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Speaker 2: For anyone who's listening to me for franden length of
the time. Once in a while, I will comment to this,
which is that but for that piece of paper at
the National Archives that has a bunch of signatures on
it describing our rights endowed by our creator that are
limits on what government can do if at a certain point,
and I don't know where that threshold is, but if
we ever lose the respect for that, then we don't
have a country. Many people would say, you don't really,
if you don't have a border, you don't have a country.
I mean, if you become indistinguishable from Mexico. If we
were to just get rid of the border and let
it just be a free for all, you've kind of
surrendered the country, because where do you decide what are
laws in Mexico? What are laws here? And do they matter?
Which laws do you pick? Because the Constitution would be
a relevant decoration of independence would be a historical document.
You just don't have a country if you don't have
a border. But take it a step further and say,
if we really lose respect for that document, if we
lose respect for the US Constitution and it just doesn't
matter anymore, then you don't have a country either. So
why every country ultimately has just about every country on
the planet has failed over time. This is an experiment.
Is this is a kind of a renewal if you
would every July fourth, we kind of renew our lease
on the country being a free home of the brave.
All that we kind of renew that lease for another year.
And we're reaching we're starting. As of Saturday, we've started
our two hundred and fiftieth year, which is a good
long run. Now, most people, as Franklin's aid, are a
republic if you can keep it. We're trying to hold on.
But we have one party right now. And again I'm
not going to castigate the Democrats. I think the Democrats
are authoring their own demise. It's not me doing it.
It's that we have one party where two thirds of
the people in that party are not proud to be Americans,
not even a majority of them, two thirds are not.
And that's problematic because you have to wonder if I
were interviewing them, I would say, what is it that
you would be proud of in America? That if we
had everybody dependent on the federal government, if you could
confiscate all of the wealth created by wealthier people or entrepreneurs,
I don't know, confiscate their wealth, would you be happier
if you just tore the border down? What would you
be happier? If I don't know, we had boots on
the ground in Ukraine, or we didn't support Israel. I mean,
what would make you think that this is a great country?
Maybe if you diversity, equity, inclusion across the board, if
you let more men compete in women's sports. I don't know.
I would love to know what it is I get
not liking Trump. I understand when I hate Trump or
where they get triggered by him. He speaks and his
speech pattern drives him up a wall. But even sometimes
when he does things that you agree with. You should
agree with him. Oh, I just hate him because he's Trump. Okay,
what are you know? You would think there would be
some common ground. You would think that Democrats would go,
you know what kind of dig in what they did?
And I ran right now. I actually had a few
of my Democrats but grudgingly admit even Fetterman said, hey,
well done. You know, even Ram Emmanuel from Chicago, you know,
the guy who wants to be president next for the Democrats,
He's like, hey, give him credit where credits due. I
disagree with his policies, but hey, that Iranian tactical strike.
No American lives lost, no Americans on the ground there.
Well done. But generly speaking, the party right now on
the left doesn't have a leader. It's very listless. They're
fighting amongst themselves because they don't want AOC to be
their leader. They don't want Jasmine Crockett. There are a
lot of people to say those are the new leaders.
Know they're not. You know, you've got Rob Emmanuel and
Gavin Newsom kind of duking it out. Josh Shapiro, the
three white guys on the Democrat left trying to be
the next the next guy, so to speak, guy boy,
I used that term. What maybe they don't consider them men.
I don't know the Democrats in the whole who's the guy,
who's a girl? I don't think they've decided that they
can't seem to define it, So good luck. But you
know they can't go with Kamala again. That would be
a nightmare. You know, we would have to have a
buffet of word salad. We just have to open it up,
the Kamala word salad buffet. It would be hilarious, put
it on billboards. But the Democrats find themselves in a
in a valley of just being the anti Trump party
rather than being a party that cares about the issues.
What issue I mean, if you were to and not
you define the entire party. But it sounds so Unamerican
to say, well, they're against the border. I mean, they're
against having a tough border. I don't know, so I
search for this. So I'm looking. There's a really a
really good piece over at USA today. Now I consider
the peace left leaning, and I will talk about that.
And it said, is America is ready to celebrate its
two hundred and fiftieth birthday, But are Americans ready. There's
my bias right here's right there in the headline. But
is America, well, are Americans ready for this? We who
call the US home are preparing to celebrate the country's
star spangled semi quins semi quin centennial next year. Get
used to that word, because that's what it is, but
not just with flags and fireworks, but with also with
serious conversations about history and what it means to be
an American. Among the celebrations a massive fireworks display at
Mount Rushmore on July third of next year and what
organizers hope will be the largest flag waving celebration in history,
and Trump only third announced he's also planning to host
an Ultimate Fighting Championship at the White House. By the way,
I don't know how they do that, are where, because
that'd be tens of thousands people want to go. Trump
formally kicked off the year long celebration on July third
with a rally at the Iowa State Fairground Fairgrounds. He
campaigned on an America First platform, and he's long invoked
symbols of patriotism during his rallies, including having Lee Greenwood,
seeing his God bless the USA, and literally embracing old Glory.
The fourth of July. Our magnificent destiny is closer than
ever before. We are one people, one family, in one
United American nation, he said to cheers. We will five
five fight you remember that one. We will win, win, win,
because we are Americans in our hearts bleed, red, white
and blue. That's very Trumpian, by the way. Trump also
reaffirmed his plans to hold a Great American State Fair
with exhibits from all fifty states that will begin in
Iowa along with other national stations. And while there will
be parties parades of plenty for the nation's two fiftieth anniversary,
some scholars we must go to. The scholars are urging
Americans to spend time thinking deeply. Why I'm a scholar.
I need to think deeply. You need to think more
deeply about what the country's passed in the future, would be,
it has been, will be. The anniversary comes at a
time of deep partisan divisions, because we've never had those before,
particularly about the role of immigrants in this nation. Trump
directly addressed the divide facing the nation during his Iowa appearance,
criticizing Democrats, who he says hate America and offering the
same sentiment. In return. Trump made the comments in connection
with the final passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, which
implements tax and medicaid cuts while dramatically expanding immigration enforcement
unanimously opposed by Democrats. Polls show, and this is where
in fact, I'm gonna try to get so. Polls show
that Americans are less patriotic today than ever before recorded. Now,
these are polls, and I'm not saying you shouldn't believe them.
I think there are different times, and I don't know
that we really have really good polling like pre nineteen
sixty five about how we felt about it our country.
But nonetheless, a new Gallup poll found fifty eight percent
of US adults say they're either extremely or very proud
to be an American, a record low compared to almost
total unity after we were attacked twenty four years ago
in nine to eleven. Strikingly, the poll found that younger
Americans were far less likely to be patriotic.
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Speaker 2: Looking through the way Americans kind of see themselves, or
at least the best we can tell via polling, it's
bothersome at best. At best, it's bothersome. So we were
talking about that next year is going to be our
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and how do we Americans
see ourselves moving forward. So Gallup is the poll that
you're seeing everyone talk about or tweet about, or social
media itself infinite twisting. A new Gallup poll found that
fifty eight percent of US adults say they are either
extremely or very proud to be an American, a record
low compared to almost total unity after the nine eleven attacks.
I think that that's a little bit of an unfair comparison,
because you're right, we were attacked. If we were attacked today,
god forbid, I hope we are not, it would do
It would have the same unifying effect that disasters and
attacks like that Pearl Harbord nine to eleven, or a
horrific disaster tends to unite Americans. I was looking at
WOS a few breaks back in this radio broadcast out
of Ashville, and they were showing, you know, people in Ashville,
the people who have been ravaged by Helene last year,
that are putting together palettes and trucks full of supplies
to send a Carville, Texas. That's I mean, it almost
brings a tierny. Rather, some of the people that were
most impacted by a natural disaster that are still recovering
are putting together supplies for Texas that's going through horrible flooding.
And I said this earlier in the broadcast. We are
the most generous nation. Our citizens weak care, we reach out,
we extend that hand to help our fellow Americans. We do.
That's just the way we're wired. It's part of the
fabric of who we are. At a genetic level. I
would say, we're that way, and that's a great thing.
That's a that's a beautiful thing to see. So when
when Poles say that we're we're not happy about if
you're not proud to be an American something, I mean
you could be proud, not be proud of you know,
this is more of a reflection of politics than it
is America. I think. I think the poll doesn't make
that distinction. You're proud to be American. Oh I hate
Trump right now? I don't know. And that's that's very
short sighted. If you if you don't like the country
because of us in office, something's really really wrong with you.
Even through the Obama years, I love this country, even
to the Clinton years, I love this country. It would
take something, you know, devastating for me to you know,
if it just decided to go bankrupt and default on
its debts and open the borders, and there's a couple
of things that once we're no longer this country, I
wouldn't like it, obviously. But fifty eight percent of adults
say they're either extremely very proud to be an American,
a record low. Strikingly, the poll found that younger Americans
far less likely to be patriotic. Only forty one percent
of Gen Z is extremely very proud of be an
American compared to seventy five percent of baby boomers. Now,
think about that from a tech standpoint, if you're twenty
four years of age or younger, you were born after
nine to eleven. Nine to eleven is a figment. I mean,
it's just it's something you see and read about that
other people experienced. They've had no there's been no real
challenges to and their knowledge is all tech based. It's
tech based, web based stuff. It's Snapchat and one thousand
other you know, TikTok videos and everything else. It's not
why would they have a basis in what means to
be an American other than what they got in school
and from their friends and their TikTok buddies. I'm not
putting them down, but were they raised to have a
love of the country. Did schools of K twelve schools
in the past twenty years, I mean through COVID. Think
about what they experienced. They didn't get to have high
school graduations, you know, their sports careers, were into the
government telling them what to do. Turns out the government
was wrong about a lot of stuff. The trust in
the Trust a world health organization, their trusting government, and
an all time low. Why would they be proud to
be an American? You said it was about freedom, pal,
we didn't have a whole lot of freedom. He kind
of took that away from us and said it was
in the name of public health. But so that that
makes sense, doesn't it a little bit about the way
they've been treated and how they've been educated. You take
it a step further, you go to Democrats. The poll
also found that Democrats are the source of the drop
across all ages. Thirty six percent are either I extremely
or very proud. They were at sixty two percent last year,
but I mean that's right before the fall from Biden
not knowing what he said. Independence also showed a loss
fall into a record low fifty three percent, still a majority,
but the only group that only a third of them
are remotely proud to be Americans are Democrats, So two
third of Americans are not proud, and so I would
think that would be a golden opportunity to ask what
would make you proud to be an American? What would
make a Democrat? Since two thirds of them are not
proud at all, what would make them proud? Giving away
more money spending? I don't know. I don't know what
the magic getting rid of Trump? If Trump got shot maybe,
I don't know. It's a very strange thing to me
that you would say, well, just because I don't like
the guy there, I hate the country. Ninety two percent
of Republicans say there are proud or extremely proud. So
Republican solid love the country. Patriotism is now polarized. No,
it's not patriotism is patriotism? I love this stuff to
some degree. It depends on whoever is the president, and
that hasn't always been the case, said John Pitney Junior,
a conservative author, former RNC staffer, and a government professor.
A government professor at California clairemart McKenna College. People in
the other party are just just mistaken, but are not
just mistaken but their enemies. But Pitney said, the real
American patriotism is alive and well. Everyone who volunteers to
serve in the military, local fire department, who helps out
a food bank, ties to the local church, help making
good on them promise of America, the promise of America. Again,
I talked about that WLS. When we reach out that
hand to help our fellow Americans, that is the greatest
show of patriotism. That is that makes all the efforts
for those who committed their lives to this country or
died defending it. It makes it worth it when we
are trying to save, help assist, make better the lives
of our fellow Americans. When we value the lives of
our fellow Americans, even when we reach out to other countries,
that Judeo Christian ethic that does weave its way through
the fabric of this great nation is made better when
we lift up others. It's not about what we get,
It's about what we give. Even Kennedy knows that not
what your country can do for you, what well you
can do for your country's right. Parades are great and
celebrations are terrific, but that's not really what patriotism is
all about. It's certainly possible to take a criticism of
the country too far. The trouble with Trump's plans is
that they sound awfully superficial. His patriotism doesn't run any
deeper than the cloth of the flag, which is what
this John Pitney individual, and of course USA today uses
that individual because they can use a Republican to attack
a Republican. In conjunction with the anniversary, Trump has ordered
the creation of a thirty four million dollar National Guarden
of American Heroes, featuring life size statues of notable figures
like John Adams, Clara Barton, Orville Wilbur Wright, Martin Luther
King Junior, Christa mccauliffe, Reagan. People like that only American
citizens are eligible to create the statues. Again, why is
that a bad thing? America owes its present greatness to
its past sacrifices because the past is always a risk
of being forgotten. I think anyone who says Trump's love
the country is superficial or shallow, he hasn't. He is
always If you saw interviews with him back in the
eighties that Rona Barrett did, or interviews he's been consistently
this way, whether you love him or hat him, He's
been consistently the same way through out his adult life
and into being president. So anyone who says is superficial,
it's never been superficial. It just hasn't.
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Speaker 2: The Texas situation is going to continue to unfold. I
do want to get to a couple of things that
may be more fun, but I also want to mention
that it's it's going through social media like wildfire. Right
now that that Pambondy and Cash Btel have essentially said
there's nothing, there's nothing to see here with respect to
the Epstein situation. Now, Pambondy, the Attorney General for the
United States, on multiple occasions has said she's releasing the
client list as on multiple occasions said there's there's there,
there there's fire. There's not just smoke, there's fire. She
finds herself in the precarious crosshairs of the political right
right now. A lot of the bays that Trump loyal
are very upset with the situation because if you tell
someone there's fire and then you say, oh, there's really
nothing to see here, it's going to cause a great
deal of consternation. So I don't know how far reaching
that's going to be, but just something to keep an
eye on. Over the next twenty four hours. Tomorrow we
will probably have a lot more information about that. But
the Pam Bondi cash battel and to a lesser extent,
Dan Bongino, who's the deputy director of the FBI under
Cash pattel, it's going to be interesting because a lot
of people are very upset because the same people that
said there's something to see here, instead they were going
to release everything. We're now in July and they're trying
to say nothing really to see here. So if it
was a conspiracy, then what happened to it? And if
it's not a conspiracy logging in and saying it was
for the past three or four years, and then you're
the person that was in charge of dissuading that, I
don't know how they navigate those waters. I guess they
need to release more information to validate what they're telling
the American public. But you can't lead them down a
path of saying there's there there and then just out
of the blues say well, there's really nothing there. There's
nothing there to see, there's nothing nothing to see. So
I think that's not going to that's not going to
go away. So we will see what happens now, So
the textas situation, we'll have a lot more information there.
I do want to get back to the article before
I go to a couple of science related stories. But
the article about is America kind of ready for his
two hundred and fiftieth is are we worse off? I'd
say in many ways we're better off than we were.
We made it through COVID. There's a lot to be
optimistic about in this country. Do we have problems? Absolutely?
Have we eradicated all of them? Not even close? Are
we going to continue to face new challenge that we
haven't seen before? I mean, right now, the situation with
your kids and technology, the role of technology and how
addictive it is, your infinite ability to go get entertained,
These are all challenged. I think another challenge is Americans
to believe that they're all of a sudden subject matter
experts across the board on everything we're not I I'm
not going to pretend to be like discussions, I think,
but we start to in social media and in tech
we begin to put forth things as if we're writing.
When people disagree with we get angry, and then that
anger turns to violence, and then you get this righteous
indignation across the board. One of the people in the
article name is Tamika Middleton. She's forty one years old.
She's the leader of the March, the March for Women,
kind of the Women's March. You know, they're looking at
how they're going to deal with this, and I think
her comments are getting to the heart of a lot
of what we've talked about on the show today, and
it is that if you lean left, you tend to
believe that all of these problems can be left at
the feet of government, and that some agency they have
a responsibility because America's job is to take care of
all these things. God not you as an individual or
you and your community. Are you working with a bunch
of volunteers or starting a new business or creating a
new enterprise that somehow government should create a program and
it deals with that. It makes it all better. And
this particular person, her names Amika Middleton. She's with Women's March,
and she I think summarizes best what many on the
left say on a regular basis. She sees freedom. It's
kind of interesting. She organized the Free America counter protests
against Trump, the Women's March against Trump. They had it
called free America. Free it from what. We're not in
bondage anymore. We are not. We're in a really a
post racial society, except for those who make money from
making you believe we're not. We're much better. So she
said these things. She said, what good is life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness without healthcare? Now I want you
to think about that statement for a second. What good
is life, liberty and pursuit of happiness without healthcare? That
statement is really a call for government to run cradle
to grave healthcare. That's not what life, liberty and pursuit
of happiness was ever intended to be, not what it
should be. Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is a
list of responsibilities that you have. You have the ability
to pursue your life, your liberty, and your pursuit of happiness.
That doesn't mean it's government's job to make it for you.
She alsa said, what good is life in liberty and
the pursuit of happiness without housing? Again, her call is
for government to create the housing for all, cradle to
grave housing. That is not what life. You have the
right in life to pursue this. The best of your
ability is working with other people to pursue that life,
to pursue liberty, to pursue happiness. You have a right
to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It is not
the government's job to give you health care. It's not
the government's job to give you housing. Now, if a
community wants to get to get together and help folks out,
that's what really we should be doing. But we've turned
it all over to government. We've made ourselves very callous
toward the needs of our fellow Americans. Nobody's free. Tell
everybody's free. What do you mean people are free? What
are you talking about? I would love for people to
be thinking about how to bring all of that to
fruition to make sure we're all free. What does it
require every day, the kind of depth, to kind of accountability,
to kind of unity, unity unity's code word for socialism,
and when we're socialists, the only people that have power
the people in government. It never works. It never has work. Now,
the number of people that have executed socialism successfully, you know,
they can fit on the head of a pen because
it's never happened.
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Speaker 2: If you want to look of your fellow Americans, those
most likely to contribute a conservative more than liberal out
of the pocket. And that makes sense. If you lean
left and you believe government is the answer to things,
then you believe the government should give more money, not you.
But if you are more conservative, you want less government
in your life, so you tend to be more charitable
on your own. Now, if you were to break that
into a sub section and look at which group is
the most likely in American culture, it's Christians, and more specifically,
church going Christians are much more likely to donate the
charity than non Christians. That's not an indictment, that's just
you can do your own research. It's out there. I
feel very comfortable that's been the case for many years.
It's not new, it's not novel, and I didn't make
it up. I didn't create it. It's the reality of
where we find ourselves. Also, one little thing to mention
because as people begin predicting doom and gloom with this big,
beautiful villain, it's going to unwind undo destroy the country.
It's a very static way because it's the pretense that
we as humans don't change. It's the pretense that we act.
You know, if you knew a tidle way was coming,
or tsunami for lack of it's not title, it's earthquake
true anyway, if you knew and you just stayed there.
So if a tsunami hit the East coast, millions of
people would die. Yes, the death rate would be a
lot lower if they had a chance to evacuate because
we would dynamically react to that. So, in other words,
if I were to increase taxes, I don't get all
of the money that I think I'm going to get
because people will act differently. They will find a different way,
or they will act differently or make less or whatever.
There's a dynamic way in which we respond to things. Now.
I say that because Argentina Argentina, Argentina's president Malay, when
he assumed office, economists from all across the spectrum had
warned that it would spill devastation for Argentina. Now he's
a very libertarian, probably the most libertarian leader of a
country anywhere in the world. More than one hundred economists,
including Tom Piketty and Jahati Ghosh, published open letter ahead
of the country's nineteen November election. Now Malay got elected.
What's happened since Because the predictions were doomed bloom end
of the world. They've lowered their monthly inflame rate from
twenty six percent down to one point five percent. The
economy grew seven point six percent in the second quarter
of this year year over year, So that's remarkable. Those
are great. Now, does that mean that everything's fixed magically
and they don't have poverty and they eradicated all their
social problems. No, But it means that the opportunity to
get ahead, the opportunity to make the country stronger, better,
And you did it by because they were just spending
themselves into oblivion. You had to stop it. So we
did these austerity measures, these very painful changes. But the
country has reacted and it's lifted the country. And that's
I believe what we're going to see here. We have
to make some difficult choices. We're making those and that's
where we find ourselves. Now, a little bit of good
news out there. If I were to ask you, if
I were to if you were to own a dog's
completely switching gears here, own a dog or a cat?
Would it you know? We know that we generally are
happier people when we pet our dogs or cats. But
it could it make your pain different as you age
owning a dog or cat? Does that make your brain
better as you get older? Now? They did a couple
studies on these now, fish and bird ownership. You own
a fish, you own a bird, there's no significant link
to slower cognitive decline as you get older. But dogs
and cats, as global population ages and dementsiuration ration rates climb,
scientists may have found an unexpected ally. Cats and dogs
may be exercising more than just your patients. They could
be keeping parts of your brain ticking and a potential
breakthrough for preventive health. Researchers have found that owning a
four palled friend is linked to slower cognitive decline by
potentially preserving specific brain functions as we grow older. Interestingly,
the associations differ depending on the animal. Dog owners were
found to retain sharper memory both immediate and delayed, while
cat owners showed slower decline in verbal fluency. So if
you want to keep that edge too, you can tell
the way I stammered through that I must be a
dog owner, right, I'm kidding, but that's true when it
comes to slower cognitive decline in their owners. However, it
seems that not all pets are created equal fishbirds, while
charming showed no help to you whatsoever. So if you
want to stave off some of that, some cognitive decline
just happens. But if you have a dog or a cat,
apparently much better for you. So as you look around
at your little furry friends, you may think, now, remember,
dog owners sharper memory both immediate and delayed, while cat
owners showed slower decline in verbal fluency. So you have
better memories, but you can talk about it better with
a cat. If you have a cat in your life,
I don't know what if you have a dog and
a cat. I didn't see that in the studies. I'm
looking through the details of the study. I'm thinking to myself,
you know the longarity of cat owners. May that means
I can talk like get into my nineties. I speak better,
but you know, overall better with a dog, and again
read it for yourself. It's just out there. Now. Another thing,
the weird headline of the day. Now, if you are
prone to believe that AI and tech is problematic for
us as a society moving forward, if you believe that
that whole terminator cyberdine AI stuff is dangerous, this one's
gonna make you quick a little bit. So it's one
thing to have unmanned drones and have self driving cars
and all of this other stuff impacting you daily and
your device is listening to you all the time. And
they do. And that's a that's not a conspiracy. They do.
Lab quest to create vible human sex cells in lab
progressing lab grown sperm and eggs just a few years away.
Scientists are just a few years from creating viable human
cells in the lab, according to an internationally renowned pioneer
in the field, who says the advance could open up
biology defined possibilities for reproduction. In other words, when the
machines take over, they might not need us. They could
just make us. They could just make versions of us.
According to this the professor Haksuhiko Hayashi Developmental Genesis at
the University of Osaka said rapid progress is being made
toward being able to transform adult skin or blood cells
into eggs and sperm, a feat of genetic conjury known
as in vitro gamut to genesis. His own lab is
about seven years away from that, milest Milestoney predicts. Other
front runners include a team of University of Kyoto and
a California based startup conception bioscienceist. Now that's one thing
to be able to do that. It's another entirely to
just make just just make people beings, Just make it
so if the machines take over that you need a
few skin cells, it just harvests a couple of people,
just make them, and all of a sudden we're serving
the machines instead the other way around. It's very brave
new world. Alvius Huxley, you know, kind of way of
Stanley Kubrick. I guess I could throw a bunch of
other things in there, Isaac Asimo, But folks have a
fantastic day. We are an amazing patriotic mission. I'll be
here all week looking forward to tuning in tomorrow. I
have a great one, all right.
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