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The assassin of the United Healthcare CEO exposed his face in order to flirt with an employee at his hostel. Do you think this was a hit job?? Meanwhile, The Village People’s Singer praises Trump for boosting 'YMCA,' and rejects the song’s ‘Gay Anthem’.
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Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast, sponsored by Kel-Tec.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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I really want to play this video, but I'm told we can't because of the profanities that are in it. It's a four minute, three minute, 35 second clip.
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I mean, we're willing to take the chance.
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I mean, we do know the...
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You make it sound like we were restricting you.
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Head of the FCC.
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We shouldn't have to bring him in. Don't put any pressure on Brendan Carr like that.
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I mean, what's the point of having a CHIT, C-H-I-T, if you can't call it in? You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, but not for something like this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, maybe you're right. But play the video anyway. So the 72-year-old Florida man didn't win. Walmart drones keep flying over his house. And so he shot one as it flew over his property. Yeah. And... I mean, the drone was like right above his house. There was someone who said that they want a $10,000 lawsuit for the same thing. And when they arrested him, he goes, I can't breathe. That's what he said. That was just chef's kiss there. Chef's kiss. But I mean, the drone was right over his house. He said he's had issues in his neighborhood with these drones flying right over people's houses in their yards. It's not like they're flying like way up high. And yeah, when they put handcuffs on me, he goes, I can't breathe. The Lake County Sheriff's Office said they found a bullet hole in the payload that the drone was carrying. And he said, you can't be flying your drone in our properties. And he's got a point. I mean, at some point, you know, people have the expectation of privacy on their own property. So, I mean, he said at one point, he goes, now they say I hit it, so I must be a good shot. But when they put the cuffs on, he goes, I can't breathe. That's what he said. I mean, this guy, he's a legend. I don't, yeah, I don't got a problem with him. I got to tell you. The officer actually started laughing when he said it, though.
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We've been fine. There's no issues. We're not, you know. I don't know if it's too tight, right? I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
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Dang. I mean, you know, I'm just saying. So I don't. What's wrong? I mean, if you're trespassing, you don't know if it's a threat. What if that drone's armed? That's a possibility. Nobody knows. People have the expectation of privacy in their own house. You guys don't appreciate how old school I am. Like, I go back to the Wild West. That's how old school I am. Didn't even live there. I'm like, you're a drone in my yard. Pop. It's happening. Yeah.
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If I see a plane flying over at 10,000 or 30,000 feet or wherever I happen to be, I understand that. I get that completely. But if it's a drone that's hovering or something like that, how far up legally is my property?
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It's free skeet.
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That's what it is. All the way to the...
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I see it. I'm going skeet, skeet, skeet. I see it. I want to go at it. I see it.
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Like at 5,000 feet? If I have property 5,000 feet above it, I can defend?
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Like it was low enough that he could see it from his window, apparently. I read another story where that's how low it apparently was. That's a problem.
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If there's law that has a limit, like if it's more than 4,000 feet above you, then leave it alone. But if it's less than that, you can do something.
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Yeah, apparently. I guess so. I don't know. I'm just, you know. I got a couple of other. I got a lot more. Let's see. A drunk Florida man slammed into a deputy's cruiser during a traffic stop. This guy's face is so jacked up, you guys. For Pierce, he's got a history of driving under the influence. This Florida man. It was about 11.30 p.m. this past Saturday. Fort Pierce police tried to conduct a traffic stop. Reckless driver. He wouldn't stop. And then he hit the officer's car. His name is Perry P. Apples. And it looks like he got beaten halfway within an inch of his life in his mugshot. He looks like a garbage pail kid in his mugshot. He does. He totally does. So they took him into custody. And he said that... Yeah, he was super slurring. They found open containers of alcohol in the vehicle, all kinds of stuff. And Lorraine sent this one. A Florida man bought a used TV. And then when he switched it on, apparently it was in demo mode. He bought it off a Facebook marketplace for $300, turned it on, and a Popeye's menu came on from the food chain. And he couldn't get it off the Popeye's menu. And he said, I thought my friends were messing with me. It was like in demo mode or something. And it was like literally the Popeye's menu. He could not get it off the Popeye's menu. I can't play the video because he's like, it's a blinking Popeye's menu. It's not blinking funny. His friends finally helped him get it off demo mode. I don't know why it was on Popeye's though. Our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Caltech, the P15. It stands for 15 pews. It's the lightest. thinnest, most easily concealable 9mm double stack mag that's on the market. And there's nothing else that comes close. They have two versions, metal and polymer. Metal frame version has the really gorgeous wood panel. It has these wood grain panels that I just think give it a total... I was actually having a debate with a friend about what genre of James Bond. I say the Sean Connery like 60s 70s sort of 70s you know maybe james bond it's a great looking gun uh the polymer version gator grip texture it comes with two standard capacity magazines one's a 15 round minimal pinky extension the other is a flush fit double stack mag that holds 12 rounds as well tritium fiber optic front sight fiber optic front sight you get a fully adjustable fiber optic two dot rear A lifetime warranty, super compact, great for concealed carry self-defense, whether you're a newbie or an old pro at it. It's more dependable yet game-changing innovation from the people who literally created the micro compact pistol category. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec. Learn more at keltecweapons.com. That's K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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New York police released this photo of a man seen lowering his mask, revealing more of his face than we've seen before, smiling here. Our John Miller, who we're going to speak to in just a moment, is told by his sources that the man pulled down his mask because he was flirting with a woman at the front desk of a New York City hostel that he was staying in.
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Pulled down his mask and was smiling and flirting with her. So Kane and I were talking about this on break because everyone says it's a professional hit. Is it though? I just don't think a professional hit man is going to be so dumb. First off, if there's a camera there, he'll see it. If he's a total pro, he's going to know that there's a camera there at the desk. He's not going to position himself in a way that the camera can see his face. And if his face is covered, he sure as hell not going to remove his face covering to give a photograph to the camera that can later be used against him. He's not going to be distracted from his mission either. I mean, that's where I'm like, maybe it's not unless it's a really bad, you know, I mean, this is. It it does not seem. Quiet. That was a dumb move. Do you still think it was a professional hit or that their budget only got them this great value assassin? For real.
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No, I don't think it was a professional hit. Just look at the weak grip on that first shot. would say that they probably haven't really shot guns that much.
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Yeah, that was also a thought, like the way that he handled. I mean, not that we're trying to be, but we're trying to be like technical in that petty kind of way. But that goes a long way in telling you about the background of the person who's carrying out the criminal act. And, you know, just gives you a little bit of insight in him. Yeah, he was real limp-wristed. I mean, that's why it jammed. I mean, when you're limp-wristed, that's one of the number one ways that you can have your semi-auto pistol jam up on you is if you're not holding it correctly and you're not applying proper pushback with recoil.
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If your wrist is taking that and absorbing that, the slide should be doing that to actually engage the next round.
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Exactly. Exactly. So he didn't really know what he was doing. And Steve was like, well, he does have a silencer. Yeah, but you can just – that's easy to attach. That doesn't – that's not – and it's not really silent either. But the way that he was – the way that he was handling his gun, his grip, his – the fact that he would wear such an easily identifiable backpack also. Isn't that backpack like a $300 backpack? Yeah. So you're wearing an ultra bougie backpack that apparently is used by professional photographers. And it seems like he went and got out. He got a hitman backpack. That's what that says to me. You know what I mean? That's what that's. I don't know. It's such a weird thing. How in the world do we not know anything else about this, though? In broad daylight in Manhattan. They got his DNA off a water bottle. They've got showcasings with cryptic words on them. They got a photo. I mean, I don't know. I'm sure maybe there's more that they just haven't released. Thompson apparently, his estranged wife said that he had been receiving threats, but she didn't know the nature of them. And he didn't have security. And... The other people with whom he worked who were attending the conference with him said it didn't seem like he had a detail. So I don't know. Just wild. The whole thing is wild. Do you have any theories, Cain?
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No. I mean the narratives that I see come out are plausible. Yeah. But again, like you said, we don't really have any concrete evidence to point to a real motive right here. Who really knows? I don't know yet.
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Yeah, it's wild. It's a weird one. But the fact that they got his picture because he was flirting with a chick to me and then his grip and all that. He's not like a seasoned. He's not a pro. He's not a pro. So who hired this guy? Or what else? What other? I mean, this is going to be on Unsolved Mysteries or something one day, isn't it? I just don't know how you don't know who it is at this point. But again, maybe there is... I'm sure that there's a lot more to it than they're sharing, but it's still very interesting. Lorraine brought up the... thing the deny, defend, oppose on his shell casings. And apparently that was based from like a 2010 book, Delay, Deny, Defend, Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims. I mean, the most basic reasoning is this was a guy who got mad because they denied his claim and he was going to take action against them. Right? It's very Occam's Razor. You know, the most simple explanation is usually the correct one, Occam's Razor. But really, though, I don't know. I think we're so used to conspiracies. But this guy was not a pro. And like I said, his his the reason that his pistol jammed is because he was limp resting it. And by the way, when going to the range with people, that is the number one. That's the first thing that you really focus on with people is their grip because otherwise you get all kinds of malfunctions if you're not holding it properly and you're not holding it steady with the proper strength in your grip so that you're not taking that recoil and then jamming up your gun. Or he's not the guy, says Juan. That was the backpack, though, in that hostile video, right? That was the same backpack, that bougie backpack. I mean, that's what, I don't know, it's so weird.
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Yeah, Juan's pointing out two different pictures. I don't know if you can get them together, Juan, and show them on screen side by side or not. But he's showing that the jackets actually are a little different in two of the different photos. Now, does that mean he wore a different jacket on a different day? Or is this a different person? I mean, the thing is, it's all still speculative, no matter how you slice it.
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Maybe he had some of the same jacket. Yeah. I don't know. The whole thing is so weird.
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Yeah, so it looks like he's able to toggle back and forth. So these are the jackets here. These are the pictures that were circulating originally. And then he showed his face, and this is the jacket that he was wearing with his face. So you see there. Now, obviously, the picture's lighter, so it looks like it could be a different jacket.
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I feel like there's not enough contrast in the earlier ones or brightness to whether or not you can see those pockets.
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It looks like he still has that thing on his sleeve on that very right photo. But I don't know. Still, I'm not in charge of the investigation, obviously, and I don't envy those who are.
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It might be different. He could have changed his jacket, but that looks like the same backpack. Yeah, it does. So, I don't know. It's all very interesting. Maybe it was a different jacket. It looks like that's a pullover, whereas the other one looks like a jacket. But anyway, long story short, I don't know. Maybe it's a guy who got his claim denied and he's mad. I mean, they made movies like that. Plausible, but that's – the guy was getting threats beforehand. And see, that may not be why we don't have any more information. If he was receiving threats beforehand, then obviously they're investigating all of that. They don't want to release any information to the public that could compromise the investigation or give up – you don't want to give up any information that would potentially warn a suspect. You don't want the suspect to know if you're closing in. If you're looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust, All Family Pharmacy has you covered. Whether it's the flu or parasites, cancer support or general well-being, All Family Pharmacy's online service makes getting the medications you need hassle-free. With All Family, it's simple. You can choose the individual medications that best suit your needs or opt for one of their comprehensive treatment packages designed to give you everything that you need in one convenient order. And every order comes with a doctor's prescription included. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, or any other effective medications, they have it all. And you can get fast shipping with most order shipping in two to three business days. Medications start as low as $3 per capsule. making it really easy to take charge of your health without breaking the bank. No insurance needed. You can skip the paperwork and get the treatments you need directly. Stock up with their emergency preparedness bundles and access over 200 medications online. Anytime visit all family pharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana 10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's all family pharma.com slash Dana code Dana 10.
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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five.
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All right, so for... I just buried my window. First up, this is... It's Blue Cross Blue Shield Anthem. They've... This is wild. They halted anesthesia payments, their payment policy, after backlash. So they had planned to cap the length of time that anesthesia could be covered during medical procedures in three states. I'm... What?! ! They said they were not going to go ahead with this policy change that was going to limit reimbursements for anesthesia during surgery and medical procedures. The new policy would have reimbursed doctors based on time limits set by the insurer. So just this is so Canadian. A time limit set by a suit at a desk. Anthem BCBS, one of the largest in the U.S., quietly announced it for Connecticut, New York and Missouri beginning February. It outraged the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The policy update went unnoticed. But then after UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot until the CEO was shot and killed. And then that sparked a wave of online vitriol about the health care system. And that's when this came out. Wow. New York and Connecticut were trying to stop the plan from going into effect. But I'm mystified. First off, we wouldn't have this problem if it was private insurance and everybody could get it and it was portable and we didn't have the absolute hideous disaster that is Obamacare. And anyone who says that Obamacare is great is the product of incest and on meth. Okay. Seriously, because it's a disaster. This is crazy. Like, okay, so you're done with your anesthesia now. Hope your procedure's done. Not going to get, oh my gosh. I'm coming back to this. Bookmark. All right. Tech fail. AI cameras issued parking tickets to thirty eight hundred drivers for blocking bus lanes. And then they realized that it was a wrong thing. The AI messed up. It was supposed to. They in fact, it showed that they didn't. They actually none of these people did anything wrong. The cameras were not properly programmed for the routes that they were covering. This is why I don't believe any of this is accurate. I will literally show up in court prepared to wage an all day war over a red light camera ticket. I absolutely will. Like, I will take days off work. I will study up on every case. I will show up. And I will waste that court's time all damn day. Not kidding you. If you want to do that, let's do it. All of this stuff, this camera stuff, this is, again, no due process. None. Even if for something small like this. A black church coalition is calling for Al Sharpton to be suspended over the moral stain of taking money from Kamala Harris. Fight, fight. Stick with us.
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Last night at the Patriot Awards, I think we got a clip. He was doing the Trump dance. And I'm sure you've seen that evolve over the last... As you look right there, how do you describe your husband's dance moves?
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Oh, this is very special and unique dance.
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It is, right?
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And I think a lot of people are copying it and everybody have fun with it.
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Is this how you dance? No. Which part of the Trump dance, did you give him any tips? Like in the beginning it was low and then it was up high and now there's a golf swing. No, he's coming along his own. Have you ever done the Trump dance? You are Mrs. Trump.
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I did not.
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That is hysterical. It's like he's got string. It cracks me up. The first time that I saw him do it, I think it was back during his first term when he's campaigning for his first term. And he did kind of a little thing and nobody really noticed it. Well, I think people talked about it and they laughed about it. And then he kind of started – every time he'd get happy, he'd do it. It was funny. Welcome back to the show. I just like the dance because it's hysterical. What was the video that – it was SNL where he was redoing that video. Oh, my gosh. Who was the guy who was on Nickelodeon but acts like he comes from the life of Hard Knocks, school Hard Knocks? Steve, who am I thinking of?
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He did a sketch on SNL where he recreated Drake in Hotline Bling.
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Thank you. Yes. He recreated that video. Hotline Bling. That's right. That's what he did. He did that video. And it was funny because that's when he really got into it. And that, I think, really is when it was officially born. And he was doing his Trump dance with his string, his invisible string. This just cracks me up. So welcome back. It's Friday. He was doing it to YMCA. I was reading this story about Victor Willis, the YMCA singer, who says that he supports Trump using the song because it brings joy to the American people. He did an interview about it. And he says he has no problem with it being used. But he said he will sue outlets who call it a gay anthem. He says he said he supports Trump using it to bring joy to the American people. He goes, I decided to allow the allow the president elects continued use of YMCA because he seems to genuinely, genuinely like the song. And so many other artists were stopping him from using their music. And he goes, if you were asked, ask me today if the village people would perform at the inauguration, I would probably say not because we'd be concerned about endorsement. He goes, however. Because he's done so much for YMCA. He goes, the song's actually gone back to number one. It's still number one today. He goes, so if he were to ask the village people to perform it live for him, we'd have to seriously consider it. But he goes, the song was never gay. And I'm going to sue people who say it's a gay anthem. I am dying. He goes, come January. And then he drops it. He goes, come January 2025, my wife and I, we're going to start suing each and every news organization that falsely says it's a gay anthem. I mean, he, like, went right into it. It's hysterical. This guy cracks me up. But, you know, he's, like, he's having fun with it. I always hate when people say that, like, these artists that go out, like, how dare you use my music? The way it works is they have to license their music. That's how they make more money off of their songs. They license it for different use. Like, you can get different licenses. Like, for public use... There's like different categories.
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Publishing for actual production, for score. You know what I mean? I mean, there's all kinds of different ways that you can attach your name to it. But it's ultimately about ownership of your own music. So by doing that, you're licensing. You now have the license to decide where that song goes. And if you put it in the public domain and allow it to be purchased, that's just what happens.
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right it's like similar to what if you're like you're Nike and you're selling shoes somebody buys your Nike shoes they can wear them right I mean or you're licensing your your logo out for certain yeah I mean that's right so once they do that you know it's yeah I mean you you can't you can't say for him but not for him that's not how the licensing works and that's ASCAP so you have your ASCAP BMI ASCAP yeah and CSAC So I always get mad when I see these musicians go out and say he can't use our music anymore. Why'd you license it then? I think they do that as a way to get more attention for themselves. So good on this guy. Good on the YMCA guy. It's a joyful song. It's a very joyful song. You know, I got to say.
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Join us as we explore the intricate web of political endorsements and the subtle signals they send. With a keen focus on recent statements from former President Trump and the reactions of key political figures, this episode unpacks the nuances of political allegiances. We also touch on the media's role in amplifying these dynamics and the ensuing narrative battles that shape public perception. Amidst these discussions, we delve into the power struggles within political circles and their impact on policy and governance.
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I'm proud of what I fought for. I'm not going to back down from them one bit. I will answer all of these senators' questions. But this will not be a process tried in the media. I don't answer to anyone in this group. None of you. Not to that camera at all. I answer to President Trump, who received 76 million votes on behalf and a mandate for change. I answer to the 50, the 100 senators who are part of this process and those in the committee. And I answer to my Lord and Savior and my wife and my family. I'm proud to be here. And as long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here in this fight, fighting to bring our Pentagon back to what it needs to be.
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Well, and that's kind of the key, isn't it? Is whether or not Trump wants him in the fight. That's kind of the back and forth of what everybody's looking at. Because He came out and that was Pete Hegseth, obviously, who is defending himself in this ongoing fight for who's going to be a sec def. And Trump came out with a statement that I feel was not strong. I'm going to be honest about it. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. And we got a lot of stuff that we're going over today because we've got the breaking news in the Daniel Penny case, which is all underway now. They're in the courtroom. Yes, yours truly still under the weather recovering. So bear with me because we have three hours and we're in front of a camera, no prompter. And we don't have a team of the helpers there to like Charlie Brown Christmas tree you all up on break. So we got all of that, so we're going to get into it. But I want to start with, again, welcome, though. We're top of this first hour on Friday. And going through all of the biggest news, getting you set up for the weekend. Now, the Daniel Penny case, which has been, I think, what, the jury has been fighting it out, arguing it out for three days now, four days now? Yes. Yeah. Well, they were. Apparently, there are two attorneys on the jury, and I think one of them I read was serving as foreman. And I don't know how that factors into how it took so long, why it's taking so long, because they're deadlocked. And that's the latest with all of this. I don't even know how this is possible. The jury's deadlocked. And There are two things that they were dealing with. They're trying to figure out whether or not they can convict him of reckless Daniel Penny of recklessly causing Neely's death because he was in a he restrained him in a chokehold. And, you know, Daniel Penny, the Marine, he's a veteran. He's, you know, an aspiring architect. And his lawyers are saying, well, he was justified. This guy was dangerous. He was saying he was going to kill people on the train. Other people on the train were like, yes, he's saying that he's that Daniel Penny was going to kill kill or not Daniel Penny, but Jordan Neely was going to kill people on the train. And the I mean, even witnesses said that that Jordan Neely was screaming at people that they're going to die today. I mean, he was full on getting in everyone's faces, attacking people. This was after Jordan Ealy had punched an older woman in the face, broke her nose. He tried to shove another woman on a train track. And then when Daniel Penny got involved, Jordan Neely was on the train track and he was lunging at a woman who was trying to shield her baby. So the jury, the prosecutors had said that witnesses testified that Neely, he didn't threaten anybody specifically. He didn't brandish a weapon. Well, if he's lunging at a baby, he is the weapon. He doesn't have to have a weapon. He's weaponized himself. Are you kidding me? Penny's attorneys were saying that there's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the chokehold is what caused his death, which is true. Remember, toxicology report Neely was on drugs. Dude was on a lot of drugs. He had already had health issues because he was on a lot of drugs. Here's the idea. Maybe don't threaten to kill people, including women and children on a subway train, and you won't get choked out. And by the way, he was still completely conscious when Daniel Penny put him in a recovery position and got up. I mean, that was what they were trying to keep from defense was that Jordan Ealy was still alive. And in fact, it was perhaps alluded that it was the hesitancy or waiting period for first responders to get to him that, you know, ultimately... But this idea that that Jordan Ailey should be excused, that you get to attack women and children and you get to threaten to kill people and punch people in the face. And then you can say, oh, well, it's because I'm on drugs or I'm black or I'm that, which I find incredibly racist, by the way. But that's what the left argues. All of these things that you F.A., you're going to F.O. That's what happens. It's not the victim's responsibility to gauge the issues of her attacker or his attacker and then determine whether or not the attack is justified. But that's what is being turned up on its head here. For all the people who are upset about due process, this is what I've been telling you. All this stuff about guns is a variable. Due process is a cornerstone of this republic. And you're not watching it. You have not seen due process in New York at all. For anything lately. So... The jury is trying to, they were trying to determine whether or not they were convicting Penny of second-degree manslaughter, whether it was recklessly causing Neely's death, which, again, I think we kind of went over what caused his death. I mean, if you're on the type of drugs that he's on, then that Neely was on, I mean, Kane, you know this, especially when the guy had prior health issues. And he had been hospitalized because drugs did bad things to his body. So it's like he's not an athlete. And he was messing around and threatening to kill people. The defense, their arguments on this are just shameful. Shameful. Just absolutely shameful. Still under the weather. All of this is to say that we're still going to have this ongoing... I mean, I don't know where we go from it because we have a deadlock trial, deadlock jury. And the... Determination of the jurors is whether or not Daniel Penny acted recklessly in that he when he restrained Jordan Neely, that he either did so with reckless disregard of what would happen or he knew and he did it anyway. And they were that was one of the conditions that they're one of the one of the details they're trying to figure out. the defense or the prosecution was going, Jordan Ely only had a muffin in his pocket. Well, how did he break the 63-year-old woman's nose that he attacked weeks before this incident on the subway platform? What did he attack her with? Was it any less of an attack when he crunched her nose up into bits? Was it any less of an attack on that elderly woman by Jordan Ely because he wasn't brandishing a weapon? Was it any less of an attack when he tried to shove another woman on train tracks? He didn't have a weapon, so it's okay, right? He's on drugs, so it's all right, right? I mean, I want all the people who think that this type of behavior is okay, I want them to volunteer to subject themselves and their children to it. If you think it's okay, and you think someone shouldn't be restrained, don't call for help when you're next. Don't call for help. We're going to come back to this because we've got a bunch of other stuff to get into. Like I said, that Trump statement, he put that out. That was on Truth Social, right? I mean, it was shared on X, too, but it was also on Truth Social. The statement that POTUS elect put out as about Hegseth was that he supports him, that he the statement that he had. I mean, I was waiting for something like this to come up, but he had said Hegseth is doing well, that his support is strong. Indeed, this is Trump totally wrote this. much more so than the fake news would have you believe. And he counts as his education. He says he will be a fantastic high-energy secretary of defense, one who leads with charisma and skill. Pete is a winner. There's nothing that can be done to change that. Absent in this statement is a personal endorsement of him for the position. Now, you guys know enough about Trump. If he believes something strongly, he's just going to say it. This was a very carefully worded statement because he doesn't have his mind made up yet. That's what it was. And I think that you just got to do it. If you're backing the guy, you just need to put out a definitive statement saying, I am backing him instead of a very carefully worded post that completely omits any personal endorsement for the job. Because this is just unnecessary palace intrigue. I mean, Hegseth is being put through the grinder right now. And part of the reason that Hegseth is being put through the grinder is because people smell a weakness somewhere. The press senses a weakness somewhere. They are like, well, why isn't Trump coming out super hardcore for Hegseth? Hmm, let's push this more. They think they found a weak spot and they're going to try to push it more and exploit it more. And then they're going to drag all these other people in it. And then in the meantime... The narrative goes out that so-and-so senator or this senator or that senator, they oppose Hegseth. Whether or not it's... I mean, Joni Ernst was out there denying it yesterday. She was out there saying that there's absolutely no campaign that she has against Hegseth. She may be a moderate, but... I mean, I don't know whether or not you believe her is up to you. She may be a moderate, but she's out there saying that she's not campaigning against him. She's criticized him before, but she said that she's not campaigning against him. And in the meantime, you know, like I said, you have these lawmakers that are being pressured by different factions that are organized to promote certain candidates, certain nominees. And now you're creating all of this division and infighting on the right, which we cannot have. Leave it to Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot. It's amazing. So one of the reasons why there's all this noise around Hegseth is absent a strong, hard-ass endorsement. Personal endorsement. So that tells me Trump has not made up his mind yet, because if he believed it, he would be out there saying he's going to be the next secretary of defense. He doesn't just say he will be a high energy secretary of defense. Trump would say, I want him as my high energy secretary of defense. I want him as secretary of defense. The nation needs him as secretary of defense. I believe in my pick. He's come out hardcore, personally endorsing with I, I, I, and this is my nominee. This is my pick previously. Look at some of the letterhead selections that he's given thus. He's given them out there. So this seems to be a very carefully worded, hasn't totally made up my mind yet kind of statement. But he's not, it's a statement where he doesn't want to suggest that he doesn't back Hegseth. But it's definitely a statement that has not, that's left the door open on considering other people. Absolutely. Absolutely. You guys, again, you know Trump well enough. He's going to say, I mean, for crying out loud, what did he call Rocket Man, North Korea's leader? He's threatened people with his bigger button. If he wants it, he's going to come out and say, I want this. And these senators are going to help make this happen. He's done it before. So like I said, this statement signals to me the door's still open. His mind's not made up. And that just perpetuates the palace intrigue. So all of this is going to keep going. Until there is a definitive, he's made the nomination, but it's clearly not definitive. So we'll see. We got more on this. We got headlines coming up as well on the way, so you don't want to miss. As we move, our partners, Preborn is a great organization that's been working with women all across the nation. And they meet women where they are. They assist them in navigating the difficult decisions that come when you choose life. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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All right, so for... I just buried my window. First up, this is... It's Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem. They've... This is wild. They halted anesthesia payments, their payment policy, after backlash. So they had planned to cap the length of time that anesthesia could be covered during medical procedures in three states. I'm... What?! ! They said they were not going to go ahead with this policy change that was going to limit reimbursements for anesthesia during surgery and medical procedures. The new policy would have reimbursed doctors based on time limits set by the insurer. So just this is so Canadian. A time limit set by a suit at a desk. Anthem BCBS, one of the largest in the U.S., quietly announced it for Connecticut, New York and Missouri beginning February. It outraged the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The policy update went unnoticed. But then after UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot until the CEO was shot and killed. And then that sparked a wave of online vitriol about the health care system. And that's when this came out. Wow. New York and Connecticut were trying to stop the plan from going into effect. But I'm mystified. First off, we wouldn't have this problem if it was private insurance and everybody could get it and it was portable and we didn't have the absolute hideous disaster that is Obamacare. And anyone who says that Obamacare is great is the product of incest and on meth. Okay. Seriously, because it's a disaster. This is crazy. Like, okay, so you're done with your anesthesia now. Hope your procedure's done. Not going to get, oh my gosh. I'm coming back to this. Bookmark. All right. Tech fail. AI cameras issued parking tickets to thirty eight hundred drivers for blocking bus lanes. And then they realized that it was a wrong thing. The AI messed up. It was supposed to. They in fact, it showed that they didn't. They actually none of these people did anything wrong. The cameras were not properly programmed for the routes that they were covering. This is why I don't believe any of this is accurate. I will literally show up in court prepared to wage an all day war over a red light camera ticket. I absolutely will. Like, I will take days off work. I will study up on every case. I will show up. And I will waste that court's time all damn day. Not kidding you. If you want to do that, let's do it. All of this stuff, this camera stuff, this is, again, no due process. None. Even if for something small like this. A black church coalition is calling for Al Sharpton to be suspended over the moral stain of taking money from Kamala Harris. Fight, fight. Stick with us. Our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Caltech, the P15. It stands for 15 pews. It's the lightest. thinnest, most easily concealable 9mm double stack mag that's on the market. And there's nothing else that comes close. They have two versions, metal and polymer. Metal frame version has the really gorgeous wood panel. It has these wood grain panels that I just think give it a total... I was actually having a debate with a friend about what genre of James Bond. I say the Sean Connery like 60s, 70s, sort of 70s, you know, maybe. James Bond. It's a great looking gun. The polymer version, gator grip texture. It comes with two standard capacity magazines. One's a 15 round minimal pinky extension. The other is a flush fit double stack mag that holds 12 rounds as well. Tritium fiber optic front sight, fiber optic front sight. You got a fully adjustable fiber optic two dot rear. A lifetime warranty, super compact. Great for concealed carry self-defense, whether you're a newbie or an old pro at it. It's more dependable, yet game-changing innovation from the people who literally created the micro-compact pistol category. Innovation, performance, Kel-Tec. Learn more at Kel-TecWeapons.com. That's K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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Oh, boy, bye. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour. That's Mitt Romney, who's saying that he's oh, he's leaving. He says that I love how he said a country's character is a reflection of its elected officials and we must be voice of unity and virtue. Little known, but very true fact. This is back during the 2012 presidential election. And I was one of the token conservatives at CNN. And when I would go on. One of my biggest criticisms, because obviously the hot topic of debate was, this was Obamacare, and it was about Obamacare, and it was also about how really... Republicans made it difficult to argue against Obamacare because the Republican Party nominee for the election that year was Mitt Romney, who, when he was governor of Massachusetts, literally created Obamacare first and introduced, backed it and introduced it zealously into the state. And I was very critical of that. And I was not hyperbolic. I was very honest. It was just the facts. And I talked about all the things that Romney did leading up to the introduction of it to the state legislature, the passage of it, how he repeatedly defended it. And that made his campaign livid. So the Romney campaign, and I also... was still a radio host at the time too. So I was on CNN as a contributor and I was still hosting this program. And the Romney campaign, they refused to come on my radio program. That was first and foremost. They would not come on the radio program. And then I found out later, well, actually it was still at the time I found out through one of the people who work with the contributors that he was demanding, his campaign was demanding that I be pulled from air or that I only go on air with a Romney surrogate because they were saying that it was, I can't remember the exact wording, but they were very vociferously angry or critical of my criticisms of his tenure as governor of Massachusetts. And his introduction of Obamacare and the problem that created for Republicans, because that was one of the things that Obama and Democrats always cited as why, you know, this is going to pass and why it should, because Republicans did it first. And so he tried to get me pushed out at CNN. Absolute fact. Tried to get me pushed out at CNN. And then it was then when CNN was like, no, we're not going to get rid of her. I've had Republicans and Democrats try to get me fired from CNN. It's a trip. And then his campaign demanded that, well, at the very least, I should be put on only with a Romney surrogate. And to CNN's credit, well, I mean, they probably liked the infighting. They said, no, we're not going to do that either. So they listened to media matters more than they listened to Mitt Romney at the time. So I kind of I've given you that full disclosure because that has that has fueled my dislike of him as a as a politician to be a little bit hotter than my dislike of most politicians. And there's a personal aspect to it because this guy literally tried to get me booted from a network because I was critical, accurately so, of his moderate record. And yes, I did have Mitt Romney actual flip flops that said Mitt Romney on them, which I wore. But that's beside the point. He puts this veneer of religious family man on, but he is just as dirty as all the other politicians. Just because he can put on... I just remember when Jesus would tell his disciples, when you're fasting, don't make a show of it like the Pharisees do. You don't need to put on all the robes and the ash and do all the... I mean, he told his disciples, you don't need to do that. Don't be performative. Do it from the heart. And it just reminded me of that because... There are a lot of and he's one of them, a lot of politicians that really hide behind this veneer that they've constructed. But they're just as dirty as everybody else. Just as dirty, just as underhanded, just as petty and mean spirited as everybody else. So that's kind of I mean, I'm glad to see him go because he's he has been an anchor on the neck of conservatism. And that's an accurate statement. And I have not in any point changed my position on his moderate record. And he never got into the White House. He never got me booted from CNN. And now he's leaving the Senate. And I'm still here. So... I'm fine with being consistent. And I will add, I caught a lot of hell from Republicans back in 2012 for that. I lost a lot of friends. And that's when I first really saw that just because someone's on your side politically doesn't mean they really are. And not every R after every name is the same shade of red. So I bring that up because I think consistency is important. And consistency is a great tool to of refuting any kind of accusation of hypocrisy or changing. I mean, consistency is key. And the reason I bring this up Because of this stuff with Joni Ernst, like we were talking about, and this has to do with the Hegseth stuff. And, you know, this palace intrigue, I think that Trump could end all of the palace intrigue by saying, I stand behind my nominee, this is my nominee, and I want him to sec def and let's make this happen. His statement fell short of that. And you guys all know it. Nobody's saying it, but you guys all know it. I don't like to see him put through the grinder like that unnecessarily. I don't want a nominee to get that so badly dinged up before the confirmation process that the confirmation process is nothing more than just chiseling in the epitaph in the stone. I don't want to see that. And I also don't like to see the infighting that it creates by lack of a strong, distinct personal endorsement. So now we're seeing and Joni Ernst is a moderate. She's not a demon, but she's a moderate. Right. She's a moderate that I think can be pressed to be more conservative. I have different grades for different politicians. She's always been kind to me, so I don't have any personal dislike of her. There's no personal animus here. But she's a moderate on certain things. There's things I definitely absolutely do not agree with her on. She says she's not waging an all-out campaign against Hegseth. I don't care enough to like... I don't have... I'm not going to spend any capital on anybody saying that they did or didn't. But what I do think is interesting is that yesterday, I saw a lot of people criticizing her for... for her previous positions being weak on certain aspects of gun control, which I've criticized her for too. But I did find it interesting that the same people that were criticizing Ernst for her gun control positions are the exact literal same sacks of meat that were excusing Pam Bondi's gun control. So Pam Bondi, who is being nominated for AG, is a huge gun control supporter. And I reject the defense that, well, Pam Bondi only was supporting it because it was after the legislature passed it. And as AG, she has to defend Florida's law. Okay, don't sit here and be like, oh, it's just my job. I got to do it. Because we've heard that before throughout the years, particularly 1930s Germany, number one. But number two... She's on record before it even came out of committee in the state legislature of pushing red flag law, of pushing waiting periods, of pushing increasing the age requirement to purchase and even more. She's on record both in written word and on video using her own mouth to talk positively about these issues. So when I talk about consistency, I don't take any of these people seriously who are criticizing one candidate who is wrong on gun control, but excusing the other one politician wrong on gun control, but excusing the nominee for AG for also being wrong on gun control in an even worse manner. Even further than the other candidate. You've got to have consistency. Otherwise, do you know what happens? You can fool people some of the time, but you're not going to be able to keep it up. Because people are dumb. At some point, they pop their head up from their work or from running the kids here and there or whatever it is. And they start looking around like, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense. How are you? It's bad here, but it's okay here. It should disqualify. So Joni Ernst's position on gun control should disqualify any complaints that she has about Pete Hegseth. But Pam Bondi's positions on gun control qualify her for the position of AG. How does that work? You see what I mean? Consistency is key. And people are going to wake up and realize, and then a lot of people are going to start losing a lot of influence. It makes zero sense to spend your personal political capital by doing stupid stuff like this. And I will say, and I know people don't want to hear it, you got to have strong leadership and you have to have a strong voice come out and say, this is my nominee. Reject him at your own peril. that's all that needs to be done in fact i think if trump came out with that statement do you honestly think that any senator is going to stand up and be like okay well i still oppose him no no they're not because it's going to put all those people in the weird position of having to make their base happy while also trying to kind of moderate their position to be more more mainline Republican and not so much Trump Republican. It puts them in a difficult position, which they need to be put in. So by not doing it the way that it needs to be done, you're also letting these people off the hook. That's doing it 40 chest style. This is just he hasn't made a decision yet. And it's a it's a statement that was not a strong statement. And it was uncharacteristic. I don't think he's made up his mind. And I think it's because the factions are fighting it out. And I mean, the good news is that we've got a lot of good people that we can. I mean, we're not Democrats for crying out loud. Our only options aren't that dude from the Penguin from Gotham, J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom, which, by the way, you guys know that Democrats are getting ready to pitch them, right? You know that they're going. Pritzker's already made it clear he wants to run. Not kidding you. Pritzker's going to run. Newsom's going to run. You're going to have Big Gretch. Big Gretch is going to get in. Booty Juice still thinks that he's the chosen one. He believes that he is the golden Bob the Builder and that he can come out and he's still going to run. He's got to make that bank. He doesn't have an administration position in January anymore. How is he going to grift, guys? He's going to actually have to get a job. Like in the private sector, a job. Good night. These people don't like to work. You know that. They want to be on glorified welfare, which is what an elected office truly is. So. What is he going to do? These are the stooges. They're going to run. So we're not like Democrats. We have a little room to say, you know what? I want a little more from you. I want a little more boldness from you. I don't want no statement that leaves lots of daylight in places. I want something definitive and hardcore. I want a statement that kicks people's teeth in. That's what I want. That ends the palace intrigue that puts everybody in line and he can do it. He just got to make up his mind. He needs to make up his mind what he wants to do. But again, there's no there's no bad news scenario in this. So don't be led to believe that everything has got to be burned into the ash war. If I were a Democrat, I would want you to believe that. So you undercut your greatest strength. But since I'm not, I don't want us to do that. We're not Democrats. We don't have like no choice. Gosh, can you imagine being a Democrat? Those are your choices. Imagine, America. You're a Democrat. I guess all we have is Newsom and Pritzker and Big Gretch. And then Amy Klobuchar comes in and throws a comb at somebody. I don't know. That's who you have. Who else do they got? They don't got anybody. Seriously? He'll go out and pretend to have another baby and chest feed for like the first, even if we were elected the first half, you know, his first half term. Good night. If you're looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments, you can trust all family pharmacy has you covered. 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get the lowdown on the latest news with a side of laughs whenever you want subscribe to the dana show podcast on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcast like sands through the hourglass so are the days of the united states there's a little bit of controversy about that podcast because you didn't do you know about this now what because in dc this interview happened in dc yeah in a hotel
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Yeah, not in a hotel. It was like a random house.
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It was like a random house. But apparently, you can tell me, they spent, the Harris campaign spent like $100,000. I did see that. You know about this?
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It's hilarious.
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To build the studio. Yeah, that's not true. To make it look like it was the studio that you used in L.A.
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My studio that is gorgeous in Los Angeles doesn't even cost six figures. So I don't know how cardboard walls could cost six figures.
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But do you think they did that? I mean, you saw it.
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Absolutely not. With love to them. Oh my God, it was gorgeous. But like, it wasn't that nice. It wasn't like gorgeous marble. Like, no, that was not six figures.
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Why was it allowed to happen? First off, Oh my gosh. We, so our set, my set is not, and she's talking about, this is a podcast. I was talking about Kamala Harris. They, the interview that she did, they created this fake set and that's six figures on it. My studio. So behind me is not just a television. It is a giant Florida ceiling, led wall. It is legit. It is super not cheap. It's not six figures. I have my tactical walls loaded up with all my actual real Kel-Tec guns. And also not six figures. I have a custom huge desk with a four and a half foot wide gamer screen. Custom mic. Everything custom, custom. A super bougie, like, you know, ergonomical chair that also props me up. And full lighting rig, total pro build out, pro cameras. Like these are like the cameras that you would find at Fox or ABC or CNN. That's why I don't look dim or hazy. We have nobody in podcasting has better cameras than we do for our simulcast. Literally nobody in the business in podcasting or doing digital shorts has the kind of cameras I do. Not six figures. What? Why? When do they not money launder? That's the question. This was money laundering. Stick with a second hour coming up. The thing that aggravates me is people are like, well, I just don't want to go into a gun-free zone. That's great. I would love to have that luxury. I don't. I have a job that requires me to go places where I can't always carry because, you know, I've got a roof to keep over my head and people to feed and, you know, bills to pay just like everybody else. But I am not going to make myself defenseless. I am not one of those people who have any issue using lethal force, protecting themselves or their loved ones. And I will always encourage you to carry. I also think that you need to have a diversified array at your disposal so that you're ready for any type of situation. And this is where the burner gun comes in. It's a non-firearm firearm. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. And when you compare it to regular, like, stun guns, They have like one or two shots. Berna SD, their most popular selling model, has five rounds. And it gives you a defensive option when the state or a private entity is trying to deny you of a force multiplier, a way to defend yourself. There's no background check. There's no waiting period. It's illegal in all 50 states and they can ship it right to your front door. It also does not care about gun-free zone signs. So when your options of defense are limited, the Burna gun is a great alternate choice. So check it out. You can visit Burna.com slash Dana. That's the only place where you can get 10% off. I mean, you can buy it elsewhere, but you're not going to get a 10% discount unless you go through Burna.com slash Dana. That's B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Dana for 10% off. Welcome back to the program, top of the second hour. Dana Lash here with you. You can listen coast to coast. We're also on Channel 347, DirecTV, Chats at Rumble. We're on X, all those good places. So we, I was shocked, sort of. I saw, this is from Canada. I don't know if you saw this. This is what they kicked out last night. And I tweeted about it, for those of you who follow me on X. It was pretty wild. The Canadian government is essentially going to turn itself into an arms dealer by confiscating guns from Canadians and then sending them to Ukraine. At least that's what their public safety minister has announced. Dominic LeBlanc, Audio Soundbite 19. Listen to this.
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Today, the government is adding a further 324 unique makes and models of assault-style firearms to the list of prohibited firearms in Canada. this prohibition takes effect immediately. This means these firearms can no longer be legally used, sold or imported in Canada, and can only be transferred or transported under extremely limited circumstances. As part of that process, the Government of Canada has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine.
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Oh, because that's what we think it is. Really? Okay. Wow. 324 different firearms. An immediate ban. And by the way, that guy looked like he was wearing rouge on his cheeks. Tell me that I'm not the only person that saw that, right? That thought it as well. So they're banning all different types of firearms and they want to, 324, and they want to donate them to Ukraine. They said they're working with the government to see how they can donate the guns. What in the world? The restrictions they said are going to be implemented immediately. This means these firearms can no longer be used. And this was after they banned 1,500 previously. 1,500 makes models of firearms. Now that number has grown to 2,000. The first ban was in May of 2020. And they said this guy, this fruitcake, says firearms designed for the battlefield plainly do not belong in our communities. I don't know. Are they sending Canadians out to war with semi-auto? This is the same stupid argument that we keep having over and over again. People who have no idea about firearms, they have no idea about what the military uses, they have no idea about any of these things, but they are taking it upon themselves to determine your rights based on their ignorance. That's a crime. It should be. And the... I mean, that's what they're calling for. They're demanding this. This is what they're... I mean, it's pretty... It's in Canada. But I love the idea that first they called it a buyback, and then now some of them are just outright saying confiscation. But they're turning themselves into arms dealers with this. I mean, that's... I mean, I know it's Canada. They've really gotten super far left. Have they not? Super far left. So they're in Montreal, by the way. They are demanding a total ban on all semi-automatic rifles totally before they roll out a buyback. And so now they have this full-on ban. Thousands of models. Apparently, they're like a couple that are allowed and that's it. And those will be banned. That's just a matter of time before the ones that are not banned already are banned. And if you have a banned model in Canada, you can't do anything with it, not even sell it to the government because they haven't rolled out their buyback system yet. Because they want a total ban before they do the buyback. That's at least officials in Montreal and elsewhere in Canada. They said that they want a complete list and they need to have everything banned before they move forward with any kind of buyback, which that's it's already a nightmare. It's already a mess. I don't know how they're how are you going to where are you getting the money to do any kind of buyback in the first place? Toronto wanted to pull this piece up. There's a piece I was reading my friend Tom Knight and covered how the anti-gun efforts, particularly in Toronto, have backfired. Because Justin Trudeau had had been bragging about his success with gun control, etc. And Toronto law enforcement are scratching their heads saying what? They said that they banned handguns. They had a federal handgun freeze to address the influx of black market firearms. And officers are dealing with gang violence. Toronto's a mess. Vancouver's a mess because of it. They have tons of gang violence in British Columbia. Trudeau only looks at the firearms. He doesn't do anything about the actual gangs. So you're not really solving the problem, are you? You're just making it harder for the innocent. The idea that you're going to make laws based on criminal behavior and not based on lawful behavior is insane. You're punishing the law abiding for what criminals are doing. That's unfair. Why should your rights be forfeit because someone chooses to engage in criminality? That's like saying we're going to ban all cars because people are engaging in criminality with their vehicles. It's a stupid logic. But this is wild. So when we talk about, well, let's make Canada, let's just go ahead and annex them. I don't want to because people voted for this. Their lawmakers all want this. I don't want these people. I don't want to have a bunch of gun control people make them part of my country. Hell no. Their gun control is not working in Canada at all either, by the way. And not just in Toronto or Vancouver. I mean, really anywhere in Canada where it's been implemented. It's just been a mess. For instance, this story is CBC. They said they keep saying gun violence is on the rise. But when you read the article, it's not gun violence, which is a stupid phrase. It's increased gang activity. But they don't want to say that it's increased gang activity. They want to scare you and use those people, use criminals as a way to bully people into giving up their rights. It's a record-breaking gang violence in Toronto. I mean, gangs and drugs galore. And guess what? When you have a gang problem, Cain, what do gangs like to use in commission of felonious activity?
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Weapons and guns.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. Weapons and guns. Because, you know, drug dealers and gangbangers don't just say please and thank you. Right. They don't just use please and thank you unless that's what they named their black market acquired weapons. You know, this is please this one. Thank you. Please. And thank you. So, man, Canada's got a rough. They got a rough. And now it looks like they're going to go after absolutely everything. It is wild. We got more on this. We also have the Daniel Penny trial. The jury's deadlocked in the verdict. They told the judge they were unable to come to a decision on the charge of manslaughter. And they were waiting for instructions from the judge. The verdict, what they were being asked to determine... First count, second degree manslaughter before potentially moving on to the second count, which was criminally negligent homicide. So second-degree manslaughter, meaning he had him in a chokehold, wasn't aware, and just didn't know that he would kill him. And then the second one was that he knew and he was doing it anyway, not able to recognize the graveness of the situation. But I think both of these are predicated upon Jordan Neely being dead by the time that Daniel Penny let him go, and he wasn't. How are you asking Daniel Penny to be convicted on a manslaughter charge when Jordan Neely was still alive after? How are you trying to convict Daniel Penny on a manslaughter charge when Jordan Neely was on so much drugs? Who knows if he would have been alive later in the day? Man's OD'd I don't know how many times. He was in and out of the hospital because the drug use complicated his health I don't know how many times. He was violent. Who's to say that that's just asinine? And to go after somebody like Daniel Penny. What they're asking the jury to determine is whether or not anyone has the right to live their lives unassaulted, unmolested, unattacked, unthreatened. That's what they're asking. Because apparently there is a protected class in the United States that if you check so many boxes, you can do whatever you want to people. I mean, clearly, he had a warrant out for his arrest because he bashed some lady in the face. He broke an elderly woman's nose, tried to kill another woman by throwing her on the train tracks. Of course, don't forget he was on video trying to take a seven-year-old. Yeah, precious little Jordan Neely. So dangerous that even Reddit, Reddit full of conservatives and far left liberals all came together in one thread and were like, everybody be aware of this platform. There's a very dangerous guy here. It's a thread that's still up on Reddit. Tons of comments. Even before this happened, there were tons of comments on it. This guy's dangerous. Be careful. All these people were sharing their experiences of how he threatened them and all this stuff. It was only a matter of time. And as Eric Adams had said, you know, New York didn't do what New York should have done. People pay taxes. They pay taxes with the expectation. Actually, it's stolen from them. No one actually expects anything from the government. The government, by way of forcibly taking your money under penalty of threat, has culpable deniability and not being able to follow through with the forced investment of your tax dollars. So in New York. These people paid their tax money for what? The promise of police protection? The promise that violent criminals are going to be thrown in jail? The promise that the streets are going to be safer? The promise that they'll be able to ride the subway unmolested, unassaulted? Because New York failed. And not just in this case. There was another case where a guy was murdered by another Jordan Neely-like character on a subway platform. That was, what, months before Jordan Neely. New York failed taxpayers in this situation. They're not allowed to defend themselves. Hell no. Heaven forbid you have a weapon. And now you don't even have to have a weapon. Everyone's like Jordan Neely was unarmed. So was Daniel Penny. He was also unarmed. And guess who else was unarmed? The woman with the baby that Jordan Neely threatened. Guess who else was unarmed? The elderly woman who was threatened. Prosecutors are saying, well, no one was threatened specifically. I think that when you get in the face of a mother that's trying to shield her baby with her stroller and you're screaming, I'm going to kill you. I will kill you all. That sounds like a pretty damn specific threat. You tell me if you think it's a specific threat. If a known violent offender is screaming in your baby's face that they're going to murder her. Oh, they didn't say her name. Jordan Neely didn't like ask to see her Costco card and then read her name aloud to the subway platform. You morons. Always an excuse for the violent. I feel like the state hates innocent people. This is New York hates innocent people. I don't go to New York for nothing anymore. I used to have to go all the time for work and I still don't go back. I don't like to go to New York for nothing. My gosh, what happens if someone tries to would try to attack me or for me and we're trying to attack and I would defend myself. Hell, I might be thrown into the jail too. They're throwing everybody in jail in New York. You don't even have to be guilty of an offense as you saw with Trump. They'll just make it up like with Alvin Bragg. Which brings me back to my point. Stop supporting damn Republicans that are against the due process and the offenses against which I'm talking about right here. Stop supporting lawmakers that don't honor due process, regardless if they got an R after their name. 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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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The Michigan AG urges residents to play music outside to combat Christmas porch pirates after one person in the country illegally was arrested for stealing iPhone packages in one neighborhood. So the Michigan AG, they're saying, just try to dissuade them with Christmas lights and holiday music. So you're going to put them in a more festive mood to steal. I mean, that's what I'm hearing from you. That's so goofy. Why? Stop, people. Stop, stop. Also, let's see. A Canadian man jumped on a polar bear to defend his wife from being attacked. brave man. They were in the far north. He leapt on the bear to protect his wife from being mauled. He suffered serious injuries but is going to recover. The couple left their house to find their dogs when a bear in the driveway of their home lunged at her. They live north of Ontario, far, far north. She slipped to the ground. The husband leapt on the animal to prevent it from attacking. It attacked him, He's got serious but non-life-threatening injuries to his arms and legs. A neighbor arrived with a gun, shot the bear several times, and succumbed to its injuries. It retreated into the woods. They're patrolling the area to make sure that there were no bears in the area. They said that when an attack occurs, it's because the bear's often hungry, young, and unwell. Or you're a snack and it's a bear. You know, there's just that, right? I mean, the hungry part, that's kind of what it is, you know. Let's see here. Men are more likely to have financial secrets than women, says a study. I think I believe that. I think maybe. I don't know what kind of financial secrets. But they said this survey only looked at 220 Americans. And they said that 77% of men have more financial secrets than compared to women, whatever that means. Stick with us. We got a lot more next with the latest with the penny case, cabinet picks, etc. Black Rifle Coffee Company. Look, I love their coffee because I'm really picky. Starbucks tastes horrible. A lot of the other coffee companies out there that say they roast their beans here in the USA, they don't. They get it from Canada or Brazil and then they put a sticker on a pre-roasted bag and then they sell it like it's fresh. Let's be real. Black Rifle Coffee doesn't do that. Veteran owned, veteran operated. They hire active duty and vets and retired veterans. And they just do a really good job. And they're nerds about coffee. And I'm glad that they're nerds about coffee because I don't want to know how it's made. I just want it to taste good. And Black Rifle Coffee has so many amazing roasts. They have their Freedom Roast right now, which is totally what the Founding Fathers would have drank if Black Rifle Coffee had anachronistically existed back in the times of our founders. They totally would have. You know, Washington would have had a cup a day more. You can save 20% using code Dana at BlackRifleCoffee.com. Every sip of the Freedom Roast is a celebration of liberty and a tribute to those who fought for our awesome republic. You can subscribe to their coffee club, get your free shipping, automated orders sent straight to your doorstep, and never, ever, ever run out of your favorite coffee. No need for last-minute trips. And if you're stocked up on coffee but you still need some Christmas ideas, they've got a whole bean, K-Cups, ready-to-drink apparel, kettles, grinders, mugs, and more. Their apparel is really popular, by the way, with the young dudes, too. So just an idea. So get your freedom on with the Freedom Roast. Check out the merch at BlackRifleCoffee.com and taste all their top-shelf roasts like Just Black, Silence, or Smooth. Always a favorite. Whatever you decide, though, 20% off with Codana. 20% off Codana, BlackRifleCoffee.com.
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SPEAKER 03 :
So I have the latest with the Daniel Penny case. But really quickly, we were talking about that Canadian government official who once they're banning all the guns in Canada. And then they said they're going to give them to Ukraine. Guys. What is the over-under on me convincing Canada that I am Ukraine? And you can send your guns to me. Yes, I am Ukraine. You can send them to I am Ukraine at one Ukraine drive in Dallas, Texas. That's where you can send them. Let's make something up. You can send them there. I'll take them. I'll take the guns. Go ahead and give me all your guns. canadia go ahead give them give them all to me i'll take them all i'll take them for you yeah that's all right right yeah they'll be banned there i can have them here it's totally fine for ukraine and for me crane oh that's right ukraine and me crane that's right well i mean for ukraine but me crane me crane too we'll send them to ukraine me crane too hello All right, so the Daniel Penny deliberations. Apparently, so the two counts, Lorene noted this too, the jury, because they have a deadlock jury, and they said that the judge said, read them the Allen charge, to go back and be flexible, is Mullen letting the DA drop count one, told the jury to consider count two. Hmm. Hmm, hmm. So... How are you not guilty on count two if you're being told to just throw out count one?
SPEAKER 11 :
Legit question.
SPEAKER 03 :
How does that work? La, la, la, la, la. How does that work? Wait. So... you're, you're worth the first count that's related to the second count. Because remember it was, what was it? A second degree manslaughter or a negligent homicide. So, and now he, he didn't mean to, he didn't mean to kill him. So we've got to throw that out. So then how do you not throw out also? Uh, he just, he was aware and he killed him anyway. What? Yeah. How does that, what does that mean? That doesn't even make any sense. Oh my gosh. So I don't... This is a poo show. Isn't it? So they said they couldn't agree on the top charge. And then the judge was like, just keep delivering. Just keep doing it. Just keep deliberating. This is really a mess. And when he said the Allen charge... So the way that I understand the Allen charge is that it's instructions that are given to the jury that encourage them to come up with a verdict, to determine a verdict, agree on one. And the Allen charges, they... Sometimes they the last time I heard of something like this being used and I'm pulling up something to make sure I'm accurate on this is because isn't this where a lot of a lot of pressure can come into play? And that's like what you don't want to happen with a jury. Some say that they can overly pressure the jury to change their opinions. A lot of states don't allow Allen charges. Federal courts can use them, but not every state allows Allen charge. And that comes from this case back in the days of your Allen v. U.S. So the Supreme Court ruled that you can't allow these in the federal court. But they're not allowed in every state. So that's interesting. So these two charges, I still don't understand how you can throw out the first and then not come to a not guilty verdict on the second. Because the jury wanted instructions. The prosecutors had to prove that Penny acted with such a degree of recklessness and that constitutes a criminality. And I don't know how you, if you find the defendant not guilty on count one, I mean, you definitely, I mean, I just don't see, this is just so dumb. This is so dumb. This is such a clown show. Count two was the lesser charge. That was criminally negligent homicide. And that carries four years in prison. And so they were told to, you know, think, go back over count two at least. So I, I mean, manslaughter, second degree manslaughter. Again, I just don't see how you don't come out with a not guilty on the second one, on the second charge. We're going to come back to this and follow it continually because this is just it's self-defense. Your self-defense is on trial in this Jordan and this Daniel Penny case. I just wild to me that I don't know. I just super wild. Now, in addition to this couple of things, did you guys, by the way, see Joe Biden at the rock? Was he at the Rockefeller tree? Who's at the tree lighting? I used his photo. Uh, it was on our, it was, yeah, it was this, this morning's headlines. His hair, he just doesn't look, I don't think he cares anymore. He was there and he just, he looked like the ghost of Christmas past. This is what he looked like. Doesn't he? Yeah. He doesn't look, he doesn't look so great. And you don't hear anything about Kamala Harris except for the six figures that we talked about that last hour that she spent. Juan's showing you the picture. He's it's like a scary Hallmark movie. His hair is just crazy. And apparently he looked at the press and yelled at them. Why are you still here? He apparently yelled at the press. Why are you still here? Yeah, get off my lawn. I just feel like he didn't care. That's that's Biden. Just the other day. Well, I mean, it kind of does. oh no that mask they really didn't fix stop it they didn't fix the hair on that mask oh my gosh you and some of my family you're not y'all know a lot of talk so i have a great aunt who sends me i don't ever check facebook messages but she lives on facebook and i get it because she's you know that's like where she can that's the hep place for her to plug in and she'll message certain things and um Like, did you see this story? This was like a year ago when she first was like, did you see this of the masks? He's wearing one of them masks. This is a person in a Biden mask. I'm like, no, it's not. It's not. I had to correct her. I was like, please don't post this on your Facebook wall. Please don't. Please do not.
SPEAKER 11 :
I didn't know she was wrong. How do you know she was wrong? You don't know that.
SPEAKER 03 :
What?
SPEAKER 11 :
You don't know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Don't be friends with my family. You guys all work yourselves up.
SPEAKER 11 :
We already back channeled, Todd.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, at my birthday dinner, Kane sat next to my mom. And you guys all worked yourselves up with conspiracy theories.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, we didn't get worked up at all. It was nice confirmation bias. And good food.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now Juan's just playing picture pages with the hair. I'm watching him in the monitor. He's getting it all set up. I mean, it's crazy. Where are his earmuffs?
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm telling you, that mask just isn't fitting right.
SPEAKER 03 :
By the way, you're an old dude. Your wife didn't go put a hat on your head. Look, everybody else is all, but why would he not have a sock cap on or something?
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. He needs a scrunchie or something.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I mean, at the very least, it's cold out. Clearly, it's windy. He looks uncomfortable. I don't know. He's mean, so who knows?
SPEAKER 15 :
If you want some local reporting on this, the drive from my office to my apartment is eight miles, and they shut down the White House for this thing. Guess how long it took me to get home yesterday?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 15 :
About an hour.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Poor Steve. It's just a mess. It's a mess. Yeah, the headline at New York Post was Biden shocks with long wispy hair. Sorry, this is the White House Christmas tree lighting. His white billowy hair. Does that look billowy, though?
SPEAKER 11 :
Billowy is how they said? They described it as billowy?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. The White House press corps was said to have been spooked because he seemed older and ghostlier. Is that a thing? Ghost lair? I mean, I guess so.
SPEAKER 11 :
Ghost of Christmas present?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. I mean, apparently. Okay. Well, I... Fa la la la la. I mean, we're almost to January, guys. We're almost to January. We're almost there. Now, one of the other stories that I have marked down, and this was in your prep email. This is one of the reasons why you should be a subscriber over at Chapter and Verse. The L.A. police chief... has joined the movement. They're all trying to get ahead of Trump to block illegal immigrants from being deported. This is after the AG of California and the governor have taken similar defensive positions. They said that the department will not enforce these laws according to special order 40. And that's a department policy prohibiting action related to immigration status. And instead, he's going to work with the Mexican and Central American consulate offices to protect the immigrant population. Whoa, whoa, whoa. This isn't the immigrant population. This is the illegally in the United States population. Thank you. Very different. By the way, how ignorant to assume that by not differentiating, you're assuming that everyone who immigrated here did so illegally. Right. It's so ignorant. Why are Democrats so racist? I just will never understand why they're so racist. So he's going on. And then, of course, you have Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, delightful fish, who also saying the similar thing. And this follows Pritzker, the penguin from Gotham, who made a big deal about we're not going to. I'm going to I want you to watch this now. All of the. Not all the Democrats are in total disarray. There's a small group of them that are super hyper-focused on 2028. And people like this LAPD chief and others like Newsom and Pritzker, they're all going to be using this. Oh, well, we've got to... uh gear up and fight trump it's going to be up to us to fight trump and fight his policies so all of these like for an immigration is the first one that they're going to do they're going to try to their move around the argument is to persuade people that trump wants to deport everyone who immigrated in the u.s they want to conflate illegal immigration with people who come to the country illegally And act like they're one in the same. And then they want to act like these governors are and these law enforcement officials are stepping up and we're going to protect these people who are here illegally from lawful accountability. And that's going to be their their engine to get them started towards twenty eight. Oh, this is the Democrat response. And then from the ashes are the real Democrat leaders. That's how they're positioning this. Partners at Hillsdale, an actual educational institution. They do such a good job of providing the education that is required to help maintain a free republic. And that's been their mission since their founding in 1844, to embrace learning character and faith and preserve liberty through education. educational outreach and that's what it's all about. They're located in southern Michigan and it's a small classical Christian University College there in southern Michigan and the outreach that they provide extends beyond their campus in Michigan. So they have tons of resources online and they're free for you to access and They have their deep dive educational podcast. They have their free speech digest and primus. They've been giving out pocket constitutions. They have all kinds of videos that you can watch. And in addition to providing the sort of education that's required to preserve our liberty, but they also understand that in times of increased division, the honor code that they have, students are expected and they are taught to respect the rights of others and, excuse me, live by principles of self-government. And so they've got a great campus. They have a great campus environment. You can learn more about Hillsdale at Dana4Hillsdale.com. Learn what makes them so unique. That's Dana4Hillsdale.com.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 03 :
I really want to play this video, but I'm told we can't because of the profanities that are in it. It's a three-minute and 35-second clip.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, we're willing to take the chance.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, we do know the head of the FCC.
SPEAKER 11 :
We shouldn't have to bring him in. Don't put any pressure on Brendan Carr like that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, what's the point of having a CHIT, C-H-I-T, if you can't call it in? You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, but not for something like this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, maybe you're right. But play the video anyway. So the 72-year-old Florida man didn't win. Walmart drones keep flying over his house. And so he shot one as it flew over his property. Yeah. And the drone was right above his house. There was someone who said that they won a $10,000 lawsuit for the same thing. And when they arrested him, he goes, I can't breathe. That's what he said. That was just chef's kiss there. Chef's kiss. But, I mean, the drone was right over his house. He said he's had issues in his neighborhood with these drones flying right over people's houses in their yards. It's not like they're flying way up high. And, yeah, when they put handcuffs on him, he goes, I can't breathe. He... The Lake County Sheriff's Office said they found a bullet hole in the payload that the drone was carrying. And he said, you can't be flying your drone in our properties. And he's got a point. I mean, at some point, you know, people have the expectation of privacy on their own property. So, I mean, he said at one point, he goes, now they say I hit it, so I must be a good shot. But when they put the cuffs on, he goes, I can't breathe. That's what he said. I mean, this guy, he's a legend. I don't, yeah, I don't got a problem with him. I got to tell you. The officer actually started laughing when he said it, though.
SPEAKER 02 :
We've been fine. There's no issues.
SPEAKER 11 :
We're not, you know. I don't know if it's too tight, right? Yeah. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Dang. I mean, you know, I'm just saying. So I don't know what's wrong. I mean, if you're trespassing, you don't know if it's a threat. What if that drone's armed? That's a possibility. Nobody knows. People have the expectation of privacy in their own house. You guys don't appreciate how old school I am. Like I go back to the Wild West. That's how old school I am. Didn't even live there. I'm like, you're a drone in my yard. Pop. It's happening.
SPEAKER 11 :
If I see a plane flying over at 10,000 or 30,000 feet or wherever I happen to be, I understand that. I get that completely. But if it's a drone that's hovering or something like that, how far up legally is my property?
SPEAKER 03 :
It's free skeet.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's what it is. All the way to the...
SPEAKER 03 :
I see it. I'm going skeet, skeet, skeet. I see it. I want to go at it.
SPEAKER 11 :
I see it. Like at 5,000 feet? If I have property 5,000 feet above it, I can defend?
SPEAKER 03 :
Like it was low enough that he could see it from his window, apparently. I read another story where that's how low it apparently was. That's a problem.
SPEAKER 11 :
If there's law that has a limit, like if it's more than 4,000 feet above you, then leave it alone. But if it's less than that, you can do something?
SPEAKER 03 :
yeah apparently i i guess so i don't know i'm just you know uh i got a couple of other i got a lot more uh let's see a um drunk florida man slammed into a deputy's cruiser during a traffic stop this guy's face is so jacked up you guys for pierce he's got a history of driving under the influence this florida man It was about 11.30 p.m. this past Saturday. Fort Pierce police tried to conduct a traffic stop. Reckless driver. He wouldn't stop. And then he hit the officer's car. His name is Perry P. Apples. And it looks like he got beaten halfway within an inch of his life. And his mug shot. He looks like a garbage pail kid in his mug shot. He does. He totally does. So they took him into custody. And he said that... Yeah, he was super slurring. They found open containers of alcohol in the vehicle, all kinds of stuff. And Lorraine sent this one. A Florida man bought a used TV. And then when he switched it on, apparently it was in demo mode. He bought it off a Facebook marketplace for $300, turned it on, and a Popeye's menu came on from the food chain. And he couldn't get it off the Popeye's menu. And he said, I thought my friends were messing with me. It was like in demo mode or something. And it was like literally the Popeye's menu. He could not get it off the Popeye's menu. I can't play the video because he's like, it's a blinking Popeye's menu. It's not blinking funny. His friends finally helped him get it off demo mode. I don't know why it was on Popeye's though. Stick with us. Third hour next.
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Last night at the Patriot Awards, I think we got a clip, he was doing the Trump dance. And I'm sure you've seen that evolve over the last... As you look right there, how do you describe your husband's dance moves?
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, this is very special and unique dance.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is, right?
SPEAKER 01 :
And I think a lot of people are copying it and everybody have fun with it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Is this how you dance? No. Which part of the Trump dance, did you give him any tips? Like in the beginning it was low and then it was up high and now there's a golf swing. No, he's coming along his own. Have you ever done the Trump dance? You are Mrs. Trump.
SPEAKER 01 :
I did not.
SPEAKER 03 :
That is hysterical. It's like he's got string. right it cracks me up the first time that i saw him do it i think it was back during his first term when he's campaigning for his first term and he did kind of a little thing and nobody really noticed it i think well i think people talked about it and they laughed about it and then he kind of started every time he'd get happy he'd do it it was funny welcome back to the show i just like the dance because it's hysterical what was the video that um It was SNL where he was redoing that video. Oh, my gosh. Who was the guy who was on Nickelodeon but acts like he comes from the life of Hard Knocks, school Hard Knocks? Steve, who am I thinking of?
SPEAKER 15 :
He did a sketch on SNL where he recreated Drake in Hotline Bling.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you. Yes. He recreated that video. Hotline Bling. That's right. That's what he did. He did that video. And it was funny because that's when he really got into it. And that, I think, really is when it was officially born. And he was doing his Trump dance with his string, his invisible string. It just cracks me up. So welcome back. It's Friday. He was doing it to YMCA. I was reading this story about Victor Willis, the YMCA singer, who says that he supports Trump using the song because it brings joy to the American people. He did an interview about it. And he says he has no problem with it being used. But he said he will sue outlets who call it a gay anthem. He says he said he supports Trump using it to bring joy to the American people. He goes, I decided to allow the allow the president elects continued use of YMCA because he seems to genuinely, genuinely like the song. And so many other artists were stopping him from using their music. And he goes, if you were asked, ask me today if the village people would perform at the inauguration, I would probably say not because we'd be concerned about endorsement. He goes, however. Because he's done so much for YMCA. He goes, the song's actually gone back to number one. It's still number one today. He goes, so if he were to ask the village people to perform it live for him, we'd have to seriously consider it. But he goes, the song was never gay. And I'm going to sue people who say it's a gay anthem. I am dying. He goes, come January. And then he drops it. He goes, come January 2025, my wife and I, we're going to start suing each and every news organization that falsely says it's a gay anthem. I mean, he, like, went right into it. It's hysterical. This guy cracks me up. But, you know, he's, like, he's having fun with it. I always hate when people say that, like, these artists that go out, like, how dare you use my music? The way it works is they have to license their music. That's how they make more money off of their songs. They license it for different use. Like, you can get different licenses. Like, for public use... There's like different categories.
SPEAKER 11 :
Publishing, for actual production, for score, you know what I mean? I mean, there's all kinds of different ways that you can attach your name to it. But it's ultimately about ownership of your own music. So by doing that, you're licensing. You now have the license to decide where that song goes. And if you put it in the public domain and allow it to be purchased, that's just what happens.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. It's like similar to what if you're Nike and you're selling shoes. Somebody buys your Nike shoes, they can wear them.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, or you're licensing your logo out for certain. Yeah, I mean, that's. Right. So once they do that, you know, it's. Yeah. I mean, you can't say for him, but not for him. That's not how the licensing works. And that's ASCAP. So you have your ASCAP, BMI ASCAP. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
And CSAC.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I always get mad when I see these musicians go out and say he can't use our music anymore. Why'd you license it then? I think they do that as a way to get more attention for themselves. So good on this guy. Good on the YMCA guy. It's a joyful song. It's a very joyful song. You know, I got to say. So now I saw this story over. First off, I think this was over at Red State. So, you know, however, president gets a presidential library. Okay, well. Apparently Biden, I don't know how that's going to work with him. Apparently donors are withholding their contributions because they're livid that he pardoned Hunter. They said it was a quote, abrupt, clumsy pardon of his son, end quote. And so they're tightening their grip on their wallets. Yep. A couple of different outlets are reporting this, including Axios. You know, that bastion of conservatism. The it's called there's an article over at Axios. talking about what's happening behind the curtain. And they're saying, you know, 82-year-old Biden will limp away from the limelight, widely disliked by the public, loathed by many Democrats who blame him for the twin sins of selfishness, running again and pardoning Hunter. And apparently, and Politico mentioned this in another piece, some of Biden's own family are shocked at the vitriol being shown to him by their fellow Democrats. They said that they thought that there would be blowback, but not what was described as a, quote, wicked backlash. Because they are so damn blind and tone deaf. Now you can see why Biden makes stupid decisions, because he's surrounded by stupid people. They're shocked that that would get the backlash that it would, especially from other Democrats. You're shocked. Give him the paying attention then. So then the. I mean, he could have. He could have pardoned. You know what? If he would have pardoned Trump and his son Hunter. Would that have helped with other Democrats, though? Would that have made Democrats angrier? It would have given him cover. In that it was not so much personal for him, right? Maybe. I don't know.
SPEAKER 11 :
But I think all of the stuff for Trump will have to happen after he's president. So they still have to wait four years.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, Biden said his son didn't do anything wrong. Well, then why do you got to pardon him? For all a blanket pardon for all this stuff. Why do you got to pardon him then if he did nothing wrong? We had a thing up about that on Instagram on my account. We put it up going over. Remember how not just him, but like the Hakeem Jeffries, everybody was saying, oh, no, but Hunter did nothing wrong. Biden said Hunter did nothing wrong. Well, then now here we are. But they said that as a result of this, these people, because that's where your your library comes from, people donate, et cetera. And it looks like. Democrats are not, they don't want to donate to his library. It might be a bookmobile. They said that most Democrats, a YouGov poll, which is kind of a lefty thing, that 64% of Democrats approve the pardon. 64%. That was a reversal of earlier sentiment. But it's 64% of people that they had described as like Democrats, not even likely voters, registered voters, things like that. However, the other percentage, because the way that they did their polling, it's like, you know, do you approve, strongly approve, strongly? This was just approve. The strongly approve was a small percentage. But everyone else was strongly disapprove. And the other thing that they're so angry about is the fact that he left so long. Now, when they asked separately whether or not Democrats felt that he that they were angry that he stayed in the race too long, like 70 percent of them were angry that he had that they disapproved of how long he's like strongly disapproved of how long he stayed in the race. So they're angry at him because he pardoned his son and they're doubly angry at him because he waited so long to get out of the race. And it made it doubly impossible for Democrats. I felt like they didn't want to waste a good candidate on a fool's errand by using their good candidate to replace Biden. But this is Democrats' own fault. They built Joe Biden. Joe Biden was always a jackass. He really was, is. One of the meanest people. When I was growing up, and I wasn't really aware of politics like in the 80s. I was in elementary school. And I wasn't really aware. I think the first time I ever saw Biden was on TV during the Clarence Thomas thing. And I remember feeling bad as a kid in a family of Democrats in southern Missouri for Clarence Thomas, because Joe Biden in his line of questioning, he was so ignorant to him. And I was a little I was a little kid in elementary school watching this. And it was on, and I just remember playing around the house, and it was on the television. And I remember thinking, this guy is so mean. This old man is so mean. He was an old man even then. He's so mean. And that's the first time that I ever really saw him. And then as I grew up and, you know, you go through his just become more aware of politics and you study history. I found out how ignorant he was with Reagan and in different hearings like that. I would see him on TV over and over again. And he was always mad and hateful about something. He was always like super, super ignorant about something. And just a really not a nice guy. And I say this because Democrats built him. They really did. They built him. And they only have themselves to blame. They can sit here and try to brush it off and accuse everybody else of this stuff. But ultimately, they're the ones who built him. They made Joe Biden who he is today. So I feel like... I don't feel bad for them about any of this, Cain. I don't feel bad about any of this. Audio, audio some by five. Senator Fetterman says that the he says that Hunter was deserves a pardon because it was politically motivated. I disagree on this. Listen.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I think it's undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really politically motivated. But I also think it's true that the trial in New York for Trump, that was political as well, too. And in both cases, I think a pardon is appropriate. And I really think collectively, you know, America's confidence in these kinds of institutions have been damaged by these kinds of cases.
SPEAKER 03 :
Here's the thing. The Hunter Biden case, the pardon wasn't just for one thing. You it was for his tax issues in California, which he's guilt. I mean, for crying out loud, that was that had nothing to do with politics. The family was switching money around to their different shell companies and the amounts that they were moving triggered. the banks to investigate. So that had nothing to do with politics. That's standard operating procedure. The gun charge, that's not politically motivated. You know what's been politically motivated is stripping FFLs of their licenses over grammatical errors because you're looking for any way possible to shut down retailers. That's politically motivated. So you can't just say that the whole all of the things that Hunter Biden is being charged with, they're not even remotely all the same. They didn't even start remotely all at the same time. Oh, my gosh. Like the bank thing that was like even before the laptop. That's how shady this family is. So, no, it wasn't political. It was not all political prosecutions. None of it was with Hunter. Really? It really wasn't the New York thing. To take an expired misdemeanor and attach a mystery charge to it to falsify its elevation to a federal charge is asinine. That is political.
SPEAKER 11 :
And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 03 :
So apparently two Delta flight attendants failed a breathalyzer test right before an international flight. Do they have to take breathalyzers before they? Yeah. Really? I mean, they're not flying the plane. They got pulled after failing a breathalyzer in Amsterdam on Friday. They were randomly tested by Dutch authorities before a flight to JFK. And a female attendant had a 0.02. So it was seven times over the legal limit. Honestly, can I be real? Yeah, 0.02. Like, what's their limit there?
SPEAKER 11 :
0.08 is the legal limit. So she's under the legal limit?
SPEAKER 03 :
They said that the female flight attendant showed blood alcohol seven times over the legal limit. Sorry, a male flight attendant failed by 0.02. Oh, gotcha.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
So honestly, like I like a lot of flight attendants, but some of them probably need to be drunk to offer better service. So I don't know if I'm some of them need to chill out. You know what I mean? So I feel like I don't know if I'm for this. Yeah, I'm just saying I got to be honest. So let's see. Scammers are using bogus QR codes on parking meters. Yeah, I believe that. Why would anybody do that, though? Like, don't just don't just scan stuff and do. But the FBI said that they're hijacking QR codes. They're placing stickers with codes they create on top of the real QR code. And then that directs you to phishing websites where people can steal personal or financial information. Just be careful about this stuff. Right. OK, just be very always double check. Make sure it's not a sticker over a sticker. Stick with us.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. You can listen to the radio program Coast to Coast. We've got the simulcast over at Channel 347, DirecTV, as well as Rumble, et cetera, elsewhere. So this... hit, I guess, that was carried out on that United Healthcare CEO. The guy was finally photographed unmasked. And it's wild because he was pictured unmasked because he was flirting with someone at that hostel. And the girl with whom he was flirting asked to see his face. And that's when he did it. And that's when the camera caught him. Audio sound by 20. This is wild. That's how they have the photo of his face now. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 04 :
New York police released this photo of a man seen lowering his mask, revealing more of his face than we've seen before, smiling here. Our John Miller, who we're going to speak to in just a moment, is told by his sources that the man pulled down his mask because he was flirting with a woman at the front desk of a New York City hostel that he was staying in.
SPEAKER 03 :
Pulled down his mask and was smiling and flirting with her. So Kane and I were talking about this on break because everyone says it's a professional hit. Is it though? I just don't think a professional hit man is going to be so dumb. First off, if there's a camera there, he'll see it. If he's a total pro, he's going to know that there's a camera there at the desk. He's not going to position himself in a way that the camera can see his face. And if his face is covered, he sure as hell not going to remove his face covering to give a photograph to the camera that can later be used against him. He's not going to be distracted from his mission either. I mean, that's where I'm like, maybe it's not unless it's a really bad, you know, I mean, this is. It it does not seem. Quiet. That was a dumb move. Do you still think it was a professional hit or that their budget only got them this great value assassin? For real.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, I don't think it was a professional hit. Just look at the weak grip on that first shot. would tell you that they probably haven't really shot guns that much.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that was also a thought, like the way that he handled, I mean, not that we're trying to be, but when you're, we're not, we're trying to be like technical in that petty kind of way, but we're, that goes a long way in telling you about the background of the person who's doing, carrying out the criminal act. And, you know, just gives you a little bit of insight in him. Yeah, he was real limp-wristed. I mean, that's why it jammed. I mean, when you're limp-wristed, that's one of the number one ways that you can have your semi-auto pistol jam up on you is if you're not holding it correctly and you're not applying proper pushback with recoil.
SPEAKER 11 :
If your wrist is taking that and absorbing that, the slide should be doing that to actually engage the next round.
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly. Exactly. So he didn't really know what he was doing. And Steve was like, well, he does have a silencer. Yeah, but you can just – that's easy to attach. That doesn't – that's not – and it's not really silent either. But the way that he was – the way that he was handling his gun, his grip, his – the fact that he would wear such an easily identifiable backpack also. Isn't that backpack like a $300 backpack? Yeah. So you're wearing an ultra bougie backpack that apparently is used by professional photographers. And it seems like he went and got out, he got a hitman backpack. That's what that says to me. You know what I mean? That's what that's, I don't know. It's such a weird thing. How in the world do we not know anything else about this though? In broad daylight in Manhattan, They got his DNA off a water bottle. They've got shell casings with cryptic words on them. They got a photo. I mean, I don't know. I'm sure maybe that there's more that they just haven't released. Thompson apparently, his estranged wife said that he had been receiving threats, but she didn't know the nature of them. And he didn't have security. And The other people with whom he worked who were attending the conference with him said it didn't seem like he had a detail. So I don't know. Just wild. The whole thing is wild. Do you have any theories, Cain?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, I mean, the narratives that I see come out are plausible. But again, like you said, we don't really have any concrete evidence to point to a real motive right here. Who really knows? I don't know yet.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it's wild. It's a weird one. But the fact that they got his picture because he was flirting with a chick to me and then his grip and all that. He's not like a seasoned. He's not a pro. He's not a pro. So who hired this guy? Or what else... What other... I mean, this is going to be on, like, what? Unsolved Mysteries or something one day, isn't it? I just don't know how you don't know who it is at this point. But again, maybe there's... Maybe there is... I'm sure that there's a lot more to it than they're sharing, but it's still very interesting. I know Lorraine brought up the... thing that deny, defend, oppose on his shell casings. And apparently that was based from like a 2010 book, Delay, Deny, Defend, Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims. I mean, the most basic reasoning is this was a guy who got mad because they denied his claim and he was going to take action against them, right? It's very Occam's razor. You know, the most simple explanation is usually the correct one, Occam's razor. But really, though, I don't know. I think we're so used to conspiracies. But this guy was not a pro. And like I said, his his the reason that his pistol jammed is because he was limp wrist in it. And by the way, when going to the range with people, that is the number one. That's the first thing that you really focus on with people is their grip because otherwise you get all kinds of malfunctions if you're not holding it properly and you're not holding it steady with the proper strength in your grip so that you're not taking that recoil and then jamming up your gun. Or he's not the guy, says Juan. That was the backpack, though, in that hostile video, right? That was the same backpack, that bougie backpack. I mean, that's what... I don't know, it's so weird.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Juan's pointing out two different pictures. I don't know if you can get them together, Juan, and show them on screen side by side or not, but he's showing that the jackets actually are a little different in two of the different photos. Now, does that mean he wore a different jacket on a different day? Or is this a different person? I mean, the thing is, it's all still speculative, no matter how you slice it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Maybe he had some of the same jacket. I don't know. The whole thing is so weird.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, so it looks like he's able to toggle back and forth. So we've got... So these are the jackets here. These are the pictures that were circulating originally. And then he showed his face, and this is the jacket that he was wearing with his face. So you see there. Now, obviously, the picture's lighter, so it looks like it could be a different jacket.
SPEAKER 03 :
I feel like there's not enough contrast in the earlier ones or brightness in there to whether or not you can see those pockets.
SPEAKER 11 :
It looks like he still has that thing on his sleeve on that very right photo. But I don't know. Still, I'm not in charge of the investigation, obviously, and I don't envy those who are.
SPEAKER 03 :
It might be different. He could have changed his jacket, but that looks like the same backpack. Yeah, it does. So, I don't know. It's all very interesting. Maybe it was a different jacket. It looks like that's a pullover, whereas the other one looks like a jacket. But anyway, long story short, I don't know. Maybe it's a guy who got his claim denied and he's mad. I mean, they made movies like that. plausible but that's the guy was getting threats beforehand and see that may not be why we don't have any more information if he was getting through receiving threats beforehand then obviously you know they're investigating all of that they don't want to release any information to the public that could compromise the investigation or give up you know you don't want to give up any information to that would potentially warn a suspect you don't want the suspect to know if you're you're closing in So I get it. I get it. A few other things to touch on as well to get you set up for the weekend as we roll towards that. Can we talk really quickly about... Wait, I want to make sure I get all this. I saw that the Hawk to a Girl was trending because she, just really quickly, she got everybody to invest in crypto and then took all their money. Really quickly, Kane, explain it to us. Is that pretty much it?
SPEAKER 11 :
That's the long and short of it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, I thought there was nuance, but apparently... No, there's not a lot of nuance.
SPEAKER 03 :
Excellent, okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Steve, are you aware of any nuance to the story, the way we just described it?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, people are just idiots.
SPEAKER 03 :
People are just idiots.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's a little caveat.
SPEAKER 03 :
So they got into... She was coming out with a coin and then people bought into it and she just took, she took their money and that's it. And so a lot of people were mad at her. What did people think was going to happen? They were going to get some smart investment from a chick who was bragging about spitting on male copulatory organs and turned it into like a million dollar, like bad baby kind of gig?
SPEAKER 11 :
That is exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Like, come on, people. You deserve to be fleeced. First off, I hate all the, I hate the, what is it, the NFTs? I think those are the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life. It's so stupid. It's like simple. It's like the Sims or whatever, right? It is so dumb. Stop buying stupid stuff that you don't need. Stop it. Stop buying stupid crap. Stop it. Who does like it? And then the crypto, you honestly thought you were going to be making a wise investment with a girl who got famous off of a joke about, you know what? Really?
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't know what, what?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, you want me to go there?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, I'm joking. I'm joking. But there she is with the, look at the, see the green candles there? Yeah. Going up, up, up. And then plummet. And then, yeah, there she is.
SPEAKER 03 :
So she made, how much money do you think she made off that? A couple million.
SPEAKER 11 :
Actually, I don't know. Maybe 50 grand, something.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, really? You think that's it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Steve, do you know what the number was? Are you familiar with what the number was?
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't know the number, but I don't. If you're putting your money in streamers, you probably have bigger problems in life.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. If these are your financial investments, you've got bigger issues. You have way bigger issues. I just was like enthralled by the commentary on X. Can you believe? Yes, I actually can believe. My question is, why did you not? Stop it. Stop making dumb people famous and stop buying stuff that you don't need. You don't need it, right? Well, what?
SPEAKER 11 :
Those are important lessons for life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, they are. Can I be honest? This Christmas, I'm like, I don't really feel like buying presents. Is that ignorant? I've never done any more than three for my kids ever because I'm like, Jesus only got three. You're not better than Jesus. So you don't get... Look, unless you have more than three Magi coming and, you know, bringing, rewriting history for the Lord, you don't get more than three gifts. And be happy it's not just some spices. You know, those were very expensive during the time. That's like the equivalent of getting like a Tiffany box, okay? So anyway... I'm like, don't expect more than three. But I'm like, I don't like buying things for people just to buy them. And I don't like people buying things for me just to buy it. I hate that. I would rather not receive anything. Unless someone heard me like, oh, say, oh, she really likes... this or that and I'm gonna get it or she needs this I'm gonna get otherwise don't don't waste your don't waste your time with you like I feel like too many people focus on that going into the Christmas season right I think I'm gonna start putting bows on things like the light switches and be like Merry Christmas you got lights you know Merry Christmas you got running water kitchen sink right toilets like yeah put I'm gonna put a bow on each roll of toilet paper Like, Merry Christmas, you have toilet paper. Don't hit me up about how I say it either. Shush up. I literally heard all of, I heard like three people at least out there saying, I'm sorry, what type of paper? Yeah, what was it? It's toilet paper. What? Shut up. Toilet? T-O-E-L-E-T. Tolet. Tolet. Tolet. How am I supposed to say it? Twilet?
SPEAKER 11 :
How do you say foil? Foil. What? You do not say it that way.
SPEAKER 03 :
If I'm paying attention and remember... So when I was a little kid, they put me in speech class because I had too much of a twang. I'm not even kidding with you. And if I really... like go back to my professionalism foil and that sounds so dumb but if i'm just talking it's full i'm not even lying seriously seriously same with like motor oil oil yeah baby oil totally i have to really stop and be like no oil olive oil even olive oil seriously i have to stop and go oh i yell All you people with your syllables, you want more and more of them.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, all of that to say- You need one. That's the- Oh, that's it. The oi part that you need for toilet. That's the long way of getting there.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's toilet paper.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oi, toy. Like, just toy. Can you say toy?
SPEAKER 03 :
Toy?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, toy. A toy-let.
SPEAKER 03 :
That sounds dumb. Toilet. That sounds like a plaything-let.
SPEAKER 11 :
What? That's how it's pronounced. It's toilet. Toilet.
SPEAKER 03 :
Anyway, put a bow on the toilet paper is what I'm going to do. Right? Be like, Merry Christmas with every roll. Every roll is a Christmas miracle. Look. I think that's what I'm, that's the only way my kids are going to get more than three anything. I just, you know, like appreciate, appreciate stuff. All right, we got to get moving. Oh, I'm going to get hate mail.
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Welcome back to the program. Make sure you sign up for the newsletter. I've got some pieces that are kind of in the works. I've been sick this week, so I'm behind a little bit. So I'm trying to get everything out and a couple of pieces that are a little bit longer to work on. I'm trying to get that all out to you. So Just FYI. And make sure you find us on Facebook, too. Today in Stupidity, Cain.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, boy. It is Senator Elizabeth. I am Pocahontas Warren. Laiwatha. Laiwatha. Also known as Laiwatha. This is what she had to say about Pete Hegseth. She doth protest too much. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, thinks that women in the military should not serve in combat. He's accused of raping a woman and buying her silence with an NDA. He went to work events drunk and preyed on his female employees.
SPEAKER 03 :
But there's a difference between being part of combat and then being part of ground combat. And I talked about this yesterday. He has been very specific about it. Democrats, once again, are refusing to be so so that they can insinuate and play the sex card. So stupid. Folks, that does it for us this week. I hope you all stay healthy and happy. Have a wonderful weekend. I will be back behind the mic with you on Monday.
Today on Seculo, explore the multifaceted dynamics of political intrigue in Washington as we discuss the latest challenges facing Tulsi Gabbard amid accusations of being underqualified for a national security role. This episode dives into the historical precedent of using letters signed by political operatives as tools for character assassination. We unpack the opinions of commentators and legal experts on how these actions may backfire. Rick Grinnell provides an in-depth analysis of foreign policy, specifically the delicate situation in Syria. Understand the interplay of international diplomacy and the potential strategies that might be employed under a new administration to restore peace in the region. We examine how foreign policy decisions made by past administrations have long-term effects and what can be done to correct course. Additionally, learn about Gabbard's nonprofit work with 'We Must Protect,' which focuses on filling gaps left by government agencies in times of disaster. From her efforts in North Carolina to those in Maui, see the impactful differences one can make when humanity and service lead the charge in crisis response.
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Today on Seculo, the deep state's latest political target revealed. Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever. This is Seculo. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
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SPEAKER 10 :
that's right we know that they've already come after matt gates and now pete hegseth and now it seems like the deep state's latest target is tulsi gabbard this letter which is logan you mentioned is signed by nearly 100 former national security officials do you remember the last time we had a letter signed by over 100 national security officials when was that oh yeah the hunter biden laptop uh they said this has all the trappings of russian disinformation nothing to interfering in our election don't look at it now we get another letter from national security experts that say Tulsi Gabbard has too close of ties or ideology to Russia why is it that the only thing that these national security experts can do is try to create Russia hoaxes This is another one. We're looking at it and we're not going to stand for it. But it also, like you said, does tell us maybe he's picking the right people. If the deep state is so freaked out that they have to write a letter to John Thune, the majority leader elect, and Chuck Schumer, the current majority leader. really pressuring them to scrutinize her they all but say that she's a russian asset in this they use very diplomatic terms and it makes sense there's many ambassadors and former ambassadors on this list of people but it's led by wendy sherman and we're going to get into some of the parade of horribles of wendy sherman in the next segment because once again When the lead author and the lead signatory on this letter is Wendy Sherman, you have to look at her record and try to figure out, hmm, is this the person you really want to be taking advice from about who should be the director of national intelligence? I say no, and we'll tell you why coming up.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, we'll break that down in the next segment. I mean, if you look at this list of people that signed it, you're probably not going to recognize many of the names. But as we know, pressure does mount in Washington, D.C. So we gotta make sure we stay on top of it and support where we can because it is a little too easy to turn the tide. It's a little too easy. We've seen it already with people getting replaced and things happen. It's a little bit harder to stay true and support your friends. But this is a friend. This is a genuine friend who we've had on this broadcast, like I said, for years. This is somebody that we support and that we've known very well and has been so involved in our broadcast here that it's really sad to see. She actually shared a message on her Instagram. This is not from her. This is someone else who wrote it. They put, this letter from national security leaders is nothing more than a petty character assassination attempt against Tulsi Gabbard because she's a threat against the failed national security status quo. And I could not agree more. I can't stress enough also that we are right now headed towards the middle, which is crazy, of our year end faith and freedom drive. We are facing immense challenges and you're hearing these attacks and they're increasing. And what we raise in December, I just wanna be clear, it makes up a quarter of our annual budget. So just this month, we raise a quarter, 25% of our annual budget, and we are falling behind right now. So we encourage you right now from our goal, Make that donation today. Your gifts are doubled. Donate today. We have another ACLJ supporter, ACLJ champion, ready to unlock their donation at any level. You can do that right now. Go to ACLJ.org or scan the QR code on your screen. Welcome back to Secular. Once again, we're going to take your comments through social media. So if you're watching on YouTube or Rumble, put your comments in or on Facebook. We'll get some of those pulled and we'll try to take some of those on the air a little bit later. We are talking about this letter that was sent to John Thune, basically bashing Tulsi Gabbard, one of our colleagues here, saying that she is not fit to be the new director of national intelligence. You know, I really do want to call out the fact they said that she would be the least experienced person in this. This is someone who has been serving our country for two decades now. who has been actively serving in the military for 20 years, who has been deeply involved in politics, has been one of the top names, has been the vice chair of the Democratic Party, who has done a lot. This is not like someone brand new that they've never heard of. This is not a favor. This is someone who has extreme amounts of actual background in history, so much so that you can really dig in and look into it. Of all the things, that's the one that I go, wow.
SPEAKER 10 :
Why are we playing that card? That's right. And I want to go into Wendy Sherman for a little bit.
SPEAKER 04 :
To clarify, Wendy Sherman is like the lead writer of this letter.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, she is the top name on here, honestly, compared to the Hunter Biden laptop national security letter. That had a lot more... recognizable names on it this most of them not really known except for Wendy Sherman and even to many of you listening you may be like I've heard that name who is Wendy Sherman I don't even really let you know Wendy Sherman served under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry as undersecretary of state for political affairs in that role from 2011 to 2015 So she is a creature of the deep state. She also worked under the Clinton administration. She's a longtime swamp creature that has been in D.C. pushing Democrat foreign policy at the State Department for decades. Now, she was the lead negotiator for the Obama Iran nuclear deal. That should tell you a lot. Maybe that's why she doesn't like someone like Tulsi Gabbard. Joe Biden nominated her to serve as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, so she serves as the deputy to Anthony Blinken. Now, we also have a lot of writing on ACLJ.org about Wendy Sherman because a lot of things pop up in our FOIA request, in our work, where her name is littered through the documents we find. One specifically, Rick wrote a piece about the failed Afghanistan withdrawal, calling out her and Anthony Blinken. for effectively doing nothing to push back against the Biden plan to abandon the air base, abandon the area as the Taliban was closing in. And actually, Rick was calling on congressional committees to require Blinken and Sherman to answer why they allowed their employees to be stranded in a hostile zone. They weren't prepared for that. So her fingerprints are all over that Afghanistan withdrawal and many of the public servants and the Foreign Service of the United States that were stranded there. She also, we uncovered that she knew that the State Department was funding an organization run by Mahmoud Abbas's son of the Palestinian Authority. that was interfering in the Israeli elections. So our State Department was funding this NGO that had a benign name, one voice, that was trying to do humanitarian work, but what we knew was it was Mahmoud Abbas's son, And they were actually buying ads and doing things to interfere with Bibi Netanyahu being reelected as prime minister. This is also under the Obama administration. We uncovered documents that she was on email chains that knew that this was going on, even though the State Department told Congress they had no idea this was going on. So she is a swamp creature. She is not a friend of conservative foreign policy, America first foreign policy. She very much is a globalist and has that mindset of appeasement to many of these people. And just the fact even the Iran nuclear deals chief negotiator alone should tell you, one, why she's maybe afraid of someone like Tulsi Gabbard getting in there and disrupting The the intelligence state that spies on Americans, that enables the military industrial complex. Yeah, I would probably say Wendy Sherman wouldn't like that. But that's exactly why Tulsi Gabbard should be the next DNI.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely. When you look at that list and you see those names, sure, you may not recognize them. And what I want to make sure is clear, though, is they can make waves. They can make news. We have to take this seriously. It's easy to kind of laugh off people like this when you look at who's on that list. And clearly they're not going to be any friend of any conservative, but they're going to specifically go after ones that they feel like they have an opportunity to take down. And we have to make sure we stay vigilant on that because it's easy to kind of turn the tide. You turn a few people against them, all of a sudden you're having to adjust who's in this cabinet.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that's right. And it should come as no surprise to our audience that one, I mean, you have to get at least 50 senators because J.D. Vance would cause the tie-breaking votes. You can only lose three Republicans for any given nominee. Now, There are still many Republican senators that are more neocon leaning, more hawkish is another way you can put it, towards our foreign policy. Tulsi Gabbard is kind of a refreshing turn away from many of those ideologies. And that's where the concern could be. If more people like Wendy Sherman push this and try to influence some of the more establishment hawkish Republicans, you could end up having a real fight.
SPEAKER 04 :
But we can't let that happen. Right. And early in this letter, they try to try to make it less partisan. They actually do. And again, sort of insulting to Tulsi Gabbard and her history. It starts with we welcome the intention to nominate Senator Marco Rubio, an experienced public servant for secretary of state, however. We are alarmed by the announcement that the president-elect intends to nominate Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence. So they're trying to sway you a little bit already in the first part, being like, oh, we'll give you Marco Rubio. But this Tulsi person, we need to back off.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know what the swampiest line of this letter to me is, is that down towards the end of it, it's it talks about you already mentioned they'd say she'd be the least experienced director of national intelligence. That's also ignoring that she was working in currently still served in an intelligence role within the Army Reserves. But it says prior directors had executive branch experience working on intelligence matters or served on a congressional intelligence committee. So they're saying an elected member of Congress that works on an Intel committee someone that would be very much inside an establishment would be much better at this role. Because you know why? They feel like they can control those people.
SPEAKER 04 :
They control them, right, of course.
SPEAKER 10 :
Exactly. They don't feel like they can control Tulsi, and that's exactly what terrifies them about her being in this role.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's what's put together when they say, like, the Avengers that were assembled, when you have a Tulsi Gabbard and an RFK Jr. and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, you have that group of people that are traditional outsiders. that are not the commonplace Washington people. And we know when they get into those positions, there's either two ways they can go. They can either stick to their guns and make a lot of people mad. You have to be strong in Washington, D.C. to not fall for all of that. It is not easy. Because the entire system, look, we saw some of the issues with the first Trump presidency. When you don't know that system, Things can go wrong. You can pick people that are not the best for the job because you're trying to take advice from people who don't have your best interest at heart or they have just their interest at heart and they don't want to see this change because they're very happy. They're very happy with how they've been living and the whole situation in Washington, D.C. when we know how it actually relates to normal human beings and you have people that are going in wanting to shake things up. Sure, do I think there's going to be controversial moments that come out of Tulsi Gabbard as the DNI or RFK Jr. in his position? Yeah. Is it going to make everyone comfortable all the time? Absolutely not. But good. That's what we need right now. Something actually new and refreshing. There was a referendum vote that said we don't like the way the country is headed. So if you don't like the way the country is headed, we're putting in charge people who are new and fresh and exciting.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, yesterday, Speaker Johnson gave a statistic, and I think this plays into this whole thing about kind of where our government currently is broken in many ways. And we've talked about that statistic that people throw around that only 17 percent of the federal workforce reports regularly to the office. And Speaker Johnson revealed that it's actually probably closer to 1% to 6% of the workforce because what makes up the bulk of that 17% are either security or maintenance of the building workers. So not even the people necessarily doing the government work, just the people maintaining the offices themselves make up the vast majority. So when you look at that and then you think, About how many people just want status quo, how bloated some of these bureaucracies are, especially even in our intelligence agencies. And then you start to wonder if only one to six percent of them are showing up to work. Yeah, that should scare these people because change is coming.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And later on in the broadcast, I'm going to show you a segment from our ACLJ film special for the love of God. Save our country with Tulsi Gabbard. She did some amazing work. with hurricane relief. And I think it's important to see the character of these people that they're going after. They're talking about character assassination. We'll look for the people that are actually standing up and doing something about it. So we're going to play that much later in the show, you know, towards the very end. So stay tuned for that. Coming up next, Harry Hutchinson's going to be joining us and Rick Grinnell will be joining us a few segments later. But right now, again, I'm going to tell you, support the work of the ACLJ. I can't tell you how important it is right now as we head into the end of the year. As we said, I mean, it is not, I'm not overselling it, this is the most important month for fundraising this is our biggest month of fundraising it needs to be at least because it sets our entire budget 25 of our annual budget comes in in december be a part of that help set the standard right now as we take on the deep state as we take on a supportive life and we defend israel If your support matters so much, be a part of this faith and freedom year-end drive right now at ACLJ.org. Welcome back to Secular. Just a reminder, if you keep calling in, you're not going to be able to get through because our phone lines are down currently. So if you have a question or comment, throw it in the chat on YouTube or on Rumble or on Facebook, and we'll do our best to get to some of those comments later in the broadcast. Maybe one of the most bizarre turns, the unsung hero of the left, John Fetterman, who, of course, you remember years ago was sort of becoming a big issue when he was running against Dr. Oz and the whole thing that was happening, and he had his medical issues. now has become one of the most uh coherent members of the democratic party in a number of years he has become someone who is uh standing up and look there are times where obviously you're going to disagree with him on most political decisions but he does seem to shoot pretty straight in terms of when he talks about political corruption he's obviously been a big supporter of israel and And he's not letting party control his messaging. And we have seen this now with the statement he made yesterday about Elon Musk saying, oh, yeah, he's a smart guy. He's someone that I don't care if he's on the other side of the other team. I'm going to hope to work with him. He's done so much good for us, SpaceX and Tesla. And which is like the worst thing you can say right now for the left, because they obviously made Elon into the boogeyman. But he also stepped on the view.
SPEAKER 10 :
right just yesterday yeah so john fetterman senator from pennsylvania was on the view and they were asking him his thoughts on president biden's pardon of his son hunter and he gives a statement but then takes it further in a way that i don't think the hosts of the view were expecting let's go ahead and play by two for everyone
SPEAKER 01 :
It is his son, after all, and people do have sympathy for that, but a lot of people are angry with him about it. What do you say?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think it's undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really politically motivated. But I also think it's true that the trial in New York for Trump, that was political as well, too. And in both cases, I think a pardon is appropriate. And I really think collectively, you know, America's confidence in these kinds of institutions have been damaged by these kinds of cases. And we cannot allow these kinds of institutions to be weaponized against our political opponents. And it's very clear both trials were politically motivated and weaponized that on the other side.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, talk about a strong statement coming out of John Fetterman, really selling the points that many of us have been saying for years, that these are all politically motivated. You may agree or disagree with the Hunter Biden pardon, but he at least says if you're going to say that this was politically motivated, you can't ignore the President Trump's situation. Harry Hutchinson is joining us. I want to get your feedback.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think your preliminary analysis is absolutely dead on. Fetterman offers an example of supreme coherence. So if you actually look at the facts, if you look at the prosecutions of Donald Trump, from the New York City civil trial where there were zero victims. If you look at the trumped up charges brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, where again, no one was harmed, no federal violation was proved, but yet he was convicted. If you look at the Jack Smith trial in Florida, you look at the Jack Smith indictment in Washington DC, and if you look at Fannie Willis's case brought in Georgia, It is all trumped up, if you will, but at the end of the day it has backfired and now it has begun to backfire even more because you have individuals like Fetterman, Bill Clinton, who are suggesting that we need to stop the weaponization of the political system and we need to return to political debate. without bringing judges, lawyers, and basically federal agents involved. So I think this makes a ton of sense. And who would have thought that Fetterman would be an example of coherence 18 months, two years ago? No. And he's so much more coherent than the people who basically populate the view, who basically contradict themselves day after day and make zero sense. And I hope the show disappears.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think there's a lot of people who feel that way and including a lot of former hosts some of which I know who feel like that that has become I mean no and the numbers are dwindling they're not doing as well as they used to but a lot of people watch now they kind of hate watch it which is always kind of fun but when you have a situation like John Fetterman who comes out I think this is very good for America. It's very good to have people on the other side so it doesn't always feel like some sort of political hit job from one side or the other. When you look at that letter that came for Tulsi Gabbard, when you look at who signs it, you're like, yeah, of course, this is all politically motivated. So when you have moments, whether that's a John Fetterman or a Jared Moskowitz or any of these people who are willing to reach across the aisle, even if they disagree and just be common sense politicians, if you will. It's a breath of fresh air and it's something that we all need. We could use a little common sense even on the other side.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and what's so funny is that, you know, this is seen as reaching across the aisle when in reality it's just him not demonizing everything one side does or calling it like it is when it's like it's political on both sides. Like even with his comment on Elon Musk, he said just because he's on a different team doesn't make him my enemy. Right. That is so far removed from the entire discourse of the American politic right now that it sounds weird to hear it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think he's smart enough to know that that's a big reason why they lost. Yeah. It's a big reason why there was a referendum vote where people said, you know what? We're not going to do that. We're not demonizing half the country. And we also know that some of these extreme state things that people are saying doesn't represent mainstream Democrats even. It really only represents the online feedback from social media, the loud voice that is really not very big at all.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I do want to ask Professor Hutchison here right at the end, because you brought up the Fannie Willis case in Georgia. There has been a move by the president's attorneys to have that case dismissed. They filed a motion to dismiss now that he has won. What do you think will happen there? And do you think we'll hear anything out of that district court judge soon?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I'm not sure about the district court, but I really believe that the Court of Appeals will gradually move toward dismissing all of the charges. Secondarily, I would point out that the district court judge may have an opportunity to review his judgment. I hope he will, because he suggested that Fannie Willis's case brought against Donald Trump was in fact Infected by what? The odor of mendacity and the appearance of impropriety. I would argue it was actually infected by impropriety. She profited from this case because she earned money, quote unquote, from her boyfriend. And so I think at the end of the day, all of these cases should disappear, and we should move forward, and we should focus on political debate as opposed to legal debate.
SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 09 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. Second half hour coming up right now. I'm going to encourage you to support the work of the ACLJ during this Faith and Freedom year in drive. For those just kicking off the show, I encourage you to support the work. This is a great time to do it. 25% of our annual budget comes from the month of December. And we can't do that without you. We can't have incredible guests on. We can't have the best legal team, the best media team. without you so support the work of the aclj you can scan that qr code if you're watching right now and you're going to hear this through the month of december because it's a very important time probably the most important time for the organization so i encourage you right now and you're going to hear more about some of the work the aclj is doing a bit later in the broadcast if you're just watching you just tuned in you just clicked over on youtube or rumble you may have seen that headline of who the latest political target is and of course happens to be one of our friends one of the friends of the show of our colleagues on this broadcast and that of course is tulsi gabbard who has been up for the new director of national intelligence we're going to be joined in the next segment by former director of national intelligence rick grinnell who's going to be breaking down a lot of different things including that support from john fetterman and some of the news coming out of syria but will We should give people a breakdown. This letter came in. If you're just now tuning in this letter, I'm holding it up. Are you seeing it on the screen right now with over 100 or nearly 100 signatures of people you've never heard of saying this Tulsi Gabbard person is inexperienced. Let's forget about her 20 years of military service. Let's forget about her time serving our country is insane.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right. So nearly 100 signatures. A lot of people with the title ambassador. It doesn't specify for most of them which country they were ambassador to, but all of them retired. And then the real one name that sticks out is Wendy Sherman, as we talked about earlier. She is a deep state swamp monster that has been around since the Clinton presidency, but really rose to power within the Obama administration when she was the lead negotiator on that failed, flawed Iranian nuclear deal, which gave away billions to the Iranians and allowed them to really build up to what we saw even with October 7th. The chaos that is happening in the Middle East right now can be traced back to the Iranians getting relief from sanctions and pallets of cash from the Obama administration. Now, they were faced with the very forceful sanctions and no nonsense from the Trump administration, but when Joe Biden was in power, and the weakness returned. You saw things like October 7th happen. You see the civil war, which was mainly dormant in the Syrian nation of Syria, which is a failed state has revived. You're seeing Hezbollah attacking Israel. So all the chaos can be traced back to people like Wendy Sherman, whose policies were so failed and reckless That it led to this. And that's who's the lead author and top signature on this letter trying to push Tulsi Gabbard aside and trying to get the Senate just to do their job, give good advice, reject this candidate. Really, it's the kind of Washington thing that disgusts you. It's what America voted against. This is not some allegation that they dug up of impropriety or anything of that nature. They're just saying she's not qualified. She's inexperienced. She wasn't on a congressional committee on intelligence. So how dare you put her forward?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and I'm sorry that we're disregarding a list of 100 people, including, like you said, a bunch of no-name people we've never heard of. Right. A few ambassadors on there, a lot of retired ambassadors. And as Darth Vader once said, this is a consulship. Where are the ambassadors? Right. So this is the message I want to send to you right now. We have to support people like Tulsi Gabbard who have come up and are changing things and are making things new. And again, she was part of our team for a number of years. You've heard her on here. You've seen her character. But this is what they call a character assassination attempt. Later on in the broadcast, you're here for Rick Grinnell next. And in the end, I'm going to show you some of the incredible work that she's doing when the government doesn't. when humanitarian aid is needed. And you're going to see that. It's a segment from our special, For the Love of God, Save Our Country, which is available now on all of our YouTube channel. On Rumble, you can find it all there, our ACLJ films. So take a look at that. Coming up later, Rick Grinnell is going to be joining us in just a few minutes. We're going to talk, as Will said, a little bit more, get you educated here on the Syrian Civil War and so much more. Support the work of the ACLJ as you can. Right now, it's a great time to do it. Got a couple minutes till we're back. So make your donation during the break. Welcome back to Seculo. Rick Grinnell is joining us via phone. We're going to have him on in here in just a second. And Will, we were talking about in the last segment, sort of the brewing return to the Syrian civil war. That's right.
SPEAKER 10 :
And what we've seen is something, Rick, that was mostly dormant for the last handful of years in Syria. But now in recent days, we're seeing that civil war ratchet back up. Rick, what's currently happening in Syria as the rebel groups target the overthrow of Assad?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, you know, I've been watching this, Will, for decades from my time inside the UN Security Council watching the chaos in Syria. It's really a sad situation. And I think as most people know, Bashar al-Assad is the leader in Syria. And even the United Nations has said that he gassed his people multiple times. He's committed very grave human rights abuses. And yet he's been able to stay. And he's been able to stay as the leader. I think it's a failure of the region to deal with Assad. The Russians have gone into Syria and they control a lot of what's going on in the protected Assad. You've got the Iranians who have been all over the Syrian capital and other parts of Syria. You've got the Turks, which border Syria, very concerned about the humanitarian crisis over the last many years. And I do believe that what's happening there with the rebels against the Assad regime rising up and taking territory. I believe that they did this because they saw that Donald Trump was coming in and Donald Trump prioritizes peace. And he tends to go into situations and calm the situation down and take control. And he does this in a very peaceful way, not in the past where the United States has sent in troops, but to actually use diplomacy and leadership and talking to individuals. And so I think that all the players, the Turks who are our NATO allies since 1952, the Russians who we've had really difficult relations with because of Ukraine over the last several years, the Iranians who we've had incredibly difficult relations with, I think everyone now realizes that with Trump coming back, Donald Trump coming back into the White House, that Syria is going to be a focus and we're going to try to calm the situation down. So I think the rebels have launched an attack. We don't know exactly where Assad is. Is he actually still in power? Is he still in the country? I think there's differing reports. The Russians this morning... were fighting back a little bit, which has surprised some people that they have the ability to fight back, but they've been bombing some parts to help the Assad regime. So there's a lot of chaos going on. And I think the United States needs to use its diplomatic pressure, its leadership to make sure that we try to calm the situation down and find some solutions. I would argue using Turkey, our NATO ally, as one of the leaders in this region right now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Rick, I think one of the big questions that probably our audience has or people maybe are just tuning in who never heard us before is why does this impact us? Why does this impact America? Why do we really care what's going on? From a global perspective and someone who's been there and has been a part of this for a number of years, Rick, I know that you probably can explain that a little bit better of how all of this, the chaos in the Middle East, how it can really impact what's going on in our own country. And to follow that up, how does these new developments that are happening right now, whether it's in Syria or whether any of the things you went over, affect an incoming Trump administration?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, those are great questions. And I would say a couple of things. First of all, we have many Syrian Americans who live in Michigan and other places that care deeply about this. So that's one reason to care. Two, we've got a lot of U.S. troops in the region. We have troops in Syria. So we have to make sure that we're protecting our troops. We have allies in the region, certainly Israel. And we are, as a country, focused on the problems inside Iran. Iran wants to destroy America and wants to destroy Israel. It's the number one funder of terrorism around the world. Certainly, we have been impacted by the Iranian terror. And the regime inside Iran is a brutal regime that systematically denies women their rights, gay people, their rights. It's a brutal regime. And we have a lot of Iranian Americans who care very deeply about what's going on. So I think in summary, it's for the protection of our people, certainly national security issues. We know that the Iranians have targeted us. The Iranians have tried to make killing Donald Trump a priority. And so we've got to deal with this regime. And this regime is all over Syria and has had protections in Syria. Isolating Iran, pushing them out of Syria should always be an issue. And lastly, let me just say, I am clear-eyed about making sure that America doesn't send troops and we don't use American money. We have to use our power to get others in the region to step up and to find the solutions. We are the only country that can call together a meeting and mandate that everybody do their part. And that's the power of peaceful diplomacy that Donald Trump has been very good at doing.
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Rick, I want to bring up, because you mentioned all of the players that are kind of on the periphery of this conflict that has been going on for a long time now. But I mean, you mentioned Turkey, you mentioned Russia, you mentioned the Iranians. And it almost seems like this conflict, which is boiling up at the end of the once again, at the end of the Biden administration, after the failed Obama red line and all of the things that kind of created this snowball effect. It seems that this is almost the perfect melting pot of all the conflicts that have heated up because of the failed foreign policy of President Biden. And whenever that happens and there's all these touch points that the Americans have interest in, the concern with the type of foreign policy that came before is that leads to the Americans getting into war. You mentioned you're clear-eyed about not wanting boots on the ground from America. Yeah. That's also what I think the American people mandated with this last election. But you see people like Wendy Sherman that are trying to weigh back in and try to force her views on Trump cabinet picks now by sending letters to Senator Thune and Senator Schumer. Is it time to turn the page on that foreign policy that has led to such disastrous results around the world?
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Yeah, let's be very clear-eyed about Wendy Sherman. Wendy Sherman has been at the forefront of most every single failed foreign policy that we've had. Her reputation is called What Do You Want, Wendy? Because when she goes into negotiations, she gives everything away. She's been duped by North Korea. She's been duped by Iran one too many times. She is literally the symbol of weak foreign policy. She helped create this global chaos, and then she left the State Department. Wendy Sherman should be completely dismissed from American foreign policy. She's proven to be a failure and a weak negotiator over and over. She's made us less safe. So that should be the end of the Wendy Sherman tenure. The reality is, is that unless you have tough diplomats and a State Department that's willing to do diplomacy— you have the situation in Washington where the Pentagon and all of the individuals who believe in power tend to be the ones who drive the solutions. And so I think that it's important for President Trump to have a very tough senior diplomat who's talking about all of the peaceful solutions. At the same time, I recognize you've got to have a very prepared Pentagon But what I would say to Marco Rubio, what I would say to Michael Waltz and to Pete Hegseth, you must give the president peaceful options, not just military options. I'm very concerned about that, and I will be very vocal about that. We can do sanctions. We can do isolation. Tariffs are another peaceful way. There are tools here, and I'm confident that Donald Trump will be looking for those peaceful tools.
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Rick, thank you so much for joining us. Your insight's obviously incredibly important and we appreciate all the work you've done here with us over the last few years. And again, your expertise is so incredible. You've a way of making it easy to understand for a lot of our audience and for myself even. So first I just want to say, thank you and we couldn't have people like rick grinnell on this broadcast as part of the aclj team without your support and you may say logan you've been doing these pitches i'm gonna keep doing it because it's the month of december 25 of our budget comes in just in the month of december for the year so we need your support right now i'm gonna encourage you To take a moment, scan the QR code or go to ACLJ.org because all gifts are doubled today, by the way, and tax deductible. Have your gifts doubled. That's right. There's another ACLJ supporter or ACLJ champion ready to match your donation. Have your gift doubled and our faith and freedom year-end drive right now. And if you're able, become an ACLJ champion. That is someone that gives on an automatic recurring basis. You can do that. You just opt right in at ACLJ.org or ACLJ.org slash ACLJ. champions we'll be back in the next segment again as they go after tulsi gabbard your character assassination of someone of our team you're going to see the real work that she is doing for the american people to secular i told you before i wanted to get right to it if you want to see sort of the character that someone like tulsi gabbard is and who she is and what she does for the american people even when she doesn't have to take a look at this from our special for the love of god save our country
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I made a choice early on in my life that I would dedicate my life in service to God, do my best to love God and to serve God. And really, what better way to be pleasing to God than to be of service to God's children? That's taken me in a lot of different directions. I served in Congress representing Hawaii's second district for eight years. I was a Democratic candidate for president in 2020. I currently serve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve and a battalion commander. I started this nonprofit called We Must Protect. Really, it's kind of based on what I think are some of the warrior ethos of being protectors and how it's up to us as people to look out for each other. And it exists to help bridge that gap in the failures of government to respond to the immediate and emergency needs of the people. There are a lot of different awesome organizations that are out there. A space that I think we've been able to fill in the wake of some of these extreme disasters is to be able to connect directly with people on the ground and their neighbors and friends who are helping them and immediately mobilize the resources to get them what they need. But a lot of the issues that people have in the wake of these major disasters have to do with infrastructure, has to do with access to power. Perhaps you've got destroyed roads or roads that are blocked that make it so people can't get in and out in order to get the supplies and the basic needs that they have met. Water is essential to all life. Government institutions have a responsibility to make sure that that access to water exists. These are some of the most fundamental needs in the wake of a major disaster. Obviously, there are longer-term needs like this, like we saw in Lahaina on Maui and West Maui, as we've seen in the wake of Hurricane Helene and Milton. When you have homes and communities that are destroyed, the government uniquely has a capability to be able to deploy resources, whether they be military resources or government resources, to get water filtration systems out, to be able to get temporary shelter out, to be able to meet these extreme emergency needs in a way that perhaps most nonprofits simply lack the capability to do. There's not one single right answer to this. The fundamental need is we have leaders at every level who have a responsibility to be prepared in the event of these disasters occurring and to care enough to mobilize all available resources immediately to meet the needs of the people. I activated my nonprofit, We Must Protect, and really mobilized it in response to the tragic and historic fires that occurred on Maui. It was something that none of us had ever seen before. So many lost their lives. We saw homes, businesses, an entire community razed to the ground in just minutes. So we issued a call for help and a call for support. The needs that people had in the west side of Maui were basic but essential, and they were not being met by government institutions. I went there to the west side of Maui just a couple of days after the fire. And it was shocking to me to see how many people were still without communications capabilities, were still without power, without clean water in some cases, without access to food. They couldn't get out to the other side of the island in order to get the resources that they need. And so immediately we kicked into gear and started to deliver specific things that these residents needed and asked for bridging that gap between the failure in the government response at every level and meeting the needs of our neighbors and our friends.
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The devastation from Helene spread across the South.
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Yes, North Carolina was hit with flooding it hasn't seen in a century. Some calling it biblical.
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Countless residents stranded crews and neighbors going door to door to help the most vulnerable. Many residents growing desperate cell service and portable water out for days just touched down.
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We were able to get on a helicopter so we could get a bird's eye view of the Lake Lure and Chimney Rock area. This is the whole team right here for the town. It's hard to put into words what that devastation is and what it's going to take for them to even begin to start thinking about rebuilding. It's going to be a long road ahead.
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So this is the operation. We're so fortunate to be so loved by everybody. We haven't had a natural disaster like this in Western North Carolina. very long time so the outpouring is amazing and as you can see volunteers galore and it's just you know so heartfelt.
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But anything you can do to keep us alive. We need help building this road back. We need a big retaining wall. We need the park reopened. We need this road all the way up. That's the kind of help we need. We got chainsaws. We got water. We need structures.
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Getting out there into the mountains of Western North Carolina a few days after Hurricane Helene swept through left me speechless and heartbroken. To go and literally have boots on the ground, walking through some of these small towns and small communities who've lost everything. and to see how they were doing their best as neighbors, as friends, as volunteer firefighters to not even begin to put the pieces back together because the devastation was so extreme that the next steps were hard to comprehend. It reminded me a lot of what we saw in the wake of the fires on Maui, where one of the biggest concerns was, yes, there were very immediate needs that they had, everything from chainsaws to generators to, you know, fuel and propane tanks, water filtration systems. But the road is long. They recognize that and we recognize that. On Maui, it's been over a year and no one's been able to even begin to start to rebuild their homes yet. And the number one thing that I heard from people there in Western North Carolina was very similar to what I heard from the people on Maui, which was don't forget about us. In every one of these cases, they asked, please don't forget about us because they know very well that as the headlines move on, unfortunately too often they are forgotten about. It's the most beautiful thing to see in the midst of such tragedy and death and destruction, to see how our fellow Americans stand up and step up for each other. Even people who have lost everything, and I saw this on Maui, I saw it in Western North Carolina, even people who lost everything, their vehicle, their home, they have nothing but the clothes on their back. are picking up shovels and moving debris. They are helping those who are in need even though they themselves are in extreme need. And how each of us, in whatever small or large way that we can, also do the same to extend those blessings, to do our best to be of service to others, especially during these times of dire need.
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So that is Tulsi Gabbard from our special For the Love of God, Save Our Country, which is available on ACLJ Films, ACLJFilms.com. I want to encourage you to look at that. That's the true character of what they're going after. That's the person they're saying is unfit for this job. And you see what she did, even when not called upon, even when the government doesn't say you got to go help. She was there to help. So obviously we are in support of our friend Tulsi Gabbard. Again, this is the end of our broadcast for today. And we are in our Faith and Freedom year-end drive. If you like the show we do here, if you like the media we put out, if you like the legal work of the ACLJ, we encourage you to support the work right now. ACLJ.org or become an ACLJ champion. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
On today's program, hosted by Jody Hice: Chip Roy, U.S. Representative for the 21st District of Texas, gives an update on the latest regarding the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the "Draft our Daughters" provision within the Senate
Welcome to the Kim Munson Show where we dive into the most pressing topics and ideate solutions that can make a difference. This episode starts with a reflective dialogue about prudence, one of the key classical virtues, and its role in contemporary decision-making. As we weave through historical narratives, from Medal of Honor stories to key political actions like President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem, we rediscover the power of making informed and principled decisions. Join on this journey with Kim and Brad Beck as we explore the essence of ideas that shape our world, emphasizing lifelong learning and the courage to ask why.
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It's the Kim Munson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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An early childhood taxing district? What on earth is that?
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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I don't think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can't understand that.
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Today's current opinions and ideas.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment. And thank you to the team that I get to work with. That is Producer Joe, Producer Luke, Zach, Echo Charlie, all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting, Mike, Teresa, don't want to forget anybody. And happy Friday. And it was the Crawford Christmas party last night, Producer Joe.
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Yes, ma'am. And it was fun as all get out.
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And the food was delicious and the company was great. And yeah, it was just great. So here we are in the Christmas season.
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Yes, ma'am. And it came way too fast.
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I know. I guess we're actually in Advent right now. And you and I are going to have a discussion about we're going to get some guests to talk about all these different holidays. So.
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And I'm really excited for it.
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Yeah, it's going to be good, Joe. It's going to be good. And it is good because it is a Brad Beck Friday. Brad Beck, welcome.
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Well, thank you, Kim. And Shabbat Shalom to all my friends who are Jewish. And it's great to be alive and be in Colorado.
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Well, it is. And we are at the tip of the spear here in Colorado. Question, because Joe and I were talking about this. I don't really understand all the phases of the moon. And so I think for Christmas week, we're going to find an expert regarding the moon. But Hanukkah, isn't that based on the moon?
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Well, the whole Jewish calendar is lunar-based. And this year, the first night of Hanukkah, which is always the night before the day, is on Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day, actually. So on the 25th, they're both at the same time this year.
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That's interesting. Sometimes Hanukkah's earlier, isn't it?
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Yeah, usually it's early to mid-December. Sometimes it's in November, end of November. Sometimes it's later. but it really is a lunar holiday as all Jewish holidays are.
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Okay. Well, we're going to do a show on this. That'd be interesting. Yes. I'm sure that I learned it in school, but that was a long time ago.
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Well, you're a lifelong learner like me, so it's always good to hear new information.
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Yeah, that's what I thought. So we're going to take a look at that. The show comes to you because of our sponsors and really appreciate the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show for all these years. And it is because of our sponsors that our independent voice is on the air. So again, thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. Our word of the day is in the spirit of Toastmasters. I've copied this from Toastmasters. A word of the day is prudent. And it's spelled P-R-U-D-E-N-T. And it's an adjective. It could be careful or wise in handling practical manners. exercising good judgment or common sense. Number two, characterized by or resulting from care or wisdom in practical matters or in planning for the future. And number three, sagacious in adapting means to ends, circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct, practically wise, judicious, careful, discreet, sensible, opposed to rash, dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought, evincing prudence. So I thought prudent would be a very good word of the day today.
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It's a prudent word, and it also is one of the four classical virtues, along with temperance and fortitude, which is courage, and justice, to be fair. It's one of those four, and it's the base of wisdom. And so people like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and all the great founders were people of prudence, great wisdom.
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And that's something we need to strive for in our conversations, in the decisions that we're making. So your challenge today is to use the word prudent in a sentence. That should not be very difficult. Our quote of the day, it is Friday. So that is our Medal of Honor quote day from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. which is a great gift. I have all these gift ideas. This is a great gift idea. And it's a book beautifully done with quotes from many of our Medal of Honor recipients. It's inspiring and would highly recommend that you have that at home and give it as a gift. But this is from Robert F. Foley, United States Army Medal of Honor. And this is for actions on November 5, 1966. And this is his citation. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, Captain Foley's company was ordered to extricate another company of the battalion. Moving through the dense jungle to aid the besieged unit, Company A encountered a strong enemy force occupying well-concealed defensive positions and the company's leading element quickly sustained several casualties. Captain Foley immediately ran forward to the scene of the most intense action to direct the company's efforts. Deploying one platoon on the flank, he led the other two platoons in an attack on the enemy in the face of intense fire. During this action, both radio operators accompanying him were wounded. At grave risk to himself, he defied the enemy's murderous fire and helped the wounded operators to a position where they could receive medical care. As he moved forward again, one of his machine gun crews was wounded. Seizing the weapon, he charged forward, firing the machine gun, shouting orders and rallying his men, thus maintaining the momentum of the attack. Under increasingly heavy enemy fire, this goes on, it's hard to believe. Under increasingly heavy enemy fire, he ordered his assistant to take cover and alone. Captain Foley continued to advance firing the machine gun until the wounded had been evacuated and the attack in this area could be resumed. When movement on the other flank was halted by the enemy's fanatical defense, Captain Foley moved to personally direct his critical phase of the battle. Leading the renewed effort, he was blown off his feet and wounded by an enemy grenade. Despite his painful wounds, he refused medical aid and persevered in the forefront of the attack on the enemy redoubt. He led the assault on several enemy gun emplacements and single-handedly destroyed three such positions. His outstanding personal leadership under intense enemy fire during the fierce battle, which lasted for several hours, inspired his men to heroic efforts and was instrumental in the ultimate success of the operation. Captain Foley's magnificent courage, selfless concern for his men, and professional skill reflect the utmost credit upon himself and the U.S. Army. What do you think of that, Brad Beck?
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Well, the first thing I would say to him and all our Vietnam veterans is welcome home because they didn't get that. The biggest travesty of those who served that during that time was that they were demonized. And it's a shame because they were there protecting liberty and freedom, right or wrong with that war. But whenever I see somebody who's wearing a Vietnam veteran hat, I always go up to them and say, welcome home.
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And it's just sometimes you see tears in their eyes, right?
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Yeah, it's it's a major thing. So all I have to say is welcome home, gentlemen.
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And yes, and Robert Foley was born in 1941. And this is his quote. It says, if our actions are motivated by duty, honor, country, we can promote goodness to achieve greatness.
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That's beautiful.
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I love it.
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I love it. Okay. Let's see. This day in history. 1196, there was a weather event a long time ago. Climate change. Northern Dutch coast was flooded in the St. Nicholas flood.
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I wonder if they had a run on bananas. Like we do in Colorado. Who knows? Every time they say it's going to snow.
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It took me a while on that. In 1240, the Mongols, led by Butu Khan, occupy and destroy Kiev. After an eight-day siege, out of 50,000 people in the city, only 2,000 survived.
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Well, you know, that part of the world has been war torn since, you know, mankind has been around in that area. And so you can understand why the conflict has been ongoing. It really hasn't ceased.
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It hasn't. And same with the Middle East as well. So next one, I normally try to choose five. In 1849, Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the second and final time.
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Can you imagine being an individual that not only escaped but went back?
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Yeah.
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She went back to free other people, to show them the way. Miraculous.
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Pretty remarkable. Let's see, 1865 then. The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery except as a punishment for crime where the party has been duly convicted. Okay. Brad, do you remember this was... I wasn't around during November.
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Not during November. When you say remember.
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So I started to do these voters guides, I think in 2015 or 16. And there was a question on the ballot that said that... people that were in prison that had been duly convicted that they did not have to do different work because it was considered slavery and when i read this i i thought huh that is so interesting they said that if they had been you know punishment for a crime then when they're doing their time they could do work and anyway i thought that was interesting that the way the wording on that are you following me on that yeah i am and you know there's
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There's physical slavery, when somebody is taken and forced to or coerced to work. There's also intellectual slavery. And I think that's what a lot of us are suffering under, being in a prison or a silo because we're so indoctrinated. And over the holiday, of course, Thanksgiving just happened, and there's a lot of siloed thinking out there. And I would say they were chained or slaves to a certain philosophy. Mm-hmm. Having conversations with family members in a delicate way to get them to think differently is always a challenge.
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It takes real energy to engage in these battle of ideas without all the vitriol. It takes work, but it's worth it. So we have to continue on. In 1877, Thomas Edison enters the offices of Scientific American. Did you see that? That's back when Scientific American was a respected periodical. Because the most recent, I think, editor had, after Donald Trump's election, had put some very nasty things out. And I think she resigned. Anyway, 1877, Scientific American. He turns the crank on his cylinder phonograph, astonishing those present with the recording. Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the phonograph? Creativity. And then 2017, I did six headlines. U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, announcing plans to move the U.S. embassy there. There were lots of people that talked, talked, talked, talked, talked about it, but he did it.
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You know, it's an amazing thing that he did that because he followed through on a promise. And I've looked at what he has said and what he has done, and I, you know, There is a formula, I believe. When I was talking to Larry Reed recently when I hosted the show, I defined, as Larry talks about character all the time, it's your choices plus your actions equal your character. And regardless of many of the bad decisions President Trump and President-elect Trump has made in the past, He made some very good choices, and one of them was following through on putting our embassy there and saying, look, here is something that we need to do, and others have talked about it, but he did it. And there's so many things that he should be rewarded for, as the Nobel Peace Prize, as an example, for bringing together different types of folks who disagreed for so long and now disagreeing. recognize the right of their states to be sovereign. And that's an amazing thing.
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It is an amazing thing. And with this Biden-Harris on their way out administration, it's a dangerous time from a financial standpoint, all the money that they're pushing out, but also looks like trying to get us into World War III. And so I got to think that Donald Trump has had a conversation with both Putin and Zelensky and said, let's not let this get too out of hand. But it sure seems like the Biden-Harris administration is trying.
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I think Trump will slow down what's going on around the world. He has been there before. He has had those conversations. And he created an environment where there was some safety in the world, at least for those four years. There wasn't any big battles, wars. I mean, there was minor things around the world and there was tensions. There's always going to be tensions when people disagree. But I think under President Trump's watch in the past and coming, hopefully, in the next uh 90 days or less uh you know we'll we'll see we we hope for the best and uh i think he's a great negotiator so you know i think it just may take some time to get things rolling in the right direction but he's already started his administration's already there i mean it's unbelievable
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It is truly unbelievable, Brad Beck. And so we'll continue the discussion. All this comes to you because of our sponsors. And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team carries my home and auto. And make a complimentary appointment because if you bundle your insurance coverage together, you might be able to save a lot of money. And so give them a call at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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It is Friday and welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. And thank you to all of you who support us. The show is broadcast live 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. And the first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. This is on all the KLZ 560 platforms, which is KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. And once we have the shows posted on the website with the podcast embedded and the summary, those podcasts can be heard on all the streaming services as well, such as iTunes and Spotify. So we're everywhere, Brad Beck.
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I love it. It's interesting. After a show, I tend to listen and review what I said because you can't hear yourself when you're speaking, right? And oftentimes I cringe, but I go back and listen. And it's interesting because the conversations we have, I think, are fascinating. And just discussing ideas that most people won't discuss, I think, are really key to the success of your show, Kim.
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Well, thank you, Brad. And our goal is to help all of you, you and me, all of us get our brain around these issues so that we can engage in this battle of ideas. So Leadership Program of the Rockies, and you do a lot of work with them, great organization. And when I was going through my interview with I'd gone through an angry period. So I'd gone through an angry period. I'd lost my voice. Liberty Toastmasters has been very helpful on all this. But the Socratic method, asking questions, right? And so I was in my interview to apply for leadership program in the Rockies. And they said, so you have kids. And this was during Obama running for office. Did any of them vote for Obama? And I said, not that I know of. And they said, well, did any of their friends? I said, well, I don't know. And they said, well, what would you say to them? In the true Socratic method of asking questions, I answered, are you crazy? That's not how it really works.
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Well, what's wonderful about the Leadership Program of the Rockies and the people that go through it, it's really about principle and ideas. It's not a partisan. It's not a political organization, although you're personally fine to do whatever you do as far as politics. But I learned so much through that program, and it really opened my eyes and gave me the education that I never really had in school, especially college. under the LA City school system where I grew up because every two years or three years, the program changed. And I really wanted that classical education, never got it until I got out of school and really applied myself to lifelong learning and reading the classics. And boy, I am so appreciative now of all the great books that are out there. And you have access to them. They're free on the internet. Anybody can get that education.
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Well, and to be a lifelong learner, One of the questions, I think, is why. And Producer Joe, I think that I see the wheels moving with you. Many times you're asking why. Why is that? And I think that that's one of the first important words to critical thinking, Joe.
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Well, and I try and think about the scientific method as well as, like, I think this is how it's going to work, and this is why I think it's going to work. Then I try and test it for myself, and then I find out, yes, this works this way because of this. And so I just generally try and think about the scientific method whenever I'm thinking in general.
SPEAKER 15 :
Don't you love that, Brad? That's fabulous. And so often the opposition of that is I feel, and then they go look for the people that will reinforce that, as where Joe would look at something and what would happen often, I'm sure, is, gosh, I was wrong on that. I found some new information that makes me think differently. And that's a world that just opens up to people. And being curious is just amazing.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is.
SPEAKER 15 :
The world humbles me a lot. Yeah. Me as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I get that. I totally do understand that. Have you seen the Reagan movie?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. Okay. In fact, I saw it when it was still a work in progress. So I'm sure it's changed. I've got to see it again.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I watched it several times over the Thanksgiving holiday because there was so much in there. But John Voight is this older Soviet spy, and he had been assigned with watching Reagan. And then a new, younger Politburo or cabinet member from Russia was trying to figure out what happened. You know, how did the Soviet Union break up? And Vogt said something so interesting. He said, it's not necessarily the why, it's the who. And I thought that was fascinating, Brad.
SPEAKER 15 :
He had a presence, and Reagan was one of those individuals who, when he said something, and even the simplest things, he was determined to follow it through. And when he was an actor, he had learned, especially actually even before when he was a radio announcer, he would read something and then look up and say it. And that created some credibility. Even when he wasn't at the site doing, he was hearing a report of what was going on at football games when he was in college. And then he would recite it. And it was amazing. Over time, he developed a way to connect with people. And he connected through emotion, both in his voice and in what he said. And he was truly a great communicator. And he used humor. Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. And his stories really made a point. And so I thought that was interesting. I think the why and the who, those two things together I think are so important, Joe.
SPEAKER 11 :
When I was working at a tire place, the thing that they said the most was aces in their places. It matters who is working what job because everybody has certain skills and certain tactics to life that just help. And they're better at some things than others. And so...
SPEAKER 06 :
aces in our are in their places was the biggest thing that i kind of take from that as well yeah it's great saying i love that so speaking of aces i will save rebecca kelty this is pretty amazing she's running and we had her on the show earlier this week She was in a recount for House District 16 down in Colorado Springs. And she's won that election apparently by three votes. So she is unseating. the incumbent who is a far left radical activist. And the apparently the election has been certified. So she is she is the House District 16 representative. Congratulations to Rebecca Kelty. This is big.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is unbelievable. And Dan Woog went up in my area by 110 votes. So when people say their votes don't count, I have to remind them three votes and 110 votes makes all the difference because now the Democrats do not have a super majority in the Colorado legislature. And that's a big deal.
SPEAKER 06 :
So those three votes helped to prevent the extreme radical activists that have taken over the Democrat Party in Colorado voting. from having a super majority to ram anything through that they wanted. It's a big deal. It's huge.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is. And more of our fellow citizens need to realize that when they show up and when they vote, they send a message that it's important enough to take some time to invest in their own community and our state. And more things happen locally than they do at the federal level. Very rarely can we move the needle at the federal level. We've had a great opportunity this year. But at the local level, when people show up to the school board meetings and the town hall meetings, that makes a difference, especially at the school board level.
SPEAKER 06 :
Especially. And I'm bringing out this quote that producer Steve had given us from a woman, Martha Gellhorn. She was an American novelist, writer, and journalist, born in 1908, died in 1998. And she said this, "...people often say with pride, I'm not interested in politics. They might as well say I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future. If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics."
SPEAKER 15 :
Prudence is an amazing thing because it gets us to think about things like this when people say, well, I don't like either candidate. I don't either. But guess what? You've got a choice. And if you don't vote, then the opposition has a opportunity to really direct the way things go.
SPEAKER 06 :
So that's the beginning. And Brad, you and I have not had a chance to talk about this. But I had the Colorado 2024 election project. We have our two lawsuits are filed, which is great. We're going to be morphing into our 2025. And so the Colorado 2024 election project is going to become Reclaim Colorado 2025. We'll be filing another lawsuit. here soon. We need to raise the money for that. I want to work on legislation to address in a big way all of the things that are legal with our election season here, our election laws here in Colorado, but they're not right. And then I want to start Doge Colorado. I love that. What do you think of that?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, man, that's awesome.
SPEAKER 06 :
But we can have it at the local level, so we can have Doge Erie.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, there you go. Well, you know, one of the things you're bringing up, Kim, and conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, free market people, they tend to win an election or lose an election, and then they go home, and they try to reformulate or rethink. And you bring up the point that you can't go home. You got to be consistent. You have to be persistent. You have to keep it going. Yeah, you can celebrate for a week or, you know, wallow in your sorrow. I thought I'd wait until after Thanksgiving, but we started right away. You need to because the opposition is always doing the same. They never rest. They keep going. Politics is the battle and the opportunity that you have the hope for the future, but you've got to be consistent. It doesn't just because you win once mean that it's going to go on forever.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. And what we're going to really see is this local level, the local, county, and state level. Since Donald Trump is in the presidency, the radical activists will be focusing on pushing their agenda through these venues. So we need to be vigilant. And DOGE, somebody asked yesterday what that stands for. That's the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Department of Government Efficiency. So we're going to bring that to Colorado.
SPEAKER 15 :
We know Rick Fernandez and Cheryl Fernandez in Broomfield have the Broomfield Taxpayer Matters. And it's similar to that in that they're trying to get citizens engaged in what happens in their local level. It's not so much to cut out waste, but make their local citizens aware of what's going on in their community. And so they can take action. And it's understanding rather than putting your head in the sand and say, well, I'm not interested. Well, you better be because they're going to do all kinds of things like single hauler trash. and just ram it down the citizens' throats because people aren't paying attention. Rick and Cheryl Fernandez are in Broomfield, so shout out to them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, most definitely, and we'll have to reach out to them on that as well. All of this is so important, and we do have an independent voice. One of our sponsors is Lavaca Meat Company. They're located in Littleton at Main and Nevada, but a great gift for Christmas would be to give a Lavaca meat box to your relatives or to your employees, your friends. You can get more information by going to levakameat.com. But again, what a great gift. And it's a great protein source as well.
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SPEAKER 06 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. and wanted to make sure that on Fridays we do the quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values, but I'm not sure I gave the website. So the Center for American Values website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. That is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And a sponsor of the show that's been with me, since before solo broadcasting. But Brad, I'm going to be starting my seventh year of solo broadcasting on January 1st.
SPEAKER 15 :
Congratulations. That's amazing. Because I remember you're the America chicks.
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SPEAKER 15 :
The best bowl is a bowl of chips and salsa.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you can get that at Hooters restaurants. That's right. Exactly. So be sure and check that out. Brad, it's Christmas party season. And I've gone to several different Christmas parties. And I had this really interesting conversation with people I was sitting next to. And one had been a former federal employee. And I'd seen this this headline and I didn't quite understand it. And after this conversation, this is from Bloomberg, says thousands of federal employees land this work from home deal ahead of Trump, says the Biden administration appointee has agreed to lock in hybrid work protections for tens of thousands of Social Security staff, part of a slew of organized labor efforts that complicate President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to reshape the federal workforce. It's a government union, which even FDR said we shouldn't have. The American Federation of Government Employees is a union representing 42,000 Social Security Administration workers. They reached an agreement with the agency last week that will protect telework until 2029 and update a contract according to a message to its members viewed by Bloomberg. Okay, there's that. so this person I was sitting next to said that federal employees really want to keep this work from home thing because first of all you there's different pay scales so you have this base pay scale for federal employees but then you can get a bump if you are living in a higher cost area. For example, San Francisco, you might have your base and because housing is so expensive, you might get an additional, I think it's 25%. So then what has happened And then another person on the other side of me grew up in Mexico City, immigrated legally to America. And so what they said is that people, you know, federal employees, is they are moving away maybe from where they live. They may have sold their house. And they might even be moving to Mexico City. And this is what my friend said, is that Americans that are working from home have moved to Mexico City, nicer areas, which is making the price go up for Mexicans, and they're having to find other places for housing. And so I didn't realize... what kind of the deal that's going on. I found that really fascinating.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, the first thing you said, which I appreciate and I like, is former federal employee. That sounds good. There should be more former federal employees. One of the things that that brings to mind, I think the number is about 7% of all the buildings in Washington, D.C. are occupied. Right. and if you take away security staff and people who maintain those buildings, less than 1% have gone back to those offices, whether it's the Department of Commerce and you name the department. So that brings the question, okay, President Biden, you want to do that? Let's sell those buildings and turn them into condos and housing, affordable housing, for those individuals that are unhoused, as they say on the left. Why don't we take those buildings and knock them down and build something that is productive? Because we have all this federal property, which I contend many things, many buildings should not be federal. Many lands, especially out west, should not be owned by the government and should be put on the market for productive uses if they're not going to use those facilities. Now, there's some buildings we need, the White House, the Capitol, and so forth, military bases. But outside of that, I would contend that a lot of this federal property needs to be sold or done something different with rather than just being held in perpetuity. And those buildings in Washington, D.C. needs to be utilized.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, this person I was talking to said that he thought that if Donald Trump said, OK, everybody back to the offices, that you're going to see a lot of employees that will be former federal employees because they have moved or a variety of things. So I didn't realize this game that was on with the Biden administration on trying to get into this agreement before Donald Trump takes office.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I hope it happens. And just like when Trump won the election, a lot of people are self-deporting. That's a good thing. Saves the American taxpayer a lot of money. And, you know, I understand why people come to America. It's the greatest place in the world. but they should come legally, safely, and with the intent of being indoctrinated with the American ideas. You should work towards being a citizen. And when communities are sanctuary cities or states, as Governor Newsom is trying to do in California and what he calls Trump-proof the state, it's a disservice to his citizens. Because all he's saying is, I'm going to hurt you more. It's going to cost you more. And, you know, those things go to other places like Oregon and Washington, like East Coast cities. And I think, you know, the mayor of Chicago said we're going to be a sanctuary city and everybody should come here. You know what? All those communities around Chicago that all those aliens are being shipped to would say, no, don't do that. It ruins the communities.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and it's not doing anybody any favors. And this person I was talking to from Mexico City had said that the Hispanic community is not excited about all of this illegal immigration. And I think that's probably one of the reasons why Donald Trump had such great results with the Hispanic community.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree. And, you know, we need to do something here in Colorado. Governor Polis needs to take a stand and say, you know, this is no longer a sanctuary state. It's drawing funds. The budget is not where it needs to be. They're pulling resources and services away from taxpayers. And look, we have a way to help people freely if we want to, but we shouldn't be forced to by government. And that's exactly what's happening. And so Governor Polis needs to get off the dime and make some different decisions, especially when I hear he wants to run for president.
SPEAKER 06 :
Isn't that interesting? Yes, that's very interesting.
SPEAKER 15 :
All of a sudden he's a moderate.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or he's trying to appear like he is.
SPEAKER 15 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. I do want to say give a shout out to my fellow board members of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Carl Honecker, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Joseph O'Loughlin, Wendy Warner. Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, and Mary Jansen. When you see these folks, say thank you. They are volunteers, and we watch legislation that is scheduled for a hearing, and we take positions on it, and we have an email that goes out to all of the legislators and the governor. And if you would like to get that email as well and be super informed, Join us. It's only $25. You can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. And they have been doing this, these volunteers, since 1976, Brad Beck.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I've been a member since 2009. They do great work, and I look forward to reading that newsletter every time it comes out. It makes me informed.
SPEAKER 06 :
It keeps us informed. And I'm thinking about... 2025, people running for office, how to get ready. First and foremost, I'd recommend become a member of Liberty Toastmasters.
SPEAKER 15 :
I absolutely agree. If you're facing the public, you need to have your message down and be able to articulate it. And Table Topics prepares people for a Q&A like nothing else.
SPEAKER 06 :
And because the left has... organized programs. For example, now what was the one for women? I can't remember what it is. But they have everything there, how to communicate, how to fundraise, all those things. We, on our side, we have to kind of build it So from the communications component, I would highly recommend Liberty Toastmasters to know what's happening down at the statehouse, become a member of CUT. And I think with that, the $25 there and our dues are every six months.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, less than $150 a year for membership.
SPEAKER 06 :
So just think about that. For $175 a year, you can learn how to communicate and know what's going on. I think that's super important.
SPEAKER 15 :
And do it early. Too often I get a phone call from somebody who says, well, I hear you're good at communicating and helping people with their messaging. And I said, yes, but when are you going to be announcing? And it's usually tomorrow. Like, good luck. You've got to start early. You do. And one of the biggest suggestions I would say to anybody considering running for school board or public office is go to those organizations in your community, the Rotary, the Optimist, the Kiwanis, and come up with an idea that you want to talk about or an issue and just talk about that issue for 10, 15, 20 minutes. Get good at it and start to build relationships with those local organizations that do good work in your community. Do that for a year and then decide if you want to run for office. Rather than saying, I'm going to run. And then you stand up on the lectern and then all of a sudden you're like, you don't have anything to say. We see that too often. People run for their heart reasons, but not for their head reasons. And they've got to be sharp. They've got to be clear and concise when they give their messaging and they have to connect with the audience. And that's great training for a year to go to all those different organizations.
SPEAKER 06 :
It really is. So we're going to talk more about that through 2025. Let's talk about this piece that we're going to publish this Sunday in our newsletter. So be sure and be signed up for that. And that is now that the election is over. So what do you want people to know about this?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, like most people, you know, we we vote for a candidate and it's it's personality driven. If you have good hair, if you say the right things, which we're just talking about. But more importantly, I was a little frustrated after the election because we have family and friends and people, acquaintances that we argue with. And one, we're not allowed to talk politics anymore, which I think is ridiculous. It's censoring. It is self-censoring and it's censoring in the sense that you can't be friends if you don't have the right political persuasion. I think that's a shame. We should be able to have feisty conversations, good debates. You know, in polite company, we're told not to talk about sex, drugs and rock and roll.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's like, what else is there?
SPEAKER 15 :
That's what makes life interesting. And you should be able to talk civilly with your friends and family. And we just had Thanksgiving. And I was told, no politics. I was like, oh my goodness, really? So I started to think about this. What's more important, the personality or protecting the rights of the individual, which we never talk about? We never talk about the smallest minority, the individual. And if we're really going to protect our nation and learn about freedom and the responsible exercise of freedom, which is liberty, we need to start really discussing individual rights, the rights of you and I to make choices as long as it doesn't harm somebody else. And we have to understand why, why to have those discussions. And too often we don't understand that capitalism frees more people. It gives more people opportunity. And if we don't have that robust conversation about the individual, about free markets, about free people, about character, about the virtues, prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, we don't get the chance to talk about happiness in the way that it was intended by the founders. You know, the term happiness is derived from the Greek word eudaimoniae. I never pronounce it right, eudaimonia, eudaimonia, which means the good spirit. And that's really what the founders were talking about in happiness is to pursue your own self-mastery of the desires and the animal instincts that we all have and to really work on those traits that are going to make you more excellent, not perfect, but strive for excellence. And we need to have those discussions. We need to push the ideas of being of moral character, of having virtue, of working on yourself, the individual, more than being concerned about the common good, more than worrying about how people are living their lives. Live your lives as you see, but don't harm people. pursue your happiness, but that maintains you have to be a good citizen, to be self-restrained, to have civic knowledge, to be self-reliant. And really to work on yourself when you are successful with yourself, then you can help other people. But too many people have their own issues. And, you know, you see what's going on with the ethics in Washington, D.C., with Matt Gaetz. You know, they're this elected representative, whether or not he's guilty of what they're saying he is accused of. I don't know. But I do know if you bring it up, then you say, well, goodness, why don't you get all that stuff in check way before you want to run? Because they will find the skeletons in everybody's closet or they'll make them up. And so you have to be prepared. But work on yourself and be able to communicate that clearly and in a way that people understand it. And, you know, there is no perfection, but there is an opportunity to really go after the excellent traits of an individual. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, Brad, everybody has skeletons in their closet. How would you recommend – so there are some people that say – fine, they could be fine representatives. And they're saying, I don't want to run for office because I think there was a Will Rogers quote, if you want to look up your family tree, just run for office and your opponents will do it for you. Right. So how would you suggest that people, I think they need to get out in front of whatever those skeletons are.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. And it is in the messaging and say, look, I did some things in my youth and I'm going to lay them all out here and be frank with you and just tell you what it was. And we all make mistakes. And I think if people put that out in the front, they're less likely to have a gotcha in the back, on the backside of it. One of the things when I talked to Lawrence Reed, he had a great quote. He's the president emeritus of the Foundation of Economic Education FEE. And he said, quote, if you do not govern yourself, you will be governed.
SPEAKER 06 :
My father said something to me generally the same way.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that's good for a country as well as the country.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. And so if you can govern yourself, if you can recognize the rights of the individual, if you recognize that's the purpose of government is to protect our equal universal natural rights. then you're able to build on principle. And even if you've made mistakes in the past, you can say, yes, I've made certain mistakes. We all have. And America is a very forgiving community, country, people. But we need to really focus on how we can all improve and get to that shiny city on the hill that is both in the Bible and Ronald Reagan amplified. when he said that. And it's true. There's so many more opportunities for us as Americans. And I would encourage more people to run for local public office. Don't run after the big shiny thing. Run after the school board. That is so important in our communities.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's where the battle is right now. It's going to be this local government, this local level. And in the Reagan movie, The whole Iran-Contra thing, I'd kind of forgotten about that. And Nancy Reagan says, they are going to impeach you. You need to address this. And so he did. And John Voight, his character said something along the line of the American people will forgive you if you just come clean and tell the truth. And I thought that was super powerful.
SPEAKER 15 :
It really is. And we need to have more clarity, transparency. That's what the Doge is going to hopefully do. It's OK if you make mistakes. You're not trying something different, unique, creative if you're not making mistakes. It's not the mistakes. It's how you handle it and how you get in front of it and how you talk to people about it and listen to people and say, you know what? We screwed up here, but we'll make it better in business. We do it all the time. It's, you know, it's an interesting story. I don't know how much time we have, but this Thanksgiving, I made a reservation for a certain parking place. I'll just say the name, Canopy Airport Parking. Made the reservation the day before. I got a confirmation. I get to the site, no parking available. Now, you know, had they said to me, Mr. Beck, we messed up. We oversold. We're going to give you two free days, refund you. And oh, by the way, we found another parking space for you. I would talk their praises. But instead it was you're out of luck, buddy. Here's your two free days. Here's your money back. I was furious.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you don't get furious very often.
SPEAKER 15 :
No. My wife was calm down. Yeah. But we need to make sure in business, when we mess up, we make it right. In government, when we mess up, guess what? You get reelected to higher office. You get rewarded for messing up. And it's like, no, we have to stop that. So I hope people comment on my essay and give me feedback. But it was just a way of giving my ideas. And we have to focus more on the individual and focus on protecting rights rather than giving things away in shiny objects.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well said, Brad Beck. So we'll roll this out this weekend and on my weekly newsletter. So make sure you're signed up at KimMunza.com. It is now that the election is over by Bradley Beck. It's great having you here.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks, Kim. Look forward to the next hour.
SPEAKER 06 :
You bet. And our quote for the end of the show is from Albert Einstein. He said, adversity introduces a man to himself. So today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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It's always a happy Friday when Brad Beck is in studio.
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Oh, you're kind. It's an honor to be here. And Purple Mountain Majesty is out the window.
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It's gorgeous. Oh, yeah. It is gorgeous, isn't it? Yeah, sunrise right now. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And this is on all KLZ 560 platforms, but we have We have an amazing view.
SPEAKER 15 :
This is why we live in Colorado. It's spectacular. Snow-capped mountains, the beautiful scenery, and being in studio with you. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
I look out there and I say, God is showing off.
SPEAKER 15 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we'll be rolling your essay out this Sunday in the email newsletter. Make sure you're signed up for that at my website at kimmunson.com. And it is now that the election is over. And I think it's really an important piece.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, thank you. And it was interesting. I went on AI. I used Perplexity as my AI app. And I Googled Kim Munson. Or Googled. I didn't Google. But I put in. That's such a common phrase now, right? I put in Kim Munson slash Brad Beck. And it came out. And it described me a certain way. And I said, oh, that's interesting with all my articles. So I always suggest to people, go to Perplexity and see how you come up. And if you have written or if you're a public personality, it's interesting how the Internet pulls all this information. The reason I use perplexity is because it does cite sources unlike some other ones. And I can look at those sources and guess what? They come back to the Kim Munson show. Isn't that something? It's amazing.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's scary. I'm perplexed how that happens. Okay, let's get to our word of the day. The word of the day is prudent. It's spelled P-R-U-D-E-N-T. First definition could be careful or wise in handling practical matters, exercising good judgment or common sense. Number two, characterized by or resulting from care or wisdom in practical matters or in planning for the future. And number three, sagacious in adapting means to the ends, circumspect in action or in determining any line of conduct, practically wise, judicious, careful, discreet, sensible, opposed to rash and dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought. And so your challenge is to use the word prudent in a sentence today.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, it's always prudent to listen to the Kim Munson Show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, well done, Brad Beck. Well, well done. Love that. Our quote of the day, and this is from the Medal of Honor quote book that you can buy by going to the Center for American Values website, AmericanValuesCenter.org. Highly recommended as a Christmas gift. And this is from Robert F. Foley, Medal of Honor recipient, born in 1941. And it was actions that he took November 5, 1966. He said, if our actions are motivated by duty, honor, country, we can promote goodness to achieve greatness.
SPEAKER 15 :
Isn't that amazing? You know, I never had the honor to serve. And the Vietnam War, it stopped and they stopped the draft. And that's a whole thing we can talk about at some point. But it's important to welcome those Vietnam veterans home because they never got the welcome home that they deserved. Whether you agree with that war or not, they fought to protect the ideas of freedom and liberty.
SPEAKER 06 :
They were doing their duty.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the politicians were doing other things, but they were doing their duty. Speaking of this, Brad, Pam Long brought this to my attention. And that is that our soldiers at Fort Carson are not receiving proper meals, if you can believe it.
SPEAKER 07 :
No.
SPEAKER 06 :
In fact, she had a picture. It was from military.com of a meal, and it was a piece of toast and some lima beans. This is unconscionable. And apparently they have money that's deducted from their pay. It's called bait. What's it called, Producer Joe?
SPEAKER 11 :
BAS, Basic Allowance Subsidiary. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
So that money's deducted, and it's supposed to cover your basic needs. And that number is $22 million that that's generating, but they only have $5 million earmarked for their food. It's crazy. And so she has suggested that we reach out to electeds and also the commanders and at Fort Carson, and I asked her to put together the information, which she has done that, all that contact information. And I'm going to ask Zach, we very seldom do more than one email each week, but I think we need to do a special email with all of this information, with that military.com article. It's unconscionable that this is happening.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, especially since the Pentagon can't pass an audit. You know, this is the seventh audit, and they haven't passed that. And if you tried to do that in a business, guess what? You'd be out of business. You'd be out of business. So they've got to feed the troops.
SPEAKER 06 :
Got to feed the troops. So let's shed some more light on that. Joe?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and also considering that the Pentagon spent $15 million on ribeye steaks alone, yet they can't feed their soldiers, I think it is –
SPEAKER 06 :
gross misuse of power right and you're basing that on earlier in the week we were talking with someone from open the books and they go through and he's doing a column on waste of the day and that was one of the things the Pentagon's out there trying to spend all of their you know they feel if they don't spend it they're gonna lose it so they're out spending money on all kinds of things meanwhile back at the ranch our military is not being fed properly here at Fort Carson
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and on top of that, those those people that they mentioned that aren't getting fed, they're the younger enlisted. They're the lower down and they're trying to grow through it. So they like Pam actually said earlier this week, they don't get a chance to say, I don't like this. I want to change. They they really don't get to.
SPEAKER 06 :
stop so we have to be their voice so we're going to make that happen and i know somebody that probably cares immensely about this and that is cattleman jim may with lavaca meat company jim welcome to the show good morning kim good morning brad happy friday everybody great to be here happy friday can you believe this at fort carson that our our soldiers are not being fed properly it's unbelievable to me jim
SPEAKER 03 :
I am so ready for Elon Musk and everybody to go through this deal and straighten it all out. It is crazy how so much money gets spent stupidly over here, and then you look at something like that, you go, wow. So hopefully we can fix some of these things.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we're going to go to work on it. We're in the holiday season, and a great gift. In fact, I was just talking to Brad, Brad, regarding a Lavaca meat box.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, Jim, I was curious. What's your favorite one to give to family and friends?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, wow. I don't think you can go wrong with any of them. They're all great, and I think your base, you look at that. So you go online and look at it. It's like, well, what would these people really like? And, you know, for some folks, maybe it's hamburger. Maybe it's You know, somebody that's really done you a big favor somewhere, man, get them a good steak, right? Spend too much on those ribeyes, Joe, but spending well spent most of the time, all right? I get what you're saying. But it's just tomorrow or Saturday, let's see, we're going to go out to, yeah, tomorrow, we're picking up some for the Livingston family. So we have a lot of repeat business out here. And then once they do it and give it to their crews and stuff, They've made it an annual thing, so we're bringing some gift bags home as we circle through the weekend.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it is a real treat.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it's just a good thing. I think at Christmas you want to give somebody special something that they don't normally get. So go online, look at that stuff, maybe pick out what you think is best for them. And I think he's got a nice selection there online.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you said that's something you're going to do, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I used to use another company, let's just say. And when you were in the studio the other day, last month when I was here, I said, well, I should give Jim the business. So that's what I'm going to do this year.
SPEAKER 03 :
I love it. Thank you, Brad. Thank you. Yeah, I remember our visit a few weeks ago there, and I came in the studio, and I was listening to you guys earlier about a little bit of Ronald Reagan. I ran out and saw that movie right away after it came out. And you're always doing the quote of the day, Kim. I don't know if you've ever heard, I know I heard this at Reagan's funeral from George Bush. He said, the best thing, let's see, let me see if I can get this right. The best thing about the inside of a man, the best thing you can do for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse. Isn't that neat?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, that is really neat.
SPEAKER 03 :
Something like that anyway.
SPEAKER 15 :
I have felt that feeling before.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think once in a while when I really need to get my head straight, I go saddle up and I just go for a ride and just think.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know, think.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know what Reagan's saying there, but that was a great movie, I thought, and I'm just so excited about what's coming up here in the next... month or so and watching this thing go forward, I think Trump's going to be one of our greater presidents as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and there's a lot of hope. Jim May, do you have a cowboy poem for us today?
SPEAKER 03 :
You know what I could do? I haven't written anything. We went through the one holiday where I did a poem there. I haven't written anything lately, but I want to do one. I want to thank everybody first for helping Dan get elected into the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame. And the first poem I put in my book was to a man who We bought the Ordway feedlot from him first, and then we bought the feedlot in Nebraska, the Hurd Cove feedlot, and he's an icon in our industry. And Dan put him in the Hall of Fame and introduced him and inducted him up there. And so now, you know, Justice is coming back to Dan, and I'm so happy for him. But anyway, I'm going to do this poem called Thunderbolt Ranch, and we bought this feedlot up there, and it was in the middle of 20,000 acres of sand hills and He went in there and turned it into a feed yard and just did miraculous things. Had to put some of the cattle under cover because the weather's pretty tough. But I still think a lot of him, I'm hoping that he's gonna make it to our celebration at the Hall of Fame down there in San Antonio. But this is called Thunderbolt Ranch. The natives all said you take a hell of a chance if you try to feed cattle on Thunderbolt Ranch. God knows there's a mountain of corn to be had, but the weather up there can get really bad. When the rain and the snow turn them sand hills to jelly, those cattle will sink in there right up to their bellies. And coming into year end, things can get really funky. And if you ain't done it by then, you better bring in your brass monkey. One old-timer said, you best take his warning to heart. Nebraska will kick your ass to heart. You'll have to clear your throat to fart. But Foxy had a vision and would not be denied. He said, I won't fight the weather. I'll put them inside. So they started building the barns, and after the first three or four, he flew over one day and said, let's build a dozen more. And now there's 15 barns there and a half a mile long and a legacy that proves that all those people were wrong. Because if you want to feed cattle today, I'd say your best chance is to ship them up there to the Thunderbolt Ranch.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well done, Jim May. Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, Brad, did I get you a poetry book? I'm going to get you one.
SPEAKER 15 :
I was going to just say, where can somebody get one?
SPEAKER 03 :
I will just let you have one, and thank you for coming into Lavaca Mead. You know, it's so fun to go to Littleton down there at Christmas time. Just the experience. Even if you're not going to stop at Lavaca Mead, just go down there to get the Christmas spirit. I mean, the little shops and all the stuff. They used to have the trees coming. They had to cut a lot of the trees down, but they've tried to renovate that, too. It still feels Christmassy to me. We had our... our grandkids' Christmas program last night. I was just talking to Joe before I got on, and you guys had your Christmas party. So I guess I'm trying to, I think I'm getting in the Christmas spirit. Are you guys?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think so, too. Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Ho, ho, ho.
SPEAKER 03 :
Ho, ho, ho. And I'll probably see you guys in studio next week, or anyway, you, Kim, and the crew. Yep, awesome. The Knights of the Roundtable. That sounds great.
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
indeed it is friday and welcome back to the kim munson show be sure and check out our website that is kim munson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at this these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something's a good idea you should not have to force people to do it Do check out the USMC Memorial Foundation website and would recommend for that veteran that is on your guest list to buy a brick that will be on one of their pathways of service. You'll receive a beautiful certificate for that they can frame and have on their wall. And you can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Brad Beck is in studio with me. He's a co-founder of Liberty Toastmasters. And on the line is Leigh Brown. She's been a guest on the show several times, a good friend of Karen Levine's, who is one of our sponsors. And Leigh is in North Carolina, and she is working on putting – well, it's called Patriot Relief Projects, Helping the People of North Carolina. Leigh Brown, welcome.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it's an honor to be back on your show, Kim. I hope you enjoyed your vacation when Karen was covering for you.
SPEAKER 06 :
I did. And that was her inaugural hosting of the show, and she did a great job.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, she was fantastic, and I'm sure all of your listeners called and messaged in and just gave her all the kudos, because I know your listeners would do that for her.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. So, Lee Brown, North Carolina. I'm hearing, first of all, stories that FEMA's not helping people and that there's a tragedy in body parts and things are being burned. There's all kinds of stories out there. What's the truth?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, there's a lot of truth. There's a lot of social media influencers that are creating clickable content for their own nefarious purposes. There's a lot of lies. I mean, there's a lot of everything. What I can tell you is that the overall government response has been atrocious. The people have absolutely been forgotten. And for everybody that says this is a land grab, this is a land grab. And it's very frustrating to see American citizens and taxpayers treated so poorly after a disaster they did not create.
SPEAKER 06 :
How is this a land grab, Lee Brown?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, okay. Let's just do some simple math, shall we, Kim? You know, we're highly intelligent women and we can do math. If your home was destroyed and we have at last count 1875 houses that are at 100% destroyed. That's how big this drama has been. So if you're in a single wide trailer that was destroyed as of this moment, North Carolina and FEMA will buy you out of that trailer house at pre Helene values. Now that number is going to be determined by who? The uneducated taxpayer who's not in real estate and doesn't know how taxes work may just take the number that they get without knowing what the value actually was prior to Helene. But by law, they are entitled to an independent appraiser's opinion. I just don't know that they're going to be told that. But that being said, they get a buyout offer for the house. The house is then demolished and the lot is turned into green space. However, that same homeowner, if they want to stay put... and either rebuild their house or repair what they have because a trailer house, as people in real estate know, is one of the easiest to repair because you can change out so many parts on it and make it livable again, but they can't have money for that. I met with a lady this week. Today is Friday. I met with her on Monday. She's in a single wide trailer. It's paid off. FEMA came and looked at it and told her it's not habitable. Do you know how much they offered her for that uninhabitable trailer? How much?
SPEAKER 1 :
$3,500.
SPEAKER 05 :
And she called me and she said, what am I supposed to do with $3,500? And I said, baby, you can't go anywhere with $3,500. That's not anything. That's not a down payment on a house. That's not going to do anything for you except get you in more debt. Now, if she were to go buy a new house somewhere, even a new trailer house, Well, she's going to have to take on mortgage debt because she doesn't have the cash to pay something outright. So now she goes from debt-free to debt slavery. And by the same token, FEMA would also say, but if you will leave and we can demolish this and turn it into green space, well, then you can have fair market value of the trailer before the storm. So why do they get money if the lot is turned into green space but they can't have the money if they don't?
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. So what about this rumor that there's a lithium vein of minerals underneath this area? That's one of the things that's going around the Internet implying that the government wants that land for that. That's probably a very reasonable person, Kim. Whoops, we lost her. I know she's in the car. We want to hear every word she has to say. Brad, this is unconscionable.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I've read that as well, that there's a private entity that wants to turn it into a lithium mine because of the minerals there. And I just don't know what the truth is. So it would be interesting to hear her perspective once we get her back.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Okay. We have Lee Brown back. I had posed the question regarding supposedly a vein of lithium minerals that is in this particular area, North Carolina. Lee, what's your comments on that?
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm just going to notice that as I was about to answer that question, the government ended our call.
SPEAKER 15 :
Will you please fix your tinfoil hat?
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, I'm 87 and 0 in conspiracy theories, just for the record. But there is a huge vein of lithium that runs from the Asheville urban area all the way down through Gaston County, which is a huge area. And the mind that is there. So that's true. There is a rare quartz in first time, North Carolina that only existence first time. There's also some huge quartz deposits in Mitchell County. So Bakers deal kind of area. So those are real. It is true that the mines reopened operations approximately two days after the hurricane hit And yes, that's two days after the storm. They resumed operations while the neighbors were without power and water. And it's also true that Doug Imhoff, and if y'all are thinking, why does that name sound familiar? He was the fellow that was trying to be first gentleman and is currently second gentleman, and he is the top shareholder in that mining company, which kind of makes you think it all does add up. But then the flip side of my brain says, I don't think our government's quite that smart, so we don't really know. But there are a lot of efforts to take back people's land and take back these lots and demolish these houses, right? under the guise of flooding, under the guise of environmental sustainability. And it's a lot to take into account that doesn't feel completely evil.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. What about loss of life? I have heard people said that the actual loss of life is significantly, probably significantly more than what is being reported officially.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is significantly higher. The official number is in the low 200s. And of that, they say only 100 or so were in North Carolina, including our own state senator, who I pray to all that's holy that somebody will primary that man and get him out in 26. And I'm not the only conservative that feels that way. But the real number is probably closer to 3,000. And that's the number that I feel is verifiable based on the sources that I have and the people with whom I've spoken. And the morgue trucks that are still sitting outside of the Asheville Hospital are still full of unidentified and uncertified humans, neighbors, taxpayers, American citizens. And there's lots of reasons for why they're not releasing the death counts. Frankly, at this point, I think it's all monetary because it occurred to me this past week, and I have yet to make a video about it, but maybe I had ought to, but I have too much content right now. But it occurred to me in talking to a family that they can't get their Social Security death benefit without a death certificate. They can't get the life insurance premium from that person's pension without a death certificate. Is it simply just the fact that our government is completely out of money that they're not pursuing with the medical examiner's office getting death certificates for these families so that they can get the financial death benefit that they're owed? And that's just one piece of it. The thing that bothers me more as a human is that these families don't have the dignity of closure. They don't have the opportunity to fully grieve and have a funeral and talk about their loved ones. They're instead... In fact, at this point, we all know finding a survivor would be almost miraculous, but it could be somebody's in a hermit place where they just have not been located. But in general, at this point, it's about where the remains are located and have they been afforded a decent human burial.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, what about, well, okay, next thing we've heard, well, had the reports of FEMA going past homes that had Trump signs and not helping them. Have you had verification of that?
SPEAKER 05 :
We have not confirmed that in North Carolina. We suspected it just because the amount of FEMA help has varied from county to county. And for your listeners who aren't fully cognizant of how big of an area we're talking here, the part of western North Carolina that was impacted is the size of the state of Massachusetts. So this is a really big geographic region. And in that region, you have some bright red areas and you have some blueberries. Asheville is a blueberry, but you go over to Burnsville and that is red. So you've got different political realities, which in North Carolina, we've done pretty well at getting along together. But yeah, the approach has been a little different. And the stories are interesting to hear coming out of the whistleblowers and coming from the director of FEMA. And a lot of us believe it probably happened here. We just haven't confirmed it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Wow. Brad? So, Lee, I have a question for you. I've heard that volunteers have built a lot of little tiny houses to at least get people into shelter temporarily, and that government entities have come in and said, nope, they're not fitting compliance, so we're going to not let people live in them temporarily. Have you heard that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely, I've heard that. And the tricky thing on that is getting written confirmation of what's being said because the officials are pretty crafty. They like to do all this over telephone and in person so there's no paper trail. And I will say this, I know that, and I'm a 25-year realtor, so I know the on-paper reasons for code and permits and safety and all these other things. But the reality is our petty bureaucrats have decided that it's better for somebody to live under a carport or in a tent versus a tiny home that was built by the Amish. I mean, we all know they build it really, really well. And these people have been told they can't live in those. Now, they are probably going to lift that shortly because our legislature did put forth a bill to give ultimate authority to the state fire marshal instead of the bureaucrats for a time frame so that there could be an opportunity for the houses to be repaired. But you just have a red tape nightmare that has totally... not taking into account humans. It's not how our country was built. Our country was not built by our founding fathers to turn it over to a bunch of pencil neck people in cubicles, which is what it's turned into. And now we've, and I'll blame COVID for this because during the era, People who snitched were rewarded, so we taught people to go snitch on each other and make their lives miserable. Well, as I enter my fourth winter of death and perfectly healthy, I noticed that that pervasive mentality of telling on other people has seeped into North Carolina's culture too you and it's no surprise to anybody the bureaucrats pushing this the harder are these young people in their 20s and 30s they've been told that it's a good thing to snitch and that it's better to follow the rules than to consider the human needs of your neighbor
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
it is friday welcome back to the kim munson show be sure and check out our website that is kim munson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you can email me at kim kimmunson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something's a good idea you should not have to force people to do it we are an independent voice and we're independent because we have great sponsors And I thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. And I'm thinking I want to try to get Susan Harris on for our New Year's Eve day show or our New Year's Day show. I think we'll try to do that, Joe.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think that would be a fantastic idea.
SPEAKER 06 :
OK, Brad Beck is in studio. We have North Carolina realtor Lee Brown on the line. And Joe, you said you had a question for her.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, I did. I was wondering what happens to the people with bad credit? Because if they're getting offered only so much because they're not leaving, they're obviously living in a trailer for a reason and they need help. So why is that happening?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, let me just dispel the commonly held perception that people in a trailer are there because they don't have the capability to do something that's stick built. When you have people that are in mobile homes, a lot of times it's because, well, in the mountains, there's a lot of inherited properties. And so the folks that I've met with, many of them inherited this house from a parent or a grandparent because you have generational lines in western North Carolina. And then also, that's the original affordable housing, and they're well-built to international code. They're built under roof. They actually have fewer issues over time often than state-built. So the reason people go in that direction could be because it's affordable. It could be because it's inherited. But to the credit question, that's a huge question that I have as somebody in real estate because right now I met with two different people this week who are facing foreclosure. and not on frailer house on a regular house where they had a mortgage and they had a three-month moratorium from their banks and the banks have now accelerated because there's no collateral so you have people who had collateral prior to the storm now the collateral's gone but the mortgages do so they're being told to go somewhere else and buy something well we have one lender that i know of that's come out with a program that won't take that old debt into consideration on their debt ratios but they're still going to be responsible for it or they're going to go to foreclosure for a house that doesn't exist we have not seen any movement from the banks on this except to give people a couple months off so if you lose your house which is already gone but you lose your credit because the house is gone and you didn't pay on the house that's gone now you're going to have a foreclosure on your record and you're going to have several years before you can do anything it is really untenable when you start adding in all these pieces And the last time I checked, the banks were too big to fail once upon a time. So me, as a taxpayer, I bailed them out during the Great Recession. Why in the heck is it that they aren't bailing out these people who lost their home due to nothing of their own doing?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and then meanwhile, back at the ranch, Joe Biden was in Africa just this last week saying he was going to send a billion dollars to Africa, Lee. And then this is coming in from our listener, Lynn. So.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's very true. And add to that $475 million more for the Ukraine and $180 million for Lebanon. So our elected officials who think they're so much better than us will send untold amounts of money into their money laundering grifting machine while people are freezing in the North Carolina mountains. I don't know why they're doing this in our faces if we're trying to make somebody pop off, but they're doing a really good job. Because when I met with people yesterday doing some grant applications, that was the main topic of conversation, and it had nothing to do with political leanings. It was how dare they, at the government level, give a billion dollars to Africa when we are over here begging for a thousand bucks.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. Okay, Jo, you had a question?
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Isn't it the job of the federal government to take care of the home people, not everybody else in the world except us?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, now you're just in crazy talk territory. I mean, when have they ever put us first? I mean, it's astonishing to see how far we've drifted from the ideals of the founding fathers who came here for freedoms and got so angry about a key tax that they – cast off the fetters of the betters in Great Britain. And now we're not just taxed beyond belief. Our tax dollars are being stolen from us and given to foreign entities while our sitting president pardons his own family member in order to not be investigated for what they've stolen for the last decade. Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow, Lee, I can tell. I'm mad, Kim.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm so mad right now.
SPEAKER 06 :
You are. And so you are there on the ground. You know what's happening. You know the suffering. But you have also come up with a solution, Lee Brown.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I don't know if it's the perfect solution, but since this all happened right at nine weeks ago, I think it was nine weeks ago today, my grassroots community, how do we help at the very beginning has turned into a real organization called Patriot Relief, and we are now a 501c3, where donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, but that's a whole different discussion. Can we burn down the IRS, too, Vivek and Elon, please, and thank you? So we came into place, and it was interesting, Kim, because the first video i did that went viral was on the well i had a facebook post that went viral the day after the storm and then another one went viral two days after the storm and that was the one that landed on dan bongino and glenn beck and the like and patriots all over the country have lost trust in all of our big organizations, not just the government, but they've lost trust in the Red Cross and they've lost trust in any of the charities that do things. And they were sending me money. And I'm thinking, holy crap, you're trusting a lady you've seen on a video on the internet. And of course, I know who I am. I know who I belong to. and I know what Jesus expects me to do, so we've spent the dollars and passed everything back through in the form of supplies and housing, and we're putting businesses back in place now, so we're using the dollars really effectively, and I keep asking people, like, why are you trusting me? You've never met me. You don't know me, and they say I can tell by listening to you that you're real, and they are, because I can show them receipts, but it's good that people are willing to trust a stranger, and it's disheartening that there's no trust left, and almost any of our organizations anymore through their own behaviors. So it turned into a big organization, and now we have, this is the proof of that my little grassroots organization works. FEMA was bragging this week that they have provided 46 trailers to North Carolina. Now, remember, I told y'all, 1,875 houses at 100% loss, not counting all the ones that are at almost full loss. They provided 46 trailers, and the hotel vouchers that they provide are over an hour away. They don't want people in their community. Now, my little ragtag organization at Patriot Relief, we have provided 33 temporary tractor sheds, and we have 10 more on the books for next week. So we're about to surpass FEMA on small-dollar donations from Patriots while FEMA's up there taking our taxpayer dollars and wasting them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. What's that website?
SPEAKER 05 :
Patriot Relief Fund dot com. Patriot Relief Fund dot com. Or you can follow us on Facebook and see what we're doing.
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OK, well, I just want to commend you because you just proved the point that when things happen, it's neighbors helping neighbors, Americans helping Americans. And we shouldn't rely on the government. We should rely on each other because it's the right thing to do. So thank you for that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. And in fact, I wish the government would give my tax dollars back so I could give them to my neighbors who paid into the system, too, which is a whole different conversation. And frankly, it's why American citizens need to get really diligent about what's happening with their dollars, because these are not government dollars. And I'm so tired of FEMA. And the ATF and the IRS and the rest of them acting like they're doing me some great favor when they do something with dollars. Well, guess what, people? Those are my dollars. I put them in the kitty, and the government is not a producer of anything.
SPEAKER 06 :
Amen. Wow. Lee Brown, what else? Anything else that people should know? And yeah, I can tell you're fired up and rightfully so, because this is a true injustice. And to your point, yes, let's lower taxes so that people can use their dollars to help others and know that they are going to get the results that they want. And if you have a charity that does not get the results that you want, that you've been giving to, then in a free market, you should be able to go to a different charity. Another thing that I want to get rid of, though, is all of these government grants that are going out to universities and pushing a specific agenda. I think a government grant in this situation with people losing their homes, I think that is a thing that might be considered. But we need to get rid of all those government grants. We need to lower taxes. I think we should get rid of the income tax and let people have their own money to make their decisions and then have these charities compete for results in the market. Brad, you have a thought, and then we'll close it up with Lee on that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. I think that the free market works. And one of the things that people do is if they invest in something they believe in, you'll see things thrive. But when you're forced, when you're coerced by government, as Lee has seen and experienced in the people of North Carolina, you really need to question whether or not the government is doing what it needs to do, which is protecting our rights and letting us pursue our happiness.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, Lee Brown, thank you for making the time. I know that every minute is so precious right now as you're helping people there. And, again, that's patriotrelieffund.com, correct? It is.
SPEAKER 05 :
And thank you so much for having me on the show. And, by the way, I'm remiss if I don't point out that there is a huge organization doing great things, and that is Samaritan's Purse. They have been on the ground working every day since this started. So I want to make sure that. them another opportunity to be thanked for what they've done.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that's Franklin Graham's group, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
That is correct. And of course, the Graham's are from the area that got impacted in Montreat, but they would have done this kind of work regardless.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Hey, I have one other question. East Rutherfordton, are you familiar with that area at all?
SPEAKER 05 :
I am, but, you know, you've got to say it like North Carolinians, and it's Rufferton.
SPEAKER 07 :
East Rufferton.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Well, I should know that. So for many years, I'd been in the ladies' clothing business, and one of the companies that I worked with was based in East Rutherford, Rufferton. Rufferton. Come on, Kim.
SPEAKER 05 :
Rufferton. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I loved the people there. And so how has that community done through all this?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you probably know some of President Trump's most ardent professional volunteers are from that area. And they have been doing yeoman's work since 2015 and making sure that the people have a voice. And that area, of course, did experience a lot of damage and flooding because where it sits... And that area is down the mountain, so it's towards the foothills. And of course, anybody that knows how real science works, not government science, but when you have the mountains get covered up in that kind of rain, it gathers up and comes downhill. And so there was a lot of flooding out in that area. But of course, the recovery continues. And one of the things that our organization is making sure of is that we look for these overlooked areas that haven't received as much attention to get them what they need. That area has needed a lot of horse farms over there and they needed agricultural supplies and the people have responded. We asked for round bales on the internet one time and Lord knows we had
SPEAKER 06 :
trailer loads coming in from all over the country till we said we're good we're good on round bells now so thank y'all oh lee brown i just got chills on this uh let's stay in touch our prayers for you for the people of north carolina western north carolina keep up the great work thank you and that as patriot relief fund.com be sure and check and thank you for the voice kim and thank you for what you do Oh, absolutely. And we get to do this because of our sponsors. And the person that introduced me to Lee Brown was Karen Levine.
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SPEAKER 06 :
It is Friday, and welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. Brad Beck, co-founder of Liberty Toastmasters, is in studio.
SPEAKER 15 :
And we have a meeting this Saturday at the Independence Institute from 10 to 12. Oh, that's right. So I'll be there, and I'm in the hot seat, so whatever's open, I get that role. Okay, 10 o'clock tomorrow. Tomorrow. You've got it. Saturday at the Independence Institute, and you can look it up on our website. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I got so fired up that I neglected to do some of the things that I agree that I'll do. And one of those, I want to mention the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And they do several things. One is great educational programs. Another is honoring our Medal of Honor recipients. As we're getting into Christmas break, I'd recommend that you put the fam in the car and head down to Pueblo and check out the Center for American Values program. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org. And then also the USMC Memorial Foundation is working diligently to make the remodel a reality. And so check all that out at USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And then also I wanted to acknowledge Roger Mangan and his team. His State Farm Insurance team just does amazing work taking care of their clients. And you said something, Brad, about striving for excellence, not perfection. And Joe and I have that conversation on a regular basis. Perfection's impossible, and you'll spin your wheels and feel terrible doing that. But striving for excellence means that you do your best and you try to get better and better. And I know the Roger Mangan Insurance team strives for excellence.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, all your sponsors are excellent representation of doing the right thing, helping people, helping people get to where they need to be. And that's why they make a profit. And profit is a good thing. It is. And that's why capitalism is the only moral system that is consistent with freedom. And we need to promote more of that.
SPEAKER 06 :
We do. And to Lee Brown, she is fired up. She's frustrated.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And this is coming in from one of our listeners, Holly. She said, looking at the situation from Hurricane Helene at 30,000 feet, the government is obviously trying to force people to leave the area. My guess is when the hurricane hit, people who wanted to benefit from the lithium mine saw a huge opportunity and are capitalizing on it, regardless of the human expenditure. You don't want to believe it, but, man, it sure looks like it, doesn't it?
SPEAKER 15 :
It feels that way. And, you know, my heart goes out to him because I lost a house in the Northridge earthquake, and I know how frustrating it was. And that was way before I was any inkling of being political. But I remember I spray painted on the garage door of my house that was pretty well destroyed. And it said, hey, Bill and Hillary, we could use some help if you're able. And what was funny was all the news trucks stopped in front of my house and said, what does this mean? I said, I'm just trying to get your guys' attention. We need help here. And it was way before I understood the rights of the individual and to have personal responsibility. Luckily, I had earthquake insurance. But it took me nine months to get it from the bank. So, you know, there's all kinds of red tape. And you have to live during those nine months. Well, I lived in a tent in my parents' front yard. Oh, my gosh. And they were a mile from me, and they had one crack in their house. My house had to go down to two by fours.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 11 :
Joe, you had a comment? I lost a house in a flood, and I'm still waiting for my stuff to get returned. It's the same idea. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. I've got to contemplate on this. So changing subject, this is from Yvonne. When we were talking about federal employees, she also mentioned COLA, the cost of living adjustment. So your federal employment base pay plus COLA. And that doesn't necessarily happen in free market enterprise either. Entrepreneurs, you don't get a COLA. You just have to work, and your COLA is... providing your great product to more and more people so that you will make a profit and make money.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, it's always important to remember that you have to prepare yourself, your family, the people around you to have water and emergency supplies. And even if you do it over time, buying a tarp, gloves, mask, whatever you think you might need. And you could go to several emergency websites to just be prepared because it's not if it's going to happen. It will happen at some point, a fire, a flood or something. And luckily, when the Northridge earthquake happened, I had two trash barrels that were full of supplies, radios, batteries, everything you would need to secure your house so you could leave for a little while and be protected. A firearm is always important, cash, medicine, all the things you don't think about when you're living your day-to-day and you're not even thinking about the convenience of water or food or... you know, lights. And so if you are prepared and preparing your friends and your family, I was amazed when that happened. The first thing I did was went in the garage, pulled a bunch of stuff away from that had fallen in, but pulled out my emergency kit. And my neighbors were like, what are those? I said, you need something. I got it. And so, you know, simple things like rope and a hatchet and nails and all the things you would need in an emergency. And more people have to think about being prepared for three days in any situation.
SPEAKER 06 :
You really do need to, and that makes a lot of sense, and also community as well. And we're just about out of time, but a great community is Liberty Toastmasters.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is. I love the people at Liberty Toastmasters. They've become great friends. We have two clubs, one in Longmont, one in Denver. Invite people to come. Practice the skill of oral communication. We need more feisty debates. We need to be civil, and we need to understand that communicating a great message, a good message, is done through practice.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well said. Brad Beck, thanks for being here. And our quote for the end of the show is from Albert Einstein. He said, adversity introduces a man to himself. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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Join professional money manager Bill Gunderson and chartered financial analyst Barry Kite as they delve into this week's market dynamics on the Best Stocks Now show. With the Dow nearing its all-time high and the S&P reaching unprecedented levels, discover the key players and sectors driving the current financial landscape. From the thrilling rise of Bitcoin to the performance of software and semiconductor stocks, this episode covers the essential updates and opportunities for investors.
SPEAKER 04 :
Here is professional money manager, Bill Gundersen.
SPEAKER 05 :
And welcome to the Friday. It's the Friday, December 6th, live edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. Markets are off to a pretty good start here this morning. We have the Dow right now is up 35 points, not quite at its all-time high. but it is at 44,800, and we did see 45,000 this past week. The NASDAQ is up 128 today at 19,827, and we very well could see 20,000 on the NASDAQ before the end of the year. We've got the S&P up 20 points right now. To 6,095, that's an all-time high on the S&P 500. The small caps are up one-half of a percent today. And I noticed that the bond market, the 10-year is clear down to 4.13% this morning. That's the lowest it's been in a while. Crude oil, very soft, 67.29%. And Bitcoin, which hit $103,000 yesterday, it's down $4,100 right now, but it's at $99,156. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. Today's the last day. A lot of people, we started this, I want to say we started this about four weeks ago, Barry, the four-week trial of Spend the Day with Bill in the trading pit.
SPEAKER 02 :
Time flies, doesn't it?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so I see some are going to end today their four-week trial, a bunch tomorrow, a bunch on Sunday. I would surely like to get your feedback. We're going to send all of the... people that are coming to an end, an email thanking you and wanting feedback, and also let you know how you can continue getting the daily updates if you so would like to, or if you would like to just say, hey, Gunderson, you guys can manage the money. This is too time-consuming for me. So anyways, I'm having a lot of fun with this. We've had hundreds and hundreds of people sign up. And I have a really good time spending the day with you all looking for opportunities in the market. Well, we're off to a good start here so far today. We've had a pretty good week. I think the story of the week was Bitcoin 103,000 yesterday. I think there will be something in the newsletter about that. And we've also... Had a lot of good earnings reports this week. I thought Salesforce, for instance, was exceptional. Some other software stocks exceptional. I thought that a lot of semiconductor stocks had a pretty good week. There's always notable laggards in the market. That's going to happen no matter what. You can't avoid that. Oil stocks, energy stocks, I thought were pretty soft this past week, probably the weakest sector in the market. And I would say that software was probably the strongest sector in the market this past week. Well, we've been waiting for a month for today's jobs report. Just you non-farm payroll people. And Barry, give me your take on the jobs report for today.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I mean, you hit it when we were talking about, you know, treasuries, 10-year treasury down to 4.14% at the moment. We started the week, I think, you know, almost at 4.3%. We had, obviously, ADP payrolls on Wednesday. We had our normal weekly job, which claims yesterday, and then the non-farm payrolls today. Came a bit over consensus to 297,000 jobs added. 211 was the estimate. I was kind of keeping an eye on what the revision was going to be for October because you had all the I remember the storm noise basically into that data. I remember initially you only had like I think it was 12,000 jobs added in October. That number was revised to 36,000. So not a huge jump. And, you know, frankly, I think a lot of these employment reports this week have been – Really, that Goldilocks kind of just right reports. We were looking at the percentages in terms of what's the percent for a rate cut next week. I think a couple days ago when we looked at this number, it was around 74%, 71%. today it's at 90. So basically the market seems that this data will keep the Fed cutting at least one more quarter point in December, and then anything can happen once 2025 happens.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Well, this is only the second time in the last six months that we've had payroll growth over 200,000. So It looks like Biden, this will be his last payroll. No, he'll have one more. He'll have one more in January. So it looks like he's going to go out on a strong note, at least from a jobs point of view. And the initial jobless claims have also remained very low here. We haven't seen any jump there in a long, long time. Trump names ex PayPal chief operating officer. David Sachs is quite well known, uh, as the AI artificial intelligence and crypto czar. Okay. Should we be worried about these two trends? Ah, you know, all I can say is we were in uncharted territory with artificial intelligence. and we're in uncharted territory really with the Bitcoin, which has seemingly come out of nowhere. The kind of numbers, I'll probably do a little bit of compound annual growth in the newsletter just to give you some idea of the magnitude of the move in Bitcoin since some of the highlights, especially recently here, just over the last three or four years. I mean, it blows away the stock market. I don't think it ends well. Okay. I just don't see the underpinnings. I don't think it's built on a sound fundamental foundation, but it looks like, uh, you know, the new administration that's coming in on January 20th is all in. Uh, there's a lot of people right now surrounding Trump, uh, that are, uh, very, uh, uh, bullish on cryptocurrency. and the SEC, including the head of the SEC. So we shall see how this all ends up.
SPEAKER 02 :
And some of those folks around him obviously have, you know, they own crypto. So, you know, it's anything they can do to help, you know, fuel that demand for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies right there. Those folks are amazing. Just like any other lobbyist, those kind of rules and potential ways to securitize cryptocurrency is going to benefit them and increase the price.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, they call it the PayPal Mafia that Trump is surrounded by. You have Elon Musk, obviously, who was in on that PayPal Mafia. You've got the Palantir chairman, which is Peter Thiel. And, of course, you have David Sachs, who is a South African-born American entrepreneur who also lead the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. So we've really stepped it up. I mean, we're all in on artificial intelligence and maybe artificial wealth. We'll see. how it all pans out but that's where we are we're at 99 000 on paypal after on uh crypto on bitcoin after hitting 103 000 yesterday and i think you know another big boost for for uh for uh bitcoin has been the the advent of the etf Because, you know, who can buy a coin at $99,000? The ETFs have commoditized it and have democratized it, I suppose, bringing it down to a level where you can buy in for $40 a share or $45 a share or whatever the case may be, depending upon the ETF. And I think that has really... Oh, and it's made access. Oh, man, that has just blown up.
SPEAKER 02 :
And you can hold it in an IRA, right? Yeah. There's a lot of different ways now, so...
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. And it's also increased the liquidity. But, you know, you also have to think we used to, you know, the the theater, the theater analogy where there's a small door into that theater. People just keep coming in and coming in until the fire alarm goes off. I'm speaking of the fire alarm. There it is. Maybe that's an open and everybody wants out. OK, so that's what I worry about. OK, when we come back, a lot of companies in the news today, some new ones to talk about. What's gold going to do next year? There's some new macro outlets for next year. We'll be right back. I still worry about Europe, okay? Look, I've always got a worry list. I always have a worry list. Sometimes it's a longer list than other times. But Europe is really, really just crawling along with their economy. And now you've got the collapse of the government in France. France's market is down 6.4%. The Eurozone is looking, their latest quarter, their GDP expanded by 0.4%. I mean, that is really, really sluggish growth. We have, I don't know that we have any exposure to Europe whatsoever, European stocks. I mean, the biggest ones in Europe are Novo Nordisk, uh, ASM lithography, uh, and, uh, Louis Vuitton, uh, SAP, a few others like that, but, uh, really they're struggling over there, not having much growth right now. Uh, we've got a lot of big gainers that we'll talk about. DocuSign has had a big earnings report. Ulta has had a big earnings report. Ulta is one that actually is in, uh, Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio. Git Labs, Lululemon has had a big report. We'll get to those in a little bit. What's in store for gold? You know, gold was the star of the show here for a long time until Bitcoin kind of came along and unseated it. Gold, however, may hit a new record next year. It did get up to $2,800, I think, which was an all-time high. And now it's trading in that $2,600 range. It seems to be mired there. Silver's at about $31. Well, you know, I mean, the Doge Boys coming in would be bearish, actually, for gold if they can cut that deficit at all. But the rate cuts would be bullish for gold if the Fed continues to cut rates. So at least you have one big firm out there, Macquarie, which kind of specializes in basic materials. They're out of Australia, saying that they think that gold will hit a new all-time high next year. With just a couple weeks left here, we've got, what, three weeks? Here's the top 10 S&P 500 performers. Number 10, Constellation Energy. That's a three-mile island. We own that stock. It's up 119% year-to-date. Halmet Aerospace, it's a very good dividend-paying large-cap stock in the aerospace industry. It's up 122%. Targa Resources is up 128%. It's kind of a pipeline LNG stock. United Airlines, that's a surprise, up 152% this year. Texas Pacific Land is up 160%. That's one we own in our emerging growth portfolio. Axon, formerly Taser, is up 166%. GE Vernova is up 167%. Then your top three, NVIDIA, up 194% year-to-date. Palantir, which is just turning into a monster. Part of that PayPal mafia up 320% this year. Holy smokes. And Vistra, which we own in our dividend portfolio. We also own Palantir. We also own NVIDIA. Vistra is up 322% year to date. That is a utility, a utility of Texas. Hey, guess who was at Miralago last night at the table at the, at Trump's table with RFK was there, along with Pfizer's CEO, Albert Bourla. I wonder how that conversation went. They were the makers of the vaccine, the COVID vaccine. And Lilly, I'm sure maybe the CEO of Lilly maybe suggested Trump to drive the Zep-Bound for a little while, maybe lose a few pounds. But, you know, I don't know. Kennedy, now he's buff. I saw a video of him without a shirt doing some kind of pull-ups or something.
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I've seen that video plastered on the news here and there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Whatever he's doing, maybe it's the fluoride. Maybe he doesn't use fluoride. I don't know, but he's a pretty buff guy, that RFK. So anyways, that's an interesting thing. Big Pharma. at the Trump table down in Miralago with RFK.
SPEAKER 02 :
I thought you were about to tell me you were at the table.
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No, no, I have not been invited. I'm looking to be the stock czar, but nobody's called yet. Speaking of Lilly, they're planning a $3 billion expansion of their Wisconsin plant. You know, I think 2025 will be a year of them really taking on the compounders. And, you know, look, Lilly stock has turned around in a big way. It's up $120 a share over the last three weeks. And I think that's because they're starting to crack down on these compounders that are cutting. And I think the news on Lilly that it runs circles really around Novo Nordisk-Wagobi. I think that's also a really big deal. So Lilly is going to expand $3 billion expansion into Wisconsin in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Here's another nuclear play, okay? We just read some of the biggest winners in the S&P 500. Two of them were nuclear, or three of them were. You had Constellation Energy. which is out of Pennsylvania, and the Three Mile Island power plant and all that, and the deal they signed with Microsoft, which is still up in the air. You have Vistra, which is the number one performer in the S&P 500 this year. We found it using the app a long time ago. And you have GE Vernovo. Well, now there's a Canadian player. TransAlta, man, I watched this thing. It was showing up on my app, and I said, I think this company is probably getting in on the Establishment Center stuff. And then the next day, it just exploded to the upside. Okay, I said, yep, I think they're getting in on it. Sure enough, TransAlta, T-A-C, surges. We got a lot of followers in Canada. We have a lot of followers in British Columbia. We have a lot of followers in Alberta. And folks were all throughout Canada. Well, you guys now and gals have a company up there, TransAlta. I'm sure you're aware of it, TAC. They are touting a $100 billion plan to attract AI data centers. Okay, they want to become a hub for artificial intelligence, seeing the potential to attract $100 billion in investments over the next five years.
SPEAKER 02 :
Should be able to keep those data centers cool.
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Yeah, I mean, they don't have to air condition them as much as they do those ones down in Texas. That's right. But they have an innovation minister called, his name is Nate Glubish. He's made four trips. The Silicon Valley, Alberta for data center. We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GuntersonCapital.com. To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show.
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Call now the instigator Because there's something in the air
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Network show. Well, with just three weeks left in 2024, the target prices for next year continue to come out. The predictions, this is the weirdest one of all. Wells Fargo has their 12-month target price, 7,007. 7,007. Okay, usually it's a round number of some sort. Here's how they're coming up with that. They're taking next year's earnings estimates, and they're multiplying it by 22 times. Okay, well, you know, 707, wasn't that 007? No, that was James Bond. But, you know, look, 22 times is not sustainable. Yes, I realize that the market is trading at 22.11 times right now. But I go back to the year 2000 when they told me that 25 times was sustainable for the S&P 500. Actually, it was up around 30 at that time because we had entered into a new paradigm. And I think you'd probably hear the same argument today. We've entered into a new paradigm with artificial intelligence and digital currencies and all this and that. But over the long haul, the S&P 500, really, the last 5 to 10 years has even been elevated at 18. 18 has been the average, and we're currently at 22 times. But that's what Wells Fargo is using on next year's earnings estimates to come up. with their target price. So what would cause that 22 multiple to shrink, Barry?
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Oh, well, that would be certainly interest rates rising. Absolutely. Today at least we get the benefit with rates coming down a bit today and overall this week. You know, you can justify that higher multiple, and that's why we've seen that higher multiple over the last, you know, decade and a half, really since coming out of 08-09, where interest rates have certainly been depressed and, you know, over that time span, which – you know, average-wise, you know, led to higher multiples because, you know, even normal bond investors were getting pushed into stocks because their bonds simply weren't paying enough from an interest rate standpoint. So it's an interesting dynamic. And, you know, those multiples, you know, there's got to be a reason for an elevated multiple. It can't just be from euphoria.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that reason can change very quickly, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean...
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, look, if we went from a 22 multiple to an 18 multiple, more where the market belongs, that's a 25% hit to the S&P 500, which makes us very, very vulnerable at this level. I'm not saying we can't go to 25 times earnings. Momentum is a very hard thing to predict. When it will end, where are you first going to see momentum and is going to be in the charts of individual stocks? And it will be in some kind of adverse news, a string of adverse news, maybe some big earnings misses, maybe some inflation coming back, maybe a global event. We're very, very vulnerable right now. When you have multiples this high, now I've seen it this high, I've seen it higher than this before, and that was back in the year 2000. And yes, it was higher at that point in time, it was up around 30 on the forward P of the S&P 500. We're not there, but we are at a very elevated level here right now. That's something you have to keep in the back of your mind.
SPEAKER 02 :
Which makes active management important, I think, because some of these companies deserve, right, or you can argue that they deserve a higher multiple. Take NVIDIA, for example. But then when you look at the overall market multiple of 22 or 21.8, wherever the number is at the moment... You know, I pick out a consumer staples company, not picking on Procter & Gamble, but you pick up Procter & Gamble, right, and their forward P is 25.3.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, Barry, your father has been in the business. I mean, he's retired, but he's been in it as long as I have, maybe longer. And I'm sure if you asked him, Dad, what do you think about this current multiple here at 22, he would probably say,
SPEAKER 02 :
keel over and i'm sure he has an opinion on that current multiple of the market well yeah read just any of our yeah any of our clients can just just pull up uh you know the schiller pe which is you know usually they look back at usually look i think it's a 10-year pe multiple that they kind of compare back to and i mean you know that average multiple for for years was around 14 or 15 like at best yeah
SPEAKER 05 :
So now we're at 22, but they'll say, well, we're in a new paradigm. I've heard that before. I heard that in the year 2000. We're in a new paradigm. All the people that were saying we're in a new paradigm aren't around anymore. They were analysts, Henry Blodgett and others like that. Okay, let's take a look here. Here's a projection for Bitcoin. I don't know how you value it. That's one of the biggest problems I have. Standard Charter says it's going to go to $200,000. The only way you can value it is supply and demand. It's kind of the greater fool theory. I believe it is the greater fool theory. You know, as long as there's somebody that's going to come along and continue to pay a higher price for it, someday it will come to an end. Where does it go?
SPEAKER 1 :
$400,000?
SPEAKER 05 :
$500,000? Have we seen the top? I don't know. But, you know, we lost, what, 40%? Bitcoin went through a huge correction not that long ago. Then, of course, when you had the guys, the Bitcoin guys that went down, the whole cryptocurrency thing, guru that went down. That caused a big spill in Bitcoin. But right now, it's kind of in that greater fool theory. And you just take a look at the demand for it right now, and they're projecting $200,000 on Bitcoin. How do you value it?
SPEAKER 02 :
Right. Well, that's one of the keys to get in more hands. So the interesting thing, certainly from the beginning of Bitcoin and even now, a lot of Bitcoin is really held in a majority of Bitcoins actually held in a very small number of hands, right? And so if any of those hands ever begin selling at some point, then that creates – you've seen these points in time where Bitcoin's been very susceptible to supply shocks, meaning too much supply – One of those being whenever they had to unwind some of those nefarious companies, they actually had to liquidate assets so they could try to pay some investors back. And so they put a lot of Bitcoin on the market. And that's when you saw one of the more recent kind of stiff pullbacks in Bitcoin. So it's very much driven by supply and demand. And that mismatch can happen quickly.
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Well, and the other factor here is it's starting now to be bought by retirement funds, sovereign wealth funds. It could go into potential U.S. strategic reserve funds. If that were to happen, I mean, that could keep that demand up for quite a while. But we'll see. We'll take it a day at a time. Count me a skeptic. But I do have some, okay, just as a hedge, I suppose, right now. Okay, Boeing was starting to take off. It collapsed. They had a deal to, you know, settle those 737 MAX crashes. It fell apart. That's been hurting the Dow a little bit. And they have not restarted 737 MAX production after the labor strike. They're not up and running yet, so Boeing, and they're burning cash. So it's just a really, really tight situation there at Boeing. Thursday night, Italian AI startup iGenius unveiled Colossium, one of the world's largest NVIDIA DGX super pod AI supercomputers with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell super chips. I've been waiting for that, Barry. Now that we've got one, that's going to be one of the biggest and fastest supercomputers in the world. They designed the supercomputer for unicorn use cases that can deliver $1 billion in value, said iGenius CEO. We are in a different paradigm. There's no question about it. The question is, is it sustainable? Okay, now here's some on Palantir. Palantir has become just a monster. We own it in our ultra-growth portfolio. I've been wanting to buy it in the premier growth portfolio too, but it will not stop. It just keeps going up on a daily basis. But they are expanding work. Shield AI is which is a pretty big player, private company, is deepening their strategic partnership with Palantir. Shield AI has a CEO, Brandon Sang, who is the founder and a former Navy SEAL. A lot going on in that artificial intelligence. Now, when we come back, a new one emerged this morning. We talked about TransAlpha, which has been around for a while. It's getting a rebirth, but here's one this morning I found. That is blowing up today. We'll be right back.
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You got to go where you want to go. Do what you want to do with whoever you want to be. Got to go where you want to go. Do what you want to do with whoever you want to be.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Thoughts Now. So, well, I just sent out a message, a lesson on when to sell, which I also do throughout the day. I used, you remember ACGL, which was an insurer. It was a reinsurer. that we did really well with. I mean, we ended up making 74%. Yes, we have losers, too. We talked about those also. I'm just giving you an example here of one that we decided to sell earlier this year. It kind of topped out. It started to roll over. We had a big gain in it. Then all of a sudden, the CEO resigned out of nowhere, and the stock broke the low-mine line in the sand, and I mark my charts up, okay? So I have, and the charting system that I use, MarketSmith, it keeps my notes and my lines. And that's very good for going back and looking, you know, at cases. And, you know, I learn from those. So we sold it for 74%. It's done nothing but go down ever since. They don't all work out in that orderly of a fashion. In fact, sometimes it's quite chaotic, a sell. But knowing when to sell, I mean, there's probably 99 different reasons and different possible scenarios. But I try to teach while I'm doing this master course with everybody out there. And, you know, I would just say this, Barry. I signed up for Jim Cramer just to see what it was all about. Okay. Jim has a, a club and I think it's $400 a year or something like that. It has one portfolio and it's got a lot of Procter and Gamble's and, uh, and Kimberly Clark's in there and it has about 25 stocks and there's not much action in it to be honest with you. And I don't think it's actually performed very well. That's just my opinion. Well, I mean, we come at it. We have five different portfolios in the newsletter every week. So, you know, if you're a dividend person, we have a dividend portfolio. If you're an investor, we have four portfolios that are for investors. We have an emerging growth. We have the bond portfolio. We haven't made any changes. We've been checking. We've been scoping out a few new bonds, but we haven't made any changes.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I think we bought a Chenier Energy. I think we got around, I want to say it was around. Okay, you went, okay. That was about three weeks ago now. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so somewhere in the 5.7 range or something, 5.5.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, 5. I think it was in that 5.6 to 8 range.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so you're locking that in for five years, and that's for people that can't take the, the volatility of the market and then of course you know we have the uh the the what do we call it the incubator portfolio which i i sent out every holding in that thing because i started on that i never intended to you know that's just kind of my uh you know that's i i'm a little more aggressive than uh some of the investment portfolios that i published every holding in there And, of course, I send out every buy and sell. That's the trading portfolio for the traders. So there's a lot of action. When you have all of those that you're talking about during the course of the day, you're getting a lot for $89 a month. Hopefully, the people that signed up for the free trial, hopefully they paid for it, right? But, you know, look, we make no guarantees. You can just watch. and paper trade and learn. There's a lot of value to that, too, over a four-week period of time. So anyways, we still offer it, GundersenCapital.com, and we spoke to a lot of people. We've had a lot of people say, you know what? I don't have time for this. This is an all-day-long thing for me. The time before the market opens at 10 a.m. in the morning, East Coast time, until the time it closes, there's a lot of work here. And they say, we'd rather have, you know... Somebody manage this for us. So that's the other option, obviously. Or you just go it yourself. You learn something and take that knowledge with you.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, and time is, you know, talking with clients who, you know, we have a lot of folks who listen or, you know, a lot of clients we work with have at some point been do-it-yourselfers. And, you know, usually what the main factor ends up being is, you know, a lot of times just time and, you know, having, you know, the other piece is just, Having someone that you can manage alongside or benefit from knowledge from. Time is a huge factor. This stuff, particularly how quickly markets move nowadays, it's good to have an eye on it.
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Here's the stock of the day in the last few minutes. I was reading through the news this morning and I saw one that reported earnings. I said, I don't know if I have that one in the app or not. Rubric. That's the same as Rubric Cube, right? R-U-B-R-I-K. It's a security cyber security stock. Jeff Webster, who worked in the software industry for many years, is aware of Rubric. I think it's getting ready to turn profitable here. And that stock is up 31% today. It's now a $13 billion company. I added it to the app today. We don't own it. It's But it certainly caught my attention this morning when I read about, well, they had 43% gain in sales year over year, 55% gain in earnings. They're not profitable yet, but they went from a loss of 47 cents to a loss of just 21 cents. So that's 55% growth there. $13 billion company headquartered in the Silicon Valley. They just went public in spring of this year. So that one is now in the app and on our watch list. And we'll see where it scores here once it gets a grade. And we can't really do a valuation on it yet because it doesn't have earnings yet, but I think those are coming soon. All right. Well, I'll be sending out the newsletter usually late on Saturday afternoon. I'll be in the pits all day long sending out alerts, observations, Anytime I buy or sell something in any of these portfolios, you can just watch. I mean, it's up to you. I'm just telling you what I see and what I'm doing. You can go to GundersenCapital.com and sign up for that four-week trial. And for those of you whose four-week trial is now coming to an end, hey, I've had a great time. I hope to continue on with you in the market. All right. Have a great day, everybody.
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In this enlightening episode, host Reggie Rocco is joined by Kane, the founder of Task Force Freedom, as they discuss pressing issues affecting America's educational system. They delve into controversial subjects such as the inclusion of inappropriate materials in school curriculums and the impact of legal hypocrisies. Kane sheds light on the mission of Task Force Freedom to protect children from indoctrination and outlines the alarming presence of materials that many would consider pornographic. The conversation extends beyond the confines of the classroom, touching on societal attitudes and the historical underpinnings that have shaped current-day America. Reggie and Kane navigate through complex subjects like historical welfare policies and their effects on family dynamics, particularly within African American communities. This episode is packed with insights and calls for awareness and action from both parents and educators. Listeners are encouraged to explore the systemic issues at play, understand the nation's deep-rooted cultural and legal challenges, and reflect on personal and communal responsibilities in safeguarding the future of our children.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's up? What's up? What's up? You tuned in to 560 KLZ. KLZ. I'm a uniter. I'm a uniter. I'm your host, Reggie Rocco. Yeah. KLZ. Yeah. Yeah. So what about now? We want everybody. I mean, everybody stand up. Stand up. Hold your hands up high. Lock arms. This is about America, baby. We bringing people together. I'm a United.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Woo! Yeah, I'm a Uniter. Bye, CTKLZ. Of course, this is Reggie Rocco, and then you know who the man is on the other side of the glass, behind the board, Lukey Luke, what's up? Oh, another beautiful day, Reggie. Now, it's getting a little warmer, right? Not for long. No, no, don't say that.
SPEAKER 01 :
What's up? Reggie, we're going into winter. It's not going to get warm for a little while, bud. We got all of December and January and February to get through.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, but I thought it was global warming and all that stuff. It ain't working for me, huh? Not working in your favor. Is that another situation that's untrue, global warming? I don't know, man. I'm not a scientist. Yeah, you are. Yeah, you are. Well, hey, man, you know, we got somebody in the studio today listening to the show. And, of course, he's been on Kim's show. And you know who this man is. But I'll let him introduce himself because he's on the United show. Now, I told him how we roll. He know, though. How we roll. So what's up, big dog? Introduce yourself. Thanks, Reg.
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Yeah, I'm Kane. I'm with Task Force Freedom. I'm the founder of Task Force Freedom. We're at TaskForceFreedomNoCode.com. And what we do is we fight to protect our kids from the government school. We fight the teachings of critical race theory, social emotional learning. The DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion stuff, the sexual grooming of kids, the pornography, which most people don't know and they're not aware. But there's hundreds and hundreds of pornographic books in our government school. And so our main objective is to protect the kids. And we say all the time, take your children out of the government schools. They are not safe. They're indoctrination centers. And at some point, you will see how it harms your kids.
SPEAKER 04 :
So when you say pornography, okay, Luke, do I need a disclaimer? No, no, I don't want a disclaimer. I don't want a disclaimer. But it'll probably be one before the day is out. Are you saying actual porno?
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I'm saying – so when I say it's pornography, it is described by Colorado law. I can give you the actual quote for Colorado law. It is – Section 18-7-502, which describes what pornography is. And then there's a federal law, which is Title 18, Section 1466A, which describes what pornography is. So pornography can be... illustrations. So if you have, I'm going to try to keep it as clean as I can. If you have an illustration of, and this is in one of the books called Gender Queer. Let me say this. If you go to our website, If you go to our website and you look up the schools, the school district under one of the tabs, you can go to a school and you can look up the books that are there. One of the books that are there is called Genderqueer. In Genderqueer, there's an illustration of an adult male with an erection fondling what appears to be maybe a 12 or 13-year-old little boy. with an erection, and that is in middle schools.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so why would that be in any school, even high school, because you have to be 18 at least?
SPEAKER 05 :
And so what happens here in Colorado, there was a case law from 19, I want to say 85, and it was tattered... Tattered cover versus Thule. And that case law basically said these materials, it's a first amendment right. And these materials are allowed to be in the government schools. Here's the tricky thing. I can take this book called gender queer and go to a child in a school and give it to them and go, Hey, let's look through this book. If I take that very same book and we go across the street to a parking lot, I just committed a crime, a misdemeanor.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hmm. So hypocrisy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hypocrisy and bias. It's insane that we so-called learned adults would allow children. to look at porn. This is straight up pornography, whether it's illustrations or if it's the text.
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So, okay, a lot of that you have to be at home. I remember my father brought me some book called The Joy of Sex. And he sat down with me and he went through this and blah, blah, blah. I don't know, was it a father thing? It was illustrations, and I really didn't know what the heck, what I was looking at or whatever. But I was older. But it's crazy to even imagine something like that would be with little –
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So most parents are really not aware of what these, I call them government schools. They're indoctrination centers. They're really not aware of what these schools are doing to their kids. I heard this on a podcast recently. A person asked this gentleman, would you allow a grown man to talk to your 10-year-old daughter about giving fellatio well about performing would you allow a grown man to do that and he says of course not well there are books in our schools that take little kids and specifically teach them and show them how to give fellatio how to perform fellatio
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So anyone who knows me knows that I have three things that I will go to war for, and I mean right now, today. And that's kids, the elderly, and my mother. And my mother is no longer with us. The rest of us all, I love you. I love to think about you every day. And I just don't play when it comes to that. So I tell Luke all the time, hey, man, make sure you raise the bail money. Because if I run across a situation like that, because I've already in Atlanta came across different situations like that where they, it's like, Reg, I'm like, man, I'm not going to get that kid off your lap. That ain't your kid. You know what I'm saying? Right. You know what I'm saying? I know maybe the mom don't know and the other kid's here and all that, and you with this kid on your lap. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
I know you gay. I mean, we're getting into the line. I think our country has been trying to destroy us men to take away our masculinity.
SPEAKER 04 :
Emasculation? Yes. What is it? Emasculation? Oh, well. okay black is the new orange okay so orange is the is it the prison yes sir and then now black is the new gay I mean I have a ton of stories it's so bad in Atlanta well at first it wasn't it was 22 fine women to every man right but then 10 years you know everything you start finding out everything that's in the industry which I've I've talked about it so much on the show and I I'm not wrong, man. I'm never wrong. Well, Luke going to have to check me. But, dude, I'm never wrong. And if I am, somebody come. Because I be telling these people what is really going on. Right. Because there's a whole back scene.
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Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know about the back scene? Yes, sir. Go ahead.
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Talk a little bit about it. So understand this. Everything that's happening to our culture today. You can look back and look at the American Negro and what has happened to us the last 50, 60 years. Everything that's occurring today has already happened to us.
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They thought we were too violent, like animals. Like China is the worst. They got libraries with pictures of us next and museums with pictures of us next to animals, right? So you want to talk about the racism. I tell everybody, it ain't the white people. China is the worst. The worst that I'm passing. But there's even one that I talk about all the time that's worse than Asian relationships with blacks. And that is the black woman. Now, am I tripping?
SPEAKER 05 :
You speaking the truth, bro. I mean, you're not going to get an argument from me. But there's a reason why that has occurred. The reason why it occurred was LBJ back in the 60s with his social welfare program came up and says, hey, we're going to give these black women, we're going to give these poor women money, but Bubba can't be in the house. And that was the downfall. And so at some point, women, black women, poor women realized, oh, I don't need that man anymore.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can get food stamps. You can get welfare. Housing. You can get housing. You can get all of that. You can get money coming through, but you can't have them in the house. And then you get child support. Perfect. you know kids so that's what they invented the baby daddy they they don't understand CD the system hasn't caught up but really what's going on see now in our culture and I can say that you know it probably exists in other culture but really in our culture because being in the entertainment industry they don't understand the game that the evilness that takes place in there and so you sit up there and you start figuring out these laws and how to work with them and beat them and then they turn around instead of using them against The white people, they come and bring them on us. And so people will be like, how do you know the jokes with the father being in the home and not being there and all the black father. They don't even understand the real thing is that it's because the laws and whoever designed these laws. Because I just can't believe that it's just white people that designed these laws that weren't gay. Well, these these laws are crazy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Understand this, that the social welfare laws that were implemented in the 60s were supported by black folk. OK, so it was black people that says, yeah, that's a good idea. Let's just give people because they look at this.
SPEAKER 04 :
They look at it. I can get this free money. I'm getting this free money. It was nothing about a they didn't understand. Like I say every day, like if you. teach me how to fish i can survive for the rest of my life but if you're giving me the fish all the time and you decide to say you know what today i ain't gonna do it and i'm hungry i'm like and i'm not gonna get you no no more you're stuck you're stuck and they know that and it's done on purpose so why is it why is it and we'll you know with this we'll talk about this the black woman accept that deal And then turn around and use this monstrous system against your own people. Then they got them set up to where they thinking that abortion is great. So now, and then the other part of the prisons is mostly black people that look like us. So you got, you killing the babies, you killing us financially and trying to put us in jail. And then the ones that are out here jailing. So here's a problem where black people went wrong and where my mom kept me so, so good. so strong, so powerful is that I was like, okay, I don't need the money. I'm not gonna sell my soul, I'm not gonna blah, blah, blah, blah. So there's nothing that you can do for me. Success is like beauty in the eye of the beholder. So you have to understand when you're talking to somebody like me, yeah, I done been to the mountaintop, down, up, you can't take none of it with you. I ain't never seen a hearse followed by a U-Haul on anybody, so you can't get me with that. But I look at the women and I ask them like, don't you see what's going on? I had told stories on here where I could go outside and the grass is green. And I'll tell my black woman, wow, that grass is green. And you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's related to the Kentucky bluegrass, blah, blah, blah. The first thing she says is, how do you know? Blah, blah, blah, blah. But a white guy come out and say, That grass is green. It sure is.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it goes back to the 60s where they separated the man and the woman, showed the black woman that she didn't need him. I've seen beautiful black women, man, say, I don't need no man. They don't. And today they think the same thing. But it's more than just not needing a man. Your baby needs a dad. Yeah, yeah. Your children need a father. This is the reason why the prisons are full of black men. Hear me out. Women, when they raise men, they raise emotional beings.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know what we call them? Do you know what we call them? A woman, a male kid raised by a woman? What do we call them? I can't say this word, so we'll call it a B, as in a female dog. Yes. Jigga. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's what we call them. So what happens is when men are raised by women, they become emotional beings. Right. But they're full of testosterone. So the emotion now is going to be expressed in violence.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. So with that emotion, exactly, and guess what else, what that emotion does. So if you have your black woman that's always telling you, You ain't nothing. I can make more money without you. The system wants to give me this. I get kids. I have blah, blah, blah. I can get all this money and you blah, blah, blah. I'm better without you. Then the emotion in those men, they turn around and they be like, I got to do something. I got to make some money. So the first thing they do is they turn to crime and they turn to selling drugs so they can make them feel like something. But the first person they're trying to impress is the one that's tearing them down, which is a black woman. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, I'm going to agree with you to a certain extent. However, the man still needs to take responsibility for his children. I don't care how crazy your baby mamas are. If you've got four or five of them, take care of your children. You're destroying your future and the future of this country.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so let me push back on that. So I've been in situations where we're on the road. And let's just say Usher concert, right? And other groups opening up and everything, right? And, you know, the parties that take place in Hollywood, the P. Diddy parties and all that. They're everywhere. P. Diddy is not the only one by far. Nah, nah, nah. I've been to a few myself. Never with no kids and stuff like that. But you know freak parties. In the club, everything. But what happens is, The women don't do anything. So the women are groupies. You got 20,000 of them, whatever. You got five, two, three, four, 500 trying to get back to Usher. The first thing they do, first of all, they're dressed like so provocative. And then the second thing they do is they got to get – first thing they got to do is get past the security. So the security is making a deal to get the number that I'm about to take out there. Then once you get past the security, now you got to go to the manager, the road manager. And the role manager makes his deal, says he's fine, blah, blah, blah, blah. I might take her in the back, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And they go through all that before they finally get to us. And then when they get to us, they may get with them, they may not. But the ones that do, and I'm talking about football, basketball, entertainers, all of that. Then, you know, you have relations with this chick. But one of my partners, and I won't say partner, he's a friend, an associate in the business. He, you know, was doing his thing, went to sleep. Woke up and found her digging in the trash for the contraceptive. Of course. And with a turkey baster. Yep. Syphoning and injecting, trying to get pregnant because her mentality is that's 18 to 21 years of a lotto ticket. That's right. That's exactly right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that happens. It happens. It happens quite often, actually.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 05 :
Quite often. But it's... I mean, it's like a downgrade of society, man. So we look to Hollywood. I know you're from that area in the industry. It is as fake. Fake? So I worked in Hollywood. I think I told you I did some law enforcement and security work and personal protection and everything. You go to Hollywood, Hollywood Boulevard or the Walk of the Stars. The Star of Hollywood, the Walk of Fame. So when they go out there and they're going to put a new star in, they get rid of all that trash. Yeah, it's trash.
SPEAKER 04 :
And feces.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. But about 12 o'clock at night, 1 o'clock in the morning, you get to see what Hollywood is. Oh, yeah. It's disgusting. Disgusting. It's a ghetto. Hollywood's a ghetto. And so we, as regular humans, look at Hollywood like, oh, I want to be that. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it is pure evil. You know, they hire a serious cleaning crew to just not just clean it, but to have pressure wash it and sanitize it. And then they have the granite blaster, concrete blasters, all that stuff to put that to work.
SPEAKER 05 :
But all of that stuff is done to keep us in check, man, to keep us in line, to keep us on that same path that they want us to go down. And all of it has to do with destroying society and destroying our country. Because if we can make the people just be blind followers.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it's good talking to another black man, especially one that's prestigious.
SPEAKER 05 :
I consider myself a Negro. I consider myself a Negro, but that's okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
But behind the behind the nose things and all that, because now, you know, I keep it real. Women like there's women like that all the time that are trying to go dig and get the money. I'm just saying we're since we're talking in our culture, in our race, what I know, what you know, what we know on different levels from behind the scenes and why we can answer some of the questions that my white friends ask me and they joke around. You know how you can tell, I don't even remember the jokes. Somebody in the house, no daddy. What's the difference between a white man and a black man? And then so they had this white dude open up the door and the kid said, daddy. You know, all that. And it's funny.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's funny. It's funny. You gotta laugh.
SPEAKER 04 :
But they don't understand the reason. And I even go way, way back, but the Willie Lynch theory, Willie Lynch letter, I mean, it comes in there because slavery was a horrible thing. Trademarks, copyrights, you know, and I don't know how many bills I have to pay and if I owe somebody something, they coming at me all the time. You know, I don't have intellectual property. That's how I got with Trump. Asians grabbed me big time. And the bottom line is, I like to keep that same energy.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's funny you say this because I own an innovation company. I have four patents and I'm working on another one. And my attorney's down in the Springs and I ask him, I'm like, how do I protect my intellectual properties from the Chinese? That's what he told me. He goes, you don't. He goes, they can go on and look at every single patent that we have and they will sell it to billions of Chinese before you even know that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you know what my attorney told me? He said, do you have a team of lawyers? Nope. Do you have the U.S. government army behind you and Navy and Air Force? Nope. Nope. Forget about it. Because you ain't getting it. There's nothing you can do. I'm like, well, me, that could set me up for the rest of my life. I'd rather take and go to the, you know, something I can do, something I can, you know, I'm single and I'm going to do my thing. I'm trying to get better and better. But I can have some, the point is I could do what I want to do with my money and help who I want and do what I want besides having your intellectual properties and your trading arts and your patents stolen. So how do you feel? Because I'm a conservative and a Republican, but they all know, everybody that knows me, is I 100% believe in reparations.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because when you're in a business like mine, and we've been in the poor neighborhoods. We grew up poor. So when you're taught to do the right thing and you do something and you invent something that's yours, you expect to get paid on it like your white friend. Right. Like his ancestors handed down company after company. Kroger's was like 1806 or something crazy, you know. All this money being passed down, but a lot of the stuff that we did was stolen. I get that. And I can't go back two, three generations before I'm lost, dude.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I'm probably going to disagree with you because I don't believe in reparations.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let me tell you why I do and you tell me why you don't. Okay. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If I come in right now today and steal your patent and your trademark right now today, how are you going to feel and what are you going to do? Right. Color off the board. Take color away. Right and wrong.
SPEAKER 05 :
So after we were freed, freed slaves were offered land.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm hmm.
SPEAKER 05 :
They were offered – actually, they were – they say – what is it? 40 acres and a mule. I'm not even saying that. I'm saying that they were offered land, but they had to go and occupy the land for five years, and it would become – and they had to work the land for five years, and it would become theirs. And the majority of them didn't want to do it. So let me say this. Okay, go ahead. So reparations. I'm going to say yes, but who should pay it? Here's a question. Should the Africans that stole my ancestors pay, the ones who sold me to the Portuguese, or should the white people that received me in this continent, in this country, pay?
SPEAKER 04 :
Who should pay? Okay, so let me get down. Let me get down. I love this stuff. So... Any fool would know, didn't know five ships full of white boys go over to Africa with them stupid A guns that you had to take out a piece of cloth, put some gunpowder in it, put a steel metal ball in it, then wrap that up, then take another stick or something and jam it down the barrel to engage, and then cock it and then shoot. Now you doing that, and I got a million Africans. With spears. With spears, I'm going to have like... 20 inside of you like before that so obviously it was some type of negotiations going on so i understand that part but it was every it was africans that stole people from my tribe and they
SPEAKER 05 :
Took the women and the kids and they sold me to the Portuguese.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they put me on the ship.
SPEAKER 05 :
So when there's reparations, who should pay it?
SPEAKER 04 :
All of them. So what I look at is, okay, y'all, but what's the difference now? What do I talk about to this day? How black men, I always tell Luke, we can never work together. They vote black Democrat, born black Democrat all the time. They want to stun onions instead of working together. That's why these Hispanics and everybody got so much even in their own countries because their women are loyal to them. Yeah. They are loyal. They help 10 of them be in the house. So that big rent payment's down to nothing. But us, first, when we get some money, the first thing we want to do is get all the stuff and then come in the black neighborhood and say, look at me, look at me. See, I was never born that way. So I have to think differently when it comes to reparations and referencing me.
SPEAKER 01 :
I get it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because I... live the straight and arrow life. So I like fairness. I hate when something is not fair. So if you are going, and then I sit here and I watch billions of dollars go to Ukraine, Taiwan, the Jews, and the Asians, most people, I know black people don't know, we had concentration camps here in Arizona in World War I, wasn't it? And they all got a check. Here's your check. Nah, dude. A million, I ain't going to say what it is because it might be FBI.
SPEAKER 05 :
So from slavery, from the end of slavery to the 60s, black people had the greatest growth in the history of mankind. Black Wall Street. History of mankind. Yes. I'm a huge follower of Thomas Sowell. I own probably 10 of his books. Okay. We had the greatest growth in the history of mankind. 80% had a mom and dad. Black Wall Street. We had our own towns, our own businesses. We were upwardly mobile until the social welfare programs. We, it's a struggle, but how, how do we, how do, how do I, how do I pay? Because the reparations is coming from all of us. Okay. So how do I pay?
SPEAKER 04 :
So is Ukraine. So, so is Israel. So is all of them, but is all coming from us.
SPEAKER 05 :
I, I, I'm going to agree with you. If we can send those monies to these foreign countries, then we can take care of all Americans.
SPEAKER 04 :
But you know what I never hear? All Americans. You know what I never hear? And I never hear it to this day. All I hear is all the equipment and the money we left in Afghanistan, all the money in Ukraine, all the money in Israel, all the money in Taiwan, all everywhere. And I never hear it until Trump came in and talked about, pay us our money.
SPEAKER 05 :
Pay us our money.
SPEAKER 04 :
How are you going to do it? Is there a plan to pay all this money back that they took us from that's in Ukraine?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, pay us back.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't ever hear it. But don't let it be me. Don't let it be me. Sometimes I look like me. Trust me. They coming for their money.
SPEAKER 05 :
Here's the problem. We have, as Malcolm X said, we have been bamboozled and we've been hoodwinked by the Democrat Party. Malcolm X, he didn't like Republicans, but he despised Democrats. He despised them. Here's the thing. 200 black men, women, and children are killed every single, every week. About 8,000 to 10,000 blacks are killed every single year. We got the black caucus.
SPEAKER 04 :
So you're not counting the abortions. You're just counting. No, I'm counting murders.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're counting murders.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, go.
SPEAKER 05 :
The abortions, 6% of the population is responsible for a third of all abortions. All abortions. Which was done on purpose. Which was done specifically to destroy black folk. specifically to destroy black folks.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm about to go off up in here, yo. But knowing that, right? So knowing that, knowing how somebody was pulling the trigger.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
So I don't know. I sit here and I say, okay, so white people control this. But then I said, I can't see a white man, unless it's just pure hatred, implementing these laws to destroy us. Well, one of the things is fear, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
It was actually a white woman, but yeah, Margaret Sanger.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. See, I'm up with her.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
But the thing back in the day, you know, they feared. When you talk about the 40 acres and the mule, look about this. When they freed us, okay, you got all these black people roaming around. But I didn't hear anything, and correct me if I'm wrong, that it said in those laws, you got to give them a job. And frankly, they didn't know what to do with us. Exactly.
SPEAKER 05 :
So letting us free. That's why a lot of them say, hey, I was better off back at the plantation. And a lot of them stayed. You can't be enslaved for 200 years.
SPEAKER 04 :
So it's a joke, man. And even though it's a joke, I'm glad. But who at least went and fought and died? There's a lot of white people that did this, that fought and died for us to even be free. They couldn't finish it all the way. We got the free. So, hey, we got the chains off of you, but... We tried, but there's nothing else we can do. Well, man, that's still a form of death. That's still a form of punishment. So I don't even know how, because if you're not guaranteed or you're not allowed to hire these people or do anything, then you're free, but you're roaming around like animals.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. And I understand your point when you're saying reparations, but I just don't want to, how can you punish me because you're going to take my tax dollars And then you've got to determine who was a slave, because there's black folks here who were never slaves in this country.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't care. I know we $800 billion or something. What's the billions of dollars we've just given this year, the couple years, to Ukraine? And it's done? So look at all the money with the immigrants right now. Right now. Freaking now. They don't get no money back.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm going to agree with you. I just disagree with it should be reparations. It should be for every citizen, every legal citizen of this country, whatever they're sending out to other countries, that should be used for us.
SPEAKER 04 :
You definitely need to help. They hear me say that. Americans, I'm America American. Right. You're not just going to gloss over taking my uncles or my great, great inventions and all the things that I know. And so there's one thing about what puts fear about the black man, fear of the black hat, because, yeah, we're athletic. We're strong. We're fast. We're smart. All these things we do. We're very, very creative people. Our culture right now, even in the hood, our economics, we spend more money than any other.
SPEAKER 05 :
We do. We're consumers. I've said this many times. What is it about the Democrat Party where they're so afraid of the black man?
SPEAKER 04 :
They're afraid, dude.
SPEAKER 05 :
They're terrified. They've been doing everything they can to destroy us and to draw a dotted line. Everything they've done to us is now what they're trying to do to the entire country.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. And that's where I come in. I got white, black, Hispanic, all kinds. I even got Asian. It's a melting pot. So it's not a color for me. I could close my eyes and never have to see. But if you tell me, you call me up, Reg. Such and such stole my bicycle. Such and such stole my car. Stole my invention. Stole my copyright. Stole my music. I'm not thinking about color. I'm thinking about right or wrong. And there's no forgiveness. There's no forgiveness with this. I guarantee you, I guarantee you, and my trust, the only trust I really have on this subject that would sit down and talk and I would go with what he say is one person. That's Trump. Ain't nobody else. Nobody else can tell me nothing. Trump knows. Trump was a superstar, not just a rich guy. He was a superstar in the entertainment business. He knows. I think they hate him so much is because he's going to reveal What he knows behind the scenes.
SPEAKER 05 :
He knows where the bones are buried.
SPEAKER 04 :
He knows where all the bones are. And he knows how this thing's working. He knows. I could care less about his personal life when it comes to whatever. Please, please put a camera on me. Follow me around. What's today? Friday? Do it today. Do it today. I don't bite my tongue, yo. Right, right. I'm me. And I'm very, very, very proud of my record. And I'll put it up against... They mirror everybody. Because even when you talk about the Catholics, well, it's over 10,000 cases of child molestation with the Catholics.
SPEAKER 05 :
Not to mention their dealings with the Nazis.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, yes. So I don't want to hear that thou is greater than thou, you know, everything. And I'm telling you, I'm a person of life, so I don't look at it. I love Israel, but I love Palestine. i love the yankees and i love the red sox so it's possible you know i i look i come from a different situation like okay yeah a lot of this above my pay grade but i'd have to sit down with historians and say okay well who was really in israel or palestine first who was first okay you know and let's go from there and and and Because America was built on blood and tyranny. Every single thing about this country I was put together was built on murder and death and crime.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so I would agree with you, but I would also say all cultures are that way. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Before we got here, the Native Americans were killing each other. They called us buffalo soldiers in the war, right? Now, how do you do that? So here's another thing. We need to pay them. I know we didn't take care of all of our bets, but it's an extra oomph. Where I got to go over and fight for my country and I got to prove myself 10 times more than the average white soldier. And then we do all this and we become friends. You fight through all that because I know how that feels from going to an all-white school. They hated me and didn't even know why they hated me. So when I go through all that and all these heroes over there fighting, they got together, they did what they're supposed to do. then we come to our home, our country, and I can't go into the same restaurant? I can't drink at the same fountain? See, what America's society has to do, because it's not about the money. It's about the respect. And any time you sit down and you talk in the barbershop or you get black people and they come together behind the scenes, they all say it. They don't care what. They all say it is that they don't feel loved, appreciated, and respected. And that money will solve. I mean, I would do it. I write a check and say, okay, we did this. Half of what we did in Ukraine is here. We're done. Let's go to a new chapter in history. End it. I guarantee you, Andy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I mean, clearly we have the money or we can borrow the money to do it. So if we can... I mean, I'm going to agree with you to the point of sending all this money abroad. Then if we can send the money abroad, we can use it here to take care of these veterans and citizens. And I wouldn't say... Because you have to be careful when you just start giving people money.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that's not giving. When you steal from me, and then we ain't even talking about. Is there a statute on murder?
SPEAKER 05 :
There's no statute of limitation on murder.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
There's not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do I need to say anything else? There's no statute. Can we get somebody? Can we get something for all the killing? I've seen stuff, you know, drawings and books and reading where you got a horse on this side. You take a black man and his left foot. It's quartering. It's called quartering. Okay. Yeah, quartering. And then you go, yeah! And you watch those two big, powerful beasts rip this man in half. Yes. If I had a nuclear bomb on that day, It wouldn't have been no more Caucasians on the earth because that is what would have happened to me then. So all those years of coming together and all the sacrifice and blood and tyranny, yes, you have to look at certain things, I believe, overall in reference to one, America. People hear me talk about America and Americans first. Now, we're all different. Cultures are different. But I have Indian friends. I have Indian friends that got Walmart cards. that say sovereign citizen and no taxes. I was with them. He walked into Walmart, buying all this stuff, pulled out his card, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, no taxes. I said, why is this? Because the white man took all our stuff. They killed us and murdered us and took all our land. This was all ours. So we got treaties. I'm like, well, that's reparations. You got casinos, you got all this stuff. What do I got?
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, I can see that. I can see that. I'm probably not going to agree with you on the reparations piece. I see your point.
SPEAKER 04 :
What is it called if you come in and you murder and you take somebody's land and you murder them by taking it?
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so here's my question for you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
What is it called if you have three, four, five, six generations getting welfare, getting food stamps, getting all of these social programs for decades and decades and decades? Could that be considered reparation?
SPEAKER 04 :
Nope, because it's the morals and the ethics why. They did that not out of love. They did that out of hate. They did that to destroy, to divide the black family. They didn't do it out of love and say, hey, you guys stay together. Here you go, blah, blah. They was like, hey, pull in the black woman over here. Take all this, take all this. As long as you get him out. Because we can't beat him up. We can't outrun them. We can't do it. We afraid of this dude.
SPEAKER 05 :
But it's still money that they didn't earn.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, definitely. They didn't earn. But I'm looking in Congress right now where all these people come in making $50,000 leaving the $100 million. I'm looking at all the copyrights and all the insider trading that exists by the whole, and I don't know, it's mostly on the left, that's for sure. But the bottom line is, I look at it, ain't nobody, None of them. I don't care what color or race you are. Perfect. And you're all guilty of either some type of crime or some type of morals or injustice that's been done.
SPEAKER 05 :
So let me ask you this. I love this conversation, by the way. Let me ask you this. So Negroes, I'm a Negro, have been killing each other for decades and decades. My, the thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands. 20 years ago, should the families get reparations from the government for allowing that to happen?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, because you don't do it that way. What you do, you do the same thing that all these gay people are doing. You're talking about trans this. It's mental. It's mental. It's mental illness that's been put on them. It's mental illness from the suffering. It's mental illness from looking at when you go to a graduation and you graduate and you're getting... a bill not a will your friends are driving off in porsches and benzes and everything and you're getting a bicycle you see what i'm saying and then and anything i like common sense i like the same energy so we line up on a race and we say on your marks cassette go but my hands are tied my feet are shackled i'm getting killed beat anything i do come up with getting taken 400 year head start
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, I've heard this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Who can't make it?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I've heard this. Even odds. Here's the thing. We did make it up until the 60s throughout slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK. We were doing, as a culture, as a people, we were doing better as a people prior to the 60s. Yes, we were. But we were going through all of that insanity. Why is that? You have said it because we're strong like that. We're going to get it done, period. So what has happened? We've gotten soft. We've conformed to what the government wants us to do. And so for me, it's hard to have that argument.
SPEAKER 04 :
Black men have been brokenhearted, though. I don't think they've been attacked from everybody, everybody, everybody. And even though we're strong, you could be an elephant, but a trillion fire ants are going to take you down. Like if everybody's against you, and no matter how strong you are, Strength is in numbers, man. That's the reason. It's a mental health thing when it comes to our community, why we're like this, why we are. But if we can take that, learn from it. solve it get everybody that's guilty in whatever situation to come in apologize i want a mural i want i want some some money i want i want some other stuff statue you know not that one that they be making of these nfl players have you seen them oh man i'm like is this a racial thing i ain't never seen a white dude with a bad statue
SPEAKER 05 :
Did you see the statue of Martin Luther King that came out about a year ago? In what city? I want to say it's in Atlanta.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you look at it, a certain angle, it looks like a phallic symbol. Man. Tell me that's not done on purpose. Yes. And you have to demonize the man who calls for equality.
SPEAKER 04 :
Peace, equality. I heard that there's supposed to be some stuff coming out on him. I don't know. He's a man. He's a human. It wouldn't surprise me. I don't apologize. I don't apologize.
SPEAKER 05 :
I've been saying I'm single every day. He's a human. And not to mention, if we talk about Martin Luther King, what the FBI was sending him. I'm not saying they were prostitutes, but they wore the prostitute uniform.
SPEAKER 01 :
Of course.
SPEAKER 04 :
Dude, that's how you do it. That's how you get to them. You send the money, the drugs, the women. So if you're not strong.
SPEAKER 05 :
A perfect example is Trump. Okay. Uh-oh.
SPEAKER 04 :
Uh-oh.
SPEAKER 05 :
He is a flawed human, just like you and I. Okay. And they brought up stuff from his past. They keep calling them racist. They don't even talk about the black women he's dated. Right. Or the black people he's helped. Or the ones that he's helped. But God uses flawed men. Right. It wouldn't surprise me if the FBI or they released some stuff on Martin Luther King to make us despise him because what they're teaching in our schools... They can't with that guy being the symbol of freedom and liberty.
SPEAKER 04 :
Man, that's my dude. I always say he's the new father of America. But when you come into, it's a lot, a lot goes a long way when you say, I'm sorry. And you say, how can I do this? How can I make, that goes a long way. Like we just watched in court with the little girl that was murdered. You know, they all wanted justice, and they listened to that court trial and all that, and that illegal alien and everything that went wrong. There was a whole bunch of people who had blood on their hands behind this, mainly Democrats. But when they got in that court, they walked out with justice. They walked out with justice, and they're getting money.
SPEAKER 05 :
If we want to help... The black culture, I don't think it's money. I know how to do it. If you want to help the black culture, then set up programs where we can help these men be the lions they're supposed to be, not being baby daddies to five different women. Have a man take back the fact that I got that lady pregnant, and I'm not going to let her tell me it's her body, her choice. I'm going to tell her, I planted that seed in you. You're going to have my, I'm going to implore that you have my baby. I'm going to take care of you for nine months. And then if you don't want the baby after nine months, as a man, a son of God, I'm going to take the baby. And that way we can stop. See, these laws, all the laws that they have. It started with the first trimester, second trimester, third trimester. They keep improving the laws so that you can kill the baby. Here in Colorado, you can kill the baby on the day that it's born. Because they removed the man. Yeah, but you got to tell me they. They's white. We didn't have nothing to do with that. When you say they white, it was predominantly the Democrat Party. Now listen, I'm going to put it on these white guys. The NAACP, the black caucus. Okay. I like how you said that. The Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barry Obama. Boo, boo, boo. None of them. Tell me one of them that has stood up and says, we have to stop this genocide. Because you're going to get turned off. They house Negroes. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because they're getting the money. They're getting the money.
SPEAKER 05 :
So the solution is if we want to do reparation, if we really want to help, let's say you give – everybody's going to get $50,000. You're going to walk up to some lady that's got five kids living in a two-bedroom apartment and give her $50,000. What is that going to do to help her?
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm going to tell you this. I learned a long time ago, don't count my money and I don't count yours. The bottom line, it's not about the money. It could be that 10 times as much. The bottom line is they need to be given to with the same energy that all the other money is given to, which is never talked about payback or anything. So it needs to be the same energy. If everything was the same energy, because I'm one of those dudes that say, okay, All that's done, not near one of y'all better ever, ever come back to me about anything because you're talking on closed ears. But until that day happens, I still feel some pipe away.
SPEAKER 05 :
I get it. I feel deeply about that. And I see that. And like, I'm not going to change your mind. You're not going to change mine. But I love the dialogue. I mean, because you can give me your money.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know what I'm saying? Me and Luke can go out and do all kinds of stuff. Luke, you can take a girl on a trip. Because I'm going to spend it. I know how to make my own money, but that is not the case here.
SPEAKER 05 :
But if I give this mom $50,000 that's reparations... A year, she's going to be dead broke.
SPEAKER 04 :
So what? Don't worry about what she do.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no. That's not helping her.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it's helping her. Believe me, it helped her. If it helped her for six months, it helped her. Give her her money.
SPEAKER 05 :
So what do she do? What if it's better to say, we're going to take that. No, because now. We're going to show her how to. See, now you're talking about slave, slave master again. Hold on, you just told me. You said a second ago, I would rather learn to fish than to somebody give me fish.
SPEAKER 04 :
But what I'm not going to do is go to Luke and beg him to show me how to fish. You know what I'm saying? It has to be something that's born inside of you that you want, that you're smart enough. I said, could Luke give me all these fish? I might take one day, two day. Hey, Luke, why don't you show me how to do that? But if you don't want to teach me how to know his skill, what to do, then I'm done with Luke.
SPEAKER 05 :
Bye. Bye. Luke's throwing his arms up in the air. So isn't it better, though, to say I'm going to help her improve her future? According to who?
SPEAKER 04 :
According to you and I, giving her money. I'd like to sit there with Ukraine and say, did we sit down with all these citizens and all this stuff?
SPEAKER 05 :
You're not going to get my argument for giving money to other countries. You're not going to. I am never, ever going to argue against that because what we're doing is wrong.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that's a whole different. And it's a whole bunch of reasons behind.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's a whole different game that these folks on high are playing games with us like we're ants in the sand. So.
SPEAKER 04 :
All I'm saying, my dude, if I go out right now and I bust into Luke's house and I take all kind of stuff and everything out of his house and he finds out it's me, he's not going to say, don't worry about it, Reg. He's going to have the cops, courts, law, and everything. And part of it's going to be because he felt disrespected. He's going to feel less than. His girl's going to be looking at him like less of a man. You know, all those feelings he's going to have. So he's going to have to do what he's got to do to help him because he's just been traumatized, whether he knows it or not. And that's one time. We're talking about 400 years, and he's still alive. He wasn't murdered. So, but...
SPEAKER 05 :
How far back do we go? From the beginning. So go to Africa. Go to that continent. All of them. I don't care. So go to Africa and say, these 15 tribes stole most of the black folks and they sent them west and they sent them east. Those 15 tribes need to pay for all the Africans in this country, in this continent.
SPEAKER 04 :
With Israel right now. with Israel right now. I sit down, I have, I'm literally talking to somebody because of the entertainment industry. I have Kuwaiti friends. I have Iraqi friends. I have Saudi friends. I have Israeli friends. I've got a multi, I'm a people person. And I'll sit down and I listen to them all. And I'll be like, well, hey man, Why y'all fighting all the time and hate each other? Oh, it's a holy war. It's a holy war. I said, well, can you do like me? I believe in God. I believe there's a greater power. Now, am I going to sit here and argue if it's China's Buddha? Or is it God Christianity, what his name is? Am I going to sit down and argue what his name is? No. Indians worship cows. Right. And then China worships Buddha and tigers. Right. I'm looking at him like, and to me, it might look crazy to you, but I'm saying, why don't I just get along and disagree, disagree, and just say, we all agree there's a higher power. Then, and nobody, it should be no fights. But, that's me. But, I mean, people, the most wars have been started over holy wars, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
This is true.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that not, never one of them can prove it. I ain't seen nobody yet die. And come back and tell me what's up. It's redundant. I can't keep talking about it. I will say there's a million miracles that take place every day for us to be able to live.
SPEAKER 05 :
I will say this. If you come into my house or you come on my land and you kill my people and you kill my kids and my family, it's not going to work out well. It's not going to work out well.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's hypocritical.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's not going to work. What?
SPEAKER 04 :
It's hypocritical because that's what happened to them years ago.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no, no, no. We're talking about now in the present. It is. Time is. It is different. Time heals all wounds. I said this earlier that slave owners weren't racist. No, they bought money. It was a business transaction.
SPEAKER 04 :
Business. That was it.
SPEAKER 05 :
In fact, I don't know if the term racism even existed. So we can't take today's moral compass and apply it to 400 years ago.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I know when I go, my friend from Arizona called me up and said, hey, let's go to the Indian plantation. And I'm like, what? And I see major casinos and all kind of cars and homes that you would not believe. I'm like, what do y'all do? Nothing. Smoke them a peace pipe. That's what we do.
SPEAKER 02 :
And a lot of them ain't even happy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Look what happened to them. So they got their Indian land, and they are stuck, just like what the Democrats did to Negroes. They got them stuck. And somebody along the way says, hey, we can build a casino out here so everybody, every Native American gets their little bit of cut.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a social welfare program. If I had all the money right now, I'm telling you, in this order, it'd be seal the borders, number one. Then I would take the money and I would build and do whatever I need to have done for the homeless and our vets. Because anybody going over there catching bullets, I don't care for us to come over here and be how we are. It's crazy.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 04 :
And then the very next thing, and I could probably do all this at once. The very next thing, I'm going to have a big budget. I'm going to have somebody that I trust like Trump or somebody on there put this together and say, hey, this is what we're going to do with the apology. And we'll go and this is going to be it. And it's done and over. Then I'm going like Trump, dude. And I'm like, Ukraine, where my money? Where my money?
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 04 :
Why do you think the Democrats did what they did? Allowing, signing something before Trump gets in to let them send the missiles in. They want us to die. Yep. They keep pushing the envelope because they hate Trump. They want Trump to fail. They want him to fail.
SPEAKER 05 :
They want our country to fail.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. So that's evil.
SPEAKER 05 :
So on reparations. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Hear me out. Oh my gosh. This is a trip, man. This is very cool. Because this interaction never really happens with me. I live in northern Colorado. And so the interaction with brothers, as Barack would say, it's far and few. And so that we can sit down and disagree on a specific subject and still love one another.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I ain't got nothing to love and respect for you. Right, right. Nothing but love and respect. So what I learned, man, I tell you, come from my mom. My mom always taught me to treat everybody else better, their personal stuff, their house, how they are. Try to treat them better than you would do yourself. And she put that in me, like from a little two-year-old.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, reparation is never going to happen.
SPEAKER 04 :
It'll happen.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because this is why. The only time it comes up is when the Democrats are running for office. And that's a hustle. It's a horrible hustle that they play on our community to get folks to vote.
SPEAKER 04 :
Are we that dumb?
SPEAKER 05 :
See how disrespectful we are? Yeah, we are. But at some point, people like you and I can go into those communities and tell them the truth. We can speak like Malcolm X. You've been bamboozled. You've been run amok.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. And I know how to do it. I do it every day. And so I look at it like it needs to be a whole bunch of us. Right. Like us. That's right. And you want to talk about some scary stuff. Speak the truth. Not just black folk. Oh, no, no, no. Not just black folk. But I'm going to take care of my circle. Yes. I'm going to take care of my race. Yeah, yeah. You know, because we're the ones in dire, but everybody, man. It hurts. It breaks my heart with the elderly, with the homeless. Everybody suffers. Everybody suffers.
SPEAKER 05 :
I got a good friend, white dude. He told me he used to eat sugar sandwiches for breakfast or for dinner.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, then he had an entree because I was eating ketchup. I was eating barbecue and licking my fingers the next day. But, hey, man, dang, we out of time already, man. We're going to... Man, pleasure, big dog.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can have me back, man. I'd love to come and do this again.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, for sure. Let's do it next week. Hey, we're going to count it down. Three, two, one, and we out.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. All right, y'all. It's that time. We out of here. But you've been listening to KLC 560 AM. I'm a United Reggie rapper. Yeah. It's fun. We will tackle the issues. We will unite the country every week, every Friday morning from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. It's about love, y'all. Have a wonderful morning and a great day.
Time does not shout; it just runs out—quicker than you think. God only gives you so much time. Don’t waste it. There’s no guarantee you’ll be alive tomorrow, so if you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, do not t wait another moment. Do it now. “Now is the day of salvation” (Is 49:8). The Bible tells us about making the most of our time. “Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise making the most of your time” (Eph 5:15-17). The six key attributes of those who use time wisely are punctuality and patience, set priorities, have prudence and perspective, and do not procrastinate. A well-disciplined person has a routine. “Daily with one accord … Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). God chooses the time and the manner and the place of your departure, and He will be punctual about it.
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Time Doesn’t Shout - Part 1
Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 603 aired on March 19, 2017
Good morning and welcome to The FLOT Line. I'm your host Rick Hughes and for the next few
minutes I'd like to ask you to stay with me. As usual, it will be a time of motivation, some
inspiration, education, everything done without any type of manipulation because we don't play
games. We’re not here to con you, we’re not here to trick you, we’re not here to recruit you. This
show is simply about giving you some accurate information, no human speculation but accurate
information from the canon of Scripture, the plan of God, the Word of God. Hopefully, if I give
you the right information, it will help you verify and identify God's plan for your life. If you
want to orient and adjust to the plan, you have the freedom, you have the privacy to do so. My
job as host of The FLOT Line is to give you the information. Remember, The FLOT Line is
about 10 unique problem-solving devices, 10 things found in the Word of God, invisible assets
that God left us. As believers in Jesus Christ when we operate in the spiritual life and we learn
these wonderful problem-solving devices, then we have the opportunity to grow in grace and to
represent Jesus Christ, even in our lifetime. Problem-solving devices like how do I deal with the
problem of sin and this is rebound, problem-solving device #1. If I confess my sin, God is
faithful and just to forgive me. What about the filling of the Holy Spirit? This is how I solve the
problem of my sin nature that is within me and is against God. It never has obeyed God and
never will the Bible says. Galations 5:16 says,
“If we walk in the Spirit we won’t fulfill the lust of
the flesh,”
so I have the option of allowing the Holy Spirit to control my life when I rebound.
When I confess my sin then I'm filled with the Spirit and then He is in control of my life. What
about the unseen difficulties and the tests that I face? I have the problem-solving device of the
faith-rest drill, standing on the promises of God, using them as a shield to protect me from
worries, a shield to protect me from anything that I may face in my life that I don't really have an
answer for, remembering that God said in 1 Corinthians 10:13,
“There’s no testing overtaken you
that is not common to man.”
Remember there are 10 unique problem-solving devices, I just
covered three of them. This is what the show is formulated on. When you learn these 10 unique
problem-solving devices then you stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become
the inside sources of stress. This is why we always say adversity is obviously inevitable and
stress is completely preventable. You don't have to have stress. You don't have to have this in
your life. Worry, fear, anger, bitterness, these are not things a Christian has to have. He has the
option of moving on, using the Spirit-filled life where he doesn't ever have to do these sorts of
things. We don't have a whole lot of time here on earth.
If you're getting a little up in the years
you might realize that time doesn't shout, it just runs out quicker than you think.
The kids
that I know between the age of 20 and 40 don't really think about time. They're too busy having
families, working, and achieving their goals. One day they look up and it's their 40th birthday or
even their 45th birthday and they go, “My goodness, where did all the time go?” I remember my
oldest daughter when she was 18 and went off to college, I stood in the driveway and realized,
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I'm 18 years older. Where did it go? Time doesn't shout, it just runs out quicker than you think.
We have to have time to function in the devil’s world don’t we? We live in different time zones.
If I call my oldest daughter in New York, she's ahead of me. If I call my other daughter in
California, she's behind me. It can be confusing to say the least. The military guys go by 0100 to
2400. You ask a military guy what time it is and he’ll say 1600 hours. You’re thinking “What
time is that?” This measure of accuracy that we have to be punctual comes from the Royal
Observatory in Greenwich, London called Greenwich Mean Time. I bring all of this up to
express something that I think will be interesting to you. That is that during our time on this sin
infested planet, it is critical that as humans we adhere to certain principles, that we have certain
traits in our life related to the time. Obviously, if we hope to have a happy time while we travel
through, well then we have to start with the first and most important thing. The Bible uses a
couple of words for time and this is one,
kairos.
Here in 2 Corinthians 6:2,
“Now is the accepted
time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.”
The first thing you have to orient and adjust to is
you must believe in Jesus Christ as your Savior, not tomorrow, not yesterday, not a month
from now, today. The reason is you have no guarantee, you have no written contract that
says you will be here tomorrow.
At least I don’t think you do. If you have a written contract
from God that says you will be here next week, I salute you but I haven't seen one of those yet.
“Now is the day of salvation."
A quote out of Isaiah 49:8 where it says in the Old Testament,
“In
a favorable time I have answered you and in a day of salvation, I've helped you,”
so today is the
day for you. If you've never trusted in Jesus Christ and never believed in Him, why would you
put it off? It is the right time. In Genesis 6:3 this is from God, He said,
“My Spirit will not
always strive with man, for that he is also flesh and yet his days shall be 120 years.”
I haven't
seen anybody 120 years old but I know from Deuteronomy 34:7 that Moses was 120 years old
when he died.
“His eyes were not dim
[he didn't need glasses]
and his natural vigor was not
diminished.”
I don't know what this means other than he didn't need any help from any doctor
for anything. He was a thoroughly functioning, full man.
You have to remember this, God only
gives you so much time.
We will talk about this. You see, we can waste time. It is very critical
that we understand these things about time so that we know what we are like, these traits that are
necessary as we move through planet Earth. I don’t know how much longer you're going to be
here. I don't how much longer I’m going to be here, but I can tell you at least six different things
that are critical for you and me to have.
We must have punctuality. We must have patience.
We must have priority in our life. We must have prudence. We must have perspective. And
we cannot ever afford to get into procrastination.
I told you that the Bible uses two different
words for time. As we go through these six things you'll see them, but let me just tell you what
they are to start with. The first Greek word for time is the noun
chronos
. It refers to a measure of
time like the clock time. It's the quantitative time, what time is it, 7:02, 6:05, you're talking about
a specific time. Then there's another word,
kairos,
and this is a noun also. It is translated time and
it refers to a moment of time measured by the quality. It's qualitative time, like the day of
salvation. If it was at 10:06 AM, then you would have
chronos.
To the self-centered person it's
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really hard to get over yourself and to the procrastinating believer, it's time to get on with the
program. If you’re going to make the best use of your time on earth, beginning with believing in
Jesus Christ as your Savior, there are things that you must remember, things that you have to
adhere to. This is why precise time or
chronos
is critical. It’s critical for all of us because without
chronos,
without precise time, no one can be punctual.
Punctuality is one of the traits that
every believer must have.
It's critical in the mature believer's life. You can read about it in Acts
2:46-47 where it says,
“So continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread
from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God,
having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily.”
They continued daily,
they had a routine. None of us can function in life without a routine.
This is one of the signs of a
well-disciplined person, he has a routine and is always punctual.
“Daily with one accord,”
in
other words with one mind. What mind should I have? I should have what Philippians 2:5 says,
“Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus.”
This is called divine viewpoint.
“Daily
with one accord,”
studying in the temple. They studied the Scripture available to them,
especially concerning the prophecies of the Messiah. And “They broke bread in the houses.” In
other words they took their meals together. Everything had to be punctual. It wasn't the old term,
willy-nilly. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard that before. It doesn't mean they just showed up
when they wanted to. They had a specific time. Remember, Christians were being persecuted in
these times. They studied the Bible, the Old Testament Scripture at a specific time. They ate
together at a specific time. It says “They had gladness and joy, praising God [their right
priorities] and they had favor with the people and the Lord added day by day.” I don't know
about you but maybe in your church they meet at a specific time. Maybe you meet at a certain
time for Sunday school, a certain time for worship, maybe a certain time for whatever. For years
my church has met for Bible study and worship at a precisely correct time and I scheduled my
life around this time and I imagine you do to. I believe that one indication of maturity in a
person's life is punctuality. This is a trait that all mature people have, punctuality. I’d like to give
you some principles on the virtue of punctuality.
First of all, punctuality secures confidence
and appreciation from others with whom you associate.
If they can trust you, they will
appreciate you. Paul the apostle did much evangelizing to the Jewish synagogues such as in Acts
13. These synagogues were started under the Babylonian captivity when they had no temple.
They would meet much like going to church for us today. They would assemble on the seventh
day in the synagogue when there was no temple to read the Law, go over the Law, study the Law.
They had to be very punctual and Paul knew what time to be there and what time to shut up. This
is one of the things that I always ask whenever I'm speaking anywhere. If I'm speaking to a group
of students or I’m speaking in a school or at church, my first question is, “What time should I
shut up?” There is nothing worse than a long-winded preacher that doesn't shut up when he’s
suppose to. He goes on and on and on. We've all been there. We've all wondered what planet that
dude is living on. Punctuality is appreciated. If you're saying, “That's right, I’ve got to get to
Luby’s for lunch,” this is not why we’re talking about it. We’re talking about the discipline of
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punctuality. If you're worried about where you’re going for lunch and you’re going to have to
wait in line a little bit longer, then you're worrying about the wrong thing. Punctuality is critical
in the military, absolutely critical. This is why they have their own time standard 0600, 1800,
whatever it is. There is a unit that I'm well aware of called the 170th Special Operations Aviation
Regiment stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. This group of select military aviators can
deliver any special operations unit such as Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Marine Recons, they
can take them to any chosen site in their sphere of operation. In other words, if a Navy SEAL
says, “I need to go to this longitude, this latitude, and we need to be there at 12:06 AM,” well,
the SOAR, what they call the Night Stalkers, can get them there. They'll plan it out and they'll
get them there within ±30 seconds, very punctual, because in the military, lives depend on
everybody in the unit being punctual. It is critical for virtue in the military life as well as in
civilian life. Punctuality instills a system of respect and concern for other people and none of us
could function in civilian life without being punctual. I’ll tell you something else, another point.
Any pastor worth his salt will always be punctual. He'll show up on time and he'll stop on time. I
have to be punctual. When I'm recording these radio shows I'm looking directly at the clock and I
know what time I have to stop talking. If I go too long, then they won't be able to air the show
because I went over my time limit. Punctual people will always make the most of the allotted
time God allows them to have. The Bible tells us this about making the most of our time. Listen
to Ephesians 5:15-17,
“Therefore, be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,
making the most of your time.”
What was my point there? Punctual people make the most of
their allotted time,
“Because the days are evil. So then, don't be foolish, but understand what the
will of the Lord is.”
Now let me look at a few of these words. The first one,
“Therefore, be
careful how you walk,”
the first word walk. This is the Greek word
peripateo.
I know, you’re
saying “Why are you telling me this?” Because it doesn't mean to walk.
Be careful how you
walk means to regulate your life by taking advantage of opportunities.
It's about how you
live your life. It’s your lifestyle. “Therefore, be careful how you live your life,” is what it’s
saying. Be careful of the daily decisions that you make.
The first and foremost daily decision
that every believer must make is to take in the Word of God on a daily basis.
We must feed
on God's Word every day. Without this, you're not going to grow very much. Then,
“Therefore,
be careful how you live your life, not as an unwise man lives his life but as wise, making the most
of your time.”
Making the most of your time
means to buy up or to rescue from loss, to make a
wise use of your time. Take advantage of your time. What does this mean?
I have to realize who
the enemy is and what his tactics are.
How do I learn these things? I learn them in Bible class.
My pastor is going to teach it to me. He’s going to teach me Ephesians 6:11,
“Put on the armor
of God,”
so I
“can stand against the strategy of the devil.”
If he hasn’t taught you this, how do
you know what to do? You see, when I make the most of my time I have the ability to see
through the distractions that Satan may send my way and I can recover from the defeats that I fall
into when I allow my flesh to control my life. I make the most of my time. I don't waste my time.
This is what you have to do. The verse says,
“Be careful how you live your life, not as unwise
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men live their life, making the most of your time because the days are evil. So don't be foolish,
understand what the will of the Lord is.”
Suneimi,
the Greek word, means to understand and to
comprehend by putting two and two together and to realize that it comes up to four. There are
certain things you have to understand. Now this is an innocuous word, understand. This doesn't
sound very spiritual does it when God says He wants you to understand what His will is. Listen
to Jeremiah 9:24,
“Let him who boasts, boast about this. That he understands Me and he knows
Me.”
This is what God is looking for. There are a lot of people that know Him. Yes, maybe
people in your church that know Him but there are not a lot of people that understand the God
they know.
This is what can set you apart from other believers, you understand the God
that you know.
Proverbs 1:2 says,
“To know wisdom and instruction and to discern the sayings
of understanding.”
Verse 5,
“A wise man will hear and increase in learning and a man of
understanding will acquire wise counsel.”
If there is anything God wants you to do, it’s to
understand His plan. It is not vague. It's not hard. It's not impossible. It’s very simple,
“To grow
in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”
(2 Peter 3:16), until you
replicate Him. Satan has a masterful plan and he actually uses organized religion to mislead
people into thinking that they are serving God. He deludes the grace plan of God, especially in
salvation and confuses the protocol plan of God in the Christian's life. Where did I get this? 2
Corinthians 2:11, Paul warns us,
“Do not let Satan take advantage of you by not understanding
[there it is, here’s your word again]
how he manipulates people and how he misleads the
gullible.”
Believers in Jesus Christ must not only understand God's plan, we have to
understand Satanic strategy as well.
Satanic strategy is designed to confuse the believer and
the unbeliever. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4,
“If my gospel is veiled, it's veiled to those who are perishing,
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so
that they might not see
the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
This is one thing Satan’s
going to seek to do to obscure the gospel. We are to, as Ephesians 5:17 says,
“Understand the
will of the Lord.”
The primary will of God can be summed up, it’s very simple. In Mark
12:30-31 someone asked Him, “What is the number one mandate Jesus?” Jesus Christ said,
“Love God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, with all of your mind, and with all of
your strength. And to love your neighbor as yourself.”
This is the primary will of God for you:
personal love for God and impersonal love for others.
Both of these are tremendous problem-
solving devices. Then there's a secondary consideration for us to look at in Micah 6:8, an Old
Testament passage,
“He has told you, old man, what is good and what does the Lord require of
you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Mark 12:30-31 is
our motivational and functional virtue in life while Micah 6:8 is our practical application
from the renovated thinking we get when we learn the mind of Christ.
If you can't be
punctual to show up at church on time, to show up at Bible class on time, if you can't be faithful
to come in the first place, then you're never going to learn these concepts because to be quite
honest with you, some people would rather learn a lie than learn the truth because it's more
appealing to them. 2 Timothy 4:3-4,
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound
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doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in
accordance with their own desires and they will turn away their ears from truth and turn aside
into myths,”
things they would rather hear taught than what's taught. This is true in America
today.
Punctuality is a critical trait in the life of a mature believer. It demonstrates his
dedication, enthusiasm and consistency.
When you show up on time it demonstrates to others
that you enjoy what you do and you look forward to the day’s challenge in front of you.
Punctuality produces freedom from irritation, freedom from anxiety, and this is a trust area
because people just don't trust anyone or appreciate anyone who's habitually late and habitually
inconveniences other people. I can assure you as I wrap up this segment of the study, God is
punctual. In Job 5:26-27,
“You shall come to your grave at a full age, as a sheaf of grain ripens
in its season. Behold this, we’ve searched it out and it's true. Hear it and know it for yourself.”
God chooses the time and the manner and the place of your departure and He will be
punctual about it.
Think about these things. Ponder on these things. Contact me if I can help
you. I hope you'll come back and join me next week, same time, same channel, and we will press
on with this study of these virtues and traits in the mature believer's life. Until then, this is your
host Rick Hughes saying thank you for being with me on The FLOT Line
Join us for an in-depth look at the heated debates surrounding federal work policies under Biden's administration. Delve into Scott Jennings' insights on the current telework trends shaking Washington, D.C. and analyze the implications for federal employees. Also, listen to the gripping discussion on clemency for marijuana charges and the evolving narrative around public safety, justice, and presidential power.
SPEAKER 03 :
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I'm Eric Hansen. It's Friday, December 6th, 2024. This week, Joe lets Hunter off the hook, football fans find trouble on the field, and Trump wants the hostages out of Gaza or else. Let's begin with guest host Joey Hudson as he tries to make sense of President Biden going back on his word. What?
SPEAKER 05 :
Joe Biden kicked off the week by letting the world know that he would in fact be pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, after repeatedly saying for a couple of years now that he would never do so. Is this just another example of lying, Joe? Maybe Joe Biden has always intended to pardon his son, but in the last six months or so, He's made a point, as his White House staff has made a point, to say, under no circumstances would Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden. So what happened? How did this come about? Or was that the plan all along? And Joe Biden, back when he was presidential candidate Joe Biden— Was he just saying that because of the optics of the idea of the president pardoning his own son? He was trying to gain your vote. But he even said it after he dropped out of the race. He has said it multiple times. In cut number one, days after Hunter's peers found him guilty— and of course we know he was about to be sentenced just in a few days, probably would have received some time in prison. He could have received up to 17 years for his offenses, and we're going to go into those in just a moment. But the point is that as recent as just a few weeks ago, Joe Biden, in cut number one, said that he was not going to do anything. He was not going to interfere in the judicial system.
SPEAKER 02 :
With regard to the question regarding the family, I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He's one of the brightest, most decent men I know. And I am satisfied that I'm not going to do anything. I said I abide by the jury decision. I will do that, and I will not pardon him.
SPEAKER 05 :
I will abide by the jury decision, and I will not pardon him. So what changed from then, and again, that's just been recently, to last night when he issued this statement? He said, Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I've watched my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. The president went on to claim that his son was treated differently by prosecutors, saying that without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form, he said. In the statement, Biden wrote, those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently. Oh, so I guess he's saying that his Department of Justice was holding a different accountability to Hunter Biden. that it just wasn't fair. He's being persecuted because of who his dad was. Doesn't matter that he broke the law. Biden also referenced his son's addiction, blamed it on raw politics, saying there's been an effort to break Hunter, who has been five and a half years sober. Even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution, In trying to break Hunter, they're trying to break me, he said, and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough, Joe Biden wrote. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a president come to this decision. Do you understand how a father and a president makes this decision after repeatedly telling the American people, the people who he serves, that he would not do this?
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you understand? The ceasefire in Israel lasted barely a week before both sides exchanged rocket fire. But never fear, the Trump administration has made its intentions clear before even taking office. Think about this for a minute.
SPEAKER 05 :
The ceasefire barely lasted a week with these terrorists. This is why it's just so hard to trust these people. In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces said fighter jets struck Hezbollah operatives and dozens of rocket launchers and facilities belonging to the terror group just across the Lebanese border. Hezbollah claimed earlier yesterday... that it launched the mortars in response to Israel's repeated violations of the ceasefire deal that took effect last week, and said that it should serve as an initial warning over IDF strikes on Lebanon during the truce and the continued violation of Lebanese airspace by hostile Israeli aircraft. The International Monitor reported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would respond strongly after Hezbollah launched rockets at a watchtower, the first time the group has attacked Israel since the ceasefire just last week. Meanwhile... There's soon to be a new sheriff in town, and he issued an ultimatum to the Hamas terrorists on the southern side of Israel. In a statement posted on Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump did not mince words. He made it very clear that if the hostages taken by Hamas on October the 7th of 2023 are not released by the time he is sworn in on January the 20th, He said, quote, all hell to pay. This wasn't just rhetoric. Donald Trump's comments signal a pretty stark contrast and a warning to Hamas and other actors in that region that he will do something, that he will take action. As you know, on October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel, killing at least 1,200 or so people, kidnapped 250 or so, and many of those remain in captivity in just horrid, unbelievable circumstances. Among the hostages, we believe there's about seven Americans The attack has plunged the region into some of its worst crisis in a number of decades, and there doesn't appear to be any end in sight. Trump's statement comes amid frustration that there hasn't been any progress in to secure the release of the hostages. He wrote, Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire world, but it's all talk and no action. He added, if the hostages are not released prior to January 20th, 2025, there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity. What do you think about that? Is this... And I know... President Trump is wanting to show Hamas his strength and wanting to inform them that he's not going to sit back like Joe Biden has. But is it dangerous as well to make such a bold statement? knowing that you've got to back it up? Because if the hostages are not released by January 20th, what is our response? What are we willing to do? Are we going to send troops over there? Are we going to send our aircraft over there? Are we going to select some targets? What's the military strategy here? What are we willing to do? What are we willing to put our men and women in uniform at risk to settle this, to get those hostages released.
SPEAKER 03 :
The stakes are pretty high. We were delighted to welcome CNN senior political analyst Scott Jennings to guest host for Mike on the show this week. Scott broke some news when he interviewed Congressman James Comer.
SPEAKER 06 :
You are raising some concerns, and I think a lot of people are going to have concerns about it. It sounds like some of the federal government workers unions are cutting deals with the Biden administration on the way out the door here to let all these federal bureaucrats work from home for years and years and years. I think people would be shocked if they went to Washington, D.C. and went into some of these office buildings. People don't come to work. And now they're cutting deals that will let them. What is going on with this and what are we going to do about this? People need to go to work, don't they?
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. The American people may have thought that the Joe Biden's pardon to Hunter was the last middle finger from Joe Biden to the American people. But no, the last middle finger happened yesterday when Joe Biden issued an executive order granting more federal employees the right to work from home. And you've already got a majority of the federal workers in Washington, D.C. They don't even come to work. Some of these big buildings in Washington, D.C. are only 8% occupied. If you try to call someone on the phone and get someone on the phone in a D.C. office, it'll be a miracle if that actually happened. No one is coming to work under Joe Biden. So the American taxpayers that work hard every day, many of whom have two jobs, paying taxes to the federal government, the last thing they want to see are more fat cat, big government employees sitting at home in their pajamas all day, sleeping until noon, not providing any service to the American people. And that's what Joe Biden just did. He is doing everything he can to burn it down on the way out. And I think that one of the goals of Doge is to trim The federal workforce. The first thing we need to do is get the employees back to work and then we can figure out who's actually working and who needs to be let go. So, you know, it's a disaster with the federal workforce right now in Washington, D.C. They're not coming to work. Even the mayor, Muriel Bowser, supports my efforts to bring the federal workforce back to work because all these retail outlets and restaurants have shut down in Washington, D.C. because there are no federal employees going to work.
SPEAKER 06 :
Before we let you go, Congressman, I assume that your engagement with the Doge effort and looking into this federal workers not coming to work, this is going to be at the top of your list when Congress comes back in January. Can you give me a little snapshot? What else is on Jamie Comer's mind when the Republicans come back and you chair the House Oversight Committee? What else can we expect out of you and the Republican majority on the oversight front?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I'm meeting with Elon and Vivek tomorrow, but I can tell you we're going to be working very closely with their efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse in the federal government. That's what our committee is supposed to do. We didn't have a majority of senators willing to go along with many of the good government bills we passed out of the House, and we sure as hell didn't have a White House that wanted to have good government. Now we do. Now the pieces are in place. I love the two point people on this Doge thing. I think we're going to look at unnecessary government programs, wasteful grants. We're going to look at unneeded federal bureaucrats and just going to start taking the ax out and trying to chop waste, fraud and abuse at every corner of the federal budget. There's no shortage of opportunities to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. And that's what my number one priority is going to be in this next Congress.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's Congressman Jamie Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, the oracle of American politics. He was on to the Bidens before anybody. He has been totally vindicated. And a little news. You're meeting with Elon and Vivek.
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This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I'm Eric Hansen. Our guest host Scott Jennings gave us an inside glimpse of the Trump campaign thanks to a visit from campaign manager Chris Lasavita.
SPEAKER 06 :
So much unprecedented stuff, the legal stuff you had to fight through. Then you had the assassination attempt. I mean, we were a quarter of an inch from a total cataclysm in Butler, PA. What was that day like? I mean, just a surreal experience, I'm sure, for you watching your candidate that you're working for nearly get assassinated at a rally.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it you know, I was in I was actually in Milwaukee because the the other job that I had still have for a couple more weeks anyway was chief of staff of the RNC. And I was in Milwaukee for, you know, the convention. And I had this TV on in my in my room. And, uh, my daughter was down the hall. She was staffing me, um, during the convention. And, uh, um, she came flying into my room and said, you know, they just shot the president. And, you know, I was, I had the TV on, I had the rally on and, and, and I was like paying attention. And I, then I, you know, it was, I picked up the phone and called Suze, uh, called Susie who was there and she was in the tent, the white tent behind the stage off stage. Um, Um, and she was saying, we don't know how bad it is, but I'll call you when we get to the hospital. And then I was telling her like, well, he just walked off stage punching, you know, shaking his fist, yelling, fight, fight, fight. So I think he's going to be okay. But I mean, that's how literally I knew, um, You know that that that he was fine because of the service, you know, and then Nick, who's one of the agents, you could see him grabbing the boss by the collar and looking at him. I mean, it was just God watching that just makes my stomach. Sick. An amazing day.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nonetheless, a terrible moment. But one of the most iconic photos probably ever taken in a presidential campaign and set the stage, I think, set sort of the narrative of Donald Trump, the comeback. Not a kid, you know, but I mean, the comeback narrative of Trump coming back, you know, from the political attacks, coming back from a literal assassination attempt. And to overcome it all, I just – we can talk – I don't think we can ever talk about it enough. You can't. One other issue that I think needs more attention is how you and Susie and the RNC and the campaign totally revolutionized Republican ground game politics. You and I have been in a lot of campaigns together over the years and lived through these presidential campaigns, and it was about volume. How many people can you call? How many doors can you knock? But it was – and it was about quantity. Quantity. not quality. And a lot of our listeners, I'm sure, volunteered on some of these campaigns. You totally threw out the old playbook and revolutionized this to great success. How did you do it? What was the theory?
SPEAKER 04 :
Two things. One, real quick. First of all, I did want to say, and I couldn't let this slip by without saying that I'm one of your biggest fanboys. Just watching you every night on CNN is great entertainment. I just... It's amazing stuff. But on the on the ground game, you know, we had a phenomenal operation, you know, led by James Blair in the political in the political department. And then, you know, Tim Saylor, who did didn't even know Tim. He's a data guy with and of course, Tony, our pollster. But the focus was was qualitative right over quantitative. And in the past, you know, it was we judged. the success of ground games by the amount of, of attempts that somebody made attempts at phone calls, attempts at, you know, door knocks, you know, it wasn't about having a conversation. It wasn't about a conversion, our focus, which we built this, um, You know, we basically tested this out in a much smaller laboratory, if you will. And that laboratory was the Iowa caucuses. And and and the so so the the the focus, obviously, much more on finding a group of people that which we, by the way, we define through our data, you know, low propensity voters and. We reformed and totally changed how they do data at the RNC. Right. And the ground games in all the battleground states were built on a very simple process, which we had two target audiences. We had a target audience of what we call persuadable voters. Those are the people that we knew that would decide the election. And then there was this group of low propensity voters that supported the president, but we had to make sure they showed up. Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
With this week's pardon of Hunter Biden, now Democrats are pressing the president to extend clemency to others, including those incarcerated on marijuana charges.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, hi, Joey. Thanks for taking my call. Regarding the letting people out for marijuana, I'm against that, but I have a question that Do you think they would be doing this right now if Harris had won?
SPEAKER 05 :
Good question. I don't know the answer to that. I think they probably are. The progressives in the party are pushing Biden because they know he has nothing to lose. He's on his way out. He's done. Now, would it have been different if Kamala Harris had won? I'm not so sure she wouldn't have encouraged it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, the thing that really bothers me about the whole thing is it's like, you know, all of a sudden they're going to do this and they're just jerking the American public around. You know, they're doing this to spite Trump and despite the fact that they lost. And so they're going to just take this opportunity to do whatever they want and just jerking us around to try to do this real quick without thinking it through. And it's just another example of them just jerking us around. I just hate it. Well...
SPEAKER 05 :
People like Ilhan Omar, they want people to think that some of these thousands of people that she cited are sitting in prison because they were smoking a marijuana cigarette. Again, my law enforcement contacts tell me that there's not a lot of people in prison just because of marijuana. They committed other crimes, and that's why they're in prison. They happened to be smoking marijuana when they committed those crimes. Let's go back to Dallas where we have Paul. Welcome, Paul. You're on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hey, how you doing today? I'm wonderful, Paul. Hope you are.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, I just want to say something. I have seen no problem with letting somebody out because of a... minor marijuana charge you know if they were just like at a concert concert smoking a joint and a cop walked up on them and took them oh you're going to jail and they didn't have but maybe two or three joints on them you know that's kind of crazy to give prison time waste taxpayer money on some small stuff like that when they need to be hunting down big stuff yeah are you in are you in favor of legalizing marijuana To a certain degree, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
So what degree?
SPEAKER 10 :
As long as it's private, use it in the privacy of your home. Okay. But here's the thing I don't understand. Let's compare it with alcohol. How many lives and how many people have been destroyed through alcohol?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. You got a point there, Paul.
SPEAKER 10 :
You can drink all you want. You can buy all you want. You can do whatever you want. You can be in public drug. I mean, you get caught. Yeah, but look at all the people killed from alcohol abuse.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, Paul, appreciate your phone call. Paul, I mean, an example is just this week in my home state of South Carolina, a young lady, 27 years old, she was drunk. She had been at multiple bars and hit a couple who were literally on a golf cart driving back from the beach on their wedding day. She hit them, killed the bride instantly. She was sentenced. She pled guilty this week, sentenced to 25 years. In that case, it was all because of alcohol. So you make a good point. I mean, you know, alcohol can be as bad as marijuana if you abuse it. Anything. and when you abuse it, can be bad.
SPEAKER 03 :
And finally, one of the great American debates. If your football team wins a big game, should you be allowed to storm the field? Guest host Joey Hudson says yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Here in my home state of South Carolina, my Carolina Gamecocks played the Clemson Tigers. For once, we were successful. That doesn't happen often. The Clemson Tigers are a pretty tough team. The Gamecocks have had a good season, and we beat Clemson on Saturday. There's a tradition in Death Valley that it's okay for fans to run out on the field after the game. This past week, Coach Dabo Sweeney said that he was lucky to get out alive during the post-game celebration. Thousands of Clemson and South Carolina fans were on the field. Players from both teams nearly got into an altercation, reportedly because some Gamecock players attempted to plant a Gamecock flag in the middle of the Tiger Paw on Frank Howard Field. Sweeney said in his Sunday call, it was dangerous, it was scary. He said, we've got to make sure that does not happen anymore, and we can't be hypocrites either. He said that he was going to be talking with Gamecock coach Shane Beamer more on this. Sweeney said, obviously I've not been a part of much of that, but that was something that happened a couple years ago. And he's talking about in the Clemson, when the Gamecocks got into an issue in, I think this was in 2020 maybe. He said, and this was when Clemson beat Carolina in Columbia, and Clemson tried to do the same thing. Sweeney said, I'm disappointed about that. And then again, this year seems to be a similar thing. He said, listen, we have to do something about this. So what is that? Some other teams around the country, the ACC, find North Carolina and rival North Carolina State on Monday $25,000 because they, too, they got into a fight. because they were trying to plant a team flag in the middle of the field. Same thing in the Big Ten Conference, Ohio State and Michigan. They were fined $100,000 each for the same thing. What's the appropriate response here? And for some of you who are texting me and calling me, should fans just not be allowed on the field at all? Some of my texter says, Joey, college football should do what hockey, lacrosse, and rugby are doing. They line up after the game and they shake hands, win or lose. Fans running amok on the field is never a good idea. Todd in Atlanta. Thank you, Todd.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, December 6th, 2024. Be sure to subscribe to all of the podcasts and never miss a second of the shows. I'm Eric Hansen. We'll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
In this episode of *Rush to Reason*, John Rush breaks down the latest political moves shaping the nation. From Trump's plans to eliminate the federal EV tax credit to the confirmation battles surrounding his cabinet picks, we analyze what these changes mean for the country. Featuring a deep dive into the Trump campaign’s groundbreaking voter strategy, as shared by Charlie Kirk, and a candid discussion on the challenges of Colorado’s political landscape, John unpacks the strategies that could redefine American politics. Plus, listener insights, sharp humor, and the realities of grassroots campaigning. Don't miss this episode, packed with insights and surprises!
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, hour number two. Appreciate y'all joining us today. And again, thank you so much. And Oh, what can I say? Lots going on. Lots of cabinet picks may get into a few more of those, although a lot of those will still have to be confirmed. You know, one thing, Charlie, maybe you can help me with this. I was looking today. I'm assuming HHS has to be a confirmed position as well. Or is that just an appointment? Charlie says highly confirmed for high position, so most likely would be. At any rate, I didn't get a chance to look all that stuff up. If some of you know these answers, I mean, is every single cabinet position confirmed? For example, chief of staff is not confirmed. That's just his pick as to who's going to run chief of staff, White House secretary, press secretary. That's not a confirmation position. That's just a announcement on his part. He can pick whoever he wants to and can change it midstream if he likes. So I'm not – I'm sorry to say. Or maybe not sorry to say, because I've got better things to do. I'm not really up on who has to be confirmed and who doesn't. I know some of the... Attorney General, Matt Gaetz. That one would have to be confirmed, of course. Those I understand. But not... I don't think all of them have to be. Now... In other news, and I've got several things to talk about, and probably won't get to everything that I've got to cover in this hour. No guests this hour. I actually had a guest that was supposed to be with us during this hour, and make sure that I get his name correct. Tevi Troy, you heard me promo him even. He had something come up today, will not be able to join me until 4 o'clock Monday. So for those of you that maybe were hoping to hear him today and heard the promo, I will be talking to him on Monday. We're going to talk about AI, Elon Musk, some things along those lines. That will be Monday instead of today. He had something come up and could not join us. Now, in breaking news today, Donald Trump, President Trump, said that he plans to get rid of the 7,500 federal electric vehicle credit. In other words, the EV tax credit, the federal one, he plans to eliminate. Now, I believe that was in the infrastructure bill. The inflation bill is what I call it. So I'm not sure exactly what he'll do along those lines. I don't know exactly what he has to go through step by step to make that happen. But let me just tell you this. If that, in fact, happens, this is my prediction, and I don't think I'm wrong in this, EVs will be dead. Pardon the pun. But they will be. Even with Musk, yes, they will be. Now, that doesn't mean that all EVs will be dead. I just think it means that some will only have state credits. They will not have the 7,500 federal credit. I'm here to tell you that there are certain EVs, a lot of them, That only get looked at and or bought because of that credit. Because in a lot of cases, Colorado, for example, it's $7,500 and $5,000. That's the total. And right now in Colorado, you can walk into the dealership and as long as you make under a certain amount on last year's taxes, you can walk in and they take that right off the top of the car. You don't even have to apply for that. It's literally just taken off the top. Lump sum. Boom. Done. Done. So those are things that will most likely change under a Trump administration, and if that in fact does, yes, it will change how many people buy EVs. EVs are already struggling as is. This will be the nail in the coffin, if you ask me, for a lot of EVs. Not necessarily Tesla, but a lot of others that in fact will be a nail in the coffin. John and Cheyenne, go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
So if I remember right from my school days, Any position that is in the chain of succession has to be confirmed. So, like, president and vice president are elected, and then it's speaker of the House, Senate majority leader, and then it would be secretary of state, secretary of defense, you know, and on and on. Most of the cabinet positions that start with the, have the title of secretary, with the exception of, of course, attorney general, have to be confirmed. And I believe most of their deputies also have to be confirmed.
SPEAKER 14 :
Gotcha. Because they would automatically take over if something were to happen to them, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, right. So like Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Air Force, positions like that have to be confirmed by the Senate. Got it. So it's a whole big list. That's why it's so important that he has these appointments So when he's sworn in and the Senate's in session, he could send them all right to them so they could start doing the hearings for confirmation. That's what makes so long is they're going to have a confirmation hearing on all of these secretaries. And they could milk that in the Senate if, you know, they want to. The people that are in charge of, like, say, Senate judiciary will do the attorney general. you know, Senate, uh, um, military, is it military? I can't remember. Foreign affairs, probably military and foreign affairs. I'm guessing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Armed services. There you go. There you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. They would do the secretary of defense in the army, Navy, you know, uh, foreign affairs would do the secretary of state and the UN ambassador, which is, even though that's an ambassador, it's a, I think it's a, a, uh,
SPEAKER 14 :
confirmed position.
SPEAKER 04 :
I believe you're correct on that one.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I believe so too. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. So it's just a huge amount of people that have to be confirmed for him to even hit the ground running. HHS is a prime example that does have to be secretary education, you know, all the, all the ones it's, it's pretty much if it's a cabinet position, it has to be confirmed by the Senate, which, you know, that's what makes it so hard. because if it gets to the floor of the Senate and they want to filibuster it, say a Democrat really doesn't want Matt Gaetz, they can fight that tooth and nail as long as they can.
SPEAKER 14 :
I could see that. And by the way, that's one I could see happening. A lot of these, I think, are pretty cut and dried, and I think you'll get some bipartisan support. But Matt, Matt's pretty polarizing. I don't necessarily see that one being a slam dunk.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. My favorite conspiracy theory is that Matt's there because Trump wanted to get rid of him, and this is the easiest way.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know what? It's funny you said that, because I had the same conversation yesterday with a couple of different people, and I said exactly the same thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I've read it a lot of places where he resigned from Congress, so now if he doesn't get confirmed, he's out of there. what is he going to do maybe in two years he runs for his old seat to get back because he got re-elected by a pretty good margin a couple weeks ago he didn't win his primary by a by a huge margin though john no no but he won his his election because it's well my point on that is if you get somebody in that will now replace him and that guy runs or gal runs for a couple of years and does well and he tries to primary that guy out yeah that probably ain't gonna happen Yeah, so what does he do then?
SPEAKER 14 :
Move and go somewhere else and try to run.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Oh, like... Like Liz Cheney? You could.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't know that Matt would have much other choice. And by the way, I can't disagree with you. Now, I understand that, at least on the surface, I think Trump is doing everything he can to placate Gates because Gates is a full-time Trump supporter. And I'm not saying there's any bad blood between those two, but I think Donald Trump is smart enough to also know that Matt is very polarizing in government himself, not Again, if you're going to put him anywhere, put him in at the AG. But at the end of the day, he's very polarizing and frankly, probably didn't help Trump out a ton when it came to some of the things that he did inside of Congress. And I mean that for all of you that are out there that think Gates is, you know, everything's in sliced bread. Trust me, the guy is not. I think Trump knows that, John, and I can't disagree with what you're saying. I think Trump knows he won't get confirmed.
SPEAKER 04 :
If he does, then he just threw him to the wolves. And I don't know. We're not fans of him because of what he did to Kevin McCarthy.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm not fans of him because of what he just does, period. The guy's a loose cannon. He might be a really, really smart guy, but he has no strategy.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I don't know if Trump would throw somebody who's been that loyal to him under the bus.
SPEAKER 14 :
Maybe in a way, in a way, you're kind of throwing him under the bus by making him A.G. given his past experience, because, you know, he's going to struggle with that in confirmation.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Am I right for him? That's going to be the toughest one.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, they're digging. They'll dig everything out. You know, the Democrats will dig everything out that they possibly can on the guy, including some of what he's been going through in the House already when it comes to the investigation that's there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Cornyn, who I'm not a fan of, came out and said, well, we're going to want to see everything from the House Ethics Committee for his confirmation. And frankly, I'm not sure that I can blame him for that. No, not at all, because worst thing you do is you want to see him confirmed and then something really bad come out and then he has to resign and you've got to start all over again.
SPEAKER 14 :
You don't want that. You'd rather have you'd rather just go to your second choice right off the bat.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Which, by the way, might ultimately be the art of the deal and might be what Trump wants anyways.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And who would be I don't I'm a little bit vague on who would be his second choice for attorney general.
SPEAKER 14 :
Andy threw out a name the other day and he's probably watching movies right now, so isn't listening to me and can't throw that out to me quickly. But he threw out something the other day and I can't remember who he told me. I'd have to go back and look.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know. It's just, you know who I, but she probably wouldn't take it, or I don't know, is if you go watch some of Harriet Hageman, and she's a real sharp lawyer, watch some of her questioning when she's in Congress, and she's vicious, and she would be, I think, a good attorney general. Andy said Comer. Oh, James Comer? Yeah. Yeah, he'd be good. That's what Andy said. He'd be good. So just one other question. Yes. What do you think of Radcliffe as CIA?
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't think that's a bad choice.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, I think that's a good choice. Yeah, I'm fine with that.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, really, John, so far, I really don't have a problem with any of them other than I'm not a Matt Gaetz fan. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
And, you know, I don't know. It's just Matt Gaetz just reminds me too much of a politician. Yep. Absolutely. You know, he's just kind of, I don't know. Let's see what comes out tomorrow with the House Ethics Committee. Because he might be hoping that because he resigned, they're not going to release that. But he's got enough enemies in the House that they might. That's right. Yeah. You're right. John, you have a great day.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, other news that came out yesterday, which I pretty well figured this would probably be the case, I think, just because of, again, stuff we talked about with Dr. Kelly, victory, conflict of interest, and so on. How does it look in all of that? Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, who will be in charge of DOGE, DOG, DOG, whatever you want to call it, DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, They both said, I believe this was sent out late last night, they both said they will not take pay, meaning they're not on government payroll. And I'm guessing there's a couple of reasons there. One, it kind of is a conflict of interest. You're in charge of this entity that's now going to get rid of government waste and make things efficient. So how can you take a salary at the same time? It's not that you couldn't because you're getting paid to do something, but I get where they're coming from. Number two, neither one of them need it. I mean, really, I mean, even if you paid Elon, I haven't done the math on this, Charlie, but even if you paid Elon, I don't think I'm exaggerating here. If you paid Elon 200 grand a year, which is about what those positions run inside government, if you paid him 200 grand a year. That'd be like you, Charlie, it's like you and I making 15 or 20 bucks, and I'm not exaggerating. It's comparison to what his whole net worth is, $200 billion. Making a couple hundred grand is like you and I making 20 bucks or so. It's that drastic, and I'm not exaggerating. So end of the day, not taking one. I believe there is a conflict of interest, and I believe it's smart for both of them not to do so. Number two. I don't think that either one of them could do this and be paid and not divest some of their holdings that they also have out there in regards to their businesses and so on, which, again, neither one of them want to do nor would I want them to do. Third thing about not taking payroll and the other thing that they said is they want to get all this done in two years. They don't want this to be a forever office. They want to get in there, get things done, get things handled, make the changes necessary, and then basically leave it alone after two years has gone by. In other words, we'll get this done in two years, and after that, it should be fine. Just keep it intact and make it go forward. So that was good news. I kind of figured they'd do that. Now, what I think is really interesting, and I'm sorry that I have to say this, but There were a lot of people, some of you even listening, where I had some conversations, did some shows on both Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. And I'm not a fan of Elon, as you guys all know. I mean, I think Elon's done a great thing with X and Twitter. He did a lot to help Donald Trump get elected. I don't know exactly where he stands on every single thing politically speaking, but I think he's a lot further right now than he was four years ago. Is he a true blue conservative? Frankly, he might be more conservative than some actual conservatives. Vivek, a lot of people said, you know, both of them, a lot of people said they're just Trojan horses. They're just infiltrating the party so that they can end up, you know, turning things over for themselves and the Democrats when it's all said and done. Yeah, well, how did that pan out? And some of you listening, I got direct text messages and emails from you saying exactly that. I don't trust Musk. I don't trust Vivek. Vivek took all this money from Soros, which I disproved on air many times that he did not. And I've gone through the litany of things that people have thrown at me as to why you couldn't trust either one of them. It's interesting that now they not only helped get Donald Trump elected... they're now going to serve on jointly the Department of Government Efficiency getting rid of government waste. I mean, how ironic for two people that claimed by a lot of conservatives to be Trojan horses are now going to be on the inside of the beltway eliminating a lot of jobs, positions, and government waste that you all probably are a fan of. Anyway, I was thinking about that on my way home last night, that I'd had many a conversation over the years, even when Vivek was trying to run in the primary end of things and some of the things that Elon has done and people saying they're nothing but Trojan horses. Elon, he's not going to do anything with Elon. He's going to end up just suppressing people and free speech and so on, and he's only buying it so he can do more of that. I mean, I heard it all. Literally, I have heard it all. And yet at the end of the day, you were all wrong. I'll just point that out. You were wrong. They neither one have done that. In fact, they have fought more to get Donald Trump elected and help some of his policies out than a lot of other people have. Now, along the lines of Vivek, because he also did a lot of work with Charlie Kirk, which turning point, Charlie Kirk. who never went to college. He's like me, just sort of self-taught, I guess you could say. Goes to college campuses and does a lot of things to convince people to vote and then to vote for our side. And he does it in a very non-threatening, very polite way, open forum kind of a dialogue. He sits up on stage. If you've never seen any of these, I encourage you, go out to his YouTube channel, go to Turning Point USA, watch some of these things. He is one of the most watched individuals in that space there is, and I'm not exaggerating, on all platforms. Facebook, X. TikTok, YouTube, and so on. And the way he sets these little rallies up, it's pretty amazing. I mean, the guy is just a wealth of information that he can rattle off off the top of his head like no tomorrow. The guy amazes me, literally. And for being as young as he is, he just rattles things off like no tomorrow. Now, he had... Vivek, with him in a lot of these meetings and town halls, forums, whatever you want to call them, on college campuses that he went to. Vivek did a great job, by the way. And what's interesting about that is Charlie Kirk is a hardcore Christian. I mean, we'll give the gospel message to individuals as he's having this dialogue back and forth. He is a hardcore Christian. Vivek is not. Very well known, he is not. Now, what Vivek will tell you is, you know, I believe that anybody can have the opportunity in America to have whatever faith you want to have, and I'll respect that. It's interesting to see them up on the same stage, answering the same questions, and Charlie's giving the gospel. You've got to wonder, how much of that is Vivek absorbing, by the way? That's kind of a side note that I've always been thinking. It's like, how can you be around it for that long and not have some sort of impact on your own life? Anyways, I'm digressing because that's a whole other conversation, but you have to wonder that. But Vivek is up there, literally... I mean, talking about the very things that Charlie Kirk is backing up Charlie Kirk on a lot of things, which, by the way, is backing up what Donald Trump wants to do with the country. And it got him elected. There is a great video. If you get a chance to go look at it, there was an interview that Charlie Kirk did on another podcast. And I wish I would have written down the podcast that he was on. But there was a video podcast that Charlie Kirk went on and they were interviewing him. This has just been within the last week as to, you know, what were your marching orders coming out of Donald Trump's campaign? 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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. I was able to actually find the Charlie Kirk podcast that he was on, and I wish I knew what this podcast was. I will, again, do my best to try to figure that out. I just happened to be scrolling and watched this last night. And this is about four minutes or so. I don't know that I'll play all of it, but I'll play portions. I may stop it a little bit in chat, but I'll let Charlie explain himself first. what he actually did. And then, like I said, it wasn't just him. It was a lot of people on his team, including the likes of Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy. So those two went with him on a lot of the things that you're going to hear him talking about. But I find this fascinating. Maybe you will as well. But let me just play it. Here we go.
SPEAKER 17 :
helped execute on the ground in some of these states was like, guys, don't spend your time knocking on doors about a suburban soccer mom who's weighing her options.
SPEAKER 14 :
OK, I got to stop for a moment because I think this is a mistake that we make even inside of the state of Colorado. And this is something that if I were chair of Colorado, I would stop having candidates do. Now, there's candidates probably listening to me saying, geez, John, why? Listen closely. to what charlie says about knocking on someone's door to get them to vote for you listen to what he says and it'll it'll tell you why that's a bad strategy stats because that takes nine contacts to try to get her nine points of contact on average conversations discussions and they could be thirty minutes on instead
SPEAKER 17 :
Turning point, go spend your time in very Republican areas where there are non-registered or what we call disengaged voters. People that like Trump, like his worldview. For example, the bro vote, right? And so this is where we spent our time and we harvested – not ballot harvested, but we harvested in a very, very powerful way –
SPEAKER 14 :
OK, I got to stop for a moment. He's going to talk about the universities and so on. But what he said just now was, which, by the way, a lot of Republican candidates listening to me pay attention to this. And if you want the direct link to this, email me and I'll send it to you. Even if you're thinking of running for office, I think this is really key. Keep in mind, this is what the Trump campaign figured out. It's what they did, and they just won an election with way over 300 electoral college votes and won the popular vote as well. And this was part of their strategy. So you heard what he said a moment ago. It takes nine visits to convince that non-voter, that non-Republican voter to vote for you, knocking on their door. Nine times. Most candidates are lucky to get to a place once. Nonetheless, nine times. So then what they said was, don't do that. Go out to these areas where there are Republicans, but they may be disconnected. They've decided for whatever reason or another they're not voting any longer or they don't want to be a part of the team any longer. Let's go focus in those areas instead rather than trying to get that maybe woman that will never vote for you to vote for you anyway. So he's going to talk about now the college campuses.
SPEAKER 17 :
Arizona State University, for example, we registered thousands of young men to vote in fraternities. And that was way easier than us going to try to win over swing voters. And we did a little bit of that. But generally, the Trump campaign was brilliant because they threw the Republican consultant playbook out. The Republican consultant playbook was spend all your time on the middle, on those like middle 15 pursuant swing voters and go all in. Trump campaign said, why don't we just make our base bigger? Why don't we just make the people who love us the most? And so what they looked at was demographics and they realized if we can make the electorate three percent more masculine and do. And by the way, they were so smart to do this. This is Susie. This is Susie and James Blair and La Savita. And they were so smart because they said, wait a second, what is more important than race? whether or not you're a man or a woman actually dictates your political affiliation far more of a correlation than your race.
SPEAKER 14 :
Which, by the way, everything I said prior to the election and what was happening to the male vote, talked about it a lot the week before, I should say the weeks leading up to. And then after, once we found out what the actual results were, Andy and I hit on this very heavily last week after the election, talking about the disenfranchised, the pushed away, which in some cases, both parties, male voter. Now, the one thing that he talked about was, you know, don't waste all your time on that 15% in the middle. Let's go after the folks that are already on our site. I can't disagree with that. I still think you need to go after those folks in the middle. Now, when you start talking about a state like Colorado, that strategy, I think, has to be a little bit different because we have over half of our voters that are unaffiliated. Over half. I ran the numbers on that for you guys on Tuesday. Andy and I did, and I gave you the exact numbers. We're 2 million plus voters in Colorado that are unaffiliated. So you have to have a percentage of them in Colorado or you're not going to win.
SPEAKER 17 :
Emphasized racial politics and they emphasized more of a masculine machismo approach. And boy, did it work. And not only did it work, you're running up against a woman. So it's easier to kind of make that argument. And I don't mean to monopolize. No, this is really interesting. Keep going. And so what the Trump campaign did, the Republican consultant playbook that Karl Rove basically authored was everything is about high propensity. There's two types of voters, high propensity and low propensity voters. A high propensity voter is typically college educated, lives in the suburbs. You know, they watch they watch Chris. They watch CNN. They have an income over one hundred thousand dollars a year. They have two kids and a picket fence and they go to soccer games and they don't commit crimes. You know, that type of demo. Right. High propensity voters is where the Republican Party has always been focused. OK, those were but Trump came in. He said, no, no, no. We're going to focus on low propensity voters. The welder, the electrician, the carpenter, the police officer or the person that's just not registered to vote.
SPEAKER 14 :
In other words, the people everybody's forgot about. By the way, the people I rub elbows with. I guess I'll just say it like that. Everybody he just mentioned, those are the people I hang out with. Those are the people that I know. Those are the people that I consult. Those are the business owners that I know. And yeah, you know what? In a lot of ways, we're forgotten in a lot of ways, even by our own party.
SPEAKER 17 :
I thought that Donald Trump was going to win, and I wasn't as confident as anybody else, okay? It was when I started to see the voter registration surge across the country. In the summer before this last summer, new people that were registering to vote were registering at Eclipse 3-1 versus Democrat. In Pennsylvania, for the first time ever, in Pennsylvania, for the first time ever, we had every county in Pennsylvania, we were out registering Democrats for the first time ever. Now, mind you, what Josh Shapiro did as governor of Pennsylvania is he put in a thing called
SPEAKER 14 :
OK, really quick. This is key because this is where I think the Democrats thought they might have an edge, but it ended up backfiring on them.
SPEAKER 17 :
So listen to this motor voter, which means you automatically get registered to vote. They thought that was going to help them when you get your license, when you get your driver's license. It helped Republicans because of lower. Think about who's not registered to vote. It's typically lower propensity voters and PBD. Here's the here's the here's the kicker. Where do these people get their information? Lower propensity voters get information on TikTok. They're not watching CNN. You know why? These folks are darn tired by the time they get home. They're not turning on cable news. They're watching NFL football games. They're the ones that are not going to be able to quote to you, Marbury. It's also this. Yeah, it's also the phone. So what Donald Trump's campaign did is they hacked the 2024 election, not in a way that people would think, where they said, wait a second, everyone has a supercomputer in their right-hand pocket. Why are we worried about what CNN is saying or MSNBC is saying? Why don't we win the information war? And then finally, the kicker. They said, why don't we go on the most ambitious, over-the-top, low-propensity voter communication strategy on Theo Vaughn, Joe Rogan, Nelk Boys, Logan Paul, influencer strategies, right? So what they said is there's this whole reservoir. And the final kicker, my mandate at Turning Point was very simple. Charlie, turn Trump supporters into voters.
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There you go. That was the strategy the Trump campaign had. It worked very well. Will it work again in 2028? You know, we'll see. But they did a very good job here throughout this last campaign in doing just that. Joe, you're next. Go ahead.
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John, just a heads up. I've got some good intel that the very first position Musk and Vivek are going to cut is the invisible guy that shakes Trump. Biden's hand when he finishes his speech and turns to walk off the stage. Gotcha. Make sure he's gone.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good, good.
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Yeah, that's the very first thing they're going to cut.
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Don't want to be paying that guy anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, we don't need that invisible guy shaking by his hand anymore.
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That's hilarious.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's all I got for you, John.
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That's hilarious, Joe. No, good one. Appreciate that very much. All right. Again, that was a fascinating clip. Again, I watched that last night, and it'll be, again, interesting to see how does that work. Does that trickle down into some of the other state politics that we have? I will tell you that this is, again, one of the complaints that I have in our own state. is do we do these things well enough? And I'll be flat out honest. No, we don't. We don't. Are we helping? I've got an article I want to talk about when I come back along these lines. Are we helping our candidates? Yes. Enough with these sorts of things. Strategy. How should you look at things? Have you thought about doing this? Are you doing that? Does our state party do those things with candidates? Folks, I guess I'll play ignorant and I don't know, but I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it. We have a state party that's too busy working against our candidates rather than sitting down helping them succeed in their campaign. We'd rather work against them than work for them. And by the way, I just got to say this. Having luncheons and inviting all the cronies in that come to every one of these events is not going to get your candidate elected. Might help you raise a little bit of money. But frankly, if you have a good product, they'll give money with a phone call. You don't need to have a luncheon that you're paying for that's costing you money to To bring money in, you can do that other ways. Trust me, folks, I'm a business owner. I understand that better than anyone. You don't have to buy someone's donation. If you do it correctly, you can get them to donate to anything if they believe in the cause. Something our party here in Colorado doesn't seem to understand. You don't need to do all of those fancy things. to garner support. In fact, you talk about the support that Charlie Kirk just talked about with that low propensity voter. Those folks have money, too. They have the ability to donate. Now, they may not be able to donate, you know, 5,000, but can they donate 500 or 50? And you get 100 of those to donate 50, well, now you're up to your 5,000 again. So my point is, we tend to, as always... We tend to only focus on those that we feel are going to be big donors and forget about the little guy. Donald Trump didn't do that. But I will tell you, as a state party, I feel like we do do that. American National Insurance is next. Make sure that you've got your insurance covered. And Paul Leuenberger, my good friend, can help you with that. He will help you broker whatever insurance you need, even for your business. 303-662-0789.
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, I talked about Charlie Kirk and the strategy that the Trump campaign had in regards to this last election, the winning of, how they did it, and so on. I also compared that to some of what happens inside of certain states, ours being one of those, Colorado. And it's interesting that Because there was an article that was out this week. Uncle Benny, who is a politician here in Colorado, I interviewed Uncle Benny actually the same day that I interviewed Gabe Evans and a lot of the other folks that were up at the Phoenix Weaponry Open House that we did back in April. I was there on a Saturday. We did Fix-It Radio and Drive Radio from there. And I got to talk to Uncle Benny, who ran for Larimer County District 3. So he has a proposal, and his real name is Ben Asty. But he has a proposal to where he wants to take campaign funding and essentially push that down to future elections. In other words, people that would donate $5, $10, $15 or whatever, and if some of that money isn't used up, you save that money and push it down into a future monies account. Now, and by the way, Uncle Benny, if you're listening, I don't disagree with that, but I want to counter that with something. Isn't that what our state party is supposed to be doing to help you anyways? Charlie, am I missing something there? I mean, I thought that's what our state party was supposed to be there for. Now, I understand the state party can direct where they want monies to go, but to me, this would be where you have a relationship with the state party in some of these more obscure races where there's not a lot of money raised, but they still need some help. Okay, sit down with your party chair and devise a way to where these things can be done, and why does a future elections money account need to even exist if your state party's doing what they're supposed to? And you can tell, folks, I'm being very kind in this because I'm not against Benny. I think, Ben, you've got a great idea. But my comeback is this is what I'm always harping on when it comes to our current party here in Colorado right now. This is what they should be doing. And, yes, before anybody gets after me saying, well, previous ones didn't do it either, I get that. So at what point do you break the cycle? I don't care what previous administrations did here in Colorado with the GOP. Doesn't matter to me. If you want to change it, change it. But quit blaming the past ones. I'm blaming the ones that are there now because they're current. I can't blame the past ones. They're not there now. Blaming Dick Wadhams for stuff that he hasn't really been directly involved in for 20 years doesn't help us today. Rhino Watch, by the way, speaking to you directly. You guys always are willing to pick on past things, but won't look at the log in your own eye. It just cracks me up. We've got candidates that lost. They're now running around saying we've got a way to maybe fix this in the future to where we might win a few more seats in Colorado. They're coming up with the idea. That's not saying that they shouldn't have ideas. They should. But where's our state party in this? What are they doing? So for those of you that are all in for the state party, I'm asking you the same thing. Where are they? Why aren't they helping with some of these things? And if I'm completely wrong and I've missed something, please tell me. I'll publicly announce what that is and what the plan is and what they're doing, but I don't see that they're doing anything other than disrupting. And picking winners and losers. And running in their own races. And trying to ruin primaries. We went over that with Andy on Tuesday. If they would have had their way, we wouldn't have won any of the four. Well, we might have won one of those. But we would definitely have lost three of the four congressional seats that we won in Colorado. We would have lost those. If they would have had their way. So, again, I throw out to you guys that are hardcore on the far right. you know, in the inside of the party, what are you guys doing? I just proved to you, by the way, with the interview that Charlie Kirk was being interviewed on the podcast he was on, that door knocking doesn't help. So I'm begging and asking, what's the answer to win over some of those either fringe voters that are out of the party for whatever reason, that in some cases you may have ran off? How do we bring some of those people back in so we can start regaining some of what's going on in Colorado? Because right now we're going backwards, not forwards. And before a lot of you out there will tell me that, oh, no, no, we're doing way better. We've we've registered and we've got more, you know, we've got more Republican voters registered than there are Democrats. You're smoking dope. You've been down to the pot store too much if you think that. You're incorrect. You're flat out wrong. You're lying to yourself if you believe that, by the way. You're delusional. You have as much of a mental ill problem as the left does if you believe that stuff, because it's not true. So please wake up, look at the real data, figure out what's going on, stop promoting things that are false, claiming that you're winning, because you're not. Plain and simple. You're not. The numbers and the data prove we're not winning. So I hope a lot of you that are listening can look at what I just played, what happened a week ago past Tuesday with Trump winning big. Look at what's happening inside of our state and the fact that we didn't pick up any seats in the state. We didn't lose any, luckily. But the Democrats are on the cusp of a supermajority in Colorado. And what is our state party doing about that? What is our plan of attack moving forward? And as you all go into your assembly next spring, or whatever it is, February, February, March, whatever the date is, as you go into that, please think about what I'm saying right now. Remember this and think about it. I mean, I'll talk about it more as we get closer to that, but please think about that as you elect your next chair. And elect somebody with a real plan. What is the plan to fix what's going on in Colorado when it comes to the conservative movement? What are we going to do? And don't just tell me that, oh, we're all grassroots, we're headed in the right direction. That's not an answer. Telling me you're grassroots doesn't tell me anything, other than in some cases you might be delusional. And I'm sorry, I don't really want to call grassroots Republicans delusional, but some of you are. I see your posts. I see the things that you're after. I see the things that you claim. You're lying to yourself. You're believing a lie. 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Real quick, in closing, somebody asked, why would Gates, Matt Gates, resign his position not knowing he would get the AG job? You know, people do weird things all the time. I don't know. I don't know what this investigation is going to turn up. I don't know what he was thinking in his own mind. Maybe he thinks because of whatever reason that he's a shoo-in getting through the Senate. I wouldn't say that because I don't think that's true. I don't know what's going on in Matt's head. I would not have done that. frankly, but he did. I've got more to come for another hour. Don't go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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I'm a rich guy.
