November 17, 2025 • 44 mins
*Is Tehran going to run out of water in January 2026?
*Gambling crimes in professional sports and the mafia
*Republicans have been voting to open the government but getting shut down by Democrats
*The Democrats pull out all the stops to keep Obamacare subsidies fight alive after vote to reopen government....Obamacare have raised overall medical care cost significantly
*Illegal immigrants and SNAP programs
*Is Affordable Care Act really affordable?
*Society is paying the price for the legalization of marijuana
*Are drivers really safe now? Some states are granting driver's license to those who can't read or write English...even though most street signs are written in English
*We need more people with trade skills to keep this country going!
*Solar farms....doing more harm than good?
*Gambling crimes in professional sports and the mafia
*Republicans have been voting to open the government but getting shut down by Democrats
*The Democrats pull out all the stops to keep Obamacare subsidies fight alive after vote to reopen government....Obamacare have raised overall medical care cost significantly
*Illegal immigrants and SNAP programs
*Is Affordable Care Act really affordable?
*Society is paying the price for the legalization of marijuana
*Are drivers really safe now? Some states are granting driver's license to those who can't read or write English...even though most street signs are written in English
*We need more people with trade skills to keep this country going!
*Solar farms....doing more harm than good?
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
All right, good morning everybody. Hope everybody's having a wonderful day.
It uh, you know, if you listen to the show
at all, you know I hate cold weather. And I
don't know what happened this past week, but that little
snap at the beginning of the week where it got
really cold for two days. Yeah, that that, uh, that
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almost did me in. I started calling you haul and
stuff and ask them what the specials what they had were,
because if it gets that cold in three weeks before
Thanksgiving and it's already got snow flurries, which we had
at Murphy's Borg, I don't know if everybody else had them. It.
I just want to know where all this global warming is.
Oh wait, wait, wait, I forgot they changed it. It's
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not global warming. Anymore. It's climate change. Here's what I
can tell you. It changed about seven times this past week.
In one week, the climate changed about seven times. So
for all you goofy people out there that think the
climate doesn't change, they proved it changes all the time. Anyways,
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I read this article this past week that was really
disturbing but also odd. So I happened to believe in God,
and I happened to believe that there is one God,
and he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent and controls gave
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us free will, but controls a lot of the things
that are happening in our lives. I'm pretty sure most
of the people in Iran don't feel that way and
have a different religion, which is fine. They welcome to
have whatever the religion they want. But I'm not so
sure that it's not coming back to bite them with
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the big man upstairs. Because Iran right now is in
the longest drought that first of all, it's a desert
to begin with, but it's in the longest drought that
they've had in fifty seven years. And because of their
idiotic policies and inability to plan and think through, they
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literally are going to run out of water in Tehran,
which is a city of apparently nine point seven million people.
I had no idea Tehran was that big, but apparently
Tehran is nine point seven million people and it's supposed
to run out of water in the first week of January.
They have enough in their reserves and their reservoirs to
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get them through to January. But in January nine, which
is two months away, nine point seven million people will
be out of water completely zero day. It is the
last time that the drop of water will be able
to flow in the city of Tehran.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What are you going to.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Do in sixty days with nine point seven million people
that are going to be out of water. Apparently the
entire city is sinking at twenty five centimeters a year.
I think they said twenty five centimeters a year because
of their lack of ground. All of the underwater awk
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or whatever it was they had, their fresh water are
depleted so much that there's nothing holding it up and
the ground is starting to sink. It's like in Florida
when we had sinkholes. When Florida's got a huge underground
river that runs underneath it, the Florida Aquifer, and It
is billions and billions and billions of gallons of water.
But when you get some of these farmers out there
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that we're tapping into it and using it for irrigation,
which is fine, at some point it sucked all the
water out of the ground and you got sinkholes that formed.
Tehran is going to be one giant sinkhole fairly soon.
And do you want to talk about a humanitarian crisis?
It about to get really ugly, and nobody's talking about it.
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And I'm not sure why, because it seems to me
like that is a mass, massive problem when you're going
to have all that that many people literally dying of thirst,
and they apparently can't just move them into other outlying
cities because other outlying towns and cities. First of all,
they don't have the housing, but secondly they don't have
any water either. I don't know what you do, but
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they're going to have to do something because those people
you want, desperate people do desperate things, and you're going
to have massive desperation in Iran in about sixty days.
And it's not like we can step up and just
pump them some water. I don't know what the solution
is but so I'm going to talk about it a
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little bit later on in the show. But I don't
know if you guys heard. I'm a sports fan. Don't
really care what kind of sport it is. I like
to watch them all from golf. Heck, I even started
watching cricket when it was on. I don't even understand it.
But this past week or last couple of weeks, there
have been two scandals, one that rocked the NBA and
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one now that has apparently rocked Major League Baseball. Chauncey Billups,
who is the head coach I think of the Phoenix Suns.
I can't remember exactly who's the head coach of, but
had a seventeen year run in the NBA. Heck of
a player lasted a long time seventeen years, a long
career in the NBA. And another guard for the Miami
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Heat that was currently playing, and thirty other people apparently
got caught up in a gambling ring and were arrested
for wire fraud and money laundering and all kinds of things.
And it apparently involved all of the Gambino family, Lilu,
Casey family, the five families in New York, whom mafia
and then we had another one where two Major League
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Baseball pitchers were arrested recently last week for throwing pitches
that they gave betting tips to friends and family that said, hey,
on this particular day, I'm going to throw this pitch
on this time, And they were making prop bets or
side bets with some of the betting online I'm betting
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apps that you can just gamble wherever you want now,
and it was they rigged it. They rigged the pitches,
and now you've got corrupt sports betters that we're making
money off of these rigged pitches. And I think it's
gonna get worse. I think we have set ourselves up
for degeneracy and made it easy. And once again, I'm
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gonna talk about it a little bit more in the
show later on, but I think that we are there
will be much, much, much more of this before we
find a way to fix it. And it's just like pot.
We set ourselves up for this. You guys voted for it,
and now here it is, and now all of the
ills that go with it are upon us also. So
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Speaker 1 (08:11):
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(08:32):
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Speaker 2 (08:33):
Here's your host, bow driven.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Bull Right. Welcome back, everybody, sincerely appreciate you guys tuning in. So,
I haven't talking much about the government shutdown because I
thought it was stupid, and anybody with any sense whatsoever
knew that it was not the Republicans that were shutting
the government down, even though these moronic people got up
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in front cameras all the time saying stupid stuff like
the Republicans control the House, the White House, and the Senate,
so they're the ones keeping the government shut. The Republicans
voted to open the government up thirteen or fourteen times,
and each time the Democrats voted no. So I don't
know how that's a government shutdown that's attributable to the Republicans.
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Other than the media was out there, and there was
still forty five or fifty percent of the people that
thought Republicans were at fought for the shutdown. That had
to do with the fact that eighty seven percent of
the coverage on mainstream media was positive towards the Democrats
and negative towards the Republicans when it came to the shutdown.
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So the media was complicit in giving the information to
the people who weren't willing to go get any information
anywhere else. And they kept trying to say that it
belonged to the Republicans. Well, it didn't, and that was
stupid to even say so. And then they kept trying
to say that it had to do with the fact
that they we were trying to cut or we that the
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Republicans wanted to cut medical aid to everybody, that the
subsidies were going to end, which they were supposed to
end based on the way the Democrats voted for Obamacare
and then voted during COVID to extend the subsidies. Let
me remind you that the bill, the Obamacare bill that
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passed when Nancy Pelosi said we have to pass it
to find out what's in it, not a single Republican
voted for that bill. Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare.
It was passed one hundred percent with Democrat support. That
was it. And if anybody hasn't noticed, because as a
business owner, I can promise you I noticed. Our healthcare
premiums have skyrocketed in the fifteen years since Obamacare passed.
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It did nothing close to what they said it was
going to do, which we all knew was the case.
You cannot artificially deflate prices by subsidizing them with taxpayer money.
At some point that doesn't work, Like Margaret Thatcher said,
socialism's great, but at some point you run out of
other people's money. And then they wanted to continue to
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extend those subsidies, and they acted as if the one
big beautiful bill that passed, that passed with Republican support. Yep,
the Democrats didn't vote for it, got it. They didn't vote.
But on the flip side, Republicans didn't vote for Obamacare,
and that got put into legislation and made into law.
So the one big beautiful bill passes, and they want
to get back everything that passed in that big beautiful bill.
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They want to put it all back into law by
shutting the government down, which is moronic to begin with.
But James Woods tweeted something out the other day that
I thought was really poignant and awesome. It was a
quote from Thomas soul And Thomas sol is an American
economist that he's old now, I think he's in his nineties,
but has always been brilliant. One of the when I
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was in college, I studied economics for a while and
I always found Thomas Old to be pragmatic. I understood him,
and he made good common sense to me when it
came to economics. But here was the quote. It's hard
to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of
making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands
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of people who pay no price for being wrong. Let
me read that again. It's hard to imagine a more
stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by
putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay
no price for being wrong. And that's exactly what happens
in government shutdowns. The money still keeps flowing to the
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senators and the congress people, it just doesn't flow to
the people like the air traffic controllers or the park
rangers or the other people that really need the paychecks.
There's not a poor person in the US Senate or
the House of Representatives. They're not poor, and they keep
getting their paychecks and they pay no price because they
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have a completely different healthcare system. Then we're all put
on They want us to be on Obamacare, which has
created mass havoc and incredible amounts of or increased pricing
that do nobody any good because Congress people are not
on the same healthcare plan that we have. If they were,
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they might not have passed that crap. It is absolutely
amazing to me that we continue to let this happen.
And oh, by the way, when they started talking about
the snap benefits and snap payments and there were going
to be forty two million Americans that couldn't that fell
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off of food stamps and couldn't eat and all that that,
I find that to be somewhat of a lie, be
honest with you, because it wasn't forty two million Americans
that were on food stamps. As a matter of fact,
there was a Newsmax as a guy named Rob Finnerty
that said what no one in the mainstream media will
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even bother to tell you about snap Here's what it was.
I'm just going to read you what he tweeted out.
There are forty two million people in this country that
need food stamps on a weekly basis, and we're saying
people deliberately instead of Americans because most of the people
that are on food stamps aren't even from this country.
Forty five percent of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps,
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forty two percent of Somali immigrants, thirty four percent of
every immigrant from Iraq, twenty three percent of Haitians, fifty
nine percent of all illegals illegal aliens are collecting food stamps,
meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from
the US government and the US taxpayer are not even Americans.
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Fifty nine percent of all illegal aliens in the United States,
of which there are anywhere between fifteen and twenty million
best estimates, So let's go with the twenty million because
it's easier to do the math and assume it's sixty percent.
That's what twelve million, twelve million people that aren't even
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Americans that are on food stamps right now that we're
all supporting with our tax dollars, And that's what the
Democrats were voting for not only that, they were voting
to keep the subsidies in Obamacare flowing. And by the way,
here's the stupidity of that. The subsidies go directly to
the insurance companies. They don't go to the people to
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try to lower their premiums or lower their costs, or
lower their deductibles. None of that happens. They were getting
ready to write a check for thirty five billion dollars
straight to the insurance companies. Like that. These are the
same insurance companies, by the way, the big pharma companies
that all of the Democrats rail against, who are collecting
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money for the Democrats are collecting money from those people
for their campaigns. Bernie Sanders, the socialists of all socialists,
got like one point four million dollars in campaign contributions
from Big Pharma while he rails against them. Do you
really think he means what he says when he's collecting
one point four million dollars from them. It defies logic,
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It defies any kind of common sense whatsoever. And the
Democrats just continued to act as if this shutdown was
for them, fighting for the little guy. They weren't fighting
for the little guy. They were fighting for all of
the people who came here illegally, and that we're going
to take up more of the healthcare resources by using
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the hospitals and emergency rooms as their primary care physicians
because they can't get primary care physicians because they're here illegally.
But they know that if you go to a hospital
emergency room, by law, they have to be taken care of,
and so they used it as their own primary care.
If they had a sniffy nose, they had a running
nose or flu like symptoms, go to the emergency room. Meanwhile,
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hardworking Americans are also sick and can't get in line
fast enough to get it to get the healthcare because
it's being chewed up. All the resources being chewed up
by all these other people. Same thing with food, SAMs
and snap. You know how much more money there would
be to go around if we weren't just trying to
take care of everybody that just decided they wanted to
come here and be on the dole. If you cut
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all of those benefits off to those people, guess what
they'll self deport. I would go too, if I was
broke and living in a country that there was no
opportunity for me whatsoever. And I was looking for a
way to feed my family, and I knew that if
I could just get into this other place, this other
place would take care of me and my family, I'd
probably want to go too. That doesn't make it right.
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The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is anything
but affordable. And if you go back and study what
they were talking about back in two thousand and nine
twenty ten and looked at the architects who decided who
made this goofy law up, they knew it wasn't going
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to do that. They knew what they were trying to
do that The American taxpayers were not going to go
for socialized medicine right off the bat, so they put
in Obamacare as a step towards getting to single payer
health insurance. Every place single payer health insurance is has
a worse healthcare system than we do. Are the costs
too high? Here? Absolutely is President Trump doing everything he
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can to bring those costs down by negotiating directly with
drug companies, giving US favored nation status when it comes
to drug pricing and all of the other things. He's doing. Absolutely,
But the way to do that is not through more
subsidies from taxpayers. There's only so much you can suck
a strive for before we just run out of it again,
Margaret cat Thatcher. It's great you run out of Eventually
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you run out of other people's money. All right. This
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Speaker 1 (19:15):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
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really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (19:36):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right, welcome back everybody. So I I smoked for
years when I was younger. It was I got started
in the eighties when I was in the car business
and everybody in the car business smoked. I still remember
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the days when you could smoke in restaurants and you
had you could smoke on airplanes and you could like
sitting in the back. Made it better for all the
people in the front of the plane when you were smoking,
and the whole cabin was filled with smoke. I remember
those days, and I remember everybody doing everything they could
to try to get us to stop smoking because it
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was bad for your health. At some point in this
country we have lost our way, and I'm not sure
exactly when it was or why it was. But gambling,
I like to gamble, right, So I used to go
to Vegas. I like to play blackjack. I was always
good enough at controlling it. I've never been a winner
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at it, but I was good enough at controlling it
that I didn't get myself into trouble. But it also
was difficult to do so right. It was difficult to gamble.
You had to literally get on a plane, make a trip,
go all the way out to Vegas and do your
thing and then come back. Or if you knew the
neighborhood bookie, you could place a few bets here and there,
but he knew enough to keep you from getting too
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deep into the to the weeds that you lost everything. Right,
So I'm not going to tell you that like Bill
Clinton tried to say that he never inhaled. Nope, I
tried marijuana back in the day when I was younger,
didn't like it. I don't like the way it makes
me feel. It makes me feel tired and sleepy, and
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all of those things. Didn't but I tried it, just
like almost every kid out there. When we started to
vote to legalize vices, things that when they aren't legal
many people don't do them, and those that do do
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them do them less frequently. Those that do them try
to hide it and making it tough. When we started
legalizing everything from marijuana to online gambling and making it
easy for people to lose their house payments and lose
their entire life savings, and when we started legalizing prostitution
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or sex work as they want to call it, we
legalized all of these vices that made it easier for
people to do things that they shouldn't really be doing.
Do they have the right, I guess the libertarian and
me says, hey, have at it, You do whatever you want.
But at some point society as a whole pays the
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price for all of those things. We lose our moral compass,
we lose our ability to be creative and think of
other ways to We have legalized so many things in
the last decade and mainstreamed so many things in the
last decade that are hurting people. We legalized marijuana. Great.
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You know what I can tell you. Marijuana today that
is being sold for medicinal purposes is ten times stronger
than that skunk weed you could buy back in the
eighties and early nineties from the local guy that grew
some in his house or maybe got some from Mexico.
It's ten times stronger. It's causing psychotic episodes. It's causing
young kids to have serious problems mentally. When we legalized
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the sex work with only fans and all of the
other online sites, we caused a degeneracy to start to happen,
and an addiction to that from young men who don't
really know how to form relationships. Now. I saw something
the other day where AI is. There's something like twenty
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five to twenty seven percent of young people now have
an AI friend that is their therapist or go to.
We are losing generations of young people to things that
we shouldn't be losing them to. And I don't know
where it goes or where it ends, but we have
not done justice or a service to all of the
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young people by legalizing all of these things we just
haven't and we've got to find our way back to
having some sort of moral compass, some sort of ethical
compass that helps us fix this problem. I don't know
what the solution is. I just I feel bad for
all of the kids and my grandkids that are growing
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up in this environment where it's not it's not healthy,
and I hope we can find a way to fix it.
So why does California get to be I took a
trip last week to Cherokee, North Carolina. I had to
go to a Cadillac meeting, and it was a great
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trip through the mountains and beautiful and all of that,
but I had this weird feeling when I look. I've
probably driven well over a million miles in my lifetime.
I drive a lot. I've been driving since I was
fifteen or sixteen years old, and I've always driven a lot.
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This last trip that I took, I was fearful. A
lot of the times I was paying more attention. Look,
I've got a lead foot, and I don't always pay
attention the way I should. My wife gets a little
upset with me with the way I drive sometimes. But
this past trip I was paying attention a lot more
because I have started to be worried about whether or
not the guy behind the wheel of that eighty thousand
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pound truck beside me knows how to speak English and
how to read road signs and how to understand how
to run that rig. Because it's turning out that California,
New York, and Illinois have just decided that they could
go against whatever the federal laws are from the trans
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Department of Transportation. They could just ignore them and issue
CDLs to people who can't even bother to understand English.
As a matter of fact, Gavin Newsom in California, straight
from the California Highway Patrol, Gavin Newsom instructed them to
ignore federal law and not make truck drivers comply with
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the English proficiency. So they got a video of it.
If you want to go see the TikTok. There's a
guy that says, the trucker says, are they making you
guys comply with English proficiency? And the California Highway Patrol
guy says, they said not to enforce it. They said,
don't worry about it. All the while, we've got truckers
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out there that are here illegally that have caused the
death over the last month and a half of at
least nine people that I know of, And yet California
has decided that they can just give people who don't
even have identification you can find CDLs. I've seen it
coming out of Oklahoma CDLs where the license literally says
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no name given. Now, how do you even identify the
people if there is an accident or an incident? And
what are we doing to the companies that are hiring
these people, because they shouldn't be working here to begin with,
much less operating an eighty thousand pounds missile that's going
down the highway beside me and my family and you
and your family without understanding the rules of the road
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or how to even drive it. It's absolutely astounding to
me that these states think that they can just do
whatever they want with impunity. They don't have to do it,
they don't have to abide by the same laws that
the rest of us do and the rest of the
states do. It just bothers me to no end, no end.
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All Right, So you guys listen to me talk the
other day, I don't know how many shows ago it was.
I was talking about China and rare earth minerals, and
the fact that China is doing everything they can to
control of the rare earth mineral market and how much
goes into those rare earth minerals. I think one show
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I also talked about the fact that there was a
scientist here at the universe. I think it was Michigan
or Michigan State University that figured out that you could
take iron ore, which is a very abundant it's not
rare earth, it's very abundant in the Earth's crust. But
you could take iron ore and mix it with some
sort of hydrogen or something, and it created magnets that
were much stronger than the ones being created out in China. Well,
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Scott Bescent, who was our Treasury secretary, went on Fox
News recently and he brought with him a magnet, a
rare earth magnet that was the first one made in
the United States in the last twenty five years. So
they built in Sumter, California or Sumter, South Carolina, only
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built a rare earth magnet factory that they got the
permits to build this factory in eight weeks and we're
able to get it up and running in not very
many months, and now it's already producing rare earth mineral
or rare earth magnets that are stronger than the China magnets.
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That's great news for us because we need to re
onshore on shore that manufacturing, because it has all kinds
of implications for national security, It has implications for our economy,
it has implications for our healthcare. All of these magnets
are used in all of these various applications, from fighter
jets to MRIs to your refrigerator, and without us having
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our own supply, which the Biden administration on the day
that Biden took office, I said this five years ago
when the Dave Biden took officer of the second day,
he signed a moratorium on rare earth mining for thirty years,
knowing that was controlling seventy five to eighty percent of
the rare earth mineral market. Now, why would you do
that unless China had something on you? Why would you
put us at such a national security risk as to
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give our enemy, and they are our enemy, they are
not our adversary, they are our enemy. To give our
enemy control over the things we have to have in
order to survive, that just sounds to me like an
idiotic policy. Well, the Trump administration once again has got
to win under their belt by going back and manufacturing
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these things on our own and on his I think
it was the YEP. On January twentieth, Trump went into
office and immediately signed an executive order on rare earths.
And by November we're already making magnets. Yay. Trump mean
that whatever's best for the United States of America, I'm
all for. We cannot take care of the world unless
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we take care of ourselves. All right, this is Bonos
Cars Ranch about lots of other stuff, brought to you
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Speaker 1 (31:19):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
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Speaker 2 (31:40):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
All right, Welcome back, everybody. So when I was about uh,
I guess I was in sixth grade and my father
bought the Ford dealership in a town we lived in DeLand, Florida,
which is just in between Daytona and Orlando, and he
had bought a Ford dealership in a place called Banel,
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which is in Flaggler County, very small county at the time,
tiny and only had one red light in the entire county,
and there was one elementary school and one high school
and that was it. It has since grown quite a bit,
but back then it was very small. And I I
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told some of my friends, I guess that I was
moving to Banel, and they started talking about being with
all the rednecks. And I didn't know what that meant.
I wasn't sure, and I asked my dad one time,
what does redneck mean? And he said, well, some people
use it as a derogatory term to describe people who,
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you know, live out in the country and whatever, he said,
But the real reason it's called redneck is because they
were the people who lived in the farms and did
the armwork, and the sun beat down on their neck
and they got red necks. And that was the literal
version of what he told me. It was, we need more,
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We need a lot more rednecks. We need a lot
more people who are not ruining the country with degrees.
There is a I have technicians that work for me
that are absolutely brilliant, do not have a degree in
anything other than how to fix a car. But I'm
going to tell you something you want to know what
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you're worth is don't go read a book over there
about all that stuff. CO tell me if you can
fix your own car, because I know I can't. I
can't fix my own plumbing, I can't fix my own
electric I can't fix my own appliances. But yet those
people that don't. I can't farm. I probably could learn,
but I can't do it, not the way these farmers
do it, not the people that do it well. And
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so all of those people that the people with degrees
look down upon are the ones that are keeping the
people with the degrees operating. Because I promise you, if
your air conditioning goes out in your house while you're
sitting there in your little bubble, you're not going to
be able to fix it yourself. I don't care if
you can get on YouTube and find somebody to tell
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you how to fix it, you're probably not going to
be able to do it anyways. And when you figure
out how hard the work actually is that those people
are doing, you should have a newfound appreciation for it.
But and yet these people in their liberal bubbles, sitting
there with all of their degrees, think they know everything,
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and they know so very little about anything. I readily
admit every day that people doing work in my dealership
do things that I could never do and never understood.
There's zero chance I could figure out how to take
an engine apart and put it back together. Zero. And
yet I've got some people that are really good at
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it and just naturally understand how to do things. And
that is where I think the term redneck truly. I
think that it's competence versus credentialism. Right, are you competent
in being able to do things, versus you just got
some degrees from somebody You were good at passing tests,
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but the test you passed meant nothing in the real world.
I've said this before. I hear all this stupid talk
about a civil war and blah blah blah, and I'm
not sure that the people on the left really understand
how easy that would be by just encircling the cities.
And when the food runs out, Now, what you've got
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no supply chains, because all of that stuff, all of
the things that keep you moving every day and make
your life easy, And it is easy comative comparatively speaking
to everybody else in the world. Everybody in the United
States America has an easy life. And it's made easy
by the people who have competence and the ability to
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do things and are willing to do things that you,
with all of your degrees, are not willing to do.
And you should be a lot more thankful for those
people every single day of your life. Instead, you have
this desire to look down upon them like somehow or
another you're above them. Not true, not even close to true.
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Ma'm Donnie wants to come in there as a thirty
three year old thinking he can run one of the
largest cities in the world and the financial capital of
the world and do it with zero experience whatsoever because
he's got some degrees. I'm telling you you're about to
find out. It is absolutely astounding to me the amount
of people who have zero respect for the people that
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actually get the work done, that actually make the world
go around. So changing gears here a little bit. I
think I told you guys about a solar farm that
was out in California that was built back in two
thousand and I think it was two thousand and ten.
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They ban gained construction. They finally completed it in twenty fourteen.
It's got two or three four hundred and fifty nine
foot towers and thousands of these computer controlled mirrors that
are called heliostats, and it cost two point two billion
dollars to build, and in twenty eleven, the Department of
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Energy under Obama issued a one point six billion dollars
in federal loan guarantees for the project. Yeah, they folded
up shop there. They're shutting it down because what they
figured out was by the way birds flying above it.
Sometimes it was one thousand degrees, these birds would fly
over these mirrors and they just fry them instantly because
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they had no idea that they couldn't fly above all
these mirrors. And the it produced very very very little
actual energy comparatively speaking, and the energy it did produce
was way more expensive than the energy that we can
We could have done the same stuff with. Bill Gates
came out the other day, one of the leading voices
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for all of the climate panic for years and years
and years, And I'm not sure what his grift is
this time, but he came out recently and said that
he's now rejecting the doomsday predictions of the extreme global
warming projects because or he's figured out they're lying that
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the models that they're using aren't real and aren't being
vetted properly, and they're putting in bad data. And when
he starts to go the other way, you know, the
entire climate grift is starting to unravel, and it's starting
to change pretty fast, pretty dramatically. The state of New
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York put a law into effect. YEP. It's called the
Climate Act, and it was supposed to reduce emissions by
twenty thirty down to next zero. Let's see the law,
Climate Act. It's in fact the law, and the law
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calls for an impossible forty percent cut in New York
CO two and other GHG emissions by two thousand and thirty.
And they put the law in effect in twenty nineteen.
Now Kathy Hochel is trying to say, we're not going
to do that, and the judge came back and said,
you don't have a choice. It's a law. You can
change the law. But if you don't change the law,
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you're going to have to abide by the law you passed.
What they have figured out is that by trying to
meet these idiotic goals, they're going to drive the cost
of energy up and electricity up to levels you can't sustain.
People can't afford it. They will have there's no change
ants because they're trying to do it with windmills and
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solar farms. And the one of the largest solar farms
in the entire United States of America has already been
shut down after like five years of operation. It's eight
years of operation because they figured out it's not doing
what it's supposed to do after wasting two point two
billion dollars. So when New York is now trying to
pass a law to undo a law they did, Bill
Gates is now saying, hey, I don't think it's gonna
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I don't think all of the doomsday predictions that they've
got out there are going to be real, and we
need to change gears a little bit. It starts to say, hey,
wait a minute, is was it all worth it? After
the trillions of dollars that have been spent worldwide to
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try to control the temperature of the Earth, was it
all worth it? No, And people on the right have
been saying it for years that the Earth has changes.
Whether it's because of the oscillations of the Earth, whether
it's because of sunspots, whether it's because of something from
the Sun doing something else. I don't know. I'm not
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smart enough to know. But what I do know is
I can't play god and think I can control the
temperature of the entire Earth by focusing on the part
of it that happens to be the United States of America,
when China is much bigger than we are, many more people.
India is much bigger than we are, with many, many
more people, and they're not abiding by any of these rules.
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How do you think that just the United States of
America is going to be able to fight climate change
by keeping the entire earth? It doesn't make any sense.
It sounds to me like it's very narcissistic of us
to believe that we have the ability to change the
entire Earth's climate by just focusing on the United States
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of America. It doesn't make sense. And by the way,
the windmills that we have put up have done more
damage than you could possibly imagine that nobody is talking about.
Why is PETA. The same people that belonged to PEDA
are the same ones that are out there talking about
climate change. And yet PETA is not getting up in
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arms when we're losing hundreds of thousands of birds every
year to these wind farms, and whales and all of
the other wildlife that these wind farms are destroying. Nobody's
saying anything about it. Why is that? How does that?
How does that work? There was an estimated I saw
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an article I saw the other day that's had an
estimated one million bats are being killed by windmills every year,
a million. But nobody's saying anything. What the bats don't matter?
It was something along the lines of three or four
hundred American eagles were also being killed by these wind farms,
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and yet nobody is talking about it. I don't understand
it all right, last, but not least, I talked about
this in a couple of shows. I'm gonna say it
one more time. There is a law of attraction called
The Secret, and I highly encourage everybody to go find
a copy of the DVD or somewhere online and watch
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The Secret. It is an incredible documentary show that will
lead you into positive thinking and positive thinking creates positive
outcomes almost every time. Whether that's in relationships, whether that's
in your work atmosphere, whether it's in your family life,
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it doesn't matter. Positivity is what rules the day. If
you are positive, you will receive positive outcomes. And the
secret is a It played a big part in my life,
and I hope we can play a part in everybody's life.
So go get a copy. All right, This is Bono's Cars,
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
All right, good morning everybody. Hope everybody's having a wonderful day.
It uh, you know, if you listen to the show
at all, you know I hate cold weather. And I
don't know what happened this past week, but that little
snap at the beginning of the week where it got
really cold for two days. Yeah, that that, uh, that
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almost did me in. I started calling you haul and
stuff and ask them what the specials what they had were,
because if it gets that cold in three weeks before
Thanksgiving and it's already got snow flurries, which we had
at Murphy's Borg, I don't know if everybody else had them. It.
I just want to know where all this global warming is.
Oh wait, wait, wait, I forgot they changed it. It's
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not global warming. Anymore. It's climate change. Here's what I
can tell you. It changed about seven times this past week.
In one week, the climate changed about seven times. So
for all you goofy people out there that think the
climate doesn't change, they proved it changes all the time. Anyways,
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I read this article this past week that was really
disturbing but also odd. So I happened to believe in God,
and I happened to believe that there is one God,
and he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent and controls gave
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us free will, but controls a lot of the things
that are happening in our lives. I'm pretty sure most
of the people in Iran don't feel that way and
have a different religion, which is fine. They welcome to
have whatever the religion they want. But I'm not so
sure that it's not coming back to bite them with
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the big man upstairs. Because Iran right now is in
the longest drought that first of all, it's a desert
to begin with, but it's in the longest drought that
they've had in fifty seven years. And because of their
idiotic policies and inability to plan and think through, they
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literally are going to run out of water in Tehran,
which is a city of apparently nine point seven million people.
I had no idea Tehran was that big, but apparently
Tehran is nine point seven million people and it's supposed
to run out of water in the first week of January.
They have enough in their reserves and their reservoirs to
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get them through to January. But in January nine, which
is two months away, nine point seven million people will
be out of water completely zero day. It is the
last time that the drop of water will be able
to flow in the city of Tehran.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What are you going to.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Do in sixty days with nine point seven million people
that are going to be out of water. Apparently the
entire city is sinking at twenty five centimeters a year.
I think they said twenty five centimeters a year because
of their lack of ground. All of the underwater awk
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or whatever it was they had, their fresh water are
depleted so much that there's nothing holding it up and
the ground is starting to sink. It's like in Florida
when we had sinkholes. When Florida's got a huge underground
river that runs underneath it, the Florida Aquifer, and It
is billions and billions and billions of gallons of water.
But when you get some of these farmers out there
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that we're tapping into it and using it for irrigation,
which is fine, at some point it sucked all the
water out of the ground and you got sinkholes that formed.
Tehran is going to be one giant sinkhole fairly soon.
And do you want to talk about a humanitarian crisis?
It about to get really ugly, and nobody's talking about it.
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And I'm not sure why, because it seems to me
like that is a mass, massive problem when you're going
to have all that that many people literally dying of thirst,
and they apparently can't just move them into other outlying
cities because other outlying towns and cities. First of all,
they don't have the housing, but secondly they don't have
any water either. I don't know what you do, but
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they're going to have to do something because those people
you want, desperate people do desperate things, and you're going
to have massive desperation in Iran in about sixty days.
And it's not like we can step up and just
pump them some water. I don't know what the solution
is but so I'm going to talk about it a
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little bit later on in the show. But I don't
know if you guys heard. I'm a sports fan. Don't
really care what kind of sport it is. I like
to watch them all from golf. Heck, I even started
watching cricket when it was on. I don't even understand it.
But this past week or last couple of weeks, there
have been two scandals, one that rocked the NBA and
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one now that has apparently rocked Major League Baseball. Chauncey Billups,
who is the head coach I think of the Phoenix Suns.
I can't remember exactly who's the head coach of, but
had a seventeen year run in the NBA. Heck of
a player lasted a long time seventeen years, a long
career in the NBA. And another guard for the Miami
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Heat that was currently playing, and thirty other people apparently
got caught up in a gambling ring and were arrested
for wire fraud and money laundering and all kinds of things.
And it apparently involved all of the Gambino family, Lilu,
Casey family, the five families in New York, whom mafia
and then we had another one where two Major League
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Baseball pitchers were arrested recently last week for throwing pitches
that they gave betting tips to friends and family that said, hey,
on this particular day, I'm going to throw this pitch
on this time, And they were making prop bets or
side bets with some of the betting online I'm betting
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apps that you can just gamble wherever you want now,
and it was they rigged it. They rigged the pitches,
and now you've got corrupt sports betters that we're making
money off of these rigged pitches. And I think it's
gonna get worse. I think we have set ourselves up
for degeneracy and made it easy. And once again, I'm
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gonna talk about it a little bit more in the
show later on, but I think that we are there
will be much, much, much more of this before we
find a way to fix it. And it's just like pot.
We set ourselves up for this. You guys voted for it,
and now here it is, and now all of the
ills that go with it are upon us also. So
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Here's your host, bow driven.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Bull Right. Welcome back, everybody, sincerely appreciate you guys tuning in. So,
I haven't talking much about the government shutdown because I
thought it was stupid, and anybody with any sense whatsoever
knew that it was not the Republicans that were shutting
the government down, even though these moronic people got up
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in front cameras all the time saying stupid stuff like
the Republicans control the House, the White House, and the Senate,
so they're the ones keeping the government shut. The Republicans
voted to open the government up thirteen or fourteen times,
and each time the Democrats voted no. So I don't
know how that's a government shutdown that's attributable to the Republicans.
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Other than the media was out there, and there was
still forty five or fifty percent of the people that
thought Republicans were at fought for the shutdown. That had
to do with the fact that eighty seven percent of
the coverage on mainstream media was positive towards the Democrats
and negative towards the Republicans when it came to the shutdown.
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So the media was complicit in giving the information to
the people who weren't willing to go get any information
anywhere else. And they kept trying to say that it
belonged to the Republicans. Well, it didn't, and that was
stupid to even say so. And then they kept trying
to say that it had to do with the fact
that they we were trying to cut or we that the
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Republicans wanted to cut medical aid to everybody, that the
subsidies were going to end, which they were supposed to
end based on the way the Democrats voted for Obamacare
and then voted during COVID to extend the subsidies. Let
me remind you that the bill, the Obamacare bill that
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passed when Nancy Pelosi said we have to pass it
to find out what's in it, not a single Republican
voted for that bill. Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare.
It was passed one hundred percent with Democrat support. That
was it. And if anybody hasn't noticed, because as a
business owner, I can promise you I noticed. Our healthcare
premiums have skyrocketed in the fifteen years since Obamacare passed.
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It did nothing close to what they said it was
going to do, which we all knew was the case.
You cannot artificially deflate prices by subsidizing them with taxpayer money.
At some point that doesn't work, Like Margaret Thatcher said,
socialism's great, but at some point you run out of
other people's money. And then they wanted to continue to
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extend those subsidies, and they acted as if the one
big beautiful bill that passed, that passed with Republican support. Yep,
the Democrats didn't vote for it, got it. They didn't vote.
But on the flip side, Republicans didn't vote for Obamacare,
and that got put into legislation and made into law.
So the one big beautiful bill passes, and they want
to get back everything that passed in that big beautiful bill.
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They want to put it all back into law by
shutting the government down, which is moronic to begin with.
But James Woods tweeted something out the other day that
I thought was really poignant and awesome. It was a
quote from Thomas soul And Thomas sol is an American
economist that he's old now, I think he's in his nineties,
but has always been brilliant. One of the when I
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was in college, I studied economics for a while and
I always found Thomas Old to be pragmatic. I understood him,
and he made good common sense to me when it
came to economics. But here was the quote. It's hard
to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of
making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands
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of people who pay no price for being wrong. Let
me read that again. It's hard to imagine a more
stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by
putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay
no price for being wrong. And that's exactly what happens
in government shutdowns. The money still keeps flowing to the
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senators and the congress people, it just doesn't flow to
the people like the air traffic controllers or the park
rangers or the other people that really need the paychecks.
There's not a poor person in the US Senate or
the House of Representatives. They're not poor, and they keep
getting their paychecks and they pay no price because they
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have a completely different healthcare system. Then we're all put
on They want us to be on Obamacare, which has
created mass havoc and incredible amounts of or increased pricing
that do nobody any good because Congress people are not
on the same healthcare plan that we have. If they were,
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they might not have passed that crap. It is absolutely
amazing to me that we continue to let this happen.
And oh, by the way, when they started talking about
the snap benefits and snap payments and there were going
to be forty two million Americans that couldn't that fell
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off of food stamps and couldn't eat and all that that,
I find that to be somewhat of a lie, be
honest with you, because it wasn't forty two million Americans
that were on food stamps. As a matter of fact,
there was a Newsmax as a guy named Rob Finnerty
that said what no one in the mainstream media will
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even bother to tell you about snap Here's what it was.
I'm just going to read you what he tweeted out.
There are forty two million people in this country that
need food stamps on a weekly basis, and we're saying
people deliberately instead of Americans because most of the people
that are on food stamps aren't even from this country.
Forty five percent of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps,
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forty two percent of Somali immigrants, thirty four percent of
every immigrant from Iraq, twenty three percent of Haitians, fifty
nine percent of all illegals illegal aliens are collecting food stamps,
meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from
the US government and the US taxpayer are not even Americans.
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Fifty nine percent of all illegal aliens in the United States,
of which there are anywhere between fifteen and twenty million
best estimates, So let's go with the twenty million because
it's easier to do the math and assume it's sixty percent.
That's what twelve million, twelve million people that aren't even
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Americans that are on food stamps right now that we're
all supporting with our tax dollars, And that's what the
Democrats were voting for not only that, they were voting
to keep the subsidies in Obamacare flowing. And by the way,
here's the stupidity of that. The subsidies go directly to
the insurance companies. They don't go to the people to
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try to lower their premiums or lower their costs, or
lower their deductibles. None of that happens. They were getting
ready to write a check for thirty five billion dollars
straight to the insurance companies. Like that. These are the
same insurance companies, by the way, the big pharma companies
that all of the Democrats rail against, who are collecting
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money for the Democrats are collecting money from those people
for their campaigns. Bernie Sanders, the socialists of all socialists,
got like one point four million dollars in campaign contributions
from Big Pharma while he rails against them. Do you
really think he means what he says when he's collecting
one point four million dollars from them. It defies logic,
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It defies any kind of common sense whatsoever. And the
Democrats just continued to act as if this shutdown was
for them, fighting for the little guy. They weren't fighting
for the little guy. They were fighting for all of
the people who came here illegally, and that we're going
to take up more of the healthcare resources by using
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the hospitals and emergency rooms as their primary care physicians
because they can't get primary care physicians because they're here illegally.
But they know that if you go to a hospital
emergency room, by law, they have to be taken care of,
and so they used it as their own primary care.
If they had a sniffy nose, they had a running
nose or flu like symptoms, go to the emergency room. Meanwhile,
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hardworking Americans are also sick and can't get in line
fast enough to get it to get the healthcare because
it's being chewed up. All the resources being chewed up
by all these other people. Same thing with food, SAMs
and snap. You know how much more money there would
be to go around if we weren't just trying to
take care of everybody that just decided they wanted to
come here and be on the dole. If you cut
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all of those benefits off to those people, guess what
they'll self deport. I would go too, if I was
broke and living in a country that there was no
opportunity for me whatsoever. And I was looking for a
way to feed my family, and I knew that if
I could just get into this other place, this other
place would take care of me and my family, I'd
probably want to go too. That doesn't make it right.
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The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is anything
but affordable. And if you go back and study what
they were talking about back in two thousand and nine
twenty ten and looked at the architects who decided who
made this goofy law up, they knew it wasn't going
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to do that. They knew what they were trying to
do that The American taxpayers were not going to go
for socialized medicine right off the bat, so they put
in Obamacare as a step towards getting to single payer
health insurance. Every place single payer health insurance is has
a worse healthcare system than we do. Are the costs
too high? Here? Absolutely is President Trump doing everything he
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can to bring those costs down by negotiating directly with
drug companies, giving US favored nation status when it comes
to drug pricing and all of the other things. He's doing. Absolutely,
But the way to do that is not through more
subsidies from taxpayers. There's only so much you can suck
a strive for before we just run out of it again,
Margaret cat Thatcher. It's great you run out of Eventually
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you run out of other people's money. All right. This
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Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right, welcome back everybody. So I I smoked for
years when I was younger. It was I got started
in the eighties when I was in the car business
and everybody in the car business smoked. I still remember
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the days when you could smoke in restaurants and you
had you could smoke on airplanes and you could like
sitting in the back. Made it better for all the
people in the front of the plane when you were smoking,
and the whole cabin was filled with smoke. I remember
those days, and I remember everybody doing everything they could
to try to get us to stop smoking because it
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was bad for your health. At some point in this
country we have lost our way, and I'm not sure
exactly when it was or why it was. But gambling,
I like to gamble, right, So I used to go
to Vegas. I like to play blackjack. I was always
good enough at controlling it. I've never been a winner
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at it, but I was good enough at controlling it
that I didn't get myself into trouble. But it also
was difficult to do so right. It was difficult to gamble.
You had to literally get on a plane, make a trip,
go all the way out to Vegas and do your
thing and then come back. Or if you knew the
neighborhood bookie, you could place a few bets here and there,
but he knew enough to keep you from getting too
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deep into the to the weeds that you lost everything. Right,
So I'm not going to tell you that like Bill
Clinton tried to say that he never inhaled. Nope, I
tried marijuana back in the day when I was younger,
didn't like it. I don't like the way it makes
me feel. It makes me feel tired and sleepy, and
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all of those things. Didn't but I tried it, just
like almost every kid out there. When we started to
vote to legalize vices, things that when they aren't legal
many people don't do them, and those that do do
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them do them less frequently. Those that do them try
to hide it and making it tough. When we started
legalizing everything from marijuana to online gambling and making it
easy for people to lose their house payments and lose
their entire life savings, and when we started legalizing prostitution
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or sex work as they want to call it, we
legalized all of these vices that made it easier for
people to do things that they shouldn't really be doing.
Do they have the right, I guess the libertarian and
me says, hey, have at it, You do whatever you want.
But at some point society as a whole pays the
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price for all of those things. We lose our moral compass,
we lose our ability to be creative and think of
other ways to We have legalized so many things in
the last decade and mainstreamed so many things in the
last decade that are hurting people. We legalized marijuana. Great.
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You know what I can tell you. Marijuana today that
is being sold for medicinal purposes is ten times stronger
than that skunk weed you could buy back in the
eighties and early nineties from the local guy that grew
some in his house or maybe got some from Mexico.
It's ten times stronger. It's causing psychotic episodes. It's causing
young kids to have serious problems mentally. When we legalized
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the sex work with only fans and all of the
other online sites, we caused a degeneracy to start to happen,
and an addiction to that from young men who don't
really know how to form relationships. Now. I saw something
the other day where AI is. There's something like twenty
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five to twenty seven percent of young people now have
an AI friend that is their therapist or go to.
We are losing generations of young people to things that
we shouldn't be losing them to. And I don't know
where it goes or where it ends, but we have
not done justice or a service to all of the
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young people by legalizing all of these things we just
haven't and we've got to find our way back to
having some sort of moral compass, some sort of ethical
compass that helps us fix this problem. I don't know
what the solution is. I just I feel bad for
all of the kids and my grandkids that are growing
(24:29):
up in this environment where it's not it's not healthy,
and I hope we can find a way to fix it.
So why does California get to be I took a
trip last week to Cherokee, North Carolina. I had to
go to a Cadillac meeting, and it was a great
(24:52):
trip through the mountains and beautiful and all of that,
but I had this weird feeling when I look. I've
probably driven well over a million miles in my lifetime.
I drive a lot. I've been driving since I was
fifteen or sixteen years old, and I've always driven a lot.
(25:13):
This last trip that I took, I was fearful. A
lot of the times I was paying more attention. Look,
I've got a lead foot, and I don't always pay
attention the way I should. My wife gets a little
upset with me with the way I drive sometimes. But
this past trip I was paying attention a lot more
because I have started to be worried about whether or
not the guy behind the wheel of that eighty thousand
(25:34):
pound truck beside me knows how to speak English and
how to read road signs and how to understand how
to run that rig. Because it's turning out that California,
New York, and Illinois have just decided that they could
go against whatever the federal laws are from the trans
(25:56):
Department of Transportation. They could just ignore them and issue
CDLs to people who can't even bother to understand English.
As a matter of fact, Gavin Newsom in California, straight
from the California Highway Patrol, Gavin Newsom instructed them to
ignore federal law and not make truck drivers comply with
(26:17):
the English proficiency. So they got a video of it.
If you want to go see the TikTok. There's a
guy that says, the trucker says, are they making you
guys comply with English proficiency? And the California Highway Patrol
guy says, they said not to enforce it. They said,
don't worry about it. All the while, we've got truckers
(26:37):
out there that are here illegally that have caused the
death over the last month and a half of at
least nine people that I know of, And yet California
has decided that they can just give people who don't
even have identification you can find CDLs. I've seen it
coming out of Oklahoma CDLs where the license literally says
(27:01):
no name given. Now, how do you even identify the
people if there is an accident or an incident? And
what are we doing to the companies that are hiring
these people, because they shouldn't be working here to begin with,
much less operating an eighty thousand pounds missile that's going
down the highway beside me and my family and you
and your family without understanding the rules of the road
(27:23):
or how to even drive it. It's absolutely astounding to
me that these states think that they can just do
whatever they want with impunity. They don't have to do it,
they don't have to abide by the same laws that
the rest of us do and the rest of the
states do. It just bothers me to no end, no end.
(27:48):
All Right, So you guys listen to me talk the
other day, I don't know how many shows ago it was.
I was talking about China and rare earth minerals, and
the fact that China is doing everything they can to
control of the rare earth mineral market and how much
goes into those rare earth minerals. I think one show
(28:09):
I also talked about the fact that there was a
scientist here at the universe. I think it was Michigan
or Michigan State University that figured out that you could
take iron ore, which is a very abundant it's not
rare earth, it's very abundant in the Earth's crust. But
you could take iron ore and mix it with some
sort of hydrogen or something, and it created magnets that
were much stronger than the ones being created out in China. Well,
(28:37):
Scott Bescent, who was our Treasury secretary, went on Fox
News recently and he brought with him a magnet, a
rare earth magnet that was the first one made in
the United States in the last twenty five years. So
they built in Sumter, California or Sumter, South Carolina, only
(29:00):
built a rare earth magnet factory that they got the
permits to build this factory in eight weeks and we're
able to get it up and running in not very
many months, and now it's already producing rare earth mineral
or rare earth magnets that are stronger than the China magnets.
(29:21):
That's great news for us because we need to re
onshore on shore that manufacturing, because it has all kinds
of implications for national security, It has implications for our economy,
it has implications for our healthcare. All of these magnets
are used in all of these various applications, from fighter
jets to MRIs to your refrigerator, and without us having
(29:47):
our own supply, which the Biden administration on the day
that Biden took office, I said this five years ago
when the Dave Biden took officer of the second day,
he signed a moratorium on rare earth mining for thirty years,
knowing that was controlling seventy five to eighty percent of
the rare earth mineral market. Now, why would you do
that unless China had something on you? Why would you
put us at such a national security risk as to
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give our enemy, and they are our enemy, they are
not our adversary, they are our enemy. To give our
enemy control over the things we have to have in
order to survive, that just sounds to me like an
idiotic policy. Well, the Trump administration once again has got
to win under their belt by going back and manufacturing
(30:34):
these things on our own and on his I think
it was the YEP. On January twentieth, Trump went into
office and immediately signed an executive order on rare earths.
And by November we're already making magnets. Yay. Trump mean
that whatever's best for the United States of America, I'm
all for. We cannot take care of the world unless
(30:56):
we take care of ourselves. All right, this is Bonos
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Speaker 3 (31:44):
All right, Welcome back, everybody. So when I was about uh,
I guess I was in sixth grade and my father
bought the Ford dealership in a town we lived in DeLand, Florida,
which is just in between Daytona and Orlando, and he
had bought a Ford dealership in a place called Banel,
(32:07):
which is in Flaggler County, very small county at the time,
tiny and only had one red light in the entire county,
and there was one elementary school and one high school
and that was it. It has since grown quite a bit,
but back then it was very small. And I I
(32:28):
told some of my friends, I guess that I was
moving to Banel, and they started talking about being with
all the rednecks. And I didn't know what that meant.
I wasn't sure, and I asked my dad one time,
what does redneck mean? And he said, well, some people
use it as a derogatory term to describe people who,
(32:51):
you know, live out in the country and whatever, he said,
But the real reason it's called redneck is because they
were the people who lived in the farms and did
the armwork, and the sun beat down on their neck
and they got red necks. And that was the literal
version of what he told me. It was, we need more,
(33:12):
We need a lot more rednecks. We need a lot
more people who are not ruining the country with degrees.
There is a I have technicians that work for me
that are absolutely brilliant, do not have a degree in
anything other than how to fix a car. But I'm
going to tell you something you want to know what
(33:35):
you're worth is don't go read a book over there
about all that stuff. CO tell me if you can
fix your own car, because I know I can't. I
can't fix my own plumbing, I can't fix my own
electric I can't fix my own appliances. But yet those
people that don't. I can't farm. I probably could learn,
but I can't do it, not the way these farmers
do it, not the people that do it well. And
(33:58):
so all of those people that the people with degrees
look down upon are the ones that are keeping the
people with the degrees operating. Because I promise you, if
your air conditioning goes out in your house while you're
sitting there in your little bubble, you're not going to
be able to fix it yourself. I don't care if
you can get on YouTube and find somebody to tell
(34:21):
you how to fix it, you're probably not going to
be able to do it anyways. And when you figure
out how hard the work actually is that those people
are doing, you should have a newfound appreciation for it.
But and yet these people in their liberal bubbles, sitting
there with all of their degrees, think they know everything,
(34:41):
and they know so very little about anything. I readily
admit every day that people doing work in my dealership
do things that I could never do and never understood.
There's zero chance I could figure out how to take
an engine apart and put it back together. Zero. And
yet I've got some people that are really good at
(35:03):
it and just naturally understand how to do things. And
that is where I think the term redneck truly. I
think that it's competence versus credentialism. Right, are you competent
in being able to do things, versus you just got
some degrees from somebody You were good at passing tests,
(35:25):
but the test you passed meant nothing in the real world.
I've said this before. I hear all this stupid talk
about a civil war and blah blah blah, and I'm
not sure that the people on the left really understand
how easy that would be by just encircling the cities.
And when the food runs out, Now, what you've got
(35:47):
no supply chains, because all of that stuff, all of
the things that keep you moving every day and make
your life easy, And it is easy comative comparatively speaking
to everybody else in the world. Everybody in the United
States America has an easy life. And it's made easy
by the people who have competence and the ability to
(36:08):
do things and are willing to do things that you,
with all of your degrees, are not willing to do.
And you should be a lot more thankful for those
people every single day of your life. Instead, you have
this desire to look down upon them like somehow or
another you're above them. Not true, not even close to true.
(36:29):
Ma'm Donnie wants to come in there as a thirty
three year old thinking he can run one of the
largest cities in the world and the financial capital of
the world and do it with zero experience whatsoever because
he's got some degrees. I'm telling you you're about to
find out. It is absolutely astounding to me the amount
of people who have zero respect for the people that
(36:53):
actually get the work done, that actually make the world
go around. So changing gears here a little bit. I
think I told you guys about a solar farm that
was out in California that was built back in two
thousand and I think it was two thousand and ten.
(37:14):
They ban gained construction. They finally completed it in twenty fourteen.
It's got two or three four hundred and fifty nine
foot towers and thousands of these computer controlled mirrors that
are called heliostats, and it cost two point two billion
dollars to build, and in twenty eleven, the Department of
(37:35):
Energy under Obama issued a one point six billion dollars
in federal loan guarantees for the project. Yeah, they folded
up shop there. They're shutting it down because what they
figured out was by the way birds flying above it.
Sometimes it was one thousand degrees, these birds would fly
over these mirrors and they just fry them instantly because
(37:56):
they had no idea that they couldn't fly above all
these mirrors. And the it produced very very very little
actual energy comparatively speaking, and the energy it did produce
was way more expensive than the energy that we can
We could have done the same stuff with. Bill Gates
came out the other day, one of the leading voices
(38:17):
for all of the climate panic for years and years
and years, And I'm not sure what his grift is
this time, but he came out recently and said that
he's now rejecting the doomsday predictions of the extreme global
warming projects because or he's figured out they're lying that
(38:37):
the models that they're using aren't real and aren't being
vetted properly, and they're putting in bad data. And when
he starts to go the other way, you know, the
entire climate grift is starting to unravel, and it's starting
to change pretty fast, pretty dramatically. The state of New
(38:58):
York put a law into effect. YEP. It's called the
Climate Act, and it was supposed to reduce emissions by
twenty thirty down to next zero. Let's see the law,
Climate Act. It's in fact the law, and the law
(39:20):
calls for an impossible forty percent cut in New York
CO two and other GHG emissions by two thousand and thirty.
And they put the law in effect in twenty nineteen.
Now Kathy Hochel is trying to say, we're not going
to do that, and the judge came back and said,
you don't have a choice. It's a law. You can
change the law. But if you don't change the law,
(39:41):
you're going to have to abide by the law you passed.
What they have figured out is that by trying to
meet these idiotic goals, they're going to drive the cost
of energy up and electricity up to levels you can't sustain.
People can't afford it. They will have there's no change
ants because they're trying to do it with windmills and
(40:02):
solar farms. And the one of the largest solar farms
in the entire United States of America has already been
shut down after like five years of operation. It's eight
years of operation because they figured out it's not doing
what it's supposed to do after wasting two point two
billion dollars. So when New York is now trying to
pass a law to undo a law they did, Bill
Gates is now saying, hey, I don't think it's gonna
(40:25):
I don't think all of the doomsday predictions that they've
got out there are going to be real, and we
need to change gears a little bit. It starts to say, hey,
wait a minute, is was it all worth it? After
the trillions of dollars that have been spent worldwide to
(40:46):
try to control the temperature of the Earth, was it
all worth it? No, And people on the right have
been saying it for years that the Earth has changes.
Whether it's because of the oscillations of the Earth, whether
it's because of sunspots, whether it's because of something from
the Sun doing something else. I don't know. I'm not
(41:06):
smart enough to know. But what I do know is
I can't play god and think I can control the
temperature of the entire Earth by focusing on the part
of it that happens to be the United States of America,
when China is much bigger than we are, many more people.
India is much bigger than we are, with many, many
more people, and they're not abiding by any of these rules.
(41:28):
How do you think that just the United States of
America is going to be able to fight climate change
by keeping the entire earth? It doesn't make any sense.
It sounds to me like it's very narcissistic of us
to believe that we have the ability to change the
entire Earth's climate by just focusing on the United States
(41:55):
of America. It doesn't make sense. And by the way,
the windmills that we have put up have done more
damage than you could possibly imagine that nobody is talking about.
Why is PETA. The same people that belonged to PEDA
are the same ones that are out there talking about
climate change. And yet PETA is not getting up in
(42:16):
arms when we're losing hundreds of thousands of birds every
year to these wind farms, and whales and all of
the other wildlife that these wind farms are destroying. Nobody's
saying anything about it. Why is that? How does that?
How does that work? There was an estimated I saw
(42:36):
an article I saw the other day that's had an
estimated one million bats are being killed by windmills every year,
a million. But nobody's saying anything. What the bats don't matter?
It was something along the lines of three or four
hundred American eagles were also being killed by these wind farms,
(42:58):
and yet nobody is talking about it. I don't understand
it all right, last, but not least, I talked about
this in a couple of shows. I'm gonna say it
one more time. There is a law of attraction called
The Secret, and I highly encourage everybody to go find
a copy of the DVD or somewhere online and watch
(43:22):
The Secret. It is an incredible documentary show that will
lead you into positive thinking and positive thinking creates positive
outcomes almost every time. Whether that's in relationships, whether that's
in your work atmosphere, whether it's in your family life,
(43:42):
it doesn't matter. Positivity is what rules the day. If
you are positive, you will receive positive outcomes. And the
secret is a It played a big part in my life,
and I hope we can play a part in everybody's life.
So go get a copy. All right, This is Bono's Cars,
brought to you by Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphysboro, and
(44:03):
I hope you guys come on back next week. Have
a great weekend.
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