W W Gary Jeff Walker at your service for a Tuesday nightcap. The All
Star break continues in the Reds, meanwhile, continue to wait and wait and
wait so they can sit and pounce on those hapless Milwaukee Brewers Friday night at
Great American Ballpark. When the season resumes, the Reds are still in first
place in the NL Central. It helps when you nobody's played any games for
a couple of days, and that's the way that works. Go Op Go
Broke, disney Man, Big trouble at America's Happiest place on Earth, Walt
disney World, July fourth weekend, Shockingly low crowds, shockingly low attendance,
way off their average, and certainly nowhere near the highs that Disney used to
enjoy this time of year. Maybe the American people have finally decided, just
like many of them did with bud Light and the Dylan Mulveney debacle, that
Disney doesn't really They're not a beacon for their values and the things that they
hold important, which happened not be five year old transgender Chippin' Dales. So
Disney's at a point. You see all the firings at ESPN, just like
a week and a half ago, I mean thousands let go from the Entertainment
in Sports Programming Network. Of course, their parent company is Disney. Disney's
in trouble and it doesn't look like it's gonna get any better anytime soon,
as long as they continue their adherents with these far left out of touch woke
policies and caring water for small little pockets of supposedly victimized groups in the country.
And the political fight with Ron de Santis continues in Florida. I remember
going to Disney thanks to radio junkets back in the late eighties, I was
very lucky. I got to take about three or four free trips down to
Walt Disney World. They would have radio stations come in from around the country
when they were trying to promote a new exhibit, say at Epcot or the
MGM Studios which aren't there anymore, or any of the new hotels, and
we would go down for like a week to Orlando and broadcast from inside the
park. At Disney, we had Carte launch Man, we had a free
hotel room. They paid for the satellite, they paid for our air fare,
they paid for our food. For the most part, it was a
nice little working vacation, and I enjoyed Disney then. But you know what,
I was an adult in upper twenties, early thirties, and I was
on my own in Florida with my friends and we were having a good time
party in it up, the reality is not to save for most people who
have to pay their way, especially with the prices that Disney is charging.
I can't even amag and I could look it up. You could too,
what a family of four for three days in Disney World costs these days.
And they're not synonymous in this. I'm sure Universal is pretty pricey too,
but Universal doesn't have all of that backlash to deal with overwoke policies. So
it'll be interesting to see what happens with Walt, Disney World and Disney as
an entity in and of itself. I mean, things do not look good
right now, and unless there is a major turnaround corporately on things that they
I don't know, support, condone or condemn, I don't see a change
in anytime soon. And it's sad. Disney was a man. There's nothing
like sitting in the lobby of the Grand Floridian Hotel, having some coffee and
a muffin or something. The muffins are really good at Disney, or they
used to be. Anyway, that aside a fantastic nightcap ready to roll for
you tonight among our guests. Our first guest is Todd Benzman. You may
be very familiar with Todd. You may have seen him at Fox News.
You may have heard him on this show. He is with the Center for
Immigration Studies. He is in Mexico, and we'll have a report for us
from south of the border in just a few moments. My old friend Jay
Armstrong is going to make a return appearance to the Nightcap a little bit later
on Jaya stand up comedian and also the vape King of Northern Kentucky his reaction
to Cincinnati City council persons wanting to ban flavored vapes. Naomi Gooducci Goudache,
I knew I would screw up the name eventually. Naomi is with the Right
to Life in Ohio. Rob McCaulay is a state Senator who sponsored a resolution
and it all evolves around Issue one, the big election that will determine how
the Ohio Constitution reads and how further constitutional amendments or statutes passed in the State
of Ohio will require if it passes sixty percent majority of the people. Anytime
you're going to do something as serious as change of constitution, I think you
should have a supermajority. The federal government does it that way. Why can't
Ohio one of a handful of states that doesn't have the supermajority rule in legislation
and statutes and constitutional amendments. Right now, it's just fifty percent plus one
vote. Not good. Karen Cataline comes back, She'll be spouting off and
the fur ball all ahead as we continue on this Tuesday night, SELW.
Are you a blurry eyed, pillow haired snooze button hitter? Are you a
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the Center for Immigration Studies, the man who has written out two books about
our border crisis, America's Covert Border War, and also Overrun, which is
out now. Todd Benzman joins us for a few minutes tonight. Todd,
you are in Mexico at this point, correct, Yes, Padres Negres,
Mexico, just across from Eagle passlexis all right. This has been one of
the big choke points where all of the foreign criminal trespassers as I like to
call them, are coming through, and Eagle Pass has been one of the
focuses we've seen. Now, what's going on on that side of the border.
Do you see any large groups ready to come in as it become more
of a trickle? What's happening now? Todd? Yeah, so pretty much
all morning long, and all week long and all month long. There's this
sort of game that's going on where the Texas governor Abbot is blocking the immigrants
at the river bank, not allowing them to pass. While the immigrants understand
that the Texas authorities will block them at the river water, they also understand
that if they can just find Biden's border patrol officers that they'll be let in.
So there's this hunt for border patrol to get to let them in and
this evasion of the Texas troops you know, who are blocking them. Yeah,
and for the most part, that's fine. That's fine. This is
when you're live on location. This is what happens. You had all kinds
of external noises interrupting the transmission a helicopter and here about that. No,
that's okay, it adds authenticity. But yeah, so, um, the
immigrants are finding that they're able to get through often enough they can bypass Texas
and find border patrol. And so they are continuously crossing here from piegris Negress
over to Eagle Pass because the landscape is very difficult for the Texans to block
everything. But the Texans are doing a pretty yeoman's job at it. They're
clear land, they're occupying sandbars, they are building now a marine barrier,
these big orange sort of circular floats. They're going to put a thousand feet
of that in. They're starting to put that in now to block them inside
the river so that they can't get past them to border patrol. And so
there's a lot going on here where Texas is trying to block them, and
the Biden Border Patrol is trying to let them all in. Right, So
Texas, you know every state I was talking with Terry Lake about this,
who of course ran have failed to bid for Arizona governor this last time that
every state has actually a requirement to defend it it's borders from invaders, and
Texas is trying to do that. Some others are non and the Biden administration
certainly isn't trying to protect anybody's borders from invasion. And this is what this
is is a full scale invasion, is it not? Well you can see
well, Texas is definitely treating it like an invasion. You know, you
can see fortifications. I mean, it really looks like kind of a war
zone on the Texas side. Airboat sure, sure, well it is technically
it is a war zone. Because you talk about America's covert border war in
your first book and Overrun, that sounds an awful lot like an invasion to
me. And there are just thousands and thousands of yards of razor wire that
Texas has strung. They're clearing all the brushed off of the Texas side,
so there's nowhere to hide. They're occupying land like kind of islands in the
middle of a river. Yeah, and right now behind me, I mean
there's a group of about twenty immigrants that are on the Texas side, but
they won't let them through. They're on the they're on the wrong side of
the razor wire. I'm looking at him right now. They're just planning to
just stay there. Others will come back to the Mexican side and go try
to find a spot where they might be able to find an order the goal.
And they told me that, So that's kind of what's going on.
It's just literally really beating up a lot of the fortifications. So yeah,
the border patrol that is releasing them into the country. This is all at
the behest of Majorcas because he ultimately is in charges ahead of DHS of border
right and the federal reason right, the reason exactly the reason. This is
kind of like Greg Abbott versus Joe Biden in my orcus here down here,
because the Maorcus EHS is allowing all of them into the country. If they
can get past Texas and into the border patrol hands, they get on a
bus and within a day or two they're in Chicago, Denver, Detroit,
wherever, Miami, anywhere they want to go forever, and whatever you've heard
otherwise is untrue. They're letting them all through. Everybody gets in, everybody
gets in, every everybody plays, everybody wins, because there is simply no
enforcement of our laws, the immigration laws we have on the books. Stan
that's the problem. And Texas, Texas has a a you know, a
big hill to climb, a mountain to climb here against that sort of bay,
because it just entices these migrants to just keep you know, charging the
river bank, charging the river bank over and over again here and there until
they finally get a border patrol agent to let them in, and they do
let them let them in. Otherwise they're just stuck on the river bank.
Like I'm looking at right now, a group that are just sitting over there,
and I don't know how I'm go'll be there before they give up.
You also just posted a story that you sent me, Todd Benzman, about
this US soldier who pled guilty to terrorism but did not face high treason charges
as you say he should have. Yeah, this is not related to immigration
in any way, but it is the homeland security matter, which I write
about at length. Too. This is just an egregious case of treason.
In my opinion, when you read the court records, it got no publicity
US Army. Stouldier in the third Division, Infantry Division went into the Army
as a committed Jihadis. He was actually on US intelligence radar before he joined,
but somehow they let him in and the entire time that he was in
the service, he was on the horn with committed ISIS operatives teaching them how
to kill Americans. Uh. And this this is just an egregious case.
And my point is that, uh, you know, this is such a
matter of such high treason that in any other time this guy would have been
charged with treason and maybe executed. That's a def penalty charge. Instead,
they just got him on material support and attempted murder of US personnel, which
is you know, could carry a forty year term. But the details of
the case or what my story is about about just how how far this guy
went to help ISIS kill Americans in the battle on the battlefield using American tactics.
He was providing them with material with I'm sorry, with Army field manual
material and with diagrams of tactics that he had learned in the business world.
In the business world, we call it proprietary knowledge. Right basically, well,
you can, you can. You should get executed for that. And
I believe so if you remember you join the military on purpose so you can
kill other members of the military. Absolutely, that is a treasonous offense in
my opinion. Todd, let me tie that back in real quick before we
go to the topic immigration. How many people have we caught now that we
know about who've been on the Terra watch list. They continue to come across
our southern border as well, right while over two hundred And I'm glad you
asked that because the DHS Office of Inspector General just released an inflable report,
investigative report about how the Myortists administration under math Migration released a FBI watched list
and terrorist into the country accidentally and how they pointed them two weeks later.
But all the mistakes that were made, and it's just what I've always thought,
which is that this mass migration crisis as openly country to potential terrorist attack
because they're not doing the normal counter terrorism work that they would in normal times,
that it's kept the nation safe. It's a DHS OIG investigation. I
wrote a sixteen hundred word analysis of that. You can find it at Tom
Benzman dot com. I wrote it for my organization, Center for Immigration Studies
CIS dot org. An incredible indictment of this mass migration crisis and the national
security implications of it. Well, Todd Bensman, I really appreciate your time.
I know it's tight you're in Mexico, and we appreciate having a correspondent
on our southern border. Here on the nightcap from CIS Center for Immigration STUDYCIS
dot org, Todd Benzman dot com. Todd Benzman and a fantastic report.
Once again, Always like to check in with Todd because, as you heard,
he's right there on the border, unlike most members of the Biden administration.
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Darry Jeff Our next guest or next couple of jests in this half hour
are on to talk about Issue one on the ballot in Ohio August eighth.
Now, this is a special election, and special elections tend to not have
great turnouts if there's nothing else really going on, and there isn't in this
case. But it is important that if you're if you're an Ohio voter,
it is extremely important that you get out on Tuesday, August eighth, or
before if you can vote early in Ohio. I know you can vote early
a lot of a lot of elections in Ohio, but Issue one is on
the ballot, and this is so crucial to protecting really to protecting majority rule
in the state of Ohio and actually doing what the people. All the polls
show that people want an Issue one says that if it passes, if you
vote yes on Issue one, it will mean that anytime there is a constitutional
amendment in the state of Ohio, at any time there is a statute on
the ballot, for the voters to decide something that's that crucial, will require
sixty percent of whoever votes instead of what is now fifty percent plus one vote
puts things over the top, and for things as important as a human life,
you need more than fifty percent plus one to say, codify abortion in
the state of Ohio. To talk about that, Naomi Dela Guida Cha,
who is a pro life activist and works for the pro life folks in the
state of Ohio, talks for a moment about Issue one and the importance from
her standpoint. Naomi, welcome to the program. Gary, Thank you so
much for having me here this evening and just for taking time to shine light
on this important life and death issue here in Ohio today. All right,
So tell me why Issue one is so crucial to protecting life in your opinion
in the state of Ohio. Absolutely. Issue one is Ohio's response to a
radical out of state special interest campaign that is currently threatening Ohio families and voters.
Right now. Out of state special interest groups are trying to put radical
late term, painful abortion up to birth into the Ohio Constitution this November as
a quote constitutional right for quote any individual of any age here in the state
of Ohio, and they're aclu liberal language would actually allow parents to not be
involved. It would basically prevent parents from being involved in a minor child's process
as they're considering or thinking about abortion. So essentially, this amendment will say
late term abortion in the state of Ohio is one allowed in any circumstance,
at any time, and parents do not even have a legal right to a
say or even notification about this process. Additionally, the acous language would take
away current health and safety measures thinks as simple as a hospital transfer agreement between
an abortion facility and a local emergency room in case of a medical emergency.
Their language would strip all of the common sense health and safety measures in the
state of Ohio, including targeting thirty thousand onborn lives every single year. As
this amendment is added to o how constitution this November. Well, the legislature
in Ohio has already acted NAOMI on these issues, and there's significant restrictions on
abortion, which of course judges, liberal leftist judges have put stays on a
lot of that legislation in a lot of states. But this would actually change
Ohio's constitution to no matter what the legislature has said in the past, to
make abortion basically anytime, any place, anywhere, up right up till the
moment of birth. Is that where you're telling me that is true. It
would do just that with none of the current health and safety regulations that even
exist at this time. So basically, these radical out of state special interests
pro abortion groups are saying, we don't care what you the people have elected
your legislators to do. We're going to try to circumvent the legislators because they're
not doing what we want. And we're actually going to say we're just going
to go around the legislative process and try to shove this into the constitution through
dangerous vaguely worded language that is unclear to you. Unless you're a lawyer,
you may not even fully understand the scope of what it does. And that's
intentional, and they circumvent the people to represent you by going and trying to
kind of attack you from another route and stick this in the constitution. Well,
they are very very well funded, as you mentioned, out of state
Planned Parenthood ACLU, the usual characters when it comes to killing babies, because
you know there's a lot of money in the murder of unborn children. It
is the abortion industry is just that it's an industry, and you're fighting a
lot of time from a very very well funded campaign, which is so disingenuous
if you've seen any of the TV commercials, because it makes it sound like
you better vote no on Issue one or you're going to lose your voice being
heard, when it's exactly the opposite way around. In truth, a vote
yes on Issue one guarantees that something as important as changing the state's constitution requires
a majority of the people majority rule, and a supermajority at that, not
just fifty percent plus one, because as we've seen recently, elections that are
that close very often are that manipulative and very confusing for the average voters.
So it's good that you're getting the word out, and I felt like it
was important for me to help you get that word out talking about Issue one
and why it's I mean, for the most part, my push is just
to get as many people aware and get out and vote. Because if you've
got a majority the voters in the state of Ohio that are registered going to
the polls and voting yes on Issue one, that that's what they're They're they're
going to vote yes. The majority of people in Ohio, and I believe
that maybe as much as sixty percent would vote yes if if the turnout is
as it should be. But that's the problem for me, is that the
voters, unless it's a national election, a presidential year, the voters in
Ohio just simply do not turn out. What are you doing to try and
get the vote out, Naomi, Well, thank you so much for that
question, Gariet. Essentially, there are campaigns, there's a coalition of a
bunch of different organizations that are just working really hard on education. We're working
so hard to educate people, letting them know not only you need to come
out and go ourn issue one on August dates, but especially letting them know
what Issue one does. So there's phone calls, direct phone calls to people,
direct mail, a lot of different avenues that this campaign is taking.
But the key concept is as radical and devastating as this abortion amendment in November
is the abortion amendment is only the first item on the asail US liberal laundry
list of things that they want to shove into our constitution. And the real
question that every Ohio voter needs to be asking themselves today is should our basic
god given rights the up for sale to the highest bidder or contingent upon ever
changing public opinion or misinformation in Ohio. So at the end of the day,
it's critical that every Ohio and vote yes an Issue one on August dates
because our human rights are basic human rights, the right to life, along
with all of the other things we hold dear that are ensrined at our constitution
are under attacked by these out of state groups that are targeting us. Well,
again, my push is get as many people out to vote as possible,
because if you do that Issue one will pass. That's that's my contention,
you know. And the education part that you mentioned is absolutely crucial to
motivate people and to make them understand what's at stake. Naomi did see I
was going to get through this without doing it. Del gaducha, you are
so close, all right, well the Italian I got it right the first
time, Naomi thing. Thank you so much for your time tonight, keep
up the good fight for life in the state of Ohio. Vote yes on
Issue one August eighth. We will talk to the state sponsor of that issue,
Rob McCaulay in just a few moments. As we continue on the nightcap
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Being value conscious and getting the most for your money is so important these
days, and that's why it's more important you want to Ohio on August eighth
on the ballot and what it says if you if it passes you vote yes
on Issue one, it means it will take a supermajority of sixty percent of
the vote to change Ohio's constitution or for statutes to get passed by the voters.
And another change is that Well to explain the other changes that Issue one
will bring about if it is passed on August eighth, the state Senate sponsor
of that issue and he is Rob McCauley from Senate District one in rural northwest
Ohio. Rob McCauley, good evening, and welcome to the Nightcap. How
are you, oh I'm ecstatic to be here, thank you for the opportunity
and looking forward to it. I was talking with Naomi again from the pro
life crowd, who are very much in favor of voting yes on Issue one
for obvious reasons. And that big reason, as she pointed down, was
all of this outside money coming from ACLU, Planned Parenthood and other groups that
don't necessarily have Ohioan's best interests at heart, but they do have the abortion
industry's best interest at heart. They don't want this to pass because they're hoping
to change Ohio's constitution. In November with merely fifty percent plus one vote on
the abortion issue, which would codify abortion in the state of Ohio, getting
a run around the state legislature of which you're apart. So I can understand
why they're in favor of Issue one, and I can understand why you would
be since you were the state Senate sponsor of this. But tell me about
issue one and tell me and the other thing I was explaining to her,
and maybe I believe you will concur with me. It's important to get the
word out about this because we want Ohio voters to turn out the way they
usually don't turn out in these special elections. Rob McCaulay, take it from
the absolutely well again, thank you for the opportunity. One clarification from your
intro, this changes for supermajority just for constitutional amendments, not for statutory amendments.
We are leaving the statutory initiative process at fifty percent plus one, and
that kind of leads me into what Issue one does and why we need to
do it the way we are. We are one of only a handful of
states that has both a process for a constitutional amendments that go in front of
the voters at fifty percent plus one simple majority and we also allow for voter
initiated statute Ohio Revised Code amendments to go in front of voters at fifty percent
plus one simple majority. Predictably, if you're going to be running a ballot
campaign statewide, you would rather go with the more permanent solution. You would
rather go with the thing that is going to be protected from your elected representatives
in the legislature. And that's the Constitution. And that's why we rarely in
the state of ohioever the a statutory initiative process that's initiated by the voters,
and we find our constitution littered with things that are better served in the legislative
process, better served in the Ohio Revised Code. That way, when changes
come about, we can address those changes. And so we all know from
our high school Civics classes, or even from the classes we took when we
were in grade school, that the Constitution is a superior document deserving of superior
protection relative to the laws that are passed by the legislature. And in fact,
the laws passed by the legislature all subject to and inferior to the Constitution.
And so it stands to reason that the Constitution should be reserved for the
principles that our government is run by, and also the issues that unite us
broadly and the rights that we enjoy, not the issues that divide us.
And unfortunately, that's what our constitution in the state of Ohio is beginning to
turn into in some respects has already turned into, with the most egregious example
being the constitutional amendment in two thousand and eight that dealt with casinos. And
so, I don't have anything against casinos. Don't have anything against somebody wanting
to go out and play a little bit of craps or some table games or
pull the slots. I don't have a problem with that. But the casino
operators in two thousand and eight, because they identified Ohio as an easy target,
bought up four parcels of land in the state of Ohio, took the
parcel numbers of those pieces of real estate, put it into a constitutional ballot
question, and actually they were successful, through great expense of their own but
for a perpetual income stream, they were successful putting those parcels of land in
our constitution as the only parcels of land on which a casino can operate,
thereby giving themselves a monopoly and a sweetheart deal in our constitution. That's why
we need this change. It should not be a policy document that it should
not be something that's glittered with things that are better served in the legislature,
and it should not be a target for special interests to give themselves a perpetual
sweetheart deal. Well, when the Hobbs ruling came down from the Supreme Court
last year and pushed the abortion issue back where I believe it belongs the states,
then that put squarely the focus of states like Ohio on the ACLU and
Planned Parenthood's map to try and do this end around the legislature that you know
that are better suited to decide these kind of issues for the voters that they
represent. And so I understand from that perspective why it's important and the way
you just illustrated it as well. I mean, it takes a it takes
a supermajority to ratify the United States Constitution. If that's going to happen,
I mean, it can only happen a few ways, and that's one of
the ways. A supermajority of states have to ratify that change to our constitution.
Why shouldn't a supermajority of Ohio voters be required to change the constitution of
the state of Ohio. As you mentioned, Ohio's only one of a handful
of states that doesn't have that supermajority or that real majority vote that's required.
Any other thoughts on this, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And you know,
you talk about the United States Constitution, it's actually seventy five percent I
know, of the states need to ratify an amendment in that, So that's
even higher than what we're talking about here. And you know, there's a
lot of argument being made that, Look, the Ohio Constitution is not the
US Constitution for a variety of reasons, and I'm not trying to say that,
but we're also trying to say, look, most other states were in
a very small minority of states who even allow a simple majority to amend our
constitutions. Most other states have realized that it's a playground for special interests to
come in and take over your constitution in the way the state operates, and
that's never what was intended when these provisions were put in. It's time we
protect our constitution instead of allow it to be a breeding ground for bad ideas
offered by special interests. Rob mcaulay, let me ask you just one one
more real quick question. Would you be in favor of some kind of an
amendment that would that would limit the availability of outside money these special interest groups
from influencing elections. I mean, I know, we get into first we
have to first Amendment free speech issues with that, and the Supreme Court has
ruled that, you know, these hacks are people just the same as you
and I are. These corporations are people just the same as you and I.
But I don't know. I think there's some merit to look at because
I get disgusted all the time as a resident of Kentucky watching all this outside
money pour in to say, like the governor's race and stuff like that.
Is there any way to limit the dark money that's coming from out of state
that is trying to do things like influence voters on issue one. So I
think you correctly highlighted the difficulty in that because it's been something that money has
become more prevalent in politics than it ever has, and groups nationally on both
sides of the aisle really have gotten really good at consolidating resources and then funneling
them in a very targeted fashion to hot races around the state, and I
would imagine we're going to see that in the state of Ohio with our United
States Senate race coming up here next next year. But at that same time,
you highlight the difficulty and that there are First Amendment concerns under the United
States Constitution with stopping that the Supreme Court has made clear through its jurisprudence that
they have the right to spend money in those races, and which is a
protected form of speech. And so you know, it's it's a tricky question
to answer, and it's something that I always help people say it to the
people this way. I love our Constitution at the United States level, and
I believe our high Constitution needs protected as well. And frankly, if you
love it, you just like a family member, you take it with some
of the things that frustrate you on occasion. And this is one of those
instances where I believe in the First Amendment. And so that's all encompassing.
State Senator Rob McCauley, who was the sponsor of Issue one on the ballot
August States vote yes on Issue one, and thank you, Senator McCauley,
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months on Monday and Tuesday night anyway. But Joe, whenever I have the
chance to do that, I want to make sure I assemble the greatest lineup
of talkers around. And she definitely qualifies. The lady who was spouting off
constantly and occasionally for us, Karen Cataline back on the night kept Hello,
Kak, you are just such a consummate pro. You know, I'm not.
I are you overly flattering? But you get in the name of my
show as well, man, bravo you well, you know what, mentioned
the book three times, and make sure all of the other rules that we're
supposed to adhere to you when we're gonna have somebody on our programs and you
like as well as me. So tonight's topic is how many jobs can you
have and get paid for and keep the job when you're simply obviously just mailing
it in. I mean, I can't. I cannot do this job.
I couldn't just show up and hope that some of my friends called. I
spend a whole week booking a couple of shows, and I'm on the phone
and I'm emailing, and I plan and prep each day of you know,
just I don't have that many opportunities so I want to make it shine,
you know, So I can't really, I can't really mail it in on
this job, although I've been accused of saying before by people who are jealous
and don't have this gig. Yeah, and I certainly can't mail in being
a bartender. Uh not if you're going to be a good bartender. Now,
I see some other people with the jobs and they're just hanging around looking
at their phones while people are starving and dying of thirst around them. I
see that. But you cannot be a successful bartender and make And again,
my breasts aren't big enough to rely on just that alone. So I have
to actually, I have to actually provide service to my customers if I want
to make any money. So not mailing it in. Um, your your
husband's got much metaphors. When you said phone it in, I was going
to say I phoned it in all the time. Well no, no,
I meant no. I know I'm saying mailing it in and uh. But
there is apparently at least one job in our federal government, and I think
with the Biden administration, there are many many jobs in our federal government where
the subject who is supposed to be in charge of that job is obviously just
mailing in or phoning it in. Uh. You look at pothole Tete Buddha
Jadge is Transportation Secretary. Janet Yellen did go to China, but that was
just to beg and grovel with wuji um please please don't cut off our money.
Uh. And and it goes on and on. But this is someone
who inescapably cannot disguise the fact that she is mailing it in on a regular
basis. Our Vice President, Kamala Harris, you need to get to go.
I need to be able to get where you need to go to do
the work and get home. Significance of the passage of time, right,
the significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it,
there is great significance to the passage of time. Well, I think culture
is it is a reflection of our moment and our time right and present.
Culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment. And we
should always find times to express how we feel about the moment. That is
a reflection of joy. Because you know it comes in the morning, whatever
that means, it comes in the morning. What is this is heals up
Paris at her best at the Essence event back June thirtieth, and there are
a couple of fine examples before that, thanks to the folks at Fox News
Channel who put that that particular montage together. But they're easily available everywhere for
anyone to hear. And this woman is I mean, they talked about cocaine
in the West Wing. I don't know what she's on, but I've accused
her of being high almost every day on the job. Your thoughts, Karen
Cataline, Oh even you know, I even hate saying this, But Biden
has an excuse to sound that way because most people with a brain in their
heads believe that he's suffering from some form of dementia. He shows it every
day. Now there are reports that he rages out, which is yet another
symbol of it, and we're all supposed to make believe it's not happening.
Harris doesn't have any excuse, And I think she's always been this inarticulate.
And maybe the radical left is trying to start a new wonderful uh what to
call it? Now, a new pattern and a new standard for political service
to the country by being as incompetent, foolish and silly as it's possible to
be. Um. Now, on a serious note, I think it is
the the animosity and the hatred for this country that makes them want to do
that and to get the most unimpressive, unaccomplished and uh in some cases guilty
of all kinds of crimes to serve to supposedly um represent us in this country.
Uh So there's a there's a Babylon b which I know you love the
aspect of it. It's it's it's a battle on be aspect of it,
and they deserve ridicule. I mean, this is the thing. We've lowered
our standards to such an extent that, oh, we cannot parody these people.
Number one, it's you can't. It's so hard to parody them because
once upon a time we tried at least to get our best and brightest,
and now we have our most, our worst, our most corrupt, and
our most um um unimpressive. I can't even call it unimpressive. I mean,
was that not even edited? That sound? Because I know that sound.
No, the the culture thing was its own entity, and then the
other things happened happened at other times, but it's a constant with Kamala with
It's it's constant. Anytime that she is speaking extemporaneously, she has appsolutely no
idea what she's gonna say next, So she just talks in circles and it
becomes a circular firing squad for anybody who's trying to listen and discern what she's
actually saying, because you can't there, there's no way to discern that there's
there's no there there, and and isn't it in line with everything we are
being asked to swallow and believe going on right now, that we're being asked
to believe massive amounts of nonsense that isn't true. So I guess the best
metaphor I've ever seen for what we're watching is the Emperor has no clothes.
No. That has been the story of the entire Joe Biden presidency from yes
from the beginning when he when he nicked the Keystone pipeline on the very first
day, to every other move he has made. It has been one of
those Oh my god, this person is genuinely trying to destroy the country.
When he talks about finishing the job and running in twenty he means finishing the
last nail in our coffin. Yes, I do not think and it's redundant
to say it, and that's why I'm not gonna That's why I'm gonna say
it. I don't think he's making these decisions at all. I mean,
if if they want him to step down tomorrow, he'll step down. You
haven't said so there's sound out that says that that what if I say anything,
I'm not supposed to say. I just saw an article because I just
finished my show in which it said that Biden unexpectedly inadvertently board it out top
secret classified information. And yet they're going after Trump for idiocy. I mean,
it's so brazen and so obvious. What's going on. Really ripped off
their masks, well they put they told us all to put ours on.
They were ripping theirs off to show us exactly who they are. And the
rule of some is really they're not allowed to question it. If you're not
allowed to doubt it, if you're not allowed to say nah, I don't
believe that, then what they're trying to push on you is a lie.
Well, the reports that have surfaced this week about him yelling and cursing at
staffers and all the life now. Now, I believe every person in a
high pressure situation that has that kind of responsibility that's required of them does get
a little tense. I think that probably every president that has served this nation
has, at one time or another yelled and screamed at a staffer when things
didn't go the way he thought they should. I mean, you would,
you would give them that, but it is, it is. It is
a symptom of late stage Alzheimer's or dementia. It happened. Any anybody who's
gone through this with the family members knows about the angry outbursts and about just
a sudden flurry of curse words when this person, any other time in their
life would have never used that language. Karen. Uh, That's that's as
telling as anything about Joe Biden's demise. Mental demise. Well, and we
you know, like many things today, we get the headlines and we don't
get the details because of course they're trying to squash the details. Yes,
but the fact of the matter is, we would need to know if he
loses his temper and he has low frustration tolerance over petty nonsense, because you
can see that he is Uh, he had well low frustration tolerance is what
it's called h then that is a symptom. The problem today also is that
we're always making um speculations because we can't trust our media to tell us the
truth. That's really the problem. If we had facts under our belts,
if we had reportage that actually reported the facts instead of telling us what we
ought to think about it, we'd have a better chance of making to ascertain
what's really going on. Well, the news departments, history, news departments,
news departments are very sneaky about it, Karen. They will tell you,
they will give you just enough facts to say that they're giving you the
facts, but they only give half the facts. That's that's of course,
it's not. It's not that they're feeding you a fairy tale every news story,
although some of us would believe that too, But it is that they're
giving you half the story every single time on these important issues. And it
isn't just commissions, it's omissions. Yeah, it's what they leave out.
Uh. And then they also are so blatant about telling you what you are
supposed to think about something. Oh yeah, well, you know, I'm
back to back to the mailing mailing at end topic that we started with Karen
Cataline. Yes, and many many of what's going on in media bias is
just plain laziness. And they're I mean, they're just cutting, they're cut,
copying and pasting what they're being told from another news source. And you
know, they act like it's corroborated because they printed it too, and they
did that with the Russian collision against Trump. But it's it's it also has
another sign of laziness as well as bias, don't you agree? Yes and
no, Actually, because the kind of people, bless their hearts, that
are being hired for news rooms today are like twenty two and they've been taught
that this is how you do the news. I don't know if it's laziness
or incompetence because no one taught them. No one, I don't think,
taught them as to what hard news is supposed to be, you know,
And if you it's it's kind of like the horrors of the educational system today,
where the greatest omission is the brilliance of our founders in creating a country
dedicated and devoted to individual freedom. They're not taught that today, so they
can't have the amount of outrage that has us ulsters not all of us ulsters
unless they've been homeschooled. They don't know what they don't know. That's that's
one of the greatest weapons is to be edge imicate the public such that they
don't know what they're missing. Oh. Absolutely, tis treatis all. Treat
us all like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and feed us. You
know what, YEA? Since we since you brought up the Babylon Be earlier,
I think it's it's fitting that I close our segment tonight, Karen with
one of the recent headlines from the Babylon Be. If if you've never seen
this site, you've got to go search online. All right, here you
go Dateline Sacramento, California. The state of California has officially outlawed speaking Spanish
over the language is bigger at use of exclusively masculine or feminine nouns. It
goes on. The entire Spanish language is literally transphobic hate speech, explain Governor
Gavin Knuseman. Hate has no home here. According to sources, Governor Newsom
discovered the Spanish languages use of gendered terminology when attempting to learn how to accuse
when a learning and attempting to learn how to accuse his housekeeper of stealing his
eye AirPods. I was absolutely I was absolutely sickened to discover that the entire
language has been around words being gendered is either male or female. Not only
did Juanita steal my AirPods, she insisted on speaking this intolerance language in my
home audio Sonita. Now, if you'll excuse me, if you'll excuse me,
I'm off to find a new Latin X housekeeper who will never speak Spanish
in my presence. There's the battle on being satire great because sooner itself.
Yeah, absolutely, yes, ma'am. Yes, well, thank you,
yes, ma'am. Thank you for thank you for not mailing it in and
for phoning it in tonight. Karen, I appreciate that. I loved it
as always, my friend. Thank you, all right, thank you,
And you can check out Karen Cattle and all of her fine work at Karen
Cataleen dot com. That's Karen Ka Ta l i Ne dot com. And
to look for spouting off wherever it's sold. Have a good night, you
too, all right, bye bye. The Nightcab continues with the Furball Andy
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Ray continues, and the game's being played right now, but we don't care
because we have a chance to talk sports and other things with our favorite friendly
Furball, the one and only one of the preeminent sports voices to ever grace
the airwaves of Cincinnati Radio. Andy Furman is back on the Nightcap. Good
evening, Andrew, don't stop, don't keep on going. I love that.
I love the intro. Let me tell you something. You called it
just the right time. Okay, let's not got event. I covetch a
little bit, and it's a little bit personal. And maybe it's because of
my old days. I don't know, but I'm gonna be an example how
rude people are. Are you ready yeah, I just got a car.
I was at Costco right by closing time, all right, this evening,
and I had again, I want to get one item. I love using
those square tip pens, and they're on sale a package of twenty four for
thirteen dollars. So I've got it. That's all I bought. Okay,
I'll get online to check out. And the guy in front of me must
have had forty five watermelons in his wagon. I wouldn't be able to push
the freakin wagon, I promise you. He looked at me and he smiled.
You would think he let me go ahead of them. I don't really
give it, damn, But I'm just saying that's the way people are today.
I want to let it go. I did it all the time.
I hold it off of people. I let people go before me. When
there's a buffet line, I let them go. You talk about freaking rudeness,
that's the problem in our society. Come on, open up a little
bit. You're forty five freaking watermelons and a wagon and you can't let me
go. But just one, one thing appends that really took me off,
and let andy, I'm surprised you didn't know this people, people generally who
consume mass quantities of watermelons are always very rude. That's that's why, that's
why they don't serve watermelons in the country of Canada, because they're all supposed
to be polite. If they introduced watermelons into the national national dialogue in Canada,
it would be not nearly as polite as as it is for most people
now. It'd be very rude. I bet about that. My wife is
Canadian, she's a Canadian citizen. I shouldn't say that she now does she
does? She eat a lot of watermelon? No? My point, exactly,
my point exactly. He learned something every day spied off. This Corey
Dillons thing is ticking me up too, all right, this guy, this
son of a gun, belongs in the Ring of Honor, And I'll tell
you right now, he'll eventually get in there, the all time leading Russia,
all time leading ball carrier for this ball club. So what who gives
it? Damn? If he had an attitude, who cares if he do
his shoulder pants in the stands his last games beingals stands? Care? Why?
Why? Because why? He was a malcontent and part of the reason,
part of the reason that he wasn't he was leaving the Bengals was because
he was part of the problem. He was just a bad fit at He
was a bad fit at the wrong time. And you say the next year,
the next year, the next year he went to New England and was
very successful. That's where he should have been, all along with the Patriots,
not with the Bengals. Corey Dillon throws his pad every year. He
throws his pads into the stands angry at fans. He walks out. He
gives Cincinnati, the city, and the team, the Bengals, a collective
big finger. So I would not include that man in my ring of honor
if I were the Bengals. Okay, I'm out. First of all,
he goes to man at the fans. He hated the organization because they lost.
Okay, he gave his heart and soul Sky watched over two hundred and
fifty yards in one game, all time leading rusher. And you wouldn't have
them on your team. You're already a freaking mind. Okay, that's number
one. Number two he will be in the Ring of honor. That's number
two. The number three hedm my team. You know, I understand his
repercussions when you kind of argue publicly with management, it happens all the times.
If you were to leave w W tomorrow and give them the when you
flew with the flying finger of fate, fans and at the team, and
that's how fans he took. The fans took it that way, Andy,
No, nobody will nobody was happy to have Corey Dillon on that team at
the end, because he only contributed to the losing by having a bad attitude.
He contributed to the losing if you having more bad attitude. Oh,
he had a bad attitude, but the team lost. That's what he had
a bad attitude. I guess he should I guess he should have been a
little bit better than he was so they wouldn't have lost as many games.
Wait, so you're telling me if he didn't rush for eight thousand yards but
he raised like five thousand, but he had a good attitude, then he
belongs to the ring of honor. Then he goes in mine. Really,
he's the number one rusher all times for this franchise. He will get into
the region. Do you think he no? Hold on? Let's go a
step further. Do you think he won a Super Bowl right with New England
right after he left Cincinnati. Yeah, do you do you think do you
think Corey Dillon? Do you think Corey Dillon? Do you think Corey Dillon
belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Andy he had? The irony
is the glot. Here's the irony. He's gonna get into Canton, Ohio
and the Hall of Fame before he gets into the Ring of Honor. And
the problem with the Ring of Honors, to be quite honest with you,
he's been a backlog. This is only year number three, so they have
backed up on players. So he'll definitely get in. The irony is gonna
be and you hit it on the head. He'll get into Canton, Ohio
and the Hall of Fame before he gets into the Ring of Honor. Who
else is gonna get into the Hall of Fame that played for the Cincinnati Bengals
that should be in there already besides Anthony Munos, Kenny Anderson, Kenny Anderson
the league MVP. He should get in there. Kenny Anderson should be in
there, no doubt in my mind. What about what about Riley Big Willie?
No, Big Willie Anderson should be in many will be in there Willi
Anderson. No, I believe Willie Anderson does belong to be there and should
should have. Yeah, absolutely will He'll get in, you know. And
the problem the problem is that not only does it backlog with the Ring of
Honor is a backlogs in Canton And basically the backlog is basically quarterbacks, the
receivers. That's what it is really and you know so as I do.
You know those those positions are based on a super Bowl, championships and b
statistics. You're alignment. It's very difficult to really have a judgment and how
good you really offer. But there is no statistical stats to judge what kind
of alignment you are if players that judgment coaches, think about that for a
second. Every position in football does not have a stack to judge you.
With receivers you odds to receive touchdowns, caught passing for quarterbacks, you know,
rushing for running backs. What does alignment have? You know? Sacks,
pancakes, you know, that's that's the lays. So that's what they
do. Well, I mean, and I'm sure Willie Anderson not only gave
out a lot of pancakes in his history with the Bengals, but also ate
a lot of pancakes in his history with Bengals. He's a large man.
If they worked to line up on the side, but that's another story.
Now, I'll tell you what. Let's let's let's switch sports here to baseball
for a moment. Andy. Of course I don't want to. I don't
want to because then you're gonn make people turn over to the All Star Game,
and I don't want to lose the audience. See that's how smart I
am. I don't want to do that. If they want to talk about
Bob Huggins. With the situation with Bob Huggins, if they listen, if
they're listening to us, then they don't obviously care about the All Star Game.
Andy, I don't think there's any danger, right, And they don't
care about baseball, So they'll click you off because they're listening to you rather
than watch baseball. Thing about that. You keep talking like that and they're
gonna click you off, click you click you furman. So you want to
talk about Bob Huggins, You want to talk about Bob Huggins a situation?
Now, Now, didn't he say that he resigned and he retired and now
he's saying you didn't. He probably said that when he was intoxicated. Well,
no, you never know with Huggins whether he's saying that when he's intoxicated,
or he's saying no, I never said that, and I'm gonna sue
or something because he's intoxica. You just don't know with Bob. Should you
think that before Bob Huggins makes any more public proclamations or much to the press,
he should have a breathalyzer task before, just to make sure he's within
the legal limit of alcohol to make a statement. Maybe that's the problem that
I think you may have hit the nail on the head here, Andy.
Maybe that's the whole problem with Bob. With Hugs is that when he's making
these statements, as well as sometimes when he drives, he's been imbibing.
Do you think, well, I will tell you this much. He was
on this radio station with Bill Cunningham. I think he may have been under
the influence at that point. In tom as well, he kind of sounded
that way. But it's a shame, I'll tell you why. A sparkling
career as a coach. There's no doubt he may be in the top ten
all time coaches in basketball and to have a legacy and to go out like
this. But I'm gonna tell you right now what's going to happen. All
Right, I'll predict the future for you. Okay, he will not get
a shot back to West Virginia. They're not going to hire him back,
although he's a favorite Sun. Then b he will get hired against the coach
somewhere because of his skill set. Some president of some university will reach out.
Not now, maybe next season we'll reach out and hire Bob Huggins.
If Rick Patino could get another job and he ended up at Iona College and
now he's at Saint John's, Bob Huggins will get another job. All right.
Is Bob Huggins bound for the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield? Man?
Oh, he's in? He didn't? Oh see he's in last week,
I'd see. See. That's that's how much I've paid attention to Huggs
after he loves Cincinnati. I mean, I only I only I only hear
about him, like when he's in an intersection in Pittsburgh with a wreck car
in a drunk driving charge. That's the only time I ever hear about Bob
Huggins. But he was in Columbus. Was in Columbus, gotta get his
navigations pitch on his car. Columbus doesn't smell nearly as bad as Pittsburgh.
I guess his old factory was out. I guess, I don't know,
but that's the shame. And then, in the same token, I'm seeing
today that my good friend Pat Fitzgerald, the coach at Northwestern and football,
he lost his job. First the President suspends him for two weeks for alleged
hazing going on, and then the President changed his mind last night saying,
well, I found out a little more information and there was some players not
named, saying there was hasting going on as Fitzgerald knew about it. The
guy was an All American. He played for the Northwestern I know last year
they were one and eleven, but he took the team to like three bowl
games. That's pretty tough to do it Northwestern in that conference. I feel
bad for the guy, but again, I think as a coach, you're
the so called CEO of the organization and you have to know exactly what's going
on all the time. Twenty four seven, well, I mean that was
the that was obviously Joe Paterno's downfall at Penn State because he had a defensive
coach who had been fired, but it had still been allowed to be in
the facilities. And he was obviously a pervert, a pedophile, and he
was a predator. And it's a good point. It ruined Joe Paterno's entire
tenure. And they took statues of Joe down that he had earned a winning
national championships. You're right when you're ahead coach at a major major college program,
whether it be football or basketball, they're two big money sports in the
NC Double A, you are, in effect, like you said, the
CEO, but you're expected to not only be the CEO, but the HR
manager, but the you know, the comptroller, all these things. You
have to wear a lot of hats and act like a parent too. You
go into too these kids living rooms and telling them mom and dad, I'll
take care of them for four years. And basically you're the guy. You're
the guy who's a parent while they're not there. Have you ever been hazed?
Have you ever been hazed? You're bullied? Andy No. But if
they're reading the Hazan situations in Northwestern I'd love to do it to you.
No, Well, I don't know what they do at Northwestern you got a
list of the One thing was called running, and there was another one where
they stood in a shower made like a car wash and you were naked and
you gotta go through the showers and you pose your eyes. Picture it.
I mean, I don't get it. I don't think it's funny. I
think it's perverted. I think it's disgusting. And I don't know why they
would do it. I don't know why it is a tradition. Is it
make you masha macho? Why would one do that? I don't get it.
Well, it sounds like sounds like they've got some problems there. Well,
I don't think divy on school that does it. But I will tell
you this much. It's a simple situation. I think of peer pressure because
when you come in as a freshman and the seniors and juniors are doing it,
what are you gonna do? Say, I either want to do it,
you can't. I mean it's peer pressure at the nth degree. Well,
if I was going through that kind of hazing in the shower, I'd
especially look for the soft brushes and the wind tunnel at the end, you
know, they they found they found you know the story about the cocaine at
the White House, right, Andy, they found cocaine in the West wing
of the White House, and they were wondering whose it is. And I
made the point, I think it's rather astute observation, if I don't say
so myself, that this is certainly not the first time I believe there's ever
been cocaine in the White House. And we know for a fact that going
back to nineteen ninety six, Monica Lewinsky was doing blow in the White House.
Kind of don't you think it does make you a bad person? Doesn't
I don't think so. I don't think it makes you a bad person.
No, right, I mean, so it came out in the White House,
So I'd like to find out who's doing it. Why why do you
care? Well, I mean, if it's dam I will find out who's
doing it, right, I mean you're not interested? You wouldn't like to
find out who's doing it? Well, I think I have a pretty I've
got a pretty good idea who was doing coke in the White House, just
by reputation of the people that have been allowed into the White House. Rent
you think it might be Joe bidden I mean Biden. I know, I
don't think it's Joe. Maybe someone very close, maybe the smartest man Joe
knows brought the coke into the White House, his son Hunter. Well,
and I wouldn't think it's that difficulty get an into her White House, to
be honest, right, I don't think so oh you think what joy.
Let's for example, if it was Joe and he's coming from his home in
Delaware on the weekend, coming in Monday morning to the White House with his
briefcase, Okay, you think you're gonna check his briefcase and a check his
briefcase, I wouldn't think, well, no, no, But just just
the fact that the White House spokespeople are saying we have very stringent drug testing
policies and drug policies at the White House, and I just I don't believe
that at all. You don't think gonna do I know how it's gonna.
It's gonna spin it like this. They're gonna come out in a week and
say we found it in a corner where Trump used to sit. They'll blame
it on Trump. That's absolutely right. And you know what, I tell
you what Trump's probably the only president who's never done done coke. He did
everything else though. Really now he's to busy. He's not a drinker.
He's not a drinker. He's not a druggie. We know this well established.
He's watching McDonalds. He's so Thom McDonald's. He is. He is
the Maga man. He's going to make America great again, Andy. And
you know how he's gonna do it next time. He's gonna make it here.
He's gonna make America great again by barring shredded cheese. Well, here's
the problem that I have. I just think there should be an age limit
for the one who runs for president whatever, sixty five, sixty whatever.
I just think when you get up to the eighties, I don't care who
you are, you just facilities. The faculties are not quite one hundred percent.
I just think there should be some sort of a law that says we
aren't you anyway. So thirty five to sixty, that's fine. Well,
you're you're Andy, Andy, hold on, you would exclude yourself. I'm
not eighty, I'm not you're you're a sept a generium though, and that's
even worse. Yeah, but I'm not president. I'm not running the country.
I talk, I said, I hands to talk sports. That's what
I do. I mean, that's a very poor analogy. It really is.
I got my facilities, I got my mind. I read sports,
have an opinion. That's all I do. And I can't harm anybody.
You may not agree with me, but I'm not going to hurt anybody.
Well, I can't make a stupid decision. There have there have been times
that you said things to me that your words truly did wound me. Andy,
so well, I just should there At times I've said things that people
scratch the heads to what's he's talking about? But you know, it's sports.
It's every time you're on the air with me, I do that.
I scratch my head and go, what the hell's he talking about? You?
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eleven, twenty twenty three, joining us again one of our favorite guests to
multiple time offender actually always great information and he is one of the staunchest Second
Amendment advocates I know. And it's always a pleasure to welcome from Good Gun,
Bad Guy dot Com, Ammo Land, the Loaded mic, etc.
Etc. The one and only Dan was how you doing Dan, Hey,
Gary, Jeff thanks for having me on your show. And yes, I
do tend to offend people. At least one person listening will be offended.
Say, I can almost guarantee it. Well, I mean, you know
what, it's probably it's probably a them problem, not a you problem.
Of the many articles that you write, and you're constantly moving. In fact,
we caught you today just in a little break here to have our conversation.
But you're talking about many different things. There's so much going on.
I saw this story that you're we're pointing out in the Ammaland site about Vermont,
the state of Vermont banning what is called the quote well regulated militia necessary
to the security of a free state. So Vermont has eliminated already part of
the Second Amendment. Correct. Yeah, I'll try to I'll try to give
you just the bulletpint to make it quick on this one, because there's there's
a lot we could talk about. But the the state of Vermont passed the
law saying you can't you can't do any participating any type of training that might
be perceived as militia training. Um, so they passed this law and then
they go after this guy who actually has a training facility and they get him
on a bunch of zoning laws. I guess they're throwing him in jail because
he didn't tear down a bunch of buildings on his property, and they're they're
citing that it was that he's going to jail because he didn't follow the zoning
laws. He didn't get permits or whatever for the buildings. So they're they're
they're arresting him under the guise of zoning laws. But recently they just passed
a law because of him that you can't participate in any militia activity. What
they're really trying to do is discourage Melissa militia age people from training and gun
ownership. And this is why you're seeing a lot of stuff where they're trying
to pass laws where you can't buy any guns under the age of twenty one,
because that's militia age. Those are the guys who fought in our Revolutionary
War. They were anywhere from sixteen years old on up. And so that's
why you're seeing a lot of these a lot of focus on these young guys.
They're the ones that would stand up and similar to what we did in
the Revolutionary War. And I think that's what the gun grabbing politicians are afraid
of. But in vermut of all, you know. And then then I
then I reminded, oh yeah, Bernie Sanders is you can perpetually reelected in
Vermont. So okay, it makes sense now. But I mean, geez,
that's right up there with New Hamps or live free or die, And
people might not realize that Vermont is the one and only true American constitutional carry
state. Vermont has never had a requirement for pistol license to carry a gun
that you know, we have now we have twenty six. We just reached
the tipping point and went over the tipping point on constitutional carry states. But
Vermont has always been a constitutional carry state. So more than half the states
in the Union now have constitutional carry as part of part of the law in
that state, right yep, yep. Florida was the last one. And
now we've we've gone over the tipping point. So there's more states now that
don't require a permit to carry a gun than states that do well. And
I would wonder what the statistics are those states versus the states where you've got
to jump through all kinds of hoops even ever hope to have a gun.
Well, you can. You can divide them up pretty much by red and
blue states, and you'll find the most crime in the is in the blue
states where there are more gun restrictions, because good people can't protect themselves.
Exactly, you can't carry a gun. If you can't carry a gun,
you have no way of protecting yourself. And the bad guys, the people
who want to commit crimes and do violent acts, they are they're emboldened.
It seems like almost a lifetime ago, Dan, when we were reading and
watching the horrors in Parkland, Florida, at Marjorie Douglas Stoneman High School and
the slaughter that happened there where the sheriff in that county just decided to hold
off and it was like the coward of the county, Scott Peterson. He
went on trial, he was acquitted of any wrongdoing, and it's spun off
several other fascinating characters, including um Megan Pollock's dad who I have had on
this program many times, and a and a kid named David Hogg. We
all will remember. But anyway, your thoughts on what has gone down in
that situation, and you know, and as far as David Hogg goes.
It's another case of hypocrisy being at its highest possible crescendo in these in these
issues and these culture issues and constitutional issues, it always seems to be the
people who were against the our constitution or some of the most hypocritical people on
the planet. Well, there's a lot of there were a lot of players
here. Um. Yeah, to touch on Peterson first, uh, yeah,
he never went into the school when the when the shot to ring it
out, it was something like almost almost like forty five minutes or so the
shots were happening, and he wasn't doing anything. He wouldn't go in.
You know, he did do the one place he did go into was the
bank to cash his check every week for the job of protecting the children.
But when it came time to protect the children, that's when he decided he
wasn't going to do that. So that was pretty shameful. And he said
recently after the court hearing that yes, he got his life back. He
was all happy and excited that he got his life back, as if somebody
took his life. You know, he seemed like he didn't really think about
the kids whose lives were taken. That he was there too, paid he
was there paid to protect, Yes, so it was. It seems pretty
shameful to me unless I'm missing something here. But I think I got all
the information on this case, and I've studied the Parkland situation, and I
think it's pretty it's pretty fair to call coward of the county or whatever,
coward of Broward County. That's what I called him. Yeah, David Hogg,
the young man who was seventeen at the time this happened, was foisted
out on the national stage and began immediately just throwing out these angry tirades about
guns. No one should own a gun. This is why when are you
going to act to protect others like me? And you know, a pretty
effective emotional voice for a lot of people. But you can imagine a seventeen
year old kid watching this carnage around him. There's it's gonna move you to
some pretty strong emotions. I think before you take a step back and think
about what you're saying. David Hogg was never allowed to do that. In
fact, he was prompted and pride and pretty much pushed out in the public
specter, in the public square by people who do not one You and I'd
have Second Amendment rights, but right exactly, Yeah, you nailed it.
But David Hogg, as far as I know, he wasn't even in the
school when this happened. And one in one story he said he was he
when he heard about it, he drove three miles on his bicycle to the
school far his house. And then in another article or interview he said he
was in ap class at the time, So he got conflicting stories. I
don't know whether or not he was in class or not. For sure,
I wasn't there, but his story is definitely conflicted. But he was.
He definitely capitalized the gun grabbers, the anti gun democrats in our in our
Congress, and the Mom's Demand Action and the March for Our Lives group,
they all sunk their teeth into David. They captured him, they grabbed him,
They made him feel at home, and they they told him he was
doing a good job. And so he jumped right on board on the anti
gun fear campaign, and he went out into the mainstream media and started talking
about how bad guns are and all the stuff. Maybe not realizing at first,
I think David Hogg is seriously brainwashed with the anti gun you know,
mindset but recently is which is interesting, as David Hogg came out and he's
been talking about his gun ownership. Now he's showing pictures of him at the
range and talking about how he's shooting a gun now and showing his targets and
all this stuff, and it appears to me that he's trying to build credibility
as a gun owner now, which is which is a tactic that's often,
not often, but sometimes used by the anti gunners. They did this with
a guy named Mark Bryant from Gun Violence Archives, but he's getting old.
They don't want him anymore, it seems, so David Hogg is now pretending
to be a gun owner, I believe, to build credibility. So he
speak on behalf of gun owners and he's continuing to push four more gun regulations
and gun restrictions. So I think they're using him to create a spokesperson again,
but this time you're giving him credibility as a so called gun owner.
Well they really do think they can have it both ways, don't they.
Well if they do it, And it's interesting because he's talking now about how
he's such a gun owner now going to the range and all making friends over
there and all this stuff, and then at this out of the other side
of his mouth, he's saying, how dangerous to our health lead ammunition is.
So it seems he's trying to portray an image that let him lead ammunition
is bad. Simultaneously while Congress, some in Congress are trying to ban lead
ammunition. So when you put the two together, you see David Hogg is
really just a tool being used for the for the gun grab all at this
point too, and he's no longer an emotional seventeen year old watching classmates die.
But the hypocrisy among these people is amazing. Just it's the same amount
of hypocrisy with the the catastrophic climate crowd and their private jets as they're telling
us that carbon emissions are going to kill the planet and we need to all
stop driving gas powered cars or using gas stoves, and yet they're more than
willing the hypocrisy. It's it's Gavin Newsom at the French laundry while still requiring
residents of California to wear masks during the COVID nineteen scam demic, and he's
out having a ball with his buddies. The hypocrisy, the hypocrisy never ends.
And you see people telling telling us that we need to give up our
guns while they have armed guards around them who have guns. Yeah, there's
a certain portion of society that goes along with whatever they say. So we're
always going to have that segment of people who will just do as they're told
because they don't necessarily take responsibility for their own lives. They don't necessarily make
decisions on their own. They need guidance. And this is where we get
liberal progressives. This is why we get to Wow culture. These are people
who need guidance. They need to be told what to do, essentially because
they don't want to be responsible for any consequences. They know that if they
do what Gavin Lewsom tells them, they're going to be pretty much okay.
And then you have conservatives who are saying, shut the hell off, get
out of my way. You're not going to tell me what to do.
I'm a free person living in a free society. Kiss my can I say
ass on yourself? I think you kiss my ass? Yeah? It a
lot of times. I try to be a good boy, Garry Jeff,
I try not to splare, but basically, you have the difference between people
who are willing to give up their freedom for a false sense of security.
Yep, those are the people on the left of the Wokesters. And then
you have on the other side of the political spectrum, you have people who
are willing to give up their safety for freedom, and that's us conservatives.
It's a it's a just a completely opposite um way of thinking. A few
minutes left with Dan was from Goodgun, Bad Guy dot com and that series
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So you make sure you be careful in your searching for Dan and never look.
You know you've been hearing this more and more often. The suspect was
also equipped with a ghost gun. I got about two. Man, let's
let's get into this real quickly. Dan. I'll unpack ghost gun really quick.
There's no such thing as ghost guns. Ghost guns is a nomenclature created
to scare people who don't know any better. Sally soccer mom is scared to
death of this so called ghost gun because she thinks they're lurking around every corner
in the cul de sac. So ghost guns really are an scary name attached
to guns with no serial numbers. Now, they can be printed guns,
they could be guns that you make at home. That could be guns that
serial numbers are scraped off. It could be any number of different things.
But really, what it is it's to scare people into supporting serialization. And
people say, oh, well, what's so bad about having serialized. Well,
the reason we don't want serialization is because it's government regulated and it creates
a government list, a registrate. Ghost guns are a tool, a scare
tactic to push for serialization. Serialization is a path to registration. Registration.
We all know what happens after your guns get registered. Confiscation comes, and
we know what happens after that. So ghost guns are just a tool in
the line of in the in the path to confiscate your firearms. I'm not
buying it for a minute, and I hope nobody else buys it either.
It's it's just a scare tactic. It's nonsense. There's no such thing as
ghost guns. Okay, anything else on your agenda. Immediately you're working on
another piece, you said for next week. We're going into a studio right
now, if you get off of you, we're going into the studio.
We're going to shoot a loaded mic show. We just shot an episode of
bullet Points with Dan wass or Gun Owners Foundation. You got to check that
out on YouTube. Gun Owners Foundation. They're also on LinkedIn and everywhere.
Gun Owners of America has a sister company called Gun Owners Foundation, and I
do their bullet Points segments. So that's another thing that we're shooting here in
our studio in New York. We got I got some conferences coming up this
year. We're going to I'm gonna be speaking at Gun Rights Policy Conference in
Phoenix. I'm doing a speaking of back in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and wherever
else they want me. So lots of stuff going on. People can find
my book at Goodgun, Bad Guy dot com. You can get the book
series, and you can find the loaded mic show at loaded mic dot com.
Well, one of the things I love about you, Dan was,
is that you're a straight shooter. I think. All right, all right,
man, have a great day. Thank you very much. Dan was
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know, it's been a while since I've been on the air at night,
so what the hell? What do you figure It's gonna be a while since
I have Jay Armstrong on stand up comedian would be author Vape King of Northern
Kentucky and my friend Jay Armstrong. How are you, Jay? I am.
I'm doing pretty good today, Gary Jeff, how are you? Well?
That's sad because when when it's interesting, it's a lot funnier. But
if you're doing pretty good, then you don't have any ax to grind or
any I'm sure we can find it. I've got some axes to grind,
I do. They're ready, They're stacked up. I got the wheel spinning.
Let's let's sharpen up the blades, baby. So first and foremost,
Christa two point. Oh. My wife, my lovely wife, who you
know very well, saw you on television on the news the other day last
week and it was about flavored vapes and Victoria Parks, who was some vice
president pro tem of the Cincinnati City Council. I don't know. I didn't
vote for I don't live in Ohio or Cincinnati. But anyway, she is
proposing this ban on all flavored vapes, which, of course you make a
majority of your living selling these legally at a shop or in shops in northern
Kentucky. But this whole move really kind of chaps your biscuits. As my
friend, you don't even want to know this guy anyway, chaps your biscuits.
Tell me why. And by the way, when she saw you in
the news, there was a Jeff Armstrong on the news. I thought it
was but it said jeffy Yeah, I guess so they had interviewed my buddy
Jeff Kathman, who you've met. Yeah here in Cinci Vapors downs one way,
there's like four shops, but that's the one that that I go to.
But uh yeah, So my guess is just that they confused me with
him. That's the only thing I can guess. I do mumble a little
bit and have a bit of a Southern draw, you know. Uh so
maybe they thought that Jay was Jeff. Either that or they confused me with
him. Those are the really only two options. Uh. The reason that
that it does chat my biscuits, uh pretty significantly. Uh. You know,
people be in is that I work in the industry, right People,
anytime I say anything positive about bathing or go to correct some misinformation on that's
negative. You know, the thing I always get is, well, you
just care because you know you want your store, you know, the stores
you work out to make more money. And here's the thing. If they
do a flavor band in the city of Cincinnati, the stores that I work
at, we'll get way more business, you know what I mean. Because
the Kentucky's not doing it right now. The state of Ohio tried to do
a ban, and enough of us reached out that it got pulled from the
budget budget bill, which the fact that they're they're trying to ban any products
or books or anything in a budget bill like that lets you know right there,
like it can't pass on its own right because the people don't want it.
Now. The issue that I take with it, though, is a
couple of things. One is people tend to go back to smoking cigarettes when
you do flavor bands. Massachusetts New York have already proved it to us,
which is what we believe that the states won, that the city's won because
that's money that goes back into their call first from the cigarette sales. Cigarettes
are the highest tax consumer good in the country. And now on top of
that, you have in nineteen ninety eight tobacco lawsuits settlement, which is paid
out a total of two hundred and five billion dollars since nineteen ninety nine.
So we're not talking about like little bits of money. We're talking billions.
Would it be, uh, you know, and into trillions eventually. As
far as I'm concerned, it's not my responsibility to pay for your budget shortfalls
with my health. Yeah, and it's infuriating that that people will just buy
in. So one of the things, and people say this all the time,
but it's it's Nazi sque tactics. Right. One of the things that
Hitler and the Nazis did openly, he talked about it in mind comp is
if you can make people think that you're the only salvation for their children,
then they will do anything for you. They will ignore anything that's bad about
you or the bills you propose. You're the one that's going to come and
save the kids, which is why they're all. They all say this,
and they focus group the terminology that they use, right, so they don't
say kids anymore. Now they say youth or young people. And then they
throw up these numbers, which is people who were like twenty one to twenty
five, Like they're not children like the other young adults. But they're not
kids there. They can join the army, they can get student loans,
you know what I mean. They can do anything that any other adult can
do. But the reason that they say youth are young people is because they
want you to think that they're talking about little kids about themself, about seven
year olds, which, by the way, some of the same people who
want to impose these kind of rules think it's perfectly fine to bring a drag
queen to a seven year old's birthday party at the library. But you know
that got to keep the vapes away. Now, is what is the distinct
What is the major difference between ingesting cigarette smoke and ingesting the vape steam?
What's what's the big difference there? Jay? So, according to the British
Royal Ministry of Health, vaping e liquid is at least ninety five percent less
harmful than smoking combustible cigarettes. That's the difference between jumping out of a plane
with or without a parachute. You know, yes, there is still some
risk associated the parachute, right, there is, But we're not comparing vaping
to not doing anything. We're comparing it to smoking, which is a harm
reduction product for adult smokers. And are there brands that are irresponsible and the
way that they try to market stuff? Absolutely there are. But when we
talk about marketing, everybody thinks commercials, right, but that's not what it
is because you can't market tobacco products like that at all. So what we're
really talking about is just the labeling. You know, what does the label
look like? And you know, as far as I'm concerned, it could
be a black background with white writing, or a white background with black writing.
I think that's all we need. I think that's all any of those
brands need. Uh, But that's not how marketing works, you know.
Uh, it's gotta be colorful, it's got to catch the eye and all
of that, right, right, that kind of stuff, Yeah, exactly
that. And and there's even been some brands like Candy King is probably the
worst offending brand that there's been. You know, they got a picture of
this cartoon King holding this cartoon candy on the front of the label, and
so do I think that that's irresponsible? One hundred percent, one hundred percent
without a doubt. And Candy Kings owned by a company called Dripmore. If
anybody listening to this one's to write them mean nasty letters about their marketing,
feel free. I've threatened physical violence against their reps because they keep coming back
to the store and we keep telling them like you're the problem, if you're
the issue. Now, now, let me back up a little bit,
because I am angry at those people. I am because people Offenditor Dick Durbin
can hold up a bottle in a congressional hearing and say, see this,
this can only possibly be intended for children, but here's the thing. Even
the most worst offending, irresponsible brands, I still don't believe that they were
marketing to kids. And now here's why. It's don't have money. It
doesn't make any sense to market your product of people who don't have money.
It just doesn't make sense. Oh, I know, I get what you're
saying. But yeah, just the beginning of the question was the difference between
cigarettes and vapid, and I got on a tangent. No, no,
no, no, it's fine. It was a good tangent, and you
provided some good grisp for the mill there and in the argument to you know,
to keep this as a legal product. But as you mentioned as well
at the top, if the ban happens in Cincinnati or Ohio, it's just
going to benefit you know, people like you who work in northern Kentucky at
these vape centers right well, and in the state itself, for the people
to go back to smoking cigarettes because those tax dollars will go up. The
other side that the negative consequences that people don't even consider is when you prohibit
any product that a large number of people like, they don't just go okay,
I can't do that anymore, right, never never in the history of
humanity has that happened. If you look at alcohol prohibition and so, well,
here's the thing with it. We're talking about a product that's been legal
for fifteen years, so there's a pretty good consumer base for that product.
It's not like something that came out yesterday. We figured out today that it's
dangerous, so we're going to ban it tomorrow. Right, So we're talking
about as a product that millions of users already consume. And this band,
from what I read, doesn't just talk about you know, the e cigarette
stuff. It includes menthol. So if you don't think that an incredibly dangerous
black market of menthol is going to pop up in the city, all you're
doing is giving more work to criminals. Well. Plus, it also opens
up the door for products that aren't as as good for you or made.
Do you damage if it's a black market situation, many times that you know
that takes a regulatory step out of the mix, and then you don't know
exactly what you're vaping, do you? Yeah, Because two things will happen.
People will go and buy flavored products from legitimate stores and retailers and wholesalers
and then just come and sell it on the streets, which that's not going
to be more dangerous for the user. But any black market, right,
any black market is there's competition, and they don't work the way that regular
corporate corporate entities work, you know what I mean. They don't file lawsuits
against each other. You know, when a black market, you want,
a criminal is selling something out of his trunk, they fight each other,
they shoot each other, They bring up other people to help them and help
protect their products. So even with a safe you know, legitimately FDA oversight
oversight product. And notice I was very careful there to not say FBA approved
because there are no FDA approved vapor products at this time. And that's another
rant. But the other side of that is not is people who don't go
and buy already manufactured you liquid, they just start making it in their house
and they don't understand that dust particles and dirt particles if you don't have the
right kind of air filtration on the room that you're manufacturing and can cause those
people's serious harm down the road. So markets they don't bring any positivity at
all. And this idea, you know, here in northern Kentucky, we
had a lady who was talking about doing a crazy high tax, you know,
when I went and told her, like, my name is Jay Armstrong,
this is my day of birth, this is my Social Security number.
I will be illegally selling flavored E liquid if that's what has to come to,
you know, like I will be your black market in northern Kentucky.
I will teach everybody that I know how to manufacture their own liquid. Because
we're not going back to smoking. We're just not doing it. You know,
a good large portion of us aren't. That's not to say that somebody
who just quit, you know, just made the switch last week, they
might be way more inclined. You know, Well, it's not worth a
hass al. I'm going back to smoking. I don't want to be a
criminal. I'm going back to smoking, and so they give up their health.
Assh of all smokers die from smoking related illness. You know, this
isn't like some thing that has you know, medium harm versus something else that
has medium harm. We're talking about something that has guaranteed harm. It kills
fifty percent of the people who do it. No other products would be left
on the market. The reasons, the reason that they don't talk about banning
cigarettes has absolutely nothing to do with freedom or liberty. The reason you don't
hear people talking about banning cigarettes even though that's what they think is a really
scary thing. And one of the arguments that anti eight people make all the
time is, well, well you'll get these people addicted to nicotine and then
they'll smoke. Nobody wants to taste or smell like cigarette after you've tasted something,
even something that's non flavored. You know there are non flavored liquids.
Uh yeah, but it's just the whole thing is insane to me. Right.
But the argument that they make is people will go will quit baking and
start smoking cigarettes. Well, if that's the case, wouldn't it make sense
to try to ban the product that you actually don't want them using, right,
Like anybody with any sense would say, you know, like back when
seat belts, before seat belts were were required in a vehicle, you don't
make the horn lie because people are dying in car wrex, right, And
that's kind of what's happening here. They want to ban the thing that could
save health issues, that could reduce harm by a significant portion. They want
to ban that and then keep the harmful product. So the reason for that,
though, is that nineteen ninety eight tobacco lawsuit. Those payments pay out
into perpetuity as long as the state is selling tobacco inside the state. Right
now, all of these states have done bond offerings based on those payments because
they want next next centuries money today without any consequences for it. Yeah,
yeah, it's exactly what it is. So they sold bonds based on those
lawsuit payments. So when you see municipal tobacco bonds, it doesn't have anything
to do with farming in your area, It has nothing to do with retailers
in your area. Is dependent upon that those lawsuit payments. So if I
sell you a bond based on cigarette income and then I ban cigarettes, I've
defrauded you as a bondholder. Which is why nobody talks about banning cigarettes because
the way that that lawsuit is structure, they have made it impossible. It
is not legal to ban cigarette. Very interesting stuff, Jay Armstrong, I
wanted to get maybe a couple of minutes on this topic because it just it
kind of freaked me out to hear Adele cussing at her audience. I don't
know why, but I saw the tape of her because they were apparently throwing
things at her. Harry Styles, who I think is prime candidate number one
to have things thrown out, whether he's on stage or not, had had
was hit in the eye by an object thrown by a fan watching his show,
and this has become an epidemic. Again. I like the good old
days, like when bands used to I think Southern Culture on the Skids used
to throw out fried chicken at the audience. But no, that's worth the
price of admission right there. Absolutely, But uh, you know Tom Jones
used to have ladies, you know, throw their panties up on stage,
and that's that's going on for years. But it's just because you buy a
ticket to a show doesn't give you the right to throw things. It could
injure the artist or anyone associated with the show, does it, It does
not, It does not. Now, throwing stuff at a performer is not
new, right, It's been since the Middle Ages that stuff has been thrown
at performers, whether it's positive or negative. Right you h you would throw
tomatoes, rotten tomatoes at people that you thought were terrible. You know,
that's recounting some of your early stand up days. Jay, No, I
actually never ever had anything thrown at me. I did see a guy get
a tray of like kicking wings thrown at him down when the Newport Club was
open. That was really funny, But everybody was really tense, right,
So like I'm the only person laughing. It's funny. I don't care what
the consequences are. It doesn't affect me, you know what I mean.
I'm just laugh and laugh. Jay Armstrong. Everybody, thank you so much.
Jay, We got a roll. Thank you. Take care brother Jay
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