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This episode also touches on the recent discussions around presidential pardons and the narratives driving these political decisions. Dive into the complexities as John offers insights into the potential motives behind presidential pardoning strategies, especially given the current political climate. Harmony between past wisdom and present conditions offers a compelling narrative that seeks to engage listeners in reflexive thought.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. I got a funny text message in a moment ago talking about how back when I was actually owning my shops and the tech and all of that, did I ever get to the point where something just got to the point where it just wasn't worth it anymore, installing something, an accessory, whatever the case may be. Not often. But, yeah, I can say that there was a few times in my life where it was like, okay, why are we doing this? This is just not going well. It's not being put together correctly and so on. And, yes, there were some times where I absolutely did that. And I feel – how should I say this? I feel the pain, I guess you could say, when those things happen. So for those of you – for whoever you were that texted, I think it was Tyler, thank you, by the way, for that. I appreciate that. Very much. All right. Is Richard on, too? Here we go. Richard, welcome. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 05 :
Good afternoon, John. Thank you so much for having us with you. And we had a little technical. That's all right. We're all good. Yes, sir, we are. And just so anxious to talk to you about these sage sayings. And I heard the introduction.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, so what happened to all those sage sayings?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, we don't hear them much anymore. No, we don't. And that's what's interesting. And I started collecting them. probably 20 years or so ago and keeping a file because I wasn't hearing them much. And when I'd hear one or when I think of one, I'd make a list. And I put this list as an appendix in Made in America by Americans, not Americans, a couple of years ago. But I like trotting them out and sharing some periodically just to kind of remind people at how nice these are.
SPEAKER 18 :
Before we get started, why do you think that changed?
SPEAKER 05 :
That's a really good question, and I think part of it's a lack of respect and interest in learning from our elders versus the current influencers. That's the change of the culture, but I don't know why the grandparents' generation, if you will, are not using them with youngsters and any other reason than that.
SPEAKER 18 :
There's a lot of these I, you know, personally, Richard, will still use. And yeah, I'll admit sometimes I get this sort of like crazy, you know, side look like, what did you just say? But, you know, because to your point, again, a lot of folks don't hear these anymore, but I'm one where, yeah, to your point, we'll go through some of these. I think some of them have real meaning. I mean, I think they're not only fun to use, they've got meaning.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, absolutely. And they can help us live a smarter life and have less problems as well because usually they're pretty wise. Well, one, I'm going to put two together and add my corollary to it. So one of them is experience is the best teacher, and another one is hindsight is 20-20. And so my corollary is if experience is the best teacher and if hindsight is 20-20, why won't the people who have neither listen to the people who have both?
SPEAKER 18 :
That is a great question. That is a great question. I don't know. I guess because haste makes waste.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, it does.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, again, I wish I had better answers for some of this, Richard. But, you know, again, some of these phrases are very, you know, I mean, they're spot on. Experience is the best teacher. I was thinking about that. I don't know. I was watching something or doing something last night, and I got to thinking that, you know, in most jobs, there's very few that this is, you know, not the case. But in most jobs, Richard, the only way to really know that job. Yeah, you can be instructed on what that job is going to be. You can be told how to do that job over and over and over again. You can read all about that job. But until you actually do it, you get in the middle of whatever it happens to be and you start learning how it works. And then when something happens, a mistake or some difficulty comes along and you start understanding that, hey, do this and it'll fix that and it'll make this better and so on. You don't learn that in any book. You have to learn that by experience.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, there is no doubt that regardless of anything else, that if you add experience, you'll perform better.
SPEAKER 18 :
Correct. And yet we've got seems to and I'm not trying to pick on younger generations, but it seems like, Richard, we've got this expectation of, well, I've read about it. You've told me about it. OK, I'm good to go. And it's like, well, you might be. But what happens when that slight problem crops up that you have no idea how to deal with?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, generally, they want the same pay as the person who has done the job for many years.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, that's another podcast, or not podcast, but another interview you can do on down the road that these do turn into podcasts as well. All right, give us a few more, Richard.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, another one that I love is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And my parents grew up during the Depression, and maybe yours did too, and they never threw anything away. And as I tell people from my grandmother's, remodeling was a mop and a broom. Yet I see people today that will move into a brand-new house. and they'll remodel it before they even live in it, even though it was brand new, because they don't like colors or patterns or other different things. And it's just totally the opposite of the generation that grew up in the Depression.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and that's one where unless something really changes economically, Richard, I don't see us going back to that, I hate to say.
SPEAKER 05 :
I absolutely agree, and I see this generation... Doesn't want to own anything. They don't want to own houses. They don't want to own cars. They don't want to own a lot of things. But my bet is the generation after this will want all of those things back. And so the people that hold on to things and have ownership and can pass it along. will be greatly appreciated by that generation. Very true.
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This one I apply on a pretty routine basis because when you start looking at, quote-unquote, and I'm going to talk about this probably some next week as we get closer and closer to Christmas because of all the different scams and things that are out there, Richard, and they really do target certain individuals and certain demographics of people. But if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, and we need to make sure everybody thinks that every time they hear something because we've all been taken in once or twice or maybe more, but we can all help others not to be taken in.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, you know, the get-rich-quick schemes and so on, which a lot of these clichés or these sayings, these phrases that we have on my list, Richard, will apply to even some of that. It's not only, you know, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The reality is, you know, be careful what you get yourself into because not everything is what it appears to be.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, and one that's a corollary to that that's on here is, how can I hear what you say when what you do speaks so loudly? Good point. We saw that out of Washington very recently.
SPEAKER 18 :
Good point. You know, the other one that we can see with Washington, and it's going to happen, I think, a lot here over the course of probably the next year to two, is if you want to know what's happening, follow the money.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think that's true all the time, not just the next... year or two. But we see that we see on media, especially people coming on and commenting. And I have no agenda in this, maybe selling some books or things. But the people that go on the TV and radio out of Washington generally have some type of agenda. They're tied to lobbyists. They want certain bills passed. And so we need to take that into consideration. The old consider the source advice when we're listening to those people.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, the other one that goes with this is that's because they throw good money after bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's exactly right. And usually it's our money, not theirs. That's right, because it's not theirs. As well. So I love one on here that's not political. It says, I'm so tired I'm breathing from memory. Yeah, yeah. And I heard you talking about your sleep pattern earlier, so I wanted to make sure to get that one in.
SPEAKER 18 :
This is another one I enjoy because I believe I taught my kids this over the course of their lifetime, of course, growing up. If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas. In other words, be careful who you hang out with.
SPEAKER 05 :
And boy, isn't that true. And I can remember after high school, my parents talking to me about that. I couldn't understand really what they were saying. And lo and behold, they became wiser later because what they saw that I didn't became true.
SPEAKER 18 :
Honesty is the best policy. Of course, we all know that's a Benjamin Franklin phrase from years ago.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yes, and we know that. But why don't the people in Washington know that?
SPEAKER 18 :
Good question. And one thing I always taught my employees and my kids as well, it's another one of those things that I taught because it goes along with honesty is the best policy. If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember what you said.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's exactly correct. And we've seen that in spades coming out of Washington the last six months or so with the campaign and people saying things despite there being video evidence of the exact opposite of what they're saying that people could refer to. And it's just amazing to me how they continue to throw out contradictory statements.
SPEAKER 18 :
You mean like Hunter's pardon?
SPEAKER 05 :
That's a good example, yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, we heard for the longest time that that's just not going to happen, even from our president's mouth, and yet here we are.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, we are. And the other interesting thing about some of these things are who said them. So I've always heard this thing about every dog has its day, but I didn't realize until I was researching this further that it was Shakespeare that said that.
SPEAKER 18 :
I didn't know that either until I saw my notes.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would have thought he'd have been a little too highbrow to say that.
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Yeah, I would not have guessed that one at all. This one I use a lot. I don't say blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while. I use the blind squirrel. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again, and it's very true.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I guess it depends on which side of the farm you're working on.
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True, true, true. This is another one because there's real meaning to it because they actually used to use this on purpose, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yes, and I had a bath on a back porch in a number three wash tub as a little kid before, and the Saturday night bath was starting with dad and mom and all the way down through the kids, and the baby was last, and So the water being so dirty that they were afraid they'd lose the baby in the bathwater.
SPEAKER 18 :
That's right. All right, so one more time, Richard. This is in one of your books. If people want to read more of these, how do they do that?
SPEAKER 05 :
This is in the book as an appendix of Made in America by Americans, not Americans. Perfect.
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and you guys listening, you can get that at richardbattle.com. And Richard, we'll talk to you before Christmas, of course, but for those of you listening, if you're looking for some great Christmas presents, Richard, you have a plethora of them there, and for young people especially, what you have would be great gifts for those young people.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thank you, and yes, and all books at richardbattle.com are signed. If someone wants it inscribed, order it, and then email me, richard at richardbattle.com. We're happy to do that. You can Find everything at Amazon, including Kindle and audio versions as well.
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Awesome. Richard, as always, I appreciate you, sir. Thanks for all that you do for us.
SPEAKER 05 :
My pleasure. Thank you. God bless America.
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All right. Repercussions of the pardon. We were just talking about that with Richard Battle a moment ago. Congress hands Biden, this is in Axios, a huge Hunter-driven pardon wish list. And some of the folks on this wish list, by the way, you would just look at and think to yourself, how in the world could anybody even think of having that particular person pardoned? For example, AOC, she wants a pardon for an indigenous activist, Leonard P-E-L-T-I-E-R, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents. This isn't like a white collar crime. This is a murderer that killed two FBI agents. Of course, there's all sorts of lawmakers that have turned things in to pardon not only President Trump, but also a lot of the J6 folks. And I can tell you that I highly doubt Biden will pardon any of those. Thomas Massey out of Kentucky, he has urged Biden to pardon Assange. who, you know, that's the whole, you know, Snowden, that whole end of things and so on. And it'll be interesting to see what happens there. I highly doubt that will actually happen. Now, that could be one that I could see Donald Trump getting involved in because both of those guys released all sorts of things that actually set the record straight in a lot of things that were going on that people thought was disinformation or misinformation that, in fact, wasn't. Anyways, there's a long list. And whenever you do something like what Joe Biden just did, you literally opened up Pandora's box. Because what he did basically was say there's no real checks and balances around pardons. It's sort of willy nilly. We'll just pardon anyone. Now, we talked about this in the podcast this morning that we recorded, myself, Neal, and Bob, and don't be shocked. Bob brought this up, and I chimed in on it as well. Don't be shocked if by the time Joe's done, he hasn't pardoned his brother, his wife, so Jim and Jill, the two Js, and by the way, himself. Don't be shocked, those of you on the left even, don't be surprised if Joe doesn't pardon basically the entire Biden regime when it's all said and done. And I would not be surprised to see that happen either. He can pardon himself, he can pardon his brother, and he can pardon his wife, which, keep in mind, she, of all of them, has very much been in the middle of this more so than probably anybody thinks. Biden became the scapegoat. You know, he's sort of the straw man, if you would. But believe me, they've been involved in it very much. So it'll be interesting as we go down this path to Inauguration Day to see exactly what Joe does. And by the way, the way these things will typically work is just like him pardoning Hunter on a Sunday night, or a Sunday, I should say, slow news day, be looking for pardons that would come out on a Friday through a Sunday. Because they make less news when that happens. We know in this world, in the media world, that the news cycle is down then. So the way that works is if you've got a big story that you'd like to not get a lot of press on, you throw it out on a Friday or a Saturday, even a Sunday. But typically Friday, Friday afternoon, Friday evening is the best time to do it. Because the news cycle has really ended for the week at that point, and everybody's gearing up for other things. And then by the time you get into Monday, you've started all over again. And so anybody in the news communication world knows that if you're going to bury a story, you throw it out then. So my point is this. If and when he does these things, look for them to happen on a Friday through a Sunday. And that's most likely when it will happen. And yeah, I would, I'm not a betting man, but if I were, yeah, I would bet on the fact that he will pardon not only himself, but Jill and Jim, so his wife and his brother as well. He already did his son. He's already opened that door. And it'd be easy now for him just to go through and say, well, you know, because of the political target that Hunter was, I can just see that my wife and brother and even myself could be down the road with this next administration coming in. So I'm going to go ahead and just do a preemptive pardon for the three of us. frankly, could happen all at one time, by the way. Don't be shocked, those of you that are on the conservative side of the aisle, if that doesn't happen. And by the way, those of you on the left, you should probably expect that coming from this particular regime, because the Biden crime family is huge, and they don't want to be thrown under the bus for anything. And the best way to do that is just pardon yourself now and get it done and over with, because if that happens, what are you going to do moving forward? What's our side going to do moving forward? The answer is nothing. It's at that point done and over with. 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All right, we are back, and it's that time of the week. Sunny Kutcher joining us now, Young Americans Against Socialism. Sunny, welcome. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER 14 :
Likewise. I hope all of your listeners had a wonderful and restorative Thanksgiving. It is always kind of a rat race at the end of the year here, so it's nice to be able to get some downtime.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, let's just say I think we had a better one than what they're having in South Korea.
SPEAKER 14 :
That one could say so. Yes, there is a situation that has definitely evolved. And I think at this point now, so Marshall Law was enacted there. I think it was sometime yesterday. It's a large time difference there, but happened within the last few days because the president. Yoon Suk-yeol declared the emergency law on December 3rd, so yesterday, because he was citing threats from, quote, anti-state forces and was accusing the opposition party to be sympathizers with North Korea. Fascinating stuff. I do really feel like this is a sign that people are becoming more aware of the different influences that politics and global politics, the influences that are there, swaying the world population in one direction or another. But the military actually entered the parliament building. They went in and they actually ordered a vote. And so eventually the military has now stepped down because they want to stay on the side of the people. And the president should be. I think they're they're expecting him to either resign or step down because of his actions.
SPEAKER 18 :
Which, again, I'm not one that's in favor of any kind of president doing martial law. I get where he's coming from, although I don't think he handled that correctly. And really, for all of you listening, we mentioned this just briefly in the 3 o'clock hour yesterday, Sonny. But what's happening over there is, to your point a moment ago, They're becoming very influenced as a country by North Korea, which I just – I'm baffled by that, by the way. I just don't understand. You look to the north and you see what's going on over there. Why would you want to become like them? And this is where – why you, Young Americans Against Socialism, it's so important to teach our young people what really goes on, because right now in South Korea, which they've been one of our great allies, we helped them with a lot of their rebuilding of the country after the Korean War and so on and so forth, and they really have been a great ally of the United States, and yet, Sunny, it's like they've forgotten their roots.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely, and... I mean, we're seeing that all over the world. And I do feel that, you know, once again, this is an example of the, you know, there being a kind of a conflict or a conflict of interest with the government and the people and, you know, where they'd like to see the direction of the country.
SPEAKER 18 :
Again, I am baffled by this whole events, the things that are happening. Again, I don't keep up on what's going on in South Korea. I don't have friends or family or anybody there, so I don't know exactly what's going on on the streets. But literally, when I saw the news yesterday, I was literally... baffled by that. I would have thought, you know, knowing also how Christian South Korea has become, they've had one of the greatest revival movements over the last couple of decades of probably any country in the world, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. Africa's have a huge revival, but so has South Korea, as far as that goes. And, you know, putting all of that together, Sunny, I was literally just shocked at what I read yesterday.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is quite shocking, and I think we're seeing that all I mean, you know, on the other hand, in Europe, their their governments are also collapsing, you know. So I think people also with technology, people are able to get connected with the rest of the world and see that, you know, populism is is what's on fire right now. People want to have their voices heard. And, you know, governments are not OK with that. That is, like you said, what makes our work so important. And that's why we hope in the next year to really focus in on how radicals take root in our society. government and also get very clear on the systems that are in place in America that help prevent these types of situations from happening through our knowledge and different checks and balances.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and I wanted to dovetail into this, and I want to be as kind as I can because I'm not trying to, you know, beat up any one organization in what I'm talking about. And when I say You know, in this case, the church, I mean, as a whole, I'm not pointing out any one particular, you know, church or location or denomination or anything along those lines. But I find it interesting—maybe that's the way I should say this, Sonny—that South Korea became very, quote-unquote, Christianized— And yet now is becoming very liberal and sympathetic to the communist Marxist movement. And Christianity, in a way, I guess, lends itself to being more kind and gentle and so on. And I understand that. But that's not what communism and socialism and Marxism is. So I'm struggling with how does a country become more Christian and yet more liberal at the same time? If anything, it should be the opposite.
SPEAKER 14 :
that's a tough conundrum, and I think, I mean, that's happening here. We see it all over, you know. Especially in Los Angeles, there's been a huge, I guess you could call it a Christian revival. I think that, you know, when you go to some of the churches around here, there are a lot of young families, a lot of young people who are, you know, who are interested in faith and want to be closer in their faith. But yet they are, most of them, very liberal. And so you do see this really interesting duality, because it's almost like they're taking on this idea that having, you know, Christian values or certain values, family-oriented values, faith-oriented values, that that means you have to kind of be more docile and take a step back and, you know, live your life the way that, you know, you think that life should be lived in terms of our moral compass and kind of let the world fend for itself. But actually, I believe that Judeo-Christian values call us to be very bold in what we think and to create the world that we think that would be glorifying to God.
SPEAKER 18 :
Agree. And to me, this is just like you said and compared to what's happened in the U.S. And I've talked about this. I've been very open about this on my program. In my opinion, this is one of the areas where Christianity, the leaders of, are failing at teaching not only the regular parishioner but our young people as well. Some of the things, by the way, that you guys at Young Americans Against Socialism are trying to teach. And my point is, The church should be teaching civics, just like it did 100-plus years ago and somehow got away from. It's evident that we're not doing that well enough, because keep in mind, a lot of the movement that happened over in South Korea came from... you know, missionaries and the movement that, you know, that we had as America going there and so on. So, you know, I'm not pointing blame at any one individual, again, denomination or sect or anything along those lines, Sonny. I just find it ironic that they're now experiencing some of the very same things that we experience here, and yet South Korea will tell you that 30 percent of them identify as Christians.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Absolutely. And, you know, just to kind of show that when you lose faith in a nation like they have in Europe, in France, for example. I mean, I just saw a video where it said, you know, we're Islamizing France. Like, it's basically, you know, they've imported Africa and the Middle East into France, and you've seen what's gone on there, the burning of the churches. And, I mean, that's happening all over the country, and that's been happening for, I mean, at least a decade. And I've spent a lot of time in France, particularly, just because that's where my mom was born and raised. And so I would spend summers there, some winters, etc. And when you go there now, I mean, it's nearly unrecognizable. And I think that that's why people are, you know, especially in some of the European countries, Ireland as well, they are rising up because they see what's going on. They see what's happening with the churches being burned down, etc. And so they've gone the way of not being... at all connected to their faith as a nation. And I think they're seeing now what's been missing. A lot of people are moving towards that trend because they're seeing that the lack of faith has created this demonic energy that is spreading throughout our world. And just to kind of show that there is global chaos, just not only in South Korea, but France's government collapsed as well today. And so back when Marine Le Pen was running, She did not win. And so she was, you know, what they were calling her the far right candidate and whatnot. I think that people are pretty upset about that. And the current prime minister in France was basically pushed through parts of the budget that had failed a vote. So he pushed through, he used special powers to adopt that part of the budget. And the parliament basically did a no vote competency. no, confident vote, excuse me, on Michel Barnier, who's the prime minister. And so now he has to resign. So you see this global chaos happening all over the place. And I think it is definitely at the push of the people because they are being much more focused on what is happening in their government, what's happening in the politics, because they have a vested interest because of the way that they see their nation going.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, what I want to get out with you guys of Young Americans Against Socialism, for those of you listening, number one, go to the website, donate, help these ladies do a really good job. They're doing a really great job. Let's help them do a better job of getting this information out. And what I want to also add to that, Sonny, is for those of you that maybe are in the church and have some leadership roles in the church, and maybe I'm overstepping here a little bit, Sonny, but the reality is the material that you guys have, is such that you could take that material and intertwine it into some civics courses inside of the church, inside of youth groups, inside of, frankly, even young adult classes and so on. The reality is your material is made well enough to where anyone out there listening that has that kind of influence and wants to see some changes civically inside of their own churches, they could use your material, is my point.
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Absolutely. That is one of our main goals in the next year. Currently, our intro to socialism curriculum is implemented in charter schools in Arizona, 11 charter schools. And so we'd like to replicate that all over the country. Of course, it can be used in a homeschool setting. It can be used in a personal home setting, whatnot. but churches as well. We also partner with an organization called Her Voice Movement. You can download our curriculum right from their app. And we've been talking with them because they get into churches too, and they're trying to bring faith and prayer and fasting back into our nation as well in order to bring about radical change. And so we, you know, just like you said, if you are hooked up with a church and you want to get involved in your community and bring this to your community, that would be a fantastic way for us to partner. You can definitely email me, You can go to our website. So my email is sunny at yaas.org. Or you can go to our website as well, yaas.org. You can download these curricula right from our website. That's Intro to Socialism, From the Revolution to the Constitution, which we'll be, you know, posting more about. That's about American Revolution and the Constitution, of course. And we also had released one for Thanksgiving. So you can share that with your kids, you know, maybe as a post-Thanksgiving activity to help them, you think about what they're grateful for and apply it to their lives and learn some history about Thanksgiving. That's called giving thanks and celebrating freedom. So we're really excited about this new journey of our organization, really giving tools to families and kids to help them understand and appreciate what America is all about so that we can batten down the hatches and secure a future of freedom for our children and our children's children.
SPEAKER 18 :
And with the last election, I think there's a huge door that's been swung open, Sonny, that really enables this to happen even more than what it would have been prior to that. In other words, when you got the popular vote doing what they did in regards to Donald Trump, the reality is, to your point, people have woke up. They're tired of the wokeness. They're tired of Marxism and communism and socialism being shoved down our throats. You now have a grand opportunity to take your material and do something with it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, absolutely. And we're really grateful to be at the tip of the spear. And we'd love to hear ideas. We'd love to hear your feedback if you do. And of course, if you are inclined to take the next step with us directly in the fight against socialism, you can make a contribution or become a monthly supporter at yaas.org. And we are really grateful. We're a 501c3, so we are only able to do this work because of our super generous and loyal supporters. And, you know, our audience is 350,000 plus. And so we just want to grow and get this message out there. So we're really grateful for your audience.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, we're grateful for you. Keep up the great work, Sonny, and we'll keep supporting you. And we'll talk next week. But thank you for all you're doing. We appreciate it very much.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thanks so much. Likewise.
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All right, Sonny, have a great evening. Appreciate her very much. Young Americans Against Socialism. Go donate. Help get this material into hands of more and more young people. And frankly, not just young people, but families in general is what I should say. Hi-Fi Plumbing and Electrical is next. Again, if you've had any issues electrically speaking or plumbing-wise, give them a call today. They're right at your fingertips through that phone, 877-WE-HIGH-5.
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All right, we are back. Joe, what's going on today, sir?
SPEAKER 04 :
John, have you talked yet about the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare today?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, I have not yet. I was going to do that in hour three and three o'clock hour, and I just didn't get to it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, just, you know, you always... Have they found the person yet? No, they haven't. And by the way, I've just watched a video. The guy apparently was using some kind of silencer because the police said they found three empty shell casings and three live rounds. And when I watched the video... The video's from the back, but you see there's what appears to be a silencer in the front of the gun. But he fires, and then he has to rack the slide. Fires has to rack the slide again, and fires has to rack the slide a third time. So apparently he ejected three live rounds onto the ground because the silencer interfered with the functioning of the gun. Interesting.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Makes sense. But anyway, but if you want to know how sick liberals are, if you go on Axios or Being Liberal, and Axios is supposed to be kind of a neutral, nonpartisan. It's supposed to be. The vast majority, and there are hundreds of comments, they're celebrating this guy's death. Like one guy saying, one down, three more to go, meaning Cigna, Humana, and Aetna, right? I mean, they're literally, you know, may his soul rot in hell. I mean, they're literally applauding the murder of this guy. Yeah, that's how sick... Now, I'm not saying that, obviously, you can't... There are millions of liberals, but the ones that are outspoken... They are truly sick puppies out there.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Anybody that would celebrate the death of someone else, unless it's some evil dictator like Hitler, Joe, is just a lunatic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And wishing that the rest of them would be murdered soon. I mean, that's literally what they're saying there. One down, three more to go. I wonder if he has any friends type of thing. They're sick puppies, absolutely sick puppies.
SPEAKER 18 :
And this is, of course, an individual that, yeah, has a lot of control when it comes to that particular organization and so on. But, again, at the end of the day, Joe, he's not making all of the ultimate decisions as to who gets care, who doesn't get care. And so on. And that's the final question is, you know, we have our final say. I should say we have no idea who actually did this. We at this point, they haven't caught the individual. Wouldn't be shocked if it's not somebody, Joe, that's just disgruntled with the insurance end of things themselves. That's my thought. But I could be completely wrong.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know, he obviously targeted this guy. He waited. You know, they had pictures of him waiting for this guy to come by.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. It was premeditated.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was premeditated. So he singled this guy out for some reason. You know, the speculation that he had a grudge against the company is sure. But, you know, this guy, you know, it wasn't this guy personally. If there was a claim that was denied or something or some experimental treatment that wasn't approved, I mean, you know, read your policy. You know, you get what you pay for, and you don't get – You know, there's a lot of things you don't get. Well, you do get preexisting conditions under Obamacare, but there's a lot of things you don't get. You don't get experimental treatments.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, when it comes to trial, as you know, Joe, when it comes to trials and things like that, there are all sorts of things that come into play, and not everybody gets to be a part of those, unfortunately.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's correct.
SPEAKER 18 :
It just is what it is. I hate to say it that way, but it is what it is.
SPEAKER 04 :
Anyway, so they're looking for the guy. You know, they've got him on camera. He got on the e-bike, went into Central Park. They've got, he was wearing a half a mask. So you can see him from his nose up backpack. So anyway, the search is on, but.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and Charlie just said in my ear, very clear photos of all of this as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very, very clear photos.
SPEAKER 18 :
Most likely this guy will end up being caught, but it's just, number one, it's a tragedy. It shouldn't happen, Joe, as you know. And again, no matter what this particular individual may have done in regards to UnitedHealthcare, Mr. Thompson, he's 50 years of age, by the way. I don't know the man, don't know his history, don't know his family history, anything along those lines. But any time somebody loses a life, that's tragic. It shouldn't happen.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's tragedy. And one more comment. This is New York City where it's virtually impossible to own a pistol and get a concealed character.
SPEAKER 18 :
That was going to be my next question. Did gun control work, Joe?
SPEAKER 04 :
No. And by the way, silencers, by the way, they're actually called suppressors. Right. The proper name is suppressors. By the way, in Europe, suppressors are mandatory.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yep. Not here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not here.
SPEAKER 18 :
We make you jump through all sorts of hoops to own one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that's the federal government, but in New York and New Jersey, you can't own one.
SPEAKER 18 :
You just can't have a period.
SPEAKER 04 :
You just can't have it. So here's this guy in New York City with a pistol that he can't carry. with a suppressor that he can't own, murdering somebody in the middle of the street.
SPEAKER 18 :
And Wall Street Journal did say that he has survived by his mother, wife, two sons, and a brother. So whoever did this, you just widowed somebody and orphaned, or you basically left two kids without a dad.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Yep. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 18 :
Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's tragic. Life in the big city, John.
SPEAKER 18 :
Shouldn't happen. Joe, appreciate that. Thank you. I wasn't going to talk about that anyway, so I appreciate you doing that. I was going to go over at some point today. I don't know that I'm going to have time, so I may have to push this off until next week. that go into effect here in Colorado in 2025. And I would suggest that you all go out there and brush up on some of these. One of them involves, and I've talked about this a little bit here and Drive Radio both, but drivers in the state, this is January 1st, could be fined for holding and using a cell phone while driving. It's already illegal to text and drive, but just holding the phone, looking up a number or plugging in an address so that it comes up in your map or something along those lines, if you are caught doing that, you may very well be issued a ticket after January 1st. And you could face a $75 fine and two points on your license. The punishment increases based upon the number of times a driver is caught breaking the law, this law. In a two-year period. Now, as somebody that drives a lot on the roads, six days, seven days a week, and put a lot of miles on, I'm not a big law guy. As you guys all know, there's certain laws that I think we should be minimizing and not adding to. Unfortunately, this is one of those areas that's far too abused, in my opinion. It never fails when I get behind or around somebody that's either driving slowly, erratically, something's just not right, the first thing you do when you get next to them is look over and they're on the phone. And by the way, they could either be texting, talking, or dinking around with. I don't know what they're doing. But the phone has become a huge distraction in the cabin of most cars, and especially in the driver's seat. So as I've always said, if people don't police themselves, government does instead. So if people would have done this on their own and driven correctly and not had this distraction all along, we wouldn't have a law making it illegal to actually hang on to your phone while driving. You're still going to be able to use the phone, but Bluetooth only. You're going to have to use it through your speakers or through the head device on your radio, etc. You're not going to be able to be on the phone putting things in, even mapping things. in the future. So that's something that's coming on January 1, along with a host of other laws as well. American National Insurance is next. Paul Leuenberger, who's a great friend of mine, would love to help you with your insurance needs. He's a broker. He'll help you with whatever you need. 303-662-0789.
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All right, we are back. Neil, I've got 30 seconds. Go for it, sir.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, that law about cell phones, it's what is known as a secondary violation. The other law, which is a secondary violation, is the seatbelt law, which means you cannot be pulled over for violating either one of those items individually. In other words, if a policeman came over to you and you didn't have a seatbelt buckled and you had your hands on the cell phone, he can't pull you over. These are feel-good laws that were enacted that virtually cannot be enforced by themselves.
SPEAKER 18 :
Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you for updating us on that. I did not go through all the details of that particular law. I will read that more thoroughly. Thank you, Neil, for that update. I appreciate that very much. Hour 3 is next. Don't go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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HR1 Rush To Reason December 4, 2024 by John Rushhappy Wednesday, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Appreciate you all joining us today. And as we wind down the weeks, as we head into Christmas, health and wellness, even though sometimes people throw that out the window as we head into the holidays, we shouldn't. We'll talk a little bit about that with Dr. Julie Gatza here at the bottom of the hour. Got a couple of things that I want to talk about prior to her coming on. First, though, question of the day from yesterday. What modern-day item made a cameo in the final season of Game of Thrones that would be a Starbucks cup!
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I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem. I used to grab bear claws as a kid, two at a time, and I'd get them lodged right in this region here.
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All right, happy Wednesday, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Appreciate you all joining us today. And as we wind down the weeks, as we head into Christmas, health and wellness, even though sometimes people throw that out the window as we head into the holidays, we shouldn't. We'll talk a little bit about that with Dr. Julie Gatza here at the bottom of the hour. Got a couple of things that I want to talk about prior to her coming on. First, though, question of the day from yesterday. What modern-day item made a cameo in the final season of Game of Thrones that would be a Starbucks cup? Which, I don't know how they did that, Charlie, because that doesn't really fit with the era of when that was going on. Oh, it was left in the scene by someone. Gotcha. So it wasn't on purpose. It was an accident. But they just left it. Gotcha. Okay. Today's impossible question. Charlie might know this one. I would never have guessed this one. Name the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2022 and its meaning. Name the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2022 and its meaning. Charlie said he knows this year's, but not that one. So I would not have guessed it. I know the answer because I'm reading it, but I would have never guessed it. So I'll give that answer to you tomorrow, but you can answer that if you know the answer. If you want to take a good guess at it, go to our social media page, Facebook page, and answer that there. I want to make an announcement. I haven't had a chance to talk about this much, but the Gaylord Polar Ice – that event that's going on out at the Gaylord Hotel. They've sent me some information on that and may end up with a few tickets that we can give away to that. But they brought in more than 2 million pounds, 1,000 tons of ice, for their Polar Express extravaganza, I guess you could call it, this particular year. And from what I understand, it is an absolute little work of art, something folks should go see. I did look today, and you just go to Christmas at GaylordRockies.com, and there's a lot of – it's really – it's advisable to make an appointment, get tickets ahead of time, make an appointment time to actually go. And I was reading today that it's kept at nine degrees Fahrenheit. They give you jackets to do the tour with because most people don't have that type of gear when they're going out that way, even though it's wintertime here in Colorado. But it's a really cool display, something worth considering. going to. And again, it's advisable to get tickets on the front side. And the reason why I was going to announce it today is because there's a lot of still Cyber Monday sales going on. And this includes the tickets to go out and see that particular display. Now, like I say, May here in the next few days or so, have some tickets we can give away. We're working on all of that at this point in time. But It's a 17,000-square-foot frozen attraction. And I know it's health and wellness, but this is one of those family-type things where if you've got little kids, grandkids, you're just a couple, you're looking for a date, afternoon, evening, whatever, it would be well worth going to. And they're very kind in sending things to us and giving us some updates on what's going on out there and so on. And they do that pretty much every year for us. Appreciate all of them out there and what they're doing. And the fact that this particular display is as big as it is this year, again, is something that really you all ought to go out and check out. And tickets aren't that expensive, by the way. I was looking today, and by the time you do some of the cyber deals, they're very inexpensive in the $15 range. Kids three and under are free. You can roll a stroller through there, but they discourage wagons and things like that for your kids. If you've got a young one that you want to put in the stroller or whatever, that's fine. But, again, this is typically for, gosh, anybody. It doesn't have to be kids. Kids would love it, of course, but it can be literally anybody to go out and actually see that display, and it is huge. So one other thing I wanted to mention, we've had them on as an interview in the past, InstaFarm. it's the little farm basically you can grow on your countertop it's all automated you fill it with water and put the trays in and it does the rest and you grow micro greens and i've got one of these and it works extremely extremely well It's fun to even watch things grow, but then actually once they're grown and you get to actually use them, you know, eat them, I guess I should say the nutrients that come out of the microgreens are huge. And the reason why I was going to mention this today is because today is the last day. They're 33% off. So just go to instafarm.com. I actually will have a link up in our show notes a little bit later this evening where, again, this might even go through – I think it goes through the 5th. So it will actually go through tomorrow. So if that's something that you're interested in doing, by all means, go check that out, and we'll put a link up. in our show notes for it and it's a it's again i have thoroughly enjoyed the insta farm that we have and again you can do all sorts of different trays and different things along those lines and i'll put up this special 33 off link in if you want to go to that sooner Then tonight, when you can go and actually look at the show notes section of our website, I can text you this link as well. So if it's something that you would like to have the link to sooner than later, send me a text message and I can get you that link. But 33% off. And if you've got little kids, by the way, it's fun just to watch things grow and see how the thing works and so on. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And Health and Wellness Wednesday, thank you so much for joining us today. I appreciate it very much. And as you guys all know, health and wellness is, in my opinion, one of the biggest things that we should be discussing more and more. And to the point that, you know, not to move health and wellness into politics, but it is on the political forefront with the nomination of, you know, RFK Jr. to Health and Human. services we'll see if he can get confirmed which i would be shocked if he doesn't and we'll see who ends up being attorney general and some of those sorts of things as well but it's it's you know they've even got an acronym for it make america healthy again so it's becoming a bigger and bigger deal because we're becoming a nation that's less healthy and unfortunately There's not enough, in my opinion, not enough shows or even hours in a show like what we're doing today that are going on. Yeah, I get it. There's a lot of different folks that are out there in social media. And there's you can follow influencers that, you know, go to the gym and tell you how to diet and so on and so forth. But in general, when we talk about just, you know, public service announcements and things along those lines, we really even our kids, we are not teaching people how to live healthy. In fact, we have big pharma teaching people that you can live however you want to and just take this pill. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. I don't think I'm too far off in that. Occasionally, you might see a pharma ad talking about health, wellness, exercise, and so on. But that's not typically the case. Big pharma wants to push their drugs. They're drug pushers. Sorry, I don't know how else to say it. They're drug pushers, drug dealers. Now, are they all bad? No. They're not all bad. There's some life-saving drugs that have really helped a lot of us live longer lives, more fulfilled lives, and so on. And I'm not knocking them completely, but lately, last couple of decades probably, they've really become more money-driven than patient or person-driven. And I don't think I'm wrong in saying that. You hear me talk with Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House on Thursdays about this quite often, and I've had other special guests that we've had on, and even RFK Jr. will say the same thing I just said. They have become very money-driven and not people-driven to the point that they will put people's lives at stake, not really caring much about that end of it, all for the almighty dollar. And so when I pick on Big Pharma, yeah, I mean to. Because in a lot of cases, they are not doing it the right way. And we do have an unhealthy population. And there's no reason why in the world that we live in that we have that. We should all be a lot more healthy than what we are. And it means having... Proper education, eating the right things, getting the right movement in, exercise, things along those lines, the proper habits. In a lot of cases, it comes down to education, which we do a great job, I think, at Crawford Broadcasting on educating folks on the political aspects of things. We do that on a daily basis. I take an hour out each week and we talk about the health and wellness end of it. And reality is it's costing all of us, each of us. Whether it's directly out of your paycheck paying for something you need, medically speaking, or in your tax dollars, it's costing all of us money to not be healthy. So we really probably should talk about it more than we actually do. And I'll pick on the church for just one moment. The church should have been a leader in this area decades ago. Instead, we gave that duty over to the other side. And I mean that sincerely. You know, we now have, and I've talked about this in the past, we now have yoga classes, which yoga is a cult. We've got yoga classes that have taken over and in some cases probably being held inside of churches. Because once again, the church allowed others to do what it should have done in the first place. And keeping people healthy should have been one of the first things in the minds of those that were inside of churches years and years ago. But church did it the opposite. We had coffee and donuts for Sunday morning service. We did potlucks where everybody brought everything under the sun and most of it wasn't healthy in the first place. And Charlie's in here agreeing with me because he knows exactly how he grew up because I know how I grew up. And the reality is nobody thought about any of that stuff. In fact, probably in the church kind of poo-pooed it. We sort of looked at those that were the health nuts, quote-unquote, as the anti-church folk. And so we sort of threw the baby out with the bathwater and took the whole health and wellness thing and sort of threw it away, if you would, and thought, well, you know, we've got the Lord on our side, so it really doesn't matter. Well, that is not the way to look at it, not in any way, shape, or form. But I'm not joking. That's what we did. And I know because I've grown up in that. And we literally did that. We should have been at the forefront of this, but we weren't. So we have a lot of ground to make up for. I feel as conservatives even, we have a lot of ground to make up for. And teaching people how to live a healthy life and a more productive life and a more sane life. And as we talk about on Wednesdays all the time, the better our health is, the better our mental health and everything else that goes along with it is. In other words, the better we feel, the better life is in general. And so, yeah, it's very important for me to do this during this hour. Speaking of... A nighttime habit, this is in women's health, a nighttime habit or this nighttime habit could be a key indicator of dementia. Neurologists explain the warning signs. And really, this entire article is talking about good sleep and how crucial it is for our overall health. Now, how does a guy like Donald Trump, who lives on literally four and five hours, get by? I've done... an hour, well, probably not an hour, but I've done a segment or two on that in the past during this hour, talking about how there are some specific individuals, the outliers, I guess you could call them, that can go on less sleep, and it has to do just with literally their DNA and how they're made. Not everybody can do that. But yes, some can. And you know, example in my own world. I can live on six and seven hours, no problem. I can't do four like Donald Trump does. I need a little bit more than that. But I can live on six and seven without too much issue. Rare that I even get eight. I just I don't normally sleep that long. And it's not because I don't want to. In a lot of cases, I'm just you can ask my wife. I'm just up. I sleep the six or seven hours. And when I wake up, I wake up. And I've told you guys for years, I don't use an alarm clock. I'm very unique that way, even if I know that I've got an early morning, whatever. plane to catch or meeting or whatever it happens to be. I don't need an alarm clock. I just wake up. It's the weirdest thing ever. But I may set one, but I never use it. I will always be up before the alarm goes off. It's just the way my brain functions. So I will tell you in our world, my wife and I, she's one that needs more sleep than I do to function properly. So all of us are different. So you need to, number one, know what is that sweet spot of sleep for you. And don't let anybody criticize you if you're somebody that needs eight to nine hours versus somebody that needs six. Some people just naturally need more sleep than others. So those of us that need less, don't be critical of those that need more. Because a lot of the sleep patterns and what goes on and so on, and I've talked about this before with brain health, has a lot to do with that. And other health things in our life as well, but especially brain health, which of course is where we start talking about dementia and Alzheimer's. So getting a good night's sleep is really, really key in setting patterns along those lines as well. I mean, there's been studies, my wife and I were talking about this over the weekend, Folks that work graveyard shifts, it's very well known that typically they don't do as well health-wise. I know there's some exceptions to every rule, but typically speaking, they don't do as well. Because our natural rhythm is to sleep when it's dark and be up when it's light. That's how God made us. And those people, and there are a lot of them out there that have to work nights, and I understand that, whether you're in, you know, whatever, whatever the job might be. You could be a policeman, security, fire, nurses, doctors, on down the line we go. Factory workers and so on. Sometimes they'll run 24-hour shifts and they have to work at night, and I understand that. My point, though, is typically speaking, it's not good for you and your overall health, especially your brain health. So these... inadequate sleep patterns and things that happen are not good for us on down the road. And yes, you can get by with it for a while and you might be able to motor through and push through and in a lot of cases even drug yourself. And what I mean by that is caffeine and energy drinks and things like that may go ahead and motor you through some of this stuff. But at the end of the day, it does affect your aging down the road and for certain individuals can even quicken the onset of dementia and alzheimer's now you may already be you have some of the markers for that anyways meaning that if you do you probably should even be more aware of this than others but i think just in general having good sleep having good sleep patterns and it's different for everyone As I just gave you an example of my wife and I, we are totally different in this area. I'm that guy that can go to bed at 11 and be up at 5.30 or 6 and have no issues. If I do that too much with my wife, I will wear her out. It's just everybody's different when it comes to those sleep patterns. So number one, know your sleep patterns. Don't let anybody else tell you what you need because you know. And then make sure that you get that. And make sure you get good, solid, you know, full sleep. There's a paragraph in here, if I can't get eight hours, would naps help prevent dementia? The answer is it's not clear. My suggestion is probably not. Because there's something that happens during sleep, in the REM part of our sleep, where there's that recharge of the batteries in our brain. I know I'm being very simplistic here, but that's essentially what's happening against how we're made. It's that recharge, especially during that REM portion of our sleep, that really makes things come back on track and gets us going again. And unfortunately, naps don't do that. So I'm not an expert in this, but I would venture to guess, and what they're even talking about in this particular article is no naps probably don't do much along those lines because of what I just said. You're not getting into that full, deep REM sleep when it's all said and done. So really quick, a few tips on better ways to sleep. Go to bed and wake up at the same time each day, even on weekends. I do that, by the way. That's something I learned a long, long time ago. So I get up at the same time whether it's Wednesday or Sunday. In other words, I don't sleep until 9 o'clock on Sundays. I'm up at the same time, which for me, that's anywhere between 5.30 and 6.30 is typically when I'm up. It just depends on what I have going on during the day, and that's typically when I'm up and I get going. So I'll do the same thing. Well, I have to be here on Saturdays, so I'm doing it Saturdays anyways, but I'll do that even on Sundays. So go to bed, wake up, same time every day. Try to exercise, but not close to bedtime because there's a stimulant there with exercise, as you know. Get natural sunlight for at least 30 minutes a day. As I said earlier, avoid the nicotine and caffeine. Don't take naps in the mid-afternoon because that can affect your sleep later. Avoid alcohol and large meals before bed. Limit the electronics, the blue screen before bed. Keep your room cool and free of sound and light distractions. Now, some people like the white noise and different things along those lines, and it may help you sleep better. Again, everybody's different. Do what works best for you. If you can't fall asleep after 20 minutes, get up and go do a relaxing activity until you feel tired again. So read a book, whatever you decide what works for you as far as what helps you fall asleep. And again, for everybody, that's different. Don't just look at what somebody else does and say, yeah, I got to go do that. No, you find what works for you and then you do you. I can't stress that enough in all this health and wellness hour. It's not one size fits all. You do have to find the things that work for you, whether it's diet, whether it's certain kind of exercise. Some people do better with high cardio. Others do better lifting weights. It depends on you, and you have to do what's best for you and find what that is and don't go off of whatever the fad is that's going on at that particular time. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. It is our Health and Wellness Wednesday edition. And, yeah, the whole sleep thing, again, I'm by no means an expert in any of these things. I interview a lot of different people, and I've talked about a lot of these things over the years. And, again, as I said a moment ago before going to break, the one thing that I do know is while there are some universal things, and we'll talk about some of that with Dr. Julie, there's also a lot of specific things that I think a lot of people get hung up on, and they don't tailor things specifically to who they are. But Dr. Julie joining us now. Dr. Julie Gatza, how are you?
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I'm good, thank you. Nice to hear your voice.
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Oh, always nice to talk to you. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER 13 :
We did. Thank you.
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All right. So let's talk about, because it's holidays, whether you've been through Thanksgiving, there'll be holiday parties, there'll be get-togethers. Christmas is not that far away. New Year's is a big day for eating. The reality is this is like an eating frenzy for like 35 to 40 days.
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It really is. You better be strategic when you do it as well.
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All right, so talk to us about that. I was mentioning a moment ago before you came on about sleep and the sleep patterns and the relation between lack of sleep and sometimes the early onset of dementia and Alzheimer's. We're getting more and more studies along those lines, which sometimes, by the way, when it comes to sleep, because we haven't been methodical about what we eat and when we eat, it affects our sleep.
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It really does. I mean, basically your digestion affects everything about your health. And so for the last 34 years, I've been focusing on digestion because once I correct somebody's digestion, you can pretty much tackle all their health problems that they're complaining about. So these eating holidays, the end of the year is always rough on us. So we want to do the best that we can. So we're able to pick the right foods, digest those foods and absorb the nutrition so that we're actually getting nutrition rather than it's just going through our bodies and using up our nutrients to try to break down unbroken down food. So the best thing that somebody can do is, one, stay hydrated. I know we're drinking lots of libations and all sorts of other things that come across, you know, alcohol included. And if you are going to drink the alcohol, have a drink, have a water, have a drink, have a water. Throughout the day, make sure you wake up in the morning, have two glasses of water. It's such a day. It feed your cells what they need and your system sort of just will thank you before you even do your coffee.
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When you talk about certain foods, by the way, being harder to digest, what are those?
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I mean, things that are hard to digest are carbohydrates, sugar, you know, mixed foods where you're eating a lot of different things at the same time. You really just want to try to keep it clean. You want to eat the protein, whether that's you know, the steak or the turkey or the ham or whatever it may be, eat your protein first and sort of keep it away from everything else. Let your body just recognize what it is, break it down, get the most that it can from the most complicated of the foods and the ones we need the most. And anything after that, you're going to win the game. So vegetables would be next. And then you're going to be full enough that you don't have to fill up on the carbohydrates.
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So at that point, you're like, okay, that dessert, yeah, well, I thought I was going to have some earlier. I've had enough other. I can push that away.
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You can push it away or you'll eat less of it or, you know, put a napkin over it if you're with the crowd and eat it later so you're not putting everything in at the same time and feeling so rushed to have to consume it all in a short period.
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You know, a great invention, just as a side note, that somebody could come up with would be like pocket, how should I say this, like foldable doggy bags to where when you're at that meal and you've got that nice dessert, but you might want to eat it later or even the next couple of days, it'd be nice to be able to just sort of slip that into something and hide it away and take it with you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Those are called cargo pants.
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Ah, there we go. There we go. You know what? I kind of mean that seriously, Dr. Julie, because it's like, you know, it's a really good dessert. You don't want to miss it. Maybe you want to share it with somebody else a little bit later. Instead of eating all of it, you'll eat a portion of it, but you still want to be able to enjoy it. But you don't want to do it right then and there because of everything we're talking about.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I agree. And, you know, I'm that type of a person. I don't really care so much about dessert right after a meal, but I would love to have it on its own some other time in the future.
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Okay, so in other words, like you said earlier, be strategic and plan ahead for some of these things.
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That's right. And, you know, one of the things that I've pushed so hard as a doctor to my patients, and whether you're healthy and you're eating well or you're, you know, making poor choices this holiday season or generally you don't eat well, One of the major things that I really push on my patients is to consume high quality digestive enzymes. What they'll do is break down your food. They'll bring the most nutrients that you can from your meal and it will help with your metabolism. It will help you lose weight. It will help you with all the digestive things that you may encounter. The one I like to use is Absorbade because it's a magical little enzyme that allows you to consume food and get the most you can from each one of the meals that you're eating.
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I could very well, as you've heard me say before, I could very well be a spokesman for them. In fact, it's gotten to the point with my wife and I both, Dr. Julie, that we pretty much have them on hand at all times. Just took a quick vacation over Thanksgiving, even took some with us on vacation. Me personally, and I've given you this story, but I'll tell all the listeners. Some of you listening, you might struggle with vacations. bloating when you fly and i know dr julie you and i've talked about this in the past and why that happens but for some folks you get all bloated up when you fly i happen to be one of those persons dr julie now i will tell all of you and i've done it now on two different trips dr julie take an absorbate as you're getting on the plane and you won't have that bloating it's true it definitely is true and you know if you take it before a meal during a meal after meal it's
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It actually doesn't matter that much. If you have acid reflux, if you have gas, bloating, indigestion, constipation, you take these enzymes and it allows you to break down those foods. Now you actually have a digestive system that's working first and foremost, most important, and aches and pains and digestive complaints start to slip away. I keep mine out on a bowl on my counter. I have them in my purse, and I just remember to try to take them every time I'm eating any food because it's better than taking a multivitamin to me, getting more of the nutrition from each meal.
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Well, I'll give everybody else a little tip that we've learned since doing all of this and, again, having you on and just doing more things that you recommend. I will tell you, and I talked about sleep in the last segment, one of the things that my wife and I have started doing, and I know it's helped us because I can attest to it, take one before bed. Right. Helps with sleep immensely.
SPEAKER 13 :
It does. And the other thing is on an empty stomach, it breaks down inflammation. It breaks down bacteria. It breaks down viruses. It breaks down toxins. Yep. So you can feel sort of junked at night.
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If you're a person that wakes up in the morning with a backache, take one before you go to bed. I'm serious.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's right. Yeah. And I love that you know that.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's excellent. Folks, all of you listening, they work. Okay. I also know, and we'll go ahead and squeeze it in right now, Dr. Julie, that there's always a way for folks to get some samples. There's a special typically that they can get involved in. How do they do that?
SPEAKER 13 :
Good. You can go onto the website and you can get some free samples or 20% off your first order. And that website is naturesources.com. You can read about the Absorbade and you can also call up the 1-800 phone number, ask for some free samples or 20% off. And that's 1-800-827-7656.
SPEAKER 02 :
All right, talk to us about foods that are rich in fiber. We hear a lot about fiber, and I think, by the way, in some cases it's been some misinformation because some of the fiber folks recommend are so full of other sugars and things that it's probably countering whatever fiber you get. But talk to us about fiber and what we should be doing there.
SPEAKER 13 :
You know, the biggest loaded food with fiber is green vegetables, you know, broccoli and asparagus and spinach, and all these things have fiber in them. People instantly think fiber means they have to have wheat or they have to have corn or they have to have popcorn. And you don't want to get your fiber in your grains. We don't make good grains in this country anymore. They're all changed. They're all used with Roundup on them. So use the green vegetables as the first thing that you want to consume. And that will help you. Most people are missing the green vegetables in the first place. Of course, you're going to eat breads and cereals and pastas and pizzas. But, you know, the green vegetables are actually important for digestion as well.
SPEAKER 02 :
We don't really put together, at least, you know, I do because of talking to folks like you on a pretty routine basis, but a lot of people don't put together vegetables and fiber.
SPEAKER 13 :
I know. It's so odd.
SPEAKER 02 :
And part of that, I think, Dr. Julie, is the TV commercials and so on have trained us that it's got to be one of those grains you just mentioned a moment ago. Otherwise, we're not getting fiber.
SPEAKER 13 :
I know. I hear it all the time. So, you know, I mean, I have patients, including myself, who eat very little grains. And, you know, I feel better than I've ever felt because I don't eat grains in general.
SPEAKER 02 :
Gotcha. Okay. When it comes to those holiday meals and, you know, we're trying to do things right and enjoy the company and not be bloated and feel awful and so on. Yeah. How do we know when to cut off? In other words, you know, I want a little bit more of that because it's so tasty, but I don't want to overeat. So how do we know when that cutoff is so we don't get to the point we've overeaten?
SPEAKER 13 :
You know, it's always before you're full. And I do believe that some Asian countries will actually teach their kids that, that you push away from the table before you're actually full. And, you know, if you slow down your meal, you're not consuming so quickly. you do get fuller faster. If you chew your food, I always pick the number 22 times. Uh, it's just easy to remember. You just slow down the whole process and you know, the whole goal is to appreciate the meal and taste the meal. And I think that we've sort of been trained to eat it quickly and consume as much as we can. And you know, the more volume that we have, the more satisfied we're going to be. And, uh, You kind of have to take a look at what are the Europeans doing. They really do make an event out of the meals. They take a walk after the meals. They're together, and it's an event rather than just a scarf and patting your belly on the couch later.
SPEAKER 02 :
Mm-hmm. when it comes to laying out your plate maybe that's the way i should say this dr julie and this is where i think you can be a little more strategic on okay instead of having three spoonfuls of x let's just do one and let's go ahead and do one of the next and the next and so in other words you're getting this nice variety so you get a chance to taste everything but you're not overloading on one particular thing that's right and you know i would say you know a fist full of anything as far as how big your hand is in a fist form
SPEAKER 13 :
It's probably a normal amount that, you know, would be satisfying if you're putting three, four, five different things on your plate. And, you know, eight ounces of meat is probably more than most people need unless you're a big guy. So, you know, just figure out what that might look like and you'll see. If you want to go for seconds, great, go for seconds. But take your time before you get there.
SPEAKER 02 :
Give us some tips on we're going to a party. You know there's going to be a lot of things to indulge in, but you don't want to be that guy that overeats. You want to enjoy the company. You want to have a good time. How do you handle that? Do we eat something on the way there? Do we have a snack bar on the way? How do we do that to where we're in check as we arrive?
SPEAKER 13 :
I would say plan an early meal and eat your meal at home. That way you're full. You've eaten foods that you can choose. Then when the hors d'oeuvres come through and all the desserts and all the different things, you don't feel like you have to run around and, you know, eat everything and feeling lousy and putting weight on each time you go to a party. So, you know, keep your routine, but just eat your meal early and also drink a big glass of water before you get there. Then you're feeling hydrated. You don't feel like you've got to run over to and, you know, consume two glasses of alcohol quickly because you're actually thirsty. And then you can chill out and enjoy things without sort of your eyes wandering to the next dessert, the next sugar because you came so low blood sugar.
SPEAKER 02 :
Good point. What about being active? Because that's one of those things where, yeah, you're not going to do that during the party, but could we be a little more active prior or after, maybe even the next day?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, just walking. It's just such a simple thing to do. And, you know, last Christmas Eve, we had a bunch of friends over and we ended up walking around the block and looking at houses and the lights and You know, everyone felt great after they did it, and it's such a silly thing to do and so simple to participate in. And you do digest your food. We're not running. We're just strolling through. So if you had that ability to do that, grab your spouse, grab your dog, grab your kid, grab yourself, and just go take a nice walk after dinner. Anytime you're in motion, you're increasing circulation. You're draining all the toxins and the lymph from the body. You're forcing your body to need nutrition, so you're turning things over because you're constantly in motion. And you'll see those people that are in action are generally a bit slimmer. They have more energy. I mean, sumo wrestlers eat food and then go and sleep. And that's kind of what Americans do to some degree. We eat late, we sit down on the couch, and we're putting weight on.
SPEAKER 02 :
We do. Unfortunately, as a nation, and I talked about this again in the last segment, even some of the changes we may have coming as a country with RFK Jr. now potentially being our HHS director. I mean, the reality is we now have a movement called Make America Healthy Again. Dr. Julie, I can't remember a time in my life where I've ever heard anybody in America say that.
SPEAKER 13 :
I I'm so astounded at what he's saying that I feel like he's parroting what I've been telling my patients one by one by one. And you know, everyone is suffering. Everyone is really struggling with the food source in this country. And it thrills me that somebody is actually taking a really good look and making people aware from the, you know, fluoride in our water and all the weird things that they put into foods and then make it available for moms to buy for kids. It's just, It's a crime against our children and ourselves.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, and I said this again. I've said this many, many times. I said it again today. It's costing all of us money, whether it's directly related to your health or it's through your tax dollars for those that aren't healthy. One way or the other, we're all paying for this.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, now we have a very drugged society.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's just, you know, it's been masterminded to some degree, and I'm sorry because we're all suffering.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, it has been. Again, I said earlier that, unfortunately, and this is one of RFK Jr.' 's biggest complaints, is we now have big pharma that is more concerned about the dollar than the person.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right.
SPEAKER 02 :
And I think I'm very safe in saying that, and I'm sorry that I offend some folks saying that, Dr. Julie, but literally you watch the ads, and all I have to do is watch one ad, and that's what it tells me.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I mean, we're the only country that, one of the only countries that gets to put our pharmaceutical ads on TV.
SPEAKER 02 :
Us in New Zealand, we're the only two.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, weird.
SPEAKER 02 :
I know. That's weird. Well, which shows you that we're doing it the wrong way, and we need to make some changes. But again, education is partly what we do here each Wednesday. It's partly what you do when you come on with us, and I appreciate it. One more time, folks, if you want to check out Absorbate, and I cannot talk highly enough about it, Nature's Sources, there's two S's there, naturesources.com. Get it, use it daily. Dr. Julie, I can tell you that in our life, it's now a daily thing that we do, and sometimes more than once a day, depending upon what we're doing and eating and the activity level and all of that. But the product works.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it does. And it's an all-vegan formula, so it's just like eating those types of foods that help you break down food. So it's wonderful. So the 1-800 number is 1-800-827-7656. Dr. Julie, thank you very much, as always. I appreciate it. Me too, John. Thank you.
SPEAKER 02 :
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All right, that's it, by the way, for Health and Wellness Wednesday. Thank you guys so much for listening. We always appreciate it. We've got another full two hours coming your way. Of course, Richard Battle will be joining us here in just a few minutes. Good enough to live by yesterday and good enough to live by tomorrow. That's what we'll talk to Richard about here in just a few minutes. So don't go anywhere. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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I'm a rich guy.
Join us for an action-packed episode as we navigate the twists and turns of driving laws, auto industry insights, and safety tips. Host John Rush dives into the legal gray areas surrounding mobile device use, firearm storage in vehicles, and other road-related regulations. Special guest Kurt Hopkins joins to discuss the shifting landscape of the auto industry and upcoming innovations. Plus, spirited debates with listeners about registration laws, impounded cars, and the impact of new legislation on everyday drivers. Tune in for a thought-provoking, informative, and engaging ride!
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, and we are back. As you can tell, no, you're not going to be able to listen to the rest of Bob's commentary, which, you know, I never have asked you, Charlie, if people want to listen to Bob's commentary again after they've heard it at 5 o'clock, can they do that inside of our network? You know what? We will find out. Charlie said he doesn't know, and I don't know either. I don't know if we post those things under the Crawford Broadcasting umbrella, and we may very well. So for those of you listening, if you like Bob's commentary, which I... enjoy i typically take a little bathroom break at five o'clock come back in and listen to the rest of of bob's commentary we've got some computer upgrades we have done and so as you guys all know when those things happen sometimes there's a little glitch here or there and so we just had one of those a moment ago so i'm on a little earlier than what we would normally plan for and i don't have my guest actually booked until about five after but kurt hopkins is going to join us here And just a little bit, we're going to talk a little bit about the auto industry and some of what we might expect to see coming down the pike. I know I talk a lot about that because being the car guy that I am, and then we should be able to talk to Scott Garlis also at the 530 mark as well. And Neil, again, in the last hour, thank you for that. I did not get an opportunity to actually look at that particular car. I did not read the Senate bill. And if you are correct, which you probably are, because, again, I have not read this to determine whether that's a primary or secondary offense. I will say I'm reading it right now. I'm reading the bill. So I'm reading the bill that became law. It is not a violation of the act to use a mobile electronic device in a motor vehicle that is at rest in a shoulder or lawfully parked. To cite an individual for a violation of the act, a law enforcement officer must see the individual using a mobile electronic device in a manner that caused the individual to drive in a careless or imprudent manner. The penalties for the violations are blah, blah, blah. So I believe, Neil, what you're saying is correct, although if you're on the phone and you're driving below the speed limit, above the speed limit, you're not paying attention, you're making a turn that you shouldn't be or you're weaving or whatever, you're going to get pulled over. And if they see that device in hand, you're going to get pulled over. So that may very well be the secondary offense, but they're going to pull you over anyways. Now, to Neil's point and basically what this is saying as well, if you're driving normally, I guess even if an officer sees you on the phone, probably not a lot they can do. But what I will tell you is this. And I've talked to a lot of officers over the years when it comes to different things on the vehicle and so on. If you have a taillight that's out, a license plate that's out, you didn't signal properly, you know where I'm going with this. If they can see any other reason to pull you over and you're on the cell phone at the same time, similar to the seatbelt law, you're going to get pulled over and they're going to write you a ticket. So my advice is, and yes, Neil, I know where you're coming from on the secondary offense, and it is a feel-good law. But here's my advice, period. This is just common sense. It has nothing to do with the law. Put the phone down. If you can use the hands-free mechanism of it and so on and make the calls and do whatever's needed, fine. More power to you. But otherwise, put the phone down and drive like you're supposed to, and everything else and those people around you will be much safer. So, again, we'll do our best to get our next guest joining us here in just a few minutes. We're at that point now where we can do that. So Kurt Hopkins should be joining us here momentarily. And, yeah, there's going to be a lot of changes coming down the pike when it comes to the auto industry. We'll get Kurt on and talk about that here in just a few minutes. But, again, going back to some of those laws, I've got a few more that I can actually talk about that will be going into effect. And, again, you can look these up for yourselves. I'll put the article up, and you can look at actually some of the laws that are out there on the book, some of the things that even passed this last go-around when it came to the – election cycle but update to child safety seats so those of you that have kids that are still riding around in car seats there's been some changes along those lines so make sure that you're up to date on that as well and i've made fun in the past i don't think i'm too far off that kids love to stay in a car seat till they grow a beard i don't think i'm too far off in saying that and yes i'm being facetious but i don't think i'm that far off because anymore you've got the kid in the car seat all the way up until they start driving Eggs, starting January 1, eggs must be cage-free. We talked about that a lot at the beginning of this past year. So all eggs sold in the state of Colorado will have to be from cage-free environments. That was a law that was passed in 2020. It's been implemented in two stages. We will now be into the full stage of that starting January 1. In most stores, you're already starting to see that. There is a gun storage requirement. We've talked about that as well in the past. That one goes into effect as well. And you have got to have your gun in a locked container inside of the vehicle. So locked inside of the trunk, for example. It can be inside of a locked container in the vehicle. But you cannot just leave a handgun in an unattended vehicle unless it is first secured properly. inside of said vehicle it has to be in a container placed out of view that was one of the things that was passed by this last legislative session that we complained about by the way as a program and yet it still passed. There was a lot of lobbying that went against that, and that's one, though, that is still on the books at this point in time. So gun storage requirements in vehicles, yes, that does go into effect. Violators, if caught, again, going back to Neil's point, if you're caught and if they find this, and the way that would be found, by the way, is if all of a sudden your car is broken into and you report your gun stolen. You could have a $500 fine in that particular case. Now, this is one of those laws which, by the way, I think is really stupid because what's going to happen is if, in fact, what I just explained happens, nobody's going to report it. And some would say, well, they'll trace it back to you. Yeah, fat chance. No, they won't. So really, all this is going to do, in my opinion, this particular bill, House Bill 24-1348, is that instance of what I just explained a moment ago, those won't get reported anymore. If you get broken into and your gun ends up missing, are you going to say anything? Not unless you're a knucklehead. You're just going to let it roll, not worry about it. Pay for it yourself. You won't be able to turn it into your insurance company. So if you're worried about that, you might want to go ahead and get a locked container just to have that because of what I said a moment ago. But this bill, by the way, when it's all said and done, is going to do nothing but this law, I should say, will do nothing but discourage people from telling an officer what exactly happened in the break-in they had on their particular vehicle. That's my opinion as to what actually will happen. Let's do this, Charlize. Can we take a break? Let's take a break real quick. We'll get things dialed back in. Flesh Laws coming up next. 303-806-8886. Whether it's civil or criminal, give Kevin a call today. Again, 303-806-8886.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, we are back. Dennis, what's going on, sir?
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, John, you might want to rethink not reporting your weapon being stolen because you didn't store it right. Because if I remember correctly, you've got 48 hours to report a stolen or lost weapon, in addition to the improper storage. And I'll bet these Democrats would make an example out of you.
SPEAKER 17 :
How would they know?
SPEAKER 06 :
When they find your gun and it comes back to you?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, but again, I'm asking, how would they know? Because we don't do registration. And I'm just being devil's advocate. How is it coming back to you?
SPEAKER 06 :
I would assume through your background check.
SPEAKER 17 :
Because they have to record... And that may be true on one that you bought in the last several years, but Dennis, if you're guys like you and I and you've owned one for decades, yeah, fat chance.
SPEAKER 06 :
True, and two of mine...
SPEAKER 17 :
were pre-owned weapons. Yeah, I've got some of those as well. And again, I'm just being devil's advocate. I'm like, okay, just thinking out loud, if you didn't report, and I get where you're going with this, if you don't report it, then you're in trouble for not reporting. On the same token, if you report it, you're going to get a $500 fine because you didn't lock it in the car properly. So at the end of the day, most of us are probably not going to report that. I mean, I guess if it's something you bought recently that you feel might be able to be tied back to you, that might be a different situation. But otherwise, Dennis, it becomes your word against the thief's word.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and now you've violated two separate laws. True. You didn't report your weapon being stolen, and you had it improperly stored. And again, I think they'd make an example out of you if they find your weapon.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and to your point, I think if it could be tied back to you, you probably have to really rethink some of what we're talking about. I will say, though, Dennis, I think for a lot of individuals, especially if they know it's a weapon that just doesn't have a chance of coming back to them, I guarantee you most are not going to report it. They're going to get the opposite effect out of this, is my point.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, you know, have you ever heard of On Patrol Live, the TV show?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I haven't. No.
SPEAKER 06 :
So what they do is they're riding with eight or nine different police jurisdictions around the country. Okay. And it's like cops, except it's live in real time.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And every gun they come across, they go to their computer and check the NCIC and... They know who owns that weapon and whether the person possessing it can have a weapon or not. So that's part of where I'm coming from.
SPEAKER 17 :
And again, I'm not disagreeing with you, but how are they doing that on, for example, you and I, who I have weapons that have been acquired long before we had background checks and things along those lines. I mean, Dennis, it used to be a website even, sort of like a Craigslist for guns, where if you wanted to go meet somebody and buy a gun, sell a gun, whatever, it was called Gun Trader. It wasn't a big deal. to do it was a really easy thing to make happen you know long before we have all of the nonsense laws we have right now you could acquire a gun at that point in time legally through meeting somebody in the target parking lot if you wanted to so how are they tracing those is my question again i don't know if you have any law enforcement sources that might be a topic for your show Yeah, because, again, I don't know. In the case of this particular TV show, I mean, I would think with different states, different type of registration and so on, yeah, New York City, some of what Joe was talking about even earlier in regards to how some of the East Coast states work, I could see what you're saying happening. States like Colorado, where other than the last five, six years, how would they know?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm not sure if that's a law enforcement question.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. And it's a great question because, honestly, Dennis, you bring up a great point, and I don't know the answers to some of these. So I'll let you go, though. You bring up a great point. Thank you for that very much. Joe, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, there's a few states like California where they do have gun registration, but in most states when they find a gun in a crime scene, what they do is they go back to the manufacturer and they say, which dealer did you ship this gun to? Then they go to the dealer. Maybe he's closed. Anyway. And then the dealers have to keep their records for like 15 years. So assuming the gun dealer you bought it from is still in business. Around, but they'll go to him and say, you sold this gun. You know, this gun was shipped to you by, you know, Smith & Wesson on this date in 2009, whatever. Right, right. You know, who did you sell it to? And he'll go through his records, and he'll supposedly, you know, it took him while he sold it to, John Rush, and then they'll go to John Rush and say, you bought this gun from this gun dealer on this date. You know, what happened to it? And you can say, either I lost it or I sold it to somebody else. And if you sold it to somebody else, they're going to ask you, who'd you sell it to? But they can, now it's not an instantaneous process like your previous caller said, unless it's one of those states that has a gun registration law. So typically it takes several days because they have to go to the manufacturer, then to the dealer, and then he's got to go through his records. So it's a multi-day process. But unfortunately, I'm in New Jersey where they've had that law for several years now. And unfortunately, John, I have one of those little tiny gun safes, which I have a steel cable that wraps around the seat post of my front seat. Got it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 04 :
And, you know, if I – and unfortunately in New Jersey there's a bunch of places I can't take my gun. So you've got to put it in there. So what I do is before I get out of the car – I'll put it in that little, it's a little flat. It's only about two inches high. Yeah, I have one.
SPEAKER 17 :
I know what it is, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it's on a steel cable, and I'll put it in there, lock it, slide it under the driver's seat out of sight because I don't want to be in a situation, because unfortunately my pistol that I carry with me, I bought in New Jersey.
SPEAKER 19 :
So it's trackable.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's very, very trackable back to me.
SPEAKER 19 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 04 :
So if you're in Colorado and you're, going to carry a gun in your car that you bought in the last 10 years. Be very careful.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Be very, very careful. And if you do, you know, if your gun is stolen and it wasn't in the box, then I would highly recommend you report it because not report, I think the crime, the penalty for not reporting a stolen gun is worse than the crime for not having it in the lockbox.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'd have to go look that one up, but you're probably correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. So, but the other thing is to get, you know, get yourself a little, I think my little Hornady lockbox cost me like $49 and came with a steel cable. And you can either get the keyed version, or for $20 more, you get the one with the little four-key finger pad, you know, little four keys. You can put in 9,999 combinations in it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 04 :
But, you know, unfortunately, that's something I have to deal with. Again, if I go to a post office, John...
SPEAKER 17 :
I have to put my gun in the... So here's really quick, and I know I've got other callers, so I'll make this fast, but here's the other caveat. So in Colorado, I just looked it up, you have five days to report that your gun was actually stolen, or you can have, it's a civil infraction, $25 fine, and then a subsequent offense would be a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of a $500 fine. fine uh so here's just quick caveat car gets broken into you got five days to report it um when was it and where was it stolen joe well that's yeah that's good but at the same time if you don't i mean did i leave it on the front step accidentally I mean, you know where I'm going with this? In other words, my point is all of these laws that the Democrats come up with that they fabricate really at the end of the day, there's always a way around these stupid things, meaning they're not doing anything in the first place.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Of course, if you go out into a parking lot like at the DIA and find your car window smashed— and you're going to report that to your insurance company, then you might want to just... That might be different, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
In fact, if I were you, I'd just go get a window and not report it.
SPEAKER 04 :
That would be me. Yeah, particularly if you're... Especially if you had a gun stolen. Yep, $1,000 deductible. Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, good stuff, Joe. I appreciate it. Let me move on. Bill in Lakewood, go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, so if you got a concealed carry permit, does the gun still have to be locked up in the car?
SPEAKER 17 :
No. Well, if you're leaving it in the car with you, not in the car, yes. If you're just taking it with you because it's concealed carry, no, it would not have to be. But if you parked and you went into the post office, for example, where you're not allowed to have a gun, then yes, it would have to be locked up. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, I'll have a report on you for your veteran's window guy.
SPEAKER 17 :
Perfect. All right. Go ahead. Friday. Oh, perfect. On Friday. Okay, perfect. I'm looking forward to it, Bill. Great. Okay. Awesome, man. Appreciate you very much. Del, what's going on, sir?
SPEAKER 05 :
how you doing guys good uh on mine most everything i've got one i don't have i can't buy a gun in colorado anyway because i don't have a colorado id and i'm not going to pay their tax and have it shipped out of state gotcha you know so but everything i've got now my shotgun was bought Oh, remember days down on West Colfax? Yeah. Yeah, that was where it was bought, and they've been out of business for how many years now?
SPEAKER 17 :
A long time.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and my 357 was bought back in the 70s. Everything else I have has been bought from private owners.
SPEAKER 17 :
My whole point with this, Del, is just that, again, as always, the left is always trying to come up with ways that they think is going to protect the public when it's all said and done, when at the end of the day it does nothing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, now what are they going to do about Averna? Or have you heard of it?
SPEAKER 18 :
A what?
SPEAKER 05 :
Averna, B-Y-N-E-R-A-N-A. It's a non-lethal handgun that fires out CO2 and fires pure gas.
SPEAKER 17 :
It's basically a chemical gun is what it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And then there you go. You don't even have to get a background check to get one of those.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, because it's not firing a projectile.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Interesting. Well, it is, but it's a— Yeah, it's not a lethal projectile, I guess you could say, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it's kinetic energy with—you've got several different ones. You've got one that's kinetic energy that'll knock you on your rear end. Right. And then it has the pepper spray and tear gas.
SPEAKER 19 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, we will see how things go. Del, as always, I appreciate it very much. Before we go to the bottom of the hour, here is something that is happening as we speak. And this is, again, this is another one where I'm okay with this. I've talked about this enough on this show and Drive Radio on Saturdays, and that is all of these folks that are driving around that have either expired or non-registered vehicles. have no insurance, and yet they're still driving around the same roads the rest of us are that pay properly to do that. Aurora, just Aurora right now, they have already now, because of the new law that passed in Aurora, they are impounding vehicles. In fact, they've impounded so far, the first 12 days of November, they impounded 52 cars. First 12 days. So what they do is they will impound the car if you have any of the things I just mentioned. So don't have valid registration, insurance, or a driver's license. They're going to take the car. And I'm sorry, as much as that may hurt some individuals, I'm okay with that. The rest of us have to pay to drive correctly, and we are. So why should they not have to? And I still see on a regular basis vehicles with not just a few days expired. And I understand that part of it. You could be mailing in, you know, doing your registration online. Maybe the plates take a little longer to get there and so on. So I'm not talking, you know, a car that's, you know, five to 10 days out. I'm talking cars that are 60, 90 a year out. And you guys see those all the time. And I'm talking not just on temp tags. I'm talking even the stickers on the plates. In Aurora, at least, they're cracking down on that. And frankly, I think this should happen statewide. This is one of those areas that, yes, I am sick and tired of seeing cars that I drive around all the time that don't pass muster in this area. Now, I don't know if they have a driver's license. I don't know if they have insurance. But I do know the cars, you know, the tags are expired. Either temp tag hasn't been, you know, handled correctly and it's way overdue or the plates on the vehicle just period are expired. And it always cracks me up when I look at these and see it on vehicles that are very, very expensive in the first place. You know, I get the old clunker that's out, okay? I can have a little more sympathy maybe in that area, although I don't have much sympathy, period, because driving is a privilege, I believe. Not a right. It's a privilege. Yes, movement in the country is a right. Movement by car is a privilege. And I know some of you sovereign citizen folks would argue with me on that one, but trust me, I'm right. You're wrong. So in Aurora anyways, they already in the first 12 days of November impounded 52 cars to the point where they're kind of starting to run out of room to place these. shows you how many of these are out running around. And I hate to say this, but I'm going to. A lot of this ties into the illegal immigration problem we have in Colorado right now. I'm just going to say it straight up. That's exactly where some of this is coming from. They don't have a license because they can't get one. They're here illegally. They can't get insurance for whatever reason. And they may have had a temp tag to start with because when they bought the vehicle, they got it because none of this has to apply at that point in time. And then they just let the thing ride out. Those are the individuals, by the way, I have no sympathy for. I'm sorry. You came to this country. You know what goes on in this country. And I get it. You're trying to irk things out and so on, but you didn't do it legally. These are the consequences. And in this case, your car gets towed and gone and you'll probably never get it back because some of these people won't be able to afford to get it out of impound. I'm not losing any sleep or crying any tears over this one, folks. Most of you aren't either. So. All right, I'll leave it at that. Scott Garlis should be joining us here in just a few minutes. We'll get an update on what's going on with Wall Street and the markets after the Thanksgiving weekend. Hi-Fi Plumbing is next. Don't forget they do electrical as well. 877-WE-HIGH-5.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Scott Garlis joining us now. Scott, welcome. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, John, I'm well. How are you today?
SPEAKER 17 :
Good. Always a joy to hear from you. Talk to us about Wall Street, the Fed. There was a little bit of information from Powell today. Give us an update.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah. Basically, Powell did a fireside chat. One of the things he talked about was he said, hey, look, job growth is holding up a little bit better, or economic growth is holding up a little bit better than we expected. Inflation is coming down. It's just a bumpy path. And he said, but, you know, these things are good developments because they afford the Fed luxury jobs. to be the luxury of possibly being patient with what they're going to do in terms of returning interest rates to neutral. But, you know, the more important part of that was he said interest rates are still headed lower. So there's been a ton of speculation around whether or not the federal cut rates. And what Powell, and the way I hear these things is what he said was, even if we weren't to cut rates in December, we're still going to keep cutting rates going forward.
SPEAKER 18 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 08 :
So, Bottom line to me is that's good for the domestic economy, and that's good for stocks.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. And I, by the way, some of the things I've read, I would kind of read between the lines the same way that you are. I would anticipate no cut in December, but I would say as you head into 2025, you'll see additional cuts. How often, how much, that I don't have an answer to, but you'll see that in my opinion.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you know, so I think they're going to cut in December. One of the more hawkish governors was a board member, Chris Waller. He came out of the St. Louis Fed. He was the head of their economic research team. He just spoke the other day, and he was making the case for another rate cut in December. And I was a bit surprised by that. But the fact that he was saying that, that tells me they're definitely leaning in that direction. But even the more hawkish people are still saying rates need to come back to neutral. The only person that has really made a case for what they think neutral is right now is Mary Daly in San Francisco. And she said that level was 3%. So if we think about where rates are right now, they're about, uh, I want to say, is it 4.9%? Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, that's, that's, let's say 160 basis points or 1.6 percentage points were the downside. And if we're cutting it, say, 25 basis points a meeting, that means we're talking six or seven more meetings worth of rate cuts.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, we're a year and a half out at least to even get there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so that's before she thinks we're going to hit neutral. Now, another person that recently spoke, gosh, was Austin Goolsbee. He's the Chicago Fed president. He becomes a voting member of the FOMC next year because of the annual rotation that goes on. He's saying we should cut 25 basis points in December and then another 100 basis points next year.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that would take rates down to like the 3.5-ish, 3.75%.
SPEAKER 17 :
By the way, I'm one, and you know my feelings on this, Scott. I think to get the housing market back, even get car sales where they need to be and so on, I feel like you need to get down into that. you know, three, three and a half percent range, because then you're going to get some of those other rates, most likely down into the, you know, mid fives, if you would. Car loans can vary off of that lower or higher, depending upon the participation level of, you know, the funding institution, the dealer or whatever, trying to make the deal work. But at the end of the day, you start getting the housing, you'll get mortgages, 30 year mortgages down in that five and a half range, and maybe even get a 15 year down into the high, you know, mid to high fours, you'll start moving some houses.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you know, there's a builder I really like. It's funny you bring this up. Skyline Champion, SKY is their ticker symbol. And I think we've talked about this before, but they basically build pre-built homes, like modular almost. Right, right. And they're really affordable for people. You know, their high-end houses are a really nicely built house. I think they charge like $150,000. But they basically, all they need is the foundation in place, and they can put it right on top of the foundation.
SPEAKER 17 :
Nice, nice.
SPEAKER 08 :
And yeah, I mean, so, you know, I don't know where those communities are built per se in terms of vicinity like cities, but people in those communities, people can get in houses at a really reasonable price. So I think that companies, you know, what their product is going to become more and more attractive as people look for affordability and that stock's going to keep going up. What is it again? SKY.
SPEAKER 17 :
SKY.
SPEAKER 08 :
Skyline. Yeah, Skyline Champion.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, perfect. In regards to just overall economy, you know, we'll have an inauguration here in, well, it's a little over a month away, roughly, what, 45 days or so from now we'll have an inauguration. There'll be a big regime change. We're going to have different people appointed to a lot of the different three-letter agencies. How is Wall Street responding to a lot of that scuttlebutt that's going on in regards to the heads of those agencies?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so some of the things, like they liked that Matt Gaetz withdrew his name because the way that Wall Street's looking at that is, so coming into the election, I think we've talked about this too, that it was Committee for Responsible Budget. I think that's what it's called. It's a bipartisan group. They said Kamala was going to create $3.5 trillion in deficit spending if she lives up to her promises, and Trump would create $7.5 trillion. But things like what's going on with Gates, and then there was somebody else, I think they're saying they had six people that said they wouldn't vote for him. Wall Street's looking at that and saying, okay, what that tells them is, that no matter what budget the president wants to put out there, it still has to go through congressional approval, and in particular, it has to go through the Senate. And the Senate may not be as willing to have crazy deficit spending because they're already, I want to say there are like five to seven of them that have said, hey, look, there have to be offsets for the spending you want to do. So Wall Street's looking at that and saying, okay, wait a second. You know, even though we have Republican control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, they're seeing that and they're saying, wait a second, there's more fiscal responsibility that's probably going to happen here. And so that's going to start dropping bond yields. We're already seeing it with the 10-year. Since the election, it has come back from, I want to say, like 4.5% back down to 4.2%. And that's a big deal because the 10-year yield is used as a benchmark for for a lot of the lending that goes on in this country.
SPEAKER 19 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
And then so if we do see this fiscal responsibility, yields will come in even more. And then if we see rate cuts on top of that, that'll drive borrowing costs even lower.
SPEAKER 19 :
Gotcha. Gotcha.
SPEAKER 08 :
So in Wall Street's mind, that's a really good thing for companies everywhere.
SPEAKER 17 :
When it comes to energy, and one of the things I was going to mention today with you coming on was I read an article today talking about how Saudi Arabia and a lot of those cartel countries, if you would, don't have the foothold on the oil industry they once did. In fact, they've asked Saudi Arabia, are you guys going to produce more oil, flood the market, try to do what you did back in the 2020 era where you tried to crush American oil and so on? And they basically have said, yeah, no, we're probably not going to go down that path again. I think what's really happened, and Scott, you and I have talked about this multiple times in the past, reality is I think finally, The Saudis and others have realized that, oh, wait a minute, America is producing 13 million barrels a day and probably have the capacity to do 18 to 20 if they really get things rolling along. We probably ought to play our cards right or we're liable to get shut out of this thing. You know, not completely, but we may not be selling any oil over there, period.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you know, I think that's right. I think they realize like, hey, if we. Everybody plays nice in the sandbox. We stand a better chance of keeping prices up instead of getting completely devastated.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and point being, did we ever think in our lifetime we'd ever see the Saudis do that?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, never. Never. I mean, again, it's like – and I get we buy oil from other countries in the world because – It helps maintain relationships and keeps money going to them.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and some of it's our refinery capacity. We have sweet crude that not every refinery in the country can do. That's part of our other problem we have, which that's a whole other conversation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah. But I think if the Saudis and the U.S. work better together on stuff like this, and I don't think there would be price fixing, but just a better relationship, and that might help stabilize prices more. I think it would stabilize prices at a level lower than here. I think the Saudis have to have at least $50 a barrel is what they're looking for to make things work for them.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and I think, again, I've said this before, the Saudi family is big. They like to live large. I mean, these are guys that don't drive Toyota Corollas. They drive Lamborghinis and Ferraris. So the reality is they're used to driving not a $25,000 car but a $250,000 car. And, no, I'm not exaggerating when I say that, and that might be on the cheaper scale of things. Scott. So point being is, you know, they want to see oil up in that, you know, 70, 75 dollar range. And it may not be that way forever. If we start pumping more, it could drop down into the 60 dollar range. But they like seeing it up there because they got a lot of mouths to feed.
SPEAKER 08 :
They do. Not only that, but the Saudi government gives a lot of money to its people to keep them pretty happy. That's right. And so they do not want to see a collapse in oil prices.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's right. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. I didn't check oil today. I guess I could do that relatively quick. 68.76. OK, so it's under 70 today. So we're now down into the sixes. And again, part of that also, and I want to talk to you about this as well, Scott, is, you know, the demand in China, you know, China just isn't doing very well. In fact, when Donald Trump gets inaugurated and does some of the things he's talking about with tariffs and so on, they're liable to actually do worse, not better. I mean, they've got to be, for lack of better words, shaking in their boots because they do not like their future given, you know, given a Donald Trump presidency. Am I right or wrong?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, no, you're exactly right on that. They don't, and that's why they're trying to do everything they can with Russia and Iran now. But, yeah, it doesn't, I mean, Chinese demand, it looks like it's struggling, and I don't see that getting better any time soon.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I don't either. I mean, they've got a real financial crisis. They've got a housing crisis. They've got a commercial property crisis. I mean, the reality is they have propped some of that stuff up for so long that, you know, literally, I'm not exaggerating when I say that, it's crashing down right now.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you know, and I don't think China can be excited. I think there was news out today that Trump said Peter Navarro is going to be his chief trade advisor. Now, that doesn't mean he's going to be the U.S. trade representative, but it sounds like he's going to be back in the White House giving advice on what to do from a trade standpoint. And Navarro is definitely anti-China.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and I think we already know that a lot of the folks that Donald Trump is appointing to these three little agencies, not that they have a lot of effect upon what happens China-wise, but a lot of these folks are in that same camp. So what I think China's really – I know I'm speaking for them, but I think what their biggest concern is is not only is the president of the United States against them and what's been going on, the majority of the people that he will surround himself with and they'll be in charge of a lot of these agencies are as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and so the other interesting part of that, too, to me is we've talked about this a bit, too, that Europe has really woken up to a lot of the stuff that's going on there, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 08 :
And they're getting tired of China. I was reading an article in The Wall Street Journal either yesterday or today about they're getting fed up, a lot of other countries are, with China just producing all these cheap goods, trying to re-ramp their economy, and dumping them onto the other markets. And countries are starting to say no mas, and... You know, I think that's a very direct, I don't know if consequence is the right word, but it's a very direct outcome of Trump's first presidency. I think he woke everybody up to this eight years ago. And now I think we're going to see the next stage of that that would have happened in the past four years. really accelerate in these next four years.
SPEAKER 17 :
I agree with you on that. And again, that's why I would say that I think China is literally shaking in their boots. They did not want it. Well, frankly, Scott, and I've said this publicly, I think China did everything they possibly could to make sure that the other side won. They interfere in every election they possibly can. This one was no different. They did not want Donald Trump winning and being president a second term.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, no, I think you're right. I think that's also why we're really starting to see this separation gap between U.S. stock markets and the rest of the world. And I think that could keep going, because if you think about the numbers, and the estimates may not be there at the moment, but the revenue potential, if we see a lot more business come back to the U.S. because of all these policies, and because rates start going down and borrowing costs get cheaper for households and companies, you know, I would look to own small cap stocks in particular because 80% of their revenues come from the U.S. I would look at an ETF like the Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund. The ticker symbol is VTWO, and that copies or tries to mimic the Russell 2000 Index, which is a small cap index.
SPEAKER 17 :
Got it. Okay, good to know. Yeah, and okay, one last question before I let you go. Bitcoin, I mean, the crypto world is just on fire. I'm not a huge believer in it. You and I have had those conversations. Maybe it has its place. My biggest fear with it is it's literally backed by nothing other than faith. I understand that that's true with a lot of other investments and things that people put money into as well, but the whole crypto thing literally as an investor scares me to death, and I know there's a lot of people out there that probably have made a lot of money doing it. I'm not one of them, but what are your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 08 :
If you want to be involved in Bitcoin, to me, the other tokens get way too complicated for me. I think if you want to be involved in crypto, I would buy Bitcoin or Ethereum. And I personally wouldn't let it be more than 5% of my portfolio when I invest. Now, if it grows into something more, that's fine. But in terms of the money I would put to work, I wouldn't put more than 5% because if it gets wiped out to zero, I can stomach losing that because I'm going to be doing all right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point. Great.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good point. All right, Scott, how do folks get a hold of you?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, sure. Come follow me on Twitter or on LinkedIn. See Scott Garlis.
SPEAKER 17 :
Scott, always a joy talking to you, sir. Appreciate you. John, thanks so much for your time. You bet. Have a great night, sir. Affordable interest mortgage is next. Speaking of rates, where are things going? Kurt has a pretty good handle on this when it comes to the mortgage side. If you have any questions at all, please call him, 720-895-0500.
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Scott Jennings hosts a riveting conversation on the Mike Gallagher Show, tackling the latest in political controversies, from Biden's decision to pardon Hunter Biden to Trump's supposed plans for military action within the states. Delve into the narratives that dominate today's political landscape, and unpack the reality versus fan fiction among left-wing circles. Featuring insights from Congressman James Comer and a focus on the implications of Biden's controversial pardons, this episode sheds light on the political maneuvers at play and what they mean for the future of America.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, sitting in for Mike today, here's Scott Jennings.
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Scott Jennings in for the great, legendary Mike Gallagher. So glad to be here with you all today. Wasn't it great, by the way, to wake up in the United States of America today, the greatest country on earth? I woke up early today in Manhattan with a full heart because I woke up in a nation that embraces and protects free speech. I woke up in a nation full of free thinkers. I woke up. in a country full of people who love freedom and understand the essential nature of freedom and liberty. Our founding fathers knew it. They devised the greatest system of government ever known to man, codified in our Constitution. It protects our rights, and the first right is freedom of speech. And we have to fight. We have to fight to protect these things. We have to fight against the people who believe that America... And the fundamental way of life here in America is somehow rotten at the core. That Western civilization should be dismantled. And that's what our project here is today. Let's save Western civilization. Let's protect speech. Let's protect freedom. And let's fight for the America that we want. I'm so glad to be in for Mike Gallagher because he's such a warrior. for that viewpoint. I'm Scott Jennings, and I live in Kentucky. Normally, I spend a lot of time in New York. You may know me from my job at CNN, where I am CNN's senior political commentator. I handle the conservative political analysis on the network. I do shows across the network. You see me a lot at 10 o'clock at night on the Abby Phillip Newsnight show. I was there each of the last two nights, which I want to talk about in a second. When I'm not in New York, when I'm not fighting the good fight on CNN, I live in Kentucky with my family. I have four boys, 30 backyard chickens, three dogs, Elvis, Fiona, and Baxter. And like 20 Christmas inflatables. This is the great Scott Jennings trivia for this morning. I have like a Christmas village in my front yard. We have Santa. I have a nine-foot-tall inflatable rooster. True story. It's an homage to the backyard chickens, but it's a nine-foot. I got it at Tractor Supply. It's like a nine-foot Christmas chicken. And I have a great life back in Kentucky, out in middle America. To me, part of my punditry on CNN, it's not just that I'm the conservative voice on CNN, but I feel like I'm trying to represent what's going on outside of the urban core, outside of the Acela Corridor. What are people talking about? How are people feeling about the world in middle America? So as much as I feel like a representative for conservatives, on CNN. I sort of feel like I'm I'm red America. I'm middle America's representative on CNN. And I have to say about my employer, good for CNN for encouraging this debate. We're having real debates. You watch a 10 o'clock show at night with Abby and we've got conservatives and liberals at the table having real debates. Now, as you're going to hear in a minute, sometimes people say objectively crazy things. But but We are having actual debate. And so what I think we're accomplishing. is getting people to listen to things that are outside of their bubble. It's real easy these days to live in a bubble and only hear things that you want to hear that confirm your priors. And I think what we're accomplishing with these debates is introducing people to points of view that maybe, just maybe, they haven't heard or haven't considered just yet. So let's talk about the last couple of nights here. In New York City, boy, it was interesting. One of the things, I mean, I meet some characters and I meet some fun people and I meet some interesting people. But one of the things that I've learned lately, and this is really since the election, it's really amplified. I feel like people on the left are living in a super weird bubble. And I know we joke about it. You call it TDS, Trump derangement syndrome. That may be a mild term. That may not be going far enough. But I have met people and listened to people who have constructed this entire made-up narrative in their mind about what is going to happen under a Donald Trump presidency. Now, never mind the fact that we already had one. And never mind the fact that over half the country, if you look at the polling, believes it was a pretty good presidency. He's got over 50% job approval retrospective to his first presidency. Never mind all that. What people are doing now is sort of projecting what they think the next four years will be. It's this dystopian fan fiction of just how badly Donald Trump is going to change America. Let me play a couple of things for you. Let me start actually with Monday night. The breaking news on Monday, of course, was that Joe Biden had decided to pardon Hunter Biden. Terrible decision, by the way. We've been talking about it in America, obviously, for the last couple of days. But this set off a round of people who were doing a couple of things. Number one, denying that Joe Biden had lied about this when he clearly had. And number two, coming up with reasons about why he needed to do it despite his repeated assertions that he would not. And so on Monday night, I was debating a liberal commentator named Lee McGowan. She's sort of a social media influencer type, calls herself I am politics girl on social media. But she said, and let's listen, that Trump is planning to institute firing squads and therefore Hunter Biden needed a pardon. Let's hear it.
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I don't want to be bringing back waterboarding. I don't want to be a country that tortures people, especially for the kind of country that's going to be using the military against our own citizens. This kind of thing concerns me.
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What do you mean use against our own citizens?
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I'm talking about sending states.
SPEAKER 04 :
What do you mean? What are you talking about?
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm talking about sending the military into blue states to make them behave. Getting Gavin Newsom under control, getting J.P. Pritchard under control.
SPEAKER 05 :
What are you making sure? What are you talking about? Sitting in the state capitol to commandeer the state government?
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I mean, I hope not, but I'm definitely he's definitely talked about that.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't know why you're using the military to to suppress in the Black Lives Matter era. Those protests in the street. He he was there.
SPEAKER 05 :
I just make sure I understand your position that you believe Donald Trump is going to use the military. to set up effectively, like, coups in state capitals of states that he didn't win?
SPEAKER 12 :
Scott, I think you're taking it a step or two too far.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, she said make blue states behave, and she also said round up immigrants. That's not true. It's deport illegal immigrants.
SPEAKER 12 :
Scott, Scott, I don't know why you're acting.
SPEAKER 05 :
No. Okay, well, I'm sorry. Hold on. Hold on.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, look. Let's I think you're right. Let's be precise. Trump has wanted to use the military to do things domestically that actually the military is not allowed to do. I think that's the point that she's making. Like what? Like deport illegal immigrants. That is actually not a function of the military.
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The military can absolutely be used to work with local officials. to provide military resources, but working with other parts of the federal government and local officials. We already send the National Guard to the border.
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But you're not against the will of the local officials or the will of the state government. We have a federalist government here.
SPEAKER 11 :
The military is not supposed to take up arms against American citizens. They're not. You keep saying that.
SPEAKER 05 :
This is about illegal immigration. You all keep saying American citizens. How do we know whether the people are illegal or not? We know after they're shot. We know after they die. We have 1.6 million people in this country who have already received deportation orders from courts.
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They are here illegally. It's always back to illegal immigration with people who support Donald Trump. It's always back to illegal immigration. But that's not the only thing that we're talking about here. We're talking about the American people. We're talking about taking up arms against them with a military that's supposed to be protecting them.
SPEAKER 05 :
This is not right. You cannot say Donald Trump is sending the military to round up.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's what he said. That is what he is saying, Scott. That's not what I'm saying. Totally false.
SPEAKER 05 :
He said that. Totally false. That's what he said.
SPEAKER 12 :
Scott. Scott. Trump, we're in the fever swamps.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 12 :
What is your dispute here?
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm not even really because they're saying that he's sending the military to shoot or and or round up American citizens.
SPEAKER 13 :
Not we did not say shoot.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think the issue, the issue, he said, he just said, I said, I mean, I did say take up arms because when you send the army in, that's what they're that's what they're doing.
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So that was actually Tuesday night. That was last night. And again, constructing this idea that Donald Trump's going to send the military to take over state capitals to shoot American citizens Monday night. Let's hear the debate Monday night about the firing squads. And this is what necessitated the Hunter Biden part. This is give you a little idea of the dystopian fan fiction we're dealing with here.
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But wasn't, to Scott's point, I mean, wasn't it a lie? I mean, you can defend it, but wasn't it a lie that he was not going to pardon him?
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No, I believe the circumstances have changed. I think that we now have a president coming into office who's talking about firing squads, who's talking about running people around the country and making sure that everyone who's his enemy is going to be punished. And Hunter Biden lied about his drug use on a government forum when he was buying a gun. And he failed to file and pay taxes when he was a drug addict. He paid back those taxes with interest. Donald Trump himself was indicted for 17 counts of criminal tax fraud, more than Hunter. And he's going to be the president of the United States.
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11 years. You're missing a few things here. 11 years.
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This – I just – what I have been thinking about so much over the last couple of days is how is it that these folks became radicalized to the point where they believe in this reality that doesn't exist? And I'm interested to hear from you about it today. This is the Mike Gallagher Show. 1-800-655-MIKE. Mike, 1-800-655-6453. We're going to continue to talk about that. We're also going to talk about a little breaking news today. The Pete Hegseth nomination for Secretary of Defense. His mom was on Fox & Friends this morning. We're going to hear from her. And then... At the bottom of the hour, Congressman James Comer, House Oversight Chairman, is with us. This is The Mike Gallagher Show. I'm Scott Jennings, sitting in. Stay with us.
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Scott Jennings in for Mike Gallagher today and glad to be here in Manhattan. Before we get to our guest, Congressman James Comer of Kentucky's First District and the chair of the House Oversight Committee. I just read a little breaking news here in New York City today. This is kind of a shocking thing. I'm just seeing it come across. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed. in manhattan this morning by a man in a black mask the fifty-year-old ceo of united health care was outside of the hilton hotel in midtown when a man came up to him and shot him in the chest the mass man this report says head on a gray backpack and fled into a nearby alley thompson was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead united health care group was scheduled to start its annual investor conference at 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning, according to the company. But numerous news outlets are reporting just a terrible situation. The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, shot and killed on the streets of New York City this morning. Sad news, and we'll follow that today. Let's get back to politics here on the Mike Gallagher Show. Scott Jennings sitting in for Mike, and I'm glad to have with me my old friend. And one of the most important Republicans in the country, Congressman James Comer of Kentucky's 1st Congressional District is with me. Jamie, Congressman Comer, the oracle of American politics for all that you brought to light about Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me, Scott. You were on top of this before anybody. You got a hold of this chairmanship and you dug in on this. And oh, my goodness. I listen to the media. Poo poo this. There's nothing there. This is all made up. This is all fabricated. Well, Congressman Comer, if it's all made up and there's no there there. Why does Hunter Biden need a blanket pardon going back 11 years to just about the time when he started getting involved in Ukraine? You tell me.
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Yeah, that's the key, Scott. It's a blanket pardon for anything that might arise. Because our investigation started in 2014. That's when we subpoenaed bank records, starting from 2014 all the way to 2020, to the time Joe Biden was elected president. And it's just a coincidence. The pardon goes all the way back to 2014, all the way to December the 1st of this year. So 11 years. At the end of the day, the Bidens have committed so many financial crimes that what he was charged for was just the tip of the iceberg. Right. I would argue 90 percent of the crimes, the money laundering, the violation of Foreign Agents Registration Act, The tax evasion for all this income that that wasn't reported to the IRS, according to the IRS whistleblowers. I mean, that that would account for 90 percent of the other financial crimes. And I'm not even getting into what was on the laptop and the and the, you know, the salacious stuff, because all I investigated was was the money was the money that the Biden took in. And this is the question everyone should ask. What business were the Bidens in? What did they do? to justify depositing $27 million from our enemies around the world.
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Yeah, you always ask the greatest question here on this. What was the product? What was the product? Why was money changing hands? Why were they hiring Hunter Biden? What was the value of it? What was the product? It's pretty obvious now what the product was, isn't it?
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The product was Joe Biden, and we had some of the former associates like Devin Archer and Tony Bobulinski. They testified to this under oath. They said the product was the Biden brand. They were buying access to Joe Biden. That's exactly what they were doing. And if you look at Jim Biden, who, by the way, Scott, will get a pardon too, the reason that Joe Biden pardoned Hunter early was because he was fixing to be sentenced to prison next week. He'll pardon Jim Biden on the way out the door. Jim Biden's business – was much like Hunter's, except Jim Biden, the money he took in were from criminals in the United States, domestic criminals who were needing pardons, who were needing government contracts, who were needing casino licenses, some of the most shady of the shady things that government does. That's what Jim Biden's business was entailed. So this is a family that's been influenced peddling for decades. Our investigation proved that. And I think that Joe Biden's pardons validated that.
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Let me ask you a question about – by the way, you talk to Democrats about Jimmy Biden, Joe Biden's brother. They say things like, oh, you think Hunter Biden was bad? Just wait. I mean they say – you talk to Democrats. They'll tell you. People who know, people in their party who know, they'll tell you. Let me ask you a question about Hunter Biden. So the lawyers tell me that because he got this pardon, which is objectively outrageous, one of the consequences of this is that he can no longer – claim the Fifth Amendment as a defense against testifying, I guess that means to Congress or in a court of law, A, do you believe that? And B, if yes, are we planning to bring Hunter Biden back to answer more questions about the corruption?
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Well, first of all, are we bringing Hunter Biden back? That's going to be left up to Attorney General Bondi. We've completed the investigation. We have all the financial crimes outlined in a very extensive report that we published that very few people in the media read. But obviously, Joe Biden read it or he wouldn't have issued that big blanket pardon. That's right. You know, at the end of the day, you know, it doesn't. matter to me. We'll bring him in if Bondi wants him brought in. But Hunter Biden didn't plead the fifth when we brought him in for deposition. He just lied. And one of the things that we referred to the Department of Justice was charges of perjury because he lied under oath to us. The Bidens are very good at lying. Joe Biden lied during the debate when he said the laptop was Russian disinformation, when he knew it was Hunter Biden's laptop. And he lied when he said he wasn't going to pardon Hunter Biden, when he knew he was going to pardon Hunter Biden. And everything he said about the Biden influence peddling schemes, Joe Biden lied about. So they're very good at lying. And Jim Biden is right in there with them. I mean, he can lie to you and smile and pat you on the back on the way out. I mean, some people are skilled at that. People wonder what Joe Biden's skill is. It's like and Hunter inherited that skill very well, too.
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It's amazing when you consider how Democrats talk about Donald Trump and talk about and when Joe Biden says the words of a president matter and I'm going to restore the soul of the nation and. so on and so forth. The reporting on this pardon is amazing. NBC News says that Biden and the top White House aides got together over the summer and decided two things. They were going to leave the option of a pardon on the table, but then they were going to simultaneously lie to the American people and say, no, no, no, we weren't going to do that. It's really quite despicable. And I really do hope that Hunter Biden in some venue is forced to answer more questions. Let me ask you one more thing about about Hunter Biden. Is it your belief based on everything you know and all the investigations you've done, that had he not received a pardon, that it was likely he was going to face further possible indictments for some of the issues you mentioned surrounding the corruption, foreign agent stuff, money changing. Do you think it's possible or even likely that he would have faced more prosecutions over the way he had conducted himself in his business?
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Absolutely. I mean, he was definitely going to be charged with FARA violations. He could have been at any point. In a new Trump administration, that very likely was going to happen. He could have been charged with more tax evasion. Remember, the IRS whistleblowers testified that they let the two things, they let the statute of limitations run out on a lot of the Burisma money that he took in, which was to the tune of $5 million. But then the IRS never received any information about the money we found he took in from Romania, that he took in from Kazakhstan, some of the money that he took in from China. So he still owes the government taxes on that income. Not only did they take the money from our adversaries around the world and lie about it, according to the Irish whistleblowers, they never paid a penny of taxes on it. So Hunter Biden was only charged for tax evasion for about $5 million or $4 million. He could have been charged for tax evasion $27 million in addition to FARA violations, in addition to money laundering. And that's not my word, money laundering. That's six banks. They issued SARS reports on him for money laundering.
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Romania, Kazakhstan. It's like the plot of a screwball comedy except there's nothing funny about it because we're literally dealing with the president of the United States. Let me twinge topics. You are raising some concerns, and I think a lot of people are going to have concerns. About 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?
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Absolutely. The American people may have thought that 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 percent occupied.
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Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 09 :
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 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 05 :
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 09 :
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.
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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 tomorrow about cleaning up and shrinking the federal government. Jamie, thank you for your efforts. Thank you for representing the Commonwealth of Kentucky and my ancestral congressional district, Kentucky One. You do a terrific job for the people of the Commonwealth and the people of the United States of America. Scott Jennings in for Mike Gallagher. Stay with us.
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Scott Jennings sitting in for Mike Gallagher. Got a text from my old friend Marty in West Kentucky. I knew when I turned on the Mike Gallagher radio show, I recognized that voice, Marty. I love you. Thank you for the text this morning. And it is fun to be in for the legend Mike Gallagher. And it's really fun to have my friend. My old friend, I've known this man for over 20 years, and he's an American hero. Chris LaCivita, the campaign manager for Donald J. Trump for president 2024. The man, the co-campaign manager, along with Susie Wiles, who led the greatest American political comeback ever in our history. Chris, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. Hey, Scott. Man. Great to be here. I tell you, bro. Well, you look good. You look rested. The stress is gone.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And I just want to start with one simple question.
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Well, one too many cheeseburgers at 10 o'clock at night on the plane, so I got to work that off.
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I know how it goes. I know. I've lived that life, and it is hard on the scale. I know. I've been there. Let me ask you a question. How did you do it? I mean, when you look at what happened, 16, he wins a presidency, but doesn't win the popular vote. Biden wins. And you take this thing and win not just the electoral college, but the national popular vote for the first time for Republicans since 04. What is the secret sauce?
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Well, I mean, it's it's it's easy. The secret sauce is Donald Trump. I mean, look, you know, when when Susie and I started this. Two years ago, we had a candidate who had at this point – at the starting point was running for president for the third time, had been president. And, you know, you don't go through that process without clearly learning something, which he did. You know, in 2016, he never, you know, had never run for political office before. Of course, 2020 was the incumbent that was completely hijacked by the virus and changed everything. But starting this campaign as we did, the boss was very determined. I mean, I've never seen anybody work as hard As he does. I mean, it's 20 it's 23 hours a day. You know, I have this story of the flight back on the last night or the camp, you know, before Election Day, November 4th. We left Michigan at two thirty in the morning and we're flying to Palm Beach and the entire course, the plane is packed. And the entire time, you know, the boss is up. I mean, he's he's he was up the entire night. I don't think he slept. Yeah. So his energy is determination, his focus. And, you know, and what people didn't see was all the times that. All the rallies and everything that the president had done, what they didn't see was in between all of those rallies, whether he was in the limousine in the Beast or whether he was on the plane, he's doing these teletown hall rallies, which are exhausting. We were always worried about him losing his voice. But, you know, look, we put together a professional operation. The boss wanted a professional operation that was there to support – His candidacy. And, you know, we we were very confident in the people that we had surrounded ourselves with. The boss was very confident. And, you know, we put together a great operation that supported him and gave him the confidence. you know, to, to work those 23, 24 hours a day. So it just, it was, it was just, it was from top to bottom minus a few hiccups, which everyone has. It was really, we're just very well run, very well executed. And we had the confidence of the boss and that's all you need when you have the confidence and he sets the tone, it really makes things a lot easier.
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Yeah. You you had a hard job, not just because of the normal hiccups of a campaign, but you started running against one person and wound up having to run against somebody totally different. How shocked were you when Joe Biden did drop out of the race? I mean, obviously, the debate was a shock.
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Yeah. Honest. Honestly, I'm not surprised at all. You know, as a matter of fact, you know, the the the debate in June. Tony and I and Susie, Tony Fabrizio, the pollster, and a brilliant guy. And we're literally in the back room, in the green room, watching the debate. And we're five minutes into the debate, and we're like, he's not going to last. And that was the realization that someone was going to try a coup. And, of course, they did. But, no, we weren't the least bit surprised at that. I mean, we just weren't. I mean, it was such – Just horrific, you know, experience to to bear witness to. It was like a slow moving train wreck.
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Yeah, I was sitting I was sitting in the at the debate outside on the CNN panel with David Axelrod and Van Jones and some others. And I mean, it was just universal. It was kind of crazy. They tried to hang on for like three weeks, and it was amazing they tried to hang on. It was amazing how they – ultimately the party bosses and the billionaires sort of defenestrated the president of the United States. But you all transitioned seamlessly into running against Harris. I mean it was really brilliant the way you handled it because no one has ever had to deal with this before. I mean it's totally off the script. And what was it like inside the campaign?
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I mean, look, and that would be a great title for a book that I'll never write, but it really is a campaign of firsts, and those firsts are defined by so many – massive events i mean you know first it was it was let's keep him off the ballot through the use of the 14th amendment so we had to put together you know uh campaigns legal campaigns in the states that battled through state supreme courts and battled secretaries of state um who were literally trying to to keep him off the ballot then you know we had the legal battles in new york And the bogus use of the criminal justice system in indictments and convictions and then, of course, assassination attempts too.
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Yeah, you did have some of the most unusual circumstances, and I'm not done with this conversation, so I'm going to ask you to stick with me through the bottom here. Because it's unprecedented what you did, and you deserve a full chance to explain it. I'm Scott Jennings in for Mike Gallagher. Our guest is Chris LaCivita. Stay with us.
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I did not expect Hitler to get so many meeting requests, first from Joe Biden, now from Mika and Joe. It's amazing that literal Hitler is getting all these meeting requests. And what it tells me, Professor, is that all the rhetoric that came from the left, from the Democrats, from the White House, from Kamala Harris and everyone else before the election, all of the rhetoric, the fascism, the Hitler, the Nazi rally, it was all a bunch of BS.
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Scott Jennings sitting in for the legend Mike Gallagher today. And boy, isn't it true? They called him Hitler. They said he's having Hitler rallies, fascism. It was all a lie. It was all politics. It was all just made up rhetoric to try to scare the American people into electing Kamala Harris. But the American people were not having it. Donald Trump was elected. And lo and behold, now that the election is over, Donald Trump He's running a transition. He's meeting with the outgoing president. He's getting people all the way from Morning Joe to Justin Trudeau or trekking down to Mar-a-Lago to pay their respects. So just remember, folks, remember who told you what in the run-up to the 2024 election. And also remember this. Remember who led the Republican Party in 2024 to a House majority? None other than the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. And he is our guest this morning on the Mike Gallagher Show. Speaker Johnson, first of all, it's an honor. to have you here. We're very appreciative of your time today. What you're doing is incredible. You're amazing. Everybody likes you. Mitch McConnell likes you. Donald Trump likes you. Everybody in the Republican Party likes you because you're doing a great job. So I just want to congratulate you on you've only been speaker for a little over a year. But boy, what you and the Republicans have accomplished is amazing. And what I really want to ask you this morning is what do we have to expect out of the first hundred days? Because I think it's going to be great.
SPEAKER 02 :
A lot, Scott. Thanks for that very kind intro. Everybody likes you, my friend. I just wanted to say before we get started, you're killing it on CNN. I mean, look, I flip through there on occasion. I want to see what's happening. And I'm so glad you're holding the line for our side. And sometimes you have to do it on your own. And that's not an easy assignment. So I hope everybody doesn't underestimate the job you're doing. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Honored to hear that. Thanks for that. Yeah, look, we did achieve a big thing in this election. You know, everybody in the media, the Democrats, they were all mocking us all year. As I was traveling around the country, I wound up going to do campaign events, over 360 campaign events in more than 250 cities across 40 states last year, logged enough miles to circle the globe five and a half times. We left it all on the field, and all of us did. All the House Republicans did the heavy lift, and we got it done. So we kept the House majority. We, of course, got the majority in the Senate. And Donald J. Trump is being returned to the White House. So we will have unified government beginning in January. And my goodness, what a blessing this is for the country, because we got to we got to turn this thing around. We got to save the country and fix everything. So it will begin right out of the gates. That reconciliation process is very important. And people will hear that term a lot in the coming months. But what it means in layman's terms is that there's a there's one mechanism that. in the United States Senate that allows a party to advance its priorities without having to get the 60 vote threshold. That's been a killer for so many things, policy changes that we've wanted over the years. But the budget reconciliation process is the way to do it with a bare majority vote. We have 53 Republicans in the Senate now. We can do it with 51 votes and we should have all of them. So what we do is when you're reconciling a budget that has been passed by Congress and you're working to reduce inflation, or expenses or cut regulations, that kind of thing. So long as it's related to the budget and to that fiscal policy, it can fit through that window. So we've been working on this for about a year, Scott. We've been developing, forgive me, I'm from Louisiana, so I explain everything in a football or a hurricane metaphor. Let me give you the football metaphor. We've been designing the playbook, understanding that we, and believing that we would be given the ball back in January through Congress. And so the playbook is well designed. We're integrating that with the new head coach in this analogy who's been elected, Donald J. Trump. I'm the quarterback in this metaphor, and the team is going to be ready to take the field. And you'll see lots of things right out of the blocks because that first 100 days is going to be critical for us turning the country around.
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So you've got 220 Republicans, 215 Democrats. You feel unconfident. that the Republicans who've come back to Washington in your conference are going to stick together. I mean, to pull off this plan, we have to have party unity. And I hope what the people in the conference are interpreting the election results as is a mandate from the American people for the Republican Party to be unified and to act on behalf of the American people. Do you feel that spirit? Is that the vibe in the conference right now?
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It is the vibe. Look, I'm talking to you just about an hour and a half after our weekly gathering of the House Republicans. Yesterday, I spent about an hour with the Senate Republicans. And this is a bipartisan, I'm not a bipartisan, a bicameral effort, right? The House Republicans and the Senate Republicans working together as one team because we have to do that. When we have this moment, this rare moment in history of unified government where we control everything, The White House, the Senate and the House, we have to maximize the opportunity. So to your point, yes, with small margins, we have to keep everybody rowing in the same direction, you know, working off the same sheet of music or running the same plays in my football metaphor. Right. So it requires a lot of teamwork. It requires a lot of preparation to get to that point. where that can be implemented and we've been working on this for like i said almost a year um building up to this anticipation now we'll have 31 new republicans in the house we're excited about the incoming freshman class to we flipped some seats out there and we we got those who retired those seats replaced the republicans And they're being integrated right now into the team as well. So we'll come right out of the blocks and do some big things for the country. I mean, you know, the priorities of the American people in that mandate you talked about are very well defined. The American people demand and deserve border security. So we'll come right out of the blocks to do that. And President Trump, of course, made it a top priority. priority on the campaign trail and we got to deliver on it. We will get right to energy policy. If we can restore American energy dominance again, and we can under President Trump's leadership, that's the key not only to our economy, but to national security as well. We all know the reasons why. And then we'll be reducing inflation and ushering in a pro-growth economy. We've got to make sure that the largest tax increase in U.S. history doesn't happen at the end of next year because that's when the Trump-era tax cuts would expire. So we've got to make sure all that's taken care of. And we unpack it from there. There's lots of... uh big priorities that we have for the people and we'll roll it out methodically a lot of this will happen in the first 100 days as i said with the reconciliation process but we'll have a couple of different uh shots at that and we'll do it throughout the year so expect big changes and i think these cabinet picks by the way are going to be part of that as well
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So energy, unleashing American energy, extending the tax cuts, getting the border under control. I mean my view is that the Republican Party working with Donald Trump gets all this done. As you all look ahead to the 2026 midterm, I know it's sort of obscene to keep talking about elections all the time. But you're in the House. You're always in cycle. But it strikes me that if the Republican Party can – that's how he won. I mean the stuff you laid out is how he won. If we can deliver on that – The Republicans are going to have no trouble in 2026 because people are crying out for leadership. We've had a weak president and a Democratic Party with priorities that are so far afield from what people are actually worried about. I just – what I love hearing out of you this morning – is the focus, the absolute focus. And so my hat's off to you for focusing the conference. We got about 30 seconds left here, Speaker Johnson. What should we be looking for between now and January 20th? I know the new Congress takes over at the beginning of January, but between now and when Donald Trump comes in, anything people should be looking for out of the House Republicans?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes. Look, we're going to work hard from the very first day. We begin on January 3rd in the House before the president takes office on the 20th. So we're going to send some things through and have legislation ready for him to sign. And, of course, he'll come in with a flurry of executive orders as well. Lots of stuff on the horizon. We're excited. We've got to also, by the way, restore peace through strength. He's already beginning that before he even takes office. And we've got to slash regulations to get the economy going again. Lots will be happening, Scott. It's going to be an exciting time.
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Mike Johnson hitting the ground running. Mr. Speaker, thanks for being with us. I'm Scott Jennings in for the great Mike Gallagher. Last half of the show, last quarter of the show coming up. Stay with us.
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We're going to find out.
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Join Al Smith in this insightful episode of 'Retirement Unpacked' as he helps listeners navigate the crucial financial moves needed before year-end. With topics ranging from IRA contributions and qualified charitable distributions to Roth conversions, Al provides expert advice to ensure your retirement planning stays on track. The episode also delves into the dos and don'ts of holiday spending, offering strategies to manage gift purchases smartly without falling into debt.
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Welcome to another program of Retirement Unpacked. I want to thank you for tuning in. It's a great day here in Colorado, and I have some good information for you. Before I dive into that, I'm going to be doing these reminders for the next several programs because there are some financial things that we must pay attention to before the end of the year. Now, IRA contributions and Roth contributions, you can wait on those until April 15th or until you do your taxes, assuming if you did your taxes on April 15th. However, there are some things that need to be done by year-end. Those of you who are listening and are over age 73 or age 73 or over, will have required minimum distributions from your IRA. And something you may or may not know about, there's something called a QCD. What that is, That is called a qualified charitable distribution. And what that means is you can move money from your IRA if you have required minimum distributions and they can go directly to your church or to the American Cancer Society, or to the Red Cross, or any 501 nonprofit. It has to go directly from the IRA to the charitable institution, and you do not have to declare that as income. And this isn't a deduction like if you itemize your deduction. This is just money that goes from your retirement account to the nonprofit that you do not have to declare as income. Now, if you take a distribution from your IRA and you put it in your checking account, and then you write a check to that institution, it doesn't work that way. In order to have it go not taxed, it has to go directly from the IRA to the charitable institution, and there is a special form you can use to make that happen. If that's something that your own advisor hasn't guided you toward or explained, give my office a call and I can help you get through that. My number is 303-744-1128. The other big thing that needs to be done before December 31st is Roth conversions. You have the opportunity and the option to convert all or part of your traditional IRA to Roth. Now, when you do that, you pay tax on it at the time that you do it, but all of the growth of that Roth and the future income from it will be tax-free. Now, there's a small caveat. The first five years, if you take money out of the Roth, the growth or the interest would be taxable. After five years, both the amount you convert and the growth or the interest will be tax-free. But that does have to be done before December 31st. And what I usually recommend people do is especially if they come into my office, is bring in, if you're working, bring in the pay stub from your most recent pay stub so we can get a feel for what kind of tax bracket you're going to be in, and we can select an amount to convert. from your traditional IRA that will keep you in the same tax bracket that you are now. So these are some things that need to be done before the end of the year. It's also not a bad idea to do a little bit of planning toward the end of the year because by that time usually you have some idea how well you've done during the year and And any downfalls or pitfalls or praises that you have, things that have gone well, it's a good idea to sort of reflect on those and take a look and see where you are financially. Which brings me to today's topic. It is that time of year that many of you, probably all of you, are going to be doing some Christmas shopping. And it's a time that can be harmful to you financially if you put all of your purchases on a credit card or if you overspend or any one of those things. So although it's a joyous time of year, we're celebrating Christmas. the birth of our Savior, but at the same time, purchasing gifts is traditional. I'm not suggesting you not do that, but there are some ways to make it more or less beneficial, not only to you, but to those for whom you may be purchasing gifts. And some ways to save, it's a little bit like anything else. If you do some planning, And what I suggest is that you create a budget for yourself, a realistic budget. I heard on one of the big national news channels that the average person spends about $600 to $700 on Christmas gifts. And so I'm not telling you how much to spend, but I would create a budget. And then once you've created that budget, think in terms of allocating a particular dollar amount for each person for whom you're making a purchase. And once you do that, it makes shopping a little bit easier when you begin with a plan. I always talk about how important it is to have a retirement plan. And I think having a plan for doing your Christmas shopping also makes some sense. And some things to do I think that are important is allocate a dollar amount for each person for whom you're purchasing a gift, something that is reasonable. And once you have allocated that dollar amount, start thinking in terms of the person for whom you're getting this gift. What kind of things does this person like? And if there's a certain thing a person likes, you can sort of guide your gift in that direction. And you can also be flexible in the amount you spend. Hypothetical example, let's say if you know someone who really loves to play golf. And you know this person already has lots of golf equipment, so you don't necessarily want to get him a particular piece of equipment, a club or something like that, that is necessary. tremendously unique and he or she may or may not like it but it's fairly certain that this person who loves golf is going to need golf balls and you can get those in a sleeve with as few as three and I don't recall the exact dollar amount but I think it's under ten dollars or you can get as many as a dozen and depending on The brand of ball, that can be between $25 and $50. So you can tailor a gift when it's something like that based on the amount of those that you may be looking for. And I think if you're really familiar with the likes and dislikes of the person for whom you're shopping, it certainly makes it easier. And the big question is, should you do your shopping online or should you go to a brick-and-mortar store? Now, online has tremendous advantages. You can sit at your kitchen table or at your desk and peruse Amazon or any other websites that you want. You can find really cool, extravagant gifts at L.L. Bean or Walmart. places like that that have wonderful gifts that are highly priced, or you could find some bargain things through Amazon or many other sites. The disadvantage, obviously, when you're shopping online, you can't touch it, feel it, you can't necessarily ask questions about it, although you could probably get reviews and so forth, but it's extremely efficient. On the other hand, if it's something that you feel that you need to touch and see and ask questions about, then going to a brick and mortar store makes a lot more sense. If you're thinking about a clothing item, a sweater or something like that, you can touch it and feel it and you can actually hold it up to get some idea if it will fit the person for whom you're doing the shopping. One of the other things I highly recommend is shopping early. Some things that make very attractive gifts, when you go online, you will find that they are out of stock. On the other hand, by shopping early, and it's maybe early now, here we are a few weeks before Christmas, but it's certainly not too early to get a lot of your shopping out of the way. There's going to be a greater selection, no questions. Now, some things I would recommend that you don't do are go to a shopping mall without specifics in mind. You can have a good time in Cherry Creek or Park Meadows or whatever with, you know, an unused credit card or a fat amount in your bank. Use your debit card. and end up doing your shopping that way. But if you don't have specifics in mind, you're going to end up getting something that is the shiny object or just something that catches your eye, which may be sort of impulsive rather than something you really haven't thought through. One thing I would not do is purchase a gift for someone that is not returnable. Most gifts are returnable, but some of them aren't. And I think by going with something specific in mind, It's far better, especially if that specific thing is returnable. And if you know exactly what that item is, then I think it's fine to go online to do your shopping. And some other important things, let's say if someone really likes music. Find out exactly what kind of music they like before you get them a CD or a collection or whatever it is. A really cool gift, you may know someone who collects vinyl records. Well, you can find older vinyl records. I think there's a record store or two in Denver and Boulder that have old vinyl records that are in very good condition. That would be extremely unique. And when you're shopping, think in terms not of what you think is cool and what you like, but think about that other party. What does that other party like? What does he or she collect? People who collect certain things are going to be always happy to get one more of whatever it is. I know people who collect mugs. They have a mug from everywhere they have ever been. I know other people collect little shot glasses. Those are pretty insignificant gifts, but there are things that you can purchase for people for Christmas that will enhance what they are already collecting. Art. I wouldn't too much recommend providing art for a gift unless you know very specifically about the taste of the person for whom you're shopping because art is very much in the eye of the beholder. You could show me an item of art that might sell for thousands of dollars and I may not like it and I could also go to a thrift store and find something that's very inexpensive, and I might find that very pleasing to the eye. So unless you know really the kind of art someone likes, I would lean away from that as far as a gift. But there's a lot more to talk about, about purchasing Christmas gifts and minimizing the amount you spend and looking at some original gifts, which we'll talk about after the break.
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Welcome back to Retirement Unpacked. And we talked a little bit about some of the things that you need to do before the end of the year. And that included required minimum distributions and also possible Roth conversions. And if those are something that you may be looking at, if those transactions are on your mind, give my office a call and we'll make sure that that it gets done right. My number is 303-744-1128. We've been talking about trying to save money during Christmas. Well, the word save money is sort of an acronym because our culture has taught us that you save money by buying something that's discounted 10%. You've saved money. And the reality is of the vocabulary is you save money by not spending money, whether it's at full price or a discount. But that's how our culture has, especially our advertising and marketing culture, has sort of usurped the language. But we're talking about how when you plan work, what you're going to purchase for someone for Christmas, and allocate a dollar amount, you're far better off, and that's much better than going to the mall without some specific things in mind because that can lead you to the shiny object, maybe to some things that are more expensive, and if you end up spending more on a particular individual or couple or something, that leaves less money for everyone else. But let's think about something. that might be more original. Not necessarily an inexpensive item, but I have seen some things that might look like a very attractive gift. I've seen opportunities where you can ride the railway through the Royal Gorge. And they have those, I think they have them throughout the winter, although I'm not absolutely certain. I have not done that, but I have been to the Royal Gorge and seen it, and I can only imagine that riding that train would be a wonderful experience. So that is something you could get a couple. I would certainly enjoy that more going with someone else, someone who enjoys photography like I do. A 23 and me. So I know a lot of people, they think, well, gee, I think I'm English, Irish, a little German or whatever. But when you do one of those DNA tests, if you know someone in particular who has not have that done, they might find it very interesting. They might find some relatives they did not know they had. They may find some genetic links to some parts of the world where they did not know they had any relatives. A lot of things can be original gifts, so to speak. If you know someone truly enjoys a particular activity, and that activity, you have to buy tickets or whatever it is, tickets to a particular event, while they're not inexpensive, that can be a really special gift if you're trying to please someone who likes maybe going to the theater or to plays. or to Nuggets games or Avs games. And if those are beyond the budget, go to a DU hockey game. I've not been to one, but I've heard they're very exciting. And nearly every year, Denver University has a very high quality hockey team. I know they've won the national championships more than once. So some original things. I know people who have gone to visit the four heads in South Dakota, Mount Rushmore. And if you know someone who's already planning to go there, kick in a little bit extra so that they can go on a helicopter ride. because viewing Mount Rushmore as well as Crazy Horse from a helicopter would be, in my thinking, an awesome experience, because I think I've seen pictures of it taken from a helicopter, and that would be tremendous. Another example, I would love to go on a helicopter ride on the 4th of July, At about the same time, fireworks were being shot off in multiple areas throughout the city. If you know someone who really likes to ski but they don't get up too often because of the cost or one thing or another, buy someone some lift tickets. So a lot of different things you can do. And I think I mentioned it earlier, but you may know someone who – you know, collects things. I know someone who collects these nutcrackers and the person already has a pretty good extensive collection of those. So knowing a person really well makes shopping for him or her much, much easier. Some other things. What if you know some young people and you didn't really know what to purchase for them? How about opening up an investment account? Well, you don't necessarily need enormous amounts of money to do that. you can open up an investment account through me for as little as $100. It's a few hoops to jump through with paperwork and so forth, but once the account is open, this young person, and this can be a teenager or somebody in their 20s that does not have an investment account, you can link that account to their bank. So that young person can, in addition to investing in the stock market at a young age, he or she can have automatically moved from their bank account into their investment account a certain amount of money that they want to invest every week, every month, however they want to do that. And establishing that at a young age can have tremendous rewards when they are older and I have met lot of people who are in or near retirement but I have not had anyone that I sat down and said sir or you and your wife have saved too much money I've never had that opportunity arise but I do know that by starting early and having that compound interest work for you, there will be a lot of better choices later in life. And it doesn't, I don't mean just retirement, I mean when people get married and want to buy a house, things like that. Now, what about circumstances where, for whatever reason, you really don't have a lot of money to spend, but you have some time and some imagination? You can provide very, very useful service to people who may really, really enjoy it. For example, If you know a couple with small children, you can provide a certificate for free babysitting for whatever period of time that you want to do that. If you know someone who's a caregiver, offer to do that caregiving yourself so that that person can have a day or a night off or something like that. If you know a couple, perhaps, who really enjoys a particular kind of food, Mexican food, Italian food, whatever it is, offer to make that couple or individual a gourmet meal. Now these are things that you can do without spending a lot of money. Offer to detail someone's car. Offer to clean someone's home or apartment. Pay for a class for someone to take for something they like to do. Photography. kayaking, climbing, offer maybe a one-day bicycle tour or a coupon for an oil change. There's all kinds of things you can do to make your Christmas more joyous and make Christmas joyous for those whom you love. God bless you. Thank you for tuning in. Let's continue to pray for the leaders who will be leading our country in a few months. And also, let's continue to pray for the folks in Israel. Thanks for tuning in. Again, God bless you. Hopefully, you'll be here next week.
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In this thought-provoking episode of The Crawford Stand, we delve deep into the heart of what it means to live out one's faith boldly in a secular world. With insights from Don Crawford, we explore the challenges faced by Christians when their beliefs are confronted by radical secularism. Does your Christian identity stand up when you are faced with the tough questions? Are you able to express your faith confidently without fear of rejection or ridicule?
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The Crawford Stand with the president of Crawford Media Group, Don Crawford.
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Christians believe they should share biblical solutions to America's cultural issues. That's a good thing. And rightly so, for our Lord told us as true believers to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Preach it. Jesus of Nazareth went even further. He said, when you do so, when I give you this opportunity to testify, I will give you the words. I will give you the words. When he said there is that God-given opportunity to profess your faith, don't be afraid, don't be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for that saving gospel is the power of God unto salvation, available to all who call upon the name of our Lord. So be bold, be strong, and do not be afraid. But many of us are afraid. We are easily intimidated, especially when confronted by strong, secular, even anti-Christian personalities. Radical secularists know just what questions to ask, what issues to pose, what statements to make, what buttons to push, for in so many ways they are the same over and again. But no matter when so many of us are confronted, we become insecure and defensive, even ashamed to admit the greatest fact in our life, that we have been saved by grace We have been born again. In those ultimate confrontational moments, we soon forget the promise of our Master. I will give you the words. Do you believe that? Do you believe he will do that? That is, of course, if you are a believer, that is a true believer, and you have, in fact, been saved by grace. If you haven't, all bets are off. But if you have, you can rest assured that your Savior will give you the words. So the question then becomes, what exactly do you believe? Are you a real Christian? A true Christian? A Bible, Jesus Christ believing Christian with a belief from all of your heart? Are you? Or are you an intellectual Christian? You know all about Christianity, and you know all about Jesus, and you have wrestled intellectually, mentally, with Christian propositions, theological propositions. You are probably, therefore, a Christian who can talk the talk, whether or not you walk the walk. Intellectual, philosophic Christianity goes nowhere spiritually. Nowhere, in fact. It's condemned by the Apostle Paul. Therefore, the words that our Lord would give to that person mean nothing, really, spiritually, that is, and in fact are not even heard. The intellectual Christian is only concerned with using his own words, not the words of the Lord. And there are those who are social Christians. They go to church, they attend Christian functions, socialize with Christian people, and purport to live a Christian life. with little or nothing inside. They can be called cultural Christians, but not born-again Christians. In fact, they really don't want to be called born-again, save by grace Christians. They are proud to be called denominational Christians. You know, I am a Baptist, and they have Christian trappings. like the Pharisees of old, but inside they are, as Jesus said, like whited sepulchers, empty and devoid of the truth. They can argue well, but they ignore the words of the Lord. It is really easy to identify those who talk the Christian talk, but do not have within them the heart of love which salvation brings. So when it comes to Christian witness, many of us hold back because of the fear of rejection. Avowed secularists think nothing of ridiculing us and our testimony and our faith. And when that happens, we withdraw. We're intimidated and not wishing to be emotionally hurt. And no witness, no stand for our Lord occurs. They don't know what we believe. Far too many of we the Christians cannot endure ridicule, ridicule of ourselves or our faith. It's really tough to take. Nor can we abide rejection. We wish to be accepted, well thought of, a good person. And to keep that image, we cannot be offensive. Even though we are told from the very beginning that the cross is an offense, and the blood of Jesus Christ is an offense, to be a Christian, to witness in any way by word or deed, is to produce word or action which is offensive. It really is to the natural man. The man ready for verbal battle. It seems that only one out of four of true believers can withstand the verbal assault of the secularists. Are you one of them? Or are you one of the three of the four who is easily intimidated? But, true believers, remember these words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, who told us the following, Man or woman who will confess me before men him or her will I also confess as my follower, my true believer. I will confess him before my Father in heaven. But he or she who denies me before men, him or her will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven. Quite a choice, is it not? The consequences are brutal. So that the ultimate testimony is that of our Lord before the Father in our behalf. That's the ultimate. That will only happen if we confess our faith and stand for our Lord and refuse to be intimidated, ridiculed, or rejected by the aggressive anti-Christian. Can you do that? Do you have the spiritual courage to do that? But, you know, it really should not be that difficult to confess our faith. What is difficult, in fact virtually impossible, is when we try to be something we are not, communicate what we really do not understand, or think that we have a burden, a duty, to hit the spiritual verbal home run every time we speak about our Lord. No way! That's not what God requires. So my fellow Christian, here's the simple answer. Go back. Go back to that time of conversion when you really, truly became a believer. To that time when you really met Jesus Christ. When you gave your life to Him. Go back to your commitment. Whatever that was. However it occurred. Your commitment. Not somebody else's. Your commitment. That life-changing event which meant so much to you. No one, no one can understand that more than you. You're the only one that can. No one. You had that one and only conversion moment. Individual, unique, one of a kind, your very own saving, forgiving encounter with Jesus Christ. Yours and yours alone. You can do that, can't you? And if you really believe, if it was really worthwhile to you, life-changing, an event, an occurrence, an encounter, which had then and still does now life-changing value, that should be easy. Easy to explain. It's real to you and that's all you have to say. And you say it in a grateful, loving way because it changed your life, not somebody else's. yours and yours alone. Ah, my fellow Christian, there is nothing better than the unique, one and only conversion moment of any one individual. And I say to you, they're all different. And that, my fellow Christian, is the most powerful Christian witness you could possibly offer. That is the testimony which our Lord will honor. That is real. It's real. It's loving. It's lasting. And there is no anti-Christian non-believer anywhere in the world who can offer an argument against that. Not one. And that's all you need to say. Nothing more. Nothing more. When you try to say more, that's when you get in trouble. That's when you get ridiculed. That's when you get emotionally involved. And it hurts. You can witness your faith as it has grown and as it occurs in your everyday life. Your faith as it produces the total love of your heart. It is that faith which produces the works, the deeds, you know, by the fruits you shall know them, which clearly display the love of Jesus Christ, which lives within your heart. You don't need to do or say anything else. Nothing. In fact, you really shouldn't because then you are discussing something about which you know little or nothing. Someone else's ideas about conversion or Christianity. Perhaps trying to be more intelligent about your faith than you really are. And it waters down your testimony. There is, for example, no greater testimony against abortion than a father or mother in love with Jesus Christ, testifying of their love for their child, which God has given them, and consequently so happy that that child was never aborted. There's no greater testimony than that. You know, the world hungers for real Christianity, real Christianity, real experience, not intellectual, not cultural, not social, the real deal. There's so much hypocrisy and irrelevancy in the church and in our Christian faith today. It's far better, far more meaningful, more real than anything are the real words and deeds and experiences of a Christian man or woman in love with Jesus Christ. The Apostle John tells us that we will be known, that is, our testimony will be sure, by the love we have for one another, not only for our family and friends, but all humankind, in all of our life's experiences and associations. There is no greater testimony than that of a life of a loving believer who knows that even well beyond faith itself or the hope which Christianity brings is the love The love of God in Jesus Christ. If you have been born again, you are really and truly in love with Jesus Christ. And that should be your testimony. You don't need any more than that. You don't need to say or do anything more. Nothing more. If you never graduated high school, that testimony would be more powerful than any theological treatise. the only real witness you would ever have which is lasting and which is meaningful and again real would be the love and gratitude you profess your way for Jesus Christ and when that opportunity arises don't do any more than that you don't need to stand on a street corner and pass out tracks our Lord will lead you when it is time to witness He will show you. He will give you that opportunity. And He will reveal the opportunity. And when He sends you into battle, in word or deed, to represent Him, remember, He will give you the words. He will give you the words.
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And I wonder if you would jot down just a few words and send them to Mr. Crawford at stand at CrawfordMediaGroup.net. He'd love to hear from you this week. Again, the email address is stand at CrawfordMediaGroup.net. When you write, be sure to tell Mr. Crawford on what station you hear the stand. When you want to review what you hear, go to our website, CrawfordMediaGroup.net. The Crawford Stand is a public affairs presentation of Crawford Media Group and this station, serving God and country. I'm Bill McCormick.
In this episode, we cover the hysterically absurd, yet genuinely outrageous escapades of Florida's eccentric citizens. From a desperate attempt to acquire illicit substances through Craigslist to the questionable choices that lead to extreme consequences, Florida Man's actions never fail to astonish us. Amidst the chaos of these stories, we also touch upon some controversial human rights topics north of the border. Get ready for a rollercoaster ride of emotions and laughs!
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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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A Florida man trying to buy crack on Craigslist was arrested when an undercover deputy answered the ad. Holmes County Sheriff's Office. Their investigators responded to the ad, posed as a seller, set up a meeting with the individual who had been identified as Anthony Mata. Deputies say that Mata negotiated to buy an eight ball of meth for 80 bucks. After finalizing the deal, the investigator met him at the agreed upon location. They exchanged money. Deputies moved in. Yeah, on Craigslist. That seems so sketchy. That's so sketchy. And meth is bad. And these guys look like they're in an old-timey movie. Just saying. Let's see. I can't read the dog story. Oh, my gosh. I don't know. This guy, a Daytona Beach man, Douglas Matney, M-A-T-N-E-Y. Douglas Matney, M-A-T-N-E-Y. He looks exactly like a doucher looks. 21 years old. Charged with felony animal cruelty. He's out of the Volusia County Branch Jail and $5,000 bond. He apparently shot a two-year-old black pit bull mix named Zola. And he shot the dog in the right cheek because the dog was aggressive during bath time. And they found the 55-pound dog with a bullet wound to his cheek, and it stopped in his abdomen. And he did not get medical attention for the pet. And the police said that the dog apparently had non-functional back legs and was uncontrollably urinating on itself. It was been a lot of pain in this guy. I want this. I want to scout this dude. I just that's my own personal free speech opinion. I am not. You guys know what I think. Give me five. Oh, my gosh. Give me 60 seconds, please. For the love of all things holy and a locker room with this dude.
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How's he out on five thousand dollars bond? That was my thing.
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I mean, that's I know exactly. That's just, you know, this guy's. So, yeah, I hope he gets it. It'd be great if he had some prison time and if some prison justice befell him. I'm not saying that money would magically be deposited in the commissary of anybody who was maybe a part of it. But, you know, I'm maybe might be saying that. I don't know. I'm pretty mayor of Kingstown about some of this stuff. So I don't know. Anyway, so that I need a happy story now because that just makes me that makes me mad. That's a horrible story. We could talk about this Florida dude who I don't. Oh, gosh, these people. So this Florida dude, he was denied entry to a USAA building and he put on a helmet and drove his car right into the facility. Robert Beattie, 70, he went to the guard gate at the USAA office and demanded to be let inside. They said, not going to happen. So then he put on a helmet and drove right through the parking garage and through their fences. Two people in a marked security SUV tried to block him in, but then he reversed and struck their vehicle to create some space. He was on the third floor when they found him of the parking garage taken into custody. He got charged with two felony counts, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, one felony count of burglary of an occupied structure, felony count of criminal mischief, $1,000 or more. He got some more charges. Thankfully, nobody was injured. But, I mean, the fact that he went and put on a helmet, And then drove his car through. Yeah, I don't know. Let's see this. No, no, not doing that one. We could talk about the teacher from Port St. Lucie found naked N-E-K-K-I-D in an elementary school. Joe Urias faces multiple charges, including battery on a law enforcement officer. Somerset College Preparatory Academy. And apparently, according to Port St. Lucie, the 34-year-old Urias was found after police were dispatched to Windpoint Elementary School for a burglary in progress. When they arrived, they found him naked in the classroom among clothes, food, a laptop, drugs, and some private time accessories. I don't know how else to say it. He reclosed himself and tried to run out of the building once he was discovered. But guess what? They got him. And then the cop that grabbed him was punched in the face. Urias was arrested, taken to St. Lucie County Jail. Wow, he's got a lot of charges. Lewd behavior, burglary, possession of marijuana, battery law enforcement. I mean, he's got a lot. He's got a lot of charges. That's all you need to know. There's too much to read. He's got a lot. And he's going to be in major trouble. Trouble. Major, major trouble. It's our friends over at Caltech, the P-15. It stands for 15 pews. Standard capacity. That might be a little bit more for the people who have weak arm muscles. I don't know. But Kel-Tec is a great company, a Florida-based company, and they have a lifetime warranty on everything that they do. 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We just had a briefly in headlines. And thankfully, this is Canada and not the United States. But the headline is a town was fined because they refused to celebrate Pride Month. It's a town of 1300 people. So it's a small town, the town. Interestingly enough, it is named Emo. It's in Ontario. And they violated the Ontario Human Rights Code that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario established. And they said that their great offense. I mean, when you think that somebody violated, just pause for a minute. When you hear that somebody violated like some kind of human rights code, you think, wow. That sounds pretty serious, right? I mean, human rights? Super serious. What did they do? Oh, it says here that they, in the month of June, did not proclaim that month Pride Month. I'm sorry, what? Oh, and they also were cited because they had failure to fly an LGBTQ2 whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, rainbow flag. It's a $10,000 fine, excuse me, and all of the officials in EMO are required to complete mandatory human rights training. See. Yeah, Cain, what's your question?
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Who do they pay it to? Like the fine? I don't know, the gays?
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I don't know. The article doesn't actually say.
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The city has to pay the city? Like, what?
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They got a fine. Ontario, maybe? Like the province of Ontario?
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So they chose not to celebrate.
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Well, it's not that they didn't celebrate. They just were like, we're not going to put up these tacky flags. Right. Because they are tacky.
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But they didn't celebrate to the standard of whoever's criticizing them.
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Well, I mean, if your question is, did they have a parade and fly the flags and send everyone out in leather dominatrix gear with ball gags, like the gimp from Pulp Fiction, to go out and have like a full-on, you know...
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Painting pictures.
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A street festival of sexcapades. Then you're correct. They did not do that. There were no street sexcapades celebrating pride over how you choose to do it behind closed doors.
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And that costs money.
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I mean, where's the, like, you can have pride. Pride is a sin, by the way. So I think it's ironic that they're being fined for not celebrating literal sin, which is pride. But whatever. But why is that a thing? Like, why do you got, oh, if you didn't fly the flag, you didn't affirm how someone has to sex. It's Canada, so they're not going to fight it. They're going to probably apologize and offer some maple syrup. I don't know. The maple leaf people up there. Oh, hey, we're so sorry. We forgot to fly the flag.
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But are they paying the federal government? Are they paying? Well, I don't know.
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It's probably Ontario. It's probably I don't know. It's the Ontario people. I don't know. I don't know who these people are. The Canadians up there. They issue fines because somebody didn't fly. The town was asked to fly the alphabet rainbow flag for a week of your choosing.
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I choose no weeks. There's my choosing.
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Yeah. Yeah, you didn't say I had to choose a week. So the language part is on you, Slick.
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I think there's some legal wiggle room here.
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I mean, where are the straight people flags at? Right. Where's that at?
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What do we get? It's just the Canadian flag.
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I mean, I just don't think that you're going to be appropriating the rainbow, first off. That's appropriation, and I was told that was wrong. So you're appropriating the rainbow from the Christians. So let's stop there. Let's stop. That's taken from Noah's time. So come up with your own thing. We've got to have a straight person's flag then. And then do you get like the straight person two, four spirit, whatever? Or what about the straight person flag and then don't you get like an extra buff that goes along with it? Like spaghetti and meatballs, the straight person or this straight person can successfully eat edamame if it's three beans in without having to take two bites. Like how particular does it get?
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I'm a medium rare steak flag.
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Yeah, like the well-done people?
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Out.
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Get out. You can't live in America. I don't care if you were born and raised here six generations. We'll deport you somewhere.
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Don't bring that well-done flag over here.
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Yeah, no well-done nothing. Well-done is only for jobs, not meat. So, I don't know. Oh, so they said that there's a group called the Borderland Pride Group. Which sounds like a bunch of terrorist twinks. I'm going to be honest with you. So I just love it. They're very upset. They said in a single 12-month period, they did not see a single week where the flag was flown. They said that Emo ignored their repeated requests, so they got mad about it. And they said that they need to take Human Rights 101. I think I'm going to lead a human rights course. I'm going to offer it on the Internet. I'm going to offer a human rights course. So if someone offends you, you punch them. Joking. I just this stuff is so dumb. And then I get mad because I'm like, why didn't I get into this? I would love to just fleece the left. Right. I could I could make it up and make up a company. Right. Go in there and I'm going to offer you human rights courses. Now, here's the just make it ridiculous. And they'll go along with it because they're the left. They're too terrified to be seen as going against the grain. They they the desire to be so homogenous has has killed any desire for individuality at all. So they they are terrified. They're terrified to poke a head up. No, they got to go with it. So I feel like that would, you know, no one would ask anything, King, because then I could be like, are you assuming all of these things about me? What? And then, oh, no, they don't want to be offended. And then we could also form an ancillary like Human Rights Council that we can cite people and then just pay ourselves. from the fines.
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It sounds like you're trying to make government bigger.
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It sounds like I just came up with a damn great job, and that's what it sounds like. Look, I'm a capitalist. If I can make money off of somebody's stupidity like that on the left, I'm all for it. High fives. High five and all the angels. 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 allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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I would say why yes. It was the Maple Seripians up to the north. The Maple Seripians. It was a rural town on the border of Ontario, Minnesota and Canada. It was fine for refusing to celebrate Pride Month in June. Yeah, you got to go out there and like sling the salami or something like that to celebrate. That's what you got to do. You got to actually celebrate. I mean, how do you celebrate Pride Month? You just like physically have the sex in the streets. Like, what do you do? No, you put up rainbows. Shut up. God help me. You cannot have me in elected office. I would be arrested for assault like instantly. They said that the town of Emo, of course, it's called Emo, Emo, Ontario. It violated the Ontario Human Rights Code. The town has a population of 1300 people, 1300 people, 1300 persons. What does that cost to not celebrate? We're coming back to the story. We're coming back to bookmark this because we are not even begun. Also, we had the story earlier. This UnitedHealthcare CEO, this dude was on his way to a conference. This was on Avenue of the Americas. I swear to you, I've stayed at this Hilton. I think I stayed at this Hilton for a book tour. So it's right there. That's what blows the mind. It's right there in the middle of everything. It's right by Rockefeller. It's across from where Jimmy Fallon does his show. It's a few blocks down from Fox. It's right there in Midtown. And yeah, it's at Hilton. And he apparently this guy 50 years old shot in the chest. It was 646 in the morning. He was arriving for a conference. He's the CEO. So it's like his conference. So he arrived and apparently this guy came up behind him in front of everybody and shot him in the chest. And then he got on one of those e-bikes. And went away. He had on a backpack. And, I mean, he looks like, I don't know, it looks like a professional hit. That's what they were saying. Like, this is like a hit. Like, this was not something that was by chance, like a chance criminal, whatever. So, they said that the Christmas tree lighting and all that stuff is apparently still expected to go on. Just everybody keep your heads on a swivel. Trump is going to visit Paris for the Notre Dame's reopening for his first trip abroad. They're going to be doing different things on different days, and he's attending one of them. So did you hear about, I didn't know that there was luxury cannabis. I mean, I guess you can have artisanal weed. You can have artisanal anything, right? But what makes it artisanal? I mean, it doesn't get much more artisanal than growing in the sequoias with Bigfoots, right? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Jay-Z had apparently a luxury cannabis company, which is funny to me. And it struggled to sell $50 joints. I'm sorry. Was it? Now, I don't know how. Don't make fun of me. Shut up. Does it come in like a carton like cigarettes? Do you get like a bunch of the joints or is it just like one carton?
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No, I mean, I guess you can buy several, but they don't come in packs like cigarettes. There is a company that does them, and they make them look like cigarettes, but they're actually... Or do people make their own? Yeah, no, people mostly roll their own, but they sell them in pre-roll.
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Sorry, do you do like a grape leaf, like with cigars, or is it just like cigarette paper? I'm curious. Yeah, it's cigarette paper. Okay, so were these, I guess, pre-rolled? Right. Luxury joints. $50. Again, not knowing. I only know the hysterical stuff that I've ever seen with Cheech and Chong. I mean, I'm assuming they're like that. $50 for one of them? How much does that get you? What are we talking about here?
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Cheech and Chong is shockingly real life.
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Oh.
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It's real life.
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So you get one joint for $50? No. No. That's what it says here. $50 for one of his luxury joints.
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I get that was their effort, but it didn't work out, obviously.
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Yeah, they lost half a billion dollars since they launched. How do you lose money on weed? If you do it stupid?
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Make it really expensive.
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This is like one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my life. They act like they're like, oh, Sean Carter's a great businessman. Maybe, but not with this because I'm not even in the pot. And I could have told you you're selling one little joint for $50. Are you stupid? It's the luxury joint. What is it like? Do California condors talon roll it? Like, how does that work? Are there gold flakes that you smoke? What is it? Apparently, California has a tough legal pot market. I didn't know that either. It's wild. I love that everybody has to deal with bureaucracy. Like nobody, even the sin industries. I love it. They said that none of the retailers across California and Arizona, they don't stock Jay-Z's buds or joints on their online menus. Yeah. And they had, oh my gosh, this is Kamala level crazy, $575 million that they launched with. And now they're in trouble. They said that Jay-Z's monogram products are overpriced and underwhelming. Wow. And see, you never really get rid of the criminal element. They said California's legal weed sector has been stymied by complex rules, high taxes, competitions from black market traders, wildfires, sliding prices. A lot of people have been pushed into insolvency. But they said that it was mind-boggling the amount of money that was pushed for this. I could have told you immediately that probably not going to work. You're talking about luxury pot. People are broke. Everybody that is broke and the people who are going to be doing this are probably not going to be like the Jay-Z rich level people. They're going to be people who think that smoking this makes them Jay-Z rich level. And now they can't they can't afford it because everybody's broke because of the president Jay-Z endorsed. And his administration. So I can't say that I feel sorry for him. I don't. I just think it's funny. Like, who thought that? You know what? We're in a time of, it's a lockdown. Let's launch a luxury cannabis company and charge people $50 per joint. What else can you make luxury? Like artisanal weed. Are you going to do artisanal kefir, Cain? It's pretty artisanal.
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I don't know how much more artisanal you can make it. It's pretty artisanal on its own. I don't know. Glass bottles preserved from Quaker. I have no idea what you could do with it.
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Yeah, that sounds... During a time of inflation, I just don't think that luxury stuff, especially starting any kind of luxury line, is going to make it take off.
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Google Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Google what they said about those who commit crimes in our city and what they said in our country. They said those who commit crimes need to get out right away. That was their position. So this is not a new position, you know, because in the era of cancel culture, no one's afraid to be honest about the truth. Well, cancel me. Because I'm going to protect the people of the city. And if you come into this country in this city and think you're going to harm innocent New Yorkers and innocent migrants and asylum seekers, this is not the mayor you want to be in the city under.
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Well, I think this is I was talking a little bit about this last night, and I think that this is. going to be kind of a turning point for democrats where it concerns policy and then practicality like our policy and ideology rather because you know with this remarks that he gave he's saying well fine cancel me then it's quite different from everything that we've seen As it pertains to talk about bathrooms and all this other stuff and Democrats kind of allowed this this whole issue of immigration to get away from them. And so as a result. You know, that's one of the reasons that they were rejected so harshly during the last elections. And so as a result, now you're seeing, you know, some of these local Democrats like governors and some of these mayors and things of that nature. They're having to go out and say, yeah, OK, we can't do this. I know the National Party says one thing, but this is the reality of the situation. And this is, you know, this is what we're dealing with. There's going to be an impasse between these two entities, you know, the entity of the. federal and D.C. Democrats and then the issue of your state and local, because the policies that the federal Democrats that they're setting in D.C., clearly they're not going over well in any state. They're not going over well in any county. They're not going over well anywhere. It's one of the reasons why Harris didn't flip like insanely well. a single county during this last election and i think that they said they keep revising it it's like super historically insane what she her inability to flip a single or even maintain a single county that they had won so there's a couple things in that it's i mean it's that bad this is this is how bad democrats have foobarred this and i don't think that they've learned I really, I understand you don't want them to learn because then they keep losing. But I also think that having an opposition party also keeps your party kind of honest. And keeps them in check. And so that's, I kind of look at it at that end. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast. We're having some technical issues today. We run a tight ship. We have a nice dedicated crew. But we've got some issues. So we're going to get the live stream up. At some point. Yes, your girl's still sick. So it's like everything. You know what it is? It's the communists, Cain. It's the communists that are doing this to us. Them damn commies. So we're working on that, but right now we don't got it. So you can listen like the olden days, right? Pretend it's like the olden days. So, and yes, I'm still under the weather, but we're here. We're here. Yeah. And a number of other things to touch on the cabinet picks. There's a lot of rumblings. One of the other things I was watching last night and we're going to come we're going to cover the Daniel Penny stuff. And I'm not, you know, breaking news, whatever, breaking news bureau. So we're not going to. Yes, there was the health care executive that was shot. I think I've stayed at that Hilton before, actually, right down Avenue of the Americas. It's like blocks away from Fox. But we'll talk about all of that. I mean, there's nothing else that we can provide at this point that hasn't already been discussed. But one thing that I think hasn't been discussed, and I was watching this with great interest last night, was another, this discussion of who's, it's SecDef, the SecDef discussion. And there seems to be this, I guess they're worried about Pete Hegseth getting through The confirmation? Is that what it seems to you? I mean, I don't dislike him as a pick, but somebody's, I don't know who, but somebody's getting upset. Or if it was involving my dog, I would say pup-set. Someone is getting pup-set about this because apparently they don't believe that he has the ability to, I guess. for whatever reason, they think he doesn't have the ability to make it through confirmation. And so that's an issue that we have to deal with. Because one of the other names that I've seen floated is Ron DeSantis. So I don't know if that's going to be something that happens or not. I'm kind of scratching my head over it. Ron DeSantis, his name has been floated quite a bit, as you know, he's a veteran and was, you know, kind of, I guess, frenemies with Trump. They worked together because, you know, you've got a popular red state governor and you're going to have a popular as well. You have a popular president, red president. His name has been suggested by apparently some people in the group. I don't know. It was a New York Post story. And I've been hearing rumblings. I think that there are some in the camp that don't believe that Pete Hegseth can make it and get through to confirmation. It just doesn't seem like that's something that... They're a little worried about it. And so, as a result... Now they're suggesting maybe DeSantis' name. I don't know how I feel about that, though. He goes all the way up to 27. I think that he's a solid red state governor, and I think that you have to have a solid red state governor with tons of wins in order to counter the narrative that Democrats are preparing for 2028, regardless of—well, you know it's going to be Gavin Newsom. Regardless, you know it's going to be Newsom. So my concern— with that is, who would you get in, even if it were, who would you get in to replace DeSantis? And then would they be a strong, R, red, Republican governor? And then, you know, DeSantis goes in, he's sec-deaf. I mean, he'll get their conference. I just don't know. I just don't know if that's something that he would want to do. It was an odd, out-of-left-field kind of proposition, I thought. But it's gaining some serious steam. I don't know. But I think that there are some people in his camp that are in Trump's camp that are worried that Hegseth can't go through confirmation. And like I said, I've only known him to be super nice. I hear all of the accusations as well. But one of the reasons why that I can't take those accusations seriously is because how many times they've abused them. Think back to Kavanaugh. Hell, go back farther. Go back all the way to Clarence Thomas. You see what I mean? I can't take any of this stuff seriously. Every single time, it's a dude that the left doesn't like. It's rape, rape, rape, sexual assault. Oh, he thinks differently than me. Rape, rape, rape, sexual assault. You know what I'm saying? I can't take it seriously. So even if there was any kind of serious accusation, I can't take it seriously because these people have just made it a joke. They've made serious cases dealing with assault and rape and all this other stuff or any kind of bad behavior. They've made a joke of it. They made a joke of it. And so every single time there's been a hearing, every single time, Any fight has come up. This is what they drag out, the accusations that they drag out every time. We're so used to it now. So I just, I don't know. I just don't take it seriously. I can't take it seriously. I don't take any of the accusations about Hegseth seriously. That's just kind of where we are. I just don't understand why people would... I don't know. We'll see how it plays out. Are they really that worried that he's not going to get through confirmation? I'd be more worried about some of these other folks. I'd be more worried about an RFK Jr. Him getting through with the stuff that he said about stuff that he said about oil and gas companies. I mean, he said some crazy-ass stuff, RFK Jr. I'm not talking about the headworm and all that. I'm talking about putting to death the people who run oil and gas. People who don't believe in climate change should be jailed. I mean, this is stuff he said with his own actual face. The meat around his mouth. He's vocalized this coming out of his mouth. So I'd be more worried about that. So I don't know what this means, you know, if I don't know what this is for Hegseth, but I think there's a difference, too, between somebody being kind of a male whore and also someone being an actual sex predator. And I really need women to understand the difference here, if that is the case here. which I don't know. I just, like I said, I don't believe in any of these accusations because they've been abused so many times. I really don't. I've seen it so many times, I just yawn anymore. Nobody takes it seriously. The left has done so much to undermine justice for women and to set women back where you have actual, of course, they deny it when it's on their own side, whether it's a Teddy Kennedy and a, what is this, Chris Dodd and their secretary sandwiches, whether it's Bill Clinton, Whether it's Anthony Weiner, I mean, John Edwards, I mean, for crying out loud, they've, you know, they've got a list. I mean, they've got a dude who left a chick in a pond. I mean, just say nothing about the guy who got, how do I say this, close but no cigar under the executive desk. Yeah, but there was a cigar. That's the thing. Gosh dang it, that saying doesn't really work totally. So I don't know. I just, I can't take any of this seriously. I can't take it seriously. So we're just, we'll see. But as far as DeSantis, I don't know how I feel about that. I don't know. I mean, do I think DeSantis is capable? Of course I do. It's just I don't know. I feel like there's like a setup, too. Here's my other. I feel like there are some people who would love to keep the division going, the primary division, which, by the way, nothing pisses me off more than people who have a fetish, who like just discovered politics the day that they were born. And they love driving the divide in the primary. I think those people are suspect. I've never met anyone that does half the work that I do that drives that kind of division like that in a primary. I'm just saying. And I hope I sounded as snotty as I deserve to sound when I said that. And a lot of you out there can say similar. I think there are people out there who love driving division because they get a they believe that there's a scarcity of opportunity. So they got to keep and they don't want anyone else at the table, including other politicians, maybe who've done some good stuff in their state. So they drive this division. And I kind of have a sneaking thought that, you know, maybe it's some of the people in that kind of faction that are trying to set up this fight with Hegseth and DeSantis and run division out even more. It's just a thought. It wouldn't be the first time or the last time it happened. We have a lot to hit because we got some breaking news. We're watching that Daniel Penny trial. That judge is a fiend. We're going to discuss all of that. We got some culture issues. I mean, we're going towards Christmas and it's in a post-election cycle. Half of you are going to be drunk on eggnog by the time the week is over. So let's be real about it. All right. Let's just be real about where we are as friends. You know who we are, what we're doing, where we're at. I'm going to tell you, I thought I was going to have to go sit in a corner and eat my ready wise because I was so like under the weather. a couple of days ago and I was like, I don't want anybody to come in here. 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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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It's a good thing that you wouldn't miss it because we're insane and we're watching all of it. So there's a town that got fined because it didn't celebrate Pride Month. And if you're like, wait a minute, was this town in Canadia, Dana? I would say why yes. It was the Maple Seripians up to the north. The Maple Seripians. It was a rural town on the border of Ontario, Minnesota and Canada. It was fined for refusing to celebrate Pride Month in June. Yeah, you got to go out there and like sling the salami or something like that to celebrate. That's what you got to do. You got to actually celebrate. I mean, how do you celebrate Pride Month? You just like physically have the sex in the streets. Like, what do you do? No, you put up rainbow. Shut up. God help me. You cannot have me in elected office. I would be arrested for assault like instantly. They said that the town of Emo, of course, it's called Emo, Emo, Ontario. It violated the Ontario Human Rights Code. The town has a population of 1300 people, 1300 people, 1300 persons. emo did not proclaim june as a pride month and they didn't fly the lgbtq whatever the hell numbers why are there numbers now rainbow flag and in addition to the 10 000 fine the people from emo were ordered to complete mandatory human rights training yeah what does that cost to not celebrate We're coming back to the story. We're coming back to bookmark this because we are not even begun. Also, we had the story earlier. This UnitedHealthcare CEO, this dude was on his way to a conference. This was on Avenue of the Americas. I swear to you, I've stayed at this Hilton. I think I stayed at this Hilton for a book tour. So it's right there. That's what blows the mind. It's right there in the middle of everything. It's across, it's like right by Rockefeller. It's across from where Jimmy Fallon does his show. It's like a few blocks down from Fox. It's right there in Midtown. And yeah, it's Ed Hilton. And he apparently, this guy, 50 years old, shot in the chest. It was 6.46 in the morning. He was arriving for a conference. He's the CEO, so it's like his conference. So he arrived and apparently this guy came up behind him in front of everybody and shot him in the chest. And then he got on one of those e-bikes. And went away. He had on a backpack. And, I mean, he looks like, I don't know, it looks like a professional hit. That's what they were saying. Like, this is like a hit. Like, this was not something that was by chance, like a chance criminal, whatever. So, they said that the Christmas tree lighting and all that stuff is apparently still expected to go on. Just everybody keep your heads on a swivel. Trump is going to visit Paris for the Notre Dame's reopening for his first trip abroad. They're going to be doing different things on different days, and he's attending one of them. So coming up, luxury, cannabis, the town of Vimo, and more. 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 allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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So we're getting it fixed. We're getting the tech issues fixed. Welcome back. I was really upset that you guys were going to miss my need a bigger boat outfit today. Only for a Jaws fan. Are you going to understand that? So welcome back to the program. We are now all, I mean, we're all working. It's like all here. We're all set. So yeah, I'm in my We Need a Bigger Boat outfit. I actually like this outfit. I think I'm going to start dressing up like a boat captain from like an 80s shark movie from now on.
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The glasses.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the glasses.
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But you're like the fit. It's the glasses.
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You say it's the outfit. There's some new specs. They're a little I'm going to break them in like five seconds because I got I can't I got to have them to see this stuff like up close to me because I've spent my whole life staring at stuff up right up by my face. So anyway, but we're back. Dana Lash with you. You're bemused to curmudgeon and we're going to get you set up with everything. But I also want you everybody to relax, unclench your butt because it's, you know, post-election, right? I know we got the trans whatever thing in SCOTUS. We got the Daniel Penny case. I'm going to get you all that stuff. But we're going to keep you chill as we deliver it. Because you've been through the ringer. I'm recovering from being sick. You've been through the ringer before the election. Let's just do it nice and easy, right? We're going to do it nice and easy. That's how we're going to do it. So welcome back. We're over at Substack. You can find us there. You can find us at X. You can also find us at Rumble everywhere else. We get to chat at Rumble. I guess they're all back in it now. Lorraine's like, oh, what's up? Like, oh, hell broke loose. That's what's up. So we've been talking about these cabinet picks recently. things of that nature. And I got to tell you, and I kept thinking about this, and I'm trying to figure out, I got a piece coming out for you on Pam Bondi. I got another piece that I'm working on. Where's the other draft that I was working on? I had like a couple of drafts that I was working on. One of them was in a cold medicine haze. I'm not going to lie. So we don't know what that was going to be like. Good luck with that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other pick that Trump made, he took himself out of contention last night. I don't know if y'all saw this. The lockdown sheriff, that Chad Chronister, He he's now out of the running. He's he's not going to be he's not going to be running in running for this anymore. He's he's saying that he's doesn't want to be considered for head of the DEA. Right. You guys know what DEA stands for, right? It's the Drug Edible Agency Enforcement Agency. Elephants. The drug elephant ass. I don't know. It's like one of those. I'm not Pig Bird. Don't expect me to be like Aldora the Explorer PBS here with your kids. Not going to happen. So he stepped down. Like I said, I thought it was a bad pick no matter what. Do you know, can I just tell you, and I'm not going to spend a ton of time on Chronister because I'm glad that he pulled himself out of contention. Do you know all the stuff that this guy did? So we focused really yesterday only on the fact that he was arresting pastors because they were having their church services. And, you know, worshiping the Lord is reckless and stuff like y'all could be killing people by loving Jesus. Right. I mean, that was kind of like the prevailing thought in Hillsborough County where science didn't exist in 2020. That was the county in Florida where science didn't exist. Natural immunity wasn't a thing. I bet they still like threw virgins and volcanoes and bled everybody with leachate. I'm just saying. So anyway, that wasn't the only thing that he did. So they deleted their crowing about the arrest of that pastor. They deleted it from their website. Do you know that this dude was also a major trans advocate? Yeah, big time. He also apparently donated to Barack Obama. Like a pretty sizable chunk of money. He expanded his office's DEI programs. He did all of that. He based hiring and promotion on DEI. And they also promoted the transgender participation in the Tampa Pride event. And they created a literal liaison office for transgender activists. That's what this guy did. Wow. And then he also fought against ICE. He would not collaborate with ICE per reports. So he considered himself a Democratic Republican. Do you know what a Democratic Republican is? Nothing. It's amazing. It's like when someone says I'm a Democratic socialist. You know what that means? A socialist. Imagine putting glitter on a turd. That's it. That's it. The Democratic part is the glitter. Same thing. So he did the drag queen shows while he was sheriff's office, all that. He would not collaborate with ICE and work with them on detaining and deporting illegal aliens. I mean, I've got news articles and I've linked all the receipts for you over at Substack. You've got receipts for days. You got them all up there. He also was a big red flag backer as well. He worked with Rick Scott on that when Rick Scott was governor and passed it. So this guy is really problematic. By the way, you know how I was talking about how the Hillsborough County there in Florida, they were pretty much like science didn't exist there. Kane, how long do you think they had these regulations in place? Oh, boy. About the lockdown stuff. How long do you think those regulations were in place?
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Probably just temporary. They said two weeks to slow the spread.
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Oh, they said two weeks to slow the spread, did they?
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So probably maybe three weeks. They said that, huh? So another week. So three weeks?
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Yeah, sure, if it means two years.
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The hell?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real. The first local emergency that they did in Hillsborough County. This is one of the counties that DeSantis had to wrestle with. Which, by the way, I would be like, you know what, blank this. And I would just be going in, kicking desks over, ripping out light fixtures. I'd be done. I'd be like messing stuff up. Sitting there defying the state order. Because he had said, you're not going to lock down anymore. Knock it off. And Hillsborough County is like, but we love hating science. And they wanted to stay locked down. Two years, dude. Two years. Two years. Wow. Two years. Yeah. And that's, they're not, I guess they're not big science folks.
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So local businesses and citizens had to suffer for two years.
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Two years. That's wild.
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For a seasonal virus.
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Yeah. I mean, I told y'all if you're not, if you're just joining me, so I just to let you guys know, I mean, I'm not, I'm apparently pat. I like, I give her a test. I'm apparently a past the, the contagiousness part, but they told me I had COVID. They did a sneaky swab on me. You know how they did it. I went in. Cause I, cause one of my kids had a throat infection. I was like, I'm pretty sure I'm getting the same thing. Just go ahead. I'm like, this is what I need. Give me a, give me 500 milligrams of azithromycin. You know, I can do too. I was like telling him, I'm like, I'm not going to tell you how to do your job. I'm going to tell you how to do it. I'm like, I'm basically a doctor. So I'm telling him all this. And they're real cool because the doctor's looking at me like, that's great. That's great that you're thinking that. That's not what I'm doing. But, you know, Augmentin is where we're going. And also, let's just do a quick swab. And when they said, do you want to do the swabs? I said, yeah. And I didn't stop to think. And then they swabbed the throat and then legit right after me. And that woman had one of them long Q-tips up my nose. I'm like, I did not consent, but okay. And then they came back and they said, oh, you got the COVID. Well, they didn't say it like that. I say it for some reason. I got to put the in front of stuff. It's an Ozark thing like the COVID. I don't know. And I said, blank that. You go run it back. Right. That's what I said. Like that's we're not doing this. But there and I told the dude I was and I and I as I mentioned this to you yesterday, just touching on this Hillsborough County thing. And how they're trying to get everybody to wear masks and all this stuff now going into the holiday season. I said, it's a cold. I get it. I said, I'm not stupid. But you realize that this has a stigma compared to like regular colds, right? And he's like, I get it. I get it. He's like, it's not even remotely the same. He's like, your symptoms is the worst it's going to get. It's like three days, five days tops, you're done. He's like, you know, and says like the contagiousness period was over, et cetera, et cetera. Because I already had somebody who emailed me yesterday. It was like, you're putting people's lives in danger. And I was like, I'm going to put your life in danger if you send me one more stupid email. That's what's going to happen to you. I'm on Augmentin and I'm a breathable steroid. Don't mess with me. It's a mom. So anyway, they did this for two years. And after the Rona went through all of the What do you want to like the changes and all that stuff and became pretty much nothing but the sniffles. And they still had the stupid stuff in place. So some of the dumbest stuff I've ever heard. So I'm glad this guy took himself out of the running. I'm glad for it. But this party, I'm telling you. With. as we're dealing with our cabinet nominees, I think it makes it even more important to have nominees that don't just look the part and don't just fit a narrative, but actually will put on steel-toed boots and go in there and get it done. Imagine if all the people who came to vote the way they did this last election watched all of the stuff that they voted for actually come to fruition in D.C. So, The generational change hasn't actually totally happened yet. That's going to happen with action in D.C. So if he gets really good people in there that can actually get the job done, then you're going to cement a generational change and shift in the parties. But I'm warning you, if you do not. If he picks weak nominees. If he picks people that are more interested in clout chasing and getting a Fox contributor deal and a book deal with Regnery or something after all this, if he doesn't have people in these positions that are going to deliver, you are going to build resentment in these new voters unlike anything you've ever seen. They're going to feel like they were had and you're not going to get them back. So you got to be real careful with this stuff. That's one of the reasons why I'm so hardcore on these nominees. And it doesn't matter to me who's in the office. It doesn't matter if I like people or not. I actually and I can say I personally know the president of the United States and I have for over a decade. I know his whole family. I just don't crow about it. And I don't like put photos out everywhere because I'm not a kisser. I've never been. And he's always been very kind. And I don't agree with him on everything, but he's always been very kind. That said, I don't care who's in the office, and you can't either. You can't afford to be so invested in who's in the office that you will not say, wait a minute, this isn't what I voted for. You have to be willing to say that, not just for your own benefit, but for the success of the administration, too. Think about the damage you could do to the left by cementing this generational change, by delivering on all of these campaign issues. Holy cow. They're not the party of the working class anymore. Now think about it. You grew up, I grew up hearing that. Like the Democrats were the working class party, right? Can you say that anymore? When I say Democrat to you, when I say, oh, who's the typical Democrat voter? Who do you think of? Honestly, stop yourself for a moment. I know it flashed in your head. You think of the humanities college professor, right? That wears Birkenstocks and drives an old Volvo. I swear to you, you did. You that popped into your head. You did not think of nobody even thinks of union workers first anymore. You think of the freaks. You don't think of like the regular average everyday people. You think of the freaks first. That's who you think of. You think of the pink haired jiggly poops that are out there screaming about, you know, their abortions and all that. That's who you think of when you when I say Democrat. That party's branding now. They are so far removed from what we grew up knowing them as. It's wild. How do you get that back? You can't unless you pretty much abandon your original entity. Republicans are now the working class. Not only are they the working class party, but they... How do I say this? And this is another thing I'm working out in a piece. Does it seem like they got a glow up? Democrats, the relationship that they had with the working class was almost one of tolerance. Whereas the way that it's approached, discussed and marketed by the right, it is almost it's like reverence. Right. Think about the dirty jobs, the micro stuff. And then when you hear them, when you hear people on the right, not even hardcore Republicans, just people like. who for practical reasons and common sense reasons, they tended to vote Republican. Think about how they view and talk about working class. And then when you hear people like Jerry Nadler talk about, well, we got to have somebody pick our fruit and all this stuff. They it's almost like they don't bestow upon the practice of work the full dignity it deserves on the left. And I've noticed that there has been a huge shift in the in the in the. perspective of work it is celebrated it is given dignity on the right and it's it's cool whereas the left treated it like european nobles oh my gosh you have to work that's so dirty you're supposed to be part of the leisure class and live off of uh your rent from your from your land and our feudalism that's how they viewed it It's way different. There's a huge psychological change here that all plays into this. I'm telling you, you made good on these promises. Man, Democrats won't. You will not see Democrats with major wins like that in our lifetime. Again, you won't. So that's why it's important to make sure that these picks are good. Preborn is a great organization and they help women who are facing a difficult time. situation. Maybe it's an unplanned pregnancy. Well, it's an unplanned pregnancy. That's the 99.9% are as a result of sexual recreation. And what preborn does, though, is they they meet these women where they are, and they offer them free ultrasound so that they can go and hear their baby's heartbeat and see what you know, just kind of get an idea what their babies looks like. And when that happens, a baby's chance at life doubles. This has actually been studied. But they can't do this without you. And this is what Preborn does. 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That's like one of my favorite things that reporters do when they, especially if it's like Peter Doocy doing it, because it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. They'll be like, yeah, so tell us, why is the president not going to be here today? It's like random question. Why is he not going to be here today? Oh, well, you know, he's doing some things and makes him. So why is it that he is not physically present? Walking around here hanging out? Well, Peter, because like a million different ways. I do like it. It is kind of funny. So I saw a thing. Josh Hawley was saying that his meeting with Pete Hegseth was canceled. It's a CNN reporter who said it, but it wasn't one of the bad CNN reporters. Right. He's kind of middle of the road. So just going to put that out there. I thought that was an interesting marker. That's one of the things that we're going to watch here coming up. Because I feel like if there's going to be something that happens, if there's going to be a change or something, that it would happen. I think today is kind of, you know, what I'm getting out of it. But we'll see. There's also, I think Trump also picked, what, a pro-crypto guy, Paul Atkins, to replace Gary Gensler's SEC chair. So that kind of gets into the weeds a little bit. But yeah. Some movement happening. We have our second hour on the way. The latest with the Supreme Court case, the arguments over trans issues. Stick with us. It's our friends over at Caltech, the P15. It stands for 15 pews. Standard capacity. That might be a little bit more for the people who have weak arm muscles. I don't know. But Caltech is a great company, a Florida-based company. And they have a lifetime warranty on everything that they do. They are the inventors of the microcompact pistol category. They have two versions, metal frame polymer as well. 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And of course, you can follow along over at Substack, chapter and verse. You can find us at Rumble where the chat happens. You can also find us on X, etc. I'm still under the weather. I'm recovering. So if I'm like sniffly or whatever, just go along with it. I have nowhere else to go. It's me and you right here. No prompter, no nothing for three hours. Actually now two because we went through one. So kind of scares Cain sometimes. We've been talking about a lot of the cabinet picks, which we're going to get back to, but they're having right now, Supreme Court, these arguments. The Supreme Court's hearing these arguments on trans issues. It's already gone up this much. It's already already made it up to SCOTUS. And I mean, I've just been kind of looking at some of the Some of the arguments that they've been... Because right now it's just you're hearing oral arguments and that's pretty much kind of it. They are... It's this challenge to the state of Tennessee, their ban on treatments for transgender youth. I'm trying to get the correct... It's about the trans treatments, trying to get the correct statements out. And the thing is, is that the... The divide, at least initially, and again, you can only get what court reporters publish because you're not, you know, you don't have cameras in there. But it seems to hinge on how the more conservative members of the court do not believe that denying someone or telling a child that they cannot get this irreversible surgery, etc., that they don't believe it's a form of sex discrimination, whereas the more progressive justices on the court do. So we will see where this goes and how these arguments end up playing out because that's something that SCOTUS, they're weighing this. They're weighing these treatments and the youth and all of that right now. Of course, we're also watching the Biden administration whittle down to nothing. As they get ready for this January transfer of power, we were talking about some of the cabinet selections from POTUS. There was this thing going around where they're suggesting that Pete Hegseth—and I've been hearing this rumor from some pretty well-placed folks— I don't know if I necessarily believe it or not. And I don't know what I think of it. Having Hegseth be the Trump administration considering swapping him out with DeSantis. Now, I'm of a couple of different minds on it. I don't know if I like it. And I actually like DeSantis. I think DeSantis is a more steady hand with executive leadership, obviously, than Hegseth. Not to say that Hegs doesn't have his own qualities, but in terms of leadership and running things at this executive level, my gosh, it's seen us all day long. But why for this? Right. Why? Why now? It's kind of weird. I don't know what I'm always suspicious of everybody and everything. So I don't know if this is people that are continuing the primary division and they're trying to get people angry at DeSantis over something. Or maybe the people in the Trump camp are trying to set him up. I don't know. I have no idea. Maybe he doesn't even want it. Who? I don't know. But it just seems weird. I think maybe let the Hegseth stuff play out. He says he's not going to step down. They're going to shred him in confirmation hearings, just like they do with anybody. But they're going to really shred him because it's a DOD. And they were using this example of his mom sending him an email, which I think is crappy to do, by the way. His mom sent him an email reading him the riot act because of the way he treated a girl. And they tried to use that in the court of public opinion against him. I think that when you have to go and use people's family and you try to point them against each other, that is so lame. And that speaks more volumes about the people using such a tactic than the people against which they are using the tactic. That's lame to try to pit families against each other. I mean, if you can't make your argument against his confirmation or nomination better than that, then STFU, sit down, do the world a favor. Do not pollute general discourse with your fecal opinion. Nobody needs to hear it. Nobody wants to hear it. I get so aggravated over this stuff. Even if I dislike the person that they're doing it to, I get mad because it's just such a lame tactic to use. Oh, his mom sent him an email. What mom has not dressed down her son at one point in his life? One mom has not dressed down her son at one point in his life. That's like a thing, right? It's like what mom hasn't had it out with her teenage daughter. Same thing. Stop it. This is so dumb to try to say, well, look at this, his own mom. You're misrepresenting it. You're making it personal. And you lost the argument at that point. I don't know. But we'll see. But I saw that it was apparently CNN was saying that Josh Hawley told them that his meeting with Hegseth tomorrow had been canceled, but he didn't know why. It would have been Hawley that canceled it. That would have been somebody else. So I don't know. There are a lot of people that are getting picked from Florida, which shows you the significance of Susie Wiles as his chief of staff, Trump's chief of staff, her influence in his orbit, because she's going with what she knows. And so she's picking tons of people from Florida because she came up in Florida. So that's kind of interesting. But the Hegseth thing, I don't know. We'll wait and see. But he would have to go through the confirmation process. And I can't imagine. I just think this is why if there's any hesitation about somebody getting through the process because of things that they did. And I'm not saying this about Hegseth. More really along the lines of Gates. Because of something they did and not something that's reflective upon you. I just maybe think that you should make a better pick. But as far as Hexeth goes, this seems to be again, it seems like even if it's true, I don't believe it because I've been duped by the left. They try to do not. I haven't. But they've lied to you a million times. They've lied to me a million times. They try to me, too. They've tried to all of that stuff. And after the way that they went on about Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, none of us are ever. That was a that was a transformational moment for a lot of people in politics. For some, it was the Clarence Thomas 2.0 moment. A lot of people, particularly young men back in, what, the 80s, were really not radicalized, but they had their suspicions confirmed after they saw the way that the left, led by Joe Biden at the time, in the Senate, by the way. He was one of the biggest jerks about it. The way that they went after Clarence Thomas and they tried to discredit him, it was pretty wild. So this is, you know, we'll see, you know, how this goes. But, you know, the Kavanaugh thing was pretty transformational. And I don't think that the left wants to set itself up with another similar situation where the guy is wholly vindicated because they are so nuts. But we'll see. But the DeSantis thing, it looks like there might be some chess at work here. And I don't know. I just I'm of a lot of thoughts about it. So we'll see. So some of the other things, too, I want to make sure that we're touching on. We've got, like I said, the SCOTUS, they're looking at the ban on the sex reassignment stuff. That was a Tennessee law for that. I want to come back to the story. We just had a briefly in headlines. And thankfully, this is Canada and not the United States. But the headline is the town was fined because they refused to celebrate Pride Month. It's a town of 1300 people. So it's a small town, the town. Interestingly enough, it is named Emo. It's in Ontario. And they violated the Ontario Human Rights Code that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario established. And they said that their great offense. I mean, when you think that somebody violated just pause for a minute. When you hear that somebody violated like some kind of human rights code, you think, wow. That sounds pretty serious, right? I mean, human rights? Super serious. What did they do? Oh, it says here that they, in the month of June, did not proclaim that month Pride Month. I'm sorry, what? Oh, and they also were cited because they did not, they had failure to fly an LGBTQ2 whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, rainbow flag. It's a $10,000 fine, excuse me, and all of the officials in EMO are required to complete mandatory human rights training. See. Yeah, Cain, what's your question?
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Who do they pay it to? Like the fine? I don't know, the gays?
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I don't know. The article doesn't actually say.
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The city has to pay the city? Like, what?
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They got a fine. Ontario, maybe? Like the province of Ontario?
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So they chose not to celebrate.
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Well, it's not that they didn't celebrate. They just were like, we're not going to put up these tacky flags. Right. Because they are tacky.
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But they didn't celebrate to the standard of whoever's criticizing them.
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Well, I mean, if your question is, did they have a parade and fly the flags and send everyone out in leather dominatrix gear with ball gags, like the gimp from Pulp Fiction, to go out and have like a full-on, you know... painting pictures a street festival of sexcapades then you're correct they did not do that there were no street sexcapades celebrating pride over how you choose to do it behind closed doors and that costs money I mean, where's the, like, you can have pride. Pride is a sin, by the way. So I think it's ironic that they're being fined for not celebrating literal sin, which is pride. But whatever. But why is that a thing? Like, why do you got, oh, if you didn't fly the flag, you didn't affirm how someone has to sex. It's Canada, so they're not going to fight it. They're going to probably apologize and offer some maple syrup. I don't know. The maple leaf people up there. Oh, hey, we're so sorry. We forgot to fly the flag.
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But are they paying the federal government? Are they paying?
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Well, I don't know. It's probably Ontario. It's probably I don't know. It's the Ontario people. I don't know. I don't know who these people are. The Canadians up there. They issue fines because somebody didn't fly. The town was asked to fly the alphabet rainbow flag for a week of your choosing.
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I choose no weeks. There's my choosing.
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Yeah. Yeah, you didn't say I had to choose a week. So the language part is on you, Slick.
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I think there's some legal wiggle room here.
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I mean, where are the straight people flags at? Right. Where's that at? What do we get?
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It's just the Canadian flag.
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I mean, I just don't think that you're going to be appropriating the rainbow, first off. That's appropriation, and I was told that was wrong. So you're appropriating the rainbow from the Christians. So let's stop there. Let's stop. That's taken from Noah's time. So come up with your own thing. We got to have a straight person's flag then. And then do you get like the straight person two, four spirit, whatever? Or what about the straight person flag? And then don't you get like an extra buff that goes along with it? Like spaghetti and meatballs, the straight person or this straight person can successfully eat edamame if it's three beans in without having to take two bites. Like how particular does it get?
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Yeah, like the well-done people? Out. Get out. You can't live in America. I don't care if you were born and raised here six generations. We'll deport you somewhere.
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Don't bring that well-done flag over here.
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Yeah, no well-done nothing. Well-done is only for jobs, not meat. So, I don't know. Oh, so they said that there's a group called the Borderland Pride Group. Which sounds like a bunch of terrorist twinks. I'm going to be honest with you. So I just love it. They're very upset. They said in a single 12-month period, they did not see a single week where the flag was flown. They said that Emo ignored their repeated requests, so they got mad about it. And they said that they need to take Human Rights 101. I think I'm going to lead a human rights course. I'm going to offer it on the Internet. I'm going to offer a human rights course. So if someone offends you, you punch them. Joking. I just this stuff is so dumb. And then I get mad because I'm like, why didn't I get into this? I would love to just fleece the left. Right. I could I could make it up and make up a company. Right. Go in there and I'm going to offer you human rights courses. Now, here's the just make it ridiculous. And they'll go along with it because they're the left. They're too terrified to be seen as going against the grain. The desire to be so homogenous has killed any desire for individuality at all. So they are terrified. They're terrified to poke a head up. No, they got to go with it. So I feel like that would, you know, no one would ask anything, Cain, because then I could be like, are you assuming all of these things about me? What? And then, oh, no, they don't want to be offended. And then we could also form an ancillary like Human Rights Council that we can cite people and then just pay ourselves. Yeah. from the fines.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you at the bottom of this second hour. And the Supreme Court looks like they're leaning towards upholding those restrictions that the state of Tennessee has as it pertains to. the trans surgeries and things. I'm not calling it gender-affirming care because it's a stupid, made-up phrase that is used by people to mislead others on the true issue at being debated. So I don't know. It just looks... Looks like that's the way that they're leaning, according to a lot of the court reporters and people that watch SCOTUS. And in addition, I guess they asked Hegseth once again whether or not he's going to or he would withdraw from SecDef consideration, and he said no. So, interesting. That's why I'm just sitting back watching all these people talk and... You know, just a little interesting, just a little odd, just saying, just watching all the rumors come out about this. But the Supreme Court, though, that's good news, indeed, that at least is where they're leaning. I mean, the idea that you're going to sterilize someone, especially if they're minors, before they've even fully matured, before their brains have even fully developed, that you are going to sterilize them. make them live in a way that requires medication for life and call that quote unquote gender affirming care is one of the most evil things I can think of. It's truly evil. And that's what's, that's what's being done. So I just, you know, That's what they've been in Tennessee, wanted to pass restrictions against it. And that's what they're fighting about right now. That's what they're hearing these arguments for in Supreme Court right now as it pertains to Tennessee. And I mean, I don't know how you can have people like Ketanji Brown Jackson be on the court and adjudicate this. Because she can't even define what a woman is. And if you're not able to define what a woman is, how are you able to then present a decision on this issue? This is where the ideology meets practicality. How do you then determine that you're going to adjudicate an issue and you can't even define the terms involved in it? You see how dumb this is? Like, sorry, ma'am, but you can't define what a woman is. How are you, I'm just going to say, how are you going to, how are you going to do this? So a few other things. The, I mentioned Hegs, that's just a bit ago. There's a piece that came up on NBC. And they're, they tried to hit him with an email with his mom. Now they're saying that 10 current and former Fox employees say that he drank in ways that concerned his coworkers. Other people said it was false. They said that there were a dozen occasions during his time when he co-hosted Fox and Friends Weekend, which people would smell alcohol on him before he went on air. And they would say that he'd talk about being hungover as he was getting ready on set, etc. How old is he? He's like 40-something years old. I don't know. And also, yeah, I don't believe any of these people. I don't believe any of these people. They said that he was intoxicated acting in his official capacity report while he was president of Concerned Veterans from America to the point of needing to be carried out of organizations events. And this was what the New Yorker wrote. If you want to believe the New Yorker, the New Yorker is pretty left leaning. And so if you're a left leaning entity and you're trying to dig up dirt on somebody, who are you going to talk to? Are you going to talk to conservative people? Are you going to talk to left leaning people? It's like a game of confirmation bias. So that's who they were. They were in this. And then in addition to this, they're also they're trying to argue about his drinking. They also had this thing that said this is a concern veterans for America where they said that he they're denying this is the trustee of the group. was denied in 2016 that the current defense secretary designee was forced out of the position to do drinking and other misconduct, directly contradicting whistleblowers who spoke with the New Yorker. So this is one of the reporters in the New York Post. So this trustee, Randy Lair, who is a trustee for Concerned Veterans for America, said that, in this, talked about his departure in this letter. And they said that they normally don't respond to this type of stuff, but they felt that it was important to do so. It was a very personal attack. They said he resigned his position as a result of difference of opinion to the future of the organization. This is from the letter. So that he could focus on other endeavors, including his relationship with Fox. He was not terminated. They said that they work with him through this decision. They agreed that it was the best timing for both parties, etc. So this absolutely contradicts the New Yorker piece. That contradicts that piece. So far, it just doesn't seem as though the detractors have a lot. Am I right? So I'm just curious as to why there's all of this effort to these rumors about the DeSantis factor stepping in. Because so far it doesn't look, Trump hasn't said anything about Hegseth. I mean, it seems like they've emptied everything at him at this point, right? I mean, what else is there? Did he run over kittens or something? Like, what else? What else do we have? Did he put onions in his macaroni and cheese? Did he put nuts and cookies? Like, what else? Like, tell me. Because those right there, disqualifying. Yeah. First of all, nuts don't belong in cookies. They don't belong in chocolate chip cookies. Chocolate chip cookies. That's for chocolate chips. If you want nut cookies, make your trash nut cookies and keep them out of the chocolate chip cookies. 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Oatmeal raisin, though, is way better.
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That's disgusting. What? I think they're nasty. Oatmeal raisin cookies are punishment. You know why? It's crappy breakfast and here's some dried grapes. Why do you... I didn't do that.
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I like chocolate chip a lot, but I just happen to like oatmeal raisin a little bit better.
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Why?
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Why do you have to completely hate oatmeal raisin?
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Because I do. Because it's nasty. It's like the nastiest dessert ever conceived. I'm insulted. If someone's like, here's some oatmeal raisin. No thanks. I'm not going to eat them.
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Just imagine it from my perspective. You like candy corn. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So. Yeah. But when it comes to cookies.
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Because candy corn doesn't look like boogers. Raisins do. And I don't want it in my oatmeal cookies. The end. Not going to lie. Let's move on. We've established this, why it's nasty, right? Okay. All right. Because it's gross. Okay. That's the important thing. So, like, if he liked oatmeal raisin cookies, sorry, but I can't support it. He resigned from his difference of opinion because he likes trash cookies is why. Immediately disqualified. It's got to tell you. Immediately. Is that fair? It's totally fair in my world. I can't. Yeah. I will never trust anybody that likes an oatmeal raisin cookie more than a chocolate chip cookie. What? I can't do it. But it means. No.
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It means.
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No. You better reevaluate your life's choices, Cain. No. What is the matter with you? Why do you hate America?
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I like oatmeal raisin cookies. What's wrong with that? It's not that I hate. It's like if I say I like waffles and you're like, well, I ate pancakes for it.
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The sentence was specifically like them more than chocolate chip cookies.
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Yeah, I do like them.
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Okay, now we're back to the original spot. What? That's the point. No, you can't be sucked up. Sorry.
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I don't want to be sick, Def.
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Pull in your nomination now.
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If there was a plate of cookies on the left that were chocolate chip, cookies on the right were oatmeal raisin, I would first go to the oatmeal raisin one. And you're saying you'd throw the oatmeal raisin ones on the floor is what you'd say.
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Throw them on the floor. Okay. And anyone who tried eating them, throw them on the floor too.
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Because I'm a live and let live kind of guy.
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There you go. Yeah. So I got to share with you, this is the solicitor general that's arguing the trains case before SCOTUS. You want to hear this? This is apparently what she wrote in a brief submitted to the court. Quote. Oh, come here. An adolescent assigned female at birth cannot receive puberty blockers or testosterone to live and present as a male, but an adolescent assigned male at birth can, and vice versa. An adolescent assigned male at birth cannot receive puberty blockers or estrogen to live and present as a female, but an adolescent assigned female at birth can. That is sex discrimination. First off, the Solicitor General's Elizabeth Prelogar. Who assigns them the sex? A signed female. It's not a sign. Like there's a giant pre-earth waiting room where angels walk around and be like, that one's a girl. Let's assign male to that one. That one is. And then they get their genitals upon entering into the world.
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But no one's assigning anything.
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No, she very clearly believes that there is assignments that go out.
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And she is believing something incorrect because it's just people observing. It's just nobody's assigning anything. You're observing. Well, the Lord assigned it. Well, yeah. But no one here on Earth is assigning it. We're just observing and then noting it.
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Yeah.
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That's it.
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I hate the language of this stuff. I mean, this is the dumbest thing ever. There are... Excuse me. She's arguing... that there are certain drugs and things that are available only to men or certain drugs and things available only to women because one drug can hurt men, another drug can hurt women, and that that's somehow sex discrimination. We don't make the laws of reality, you dumb broad. This is just the way of the world. There's going to be stuff that men can take that women can't take. There's going to be stuff that women can take that men can't take. Oh my gosh. I feel like we're dealing with some of the stupidest people on God's green earth. You have to explain it like this to these people. And so elementary a term, this is so stupid. I mean, that's like saying, well, why can't I, a man get a hysterectomy? Well, I don't know. Take it up with the Lord. Don't know why you can't. Well, Why can't I get a prostate check? Take it up with the Lord. Good night. Nothing was assigned. Like you just have like a Barbie mound area and then you don't get genitals until you're in the world. Or you don't get your chromosomes until you're in the world. It's just so goofy. These people, this is anti-science. It really is. You have to be anti-science to argue the stuff that they're arguing before SCOTUS. You absolutely have to be. As we move, our partners over at Hillsdale College are doing their job educating the dumb people of America. I mean, you know, I'm talking about the people who think that they're liberal. I had a friend whose kid went to Hillsdale, just found this out, and they were kind of liberal, right? Grew up in a conservative household. This kid goes to Hillsdale, actually is educated, comes back smarter than the parents ever thought the kid could be. I say kid, they were like 19 years old, but you know what I mean? And they were actually employing critical thinking. And the parents were like, they're saying it's their Christmas miracle this year. All I'm saying is that Hillsdale actually focuses on academic excellence, which is weird to say because you think that most colleges would do it. But apparently Hillsdale is a diamond in the rough and they have the type of education that is required to protect students. The values of liberty. So this is what's important. They go about it the founders way. The founders understood classical education is incredibly important because you have to be educated in order to preserve your rights and to fight for your rights. And that's what Hillsdale teaches. It's part of their mission since their founding in 1844. And they don't you don't have to just go to their campus in Michigan. They have all kinds of free resources for you online. where they have educational podcasts. They have their free speech digest and premise. They have all kinds of stuff. You can check out everything that they have to offer and learn more about Hillsdale at Dana for Hillsdale.com. Take some time, learn what makes them so special and learn why so many people are so satisfied with the education that they're receiving at Hillsdale college. Dana for F O R Hillsdale.com.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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A Florida man trying to buy crack on Craigslist was arrested when an undercover deputy answered the ad. Holmes County Sheriff's Office. Their investigators responded to the ad, posed as a seller, set up a meeting with the individual who had been identified as Anthony Mata. Deputies say that Mata negotiated to buy an eight ball of meth for 80 bucks. After finalizing the deal, the investigator met him at the agreed upon location. They exchanged money. Deputies moved in. yeah they on craigslist it just seems that seems so sketchy that's so sketchy and meth is bad and these guys look like they're in an old-timey movie i'm just saying just uh let's see uh i i can't read the dog story oh my gosh This guy, a Daytona Beach man, Douglas Matney, M-A-T-N-E-Y. Douglas Matney, M-A-T-N-E-Y. He looks exactly like a doucher looks. 21 years old. Charged with felony animal cruelty. He's out of the Volusia County Branch Jail and $5,000 bond. He apparently shot a two-year-old black pit bull mix named Zola. And he shot the dog in the right cheek because the dog was aggressive during bath time. And they found the 55-pound dog with a bullet wound to his cheek. And it stopped in his abdomen. And he did not get medical attention for the pet. And the police said that the dog apparently had non-functional back legs and was uncontrollably urinating on itself. It was been a lot of pain in this guy. I want this. I want to scalp this dude. I just, that's my own personal free speech opinion. I am not, you guys know what I think. Give me five, oh my gosh, give me 60 seconds, please, for the love of all things holy, in a locker room with this dude.
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How's he out on $5,000, Bob? That was my thing.
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I mean, that's I know exactly. That's just, you know, this guy's. So, yeah, I hope he gets it. It'd be great if he had some prison time and if some prison justice befell him. I'm not saying that money would magically be deposited in the commissary of anybody who was maybe a part of it. But, you know, I'm maybe might be saying that. I don't know. I'm pretty mayor of Kingstown about some of this stuff. So I don't know. Anyway, so that, oh, I need a happy story now because that just makes me, that makes me mad. That's a horrible story. We could talk about this Florida dude who I don't, oh gosh, these people. So this Florida dude, he was denied entry to a USAA building and he put on a helmet and drove his car right into the facility. Oh, good. Robert Beattie, 70, he went to the guard gate at the USAA office and demanded to be let inside. They said, not going to happen. So then he put on a helmet and drove right through the parking garage and through their fences. Two people in a marked security SUV tried to block him in, but then he reversed and struck their vehicle to create some space. He was on the third floor when they found him of the parking garage taken into custody. He got charged with two felony counts, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, one felony count of burglary of an occupied structure, felony count of criminal mischief, $1,000 or more. He got some more charges. Thankfully, nobody was injured. But, I mean, the fact that he went and put on a helmet... And then drove his car through. Yeah, I don't I don't know this. Let's see this. No, no, not doing that one. We could talk about the teacher from Port St. Lucie found naked any KKID in an elementary school. Joe Urias faces multiple charges, including battery on a law enforcement officer. Somerset College Preparatory Academy. And apparently, according to Port St. Lucie, the 34-year-old Urias was found after police were dispatched to Windpoint Elementary School for a burglary in progress. When they arrived, they found him naked in the classroom among clothes, food, a laptop, drugs, and some private time accessories. I don't know how else to say it. He reclosed himself and tried to run out of the building once he was discovered. But guess what? They got him. And then the cop that grabbed him was punched in the face. Urias was arrested, taken to St. Lucie County Jail. Wow, he's got a lot of charges. Lewd behavior, burglary, possession of marijuana, battery law enforcement. I mean, he's got a lot. He's got a lot of charges. That's all you need to know. There's too much to read. He's got a lot. And he's going to be in major trouble. Major, major trouble. We have more on the way. The latest, the Supreme Court. the arguments facing the court today we got the cabinet stuff all kinds stick with us our partners they help bring you free radio it's our friends over at patriot mobile uh the only christian conservative cell phone service in the nation and patriot mobile wants to save you money i mean it's been a tough year forever it's been a tough couple of years for everybody and right now you can get their every friday matters special they're giving away a brand new smartphone when you make the switch It's so easy to do. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code FRIDAY. Friday is what gets you that Every Friday Matters special. So you can get a brand new smartphone when you switch your service. And then you also are working with a company that aligns with your values. They have plans tailor-made for everyone. Seamless switching with 100% U.S.-based customer service team. It has never been simpler to switch. Now, the offer is eligible only with promo code FRIDAY. It's a free smartphone for their Every Friday Matters special. Make the switch today. Limited time or until supplies run out. Terms and conditions apply. That's patriotmobile.com slash Dana 972 Patriot. Is that really fact?
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You know, with you in Angola, the vibrant city, and I look not the city, the city I know is not Angola, but in Angola in a vibrant city.
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Boy, oh boy. Oh, my gosh. So that's Joe Biden when he was in Africa. I saw a video of him yesterday where he was just what was he doing? He just was wandering around again. He had to be guided by one of the leaders there to like walk down this like carpeted path towards a dais. And he was just kind of all over. It was weird. There was one little step and the other leader had to help. It would look bad. It looked bad. Notice you don't see Harris anywhere anymore either. Nowhere. Nowhere. Where is she at? Welcome back to the program. Again, Dana Lash, with you. We're at the top of this third hour. Still under the weather. We're making it through. We're making it through. And we're getting you set up with all the news through the week. We're also watching the arguments before the Supreme Court about this ban in Tennessee on... experimental surgery, sex changes for minors. And what, three hours of arguments so far? And the Biden administration keeps saying that they have an overwhelming amount of evidence of the benefits of giving people hormonal castration, et cetera, et cetera. It's a wild argument to make before someone's even reached the age of consent legally. You're going to allow them to. Yeah, let's go ahead and get chemically castrated or, you know, surgically. It's just unbelievable that this is the argument before the court today. But it looks like the courts are leaning towards common sense and erring on the side of caution, particularly as it relates to minors, our kids. So, you know, we'll see with that. They were trying to figure out because the other argument that was in this is whether or not it's constitutional or unconstitutional, rather, for states to protect minors. minors from harmful and unnecessary elective medical procedures, which seems, you know, I'm not trying to beg the question with the way that I'm phrasing it, but that, I mean, that's the reality of the question and how it's this idea of transitioning is an ideological, not a medical discussion, right? So I will see because this is something that you're talking about minors everywhere and the right to happiness or certain things that you think that extend beyond the jurisdiction of states. So we don't have any decisions, but where the judge that's in this or that started the judge, the attorney, one of the attorneys in this case. The lawyer with the ACLU who's arguing about it. This is Chase, Audio Summit 19, Strangio. Strangio? Right. This is the trans lawyer with the ACLU who is making these arguments before SCOTUS. Listen.
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to a law that is banning this care for minors. So if Tennessee is successful, if the Supreme Court, in essence, sides with the government of Tennessee, I think that will open the door to the types of federal bans on this care, not only for minors, but for adults, too.
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For adults, too, you think?
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I do. I do. And I think that's one of the things we should be really concerned about. We're hearing a lot about young people can't consent to this care, but it is their parents consenting to this care.
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What do you think that Chase Strangio was assigned at birth?
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I don't think she was assigned anything. I think the doctor observed the lack of male genitalia and put down the only other option, which was female.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's... How do you grow facial hair like that, but your voice still sounds like Mickey Mouse?
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Dude, I don't know. This... she's the deputy director for transgender justice and a staff attorney with the ACLU. And she's being celebrated as the first person cosplaying as a man to make oral arguments before the Supreme Court. So she decided to do this of her own free will and make the determination you know i guess after becoming of age and this person i mean she's in previous arguments she's even acknowledged that the kids aren't actually the ones giving consent to do this which i would think that would undermine your entire argument right if you're saying that the kids aren't aren't actually giving consent to do this well then how is this you're not You're not providing consent. This is wild. But that's the attorney that's arguing this before SCOTUS. And it looks as though SCOTUS is leaning towards some common sense. I mean, at least initially, that's what it looks like. I mean, we'll see. We'll watch all that for you. But they I mean, it's been from the notes that I've seen, it's been pretty crazy thus far. And it got kind of because they were saying that even they tried to compare. So one of the reporters was saying that they were trying to compare, quote unquote, I hate this phrase, gender affirming care. It's experimental surgery that every medical treatment has risk. Even taking aspirin was one of the remarks. OK, the risks for the experimental surgeries that they call gender affirming care are sterilization. hormonal problems for life, hormonal abuse, mental, physical. I mean, it's, oh my gosh, this is not, you can't just diminish this with a comparison to getting your weenus chopped off, inverted into a frankengina is the exact same as, you know, the risks associated with popping an aspirin. It's not even remotely similar. The fact that people make this argument that immediately get out of my courtroom. Get out. You're too stupid to argue. But that was pretty much like within the first 20 minutes that that was done. So that gives you an immediate insight into how wild this is. They think it's just, oh, well, you know, I mean, it's just there's risks with everything like popping aspirin. That's like saying there's a risk of stepping on a Lego in your house and a risk of driving off a bridge when you're on the freeway. I mean, you know, they're the same. It's the exact same thing. It's just wild. And then you had Ketanji Brown Jackson, you know, the judge who doesn't know what a woman is, who was trying to argue that somehow it's, if you're banning the experimental surgery for minors, that that's somehow the same as banning interracial marriage. Yeah. What, how is chopping off boobs and trying to say that you're a dude now unnecessarily in any way, like two people entering into a covenant with the Lord in marriage, what in the world?
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These comparisons are getting crazier than the standard conflation of like, you know, oh, you're against immigration because you don't like illegal immigration. That used to be the main conflation. Now it's just so ridiculous. January 20th couldn't come fast enough.
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She actually had said, according to Leo Sapir, who's another reporter in the courtroom, Kentonji Brown Jackson gave a hypothetical, a boy who identifies as a boy but takes puberty blockers because he wants to lower his voice rather than change his, they're talking about, you know, in instances, I guess, that the medicine, whatever, can be used for. what a boy who identifies as a boy would not have to have their voice lowered by taking puberty blockers. That is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. How in the hell are these people in the position to adjudicate this? How? And apparently Alito, he noted that the cast report found found no evidence that gender affirmative treatments reduce suicide. He said he says accurately, he says that there's zero evidence in any of these studies. There are multiple studies that do show that there is a reduction in suicidality. So we admit that it does nothing to reduce any suicide rate, any mental health catastrophe, nothing. We admit that it's not actual consent. We admit that. OK, so what is the argument for this? You're pumping kids full of hormones that you don't know the long-term effects to. You're mutilating them before they're even of age with experimental surgeries. I mean, Europe has banned this. Of all the times that the United States doesn't want to copy Europe, why is it over this? I mean, they copy them over everything else. Makes zero sense. It's just asinine. But this is where we're at. Where we're at. Where we are at. Now... A couple other things to touch on. As we were saying, I watched the SecDef pick because apparently there's a lot of movement on the Hegseth thing. I don't know what's going to happen. I just think it's all, I don't know. I feel like that there's two different camps. in the Trump transition group. And it seems that one camp has been making some not so stellar recommendations. And then the other camp has been putting forward some pretty solid recommendations. And I feel like the latter camp probably needs to rule from here on out. I mean, I think it's great to get people who like whack the libs on X. But what does that translate to practical, like actual meat space effects? You need to have someone who's going to be able to make those kind of make the kind of changes that you need. So we'll see. In the meantime, where's Biden? Is he going to the Notre Dame thing to the Notre Dame reopening? The I think. I was looking, because Trump is going, I think he's going like, apparently it was reported that Macron was begging Trump to visit the Notre Dame reopening. And apparently it's going to be, they're opening the doors to the public. They had the fire in 2019, so they had to do a lot of work. And I guess that they are, I mean, I don't know if Trump was already going before Macron tried to convince him, but they're doing the opening. It's going to be on the 8th. So it's going to be actually really shortly. I mean, you're looking at what, four days time? So I think that he's, I would, is Biden going to go? I mean, he was in Africa and then in Brazil. Not doing so well. Did he fall asleep? Wait, we have audio of him actually falling asleep. Audio of somebody 20. He's trying to keep his eyes open. This is how bad it is. Watch this and then you determine whether you think he's going to go to Paris.
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With the U.S. in support of the development of the Robito Corridor. Tanzania views the Robito Corridor as an integral part of a broader strategy to enhance connectivity in Africa. We also appreciate the fact that the implementation of the project will provide important opportunities for Africa's development in sectors such as agriculture, renewable energy.
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You know what your parents would tell you when you were young? I'm going to close my eyes for a minute. That meant nap. We all know that. I'm just going to close my eyes. Did your parents ever say that to you? And you're like, wait a minute. Are you napping? No, I'm just closing my eyes. OK, good, because I thought you were napping. Right. So Biden has no idea what's happening. I don't. He'd fall asleep at that, too. No one knows.
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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So Britney Spears says that she's really five years old and moving to Mexico. Yeah, it was a footage via TMZ that was posted to her Instagram account. She says that paparazzi put her on a plane with a mask over her face while carrying a torch. And then she just said that she was turned 42 when she's actually 43, but then said, really, she actually meant she's turned five and she is moving to Mexico and going to kindergarten because the paparazzi are cruel. This chick really needed her conservatorship. I mean, it's not right. So, man. So, I'm just saying. That's kind of sad. Felony charge over dipping sauce dispute via smoking gun. The, uh... This is in Florida. It could have been a Florida story. 31-year-old woman was arrested for strong-arm robbery because fast food workers failed to include her sauces in her mobile pickup order. Her name is Kinsey Keeling. She's got blue and pink hair. She got her grub from her raising canes in Clearwater. She was missing eight packs of cane sauce. You've got to have that cane special sauce. She said that she wanted those more extra sauces in return for wasting time and gas. Her extra sauce bid was refused. And then she began yelling and she was physical and blah, blah, blah. And so she was released on a $2,500 bond. You know, you could just go in and be like, hey, you forgot my sauces. It's nothing I'm going to get a felony charge over, but I would like my sauces, right? I mean, it's super easy to keep yourself out of certain situations. Hackers are leaning into total destruction. It's not just about getting data anymore. I mean, they want to destroy everything, according to this piece from MSN. And they said that it's becoming more and more commonplace. damaging. I mean, destroying entire networks, not just hits here and there or getting information. A man was tasered by police after he tried to carjack an Uber while naked. Activities you don't do naked. Crouching, carjacking, things like that. A man was tasered while he was buck naked in front of shocked onlookers in Perth, Australia. His name, Pui Clark, of course it is, running naked from police down busy James Street, Northbridge. He tried to carjack an Uber. It didn't work out very well for him. It's all on camera, too, none of which we can show for obvious reasons. Stay with us. We've got a lot more on the way.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, and we are... Of course, you know, here discussing all of the latest cabinet picks, everything else with POTUS and POTUS elect. And then we were kind of questioning where POTATUS is. Not quite sure where he went. I don't know what's happening there. We'll see. A couple of things. I got some audio I wanted to put out here. This is wild. Audio soundbite 15. Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, he says, well, he's been very, very critical over the illegal alien crisis in New York. And he had some things to say about it. He dared the left even to cancel him yesterday. He also added this, audio soundbite 15.
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The long-term impact of what we did to this city is going to, you're going to see it materialize in administrations in the future. They hurt the future of New York City. And when people hear me say $6.4 billion, they may say, okay, it's just a billion here, a billion there. No, we didn't invest in seniors the way we should have and young people the way we should have. We're not going out to get these chronic absentee students the way we should have. The crimes that we witnessed, this impacted our city and people don't seem to understand why were you fighting so hard for this? Because I reflected on that 11-year-old boy that was denied and I went into government to stop these 11-year-old boys and I came up with a plan to do so and the federal government made me take $6.4 billion out of providing these services that we should, we all should be angry at what happened to our city. under this administration.
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Oh, it was that last point there. They're going to get him. He's not going to be invited for any more Democrat fundraisers after that. I don't see how that happens. But he's not wrong. Here's the thing. And I keep seeing this because I'm just, you know, sort of watching some of the stuff at play and looking at things like, you know, like Democrats going into 28 and all this stuff. They there's going to be a huge problem. They still have a big problem. They haven't done like a proper actual post-mortem of why they lost. It's obvious to us why they lost. It's not obvious to the left why they lost. Now, by the left, I mean people in D.C. Because Eric Adams seems to kind of get it. And I don't agree with him on hardly anything. But on this, you know, it's not incorrect. That's not what you're hearing from Democrats in D.C. Democrats in D.C. don't think that anything's wrong. They think the economy's great. If you listen to their soundbites. that uh economy's great there's no issue at the border what what they're i guess living or experiencing is miles wide inches deep uh in terms of the depth that they're willing to explore it it's so different from what we're living but then you've got governors and you've got mayors like eric adams who are saying things that he's not what he's saying isn't republican stuff I mean, what he's saying is what anybody would say if they had a brain and eyes. They can see exactly what's happening. They know what's going on here. They can see the crime. They can see the unfettered thousands that are being brought illegally across the border and being sent to New York because it's a sanctuary city. They see the crimes committed illegally. by unvetted individuals who were just allowed to enter. No way of checking any kind of criminal record. People are done with it. They're fed up. This is reflected in the language and the positions of local and state lawmakers. But then it seems to end there. Nationally, federally, in D.C., totally different story. They're not going to be able to... win another election until they fix that schism. It's a difference of, and I said this earlier, when your ideology meets reality. Reality requires sober observance. Reality requires practicality. Reality requires patience. Policy like actual workable policy, not just simply denial. Until they figure this out, this is going to be a problem that they have for quite some time. We may never see another Democrat victory in our generation again. They're saying two different things. They're saying two different things. It's why in some states you had like in blue wall states. If you went back and looked, some of the state lawmakers who were running for reelection were Democrats and they did well. But then the people voted for Trump for president. Don't you think that's interesting? You had Democrats that didn't turn out. The turnout for us this last election was actually pretty much almost the same as it was in 2020. Republicans didn't have a banger year for turnout. There wasn't any kind of exorbitant record-setting turnout because Republicans are good like that. But what you did have was record-setting lack of turnout for Democrats. No enthusiasm. They were giving nothing concrete to rally around. And a lot of them, a lot of Democrats that did turn out, they changed their affiliation and they voted for Republicans because they felt that the messaging that they were hearing, the policy proposals that they were reading were more in line with what they wanted and what they needed to happen than what they had previously believed with Democrats. This is going to be a problem for Democrats until they can get this. They've got to figure out how to reconcile these two very different things here. So did you hear about, I didn't know that there was luxury cannabis. I mean, I guess you can have artisanal weed. You can have artisanal anything, right? But what makes it artisanal? I mean, it doesn't get much more artisanal than growing in the sequoias with Bigfoots, right? I mean, I don't know. Jay-Z had apparently a luxury cannabis company, which is funny to me. And it struggled to sell $50 joints. I'm sorry. Was it? Now, I don't know how. Don't make fun of me. Shut up. Does it come in like a carton like cigarettes? Do you get like a bunch of the joints or is it just like one carton?
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No, I mean, I guess you can buy several, but they don't come in packs like cigarettes. There is a company that does them, and they make them look like cigarettes, but they're actually... Or do people make their own? Yeah, no, people mostly roll their own, but they sell them in pre-roll.
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Sorry, do you do like a grape leaf, like with cigars, or is it just like cigarette paper? I'm curious. Yeah, it's cigarette paper. Okay, so were these, I guess, pre-rolled luxury joints? $50. Again, not knowing. I only know the hysterical stuff that I've ever seen with Cheech and Chong. I mean, I'm assuming they're like that. $50 for one of them? How much does that get you? What are we talking about here?
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Cheech and Chong is shockingly real life.
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Oh.
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It's real life.
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So you get one joint for $50? No. No. That's what it says here. $50 for one of his luxury joints.
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I get that was their effort, but it didn't work out, obviously.
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Yeah, they lost half a billion dollars since they launched. How do you lose money on weed? If you do it stupid?
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Make it really expensive.
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This is like one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my life. They act like they're like, oh, Sean Carter's a great businessman. Maybe, but not with this because I'm not even in the pot. And I could have told you you're selling one little joint for $50. Are you stupid? It's the luxury joint. What is it like? Do California condors talon roll it? Like, how does that work? Are there gold flakes that you smoke? What is it? Apparently, California has a tough legal pot market. I didn't know that either. It's wild. I love that everybody has to deal with bureaucracy. Like nobody, even the sin industries. I love it. They said that none of the retailers across California and Arizona, they don't stock Jay-Z's buds or joints on their online menus. Yeah. And they had, oh my gosh, this is Kamala level crazy, $575 million that they launched with. And now they're in trouble. They said that Jay-Z's monogram products are overpriced and underwhelming. Wow. And see, you never really get rid of the criminal element. They say California's legal weed sector has been stymied by complex rules, high taxes, competitions from black market traders, wildfires, sliding prices. A lot of people have been pushed into insolvency. But they said that it was mind-boggling the amount of money that was pushed for this. I could have told you immediately that probably not going to work. You're talking about luxury pot. People are broke. Everybody that is broke and the people who are going to be doing this are probably not going to be like the Jay-Z rich level people. They're going to be people who think that smoking this makes them Jay-Z rich level. And now they can't they can't afford it because everybody's broke because of the president Jay-Z endorsed. And his administration. So I can't say that I feel sorry for him. I don't. I just think it's funny. Like who thought that, you know what? We're in a time of, it's a lockdown. Let's launch a luxury cannabis company and charge people $50 per joint. What else can you make luxury? Like artisanal weed. Are you going to do artisanal kefir, Cain? It's pretty artisanal. I don't know how much more artisanal you can make it.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's pretty artisanal on its own. I don't know. Glass bottles preserved from Quaker. I have no idea what you could do with it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, that sounds... During a time of inflation, I just don't think that luxury stuff, especially starting any kind of luxury line, is going to make it take off. Gen Z, here's a story. Gen Z is killing the Christmas party. People are sober curious. Band aid is banned. And everybody goes home early. Golly, this generation sucks. This is horrible. I don't want to party with these people. Yeah, I know, right? Who dukeyed in their Wheaties? Jiminy. They even know what those are. They said mistletoe is a firm no-no. Apparently mistletoe sales have plummeted. I didn't even know.
SPEAKER 03 :
I've seen that.
SPEAKER 02 :
So stupid. They said that going to bed early is in. Gifting olive oil instead of alcohol. Shut up. Hot chocolate. And then out, band-aid, mistletoe, and alcohol. I mean... I don't know. I just don't know. Christmas parties, I don't care if somebody drinks or not. But if you're gifting, if you're giving olive oil, man, you better be knowing you're cooking. Don't just grab some cheap old olive oil because it's just stupid. Cain just gave me a serious look. That's a real thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
No plastic bottles. No plastic bottles.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, you don't keep it on a plastic bottle either. I don't know. Isn't this the generation or is it millennials that got upset over baby, it's cold outside?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think it was millennials.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, they ruin everything. These people ruin everything. Yeah, now they're like, oh, here we are hanging out and just, you know, no mistletoe. Band-Aid's part of it. You got to make fun of Band-Aid. That's the whole point of it. You play it and you make fun of the fact that all these celebrities got together and apparently Michael Jackson was weirded out. It's weird. It's funny. You make fun of it. Jiminy. Everybody stop being so serious.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 02 :
I read this story about how Hunter Biden apparently, isn't that interesting? He celebrated Trump. The pardon, his dad's pardon of himself. He celebrated it by watching a movie of himself. Well, what? So this is New York Post. He celebrated this unprecedented pardon from Daddy Joe by watching a movie about himself. Okay, what? It was a private screening of a documentary. Remember the sugar brother, Kevin Morris, the guy who facilitated everything by buying his horrible paintings? So he was the guy who apparently financed this documentary about him. And I guess he was at watching a screener of that documentary. the day that the pardon came out. So, and he was very, he was very happy. Apparently, a source said he's had, a huge weight was lifted off that he's had to carry since his dad got elected. I mean, his dad wasn't the one making you do all the gross things that you were doing, but okay. I mean, can you imagine being his kids and seeing this stuff about your dad in the press? It's just heinous, heinous. So, yeah, they said that, you know, people were attacking me and they were attacking me because of my father. Or because you were a deadbeat nepo. I mean, that's kind of like, you know, really what we're looking at, but whatever. So, he... I guess that... I don't know if it's ever going to be released, but... I don't know. So we'll, but yeah, that's how he spent, that's how he celebrated.
SPEAKER 03 :
So in 2020, Biden was adamant that Hunter's laptop was misinformation, wasn't real, and then recently now has pardoned him for all the crimes listed in the laptop.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, yeah. So the laptop isn't real, but he got a pardon for all the stuff. In the laptop. That he did in the laptop. So that's... D different. Yeah, it's D different. There you are. That does it for us, at least for that portion. Of course, we're going to watch everything with the Penny case, and then there's the Supreme Court as well. Any kind of cabinet changes, we'll have that covered tomorrow. Make sure you catch us at Substack, chapter and verse as well. To date in stupidity, Cain.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, looks like the medical treatment for transgenders conversation was happening with SCOTUS. And Sotomayor had a response to a question when it was asked, how many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits? And I don't know about you, Dana. When I've taken aspirin, I don't have irreparable harm. But this is what her response was. Let's listen.
SPEAKER 04 :
cannot eliminate the risk of detransitioners. So it becomes a pure exercise of weighing benefits versus risk. And the question of how many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits is one that is best left... I'm sorry, Counselor.
SPEAKER 07 :
Every medical treatment has a risk. Even taking aspirin. Oh, my Lord. Okay.
SPEAKER 02 :
Just like the transfer. Just like lopping off your schlong.
SPEAKER 07 :
Same thing, Dana.
SPEAKER 02 :
Just like it. Yeah, it's just like it. You guys didn't know that. All right, that does it for us today. I hope you all have a great rest of your evening. Make sure you find us on Substack, Chapter and Verse, as well as Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
Join Michael Bailey, the Mobile Estate Planner, as he delves into the complex world of probate and estate planning. In this episode, learn the importance of having a proper end-of-life plan and how avoiding probate isn't always necessary. Michael highlights the common misconceptions about the probate process and provides insights into whether it's the right option for you. Whether it’s a trust or a will, he helps unravel the pros and cons, guiding you to make informed decisions tailored to your unique situation.
Intro (Host) :
Welcome to Mobile Estate Planning with your host, Michael Bailey. Over a decade ago, attorney Michael Bailey turned his attention to estate law after he recognized the unacceptable number of adults without proper end of life planning. Michael recognizes that many of his clients have difficulty finding the time for making a proper estate plan. That's why he became the Mobile Estate Planner. He will go to wherever you are to assist you with your estate planning, including writing wills, trusts, and giving you the information you need to avoid probate. Now, ATX, Ask the Experts, presents Mobile Estate Planning with your host, Michael Bailey.
Michael Bailey (Host) :
Good afternoon. Welcome to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on 560 KLZ AM. Also heard on 100.7 FM or the KLZ 560 radio app. So many different ways. Phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600. And again, that's 303-477-5600. And my direct line is 720-394-6887. Again, that's 720-394-6887. So, I... I had planned to be here last week, you know, two weeks ago. I was like, hey, I'm totally going to be here. I'm totally going to make it right on time. And then I wasn't working the rest of the day and life got in the way. And so I'm sure that Luke, were you here? Was that Charlie that was probably scrambling to get me out on the air?
Producer Luke (Host) :
Last week?
Michael Bailey (Host) :
Yes, last week.
Producer Luke (Host) :
Then that was Charlie scrambling. Okay. I was in sunny Los Angeles. Oh, nice.
Michael Bailey (Host) :
So it's probably Charlie scrambling. So my apologies to Charlie for scrambling. He probably could pull up one of my shows and just run it. But I'm glad to be back now. So my intro says I can give you the information to avoid probate. And so the question becomes, is that something that we want to do or need to do? You know, people get concerned about probate and, you know, well, we need to, do we need to avoid probate? Do we need to, you know, what's wrong with probate? What is probate? You know, all of those things go into it. And the answer is there's not one right answer. Um, people get concerned about, uh, People get concerned about whether or not they're like, oh, you know, we need to try to avoid probate. And I'm like, well, do we though? I don't know that we – because avoiding probate sometimes is a goal that you want to do, but sometimes it doesn't have to be. It's not the only goal that's involved because sometimes – because when you're setting up your estate plan, probate isn't necessarily the – Probate isn't necessarily the enemy. Probate is simply the legal process of getting assets from the deceased individuals to the named beneficiaries or the heirs. But it's not necessarily, it doesn't have to be a liability. terrible, horrible thing. And there are some really good reasons why you may want to go through probate. And so the thing is that people sometimes misunderstand that if you have a will, people are like, oh, I have a will that I don't have to go through probate. I'm like, well, actually you do because a will goes through the probate process. And the probate process is just the process of getting assets from the deceased individual to the named beneficiaries of the heirs. But that's what happens with a will. Now, a will guides probate. A will says what is supposed to happen in probate and who's supposed to get what. So that's what we do. is we say, okay, we've got, you know, is the probate process say, okay, well, what does the will say? What are we supposed to do? Oh, we can do that. So that's what, that's what happens with the will is that you go through, is it, so that's, you know, so we get probate with a will. Now, of course, the You know, there are many people who don't want to go through probate, don't like probate, don't want to have anything to do with the government or have to have the government be involved at all. You know, they just they just they don't really want to have anything to do with probate. And I'm like, okay, that's fine. But if you're trying to avoid probate, then often you have to use a different type of vehicle or different type of estate planning product than a will, whether you use a trust or you have a beneficiary's deed or you have any number of other things And when you have that, when you're trying to set things up, you can't, you need to decide which way is the way to go. You know, a trust is an alternative to a will, and a trust becomes a private document so that your assets can pass through the trust instead of through the probate process. Now, lots of people say, well, which one's better? Which ones do I need to do? And I'm like, well, it's not that simple of a question because probate itself is just a process. It's not a scary thing. It's not a horrible thing. It's not a big court hearing where you have to go and have attorneys and prove things and so on and so forth. It's just kind of what it is. And And sometimes people, you know, sometimes probate is a really good idea for people. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes people want to go through probate and sometimes they don't. So, you know, why would you not want to go through probate? Well, you don't want to deal with the government. You don't want the government involved in things. You don't want to deal with the courts. Those type of reasons come up fairly often. And so, you know, people don't necessarily, I mean, nobody, okay. I have some friends who are litigation attorneys, and that's what they do for a living is they go to court and they litigate things and they do trial work. And, you know, they may be the kind of people who enjoy going to court. Or... If you're like the judge that I worked for, or I actually have a law school classmate who just got nominated to become a trial judge, and I have another law school classmate who's a magistrate judge down in Douglas County, they're judges, and so they go to court, and that's what they do. And so they're probably excited to go to court on a regular basis. Unless there's reasons why they're not excited. But most of the rest of us, myself included, even as an attorney, we tend to want to avoid going to court. The judge that I worked for, he seemed to enjoy what he did. And he called us in one day and he said, you know, guys, this is amazing. They pay me a lot of money. And I don't do anything. I just kind of react to what other people do. This is great. This is cool. Cool. Sorry. I was just excited about that. Now you guys go back and do work so that I can sit here and do nothing. He was funny. He wasn't, yeah, he does plenty. He did plenty of work. We're not, it's not like he was a slacker or something like that, but it was just kind of funny to hear him talk about that. Actually, later, after I'd worked for him, I worked for the DA's office. And I quoted him. I had a very upset mother. I was working the juvenile court and had a very upset mother who was confronting me and screaming at me in the hallways of the courthouse about why I hated her son and so on and so forth. And I looked at her and I said, ma'am, I didn't do anything. I just reacted to what your son did. So maybe you should talk to him. And I hope you have a great day. And I just kind of walked around her and went on my way. So it was a useful, helpful thing that the judge had taught me. But not everybody wants to go to court. So if you don't want to go to court or you don't want your heirs or your beneficiaries to have to go to court, after you've passed away, then a will may not be the way to go. You need to do something else, like have a trust. But trusts are more intense and more work on the front end to set up, and therefore they're a little bit more expensive, because instead of putting the work off on your representative on the back end and making them do all the work, you're doing the work on the front end to kind of make things easier for them. So it's a matter of do we do the work on the front end or do we do the work on the back end? On the front end in a trust, okay, we can do that. Back end with a will, we can do that too. You just have to choose which one makes the most sense. And sometimes people will be like, oh, well, my kids can handle everything. They're going to get the money, so we'll make them do the work. So we'll just do wills that they can do on the back end. Okay, cool. Sounds good. Other times people are like, well, you know, we have young kids, and if we turn this over to a brother or a sister, we don't want them to have to do things, so we're going to set up a trust to make it easier for them. And, you know, either approach is fine. It just depends on what you want to do. So you are listening to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on 560 KLZ AM, also heard on 100.7 FM or the KLZ 560 radio app. Um, but those who are trying to, and so when someone says, well, is it better? Is it worse? I'm like, it's really dependent on your situation. So, you know, a trust is a private document and people wonder, well, you know, who's going to make the trustee do what they're supposed to do? And the correct answer is there's not an active body out there that's supervising a trust. They just, it doesn't exist because the trustee A trust is a private document by very definition. Now, the beneficiaries of the trust, if they think the trustee is doing something wrong, they can petition the court to look into it or to have a trustee removed if they're doing something wrong. But there's not an active body out there supervising things. And so a trust... does have the ability and the possibility of lending itself to a trustee doing things in an improper manner and running amok. Now you can, you can put, uh, someone who's like a trust protector who can come in and enforce the provisions of the trust. Um, you can put that into a trust or, uh, well, um, And so it's just one of those things that you can have. So you can create somebody who's actively monitoring things, but that's not necessarily going to always be the case. And there's not a government entity out there monitoring trust because that's kind of the point of a trust is to try to keep the government out of it. So some people get very concerned about that and they're like, oh, well, you know, we don't want somebody to not have anybody looking over, you know, keeping track of things and making sure they're doing things the right way. And that's where having a will or having probate could be a really good thing, because when you have a will and it goes through the probate court in order to do things you have in probate, you have to have a. you have the court supervising things and the court is you have to so the personal representative who's in charge of the will has to give an inventory of assets to the court and then once they've inventoried the assets then they have to give, you know, pay off creditors and give notice to unknown creditors, and they have to inform the beneficiaries of what they're supposed to receive, and they have to give a final accounting of here's what we, here's what was in the estate, here's what has been paid out, and now we're ready to disperse things, and the court The court isn't necessarily watching every step of the way. Well, it might be because there's different levels of probate. But if you're concerned that the person's not going to be doing things the right way or there's the possibility that somebody could do something untoward, then having the court be there supervising is a desirable thing. Now, there are different levels of probate. There's informal probate, which is where the personal representative mostly acts independently and just checks in with the court every once in a while. There's formal administration, which is exactly what it sounds like, much more formal. There's much more interaction between the personal representative of the court. And then there's court supervised administration. And court supervised administration usually is there because something has gone wrong. You know, informal is, okay, we'll do this. We'll do this right. We're good. Formal is, hey, you know, we, there wasn't a will or we were concerned about, you know, person X acting correctly as opposed to person Y. So we want formal administration, court supervised administration. A lot of times is, hey, you know what? The first personal representative tried to take the money and run. And then the second one got in a fistfight with the kids of the deceased. And the third one was, you know, thinking that this was kind of like it was Perry Mason and trying to do something. all this intrigue. So we're just going to go ahead. This fourth person who's involved, we're going to be like, okay, you have to check in with the court. You need the court's permission to do all of these things. You know, we need somebody really standing there looking over your shoulder, pretty much everything you do. So most people may not need court supervised administration. Most people don't even need formal administration. They can be on the informal side, but the informal side is where people can, um, check in, um, so people can check in with the court and make sure they're doing things the right way and not just be left to their own devices. So someone who has that particular set of circumstances where they're like, yeah, we don't 100% trust everybody, along the way, so we're not sure that we really want to just let this person do anything and everything. So instead, we'd rather have somebody who can somebody who can have a, you know, just look over their shoulder, make sure they're doing things. And if something starts to go off the correct path, be like, Hey, you know, you need to kind of, they can reign them in sooner than what might happen with the trust. You know, with a trustee, you'd say you have a trustee who's in charge of a trust that has $3 million for three kids. So that's what, so it would be for my kids because if I die, I'm insured for a couple million. My wife's is insured for a million. So, if we die there's three million in life insurance so each of the kids could be a millionaire you know the the problem there is that i and my wife are dead which you know there there are probably days that my kids would be like yeah i don't know that i really want my parents i mean most teenagers probably feel like that every once in a while hopefully mine don't feel like that all the time but still um so we uh so if there's three a trustee has got three million dollars for three kids The trustee is like, OK, I'm going along. I'm using this money to take care of the kids. And then the trustee happens to fall on hard times. Maybe they get laid off and they're out of work for two years and they're still taking care of kids. And they're like, well, wait a minute. I've been out of work for two years. Now I'm six months behind on my mortgage and I'm about to lose my house. And I have access to this three million dollars. And, you know, I can just kind of borrow twenty five thousand dollars and to make sure that I can stay in my house and I'll pay the trust back. I promise, I'm sure of it. So then that $25,000, the trustee takes out and uses to pay their own expenses, which is not what they're supposed to do, by the way, but it happens. There's a temptation there. And the kids, if you're taking care of younger kids, say the kids were eight, six, and three, and you're like, well, the eight, six, and three-year-old aren't going to know or care how much money is in their trust because they're trusting the trustee. And so this trustee is like, oh, we'll take $25,000 out there. Okay, cool. And then five years, they're like, oh, I just haven't been able to repay it. It's been hard times. And then, oh, well, you know, now... now the, I had a new job and then I got laid off again. And now I only need 15,000 this time. Okay. So there's $40,000. And then the kids get to college and they graduate and they're like, cool. And then, Oh, Hey, here's the rest of your money. And they're going, wait a minute. I had a scholarship. I was frugal. So why am I only getting $60,000? Shouldn't there be $600,000? And the trustee says, well, you know, just the trust didn't do as well as we thought. And then so then the new college graduate starts to delve into things and says, wait a minute. You ended up taking a couple, two, three, $400,000 for yourself out of here that you weren't supposed to do. So we need that money back. And the trustee says, well, wait a minute. You know, I just, I used it to pay for my house. What am I supposed to do? Sell my house so I can pay you back? And the kids say, yep. well, now you're going to need to go to the court and have the court order that the house be sold so they can be paid back. But sometimes the house may not be what they spent it on. Say they went on a vacation to Hawaii and spent $20,000 on a Hawaiian vacation. Well, you can't just go to Hawaii and say, hey, Hawaii, can I have $20,000 back? And Hawaii will be like, oh, sure. We have this magical money tree that grows in the middle of the volcano. So We'll just pull $20,000 off and give it back to you. It doesn't work that way. So there is a possibility with a trust that you could have improper acting. People are like, oh, they can't do that. It's illegal. I'm like, well, I'd like to believe what you say, but if you say you can't do something because it's illegal, let's talk about some other illegal things. It's illegal to speed. It's illegal to turn left on a red arrow. It's illegal to steal things. It's illegal to steal soda when you didn't buy a soda and just got a water cup. It's illegal to steal somebody's car. Technically, murder is illegal too, but people get killed all the time. So just because something is illegal doesn't mean it can't happen. It means it shouldn't happen, but there is the possibility that it could happen. So as wonderful as trusts are, they are not a foolproof, everything is going to work out perfectly all the time method. So while a trust may be superior in a lot of respects, it's not the perfect thing that could work in every single situation. So you have to think about it and pick what's best for you. So you are listening to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on KLZ 560 AM or also heard on 100.7 FM or the KLZ 560 radio app. Phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600. And again, that's 303-477-5600. And my direct line is 720-394-6887. And once again, that's 720-394-6887. So you've got, and probate, a lot of times people will be like, they're like, oh, well, do we need to go through probate? They're like, well, let's talk about probate. Probate is, at least in Colorado, probate isn't that bad. You can find the forms that you need to file for probate online. The Colorado Judiciary publishes those. So there's a form that you can fill out to apply for probate. And then there's a form you can fill out to be for a letter of testamentary or a letter of administration, which is where the court gives you, gives the representative legal permission to access your assets and to get them and transfer them where they're supposed to go. There's a form for who's going to be appointed as the personal representative. There's a form for who can, you know, if there's a couple of kids and one's like, no, I don't want to act as a personal representative, they can turn down that. So there's just different, there's different, so all the necessary forms to fill out complete and then take to the court to file, you can find them online. And I mean, I've had many clients who I've explained that to them and they can go find the forms and they fill them out and go through the process and they're fine. Others are like, oh, well, you know, we were doing fine, but then suddenly we got a notice from Medicaid that they had paid $75,000 on my dad's behalf, so we're not quite sure what to do with that. I'm like, well, is there enough in the estate to pay it off? Well, yeah, okay, then just go ahead and pay it off and then move on. Well, no, there's not enough, so what do we do? I'm like, well, you really want to talk to an attorney who handles... uh, probate administration, because one of the nice things about how things go in probate is that if there are more debts than there are assets in a state in an estate, then, uh, the excess debts can be dismissed through the probate process because, um, basically your debts kind of die with you, but they could be collected against your assets. So let's say that you have a house and you've, You buy this house and you're living in the house and it's all good. And then you're like, oh, well, you know, I need to refinance the house and we're going to refinance the house to pay for medical bills or to pay for a car or something like that. So you're like, OK, now we refinance the house and then we do live in Colorado and there's going to be the problem of land subsiding. So let's say that your house starts sinking. You're like, oh, well, now the house is sinking. The foundation is starting to crack. It needs $100,000 worth of repairs. So now if you had a house, it was worth $500,000, but it needs $100,000 of repairs, so it's only worth $400,000. And your loan balance is $450,000. So now you're $50,000 upside down in your house. You go, ooh, this is a problem. What do I do now? Well, if you're alive, you keep paying on it, and hopefully that will do that, and you can pay somebody to come in and hopefully kind of shore up your house and stop it from sinking and fix the foundation. There are construction companies who do things like that. I'm not one of them, but there are people who do that. And so we go, okay, well, we'll try to do that. We'll try to fix it. We'll try to make sure that things are good. That'll be good. And so let's say that that happens to be the moment at which you happen to die. And you're like, oh, so you die. House is worth only $400,000 because of the necessary repairs. You owe $450,000. Well, you go in and you're like, okay, well, you sell the house. So you sell the house and you're still $50,000 upside down. But through the probate process, you're like, look, we've paid off all we can. There's no more money left. Sorry, creditor. You're not going to be able to recover that extra $50,000. And the creditor is going to have really no choice or recourse but say, No, but wait, isn't there more assets? You're like, well, let's see here. Where there was the house, the car was worth $250 because it was a 1993 Honda Prelude that was still running with 580,000 miles on it, but just not worth anything. There wasn't any money left in the bank account. The furniture and stuff was... vintage purchased in the fifties and not replaced since. So it's good for taking out to the dump. So there's, there's nothing left and the cutter goes, oh, okay. Well, I guess there's no, so they're kind of out of luck at that point. Now, this is part of why creditors and lenders are very careful because they don't want to be put in that situation. I mean, I've had many clients be like, well, when they die, how do we set it up so that the loan then just disappears? And I'm like, that would be great. That would be awesome if I could figure out how. that when you die, the loan just disappears and the house goes to your kids. That would be awesome. Could you imagine how rich I would be? I'm like, yes, I will put you in this loan. You'll have all of this money. And then when you die, the house passes to your kids, but the loan just goes away. I don't think that the banks and other lenders would be cool with that. What do you think, Luke? You're cool with the banks and lenders just being like, yep, we'll just forgive all loans forever?
Producer Luke (Host) :
Oh, they're famously very generous like that.
Michael Bailey (Host) :
Yeah, in a not at all sort of way?
Producer Luke (Host) :
In a not at all sort of way.
Michael Bailey (Host) :
Right, exactly. At least we're on the same page here, or at least the same, you know, set of microphones. But, you know, I mean, that would be great for, you know, kids and things like that. But that's not how it works because banks tend to not, you know, make bad loans. And they tend to make loans where they're going to make money and they're going to recoup their money. So, you know, but if you had same situation, say the house is, you know, worth, $400,000, you owe $350,000. So okay, we got $50,000 of extra money. Sweet. Except that when the person dies, they had $75,000 in credit card debt. Well, that $75,000 in credit card debt is going to come and try to take what they can get of the other $50,000 in equity. But then the remaining $25,000 can be discharged in probate. So, again, there might be really good reasons to go through probate. Not everybody needs to avoid probate. If you want to avoid probate, there are ways to do it. And I'm certainly well versed in those. But we want to evaluate what your situation is like before we just go trying to say, yes, we need to avoid probate as a blanket statement. It doesn't work. So thanks so much for listening to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on 560 KLZ AM. I will be back next week, but John Rush is coming up next, so stay tuned. Thanks and bye.
Intro (Host) :
Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey will return to ATX next Wednesday at 2.30 here on KLZ 560, AM 560, FM 100.7, and online at klzradio.com.
