HR3 Rush To Reason December 11, 2024 by John Rush
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All right. Hour three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Jay Bieber joining us now, Executive Director of Policy at the National Motorist Association. Welcome back, Jay.
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Pleasure to be back with you.
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I was reading today, and I know this is going to be our topic anyways, but I was reading today that in California and across the country, the government, whether it's locally or nationally, has spent billions of dollars and yet have very few charge stations installed.
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Yes. That is true. Are you shocked at that, by the way? No. Do I sound shocked? No, not at all. That the government actually didn't do something efficiently? No. I'm shocked. Shocked that there's gambling going on.
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And, you know, these mandates. The other thing I was reading today is that, you know, Newsom is really having a hard time now with some of his California, you know, EV mandates. They're backpedaling on some of those things because the reality is, and it's our topic today, the reality is the demand for electric vehicles, shockingly, is not there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. That's absolutely true. I mean, here's the thing. No matter how much the government tries to mandate something or tries to muck up the market, the market's going to do what the market does. And if people don't want to buy something and it doesn't work for the majority of people, they're not going to buy it.
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That's right.
SPEAKER 04 :
They're just not going to. And the market for this has already been saturated. Yeah, really quick, Jay.
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For those of you listening, as we all know, Jay, there are in every industry and every type of product, there's what we call early adopters that want to go out. They've got the money. They can have the high tech and so on. Or they're curious about that particular technology. Or, you know, in my case where I wanted to learn about them so I could talk intelligently on air about them on the different programs that I have. Right. Bottom line, Jay, is there are those people that will adopt early. And in some cases, I hate to say this, but in some cases may give a false premise of, hey, these things are really taking off and they're going to do well. You probably ought to sit back for a moment and wait and see how that pans out, because there's always this bell curve of early adopters and then things fall off. And guess where we're at, Jay?
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Yeah, it is exactly right, and that's exactly what has happened with the EV market, because what we're seeing is that the initial market for EVs overwhelmingly composed of upper-income liberals. That's who bought the initials. So, California EV registrations overwhelmingly concentrated in the wealthiest episodes. The UC Berkeley study showed that close to half of EVs registered nationally over the last decade were clustered in the top 10% of the most Democratic counties nationally, over a third in the top 5%. And here's the thing. Here's what everybody should be really angry about. Not that those people bought cars. They were all subsidized.
SPEAKER 15 :
I was just going to say, they all got help.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. They got your tax dollars to help wealthy people feel good about themselves that they were saving the environment, which a lot of people don't necessarily do. Right. And you should be really angry that your tax dollars went to rich people, liberal or not, who want to, you know... who want to buy a new car that works for them or that they think works for them and make them feel good about driving around with an electric vehicle.
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Absolutely. No, you are spot on. Things that we've talked about on this program for some time, and I've had conversation after conversation, again, being somebody, Jay, that's owned one since 2020, and I did that early on just so that I could – I really wanted to be able to talk intelligently, you know, as a talk show host and as a conservative and as somebody that has an actual, you know, call in drive radio, we call it an actual call in car show. I wanted to be able to talk intelligently about things which I felt at the time no one on either side of the aisle was doing, you know. The left wasn't doing it well. The right wasn't doing it well. They were both wrong in some of the things that they were talking about with EVs. So I wanted to buy one and actually own it and know, okay, here are the realities of what this is like and what it entails and so on. And I'll say, Jay, that for some people, key word, for some people, they work extremely well. Are they something that 100% of the driving population can own? Absolutely not.
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No, and I mean, just the reality of it, just logically thinking about it. I mean, I don't know where you live, but for people who have their own home and can have a charger there, can charge overnight, that's really helpful. That really makes that much less burdensome. But let's say you live in an apartment building with a whole bunch of apartments. Not going to work. Everybody has an EV. How is that going to work? It's just impossible. And who is going to be living in apartments? For the most part, people who can't necessarily own their own home. So the poor people, the ones who are subsidizing this through tax dollars, and the people who can own homes and can be subsidized with the cars and the chargers, those are the people that are using the tax dollars. And here's the thing. You said it exactly. It works great for some people. I don't know how many cars you own, but for a lot of people, it's a great second car. For some people, it's their first car.
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I'm a car addict, so more than I need. Let's just say that.
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It's like one of whatever your collection is.
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I'm an enthusiast. Well, but really, and I've said this many times, and it's not to brag. I just need simple facts of, Jay, I'm a guy that is, of course, further along in life. I've owned multiple businesses over the years in real estate and so on. And I've got my own home with my own garage with... the fact that I'm handy enough to even install my own charge station, so I didn't have to pay the big bucks to actually have that done. I mean, I am sort of one of those owners where everything fits perfectly. I drive roughly 30 miles each way to work, and on and on we go. I mean, at the end of the day, it's about as ideal as it gets, but I'm not the typical car owner.
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That's true, but you also have other options for when you need something different. Absolutely. And that's why the free market should work for people who want it, and it's whatever, first car, second car, third car, fifteenth car, I don't know. You know, if that works for them, great. People should be free to buy whatever kind of car they want. It shouldn't be the government cramming it down.
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By the way, Jay, this includes even, you know, the fleet operators, which, you know, I am one of and so on. I mean, this includes those types of individuals as well. If they feel like for their fleet, it works well and they can. possibly save time and money and so on. At the end of the day, they have to do the math and figure that out on their own, but they should not be either A, incentivized to buy and or forced to.
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Right. And here's the thing. When people have a choice, we can see what their choices are. I was traveling over the holidays, so I was talking to a guy at a Hertz rental, and he was telling me, they can't get rid of most of their EVs because people didn't want to rent them. I mean, that just shows you what the market is. You take them, you put them out there, you give people an opportunity to rent them, they choose something else. That just tells you what the demand is.
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Yeah. No, Oh, and you're exactly right. And on the other side of the Hertz thing, I had the opportunity at the Barrett-Jackson auto auction last year to sit next to some of those same executives, by the way, just ironically, and was asking them a little bit about some of those things. And that was a combination of not only what was in the rental fleet, but they did some big leases to a lot of companies whereby those companies thought, hey, this will be great for us. It'll save us money. Well, fact of the matter is, Jay, it didn't. And as you know, and the rest of the folks out there know Hertz ended up having to take a lot of those back and then figure out what they're going to do with them. And in turn, it costs them a boatload of money.
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Yep, exactly. And part of the reason is because repairs on an EV are more expensive than a regular car. Tires. The tires, the batteries, long-term maybe are going to be more expensive. Look, I still have my 94 Celica. It's running fine. I just rebuilt the rack and pinion on it. And it's a 94 Celica. It's a gas engine. I don't have to worry about replacing the battery battery. But not the electric battery on it. And that car will last another 30 or 40 years.
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You just stated something a moment ago, too, that there's a misconception of. And by the way, one of the biggest complaints that I have had is because most of the folks involved with EVs, whether it be press or even the guy at the dealership selling it. aren't informing people well enough of actually what they're buying. The reality is they are not maintenance-free. There are things that you have to do on them. They do even have fluids and things like that that you still have to monitor, maintain, and take care of. And yes, things still break, and there's accidents and so on. At the end of the day, it's not as rosy red as what everybody says. And Jay, to me, that's where a lot of consumers have done a disservice because the folks selling them aren't trained well enough in even the things you and I are talking about.
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That's exactly right. And this is why about 46% of EV purchasers said they weren't going to go back to an internal combustion vehicle. I mean, that's just, again, that's what's telling about what this thing is. And look, I understand that there are those in government who have this aspirational idea that we're going to save the planet by everybody buying an electric vehicle. But I'm going to tell you a little secret here, which is the really hardcore environmentalists They don't see electric vehicles as the, you know, the savior of the environment. They see you not driving and having a car as the savior of the environment.
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That's right. You and your car are the things that need to be eliminated, not going to an EV.
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That's exactly right. Internally, they talk about this all the time. Yeah, EVs are harder for people to get around. Maybe they'll drive less or whatever. But really, the goal is for you not to get in your car. You take public transit, get on a bicycle, walk somewhere, don't consume as much. We hate consumerism. We hate capitalism. You know, we hate the free market. You know, everybody has to be part of the collective. That's right. And that's the way they want everybody to live their lives. Look, they want to live their lives like that and live in a commune. God bless them. Let them go. That's not me, though. Don't tell us that.
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That's exactly right. Jay Bieber, again, executive director of policy at the National Motors Association. Jay, how do folks find you?
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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We are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Mike, you are next. Go ahead, sir.
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Hey, John. I, uh... I retired last July, a year ago July, from the post office. So you're one of those liabilities now. Yeah, I am. And they took my machine away. I started out as a clerk sorting the mail on a machine, and then I moved into the maintenance side and worked on the magazine machine that put... that in sequence order and because it didn't work right good enough for them they got rid of it after 10 years so at a million dollars a piece for each machine they trashed all 110 flat sorters wow i am sure and i'm only guessing mike that you can give story after story of some of the waste and inefficiencies that you saw over your career am i correct Oh, yeah. I mean, when I first started there, you had to be a citizen for five years, and you had to speak English. Now we have people coming in here from Africa or the Middle East that are in-country a year, and they put them into supervision.
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Okay. Is that not a security risk?
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You would think. I mean, when they had the... what, anthrax?
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Right, right.
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They put in these big sorters to sniff for anthrax, and the thing about that, even if it picks it up, you won't find out for two hours because it has to be changed out every two hours.
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I see.
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And then they'll shut down the plant, and everybody's already been subjected to it.
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Right, right.
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I always thought that We should, as a country, just for instance, we'll use me. If I started working today, my Social Security should, 50% would go for my private retirement. Can't touch it until I get to X age. But that way, it would be there and the government couldn't take it. And then, The other one, 25% would be for those like me that are already on it until we all go away.
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Right.
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And then 25% would be for... Future. Catastrophic.
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Oh, I see. Okay. Sure, sure, sure.
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But that way, the biggest thing is to get it out from under... the thieves in Washington.
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Right, right. What are your thoughts since you've been in the postal end of things, and this talk has happened, and I know that for the, you know, technically the post office is private, although it's a, it's kind of a quasi-government slash private organization. What if the post office went totally private?
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Well, they'd have to, the problem with that is they don't get rid of the dead weight when that happens. I think it would work really well if you got some people in there that are there to get the mail out. But you have people, I had supervisors that would just go sit in the office for half the night. I worked graveyard. And you wouldn't see them until 4 o'clock when day shift came in.
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So, dumb question, what were they doing during that time?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, let's see. One was watching a basketball game or a football game, and the other one was... The other two were playing video games.
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Yeah. So basically proving the point of what Joe and I were talking about earlier.
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Oh, yeah. It needs a healthy God through. And I feel sorry for the people. My carrier I have, she's only been with the post office eight years. And I feel real sorry for her because I don't know that we'll be around that much longer.
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Got it. Got it. Yeah, and for those of you listening, I have a great mail carrier. We are, I guess you could say, friends to a large extent. Mike, we'll do something for him for Christmas and so on, and we love our mail carriers, and it's not those guys that I feel animosity towards. It's the folks that you're talking about and just the inefficiencies and the fact that we as taxpayers have to subsidize that thing every single year. It's ridiculous. Shouldn't have to.
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They can't even keep new hires in the post office they work for especially on the street they work for a week maybe a month maybe two and they just say to hell with it and they leave If you go by any post office, you'll see signs up that says, we're hiring now.
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You're right. No, you're right. And I've had family members that have worked for the post office, so I know some of what you're talking about from the inside out, like you're saying, and you are not the only one like you that's ever said this. So reality is I've heard this story many times.
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I've kind of given the post office a nickname. I call it the United States Refugee Employment Service. Because they always, wherever we screw up a war, they bring those people in and put them into the post office. And it's been going on since Korea. Wow.
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That's some things I did not know. I mean, I guess I should have known that, but I've never had anybody directly say that before like you are.
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Oh, I had people when I was testing couldn't speak English, so they had one of their – buddies who are Vietnamese translating to her, and they didn't kick them out during the test like they're supposed to because they had to translate.
SPEAKER 15 :
Interesting. Wow. I'm learning a lot. Again, Mike, just more proof that that thing needs a revamp, complete revamp.
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I always said that the post office should have an ad out there that says nobody goes where we go for the price we do anywhere in the world. But they never advertise like that because they don't want to piss off FedEx and UPS and all that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right. No, you're right, though. You're correct. Absolutely. I can't argue with that.
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Mike, I'll let you go.
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No, appreciate that. Thank you for the update. Again, every time I talk to somebody that's internal like that, I learn something new. All right, one other thing I want to talk about before we go to Scott Garlis, and we'll do that here in just a few minutes. So hang tight. We'll get to Scott, and he's got some updates for us on what's happening on Wall Street, I should say. So you may have seen the news today, something we've talked about here a few times in the past because I never felt like the Kroger merger with Albertsons. I never felt like it should have had the scrutiny the FTC was giving it. It's ridiculous, actually. And I've talked about that. I've had interviews along those lines. And I'm not really in the grocery world any way, shape, or form, but I felt like that would have been a good merger. Let it go. Move on. Be done with it. Well, Albertsons has now backed out. They are suing Kroger for failing to win approval of their proposed merger. Now, I don't think that suit's going to go anywhere, frankly. And who knows, this merger under Trump might be able to be saved and rectified, and you may still see this happen later in 2025 or maybe even early in 2025. I don't know. I'm not privy to any of that inside knowledge. I would be hard-pressed to believe that Albertsons could win anything over Kroger, given the fact that this isn't Kroger's doing. This is a Joe Biden FTC that made this happen. And FTC, by the way, that has stopped numerous mergers, but yet have allowed some to take place. Sort of whatever they feel like should happen versus shouldn't happen. Not what's best for the consumer. It's more of what do they feel should be happening. And again, in the case of Kroger, we've even got our own stupid AG here in Colorado. And yes, I'll call Phil that. Phil Weiser. Guy's a moron. Tool, basically, has never tried a case in his life, and yet he's the AG of Colorado because enough stupid voters in Colorado voted for that clown. He's another one that got involved and spent Colorado tax dollars fighting this merger. Stupid. Have no business doing it at all. But yet our AG office in Colorado, I guess, just feels like money is endless, and why not spend the taxpayer money on this? He did. He did. and now really at this point, really wasted money because Albertsons has now pulled out because of what nationally the FTC, you know, what the feds did. Again, why we don't have more accountability, this goes back to even the whole post office conversation we just had a moment ago with Mike and then Joe earlier, why we don't have more accountability along these lines is, to where somebody like a Phil Weiser spending Colorado taxpayer dollars fighting something he has no business sticking his nose into, none, and yet did, and spent, I'd have to go look at what the total is, and that I hope would be a public record that we could go and see exactly how much money Phil wasted. on fighting the kroger merger here in colorado i don't know what that answer is maybe one of you out there who have a lot more time on your hands than i do maybe you could find out for me how much money we've wasted as a state fighting this which now literally just, I guess, goes away. We'll end up seeing what happens again under the Trump administration. I would be shocked to not see this get resurrected under Donald Trump. And I think Albertsons, by the way, they're posturing with some of this, I believe. They're probably trying to get a little more value out of this when it's all said and done, maybe. I don't know. I don't know what their their whole slant would be on this and why they're going this direction, because if they were smart, they just sort of kick back, sit back, I should say, wait and see what happens. And most likely under Donald Trump and a new FTC chair, which we will get. you most likely would see all of this go away and that merger would take place. So I think Albertson's number one is being very premature. I don't really know what their angle is here in all of this. I guess time will tell. But I believe, again, wholeheartedly that they're being very premature in this. And again, do I have a dog in the fight in this? No, I don't care one way or the other. I mean, it doesn't matter to me whether they merge or not. I think that typically in the I do know this in the grocery business. We've talked to Joe from Jersey about this many times. Their margins are thin. Anytime they can figure out a way to, you know, tighten things up, consolidate even and get more efficiencies in what they're doing. Yeah, they can actually make that work. And Kroger, being as large as they are, has the ability to help that out and even help some of the Albertsons slash Safeway stores do so. And I think they already had some agreements out there to where they were going to go ahead and take certain stores off and sell them to somebody else and make all that work in regards to the FTC complaints and so on. And I understand all of that. But again, at the end of the day, Albertson's pulling out now because they feel somehow slighted, I guess you could say, on the Kroger end of things. And, again, I think they're very wrong in doing this. They should have just sat back and waited a little bit and figured things out. But they didn't do that. So, at any rate. 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All right. That time of the week, Scott Garlis joining us now and his company, Bent Pine Capital. Scott, welcome. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, John, I'm well. How are you?
SPEAKER 15 :
Doing very well. Appreciate you joining us. Hopefully we're not interrupting you. Sorry we got a little bit behind tonight, but I appreciate you joining us. All right, I saw today, and of course the news media gets all hyped up over inflation numbers, which I know you and I have talked about numerous times, and we've even gone into how they manipulate these numbers around and what the actual true numbers are. But explain for those listening, because there's a lot of hype around it today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so what happened today was annualized CPI data came out. They showed 2.7% growth year over year. Now, that's actually up over the last three months from, geez, I want to say it was like 2.2%, 2.4%. Right. It was 2.4% just a few months ago. So what's really interesting to these numbers, to me anyway, is So the media is really locked into the accelerating growth, but they're not looking at the sort of the forward-looking projections of what these numbers are telling you. We're losing these really easy comparisons from late last year right now, and we're hanging on to these really difficult comparisons from the beginning of 24. But as we start to go out into March, and maybe April, we'll drop those numbers. And all of a sudden what it looks like right now is we could see inflation growth sub 1%, you know, within the next six months.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. So a lot of the hype, and I read some of these stories today, you know, oh, we're really doing our best to try to fight inflation, but it's not working. It's just, you know, it's just this number that just won't come down no matter what we do. And I'm like, oh, there's so many other factors in that. You guys have no idea what you're talking about.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, exactly. It's really a big deal. Yes, it is starting to come down. And look, I think a big part of it, and we've talked about this a bit too, that inflation has proven to be transitory like the Fed originally said it would be. It's just taken longer to get there because, I mean, you know, we threw $2.1 trillion worth of stimulus at the economy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
We did that.
SPEAKER 15 :
We also had, as you know, and they've started to trickle down ever so slightly of late. And I think once Trump gets in office, they'll even come down more. But, you know, oil prices were not, you know, in our favor as far as some of this goes. And any time oil prices are up, so is everything else.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and then think about, you know, Russia has dealt with all these crippling sanctions since 2014 when they took the Crimean Peninsula. If Trump can negotiate some sort of deal between Russia and Ukraine, Russia's not going to take a deal unless all those sanctions go away. True. If that happens, you know, what's Russia's number one export? Oil. Oil. And natural gas.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oil and gas, yeah. Oil and gas.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and not to mention, let's not forget about what... aluminum is another big thing. And so, you know, what's Russia going to do? It's going to try to sell all that stuff on the open market that it can. And that's just going to drive those prices down a bit more and help inflation ease further. Now, I point that out for a couple of reasons. One, you know, there's this big thing like, oh, my God, if Trump goes after China and introduces tariffs, it could drive headline inflation up by 0.6 to 0.9 percent. Well, If inflation's running sub-1% right now... Who cares? Yeah, and we drive it back up by 0.6 to 0.9, it's still below the Fed's 2% target.
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Right, right.
SPEAKER 05 :
So that's also important because not only that, but that also tells us, you know, the Fed funds rates around 4.7% right now, I think is the overnight rate.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think that's right, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so... You know, to come back to neutral, which the Fed is talking about, let's say we put this 1% on for Trump tariffs, we're 2%. They can still cut by 270 basis points before they get to neutral.
SPEAKER 15 :
True. Good point.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's a lot of economic growth. And so if I'm an investor... That doesn't mean the Fed's going to immediately cut by 270 basis points, but they have the ability to. So if the economy were to slow down at all, there's tons of room to help it out. If I'm an investor, I like that. Because that means the stock market can keep going for a while.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right. And I mean, you know my feelings on that, and I do think they've got room. I think also one of the things the Fed never looks at, but yet we in business, small, medium-sized businesses especially, because we don't get the same deals that the big guys get, borrowing costs, whether it be on equipment, whether it be your line of credit, the reality is they're higher now than they were before. And because of that, and, of course, also the cost of labor is also up, those two things alone create inflation. Those are things that, again, Scott, I just – I mean, I get it. The Fed is the Fed, and these guys think they're smarter than the rest of us. But the reality is they're not because they never look at the things I just said as a part of inflation.
SPEAKER 05 :
So to reaffirm and support exactly what you just said is if you look at the real federal funds rate, which again is overnight borrowing costs minus inflation, and that's where you get that 200 basis points worth of room to cut rates. Well, if we go back and look at that historically, I've run these numbers. If you look at it from 2000 to 2020, sort of pre-pandemic and pre-crazy stimulus numbers, the typical real rate of interest based on CPI was negative 0.3%. That's massively different. And so, again, if you think of the Fed as trying to run interest rates at neutral, and this, I don't want to get too deep in the weeds, but the Fed really looks at PCE, which is personal consumption expenditures. It's a little bit different way to measure inflation. You know, the average... real Fed funds rate based on PCE on that same timeframe was negative 0.3%, so effectively zero. So again, the Fed has a lot of room to cut interest rates, and that's not a great story for CNBC to tell you, but that's what's going on. That's what can happen. Even if Trump does introduce these tariffs and they drive inflation up by 1%, 0.6%, whichever, you know, they still have a lot of room to cut.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree. And we talked about this a little bit throughout the week, a little bit yesterday, even, Scott, when it comes to some of the tariffs and so on. And you and I have talked, and I'm a big one on most, not all, but most people that are anti-tariff are globalists. They look at things way different than even... You and I do. They are naysayers when it comes that they would not if they had their way about it, there wouldn't be any terrorists anywhere. And they could care less whether, you know, China runs rip shot over us or not. I know you know me. There is no love lost between me and China whatsoever. They have been a intelligent, you know, a thief. of our intelligence for 50-plus years now, and the reality is they are not our friend. Anything we can do to, in my opinion, cripple them and their economy, go for it. I'll take a little bit higher price here if that's what it means.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, China's out for China. That's right.
SPEAKER 15 :
They don't care about us or our people, any way, shape, or form.
SPEAKER 05 :
They don't. And the President of China, Xi Jinping, he doesn't have to worry about an election every four years. Xi Jinping's there for as long as he wants to be, more or less. And look, China's playing a long game. They're not playing a short game here. If they have one guy in there for 50 years, I doubt he'd be there that long. But he can affect these policies that stay around for a long time. Yes, and taking intellectual property, stealing it from people, and then building products not having spent the money on the R&D, and then going and crushing somebody else's property. That's just not the spirit of business whatsoever.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm here to tell you, Scott, that if we started cracking down on some of the things you and I just said, including even the corporate espionage and so on that China is very good at, if we started cracking down on that and they didn't have the access to the things that literally at times we just hand over to them – They would not be – I mean, they're not technologically as advanced as most people think. They copy and redo a lot of the things that they steal from us. If they didn't have that in the first place, they wouldn't be where they're at.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, China's economy really took off because of all the manufacturing business they picked up, gosh, you know, in like the 80s and 90s when it really started. And China turned around and started to weaponize that against Europe and the U.S. And I think Trump was the first person to really step in and say, hey, we're not putting up with this anymore. And it's, you know, China's economy is being crippled now because All of these companies that manufactured goods there from Europe and the U.S., they have left. And we talked about this years ago. When a company leaves, they're not coming back. That's a big investment, and they have to make a huge investment somewhere else. I think China's got some real economic problems for the foreseeable future.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree. And, you know, we are doing not as quick of a job here as we should be. But eventually some of the things we've even started here, you know, TSMC as far as chips and so on. I mean, we're doing some things here, whether we agree with how it's been funded or not. At the end of the day, we are bringing some things here to make happen that those those sorts of things, especially, Scott, as you know, that does not help China out at all. In fact, doesn't really help. help Taiwan either, even though right now Taiwan's the largest manufacturer of that when it's all said and done. But if we get some of those things moved here and we start doing some things here along those lines, that affects those particular industries greatly, and China won't have the power they've got right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
They won't. And to your point, yeah, it really helps the U.S. as well. I agree. I mean, think about all the manufacturing jobs that would, you know, the skilled labor jobs that will pick up here in the U.S. because of that. And, you know, I can't tell you how many times I heard people complain about during COVID that, oh, my God, the supply chain. Think about all these medical products that were made in China that could have been made here. Well, We're being presented with the opportunity to have exactly that thing happen. So why would that be so bad?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's not. We should take advantage of that. I think Trump will make some of those things happen. He'll incentivize. And by the way, I'm a big one on if we can cut some of the just. you know total government waste that's out there you know doing studies in other countries we shouldn't be doing to you know some of the different things that we we just waste money on literally waste money i mean no offense scott the amount of money we spent on ukraine we could have tooled up and done all sorts of manufacturing here Thank you very much. I'm all in, and the reality is we could cut government waste in a lot of areas and put it into the things you and I are talking about. Whether that's right, wrong, or otherwise, and depending upon what your belief is on whether we should help private companies or not, that's irrelevant. The reality is we could cut in some places and do those things very easily.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and sort of going back to some of the China stuff as it relates to this, too. I mean, people don't remember, I feel like, all the time that a lot of these companies in China that are making these goods are government-owned, controlled. That's right. Basically, they're state-sponsored entities.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 05 :
So China is dumping tons and tons of money. They're not worried about costs. They're not worried about these things. You don't have to be. Yeah, and it's really an unfair advantage versus the rest of the world. This is why China is able to dump all of these goods into different markets.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right. Exactly right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because they don't care.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right. All right, so how do folks find you and learn more? And as we look into 2025, we'll have another show here before we close out the year and head into the holidays. But how do folks find you?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, sure. You can go to Twitter. You can go to LinkedIn. Look for C. Scott Garlis.
SPEAKER 15 :
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The discussion transitions from the intricacies of government shutdowns to a broader analysis on federal efficiency and potential reforms. John and Richard explore the possibility of AI taking over bureaucratic processes, eliminating redundant positions while streamlining services. They also contemplate the hypothetical redistribution of federal agencies across the country, projecting the economic and social impacts of such moves. With an emphasis on the accountability and transparency needed in public service, they propose a reinvigorated approach towards governance—one that aligns more closely with the fiscal realities faced by everyday Americans. Listeners are left with thoughtful reflections on the role of government employees, budgeting processes, and the pressing need for a paradigm shift as we head into a new legislative session.
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SPEAKER 18 :
And it's hour two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Battle joining us now as he does here on Wednesdays. Richard, welcome, sir.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good afternoon, John. How are you doing today?
SPEAKER 18 :
It's always a joy. I appreciate you joining us. And as we head down the stretch, I should say, into the holiday season, winding things down for the year, it has gone. This past year, Richard, all I can say is it has gone by super fast.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it's gone by super fast in this last month. I think people's optimism levels are higher than they've been in a long time.
SPEAKER 18 :
I agree. All right, let's talk about potential government shutdowns, or shutdown, I should say, lions, tigers, and bears. Oh, my.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, we remember that from The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and her friends were going toward the Emerald City, how they would sing that song because they were afraid of the wild animals. And December 20th, government funding ends, and so we're ahead of the game talking about this because in the next week or so, we're going to be scared about what will happen if the government has to shut down even for a minute, and we'll be stampeded into okaying our elected officials and throwing more money away.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. And the reality, Richard, is and we've seen, you know, temporary shutdowns in the past. And of course, they still keep essential services going, but they will, you know, frankly, by the way, when we had the last one, it's like, what what are we missing here? Because I'll be the first to tell you, Richard, that I didn't see anything that we were missing, telling you that we have, in my opinion, far too many non-essential government workers.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, that is correct. We've had 21 going back to Gerald Ford. The longest one was the last one with President Trump of 34 days. And what frosts my cake is that every time it's over, the employees are paid all of the back pay for the time off, despite that being the number one thing they scare people about is the poor federal employees are going to lose their income. They always are paid.
SPEAKER 18 :
That's right. In fact, they get paid basically a nice vacation.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's exactly correct. And what also happens on this is that they use this to spend equal or greater money. And we've not gone back and cut any of the spending whatsoever during this. We've not had a budget passed since 1997, which is why we have to do this. And it basically gives politicians from both sides of the aisle permission to spend more money than they would in a normal budget cycle.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, they sort of, Richard, quote, unquote, sometimes I don't even know if it's slipping them in. They're just downright, if we're going to do X, then I want Y. And they're very upfront about it. And at the end of the day, to your point, we don't go back and ever adjust those things or fix them. And sometimes those end up being perpetual things that we just keep spending money on. That's part of our problem. And hopefully what the Department of Doge will fix is some of these things that we keep spending money on that we never should have started in the first place.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's exactly correct. And there's no excuse in the next two years for us not to go back to regular budgets for the Doge people to come in and cut spending. Right now, only 6%. of the federal government employees are back working full-time in the office. And there's going to be pressure to get them back.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, stop it. How many? Six percent?
SPEAKER 09 :
Six percent are only working full-time in the office. And there'll be a lot of crying in the media about how bad it is to force people to go back into the office, into jobs where they had to work in the office before COVID. But now these people have moved to different parts of the country that are more enjoyable than where their office is. And I know in the Austin area, people are moving back to cities in corporate America, and that's causing a downturn in the real estate market.
SPEAKER 18 :
You are correct. In fact, one of the things I have said here for the past couple of weeks, Richard, is when it comes to, you know, minimizing some of our government expenses and maybe figuring out a way to do, you know, more with less employees and so on, you know, get AI on our side and streamline some of the, you know, really the antiquated technologies that government uses, IRS still using computer, you know, computer programs and computers from the 60s is interesting. ridiculous. But one of the best ways to minimize some of that is, frankly, do what you just said, move the main office somewhere else and, frankly, put it in a place where, you know, nothing against you in Texas, Richard, but there's a lot of Washington, D.C. workers that in the Department of Energy probably don't want to live in the panhandle of Texas called Midland.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I think you're correct. And I think President Trump is looking at and planning to try to distribute some of that federal workforce across the country what survives the doge operation and i'll give you an example i have to apply for copyrights with the government for the books that i write and the latest book it's taken seven months and i had to email them twice asking them what was going on they finally said it was approved and then here's the catch you'll get your certificate in four to eight weeks Wow. After approval.
SPEAKER 18 :
And Richard, on this one, this is a great example. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I want to stop for a moment because I think you just gave a great example of where I feel AI and technology, what you just gave as an example, should be an employee-less transaction that AI could do for government where maybe there's an official that has the final stamp of approval before it gets mailed or something along those lines, but the reality, Richard, is... Not a single hand should have to touch that. Not a single eye should have to look at it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, there's a lot of opportunity throughout the government for things like that. But you have to remember also that we have more unionized government employees than we ever have before. And so we've basically set up a process that's going to make it much more difficult to downsize or right-size the government. and we're going to have to get people that will accept transfers from one place to the other, and I I hope that we can amend some of the civil service rules as well during this.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, frankly, Richard, one of the things, and I've talked about this for years, one of the first things that need to happen federally and, frankly, needs to happen on the state level as well, people that I am paying as a taxpayer on my payroll should not be able to unionize. They are federal workers, and there should not be any form of unions when it comes to government workers, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I'm on the same song sheet with you on that, and If we can accomplish that, it will be a great piece of progress for slimming down the government we have. And we also have the issue, and this is part of the shutdown issue, that they have to spend their money each budget year so they can get more money. And the Congress has basically abdicated their appropriation process where they go to a baseline budget instead of a zero-based budget like most companies use. And so if they're spending $100 this year, next year they'll spend automatically $108. And if you try to cut it to $107, then the media and government employees scream about cuts. And so we need to move them as part of this process to zero-based budgeting where cuts are cuts. and increases are still increases, so we know what we're getting.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yep, that's exactly right. And again, lots of things, Richard, that'll have to be addressed. Hopefully, in these first two years, we can address some of those things. And for all of you listening... As you said a moment ago, Richard, the media is going to hype up everything to make it sound like, you know, we're in dire straits and there's no way we're going to ever come out of this and people are going to lose their jobs. It's going to be awful and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The reality is they are going to hype that. And we, especially myself in media, are going to have to do our very best to counter that.
SPEAKER 09 :
You're correct. And the government never takes a pay cut. The politicians never suffer any recourse, but yet we, if we're having an issue and our income is lowered, we have to reduce expenses. The government expects to never reduce expenses, and we have to get them to thinking differently and get them to thinking more like regular citizens who have to manage that money better and appreciate it. As I've said for a long time, the taxpayers, the last constituent considered in any legislation, and we need to move the taxpayer to the front of line.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yep, you are exactly right. Richard, I hope that we get to see some of that. That is what I, especially as a business owner, very hopeful for, that we get some of those things done, because government has literally run amok. It's out of control. There are people, to your point a moment ago, on payroll that probably haven't been in the office in years now, and a lot of things need changed.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely, and I look forward to change. You and I both.
SPEAKER 18 :
We're going to turn the page. All right, as folks are heading down into this holiday stretch and they're looking for some great gift ideas, talk about your website and what you have there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, thank you so much. RichardBattle.com is the website. The latest book, which is really getting a lot of attention for gifts, is Americans Who Made America, 18th Century Birth of the Republic. I profile 40 people from the 18th century. Some you'll know, some you won't. They will all inspire you, make you have a greater love for your country, inspire you to live your richest life. And it's a great gift idea for young adults. And if you email me, richard at richardbattle.com, after ordering, I'm happy to inscribe gift.com. copies on that, and all books are signed at richardbattle.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush. We are back.
SPEAKER 10 :
Joe, what's going on today, sir? John, just to follow up on Richard Battle's comments about bloated government, I've got some data on the U.S. Post Office over the last 10 years, starting in 2014. Any idea what's happened to the volume of U.S. mail in the past 10 years?
SPEAKER 18 :
I know it's gone down.
SPEAKER 10 :
How about by 30%? It went from 155 billion pieces. I'm not shocked.
SPEAKER 18 :
And for all of you listening, the reason for that is, and even I as a business coach, Joe, even advise my clients that there's but a few exceptions where I think a mailer might actually be worth doing. But otherwise, don't waste your money. Don't waste your time. There's other ways to reach people. And even mailing bills and things along those lines, Joe, most everything is done now automatically with auto payments and the like, and you're just not sending stuff anymore.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, my electric bill, my garbage bill, my water bill.
SPEAKER 18 :
Joe, I don't – rarely, rarely do I put – the first letter I've mailed in the last couple of months was I had to renew a license plate for one of my old cars, and I had to do it either in person or by mail with a check. I could not do it online. That's government for you, Joe.
SPEAKER 10 :
I bought a roll of stamps in January. I still have half a roll left. Exactly.
SPEAKER 18 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 10 :
So anyway, so in 2014, there were 155 billion pieces of mail handled. Last year, there were 116 billion. That's a 30% decline. Now, and there's been a small increase in package volume, 3 billion. By the way, have you seen, and there's been literally tens of billions invested in automation. Have you seen these new package sorting centers, these automated package sortings?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
They're as big as a football field. And it's all, nobody touches the package. Well, I mean, yeah, they have somebody to load them on.
SPEAKER 08 :
Barely.
SPEAKER 10 :
But they load them on. Once they go on, the barcode readers scan them. They travel down these chutes, which are then these conveyors, which are high-speed conveyors, which are collectively over a mile long. But at every given spot, they have like a collection basket that says, oh, you're going to Lakewood. Boom. And it shoots that back. It diverts it into a basket for Lakewood. Or if you're going to, oh, you're in Aurora, diverts it up. So anyway, so they've So the volume of mail is down by 30%. They spent tens of billions of dollars in automation. You know what's happened to the number of employees? Up. By 50,000.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's gone from... I saw some of the interviews on Capitol Hill about that, Joe, and the excuses for the hiring is laughable.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is. I mean, if you're going to have a 30% decline in what you're handling, and you're going to spend tens of billions... on automation, why do you need another 50,000 people?
SPEAKER 18 :
And by the way, that was the questions that were asked on Capitol Hill that the postmaster, I believe, just, if I'm not mistaken, Joe, covered his ears for.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think his name is DeJoy. DeJoy.
SPEAKER 18 :
He just covered it. And I'm not joking. He literally covered his ears because he was tired of the darts that were getting thrown his way. Let's just say it that way.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I have to say, you know, it's...
SPEAKER 18 :
And by the way, Joe, his excuse was, this is what I was mandated to do when I got hired. Wrong answer, pal.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wrong answer. Oh, and by the way, despite the fact that Congress relieved them of the ability to accrue for their pension and medical, they still lost $6 billion. Jeez. But let me tell you why that $6 billion is a phony number. Private businesses that still have a defined pension or defined benefit plan, they're saying, hey, you've just incurred a cost. Now, you don't have to pay that cost for 15 years, but it's a cost associated with this person's weekly pay. It's a liability. It's a liability. Therefore, you have to book that liability. It's supposed to. It has a cost this year.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's supposed to.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, right. Congress last year – Led by Democrats two years ago, Democrats said, no, no, you no longer have to accrue.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, these are guys that don't understand basic accounting principles, you mean.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Don't understand basic accounting. Or maybe they do, but don't want to. So despite the fact that they've relieved the U.S. Postal Service of the requirement to account for all of their costs, and all of their costs includes their pension and medical for their retirees, they're still losing $6 billion, even though they're under account. underreporting or not accounting for the pension and benefit liabilities that are accruing every day. Every day, the post office is accruing liabilities that have to be paid in the future, and they're not accounting for it.
SPEAKER 18 :
And yet, if there was a company on Wall Street, by the way, that did something similar, they would be brought before Capitol Hill and questioned on that.
SPEAKER 10 :
In fact, John, I don't know if you're familiar with the term ERISA.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
The Employee Retirement Security Income Act. What used to happen is people used to come in and buy companies. Companies used to bank their own pension funds for their employees. And then they'd run out of money, and the company would go bankrupt, and the employees would get... So in 1974, Congress passed the ERISA Act that says, hey, if you have any sort of defined benefit plan, you have to put that money... into a trust account administered by a third party, and every year you have to have a third-party accounting firm verify that the amount of money in that account to pay future pensions is adequate, and if not, you'll have to cough up the money now, this year, to bring that pension and benefit account up to where it needs to be, which, by the way, doesn't apply to PERA. PERA is exempt, but all private corporations, if they have a defined benefit plan, are required under ERISA, 1974 Act, to literally not just account for, they have to account for and bank the money in a third party. Post office doesn't do either one of those. Post office is not accounting for it, and they're not banking the money. So as more and more postal employees retire, and they're living, and we all know because of advances in medical and medicine, they're living longer and longer. All they've done is kick the can down the road, John, and the annual deficit of the post office is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.
SPEAKER 18 :
Real quick, I've got a texter that actually threw something my way, and they were surprised you hadn't called in on this yet, and yet I answered back as to, I believe, why. And that is right now this story coming out of the – it's coming out of Capitol Hill, but it's about the East Coast and the quote-unquote – and I put air quotes around this, folks, because I can't verify this, and I'm not going to repeat something I can't verify, but some Iranian ship that is sending drones – over the East Coast, and there's a particular politician back there, I don't even know the person's name, that claimed this is what was going on. Right now, for all of you listening, there's been really no solid proof that that, in fact, is the case. Now, what are these drones doing, and why don't we have more answers coming out of our own government? That's a whole other question, Joe. But do I personally believe there's an Iranian ship off the East Coast that's doing this? Frankly, Joe, I doubt it. I highly doubt that. So, no, I don't think that part's true.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, yes, we have one wackadoodle state senator who was on the news saying, well, I have information that there's an Iranian drone ship left port, you know, six weeks ago, and that ship is now anchored off the coast of New Jersey, and that's where these drones are originating from. Nobody's been able to validate or verify. This guy's basically repeating Internet rumors as well.
SPEAKER 18 :
He's been listening to Alex Jones.
SPEAKER 10 :
Listen to Alex Jones, so no credibility whatsoever.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sorry, Alex, but anyways.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. He made the evening news.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, Joe, appreciate you, man, and thanks for verifying that also.
SPEAKER 10 :
You're welcome, John.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, man, talk to you soon. Yeah, I wasn't going to spend a lot of time talking about that, but since somebody texted and asked, I thought I'd go ahead and mention that. And for those of you, please, I say this all the time. that are on social media, that like to post things to Facebook or Instagram or X or whatever it is. And some of you are listening to me right now. In this case, don't. Don't. Don't fall into that trap. It's not verifiable. As Joe just said a moment ago, he gave the explanation as to where that story is coming from. There has been absolutely no valid proof right now that that's what's happened. And I'm one of those to where until there is... I'm not buying it. So please, if you're somebody listening to me or you know somebody that will go down these conspiracy theory rabbit holes and will then post these things, please, for the love of God, don't. You make us on our side look like loonies when you do. So please don't post anything about that online. Because it's frankly, at this point, unprovable. And until it is, don't post anything about it. Bruce Simmons is next. What I can guarantee you of is that Bruce Simmons is our expert when it comes to reverse mortgages. They are right for some. They're not right for all. Find out if it is for you. Just call Bruce today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 18 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Sonny Kutcher joining us now from Young Americans Against Socialism. Sonny, welcome.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hello. How are you doing today?
SPEAKER 18 :
Always great. Always great to hear from you as well. And this, what you sent me and the story that we're going, or I should say the topic that we're going to talk about today, I have followed pretty closely since its inception. And for a lot of you that are listening that aren't in the business world, you may not have followed this at all. It may not be a big issue. But for those that are in business, this has been a big deal. And that is the corporate technology. transparency act and beneficial ownership reporting requirements. That's a mouthful, but that's something sunny that was passed and set into motion. I want to say over a year ago, and it may not actually be going the way that government wants. Let's just say it that way.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. This will be a continuing saga, especially to the end of the year. So I think that they started this January 1st, 2024 to the beginning of this year and, The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network began accepting, like you said, beneficial ownership information reports. I think about six and a half million companies or entities have reported this information that the government was requesting. But it does affect over 32 million other businesses that are out there. And so these reports were due by January 1st of 2025. And, you know, the national I think the National Federation of Independent Business was working on this lawsuit to stop this reporting requirement and to not allow a fine to be to penalize small business owners. So what they were what they were asking for is is This seems like government overreach. Of course, the Corporate Transparency Act, so that's the act through Congress that this was passed under, and the BOI, the Beneficial Ownership Information, is a report within that act that would require this report, obviously, from small business owners. And it says that this Corporate Transparency Act aims to combat money laundering, terrorism, tax fraud, and other illicit activities by increasing transparency of entity structures and ownership. Now, that sounds, you know, sounds great. We like to say it sounds great. Sounds great. But I think it's just, you know, if you're the kind of person who's going to believe that asking for. More information and more fines or more fees, rather, from small businesses, from the private population to the government. If you think that's going to stop crime and corruption, then you obviously don't understand that the crime and corruption is exactly what they're trying to do on the inside. Right. Government. Overreach is just riddled with corruption, crime, and nepotism, as we see. And so what they were requesting was your full legal name, course, date of birth, residence.
SPEAKER 18 :
I'm going to stop you just one second, Sonny, because prior to this, for all of you listening, one of the things that. A lot of – and one of the things that we believe in in the United States of America is that a corporation is its own being. And so it's – by the way, I don't want to spend all the time, Sonny, getting into the details as to why we believe that, but we look at corporations as their own quote-unquote person. And therefore – A lot of individuals or even other companies that might own a sub corporation have had the ability to, in some cases, anonymously own said corporation. And by the way, there's lots of reasons why somebody might want to anonymously own something, because the reality is, depending upon who that person is, they may not want their identity out there in the open being tied to a particular. We'll be right back. For all of you listening, that would be a naysayer and say, oh, yeah, no, we should be able to know. On the tax end of things, you do anyway. So the reality is when these corporations go to file taxes and do things along those lines, if government really wants to know who owns said corporation, they can. In my opinion, Sonny, this is nothing more than making things more public that, by the way, don't need to be.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, absolutely. And there's there's nothing in the Constitution that says that the government needs to know every single detail about a person's private business. And just like you said, there are so many reasons and not nefarious reasons that someone would not want their residential address to be connected to their business. I mean, maybe they want it. to be under their spouse or their child or whoever.
SPEAKER 18 :
They may want it under a trust. They may want a parent organization to own it. They may be somebody that's a public figure that, frankly, you take like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, maybe they don't want their name associated with said business for reasons of if they go to buy another business and people know that they are who they are, well, all of a sudden the price goes up and Again, Sonny, there's all sorts of reasons why individuals don't necessarily want to make it front and center as to what they own. And that's OK.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. And even more than that, the lawsuit also argued that this is just plain, outright unconstitutional.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's overreach of government.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, it exceeds Congress authority over the state. This is the state jurisdiction where the state needs to know, you know, what businesses are operating, who's doing what. And I think that makes that makes sense. But this is unconstitutional. It said they improperly compelled speech and contradicts the right of anonymous association guaranteed by the First Amendment and violates the Fourth Amendment by forcing the disclosure of private information. So the interesting part about this is that. Merrick Garland, the current U.S. attorney general, filed an appeal already against this injunction because the judge ruled that, you know, they had standing that this was going to go, you know, that he was going to to impose a preliminary injunction. And he stated that it would it would be nationwide and it wouldn't just be in Texas where this lawsuit is, you know, is. And so they are extending it to be nationwide because the business was a nationwide company. And so they're saying this is just like people's rights are being infringed upon in Texas. They're being infringed all over the country. And so people are really waiting to see what's going to happen if the appeal will be if it will overturn the ruling. or if the injunction will go through. So this is a really interesting one, and I do, as you said, a lot of business owners and people, you know, who are in that industry are going to be following this very closely. I think that they're going to ask for, you know, they ask for your information, like a passport, driver's license. Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
You literally are. I've looked at the form. I told all of my clients, and I myself was waiting to see how things would work out, and even told all of my clients, do not do anything until we get very, very close, to the end of the year, because I had a gut feeling, Sonny, that some of these things might happen, especially if Donald Trump ended up winning the election, which he did. So I advised all of my clients not to fill anything out until we got towards the latter part of the year, which is where we're at right now. But yeah, to your point, they were asking all sorts of things that, frankly, it's none of their dang business.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. And that is why the American economy succeeds. That's why we created our intro to socialism curriculum to talk about the benefits of economic economic independence versus a socialist. system where the government is the one who makes the rules and you have to abide by them. When you have government overreach and issues like this where the government is trying to get information, whatever their motives may be, it creates more obstacles, more hurdles for business owners. It incentivizes stagnation and decline versus growth. prosperity, allowing people to have the freedom to choose what they do, how they do it, what works for them. That's what makes this country great. That's what makes our country free. That's what makes the people in this country able to succeed and prosper because they can actually accomplish the dreams that they have in the way that is suitable to them. And so when you have the government trying to Yeah, oh yeah, and by the way,
SPEAKER 18 :
Thank you for mentioning that because this was going to be a huge penalty. And that's what everybody was worried about is if you didn't get this thing filled out. And it's why, by the way, millions of businesses, because they're, I guess, fearful and or their knuckleheads, went ahead and filled this stuff out on the front side. I was not one of them because I was bound and determined not to do it. In fact, I was waiting for somebody to not do it, you know, get to January 1st, not do it, and then fight the $500, you know, per day fine that they were going to try to, you know, throw on to everybody. individuals businesses and so on i was waiting for that as well i mean sunny this is absolutely the definition of overreach of government and even then the fines for what you would you know that you would be uh you know that you would be levied with if you didn't fill this out was basically highway robbery absolutely and then more than that uh
SPEAKER 17 :
They don't need to have all that information. It's completely untraceable. Who's organizing this information? I mean, we know that the government doesn't do things very efficiently or economically. That in and of itself is just a disaster. Then you have all this information floating around out there that doesn't need to be out there. And, of course, I think that this is just completely unconstitutional. Meanwhile, you have millions of people coming into the border. You can have illegals voting without a passport. You need one to run a business.
SPEAKER 18 :
You don't need an ID to vote, but I need one to run a business.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. Which you've which if you own a business at this point in the game, you've probably already done all of the report. I mean, you have a current existing operating business, you know, so your information is probably attached to that business already. It just seems so completely redundant and unnecessary. And that's why I think that what's deeper is. under this is the need for more information, more ways to, you know, get the American people over a barrel and get more information from them, the ability to catch them, find them, do all of these things, and wait until a court is, you know, has the cojones to actually put a stop to this. And thankfully, we did have a judge willing to do that who still has, you know, a moral compass and knows what is a constitutional order.
SPEAKER 18 :
Absolutely. No. And again, at the end of the day, Sonny, this is the things that you guys, Young Americans Against Socialism, you are fighting against. And for all of you listening, maybe you've only heard Sonny today. Maybe you've only heard her a couple of times in the past. Sonny, you guys are literally, the way you're fighting this is you're doing your best to educate mainly young people because it's young Americans. But really, I've downloaded the material. If you want more, let me make sure I say this right and choose my words carefully, Sonny. If you want the ability, to stand firm on facts and be able to debate in the public realm all of what we talk about here on a routine basis. Sunny, the best way for people to do that is to download your material.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. And also just to learn, to learn information about how other people live in communist countries. You know, that's why what really informs our work is the stories, the stories that we get to tell about people who have escaped communist countries because they didn't have the freedom, the luxury of freedom that we have in this country. That's what informs our work. That's what drives us to educate young people because they simply don't understand they've grown up in this, you know, in this free country and we have so much at our fingertips, but that can be taken away just by little drips and drabs like this with the government attempting overreach. And so that's what's really important. That's what fuels our team and our curricula that we're creating. We have so many big plans and many more guides coming to teach young people. And like you said, anybody can use the refresher and we're really grateful for your audience for being there for us. And then this is really what, is going to help heal the country and have us embrace our freedom again because of people just having this information and talking about it and being aware so that they can speak up and stand up when it does affect them directly. I think it's amazing that someone stood up and said, hey, I'm not going to pay this. I'm not going to do this. This is just unconstitutional, knows their rights, and is willing to take a chance. And guess what? That's how the justice system works in this country. If you're willing to take the chance and stand up, And sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. But I think when it comes to the Constitution, those rights are protected and we have to keep fighting for them even when we feel like they're being infringed upon. And that's what fuels us. I also wanted to highlight, sorry to take a few extra minutes, but I just wanted to highlight our campaign that we're doing on social media. It's called American Made. This is why we really value businesses that have American values and believe in freedom, believe in the mission of spreading freedom and embracing that. If you are a small business on that topic, you're an entrepreneur and you'd like your business or your service to be highlighted on our Instagram to appreciate and value small businesses in the holiday season. We'd love to share, you know, your business and your story. So please feel free to contact us on Instagram at gas underscore America, or you can email us. myself, Sunny, S-U-N-N-Y, at yass.org. Or you can go to our website, too. So you can find us and get in touch with us, and we'd love to share your story and your business.
SPEAKER 18 :
And also, last but not least, if you guys are at the end of the year, some of you business owners, you're looking for a good tax deduction, you'd like to know, hey, where could I actually put a little bit of my money where I know it's going to go to good use and I'll get a benefit from doing so. You can also do that right on their website. Again, Young Americans Against Socialism. And I would encourage you to do so. Sunny, as always, I appreciate you joining us.
SPEAKER 17 :
Thank you so much, John. Always a pleasure.
SPEAKER 18 :
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All right, we are back in a few minutes left of this particular hour. This Wednesday edition always goes fast. Health and wellness is fast, and then we start off with Richard Battle. Usually have a little segment in between, and then Sonny comes on. And for those of you, again, that maybe don't know Sonny Kutcher and Young Americans Against Socialism, it's a great organization. They're continuing to build what they have. They have the ability to speak to especially young people and have influence that, frankly, I'll say it, Old guys like me can't have. Now, I understand. I have some influence among some young people, although typically those are conservative young people that probably listen to me for various reasons and so on. But in general, I don't have the same reach that Sonny and her cohorts will have. I just don't. They have the ability to get into areas, even social media wise, that I don't have. So it's imperative. It's imperative that we help organizations like hers out because, again, they can do things that the majority of you listening and myself included, Charlie, we just can't do. And so I appreciate the fact that we've got the ability to partner up with individuals like her and have other young people that join us. from time to time. And as you guys listening know, I do my very best, not only with my own family and son, to get young people involved, but I want more young people involved because the reality is we won't continue to move forward with what we as conservatives and Christians want to do if we don't get young people involved. Unfortunately, the left has mastered that. They own education, as we know. In a lot of ways, they have infiltrated the church and even youth groups and youth ministries and so on. And so they have the ability through the education system to have a far more reaching influence than what we as conservative has. Now, I get it. There's a lot of folks like Charlie Kirk and others that go around the campuses and do a great work in this particular area. But the reality is we are behind when it comes to young people along those lines. And if young people really would stop, and listen to what the advantages are from one side to the other and really had an open mind and sat down and really thought about things, it doesn't take much to get them to come over to our side and think the way that we do because at the end of the day, we give them far more opportunity than what the left does, just like minority groups and so on. We, as a party and as a belief system, want everybody to succeed, regardless of your age, regardless of your sex, regardless of your skin tone. We don't care. We want all to succeed. Our message permeates that. The other side doesn't. The other side doesn't. The other side, it's all about control. And what can I get you to do for me? Much like we were talking to Sonny a moment ago about the business registration that the left decided to implement a year ago, roughly. That is just an invasion of privacy. It has nothing to do, by the way, has nothing to do with stopping crime. Zero. Zero. That Transparency Act and what they're – it's funny how they call it that, Corporate Transparency Act. Yeah, you already have ways of figuring out who owns a corporation. You don't need that. So at the end of the day, all that is is an invasion of privacy like we talked to Sonny about. And again, young people, if they were taught – Sit them down, have the ability to go through some of the things even Sonny and I went through during that last segment. Most of them, not all, but most of them would have a different look upon things and realize that, oh, wait, that's not what I'm being told. No, you're being told this is all about fighting crime, and it's not. So, again, appreciate Sonny. Young Americans Against Socialism, if you have the ability to donate and help them out any way, shape, or form here as we head down this final stretch into the holidays, tax-wise, it can help even individuals out. It is a 501c3 donation. It'll help you out on your taxes as well. We'll be back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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I'm a rich guy.
Join us on this week's Rush to Reason as host John Rush dives into the delicate balance between health and financial well-being. Along with guest Al from Golden Eagle, John explores year-end financial strategies to reduce stress and improve wellness. They discuss essential actions like managing IRAs, Roth conversions, and ensuring financial plans are regularly reviewed to adapt to life's changes. Adding a sprinkle of humor, the show touches on the simple joys of life, like holiday celebrations and cherished pets, turning what is often a stressful topic into an engaging and informative session.
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Welcome to Health and Wellness Wednesdays on Rush to Reason.
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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, sir.
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I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem. I used to grab bear claws as a kid, two at a time, and I'd get them lodged right in this region here.
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Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands.
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All right. Welcome, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Welcome. Appreciate you guys listening very much. Myself, Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, and Al Smith. We let him, or we made him, I should say, hang around after his program from 2 to 2.30. We're going to talk a little bit about some year-end stuff. Al from Golden Eagle. So, Al, welcome.
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Well, thank you, John. I love being on your show.
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Al brought his, how should I say this, his pocket lint roller for his furry friend that's with him today, who's beautiful, by the way.
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Well, thank you. My service dog, my husky Klondike, is here. He enjoys it. He doesn't like being left in the office alone, however.
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You can hear him. He's all right. He's great. He's beautiful, by the way, Al, so congratulations. He's a very pretty dog, so congratulations. All right, as we talk to Al here, again, we have Al normally try to get him to hang around mainly because it fits with his schedule. He's already here doing his show from 2 to 2.30. On top of that, I say it all the time, having your finances as much in order as you can. And for some of you that maybe are a little bit older and have done a really good job continuing down that path. But Al, as we talk all the time, stress is a big thing, especially when it comes to health and wellness, and having our finances dialed in can help us not necessarily be stress-free, but it does help us handle that stress a little better is probably the best way for me to say that.
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Well, I would agree, and when people have a nest egg they believe is large enough to get them through retirement, they can be thinking about other things, like how you can give back, how you can help through your church, how you can do some volunteer work. If you're not sure you have enough money to get through retirement, It's hard to think about how you can help somebody else.
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Absolutely. Okay, so year-end stuff, Albert, that time where there are some things that, yeah, you can do some contributions to your IRA and things like that, even next year before you file your taxes. The deadline is the 15th of April, of course. But there's also things that folks might want to look at with you directly before the end of the year and time is running out. What are some of those things they should be looking at?
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Well, the two big things, obviously, if you are 73 years old or older, you need to take out your required minimum distribution from your IRA. And I would suggest that it needs to be done by December 31st, but I would not wait until the week of Christmas to do that because the big financial companies, the insurance companies, investment companies, get very busy that time of year, and they often have to hire people who are not the most financially knowledgeable.
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Agreed.
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Also, you may be on hold. If you do it probably this week or next, you'll be able to take care of it a lot easier. That's for your RMDs. If you're thinking about converting part of your traditional IRA to Roth, you can kind of sit down and look at your last pay stub or second to last pay stub and estimate what tax bracket you're in and decide if you want to do that. because that also has to be done by December 31st. Regular IRA contribution, as you mentioned, John, that can be done when you file your taxes or as late as April 15th.
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Okay, now, everything else spot on. I've been telling even my business clients that are looking at the year end, the tax planning and so on, that essentially because of the way Christmas falls this year, Christmas and New Year's both being on Wednesdays, it really does put a damper, I guess you could say, on some of the normal business things you might go ahead and get done because of the way it falls. So what I'm telling everybody is like you, we have literally until not this coming Friday, but next Friday, Friday. So let me get that date to make sure that I'm saying the correct date. The 20th. So you really have until, you know, as far as business functions go, I've been telling everybody, I think you'll be safe in doing this. Have your stuff done by December 20th this year.
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I think that makes the most sense. I mean, it sounds like it's 10 days before the end of the year, but with holidays in there and with businesses and individuals taking time off, I would get some of these things done that we're talking about before Christmas. The 20th.
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And the reason we say that for all of you listening is the last thing you want is to have to try to come back and prove that you had everything done by the 31st, Al, to your point. Just the amount of, again, stress. This is Health and Wellness Wednesday. We talk about reducing stress and so on. So guess what? Reduce that stress. Get these things done by the 20th. Enjoy the holidays then after that, and you can do that stress-free, Al.
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Well, absolutely. It's much easier to enjoy the holidays when some of the major stressful things are behind you.
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Exactly. All right, so folks looking to do that. And I've also been telling folks, Al, that if they don't have a plan or they've had a plan maybe for years that hasn't been reviewed and they haven't seen their financial planner that did some of that in multiple years, reality is they need to seek you out. They need to sit down, have a very – open-ended conversation as to here's where i am here's some of the things that you know we've already got going on they show you all those things and guess what here's where i want to be am i gonna make it with my current plan or do i need to make any adjustments to make sure that i get there and by the way it's very uncommon i'm guessing i'm not you but i'm guessing it's uncommon for there not to be some changes along the way because things happen in life right
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Well, exactly. The reason plans need to be reviewed is because people's circumstances change. And we all have heard the great financial sage Mike Tyson say, everybody has a plan until you get hit in the face.
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That's right. It's a fact. So, again, folks, you can call Al. I say it all the time. KLZRadio.com is where you can find him. Now, Al, I was going to ask, given we're very close to that 20th date, business day-wise, because today's pretty much over, that gives them seven business days to get in and get going. Time-wise for you, are you able to take some folks and actually help them during that time?
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Well, yes, I may be taking a little time off, but I'll probably only be doing it like a half a day at a time or something so that you can reach me right up to the year end. Some of the time I'll be taking off will be in 2025, and you can reach my office at 303-744-1128. And if you get my voicemail, I respond to those quickly.
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Al, as always, I appreciate it. Look forward to 2025. Have fun with your furry friend here as well and hope you have a fabulous Christmas. And for all of you listening, again, if you haven't gotten in to see Al, you need to do that before the end of the year because there might be some adjustments you need to make tax-wise to make all of that happen. And or get an appointment set early 2025 and get yourself established and on the way towards the retirement. And back to what Al said a little bit ago, so that you can actually do some things later on in life that benefit others and do some things that you would like to do. Because when you're busy working and trying to work everything out, Al, you don't have time to even do some of the other volunteer things that a lot of people enjoy doing.
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No, you're absolutely right. And the happiest people I know are in retirement are those who are getting some joy and fulfillment from doing things for some other people.
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Awesome. All right. Al Smith, Golden Eagle Financial. Again, if you want to contact Al, he gave you the number. Or you can go to klzradio.com. High Five Plumbing coming up next. And at High Five, again, they do everything from electrical to plumbing. You name it. Just call High Five Plumbing 877-WE-HIGH-FIVE.
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Okay, last week I talked about the ice display or the event that's out at the Gaylord of the Rockies Hotel. It's Christmas at Gaylord. In fact, the website is Christmas at GaylordRockies.com. I also told you that I would do my best to have some tickets to potentially give away for that. Now, here's how this is going to work. I do have some to give away that we'll do right now. I've got four sets of two. I'm sorry I can't do more than that, but that's how they distributed the tickets to me. And the way this works is I'm going to email you back a voucher. That then allows you to go on and make whatever appointment you want to do. If you want to add some tickets to that, even some of the discounted prices, maybe there's more than just two of you that want to go. I get that. But this will help at least get, in your family, two of you to go. And kids under three, I believe, are free anyway. So some of you that have small children, you might only need two tickets when it's all said and done. Anyway, so here's how this is going to work. You're going to call in now to our main number, 303. four seven seven five six zero zero and the first four people that call charlie's gonna just give you the text line number specifically and then you can email or you can text me your info now please this is the honor system a lot of you know the text line anyways Don't just start texting me for those tickets because I'll know based upon timing and names as to what Charlie's taking as to whether these are legit or not. And I don't really worry about that with you guys as listeners. And if I had more, folks, I would do more. But that's what they were able to get me. And I appreciate that very much. So thank you, by the way, Gaylord of the Rockies. I do appreciate that very much. It's a great event. You'll have a great time. I've already had some family members that went the other day and gave us a report back that it's absolutely a wonderful display, things that you will not see anywhere else. So if you've got the ability to go and you would like to have a pair of tickets, call us and we will get you dialed in and the phones are ringing now. So give Charlie a moment to get back to you, you know, to get your number and all of that. And then I will handle getting you the tickets emailed out. And by the way, I may not be able to do that until first thing in the morning. I've got a few things going on even after the show tonight. So I may not be able to email you until first thing in the morning. I will do my best to do it prior to that, but it might be morning before I actually get all of that done. But if you got, if you want to go lines are full right now so there's i'm guessing three sets of these pairs already going out so as soon as somebody drops off i can take one more caller 303-477-5600 all right health and wellness wednesday i've got troy dual from centurion labs is going to talk to us about desserts here at about 3 30 in the meantime I found an interesting article this week, and I didn't have a special guest or anything for this. This just happened to be an article in BBC Science Focus magazine, and it's about night sweats. Some people have them awful, and it sort of runs in, quote-unquote, my family, my side of the family, I should say. And some of my kids even had night sweats. So it's something that a lot of people can experience. Now, I didn't know until I started reading this particular article that... They might be an indication of another health issue that you may have going on in your life. And those of you that just called in, hang tight. Charlie will get to you in just one second. So hang tight. He'll be right with you. He's answering other calls as we speak. But number one, night sweats might be a sleep-related breathing disorder. In other words, there might be a link to folks that have persistent night sweats that And you could have a sleep-related breathing disorder. Now, again, some of you that experience this... Number two. could be a different health issue there's all sorts of other sleep disorders that might be going on as well uh... your body by the way as you guys all know is regulating its temperature during the night now i also will say this is not necessarily in this article but What you sleep on, you know, mattress wise sheets and so on can have a lot to do with some of the things that we're talking about. So that's one of those things, too, where, you know, do some of your research and make sure that you're actually sleeping on things that help you. mitigate, best words I guess I could use, night sweats if you're somebody that actually experiences that. But again, a lot of sleep disorders can come from a sign of night sweats. And by the way, not necessarily the only symptom. There might be some other things that those that you're around or depending upon your situation, this could even be with your kids and so on. Now also, One thing to look at, too, is some medications may trigger this as well. So, for example, medications that are used to treat diabetes and some things along those lines, they may actually cause some night sweats as well. So that's one of those things, too, that you really need to look at. And if that's you, of course, you may know that already. Another common culprit, which, again, after reading this makes total sense, hormones. Low hormone levels can disrupt your body's temperature regulation. And that can be, by the way, for both men and women. Estrogen and testosterone both play a role in balancing those levels. At night and you're basically regulating your internal thermostat. So that's another thing to look at where if you've got it. And by the way, maybe this is something that you've never experienced before. And all of a sudden they start to come on. There is an onset. That would be something that you'd really want to take a closer look at to make sure that. that you're getting things handled correctly on that end of things as well. And if you try to call in now, you won't be able to get in. We've put all the lines on permanent hold because we've given them all away. So thank you all very much. It didn't take very long, so I appreciate that. And, yes, I will do my best to get those out. this evening, even maybe at the top of the hour. But if I don't, I will definitely get those things out to you guys first thing in the morning. And that event is going on all the way through the rest of this month, I believe even into early January. So you'll have plenty of time to make sure that you go. So again, Going back to the hormonal end of things, and you guys all know this, and we don't talk about this a lot during this hour because this is really, in my opinion, kind of one of those personal things that everybody experiences differently. These are things where you need to be talking to your doctor closely, especially as we start to age, because things, again, change. Things start to slow down as we age, for example. Your hormones will start to change. Sometimes we need to add some things back into our bodies to balance those hormones out. And again, I'm not going to get technical. I'm not a doctor. This is really more up the alley of Dr. Scott Faulkner, who, by the way, is really great on all of this as well. So not only is he a great doctor. just regular internal medicine doctor, but he does some of the things that we're talking about as well and understands that fully. So if you're somebody that is struggling a little bit on that whole balance of things, and one thing about Dr. Scott I should mention as well, is he's not always going to be a guy to just say, you know, here, take this. You know, take some testosterone, for example. He may ask you all sorts of things like, what's your diet like? What's your exercise like? What is your sleep like? Which is what we're talking about right now. And then combination of, what do we need to do to get some of these levels back on track? He's going to take the whole picture because, again, he's a – what I would call more of a whole doctor. He's not burdened by big pharma and big insurance, so he can take the time necessary to sit and have a conversation with you, run the labs, do the things necessary to figure out exactly what you need to be doing along those lines. So just put a quick plug in for Dr. Scott, who you'll also hear from. in a commercial this hour. But yeah, if you're really looking for somebody that will help you with that end of things, which again can be, you know, night sweats can be a sign of that imbalance, please give Dr. Scott a call and he'd love to help you out. Switch up your evening routine. So something, you know, sometimes it says here you can't avoid sweating at night. You can minimize it based upon your daily habits, even hours before going to bed. Everybody sweats after a workout, of course, but the timing and intensity of your exercise can change your sleeping temperature. High intensity workouts raise your core temperature, speed up your metabolism. So working out later in the evening could make you more prone to night sweats. Now, by the way, that could even just be Hey, you know, it's summertime and you are outside working in the yard all the way up until you decided to come in and go to bed. Those things can also be a contributing factor to that. So, again, your brain responds to that overheating in your body by making you sweat. That's one of the ways, you know, God made us. It's how we cool ourselves down. And at the end of a workout, of course. you're going to naturally be more hot, and your body's going to be doing things to try to get that temperature back down, of course. Now, this I talked a little bit about a moment ago briefly. Your sleep setup might be wrong. And again, this is one of those things where what you had even as a mattress and sheets for the last decades, plural, maybe that's not the right setup now, depending upon where you are at your stage in life. Maybe you need to take another look at that, and maybe you need something different when it comes to how you're actually, you know, what you're actually sleeping on and in is what I mean to say. you know, breathable-type fabrics. They've got mattresses even that some do a better job of keeping you warm, some do a better job of keeping you cool. There's even these devices that a lot of you have seen to where they'll even, like, air-condition the bed itself. It actually goes up in between the sheets, and it'll actually blow, you know, cool air or warm air, I guess, depending upon what you want, you know, inside of, quote-unquote, the cover. So it's one of those things where And again, I'm not an expert when it comes to mattresses and bedding and all of that. My wife is more of an expert on that than I am. But I do know that there is a gazillion. I mean, that's one of the things that's a lot different even than when Charlie, you and I were kids. The amount of mattress choices today. And even the materials that you can actually buy for sheets is far different than what I grew up with. So along those lines, make sure that you have what you need setup wise to sleep well. Because, again, one of the things we talk about during health and wellness is sleep is something we need. Everybody needs a different amount. It's not, you know, used to be when we were told for years and years, everybody needs eight hours. That's not necessarily true. Some can go on less. Some need more. You know you, and you know what you need, and you still have to get adequate sleep for you so that as... You're resting and your brain is trying to rejuvenate itself. One of the things we've learned with dementia and Alzheimer's is that can come also early onsets of it, especially can come from not sleeping well. You know, people that work night jobs and things like that. Those are things that you really need to be careful of. So this whole, you know, sweating while you sleep. And some of the other health issues that this may be a sign of, you want to make sure you have those things taken care of because you want a good night's sleep because when you're not getting a good night's sleep, it's just not healthy for your whole well-being. And that means everything from your physical side to the mental side to what's going on inside of your brain and so on. Just a few tips there. If some of you suffer from night sweats, there might be other things going on. You might want to have a conversation even with somebody like Dr. Scott when it comes to that. Golden Eagle Financial is coming up next. We just talked to Al a moment ago. And, yes, as we head down to the final stretch here of 2024, make sure you're dialed in when it comes to your finances. Al is more than willing to help you with that. We just talked to him a moment ago. And, again, find Al at klzradio.com.
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And we are back, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Troy Duhl joining us now. Troy, welcome back. How are you, sir? Doing great, John. How are you? Always a joy having you. Troy is our resident health educator, founder of Centurion Labs as well. All right. We're going to talk about the holidays and desserts. And, you know, everybody this time of the year, Troy, is looking forward to being able to get together with friends and family. And yet there's all these temptations that are out there. And in some cases, depending upon, you know, where you're at and whose home you're at, You know, you don't want to be rude and not take something. On the same token, you're trying to watch the waistline, and we talk about eating healthy on a routine basis. So people are trying to stay in check. How do they balance all of that?
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Man, that is the million-dollar question, isn't it? Because we all kind of are our own worst enemies because of nostalgia. We get over to Grandma's house. We get over to our parents' house. Whatever it is, and there are those certain treats that we want to have. And I think the big thing we have to do is really become somewhat strategic with it and say, you know what, I'm going to have three or four cheat days over the month of December. And those are the parties or whatever it may be. And you pick those that you think are going to have the best opportunity for you to have a good cheat day with the foods that you want. And, you know, save one of those days for when you go to your grandmother's house or your parents' house or whoever it is that has that dessert that you have a tough time resisting. And then during the week, you really just work on eliminating the sugar and the processed foods to get you where you need to go.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and for a lot of you listening, that means, because it's even here, Troy, I mean, there'll be things in a lot of the kitchen, or the office kitchens, I should say, or even at home, and things will be given to you depending upon what your job is, and pretty soon you'll have this plethora of goodies kicking around, and And I'll be the first to admit it, Troy, in some cases it may not even be what you mostly desire. You're just having this sugar craving. So you're going to go ahead and just say, oh, it's a holidays. I'm going to go ahead and just kick that in anyways. Well, yeah, you're going to kick that in and you decide to start doing it, you know, maybe even two or three times a day. And pretty soon you do that for two weeks straight and the New Year's comes around. And oh, by the way, yeah, we had to eat grandma's pie because otherwise we hurt her feelings. And just now it's this whole, you know, we're this endless pit of sugar.
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There is no doubt about it. I mean, the little Christmas tree cakes, the Santa cookies, the peppermint ice cream, whatever it is that comes out this time of year, we love them and they're good. But I think we just have to really be very, very disciplined, like you said, because the sugar piece is so addictive. I mean, we've talked about it before.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and I know we've talked about it, you and I have, although we get different people that listen at different times and different days and so on, and people may not have heard us actually talk about this with you specifically. What generates those cravings in the first place, Troy? And then on top of that, when we succumb to those temptations, what happens?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they've done lots of studies, and I think we mentioned this, And it shows that sugar lights up the same area of the brain that cocaine does for those who are addicted to cocaine. So it is truly addictive. So those cravings are exactly that.
SPEAKER 13 :
In other words, they are legit.
SPEAKER 07 :
They are very legit. And then to think about the other piece, which is, all right, I'm not going to do sugar. We'll do some kind of artificial sweetener. Well, those artificial sweeteners are 700 times sweeter than sugar. So they're created to create those cravings as well. So you may have the artificial sweetener, but you're still getting the calories and you're thinking you can eat more and more and more of it. But the old adage is you can't make an unhealthy food healthy by adding artificial sweeteners. So kind of get that out of your head. So if you're walking down the aisle and you see a peppermint ice cream that you love to have this time of year and one of those, and you see some kind of version that has sugar alcohols in it or artificial sweeteners in it, it's still going to have the calories and the fat that is not going to be good for you overall.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so in other words, be careful just because we feel like we may be, you know, quote-unquote, substituting the real sugar for some of these imitations that are out there. And my wife says this all the time. No offense, Troy, you might as well just have the sugar.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is true. The sugar actually is probably better for you in the long run. Now, the processed sugars that they throw into the processed foods, not so much. But if you're trying to choose between an artificial sweetener and the sugar itself, I think there are plenty of studies that show sugar is probably the better of the two alternatives. And really, it gets back to what you were saying is how do we minimize those cravings And I think it starts with just making sure that you're setting yourself up right by before you get to the dessert, by eating those things that are protein rich. We know that the more protein you have, the more stable your blood sugar is going to be. Therefore, you'll have less cravings for that sugar. Get those healthy fats, get high fiber in your in your system and you'll have less.
SPEAKER 13 :
craving for that sugar which is what we're all about how does our sugar intake you know we've talked about this before again but some folks may not have heard this how does that sugar intake affect our liver because we usually this time of the year hear more about you know alcohol and all of that and how that affects the liver nobody ever talks about how sugar is affecting the liver
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and I think a great way to look at it is to understand that alcohol basically turns straight to sugar. So sugar is really the detriment to the liver that alcohol is causing. So you've got to limit that sugar because it is just taxing your liver. Your liver is working overtime, especially this time of year, to try to regulate your insulin levels within your body. When we flood it with so much sugar, it gets to the point where it just can't keep up. And it can eventually, if we continue to pound it with sugar and alcohol, which turns to sugar, then we become insulin resistant, which then causes us to get to that point of being pre-diabetic or diabetic itself.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. And everything you just said, I had never really, even before you and I had talked about this whole liver thing before, never really had, I mean, you would think common sense, you put two and two together because you're exactly right. The alcohol just turns right to sugar, just like carbs do and so on. And we sort of I guess you could say, Troy, in a way we we either forget it or we choose to ignore it or we just haven't been educated enough, maybe along those lines. And, you know, I've talked about this. You know, the reality is and for all of you listening, please. Some of you know this. Some of you may not know this. The sugar lobby, some, Troy, 60 plus years ago, did a very good job in making us blame a lot of other things for bad health and not sugar because they wanted to, frankly, sell more sugar. And it becomes, to your point, it's an addiction. It's like a drug. They knew if they got you addicted, they would sell more of it. And so we've been sort of trained in a way, Troy, to where we really don't think sugar is as bad as it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is very, very true and well said because we have tricked ourselves into thinking that, hey, this isn't that bad, or if I do just a little bit of this, it's not going to lead to something down the road. But we've already talked about how we can start to have those cravings. Every processed food, every food that you get out of a package has added sugar in order to increase that addiction that we have to sugar, which then creates those cravings when we go somewhere and see that dessert. So it's all about setting it up correctly. And here's one good piece. It's not real good for me because I'm not a big chocolate guy. But they do suggest dark chocolate is a great alternative to chew on or to have at dinner because it does help reduce sugar cravings. Now, it's got to be a 70% chocolate level or cocoa level. So that's what you're looking for. And they say that that can help reduce sugar cravings. So that may be one option. positive to this whole conversation when we're looking to help reduce sugar.
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Like you, not my favorite. Chocolate's great. I'm one of those even, Troy, if I have the choice between vanilla ice cream and chocolate ice cream, I'll pick the vanilla all day long. It's just kind of me and my taste buds. It's not that I don't like chocolate, but if I have other options, you know, vanilla cake versus chocolate cake, for example, or, you know, white frosting versus dark frosting. I mean, I'm just more of that individual. So for me, it's not a huge deal. Downside is I'm not a huge dark chocolate fan because of that.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm right there with you. But for those who are, there's a little cheat for you. For you and I who don't like chocolate all that much, One way that we can satisfy our sugar cravings maybe during this time of year when we're not on our cheat days is find some blueberries, apples, pears, something along those lines that is a fruit that satisfies that sweetness, but it has all the other added benefits that go along with it.
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Okay. All right. Talk to us about as we go through all of this, and we're going to do our very best to do things correctly. Have as little of all of this as we can, things you and I are talking about. I want to get into some of the supplements in a moment as well, but things are done because you and I probably won't talk now until January. So things are done. We've gotten through the holidays. How do we detox from all of this stuff?
SPEAKER 07 :
That is a great question, and as we go through this, I would suggest some of these same things that we're talking about detoxing afterwards that we're doing during this season as well. And the number one thing is to exercise. We know that exercising helps the liver really process all those sugars and other additives that we're getting in our food. So exercise is key. So do not take off two, three weeks during the Christmas season and not exercise. That's super important. So remember, Keep up the exercise. Limit your alcohol intake. So, you know, if you're wanting to have an alcoholic drink, that's great, but just limit it because we've already talked about how reducing that sugar is super important. So limiting alcohol. Reduce sugar intake after the season's over. Stay well hydrated. Get great sleep. And then eat those fiber-rich foods that we've talked about, like the fruits and vegetables and whole grains, because we know that all that supports your liver. And then the final thing is look to support your liver with some supplementation. So look for things that are going to help with methylation, which would be your B vitamins like folate and B12 and B6. and then other supplements like NAC or selenium or phosphatidylcholine. All those we know really just help your liver function a little bit better. So you want to look for things like that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. Now, which, again, Centurion Labs. And really quick, Troy, before we move on, give folks the website, how they can actually find you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you can go to centurionlabs.com, so it's C-E-N-T-U-R-I-O-N-L-A-B-S.com, or you can go to our podcast, which is called Frontline Health Podcast, and we talk about different things. like sugar and other health issues that are out there. And you can find that pretty much anywhere podcasts are found.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so we're going to do our best to eat correctly from now until really the end of the year because it goes through the first of the year with football games and all the other things that will happen. Frankly, it even goes on after that with the Super Bowl, et cetera. But we'll keep talking and keep people informed. on track. So we're going to be very mindful of all of this and make sure that we're monitoring our sugar intake. We're going to make sure that we continue to exercise and do the things that we would normally do along those lines. We're going to detox when we're all done and do some supplementation as well. What else should we be doing? In other words, as we're Maybe going through the holidays, and this was a suggestion from somebody that I interviewed last week. So those of you that maybe are drinking alcohol, for example, you drink a drink and then have a full glass of water. And then maybe if you want a second one, fine, after you've had that full drink of water. I guess, Troy, in a way, what you're doing, number one, you're slowing down that intake in general and giving your body some time to recuperate. Plus, we're hydrating very well, which alcohol, despite what people might think, doesn't hydrate you.
SPEAKER 07 :
It does not. And I think that is a great practical step that anybody can take when you're having alcohol because it will help hydrate, flush that out of your system a little bit faster and make sure that those toxins are getting out. And it'll help the liver just support that a little bit more where it's not going to be overtaxed with all the sugar that's in there.
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Is there any, and this may be a dumb question on my part, are there any supplements that help either break down the sugar faster and or keep those cravings at bay, or is it just because it's so addictive like cocaine that it is what it is?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I don't know if there are any supplements that will help reduce sugar cravings. Now, we know that there are supplements that, again, support the liver, but which helps break down that sugar a little bit faster and keeps it from being too taxed. So I would say I don't know if there are supplements specifically that would reduce sugar cravings. I tend to say probably not. But we do know that there are foods that can help reduce that because your – you're reducing some of the blood sugar levels and helping regulate that. So you can have that. I suppose if there is that going on with food, that there are probably some supplements that would help as well. I just don't know what they are on hand.
SPEAKER 13 :
Not to poke at the pharmaceutical companies, but my guess is, Troy, if there was even something, for example, a drug that people could take that would reduce sugar cravings, I'm guessing that one probably gets buried because the folks that sell sugar wouldn't want that.
SPEAKER 07 :
The folks that sell sugar wouldn't want that, and honestly, the folks that sell diabetes medication and other things probably wouldn't want it either.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I'm guessing that even if that existed, that's one of those things that probably gets bought and buried because nobody wants that out there, although it would be a huge benefit to a lot of individuals because it would change a lot of things that they do in their life health-wise. And again, Troy, I know this full well just from being down this journey myself. These things, to your point earlier, how we open up, they are very addictive. You can have withdrawals when you go off of sugar completely. In fact, my recommendation to folks is unless you can do cold turkey and handle some of the headaches and sweats and so on that come along with it, and yes, those things do happen when you're fully addicted to sugar. I know. I'm a testament to that some time. 15 years ago, Troy, so yes, I know those things exist when you come off of it, and the reality is if you're not able to do cold turkey, you've got to slowly wean yourself off, but that's also difficult.
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There really is no easy way to do it, and it takes discipline. I mean, it's an easy thing. I think we all recognize that we should just eat less sugar and We should look at labels. We should do those things. And it's not hard to do, but the discipline piece is where it comes in. And we all like the taste of sugar a lot more sometimes than we do the health benefits that go along with cutting it.
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And I will be sympathetic to a lot of folks because I'm somebody that loves food. In fact, my addiction, Troy, is that. I talked about this on another program I was on recently where I don't have a lot of other addictions, alcohol, et cetera. I don't abuse drugs, those sorts of things. Never have been a problem in my life. But I love food. Now, the difference is cocaine isn't on every street corner. Alcohol even, Troy, isn't on every street corner. But food is everywhere, and I have to have food to survive. And unfortunately, a lot of the foods that we get today in America contain some of the very things you and I are talking about that you want to get rid of. So the reality is those people that have food addictions, in my opinion, have it a whole lot worse than even folks that are addicted to cocaine and alcohol.
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I would totally agree with that from the standpoint of it is just hard to get away from it because it's so easy. And we're so busy that we may see a packaged food or we may see a fast food drive through as we're going by. And we think, you know what, I'm just going to slip in there real quick, grab it and go without really looking at the labels or understanding what's in it. to a greater extent, and that truly affects our health and can be devastating for us if that's all we're doing.
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Founder of Centurion Labs, Troy Duhl. Troy, have a really Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I know we'll talk again first of the year, but thank you so much for all that you do. It's been a joy. The more we talk, the more I get to know you. I just appreciate your time and effort in coming on our program.
SPEAKER 07 :
John, I appreciate it and hope you guys have a great Christmas out that way as well.
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All right, real quick, Joe sent this in. One can of soda per day for a month equals four pounds of sugar. Just an FYI. Joe, thank you for sending me that, and you actually sent me what the sack of sugar looks like that you would be consuming with one soda per day for a month. I got all the tickets emailed, by the way. Thank you all very much for doing that. And by the way, We have great listeners. Not one person tried to cheat. So you guys are fabulous. I appreciate you very, very much. Have fun. Those of you that were able to get tickets, have fun at Gaylord of the Rockies. And by the way, there are some great deals. Even if you couldn't get in and get the tickets that we were giving away, I would still encourage you to go out there, take your family, have a great time. And if you have the ability to let them know that you heard about them through us, please do so as well. I would appreciate that. All right, Hour 2 is coming up next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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In this episode, we dive deep into the psyche of individuals thrust into the spotlight for acts they feel compelled to take. Through an exclusive interview, we explore the complicated circumstances faced by Daniel Penny, examining the policies that he believes pushed him to act and the unfolding legal consequences of his actions. Our discussion peels back the biases and preconceptions fed by media narratives and hearsay, providing a platform for hearing all sides of a complex issue.
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I'm not a confrontational person. I don't really extend myself. This type of thing is very uncomfortable. All this attention and limelight is very uncomfortable. And I would prefer without it. I didn't want any type of attention or praise. And I still don't. The guilt I would have felt If someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself. And I'll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's pretty stunning and also pretty selfless too, that interview with Daniel Penney. that my friend Jeanine Pirro did. I mean, I was promised, you know, when you hear about him, because keep in mind, no one has actually heard him speak before. And we were promised, you know, this big racist. That's what we were kind of all told. Daniel Penny's this big, giant racist. And he, you know, he was leaving a Manhattan Klan meeting And he saw a black man on the subway and decided to go and attack him just because, you know, for no good reason, just because. And, you know, the man was Jordan Ely, who was... on the subway helping disadvantaged orphans and all this stuff. So it, I mean, we were told that this guy was going to be a giant racist and that he was a mean, mean person, right? He was a violent, super mean guy. Did you get that from anything at all in his interview? Did that come across at all in that interview? I mean, it didn't with me. I didn't hear any of that. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you at the top of this first hour. I wanted to play Audio Soundbite 2 because this goes into what I've been saying in that New York City made him do this. Listen to this.
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These public officials would do something so self-serving.
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But how does it serve them to hurt you?
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Just political gain. I mean, these are their policies that are, and I don't mean to get political. I don't really want to make any enemies, really. Although I guess I have already. But I mean, these are their policies that have clearly not worked, that the people, the general population are not in support of, yet their egos are too big just to admit that they're wrong.
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It's the policies. And it's true. I've written about this several times. It was the policies in Manhattan and the New York City Council, ultimately, that created the situation where Penny had to act. And I'm glad, you know, I mean, he sees this. And I know that other people see it, too. You know, there are these other lawmakers like Ayanna Pressley, who I saw this morning, or actually last night. She was going off last night about all this stuff. And she was mad over... in a penny being found or being acquitted rather. And these, I mean, all of these people contribute to this stuff, all of these people. I said yesterday, you know, with AOC, all of these people, she represents, you know, a significant chunk of Manhattan. And she's, you know, MIA on this stuff. It's just wild. So welcome to the show. This is how we're, well, one of the ways that we're starting off today. Dana Lash here with you. And that was a really good interview, though. It was a very good interview. And I wish... Now, Lorraine brings up a good point. And for those of you in the chat over at Rumble, she brings up a really good point in that. You... Do need to be careful. She doesn't think he should have done this interview yet. I don't think that he said anything that was incriminating. And the reason why she thinks that he should not have done this interview yet is because if you get the Substack newsletter that I send out every morning, you know that the dad is suing. So there's a civil case pending. The dad is suing. Yes, yes, the deadbeat dad. The dad who has not been anywhere near any of this this entire time. He's suing. He's brought a civil suit against Daniel Penny. Now, in civil matters, the standard of proof, a lot of stuff is easier. And you have your criminal cases and then you have your civil cases. And the civil, you know, civil case, it's a little bit easier. And so he's going for cash. He's going to go for a cash payout. So you could have it could be like an Alec Baldwin thing. Alec Baldwin, though, really wasn't. You know, he was acquitted bizarrely. And there's a civil suit pending against him that he had to settle out for. So they're going after Daniel Penny now. and he's hoping the deadbeat dad, Andre Zachary, the POS thug deadbeat, he's hoping to get a payday out of this. That's what he wants. So they're not done with Daniel Penny yet. They're not done going after him. The suit was brought just a few days ago, actually. It was only a few days ago. So I'm just, you know, it's pretty wild. But that's what that's how they do it. The burden of proof, it changes and it's not as strenuous. It's a lot it's going to be it's a lot easier for someone to go after somebody else in a civil as opposed to criminal court. So we'll see. But that's that's they're not done going after him, not done going after him. So that's one of the things we're watching. And also because we've got cabinet stuff and all of that, we've we've got the drones in Jersey, all of these things. The and we'll we'll go back. We're not done with the penny case either because there's always going to be developments in it. And, you know, you may have people right. I don't know. They haven't righted yet. Nobody's paid them to write yet. A few other things. So looking domestically. Republicans, one senator's come out criticizing Trump's intense pressure campaign on behalf of controversial cabinet nominees. Now, I'm fine with the pressure campaign for the nominees where these are good nominees and you need them to get through. I don't think that it's smart for the Trump camp to do this for every single nominee. And I think they need to pick their battles wisely. And I feel like he's some of them are stinging over the gates stuff. But the Gates thing wasn't due to other senators. And I really want to be careful not to adopt the left's mindset on this stuff. Gates has his own baggage. And I'm not speaking necessarily to all of the accusations. He's got his own baggage. And apparently it's enough that there was not going to be any kind of confirmation in the Senate for him. There's no path for him. And Ted Cruz apparently told Donald Trump this. Ted Cruz sat Donald Trump down and was like, look, there's no path forward for him. It's not going to happen. So apparently that was the that was the discussion that kind of did it. But that wasn't because of the senators. That was because of Gates. You can't hold other people responsible for refusing to co-sign your baggage or your past behavior or your whatever it is. And not every candidate is the same. And some candidates are flawed. Some candidates have issues. Not every one of them does. Some do. Some are really good picks. Some are not. And I'm not going to hold other people responsible for it. I've been bitching and moaning about the rhinoism of some of these senators long before a lot of people were even aware of who these senators were. And that's why a lot of us are kind of scratching our heads because like Joni Ernst went from being, you know, Satan Rhino to now she's accepted again. My criticisms are still consistent. I still have criticisms of her and many others who have been moderate on some issues. That being said, you can't use this pressure campaign for every single candidate. It's just not something that's doable because you're going to end up torching your nominee's chances in the Senate. It's going to be more difficult for them because you're going to be breeding resentment and ill will. That's not the way to do it. The time to lead definitely is when you want certain things passed in Congress. But the Senate takes its task of confirming these candidates very, very seriously. And you've got to play the game. So it is. And some of them just aren't good. You can't do this for all of them, though. And you can't you don't want to create problems in two years for some of the senators, by the way, that are going to be up for reelection. We've got midterms in two years and Republicans are out there just swinging fists wildly, not even paying attention to what's behind the target. We've got to be careful with this stuff. So I just noticed that there were a few people because, for instance, one of the I think I read a thing where Murkowski was still not on the Hegseth train. Then let him convince her during confirmation. But this this buildup, which is more intense than any other buildup to cabinet picks that I've seen, this is not the way to do it. But ultimately, at some point, it's the nominee's job to prove themselves in front of the Senate. That's why we have these confirmation hearings. You're not going to be breaking people's kneecaps off before they get there. That's not even how they did it during Kavanaugh. And Kavanaugh proved himself. And look at the coup that was. Look at the huge win that turned out to be. But at some point, you've got to allow the candidate to prove themselves. You do. That's the way it's done. So a few other things. Did you guys see that Trump was trolling Justin Trudeau? The left was saying that Trump, they were trying to act like Trump didn't know who Justin Trudeau was or what, you know, his job was in Canada, which I thought was really lame. And that's not true. But he was on True Social late. Go to bed. He was on True Social like after midnight. It was like one in the morning. And he goes, it was a pleasure to meet with Governor Justin Trudeau of the great state of Canada. He stopped short of saying America's hat. You know, he did. He said, quote, it was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with the with Governor Justin Trudeau of the great state of Canada. He was doing this as a joke, obviously, because of the tariff discussion that he had had with Trudeau and saying that, you know, well, I mean, they had a big trade talk and they were saying, well, you know, we just may take you over or something. He was talking about 25 percent tariff on imports. Because they're not helping to stop the flow of drugs and humans illegally through the borders. So I thought that was funny. I don't know how Trudeau... Trudeau seems like a very disingenuous, more successful Beto O'Rourke. Doesn't he? I mean, that's what happens when Castro's not your dad, Beto, I guess. I don't know. Doesn't he seem like that? They're all cut from the same cloth. So you know how you have... Who are the actors that were all named Bill? Like back in the 90s. Bill Paxton. Cool. Bill Pullman. I thought there was another one. I thought there was a trifecta of Bills. Maybe I'm wrong. Do not include Bill Nye in this. I heard somebody out there in radio land say that. Stop it. Not the great Bill Nye. But... The Justin Trudeaus, the Betos, these cats are like all the same dude, right? They come from that factory, that loafer, you know, corduroy, skinny pant factory. That's who they are. So I don't know. I'm just... I he comes off that way to me. Trudeau seems that way to me. But I thought it was funny. Trump was trolling him. We have a lot more to get into because we've got ongoing cabinet picks gearing up for January. The latest on the assassin and that UnitedHealthcare CEO killing. It's a big year for McD's, by the way. Robocommies and immigration in Europe. I think they're finally getting it. Maybe. We're going to talk about that here coming up. We've got a lot to touch on. Our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends over at Caltech, the P15. This is just the ultimate concealed carry handgun, their first ever striker. This is their striker fire pistol, 9mm, at 1.27 inches wide with a 4-inch barrel. 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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 apparently somebody assaulted Nancy Mace in the Capitol, some trans-tifa. Can you say tranny or is that a slur?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, you just did it.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I'm just asking for everybody. No, you said it already. Is tranny a slur? Do I need to be worried about a man coming to beat me because he wants to cosplay as having a vagina but he doesn't have one so I need to watch my speech because we live in like 1920s all over again? Is that how we got to do? Because I've got a lot of 9mm and two middle fingers, you know, that says otherwise. Anyway, so someone assaulted Nancy Mace. James McIntyre was arrested and charged with assaulting a government official. And I guess it was like trans Tifa stuff. I mean, nobody says I mean, there's no greater way to convince people to agree with you with your trans cosplay than to assault the women who are criticizing it. Great job. That's really going to make everyone go, well, these people are really coming at this from a position of reason and ration. Let's listen. GM, Government Motors, pulls the plug on its stupid cruise robo-taxi after they invested more than $10 billion in the self-driving business. They deserve the hit. That's probably with our tax dollars. They were hoping to make this advanced technology a top priority. They said that they would no longer fund work on the robo-taxis. They said it's just $10 billion. $10 billion. $10 billion. I could have told you before you invested $10 billion that it was a stupid idea. Probably. I'm just saying. Trump, let's see. He's sending Kim Guilfoyle to Greece and Don Jr. has got a new girlfriend in Palm Beach. Oh, very interesting. I don't know why she's the ambassador to Greece. Does she have Greek heritage? Does she? It makes sense if she does. But if she doesn't, why? I don't know. Anyway, so she's because he's it came out yesterday. There was a lot of gossip on the on the social media. So she's moving overseas very conveniently moving overseas. You're the ambassador to Greece. That's it. Yeah, you're going to Greece. Let's see. NBC says that a grenade was found inside of a passenger's carry on. And because everyone is a moron, it wasn't an actual grenade. It was an inert drilled out thing. That's what it was. Demilled, as they would say. So it's literally one of these things that I have on my desk. Which is actually quite heavy. And this is plated, right? This one's plated. So it's this thing right here that I have on my desk. And the guy got it as a souvenir at a museum. And he was bringing it home. But it was grenade-shaped, so everyone freaks out. The same people who once confiscated my son's protractor. Took this in our drilled out thing. We got more in store. Stick with us. Our partners that help bring you the program. Someone new to the show, Preborn is a great organization that works with women who are choosing life. And when they partner with these women, so what they do is they offer ultrasound so these women can see their babies and hear their heartbeats. And when that happens, a baby's chance at life doubles. and with uh pre-born you can double your impact with matching gifts because every dollar you give is doubled through a matching gift opportunity and the financial support that you help provide directly provides ultrasounds counseling life-saving care for mothers and their babies in need and right now you can make the great greatest investment for your year-end write-offs by choosing pre-born and through a match your gift is doubled so you're saving even more babies. And Preborn doesn't just stop with ultrasounds. They partner with women up into the toddler years with diapers and car seats and maternity, the whole nine yards. They really meet women where they are and they serve. All gifts are tax deductible. Preborn has a four-star charity rating so you can give with confidence. It's simple to donate. Visit preborn.com slash Dana or dial pound hashtag 250 and say the keyword baby. They're wanting to reach the goal of 1500 ultrasound sponsorships. That's preborn.com slash Dana dial pound 250 keyword baby.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I'm in the snow. We're in our, because we've got our, you know, our awesome studio. So we've got our LED wall. And we've, what is it like? I feel like, where would this be? Somewhere in like the Nordic region? Yeah, the North Pole. Yeah, we're at like the North Pole, basically. And we've got a nice tree. We've got a bunch of pine cone stuff that we put up here. So look, we're all festive and stuff. And that nice roll festive. See, look. Oh, man, he's got my, oh, look at that. Roll nice one. Roll nice shot there. All right. So welcome back to the program. Dana Lasher with you. And bottom of this first hour. So if you, gosh, where are we going to go? Because there's, There's a lot. And a lot of it's like housekeeping kind of stuff. You know what I mean? Like a lot of it's where we got the cabinets. I want to get into the drone stuff. I also feel like it might be related to the alien stuff, maybe. I've got conspiracy theories. But I wanted to touch on real quick with this United CEO murder. They're all ready. And I told you yesterday. They're already using this as a way to push ghost gun bans, right? And 3D printing bans and all this stuff. So you have this guy. He's talking about this. It's pushing this on cable news. CEO murder case. Audio Sunbite 4. Already now they're still pushing it.
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This is very real for you and me and everybody else who does anything. This person worked alone. I sincerely believe he very likely worked alone. And any crazy person who views somebody as the genesis of all their problems can go out and do this. And that's what happens when you have a country that worships violence and a country where you don't regulate guns. Right, exactly. Because if you couldn't get access to guns, this probably doesn't happen.
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And this is the same. This is one of the stupidest. First off, who is this guy? Nobody knows who this chonk is. Nobody knows. Does anybody care? No. Nobody cares. Just using him as an illustration. This is stupid. Because, first off, you don't... I think he would have done it regardless. If he was going to do something, he would have either... He would have figured out a way to illegally obtain a firearm at some point. That's kind of the whole point of criminals and what they do. You know what I mean? It has nothing to do with guns. It has to do with the culture of violence in this country. Stop blaming the damn guns. All you idiots out there who have no idea about it. They don't even know all of the facts in this case, but they're coming out like, well, we're pretty sure it has to do with the guns. It's because of the guns. Couldn't be because of any other issues. See, if you take away the guns, all the murder goes away, said nobody ever that had more than one brain cell to rub together. All right, I want to move on. We'll come back to this later, but I'm going to get myself all worked up. A couple things still as we wind towards Christmas, because next week is our last week, right? Yeah, next week is our last week. That's right. Okay. This... And McDonald's, this is such a testament to our culture right now. It's been a big year for McDonald's, right, Cain? Oh, yeah. Because you had Trump at McD's. Oh, yeah. And this guy's at McD's. Yeah. So the McDonald's where police caught the guy who wants to be Joker, apparently. And think about it. It really is playing out like that. They've been flooded with negative Yelp reviews. Is it too early to start drinking, Kane? Asking for a lot of people out there who just heard this headline. They're wanting to know. The Pennsylvania McDonald's where police arrested the guy who gunned down that Brian Thompson, the CEO. They've been flooded with negative reviews on Yelp since Monday. The Altoona, Pennsylvania location. Not just Yelp, but also Google. Employees are being branded, quote, rats and snitches by morons who are sympathetic. They always try to make, like they did this with the Boston Bombers, right? So they're, yeah, that's what they're doing. And that's something. Isn't it something, Kane? Yeah. It's something, all right. Uh-huh. They've been review bombing. Employees are referring to the, are being referred to as rats and snitches in the comments because somebody turned him in. A murderer. A murderer. Because see, some murder's okay. I can't even begin with this. What a statement on our society. That they're getting flooded with negative reviews because somebody turned this guy in. And then we wonder why we just have such a trash society. And you wonder why stuff like this happens in the first place. I don't know what it is. Like, this guy's not a folk hero. He killed somebody's dad. This is how dumb this is. He killed someone's dad. And if we're just going to assume that it has to do with anger over health care, who are the people that made the damn system? Take a bow, Democrats. I mean, hell, they bragged about it for how long after they had Obamacare passed. I will never forget Nancy Pelosi walking towards the congressional building. The walking towards the Capitol from the Hart building. And she had this. She didn't use the underground tunnels, which they normally use. She wanted to walk out in front of all the protesters. And she had a gavel that was the size of like an Acme Wiley coyote gavel. Remember that? We all joked about what in the heck. She walked with the damn thing. She was trolling everybody. And they were so proud. They were bragging about this. Oh my gosh. They got Obamacare passed. All the healthcare stuff is theirs. All of the complaints about the healthcare system are because of Democrat policies. Democrats own it. They fought for it. They got it. Take a bow. That's on y'all. So I don't know. This whole back and forth with, oh, well, he's a good guy. He's a folk hero because he's angry over health care. You're angry at you. You're angry at what you created. And I just think that it's being viewed as he murked somebody who might be on the right. And so the left is excited about that. Is that me thinking too much into this, Cain? No. Because I feel like that's how they look at it. They look at that guy as like an avatar of the right. And so this was a long time coming. That's what it seems like with these people. It's sad. Big year for McD's though. You know what we're all going to be into is we're all going to be turned into, we're all going to be chased down by giant murder balls. That's what's going to happen. Giant murder balls are going to chase us all down. China unveiled an all-terrain spherical robocop. To chase down, bludgeon and catch criminals using net launching cannons. Net launching cannons. This sounds like hysterical. Huh? Yeah, I don't know how. But they and they and listen to this. The bot beast. Apparently they say they can not only stop crime, but they can somehow detect it, too. I'm not afraid of this. Because you know what can stop this, right?
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45.
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Just saying. I'm not afraid of this thing. But they said that they're relatively unbreakable. They call it the cop ball. It's a murder ball. They have net guns, tear gas sprayers, grenades, loudspeakers. You know what I'm really what I'm looking at? Is I'm looking at a delivery service for free grenades and tear gas and sprayers. That's what I'm looking at. You could catch one of these things and take it apart, couldn't you? I mean, theoretically. And we're talking about China, so I don't have to worry about being nice about it. I don't have to worry about it. It's a giant murder ball. Now, some people thought it was a marketing stunt, but apparently they're really actually trying to implement this thing. They wanted to replace humans in dangerous instances. It weighs four tons. Well, it said it can withstand a whopping four tons of impact. and it's, oh, it can go a whole 22 miles per hour. Great job, China, your dumb murder ball. We found a way to do more of the communism with our murder ball. That's what this is. We're going to spread the sickling hammer with our murder ball. I just want to know, where does it put the grenades in that? And does someone, I guess, what if it gets hit with an EMP? I still say it's a thing of, it's a grenade delivery unit. That's what it is. Gives you some free grenades and stuff. They said the wheels can be locked so it can walk in a traditional way if it has to climb stairs. I mean, it's a giant ball. Roll up them. I don't know. This whole thing. They said it's unstoppable even in extreme weather. And they have, they've been releasing videos showing it work. I don't know. I still think the robot thing is the creepiest. The one that the Tesla bought, that's the creepiest. But they've been rolling them out. It's only in a couple of areas, but they have these giant murder balls out there. The Chinese murder balls. If you saw one of these, well, first off, Cain, say you haven't committed a crime, but still, if you saw one of these coming at you, what would your response be? get out of the way thing looks like it could run over me i mean it only goes 22 miles per hour yeah but i can only run like maybe eight or ten yeah but i feel like this is why everybody needs a scooter or something or like the the ability to convert your shoes into whatever works with the what are what are those what are the things with the stick the
SPEAKER 11 :
The Google gadget one?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I have one. I have a mini version of one and I can't think of what the name of it is. Yes, like a Segway. Like your shoes can... I just feel like I could get away from it. I'd climb something or I'd shoot it. I don't know. I could get away from it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, you could definitely shoot it.
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And then I'd take all the... I would literally strip it for parts.
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I want to see it in action actually doing what it's supposed to do. Like walking with cops down the road, it's not an impressive display of what this thing can do. I want to see it launch one of those, what did they say it had? One of those net things?
SPEAKER 05 :
Tear gas.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm looking at the list.
SPEAKER 05 :
It can disperse tear gas, built-in net gun.
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Net gun. Stun gun. Imagine shooting the net gun at somebody and taking down this. I want to see that. That's what I want to see from this Chinese commie ball. Murder ball. Murder commie ball.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's a spherical robocop.
SPEAKER 11 :
Commie murder ball.
SPEAKER 05 :
That sounds almost like a band name I want. Commie murder ball. The robot is called Clone Alpha. It's described as a musculoskeletal android robot. That's the clone robot that they have, the area humanoid bot. This was just a giant ball of death in a Benny Hill kind of way. It does look like a bit like it's like a Benny Hill cop. I can't make fun of this enough from China. So immigration, the Netherlands is looking to cap its population. Their hard right government is backing immigration. They're hard right government. They're government that wants some response. Shut up. This stuff is so stupid. Hard right. Hard left. Everything's stupid. The government that wants to have a little bit more sovereignty, they want to stop people from coming in illegally. And they're also saying we need to keep our population under 20 million because we're literally not having to. We're not able to sustain this. But they said that if we keep our population in check, we're going to have to have a period of austerity for a little bit. Nobody likes that. You talk about austerity. People don't want that. They get very upset. So they're trying to limit austerity. Intake. And this is all making the EU very angry because the EU wants unfettered access. They want to have just a flood of illegal immigrants coming in. France is bracing for chaos because they they've been having a series of votes. As you know, conservatives have been really making some gains in French parliament, of course, not just in France also, but in the EU. Because now there's a lot of murmurs in France. They got to do something about, again, the unfettered, crazy amount of illegal immigration. A lot of it was stemmed by Angela Merkel in Germany. And now a lot of things are changing in Europe. They're changing. They're starting to catch on. Maybe Democrats will, too. If your approach to everyday aches and pains is to mask them, you know, feel better for a few hours or only have the pain return and then repeat the cycle all over again, it's time to try Relief Factor. And the good news is that Relief Factor makes that easy. Their three-week quick start is just $19.95, less than a dollar a day. Instead of masking pain, Relief Factor helps eliminate it. It's a unique formula of ingredients that helps support your body's response to inflammation. And Relief Factor was developed by doctors. It's 100% drug free. And for so many people, the results are game changing, even life changing. Chris, my husband raves about Relief Factor. So Whether you're a cyclist, a hiker, you know, an athlete from your college days or high school, maybe you're just active now. Relief Factor supports inflammation reduction and joint health. Try it today. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF. See in how just a few weeks or even days, Relief Factor can reduce your pain. And then you feel better. And then life is just better. So don't mask pain. Fight it naturally with Relief Factor.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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Now, you know, we know there was a probability it could have been our own government. We know it's not our own government because they would have let us know. It could have been some really glorified hobbyist or hobbyists that were doing something unbelievable. They don't have the technology. But let's pretend that's possible. The third possibility was somebody, an adversarial country, doing this. Know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and technology in order to go forward. The sources I have are good. They can't reveal who they are because they are speaking to me in confidentiality. These drones should be shot down, whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can't imagine or whether it is Iran, and I think it very possibly could be, they should be shot down. We are not getting the full deal.
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So why don't we, if it's true, why don't we just, and if we know where it is, why don't we just park a destroyer right next to it? You know, just put a little destroyer right there. And see how long it goes. I don't know what I don't know what I think of us. This is a congressman who was talking about the Jeff Andrew, who was saying that all the drones that everybody's been seen in Jersey are actually these drones from this Iranian mothership. And this is part of a deal between Iran and China. They had acquired. these related technology for this mothership and all these drones. They acquired all of this from Iran. So I don't know what... I mean, if this is true... And I watched that live. That was just, what, last hour? I watched that live and I'm like, what? Nobody's ever heard of this. It's the first time a lot of people heard of it. That's kind of wild, right? Why wouldn't they shoot him down? I'd be blowing everything out of the sky that wasn't cleared from outer space. And if you don't have the means to do it, I got a solution for you. There's a thing. It's three words. It's a solution to this drone issue. You want to know what it's called? If you don't want to park a destroyer next to the Iranian mothership, you want to know what you do? You get that three-letter solution. Good old boys. Super easy. Because there are some people out there who literally love nothing more than shooting stuff out the sky. And you say, we need some help. You're gonna have good old boys and girls all over the country that we are here to serve. And they're going to be pulling up with their Benelli's and their Mossberg's and all, you know, their KSG's or anything else. They're going to be showing up their bird guns and they're going to be popping these things right out the sky. Very simple. Easy to do. I bet they won't even make you pay them to do it. They will probably offer to pay you. Like, is there a tag I got to get for? I mean. They would love nothing more. So I'm just saying, you know, if all else fails, you have the GOB response, the good old boy response. You get some folks out there that love, they'll just like free skeet. Skeet, skeet, skeet. They're going to have a ball, a blast, pun intended. That's the way to do it. But how in the world, is that what all this is? I mean, nobody has said anything. It's kind of weird. We've been talking about, oh, there's some drones flying all over New Jersey. I was hoping for aliens, but as always, I'm disappointed. I'm forever disappointed. You know, it's just dumb Iranians. I mean, not that that's like a less of a thing, but I was hoping for some real fireworks with some aliens. But instead, we got these dumb damn Iranians doing this stuff. Amazing. Really? I mean, it's just like shooting fish in a barrel if we really wanted to. We got more on the way. Second hour, stick with us. 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We've been covering a lot so far just in our first hour over the latest with the assassination of the health care guy. So we've been talking about that. We've been getting into some of the house cleaning with the cabinets and all that. I wanted to... immediately get into this issue that I keep seeing about the Senate seat in Florida. And this has to do with Marco Rubio's seat. As you know, he was selected to be the Secretary of State and now his Senate seat's open. Now in Florida, for a Senate seat, you're appointed by the governor. The House seat, like with Gates's seat, that requires a special election. And I read a story, in fact, I see some people pushing it. You have to understand that there are groups of people And this is, it used to not be so prevalent on the right, but now it is. The right has really copied the left in terms of the structure. Not saying the principle, but the structure. Because the left has different groups that they might back this particular candidate or this issue. They're not exactly transparent about it, but you kind of know with how hard they push and how they'll just go on to the next thing and start pushing that after this is either defeated or accomplished. And for a fact, I know that some people are paid. because there's this thing called open secrets and you can see depending on how an entity is structured they have to list that publicly a lot of people don't do that don't go and start look that stuff up but like for instance with uh the pot proposition in florida there were a lot of people who were on the payroll a lot of them were some big name righties big name righties black and white literally listed in the filings as having received money in exchange for promoting this this issue Now, I'm just saying, if people do something like that, I'm smart enough where I can figure out if it's manufactured or if it's not. I just like the transparency. I think people need to be transparent. I tell you all the time if I'm doing something and there are a lot of things that I don't do just because I think that it just I think that you choose a path in commentary and you can choose a path in activism. And there's a fine line that I don't cross in terms of working with candidates and all that stuff. I'll meet with them and I'll talk with them. But in terms of advising them and consulting them, I chose radio. So I don't do any of that. You know, I just like to keep it simple. The reason I bring this up is because I see some of this happening in the Senate seat fight. But it hasn't been turned on super heavy yet. It hasn't been. So the proposition, I saw this and I tweeted about it earlier today. The proposition has to do with this seat. specifically that Marco Rubio seat. And there are a lot of good people. You have Ashley Moody. There's James Uthmeyer, who's been suggested. There are a lot of good people who have been in Florida for a very long time. It's either their home state or they've lived there for years. And they have measurable victories in a number of winning issues. They've really fought hard to make Florida what it is. And it's not a battleground state anymore. It wasn't a battleground state last election. It's reliably red now. It used to be a battleground state, but it hasn't for a bit. And so in saying that, I saw this. I saw some people pushing saying that, well, Trump is vouching for Lara Trump to be appointed a senator. The Wall Street Journal apparently was saying that and he was having he had a discussion with DeSantis. And that there he wanted Lara Trump to be. nominated as senator. New York Post has the headline saying that Trump is pushing to have her nominated as the next senator from Florida. Now, no, no, absolutely not. Here's why. This absolutely makes zero sense. And we don't have a dynasty in this country. She's better suited to primary Tom Tillis in her home state of North Carolina where she lived. And she only just literally moved to Florida. They only literally just moved there. She's not been involved in any of the statewide Florida stuff. She was not involved in any of the constitutional proposals. She was not involved in the fight with parents on behalf of parents over Disney, etc. She was not involved in any of that. She's stayed. She's kept focus on her father in law's campaign. And that's fine. She's focused on that. She's focused on national issues. She didn't focus on anything, Florida, and she just moved there. That's why there are many other people who are way better suited, who have lived there for a long time and who have done a lot of work to get the victories that Florida enjoys now. And it's not a knock on her, but it will be if people expect Senate seats to be given like Kamala Harris. We don't need to be doing that. If she really wants to serve, she can move to Gates's district near 30A in Seaside, Florida, and she can run there. And in that special election, and I think she'd win just fine if she wants to serve in the Senate. If this is about reshaping the Senate truly and not just about getting a seat of power, then she'll go to North Carolina and she'll challenge Tom Tillis. Tom Tillis is a rhino. And in fact, I went and I looked up a bunch of polling. She's actually way better suited to do this. Her home state, that's where she was living until she went to Florida. And she actually could beat him. In fact, there are a number of polls. that show that if she challenged him, she'd win. And imagine her doing it with the Trump machine behind her. She would win. You could have a conservative appointed to the Senate seat in Florida. She would beat Tom Tillis. You immediately have two conservative senators. And I dare say that whoever's going to be appointed to be the senator in Florida for Rubio's seat will probably be more conservative than him. So you will have two more conservative senators going to the Senate. If this is truly about reshaping the Senate, then that's the route that you take. If it's just about nepotism and dynasty and getting accruing power, then you just you just give the seats away like Kamala Harris nominations. Now, we're the right. We don't do that and we don't believe in that stuff. We don't have a monarchy and we don't have a dynasty and we don't do nepotism like that. We bitch about it all the time when the left does it. And I know her. I don't dislike her at all. She's a very lovely person and we totally agree on animal stuff. I just totally don't buy into this for that reason. She would take out Tom Tillis. Easy. Easy. Easy. a hell of a lot easier than anybody else. And she would be able to raise the war chest. Actually, she'd walk in probably with a war chest to do it. People would just, before she even announced, they would do it. That means she has to go to North Carolina, though. But that's her home state. That's where she grew up. That's where most of her life has been. She only just moved to Florida. She has no time spent on any Florida issues. So the good news is that there are a lot of really good Good conservative. That's good news either way. But I think it's an unreasonable request. And I think it's too dynastic. And that's how it comes across, whether it's intended or not. It's too dynastic. She could either try for Gates's seat, move to that district, or she could go back to North Carolina, her home state where she lived, and challenge Tom Tillis. I would like to see two more conservative actual senators in the Senate, wouldn't you? Because here's the thing. If you're going to have a narrow margin of victory, then you're going to want some stalwarts in there. That's what we're looking at. I want to have some stalwarts in the Senate that I know are going to be holding the line. So I think her going for Tillis's seat makes all the sense in the world. But that means she has to do the work of campaigning. Now, she was only as RNC chair for eight and a half months. Was it eight and a half months? Was it that long? It wasn't a full year. It was like maybe eight months. And she was co-chair. So she would have to campaign. She could do it, but she would have to campaign for Tillis's seat. I just think it is ridiculously unreasonable to demand the gift of a Senate seat in a state that you just that you're that you have just moved into and that you haven't spent time in the trenches and winning those issues that so many people in Florida have worked on. And I think it's incredibly fair to say that. I have no problem saying it at all because of our American spirit. I mean, my gosh, we're all Americans. We all have it in our DNA. We don't do dynastic stuff. And like I said, she's a lovely person, but this is just, no. But I think that would be a good move. Tom Tillis is really weak. Very weak. Very moderate. I mean... You don't need carpetbagging in Florida. Just... And she leads him in a number of polls. A number of polls. Let me just put some of this up. Because they had a local news poll that they were covering. There was a poll that was done by Victory Insights that showed her as a strong favorite. Do you want to know what the... You want to know what Victory Insights showed? 65 percent to 11. Lara Trump over Tom Tillis in North Carolina. That was from likely voters and it was over a thousand sample. Guys, come on. That's just one. That's just one poll. There's another one. Carolina Journal was noting a different one. Yahoo had noted one. There was Sanford School of Public Policy talking about some of the polling. And even Florida Politics had to note that she dominates in a Senate poll, but it's in North Carolina. She's she's dominating in the surveys. It would be an easy for her. She just has to campaign for it. It's not going to be given. You've got to campaign for it. But if this is truly about remaking the Senate, that's what you would do. If it was truly about strategy of delivering a strong Senate, they would have her challenge Tom Tillis in North Carolina. No one would demand that. The appointed seat where you haven't even met everyone in the district. You haven't done any work. You've never campaigned and you only just live there. Guys, come on. Let's be realistic. And by the way, because I need to spell this out, you can still like Trump and also still disagree that she should be appointed as a senator from a state she just moved to. You can believe both of these things. It's okay. The only people who tell you that you have to be positive on both simultaneously are the people who are trying to emotionally blackmail you into doing everything that is suggested because they have a vested interest in turning out approval. It's called cash. So I think that, again, better suited for North Carolina. Not Florida. Got to campaign for it. And there's nothing wrong with that. I think it would be a walk in the park for her. And there would be no questions. It would be a seat that she won outright. There would be no accusations of nepotism, no accusations of any kind of like dynastic movements. Nothing. So I think that's a very easy choice. Our partners, the non-firearm firearm, that is Burna Gun. Burna is a great tool to have when you're looking to diversify your self-defense toolkit, so to speak. So when you want to diversify your self-defense toolkit, obviously you're going to need something like what Burna offers in the Burna SD. The Burna SD is a... 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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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You know, I love Dino's marshmallow world because he I don't think he was drunk when he sang it, but he sounded like he was getting drunk as he was singing that song. I love it. It's so good. All right. Media says that Newsmax has banned criticism of Pete Hegseth after Trump was upset over one of their hosts. Criticism of him. Apparently, Chris Ruddy got the call directly and was told of the POTUS elects displeasure. And so the media is reporting that they have they've banned that criticism of Hegseth. Now, I mean, it's it. I know writing and Trump are close. And full disclosure, they had asked for me to work there at one point. It didn't happen, but they had asked for me to work there at one point. Everybody's real nice, but I just hope we're not going to get into a point where we're exchanging one administration and censorship for another. You know what I mean? Be very careful of what you wish for. Very careful. So, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, there's probably some truth to it, because I know a lot of the people involved in this, but... This AI companion had suggested that this kid kill his parents and now the mom is suing. A 17-year-old kid on the spectrum who liked going to church and walks with his mom, he apparently started going in this mental health spiral, doom spiral. And then when his mom was looking at his phone, she found screenshots of him talking to all of these AI characters with all these AI apps. And the... AI had suggested self-harm and cutting, which he was doing to cope with sadness. And then someone else said that another bot said his parents didn't deserve to have kids. And the bots were goading him to even actually kill them. Yeah, the bots were. Uh, so the mom's suing. It is insane. This is insane. We gotta be careful with this stuff. Today in duh, ultra processed foods might increase the risk of colon cancer. Yes, because chronic inflammation, fatty, salty, like super sugary stuff that's multi-processed. Yeah, it could increase the risk of colon cancer. That's kind of an obvious thing. We have a lot more on the way. You don't want to miss. Stick with us. Our friends over at ReadyWise. ReadyWise is always ready with premium survival food, and you know the chain of command for your food. Start to finish, you know that it is U.S. ingredients packed in a state-of-the-art U.S. plant, sent out from that state-of-the-art U.S. plant to your front porch. And you get free and fast shipping on most orders, ensuring that your provisions reach you promptly. They have an array of product choices to meet every budget. They have their one month supply two bucket bundle. They have their three month emergency food supply as well. Everything is designed by their team of in-house culinary experts. to make sure that you get your calories, the needs that you have for calories met, your protein, your carbs, your healthy carbs, all that good stuff. Comfort in a crisis and beyond. Super affordable, premium survival food, 25-year shelf life. Visit ReadyWise.com and use promo code Dana20 at checkout for 20% off of your entire purchase. That's ReadyWise.com, promo code Dana20 for 20% off.
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However much you dislike the media, it's not enough. Case in point, Audio Soundbite 7. So the media found the school that this Luigi Mangione went to. Lorraine found this. And they set up outside and they talked about, they were showing video of all the kids going into school, acting like they were covering kind of a school shoot. It was weird. And then the hero behind the reporter with the leaf blower did not approve. Watch this.
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Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah, first, let's talk about the community reaction to all of this. As you can hear behind me, there is certainly some hostility to even the fact that media is covering This leaf blower behind me has told us that he will not leave until we do. So we are definitely seeing some of the community members reacting, not happy that media is out here covering the story in general.
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Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they wear leaf blower backpacks. Yeah, there were literally no leaves because he was that good, Kane, because he blew them all away. Clearly, clearly. Why were they out? Gosh, our media is so vapid. Why were they out there anyway? Why were they even out there? Oh, I heard he went to school here. So let's everybody let's go stand outside the school and be creepy. I mean, I love that that guy was out there. So this Mangione went to school there years ago. And the way that they were, why? Why would you go to his school and you're getting footage of kids walking into the building? Why would you go to his school? Why? That's so weird, right? I'm not being mean about this. I love that leaf blower guy. He needs to get an award. And he did not care. The groundskeeper of the year. It's like, I'm just going to go out here and blow all these non-existent, because we established that he did his job very well, so that's why they weren't there. But the way that the media was outside acting like something happened at that school even was just, it's not the way to cover this stuff. Not the way to cover it. But it was very odd. It was a very odd thing, and I don't know. I don't know. They made it seem like... I'm sure that all the parents were watching. That made them seem like the parents should be nervous. Parents see that kind of stuff outside their kid's school, and they're going to be very... They're going to be nervous about it. Anybody would. Now, in the meantime, they are really, really, really trying very, very hard to make this a thing with... firearms. And I've been talking about this. I keep seeing headlines, though, about it. I keep seeing headlines about it where they keep they keep trying to desperately do this. I saw another headline where they were saying, oh, this they're He used a 3D printer, et cetera, et cetera. And they were trying to make it sound like every bad guy could be doing this. And he's going to have he there is a difference, by the way. You realize that you can't just get you do have to do a little bit of work if you get, you know, a receiver. I mean, you still have to do some work on it. Otherwise, if it was sent to you already milled, the ATF counts that by itself as a gun. because they're stupid. So you got to do a little work to it. But the assumption that they're making is that he would not have gotten a gun any other way, which I find that not true. If you are so hell-bent on murdering people, and he also was going to bomb parts of Manhattan. The anti-gun folks are missing that. He was also going to make IEDs and blow up parts of Manhattan. His manifesto was out there, but that apparently was one of the things that he was wanting to do. But there's no evidence, number one, that this guy would not have gotten it on the black market as well. And there's a lot of discussion from hobbyists who said that he was probably pretty bad at what he did because he, you know, the thing jammed. It malfunctioned. So, just saying. But the... argument that, again, if somebody's hell-bent on murdering someone, it doesn't matter if they print it out or if they're going to find some way to do it. If murder is the goal... then they're not going to go, oh, I guess I can't 3D print very well, or it's going to take too much time, or I don't want to put the effort into this. I guess I'll just give up my murder dream. They're going to get something off the black market. That's usually how it works anyway. And there's also not enough evidence to suggest that the private manufacturer of firearms for one's own personal usage, which is protected federally, that that is driving crime. I know that certain left-leaning law enforcement entities like to say this, but there's not enough evidence to show that it's driving crime. By and large, getting it off the black market, and really think of it, whether it's the black market or whether they're going to print something out, which these gangbangers are not printing out guns. They're not printing out guns. they're still going to obtain something illegally. Because here's the fun thing. That's still federally regulated. If you're a prohibited possessor, you're still not allowed to do it. Prohibited possessor means you can't possess. You're not allowed to do it. And that also extends to personal manufacturer. So... I don't know what... I see these people writing about this. This piece that was in... I think this... I got a couple here. Sorry. I think this one was Reuters. I think this one was Reuters. Reuters was... In their piece, the way that they wrote about it, and I think this is just from journalists not understanding how... How people make firearms, like personal manufacturing. I think they just don't understand. The New York Times also had a really bad piece. Reuters had a quick write-up. New York Times' write-up was really bad. Because you need to make sure that you are... explaining that you're not getting like a puzzle kit and you just put it together and it works you actually have to do work on you know the parts because you you have to modify if it's like polymer whatever you're getting to to To make it be a receiver, because if you were just getting a kit and putting it together, the ATF is classifying parts of that already by itself as a gun, which is dumb, but that's what they do. And a lot of these stories aren't explaining that. And I think that it's I kind of wonder if it's intentional because they want people to think that, oh, it's just really all the gun parts and without the bullets. And all you do is assemble it and it works. And that's not it. But I think they're doing it so that they can try to lead people down this narrative of wanting to ban gun kits and parts so that. So because they're falsely believing that you can just buy these kits and just, you know, without any work, just put it together, a gun at home like a Lego set. Right. It's not how it works. He apparently had a 3D printed receiver. So I don't know if he would need a kit. Because from what I understand, the the pistol that he had, it was parts and then he had a 3D printed receiver. And he apparently had been into 3D printing for a long time, which is unusual. And we don't make laws based on the exception, but rather on the rule, right? And the media is fascinated because they said, and they're running with this. They think they found a new opening in this. And they're trying to argue that, well, this is how all the criminals are going to get their guns. If they can't get a gun through the black market. This is, okay. Building your own firearms at home predates the black market. Building your own firearms at home predates this republic. Absolutely. People have been making their own arms at home since before the United States was a country. That has never changed. They didn't have the kits. They have been able to do this for years. And the media is always the first to lead the charge in banning something that has been in use, in practice, etc., for years, simply because a criminal may use it. Now, This individual had not been in touch with his family apparently since July. His mother had said that she had lost touch with him. I am not going to forfeit my rights because a family member can't keep one of their own in check. I'm not forfeiting my rights because somebody lost touch with their kid in July and their kid decides to act a fool and act a nut job and pretend to play Joker and goes out and mercs a healthcare CEO. We're not doing that. That's like saying the guy who drove the SUV in Wisconsin through that Christmas parade a few years ago. That's like saying, well, these criminals, they're considering using these vehicles to murder people, so we need to take all of your vehicles away. It doesn't make any sense. So because a criminal wants to use something I that I've always used, I can't do it anymore because a criminal because you can't figure out how to deal with the criminals. The only thing that you can do is punish the innocent because you can't or won't deal with the criminal. So that slack is left to the innocent to pick up. Hell no. No, no, no. These these I hate the term ghost gun. It's stupid. Oh, well, the government can't track them. Guess what? They can't track anything on the black market. But lawful, nice, good people, innocent people who want to build stuff at home are allowed to do so. That's federally protected. Affirmed. They're allowed to do so. But see, they're trying to go for that. That's the... They know that if they were to ban everything, that 3D printing would be the way that a lot of people would go. And there's, I mean, the technology is pretty amazing. But the way that they report this, I'm telling you, they're building this narrative. They're building this narrative. Think about it. You've got Dexter Taylor in Rikers. He was a hobbyist in New York. Never broke a law. New York changes its laws. Their laws are at odds with a federal law, which affirms Dexter Taylor's right to make firearms at home. New York recently changed theirs. It said, no, they're not going to allow it anymore. And you can't be grandfathered in. So you're all just felons. And then they put him in jail for it. And then they have to switch some things around. They tell him the Second Amendment can't be cited in court. And then they switch out their judge and all this. So it doesn't look like they're targeting a conservative black firearm owner. So he sits in Rikers. They are going after people who are doing this. They are going after them. They try to go after 3D printing. They're having trouble with that. But they keep running this ghost gun thing. Ghost gun. It's so stupid. We have Florida Man on the way. Our partners over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. Patriot Mobile has a ton of affordable plans that will work for families of any sizes, businesses of any sizes. And right now you can get their Every Friday Matters special. They're giving away a brand new smartphone when you make the switch. And it's easy to make the switch. They have a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. They're going to make it easy. You can keep your current number. You can get a new one. It's whatever you want to do. But you'll get a free smartphone as part of the offer using promo code FRIDAY. And when you switch, you're only supporting the things that you vote to protect with your money. 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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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So this one, boy oh boy, this Florida man was wearing a blue bonnet and a flowery dress and stole 28 cans of baby formula from Publix. And by bonnet, I mean he was wearing like one of those Little House on the Prairie type bonnets, like Lord Ingalls Wilder would wear. You know what I mean? Like the elastic and that has, yeah. He took 28 cans of Infamil. Infamil formula. Concealed them under his flowery pilgrim dress.
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$450.
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And they said it's a man in his 50s. He's also driving around in one of those little shopping... Look at my gosh. Juan's got that. Driving around in one of them little shopping scooters. Now, how do you get... How do you... You get away with that? For real. And they don't know who he is. How do you walk out with that many cans of Infamil...
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He rode out with it, apparently.
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But how do you do it? I mean, you can see just scooting around the store.
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I guess that dress that he was wearing.
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The video of him driving around the store in this thing, and it's not really much to watch, but it just amuses me greatly, with his little bonnet. And he's just putting all these cans in his cart, putting them all in there. How do you get away with that? Like, that's $450 worth of, I don't know, man. That's just wild to me how, I don't understand how some of these people get away with the stuff they do. Is nobody paying attention? Is nobody watching the front door? Like, what in the world? Let's see here. This South Florida man is accused of using a barbecue fork in a fatal stabbing. Riviera Beach man is facing a murder charge. Police allege that he stabbed another dude to death Monday evening. Using a cooking utensil. Roosevelt Johnson is facing one count each of first degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police investigators identified the victim as John Doe, describing him as a Hispanic male believed to be in his 40s or 50s. And they're trying to confirm the man's identity, notify his family. But it happened before 6 p.m. He was attempting to attack two female relatives with this cook and fork before leaving the family's apartment. He stormed out of the apartment, approached the first random person that he saw, and then stabbed them to death promptly. So, I mean, good heavens. This is crazy. A scumbag Florida realtor had a client taken off life support so they could steal their assets. A Florida realtor was accused of exploiting a hospitalized couple and then taking control of their assets. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood announced the arrest of Jason Valiant, calling him a scumbag of the holiday season. So the couple hired Valiant to sell their property and he declared themselves their healthcare surrogate power of attorney when they got hospitalized. He signed a do not resuscitate order for one of them who was taken off life support. He drained money from their accounts, willed their home and properties to himself. even took their truck to use and stole thousands via checks, used their credit card for things like auto detailing, dinner drinks, gas, teeth whitening, attorney's fees, and three properties acquired. They were $1.6 million. He and another realtor were going to develop two oceanfront properties into a large condo complex or hotel, Chitwood said. So he got the other realtor he worked with got charged with two counts of being an accessory after the fact. And six-figure bond. That's crazy. And why are people so easily, why do they trust others so easily? I don't know. It's, man, man alive, man alive. In addition, I got one, I'm not going to do that one. No, not doing that one either. We, ooh, no. Can we stop? Every month, I've had two this month. This is the second one. Can we stop smuggling contraband in very sensitive areas into prison? Like don't put it in your sensitive areas and don't take it into prison because I'm not reading these headlines. No matter how many times you send them to me, I am not going to read about somebody who tried to smuggle a weapon in his butt into the jail. I'm not doing it. I wasn't. I'm not reading the story. I'm not reading the story. Amber from Florida. Stop sending it to me. Send it this morning with just a smiley emoji in my email. That's what I woke up to. I'm like, no, I'm not reading it. I know I see what you're doing. We've got a third hour on the way. Stick with us. Don't go anywhere.
SPEAKER 03 :
Our staff today, I have never experienced anything like this. These are screen grabs of actual exchanges between our members of our staff and their friends, relatives, whatever. I've changed the names to protect the guilty, but let's see. Lorraine C. asks, do you guys think the United Healthcare CEO killer is hot? Friend replies, yes. I love Luigi. I think he's gay, though. This is an exchange between two of our producers. We'll call them Elphaba and Glinda. My TikTok is flooded. My mom chain's going nuts. That's my TikTok. Everyone is obsessed. People are saying a New York jury has the power to find him innocent because we all love him. I'm not mad at him.
SPEAKER 05 :
Why are those producers so, like, damaged? Jeez Louise. That's Jimmy Kimmel. What about that? First off, what about that guy's hot? Number one, that's number one. Number two, he's a murderer. You soulless, like, Jeez, you broads. Welcome to the show. Top of the third hour. Dana Lash with you. I am fascinated by the psychology of females that like people like the Scott Petersons and this guy. Are they just like desperate? Is that what it is? They're just desperate? They can't get a man out in the wild, so they got to go to the confines of the prison to go find one? Like, what in the world? It's so weird. But they were looking at that over anything else. Now you can see why some of these people are lionizing this guy. Because these chicks think he's hot. These desperate, thirsty broads think he's hot. That's so gross. And he's not, by the way. He's a gross-looking dude. So welcome back again. Top of this third hour. Dana Lash with you. And man, there's all kinds of... Now, what did you just get, Cain? You just dropped into Slack because now we got breaking news.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I'm seeing breaking news that Christopher Wray, head of FBI, just resigned. In disgrace, probably. But that's just now breaking.
SPEAKER 05 :
The left was trying to pressure him to stay on. To... They've been trying to pressure him to stay on because they said he could technically serve out like the rest of his term or something to that effect. But I don't think he was going to stay of his own accord anyway. Yeah, so he's resigning apparently. Christopher Wray has resigned. And he was going to get fired, really. But now he's resigning. So that's just in minutes ago. FBI Director Chris Wray. has resigned and uh the it was not i mean it was expected so he's put in his 30 days then right because do we have cash wouldn't be stepping in right now no well he would have to he has to well and he can't anyway until after the first of the year so i would imagine that uh and i haven't read anything any other particulars about it so i would imagine that yes uh you know he has to serve uh I mean, until I mean, you could have an acting director. That's something you can also have. You can have and a president can make that nomination in in. Can can can make that make that move, but not until the new Congress is seated and then they start the confirmation process. So they can't get Kash Patel in there until that until that time. So just FYI. So there you go. So we have that. Maybe now we can. I don't know. We need reforms there. We have to have some reforms. Absolutely. And maybe this this is the you know, we can have this start. It would be nice. We're going to as we get more information about this, we'll share it. But Chris Ray has resigned. which you knew was coming. And that was just... It was just... They were just waiting for that to happen. They were just waiting for it to happen. And I think Kash Patel will actually... I think he'll get confirmed. I don't think it'll be a... I don't think that's going to be... Right? I haven't seen any kind of... I see, you know, the regular kind of opposition to him, but I haven't really seen a whole heck of a lot, right? Yeah, so... We'll see. In the meantime, can we just go back to these mystery drones real quick? I know we played this earlier, but this is audio. And I watched this live when it happened. I was I was watching the program. I saw it's Congressman Jeff Van Drew. And he was talking with Harris Faulkner. He's out of New Jersey. And what he said, I was kind of passively listening. And then the, because I was just expecting the whole drunk conversation to follow how it usually goes, right? They don't know where it's from. Maybe it's a hobbyist. Maybe it's whatever. Then it took a wild turn. I want you to listen to what Jeff Van Drew said here. This is wild.
SPEAKER 01 :
Now, you know, we know there was a probability. It could have been our own government. We know it's not our own government because they would have let us know. It could have been some really glorified hobbyist or hobbyists that were doing something unbelievable. They don't have the technology. But let's pretend that's possible. The third possibility was somebody, an adversarial country, doing this. Know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and technology in order to go forward. The sources I have are good. They can't reveal who they are because they are speaking to me in confidentiality. These drones should be shot down, whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can't imagine, or whether it is Iran, and I think it very possibly could be, they should be shot down. We are not getting the full deal, and the military is on alert with this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Man alive. This is wild. Now, the areas that they have been seen over, these... Weird drones. They've been all over New Jersey. They've been up and down New Jersey. That's Ocean County, Monmouth County, Staten Island, New York. They've been spotted near Picatinny Arsenal military base, the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster. They've been near spot in your Philly, Trent. I mean, everywhere. And remember, after. Well, I think it was right before that Trump was almost assassinated. Was it right before or right after that they came out, that it was unveiled that the Iranian regime had published plans to assassinate him? Was it right before or right after, Cain? Do you remember? I don't, actually. It was all right around the time when he got shot. And so we know that... The Iranian regime had had wanted him to be killed. Oh, I got a lot of questions, a lot of questions over this. So and he says, Andrew says that the military is on full alert. These should be shot down. And he says that this is coming from the highest levels. He didn't say where he just said very high, very high sources. The that this mothership that has these drones and he says that's he's saying that's what it is. I can't when he just came out and said that that was such a stunning display of transparency that I it took me a second. Right, Kane? Did you get the idea that he like hesitated saying it for a minute?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Yeah, I got that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I felt that there was like half a beat there before he just went, look, Harris, and I'm going to just tell you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right?
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't even know what to think about this stuff, honestly. And you know me. I'm in Conspiracyville, second home there. Lots of tinfoil.
SPEAKER 05 :
So you don't think it's Iran?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think it's a possibility. There could be. Have you seen the mothership? I haven't. No, but. They're saying that there's one. Yeah. I'd like to park a destroyer next to it, but not sure where it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
I also don't want Lindsey Graham to be like, well, there it is right there. There's our incentive for war. I don't want him to do that. I don't want to get grandma wound up.
SPEAKER 11 :
He doesn't need much to justify war.
SPEAKER 05 :
Every day, Lindsey Graham wakes up and is like, I want to go to war every day. Monday, oh, I want to go to war. Tuesday, what a beautiful morning. I want to go to war. Every damn day that man wakes up, stretches, greets the sun. I want to go to war every damn day. He probably sleeps on bed sheets that says, I love war. Wraps up with his big I love war comforter. Lays his big fat head down on his big fat I love war pillow. You know? I don't want to get him wound up. So I do want to have a little bit of caution. But at the same time, it's weird, right? The drones all over.
SPEAKER 11 :
The size of SUVs and buses and stuff?
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm not going to lie. If I see a drone in my yard, I'm shooting it TF out the air. Not going to lie. And then I'll deal with South Lake PD after. Because I know one neighbor won't call. One neighbor definitely will.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it's easier to get forgiveness than permission.
SPEAKER 05 :
Some damn lashes again. What are they doing? I don't know. But I definitely would. I'd be like, I don't know, officer. I felt threatened. I think that drone had a gun. Yeah. I can't breathe. I would. I would straight up shoot it TF out the sky. Because it'd be weird, right? A drone right over your house? A drone on your property? Yeah. I don't like that. I will say a lot of my friends who serve and have served Nothing really scares them until you start talking about drone fare, drone warfare. Dude, they legit actually are nervous about it. Because it's so silent. All of a sudden, you know, it comes up and just, you know, it's pretty, I mean, we're already kind of there. Really, we're already there. Barack Obama loved drones. He loved droning Americans overseas. Drone, drone, drone, drone, drone. I bet Lindsey Graham was all, whoo! Like Yosemite Sam, finger guns in the air. But these are real. I mean, I really wanted it to be aliens, but I think I'm just we're just going to be all disappointed in the stupid Iranians. Damn it. Really wanted some alien action here. You know, I just, I want, I mean, when you said mothership, I'm immediately thinking Independence Day. Like, I really want to punch something. I want to go and fight and shoot at some aliens. Let's go ahead and go all cod zombies on some aliens. Let's do it. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. Me hoi, me hoi. Right? Who's in? Let's squat up. Yeah. My gosh, it would be like a dream if it was actually like an alien or if they tried to Red Dawn it. Do you know how much gear I have that I can't use yet? Because I have to, you know, it's one of those, you know, I say this to make everybody feel better. I have it so that I don't, you know, I don't when you when you you'd rather have it not need it than need to not have it.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's how I have it so that you don't have to need it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. But oh my gosh, if they tried to Red Dawn some stuff, dude, I already have everything mapped out. Like we already have plans to protect our property. We already know we could drill down for this. I mean, I am so set. It's crazy. And I'm, oh my gosh, make my day. Like we're the people. If somebody breaks into their house, we're like, that's us. Do not. Okay, sidebar. Crazy story. Because most of you all are already mentally halfway on a Christmas vacation. So when we first moved in this house, we had had, as you guys know, after Parkland, we went through hell. Like, I've never really talked about it in depth, but we went through hell after Parkland. And not to minimize like my dear friends who lost children. It was a different kind of craziness. And we had to have like, we legit had to have security set outside and it was real wild there for a while. We had somebody, when we moved, we had somebody break into our old house and it was crazy. So anyway. We had one night it was real cold and it triggered our alarm system. It was like 20 degrees outside. It was really for that time of the year. It was really a little too cold for that time of the year. And we always do drills in our house and we have cameras everywhere and all that stuff. And so I was dead asleep. The alarm goes off and it's just like you never you never rise to the occasion. You fall back on your skill set. Right. And I've I have since modified, I will say. my um response plan a little bit so we get out i immediately you know i grabbed my uh grabbed my pistol i think i had my fn at that point i think i was using my f and i trade things out all the time uh you know my husband's downstairs i'm going upstairs we're you know clearing everything and when my kids were little they knew they were they if anything were to happen you hit the bed you hit the ground roll under the bed just roll out of the bed hit the ground roll back under And we went through and cleared everything. And then it was only after we looked at the video. We're running around in our britches. It was pretty amazing. So now I modified my response plan to always include first pajama pants. And I can jump into pajama pants like foomp. Like a magic trick.
SPEAKER 11 :
Like a firefighter?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Midair. Like Voltron. Yeah, like Voltron. Like schoomp. And then go.
SPEAKER 11 :
Like video or it's not true.
SPEAKER 05 :
I am never posting this video. Ever. Never posting this video. But it did happen. And afterwards, I was like, hmm. Might modify that.
SPEAKER 11 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah. All right. So this is kind of crazy. Dogs living near Chernobyl need homes. No, they actually have mutated to develop a new superpower. Would you like some mutant dogs? They collected blood samples, the scientists, from 116 stray dogs living near Chernobyl, the exclusion zone. And they found that the two different populations were both genetically distinct from all other dogs in the surrounding area. For instance, they've adapted to withstand long-term exposure to their toxic environment. That's why they're thriving. And they said that they're basically immune to radiation now. How insane is this? That's crazy. They avoid the extreme levels of radiation. Their bodies just do it naturally now. They said that they they're able to you know, there's a number of other toxicity things that they've been able to be immune to. But yeah, they've they can survive in it and they thrive in it. That's insane. Stick with us. I went long last segment. Apologies. Stick with us.
SPEAKER 13 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
I was just saying, after the Feliz Navidad part, all the gringos go, what is it? They're like, it's like when, I always make this joke, but it's like when Gwen Stefani is doing a hollaback girl and you're at a wedding and all the bridesmaids are drunk and they're on the dance floor. And when she gets to the B-A-N-A-N-A-S part, they're all like, same thing. Same thing. Welcome back. Oh, Dana Lashley with you, bottom of this third hour. All right, I got to set this up. Google has a Christmas campaign. What? It be woke. Why are people still doing those? Why? Stop it. They got a campaign of a dude. Well, I'm going to just watch it. I'm sorry. We have to see it. You do too. Watch it.
SPEAKER 07 :
So dry. This winter dryness is not it. Especially when I have so many holiday looks to pull off. Thankfully, I know just the thing. And it's in stock nearby. Hydrated skin is a gift to everyone. No wrapping needed. Happy holidays to me.
SPEAKER 05 :
What in the world is this vaudeville theatrical thing I just watched? This dude is pretending to be a chick. I find his interpretation of what he thinks a woman to be really offensive i don't like saying offensive because i don't give it's like not a power but if you were a sexist pig making fun of women and you were mocking how they behaved that's how you would act it's like they're mocking women by trying what women what woman who does that Oh, my God. Who does that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Dylan Mulvaney.
SPEAKER 05 :
And you sound like a weird Donald Duck-ish kind of thing. I'm going to really put up a vocal fry. Oh, stop it. So he's wearing women's clothing, complaining about his skin. Maybe it's because you're a dude. I don't know. You have balls. I don't know. Maybe that's why your skin's dry. It's true. Well, Cain, you're objecting to that. But, sir, that's why we're here.
SPEAKER 11 :
It was fine when you said he's a dude. You didn't have to really go any further.
SPEAKER 05 :
I did, because some people need it defined. They don't know what it is. They're like, what is that? I'm like, it's a person with bits. Okay? Like giblets. They got giblets down there.
SPEAKER 11 :
Get free education on the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
We're all about educating the people. We're generous like that. We got a special spot in heaven reserved for us. So... What woman is going to watch that and be like, yes, that man sounds like he's got some authority on this issue? Do they not know how marketing works?
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. Or what woman is going to relate in any way to that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, how far should I go with this?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, no. What do you mean?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, marketing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
So...
SPEAKER 11 :
That look on your face.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. If I'm watching a man try to sell a product to me, a woman, it's not going to work. Unless it's a car or a gun or a gadget. Anything else, shut up. I'm not going to listen to you. There are certain things I know. If you're trying to sell me a food item, nope. And only on certain guns. By the way, you know, like if I'm seeking knowledge on a gun, I'm OK with or check. But there's just if you're a man and you're trying to tell me about skin care, I'm not listening to you. Maybe I would I will listen to a male dermatologist less than a female dermatologist because she's female. I'm female. Ladies got different needs. All right. Men can turn 80 and still be hot. Women, it's a little different. That's just beauty standards. It's just the way it is. I'm not listening to a dude talk about makeup or skincare or hair care or anything like that. That's not selling me. That is not selling me on anything. What woman watches that dude and goes, oh yeah, I think I want to try that. Who does that? I don't, I don't, that does not appeal to me as a woman. I don't, I don't find that appealing. Like the, the fat chicks and the Vicky secret. I don't buy Victoria's secret, but I can't even tell what those clothes would look like on my body. Everything's so distorted in an unhealthy manner. Morbidly obese manner. No. It's like if I see someone morbidly obese selling leggings on Athleta. Which, by the way, why are certain leggings that are used way more material and a certain size the same cost as leggings that use less material and are a different size? Are the leggings that use less material and of a different size subsidizing the manufacturer and sale of the larger leggings that have more material and use more labor? This is where my mind goes. So I can't... I can't see. It does not resonate with me. A dude selling me stuff does not resonate with me. Joe Biden trying to sell me a gun would not resonate with me. Like you don't know anything about guns. Right? Like you would not watch a baking show hosted by someone who can't bake. For that same reason.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's like going to you for football tips.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's like asking me about football. Right. Sidebar. Somebody did that.
SPEAKER 11 :
What?
SPEAKER 05 :
They didn't know. Someone didn't tell. This poor man making small talk. Because you know how you get in a group of people and everybody's talking. And my husband's talking. And his wife is talking. And our other friends are talking. Their friends are talking. We're all having cross conversations. And he's like, so, you know, coming from St. Louis, you know, to Dallas, you know, I guess, you know, were you into the Rams and all this stuff? And I'm like, oh, well, you know, I can, you know, do 30,000 foot. Then he starts getting into some technical stuff. And I have no idea what's happening. I don't know what is going on. Like if it was a plane flying and I had to fly to keep it from crashing, we'd all die. I don't even remember what he asked me. It was something technical. And I just looked at him and I go, is that a position? And I could tell very briefly it hit his face. Like he, he first thought, did I misspeak? Like maybe I didn't. And then, and then it hit him. No, it's her. She knows nothing about football. It's a deficit what I actually know about football. I think some of the positions are made up. I don't even think they're real. And I'm not going to pretend to like it.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think you call four or five different plays score downs.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, probably.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, even though there's no score happening.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't even know which way the hell you run on the field. I don't even know.
SPEAKER 08 :
Dana, who do you think should start at quarterback this week for the Falcons?
SPEAKER 05 :
That one guy.
SPEAKER 11 :
Open up your betting app. Hurry. Open up your betting app. She's about to give the answer.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I don't know. The coldest. I don't know. Mr. To ever do it? Yeah, Mr. To ever do it. Him. Okay. I don't know. Where are they at? I know nothing about football. I don't want to know nothing about football. It's okay. We're all different, right? We're all different. I can tell you about baseball. Can't help you with football. I actually know baseball. Cannot help. I didn't when my kids were playing. I was like, I don't even know what the hell I'm watching. I'm just like, whatever. My kids are like, Mom, why? Like my youngest is, you know, he knows it. He's, you know, gets into the strategy of it. And he's like, it really is like I'm like, that's great. You can sit here and tell me it's like chess a million times. Chess using people. That's great. I still have no idea what's happening. I love that he learned that apart from me. It's great. But it'd be like me telling you football. Well, this is who I think you all need to bet on this weekend. Or this is who you need to root for. If you listen to me, you'd be the dumbest person in the world. I can't even tell you where the Falcons are from. Where are they?
SPEAKER 12 :
What?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I don't know. It's a type of bird. I can tell you that much. And they're probably black and purple. I don't know.
SPEAKER 11 :
Atlanta would like to have a word.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't know. Why does Atlanta get falcons? They need something Atlanta-y. Are there falcons in Atlanta? I don't know.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
See, this is what happens when you get outside your skill set. This is why you should not have a dude selling women's skin care. You see how uncomfortable that was? That's how us ladies feel. Whenever dudes try to get out there and sell us skin care or sell us makeup or morbidly obese chicks try to sell us lingerie at Vicky's Secret. No. Can't even see some of it on someone.
SPEAKER 11 :
I didn't even feel it fully until you started talking about football.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, see, now you feel it. Now you know what it's like to be mansplained to by a man cosplaying as a woman telling you about lady stuff. Me going, taking you through that valley in football at that low point there. That's what it felt like. That's what it felt like, y'all. Some people think that I'm pretending at not knowing football, Cain. They actually think I'm faking it. Would you like to just really quickly say that that is not the case, in fact?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, that is not the case.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is a legitimate thing. Yeah, it is. Somebody offered to, they said you should take an online course about football. And I said I'd rather gouge my eyes out with used toothpicks from a flu-laden buffet. I think I'd rather do that. I'd rather have a gasoline enema than have to watch a thing about football. Sorry, there's just things I don't do. Camping is another. Pretending that you're homeless? No. No. We invented the house. We invented the house and electricity, and I'm not going to pretend. I have good girlfriends and family members who love camping, and I love that for you. I love that you love camping, not for me. I will go out in nature. I will shoot things, kill it. I will field dress it. I'll do whatever. But when I go to bed, we're going to have hot water and a soft comforter. That's what's going to happen. We're doing that. And we're not going to go dookie in a shed that's built over a poo cave. Not happening. Not doing it. Sorry. I draw the line. Port-a-potties are banned. No. Now you guys know. Now you know. So this... Oh, oh. So Lorraine says there's definitely a mothership out there. The Pentagon, quote, there's no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States. That's exactly what someone hiding the fact that there's a mothership launching drones towards the United States would say.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wait, that's my line.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's exactly what they would say. Now, I had said... If the drones are all from an Iranian mothership, I'm disappointed because I was hoping for aliens. And literally everyone is going... Well, first someone said, aliens are not coming to this poo-hole planet unless they have saucer trouble. They're going to stay in their little saucers and keep the doors locked. They're not going to get out of here. They're going to be like, oh my gosh, we're in the trashy part of the solar system. We're here with the people who ban things on pancake syrup bottles. And they think that if they tape their... Male copulatory organs back towards their butts that they're women. That's, you know. You okay?
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, there's a rule.
SPEAKER 11 :
Aliens are just called.
SPEAKER 08 :
There's a rule in football called the tuck rule, and it has nothing to do with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, that's true.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I'm afraid to look that up. That's new information.
SPEAKER 08 :
The tuck rule? Yeah, you just catch a pass, and you have to turn before the fumble doesn't come out or a complete pass.
SPEAKER 05 :
Catching a pass. Wink. All right. Wink. There you go. Sounds like coded language to me.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think the aliens would just call quadruple A. That extra A is for alien.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't know. I just, I was very, I don't know. I just, so the Pentagon's like, no, this is not happening. But I think it is. Sorry. I think you're lying. I'm just going to say, nope, there is. That's what I want. When Trump gets in, right after he's inaugurated, this is what I want to happen. I want him to go up on the stage. You know how they go up on the stage and they do the dance with the first lady and all that? All right. He can have his dance with Melania. But I want him to go first. All right. So, yes, Iran was launching drones out of a mothership and aliens are real. And we did find Bigfoot. That's all I want to know. And then you can go dance. Just drop that knowledge for me first.
SPEAKER 11 :
All that right there?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, just right there. Right there.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right after the swearing in?
SPEAKER 05 :
You know how helpful it would be to eliminate all the small talk? By just being like, did you hear what POTUS said? Damn, Bigfoot's real. And there's aliens. And also Iranian mothership drones. What? That would be so good. Small talk is horrible at those events. Just saying. And we'd all have something to talk about. So it'd be great. It's what he needs to do. Just a small request. My birthday's next year. And Christmas is coming up, you know?
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SPEAKER 05 :
Charles Barkley is hysterical. I don't know if you guys saw this from Inside the NBA, but they had an uncomfortable moment when Jay-Z came up. Watch.
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You think Jay-Z or... Probably not a good time right now. Or... You're silly, man. You're silly. You're wrong. You're silly, man. You're silly, man.
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Go see if you can fix the wall, will you, Shaq?
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Fix the wall, man. Here, back here. Fix the wall, man. I can fix the wall. My point was, you think Kendrick Lamar.
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He just goes and hides behind that podium. I read a story where it said Beyonce made Jay-Z walk the red carpet with Blue Ivy at that Mufasa premiere the day that those accusations dropped. And then everybody started watching that video. I usually don't get into like a lot of the gossip stuff, but I was fascinated when Beyonce's sister just about beat the hell out of Jay-Z in an elevator. I mean, that beefy bodyguard that was in there with him was not about, I mean, he barely could contain that woman. And Beyonce just stood there moving her train here and there. She just stood there in the middle. Didn't do nothing. Barely got in between them at one point. She was just standing there watching it. I mean, Solange Knowles was throwing her heels and everything. Like, geez, he needs to fear for his life. He made his wife's sister mad. That's like a person you don't make mad. Something's up. I don't know. But that was from a few years ago. Anyway, I think Charles Barkley's hysterical. He's too funny. All right, so... Before we went to break, we were telling you, we've got today's stupidity. Pentagon's denying the Iranian mothership thing. They're denying it. Today's stupidity, Cain?
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All right, it's going to be Biden. I mean, there's so much stupidity. The TikTokers and everyone else fawning over... We're going to get the Caitlin Clark stuff tomorrow. That CEO murder. But anyway, it's Biden. His teleprompter goes out, and he just didn't know what to do. This is a common theme with Democrats. Look at this.
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This is so bad. And you know, one of the things that's going on here, they just turned off my... I'm going to go vote. I lost the electricity here. Anyway, one of the things we found is that, you know, we invented the computer chip, the size of the tip of your little finger.
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All right. Okay. Time for nappy time, Grandpa.
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He's just still there. I don't know what he's doing, but he's still there. Yeah. That does it for us today, folks. I hope you have a great evening. Find us on Substack. Make sure you subscribe, Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. Back with you tomorrow.
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In this episode of the National Crawford Roundtable podcast we look into the killing of United Health CEO Brian Thompson. Why are so many Conservatives calling it justified? What is the appropriate reaction for Christians and Conservatives? Daniel Penny was found innocent of murdering an out of control and threatening man on a subway by restraining him with a chokehold. Should he have even been on trial in the first place? Should Dr. Anthony Fauci receive a pardon? And what is in store for Syria after the fall of the Assad family?
Join Tony Perkins for compelling conversations about pressing issues facing both the United States and the global community. From concerns about Iranian drones potentially breaching American airspace to the significant geopolitical shifts occurring after the Syrian regime's change, this episode offers rare insights. Stay tuned for an enlightening discussion with CBN's Chris Mitchell, who shares a biblical perspective on these monumental events.
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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Israel's security forces attacked and destroyed stockpiles of strategic weapons in Syria for the sole purpose of preventing them from falling into the hands of terrorists. The new leadership in Syria does not need chemical weapons.
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That was Israeli government spokesman David Mincer earlier today providing an update on the IDF's ongoing actions in Syria following the overthrow of the government by Islamic rebels. Welcome to Washington Watch. I'm Tony Perkins. Thanks for tuning in today. Here's what's coming up on this Wednesday edition. New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenney joins us to discuss the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and how official terminology surrounding the land of Israel is actually fueling the tensions. I'll share an in-depth interview and conversation that I had with Chris Mitchell, Middle East Bureau Chief for CBN, for further insight on this unfolding situation in Syria. And the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has intervened to stop the city of Bryan, Ohio, from forcing a local church to remove the homeless from its property. Pastor Christopher Avell calls it a religious freedom issue. And the Attorney General of the state of Ohio, Dave Yost, filed a brief with the court in support of the church and the pastor. General Yost joins us later here on Washington Watch. And yesterday on Washington Watch, we covered the drone activity along the East Coast. Well, today the issue was addressed on Capitol Hill.
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I've learned for real that there is circumstantial evidence that there is an Iranian mothership off the east coast of the United States and that's launching these drone incursions. It's unacceptable and it's frightening and our government has to act.
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That was Congressman Jeff Van Drew at the House Aviation Subcommittee hearing earlier today. Later, Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, will provide us with more insight into this story. Well, this Christmas season, the Family Research Council invites you to join us in shining the light of biblical truth here in Washington, D.C. During these challenging times for our nation and literally the entire world, FRC continues to serve as a watchman on the wall for faith, family, and freedom. And thanks to a $1.5 million challenge match, every dollar you give before December the 31st will be doubled, amplifying your impact. So stand with FRC as a prophetic voice here in our nation's capital for biblical truth by texting the word LIGHT, that's L-I-G-H-T, to 67742, 67742. The word LIGHT, and together, let's make an eternal impact. While Israeli officials revel in the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, they are also concerned about what the future might hold as the Islamist rebels now in charge work to rebuild a new political order in that country, which of course borders on the northeast of Israel. Since Saturday, Israeli troops have been positioned between Syria and it's part of the Golan Heights. Now, that is a territory that is of major strategic importance to Israel. Now, critics of the move have condemned Israel for what they say is a dangerous land grab. But we've seen what happens before when terrorists are given an inch. With me now to talk more about this is Congresswoman Claudia Tinney, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Committee on Space, Science and Technology. She represents the 24th Congressional District of New York. Congresswoman Tinney, welcome to the program. Good to see you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Great to see you, too.
SPEAKER 08 :
What do you make of what Israel is doing right now for its own security as it pertains to Syria?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, first of all, Israel is doing everything it can to try to bolster its borders against what's happening in Syria. Look, it's great that the Assad regime was removed largely through the efforts of Israel, but now we have what looks to be yet another terrorist regime led by someone who led al-Qaeda, who's wanted by the U.S. on a terror watch list with Israel. This is going to be uncertain times, certainly going into the future for Israel. So Israel has been very smartly managing this difficult situation in the Middle East. And they need our support, of course. And we just passed a new NDAA that gives them a little bit more support as far as resupplying some of their arms that they have lost in waging this war against extreme Islamic terrorism, which they're doing. for the rest of the world, I might add. So it's a very complex area. Syria, of course, has been under Assad, but even before that, back when the Ottoman Empire left Syria, with this sort of tribal confusion there, and you have a lot of different warring factions supported by various enemies of ours, whether it's Russia, Turkey, Iran. I hate to put Turkey in that category, but Turkey is unfortunately getting involved in this as well, in all the bordering areas. So It's a very concerning part of the country or the region. And I'm just very concerned about the future of Syria under what looks to be the current leadership.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Well, I think you're also concerned, you're right to be concerned about Turkey and their involvement. As I understand it, there's probably a little more involvement than has yet come to the surface about Turkey and some of these Islamist rebels. And we have a fairly large, it's dwindled in recent years, a Christian population there in Syria, kind of the cradle of Christianity. I want to talk – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Jerusalem – they want to have a relationship with the new regime in Syria, but he said Israel would respond forcefully and exact a heavy price if the new regime allows Iran to reestablish itself or allows the transfer of Iranian weapons to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. It's a valid concern. that this new Syrian government could still be a seedbed for terrorism. Your thoughts?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, of course. Yeah. I mean, look, we're talking about introducing Sharia law there, taking the rights away from women especially, not protecting the Christians that remain in that region. And again, the influence of Turkey, and I hate to bring it up again, but this is a NATO ally who is acting in a way that is... Contrary to what the interests of the United States are.
SPEAKER 08 :
But consistent with what Turkey has been doing in recent years.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, very consistent. This has been happening under absolutely, you know, considering that they're a NATO member still, which I think that, you know, this is concerning and just the warring factions in Syria. Israel is doing everything it can to protect itself and to provide as much stability as they can do there. I mean, look, Israel under Netanyahu have taken bold actions under a lot of criticism, but have stood up for the region and maintaining and eradicating us from Hamas. Not completely, but at least the worst of it, the IRGC, countering some of the really incredibly questionable actions coming from Blinken and the Biden administration to prop up Iran, who is the largest state sponsor of terror and the biggest... disruptor in that region, these are all very concerning for us. But Israel has boldly stood up and really kept the world safe and kept a reasonable amount of stability, all while trying to maintain humanitarian support, all while being under siege by interests across the world, including colleges in my own district and places around the United States that are not understanding the real threat that we see there with our only democracy in the entire region and our greatest ally.
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Congressman Tinney, you said here just a few moments ago you want to be careful with your language and how you articulate things, and I think that's wise. And speaking of that, when we talk about this region of the world, as you said, since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, it's been kind of a free-for-all. But you've introduced legislation to require all official United States documents and materials to use the term Judea and Samaria instead of the West Bank. Now, this is something I talk about frequently on this program because the West Bank is such a misnomer and a misleading description of the heartland of Israel. Tell us about this legislation and your motivation.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I agree with you, Tony, and it's by design that it's misleading. It's a slap against the original homeland of the Jewish people in Judea and Samaria. And, you know, under the Oslo Accords, this region was protected and part of the Israeli territory and reassigned as their sovereign territory for many years back. And look, this is a place where you still have rights and peace and And the misnomer of continuing to use the word West Bank undermines the sovereignty of Judea and Samaria, the homeland of the Jewish people. And I actually had an opportunity back in 2019, the first time I'd been there, to visit Judea and Samaria and see exactly what's happening there. It's far different than that kind of propaganda that you're seeing around the world. And I think the U.S. government should take bold action, do the right thing, and recognize Judea and Samaria as sovereign territory of Israel. Stop using this pejorative term West Bank to undermine Israeli sovereignty, our great ally, and to continue to allow this sort of underpinning, say, undercoat of terrorism that is coming out of that region just to dismantle and disrupt the true sovereignty of Israel. And look, and I just felt like this was important to do. I'm really pleased that actually Senator Tom Cotton has now picked up this legislation and he's introduced it in the Senate and will be actually reintroducing it in the next Congress and hope that we get the Senate. I'm sure we will get it done in the next Trump administration, especially with our new ambassador, Governor Mike Huckabee for Israel. And I'm really excited about that as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
I wanna show, I like to show this map when I talk about, I've got a clip of a map where the region of the so-called West Bank, can we pull that map up? I know we've got it somewhere in there, but we get to it. I wanna show this, here it is. There's the map. You see the kind of the blue colored area, light green area is so-called West Bank. That's the heart of Israel. That's where 80% of what we read about in our Bibles took place. And, Claudia, this is, when they talk about West Bank, this is what they talk about when they talk about the plan to solve the conflict, the two-state solution in Israel is to give up that portion of the land.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it's incredible that this is actually the most critical part for both the Jewish people and Christian people. This is where our heritage is in terms of Christians and what we believe in. This is where so many of the holy sites are, and yet we've allowed this to come under the dominion of the Palestinian Authority and be labeled in one of the designated areas that is not sovereign to Israel. And really, of all the places, it's one of the most important. It's where Abraham wrote the Psalms between the Dead Sea and Jerusalem and that region and the hills of Samaria and Judea. Judea stands for the Jewish people. I mean, obviously, these are really important issues. So it is critically important to... the Judeo-Christian ethics and Judeo-Christian history. And I think this attempt to call it the West Bank or to blot it out or to make sure that we don't label these products, it's another bill I have that requires the labeling of products that come from Judeo-Samaria as made in Judea or Samaria or made in Israel. not made in the West Bank. And, you know, we've got to stop letting them manipulate us with the language. And that's why, you know, starting with some of these bills just to get us away from that and to get people to understand that the truth about history is the best way to find peace. And, you know, allowing the Pompeo doctrine that we had before be reinstated. It was taken out under the Biden administration where we went back to the West Bank language. And I think we need to continue to tell the truth because truthfully, when you look at Israel, That's a place where all denominations, everyone, all religions, all races, everyone is represented democratically. Everyone has the right to religion, free expression. Everyone has the right to vote. Everyone can go to the Capitol. You would think this is some authoritarian regime, which it's not. Voices are heard, but there's always this attempt around the world to undermine, you know, the very important entities in Israel and the very important democracy that's very fragile but being upheld, you know, courageously by the Israelis. And so important, not only, as I say, you know this as a Christian man, I mean, going to Israel and seeing Jerusalem and actually going and having the real opportunity to go to Judea, as I did, is one of the most incredible experiences I've ever had.
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I've been there many times, took the first congressional tour into the Judea and Samaria. In fact, spoke with the governor of Samaria last week. He's excited about your bill. You've got a great cheerleader in Yossi Dagan. Claudia Taney, great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us. Great work. We're going to help you with this as much as we can.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thanks so much, Tony.
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Great to be on. All right, folks, stick with us. We're back with more after this.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Good to see you, Tony.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, tell us more about this case.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, let's start with the basics. Of course, if you've got a public building, you have to comply with the same rules as everybody else. But what the law interpreting the First Amendment says is the government's not allowed to treat the church worse than anybody else. Dad's Place, I visited there and met Chris Evel, the pastor. Love the work that they're doing there. They take Matthew 25 seriously. The problem is they're in an old building right downtown. The city and the powers that be don't much like them having folks that are down on their luck hanging out right there. But they are coming in and throwing a book at them on building code violations. Here's the problem. On the stand, the fire chief admitted that they give waivers all the time to these kinds of building code violations. if the building is old and it would be too expensive to comply, or if there's some other reason that just the cost of the thing to the business is untenable. They've actually given a waiver to a hotel where people sleep overnight in beds. This is just like that case during COVID where the government tried to shut down all the schools, including the Christian schools, and left the casino open. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said, you can't treat churches worse than you treat other businesses. And I'm very hopeful that when this is completely litigated, that Dad's Place will still be standing.
SPEAKER 08 :
So General Yost, are there other factors here? I mean, this would suggest, since they're giving waivers to others, that there could be some animus here on behalf of the city toward this church.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that's a question for the court. But regardless of whether they're against this church or simply don't want, quote unquote, those people, what Jesus called the least of these, hanging around their downtown, the bottom line is under the law, you're not allowed to treat the church worse than you treat everybody else.
SPEAKER 08 :
Religious freedom would also, I would think, under the First Amendment, expression of faith, give the church the benefit of the doubt to even have more latitude, because this is a clear expression of the Christian faith.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's a core function of a core belief of Christianity. In fact, Jesus talks in Matthew 25 about separating the sheep from the goats on the basis of how they act toward the hungry, toward the homeless. Here's another thing. They're trying him last week. They tried him on criminal charges. He might be the first guy in Bryan ever to have been tried on criminal charges. Usually a code violation means you get a ticket. If you ignore the ticket, they might take you to court to get a court order to say you gotta fix it or even padlock the front door. But to put somebody in jeopardy of their liberty, They're trying to send a message here, and I'm hearing it at least.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's why it sounds like to me there's animus as I've read through the actions that they've taken. But we've also seen hostility from local governments toward churches, and I'm not suggesting it's the case here, but I've seen it clearly in others, where increasingly city governments do not like churches because they're tax exempt when it comes to property taxes. And they would rather see, and this is a former storefront, which I'm sure, I assume that at some point in time generated tax revenue for the city, is that they don't like churches because they don't make money off of them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we don't have that in the record. And as a former prosecutor, I live and die by the evidence I can produce on the record. What is on the record is that they're treating this church differently than they treat other people in their town. And that's a violation not only of the United States Constitution, but I would argue Section 7 of the Ohio Constitution.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and I'm a radio talk show host, so I probe and try to stir things up a little bit because I think there's more here than meets the eye. But I want to say thank you, as you have historically done, stepping in in defense of the First Amendment and here a clear, what I see as a clear violation of the rights of this church to help those who are down and out there in the city. So I thank you for stepping in. I thank you for joining us as always. General Yost, always great to see you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good to see you. Let me give a quick shout out to First Liberty. This is a privately funded group that is donating their legal expertise along with a couple of local firms to defend Dad's Place.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, thank you for bringing that up because First Liberty frequent guests on here do great work. We're grateful for our partners like them and ADF that step in and do some of the heavy lifting on these cases. General Yost, have a Merry Christmas if I don't see you before Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Attorney General Dave Yost of Ohio. And yes, this is more evidence of why it's so important that we have, you know, we're a policy organization. We work here in our nation's capital and state legislatures on policy. But we need these public interest law firms like First Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom and Liberty Council that are in the courts fighting for your rights and freedoms. All right, don't go away. More Washington Watch straight ahead. It begins here. and here and here every day before you stand you need solid ground standing in a culture that wants you to surrender the truth won't work unless you have a firm foundation at family research council we have that firm foundation and you can find us standing we stand for the value of all human life We stand for the right of families to flourish. And every day we stand for your freedom to believe and to live out those beliefs both at home and abroad. We work with government officials, educating them on the issues from a biblical worldview, and when necessary, we hold them accountable. We equip Christians across America to be informed and to take action in their communities. With our daily radio program, television appearances, and vast online presence, we reach people where they are. We envision an America where all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives. And that won't be realized if we're not standing. Stand for faith. Stand for family. Stand for freedom. Stand with us at FRC.
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Yeah, well, Tony, it's great to be with you. And I wish I could report something to you. I requested a briefing over a week ago. I got that briefing early this week. Unfortunately, it didn't inform me much more from what I already know from what we call open source reporting, which is what everybody else knows that these drones are. pretty prolific around much of New Jersey, flying over airports, the president's resort out there, and people's homes. And we don't know where they're from. We don't know who's piloting them. We don't know their intentions. And unfortunately, the law doesn't really provide For anybody to do much about it right now, you know, it's it's illegal to shoot one of these things down. So your your listeners and your viewers must know that it's considered an aircraft. So you can't shoot at it if it's over your house and or that would be a federal crime. And and so, you know, depending on the jurisdiction, local law enforcement isn't doesn't have any tools to combat it. And, you know, if the FBI is not present there with the right equipment, the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, you can't determine who's flying it, where it's from. Now, I did understand I didn't see it directly, but I understand there were questionings today, questions today at the White House. at the briefing at which there was a revelation that these are not. And so this is what I've heard. I haven't seen it with myself, so I need to characterize it that way. But essentially, these are not known to be just local, random, individual actors, which I think is, A, concerning, and B, is more information than we've had prior to this.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm not on the Intelligence Committee, Congressman, but I would think that if our government There's only one of two things that could be happening. They have to know. Our government cannot be that incompetent to not know that an aircraft is flying over, and not just one, I mean dozens of them, flying over vital installations. We don't know about it. We don't know where it's coming from. We can't track it with all of our sophisticated technology. From a satellite, we can read a license plate on a car. So either either we're totally incompetent or we're not telling the American people the truth.
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And that includes the representatives of the American people. I just left. I was down in the intelligence, what we call the skiff. That's where I just was before I came here. They're not telling us anything at the moment. Now I have a briefing again next week. So. So maybe I'll find out something then or before then. And I think that we are able, well, I agree with you, Tony. We are able to track them. They can see them. They probably, I'm sure they show up on radar. We can pick up birds and things like that on radar. So I'm sure they show up. I don't understand how they're not being tracked to their final destination and how they're not being associated with some individual that is controlling them or individuals. That's what I don't understand. And either they don't know that and that's incompetence or they do know that and they're not telling us and that's something else.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, there are reports that these drones could have actually come from an Iranian ship off the coast. Is there any evidence of that to either confirm or deny that?
SPEAKER 04 :
I haven't seen any evidence. That doesn't mean it's not true. However, according to what I understand, the White House denied that today. So for whatever that's worth.
SPEAKER 08 :
So how can they not know the origins, where they're going, and tell us that they're not a threat?
SPEAKER 04 :
That's fair enough. I mean, if they don't know the origin, if they don't know who's piloting them, how can they also be so sure to tell us that it's not controlled by somebody from Iran and it's not from someone on a ship? If they don't know where they're coming from, allegedly, how can they say that with any confidence? And why would we have any confidence in believing that? So right now, I think it's a wide open conversation.
SPEAKER 08 :
And these are not, just for those that have not been tracking this, these are not like the drones that you get off of Amazon. I mean, these are the size of cars.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's the reports that I'm getting as well. And like I said, I've asked over a week ago to get a briefing on it. I got it first thing this week when we got in here, but it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. So that was not very helpful.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it's really bad with those guys briefing you or kind of flipping through the pages of the newspaper telling you what you already know. Final question for you, Congressman Scott Perry. If, you know, our viewers, listeners spot one of these, you know, larger than usual drones, a car, looks like a car flying above their house, what should they do?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, they should definitely call their local police. That's the right thing to do. They should dial 911, call the police, give them the, and if you can, I would say get some pictures of it with your phone or anything else. If you can get the photographic evidence and the timestamp on it, I think that would be helpful in determining what it is, who's doing it and where they're using it.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. We'll do that and we'll follow back up with you when you get more intel.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. All right. Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. Great guy. Good. Thank you. Thank you. All right. After the break, I'll share what I discussed with CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell regarding the unfolding situation in Syria. That's next. Don't go away. Hello, I'm Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council here in Washington, D.C. Behind me is one of the most recognizable buildings in all the world, the U.S. Capitol. What does it stand for? Well, most people say government. But do you know the Bible talks about four institutions of government? Do you know what they are? And do we have a republic or a democracy? Well, what do you say? Also, what about this thing, separation of church and state? Does that mean Christians shouldn't be involved in government? Guess what? We address those issues and more in our new God and Government course. I invite you to join us to see what the historical record and the Bible has to say about government. Join us for God and Government.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us. Well, the situation continues to unfold in Syria, where the Islamist rebel coalition that ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is working to build a new political order. Well, yesterday I interviewed CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell in Jerusalem during a special event that FRC hosted for some of our key supporters here in Washington. And he and I talked about the bigger picture and how we need to look at what is unfolding through the lenses of scripture. And it was a really enlightening conversation that we have with Chris as he's on the ground there and understands what is taking place. And so I wanted to share a portion of that interview with you today. And we'll begin with Chris's dive into the goals of the Islamist group that is leading this rebel coalition. It's referred to as HTS. which is trying to present itself as more moderate, at least for the time being. Here's our conversation.
SPEAKER 07 :
give you an idea. I know H.T.S. is sort of presenting themselves as quote unquote moderate. The leader has been on CNN already. But they are Islamists. They have a design. And there was a video on memory Middle East Media Research Institute of in some of these jihadists inside the Grand Mosque in Damascus. And that's not their only goal. They're saying quite openly they want to take over the alexa mosque here in jerusalem uh this is only a stepping stone to take over the uh a greater part of uh of the middle east another big factor tony is the fact that turkey uh is behind hts apparently has armed them funded them and uh all part of uh uh President Erdogan's goal, greater goal, to be sort of restore the Islamic caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, he being the great sultan. But he's using proxies to go ahead and do that. HTS and the Syrian National Army is two of those proxies. And the other big issue, I think, here, Tony, is there has been for many years in northeast Syria, A administration area that really had been self-governing and had one of the most democratic regions in the entire Middle East. And that region is now under attack, we understand, by members of the Syrian National Army. Now, this is the Syrian Democratic Forces. part of the alphabet soup, but these are the good guys. And I've been there many times or several times back a number of years ago, and I've seen for myself, this is a group of Kurds, Christians, Yazidis, Arabs working together. In fact, in their charter, they require that 40% of the representation in the government is by women. So that is under attack right now. And also, I know you were talking to Randy about the persecution of Christians. Just a couple of hours ago, I know our mutual friend, Dean Mayenza, and you served with her, Tony, as well. She came out with a report of what some of these members of the SNA are doing. Now, these are of veterans of ISIS, some of these members. So, and this is part of what she's saying, what she's heard from people that have escaped that region right now, women beheaded in front of their families and communities, mass shootings of civilians, dead bodies on the road, children kidnapped from their families. And they're having firsthand accounts of some of these people that have escaped that area. I think as well, we're going to see sort of a maybe a deceptive facade right now on what's happening in places like Aleppo. Al-Jahani, the Mohammed Al-Jahani is the leader of HTS. He is a veteran of Al-Nusra, which is an affiliate of Al-Qaeda. He's presenting himself as a moderate. And I believe he's asking people not to put anything on social media like ISIS used to do. But the SNA being a separate group is responsible for some of these atrocities. And I think the HDS is trying to present itself in a more favorable light, at least for the time being. If you go back a few years, when they were in charge of Idlib, which is further north, a region that they had controlled, they employed Sharia law. So I think Sharia law is on its way to much of this area in Syria. But I think we might see a sort of an interim period of, quote, unquote, moderation. So that's some of what's been happening here. And just a huge, huge time. for that wise strategy and policy and prayer, prayer for the Christians in this region that are under threat, as well as Kurds, Yazidis, and other ethnic minorities, that they would be protected, and also that this group This northeast Syria autonomous region would be protected and supplied so that this democratic good news story can be preserved and that they can be a refuge for many of these people that are seeking asylum and safety from some of these Islamist groups. Chris, a lot there to unpack.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let me just ask you a few questions on that, in particular, the northeast area of Syria. That was the one issue I disagreed with President Trump in his first term and spoke with him when the U.S. withdrew from that area, because you're right, it is the one place in the Middle East where we saw Yazidis, Christians, many former Muslims actually came to Christ in that region because the gospel was able to go forth. They had peace. They were living together in a very democratic, pluralistic society. But when the US pulled out Turkey, Erdogan began attacking them. So I could see his proxies moving in even more so. So when you look at the alignment of HCS Is it primarily Turkey, or are there other potential suitors that are going to come after them that could remake Syria?
SPEAKER 07 :
That's possible, Tony, and I want to agree with you. That was the one foreign policy initiative by President Trump I disagreed to as well because actually being there, meeting these people, seeing what had been established by these groups, these ethnic groups, was just remarkable. And I thought just the presence of the U.S. forces there, small as they were, was a deterrent to President Erdogan. meant a lot to those people, and withdrawing them really did make a difference. In terms of other actors coming in, there is a sense that this short-lived peace between some of these groups, that there may be some infighting between them, but I think right now at least In the short-term future, HTS seems to be the governing authority. They're going to work with some of the remaining vestiges of the Assad regime to make a quote-unquote transition of power. But apparently what happened is that the HTS is taking over the Assad regime. The SNA is heading east to attack this region that we admire so much and think should be preserved.
SPEAKER 08 :
Just to put a fine point on this, because I think we're going to hear more about Turkey in the coming days for some reason. There seems to be a little more trust in the Trump team with Turkey than I am comfortable with. Turkey, Erdogan is a bad actor. Yes or no?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I think so. Yeah, I do. I think he uses proxies. He's very smart in that regard. But I think he's behind what this is. And I think in a grander sense, he does have regional ambitions that go back to his Islamist ideology and dreams of restoring the Ottoman Empire. There's even maps. We reported on that several years ago of a greater Turkey, and that includes some of this land in Syria. And one of the big obstacles is that northeast region, why he's attacking that now. He doesn't have Turkish forces on the ground, but he uses proxies like the Syrian National Army, which is a really misnomer, but he provides artillery and air cover. for both of them. But yeah, a bad actor. And I think we need to understand the greater ideological, theological reasons for doing what he's doing, as well as many of these Islamists. I mean, they're on their way here to Jerusalem. That's the great goal, to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as the Turkish President Erdogan.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which, by the way, the Al-Aqsa Mosque was the impetus for Hamas in their attack on October 7th of 2023. I mean, that was their battle cry, the Al-Aqsa flood. So it really does come back to Temple Mount. That's where the Islamists have set their targets. And this so happens to be in Jerusalem, which puts Israel at risk no matter what Islamist force is on the move.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly, exactly. And they will probably be reporting in our story tomorrow. You know, some of these jihadists staying to the camera, you know, we're here in the Grand Mosque in Damascus. We're on our way to Al-Aqsa and then they're on their way to Medina, too. So or Mecca. So they have a regional ambition. That's why it was so important. for Israel to be proactive and take over the Syrian part of Mount Hermon, to take over this buffer zone and be just maybe 8 to 10 miles away from Damascus itself. So they understood how important it was to get the high ground and also to decimate as much as they could the Assad army, which, God forbid, would get into the hands of these Islamists and whatever they could try to do against Israel.
SPEAKER 08 :
That brings in another question or brings up another question. You're talking about to Medina, to Mecca. Could this then facilitate what was on the the cusp of happening prior to October 7th and the normalizations of relations between Israel and and and Saudi Arabia. Could that be with this mutual threat? Could that and the Trump administration coming in facilitate that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, one would hope so, that the Abraham Accords could expand, as many had hoped, to Saudi Arabia and perhaps with these mutual enemies. And it's interesting now that when Hamas attacked on October 7th, that was trying to usurp or try to be an obstacle to this normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Now that Iran is sort of sidelined by now, perhaps this mutual threat, because these Islamists, they're enemies of these quote-unquote moderate Sunni nations. These Islamists consider the nations like UAE, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia to be not the kind of Muslims that they think they should be. So that could be an impetus for the expansion of the Abraham Accords under the Trump administration.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, Chris Mitchell, two final questions for you. And I appreciate you joining us. And I know you probably prefer this time rather than Washington Watch time, which is midnight Israel time. So I'm giving you a break today. I appreciate that. When we look at, you may have heard this conversation when we had Congressman Weber in here, but when we look at what is happening in the Middle East, all that you've just described, how do we see that through the lenses of Scripture? What is happening? What is unfolding? How do we need to be praying into that right now and preparing?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I asked that question of or a similar question to a lady named Charmaine Hedding earlier today. She's head of the Shai Fund, helping Christians, by the way, inside Syria right now and other minorities. You know, she said, you know. And my question was, why should we care? Why should people in the United States care? And she said, well, 2,000 years ago, this was the cradle of Christianity. The gospel spread to Aleppo and other places in Syria and Lebanon and throughout this region. So this is the ancestral homeland of our faith. And many of the believers right now are in harm's way because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Prophetically and biblically, I think many people have been referring to Isaiah chapter 17, verse 1, when the prophet said that one day Damascus would become a heap of ruins. Perhaps we're one step closer to that unfolding. When and how, I don't know. But that will one day be fulfilled. The other thing, Tony, I think is that You know, when Jesus said when all these things happen, when the signs of the times, when nation would rise up against nation and wars and rumors of wars and was right in the middle of that, he said to look up for our redemption draw nigh. So I think it's a time to strengthen our faith individually individually. to continue the spread of the gospel as much as we can, and to be watching and praying about the times that we live in. There's also a scripture in Isaiah 62, verses six and seven, that the Lord says, give me no rest. until I make Jerusalem a praise in all the earth. And as we mentioned before, Jerusalem is really the final goal. And some people call the Mount of Olives the finish line when Jesus comes back. And it says in Matthew 24 that this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness, and then the end shall come. strengthen our faith individually, spread the gospel as much as we can, to be watchful and prayerful during these days, to be praying for our brothers and sisters, and to advocate as you do. so well on Family Research Council, you know, wise and biblical policy for such a time as this. So the United States could be that good actor, not only in the Middle East, but around the world. So I think that's important.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, that was part of my interview yesterday with CBN Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell during a special FRC event here in Washington, D.C. And now you're tuned in to Washington Watch. As Chris shared, these are days in which we need to be watchful and we need to be prayerful. So I want to encourage you to be praying for our brothers and sisters in the Middle East. Be praying. Be a part of our Operation Prayer Shield. Simply text the word SHIELD to 67742. That's SHIELD to 67742 as we pray during this vulnerable time, not just for America, but the entire world. All right. That's all we have time for today. But again, I want to thank you for joining us. And until next time, I leave you once again with the encouraging words of the Apostle Paul, found in Ephesians 6, where he says, when you've done everything you can do, when you've prayed, when you've prepared,
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Welcome to another program of Retirement Unpacked. I want to thank you for tuning in. we could call loose ends. And some of those are things that need to be done before the end of the year. I know I've talked about these, but since we have only a few weeks remaining in the year, I will remind folks about them anyway. The one being... required minimum distributions must be taken care of before December 31st. And I would suggest that you don't wait until between Christmas and New Year's because financial companies, investment companies, insurance companies, and so forth, companies who hold IRAs get very busy with That time of year. So I would suggest that you take care of that earlier. And if you don't have an advisor and you have an IRA and you need some kind of assistance with that, then definitely give me a call. That's something I can help with. Also, as I sit down. and do planning for people. One of the things we often talk about are converting traditional IRAs to Roth. That's something also that needs to be done before the end of the year. And it requires also some planning because when you convert a traditional IRA to Roth, then that becomes a taxable event. You have a tax-free Roth that's going to grow tax-free and so forth. But when you make that transition, you pay tax on that traditional IRA all at once in the year that you do it. So what that usually involves is I will sit down with people and If they're still working, we'll take a look at their most recent pay stubs and take a look at what we think they have earned throughout the year. And I also have cheat sheets with tax tables. And we can look and see, well, will you still be able to be in the same tax bracket in the event that you convert a certain amount of traditional IRA to Roth? So we can estimate and estimate. Often people, even couples, can remain in as low as a 12% tax bracket and still convert a little bit of their traditional IRA to Roth. Now, people who are in a higher tax bracket, the next bracket from 12% jumps to 22%. But people with both a husband and a wife working, that 22% bracket goes way into a substantially higher income. So if a couple or an individual is already in the 22% bracket, they can probably convert a healthy amount of traditional IRA to Roth. Now, years ago, before the tax changes that occurred in 2017, you were able to write off charitable deductions because the standard deduction was relatively low. Right now, for individuals, it's a ballpark around $13,000. And For couples, for 2025, it's nearly $30,000. So the possibility or the likelihood of being able to write off charitable donations has been kind of minimized. But for those whose contributions exceed that amount, they can... Take a look at their own tax brackets, any charities that they would like to support. And in addition to actual dollar amounts, there are other things you can write off like mileage and things of that nature. that can be helpful as we get near year end. Now some other things to be thinking about as we're getting close to the end of the year is a little bit of planning that you want to look at for the coming year. If you're trying to save as much as you can for retirement, you might want to look at how much you're going to be deducting, not deducting, but how much are you having taken out of your paycheck to go into your 401k. You may want to look at IRA contributions, spousal IRA contributions, and these are things you can sort of plan as we get near the end of the year for the coming year. And as I know, everyone does get busy at this time of year, but a lot of people's work schedule actually diminishes a little bit. So this creates not only some family time, but some time to think, well, gee, what do I want 2025 to look like? And then I would ask that for myself, not only financially, but what things do I want to accomplish in this coming year? I know this sounds like a New Year's resolution talk, but these are things that are also worthwhile talking about before the end of the year, because often that's when we have time. We're not completely back into the the work mode, so to speak. So take advantage of that time that you have remaining. And if it's something that you would want to have some consultation about, if you're not sure about some things about your IRA, if you're not sure if you're on track toward retirement, contact my office, 303- 744-1128. And there may be some circumstances or some things that you haven't thought about that we can have a conversation about once you come into the office. And I know everyone's circumstance is different. But no matter how unusual it is, there's some solution for whatever it is you have going on. I had a conversation recently with someone who was fortunate enough to have an inheritance. And part of that inheritance was taxable and part of it was not. And there was an obligation by the platform where... The person had their existing account to withdraw a certain amount of money, but by changing the platform, we were able to minimize the amount that she had to take out which sincerely helped the circumstances. So contacting my office and taking a look at your situation can be extremely helpful. And again, I know everybody's busy this time of year, but it's also a good time of year to sit down and take a look if you are on track for the things that you want to accomplish in this coming year. Now, Those of you who are investors, the market seems to be doing quite well so far this year. There have been only a very small amount of corrections. And a lot of my clients, as well as people who have 401ks and so forth, have experienced good growth this past year. And if this is something that you believe you want to take advantage of also, then, again, contact my office. We'll take a look and see if where your assets are positioned, see if they're going to be in your best interest. Hopefully, you don't have what I refer to as lazy money, money that's not earning a very good return. And we all know what inflation has been like in these past few years. And if your investments and if your assets, if they're not working hard for you, then inflation can have a much more significant effect. I know when interest rates were raised recently to fight off some of that. inflation. People were happier with higher interest rates. But when inflation was between seven and nine percent, five or five and a half percent CD rates don't seem to quite cut it. And so I think it's truly important to sit down and take a look at how hard your assets are working for you. And does that mean you should think about making some changes? And if that's something that's on the back of your mind, again, give my office a call, 303-744-1128. And if I'm not there, it goes to voicemail, but I answer my voicemails. rather quickly. I get in touch with people as quickly as I can, and that's kind of how I run my business. I try to be there when people call the office. They'll either reach myself or my office manager, and we'll schedule a time to meet. Sometimes I'll meet with people later in the day. A And I'll meet with them occasionally on a Saturday or late afternoon, early evening, depending on people's work schedule. But I think it's important to have a partner as you move closer to retirement. You're trying to accumulate wealth for your own retirement, possibly to help for your children's education. or maybe some financial goal that you have in the future, and to make certain you're on track, sitting down and doing some projections, a few calculations can be extremely helpful. And another thing I haven't talked about that I will be talking about, especially as we get further along into the coming year, is people who are making that transition. A whole lot of the people who come into my office are making a transition from their working lives into retirement. And my earlier book, which is 18 holes to retirement, has a lot of good tips on that. And if you'd like to read about that, it's a story of two people playing golf, a young man and another gentleman who's about to retire. and he has a lot of changes that he's been making in his life between him and his wife, and these are indicative of the changes and the choices and the decisions people make as they make that transition into retirement. Now, if people don't make those decisions, until right before they retire, then that's not always the best because that's like when you're kind of backed up against the wall, so to speak. So if you are a few years from retirement, there's a lot of things out there that you might want to be thinking about. Many people still have pensions, especially people who are working for governmental entities. This is a major decision time when you get near retirement because people who have pensions have to decide, do I want the full single pension? Or if I'm married, do I want a survivorship benefit? And also many of the survivorship benefits offer alternatives. For example, the survivor can receive the full 100% pension of the primary worker. Or the survivor, which can be a husband or a wife, can receive maybe two-thirds or possibly even half. Now, some things to think about with regard to that kind of a pension decision are, are what other sources of income would my spouse have if I died? Another thing to think about is the health of the primary worker, because if his or her health were diminished and they have a shorter life expectancy, then it's a very strong likelihood that the survival will receive an income that lasts for a considerable period of time. And after the break, we're going to talk about a few more things that have to do with people making that transition from work to retirement. It's a big transition, and the more planning and thinking about it that people do, the better off they'll be. We'll talk more about that right after the break.
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Welcome back to Retirement Unpacked. And I'm going to beat these two topics into the ground until January 1st. Your RMDs need to be taken out before December 31st. And if you're thinking about converting part of your traditional IRA to Roth, that also needs to be done before December 31st. If that's something you need assistance with, call my office. At 303-744-1128. And we were talking a little bit about making the transition from work to retirement. And one of the things that's interesting is it used to be, especially many, many years ago, people would work for a company for 25, 35, 40 years, possibly even longer. And then once they would retire, they would take their pension back when people had pensions and their Social Security and kind of right off into the sunset. But since that time, often people work for multiple employers. They may have 401ks, sometimes small ones, sometimes larger ones, that are with previous employers. And as people move from one residence to another, they may lose track of some of those old 401ks. And the state of Colorado, like many other states, has a large... for lack of a better word, of missing money. And that can be bank accounts. It can be 401ks. I don't have the dollar amount, but I know it's an enormous amount of money that is in people's names that they may have forgotten about or the people may have passed on. and when that is not claimed after a certain period and again i apologize i don't have the precise details but eventually that money will be the state of colorado will become the ward of that money so as people get closer to retirement it's really good to take an inventory of where your resources are if you work for previous companies Look at those old 401ks and they can be if you used to work somewhere, those could be rolled into IRAs long before you retire. And also that gives you a lot more choices and investment choices. You can take an old 401k and you can move it into precious metals. The company I work with, Brookstone Capital Management, they even have an exchange traded fund there. that offers crypto. And as a general rule, I don't recommend that, but it is available, and there's a special disclaimer that needs to be signed in the event people like to move into crypto. People have made enormous amounts of money in it, and they've also lost enormous amounts. But again, as far as that transition, most of the thinking and most of your choices are going to be around crypto. You know, financial choices. Where do I want my 401k to go? How is that 401k, once I roll it into an IRA, how can I make certain that the income I can draw from that, how can I make certain that that will last as long as I do? People right now, I think it's no secret that people are living longer and longer and And we also don't know what the last six months or two or three years of our life is going to be like. It may be that if we need care, instead of living on 4,000 or 5,000 a month, it may cost 10,000 or 12,000 a month because of long-term care or memory care or something like that. So it's good to think in terms of how would all of my resources be able to handle that kind of big expense. So a lot of things to be kind of asking yourself as you move into that. retirement from working full time. And a lot of people don't do that where you just quit working one day and the next day you're fully retired. There was a movie called About Schmidt. And it had Jack Nicholson. And the very beginning of the movie, he's working at an insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. The way they're dressed and everything else shows the tremendous level of... There's conservatism in that community, but he's just sitting at a desk that has absolutely nothing on it, looking at the clock, waiting for 5 o'clock to come. This is his last day before retirement. But a lot of people make a different kind of transition where they will move from full-time to part-time depending on someone's work. they may become a consultant. A lot of people who are in software or engineering or some field like this are able to retire from their primary employer and do consulting where they may work for 10 or 15 hours a week and make a significant income on their own schedule as a consultant or a contractor. and so forth. And I know a lot of people who work in various fields do this for a considerable period. And they find it useful because they can make a substantial income and sort of do it on their own schedule. Another really important thing is even if you've been blessed with a very healthy nest egg and you've been frugal and haven't spent a lot of money, what is incredibly important is plan how you want to spend your time working. Once you make that transition into retirement, in order to get some joy or fulfillment out of your retirement, it's wise to look and think in terms of how you would like to give back. How can you help those who are less fortunate? If you're closely involved with your church, most churches have all kinds of different services. volunteer opportunities from being involved in mission trips that go all kinds of different places all over the world to assisting younger people as a tutor, people who have skills in math like engineers and so forth. They can be very helpful with high school kids who are having difficulty with their algebra or trigonometry or something. And for someone who is a retired engineer from Lockheed Martin, this would end up being relatively easy. There's also lots of things you can do for folks who have certain disabilities. There's a nonprofit here in Denver that specializes in taking children with disabilities on horseback rides. Obviously, very gentle rides and so forth. But the children and adults who have disabilities, they get tremendous enjoyment from activities like this. And nonprofits and organizations who do this kind of thing, they need financial help as well as volunteers. to take care of the horses, schedule things, and do all kinds of things to bring those bright smiles to people who wouldn't ordinarily get an opportunity to ride a horse. And the same thing is true. A client of mine spent years as a volunteer at Winter Park in the disabled ski program. and they do great things at Winter Park for the disabled ski program. I've not personally been involved in it, but I've seen them on the slopes. I used to ski more often than I do more recently, but I used to see the disabled skiers, and they get an enormous amount of joy from what they're doing. So in addition to... planning how you're going to use your nest egg, think in terms of how you'd like to be using your time. Long before retirement, it's a good idea to sort of put together a schedule of what you'd want your retirement to look like in terms of spending your time. There's silver sneakers to maintain good health. Take a class with you and your spouse about cooking. Now that you have a little bit more time and you're both not working, there's ways of making healthy meals that you probably hadn't thought about back when you were both working and not certain what we're going to have for dinner. And that sort of thing. So a lot of things to think about as you make that transition into retirement. And if these are some things that are coming to your mind and you'd like to have more answers, contact my office. We'll have a conversation, 303-744-1128. God bless you. Thank you for listening. And let's continue to pray for the new leaders in our country and the folks in Israel. Bye now.
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Thank you for listening to Retirement Unpacked with your host, Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial.