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For those of you lurking on theZuckerberg app, the Oldfacebook dot com go
to my fan page right now,Facebook dot com slash Jimmy Lakey fan page
spelt the whole thing out. It'slaunched. We have launched the new independent
Critical Mission podcast and I just nowput out the audio link on the iHeartRadio

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app and it is the title forthe title for this one is called The
Suck Doesn't Last Forever, and itis a sit down interview that I did
with Evan Todd, who's a ColumbineHigh School survivor and everyone Evan since he
was fifteen, sixteen years old,like right after Columbine happened. He was
a sophomore, and he told mestories in this interview that I had not

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heard. But the podcast is allabout this, it's all about I'll talk
more about it later in the show, but it's up at Facebook dot com
slash jim Laky fan page. We'llput out the video of it in just
a bit. It'll be up onour YouTube channel. But right now,
the iHeart app has got it.I've checked it. The links all work
and it's launched now. Episode oneis up on iHeart and you can find
it. The suck doesn't last forever, and it's the podcast, and I'll

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get to my Steve Laughy. Butthe podcast is based on this. There's
a quote that no one knows whosaid. It. Wasn't Mark Twain,
don't Steve Dave wasn't said the twomost important days of a man's life the
day he's born and the day hefigures out why. And this is These
are sitting down interviews that we're goingto be releasing. It's called the Critical
Mission Podcast, and I'm just goingto let people find out tell their story

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of why. Of course it's basedon me. I thought at one point
in life i'd be I ran foroffice, maybe a politician, had a
very successful music company, an entertainmentcompany. Early in my life, I
thought it's going to be a pastor, maybe a preacher kind of guy.
I mean, I like it,I like doing that stuff. But I
went to Africa and I saw theorphans that are God's kids, and I
said that this is why I'm here. And so I found my why.

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And so these are stories that peoplehave found their why. And Evan Todd
and I have a conversation about somethingthat happened excuse me when he was fifteen
years of age. And it's afascinating interview. And the Critical Mission podcast
is launched. The audio only ison the iHeart. It's on the all
the platforms, but Iheart's my favorite. And I've linked up the iheartlink on
my Facebook page, Facebook dot comslash jumy Leaky fan page, and we'll

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send out the YouTube link here injust a bit, but go check it
out, not right now, afterten o'clock. You're welcome to check it
out, all right. Steve Laffyis my guest on launch day for my
new Critical Mission podcast on the iHeartRadioapp. And Steve laffe is a regular
guest of the program. And SteveLaffy is joining me now. Steve,
good morning to you, sir.How are you, Jammy. I'm looking

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at the podcast right now. Looksgreat. I'm looking forward listening to this
because when I do what I workout, I've got something to listen to.
Now I'm intelligent person saying some interestingthings. I just did one on
Spotify for an hour and a half. It is a really good podcast too,
and you're a great interview, soI'm excited. Let's let's go.
Yeah, it should be fun.This one called the Suck Doesn't Last Forever.
That's actually a quote from Evan Todd. We're trying to think of what

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the titler and Evan said, anduh, there's a there's and there's a
video version of it as well.We'll put that out in more that the
iHeart of course has the has theaudio, but we'll get the video out.
We're the Lake Entertainment Towers and it'sit's fun. I've had a couple
of guests come into the studio andthe it's been fun. So well,
the video will come out. It'sit's up. I'll send the link out
here in just a minute. Steve, let me dive right in here.

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I was talking earlier about Harvard.You're a Harvard business grad. I named
all these big prestigious universities out there, and at least maybe in Flyover country,
their perceived value has gone way downin recent years, especially with these
anti Semitic, anti Jewish protests.I mean, if I found out my
son got accepted in Why You AreColumbia right now, I think I'd be
like, well, too bad.I like you and see a lot better

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as you give me your thoughts you'vebeen to one of these prestigious universities.
Yes, and I've also educated sixchildren in in a vastly different way than
that what my friend has done tohave graduated from higher business school. And
quite frankly, many of them aredisappointed. All some have had great success
with their children. But what's happenedover the last thirty years built at the

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public school level and at the what'scalled the ivy League slash whatever level,
has been a disaster. There's mennothing but great inflation, nothing but teachers
not teaching, the growth of researchover teaching where kids really aren't learning.
Everybody gets an a kind of stuffthat happens at Harvard and other institutions like

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Harvard, and so the name Harvard, I'm just telling you now the graduate
school is different. It's undergraduate.I went to Voden College. I would
no more send my children to VotingCollege in budgec Maine, maybe the fourth
Houter school to get into in thecountry of what we call the small libries
are Wellesley or William's or and theseare not what they call the small ivy

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that I would jump out the secondlow window. I didn't do that.
I actually decided to my wife tohomeschool our children for many years, except
for one who was older, andhe went to Columbia by the way,
Peter Laughey, who graduated computer sciencein economics. What we decided to do
since we live in northern Colorado,is that we have two have graduated from

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CSU. Both have graduate degrees,three graduate degrees among them. Both were
supposed to graduate really early due tocancer. One graduated as she was older.
And I have three who are juniorsat Cairo State University today. Their
ages are sixteen, eighteen, andtwenty. One started there at twelve.
So my advice for people, andI said it on your show, is

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to avoid this at all cost andget your kids through college because it's no
different. And this not to makefun of c issue. I think you
do a half decent job. There'sno difference between CSU and Harvard today as
far as what you're going to learnand undergraduate. Now, if you live
in northern Colorado, you don't havethe kids who live on campus, and

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you're saving you know, sixty granda year, sixty grand a year times
three times four, it's a lotof money. So then you can because
then on what they wanted you becausemany kids don't have to go to grad
school because they have different things theywant to do, and a lot of
this stuff is now free. I'vegive an example that that should be happening
at the state universities across the UnitedStates of America. When my kids were

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getting ready to take calculus, thisis one of the reasons in the college,
even though I took three specially calculus, I want to teach it like
I want to own that. SoI called up THESU and said, hey,
is there an age limit? Becauseone of my kids was twelve and
they get at thirteen sixty on theSAT because I just let them take it
because I was homeschooling them and becauseof the cancer my wife was at the
hospital, the Children's hospital with SarahGraves Lafey. So they said no.

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So but I had him take likea calculus course taught on TV to like
twenty seven dollars whatever, the GreatCourses course, and they watched half the
course and so forth. Florida StateUniversity has this unbelievable head of a math
department teaching calculus. My point isthat that guy could teach it remotely to

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everybody at every university at the sametime, and you could have teaching assistants
helping with at different universities and thecourse would drop from I don't know,
at Harvard that court must cost seventhousand dollars per course. Let's say at
CSU it's five hundred, and itcould all drop to zero effectively. These
are courses that could be taught nationwidewhere people are going to help. There's

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no great teacher teaching calculus at HarvardHarvard today, folks. Just so everybody
knows, there's nobody. It's ateaching assistant, right, And you get
the same problem in the MAC departmentat CSU. You've got people who can't
teach, who can't speak English,trying to teach calculus. I witnessed it.
So there's a lot of things todo to bring the course down.
A lot of it can be free. When I say free, go to

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kinn Academy, take a look around. A lot of stuff being taught can
be taught for free and bring thecost of college education down. I talked
about this with Chris Crmo when Iran for president. So far nobody wants
to do it, and you know, you have great guys who run different
universities. For example, if yourkid gets into Purdue, what Mitch Dangels
did Purdue to keep tuitions flat orgoing down for ten years? As I

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said, if he ran for president, I would get out of the race.
Now he's not running for president.He's a former governor of Indiana and
it's a tremendous man. I don'tknow him. There are people that can
do this, and none of it'sbeing done to my knowledge, like none
of it's being done to cut costsso that kids can actually learn very specific
things. At another level, whenyou're in Europe, you realize that many

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people are going to trade school,and we don't have that in this country.
We do have it in certain peopleget apprenticeships, people do stuff,
but as far as like taking afifteen year old and say, okay,
I get it. You don't wantto take this cut class. You're great
with your hands. Let's go intothis direction. Whether it could be fixing
cars and whatever, it might beat a higher level than what happens today.

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Does everybody listening know how it isto get quality talented people to come
to your home to do things.Yes, it's very hard, so we're
lacking that. But we're lacking itbecause we don't have a purposeness country what
education's about. And to think thatwe still quote the people from Harvard who
have no idea what's going on inthe economy, no idea what's happening in

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Israel. They go to Harvard,they go to Columbia and find professors who
one can't speak that well and twodon't really know. And that's what we
still rely on. If you watchCNBC, Fox, even Fox News,
the guy says he's from Harvard.Think about this. Oh, let's take
one another topic. Think about theSupreme Court. Almost every member of the

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Supreme Court except Missus Barrett went toan Ivy League school, and not just
Ivory League, went to Yale ofHarvard. Are you telling me there's not
someone at Vandergilt Law School who's beenout twenty years, who's been the critical
justice system, who doesn't know thelaw, that can't be on Supreme Court.
One of the things I promised ifilerbecame president was to never have someone
from an Ivy League school to beginthe Supreme Court. Go there's someone who

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graduated the University of Tennessee Law whoknows more about this stuff. Practically than
anybody at Brown University undergraduate or UPenn Law School. But these things don't
happen because we still have this prestigiousthing. Now you're talking about grad school,
I imagine if you still get intoHog of Business School. Let me
just tell you all, folks,you should go. The contacts you make

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and what you do with your lifewill be vastly different than going to Indiana
University NBA program. But at undergraduatelevel there was literally no difference. Yeah,
the voice is Steve Laffy. Hiswebsite is Steve Laffy dot com.
La f f ey Steve, youmentioned your run for president. Of course,
the folks who maybe don't know youran for the Republican Party as a
Republican nominee. You did not getit, dropped out and decided to take

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some fantastic vacations. Have become kindof covetous as these vacations have been on
recently, relaxing and just kind ofchilling after that. But while we've been
talking, we don't talk a lotabout it. Is this trial of Donald
Trump in New York. I hearda poster the other day say whether he's
found innocent guilties hung Jery or whatever. His poll numbers will stay the same,

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they say, because this is beengoing on so long that it's already
built into the poll numbers. Peoplehave already made their decision about Trump or
not Trump. And that made methink when I heard that, and it's
the same question you sent me theother day. Is anybody paying attention to
this? I mean even some ofthe anti Trump networks are not paying.

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It's not as much coverage as youwould you would perhaps think, is anybody
paying attention to this? And ifif not, why not? Yes?
Well, so if not, theyare not? People are I'm not.
And here's the reason. When Iring against Donald Trump, I cited literally
one case that he should be guiltyof and go to jail for, and
that's taking him the secret documents wavingaround of people, putting them in a

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bathroom. It's against the law.And I cited the rule of law,
and I cited that there's a colonel, for example, in Florida who took
home secret documents three years in thebrig And I said that, by the
intent, should be in jail two. And the obstruction of justice charge is
the one that actually works. Thereason that no one pays attention is that
the Democrats are so stupid, sobizarrely that they have and I'm making this

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up in hyper but hyperple they havetwenty cases against them, and they take
their one in New York where they'regoing to find the man three hundred and
forty five million dollars because we don'tknow really why. I have no explanation.
The people who testified in that caseabout his fraud were like none of
we all knew the answers to thesequestions. They were people from JP Morgan,
they were people who lent him themoney he paid back the money.

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We knew he inflated whatever everybody doesit, and yet they want to find
them three hundred and forty five milliondollars in this particular case. I don't
even know what it's about anymore becauseI stopped paying attention, and so hasn't
the rest of the world. Democratsand Republicans did simply too many cases.
And as I said a year ago, when and if this happens, it
will help Trump, It will helpTrump become president. Because now there's just

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this haze of fog. The realcase against them is being delayed. And
I'm not even telling that anymore becausethis twenty case is so it all helped
Trump because remember the Democrats made agiant mistake at the beginning with mister Adams
Shipp. He's the guy who shouldbe in jail. He's the one talking
about the Russian collusion, which Isaid on your show, Into the World
is a total false thing. DonaldTrump loves America, He's not involved with

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Russia. He's a narcissist and shouldn'tbe president, blah blah blah. And
I don't like all the spending,etc. Etc. But Democrats can't pick
and choose the right issues to win. They can't do it, they won't
do it, and they're going tostay with Biden, even though I've been
in wrong. I thought they wouldreplace him and have a chance to win.
When you look at the violence atColumbia and UCLA, this is like

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Jimmy Carter all over again. Ifthe Poles say it's tied a week before
the election, because posters want tosay that Trump wilmen in a landslide.
People are just not going to putup with the inflation, the crime,
but the stuff that's going on,combined with the fact that they don't even
know what's happening. He's done onTrump. He could be in jail and
people won't be following it now,Jimmy, it's all favors Trump because Democrats

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are done. It's the only thingwe Republicans have going for us. And
I'm not even Republican anymore, butthe everything we got going for they're done
is rock. They went too wideas opposed to sharpening the tip of their
spear and getting something that maybe theycould. They've they've numbed everybody. Everybody's
I'm not even sure, We're noteven sure. And you know now you've
figured out, Okay, this isa case in New York. Some people
say that was the weakest legally caseanyway, because it was about eight hundred

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thousand dollars or one hundred and thirtythousand dollars. And yet then people go,
well Bill Clinton paid Paula Jones eighthundred thousand dollars. So it's the
most bizarre compl that's why the FEC. The FEC didn't come after it and
other people, but it was astate attorney that did it. They're like,
we've even Merritt Garland wouldn't touch thiscase. So it's it really is
bizarre. And yeah, it's Idon't know about following it ever. And

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I think the numbers are built inin the polls that we shall see.
Uh, Steve Laffey. Uh.And we've lost We've lost Bill Clinton,
who had one line, it's theeconomy stupid. He was smart, whether
you might still Clinton or not.And we don't really like him, but
we really don't like his wife.But but he was smart. He had
it's the economy stupid, and hewon. The Democrats can't do that anymore.
They've got they got from the seato the sea, they got powers

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city into trying to protect the wholething is bizarre. And they've lost the
progressive and the Unions have moved towardTrump. Yeah, the voice of Steve
laughing. Steve, real quick,I get you to comment. You've talked
about EV's quite a bit. Yes, last week Ford released their numbers.
And even when they sell an EV, they're selling so few. They're losing
one hundred and thirty two billion dollarsper electric vehicle that they're selling because they're

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trying to keep up with the governmentmandate. How's the company like that,
or any company going to stay inbusiness when they lose. They sell a
car and still lose one hundred andthirty two thousand dollars per car. These
mandates are not good for these businesses. Evs very quickly. I talked about
us in the very beginning. There'sonly six or eight percent of the people
who wanted to They had second cars. They love a Tesla. The rest
of the people need to drive toNebraska this morning. At one point,

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they have one car. They can'thave an EV. They can't have electric
car. Hurts just announced because theyfired the CEO. I told you should
have been fired. They announce theygot ten thousand more cars they're going to
put in the market. I getI own three foards every day they send
me something. We have an newpricing schedule for electric cars. I'm like,
really, they just took another seventyfive hundred dollars off a fifteen thousand
dollars rebate. They can't give themaway to people like me. What would

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I do with a Ford one tofifty truck? I have an F two
fifty. I run diesel, Itoastuff. What would I do with the
net? What would I do?What I'm telling something, I'm running out
of electricity? What would I doin dropping off a cow in Nebraska.
I wouldn't know it. Yeah,stupid Steve Laughy. Last quick question and
I'll just kind of leave it hangingout there. Do you think your dog

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would be safe to go see Christinehome in South Dakota. My dog would
not be safe for that lady.And in the plastic surgery stuff and the
way she's changed around. There's ahome home style lady who destroyed her life
about ambition and it's it's telling onher face there you have it. Tell
your dog to stay away and Icould meet the fate of cricket across the

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Rainbow Bridge. Steve Laffy, Godbless you, my friend. Steve Laffy
dot com. Laff why Steve Laffingdot com? Don't know why. I
find that Christy Dome story to belike it's like a boomerang. It just
keeps giving and given and given.Yeah, Steve Laughy went after the plastic
surgery. I wow, he's agutsy guy, isn't he. Any Christinoman

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fans out there? Anybody want toclimb the water Tower of Pete and defend
the honor of Christinome, Governor ofSouth Dakota. I'll be back Lakey on
the radio, Jimmy Lakey. Tobe precise, Jimmy Lakey six hundred kcol