Mark Levin on the Program

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Mark Levin on his career

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. What is one of your favorites?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
By the way, happy, happy, as we start a show today, Happy.
I forgot to mention this this morning. Today is National
Chicken Wing Day. I only mentioned you ever know it's
only mentioned the national holidays of Day's actually life. National
Chicken Wing Day may have becoming uh may have been
cooked up in Buffalo, New York, but it's become a

(00:53):
nationwide excuse to eat chicken wings. Remember when there's a
shortage of chicken wings there for a while, freak out.
I have to admit I like chicken wings. Where's your
favorite place in Houston to go to get chicken wings?
Who do you think has the best? Are you a
Buffalo Wild Wings fan? Are you a Wing Zone fan?

(01:14):
I like them pretty much. All Garlic Barbershan is my
favorite wing And now that I've planted the seat, I'll
probably go out after the show in Search of Wings
here today also to sportings. On the show, I did
mention this and that is a study I saw about
driving and marriage and the ages that we allow people

(01:36):
to do this stuff. The driving got a lot more
commentary than the marriage thing did. I'll just briefly mention
the marriage thing. You know, the national with exception of
two states. I think in Nebraska you have to in
order to get married without parental permission, you have to
be nineteen, and then in Mississippi, interestingly enough, you have

(01:57):
to be twenty one to get married without parental permission.
All the other states the age is eighteen. Now you
can get married at a younger age, but you have
to have permental permission to do it. I think the
youngest age for most is sixteen to be able to
get married, and that's with parental permission. But it brought
up the topic of you know, how young is too

(02:19):
young to get married. I got married the first time
at nineteen. That was way too young. I don't regret
doing it. I have two fine sons to thank for
the experience, so it's all good. The marriage didn't work
out in the end, but we were together for over
twenty years, So you know, I can't really complain about
that either. When you get right down to it, it's

(02:40):
not the age of the people getting married that I
think is the biggest concern. That the biggest concern is
the divorce rate and how lightly we seem to take
the marriage commitment. Which is not to say that we
should have people who remain together in misery. I'm not
advocating for that at all, but I do believe that

(03:02):
we've made divorce just completely acceptable. There's there's no stigma
attached to divorce anymore, and I'm not advocating for a
stigma attached to it either. I'm just saying I wish
we could figure out a way to make people take
it more seriously at the beginning stages, to make sure

(03:23):
that they're getting they're marrying the right person, to make
sure they're picking somebody who's compatible. So maybe if we're
going to limit something, maybe we should limit the amount
of times you can legally be married. And if we're
going to do that, in my mind, three ought to
be the number. I think all of us are entitled

(03:43):
to one mistake or one immature decision, But I think
if you haven't figured out by the second time around,
you know what is a good match for you, who
would be compatible to you.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
All of that.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
If you haven't figured that out after the second marriage
and to get divorced again, then I think the last
time around should be should be this is your last chance.
You know, if you're going to get married, you really
need to figure out how to make this thing work
and take it from there. That I did didn't go
for very well with guy Mike because he's been married
three times, so he's already he's already burned all of

(04:22):
his choices. But I tried to point out to him today, Hey, listen,
you don't have to legally get married. If you really
feel like you found the right person you're not planning
on having any kids, just go ahead and live together,
live together. And if you're together for seven years, right,

(04:44):
isn't that when it becomes a common law marriage, then
you're legally married anyway, or at least according to the law,
you're married. But I think most of you wanted to
talk about driving. We got a little bit of the
other thing in there, but the driving thing. How young
is too young to drive? What should be the MA
minimum driving age? And as long as we're on the topic,
what should be the maximum driving age? I mean, should

(05:05):
there be a point where, no matter what kind of
shape you're in, if you get to the age of
let's say ninety, for example, that you're no longer allowed
to drive. We're not going to renew your driver's license.
You're not going to be able to drive. Here's while
some of you responded on this morning's program when.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
It comes to the age for driving or marriage, I
wish we would get on board all the way across
and determine what an adult is. You can smoke at
this age, but you can't drive at this age. You
can get married at this age, but you can't buy
cigarettes vape, but you can go to war, you can
enter the military. I just wish we would get on
board for what an adult age is to do everything.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Hey, this is roy Pa Almah Houston and my grandmother
started driving at the age of twelve back in the
eighteen nineties. And as far as being too old, only
when you can probably my dead cold fits all the
steering wheel.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Thank you well, and hopefully that's not after you've had
an accident where you got broadsided by somebody because you
didn't see them and you went through a red light
or something. But your grandmother started driving eighteen ninety. Were
there even? I guess there were a couple of cars
in eighteen ninety, but most people didn't. I mean cars
didn't really come in until you know, nineteen one hundred,

(06:24):
nineteen oh two. Somewhere in that area there. I guess
there must have been some sort of a horseless carriage
back in eighteen ninety, but more likely she was driving
a horse of buggy back in eighteen ninety. All right,
any more takers for our question?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
In a place like Houston, where driving is the main
and sometimes the only way to get to certain destinations,
it's essential that the driving AGEB sixteen. You can take
Houston Metro to the colleges, you can't take it to
certain high schools or any after school activities where there's
no bus, or if you have multiple kids, the older

(07:01):
ones sometimes need to drive the younger ones around. Have
a great day.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
You know, that's well thought out. I will say that
that is well thought out, And when you get right
down to it, we live in a society still and
probably will for the foreseeable future, especially the way prices
keep going up. We live in a society where both
parents work. Mom and dad both work, which means that
you have to have your teenagers have to have the

(07:27):
ability to provide their own transportation. Now, maybe they can
get buses for school, but if there's any actor after
school activities that you can't pick them up from, or
siblings that have to be cared for those types of things,
then yeah, you know, you have to have a situation
where you've got somebody in the family who can drive
them around other than their parents. Plus, we have a

(07:50):
lot of you know, to get back to the divorce thing,
we have a lot of single parent families, you know,
where that one parent is working and sometimes working long hours.
I get it, I really do, Okay, I just wish
we did a better job of training young drivers, gave
them more experienced before we put them on the road.
All right, back with more in a moment. Special guests
coming up todays sequent number three author broadcaster the great one,

(08:12):
Mark Levin. We'll be joining us. We'll be talking to him, Charlette,
stick around, Jimmy Bert Show. You're riding in nine fifty KPRC.

(08:38):
All right, The President continues with his trip he was
in Scotland yesterday, got some audio to share and just
sort of a general report. He got a deal done
with the European Union. That's a good thing. That's kind
of a big deal. Fifteen percent tariffs for everybody, both sides,

(08:59):
so nobody's giving more than the other. The markets have
been opened up that up until now, American companies were
not allowed to compete in they've supposedly have been opened up.
As far as the part of this deal, I haven't
read the deal, but you know what, this is what
we're being told about the deal, and maybe the biggest
part of it is they've agreed to buy about, you know,
seven hundred and sixty five million dollars worth of energy,

(09:20):
so that that's good for American energy businesses. What else happened.
Here's a report from Fox on what else happened on
this leg of his trip.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
The President is still riding high on this deal the
White House is touting as historic structural reform. The EU
agreed to open its markets and also purchase seven hundred
and fifty billion in American energy and commit six hundred
billion in private investments in the US by twenty twenty eight.
All in exchange for a fifteen percent baseline tariff that

(09:48):
covers everything, including automobiles. The President previously put the chances
of this deal happening at fifty to fifty, and the
EU Commissioner called it a very tough negotiation.

Speaker 9 (09:59):
I just want to congratulate you. I think it's I
think it's great that we made a deal today instead
of playing games and maybe not making a deal at all.
I think it's I'm gonna let you say, but I
think it's the biggest deal ever made.

Speaker 10 (10:13):
That's a huge deal. It will bring stability, it will
bring predictability. That's very important for our businesses on both
sides of the Atlantic. It's fifteen percent tariffs across the board,
all inclusive.

Speaker 8 (10:29):
Today, the President is what the UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer,
who hopes to improve the deal that he clinched with
the US back in May. The UK has a ten
percent baseline tariff, but Steele is subject to twenty five percent,
albeit lower than the fifty percent Trump imposed on the
rest of the world. The President said, we'll know pretty
soon here whether steel tariffs come down further. But the

(10:50):
answer he really wants is from Vladimir Putin On whether
he's going to make a peace deal.

Speaker 11 (10:56):
I'm going to make a new deadline of about ten,
ten or twelve days from today. There's no reason in waiting.
There's no reason in're waiting. It's fifty days. I want
to be generous, but we just don't see any progress
being made.

Speaker 8 (11:16):
Deputy Chair of the Russian Security Council Dmitri Medvedev with
this quote, Trump's playing the ultimatum game with Russia fifty
days or ten. He should remember two things. Russia is
an Israel or even Iran. Each new ultimatum is a
threat and a step towards war, not between Russia and Ukraine,
but with his own country. Don't go down the sleepy
Joe road. President said, sanctions and secondary sanctions on countries

(11:40):
doing business with Russia that would be a consequence if
Putin does not reach an agreement. That would be bring,
of course, big impacts for major purchasers of Russian oil
like China, Brazil and India.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Putting Putin on the spot is not going down the
sleepy Joe road. Quite the opposite of my opinion. They
never held Russia or Iran accountable in the past administration.
The Biden administration they never held them accountable. They putin
wouldn't have been wasn't the least bit concerned of what

(12:14):
the United States was going to do. I can assure
you he's probably a little concerned about what Trump is
willing to do. So, you know, I don't see any
problem with giving him an ultimatum. The question is, what
are you going to do when the ten days comes
and goes, or the twelve days or whatever turns out
to be, when those days come and go and he

(12:35):
still hasn't you know, done anything? You know what at
that at that point, what becomes the stick in order
to try to get him off the off the diamond
getting moving that that would be the question, all right.
So that's part of what's been going on with with
Trump in uh In, in in Europe. The tariff thing,

(12:59):
you know, can continues to get this mixed reaction, even
to kind of a Steve Mark, Steven Moore, he's a
big time Trump supporter. He however, is not a fan
of terrorists. As you will hear this peak, Tariffs.

Speaker 12 (13:12):
Are not a good thing for the economy. They do
one of the things that's reduced kept inflation under control
for the last forty years has been trade and technology,
so we do. But now that being said, what is
also true is that Trump is scoring a lot of
victories here, one after another after another, that are not
leading to higher terrorists, but may in the end lead

(13:33):
to lower terrorists, both on things that we sell abroad
and hopefully things that we bring into the United States,
and that that is a move not just towards fair trade,
but freer trade.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
So I love these deals.

Speaker 12 (13:45):
And by the way, you're an investment show, and that
I was looking at the data over the last six
months since Donald Trump came into office, and here's the
patterns Stewart. Every time Trump announces new terroriffs, what happens
to the South market, you know, it goes down. Every
time he announces one of these trade deals that's going
to bring lower terrists.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
The market goes up.

Speaker 12 (14:06):
So I'm overjoyed by these by these trade deals. I
think they're good for American I think they're good.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
For the world.

Speaker 12 (14:12):
What do you make of Trump's idea for rebates to voters,
ordinary citizens from the tarrf think if you don't like it, huh.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Nah, I'm not a big fan of that.

Speaker 12 (14:23):
I mean, come on, if you're going to put a tariff,
everybody should should bear the brunt of it. I mean,
this is one of the problems with tariffs is they
tend to be regressive taxes because lower income people tend
to buy more of the low priced imports. But look,
as long as we can keep the imports these taxes,
say at ten or fifteen percent, I'm okay with that.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
What I don't like is two things.

Speaker 12 (14:45):
I don't like protectionist tariffs that try to protect sale
of the steel industry, or the lumine industry or the
cow industry. History just proves those don't work, and so
we ought to have If we're going to have terrorists,
they should be low flat rate terrists applied to every
thing that comes in, just like we should have a
low flat rate income tax.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Sure, yeah, I like the low flat income tax idea.
Actually I prefer no income tax like we have here
in Texas. But that's that's an interesting point of view.
He mentioned the rebate idea, you know, the Trump is
President Trump has floated. In fact, Senator Josh Hawley introduced

(15:26):
a bill yesterday in the Senate for a tariff rebate.
You know, based on income, everybody would get a six
hundred dollars rebate unless you make have a combined income
of over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
and then it goes down by a certain percentage. I

(15:47):
guess if you're making a hundred fifty thousand dollars a year,
six hundred bucks isn't going to change your life very much,
is it? One of the other things? And this is
maybe the one I got the biggest kickout of. I've
got to find the right cut here. I want to
make sure I get the right one on this because
the President, well you talked a little bit about the FED.
Let's start with this one. He got asked a lot
of questions. There was a Q and a period. He
got asked questions about interest rates. And here's the President

(16:12):
talking about interest rates and how Europe has had so
many interest rate cuts while while you know, the United
States hasn't had any, and how the Jpile's gonna be
pretty soon he's gonna be forced to cut rates. Here
here he is saying all that was some reaction on
the Big Money Show on Fox Business.

Speaker 11 (16:28):
I think he has to you had eleven cuts, you know,
in Europe they had eleven cuts. In other places they
had ten or eleven cuts and we had none.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
But I'm not going to say anything banned.

Speaker 11 (16:41):
You know, we're doing so well even without the raid cut.
With the rate cut, it would be better and affects
our housing a little bit.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Look, we should be three points lower.

Speaker 13 (16:53):
The important thing about what the President said was his omission.
He didn't say what time frame. Sure rates are coming
down because trend inflation is lower. As the FED got
a handle on their previous mistake that let inflation go up.
It's going down to the Fed's goal ultimately at two percent.

(17:15):
The FED will normalize the nominal FED funds right the
policy rate accordingly, but that doesn't mean they'll do it
this Wednesday, or next month or necessarily the month after that.
Markets participants should understand rates are going down, but they're
going to go down on the FED schedule.

Speaker 14 (17:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
And as we know, the FED is always behind the
curve when it comes to things like interest rates. At
least it seems like they're always behind the curve on that,
and this is probably no exception. But we'll find out tomorrow.
Tomorrow's the day that the FED meeting began.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Today.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Tomorrow is the day we'll find out about where they're
standing on interest rates and whether or not they're going
to tip off at all. They don't have a rate cut,
then most of us assume they won't. Then you know,
maybe they'll tip off at lease. A little bit about
when they will have a rate cut. We'll see, all right,
quick little break back with more in a moment. The
great Mark Levin has written a new book. We're going

(18:15):
to talk to him about that in just a moment.
Here running in nineth fifty KHPRC and The Jimney Baird Show.
I am honored today to welcome to our show the

(18:38):
great One, Mark Levin. And by the way, he has
earned the title. And if you call his number, not
that I'm ever going to give you his number, but
if you call his number, the great One will come up,
so you know you rich the right Mark Levin. Mister Levin,
welcome to our show today. We appreciate you coming on.

Speaker 14 (18:55):
Jimmy, thank you. It does come up.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
I didn't even know that it says the Great One.

Speaker 14 (19:00):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
It's appropriate, It's perfectly appropriate. Before we get into this
new book. How many books have you written?

Speaker 14 (19:08):
Now?

Speaker 4 (19:09):
I looked it up and I kind of lost count
you've read it. You have written so many books, so
many great books. What point in your career, because I've
always known you more in the beginning anyway, as a
broadcaster versus being an author. At what point did you
decide to become an author and has that almost become
as big or even a bigger part of your career.

(19:30):
It's the broadcasting, now, you know. This is number eleven.
I don't write them because I have to. I write
them because I'm thinking about things, and the written word,
for some reason, Jimmy lasts longer than the spoken word,
and so it gives me an opportunity to exercise different
parts in my brain.

Speaker 15 (19:50):
And it's not like I said and said I want
to write a book. I wrote essays, I wrote articles,
I wrote legal briefs in a A publisher came to
me and said, have you ever thought about writing a book?

Speaker 14 (20:02):
I said, not really, And then they asked me to
write a book.

Speaker 15 (20:06):
And I wrote a book called Moon and Black, and
that became a big hit on the Supreme Court. And
then I decided, maybe people want to actually read these books,
let me write them.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
Well. And it's worked out very well for you, that's
for sure. I get the impression. I mean, you could
have been many different things in life. I don't know
why you chose to become a broadcaster. Maybe it happened
by well, I guess it happened because of Rush Limbaugh. Right,
is that where that all began?

Speaker 14 (20:35):
You know what, I always.

Speaker 15 (20:36):
Loved talk radio and I used to always listen to
it as a kid, or my transistor radio, Shack transistor radio,
and I used to listen to the big broadcasters in
New York by justin my antenna. I grew up in
Philadelphia Wake great broadcast, so I always kind of liked it.
I never thought I would be one. But as cable TV,

(20:59):
talk radio grew and people what have me as guests?
People get asked me if I wanted to do radio.
So one day I relented, and here I am.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's amazing. You know, I've always thought of you almost
as as a teacher. I'm surprised maybe in the previous lifetime,
I don't know, but I'm surprised you weren't a teacher,
because that's what I get from your books. Your your
books are very entertaining, but they are they're teaching Americans
about the Constitution, about the law, about how a constitutionally

(21:29):
limited republic is supposed to work. There's a great part
of you that's a teacher. Don't you think you're very kind?

Speaker 15 (21:36):
What I said to my wife is, you know, when
I'm when I'm finished in this part of my life,
maybe I should go teach a course or two in
a college about history and philosophy and so forth.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
So it is something I might want to do. Let's
talk about the new book, Mark Arlevin on power. What
do you want to achieve with this book? Was the
goal of this book?

Speaker 15 (22:01):
Well, I almost write a book on drugs, But the
problem is I've never taken drugs all. Anyway, what happened
was I injured myself. I tore my tenant. I was
bed bound for about two and a half months, and
you know, you start thinking about things, and me being
the nerd that I am, I start thinking about history

(22:22):
and philosophy and the future of the nation, and I said,
what am I missing here? And I'm not conveying what
is it that that seems to enamour young people with communism?
And what is this Islamism? And so I really put
my brain around this, and I said, maybe we're talking

(22:42):
about this the wrong way we talk about liberty, what
does that mean? We talk about unalienable rights, what does
that mean? What did the framers mean?

Speaker 14 (22:50):
And it occurred to me.

Speaker 15 (22:53):
That liberty without rights means nothing, that rights without pop
power properly understood means nothing. So it comes down to power.
When you read the Declaration, the Constitution, when you read
the great philosophers and the Enlightenment, comes down to power. Conversely,
when you listen to the radical leftists, the communists, the authoritarians,

(23:17):
it comes down to power. So I've got to analyze
this issue of power.

Speaker 14 (23:22):
It's not just a word, you know.

Speaker 15 (23:23):
It's in our lives, in our interactions, our businesses, where
we work with our family, but more than psychologically, when
it applies to our well being, our lives, our governance.
It determines whether we're free or we live in tyranny.
It determines whether we have free speech or not. So
I decided to take on that word, apply it to

(23:47):
our founding, and really you learn an enormous amount. And
one of the great things you learn is how to
push back against the mandamis, how to push back against
the communists and socialists and the fundamentalists, to Islamists, and
how to explain Americanism, and then how to explain freedom

(24:08):
and rights in a way that I'm hoping will involve
the thinking and the commitment of more people, because it's
crucially important and we're going to lose the countries.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
I think that you're really onto something there. Power is
what rules everything. Power can be used for good or
power can be used for evil. And I don't think
in our education system we've done a very good job anymore.
We don't raise critical thinkers in our education system. We've

(24:39):
raised a bunch of educational lemmings. They follow whatever the
professors say. Maybe later in life they become more self
taught and learn more about the way things really work
or don't work, and enlighten themselves. But we are our
education system has not done anything in recent history to
enlighten students to critical thinking.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Do you think no?

Speaker 15 (25:01):
In fact, it's what I call negative power. It's about indoctrination, coercion,
thought control, obedience. And they don't believe in individual thinkers
free will. You know, it's not by accident that Marx
rejected individual liberty and he mocked the Declaration, and it's

(25:23):
not by accident. The Woodrow Wilson, the earliest of the
so called progressives, I call them American Marxists mocked the
Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 14 (25:31):
It's not by.

Speaker 15 (25:31):
Accident that the Bernie centers of the world never mentioned it.
And when Obama does, he takes the word God out.
God is mentioned in different ways four times in the declaration.
Our founding is about the fusion of the Judeo Christian
belief system and the Enlightenment. That's why we the people
are considered the sovereign and not a handful of people

(25:55):
or the government is considered the sovereign. The Democrat Party
issues embraced the negative power model the Islamists or the
negative power model, because fundamentalist political Islam never went through
the Reformation, does not embrace the Enlightenment. It's stuck in
the seventh century. Marxism rejects religion, marx the Westernism, and

(26:23):
so they both have the same means, which is why
you see Marxists and Islamists marching together in New York,
different universities and so forth. Because their goal is to
destroy the West, to destroy individuality. They want conformity, they
want control, they want obedience, and the Democrat Party has
embraced this. They never talk about individual liberty or how

(26:45):
to diffuse power. So I call this soft negative power.
So I take this word power. I give it the
attention I think it deserves. The communists, the fascists, authoritarians,
whether they're soft authoritarians like the Democrat Party, they understand
this issue of power.

Speaker 14 (27:07):
We don't. So I thought it was time to explain
it and break it down.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Okay, So, from a practical standpoint, how do we regain power?
Power over our own lives, power over the type of
a country we want this to be. I felt like
we wrestled back some of that control in the last election.
At least, I think we learned that there are plenty
of Americans who understand that the way the Democrats were
running the country was not the kind of country that

(27:32):
they wanted to have. But how do we hang on
to that power and hopefully expand that power to get
back to the America that most of us grew up in.

Speaker 15 (27:40):
Well, ideas of consequences and these ideas of the left,
economic socialism, political Marxism, and so forth, they grow, and
they're growing in our colleges and universities. I agree with
you one hundred percent. The American people are not ready
for Marxism and Islamism. But what are we going to
do about this? Because it is a growing poison within

(28:04):
our society. We don't have assimilation taking place, we don't
have Americanism being taught. So we have a respite here
with Donald Trump, and we may have respites in the future.
But when they win elections, they make permanent changes like
open borders, like constitutional deconstruction. They don't play for election cycles.

(28:26):
They play for keeps, and so the ideas do determine
the future of societies. And so my goal here is
to try and get us to talk in a different way,
to try and attract more people, and especially to get
deep into the culture and push back.

Speaker 14 (28:45):
We're talking about winning an election, and I'm which is.

Speaker 15 (28:48):
True, which is critical, but you also have what I
call authoritarian democracy and a lot of these blue states,
which is you have elections, you have legislatures, you have governors,
but you don't really have democra, you don't really have freedom,
you don't have individualism.

Speaker 14 (29:03):
So you go through the motions.

Speaker 15 (29:04):
That's pretty much what the Democrat Party stands for. They
keep talking about centralization, regulation, taxation, redistribution of well controlling
the means of productla what is that? Von Mesi's a
great Austrian economist, he said, incorrectly.

Speaker 14 (29:21):
We Americans we all talk and think like Marxist. Now, okay,
how about we think like freedom fighters. And that's the
point of the book.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
And I think this would be a great book for
parents to share with their kids, especially if their kids
are fifteen, sixteen years old, and yeah, they well they
might as well learn what it is they're going to
face going forward, because that's alf the battle, right, getting
ahead of getting ahead of what they're going to be
facing in the future. Mark Arlevin on Power. Where can
we get the book anywhere good books is sold?

Speaker 15 (29:49):
I assume everywhere now it came out today everywhere and
anywhere at Amazon dot com.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
All right, thank you, sir, in honor to talk to you,
and thank you for coming on our show.

Speaker 14 (30:00):
Jimmy God bless your brother. Take care of your health.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
You do the same.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
That is Mark Levin, the great One back with Bore
in a moment Jimmy Baird show. Gara name of nine
fifty eighth prc.

Speaker 13 (30:23):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
I've never heard about this this year in New York City.
I'm sure you have by non involved a blackmail. The
only reason why I mentioned that because this is not
about race. The only reason why I mentioned that is
that one of the anchors on CNN evidently said, I
think it's a white guy. And this guy is obviously

(30:45):
African Americans. He's not a white guy. He's from Las
Vegas at least that's where he's living, or that's where
he was living before he went to New York City.
And the question is what's this guy doing. Well, come
no surprise to anybody. Mental health issues involved, because mental

(31:07):
health issues are always involved when you've got a nut
with a gun. You know, in this case, he had
a long rifle, got out of his car, put the
flashers on the car, got out of the carts, start
walking down the street, busy Manhattan street with a rifle
in his hand. Nobody said anything, Nobody did anything, Nobody

(31:31):
tried to stop the guy. He just walked into a
building in office building in Manhattan. Now, before we get
to why that building and what he was doing there,
here's something that I think we all need to hear.
I mean, here in Texas, I think we understand this
better than probably any other state in the country. That

(31:55):
when it comes to keeping you and your family safe,
it is first and foremost our own responsibility. That's why
so many of us own guns. That's why so many
of us have taken self protection classes. We understand that
the police aren't always going to be there when you
need them to be there, and that if something bad happens,
you need to do what you can to protect yourself

(32:16):
and to protect your family. This guy is a former
NYPD officer. His name is Mike Stanton. He was on
with Sean Hannity last night talking about self protection and
these types of incidents.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
But we need to deputize ourselves.

Speaker 15 (32:33):
Sean.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Let's take you as an example. My understanding is you
trained really hard in MMA. I'm guessing you train with
your firearm as well. We each need to empower ourselves
not to be a victim by stand their apathy is
what occuraged? Is the term used as this gentleman walk
this street and walk with a long gun down the street.

(32:54):
No one said anything. I'd be curious to see how
many nine to one one calls were made. We need
to empower ourselves, deputize ourselves. If you would have seen
that person, I guess you would have acted a lot
different as would have I. These businesses that have security
in the lobbies, there's a knee jerk reaction.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
They may enhance it, but they.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Do a course benefit analysis, and it'll go right back
to the same. Only when we respect police officers, when
respect is given back to the police officers, when we
end this defund the police, when we end the sending
in therapists or counselors, will people respect and yes, be

(33:35):
slightly afraid that I might get taken out before I
do anything. We see this perpetrator, this sickle, as well
as criminals all over Manhattan, all over the country not
respecting the law, feeling they can do what they want.
Only when we collectively push back, fight back, and act,
will this lesson and hopefully stop.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
That's all about self protection, and that makes all the
sense of the world. Now to the part that I'm
not going to say that this is one hundred percent confirmed,
but it's it's been it's been written about, so at
least there are some some people who have had sources
that have given them this information. Because you're you're wondering, Okay,

(34:20):
how as we started with this conversation, how did this
guy from Las Vegas end up shooting up a Manhattan
office building. What was he there to do? He's from Vegas,
What was he got to do with this office building
in Manhattan. Evidently there was a note found at the

(34:42):
building left by this guy who killed himself at the
very end. I don't know if he was running out
of ammunition or the police were catching up to him.
I don't know why he picked that particular moment to
stop and kill himself, but he did. Several people. One
of the people he shot works for the National Football League.

(35:06):
The corporate headquarters for the NFL is in that building,
and evidently the note mentioned the NFL and mentioned that
he felt or he thought that. Remember I mentioned he
had mental health issues. Whatever, those mental health issues were
long standing mental health issues. He mentioned that he believed

(35:31):
that he had CTE from playing football as a young person.
So what does that got to do with the National
Football League? I assumed that maybe he played football as
a young person because he watched NFL games, and you know,
he wanted to be a football star or wanted to

(35:52):
play in the NFL. Or maybe that's why he got
involved to begin with. I don't know, but certainly the
NFL does not run youth football, but he believed that
he had CTE is repetitive head trauma injury concussions. Repeated
concussions can lead to this condition, which can lead to

(36:13):
mood changes and some mental health issues. The problem is
is it's, you know, it's like rabies. You don't know
if the animal has rabies unless you kill the animal.
You don't know if somebody has CTE until their brain
can be examined, and that can only be done after
they've died. Maybe what this guy was doing, which is

(36:39):
not to give any kind of an excuse for what
he did, but maybe what this guy was doing was
setting it up so that he could bring some sort
of notoriety to the possibility that this is what it
was hoping that if he left a note and killed himself,
that somebody would examine his brain and determine that he
had this CTE. Now, who knows if that's going to happen.

(37:04):
Who knows if he did have it, Probably didn't, might
have nothing, It might have nothing to do with nothing,
But he certainly seemed to have that as his rationale
for what it is he did. For what little rationale
you can make out of it, all right Duff for today.
Listen y'all have a great day. Thank you for listening.

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