a faster response in doing that than by actually calling their 1-800 number. So, yes, it's very powerful.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, we have teams that look at these.
SPEAKER 15 :
I would add something else to this equation, which is now is not the time for incremental change. And the Surgeon General is one example. I think the Department of Transportation is another. But let's just focus on Surgeon General for a minute. We have wasted Surgeon General's power for several decades, right? Because this is a person that should be saying what Bobby Kennedy himself is saying about health care. Right. So Bobby's talking about health, not health care. I mean, he's talking about processed foods, fluoride, all this other stuff. Right. So we've had this bully pulpit with a person who has a title that could get into any room anywhere in the country and talk to credible people who are in the ag business, in the food business, in health care, et cetera. And we're wasting the opportunity. The same is true. Right. You would approach it from the point of view of someone who's in a car, who deals with cars, who deals with congestion and traffic. Most of the time the Secretary of Transportation is being driven in a black SUV somewhere. They don't know what it's like. So we don't need incremental change. I want a pit bull in that job who can call people out and say, you know what, I work for the American people. I don't work for the system. I don't work for the soft-hearted people who are working there who don't want to hear the criticism. I want a pit bull. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 13 :
And that is exactly what I told the team. You know I've been discussing this. With them for some time, I was disappointed with the choice that was made, but I would absolutely revolutionize and completely reform that wasted position because the average American cannot tell you who the Surgeon General was after C. Everett Koop. I believe that it's a position that could be very meaningful if you had someone whose skill set was in communication and teaching and had the ability to take complex subjects and to break them down into lay terms, to have the ability to walk the walk and talk the talk and live the lifestyle that we want all Americans to do with regard to health and wellness. somebody who's not afraid to push back on big pharma, not afraid to push back on big ag, to say we have got to do things differently and be willing to shake it up and risk the things that it takes to actually be a mover and a shaker. And I think that making a safe choice is not the way to go. As Steve said, this is not the time for incremental change. We need somebody who's going to go in there and be a heat-seeking missile.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. And really quick in the past, Dr. Kelly, I mean, you're right. In fact, I had to even go look up our current Surgeon General, because you just don't hear much from Mr. Vivek. And it's not Vivek Ramaswamy, by the way. It's Murthy. I mean, honestly, Dr. Kelly, I couldn't have named that person. I had to go look it up because you're exactly right. We don't hear much from them.
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So think about this. The Americans just survived four-plus years ago. of the worst health care crisis, largely because of the way it was managed. Absolutely. But the reality is we just lived through a pandemic, and you can't tell me the name of the surgeon general?
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And I'm on radio watching this stuff daily, by the way, so I'm even different than the average American, Dr. Kelly.
SPEAKER 13 :
what the heck was the guy doing for the last four and a half years?
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly. Exactly. No, Steve, I mean, I can't disagree with Dr. Kelly at all. I mean, it is a position that, again, I mean, I watch this stuff, you know, politically speaking and so on, on a routine basis, and I couldn't tell you who it was before now.
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Yeah, and think about this. If you got the bully pulpit and you're the Surgeon General, you should be the one telling me that American women, 40% of American women are an antidepressant, 79% of You know, young people, the cancer rate is increased by 79%. You know, yada, yada, yada. There's five or six major statistics that are an indication that our health is degrading very rapidly right now. The Surgeon General should be standing in the pulpit every single week somewhere calling out, why do we have this metabolic problem that's causing all these issues and no one's addressing it whatsoever.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, you guys are spot on. I mean, this is a very important position.
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I can give you Donald Trump's number.
SPEAKER 03 :
If I thought he would listen to me, I would call him. Trust me. Trust me. And there's been several text messages that have come in that have agreed, Steve, with you and Dr. Kelly on, yes, contact your local representative, your senator. Senators do the confirmations, of course. And by the way, in this particular case with Surgeon General on the pick, there is a ton of... of conservative, not just regular media, but conservative media, I'll just say backlash. I don't know any other way to say it, guys. There's a ton of backlash with conservative media. So trust me, this particular pick is getting a lot of heat on it because of not only, Dr. Kelly, some of the things that you have stated, but there's even some stories going around right now to where this particular nominee had some issues with guns going off in the past and, and, and. I mean, it's not looking very good. Let's just say that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Go ahead, Steve.
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Go ahead, Steve. unfortunately I think we've treated the Surgeon General's job that way as well yeah and it's just like give it to somebody for because they're connected to a friend of yours which indeed which really is demeaning to the job and it delegitimizes the job agree it's and we have the worst health status metabolic health status in we've ever had, probably worse than any nation in the world, we cannot delegitimize this job.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, before I let you guys go, Steve, I'll start with you. Dr. Kelly, I want you to chime in on this as well. Doge, we've got Vivek, we've got Elon, they're going to do their best to go in and cut supposedly $2 trillion out of what we've got going on in Washington. Steve, when it comes to this topic, we talk a lot about health care between the three of us. What can they do in that area to actually save the country money? It costs us
SPEAKER 15 :
20 percent, 19, 20 percent to do billing and collection in health care. So 20 cents of every dollar for billing and collection. And in a restaurant, it's three percent, four percent. Those guys need to go in and completely restructure how billing and collection works because it's a trillion dollars. Imagine what you could do with a trillion dollars if you gave it to, you know, people who are focused on health like Bobby Kennedy, the surgeon general and others, instead of spending it just on moving money around and fighting payments.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's ridiculous. So in other words, let's get some more efficiencies in the way that we do billing, the computerization, the way things talk to one another and so on. I assume that's what you're talking about in and of itself, Steve.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. So here's what I mean. I had a CT scan. You guys all had a CT scan, which didn't get billed to my insurance company for six weeks after I had it done. But they gave prior approval for me to have the CT scan after it was done and the bill was sent. They denied payment. That should be against the damn law. Because doctors spend 45 minutes getting prior approval, and then they get denied payment for it. It's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I agree. And that's some of the stuff that could be cleaned up. Dr. Kelly got a couple of minutes, and you're in that world very much as a doctor. What else could they do to clean things up and make things more efficient?
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Well, I think one of the things that the statistics that came out just this past week about the number, it's only 6% of total federal employees actually work on site. 94% are working remotely. 12% total of federal buildings are currently occupied. OK, 88 percent of the buildings we're spending 15 billion dollars on real estate, air conditioning, heating, janitorial services for buildings that are not inhabited where people aren't working. That is insane. Every single congressperson should be held to account for this, Republican or Democrat. The idea that they are spending our tax dollars. to allow this to happen, you have got to be kidding me.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
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I mean, this is absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I agree.
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So that alone is just so, it is so egregious. And if I could walk into Congress, I would let them all have it with both barrels because I'm telling you, that is such a slap in the face for the American taxpayer.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. All right, guys, an hour goes by so fast. We'll do part two next week because we've got a lot more to cover as well. Dr. Kelly, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Thank you, as always. See you next week.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're very welcome. And Steve House, you as well. Thanks for setting all this up years ago.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, everybody write to Jim Jordan and tell him he spent $50 million investigating Biden and nothing happened. He should probably pay that back.
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In this episode, host John Rush dives deep into the realities of remote work as companies begin recalling employees back to offices. He shares insights on how recent economic policies affect both paychecks and corporate strategies. Special guest Linda Hanson from Prosperity 101 talks about the shift from corporate wokeness to more traditional policies, highlighting the impact of public opinion and economic realities on business decisions. As John explores these shifts, listeners are reminded of the vital connection between policy and economic prosperity, urging both employers and employees to understand the broader impact on the workforce.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And we're waiting for Linda. And again, she's very busy and could very well have gotten tied up. We were waiting for her to call us. But you know what? As I always say, the show goes on. I got plenty of cover anyway, so not a huge issue there whatsoever. So let me do this. Linda was going to talk about, you know, the wokeness in corporate America, what's happening there and so on. And I... Well, yeah, you know what? I'm going to move this up. I had this in my notes for a little bit later this hour, so I'm going to move this up. I'll talk about this now. If Linda calls in, we can still kind of coincide this into this particular topic anyways. And that is remote work. And I read several different articles today about – and one of them is in the Wall Street Journal – regarding remote workers in the fact that they are now starting to be terminated for not showing up to work. In other words, in some of these cases, people moved across the country and thought i guess that this is going to be some sort of a permanent thing so remember all the way back in covid andy and i even talked about this numerous times you know people were being you know because of covid they were allowed to work remotely and it was going to be the new trend and it even affected commercial office space and the vacancy rate and on and on and on we go andy and i at the time said this won't last now i will be the first to admit it lasted longer than i thought by about two years. I really felt like by now even, there'd be a lot more people back at work, but that's not the way it turned out. And at any rate, A lot of those people now have refused to come back and are now, let's just say this, they're going to be looking for other work. I've got some examples of that I will talk to you about in this particular article as well. But I believe Charlie's getting Linda for us as we speak. So we'll shift gears here and I can come back to that. But there's some things in that I want to talk about as well. So we'll come back to that here in just a few minutes. And real quick, we'll switch gears. Let's go to Linda real quick. Linda Hanson, how are you?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm just great. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're very welcome. Welcome back. Prosperity 101. Let's talk about from woke to what. In other words, and I've read it. We talk about this on the program quite often. A lot of these companies that literally were on the DEI train have either shifted gears. The train's not even on the track any longer. I mean, they're going completely. different direction. Some of that, I believe, Linda, because of public outcry. But in other cases, I think they're finally figuring out this isn't working.
SPEAKER 06 :
I would say, yes, it's not working. You know, we really don't need to judge surgeons and pilots and plumbers by the color of their skin or their gender. You know, we need people who are skilled at the work that they do. And I think that the American public has awakened to to this incredible lack of common sense, and companies are being forced to wake up as well.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and I had said this one as well. I was talking a moment ago about the people coming back or supposed to be coming back to work that aren't, that are now losing their jobs. The return to work thing has gotten to be a big deal. And folks, I guess, finally have, you know, folks that moved even some cases across either state lines or multiple states to work remotely are now figuring out that, oh, they want me back in the office. I mean, once again, the bottom line profit, Linda, as you know, when it comes to companies is, That has a lot to do with what they do day to day, especially companies that, for lack of better words, I guess I should say, Linda, have to answer to the public, the stakeholders, and so on. When they start to not have very good returns, people get antsy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, they do. And one of the problems that we have in America is that people don't really understand how much policy affects their paycheck. And consumers don't understand how much policy affects the final price of their product, that their product or service they're buying. And so, you know, we can see these changes, but unless we absolutely educate people in the workforce now, I think it can be kind of a flash in the pan that we have this opportunity to really drill in and help people understand the greatness of our system of government, the greatness of our Constitution. the greatness of our opportunity to create prosperity, which is human flourishing and freedom. But unless we help them truly make the connection between these things, we could end up in another wave of these crazy policies that make no sense.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I agree. I said this. It's funny. I was talking about this a couple of days ago that there's this window that we have right now whereby we can do some of the things you just mentioned. We can train not only the employees but the customers and so on and really take this opportunity and do something with it. And my fear is if we don't, we'll be right back where we started from.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. And I have seen the effects of working in the workplace to help employees understand how basic policy affects their paycheck. One time I was doing a workshop at a company where they did Prosperity 101 days across their company throughout every facility. I trained the managers, sent them out, right? And then I was at like the home office or one near there with the owner. And some union employees were part of this presentation. And there was one person in particular who didn't want to be there. He was very intimidating. He kind of, you know, made me, like I said, intimidated a little when he walked in the door. And I just said a silent prayer, Lord, I want that one. Right. And throughout the conversation and the presentation, his body language opened up and he got more curious. And at the end, he raised his hand and said, let me get this straight. If those policies up there make it hard for Jim over here to pay my paycheck and my benefits, why do I want to vote for someone who supports those policies? Which I wanted to jump up and down and say, yes, that's why I'm here. You're getting it. Yes, and one of the posters I have on my website that I offer for... people to use in their workplace is simply the Bill of Rights. And underneath it says, are you voting for a person who will protect your rights? So many people have come through the public education system these years. They're in their 20s, 30s, 40s. Like you were talking about, they're being entitled, you know, they have to go back to work. Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
I got to go back to the office? How dare you?
SPEAKER 06 :
I can't go in my pajamas? Yeah, anyway. But they're in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and they really don't understand that it takes healthy businesses to drive the economy. The government has nothing until we give it to them first. They don't understand how it all works, and they're in the workforce now. They're through their school. They're done, and they have come through, and they've been taught to hate America, and to hate capitalism while they hold their Starbucks and their laptops. And so I say if employers don't help educate them with some basic civics and basic information, who will? And we'll be right back in that section.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and I really appreciate having you on, because I believe wholeheartedly in what you're saying. The education part of it is huge, because you are correct. Most, I mean, there are some rare exceptions of kids that go to, you know, private school, Catholic school, Christian school, homeschooled, where they may be getting some of these civic things, and it's different on their level. But generally speaking, and some of this... Linda, I know because, A, I'm an employer, and, B, I talk to a lot of young people. And I will, on purpose even sometimes, get into some of these questions and answers, if you would, on some of the things you and I are talking about just to see what level are they at and what have they been taught. And I'll just say it straight up. I can tell where these kids have gone to school. Let me just say that. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. And so that's why I love what I do with Prosperity 101, because I really want to empower employers to be able to get these people reeducated. And it's not telling them who to vote for or what party or anything. It's reintroducing them to the documents that protect our God-given rights. reintroducing them to that, reintroducing them to, well, or introducing them for the first time to the policies that drive our economic system and allow for us to have, you know, that capitalism and the free enterprise and the opportunity to build and create wealth. and then how to protect that by becoming informed, involved, and impactful. So what I want to encourage every employer to do is just join the movement and help re-educate or educate for the first time some of that basic civics, basic economic policy that all of these people should have learned in fifth grade because they didn't. We've had these years of absolute chaos and confusion. And I think that if we just begin the conversation and then also when employers do that in such a way that it lets the employee know they're mentioning these things because they care about them, they really want them to have. Yeah. You know, Linda, really quick.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, I've always wanted as an employer to see my employees be as successful and as prosperous as possible, because when they are, they become a lot more, you know, loyal to me. And we're all in this together. You know, if they win, I win. And so I've always told them, you know, if you guys are winning as employees, that means I am as well. And together we keep building what we're doing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, that kind of communication builds that loyalty, engagement, retention. That helps an employer's bottom line. That helps everybody's bottom line. You know, all the ships rise when the water rises, right? And so this is why this is so important. And like I said, I have seen this change constantly. perspectives and change lives. And that's why I love what I do. So if people, you know, obviously they can contact me at prosperity101.com and learn more. I even have just a free ebook people can get with ideas of how to even start a conversation in the workplace. But I truly believe that employers are like a last frontier for educating these people to understand how policy affects their paycheck.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, and really quick, just in closing, for those of you that are listening, employers, one of the things that I've always done is when especially a a mistake has been made. So maybe it was costly, maybe it's not so costly. What I mean by that, Linda, is maybe something didn't make it to an invoice that should have, or maybe there was a slight accident and now the company's got to pay out some money to handle said accident. I've always gone and said, okay, and I know it varies from company to company and what your bottom line is, but truly what is that mistake going to cost the company? In other words, how many sales, how many dollars do we now have to have come in to make up for what just happened? And sometimes, not always, but in most cases with employees, when you start saying, okay, that $100 mistake now means we have to do X We'll be right back.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, exactly. And this is just such good information for employers to share with their employees because, you know, in our personal lives, we can't live with the kind of deficit that the government has. No. In business, we can't do that. Not for very long.
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Ask Stellantis Motor Company right now how that's working out for them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And, you know, but we could see it in nations as well. And so... When we can give these people the common sense, basic civics, basic economics, and it comes from I care about you so you can learn about this, It's so powerful. I've seen it time and time again, and it's so powerful. And, you know, we can really take our country back. I mean, we have, in a sense, with the election, we have a window of time. And unless we think like statesmen, you know, politicians think like the next election, but statesmen think like the next generation. And unless we really, as activists, as employers... As voters, as citizens, unless we start thinking like statesmen, we are not going to be able to preserve that freedom for our children and grandchildren moving forward.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's right. Linda Hanson, again, appreciate you very much. Prosperity 101, what's the website folks need to go to?
SPEAKER 06 :
Prosperity101.com.
SPEAKER 12 :
Awesome. I appreciate it. You're welcome back anytime, Linda.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you so much. You're very welcome.
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All right, return to work. And I started the top of the hour that way, and then we had Linda call in, which I appreciate very much. Very gracious of her, by the way. There was a little miscommunication between her and her person that does the bookings and so on. But I appreciate Linda. Second time I've had her on, and I enjoy having her. So we'll have her back in the future. But there was an article in the Wall Street Journal talking about this whole return to work. And one story that just caught my eye, there was a few, but there was one that caught my eye. And this is in the article, so I can say it without defaming anybody. This is just a story in the Wall Street Journal. Stephanie Pittman says she lost her remote job as a director of vendor management. She's a lawyer, by the way, for a building maintenance company last month. She had worked from her home in Wichita, Kansas, since joining the California-based business last year. The company started calling employees back to its headquarters and hiring people who could work in person. Pittman, who is 51 and again, an attorney, had taken the job to escape a previous employer's back to the office push and is anchored to Wichita by four children, her husband, who is a judge and aging parents who live only a mile away. Now, while I'm sympathetic to her situation. I understand what it's like to have aging parents and all of that. I'm there right now. I get it. I'm very sympathetic to what her situation is. But I think her expectations of working remotely for someone are, frankly, too high. And being an attorney, I would think that her common sense would tell her so. Because she's... This article goes on to say, her old job is now posted on an on-site position, or as an on-site position, with part-time legal work as a contractor. Pittman has maintained her income in the months since, but the outlook for another high-paying remote job is discouraging. She has gotten little traction on more than 100 applications so far, and she goes on to quote, saying, it's just so frustrating, so demoralizing. Now... I know she's an attorney, but Stephanie, I could have told you this was coming, and I did several years ago. It lasted longer than I thought, but I'm not sure why this is frustrating and demoralizing to you. You're an attorney. You should have seen the handwriting on the wall. Remote work. I don't want to say it's completely dead, but for a lot of jobs and a lot of companies, it will be. And here's why. And Andy and I have explained this many times. You don't get the same production as a company out of remote workers you would if they were in the office. You don't get the same collaboration. as if they were in the office. You don't get the same ability to monitor what they're doing when they're not in the office. And there's only but probably, I don't think I'm exaggerating, one, maybe two percent of all workers, and I know that sounds like a low number, but bear with me, one to two percent that can work remotely and be just as effective and productive and make the company the same money as if they went into the office. I mean that sincerely. And the reason is the majority of workers are not that disciplined enough to do that. Most workers from home. will take whatever advantage they can of doing so. The distractions will come. They don't have the same routine. I go down the list of things that most remote workers won't do to make them less productive and effective at home as if they were in the office. Now, some would say, well, yeah, but I get distracted in the office. I'm way more productive at home. You might be. And you might be. You might be one of those one or two percenters I was just talking about. But you're the exception. Far too many say that, and yet the numbers would say that they're very sorely mistaken because, no, they're not as productive at home as they would be in the office. I'll go one step further. Most people that can work effective remotely... and stay on top of things and make their company the same amount of money, could probably run their own business. Because that's what it takes, by the way. You have to be working almost 24-7 when you run your own business. You really never stop. You're doing something constantly. Your brain never shuts off. You're always figuring out what's the next thing that we as a company need to be doing to move things along. And if your mindset is such that you can do that from home versus being in the office, you're a good candidate to own your own business. And again, that's a rarity because most can't. Most can't. Most don't have the drive, the wherewithal, the ability to work as many hours as I just said, and so on. And I'm not saying everybody that works remotely has to put in 60, 70, 80 hours. That's not what I'm saying. But the reality is most that have even a 40 or 50-hour job that work from home probably aren't working half that, actually working half that. Again, distractions come along. Oh, I got to go do a load of laundry. Oh, I need to go mow the grass. Oh, I need to go do X, Y, Z. Or I think I'll do this or I'll do that or I can go down the list. And those distractions are there. And trust me, I know I work from home. I've worked from home now since about 2010 or so. So 15 years almost. And started working from home as I had more businesses and locations and so on. I figured out that I could actually be more effective going to my home office and getting done what I needed to do and so on. And I will tell you that even that for me, and you guys all know how hard I work and what I do on a daily basis. And even for me, that was a shift. A, because you're not around people. You don't have the social aspect of it because you're no longer around people in the office, so you're doing it without all of that, which, again, sometimes that can be a distraction. Sometimes, though, it can be a help. Sometimes that can even be a motivator. So you're at home working alone. You're trying to make sure you put all these distractions aside so you can concentrate on the things that you need to get done, and yet you also know that, oh, man, I didn't get this done yesterday, and I didn't get that done this weekend, and I still need to get this done because you're seeing all these things around the house that you know you need to get done, and they're barking at you. And you're thinking, well, I'm here. I could just take a half an hour and go do that really quick. Well, a half an hour turns into an hour and a half. And pretty soon you've not done any work because you've been over here doing this. And far too often on remote workers, what I just said happens. And it's finally caught up. And companies are realizing that, wow, our numbers aren't what they used to be. We've got all these remote workers. And, yeah, we know we saved a lot of money on office space and so on. But at the end of the day, we're worse off than we were before. Even paying for all of that. So, again, the remote office thing is changing dramatically. People are refusing, in some cases, to not go back because they've made huge lifestyle changes, which, again, good for them, I guess, if that's what they wanted to do. But I think some of these people really have this pie-in-the-sky feeling that, oh, this is just the way it's going to be from this point forward. They had no backup plan. One of the stories talks about a guy that lived somewhere in California that moved to Oregon or Washington. I can't remember exactly where it was because the cost of living was cheaper and he liked the climate better and blah, blah, blah. 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And we are back, Rush to Reason. Dan, what's going on, sir?
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So, interesting you're talking about working from home. I read an article today, or this week, where, you know, Doge, Musk, and... So... They're looking at government remote workers, and I guess there was some person that was working two six-figure jobs for the government, and they were full-time jobs. Both of them were.
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Which means he's not doing, and my guess is he's doing neither probably, right?
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I don't know. That was just interesting that, mean that's it's good that we got the whatever doge or whatever it's called because i wonder how many other remote positions in government are the same way so good question and then and then i'm wondering like i i don't i know you go up to the mountain some but all these uh high occupancy apartments like they're popping up in silverthorne right i'm like well how can people afford to live in silverthorne i mean where's all the jobs and it's probably because People are working remote jobs, and they're able to live wherever they want to live. So if it starts changing, I wonder if people are going to have to start leaving Colorado.
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You know, that is a really great question. I would not be, well, let's just say this, Dan. I think there's going to be a lot of shifting around of the workforce as time goes by. To your point a moment ago, because people did exactly what you said. In fact, I will tell you that a lot of the mountain towns, I know this firsthand, a lot of the mountain towns saw significant growth in their populations, Grand County being one of them, because of remote workers. And to your point, will they stay or will they be putting their homes up for sale and going somewhere else?
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I don't know cause I don't think Colorado has, well, we need to have a government regime change, right? Um, because they're not doing anything to create jobs. They're just taking more money from us and, and you've met on illegals and what, what not. So I guess we got a new something starting January 1st. I imagine you talked about it about, I don't know what healthcare or something that Colorado is doing now. Um, I can't remember. I read it. Where did I read it? I don't remember. All I could think was, oh, here's another government agency that we don't need. Yeah, you know what?
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I have talked about that. I'm going to have to go look that one up. Top of my head, I can't remember the exact name of that. But, yes, we have a new agency in Colorado for health care, basically.
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Yeah, and it's like, I don't understand why. the mentality of the liberal mindset, I don't have a hard time trying to understand, well, let's just keep taxing ourselves and we'll create more government agencies and more inefficiencies because there is no profit motivation for a government agency at all. And so because there's no profit motive, there's no reason for them to be efficient and effective.
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You are correct. That's why government doesn't do anything well at all, Dan, because to your point, there is no incentive to.
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Right. And another question, I'm just all over the place. How did Joe Biden make all his millions of dollars?
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Uh-huh. So...
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And I'm wondering if the funding of the Ukrainian war, if he hasn't made money through it.
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Oh, guaranteed he has. I mean, I can't say that with valid proof that I could show anybody. But, Dan, I mean, you'd have to be an ostrich with your head buried in the sand to think that Joe Biden isn't profiting off of Ukraine.
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Oh, he is. He is. So...
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Given the history that Hunter had and Burisma and, and, and, and, and, you know, to sit out there, no matter what side of the aisle you're on, if you think for one second Joe Biden hasn't profited from that, you have a screw loose.
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Yeah.
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You're in denial. I mean, Dan, literally, you have a screw loose because you're in total denial of reality, meaning you have a screw loose.
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I agree. And so... Did Biden allow the war in Ukraine to happen so that he could line his pockets with money? I think he did.
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Absolutely.
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And think about all the young men who have lost their lives.
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That and the citizenry of both countries that have gone through some of those things as well. Shows you, Dan, I say it all the time and I'll continue to say it because I mean it, the left, the Marxists, don't care about people at all. I might have lost you, Dan, but living proof that they don't care because if they did, Dan, I think I lost you. You must have gone into a bad spot on the cell. Regardless, yeah, no, they don't care about people because if they did, you'd see things being done differently along those lines. We'll take a break. Flesh loss coming up next. Civil, criminal, you need representation. Kevin is there for you. 303-806-8886.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And Dan, again, thank you for calling in. I had a video I was going to play today from John Stossel. I think Joe sent me this, but I've seen it as well. Why government can't build anything. And I don't have the time now. We're getting short here as we get towards the end of the hour. I'll probably do that either Monday or Tuesday because it's really solid. In fact, it talks about some of the things that I believe and don't know for sure because I'm not them, but I believe that Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk will do their best to help fix because I'm sure it's frustrating. And any of you that haven't. done this should. Elon Musk has all sorts of different videos out there, YouTube and so on, on X, where he talks about the inefficiencies of government, some of the things that he has experienced with SpaceX, for example, and just different things along those lines, building his data centers and all these different things that he has to go through and all the hoops he has to jump through regulatory-wise. It's worth watching. You know, I think one of the things that a lot of folks don't give him enough credit for is the fact that he's been through some of these things. He knows firsthand how difficult some things can be because government says so. Even though there's no rhyme or reason for it, it's just because government says so. So he's looking at this thinking, well, wait a minute, we're trying to do all sorts of things, technologically speaking, and advance the world and be the superpower that we are, and yet we've got government coming in and getting involved and basically hamstringing that, making it difficult for that to happen, which isn't the way it's supposed to work. Government should be there to aid in that and make that stuff jettison forward, not the opposite. Unfortunately, when government gets involved, they slow everything down. And much to what Dan was saying a moment ago, it's because the majority, not all, but the majority of government workers have no incentive to do otherwise. If you know, and this is human nature, by the way, if you know that your job is secure tomorrow, having nothing to do with how well you perform today, where's the incentive to get more done today so that you've got less to do tomorrow? As you can tell, there isn't any. And human nature is if you can put that off and procrastinate and not deal with it, you will. And this is not being, you know, judgy towards anyone. It's just human behavior. If you don't have to do it, you won't. So when it comes to government, and I get it, there is some accountability in some agencies and so on, and there are some things that have to be done and goals have to be met and so on, but not often. In most cases, that's not how it works. You show up, put in your time, fill out your time card or punch the clock or do whatever you need to do. As long as you're there and you're getting a quasi-fair amount of work done, you'll have that job for life. You don't have to perform like in the private sector. at all to keep your job. And guys, I'm not saying anything that people don't know. I mean, there used to be an old joke, Charlie, where people would talk about a government job, or there was some slang that went along with that to where everybody knew that if you worked for the government, you didn't have to work as hard. And frankly, that's gotten worse, not better. We have less accountability in that now than we've ever had. Not more accountability, less accountability. And again, I'm not trying to pick on government workers. We have some that listen to this program. And by the way, some government workers I don't think get near enough credit. I think that exists as well. I think some people might even carry their whole office because they feel like they should be doing what they need to be doing. And they are doing it. And yet most of their coworkers aren't. And for those of you that are listening to me that fit into that description, congratulations. Thank you. I appreciate it. And you probably don't get enough of that. In fact, you may be one of those people that you do all the work and watch your boss in government get all the credit. And I feel for you. And yet you don't want to rock the boat because you enjoy your job and your paycheck and your pension and so on. And you don't want to screw that up. And I can't blame you. And again, thank you for what you do. But you probably are, in some cases, carrying the whole office. Which, like I said, you don't get enough credit for. So I'm sure there's both in government. I'm not saying that every government worker is a slouch, but there's far too many. And part of that is because we make government jobs unaccountable. We, we as, in other words, the people. And remember, there's a lot of appointed bureaucrats that never get elected. that once they get into quote-unquote power, they can write their own ticket. They'll be there forever. There literally is no accountability. If they chair jockey correctly, that's what I call it. In other words, you jockey from this chair to the next chair to the next chair. If you're a good chair jockey and you know how to move up the ladder, you could very easily do so and have a job for life. And a lot of people play that game. And, again, I'm not criticizing. It's just what they do. It happens in the private sector as well. I get that. There's some chair jockeys and big corporations that do the same thing, and I understand that. But trust me, by and large, it happens way more in government than it does private sector. And when I say government, I mean everything from local towns all the way to the feds. And everything in between. And some of you are going to say, well, John, how do you know this? I mean, you don't have any proof of this. Well, actually, yeah, I do. You know, at times I think people forget all of what I've done in my career. When you grow up in the automotive world, and I started out in a car dealership and then had my own shops and so on, and I was around a lot of different people throughout the years. A lot of different people. And still am. But in that realm, I was around a ton of people. where I had my facilities, people that were professors at the college, people that worked for Ball Aerospace, folks that started Level 3, people that started Crocs. I mean, I can go down the list of the different people I've known over the years that have done a lot of high-end things, including a lot of people that work in government. And I can tell you straight up some of the stories, some of the people that I knew that could verify everything I've just said. I've watched some of them do that. 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We are back. Just a few seconds left of this particular hour. Tomorrow, movie reviews. Andy will have Kraven the Hunter and Lord of the Rings, The War of the... Rorim? Am I saying that right, Charlie? Rorim? I can't say it right. And then we're going to continue on with last week's loony lefties movies. So those of you that have actors and actresses that are loony on the left and you'd like to add that into our list, please, you can text me and do that. And we'll talk about that tomorrow during our Friday edition. Have a great night, folks. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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So a Florida man is threatened to light a homeowner's car on fire with a Molotov cocktail, said police in Cape Coral. A man was arrested over the weekend. Police said that he pulled out again with the swords. He pulled out a sword. Okay, stop, stop, stop. Full stop. Is that a thing in Florida? Every month I have two to three stories. They're brand new, different from each other, different parts of Florida where someone has a sword or a machete. Floridians, what is up? Do you all just like have swords? Is that a thing? What in the world? So this guy had a sword and a Molotov cocktail, and he wanted to make a point during an argument with a Cape Coral resident. Cape Coral police said that they got reports of a disturbance at the victim's home. They met with the homeowner, a 36-year-old man. He showed up in a driveway holding a glass bottle with a cloth wrapped around the top. He threatened to throw it, which he claimed... It was a Molotov cocktail at one of the vehicles in the driveway and lighted on fire. He also had a sword and he used the sword to tap on the windshield of a vehicle during the exchange. It was all captured on video by ring doorbell camera. And the police located the guy. They asked him. He said, no, I just I went to go ask about the disrespect to a family member. And then he was arrested, taken to Lee County Jail, charged with violating the law that they have about manufacturing firebombs. Okay. There you go. But the sword, though. And they... Was it actually a Molotov cocktail? They never really said. They never really confirmed that it was. But, you know. Let's see. This... This Florida man... Yeah, let's go ahead and do this. So... Apparently, I don't think this guy was supposed to be gator hunting, and he was. And it was a company that showed this guy and his friends, they went down to hunt some gators. But the guy's wife apparently did not know. 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Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of the second hour here. And it's Thursday. We're almost done through the week. It's the week before the week before Christmas. You guys are like, wait, what? Yeah, I know. It's going by fast, isn't it? Like how are we already – how is it already December 12th? This is just like way too fast, way too fast. All right. So a number of stuff, a number of things we've been covering. By the way, you can also look and follow us if you're not listening to us really, Channel 347, DirecTV, and we're also over at Rumble where the chat happens and X and less so, all that good stuff. The president rang the bell this morning. Wall Street. He's named Time's man of the year. Time magazine's man of the year. He's invited to ring the bell at New York Stock Exchange. He's only the second president to ever do so. Notice how they're all Republicans that get to. interesting that, isn't it? Only the Republicans, probably because they understand the economy. He's the first since Reagan to ring the opening bell. And the crowd was yelling at his family with him. He was flanked by the covers. It's a nice cover. The perspective is a little interesting. But It's a nice cover. I mean, it's like at a downward kind of angle and I'm curious as to how he was sitting or what he was sitting on. But they... What do you think the cover says? Is the cover backing a compliment, do you think? Because it's... When you consider the first one that they put him on where it was just like an emoji of his head and it looked like it was melting, that wasn't very flattering. This is a lot more sober. This is like the magazine cover that... seems like final acceptance of the inevitable, right? That's what I get out of it. It's not bad. I don't think that they make him look old. They have a cold filter on him because they took some of the hue out of his face and his hair. His hair is way brighter than that. But it seems like a... Their cover seems like a... Like they're accepting the inevitable, the inevitableness of all of this.
SPEAKER 02 :
Like they can't deny the last year.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. So they're like, OK, here it is. What's funny, when Joe Biden was elected, he said that they were going to return to normality. There's the cover I want showing you right there. It's not a bad cover. It's a weird perspective, though, isn't it?
SPEAKER 02 :
I was going to say that.
SPEAKER 04 :
But what what is that? I'm just I don't want to unpack it too much, but. I do think it's interesting. It's almost like you're peering up at him, right? That's the perspective of the photographer. You're peering up at him from a lower position, but he's not like lording it over you. It's very odd. I almost don't know what to make of it. Do you – I don't think it's – Steve, what do you think? Do you think it's like a backhanded compliment? I'm going to get one more opinion on this. It's weird. I don't know how to read it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean if you're reflecting from the same publication that had that cover years ago of that like really dystopian melting face, like that's obviously a twist. But I think they kind of had to admit that that's the case. I mean there was a lot of people up for it that they could have picked on the right – or on the left, excuse me, and they didn't.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. Yeah, they could have. I mean can you – who are they going to – can you imagine if they tried picking Kamala? That would have been a joke. But I also think that they realize that he sells magazine covers, I think. And so putting him on that, I don't think that it is a smear. And the reason I'm bringing this up is a couple of you emailed me this morning asking if I thought that it was an insulting, if I thought it was an insulting cover. And I don't think that it is an insulting cover. I just think that It's I don't know. It's very weird. Right.
SPEAKER 02 :
I think I think it's just the inevitable. They realize what happened in the past year. They can't ignore it. There is no ignoring it. You can't rewrite what happened this past year. And that like we were talking about that perspective of the photographer, you are kind of as Time magazine or even as the public, you kind of look up to a guy that has gone through what Trump has gone through over these past eight years.
SPEAKER 04 :
and I think it's I don't think it I don't look at it as a backhanded compliment or you know what I mean anything the only reason I think that it's and I don't mean to like I'm sorry if I'm boring you guys because I'm obsessing over it but what the reason I bring it up is because it's so desaturated so is that is the desaturation because and I'm not saying this is to be mean he's oranger than this guy come on the dude has like super Scottish red hair It's like... Except it's not really blonde. It's definitely got red tint in it. And he's one of those people that when their hair... He doesn't really gray. It turns blonde. I had a grandmother who was as Irish as the day is long. That's where it comes from. And she had hair like Ronald McDonald. And she didn't go gray. It went blonde. It was real weird. He's got like the same thing. So... It's just super desaturated. He doesn't look defeated. He looks reflective. And I don't know. There's a lot to get into with this cover. And why I'm focusing on it so much is I'm trying to read the tea leaves as to what his presidential term, the start of it's going to be like. And every politics has been upended since 20. I would say since 2014, really. It really started getting upended in 2014, 2015. And then when he won and no one expected him to win. And then in 2020, when it was so close, no one knows what to expect. Every term has the only the only thing that's been predictable has been Biden. And even then, how bad he was was not as predictable. We all knew he was going to be bad, but we didn't know he was going to be as bad as – I mean, my gosh, the joblessness, the inflation, the instability, the lack of – I mean, any kind of focus on any kind of domestic issue, particularly manufacturing, all of that stuff. But – This is I almost it almost seems like it's a relief because the left, I think, is relieved because they don't have to be yoked with Biden anymore. They don't have to make excuses for him. They don't have to apologize for him. They don't have to send surrogates out to clean up his messes. So I almost feel like they act like they have a reprieve. And in some respects, they're sort of grateful for it because they don't have anything else that they can use to stop the bleeding, so to speak, any other candidate of Biden. They don't have anyone ready to step up. They don't have anyone who can actually do the job. That's why they ran Kamala. And I honestly do think that they felt like they were going to lose. But they ran Kamala Harris because they had to run someone and they had no one else to run. And she's shallow and vapid enough to think that that was a compliment to her and that they actually believed in her ability to run when they didn't. They were just they needed a sacrifice. They knew that they were going to be feeding someone into the meat grinder and And that person had no hope of a political career after. And so they gladly sacrificed her. The irony of ironies, Democrats, you had people like James Clyburn who were demanding that they run a black woman when Democrats in reality knew that this was going to be the sacrificial candidate that had no hope and that it was going to be such a destructive presidential cycle that whoever it was, they were never going to have any hope of a political career after. And so they just ran her. How unbelievably fitting that they actually fed their own DEI policies to the meat grinder in this fashion. I've never seen such a cell phone in my ever-loving life. It is truly stunning how unbelievably ironic this all is. Really, it's truly stunning. So they were demanding, oh, we want our black female candidate. And then turn around and they're like, okay. We'll let you have her. And they destroyed her. You're not even going to see her at the inauguration, I doubt. Which brings me back to this cover. To me, it spells relief. When you look at it, do you feel like they're exhaling? That's what I get out of it. It feels like they're exhaling. So what does this mean with the media covering him going into January? It's tricky. Think of how many newspapers endorsed him over Kamala or didn't make an endorsement. Like WAPO, right? They didn't make an endorsement. And they weren't the only ones to not make an endorsement. So think of this. The media coverage when he assumes office, I think they're actually going to be – I'm not saying this because I'm hopeful. I'm not. I have no hope. I am diogenous. I feel like they realize the economy is a mess, the border is a mess, and they're going to be supportive on those issues. And they realize they can't really do anything to him because he only has four years and he's termed out. I think that their ire, they're already retiring him with this magazine cover. Their ire is going to be turned towards everybody else. The bench. And this is one of the things that the media has been really bad at. So they don't know how to deconstruct the coalition that Republicans have built. And they have not really hardcore attacked the Republican bench yet. I think this magazine covers them kind of like retiring him. And they're reconciled to the idea that he's the president. And they kind of feel relief because of Biden. But also, they're going to go after everybody underneath him twice as hard. Because as soon as they stop being sad over losing... They're going to be vengeful. And that's when I think you're going to see it. Thoughts, Cain? I think that's how it's going to go. I think that it's going to be knives out like you've never seen. For Republican governors, leading Republican senators, leading Republicans in Congress, I think you're going to see a double coverage on them. That's my opinion.
SPEAKER 02 :
Just like when you put salt on a slug. And it writhes and seethes and screams like that's exactly what we're going to be seeing because it's not going to be easy to drain the swamp.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I think so. And then when he starts going after Deep State, interesting. So that cover, I was staring at that cover and I'm like, this is such an interesting cover because it's such a departure from the stuff that they usually do, right? It's such a departure. So interesting stuff. And their article, if you've read it, it's like they're trying not to be flattering But it was it's there. It's just a fascinating thing. I think that they're actually they don't want to admit that they like him. That's what I'm walking away with. They are happy to have somebody who understands business and they want to like him, but they know that they're on the left's team. So they can't like him. The whole article read like they kept having to walk it back. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that was my take. And it just fascinated me. I just thought, this is so interesting. 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 9mm 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'd 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 Kel-Tec. Innovation, performance, Kel-Tec. Learn more at Kel-TecWeapons.com. That's K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them that Dana sent you.
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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 puberty blockers are set to be banned indefinitely for under 18s across the UK. The health secretary says the emergency measures banning the sale and supply are going to be made indefinite. And that's very good news because we can't be abusing this stuff and then chemically castrating people. It's just insanity. So this is huge news. This, let's see, out-of-control welfare has stunted economic growth. That's an actual headline from a newspaper. Who would have thought? Like, I'm so shocked. What? Yeah. Welfare and regulation. They're saying that economic orthodoxies are tumbling. People are realizing that those policies don't work. But are they actually going to implement them? I mean, that's like the big thing. You're actually going to put them into practice. Coffee prices are surging to the highest on record. This is the Arabian beans. They said that they have accounted for what most of the global production is. And their prices have jumped 80% this year. And that they're not the only place. They're saying that coffee brands are considering putting prices up in the new year also. Everything's been super expensive. But coffee roasters have been able to absorb a lot of those prices. Places like Black Rifle Coffee and that. And they said that. Some companies like Nestle, they've taken the hit from higher raw material prices to themselves. But they said all of that's kind of at a tipping point right now because the expense is still I mean, it's still super expensive. And it was a lot of it's due to drought and then heavy rain. I know both of those things are factoring into the expense on all of it. Floyd Mayweather was attacked by a mob in a row over Israel and Gaza while he was jewelry shopping in London. Why would you pick a fight with Floyd Mayweather? You stupid idiot. So... Apparently, he got into an altercation at Hatton Garden and he was out shopping for jewelry. And I mean, it was doing some window shopping and a ton of people are in the street. A mob descended on him and he was apparent. I mean, he looked angry. He knows security. We're in the Capitol. They said that he was confronted. They bundled him out of a jewelry store into a waiting four by four. And they said that he wasn't touched during at any point. But the crowd was using racial slurs towards him. These are like pro-Gazan people using racial slurs towards him. And he said he was fine. There's nothing more to it. He was there for 48 hours and he did some quick shopping. And that was it. That's so crazy. I wanted to touch on this because we missed it yesterday. Caitlin Clark, Audio Soundbite 22. She's doubled down. So Caitlin Clark. Came out and said that she felt like it was white privilege that she ended up. She was saying that she somehow was the beneficiary of white privilege and she doubled down on it in the soundbite. Listen.
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I think we have it. Okay. I always have had really good perspective on everything that's kind of happened in my life, whether that's been good, whether that's been bad. Um, and then obviously coming to the WNBA, like I've said, I feel like I've earned every single thing that's happened to me over the course of my career. But also I grew up a fan of this league from a very young age. Like, My favorite player was Maya Moore. Like I know what this league was about. And like I said, like it's only been around 25 plus years. So I know there's been so many amazing black women that have been in this league and continuing to uplift them, I think is very important. And that's something I'm very aware of. And like I said, like I try to just be real and authentic and, you know, share my truth. And I think that's very easy for me. Like I'm very comfortable in my own skin. And that's kind of been how it is my entire life. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
So she says that she's admits feeling privilege as a white person and says that the WNBA was built. on black players. No, it wasn't. The WNBA was the welfare recipient of the NBA. Nobody gave a rat's ass about women's basketball. Women don't even give a rat's ass about women's basketball. The WNBA was subsidized by the NBA. It is the welfare recipient of the NBA. NBA players and NBA viewers and NBA game attendees built the WNBA. Let's not pretend like these women who are in the WNBA built it. They can barely keep what was given to them. And then when they get someone who gets the eyeballs, they trash her and drag her down because they are a bunch of jealous bitches. That's the reality of it. And then they want to play victimhood and act as though everything's a racial hustle when it's not. She is one. What is her privilege exactly? And I know a lot of people are slamming her. And I just think that she is navigating something that no one has ever had to go through before. And that's part of what my point. How in the hell does she have white privilege when she is like one of she's a minority player in the WNBA? How in the hell does she have white privilege? They have been racist bitches to her since she got there. They have targeted her. They have smeared her. They have acted like she has is less than that. And to her credit, she's ignored it up until now. I mean, she's ignored it up until, you know, this point. So I don't know how she's considered privileged. She works hard and she has talent. But how is that a privilege? She works hard with her talent. I mean, this is it's goofy. She she gets athlete of the year and then she has to apologize. I feel as though she's – because she had said – she said, quote, I want to say that I've earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is a privilege. I disagree with this. And she says – she said a lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been black players. This league has kind of been built on them, blah, blah, blah, blah. Again, someone who is one of – she's a minority player in the WNBA on her team, and she has to admit to some kind of privilege. They can't just credit her talent. Like Time Magazine, they said Clark is cognizant of the racial underpinnings of her stardom. She says, I want to say the quote that I gave you, but the fact that she says that, oh, yes, the racial underpinnings, Time Magazine and writing about her, the racial underpinnings of her stardom, the racial underpinnings of the WNBA, nobody watches it. She's, I don't know, she just is like a beaten dog. But at the same time, she's never had to navigate. Nobody's ever had to navigate anything like this in the WNBA or anything like this. A female. Nobody's. This is kind of new. It's very new. But she's allowing herself to be bullied at this point. And there are players of a different race that did not generate the eyeballs that she generated. They did not generate the interest for the league that she generated. And they feel like they and they're they're trying to other her. They're trying to say that the only reason that she's talented is because of some sort of privilege. Being white doesn't make her play better. Practicing hard and working hard does. And she has a natural born talent that is entirely unrelated to her skin color. She just happens to be a white girl. But no one can credit her talent because no one wants to admit that she just might be a better player than Angel Reese. Or she just might be a better player than some of the other women on the teams in WNBA. They can't say that. So they have to discredit her talent by saying, oh, well, white privilege. The hell does white privilege have to do with being naturally talented at basketball? I suck at basketball. Love basketball. Love watching it. Love watching it. And I always wanted to play it. But I'm not very good, Cain. Where's my white privilege? I was told that I would have privilege. Look, as badly as I wanted to be on my school's basketball team and I never made it, I was varsity everything I did but basketball for some reason. I have no idea why. It doesn't make sense. I did 18 years of classical ballet and then I was varsity everything I did from freshman on. Basketball could not do it. No idea why. Where's my white privilege for that? Right? I wanted it. Isn't that how it works if you're white and you want it? Don't you automatically get it? Cain, how does white privilege work? Isn't that how it works? You're white adjacent though, 50%. So I don't know.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. I get a 50% card. Yeah. 50% privilege.
SPEAKER 04 :
But the other 50% of you, what privileges have you gotten?
SPEAKER 02 :
Gosh, I don't know.
SPEAKER 04 :
You haven't gotten any privileges?
SPEAKER 02 :
Not that I know of.
SPEAKER 04 :
But wait a minute. I'm told that if you're white, you get all these special things.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I don't. They only see the non-white half of me, apparently.
SPEAKER 04 :
You played football, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Were you a better football player because you were white? Half white?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, I don't think so.
SPEAKER 04 :
It didn't give you any kind of special superpower?
SPEAKER 02 :
No.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, I always thought that you played worse. Remember the Woody Harrelson movie, White Men Can't Jump? That was huge when I was a kid. And I remember looking at that title thinking, I wonder if they can't. Hollywood. Just saying. It's true. Do you feel bad for her? Caitlin Clark?
SPEAKER 02 :
Do I feel bad for what she's had to go through and all of that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you feel like she's been browbeaten into this?
SPEAKER 02 :
I think so. I think so. She literally just wants to play basketball. She just wants to get along with everybody. She just wants to have fun. And everyone else is thrusting her in these directions and making her do these things. It just doesn't seem, just like anybody who doesn't do anything that comes naturally to them, it doesn't look right and it doesn't feel right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Lorraine says that she feels like she's saying this to make the other girls on the team feel better. Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 :
Probably, because she wants to get along with them.
SPEAKER 04 :
How lame are the chicks in this league? If you have to have this woman lie prostrate in front of the media to make you feel better, I'm going to say something mean. I've already said it once, but these women are... They are... I read lips.
SPEAKER 02 :
I didn't know I was a lip reader until just now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is that white privilege? Uh... You would have been able to hear the voice in your head had you been full. I'm just saying that's how it works, right? Lorraine says that she's always lifted up her teammates, always been very humble. She always seems like she's tried to ignore this. But that's sort of notice. And this is how it is. And it doesn't matter if it's Caitlin Clark or whoever. This is why I'm like never been in need of the rage mob because they don't care. She's never going to be forgiven. She is their original sin of being born white. I mean, that's how all of her critics and all these people around WNBA are acting like. Maybe if you bitches could play basketball a little bit better, then maybe she wouldn't be getting all the attention. Maybe if y'all were half as talented as she was, then maybe, oh, I don't know, maybe you would get more advertising dollars. Maybe you would get more sponsorships yourself. Instead of hating on her, all you women need to be thanking her for keeping eyes on the WNBA, which has been nothing more than a glorified welfare recipient of the NBA. And you all know it's true, bitches. You know it's true. I'm so tired of this stuff. There are a bunch of bullies. Grown middle-aged women being bullies. Women who are in their 30s being bullies. At some point, you need to grow up. You do. Dana's, people are going to be like, Dana, I don't like your language. I am not Dora the Explorer, okay? You're not sitting in church and this ain't PBS, okay? I do feel bad for her because she's never had to navigate this. And I think that people who are trying to jump all over her need to slow their roll a little bit. I mean, I think the people who need most of the ire are the coaches and the league and her teammates. Those are the people that you need to be sharp with. Because I think she's just trying to navigate and deal with it. And she didn't come out and I think she, I mean, she seemed very hesitant when she was saying the stuff that she said. But if she thinks, though, that this kind of thing is going to make it to where they accept her and they celebrate her and they stop giving her grief, no. In fact, it's going to double. Because if they see you bleed, then they're going to come for more. That's how it works.
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