July 21, 2025 • 39 mins
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The 2025 Special Session of the Texas State Legislature is kicking off, with 18 high-profile items on the agenda. The question now is, how many of them will actually get done, and how many SHOULD get done?
CBS has announced that late-night host Stephen Colbert's show will be canceled after his contract expires next year, and the left is going nuts over it. The funding of PBS and NPR is also being cut by Congress, and the left doesn't seem to understand why.
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The 2025 Special Session of the Texas State Legislature is kicking off, with 18 high-profile items on the agenda. The question now is, how many of them will actually get done, and how many SHOULD get done?
CBS has announced that late-night host Stephen Colbert's show will be canceled after his contract expires next year, and the left is going nuts over it. The funding of PBS and NPR is also being cut by Congress, and the left doesn't seem to understand why.
For the latest news, follow me on Instagram and X:
@the.ethanbuchanan
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events that mat are to our generation.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is the next Gen Report. What Ethan can.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey, everybody, good evening. Hope we're all well. Hope you
had a great week. Happy Sunday. Hope you went to
church today. That's important, that is very important. But now
it's Sunday evening. We're working our way into Monday. But
we're gonna take this quick hour to not worry about Monday.
(00:43):
We're gonna worry about last week that we just have.
We're gonna talk about everything.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Sorry, had to step my coffee. All right, Oh, what's big?
What's big?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Tomorrow? We are gonna talk about Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Tomorrow, the special session of the Texas Legislature starts. So
if you're not familiar with the inner workings of state government,
because I know a lot of people aren't, here's how
we do things. Every two years, the state Legislature meets
for five months, right, That's how we operate. Now, the
governor can at any time call a special session and
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have the legislator come back to Austin.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Anyway, that's what's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We didn't get enough done in the regular session because
of dustin Boroughs, and now we're going to try to
make up for that. So let's take a quick look
at some of the agenda items. So how this works
is the governor says to the legislature, Hey, y'all are
going to come back to Austin on this date to
work on these things. Here are the things flood warning systems,
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legislation to improve early warning systems and other preparedness infrastructure
in flood prone areas throughout Texas. Obviously, this and the
next like three or four items comes as a direct
result of the Hill Country flooding.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think this is very important.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The legislature should absolutely come in and do a deep
dive investigation into what happened. How can we fix it?
Do we have all the right systems in place?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That doesn't necessarily mean we need more property taxes. That
doesn't necessarily mean we need more government spending. But there
might be some justified government spending here. So it's important
for the government to take a look at it. Are
all on the same page here. That's what this is
all about. Flood warning systems, flood emergency communication, relief, funding
for hill country floods, things like that. Natural disaster preparation
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and recovery. Of course, now I will say our natural
disaster kind of response and recovery I think is very
good as a state. I don't know how much more
we need to be doing here. Texas Tax Force one
is very efficient getting on the ground helping people out.
Of course, we've got the federal government that is now
under Trump also responsive and helpful, which is nice.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And of course we've.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Got kind of third party systems. We've got the Texas
A and M teams that go out and do a
lot of this disaster recovery and assistance. And of course
we've got our friends over at the Caajuan Navy who
come from Louisiana and some from the Texas area and
will help us out with stuff like that. Or I
don't know how much we need to change there, but
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it is worth taking a look at it, you know,
and after action report, how did we actually do so?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
The next thing we have is eliminate the star testing
legislation to eliminate star test and replace it with effective
tools to assess student progress and ensure school district accountability.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
This is good. We want schools and teachers to be
answerable to parents. I love this. Cut property taxes.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yes, Brian Harrison has a bill that would outright eliminate
property taxes basically over the next five years. It would
completely phase them out and make them unconstitutional. I love
Brian Harrison. I love the bill. It's not going anywhere.
It's going to die. Unfortunately. He also has a bill
that I think is more plausible that would basically require
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any increase of property taxes at all by anyone ever
to be approved on by the voters in an election,
which I think is great. If you're going to tax
us out of house and home, which you shouldn't be
allowed to do. Property taxes are immoral, They're wrong. You
own your home.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You should own it, not rent it from the government.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But if you are going to property taxes, at least
give us the representation right, let us choose. Let the
community decide whether or not they think this is a
necessary thing that they should be taxed on. Right, because
that's how property taxes work.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Hey, we need this.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We're going to raise your property taxes. The voters should
have the final say on stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Protect children from THHC legislation making it a crime to
provide hemp derived products to children under twenty one years
of age.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Is this a priority? Really? Is this really a priory? Really?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
This comes as a result of Dan Patrick tying really
hard to ban THHC outright in the state of Texas.
Something nobody wants. Nobody wants this, nobody. This is not mainstream.
This is like a seventy thirty issue. Nobody is interested
in this. Most Republicans aren't. Most Democrats aren't. No democrats
are most Republicans aren't, and independents definitely aren't.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So why this is a priority. Nobody cares? I would
agree that, Yeah, we should probably.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Regulate the THHC industry a little bit, maybe make it
a little bit more like tobacco. You have to be
a certain age, you have to sell it in certain
packaging with certain warnings. Maybe because you know, we don't
know the effects or what have you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't know. Those are discussions we can have. Is
this a top priority? No?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
No, Regulate hemp derived products legislation to comprehensively regulate HEP
drive products, including limiting potency, restricting synthetically modified compounds, and
establishing enforcement mechanisms, all without banning lawful agricultural come up.
I like that more than Dan Patrick's idea of ban
it outright. But again, this does not need to be
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a top priority. We shouldn't even look at this until
we make major adjustments to property tax Protect unborn children
legislation further protecting onboard children and their mothers from the
harm of abortion.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Everything we can do to crackdown on abortion, and we
should be doing every single thing. I don't care how
much these ridiculous liberals like it. Protect human trafficking victims,
this is good. Legislation is similar to Senate Bill Number
twelve seventy eight from the eighty ninth legislature regular session
that protects victims of human traffificking from criminal liability for nonviolent.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Acts closely tied to their own victimization. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Protecting women's spaces this is good. Attorney General election powers
legislation proposed proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the Attorney General
to prosecute state election crimes.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
This is incredibly important. There's no reason the state.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Attorney generals shouldn't be able to prosecute election crimes in
the state, but we can't because of Democrat law fair
so that definitely does.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Need to be changed.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Listen, there's a lot of good stuff on here, and
there's some bad stuff basically, So here's what I want
you to do. Here's your homework. Keep track of these
legislative items that are important to you. Can find the
complete list on ksiri dot com. Go give it a
read and figure out, Okay, what of these top priorities
are most important to me, and then actually pay attention
to them, actually track them because these things do matter.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
They will affect your life, and vote based on them.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Look at how your legislators perform with these priorities in mind,
and then take that to the polls next time they're
up for reelection.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's very important.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All Right, We've got a great show coming up for you.
We will be right back, so stay tuned. I'm Ethan Buchanan.
This is the next Gen Report. All right, let's talk
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a little bit more about les Imigrecion, Mexican woman in
the US illegally charged with faking her own ice kidnapping
When I tell you the left is desperate, I freaking
mean it, and I mean I say the left. This
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is this one particular illegal alien as well. But I
have to imagine if we didn't immediately find out this
was fake, the left would have taken this and ran
with it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh my god, I skidnapped this lady. They're holding her
for ransom. I can see it now.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Those headlines one thousand percent would have existed if DHS
waited a single day to debunk this.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's still kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's kind of funny now that we caught her, and
you know, it's all's well, that ends well, So it's
kind of funny. But imagine for a moment if DHS
wasn't able to immediately debunk this crap and the left
actually got a hold of this.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Think of the riots that we would see in places
like Los Angeles. There would be riots, for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
We've seen the left right over much less, but thankfully
none of that happened.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We debunked this.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We can.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
We can look at this and laugh at it now,
So that's what we're gonna do. Good grief. A Mexican
illegal alien living in Los Angeles was charged with orchestrating
her own fake ice kidnapping to generate sympathy and solicit donations.
According to the Justice Department, Uriana Palia Palaez Calderon, forty one,
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a resident of Los Angeles, was charged with conspiracy and
making false statements to federal officers. The DOJ said Calderon
had been living in the US based on a federal
law enforcement parole that expired in twenty twenty three. She
is in federal custody now after she allegedly faked her kidnapping.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
This comes after local outlet KTLA reported on a news
conference held by Calderon's loved ones and attorneys who claimed
she had been kidnapped by uniformed men in unmarked cars. Oh,
and here's the pictures here. According to an AFFID eight
fit filed in criminal complaint against Mexican illegal Urana Pollio's
coorade l l D, an HSI investigator determined these photos
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provided to investigators were likely created to make it appear
as if Calderon was in custody and she had been
mistreated while there. So, I mean, she's she's standing there
in this kind of baggy shirt with I think that's
bluey on it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Her hair is.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
All disheveled, she looks like she's had water dumped on
her or she's been like sweating profusely. And she's just
in this kind of empty room with just a chair
and a table holded up behind her.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
The Outliver reported that a man identified as an attorney
named Stefano Medina claimed Calderon was cornered in a jack
in the box parking lot in Los Angeles by men
who did not identify themselves but were possibly bounty hunters.
Medina claimed Calderon was taken to the border and presented
to an ICE staffer who determined she who demanded she
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signed self deportation paperwork. Medina said that when Calderon refused
to sign the paperwork, she was taken to a warehouse
until she agreed to sign the document. Fox News Digital
obtained a copy of the criminal complaint against Calderon, which
was filed in the U. S. District Court for the
Central District of California, and affidavit filed with the complaint
alleges that Calderon and others planned a hoax kidnapping for
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their benefit, including their own peninsuary game. They affidae Fit
says that Calderon's daughter set up a GoFundMe to raise
four thy five hundred after her mother was taken by
the masked men in an unmarked vehicle. So this is
so terrible, and people are being so mistreated that they
have to fake the terrible mistreatings for financial gain. That's
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where we're at with the left right now and these
illegal aliens, which again is another reason why these people
should not be allowed in our country. Right These people
are demonstratably not trustworthy. Why would we let her stay
in this country? Why she attempted to defraud the American
people and in the process disrespected our law enforcement, trying
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to paint them in some horrible light by faking your
own kidnapping and then trying to defraud the American people
in order to solicit donations.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's disgusting. It's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But stories like this, made up, Hoaxes like this are
being used by the left to call law enforcement Nazis,
to demean and basically justify violence against law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And it's all made up. It's all made up, Thankfully.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I really do think that the Trump administration saw this
coming they didn't go into border enforcement blind, which is
why Tom Holmes on the front lines of all this.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
He is very.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Good at communicating what's going on here, at just communicating
the fact like, hey, these people are a problem, we
are getting them out, and you trying to demean the
law enforcement officers that are doing this good work is
also a problem. Maybe it's because he's been doing this
for his entire adult life, so he just understands how
all of this works. But he is very, very good
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at this. Here he is on Fox News basically saying, hey,
you got to stop with this ICE's Nazis. You're escalating
the problem, You're creating danger, and you're doing so.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Based off of complete lies. Here he is saying all this.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That's rhetoric is causing the safe for response to ICE,
you know, comparing Ice Nazis and races and and terrorist organizations.
And I said two months ago, Harris said, if this
rhetoric didn't stop, there would be bloodshed. Of course, the
left went crazy on that statement, but unfortunately I was right.
One one man was killed when he attacked they bore
up trove Vacilly in Texas, and another group of ourn
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men ambushed the Basili in Texas and Ice Facilly were
one officer shot.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
In the neck.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And it's not over with. I mean, unless this rhetoric stops,
you're going to see more. And it's because it's because
of haypul redding by the Democrats and those and those
that are mayors and governors and members of Congress. It
has to stop because the truth that they're they're they're
shooting the truth of American people. I'm tired of reading
the news reports that majority of people in ICE attention
aren't criminals. The fact is the majority are criminals, and
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who are the others? Others are national security threats that
were detaining because they're not going to walk the streets
to this nation. May not may not have a criminal conviction,
but the national security threat. Others are extradited removal cases
that by federal statute we must detain, which, of course,
those facts don't make it to media. They say that
most people we arrested aren't criminals, and public states trust
the fact are I looked at the numbers the other day,
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had one hundred and thirty thousand arrest ninety thousand we're criminals,
which is what's that sixty nine point almost seventy percent.
So the facts are the facts, but the media's not
sharing the facts of American people. And you add that
to the rhetoric from these politicians, and that's why you're
seeing the attacks a nice skyrocket.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And again it's so worth pointing out that most of
this rhetoric from the left about Ice is based off
of hoaxes, like this kidnapping hoax out of Los Angeles.
That's where they get this. You see these social media posts,
these kind of headlines and flashy tweets pop up, and
people don't bother to fact check.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
They just don't. They just assume it's true because they
read it on the internet.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It's like, I don't know, if you listen, when I
talked to that guy at the No Kings protest back
and god, when was that. There was probably a month
ago at this point, But I talked to this guy
who he truly believed that US citizens that just happened
to be brown people were being arrested and deported and
it's not true, it's not happening. But I've seen posts
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like that myself. There are people to this day who
believe that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an American citizen and
he's not. He never was, He never should have been
in this country. But this is the kind of crap
that we're dealing with. This is thankfully the crackdown is happening.
I really do think people are going to stop illegally
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entering the United States sooner rather than later, mainly because
they're not getting jobs anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We're cracking down on the incentives for people to come here.
There's a story.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I don't have time to play you all the audio,
but they shut down this taco shop that had been
employing illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It was an.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
American guy, an American citizen, who owned this place, and
he had a couple of different talker restaurants and food trucks,
and he was employing illegal aliens. And they obviously arrested
and deported his employees or detained them to be deported
later because they're not supposed to be in the country.
And now they're arresting him because he's hiring illegal aliens,
which is against the law. You're not allowed to do that,
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but that law has just not been enforced. I worked
in fast food. I've seen it firsthand. People ignore those
rules and they shouldn't. We should be enforcing those remove
the incentives for people to come to the country illegally,
and they won't. It's that easy to solve the problem.
And it doesn't have to be this big show, this
big fight. We could have just peaceful enforcement of immigration.
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But the left doesn't want that. They want the show.
They want the fight, and they allowed it to get
this bad. It's sad and it's disgraceful, but thankfully something
is finally being done about it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
All right, we've got a lot more coming up. Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
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Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Let's talk a little bit about the media. I guess
technically I'm a member of the media. I don't think
about that a lot. I try not to. Somebody called
me a journalist once. That hurt my feelings. That's mean,
that's the meanest thing anyone's ever shared to me. I'm
not a journalist, I'm a personality. That's my preferred term.
All right, So let's let's talk a little bit about
the media. First of all, everybody's familiar with CBS Stephen
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Colbert's Late Now Show, right, we all know what that
is that's been canceled, and the initial reaction to hearing, oh,
one of the numerous late shows that people don't really
watch anymore has been canceled. Who cares? The left cares
a lot. For whatever reason, CBS made this decision. It
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wasn't made for them. Nobody made them cancel it, but
they canceled it. It just it wasn't It wasn't profitable,
people weren't watching the show. In general, late show watching
has declined significantly. I think that's probably more due to
the rise of things like podcasts and YouTube, because I
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remind you, normally, these late night shows were meant to
be kind of comedy, right, it was late night comedy,
and with comedians kind of taking over the podcast space
and the podcast space expanding.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
To YouTube, you know what used to be.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You know, that's the only option you had for comedy
if you wanted some good comedy on your television. In
the you know, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, you pretty much
had to go and watch the late shows, right But now,
I mean, basically every day of the week you've got
some comedian that's uploading their two hour podcast on YouTube,
if not longer. You know, Kill Tony is a really
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good comedy show that's on YouTube that's two hours long.
They do an episode of that every Monday, so why bother.
But on the other hand, on top of that, you
don't have late night comedy shows doing comedy. They've become
very overtly political. That's objectively true. Nobody can deny that.
Stephen Colbert is, of course the perfect example of this.
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I mean, we all remember in twenty twenty when a
whole segment of his show was dedicated to having a
bunch of people dressed up like vaccine syringes, dancing and
singing a song about how great the vaccine is. Nobody's
interested in that. All of their comedy is based off of,
you know, just pushing political points. It's not particularly good
commed in the first place, and now it's just politics.
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It's just like ha ha, Trump is terrible. And then
the audience laughs, where's the joke, dude? So people don't
watch it, so they canceled it. That's what happened. CBS
canceled it. It really shouldn't matter, but the left is
losing their mind. John Pavlovitz, I've seen this guy's name
float around. I don't know exactly what he does. He's
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the author of If God Is Love, Don't be a Jerk.
His Twitter cover photo is just says fight prejudice. Okay,
cool story, bro, He says. What CBS's disgraceful termination of
Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a republic can fall
when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage. Really, one
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network cancels one comedy show, and that's the fall of
the republic. Have you considered, just for a moment, that
this might not be that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Have you just considered it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'm almost positive that both you and the republic as
a whole will be completely fine without Stephen Colbert every night.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I think you can handle it.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And if you really want Stephen Colbert that badly, I'm
confident he'll start a podcast.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I guarantee it.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'll put five dollars on it right No, screw that,
I'll put twenty dollars on it right now. Next year,
when Stephen Colbert's contract is up and they officially formally
cancel his show, I bet you within three months of that,
I bet you twenty dollars he has a podcast up
and running. I guaranteang tee you that'll happen somebody else.
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Joanna Robinson. I don't know who this is, but they've
got almost one hundred thousand followers on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
How to random people like this?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm almost one hundred thousand followers and I don't have
four hundred. You the audience need to do better. Give
me a follow this, Joanna Robinson person. This Colbert news
should scare me. I'm quaking in my custom made baby
Seal leather boots. I'm horrified. Whatever am I going to
do the same thing I was doing before not watch
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Colbert's show.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's it. That's the whole story. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's baffling that they're this freaked out about it. What
they're even more livid about, which I think is kind
of funny, is the news that CBS is going to
lose I believe all of their government funding here's the
context of that. The House has passed a big recision
package that basically cuts back nine billion dollars worth of
federal funding for everything from four and A into like
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National Public Radio and radio, National Public Radio, and PBS.
This is essentially kind of getting the ball rolling on
the Doge cuts, right. This is I mean, obviously we
had like several hundred billion dollars worth of stuff that
Doese cut, and now we're formally codifying those cuts. Because again,
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Congress does have the power of the purse, so the
president can do things like, Okay, well we're just gonna
hold off on spending this money. Congress has said this
is what this money is for, but we're just gonna
not do that. And now Congress is saying, never mind,
the money's not for that.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's what this bill does.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
So it's nine billion dollars, which is, you know, not
nearly as much as we need, but it's a start, right.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
This kind of gets the ball rolling.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
This sets the standard, the precedent, right, So this is good,
it is progress, and it cuts a whole bunch of
different nonsense foreign aid things. And then it cuts funding
federal funding to NPR and PBS, which is incredibly important.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
We shouldn't be funding this.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
First of all, the argument that we need a national
public radio or national public broadcasting, which is what NPR
and PBS do, it doesn't hold up. Maybe there was
an argument that that was necessary in the fifties, sixties, seventies,
when even into the eighties and nineties, when TV and
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radio were the primary forms of media.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
We don't live in that world anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
YouTube and podcasts and things of that nature, TikTok, social media.
That's where most people are getting their information anyway, and
anybody with a smartphone, which almost every single person has,
can be a content creator and put out information. The
necessity for public access stuff like this, it doesn't exist anymore.
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We've moved past that. Anyone can put out any form
of media they want. It's super easy to do. I'm
doing it right now. Of course I'm doing it on
a radio station. But I put out my podcast before
was on the radio. So my point makes itself. We
just don't need this anymore. And on top of that,
it's incredibly woken left wing. Incredibly woken left wing. This
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is demonstratably true, And of course you know it's incredibly
woken left wing because all the woe left wing folks
or losing their mind about this funding being cut.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Somebody tweeted out.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
People don't realize how much PBS and NPR do beyond
just TV or radio. They support education, culture, local journalism,
and all the stuff that's actually good for us.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We're gonna miss it when it's gone.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I think people do realize that what you don't realize
is all of that education, culture and local journalism that
they're pushing is woke left and one sided. That's why
we don't want public funds going to it anymore. We
don't want our tax dollars being spent to push narratives
that we don't agree with or ideologies that we don't
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agree with.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
That's why we want this crap cut.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
The left doesn't understand is they really do think that
all the garbage NPR was doing and PBS was doing
is just completely bipartisan in normal. Here's this lady on
TikTok actually saying this. She truly doesn't understand how ridiculously
woke left these public access stay that you've been funding
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actually are.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Wayne.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
I would like to know, personally, honestly, when was the
last time you watched PBS. Have you watched it recently
or are you just parroting things you've been told, because
I have some facts I would like to share with you.
As part of the legislation and part of the deal
(27:25):
that created public media so NPR and PBS, it explicitly
states that the government cannot interfere with the workings of
those entities, and as not for profit organizations, they to
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maintain that status cannot be partisan, so they are not,
in fact leftist, woke networks.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
That's no. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I know that you've been told that a whole bunch,
and so it seems true.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
All right, So in the next segment, because I don't
have time to do it, in this segment, we're going
to dig into all of the reasons that this lady
is incredibly wrong, because she is incredibly wrong. Everybody knows
this except her somehow. I don't know how she missed it.
I don't know how you don't understand that these are
woke left groups and organizations despite the fact that they
probably shouldn't be, and she's right, they definitely shouldn't be.
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It shouldn't be allowed, and that's why we're pulling the
funding because the deal was you put this stuff out
and we'll pay for it and you be nonpartisan and normal.
And they broke that deal and now we're clawing back
that funds. We'll dig into that all in just a minute,
so stay tuned. We will be right back. We've got
one more segment. We're going to dig into all of this.
I'm either be can and this is the next one report.
We got one more coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
So the evil Trump administration is just cutting funding for
children's educational program.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is just bipartisan stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
We just want kids to be smarter, so we have
Almo teach them how to account, and then we call
it a day.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Nothing else is going on at NPR and BBS. That's it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Why would the Trump administration possibly possibly want to cut
that funding?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
How dare he?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
This is the argument from the left. They really do
truly believe this. They might be like legitimately something wrong
with them, or they're being intentionally incorrect about this. They're
lying to you. Is the word for that? Being intentionally incorrect?
That's called line. That's what I think they're doing. So
here's what we're gonna do this lady. We listened to
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it in the last segment, she was very sure that
the NPR and PBS and whatnot, they weren't doing anything
political at all.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's just a lie.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
So we're gonna look at some highlights together, and we're
gonna refute this claim, because you're right, NPR and PBS
should not be political at all. This should be I mean,
public events. You can do news, but you say, hey,
this is what's going on.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
If you're using public dollars even a little bit, it
should be the nonpartisan.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And we'll dig into that for starters. Here's a clip
that everybody remembers from COVID of just how ridiculously partisan
these people actually are. Remember that time, Most people don't.
They wiped it out of their memories where all the
Sesame Street characters got on CNN and went and tried
to promote getting vaccinated with the COVID shot.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I do take a listen, Elmo, but I have to say,
it's wonderful to actually see all of you. Also sounds
and looks like you and your families have been staying healthy.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Oh oh, I have a way I've been staying healthy.
Don't understand jail.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Look, oh just russuit off of.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Oh oh, this is from.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
My COVID vaccine. My mommy and my poppy took me
to get it this morning. See my mommy and my
puppy said that it will help keep me, my friends,
my neighbors, my ubuela all healthy.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Your parents are absolutely right, you know COVID vaccine.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
All right?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Let me stop you right there. The parents were absolutely wrong.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
We now know that the COVID shot neither prevents you
from getting it nor prevents you from transmitting it. And
everything we were told about the COVID shot for basically
three years under Biden was complete. BS and PBS was
out there pushing the BS the entire time with Elmo
character on uh CNN. Now, let me ask you this,
(32:06):
Would you spend your money on that? If you saw
a DVD of that sitting in the video store? Those
don't exist anymore, But let's pretend Blockbusters still around, and
let's pretend that UH Elmo and Friends pushes the COVID
vaccine is a DVD you can pick up there. Would
you would you spend your money on that? No, you wouldn't,
(32:27):
at least you probably wouldn't. If you're listening to this
show or this station if you would, that's you know,
your decision. I question your entertainment choices, but it's your choices.
But most people, and I think most people listening to
this show, would not spend their money on that. Guess
what you did. Spend your money on it? Your tax
dollars funded that. Do you agree with that? Do you
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think that's a non partisan Clearly it's not. Clearly it's not.
Let's do a little bit of an exercise here, just
for kicks and giggles, because I'm sure nothing will come
up that's overtly political or pushing an agenda that's partisan
in nature. Let's just google PBS Kids Drag Queen Parade
just to see what happens.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm sure this.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Will yield no Google results, right right. Drag Queen Story
Hour offers a different kind of page turner from PBS
Children's Story Hours are intended to instill a love of
reading in young kids, but one reading program also seeks
to spread messages about self love, acceptance and others and
appreciation of diversity. Drag Queen Story Hour a national organization
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that runs programs in Washington, DC's Adam Morgan and cities
across the country.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Julia Griffin reports, this.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Is that super critical journalism that we were talking about
in the last segment that PBS does.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
How dare we cut this?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
You want the American people to be dumber? No, I
want the programming that American people are receiving off of
my tax dollars to be less dumb. I mean, that's
overtly and political.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Overtly.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Look at how great drag queen story Hour is. That's
not journalism. That's a fluff piece about the gaze. And
if you want to do that, that's fine. I'm not
gonna fight you on that. We do have freedom of
the press. You are free to go do that. You
can start your own blog, you can start your own podcast,
and you can talk about how great it is to
have drag queens doing story hours with kids in public libraries.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
You're welcome to do that.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
But I don't want to pay for it, and I
shouldn't have to, thankfully, because we've cut that funding.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't have to the White House, Thankfully.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Caroline Levitt went through the trouble of clearly demonstrating how
overtly political all this programming is. Here's Caroline Levitt talking
about how woke. NPR and PBS actually are because again,
the left truly does believe this narrative that they're just
completely objective and middle of the aisle and bipartisan, and
all they're trying to do is make people's lives better.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
They're not trying to push a narrative.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
It's BS. We all know it's BS. Here's Caroline Levitt
saying it's BS.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
These are not honest news organizations.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
These are partisan left wing outlets that are funded by
the taxpayers, and this administration does not believe it's a
good use of the taxpayer's time and money. The NPR, unfortunately,
has become really just a propaganda voice for the left.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Just a few examples for you.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
In twenty twenty, NPR refused to cover refuse to cover
the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the run up to
the election. They said that their assertions don't amount to
much writing. They did not want to waste the listeners
in readers time on stories that are just pure distractions.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
That does not sound like an unbiased opinion.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
That sounds like a partisan opinion to me, And this
is a taxpayer funded organization. In twenty eighteen, that same
CEO that you're talking about, called the president in the
Oval office, who nearly eighty million Americans elected.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
She called him racist.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
A photo of herself wearing a Biden for President campaign
hat serves on the board of a Soros funded activist group.
In twenty twenty, PBS's White House correspondent at the time
characterized President Trump's speech then at Mountain Rushmore as a
love letter to white resentment, promoting the myth of America.
In twenty seventeen, PBS devoted an entire panel talking about
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what it means to be woke and white privilege.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
These are not honest news organizations.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
These are partisan left wing outlets that are funded by
the taxpayers, and this administration does not believe it's a
good use of the taxpayer's time and money.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And it's not. But hey, there's more.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Just to really make the case, I asked GROC to
give me ten examples of overtly left wing NPR or
PBS headlines, and boyd did it deliver. Number one, A
brief history of how racism shaped our interstate highways. Number
two arguments that trans athletes have an advantage, lack evidence
to support of LGBTQ candidates could usher in a rainbow
(37:03):
wave in twenty eighteen. Majority of Americans don't want Roe
v Wade overturned. Critics say new school policies in Florida
ostracized LGBT students, Why Arabic ballots are now being offered
in Michigan, and what this means for voter access, queer animals,
What queer ducks can teach teenagers about sexuality in the
animal kingdom?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Are you freaking kidding me? You paid for these headlines?
You did, you.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Did, And I'm by no means saying these headlines shouldn't exist.
If you want left wing news articles and podcasts and
radio and television, you're more than happy or you're more
than welcome to do that, and I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I think the free market will probably push you out
and shut you down sooner rather than later, but you're
free to take a swing at it. I think that's
a good thing, the free flow of ideas, even if
they're incredibly stupid. The government doesn't need to facilitate that.
It just doesn't let the free market make these decisions.
If these are economically viable, if people actually want this media,
(38:03):
then the government doesn't need to pay for it, and
if the government is paying for it, that's a good
sign that most people don't want it.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
If you have to have government subsidies, you should.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Be shut down. Let people fund the media they want
to fund. That's what you should be doing. That's what
you should be doing. And that brings me to this point. Listen,
this is media that I hope you enjoy. I do
this podcast because I enjoy doing it and because I
want to be informative and have a good time. And
so if you want to get behind this, if you
(38:33):
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We're looking for sponsors right now. If you run a business,
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Speaker 2 (38:49):
Let's talk about a partnership. Let's work together.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
I can spread your message and you can support a good,
honest media.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm Ethan Buchanan. This is the Next Gen Report. We'll
be back next Sunday.
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events that mat are to our generation.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is the next Gen Report. What Ethan can.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey, everybody, good evening. Hope we're all well. Hope you
had a great week. Happy Sunday. Hope you went to
church today. That's important, that is very important. But now
it's Sunday evening. We're working our way into Monday. But
we're gonna take this quick hour to not worry about Monday.
(00:43):
We're gonna worry about last week that we just have.
We're gonna talk about everything.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Sorry, had to step my coffee. All right, Oh, what's big?
What's big?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Tomorrow? We are gonna talk about Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Tomorrow, the special session of the Texas Legislature starts. So
if you're not familiar with the inner workings of state government,
because I know a lot of people aren't, here's how
we do things. Every two years, the state Legislature meets
for five months, right, That's how we operate. Now, the
governor can at any time call a special session and
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have the legislator come back to Austin.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Anyway, that's what's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We didn't get enough done in the regular session because
of dustin Boroughs, and now we're going to try to
make up for that. So let's take a quick look
at some of the agenda items. So how this works
is the governor says to the legislature, Hey, y'all are
going to come back to Austin on this date to
work on these things. Here are the things flood warning systems,
(01:51):
legislation to improve early warning systems and other preparedness infrastructure
in flood prone areas throughout Texas. Obviously, this and the
next like three or four items comes as a direct
result of the Hill Country flooding.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think this is very important.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The legislature should absolutely come in and do a deep
dive investigation into what happened. How can we fix it?
Do we have all the right systems in place?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That doesn't necessarily mean we need more property taxes. That
doesn't necessarily mean we need more government spending. But there
might be some justified government spending here. So it's important
for the government to take a look at it. Are
all on the same page here. That's what this is
all about. Flood warning systems, flood emergency communication, relief, funding
for hill country floods, things like that. Natural disaster preparation
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and recovery. Of course, now I will say our natural
disaster kind of response and recovery I think is very
good as a state. I don't know how much more
we need to be doing here. Texas Tax Force one
is very efficient getting on the ground helping people out.
Of course, we've got the federal government that is now
under Trump also responsive and helpful, which is nice.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And of course we've.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Got kind of third party systems. We've got the Texas
A and M teams that go out and do a
lot of this disaster recovery and assistance. And of course
we've got our friends over at the Caajuan Navy who
come from Louisiana and some from the Texas area and
will help us out with stuff like that. Or I
don't know how much we need to change there, but
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it is worth taking a look at it, you know,
and after action report, how did we actually do so?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
The next thing we have is eliminate the star testing
legislation to eliminate star test and replace it with effective
tools to assess student progress and ensure school district accountability.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
This is good. We want schools and teachers to be
answerable to parents. I love this. Cut property taxes.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yes, Brian Harrison has a bill that would outright eliminate
property taxes basically over the next five years. It would
completely phase them out and make them unconstitutional. I love
Brian Harrison. I love the bill. It's not going anywhere.
It's going to die. Unfortunately. He also has a bill
that I think is more plausible that would basically require
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any increase of property taxes at all by anyone ever
to be approved on by the voters in an election,
which I think is great. If you're going to tax
us out of house and home, which you shouldn't be
allowed to do. Property taxes are immoral, They're wrong. You
own your home.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You should own it, not rent it from the government.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But if you are going to property taxes, at least
give us the representation right, let us choose. Let the
community decide whether or not they think this is a
necessary thing that they should be taxed on. Right, because
that's how property taxes work.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Hey, we need this.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We're going to raise your property taxes. The voters should
have the final say on stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Protect children from THHC legislation making it a crime to
provide hemp derived products to children under twenty one years
of age.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Is this a priority? Really? Is this really a priory? Really?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
This comes as a result of Dan Patrick tying really
hard to ban THHC outright in the state of Texas.
Something nobody wants. Nobody wants this, nobody. This is not mainstream.
This is like a seventy thirty issue. Nobody is interested
in this. Most Republicans aren't. Most Democrats aren't. No democrats
are most Republicans aren't, and independents definitely aren't.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So why this is a priority. Nobody cares? I would
agree that, Yeah, we should probably.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Regulate the THHC industry a little bit, maybe make it
a little bit more like tobacco. You have to be
a certain age, you have to sell it in certain
packaging with certain warnings. Maybe because you know, we don't
know the effects or what have you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't know. Those are discussions we can have. Is
this a top priority? No?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
No, Regulate hemp derived products legislation to comprehensively regulate HEP
drive products, including limiting potency, restricting synthetically modified compounds, and
establishing enforcement mechanisms, all without banning lawful agricultural come up.
I like that more than Dan Patrick's idea of ban
it outright. But again, this does not need to be
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a top priority. We shouldn't even look at this until
we make major adjustments to property tax Protect unborn children
legislation further protecting onboard children and their mothers from the
harm of abortion.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Everything we can do to crackdown on abortion, and we
should be doing every single thing. I don't care how
much these ridiculous liberals like it. Protect human trafficking victims,
this is good. Legislation is similar to Senate Bill Number
twelve seventy eight from the eighty ninth legislature regular session
that protects victims of human traffificking from criminal liability for nonviolent.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Acts closely tied to their own victimization. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Protecting women's spaces this is good. Attorney General election powers
legislation proposed proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the Attorney General
to prosecute state election crimes.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
This is incredibly important. There's no reason the state.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Attorney generals shouldn't be able to prosecute election crimes in
the state, but we can't because of Democrat law fair
so that definitely does.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Need to be changed.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Listen, there's a lot of good stuff on here, and
there's some bad stuff basically, So here's what I want
you to do. Here's your homework. Keep track of these
legislative items that are important to you. Can find the
complete list on ksiri dot com. Go give it a
read and figure out, Okay, what of these top priorities
are most important to me, and then actually pay attention
to them, actually track them because these things do matter.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
They will affect your life, and vote based on them.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Look at how your legislators perform with these priorities in mind,
and then take that to the polls next time they're
up for reelection.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's very important.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All Right, We've got a great show coming up for you.
We will be right back, so stay tuned. I'm Ethan Buchanan.
This is the next Gen Report. All right, let's talk
(08:20):
a little bit more about les Imigrecion, Mexican woman in
the US illegally charged with faking her own ice kidnapping
When I tell you the left is desperate, I freaking
mean it, and I mean I say the left. This
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is this one particular illegal alien as well. But I
have to imagine if we didn't immediately find out this
was fake, the left would have taken this and ran
with it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh my god, I skidnapped this lady. They're holding her
for ransom. I can see it now.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Those headlines one thousand percent would have existed if DHS
waited a single day to debunk this.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's still kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's kind of funny now that we caught her, and
you know, it's all's well, that ends well, So it's
kind of funny. But imagine for a moment if DHS
wasn't able to immediately debunk this crap and the left
actually got a hold of this.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Think of the riots that we would see in places
like Los Angeles. There would be riots, for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
We've seen the left right over much less, but thankfully
none of that happened.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We debunked this.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We can.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
We can look at this and laugh at it now,
So that's what we're gonna do. Good grief. A Mexican
illegal alien living in Los Angeles was charged with orchestrating
her own fake ice kidnapping to generate sympathy and solicit donations.
According to the Justice Department, Uriana Palia Palaez Calderon, forty one,
(09:50):
a resident of Los Angeles, was charged with conspiracy and
making false statements to federal officers. The DOJ said Calderon
had been living in the US based on a federal
law enforcement parole that expired in twenty twenty three. She
is in federal custody now after she allegedly faked her kidnapping.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
This comes after local outlet KTLA reported on a news
conference held by Calderon's loved ones and attorneys who claimed
she had been kidnapped by uniformed men in unmarked cars. Oh,
and here's the pictures here. According to an AFFID eight
fit filed in criminal complaint against Mexican illegal Urana Pollio's
coorade l l D, an HSI investigator determined these photos
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provided to investigators were likely created to make it appear
as if Calderon was in custody and she had been
mistreated while there. So, I mean, she's she's standing there
in this kind of baggy shirt with I think that's
bluey on it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Her hair is.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
All disheveled, she looks like she's had water dumped on
her or she's been like sweating profusely. And she's just
in this kind of empty room with just a chair
and a table holded up behind her.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
The Outliver reported that a man identified as an attorney
named Stefano Medina claimed Calderon was cornered in a jack
in the box parking lot in Los Angeles by men
who did not identify themselves but were possibly bounty hunters.
Medina claimed Calderon was taken to the border and presented
to an ICE staffer who determined she who demanded she
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signed self deportation paperwork. Medina said that when Calderon refused
to sign the paperwork, she was taken to a warehouse
until she agreed to sign the document. Fox News Digital
obtained a copy of the criminal complaint against Calderon, which
was filed in the U. S. District Court for the
Central District of California, and affidavit filed with the complaint
alleges that Calderon and others planned a hoax kidnapping for
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their benefit, including their own peninsuary game. They affidae Fit
says that Calderon's daughter set up a GoFundMe to raise
four thy five hundred after her mother was taken by
the masked men in an unmarked vehicle. So this is
so terrible, and people are being so mistreated that they
have to fake the terrible mistreatings for financial gain. That's
(12:09):
where we're at with the left right now and these
illegal aliens, which again is another reason why these people
should not be allowed in our country. Right These people
are demonstratably not trustworthy. Why would we let her stay
in this country? Why she attempted to defraud the American
people and in the process disrespected our law enforcement, trying
(12:37):
to paint them in some horrible light by faking your
own kidnapping and then trying to defraud the American people
in order to solicit donations.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's disgusting. It's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But stories like this, made up, Hoaxes like this are
being used by the left to call law enforcement Nazis,
to demean and basically justify violence against law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And it's all made up. It's all made up, Thankfully.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I really do think that the Trump administration saw this
coming they didn't go into border enforcement blind, which is
why Tom Holmes on the front lines of all this.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
He is very.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Good at communicating what's going on here, at just communicating
the fact like, hey, these people are a problem, we
are getting them out, and you trying to demean the
law enforcement officers that are doing this good work is
also a problem. Maybe it's because he's been doing this
for his entire adult life, so he just understands how
all of this works. But he is very, very good
(13:39):
at this. Here he is on Fox News basically saying, hey,
you got to stop with this ICE's Nazis. You're escalating
the problem, You're creating danger, and you're doing so.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Based off of complete lies. Here he is saying all this.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That's rhetoric is causing the safe for response to ICE,
you know, comparing Ice Nazis and races and and terrorist organizations.
And I said two months ago, Harris said, if this
rhetoric didn't stop, there would be bloodshed. Of course, the
left went crazy on that statement, but unfortunately I was right.
One one man was killed when he attacked they bore
up trove Vacilly in Texas, and another group of ourn
(14:17):
men ambushed the Basili in Texas and Ice Facilly were
one officer shot.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
In the neck.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And it's not over with. I mean, unless this rhetoric stops,
you're going to see more. And it's because it's because
of haypul redding by the Democrats and those and those
that are mayors and governors and members of Congress. It
has to stop because the truth that they're they're they're
shooting the truth of American people. I'm tired of reading
the news reports that majority of people in ICE attention
aren't criminals. The fact is the majority are criminals, and
(14:44):
who are the others? Others are national security threats that
were detaining because they're not going to walk the streets
to this nation. May not may not have a criminal conviction,
but the national security threat. Others are extradited removal cases
that by federal statute we must detain, which, of course,
those facts don't make it to media. They say that
most people we arrested aren't criminals, and public states trust
the fact are I looked at the numbers the other day,
(15:05):
had one hundred and thirty thousand arrest ninety thousand we're criminals,
which is what's that sixty nine point almost seventy percent.
So the facts are the facts, but the media's not
sharing the facts of American people. And you add that
to the rhetoric from these politicians, and that's why you're
seeing the attacks a nice skyrocket.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And again it's so worth pointing out that most of
this rhetoric from the left about Ice is based off
of hoaxes, like this kidnapping hoax out of Los Angeles.
That's where they get this. You see these social media posts,
these kind of headlines and flashy tweets pop up, and
people don't bother to fact check.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
They just don't. They just assume it's true because they
read it on the internet.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It's like, I don't know, if you listen, when I
talked to that guy at the No Kings protest back
and god, when was that. There was probably a month
ago at this point, But I talked to this guy
who he truly believed that US citizens that just happened
to be brown people were being arrested and deported and
it's not true, it's not happening. But I've seen posts
(16:13):
like that myself. There are people to this day who
believe that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an American citizen and
he's not. He never was, He never should have been
in this country. But this is the kind of crap
that we're dealing with. This is thankfully the crackdown is happening.
I really do think people are going to stop illegally
(16:33):
entering the United States sooner rather than later, mainly because
they're not getting jobs anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We're cracking down on the incentives for people to come here.
There's a story.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I don't have time to play you all the audio,
but they shut down this taco shop that had been
employing illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It was an.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
American guy, an American citizen, who owned this place, and
he had a couple of different talker restaurants and food trucks,
and he was employing illegal aliens. And they obviously arrested
and deported his employees or detained them to be deported
later because they're not supposed to be in the country.
And now they're arresting him because he's hiring illegal aliens,
which is against the law. You're not allowed to do that,
(17:16):
but that law has just not been enforced. I worked
in fast food. I've seen it firsthand. People ignore those
rules and they shouldn't. We should be enforcing those remove
the incentives for people to come to the country illegally,
and they won't. It's that easy to solve the problem.
And it doesn't have to be this big show, this
big fight. We could have just peaceful enforcement of immigration.
(17:38):
But the left doesn't want that. They want the show.
They want the fight, and they allowed it to get
this bad. It's sad and it's disgraceful, but thankfully something
is finally being done about it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
All right, we've got a lot more coming up. Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Alrighty ladies and gentlemen, welcome back the next General Report.
I realize I haven't given out my ex handle yet
in this show, so it's at underscore ETHOBU, canon on X.
Check me out there. It's good stuff. You should be following.
You're a bad person if you're not, shame on you. No,
I'm just kidding, but you should follow that's for real.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Let's talk a little bit about the media. I guess
technically I'm a member of the media. I don't think
about that a lot. I try not to. Somebody called
me a journalist once. That hurt my feelings. That's mean,
that's the meanest thing anyone's ever shared to me. I'm
not a journalist, I'm a personality. That's my preferred term.
All right, So let's let's talk a little bit about
the media. First of all, everybody's familiar with CBS Stephen
(18:58):
Colbert's Late Now Show, right, we all know what that
is that's been canceled, and the initial reaction to hearing, oh,
one of the numerous late shows that people don't really
watch anymore has been canceled. Who cares? The left cares
a lot. For whatever reason, CBS made this decision. It
(19:20):
wasn't made for them. Nobody made them cancel it, but
they canceled it. It just it wasn't It wasn't profitable,
people weren't watching the show. In general, late show watching
has declined significantly. I think that's probably more due to
the rise of things like podcasts and YouTube, because I
(19:41):
remind you, normally, these late night shows were meant to
be kind of comedy, right, it was late night comedy,
and with comedians kind of taking over the podcast space
and the podcast space expanding.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
To YouTube, you know what used to be.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You know, that's the only option you had for comedy
if you wanted some good comedy on your television. In
the you know, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, you pretty much
had to go and watch the late shows, right But now,
I mean, basically every day of the week you've got
some comedian that's uploading their two hour podcast on YouTube,
if not longer. You know, Kill Tony is a really
(20:18):
good comedy show that's on YouTube that's two hours long.
They do an episode of that every Monday, so why bother.
But on the other hand, on top of that, you
don't have late night comedy shows doing comedy. They've become
very overtly political. That's objectively true. Nobody can deny that.
Stephen Colbert is, of course the perfect example of this.
(20:39):
I mean, we all remember in twenty twenty when a
whole segment of his show was dedicated to having a
bunch of people dressed up like vaccine syringes, dancing and
singing a song about how great the vaccine is. Nobody's
interested in that. All of their comedy is based off of,
you know, just pushing political points. It's not particularly good
commed in the first place, and now it's just politics.
(21:03):
It's just like ha ha, Trump is terrible. And then
the audience laughs, where's the joke, dude? So people don't
watch it, so they canceled it. That's what happened. CBS
canceled it. It really shouldn't matter, but the left is
losing their mind. John Pavlovitz, I've seen this guy's name
float around. I don't know exactly what he does. He's
(21:24):
the author of If God Is Love, Don't be a Jerk.
His Twitter cover photo is just says fight prejudice. Okay,
cool story, bro, He says. What CBS's disgraceful termination of
Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a republic can fall
when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage. Really, one
(21:48):
network cancels one comedy show, and that's the fall of
the republic. Have you considered, just for a moment, that
this might not be that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Have you just considered it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'm almost positive that both you and the republic as
a whole will be completely fine without Stephen Colbert every night.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I think you can handle it.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And if you really want Stephen Colbert that badly, I'm
confident he'll start a podcast.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I guarantee it.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'll put five dollars on it right No, screw that,
I'll put twenty dollars on it right now. Next year,
when Stephen Colbert's contract is up and they officially formally
cancel his show, I bet you within three months of that,
I bet you twenty dollars he has a podcast up
and running. I guaranteang tee you that'll happen somebody else.
(22:44):
Joanna Robinson. I don't know who this is, but they've
got almost one hundred thousand followers on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
How to random people like this?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm almost one hundred thousand followers and I don't have
four hundred. You the audience need to do better. Give
me a follow this, Joanna Robinson person. This Colbert news
should scare me. I'm quaking in my custom made baby
Seal leather boots. I'm horrified. Whatever am I going to
do the same thing I was doing before not watch
(23:13):
Colbert's show.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's it. That's the whole story. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's baffling that they're this freaked out about it. What
they're even more livid about, which I think is kind
of funny, is the news that CBS is going to
lose I believe all of their government funding here's the
context of that. The House has passed a big recision
package that basically cuts back nine billion dollars worth of
federal funding for everything from four and A into like
(23:42):
National Public Radio and radio, National Public Radio, and PBS.
This is essentially kind of getting the ball rolling on
the Doge cuts, right. This is I mean, obviously we
had like several hundred billion dollars worth of stuff that
Doese cut, and now we're formally codifying those cuts. Because again,
(24:03):
Congress does have the power of the purse, so the
president can do things like, Okay, well we're just gonna
hold off on spending this money. Congress has said this
is what this money is for, but we're just gonna
not do that. And now Congress is saying, never mind,
the money's not for that.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's what this bill does.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
So it's nine billion dollars, which is, you know, not
nearly as much as we need, but it's a start, right.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
This kind of gets the ball rolling.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
This sets the standard, the precedent, right, So this is good,
it is progress, and it cuts a whole bunch of
different nonsense foreign aid things. And then it cuts funding
federal funding to NPR and PBS, which is incredibly important.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
We shouldn't be funding this.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
First of all, the argument that we need a national
public radio or national public broadcasting, which is what NPR
and PBS do, it doesn't hold up. Maybe there was
an argument that that was necessary in the fifties, sixties, seventies,
when even into the eighties and nineties, when TV and
(25:06):
radio were the primary forms of media.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
We don't live in that world anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
YouTube and podcasts and things of that nature, TikTok, social media.
That's where most people are getting their information anyway, and
anybody with a smartphone, which almost every single person has,
can be a content creator and put out information. The
necessity for public access stuff like this, it doesn't exist anymore.
(25:32):
We've moved past that. Anyone can put out any form
of media they want. It's super easy to do. I'm
doing it right now. Of course I'm doing it on
a radio station. But I put out my podcast before
was on the radio. So my point makes itself. We
just don't need this anymore. And on top of that,
it's incredibly woken left wing. Incredibly woken left wing. This
(25:53):
is demonstratably true, And of course you know it's incredibly
woken left wing because all the woe left wing folks
or losing their mind about this funding being cut.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Somebody tweeted out.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
People don't realize how much PBS and NPR do beyond
just TV or radio. They support education, culture, local journalism,
and all the stuff that's actually good for us.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We're gonna miss it when it's gone.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I think people do realize that what you don't realize
is all of that education, culture and local journalism that
they're pushing is woke left and one sided. That's why
we don't want public funds going to it anymore. We
don't want our tax dollars being spent to push narratives
that we don't agree with or ideologies that we don't
(26:38):
agree with.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
That's why we want this crap cut.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
The left doesn't understand is they really do think that
all the garbage NPR was doing and PBS was doing
is just completely bipartisan in normal. Here's this lady on
TikTok actually saying this. She truly doesn't understand how ridiculously
woke left these public access stay that you've been funding
(27:02):
actually are.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Wayne.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
I would like to know, personally, honestly, when was the
last time you watched PBS. Have you watched it recently
or are you just parroting things you've been told, because
I have some facts I would like to share with you.
As part of the legislation and part of the deal
(27:25):
that created public media so NPR and PBS, it explicitly
states that the government cannot interfere with the workings of
those entities, and as not for profit organizations, they to
(27:46):
maintain that status cannot be partisan, so they are not,
in fact leftist, woke networks.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
That's no. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I know that you've been told that a whole bunch,
and so it seems true.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
All right, So in the next segment, because I don't
have time to do it, in this segment, we're going
to dig into all of the reasons that this lady
is incredibly wrong, because she is incredibly wrong. Everybody knows
this except her somehow. I don't know how she missed it.
I don't know how you don't understand that these are
woke left groups and organizations despite the fact that they
probably shouldn't be, and she's right, they definitely shouldn't be.
(28:26):
It shouldn't be allowed, and that's why we're pulling the
funding because the deal was you put this stuff out
and we'll pay for it and you be nonpartisan and normal.
And they broke that deal and now we're clawing back
that funds. We'll dig into that all in just a minute,
so stay tuned. We will be right back. We've got
one more segment. We're going to dig into all of this.
I'm either be can and this is the next one report.
We got one more coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
So the evil Trump administration is just cutting funding for
children's educational program.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is just bipartisan stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
We just want kids to be smarter, so we have
Almo teach them how to account, and then we call
it a day.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Nothing else is going on at NPR and BBS. That's it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Why would the Trump administration possibly possibly want to cut
that funding?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
How dare he?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
This is the argument from the left. They really do
truly believe this. They might be like legitimately something wrong
with them, or they're being intentionally incorrect about this. They're
lying to you. Is the word for that? Being intentionally incorrect?
That's called line. That's what I think they're doing. So
here's what we're gonna do this lady. We listened to
(30:00):
it in the last segment, she was very sure that
the NPR and PBS and whatnot, they weren't doing anything
political at all.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's just a lie.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
So we're gonna look at some highlights together, and we're
gonna refute this claim, because you're right, NPR and PBS
should not be political at all. This should be I mean,
public events. You can do news, but you say, hey,
this is what's going on.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
If you're using public dollars even a little bit, it
should be the nonpartisan.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And we'll dig into that for starters. Here's a clip
that everybody remembers from COVID of just how ridiculously partisan
these people actually are. Remember that time, Most people don't.
They wiped it out of their memories where all the
Sesame Street characters got on CNN and went and tried
to promote getting vaccinated with the COVID shot.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I do take a listen, Elmo, but I have to say,
it's wonderful to actually see all of you. Also sounds
and looks like you and your families have been staying healthy.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Oh oh, I have a way I've been staying healthy.
Don't understand jail.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Look, oh just russuit off of.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Oh oh, this is from.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
My COVID vaccine. My mommy and my poppy took me
to get it this morning. See my mommy and my
puppy said that it will help keep me, my friends,
my neighbors, my ubuela all healthy.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Your parents are absolutely right, you know COVID vaccine.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
All right?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Let me stop you right there. The parents were absolutely wrong.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
We now know that the COVID shot neither prevents you
from getting it nor prevents you from transmitting it. And
everything we were told about the COVID shot for basically
three years under Biden was complete. BS and PBS was
out there pushing the BS the entire time with Elmo
character on uh CNN. Now, let me ask you this,
(32:06):
Would you spend your money on that? If you saw
a DVD of that sitting in the video store? Those
don't exist anymore, But let's pretend Blockbusters still around, and
let's pretend that UH Elmo and Friends pushes the COVID
vaccine is a DVD you can pick up there. Would
you would you spend your money on that? No, you wouldn't,
(32:27):
at least you probably wouldn't. If you're listening to this
show or this station if you would, that's you know,
your decision. I question your entertainment choices, but it's your choices.
But most people, and I think most people listening to
this show, would not spend their money on that. Guess
what you did. Spend your money on it? Your tax
dollars funded that. Do you agree with that? Do you
(32:49):
think that's a non partisan Clearly it's not. Clearly it's not.
Let's do a little bit of an exercise here, just
for kicks and giggles, because I'm sure nothing will come
up that's overtly political or pushing an agenda that's partisan
in nature. Let's just google PBS Kids Drag Queen Parade
just to see what happens.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm sure this.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Will yield no Google results, right right. Drag Queen Story
Hour offers a different kind of page turner from PBS
Children's Story Hours are intended to instill a love of
reading in young kids, but one reading program also seeks
to spread messages about self love, acceptance and others and
appreciation of diversity. Drag Queen Story Hour a national organization
(33:35):
that runs programs in Washington, DC's Adam Morgan and cities
across the country.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Julia Griffin reports, this.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Is that super critical journalism that we were talking about
in the last segment that PBS does.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
How dare we cut this?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
You want the American people to be dumber? No, I
want the programming that American people are receiving off of
my tax dollars to be less dumb. I mean, that's
overtly and political.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Overtly.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Look at how great drag queen story Hour is. That's
not journalism. That's a fluff piece about the gaze. And
if you want to do that, that's fine. I'm not
gonna fight you on that. We do have freedom of
the press. You are free to go do that. You
can start your own blog, you can start your own podcast,
and you can talk about how great it is to
have drag queens doing story hours with kids in public libraries.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
You're welcome to do that.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
But I don't want to pay for it, and I
shouldn't have to, thankfully, because we've cut that funding.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't have to the White House, Thankfully.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Caroline Levitt went through the trouble of clearly demonstrating how
overtly political all this programming is. Here's Caroline Levitt talking
about how woke. NPR and PBS actually are because again,
the left truly does believe this narrative that they're just
completely objective and middle of the aisle and bipartisan, and
all they're trying to do is make people's lives better.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
They're not trying to push a narrative.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
It's BS. We all know it's BS. Here's Caroline Levitt
saying it's BS.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
These are not honest news organizations.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
These are partisan left wing outlets that are funded by
the taxpayers, and this administration does not believe it's a
good use of the taxpayer's time and money. The NPR, unfortunately,
has become really just a propaganda voice for the left.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Just a few examples for you.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
In twenty twenty, NPR refused to cover refuse to cover
the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the run up to
the election. They said that their assertions don't amount to
much writing. They did not want to waste the listeners
in readers time on stories that are just pure distractions.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
That does not sound like an unbiased opinion.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
That sounds like a partisan opinion to me, And this
is a taxpayer funded organization. In twenty eighteen, that same
CEO that you're talking about, called the president in the
Oval office, who nearly eighty million Americans elected.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
She called him racist.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
A photo of herself wearing a Biden for President campaign
hat serves on the board of a Soros funded activist group.
In twenty twenty, PBS's White House correspondent at the time
characterized President Trump's speech then at Mountain Rushmore as a
love letter to white resentment, promoting the myth of America.
In twenty seventeen, PBS devoted an entire panel talking about
(36:22):
what it means to be woke and white privilege.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
These are not honest news organizations.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
These are partisan left wing outlets that are funded by
the taxpayers, and this administration does not believe it's a
good use of the taxpayer's time and money.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And it's not. But hey, there's more.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Just to really make the case, I asked GROC to
give me ten examples of overtly left wing NPR or
PBS headlines, and boyd did it deliver. Number one, A
brief history of how racism shaped our interstate highways. Number
two arguments that trans athletes have an advantage, lack evidence
to support of LGBTQ candidates could usher in a rainbow
(37:03):
wave in twenty eighteen. Majority of Americans don't want Roe
v Wade overturned. Critics say new school policies in Florida
ostracized LGBT students, Why Arabic ballots are now being offered
in Michigan, and what this means for voter access, queer animals,
What queer ducks can teach teenagers about sexuality in the
animal kingdom?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Are you freaking kidding me? You paid for these headlines?
You did, you.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Did, And I'm by no means saying these headlines shouldn't exist.
If you want left wing news articles and podcasts and
radio and television, you're more than happy or you're more
than welcome to do that, and I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I think the free market will probably push you out
and shut you down sooner rather than later, but you're
free to take a swing at it. I think that's
a good thing, the free flow of ideas, even if
they're incredibly stupid. The government doesn't need to facilitate that.
It just doesn't let the free market make these decisions.
If these are economically viable, if people actually want this media,
(38:03):
then the government doesn't need to pay for it, and
if the government is paying for it, that's a good
sign that most people don't want it.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
If you have to have government subsidies, you should.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Be shut down. Let people fund the media they want
to fund. That's what you should be doing. That's what
you should be doing. And that brings me to this point. Listen,
this is media that I hope you enjoy. I do
this podcast because I enjoy doing it and because I
want to be informative and have a good time. And
so if you want to get behind this, if you
(38:33):
want to support this, I welcome you to do so.
We're looking for sponsors right now. If you run a business,
if you own a company, you like what we do
and you think, hey, I don't want my taxpayer dollars
going to this garbage. I want my money to go
to something I believe in. Reach out to me on
x at Underscore Ethan Buchanan, and let's talk about a sponsorship.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Let's talk about a partnership. Let's work together.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
I can spread your message and you can support a good,
honest media.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm Ethan Buchanan. This is the Next Gen Report. We'll
be back next Sunday.
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