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is a right for all of us as American citizens if we're obeying the law
to own and bear firearms. Once again, joining us on the night cap.
Been a long time, Dan was, how are you? Danny?
Hey? Gary? Jeffs so great, great to be on your show,
and you're you're my favorite radio host. How's that? Oh geez, I'm
gonna go back with this love fest. Let's get down to the nitty gritty.
Let's get let's get down to tech tax facts. Dan. All right,
mister, was first off, you live in New York and you have
been dealing. You have been dealing. You have been dealing with h with
the the face that is the once appointed now elected somehow Governor Cathy Local and
her continued efforts to try to take guns out of the hands of law abiding
New York citizens. No matter what the Supreme Court says, no matter what
the Constitution's Bill of Right says, no matter what the law is, they
are always trying to find a way in New York to upend our constitutional right
to bear and to own firearms. And there's a brand new gun grab on
the horizon in New York. It hasn't passed yet, but it was a
bill introduced in the New York Senate. So if you can elaborate on that
a little bit as we begin, well, in this particular one they're trying
to go it looks like it's another attempt to go after your manufacturer. Now,
the gun grabbers have always wanted to go after the manufacturers. They think
of that as cutting the head off the snake. If they can put the
manufacturers out of business or prevent them from selling in their particular state, in
this case New York. Uh, that's success to them. So in this
case now, and I should mention that there's a thing called the Protection of
Lawful Commerce in Arms Act and what that is. It's a it was a
law put in place to protect firearm manufacturers from being sued for the misuse of
mishandling or illegal use of their of their products. So in other words,
if somebody goes out and hurts somebody with a gun, you know, glock
or Smith and Wesson can't get in trouble for it, theoretically because it's it's
not their fault. They didn't do it, uh this, But what happens
is they want to try to. They they've hated that PLCAA because it protects
the fire arm manufacturers. They want it to be where you could just,
you know, sue firearm manufacturers anytime you want it. But but we can't
do that. We shouldn't be able to do that. They you know,
it's like almost like if if you had a if you wanted to sue General
Motors because somebody, uh you know, built their car to you know,
put too much horsepower in their car and hurt somebody. It's it's ridiculous.
You don't sue the manufacturers, but they loved so in this case, they're
trying to go after Block in particular for what's called the block switch. Now
glock has this mechanism that you can do it. You can turn your block
into you know, convert it from a semi automatic into a full automatic,
so it shoots multiple rounds with one pole of the trigger. This is an
attachment, it's a it's something that is not part of the fire army.
Can it can be, But they're trying to sue Block or they're trying to
make it so anybody who manufactures or sells one of these products is subject to
felony. But it's not only the weird thing about it, in the very
strategic thing about it in the text when they write the bill was it also
included any guns that could be converted, which is really interesting and I hope
everybody catches this stuff because not only are they going after the glock switch or
the item or the thing that makes that transforms it from a semiomac, they
also want to go after the gun that can be converted. And there's the
bill states that if makers of convertible pistols adapt their design to ensure they cannot
be converted into machine guns. Simply by installing a pistol converter, they will
no longer be subject to the sale prohibition. So what this means is the
New York State will determine which guns can be converted and the State of New
York will have the final word on which gun can be sold in New York,
which is basically going to be nothing. Just like they are trying to
determine where you can have a firearm and where you can't in those sensitive safe
areas. Yes, you're allowed to carry a firearm if it's legally licensed and
registered your law abiding citizen, but you just can't carry it here or here.
And when they tried to do that, Dan, they tried to limit
basically anywhere but your home. You could actually be carrying a legal firearm in
the state of New York. Where are we with those laws? Have even
in your home? They want im locked up so they can so you can't
use them. That's another story. But yeah, so New York State had
all these very restrictive gun laws, and there was a case called brew we
call it the Bruin case, And what it did was it went after those
New York state laws, and it defeated them, It killed them. So
we were back to the point where people, and it's particularly in New York
City, could carry a gun out of their home, out of their residents.
So Hopel and her gang gun grabbers knew that they were going to lose
this case. Well, eight days later they had a whole new package of
restrictive, unconstitutional gun laws and they put it. They signed everything back into
law, basically, only this time even worse. Where every place was a
sensitive location, you could there really was no gun you know, pro gun
zones. It was all gun free zones. And not only that, they
did something that was interesting and very strategic. Rather than requiring businesses to put
signs up saying no guns allowed, they deemed all private businesses gun free zones
unless the business owner put up a sign welcoming guns. So do you understand
how how difficult this is because you would have to now put up a sign
in your business window saying yes, we do welcome carrying of firearms, and
nobody's really going to ever do that. Whereas before the business owner, if
they didn't want firearms in their establishment, they would have to put up a
sign refusing them. Yeah. I'll also that this has been kind of one
of the points of gun grabbing, and I don't know if it's gun grabbing
or not. I'd like your thoughts on or take on this. There has
been a large move and some gun rights people have said, you know what,
this may have some merit. We could agree to this of the banning
of private gun sales. Tell me where you come down on this and why
it's a good idea or a bad idea to even think about it. Yeah,
that's an awful idea. Our founding fathers when they wrote the Second Amendment,
the Second Amendment doesn't say the right of the people to keep them bare
arms shall not be infringed as long as the government knows who's transferring guns to
whom, and we in document read you know, serial numbers and create a
on registry. Now, they didn't say that. So what they're trying to
do with this is they're trying to it's called universal background check. Any firearm
that transfers hands or ownership has to go through an FFL, a licensed dealer,
And if you want to transfer a firearm to a friend, to to
a relative, to a you know, whoever, you would have to either
go to a fire a dealer and have them broker the transaction right and do
back checks and risk risk risk the background checks. Remind me about that and
I'll tell you why the background checks are such a risk. Or you have
to get your own license, you have to become a licensed firearms dealer,
which is very costly and very extensive, which nobody would really do. So
the idea there is to put a halt to private gun sales. And it's
always been an American tradition to sell guns to your friend, hand them,
trade them, build them yourself. It's always been an American tradition. But
these gun grabbers today are really trying to put a stop to all that stuff.
So would would that also limit us sales or or transfers just maybe not
even any money exchanging hands? Uh? Within families? Well, yeah,
exactly, it would. It would hurt that So like a dad, a
dad wants to pass a firearm onto his son, So has he got to
go to a firearms dealer or a licensed firearms dealer to transfer that weapon to
his own flesh and blood? Is that what you're telling me? I think
I think right now, father, that that type of transaction from a father
to a son, or father to a to a daughter, or mother to
a son, whatever that that I think that's okay. But as far as
the steps on, now that would be different. I think that's where they
that's where everything changes. So yeah, so it's immediate family, but anything
beyond that makes it, you know, it changes it and you could become,
you know, a felon. So but the reason that we don't want
I wanted to get back to this point was the reason we don't want these
background checks is because because ninety five to ninety nine percent of the background check
denials are false positives. So let's give you an example of two thousand and
seventeen, there were two hundred, one hundred and twelve thousand background check denials
and and so what happened was there was only twelve thousand investigations. So in
other words, they denied good people for no good reason. And so you
had you had a lot of people go without getting were unable to get a
gun because they were falsely denied. And it could be for any reason.
It could be for a mistake on the paperwork, it could be a similar
social Security number to somebody who was convicted felling or something like that could be
any reason that you could be denied. So there are many ways you can
get denied. But the interesting thing is out of one hundred and twelve thousand
denials you only had, they only did twelve and twelve thousand investigations and there
are only twelve prosecutions. Similarly, where its one hundred and twelve, about
one hundred and twelve thousand people went were falsely denied. And so the background
check system is it doesn't work is the biggest problem. But they want more
of that now. They want now they want to get into your family transactions
and your friend transaction and your personal and private firearm transactions, which is unconstitutional
to start with, and it doesn't do anything to stop violence or crime because
you know, the bad guys, the gang members are trading them, trading
them anyway. They don't care. They don't follow any of these laws.
This is all designed, yeah, for the law criminals. Criminals don't care
about laws. Dan. This is the one big issue I think we've always
had on our side. That's that's the chit we've had that no one can
deny, is that criminals don't follow the law. That's why they're criminals.
I wanted to get to you the red flag laws, and you you've been
outspoken on against these red flag laws that have been proposed and have passed in
some states. And the argument always is, whenever someone who was obviously mentally
ill uses a firearm and the commission of some horrific crime, everyone says,
well, there were red flags. How come this person wasn't stopped from getting
a gun? And that's what we need, are red flag laws. People
hear that, and they don't understand exactly how they work and how anyone could
be red flag for any reason by someone who just didn't like them. Yeah.
Well, another thing also is, you know, when you're talking about
red flag laws and things like that, the anti gun side always comes to
us and they say, well, what do you propose to do about mentally
ill people getting their hands on guns? What do you plan to do about
criminals and violent people getting their hands on guns? And my answer is always
the same. It's actually a question when did it become my responsibility as a
gun order to solve all these problems in the world just so I can keep
my god given right to firearms. It's not my responsibility. That work is
well beyond and above my scope of expertise. That's the work for psychologists,
psychiatrists, and law enforcement. I shouldn't be responsible to do that. So
what they do is they let a lot of people out of jail, especially
here in New York and other Blue states. So they let people out of
jail. They have this bail reform where no bail in a lot of places,
you can commit crimes and you can just walk free and they hope you'll
come to court. It's ridiculous. So they create these problems and then they
say, well, we need red flag laws because we need to be able
to confiscate guns to prevent bad people from doing bad things. Well, why
the hell are the bad people not in jail, And that's my question.
So what they do is they perpetuate a society of violence and crime, and
then they use that violence and crime to justify more restraint on law abiding gun
owners. Because ultimately, Gary Jeff, the deal is they don't care about
the criminals getting guns. They care about their political opposition getting guns, and
that would be the conservative of the Republican and people who might decide that they've
had enough. If tyranny should should boil over. Well, I mean,
it's definitely on the stove right now. We've seen what's been going on in
the Manhattan courtroom with President Trump and this trial. Anybody else, and I
know we're veering off topic here, Dan, but anybody else if they'd committed
a misdemeanor of falsifying records that had it expired, it wouldn't be somehow trumped
up, no pun intended into a federal election charge by an attorney who has
no power to enforce or prosecute federal election charges. So you're real, You're
right. It's all about keeping people who are ideologically opposed or politically opposed to
you from having access to protection under the law exactly. I mean, once
you're in this, in this conversation, in these Second Amendment circles for long
enough, you really start to be clear about the intent of gun control laws
and gun restrictions. Now, people on the outside don't always see the you
know, how they may how they make the sausage, so to speak,
and they think, well, well, Jon, background checks sound like a
great idea, you know, or what we need, red flag laws.
We've got to confiscate guns from Betsy. But they don't understand why the real
reason behind these gun control laws. And if if I could explain this to
everybody, it would be a great thing. Thankfully for people like you who
we can broadcast this this information over a large amount of people. And I
just did ted Nusians show, which was great, and I've done Sean Hannity
showing some of the some of the other uh, you know, radio and
TV shows. Dan, you got it. You got to do me a
favor and get me a connection with uh with Teddy, I'd love to talk
to him. Listen, Uh, if you want to find out more about
your Second Amendment rights and what Dan was is talking about. Check out ammo
land. That's a great website shooting sports news ammo Land. He has articles
in there that regularly appear and loaded Mike, And of course there's Dan's website,
Good Gunbadguy dot com. Thank you, Dan, I appreciate it as
always, my friend, and we will talk again soon. All right,
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Hatter, Dave Hatter, who's here. He's got his aluminum foil cap on
so the aliens or even worse, the government can't read his thoughts, although
they're getting closer and closer to being able to do it. Some tech talk
on a Monday night cap here on SEVENLW. Gary Jeff and Dave Hatter as
always welcome, my friend, How are you always? My pleasure to be
here, Gary Jeff. I had to cut an ear hole in the tenth
foil hat so I could hear you on the phone. You know, there
is first and foremost you and I. Just before we came on the air
talking about how nineteen eighty four wasn't just a book or an album by Van
Halen. It is happening now, and George Orwell was only forty years too
early with his predictions. The surveillance state is on full bore, and the
new police tech that they have now supposedly can detect phones, pet trackers,
and library books in a moving car. Tell me about this horror. Yeah,
this is some pretty wild stuff, Gary, Jeff, And you're right.
Orwell was unfortunately was more of a profit than a novelition was off by
it by forty years. So you know, everywhere you look now you're under
surveillance, whether it's cameras and or microphones, smart devices, et cetera.
And if you think about it, the problem is likely to get much worse
before it gets better, because the devices continue to get smaller. Life is
increasing, devices can be powered by solar, Everything is connected now to Wi
Fi or at least the cellular network. So you know, the idea that
you could be under constant surveillance, I think is much more pervasive now than
anything Orwell could probably have dreamed of back in nineteen forty nine when he wrote
that book. So in this particular case, and I think you and I
have talked about sort of an offshoot of this before, stingray, which is
a device law enforcement and use to set up what appears to be a cell
phone tower, so your phone will connect to it. Yeah, they'll off
and use it for surveillance. This is kind of a similar technology. The
company behind this makes license plate readers, and basically what they've come up with
is a way to use the capabilities of a license plate reader to essentially,
you know, identify you through the license plate and then capture the device.
You know, because all these devices are connected to the cell your network and
or Wi Fi that's throwing out a signal. Not exactly how they're doing it,
it wasn't disclosed, but you know, anything that is emitting some kind
of radio signal can potentially be intercepted, and you know, they're the research
on it so far is pretty much what you said. You know, whether
it's like an air tag or a smart device of some sort, or the
car itself, or perhaps even a library book it's got some kind of tag
from the library in it, they can pick all that stuff up. And
the point of this technology is, you know, because it's ultimately tied to
a license plate, then even if you move those devices to another car,
now they know the device, they know it belongs to you, So the
original connection to your license plate they still know it's used. So again kind
of like a sting ray with a cell phone, but a lot more pervasive
because it's picking up really anything, throwing off an elect you know, some
sort of digital signal over wireless at this point. And that's how I understand
it. And you means that if you have an overdue library book, the
police may be pulling you over for the late fee. There is no escaping
your local librarian at this point that you know. It's it'll be like you
know, I in the sky, except now the library, and we'll know
where you're at at all times. This kind of goes hand in hand with
the past TikTok ban in this country. If it's not divested of from China
by January first, we'll see how that goes. But Australia says in a
study that China uses global apps and games for propaganda. Well, no,
duh, yeah, I would encourage people, Gary Jeff, you know,
I'm a big fan of Twitter slash x because you can get on there and
follow all kinds of accounts that share all kinds of useful information, namely the
Select Committee. This is a House US House committee, to Select Committee on
a Chinese Communist Party, and whether it's discussions about Sentinel or TikTok or other
CCP apps like that, they're a good source and a steady stream of information
like this. So yeah, I think it's interesting that the Australian defensive mechanisms
have come out and pointed this out. And like you said, no,
Doug, I mean it's I just can't stress enough to people. If you
are using something that is quote free unquote write any app software, however you
want to think of it. If it's free, you are not the customer.
You are the product. You're paying with data rather than your money,
and then they monetize that data. Now they mentioned TMU and other online shopping
sites to complete with compete with Amazon, so that's a slightly different model.
But even if it's not some sort of fig op propaganda tool like TikTok,
they're still collecting enormous amounts of your data. It's going back to China.
It's under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. And I think about this,
Gary, Jeff. Even if you didn't use TikTok. Do you think
TikTok the company behind it, name White Dance, doesn't have access to that
information from these other companies, And that whichever ones of these apps, sites,
shopping platforms, whatever you're using that's based out of China, they're not
all sharing your data and doing incredibly granular dossier. Ain't about you. If
you follow that Select Committee site, you know they'll talk about on there the
idea of the Chinese Communist Party going after dissidents in other countries and using the
information they're collecting to harass and target people. So when people tell me I
have nothing to hide, I don't care about any of this sort of stuff.
You are giving it potentially very granular and potentially very insightful psychographic information about
yourself to the main adversary of our nation. And you know, could that
be used against you in any number of ways above and beyond the possible lack
of the psyops part of TikTok, which is pretty clearly defined at this point.
Well, I think the answer is clearly yes. And you know I'm
not the only person and raising his concerns. So I'm glad to see other
governments besides the United States. You know, TikTok in particular has been banned
by many governments around the world. Said, Canada is moving to do this,
aren't they or have they already done it? I don't. I don't
think they banned it. What I saw over the weekend was a story that
says, I think it was the Canadian defense minister whose name escapes me urged
Canadians to stop using TikTok for all of the reasons you and I have been
discussing for a long time. So again, whether it's an actual ban or
you know, the military slash intelligence agencies of different countries warning about TikTok in
particular, the list just keeps going up because I think is more information is
revealed about what they're doing, it's obvious that it's not just collecting your data.
It really is like a SIOP tool, and you know, the power
to propagandize and persuade is pretty obvious at this point. Wow, TikTok.
Well yeah, but I mean, like you said, even if even if
you stop using TikTok, if you're using other apps that have Chinese origins,
you think that bite edance still doesn't have access to that information because you stopped
using TikTok. That's the thing that about centralized communist government that some people just
don't quite understand. And I think Canada's effort may in fact be due to
the fact that they don't want competition from another communist country. Maybe it's I
don't know. Yeah, this stuff is all very interesting and I wish people
would take it more seriously. Well, I don't think it gets any more
serious than a robot dog armed with AI aimed rifles undergoing undergoing US Marine Special
Ops evaluation. So I guess that the robot dogs are working on being the
few the proud hoorah for the robot dog tell me about this. This is
just crazy. I think it's crazy too, Gary Jeff, because from what
I can tell and what's been released to the public so far, there's two
of these that they're testing. You mentioned the Marine Corps of Special Ops testing
these things. You know, it's a robot dog like people have seen.
These robots aren't new, but I would say for anyone listening tonight that hasn't
gone out and really looked at the current state of robotics, it's pretty incredible
what these things can do now. You can check out the optimist line from
Tesla. You can check out Boston Dynamics and see what these things are capable
of. Oh, by the way, hold on you did you see that
creepy video of the Boston Dynamics robot dog that was all dressed in fluff and
fur and doing the little dance. It was just really really creepy. No,
I have not seen this out. Yeah, and maybe that's how the
Marines will soften this up. They'll put a little doggy costume on it so
when it opens up with it's M sixty on you, it'll it'll feel less
terrified and something that just looks like a you know, robot out of a
Black Mirror episode. So you know, again, the robotics aren't new where
I think this gets really interesting, and from what I've been able to read
about this, that's all I know. Is what I've read is that currently
these devices aren't testing and the weapon systems are still under the control of a
human being, much like the weapon systems on like a reaper drone or something.
Right, you know, they're not fully autonomous at this point. But
when you look at the advancement in robotics and you look at the advancement of
AI. I don't think it's far fetched to think that in the not too
distant future you're going to be at a place where these systems would be,
you know, fully autonomous and fully capable of making decision when to engage.
Now, I hope that doesn't happen, but it feels sort of inevitable to
me at some point, if for no other reason, Gary Jeff, because
like everything in human nature, we will be in an arms race with our
adversaries. And if if the Chinese or the Russians or whomever the inemy do
sure is, has fully autonomous weaponized robot dogs or whatever, then you know
there's gonna have There's gonna be the counterclaim. We we've got to have them
too, right, we got to be posts. It's funny. I'm sure
you've you've probably seen both of these movies. Fail Safe, which is a
classic, and then you know Doctor Strangelove, which is sort of the black
comedy version of fail Safe. Right, you know, Uh, for folks
who haven't seen Doctor Strangelove, I just can't recommend it. I think it's
one of the funniest movies ever and just the whole, the whole way it's
played. You know, we've got to out you know, we've got to
have more of them than this, and it just that's where it feels like
we're going with all of this stuff. And for people who think this stuff
is science fiction, uh, just go see for yourself. Watch the videos
these companies are putting out. And the thing that's always the most terrifying to
me, Gary Jeff, is this is what the public is aware of,
right, this is just regular news stories though, and I I have brought
this up before. If we're seeing it and we think it's really out there,
the stuff they're not showing us that they have, yes, imagine it.
I mean we would all we would all like be jumping off cliffs or
something before they could come get us. Yeah, it's you know, right
out of the realm of terminator at this point. Because again, if you
see what these things are capable of, and they're letting the public be aware
of it, who knows what there is in a lab somewhere, whether it's
here or hopefully not China. Hopefully we are ahead of them. You know.
Again, I hate to be the doomsday guy, but some of this
stuff is pretty maybe it's not scary but certainly startling, and you know,
the pace of change and improvement in this technology continues to increase. That's why
I say, I think, you know, we can't be more than maybe
five or ten years out where you're going to have enemies that have fully autonomous
versions of these things, and in order to be able to defend against them,
you're going to have to have your own. So where all goes mutually
assured. Mutually assured robot dog destruction is what we're talking about. I wanted
to ask you about something else that we didn't really plan to chat about,
but it's something that has come up numerous times on my email, and it
will be a reference from someone who I've never heard of talking about accessing my
PayPal account, which I don't have a PayPal account. Uh, and there's
an invoice for a certain amount of money that he's charged. If I want
to see the invoice, I always just delete the thing because I know I
don't have a PayPal. How do people get scammed like that? Well,
I mean your approach is smart. First off, I would just remind everyone
it's so easy to send an email or a text, or even make a
phone call that can be spoofed. Spoofed is the sort of nerdy name for
you know, it's fake, it's bogus, right, It's easy to spoop
whole website, to go out and copy a legitimate website, set it up
on a different server with a slightly different domain name that's not obvious to the
naked eye. All of these things are very easy. All these things are
very doable even by people without much technical skill. The bad guys know this.
The bad guys know that. You know, folks are often rushed or
don't really understand the idea of spooping and how easy it is. And you
know they know that. Then then you take spoofing and throw some social engineering
on it. Right now, I'm going to send you an email or a
text or whatever the claims that you owe money or something. Right, they're
trying to catch you off balance, create a situation that deals urgent and you
need to act on it. Your account's going to get canceled, you're going
to get built or whatever. And you know they know that in many cases
because I can get a list of one hundred million email addresses, and some
number of people on that list is going to have pay or are going to
have PayPal. Some won't, but they still might click on it because they'll
be like, well, what is this? Is this something I should care
about? But it's so easy to do this, And the best way to
not get scammed is, you know, first, stop and take a breath.
Another thing you're going to get via email or text is going to be
so urgent that it must be acted on that very second. Right, stop,
take a breast. Think do I have a PayPal account? Have I
ever had a pay Pal account? And if the answer is no, well
then you should do exactly what you just suggested, Gary Jeff, just to
just delete it, ignore it out of hand, and move on. If
you do have a PayPal account, or maybe had one in the pass,
and you think it could be legitimate, the best bet is to then go
to a computer or you know, I guess on your phone it's necessary.
I hate to do anything on the phone if I have access to a computer,
because it's just easier. Go to the PayPal website. You type in
the url PayPal dot com. Don't click the links, don't call the numbers.
All of that could be fake, right, And that link might take
you to a bogus login page where they feel your credentials, or if you
successfully log into their bogus site, they do something even worse, download malware
or whatever ransomware sort of thing. You know, you go to PayPal on
your own using the PayPal URL that you've looked up on your own, log
into your PayPal account and see is there's something in there that says you know
you owe moneyard there's a problem or whatever. You know, they know people
will get caught off guard, especially if it seems urgent, and they know
people will click those links. If you just step back, take a breath,
stop, think about what you're doing, and then if you feel like
there's you know, some need to act on it again, don't click the
links, don't call the numbers, go on your own to the site that
they're porced to have sent you. You know, it could be like a
UPS scam, right, your package couldn't get delivered, it's held up,
blah blah blah. Well, then you go to UPS, go to ups
dot com, log in with the tracking number you have and look it up.
Just assume that anything you get that was unsolicited and sent to you via
whatever mechanism could be fake. I know we're going to be out of time
here, but remind you the next time we talk. I know someone recently
had their Facebook account taken over, and you know one of the reasons,
people, why do I care about that, Well, because now her Facebook
is spamming all kinds of stuff to other people. They're trying to use,
you know, her authenticity and legitimacy as a person that has friends on Facebook
to spam her friends and and scam them. That's pretty common. So,
you know, any anything you get electronically that's unsolicited, just assume that it's
a high of a likelihood of uh fakeness, not illegitimacy for lack of a
better word, and act accordingly. Yeah, and the government will never send
you something on in the mail, or they may in the mail, but
they'll never call you on the phone or email you. They'll just come.
They'll just come directly to your house and take you into custody. Dave Hatter,
thank you so much. We got to run always my pleasure, Garrett.
Yeah, thanks right, the Mad Hatter on a Monday night, as
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the Woots evening May twentieth,
twenty twenty four and joining I told you we had a stellar lineup a guest
and this is a guy that I've wanted to have on the program for a
long time and I finally got the connection through the pr people. And he
is a host of Supernatural. He is with the Middle East Broadcast Network.
He has sold over three million books, and he is a Jewish man who
believes in Jesus Christ, King Jesus the Messiah. Sid Roth, Good evening
and welcome to the Nightcap. Oh it's my pleasure. Gary. You know
I told you I just hung up on the phone with an Israeli soldier who,
like myself, is a Jewish believer in Jesus. And he's right in
Rapha. He's with an elite group of Israeli soldiers whose job is to destroy
all of the tunnels from Gaza to Israel. And his life is in the
balance every second. And I saw his He was a couple of day vacation
he took from the front because it's really close. He lives in the Galilee,
and so he was there on a two day r and R and he's
there with small children in his family, and he does not know if he's
going to live the next minute, because there's nothing with a greater risk in
the job that he has. But I have to tell you the greatest risk
in the world, in my opinion, and this may shock you, Gary,
the greatest risk in the world is American Christianity. And why do I
say that, And I know it's kind of almost an oxymoron. The reason
is the greatest risk in the world is many Christians have said, I believe
in Jesus because my parents do, but they have never had the real purpose.
You believe in Jesus perhaps because your parents do, but the real purpose
is in this life to have your own experiential knowledge of God through Jesus.
This is what happened to me. When I was thirty years of age.
I was separated from my wife and family. I left my job that was
a mess, absolute mess. It was the early mid life crisis. I
was a college graduate. I worked for Merrill Lynch is an account executive.
But I reached my breaking point and I got involved in the New Age,
which Deuteronomy that's in the Torah, the eighteenth chapter called an abomination. I
had just read this in a book. I read about Jewish people that were
involved in the same thing I was involved in that lost the life because Deuteronomy
eighteen says any Jew that goes to fortune telling and psychics and seances and things
of that that nature would die. And so it listed very prominent Jews in
this book. My hero was in there. He was the Jewish man of
the Beatles at that time, Brian Epstein, the Jew and at that time
only one group from the Beatles had died, the Jew Brian Epstein. And
so I was afraid to go to sleep the night because I've broke into something
in the New Age called astra projection where my spirit would leave my body.
And those that think, oh, he's just kind of crazy, now they
actually study this at American universities today. It's called astro projection. And I
was afraid to go to sleep at night. But I finally I said,
I can't take it anymore. If I die, I die because I was
afraid my spirit leave my body not make it back in time. And I
had a script that Rod Surley never even imagined that was so horrific. And
so through sheer exhaustion, I went to sleep being in the worst shape a
human can be, separated from my wife and daughter, no job, just
a mess. Everything's coming apart in my life. I went to bed with
the biggest fear a human could possibly have, but I was so exhausted I
didn't care if I even died. And I have to tell you, as
a young boy, my big fear was the fear of death because it was
unknown to me and I didn't know what happened to me. So I went
to sleep and I woke up that morning. And this was when I was
age thirty. When I woke up that morning, the greatest presence of peace
I had ever experienced in my life flooded the room. If you had been
in my room, Gary, you would have felt that. Anyone would have
felt that. I felt the presence of God in a tangible way the first
time in my life, and I have to tell you I've been addicted to
the presence of God ever since. Because there is no drug, no alcohol,
there's no entertainment that can replace the experiential knowledge. Your own experiential knowledge.
He knowledge is good, but it doesn't spend. The only thing that
spends is experiential knowledge. And I want everyone listening to consider they are listening
to your show, Gary, by divine appointment, and it's their time to
come to know God. And if they will just say in their own words,
Jesus, I've made mistakes. I'm so sorry. I believe that your
blood washes me clean. And now that I'm clean, Jesus live inside of
me, and I make you my Messiah and Lord. If they were just
say that in their own words, they would have an encounter with the living
God. It may not happen the minuture pray it, like it didn't happen
the minute I prayed it. I actually prayed a little prayer a few days
earlier. Nothing happened, and I figured, well, it was a waste.
But then that night I told you about, I was flooded with the
glory of God. If you say a prayer to that nature, it will
be as effective, maybe not the same thing that happened to me, but
as effective as God feels you needed at this moment in your life. And
I wouldn't want to live in this world. I've never seen such a contrast
of light and darkness, evil and good, a division in my life,
and it's happening so rapidly, and there is a defense. Yes, the
world, according to the Bible, will get darker and darker, but the
glory of God, the light of God, is about ready to shine on
you. And I tell you you'll be walking in the presence of God and
no weapon formed against you will prosper if in your own words, you make
Jesus your Messiah and Lord. Right now, sid are you continuing obviously you're
continuing your minute history in Israel with other Jews. You told me about a
billboard that you've you've contracted on broadways. Well, and there's two There are
two things. First, what you just mentioned, I'm the owner of Middle
East Television and that is a regular television network that is available in every home
in Israel that has a TV. And in addition to that, I've just
lit up Broadway. At least that was the headline of the newspaper article.
What did I do? I don't know if anyone's ever done this before.
I bought one of the biggest billboards, not the biggest, not the one
in Times Square that they see on New Year's Eve, not that one,
but one very close to it, right in that same geographic area. And
we have seven Jewish people that leave in Jesus, of which I'm one of
the seven. And the headline flashing on the news under the picture says,
I'm Jewish and I believe in Jesus. That is running four times an hour,
every hour for the next three months, and that's why the headline was
Rath lights up Broadway. That's great, that's phenomenal. Amen. So I
wanted to talk to you about some worldly events that continue to maybe point to
possibly the return of Jesus. What do you know about this helicap copter crash
that killed the Iranian president and what does that mean for events as they unfold
between Iran and Israel and what's going on in the Middle East? What do
you think, Well, there's certain things we know and certain things we speculate.
I do know that Iran will one day be totally destroyed. What I
don't know is the timing. I believe God puts kings in place, and
I believe that God thought it that this guy would die because he was really
the heir apparent. I mean, they were grooming him to really be the
leader of Iran. And someone else will be there that I believe will be
pivotal in a war between Israel and Iran, and maybe even Russia and China
will join in. That things are happening, Jerry, I'm sure you see
the same thing I do. Things are happening so rapidly in the world.
I've never seen the anti Semitism it's just reared up in the University's happened so
fast and so big. I've never seen the hatred for Israel in my lifetime
that is going on right now. Things are intensifying and speeding up. And
there is only one defense, and that one defense is the whole purpose of
life, and that's to know God experientially. Do you think that Joe Biden
has turned his back has betrayed Israel with his bold arms. Absolutely. Absolutely,
he has given so much money to Hamas, not really directly to Hamas,
but just tell Ustians we all know ends up in the comforts of Hamas
leaders that are in very big cities and big hotels, spending the millions of
dollars on a lavish lifestyle. I mean, we have a Hebrew word in
Jewish and he actually Yiddish. It's called michuga. It means crazy. The
world is going crazy. Gary. Well, and like you said, there
is light and there there is hope, as you mentioned, through the power
of God and through the belief in Jesus Christ. And you were following that
path and have been since you were thirty years old. Said now, I'm
very worried by the way and the question you asked earlier about President Biden.
I'm extremely worried, not because of him, but because of what he stands
for. And he is playing right into the curse of Genesis twelve three.
I God will curse those who curse the Jewish people or Israel. That's what
he's doing. I have great fear for the US. We're going to go
through it. We're going to go through a bad time. But I believe
the presence of God is going to be so large that it's going to hit
America, that it's going to give everyone that one last chance. Because no
one knows when you're when the end will come for America, the end will
come for uh Ran. No one knows what, but we do know.
Even more important than that, no one knows when their end will come,
when they will die. I've talked to people, young people. Everyone's young
to me. I'm maybe three years here, but I talk to younger people
and they're dying. You don't know when your end will come, but you
can know for sure where you're going, not because I tell you, not
because Gary tells you, because you know. And that's the most important message
I have for anyone right now. Get to know God experientially, yourself excellent.
How can people find out more? Said Roth? What? What are
some places where you would tell them to seek what you were, what you
are disseminating, what you are telling people? Is there? Is there a
website? Is there somewhere where they can be more in touch with said Roth
story and your God's story. We have an online network. It's called It's
Supernatural. Isn it's Supernatural Network. You go to the app store, you
google in sid Wroth and you'll see a nice orange chapter. There's no charge.
It's a seven day a week, twenty four hour a day network of
all original, mostly original programming. We have some that's not, but mostly
original programming that will allow them to transition from religion to relationship. But not
so much because someone says it, but they tell you how to do it
and what is the benefit, And they tell you the benefit by their lives,
and you'll see genuine miracles. They'll pray for you. So you just
all you do is type in sid Roth in the app story and get my
is and supernatural app. That's the best way, said Roth. I've been
blessed by this conversation myself, and I appreciate your taking time to talk with
us tonight, and we will watch and we will learn, and hopefully we
learn to have that experiential revolution within ourselves so we can we can be with
you in paradise. Let me pray this prayer for everyone listening. At this
end, I can't go ahead bother and that, by the way, the
Hebrew for Jesus is yes Suah. He responds to English Spanish Hebrew, but
I'm Jewish. I like to use his Hebrew name. I mean his mother
wasn't even married back then. She was Miriam. So Miriam had a son
by the name of Yesua Jesus. So I pray that Gary and every listener
right now would have an encounter with you Racha Kodish spirit of the Living God,
and would know your shore even better than I know him, and would
hunger for more of him every day of their life. And let it start
right now by everyone that says in their heart, right now, Jesus,
I make you my Savior and Lord, and say it out loud. It's
something about the spoken word of God. And I pray the blessings of Genesis
twelve three will land on everyone listening, which says I God will bless those
who bless the Jewish people. And I believe the greatest blessing in the life
of everyone listening is to make issue of their Messiah and Lord and be a
blessing to Israel and walk in the blessings of God. No matter what happens
on your left, no matter what happens on you right, you will walk
in the shalom of God. O me Amen. Thank you said so much.
Thank you Gary. Bye. It is the nightcap, and it continues
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hundred WLW Gary Jeff and Jeff is a professor of political science and co director
of the Ashbrook Scholar Program at Ashland University, and he is a co author
of this book that I think is is very important and way too long in
coming. To be honest with you, It's entitled a Republic If we can
Teach It, Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis. Jeff Sigenge Hello, how are
you fine? Thank you and great to be with you and your listeners.
Well, thank you for being on tonight with us. I remember getting a
pretty good civic education in public schools in this country, But that tells you
how old I am. I graduated in nineteen seventy nine, which was,
of course, the first year of the implementation of the federal Department of Education,
and things seem to have just gone downhill in a lot of cases since
we had that centralized bureaucracy in Washington. You know, any kind of perceived
ill in society is usually made worse when federal Washington, centralized Washington declares a
war on poverty or drugs or education or whatever. Is there a direct correlation
between more federal involvement in public education and a scaling back of teaching civic education
in schools, Jeff, Absolutely. One thing that we demonstrate in the book
is since nineteen seventy nine, and even a few years before that, we
have been doing less civic education, teaching US history and US government and civics,
and we've been doing worse civic education. And some of that blame lies
directly at the feet of the federal government in the US. Department of Education.
Your listeners, no doubt know about no Child Left Behind law that put
a lot of emphasis on reading, in math and testing those things. Well,
if you test those things, guess what they don't teach. They don't
teach the other things that aren't tested. Andy and government have been losing ground
just in terms of the number of hours that are spent on them in elementary,
middle and high school. And as to add to that, the push
for STEM education, the numbers have gone down and down even more, and
yet it seems like we've got less and less of graduating student populations that are
really excelling in math and especially reading. You know, even with No Child
Left Behind, even with the STEM programs you're talking about, and we certainly
have seen a decline in patriotism and civic pride. Absolutely that it's a real
crisis. The crisis is both ignorance, understanding, and devotion. You know,
there's a test that's given every four years called the NAPE Test. In
twenty twenty two, only twenty two percent of US eighth graders scored proficient in
US Government and only thirteen percent scored proficient in US History. That means three
out of every four kids is not even proficient in the very knowledge that they
need to be American citizens. It's an alarming crisis. I was in elementary
and the first well the first year of middle school in Illinois, and there
was pretty good public education in this state of Illinois at the time. And
we learned in the state of Illinois not only about US history as early as
gosh, as early as first grade, but we also learned about Illinois state
history very early on, and that was a regular part of the curriculum.
And when I moved to Tennessee, there was an entire year we were focused
on Tennessee history, which of course relates to American history because it was one
of those expanding states out west. The frontiersman and all of that, and
we learned about Davy Crockett and all these other historical characters. And I think
that teaching history is a major part of a proper civic education. You absolutely
right, we have to know our story to feel like we're part of that
story. And you know, when you don't do it, what you end
up with is young people who are not the kind of informed patriots that Ronald
Reagan said that we need, so just last year to give you an example,
Gallup poll ask people, are you extremely proud to be an American?
Over sixty five, almost seventy percent said yes. Under thirty, only twenty
five percent said yes. It's the biggest gap they've ever recorded. Why are
young people not extremely proud to be Americans? Because of the things that they
believe about America's history and founding principles? Well, from the sixteen nineteen project,
which is just full of so many holes and CRT and now we have
the DEI that's been pushed in classes across the country and the wholeful lot more
and more than in classes, in corporations and everything else where, your immunable
characteristics mean more than your actual abilities. And I always thought America was a
great meritocracy, but seemingly in the last twenty years we've lost a hold of
that as well. Yeah, and we need to get back to teaching the
principles of our founding look at our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution. We
need to get back to reading those texts, studying them together with young people
and understanding that those are the principles that bind us together. That's above our
group, our our ethnicity, our background. That's the things that make us
Americans, that can lift everyone up together and unite us. We absolutely,
for the sake of the republic, we have to get back to teaching those
things. Jeff. Second, I can't tell you how enthusday I am about
this book, and it's Do you have some hope that we can actually turn
this around? I do. I do because I'm also executive director of the
Ashbrook Center, as you mentioned, and whenever we run programs, which we
do around the country for students, teachers, and citizens in American history and
founding principles, when we do, they respond, they love it. They're
hungry for it. To be in a classroom with some of our Ashbrook teachers
gives you hope. And I've seen it for myself. I've experienced it.
I have a lot of hope. But we got to get the word out.
Your listeners can go to Ashbrook dot org is our organization's website. We've
got a lot of resources and they can just know more about our mission,
connect with us, and we've got to get this book out, get folks
reading it, and above all, we got to get back to educating our
young people in our history and founding principles. A republic if we can teach
it Fixing America's civic education crisis. The author Jeff Sikinge, Thank you,
professor, Thank you for having me. You bet we'll have to do it
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Ray, Charles Marino, welcome to the show. How are you, sir?
Thank you so people. I don't think people understood. But when President
Trump was trying to do the things that he was doing during his administration,
to stem the tide of illegal h what i'd like to call foreign criminal trespassers
on our border, and outlining the issues that I believe you probably outline in
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on the books. In fact, the Biden administration has sued Texas and saying
that their enforcement of federal immigration laws is unconstitutional. Don't get that, but
like some thirty thousand plus Chinese men have come illegally across our border and they're
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don't know who they are. You know, look what nineteen terrorists did on
September eleventh, two thousand and one. Think about thousands and perhaps millions of
people that have the same ill intent towards our country. So outline if you
could, what the book is talking about, Chuck Charles. Yeah, well,
I can tell you as a country, we currently face more threats from
more places than at any time in our history. And as if that's not
hard enough, we have a presidential administration under President Biden's leadership, who sets
the national security strategy for the country, which is why he owns this crisis
in its entirety. But with all of those threats that we're facing that I
mentioned from all these different places, he is not stopping it. He is
literally ushering each and every one of these threats that we face across our borders
and into our country. We are encountering people from over one hundred and eighty
different countries. Let that sink in one hundred and eighty different countries. Many
of these are special interest locations where we know terrorist organizations are up and running
with a deep patred for the West. And then you talk about state actors
like our number one adversary in China, who has historically been working with the
Mexican cartels to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans through the production of fentanyl.
China provides all the synthetics and the Mexican cartels produce the drug with those ingredients,
and we have an eighteen hundred percent increase in Chinese nationals coming into the
United States since the Trump administration. Numbers that high nobody moves from China without
the sign off of the PRC, the People's Republic of China. So,
as you indicated, we're dealing with a whole host of threats coming from both
state and non state actors into the country, and this administration really is unprecedented.
Will show in how they have completely walked away from their federal responsibilities of
enforcing the border and in greation laws of this country. Well, the conjecture
is Charles, is that they're doing this strictly for a voting base that they
know will be loyal to them. It's been estimated by an electoral studies study
done starting in twenty fourteen that as many as twenty five twenty seven percent of
non citizens of foreigners are voting are registered to vote illegally in this country.
And I think that in twenty fourteen they admitted eight point four percent admitted illegals,
admitted that they illegally voted and their votes counted. So, I mean
there's a reason behind this that the Biden administration is doing it and so strictly
to remain in power as long as they can. They're subverting our ability to
protect ourselves as a sovereign NAT's yeah, and let's look at the sequence even
more closely to show that the vote is the ultimate goal here. They want
those in the country illegal to be eligible to work, to have work permits,
they want them to have driver's licenses. They now want to issue issue
and actually a federal ID specific to illegal immigrants, and all of this documentation
is going to allow them ultimately to vote. So not only do you have
the concern about the illegal voting that's going to take place, but they actually
want to facilitate and make this legal for those who don't even belong in the
country to cast their vote. So, yes, it's about power. Yes,
it's about putting politics over national security. It has from the start,
and what this administration has shown to all Americans, which by the way,
this border crisis. I got to tell you, I'm out on the road
now doing much book signings and people are very openly coming up to me and
saying, I am a Democrat, this is a problem. I am a
Republican, this is a problem. The President has unified both Democrat and Republican
voters on this issue because it's no longer isolated to the border, it's now
been present within their own communities and they're seeing this and being impacted by it.
And one thing that Americans are getting sick and tired of hearing from this
administration is that what they're now experiencing and seeing as a result of this crisis
isn't actually happened. They're being told that they're dreaming all of this, and
it's an insult. It's an insult to the American people, and it's also
endangering their lives they've made. Look that if we want to really critique this
administration, we have to ask three simple questions was the world Is the world
more stable under President Biden? Or was it more stable underfo President Trump?
Right? Are our adversaries more empowered now under President Biden than they were under
former President Trump? Right? And finally, is the United States a more
dangerous place to live under President Biden? And the answer is yes. Well,
I just I hope that at some point there is a reckoning and we
have the ability to maybe call up the current DHS Secretary of may orcus on
charges of treason because I believe that the under the instruction of the Biden regime,
they are giving away our country literally, Well, there needs to be
accountability in these positions, obviously, because my orcus has proven that you can
swear an oath to protect and defend the United States of America and then get
into the position and do nothing to support what you took an oath for.
So it's a shame. We now need to hold people accountable, especially when
it comes to protecting the country, if they're not going to get in there
and do the job that they swore an oath to do. And that's a
big problem. And I can tell you he is implementing. The Secretary's implementing
these policies at the direction of the President, and each of these policies with
respect to the border and immigration undercuts the federal responsibilities of the agencies that fall
under him. So as a result, they're undercutting the statutory authorities of these
agencies. They're switching agencies like Customs and Border Protection to prevent them from enforcing
the law, to become an agency that just processes as many illegal migrants into
the country. And the other thing is it impacts the moralities agency. So
now we're losing a lot of good people who actually took the same oath the
Secretary Homeland Security did, but they're not being allowed to do the jobs that
they actually want to go out and do to keep the country safe. Charles
Morino, There's a lot of consequences. Charles Morino, thank you for your
time tonight. And I'm sorry terrorist on the border and in our country.
It's out now. Read it. Open your eyes, folks, it is
really happening. Thank you, Charles. Another hour of the Nightcap with the
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not tonight, It's the home of Gary, Jeff Walls, Boker and
Andy Furman in this half hour because we got lots to talk about. Andy.
It's been way too long since you and I had a little ted of
tay, a little chance to chat. Now is our time. Let's make
the most of whatever it is is seventeen eighteen minutes. We've got what has
been cooking on your back burner you're willing to bring to the front because it's
about to boil over inside you. Andy. Not only is it cook so,
first of it's about time this freaking station. We get back on the
air. Really, I mean the Reds. Let's take go out of time.
I have no idea what's going on because the newspapers they're playing on a
Friday. You know, you don't read it till Sunday. There's no Saturday
paper, so you know. Now we could get back into no Mattlis Butio
and and Andy. You can hear every game all season long right here in
the home in the morning on seven hundred lorning. I know, I know,
I know, stop with the promo. You don't have to kiss but
anymore. You don't have to do it. I know they're on me.
Everybody knows they're on there. How many people are staying up in the morning
listen to a basebo No, Look, Candy, did you have a DVR?
You could DVR the broadcast. I'm not doing that. Look. Look,
I like live stuff everything live, like this show. Like right now,
let's get into it. And I want to be the voice of a
common schlet, a common fan. And I got this platform. Thank god
you gave it to me. I'm going to talk about it. The NFL
is a great it's a great entity, it's a great business. I understand
it's a business, and I have one hell of a business model because they
want to get revenue, revenue streaming. That's what they do at the expense
of guys like you, me and everybody else. Let's take an example.
A family of four wants to go to an NFL game. You can't get
out of it without spending four hundred dollars plus parking and concession in New York.
Right, go to a Giant game in New York. It's two hundred
bucks to park. Okay, So now they're bleeding us if you don't want
to go to a game. They got all these platforms. You have no
idea what freaking platform the game is going to be anyway. Anyway, they
got Netflix, they got Amazon, they got ESPN Plus, they got Peacock,
said the NFL Sunday ticket. I figured out how much is going to
cost a month if in fact you have to do this. Are you are
ready? Are you ready for the numbers? Now? Yes, this is
making me sick. Netflix six ninety nine a month, Amazon Prime Video eight
ninety nine a month, ESPN Plus ten ninety nine a month, Peacock five
ninety nine a month. NFL Sunday Ticket for payments of one twelve to twenty
five a month, as if you don't have YouTube right right subscription fee for
all streaming services per month per month if you want the NFL right now one
hundred and forty five twenty one cents without a prime membership and your YouTube TV
plan. This is outrageous. It's a monopoly. It's got to stop.
And I want somebody to start a movement for all fans of this league to
say, wait a minute, stop gouging us. I get it. You
want to st a revenue stream, I get it. He Roger Goodell,
the commissioner, works at the bequest of the ownership, and he's making the
owners real rich at our expense. I mean, it's enough already, don't
you agree. Well, all these streaming platforms you're talking about, all these
apps, they have paid a lot of money to the NFL so they can
who cares provide these games? So they've got to make their money, bet
money from us. Yes, they're recouping them. You and me, Now,
Andy, let me ask you this. Do you believe, since you're
on this everyman kind of rant right now, do you believe that all NFL
games should only be on broadcast TV that you can pick up with a simple
antenna. Yes, yes, I agree. Yes they should be on over
the air free TV. Why not. Why shouldn't they, you know why
over their free TV by people watching them at one o'clock on the East Coast
every Sunday made that league what it is. That's what made the league what
it was really back of the sixties. Don't really care about the NFL.
Matter of fact, home games are blackouts. There was a blackout rule when
I was a kid, I couldn't watch the New York Football Giants. My
buddies used to have to drive the Connecticut on Sunday to watch the games on
TV to get past the ninety mile radius distance that approved the blackout. I
remember that. So listen, listen. Were you in favor of the blackout?
No, no, it's a stupid rule. They thought that a blackout
would create more people going to the games. That's why they blocked it out,
because people would stay home watch it on TV. Well, you know
what, they lifted the blackout. People in fact did stay home and watch
on TV. And now what they're doing, they're sort of creating another blackout
situation. If you will, A paywall to watch these games. I don't
think it's right, and no one's really bitching about it, and I don't
understand it. I don't understand it. And you know what, these people
behind microphones that I work with and nationally, locally whatever, I don't hear
Lance Mcallisy yelling and swimming about it. I don't hear Mowagger talking about it.
Why aren't they upset about it? Why am I the only idiot upset
about it? Because I guess they just have the Well, it is what
it is, and that's the way things have changed, and that's today yesterday.
Lance doesn't want to ruffle the feathers. There's want a rough liney,
I get it. Look, I'm one of those guys. I like to
rock the boat a little bit. There's nothing wrong with rocking the boat.
You do it some usually, usually, usually I would disagree with you on
almost everything, vehemently, just because it makes for better radio. But I
can't do it tonight because I'm not with you. I'm not doing It's just
how we really feel. So anyway, you said something very telling, you
know, in the games were at one o'clock Eastern. I have believed for
a long time in my heart of heart, Sandy, that God himself the
supreme being who is in charge of everything that happens. Okay, don't I
thought you were. I thought you were an atheist. No, I believe
in Jesus Christ is my savior. Anty I didn't know that. So here's
here's what I'm And by the way, I want you to tune into podcast
because I know you didn't hear it earlier. I had sid rothon who is
a Jew who believes in Jesus, and I think maybe you should benefit from
that conversation. But I'm I believe in Jesus. He was a Jew.
He was a Jew. I believe as the Messiah, as the Messiah.
No. See, that's what that's where we differ. Anyway, back to
our conversation about the NFL. I believe that God ordained one pm Eastern to
be the kickoff times of all NFL games. I think that's the only right
time to watch NFL is Sunday at one pm. What has helped facilitate the
need for all these different platforms and the ability to you know, broadcast them
against several networks and several platforms is the fact that we got Thursday night games
we got Monday night games, we got Saturday games sometimes during the season.
We got these games in Europe. How do you feel about the games in
Europe? Is that okay? Again, it's very similar to the to the
different platforms of the TV revenue situation because they're expanding their brand and that's what
they do with Netflix and they do with Amazon Prime and Peacock whatever it may
be. They're expanding the brand. And I get it. It's a very
popular sport. They want everybody to have a taste of it. And what
do they do when they expand the brand, Well, people watch what people
spend money on jerseys, whatever it may be, and that's exactly what it
is. They make more money, you know. But they're doing the same
thing, doing the same thing that cable company and satellite companies do and cell
phone companies do. They forget about their current customers. They're always looking for
more, and if you're a new customer, you get all kinds of little
perks and gifts that the person who's been paying the weight of these companies for
the last twenty years don't get because oh they're just old. We've already got
them. We're gonna hook some new fish on the line. So that's my
little gripe about it. The NFL's doing the same thing with all of these
different platforms and charging all this money just so you can watch their product.
Isn't the advertising on network TV enough? NFL? No, it's not a
knot. You want more, more more, you you're up on this more
than I am. I understand as a legislation in Ohio for sports bars and
taverns to get these games free, and that would be great because I think
these sports bars and taverns believe that these situations are hurting their business by people
who used to go there and watch a game on a Sunday afternoon, have
a couple of cold ones and maybe a pizza or something like that, and
and now they can't do it because they would have to pay to get these
games broadcast into their sports bar. So I think there's a legislation in Ohio
only not Kentucky, but in Ohio to get the sports bars to veto these
things and get them free, which would be amazing and it'd be great for
their business, and it'll be great. I think that's what shit. I
really don't I really, I really don't like to go to sports bars in
Ohio. In fact, I really don't like to go to the right even
though I don't like watching games there. But if it means the only outlet
I can watch that game for free rather than pay for it, I will
do it. I will do it. I wear headphones so I wouldn't have
to hear the yelling and screaming at the sports bar. I wear headphones,
and that's what I'll do and get there early so I get a good spot.
But other than that, I have no desire to go to a sports
on. Hold, hold on, hold on, let me ask you something.
You just brought something else us up, and I want to address this
with you and find out where you stand on this. Andy Furman, you
talked about the yelling and screaming during games. I've always found that a little
bit like troglodyte neanderthal activity, because you understand, while you may be emotionally
invested in your team and what you're watching and what's happening on the screen,
they can't hear you. Do these people who are yelling it's whether it's at
home or in a sports bar. Do they under do these people who were
yelling and screaming during the game understand the players, the announcers, the referees
can't and they don't care. No, But it's a vehicle for after the
game when the coach and or players are interviewed and say, man, the
fans really were like the twelfth Man. They got us the victory. You
know, you've got to seattle that if you're if you're in the if you're
in the arena, you're at the stadium, yeah they can hear you.
But when you're sitting at home or you're in a sports bar, they can't.
They can't hear you, and they don't care. Well, you know
what I would tell you, there's a difference. When you're at the stadium
and you're yelling and screaming, you're actually rooting for your team. You invested,
you paid money for a ticket, that's why you're there. But sports
bar at home, you're not vested, but you're yelling because you have money
on it. You bet on it, and if a guy dropped the pass,
you go nuts and you throw something at the TV set. You know
what I'm saying. That's so that's a difference yelling. There's a different reason
reasoning for yelling. One because you're a fan and you're rooting the other one
because you got money on the deal and you're really upset or real happy,
And a lot a lot more people are in that category too these days,
so kind of associated with that. You know what I can't stand. I
watched the PGA Championship this weekend. I mean after Scheffler got let out of
uh, you know, Louisville traffic jail. Anyway, so I'm watching watching
it and and this bugs me to death. And it's every tournament, every
important shot, somebody feels like they've got to yell. As soon as this
the golfer has swung at the ball and made contact, they got to yell
something. What is when did that start in golf? And why do they
do that? They do it just to hear themselves on TV? Is what
they do. That's exactly right. And I'll tell you, son, it's
funny. I was checking my Twitter count or what do you call X y
Z, whatever the hell you want to call it. And Dan Horde obviously
was there, and he made a comment on Twitter saying that it seemed to
him that everybody at that tournament in Louisville was yelling who they I heard a
couple of days. Yes, it's crazy. I look, people are crazy.
You don't have to see a live shot during the news, and there's
always some clown behind the guy woman. Usually it makes it makes more sense.
And the broadcaster who's doing the stand up usually right. And I'll tell
you something else. It's funny because the TV producers they're the blame, the
producers and directors. When you go to a game, a live game that's
on TV and they pay the stands and the guys that wear the stupidest outfits
of the NFL games, the football games they get on TV, which tells
people, you know what I'm going to get on TV. I'm going to
dress like a moose. You know what I'm saying. That's what they do.
So I don't care about who's in the stands. I really don't.
And another thing that hurts me when I'm watching the game, they'll put these
stupid little headlines on the bottom of the screen and it covers up all the
important information that really does you know the little notes that you scroll the scroll
on the bottom say, after the first quarter is over, They'll say,
Joe Burrow has had three first downs in the first quarter. Who care you
know that. I mean, the stop it already. I don't need to
know every single thing that is going on. But that again is for the
gamblers, Andy, because there are bets, some stuff like that the whole
game. So there was one more thing you wanted to get off your chest.
And we got about five minutes left so quickly. Well we may we
may need more. But I want to talk about Harrison. Butker, the
kicker, the kicker from the Kansas City changed my team. We spoke of
an addicting college and Kansas and you talk about this all the time, Gary,
Jeff diversity of speech, and that's basically what he had do. I
agree what he said entirely. No, not really because he foolish to go
in that direction. Yes, but why is he getting killed? He was
getting foolish to go. He wasn't foolish to go in any direction. Your
point is he has the right to spouse his beliefs, especially when he was
invited by this college to speak at their commitments commencement. It's a small NFL,
it's a small Catholic college who got a devout Catholic to give a commencement
address. In the story, he was talking about scriptural things and the order
of what he believes is is man and woman's role in life according to God.
And that's all he was doing. But the NFL wanted to distance themselves
from him because all they want to you know, it's bad enough to his
feedback and negative feed back for what he did. I get it, everybody.
You know, I'll go on the radio. You go on the radio,
you say, you know, you get it. You stick ahead above
water. That's's gonna happen, right, You're used to it. I'm used
to it, no doubt. But when the NFL does that and they have
diversity signs in every end zone, you know, let's be one, it
takes a village. You know, I'm saying, they have that diversity garbage
and every end zone in every stadium, in every field, and now you
have a guy speaking each diversity and you you're saying, oh, well,
we don't know this guy. He's not part of us. That's his deal.
And the Kansas City chief said that approssriate. They did the same thing
because this whole, this whole move, this whole move to diversity in our
society, diversity, equity, and inclusion. It has nothing to do with
diversity of thought, which it should include. It's all about checking boxes.
Are you are you a Hispanic transsexual woman? Are you this? Or are
you that? And you're gonna get hired because you're you're checking a box.
It's not about diversity of thought or or allowing freedom of thought from anyone and
in speech that you may not agree with to be allowed. They're they're hypocrites,
is what they are. And when they talk about the worst thing is
where are his teammates? Not on one teammate of him and the Kansas City
chiefs to come out and say, you know what, get off his back.
He had to say something. You don't have to agree with him,
but leave Maloney's our teammate. Everybody runs a hide, you know why,
because they're afraid of that canceled culture garbage. They're afraid of it. They
know that if they say something, they'll be in just in worse shape.
But you know what, His jerseys sold big time, big time over the
weekend. People will buy in his jersey, Yes, and that's that's amazing
because not many people buy jerseys of Kickers. Because people in this country have
had enough of this dei craft. They've had enough of this canceled culture majority.
No, it's it's a very small minority, a very small, loud
minority that has been pushing all this garbage. And the reason that it's existed
this long is because people haven't made a stand. They're afraid when people when
people stand up to bullies, guess what, the bullies go away. It's
not just for middle school, but it's in adult life too, when you
stand up to the bullies. And that's all the DEI crowd are a bunch
of canceled culture bullies. When you stand up to them and you say no,
I'm not going to apologize, I'm not going to back off my statement.
That's when they shrink and go away. Because there are more There are
more of us than there are there are more of us. Who's that Lou
Holtz stood up to him yesterday? God bless Lou Holtz because he again I'm
not saying I agree with everything he had to say, but has every damn
right to say what he says. You know what, Andy, I don't
know that I agree with everything he said. Most of it, I do,
and I think, but I do think it's instructive that as we end
this conversation, go tell your wife to be a good wife and make you
a sandwich, all right, and to wash the floor. I do my
laundry right bye for a ball, Thank you, I love you. Goodbye.
We'll close the nightcap with Lee Habib coming up right afternoons. Rocky Boyman
here. I played in the NFL, and that's pretty cool. I'm also
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I really love having on the air. He is the host of Our American
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has been since well for a while, and he helped co found Laura Ingram's
radio show back in two thousand and one. And I always tell people,
as a radio guy doing interviews, if you get to rate, if you
do an interview, with another radio guy or gal. It's always wonderful and
this guy especially because he's got great information. Lee Habib, welcome to the
show. Thanks for having me. All right, we are talking eighteen sixty
four first tonight, and we're talking eighteen sixty four. You did an Our
American Stories segment on eighteen sixty four, and why well, people are always
chiming in the twenty twenty four is the most divided this country's ever seen,
and maybe not so fast. Talk about eighteen sixty four and the great divide
that was existing in this country at the time, Lee, or we're in
mid in the thick of the Civil War in January first, eighteen sixty four.
Lincoln's morning that day, January first, he's greeting a bunch of folks
who love Lincoln and good morning. In the afternoon, he learns that the
Confederate troops have logged within sixty miles of DC six thousand and forces. This
is a complete source of frustration for Lincoln. He's won Gettysburg, he's won
Vicksburg, he's won Chattanooga in sixty three, but in sixty four, here
are these rabid and just pesky Southern troops they're too close to home. And
by the way, they just won Chancellorville a big victory, and he could
Lincoln could not get Richmond to fall. Richmond was only ninety five miles for
the nation's capital. Due South slavery was still intact, and these troops,
Lincoln learned, were re enlisting at record rates. In other words, they
were highly motivated. They wanted to keep their way of life and not just
slavery. A lot of Southerners didn't own slaves, or they had one or
two. They liked the idea of their state autonomy too. The North thought
for slavery. The South fork in part to defend slavery, but the South
also fort because they didn't want the North to call them the shots. So
it was a complicated, complicated work, mostly driven by slavery, but there
were other factors. And his eighteen sixty four goes, on, my goodness,
the South keeps holding its ground and exacting huge losses on the Union and
on Lincoln. And this was their hope. By the election of eighteen sixty
four in November, they were hoping, get the body count high enough and
they'll nominate they'll run the Democrats, an anti war president that ended up being
McClellan. Not exactly a pacifist. The guy is a general. He's gonna
basically say we can't win this war. And by July Lincoln is suffering epic
casualties. Grant suffered huge losses against Lee in the Battle of the Wilderness at
Cold Harbor. Grant lost and get this number, because it's a crazy number,
in Cold Harbor, Virginia in forty five days, Grant lost sixty thousand
men and gained only sixty miles of territory. That ten percent had twelve thousand
troops five miles from DC. Things were not looking good for Abraham Lincoln at
that moment, and he was so sure he was going to lose that he
had his entire cabinet signed a blind sealed memorandum essentially saying, if we can't
win this war, there's going to be a peaceful transition of power and the
Union will be separated. The Union will be separated. And then came the
news, right, because then came a political event that changed everything. And
it was a memo that Lincoln got on September third, and it just had
six words and he said, Atlanta is ours and fairly won, They'd won
the battle they needed to win. Lincoln did, and that was the heart
the big city and the heart of the Confederacy. And everything changed from that
day on and Lincoln won, and he won decisively. But boy, if
you would have told him at the beginning of August of eighteen sixty four that
he was going to win, I don't think he thought he had a chance.
Most of the leadership at his party didn't think he had a chance.
And I'll tell you the biggest thing. They were facing a huge economic decline.
The Union had tremendous debt, It had huge bills to pay and couldn't
even pay the soldiers. Worse, the dollar had dropped to thirty seven cents.
So when people say we've never been divided or more divided, I go,
eh, slightly more. And when people say, you know, things
are you know, things are just worse economically, I go, oh,
my goodness, you don't know. I mean, imagine if the dollar was
worth thirty seven cents, right, I just imagine that and forget about you
know, three percent inflation and nine percent inflation. The devaluation of the dollar
is the worst thing that can happen. It's as bad as inflation, if
not worse. Well, I mean it's good where some people say we're headed
that way Lee, But Grant loses sixty thousand that's one tenth of the soldiers
who were killed in the entire Civil War in forty five days, that's right,
and he and we lost ninety thousand soldiers. The Union law I say
weak as I grew up in New Jersey, I live in Mississippi now that
slips out now and then, But the North lost ninety thousand troops in eighteen
sixty four just to North. So see, it seems like the bloodiest year
of the Civil War. And that's not even counting Gettysburg and Vicksbert the other
things you mentioned. So here's a question, if if Sherman's victories on the
March to the Sea and the capturing and burning of Atlanta was the big victory
that Lincoln and the Union forces needed to wind up tilting the balance in this
Civil War, why was Grant so lauded and why did Ulysses has Grant become
president and not Sherman If you're going to give it to a victorious Union general.
Was Sherman just not political? Or what was the deal with that that
I am not sure of. I mean, I've read a lot of differing
accounts, enough so to make me not have a discernible opinion. I think
sometimes generals just get certain territories. But what Sherman had finally was a Union
commander who led him loose, who led him loose. McClellan hadn't. And
as you know, Lincoln had had a series of commanding generals who were fighting
with great hesitation. So here was Grant allowing Sherman to do his business.
Losses, keep going, inflict pain in flick, punishment, keep going.
And that march to the Sea was fast. I mean he hands Savannah over
to Lincoln as a Christmas present. Well, Lincoln had lost had lost a
son in the Civil War. I mean, that's the other thing that I
think needs to be said about this. It wasn't just that the President saw
felt the loss and felt the grief of all these people who were lost fighting
for the Union side, But he also lost a son in battle. He
did, And I know that he knows that the brothers are fighting brothers in
this war too. The guys who had gone to West Point and were friends
were now killing each other. And lee An honorable man, but ended up
citing with Virginia. It was his home state, and he was tortured by
that choice. But I had to choose, and he had to choose sides.
And he was fighting up and going up against guys he'd gone to college
with at the nation's finest military preparations school. This is an epic tragedy.
And Lincoln understood this. And you know who understood this more than anybody.
Women understood this greater than anybody. He was looking for his brothers. So
we did a beautiful story on this. He was searching for his brother.
His brother was on some battlefield where he worried about the casualties. Women is
the most famous poet in America. And he comes down to Washington, d
C. He's checking all the military hospitals and he finds his brother. But
what he also discovers is these Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers without legs, ready
to die. And his greatest service, Women was tending as a medic to
the needs of these guys, and not just medic, spiritual needs prayer books.
And he would write these essays about this, and it's Witmen's greatest work.
I believe it's not Leaves and Press. It's his memoir about serving as
a medic and some of the heartbreaking things that he had to see, not
just the Union losses. These were eighteen to thirty year old boys in the
Confederacy being butchered too, and it broke his heart. And the writing and
what Whitman witnessed was carnage of the very worst kind. So what Lincoln had
to deal with from the time he started to the time he lookt to he
got martyred because of his position in the war. He had one real happy
day in his presidency, and it was the day he was murdered that strong
I did not know this. One thing I love about talking to leh a
Bibe is that I always find out things I did not know. And I
consider myself to be, you know, fairly, fairly adept at American history
because I just love it. You know, it intrigues me and it trances
me, and I dive into it. But well, were we do interesting?
Like we we did a story of Lincoln's last day. And Lincoln's last
day essentially was on Good Friday, and that morning he had learned the Richmond
had fallen. Lee had surrendered the night before Washington, d C. New
York, all the major northern cities had a party that made V Day look
like nothing. Giant party. They called it the Grand Illumination. In Washington,
d C. He gets up in the morning on Good Friday and his
staff is dismissed. He sees his son for the first time. His living
son, who was serving under a general, General Grant, was there.
There was joe viality in the room. Lincoln did predict though they had a
bad dream, kind of dreamed that every time he had it during the war,
something he said of consequence, of great consequence happens. He goes out
for the carriage ride that day with his wife. His wife writes in a
journal that day that it was the first time she had seen her husband truly
happy. That he was talking about the future, about returning to Springfield to
practice law one day and to one day see the Pacific. That night,
they go to see American Cousin, a comedy. As he walks into the
Ford Theater, everything stops jubilation. Hail to the Chief has played standing ovation
for minutes, which went into minutes. Then the play goes on. It's
funny. Lincoln's into booth laughing out comes John Wilkes booth, no mask,
no attempt to hide himself. Everyone in the theater knew who he was.
He was the equivalent of bread Pitt in theater. And he executes the president
and kills him on the spot, jumps onto the stage, screams the salva's
of ngs to the audience and six semper Tyrannus and gets on his horse,
thinking he's going off to his destiny as a conquering hero. That he's killed
the tyrant. So even after the war, the idea that it was over,
the idea that the war was over, well not in not in his
mind right, and not in a lot of folks minds who still hated the
North, hated the price. And if you want to talk about an economy
that was eviscerated, the South was left just bankrupt, nothing left, nothing
left, so much burned at the ground, many of the boys dead,
the slaves worthless. This was a lot of wealth was tied up in the
slaves. The Southern. The Southern life was over and had to be rebuilt
and recast, and by the way, the Northern, the Northern life had
to be recast and rebuilt as well. And so we you know, some
of our stories aren't peppy and happy stories, but you walk away from them
going wow, this country's endured much, were resilient. Moreover, there were
remarkable people like Lincoln who really paid the price. I mean, imagine,
he gets killed on Good Friday, martyred, like some people who are Christians
believe Prist was martyred, and and what a day to die, or what
a day to get executed. He dies the next night in the in the
morning, but for all intents and purposes, he dies on he dies on
Easter weekend. Uh wow. And you talk about the devastation of the Southern,
of the Confederate economy, the Southern economy, there's that great poignant line
in the night they drove Old Dixie down and says, take what you need
and leave the rest. But they should never have taken the very best.
And that's that's what the South was left for in the aftermath. Nineteen sixty
eight is also pointed at as now a pivotal year and maybe a year that
America may have been as divided as it is now. And you're working on
nineteen sixty eight right now, Lee, right, indeed, because what a
year it was the Vietnam War. The conscription numbers are going up, the
body counts going up. More and more young Americans are facing the draft.
Right, so this was personal. This is very different than from the Rivers
to the Sea crowd. Most colleges there was no protests. There was maybe
a dozen colleges that had protesters, but the average state university I live in
Oxford, Mississippi, home of all miss there were like twenty kids out.
There were thirty thousand kids at our campus. And I could tell you that
I got reports from all over the country, you know, because this wasn't
personal. This is a bunch of kids with you know, green air who
don't even understand what river and what sea they're talking about exactly. And there
are some good there are actually some good cultural critics of Israel, and Israel's
allowed to be criticized, right, Israel's not perfect, We're not criticized.
We're free speechers, me and you. But but in the Vietnam War was
personal. These kids didn't want to go to the war. They thought it
was unjust. Answer that the civil rights movement, I mean, the civil
rights movement was in full fledged segregation is still alive, not just in the
South, but in the North. The North was just segregated to the South.
There was just no laws. But I know in New Jersey where I
grew up, Newark was all black. Jersey City was all black again.
It was all black, and the whites lived in white neighborhoods. In the
black lived in black and there was no law against black and whites living together.
But white people just refused to do it. That's just as bad,
right, Who cares if there's a laws or not. It was just as
racist. So we're trying to reconcile our original sin of racism. We've got
Martin Luther King assassinated, and you've got the Vietnam War as it under bay,
and it was chaos in the streets, and the young kids were already
marching for sexual rights and sexual revolution. The bill had just come out.
People were saying, don't trust anyone over thirty. By the way, I
don't trust anyone under thirty. And then cops are pigs, the soldiers are
bigs, were spitting on our holds when they come home. It sounds familiar,
right, and it is familiar. And then Chicago was the Convention,
the Democratic Convention. Can you believe they're doing it. They're they're doing it
again, into it again in Chicago. The Democrat nationals, oh, geez,
you can't make it up. And anyone who doesn't think there's not going
to be some kind of repeat of the last one doesn't understand the hardcore activists
on the left. Then if you remember, it was the Weather Underground,
now it's Antifa. Then it was Black Black Panthers, now it's Black Lives
Matter. And they don't speak for all black people or even most black people.
Any of these groups don't speak for who they say they speak for.
They speak for themselves, and they're a radical part of the left, and
they've co opted the Democrat Party. Everybody thinks the Republican Party is in trouble,
are in a mess. No, the Republican Party is pretty I think
pretty you know, on the same page. Mostly most people might not like
it, but they're on the same page. But the left, the traditional
blue dog Democrat, the Bill Clinton's of that party, the Evan Buys,
the Harold Fords there, they don't even know what Even Chuck Schumer, he's
like, what the heck happened to our party? What happened the Democrat party.
Well, you know I have reckoning in Chicago. There's going to be
a reckoning in Chicago. There is a clear another clear line, And you
brought up the Weather Underground. Who's a member of the Weather Underground, Bill
Ayres, who later became a noted professor and is part of that that so
called academic elite that have been teaching the radical policies and thought think, you
know, group think to these kids now for the last forty years, fifty
years. So there is a clear, clear line pointing from nineteen sixty eight
to what we've got on college campuses in twenty twenty four. League. Now
those kids seize the citadels of power in the universities of the media, and
that the oppressed oppressor matrix has made its way from a little fringe group in
the sixties, when I was in college, the oppressed a presser matrix was
just starting to take hold. Friends, Fanan's work, read The Wretch to
the Earth. You need to read no other book your audience, and Wretched
of the Earth to understand not traditional Democrats. This is not the Democrat Party.
This is Marxism. It's retreaded Marxism. You have to an oppressed oppressor
matrix, using identity as the formulating a thesis of the movement. Catch our
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