Rod and Greg Show - Ut Congressman Burgess Owens talks about Trump and LDS Voters; The Education Debate w/ OK Superintendent of Schools

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I brought our citizen, Greg Hughes. Great to be with
you on a Thursday. Boy, the weeks go by fast,
the days go by fast.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
And days keep getting better. I'm telling you, I'm feeling
the big mo the momentum. Yeah, we got some. We
have some very good.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
The polymarket betting line is just I mean, I haven't
seen I've been watching this like sixty plus days out.
I watch it multiple times a day. It is trending
Trump's way a big naturally, as well as the battleground states,
some of them of which were at least on the
betting line is not even remotely close. He's leading today's.

(00:39):
I woke up this morning where he was ahead in Wisconsin.
First time I've seen I don't remember. I don't remember
ever seeing him ahead. There there are things there, there's
it's trending our way. Things are looking good. Can't get
over confident. I don't think there's any such thing. But man,
you know, I just I like what we're seeing. And
the more Kamala Harris and Tim Walls try to get

(01:00):
out there to change this trajectory, the worst it is.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's not coming off well well. And the thing is
Greg now you're starting to see stories that the Democrats
are getting a bit nervous. Yeah, you know, they're very,
very anxious. So we'll talk about that today. Burgess Owens,
Congressman Burgess Owens will join us coming up in just
a few minutes here on the Roden greg Show. He
was in Arizona yesterday campaigning with JD.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Vance.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Will get his thoughts on the campaign. A little bit
later on, we'll talk with the man by the name
of Ryan Walters. Many of you may not know who
Ryan Walters is, but he is the superintendent of public
Education for Oklahoma. Now why would we probably be talking
to him? He is leading a nationwide effort to do
away with the woke culture in our schools today. This

(01:50):
is the same superintendent who proposed that Bibles should be
studied in Oklahoma schools. Very controversial figure, but boy, he's
a bright, bright guy. And we'll haveing on and then
a little bit later on we'll talk about automating the ports.
Why aren't we doing that in America today? When it
comes to all the goods and services we need. So
we've got a lot to get to. Of course, we'll

(02:11):
get to your phone calls as well, because there's a
lot to talk about today.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
We were hoping starting off the show to go to Florida, right,
I got eyes and ears on the ground there, but
we can't get through on the phones today. Do you
see it coming through it all? No, nope, I don't
see it coming here once. Nope, nope.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's not answering. So it wouldn't surprise. I didn't really
think this through, but it's not. It shouldn't be a
surprise to me that we aren't calling in successfully to
the hurricane impacted zone or they're able to call out
even though we can text. So I don't know if
we'll be able to push this to a different time
in the show, but I thought it would be important
to have someone that is in that area that I've

(02:46):
been communicating with, let's know what they're seeing, because it's
I think it's it's worth hearing.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
It was a very destructive storm. But some people are
saying not as bad as they thought.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, that's not that's not the that's not the way
it was. Now, I'll tell you this. When we were
talking ten foot waves of the Surgeway fifteen and we're
really talking three foot four foot Now, you put a
four foot wave down my street. Okay, I'm going to
tell you right now, it's not going to be a
great day.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
So those it's all in, it's all you know, it's
all relative. But those are the surge sizes are in
that forest feet or maybe I really haven't seen anything
larger than four or.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Five or five is about all I said.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's that's good in comparison, But still, why creating some
real damage?

Speaker 1 (03:33):
What really got them? The wind and if you I
mean it blew the roof off the the baseball stadium
they're in Tampa. Yeah, you know, the wind got them.
The rain got them. I mean, I guess the rain
came down.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
We used to say in bucket's probably bigger than that.
So was the wind and the rain. The storm surgees
you just talked about wasn't as bad. But still four
or five feet of water coming your way, that's pretty bad.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's so it's so interesting because I think we're tracking
this more because two came through so quickly, one and
right after the other. But I've been sweating this thing
for three days, waiting for this thing to come in,
watching the category. You know, from three to four or
five down to four. And now it's already path through
the I wake up in the morning, it's already through
the state and in the Atlantic, and so it came

(04:20):
through fast. And so now they're doing the cleanup and
and I'm hoping that that if we are able to
get through this person. That's so to give you an
idea of Naples, Florida, is just if you were to
see the path of the hurricane, it was in the
southernest southern point, almost like on the outside of it.
But when we were watching the monitors on the on

(04:40):
the you know, on our screen on the show yesterday,
they were still attaching like three to four feet of
surge coming through that town, which is not a small
which is still pretty tall. So it's I'm interested to hear.
And then the work of Governor DeSantis and getting that
state ready. I would really like to have ears and

(05:01):
eyes on the ground to describe the listeners what they're
he's seeing by way of preparation and work that's going
on in real time right now. It's it's pretty impactful.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, and it has been amazing. I mean, if you
just look at the video and there's some stories out
there now the interesting thing is Greg and we'll play this.
I want to play this audio SoundBite for you. It's
interesting that the media cannot let go of this Kamala
Harris Ron De Santa's feud over calling and asking for help,
and you know he didn't respond her calls. Yeah, he

(05:33):
doesn't need to, he said, Look, she's the vice president.
She's never been involved in any of this. I speak
to the president, and him and the President apparently have
struck up a pretty good relationship as far as taking
care of this and getting it done. But here it
came again. This is Today this morning on MSNBC, asking
him about why he didn't return Kamala's phone calls.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
He Governor, could you just help clear something else up
that happened earlier this week and we were actually debating
it at this table.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
So I got to ask.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
There was some praise that came your way from President
Biden and said that they had spoken, You had spoken.
Then there was this brew haha over Vice President Harris
apparently reaching out to you and maybe not taking the call,
and this whole thing, accusations of this had all become politicized.
Can you just speak to what happened there?

Speaker 6 (06:25):
I am working with the President of the United States.
I'm working with the director of FEMA marshaling all my
state assets. We've been doing this now, NonStop for over
two weeks between Helene and this, and so if there's
anything I can leverage to benefit my people, I'm going
to do it. The fact of the matter is they
put out a story saying I didn't take i'd't even

(06:45):
know she was trying to reach me. But she has
no role in this process. And I've been dealing with
these storms in Florida under both Trump and Biden. Neither
of them ever politicized it. And in fact, all the
storms I've dealt with under this administration, although I've worked
well with the President, she has never called in Florida.
She has never offered any support. So what she's doing

(07:08):
is she's trying to inject herself into this because of
her political campaign.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. She mean, he's spot on, Greg.
She is trying to, you know, inject herself into this,
this storm and what is going on with the storm
because she needs some positive coverage and she just it's
been a bad week for poor Kamala. She's had a
tough week. I feel no remorse. No, poor Kamala.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
We're getting to see leadership in action with her, and
that's really what it's always been. You can only We've
said it, you know, every day we say you can
only run on hate Trump, fear Trump, I'm not Trump. Yeah,
for so long, and then when she once you know
that that wasn't working because they did flip the script
and try to get her and Walls out there. Those

(07:56):
interviews have been a bomb. Yeah, they might have destroyed
sixty minutes. Uh, you know, reputation in the process by
what they've had to edit to try and make it
sound like a cogent answer.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
So yeah, all right, more coming up on the Rod
and Greg Show in Utah's Talk radio one oh five
nine knrs. Great to be with you on this Thursday afternoon. Well,
the campaign is some full swing, and members of Utah's
congressional delegation were also involved in the campaign. Greg, a
certain congressman spend some time with the vice presidential candidate,
Jade Vance. Yesterday down in Arizona, We're talking with Utah

(08:29):
Congressman Burgess Owens Burgess, how are you, and welcome to
the Rodd and Greg Show. Thanks for joining us. Burgess.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
I'm Greg Rod and Greg just good toes to guy
and looking forward to it for sure. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
You know, uh, Congressman, you have this isn't. You're not
just in the final push just getting out there into
these battleground states. I have been speaking to you for
the better part of this year, and you have been
traveling this country fighting to get good Republicans, good conservative
Republicans elected in states all over. And so yeah, you're
here now, you're there with vice presidential nominee jd.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Vance. But you've been this isn't.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
This is familiar territory for you, so you have a
unique perspective. Tell explain to our listeners how you have
felt as you've watched this throughout the year. But what
are you feeling, particularly now as we're twenty something days
out from the end of the election day.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Great, First of all, let me just say I feel
blessed number one, to be representing the District four because
you know my upbringing, my values are such and sync
with this district that allows me to travel to go
out and help help some of our colleagues. So what
I'm seeing, number one is everywhere I go, the conversation
is the same. You know, I have a fee I

(09:39):
kind of think that the way we normally work as Americans,
we love to live in a little freedom bubble where
we can focus on everything else but the real hard
issues because we can enjoy, you know, our dreams and
our business, our kids. But right now we're talking like
we never had before. And that's all. That's both sides,
that's Democrats, Republicans, independence, it doesn't matter what race it is.
We're at a position where there's a lot of misery,

(10:00):
a lot of pain, a lot of concern, and so
we're talking about how can we fix it. I am
more excited about where we are today than ever before,
because once we start talking as Americans, we went we
pleated things out. We come to that point, even though
we might not agree on everything, we agree on those
things that really make a difference our kids, our safety,
our businesses, our freedom. And that's what's happening across our country.

(10:22):
We are. We're in a good place. I believe that
we're gonna end up getting the traffecta. I think we'll
get a bigger majority in the House, we get the Senate,
get President Trump in the next two to four years,
because they have the American people. That's really with us.
Now we really understand we have to get done. We
get some good things done the next tow to four years.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
At Rispnoans, I know you spend time in Arizona yesterday
with A JD. Vans, who, of course is Donald Trump's
running mate. How would you describe his mood? How's he
feeling about the race going into it with less than
four weeks now?

Speaker 4 (10:54):
First of all, the selection of GD, many of us
did not really know JD. That went I had met
him once or But the more we see and understand
who he is, the more we realize how talented President
Trump is and taking talent around him. Uh. JD is
First of all, he represents the the the youth of
of our party. We have a lot of young people
coming coming through the ranks that will be leaders or

(11:15):
teacher that that are really learning and understanding so that
when their time comes, they'll be ready for it. Unlike
the other side. Uh, the problems they've always had democratic parties,
they hold on to power so long that uh, you
know that we have the issues we have right now,
there's nobody in the wings. So first of all, he's excited,
uh Uh And I think everybody saw his his performance
on the debate.

Speaker 7 (11:37):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
The guy is smart as attacked, he's he's able to
articulate himself, he relates to people.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
And so it is actually what we needed, I think
at this point, to to show the balance of not
only a strong fighter and Trump, but a relator, somebody
who really relate and a residents our youth and JD.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
So I'm staring at Congressman at a at a headline
of Politico. This is you know, this is the Beltway, Uh,
you know talk and this this headline is so counterintuitive
and I don't think you're experiencing this on the campaign trail,
but it says Harris is writing a dream economy into
the election, but it may be too late for voters
to notice this. Basically, this headline is saying that we

(12:19):
are we have it better than we deserve, but you
just might not be you know, observant enough to really
know how good you have it. That is a real
headline from Politico to day explain, how does you have
to go into that bubble every single week? How in
the world can anyone say things are so good?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, the problem is that this Uh, they have a
hard term reading the room at this point. At this point,
the American people are done enough. They got away with
it for so long because that's student boat will live
in that we can you know that we really don't
pay that much. You catch it for so long. Once
it got to the point where we have the crime

(13:00):
rate and inflation, uh, the jobs. Now we're seeing the
lost across the country. You see not being be able
to afford at home anymore. Now that we're dealing with
all that, we understand, we feel it and and I
think the biggest thing, the strongest that we have as
a as a nation is our sense of empathy.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
It's one thing to be sympathetic to see other people
going through issues and pain, and we just kind of
move on because we know we're okay. We're now dealing
with the concepts of empathy across the country because now parents,
no matter what difficult they live in and realizing their
kids are now dealing with learning loss and no matter
what what what, what city they live in, what districts
de live in. Uh, this scene now the crime is

(13:39):
coming in because the open borders down in checks, so
you know it, they're losing more credibility, the more they
lean into this idea that we just don't know, We
don't know enough ourselves to understand what's going on, and
it's it's a positive for us because it gives us
a chance to understand what Trump is saying, leaning to
the truth he's talking about. And then we're all in

(14:00):
twenty twenty five as he moves forward.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
We're talking with Utah Congressman Burgess Owens Burgess. As you know,
this is very going Many people are predicting this is
going to be a very tight race. Greg and I
think we disagree with that. We think Donald Trump's going
to come out on top a lot stronger, but in
places like Arizona and Nevada, it could be a real battle.
And there have been several media articles over the past
several weeks talking about the battle for members of the

(14:25):
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in which
way they're going to vote and seeking their support. You'll
be involved in a webinar fireside Sunday night with people
like Glenn Beck and Mike Lee and yourself, I guess,
making an appeal to LDS voters to vote for Donald Trump.
Why did you get involved in this?

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Burgess well, because we're at a place that we're still
a fighting for the hearts of country, and there's no
better people to make that fight. And Christians, people who
believe in God, believe in our family, believe in our
countries here for a particular reason. Uh and and so
we need to make the point that it's really not

(15:03):
about personality Moore. You know, I'm going to give an
example for those who who read the Book of Mormon
l you know al many younger. We have no idea
what his personality was. We know that he had a
hard times as a youngster but ended up making some
remarkable things happen because of his courage, his focus, his
ability to to uh, to have a vision, all those
things that really bring hope to other people. And so

(15:26):
we have to understand that we're at a point that
we're going to either either we're gonna survive as a
country or we're not. That's what we are at this point.
And and for for those who truly believe as a
place uh and uh, there's there's person all. There's the
foundation of our country based on heavy followers plan for us.
Now the time to really understand what that plan looks like.

(15:47):
And it's about freedom, and so we have to to
to really, you know, get get away from this party thing,
get away from this personality thing. What is best for
our kids, our future, our freedom. And it's nothing that
even comes close in terms of the comparison between the
Republican Party and the Democratic Party. So let's vote the values.
Let's make sure that we can pass this great country,

(16:09):
this concept of freedom opportunity throughout kids. We can only
do that with a president who cares and loves our
country enough to fight for it. That's President Trump, and
that's down ballot the Republican Party. So we can really
go out and make a big difference in the twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Burgess has always Congressman Owens, just great chatting with you.
Appreciate a few minutes of your time, and good luck
with the event on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Thank you, Thank you guys all that we'll talk soon,
all right.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
That's Congressman. You know, he is such a positive guy.
I've always noticed that about Burgess. Look, he wants to
think positive, he wants to think and encourage people to
do great things.

Speaker 8 (16:45):
Well.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
His life story is he grew up with a lot
of hardship, rose up through the ranks and a talented
athlete became a college star, football star, NFL star with
the Raiders and NFL champion. And I think it's just
a great congress. It really reflects the values of the
state and of families, you know, families and anyway, so
I love when we have congers and Burgess on it.

(17:07):
His runners go in the right direction.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, you and I have been around him in other settings,
social settings, different things, and he takes the time to
talk to everybody who comes up and wants to talk
to him. Right, He's right, a great guy, Congressman Burgess
Owens all right, more coming up on the Rotting Greg
Show and Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine K
and are talking right now about the aftermath of Hurricane
Milton blowing through the state of Florida last night, causing

(17:32):
all kinds of damage. I think the latest count ten
people lost their lives. The damage is going to run
into the billions. By the sounds of the things. Ray
quite an event for the four people. What this is?
What two weeks after Helene.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, it's it's and Helene caught our attention. And then
when we saw another category four, category five hurricane heading
to Florida. It really did feel even worse just because
we'd lived through it. It hit Landfall, the hurricane did
during the program yesterday, so we were seeing live feeds
of what was happening. But you know, on this show
we bring you the stuff you're never gonna hear anywhere else.

(18:06):
So I got people, Rod, I got people on the ground,
I got eyes on location. We have a friend of mine,
Darren from Naples, Florida. If you watch the path, you
would have seen on the southern part that it was
in that hit or miss area could be hit, it
could not. The surge amounts were like four feet or
maybe higher. Joining us on the program, Darren Moran from Naples, Florida.

(18:27):
May you share some of what you're seeing and what
has happened in this area of Florida. Welcome to the
Rod and Greg Show.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Darren, good afternoon.

Speaker 9 (18:37):
Good to be with you both.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
So tell us, yeah, tell us what you're seeing.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
Activity down here. There's a lot of activity down here
that you can tell it was organized and structure. Every
fifteen miles or so, it seems that there's an organized
group of linemen, medical people, these staging areas and the
very responsive and what stands out the most is that

(19:05):
you can't really tell where things are going to happen
because they always change, and they're able to adjust to that,
and through their planning in advance, they're able to tabalize
on that. So, for example, if you go back maybe
two hurricanes to ian, Ian was going north in the

(19:26):
Gulf and then it turns right almost at the right
hand turn and put it towards Santabel and Fort Myers,
which was unanticipated, and so they had to respond to
a new location, and they were able to do that
very effectively. And if you compare that to you, let's
say this hurricane on the East coast, there were many tornadoes.

(19:50):
I think I saw something on TV where there were
one hundred and twenty six tornado warnings, which is much
more than the pre is how I think the number
they used was sixty nine. So if you're looking at
the map and you're trying to figure out, well, where
would I go to get away from this? You might think, well,

(20:10):
Miami's get good location. And then if you're in Miami,
you're thinking, well, they probably won't have resources there. But
there were parking lots filled with linemen, the hotels were
filled with medical people, you know, utility people, you mean it.
And it turns out that these tornadoes were as destructive,

(20:34):
if not more than many other parts of the hurricane,
and they were able to respond to that by being
in the area that you know, maybe anticipated.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, Darren, let me ask you this the area that
you're in, I believe it's the Naples area, did you
sustain much damage at all? Or was it farther.

Speaker 9 (20:51):
North that we did get searge? And so if you're
on the coastal areas and you're in the Riverlina where
it runs into, you know, inland, you're going to get
some surge exposure, and the inundation charts show that it's
probably going to be somewhere between the one and six feet,
depending on if the southern part of that hurricane breaks

(21:15):
down or out. And you know, it ended up being
somewhere around one to three feet in many areas where
it was anticipated in higher So on the coastal areas,
there is a lot of damage and a lot of
exposure in this area. It only gets worse as you
go north up the coastline, and you know, it just
depends on where the location is, how high the surge was,

(21:39):
but in all coastal areas, probably some naples all the
way up to where the bend is a lot of
surge damage. And that's just a matter of two weeks
after Hallen and the damage it did then too.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Let me ask you this question. I saw that the
National Guard, the Florida National Guard that has responded to
this and has really been on point and been there
as you've described, it didn't exist in the way it
does now prior to Governor DeSantis becoming governor. Has it
been your experience, Darren, that this is just how Florida
as a state forever has responded to catastrophic hurricanes, or

(22:17):
are you seeing Governor DeSantis' leadership or his hand in
these responses since he's been governor.

Speaker 9 (22:27):
I believe that if there was a single coast, you know,
a mission for the Santas, it would be to protect
and provide. He is, in my opinion, so far ahead
of what could happen and his planning and his strategy
for that. It's just wherever there's the problem, he already

(22:50):
is one step ahead. If you need a bridge, he
can put a bridge in place in a week. And
if you need one hundred miles north of that. He
can do that. If you need two pages where the
first badge to be replaced, he could do that too. Well,
it's not a military type scale. It just you know,

(23:11):
you look at all the resources and the capabilities, and
then if you think about logistically, how do you make
arrangements for all of that. It's so impressive. He does
such a great job.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, he has been doing an absolutely fantastic job. Well, Darren,
we appreciate a few minutes of your time. We're glad
that you and your family are safe. Thanks for joining us,
and good luck to you down there in Florida. Thanks Darren,
Thank you. Roy on our newsmaker line, that is Darren Moran.
He is a resident of Naples, Florida. They got out
of there. They went down to Miami from one dr

(23:43):
Fan right to find shelter. Unfortunately, their area other than
right along the coast, the area there in Naples is
okay at least for now.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, and that's a Rod and Greg show exclusively. You're
not getting that on the talking heads, but I thought
that it would be pretty important just to hear. I
thought his observation of how you know the damage and
how unpredictable and I haven't really heard on television how
much the tornadoes, how many of them, and how that
created crisis that they that is not a hurricane, But

(24:12):
they were there and mobilize and ready to react to
those tornadoes because they were so prepared for the hurricanes itself.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
You can see some of the video. There's some video
of some of the tornadoes. They are frightening looking. Man,
They're massive looking. And I think that's what caused a
lot of the damage have been the tornadoes.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
And and and to hear him say that the DeSantis
on a whole different level. You need a bridge, You
get you one in a week. You need one to
one hundred miles from there to go there too, You
need too, We'll get you to. I just think that
does speak to the Governor DeSantis' leadership, which I think
is unique.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
And that's military training, wasn't he He was in the labies.
Military training really helps. All Right. More coming up on
the Rod and Greg show. Coming up at the top
of the hour, we're going to be speaking with Ryan Walters.
Ryan Walters is Superintendent of Public Education UH for Oklahoma. Now,
a lot of you may be saying, well, Roder, what
why are you and Greg talking to the superintendent of

(25:05):
public instruction in Oklahoma. He is very outspoken. He is
a real advocate for education and conservative American values being
back introduced and being introduced back into education in this country.
Stop the presses. Does he want the pornos in the schools? No?

Speaker 2 (25:21):
No, WHOA Well, there you go. You know, I think
that is pretty pretty important.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
He wants the Bible back in the schools. Our kind
of guy. That's a Rodney Greg Show guest. We want
to follow up. Greg had this story yesterday that I
think you found it on libs of TikTok right or less,
whatever it's called. But it's about this professor at the
University of Kansas who you know, in addressing his students

(25:46):
in a class one day, decided that he was going
to go after the males within his class. Listen to
what happened.

Speaker 10 (25:53):
Guys are smarter than girls. You got some serious problems.

Speaker 11 (25:57):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (25:58):
That's what frustrates me. There are going to be some
males in our society that will refuse to vote for
a potential female president because they don't think females are
smart enough to be president. We can line all those
guys up and shoot them, and they clearly don't understand
the way the world works.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Did I say that.

Speaker 10 (26:19):
It scratch that from the recording. I don't want the
dean's hearing that I said that.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, apparently the deans did here say that. Good, it
wasn't scrapped here. I'm just like breathing into his microphone.
He's the guy is just a he's It's sad. This
guy isn't works in an institution of higher learning. Well,
only hours later, apparently they did see the video. The
universe did took action, released his statement about the professor

(26:47):
without identifying him. Why just identify him. He's on your staff.
Here's what he said. The university is aware of a
classroom video in which an instructor made an inappropriate reference
to violence. The instructor has been placed on administrative leave
pending further investigation. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
If I was a parent pen and any tuition into
that school and that guy's one of the ones that
they're going to hear from, I would just I would
not be comfortable with that. Yeah, that would be a
red flag. Here's the thing, though, he's not. This isn't
a random expression. The Democrats, the left of center, they
have we've talked about again. If you support Donald Trump
for president, then you suffer from a moral or ethical

(27:28):
failing in your life. There is no room, there is
no the reason that you could ever support him absent
your bigotry, you know, your misogynistic attitude towards women. You're
you have some moral failing, ethical failing if you could,
if you vote for anyone but her, she's who you
have to vote for. That, I mean, that's that is

(27:48):
the narrative. And it's not just this guy. They all
want to say that. That is, if you're not voting
for Kamala, you must hate women.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
There's no other there's no other context to it. There's
nothing about the last four years versus the four years
that he as president. You can't use any of that
in your decision.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Tree.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
You just hate women and you're just a horrific person.
Line them up, shoot them.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, but if you're the second gentleman, Doug m Off,
you can get away with whatever.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Then you can beat women and you can do whatever
you want. Yeah, can pregnate the nanny. Nobody cares.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Nobody cares, all right, Our number two of the ROTI
reg Show's on his way. Favorite. That's right.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, we we If you haven't seen, if you haven't
heard all three hours, I don't know why, because we
have we have the technology, we can get that to
you and you would be well served because all we
do is drop truth bombs here every single hour.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So speaking of truth bombs, apparently,
mister Hughes, the Dems are getting a little anxious. Yeah.
There are numerous stories, I guess stacking stories today about
how the Democrats are nervous, They're worried about They're worried
about kamala Is. She's done this big media blitz this weekend.

(29:03):
Nothing is moving the needle. She is stuck in the mud.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
A media buy in the bees billions of dollars, and
they have not seen any statistical shift. If anything, they've
seen it shifting, continuing to shift her the trajectory towards Trump.
So they don't have good These Democrats don't have good
poker faces, Rod, They're not good at hiding their their
their fear or anything else. So one of my favorite
characters to not like and is James Carvill, the raging Cajun.

(29:31):
You know, he was Bill Clinton's campaign manager back in
the day. He likes to be a talking head. He
likes to talk like this all the time. And he's
he's been of an old school guy. This party's changing
out from underneath him. When he's upset, I'm always happy.
Let's listen. Let's just take it just a quick peek
into MSNBC and hear what Carvil thinks. Is just a

(29:51):
conversation between him and all of his friends. Let's have
a listen.

Speaker 12 (29:56):
I want to think I feel if the election is
come in November, fifth to death, and I'll get a
time to beat up if you're not in a reflective mood,
not in a particular effective mood right now, very very compired.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
What does Harris need to do with them?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
He's very concerned. He's very concerned and very scared, very scared. Yeah.
And his grand answer, we don't have to listen to
the interview is he just says, bring out Bill Clinton.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
He wants to go early now.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
He wants to go old school nineties to win this
campaign because you know, America wants to see a change. Yeah,
so it must be to Bill Clinton, because that's who
he wants to come in and save the day.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, that's his strategy. Well, here here's my here's my
response to that. Greg, we were talking about. Let's see
Obama is in Pennsylvania. Yes, Bill Clinton is out campaigning. Well, yeah,
she's out campaigning right now. She's always talking about a
new way, a new way forward for the Democratic Party
and for the company and for the country. Right, yeah,
but who's out campaigning for all the old guys? That's right?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
And in what in what these campaigns don't understand is
that it doesn't even matter if there's someone in Pennsylvania
that loved Obama voted for him, or loved Clinton, Bill
Clinton voted for him. It doesn't translate. It's just because
they say to vote for Karma. It doesn't make them
forget what they lived through last four years ago.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Oh okay, I'll vote for her.

Speaker 13 (31:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
I would even argue this is the same for Trump.
When Trump likes a candidate, it doesn't mean that candidate
gets all the votes. The voters are independent, and especially
this is a base that I would call the everyday
American that doesn't really like politics or trust politicians. That
is what is the base of Trump's strength, I think
in this election and Carvel rolling out Clinton or Obama

(31:31):
coming out there and saying, hey, if we tell you
to vote this way, vote this way, his voters are
not going that way. That is not persuading these voters
in this twenty twenty four election.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yeah, well, some more insight into this. Mark Helprin, who
you know it was during the convention. We were at
the convention. We saw Mark Helprin there, yep. And he
was the one who came up with the timeline that
Joe Biden was going to step down. He was a
day off, yeah, but pretty accurate insight into and a
lot of people have been looking to him now for
more insight into what's going on with a Kamala Harris campaign.

(32:02):
Here's what he said just today.

Speaker 11 (32:03):
What's happening now with Kamala Harris's this is an experiment
can you win a short campaign with an untested candidate?
And what I'm telling you is happening in private polling
is she's got a problem. Now, Okay, it's not cheering
for Trump, it's not predicting Trump will when she's got
a problem. So a new New York Times poll shows
her up three nationally. We all know that three is

(32:23):
like the bubble point, right. If she's up three, she's
got a chance to win win the electorro College, but
they'd rather be a four and they don't want to
be a two. So three is right at the bubble.
I'm not saying this Times polls right. It's in line
with our national polls. Wall Street Journal has a story
about Democrats really worried about the three Rost Belt states.

(32:43):
We all know from our contacts in both campaigns, and
Pennsylvania is tough for her right now. And without Pennsylvania
there are paths, but there aren't many. There's no path
with that Wisconsin. So you see here Cammy Baldwin Senate
campaign polls shows Harry's down three in Wisconsin. We all
said yesterday was consin and Michigan are looking worse for
Harris than before.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
The question that he asked after that was why did
Tammy Baldwin's campaign release that information to the media about
the polling and that it's looking bad for her.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I I think it's a fundraising tactic and it's a
and it is a get out the vote effort for
Democrats to understand because that those states have been so
I've assumed for quite some time that those weren't the
states that Trump could win. I wanted them to, and
he's always been kind of close, but they were always
pretty strong for for Kamala Harris.

Speaker 9 (33:33):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
That change in the in the that shift. I think
they're trying to tell their Democrats and the people that
want to vote for come to do not take the
state lightly or don't think it's it's a done deal.
We're we're we're we're taking water here, We're sinking. And
I think that's meant to get out the vote. But
I also think it means it generates I think serious
fundraising dollars at the eleventh hour.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
That's why I would say she did yeah, Yeah, And
it could be Greg. I mean there's some story today
in the in the Wall Street Journal today, and you
and I have been talking about this as well.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
Greg.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
More Americans now identify themselves as Republican than they do Democrat.
How long has that been.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I think three at least three Seriously, at least three decades.
At least three decades, you've not seen the registration rate
higher for Republicans than Democrats. And so, look, you've had
some interesting things happen over from twenty to twenty two.
You've you've seen more scrubbing of the election roles and
the people that aren't registered voters anymore being taken off

(34:33):
of those roles. So the actual number of registered voters
is actually smaller this year as I'm looking at data,
than it was in twenty twenty. Now there's still time
maybe in some states to register, but that number is
smaller by a little bit. But that's because they're cleaning
up the voter registration roles. And then you add on
top of that the higher rate of Republicans that are registering,
and those are not things, those aren't variables we've seen

(34:54):
in a presidential election in thirty years.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
For a long long time. All Right, we do we've
been able now to reach our game, Ryan Walters, what
we'll do. We'll take a we'll we'll break early, Greg,
so we can come back and talk with Ryan here
on the Rodding Greg Show. He's a fascinating interesting guy
and we want to get his thoughts on what this
election may mean for education in this country. That's gaming
up right here on the Rodd and Greg Show and

(35:18):
Utah's Talk Radio one o five nine KNRS.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Roden Greg Show here on talk Radio one oh five
nine ken RS, and everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I'm really looking forward to our conversation with the next guest.
We're talking with Ryan Walters. Ryan is the superintendent of
Publication of public education there in the state of Oklahoma.
But I'll tell you what he is gaining national attention
for his belief in a quality education for our children.
He's a big supporter of former President Donald Trump, and

(35:47):
he's joining us on our newsmaker line right now. Ryan,
how are you welcome to the Rodd and Gregg Show.
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 14 (35:53):
Oh great, thank you guys for having me on tonight.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Ryan, let's talk about this. How would you describe the
state of education overall in this country today?

Speaker 14 (36:03):
Well, the state of education today is so terrible that
it's actually a threat for national security. It's a threat
for us to continue to be the greatest country in
the history of the world. It is an econ and
gives us a tremendous deficit in our autonomy and economic
output as well. And the reason why is because we've

(36:24):
allowed fundamentally education to move from a common sense, basic
approach to understand math, reading, science, and a true love
and understanding of our nation and its history, to one
that rejects the basics for things that aren't true, like
transgenderism and woke ideology, and actually embracing an agenda that

(36:46):
wants kids to hate their country, hate the traditions of America,
hate the traditions of the family, and hate Christianity and
other faith. And so we have done a complete one
point eighty goals of our education system. One thing I'd
like to point out to folks is it's not a
coincidence that the results to where they are. This is
the result of decade after decade of left wing policy

(37:10):
being pushed from the national Department of Education through your
teachers unions down to your local school districts. And by
the way, we have good teachers and some good performing
teachers and school sites in spite of the system. The
system is built to produce those results. That's what's going
to fundamentally change.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Superintendent Ryan Walters, if I didn't have Armress on this chair,
I think I would have fallen out of my chair
to hear a superintendent of public education speak so bluntly
and with the analysis of public schools that is honest
and even hard. Maybe it's a hard indictment on our
public school system generally, but you said what I'm I'm
a recovering public servant. I was in our Utah House

(37:52):
for a long time in education reform, education issues. It's
a brutal place in public policy. These teachers unions are
not messing around. It is very hard to get things done.
They're good, They're on behalf of the kids you are
speaking with. I've never met a superintendent that talks about
these issues as common sense and as bluntly.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
As you have.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
How are you able to be How are you able
to serve as a superintendent and be committed to reforms
or bring education back to parents making sure this curriculum,
this damaging curriculum, is somehow kept away from our kids.
How have you seen success in the state of Oklahoma.

Speaker 14 (38:30):
Well, number one, you know an incredible benefit I have
is I'm an elected official. I'm a statewide elected official.
There's only eleven state to this position. And so when
I campaigned, I've heard it crystal clear from parents and
grandparents and tax players of hey, this has got to change, right.
So you know, I come in and you know my
boss is the people of Oklahoma, and they want better
for their kids. So number one, I can't be controlled

(38:52):
by the teachers Union. I can't be controlled by the associations,
and they came after me hard. They spend over six
million dollars against me in the race, and we just
you know, I went right to the people of Oklahoma
and said, hey, I'm gonna do whatever I can to
improve education for your kids, and I'm not going to
back down to these woke ideologues. And so, you know,
the beauty of it is when you have parents and
grandparents on your side. Hey, they're fighting for their kids future.

(39:14):
And so you know that that's kind of a unique
thing that we've got. But I'm gonna tell you President
Donald Trump has you know, he has won the education debate.
And I want to give you an example of how
he's won the education debate. The mainstream media won't talk
about education. I mean, that's all the mainstream media wanted
to talk about election cycle after election cycle. Well, now
all of a sudden, guess what, Republicans pull better on

(39:35):
education now for the first time than Democrats in decades. Now,
all of a sudden, the mainstream media goes, holy cow.
I mean, if we start talking about you know, schools,
it opens us up to Hey, Trump's gonna come in
and go Hey, that woke ideology is gonna go. We're
going to bring in pro Americanism. I believe in parents,
not teachers' unions. Hey, I want to see an education
system that gets back to the basics. All of a sudden, Democrats,

(39:57):
what are you gonna do. You're gonna go to fend
that boys are now grow roles, boys should be in
girls sports, you know, gender reassignment, critical race theory. No,
And so it's just amazing to me to watch the
mainstream media go, Okay, well, never mind education. There's literally
was not an question about education in any of the debates.
Isn't that crazy? And their candidate, their VP candidate on

(40:18):
the Democrats side, was literally a card caring member of
the teachers union, and yet they still don't want to.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Talk about it. Brian, I know you're a very big
supporter of President Trump and his reelection bid. If he wins,
we're all hoping that takes place here in less than
a month from now. What do you hope he does
when it comes to education. What's the one thing you
would hope that his administration could start focusing on when
it comes to education.

Speaker 14 (40:43):
Well, let me tell you, I think he's laid out
the most aggressive, best most conservative plan for education the
country's ever seen. And he's got kind of three big
bullet points and I love every single one. The number
one is abolisher Department of Education. Guys, I can tell
you a story after story. I gotta deal with it
on a daily basis. They put luckily ideology, they pushed
acrase theory. Don't forget this summer. They told us, if

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y'all't allow boys and girls sports and boys and girls bathings,
we're gonna jerk all your child nutrition money from you,
right is the school you're starting. And we sued him
and we fought back against it. But I mean, that's
the kind of shenanigans that's pulled from the Department of Education.
Then second President Trump said, I want to do a
universal tax credit so every kid in the country can
have school choice, doesn't matter of red state, blue state,

(41:24):
purple state. He wants everyone to have school choice through
a tax credit.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
I love that idea.

Speaker 14 (41:29):
Unlocked the potential of every kid. And then thirdly, he's
been very clear, we got to understand our history. We've
got to understand a pro American history to understand what
made us great, what were our values. Where our values
come from here in Oklahoma, where the first state to
put the Bible back in every classroom for its historical context.
It's academic value. And again we've got to understand the
founding documents, the Bible, the Constitution, Declaration of Independence. Our

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kids need are robust understanding what made America unique? How
did we break the cycle that history seem to have
for every country. Why it different here? What made us
that unique country that's shining city over hill? As President
Reagan said, if you do those three things, it will
be unbelievable, but potentially you on lock for the country.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Well, I would agree with you on that one. Ryan, Ryan,
You're it's great to have you on the show.

Speaker 15 (42:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
I know you're in Oklahoma and there's that little Red
River football game going on this again down in Dallas.
I hope you're cheering for the right color, that burnt
orange color. Is that right?

Speaker 7 (42:24):
Right?

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Don't listen to him?

Speaker 15 (42:25):
Right?

Speaker 14 (42:26):
Hey, Look, you know everybody's counting our singers out. Can happen, anything,
can happen?

Speaker 8 (42:32):
River?

Speaker 16 (42:33):
Shoot?

Speaker 1 (42:33):
All right? Ryan, great to have on the show. Hope
to have you back on again. Thank you for the
good work he got me. He got me fired up,
my friend. Keep up the good work. Thank you for
all you do, guys.

Speaker 14 (42:44):
Love what you guys are doing. Thank you guys for
fighting for common sense and conservative values.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Preciad it all right, Ryan Walters, great guy, great, great guy.
Here's passion you know what, make him education secretary and
he'll have that department down out of the way in
a year. You know, I was going to ask the
question you asked.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
It probably would take me longer to get it out,
I'll admit, but I wanted to know where are the
steps we can do well. We do have the universal
school choice phil that we are the only state in
America that has a V two passed with a veto
proof majority, which is very is powerful, and we're seeing
that that take hold now. But when you see the curriculum,
I think one of the reasons why school choice is

(43:21):
so popular in Utah right now and there's such a
long waiting list for this program, is that I think
you all have parents and grandparents, as the superintendent pointed out,
they're nervous about the curriculum that's being put in front
of their children and grandchildren, and people are looking for
other even micro schools, private schools, they're looking home schools,
they're looking at different avenues because the public school system

(43:42):
as it is right now, it's not your father's school system.
If I would say there's some scary stuff going on.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
And Ryan did point out, you know, there are good
teachers out there. I mean, my son would like to
teach that. And there are a lot of very, very
good teachers out there. I think maybe quietly they would
even admit that all this po see and this Department
of Education guidelines and policies just get in their way
of good teaching. I can tell you what they want
to do.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
They do force decisions with the power of the those
federal dollars. Yeah for free, introduced lunch for kids that
are in Title one kids, kids live in poverty. But
here's the thing. I said it all along, and it's
what you just said. When I was a public servant,
I represented parents, I represented teachers. I just didn't represent
union bosses. Yeah, that's what I didn't write.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Thank you, Thank you all right. More coming up on
the Roden greg Show on this Thursday afternoon here on
Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine. Canna rest for
you Utah football fans, Cam Rising will start tomorrow light Arizona.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah right, listen, mister b Yu, he's going to start.
Well first, he's like what sixt forty eight?

Speaker 1 (44:48):
I mean, he's truly Archie Manning a little baby.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Archie Manning was like seven when he took his first
scholarship out of high school to go to Texas. He
really was the picture of how little Archie Manning was
when he went. When Cam Rising came out of high school.
It is a joke, but I.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Think he's a career student. Let me ask you a questions.
Storms up on the field before every game and then
he doesn't play. He can't grip the ball, the ball.
It's a trick too. Well, apparently he's going to start
on Friday night, tomorrow night. Against it. They're faking it.
They're just trying to trick that. You know what they
don't want. You know what they don't want Arizona.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
They wanted to watch tape on Cam Rising and not
the actual starting quarterback for the Utes.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
That's what they want. Okay, I got him figured out.
I know what they're doing. I see Donald Trump during
this campaign has come up with some interesting ideas and
you're wondering, Okay, Kamala, where are your ideas? Well? She
waits first for Donald Trump to propose them, and then
she herself copied them. Right, I'm thinking of the no

(45:48):
tax on tips, which I think is a great idea.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Yes, absolutely, and especially in Nevada where it's such a
service economy, a visitor, it's a visitor tourism, visitor economy.
The service industries pretty big there, and the tips absolutely
add up.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
And here in the state of Utah, if you work
like in a restaurant, you aren't paid the minimum wage, right,
You're paid a lower rate because then you get the tips.
That's right.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
But you know what when I was a bell hop
at the Sheraton as a kid, when I was parking
cars at Tambalini's at the restaurant, okay, this was cash
in the hand tips.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Now most of these tips are electronically pay right, so
there is a strict and very accurate accounting of tips.
And so when I would be paid less than minimum wage,
I can't honestly say that it was the exact dollar
for dollar difference between the tips I received and the
less than minimum wage I received. But when you have
the electronic so when they hired all these irs agents. Oh,

(46:45):
they went after they went and looked at these tips.
They went and looked at these uber drivers. They went
and looked at the you know, the door dashes, They
looked at everything. They looked at the servers and to
come to find out there people might have been underreporting
those tips. And so just geting out of the game
entirely and saying we're not going to tax tips. That's
not rhetoric. That is real, that is a real idea

(47:06):
tax reform.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Well, today he talked to the Economic Forum in Detroit
and he proposed this no taxes. No, you can deduct
the interests that you pay on your car loan off
your taxes. Yes, just like your like your mortgage, yeah,
like your home.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
And think how powerful that is because even people that
aren't able to and it's getting harder and harder to
own a home and have a mortgage.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
But everybody's got a car.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yeah, and I'm telling you, especially if you're buying a
used car, your your interest rates are usually pretty high.
If you could deduct that interest rate the interest paid
on an automobile, My goodness, what a what a relief
of a tax burden that that you're able to write off.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
It'd be it'd be a it's a big deal. Well,
I would think the auto, the automakers, the auto the
car dealers absolutely would this idea.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
And just think of the approach where you look for
tax relief versus Kamala Harrison Walls, who want to just
give you. I want to give the new business owner
x amount to start a new business. I want to
I want to freeze prices of food. You know have
price fixing on food. I want to I want to
build the housing units. Government's going to build the housing units.
You can move into everything. Everything that she wants to

(48:16):
do that she purports would help. The working people of
this country are always transactional. Where the government is giving
is giving you money, giving you something. All Trump is
saying is well, tax your less. How about if we
tax your less? How about if you.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Don't have to pay as much in taxes? Can you
do it?

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Then that's all we need. That's that's land of the free,
home of the brave. Stuff there just self right of
self determination and get out of my way.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, and that's what it comes down to in this election.
You know, the Democrats believe the government can take care
of you from crib to grave. Yep, right, that's what then,
that's what they want to do. Those of us on
the right say do it yourself, volks, just give me
the freedom to do what I want to do. I
think that's what this country was founded on, and that's
what we want to return to more and more. Did

(49:00):
you I shared this with you the other day, greak.
There are now two hundred million, two hundred million. I
may be that may be a little high. Maybe it's twenty. No,
it's twenty two million people in this country who work
for some form of government. Oh yeah, it's county, state,
federal government. Twenty two million people work for some form

(49:22):
of government in this country. I don't think that's what
our founders were thinking.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
When when when you see these job reports that come
out and everybody heralds, oh, look at all the jobs
that are being created. The big you know, the big guy,
I don't know, fart in the room would be big takeaway.
Big takeaway is how many of those jobs are either
one a government job that they covered, federal where they
print money so they can just do it. And in second,

(49:48):
how many are for those that are not here here legally?
That is that is actually a portion of those jobs
that are going that when the jobs report is not
good news necessarily, and so government growing jobs not going
to people that live here in America that they're coming
from all the you know, millions and millions that are
being brought over, those aren't Those aren't helping everyday people.

(50:10):
And look the Democrats want and the leftists, they want
to socially engineer this country's cradle to grave. Okay, And
that's and that's how they don't this whole self determination.
They just don't think we're smart enough, capable enough to
have that much liberty. In fact, even us look at
these polls, the higher ed people and these people, these
Ivy League schools, they think we have Americans experience too
much liberty. It's too much. Now they're not talking about themselves.

(50:33):
They should have as much liberty as they want, But
for the everyday people, you're just not that sophisticated and smart.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
You shouldn't be able to have that much liberty. Now
you don't know what to do with it. Well, remember remember, Greg,
it is not about equality. It is about equity. It's
about equal outcome, not equal opportunity. There is a difference
out there. All right, more coming up on The Rodden
Greg Show in Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine knrs,
who've been talking about the economy. Matter of fact, we'll
get into that a little bit more. There's a great

(50:58):
comment that you point it out to me earlier today, Greg,
that we've got some sound bite with an audio sound bite.
It's people on CNN talking about why the Democrats didn't
want to play nights with Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, I know, and there's a little bit of a shucks,
why did we do that?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
But we've got some colors done right, Greg, let's go
the colors.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I love when our colors call, and I love when
I see they're calling from Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Viva Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
That means they have the iHeartRadio app that they are using.
And so we welcome Brian on the program. Brian, thank
you for calling The Rod and Greg Show.

Speaker 17 (51:34):
Gentlemen, the unemployment numbers should not include government or scuse me,
the employment numbers should not include government hires. Here's the
reason why the government does not produce anything.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
I could not Brian, I could not agree more. You're
exactly right.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
They consume, they are consumers of dollars they do not well,
they do.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Print them the exactly exactly. Thank you for the observation.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
He's right, and that is why if you want to
see a scary site, go to Washington, d C. The
Class A office space that you see in Washington, d C.
Where they produce nothing. Okay, this is these are all
k Street. These these are all lobbying firms. These there's nothing.
When I was a kid, we used to take the
field trips down to down to Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
And it wasn't you know, a.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Lot of hobos around, and it wasn't the nicest place
you had your monuments and things. It's been transformed. I
mean the city, the Class A offices, the office buildings,
the condominium's apartments. The place is, you know, shining and glimmering.
But there isn't anything being produced inside those offices. These
are all those that are looking to get the public

(52:53):
treasury and secure it for their clients of whatever that
issue is.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
That's what they're doing. So I agree with the the
color Well, speaking of business, Elon Musk getting recognition again, Greg.
He's coming to the rescue of victims of the hurricanes.
He's coming to their rescue and of course he's trying
have those astronauts come from home. Yet from screen, I

(53:17):
think they're still up there, right. I think they've met
up there.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
They've sent the SpaceX, the planes up there, the rocket
ships up there, and they're kind of like, you know,
I don't know if it's a mix and mingole.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
I don't know what's going on up there.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
It's taking a while to get back, but they're up there,
and I guess there's a date for them to come back.
Thanks to Elon Musk and SpaceX, not from NASA or Boeing.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
They're not doing it. So Elon Musk a big fan
of Donald Trump. He's endorsed Trump, and on CNN you
pointed this out. There was a panel discussion about how
the Democrats have treated old Elon and what happened to him.

Speaker 18 (53:53):
But I think where the Democrats started to lose Elon
was actually personal. We should have celebrated his contributions to
electric vehicles, even though he was against unionization and set
up the unions. We should have said, look, starlink, great
product that that needs to be used. We should celebrate
the fact that he's had the first commercial success of

(54:16):
private people in space.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
And I think a lot of.

Speaker 18 (54:20):
It was that we didn't celebrate it, and he said,
you felt offended at check?

Speaker 11 (54:24):
How was I mean, I'm genuinely curious.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
I mean, was there something do you think that Democrats did?

Speaker 1 (54:30):
What was the thing?

Speaker 16 (54:31):
What was the thing.

Speaker 18 (54:34):
About it?

Speaker 13 (54:34):
When he wasn't invited to that EV summit, he should
have been invited. I called the White House.

Speaker 8 (54:38):
I never called the.

Speaker 13 (54:39):
White House, and I'm like, why didn't you invite him?
He's very angry and in fact I had an interview
with Pete Budhagege at the time, who also was a
little bit glib about it, and I was like, he's
critically important in this sector. I think the union thing
was the big deal of why they didn't invite him,
and they should have.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
He deserved that credit. And an interesting greg what the
Democrats did to you? They just shoved him away. It
was pro union. You know, he was an innovator and
you you know, and I think one of the bikes
where they mentioned, you know, this is the party of
John F. Kennedy, who loved innovation, who challenged America to
go to the moon within a decade. Here you have

(55:14):
Elon Musk coming along with the EV Okay, the Tesla
coming along with the star Link. Is that what it's
called making communication life, which you predicted sometime someday everyone
will have star Link in their home. Yeah, and I've
seen it's the future.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
It is, and I've seen some comments, well that's good
for now, but you know you need you need in
the in the ground fiber optics and that's what There
is no fifty year technology solution. Those satellites and that
technology is going to do nothing but get faster and better,
and that's where it's going to go. And for them
to shut them out. The bill that was supposed to
get connectivity to rural America, the places that don't have

(55:52):
any connection. He could it's it's right away. It's not
even you have to dig for a while and spend
money on infrastructure. You could do it right away. They
excluded him from the bid on politics alone. They have
so weaponized their processes. Yeah, if you're not a Democrat,
then you are morally or ethically failure and you're not
invited to the party.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
All right, when we come back, we're on take some
time and talk to you, the listener, about what's on
your mind tonight that's coming up our number three of
the Roden Gregg Show. Stay with us the Rotten Gregg
Show right here on Utah's Talk Radio one O five
nine K, and our ass had a chance to talk
to our listeners today. So got a lot on your mind.
We can talk about, you know, the the Democrats getting

(56:34):
little anxious, get a little anxious, getting little anxious. We
talk about, you know, this whole this battle for LDS
voters in this election. Here we had Burgess on a
little bit earlier. He was down in Arizona yesterday with JD.
Vans making an appealed. There's a there's I guess a webinar,
a fireside webinar on Sunday night for members of the

(56:56):
LDS faith really any faith if you want to tune
in and Glenn Back, Mike Lee and Burgess, Owens and
other others will be there talking about the importance of
faith in this election. We can talk about that as well.
You had the economy. It's not cooling off, Greg, I mean,
despite what they're doing, it is not cooling off.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Well, look the inflation report they thought would come in
with lower inflation. It was higher than expect Now they
want to say, oh, look, how low it is no.
They thought it was going to come in lower than
it did. Prices are still up over twenty percent generally,
but if you get into some of these eggs are
over seventy percent. Real average weekly earnings are down three
point four percent. Here's an interesting one, and I would

(57:35):
like to know if this had any I think it's
these numbers are too quick to respond to the Hurricane Helen.
But the number of Americans filing for unemployment benef it's
last week jump to the highest level in over a year.
And I don't know that that's, you know, hurricane related,
because it's.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Yead.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
So there's those those signs right there that this isn't.
This isn't if they want democrats in the media once
to say, you just don't know how good you have it.
So let's hear from you the listeners. Eight eight eight
five seven zero eight zero one zero is the number
to call with your comments and observations. Let's go to
the phones. Deane in Cottonwood Heights, thank you for holding
and thank you for calling the Rod and Greg Show.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Hello, So what say you do?

Speaker 3 (58:20):
I wanted to make a comment, Yeah, I wanted to
make a comment back about elon Musk. I think he's
a total genius. Yes, I just wish I was as
smart as him and had the money he asked, but
I wanted you know, I was watching the debate with
my daughter the other day. She had recorded it. I

(58:42):
don't know if you guys caught it, but Kim Walls
took the credit for EV technology in that debate. Well,
has anybody brought that up?

Speaker 1 (58:53):
No? Yes, no one's brought that up in height. Yes,
what did he say, Dean, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
It's about EV technology in Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
And how he's probably helped.

Speaker 7 (59:07):
Are are there is.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
There AV plant there in Minnesota that they think they
they should he should take the credit for that. It's
almost like Al Gore and the Internet. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Yeah, and I agree. And I thank you for your
call and your comment. And I'll tell you this, here's
the irony of if he's your credit, if he's taking
any credit for electric vehicles, you can't drive them in Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
In the dead of winter.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Turns out that the extreme low temperatures make it so
those things don't go extreme heat, extreme cold, they don't run.
So don't be getting over your skis on EV's there.
Governor walls.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
The only thing I can think of Greg is that
they you know, he was able to get a company
to locate their battery making plant in Minnesota. Maybe maybe
that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
It's probably from China when he was over there during
Tianem and Square.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
You know. The other thing that this warning yesterday and
you mentioned it on the show yesterday, e the owners
be careful of your cars in Florida. They may blow up. Yeah.
Apparently the salt water in the batteries is that? Is
that what it is? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
The Eon, the lithium and the eon ion batteries. Uh,
the Florida fire Marshall called them potentially ticking time bombs.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
In addition to all the other catastrophic things a hurricane
brings onto a community, you your electric vehicle very well
may be a ticking time bomb. So wow, you got that? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's going to say the planet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Eight eight eight five seven eight zero one zero triple
eight five seven o eight zero one zero, or on
your cell phone dial pound two fifteen, simply say hey, Rod,
phones are open to you. We're just chatting about whatever
is on your mind. Tonight. I spent another crazy week this, Greg,
I do want to say, Oh, by the way, did
you see that there were several stage photographs or videos
of Obama talking with officials down in Florida today? All staged?

(01:00:57):
Of course, all staged.

Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
I mean they let me ask this question, and I
don't it's the colors. You don't have to call in
an answer this. But I just I really really want
to know do people think when they see a Democrat,
whether it's Harris Walls or any of their surrogates in
an event, do they think it's organic? Because when Trump
shows up at a fast food joint, people go crazy,

(01:01:20):
and I mean he is really just showing up. When
Jade Vance showed up at a Primandi Brothers in Pittsburgh,
they first manager told me couldn't come in. But these
aren't staged. These are moments, okay, and you see people
get really excited. There has not been a single one
of these so called moments with the Harris Walls campaign.
These have all been staged. When and I have my
sources again on the ground in Pittsburgh who said they

(01:01:42):
would clear a restaurant, a diner and have them leave,
and then you would see the vans coming in for
people to sit in there as patrons. As she walked
in and started mixing and mingling with people. The stage
photos of Obama and Florida do not surprise me. Again,
that is what they do. They do not have any
of these. They don't have rallies like you saw on Butler.
They don't have anything like that. This is all political pageant. Yes,

(01:02:07):
there's nothing real going on there. And I just wonder
how many people know that? How many people know that
those are absolutely that's astro turf you're looking over here,
and that's grassroots over there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
They're not the same. They're completely different, low information voter,
it's all they can say. By the are listen. Speaking
of rallies. Obama is in Pittsburgh tonight rallying for Kamala, right,
And he appealed to the brothers. He said, brothers, you
aren't showing up for Oba or for Kamala. You need
to show up for Kamala. Yeah, what do you saying?

(01:02:36):
And because the numbers are showing black men, Hispanic men,
they don't like her and they aren't going to vote for.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
And you know, they should be allowed to not like
a candidate, not based on anything ethnic. They should be
able to just make a vote of conscience. But here's
the thing that a lot of these people, past presidents,
and I would include Trump in this category. The voters
that we're talking about that are left that you want
to persuade in this election, okay, they are not going
to take their instructions from past presidents, be it Obama, Clinton,

(01:03:06):
or even Trump. In the midterms two years ago, if
he liked a candidate in the midterms, a Republican, it
didn't mean all these people that support Trump today were
going out and voting for those candidates. It didn't happen.
Didn't happen in Pennsylvania. He's winning Pennsylvania today. The Republican
he endorsed in the midterms did not win. It's not
going to happen for the Democrats to walk out Obama

(01:03:28):
and Clinton. While you're saying we're gonna have a new way,
we're gonna do things differently. These old presidents, they're not
going to listen to those. Just because they vote for
Obama doesn't mean they're going to send their vote to
Kamala Harris.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
I'm only here, all right, Let's go back to the phones.
Eight eight eight five seven eight zero one zero eight
eight eight five seven eight zero one zero on your
cell phone dial pound two fifty and say hey Rod.
To the phones. We go to a color who has
a great first name Rod in American Fork. Are you Rod?
Thanks for joining us, Rocket Rod.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
I'm good.

Speaker 19 (01:03:56):
Yeah, I'm good, Rod, Thanks for taking my call. Longtime life, Right.
I commute a lot after Dougway, so I've got a
two hour drive both ways to and from home. But anyhow,
I just got finished the audio book Time to Get
Tough by Donald Trump. I don't know if you've read
that book.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
I just finished it.

Speaker 19 (01:04:13):
And his predictions at twenty eleven, his predictions in twenty
eleven are coming true with our economy and what's going
on today, With what's going on, everybody needs to really
read that book or listen.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
To the audiobook.

Speaker 19 (01:04:27):
It blows me away his predictions.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
And believe it or not.

Speaker 19 (01:04:30):
You know, Obama's had his third term with the current
administration in and if Kabala gets in this time, then
he'll have a fourth term.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Really yeah, can you can We can't afford that, ye, Rod?
Can you think of one thing he predicted that you
see coming true? Right now? You mentioned he had a
lot of things in there, But was there one that
really stood out that grabbed your attention? The oil oil
no peck okay.

Speaker 19 (01:04:56):
I challenge everybody to pick up that book or that audiobook,
can really listen to her, to read it all right
right away?

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Do you say that book is called Time to Get Tough? Yeah?
What is the name of the book?

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
You got? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
All right, man, we appreciate that. Appreciate that phone call
time to Get Tough. We need to get tough. It
gonna be some tough things to do. Let's go to
uh Bill in uh Salt Lake tonight on the Rotten
Greg Joe, Hi, Bill, how are.

Speaker 8 (01:05:20):
You pretty good? It's it's always it's been interesting to
me for some time now that the national debt has
increased by one trillion dollars every one hundred days for
the entirety of Biden's term, probably started before Biden even

(01:05:41):
got in there. But when you increase your national debt
by a trillion dollars every one hundred days, that's pretty
much the cause of our inflation. It's got nothing to
do with this bogus Fed Federal Reserve silliness with the
interest rate, because the interest rate the Federal Reserve is
playing with his what's called the overnight rate. The overnight

(01:06:02):
rate is what banks pay the Federal Reserve to borrow
money overnight so they can clear their debts. That's got
nothing to do with inflation.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 15 (01:06:17):
I'll tell you make it and i'd like them. While
I got you on the line, I'd like to make
a request. Okay, please slow down when you give the
number an auction. It took it took me four times
to get the whole number right, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
We will slow down an it's so funny. I love it.
Thank you so much. You know a bill, that's a
good suggestion. Yeah, okay, eight eight eight five seven oh
eight zero one zero.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Look, I love that. I love the feedback. Five seven
zero eight zero one zero. Yeah, no, that thank you
for that, because we want to hear it. If we're
if I'm just right, because I do think I could
actually start rattling that off like an auctioneer. And if
that's prohibit if that's keeping our good listeners from calling in, Yeah,
that's that's not good. I thank you for the input.

(01:07:13):
Thank you very good. Yes, we are not offended.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I'm not you you seem a little bothered. I'm not.
I actually, you know, I'm okay, you know, I like
you know, sometimes you have to be told the truth. Yes,
sometimes Kamala needs to look in the mirror and go
I cannot be president. She can, she doesn't, she did,
she does, she needs to all right, mare coming up
Rod and Greg right here on Utah's Talk Radio one

(01:07:36):
O five nine k n R S Rod and Greg
with you on this Thursday. Remember we're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app the Greg. As you know, the Messiah
has now shown up in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Let me tell you something I'm reading. Ob I hope
I can get a clip of this. Well, I know
we're coming close to the end of the show, but
this comment he makes in this speech in Pittsburgh is
so condescending to the people that you speaking. I don't
think it's gonna go over well, we can get into
it in detail later, but I think I'm going to
tell you he is. He is rebuking and chastising the

(01:08:08):
audience at the moment, and I don't know that that's
gonna play.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Telling them to get off there. You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
He's saying, He's accusing them if you don't support kama
it's because you don't support women. You got a part,
you've got a hard time with women, And I'm gonna
tell you that no, they actually have been suffering for
people have been suffering for the last three and a
half years. And how dare you say it's misogynistic to
not want her in after what we've lived through. While
he's jetting, he got five houses all over this world,

(01:08:34):
Georgetown and Martha's Vineyard and Why and everywhere else in
these right, and he's gonna sit there and wag his
finger at the people he's talking to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
This guy's been out of it too long. I do
not think that's gonna go over. This guy thinks too
much of himself. And I'll say, all right eight eight
eight five seven eight zero one zero eight eight eight
five seven eight zero onesero.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
You don't have to overdo. It's just trying to help
him out. Eight eight five seven zero eight zero one zero.
Let's let me.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Go to the way. It's dial pound fifty and say, yes, scholars.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
You like that too, Yes, it says, hey, Rod doesn't
Hey Greg, I missed that. Let's talk to Bead's been
waiting on hold. Thank you, bid, thank you for calling
the Rod and Greg show. You're from Tuila.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Let us what say you?

Speaker 7 (01:09:19):
I'm on my way home.

Speaker 20 (01:09:23):
I just want to say, first, Greg, from one d
to another, Queen Bee, Hello.

Speaker 17 (01:09:31):
To your wife.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
I love that. I loved I wondered what this name was. B.
This is Queen Bee.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Yet I will tell Queen b Christa that there's another
Queen Bee in Tuila. That's good to know. So let's
say you about all this? Tell me tell me about
this election?

Speaker 20 (01:09:47):
Well, I just I've been listening every day from morning
till evening to everything on k n R, I s
SO and also you know, Watch One Back and everything.
And I am so so excited about jd Vance being

(01:10:09):
the vice president with mister Trump, and I think they
will be a great combination. And if God forbid, if
anything ever happened to Donald Trump, I think that jd
Vance would be very, very able to run this country.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
I couldn't agree more. Seen B from Tuila, I think
that you're exactly right I have. I always knew this
was going to be the jd Vance that we saw,
but his his his debate, a lot of people have
discovered it. I'm just happy to have him on the ticket.
Shows that it shows Trump's strong judgment in these areas,
and I think that's what this is. Thank you for calling.

(01:10:54):
Thank you for your comment.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Very interesting comment. I'd learned something about you and your
wife today. I'm not going to say it on the
earth because you always you always accuse me of sharing
your partial information with the audience.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
You know what, you actually as soon as I made
the colossal mistake of saying this, you actually said you
were gonna nark me out.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
I am going to hold this over your head forever.
I'm gonna say what it is exactly. People will probably
love it. No, well, I don't know. Look, I'm probably lacked.
It's your world. I live in it, clearly.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
So you want to you if you want to, if
you want to take our nice conversations, and then.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
You're going to embarrass you. All right, back on the
phones we go. Let's talk with a Wen Day in Utah.
Can we should hope a vote on this? Do you
want me to share this information with the audience or not?

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
It's nothing, by the way, it's nothing CD or no,
it's not CD. It's not in a pro pro that way.
But it's just you know, I was just talking about
my wife and little tender terms to trust.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
No, I'm not going to Wendy is in Utah County tonight.
You're on the rodden great show, Wendy, how are you?
Thanks for joining us, gentlemen.

Speaker 7 (01:12:01):
Oh by the way, Greg, yes, I saw you on PBS,
very gapper haircut. I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Oh, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
Yes, yes, I didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:12:12):
Very becoming in Rod. Don't you dare pick on him.
We're all all grandma there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Don't thank you, thank you. I need that. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
You know what, you might be the only I didn't
think for any But as I sat there on the
on the set at PBS, on that on the Hinkley Report,
I thought, you know, I don't think Rod and Greg
show listeners watch this. I mean it's you know, because
it's very whispery there they you know, it's kind of
low energy on that set, and it's not really my thing.
But I did enjoy the back and forth and thank
you for watching that. I appreciate it, and thanks for.

Speaker 7 (01:12:46):
I watched it instead of Big Yeah, I watched that
instead the big Big Bank theory.

Speaker 16 (01:12:50):
But anyway, what's.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
On your mind, Wendy?

Speaker 7 (01:12:54):
Yes, well, I once again Grandma there to theirs, I
am so over Kamala those those dang pearl earrings that
she thinks are so cool. So she warm into debate
and uh whatever it was when they were doing the

(01:13:15):
the thing with the hurricane, well, she also warm on somewhere.
Her phone went off when she was doing a recipe
something with somebody and said, can I talk to you
about it later when I'm done helping this guy with
this recipe. I am so over her her. Oh, I'm
just so over it.

Speaker 9 (01:13:34):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Yeah, I Grandma Bear, I'm with you, Bendy, I'm with you,
and I I I think that she is just the
more they're trying to change that, just change up their
their campaign strategy because it's not working. You get to
hear her more, you see her more, and it's it's
actually worse.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So you know, I'm getting the
sense on this show that I'm kind of like big
brother and your little brother, and and the audience does
like brother picking on a little brother.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
And that would be true on every on every level.
Your your sense is just your observation they and your
picking on me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Is catching up. Yeah, good, true, man, It's true. They
used to. They used to invite me on the Hankley Report.
Oh they still do now they they do know they
invite you to it. He said, you're a big name.
Oh I'm not a peon guy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
All right, after that show, I don't know if you
watched it, but I but I did push back a
little Bity're not used to that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
You're not used to that? It is all right? More
coming up, Rod and Greg with you. You're on Utah's Talk
Radio one oh five nine k n RS The Rod
and Greg Show with you here on Utah's Talk Radio
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Greg and Rod. It's Friday. Do you believe it's Friday already? Tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
I'm ready for Friday. I am to My Steelers are
playing in Vegas on Sunday, And.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Are you find down ves?

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
It might be my birthday that day? It might It
might all it's your birthday. You know, all these things
might be coming together to one moment.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
We may have to put together a special treat for
you on your birthday. Well it's on a Sunday, so
we won't be on the air mins. Well, it doesn't matter,
we can do it today anyways.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
Answer, Am I looking forward to the weekend maybe a
little bit. I might be it might be the case.
Let's get back to our callers, love our callers. Let's
go to John and Bluffdale. John, thank you for holding,
Thank you for calling the Rodd and Greg show.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
What say you?

Speaker 16 (01:15:29):
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with the unburdened by what
has been?

Speaker 9 (01:15:36):
Right?

Speaker 16 (01:15:36):
Yeah, we're trying to start. We're trying to start a campaign.
We have a few people moving, we're trying to get
people here, and you dough to do a what what's
burdened us by what she has been, whether it's immigration
or sex changes for prisoners or in place and whatever.
We're trying to get, you know, kind of the power
of the people campaign to have people say, this is

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what's burdened me by what you have been Kamala, because
she's admitted that, you know, she and Biden are in
luck steps and knew everything he was doing. She supported
everything he did. So that's the campaign that we wanted
to start. And I heard John the radio. Just had
to drive to the store real quick, and I thought
I woul at least bringing up to what you're thinking.
I love that I might be able to get support for.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Yeah, John, how do you get people involved? Is there
a website they can go do to son? How do
you get people involved in that?

Speaker 16 (01:16:26):
You know what? It's right now? My wife was good
friends with Marla Maypole's Trump so we're very blessed there.
We went to Florida and so she's got a friend
there and so she's pretty well connected and she helped
Trump win back in sixteen. Just I mean, we're it's
just grassroots. Just tell your friends that are Trump supporters
put something on social media. What's your burden? What has

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burdened you by what she has been?

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
I do I'm going to repeat that if you don't mind, John,
I'm going to pretend like I create that, sud take it.
I'm going to own it.

Speaker 16 (01:16:58):
I would be honored. Just run with it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
You know it's so true.

Speaker 16 (01:17:01):
I mean that whole country to start posting.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Thank you, John, that is a great I love the
saying because unburdened by what has been has also been
said by Karl Marx, So you know it's actually a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Awkward than Mark. Yeah, yeah, realize that, but.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
But what has burdened us by what she has been?
I could not encapsulate it better, I don't think because
look she has said recently, Biden and I were the same.
Every hit decision he made we made. I stand by
everything we've done, which is odd when she kept trying
to say this is a new start and I'm not
Joe Biden, but she went back to that. So what
has burdened us by what she has been? I'm gonna,

(01:17:37):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
You know, there was a h what has Kalala burdened
you with? Huh high prices? Absolutely, the high I think
rhyme illegal aliens. I think it was either Clay or
Sean today went through this list of things and talking
them about twenty minutes to tick off everything, to check
off everything that she has done. It's absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
The illegal immigration has contributed to a terrible public safety
crisis in our state and across this country. That has
also impacted jobs, housing, public schools. But then the grocery
stores are gasoline tank. We used to be net just
in a short time with Trump net exporters of oil
and gas. We are now completely dependent on the on

(01:18:22):
the imports of a boil and gas around the world,
so the costs are hire. So I mean, I feel
it in everything we do. Whether I do I personally
feel it, I know others do. My wife, Queenbee Christa
does not like going to the grocery store. These are
not these are not good times.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
And every time I meet someone that says, you know,
wants to even have a luxury issue, debate about disposition
or what, you know, what his personality is like, it's like, well,
you must be either a trust fund baby and you
have generational wealth and you've never paid a bill or
I don't know what. Because if you can't, if you
can't quantify the challenging times that we're living through and

(01:19:00):
feeling and actually feeling, then I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
I don't understand your perspective. And it's funny how people
can't get past his quirky things that he does at
the expense of their own well being, their own country,
and they just can't get past his mannerisms, what he
says about people. I mean, it is just Donald Trump. Yes,
that's who he is. But look, I go back to
what you were, you know, the politician or the policies.

(01:19:27):
Look at the policies that Donald Trump enacted when he
was there, what he did for this country, and now
the ideas that he's coming up with for the American people.
No tax on tips today. Now you can detect the
interest on your car loan if you want to go
buy a new car. I mean, I mean what these
are innovative, interesting ideas, freeing the tax burden from the

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American people and allowing them to decide how they want
to spend their money, not the government say here, we'll
give it to you and you can.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Have And this is where it gets too substantive for
some people. But look in that same speech, he said, look,
China is getting around our tariffs because we like fair trade,
not free where you're tariff the daylights out of our
stuff and we don't tear if you are. So there's
tariffs that China wants to avoid. They ship it toech
to Mexico. Mexico doesn't have a tariff, and then they
try to bring in auto parts things to that harm
our economy avoiding that tariff. He said in today's speech

(01:20:17):
he's going to open those Mexico US trade negotiations and
say you're not doing it, or we're going to stop
trading with you, or you're going to pay tariffs. He's
going after things like that. You haven't heard a sentence
like that out of the Left on any of these
real life issues that really impact us. And so the
substance is there.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
It really is. And here's what Kamalain is doing and
the Democrats are doing. Appealing to young men who enjoy porn.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
I know the porn industry is all for the Harris camp.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
I want that juxtapold will prevent pornography in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
Final segment of the Rodding Greg Show. Here on talk
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Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
There's a man tour going on Rod.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Big big Man tour, A big man Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
Yeah, So for men only? Men only? Isn't it a
little discriminatory? Will women not be allowed on this tour? Well,
here's the part of this tour.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
So the man tour, there's a couple of there's a
couple you know, parts of the man tour. You got
you got Obama right now in Pittsburgh and he's figure
wagging the men in the audience and he's telling them,
he's telling them that you just don't like voting for
a woman, and that's not right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
You shouldn't be that way.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
And so he's again, it's a world, it's a moral
or ethical failing that they are not voting for Kamala,
and he is there to tell the men. He's there
to set him straight. Then you go over to the
to the white bread. Tim Walls, Okay, our favorite manly
man or reinvented man, the what they call him, the
Prairie Progressive, the color Well, there's a lot of names.

(01:21:50):
We'll just we'll just leave it at that. So I'm
going to give you a heads up on his new
Man tour that's coming up. You're going to see him
on Good Morning America. He's going to be interviewed by
former NFL great Michael Strahan going the football and they're
going to be on the football field to do it.
An assistant coach.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
Really wait wait wait, they're going to a football field
to do this interview.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Yes, they are, because he's coach Walls now as an
assistant coach. Having ever been assistant coach, I don't think
you get to call yourself coach Walls. Coach Hughes, I
was an assistant coach. I never called myself coach Hoes. I'd
like to, but I always reserve that for head coach.
But so they're going to have that. Then he's going
to Michigan and he's going to be doctor. It says
that the event he's going to hold their Friday tomorrow

(01:22:33):
is geared towards black men. Then he's going to Friday
Night Lights, He's going to the high school football game
and Mankato West. He just wants to show he's out
there on the gridiron men. He wants you to see
that these men he cannot wave like he's Richard Simmons.
If he starts waving that hand like Richard Simmons, it's over.
No one's going to even buy it. And then this weekend,
look out pheasant hunting a social media influencers.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
You'll have a gun in his hands.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Yes, Dick Cheney, you might finally get released of the stigma.
You might have someone replace you on the not knowing
where to shoot and when and where. But here's the thing.
If you have Barack Obama right now yelling and chastising
black men in Pittsburgh, if you have for not for
not supporting Kamala, and if you have uh, Tim Walls
out there with Michael Strahan on Good Morning America in

(01:23:21):
Michigan at Friday night lights at the football game, pheasant
hunting on the weekend. I is it safe to assume
that just the men just are not are not supporting her.
I think she's got a problem that with men.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
I don't think pretty obviously, let me ask you, let
me and I think the campaign realizes that she's got
a man problem. And and yeah, I want to ask
you this before you you carry You're a political veteran,
You've been involved in campaign stunts. I don't think so.
I mean, how do they look contrived? It does whole

(01:23:55):
campaign contrived?

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Is it's all stage, it's political pageantry. The one thing
they're missing. What I think every every real successful campaign
experiences is authenticity. Authenticity is something that people are searching for.
They want to just be They want to feel like
they're being told the truth. They want to be told
the truth, not I just feel like it. You want
to be told the truth. That can come with words
and all, but authenticity is the name of the game.

(01:24:19):
If you can, if you can be authentic, A lot
of people can't. These things I've described this is just
this is astro turf. This isn't grassroots. Okay, this is
and but let's flip the script. If I'm to believe
that every man refuses to vote, and this is their premise,
this is the campaign's premise. If you refuse to vote
for her purely because you're a misogynist, purely because you

(01:24:42):
hate women or can't imagine the idea of a woman
being president, then can we say the same about women
that they are only voting based on gender, and they
don't care about any of the issues other than her gender.
It is girl power. They are only voting for women.
They don't want to see a man. They don't want
think about a man being a president nearly they don't

(01:25:02):
want men. You and I know we would never just
relegate women's vote to that base level. But somehow the Walls,
the Harrison Walls campaign things they can get away with
just disparaging every male that doesn't vote for her as
it being a problem with their hatred towards women.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
Misogynists. Yeah, that's a good point. It doesn't work, don't
We don't. We'll turn the tables on the women. We're
voting for this woman just because she's a woman.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Yeah, if you're going to say that, then I guess
every every woman, by the same logic is only doing
it based on gender.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
That's the only reason they're going to vote for it. Well,
I was given women a little more credit than that,
and it was just it was based on something more
than just gender alone.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Like, are women who listen to the show? Yeah, they're not.
They're not a show for her, Sure they're not. They're
fighting against her, all right, Jesse Kelly coming your way
following our news update at the top of the hour.
It is Friday tomorrow. We always have fun on Fridays.
We hope you join us. Head up, shoulders back. May
God bless you and your family. And there's a great
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