The Rod and Greg Show: Chinese Biolabs in America; Trump Stops $ for Trans Ideologies; Our American Stories

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we have got a great show lined up for you. Today.
We're going to be talking about how Donald Trump is
basically stopping any American money going to trans ideologies. We'll
talk about that a little bit later on. We'll talk
about these Chinese bio labs that you talked about last
week a little bit this kind of scary. And we've
got a new program starting tonight on the show on

(00:21):
the station. It's called Our American Stories. The creator and
founder of it, Lee Habib, will join us later on today.
So let's talk about a lot to talk about.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
But I think we should start at about that Super
Bowl yesterday. You know a lot of different angles to
that game.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know why everybody's talking about the halftime show.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Because the rest of it wasn't very because the game sucked. Now, look,
I do like defense. I've always maintained the defense wins
championships good defenses, so I don't mind a good defensive struggle.
But I had always worried that the Patriots just warm.
I mean, they play had a very easy schedule. They
only beat one team that played in over five hundred
that was the Bills. They played them twice, lost to

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the Bills, once to Bills the second time. But that's
the only team that was above five hundred that they
won all year long. And then they had that blizzard
in their NFC championship game with it, which whoever was
winning in that moment when that blizzard hit, that was
the end of the game. So about a half of
football you missed. So I thought at Seattle, that's why
I said, I was surprised they were only a four
and a half point favorite because I just thought that
they were just a stronger team, and I kind of

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proved to be the case. I thought. I thought, I
thought the Patriots defense played well, but that that Drake May.
He's I mean, he's not going anywhere. He's you know,
he's young. But he would have been the youngest winning
quarterback had he won. Dan Marino, yeah, Dan Marino, Ben Roethlisberger,
and Drake May all twenty three years old, but he
would have been the youngest. Turns out that my Steelers

(01:42):
quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is the only twenty three year old
to win Super Bowl as the youngest quarterback starting quarterback
for the Super Bowl. But so that takes us to
the halftime show, which one did you watch?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I wanted to watch Bad Bunny. Okay, I wanted to
see because you know, I knew I could get the
one later on, so Bad Bunny, and I tell you
what I First of all, you know, it was in Spanish,
so I didn't understand the thing they were saying. We'll
get into that here in a minute, because we're all
talking about the lyrics in that and they're pretty disgusting.

(02:15):
So moms and dads of you know, your kids are
listening to Bad Bunny, see if he can get an
English interpretation of what he's saying or not or not,
and your kids may never listen to it again because
some of those lyrics are pretty bad. But I just
wanted to see what it was. I really wanted to say. Well,
first of all, I wanted to see what Green Day
was going to do because they were the They were
the pregame show, you know, and they're very anti Trump.

(02:38):
I was waiting for the lead singer, is Billy Joe
Armstrong e rate something like that, Yeah, to say something stupid.
He didn't, you know. They they just performed this song.
So I wanted to see if Bad Bunny was going
to do anything. So I watched it.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
You wear dress anything.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, he didn't. He just wore that white outfit or
whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And you know, yeah, saying and danced. I've heard that
there was thing that would offend anyone other than you.
Didn't understand a word they were saying. But the connection
of it wasn't very good. I saw some interesting interviews
with NFL players, like what's your favorite bad bunny song?
Nobody knows? Nobody knows, And I'm sure there's a demographic
out there that they wrote the commission, NFL commission, Roger

(03:17):
Goodell's trying to reach out to. But I think you're
alienating a large your base, you know, when you when
you put on performances like that versus ones we've seen
in the past that have been quite popular.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Interesting note I saw today, Greg, since jay Z took
over the halftime show a seven years ago now right, yeah,
about seven years ago, I think it is, there has
been one white performer at halftime during the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Interesting, yeah, other than Eminem and he and hip hop.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, he's a hip hop guy.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
They would say he's better than that.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know so, and you know, I read none of
another article today is this Roger Goodell's way of spreading
football internationally because you and I have talked to out
these European games. Both of us hate them. No, they're
not scheduled. I think they did nine this year there
early in the morning in our time. Does anybody even
pay attention to them?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
How much market share and how much worth do you
want that it's most popular and profitable sport in American
professional sport and you don't need to take away your
base of American fans to try and reach internationally when
I mean, I don't know what they want. Like I said,
it is there's their teams are more valuable than other teams,
and there there's just it's and there's parody in football.
I think the competition is very strong. I think every

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year a team can rise up. I mean it's a
great league that way. But man, do they get into this,
I mean this international desire. The Vikings Minnesota Vikings spent
I think two they they played two games over seas,
which I think is just it just gets ridiculous. And
again the time zones don't work. But having it having
the halftime show in Spanish where most don't understand it,

(04:53):
I just don't know that that's a way to connect
with the nation as they watched that game together. However,
that allowed for what.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
I watched, you watched the other one.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I watched all American hell the time.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I quite enjoyed it. I thought it was great. I'm
not a huge country music fan, but I'll tell you
the music, the lyrics, the music was all great. I
actually like Kid Rock's performances. Kid Rock and then his
uh his performance at the very end. He had a
song where his last name is Richie. I can't remember
what his first name is. Anywait, what is it? What

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did Bob Bob Ritchie? So he did a song as
Bob Ritchie which was more of a country song, but
it was about it was about God and it was
about anyway. It was a really good song and I
like that a lot. I watched it. I had to
go onto YouTube. I stream it on my TV, so
I was able to do it. But I'll tell you
what is very interesting. Six million streams I think for

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that show because they have bigger numbers now that people
have gone back to watch, But about in the event,
about six million streams, and you know people aren't watching
by themselves, so each of those streams have some three
or four people are already some Barrey bar A family
get together. So if you count how many people buy
those streams or households, I mean it's a significant number.

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Then that begs the question, how many advertisers who pay big,
big money for those halftime commercials are going to do
that if you keep putting on shows that peel off
twenty thirty thousand viewers away from that and that's conservative
that number. So anyway, I thought that that was an
interesting thing. But again, even alternative halftime shows, this isn't

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the first time that's happened. There was a boxing event
once with Riddy Bow And anyway.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, well, I want to go back to Bad Bunny.
I want to read you Greg. This is the analysis
of the show from the Washington Posts. Okay, here's what
they wrote in general, Bad Bunny super Bowl halftime show
and the kind of wholesome traditional family values that would
have fit right in with some of the more sentimental
commercials that aired during the game. So was wholesome family

(06:59):
value oriented show? Right? Yes, Now, let's examine some of
the lyrics from his songs. Okay, we put him into English.
This is someone who writes for a media research Center
she posted today listened to what some of those lyrics
actually said in English.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
The Bad Bunny finally performed the Super Bowl halftime show
on Sunday, and apparently we're all supposed to hand out
brownie points because it wasn't as visually offensive as it
could have been because he didn't show up in drag
wearing prosthetic boobs, so the bar was set in hell.
But the whole show was still entirely in Spanish, so
most of the audience couldn't actually understand it. The Washington
Post tells us it was full of wholesome family values.

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Others lectured Christians on how we should be celebrating it
because Jesus loves people who speak all kinds of languages.
But the problem with rocking out to a song sung
in a language that you don't understand is that you
don't understand it. Allow me to help you out. Here
are some of the lyrics The Bad Bunny performed at
the Super Bowl halftime show, translated for your convenience, ready
for this?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Bet you're not.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I'm going to take them all to the VIP. Say
hello to Auntie, Let's take a selfie, say cheese. Let
the ones I already smile. A Dominican who is a
fresh hotty, fresh fresh hotty, the one from Barcelona that
came by plane and says that my dick is fire,
My dick is being chased, and I want you to
hide it, grab it like a bonga. She took a
pill that made her horning. She fits in the Audi,
not in the Honda. That's what was being performed in

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front of more than one hundred and fifty million people
at the nation's largest sporting event by a cross dressing
rapper who we're supposed to believe Jesus would have been
applauding because he spews his filth in something other than English.
But see, here's the thing about diversity. It's not wonderful
for its own sake. Beauty and humanity come in all
kinds of diverse forms, But so does the contents of
my garbage can, which frankly is exactly where this halftime

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show belongs. Even if you couldn't understand.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Why, yeah, and those she just read greg a small
portion of the lyrics. You can see the whole the
lyrics to the entire song. It is filthy and pretty disgusting.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah, and I didn't know that untill we did
our show production this morning. I just, you know what,
I just want to watch things that I like and
that I enjoy, And I just thought that even if
that show was perfect in its presentation, the comment the
commentary from Bad Bunny about you better learn Spanish if
you want to enjoy the show, his tirade against Ice

(09:15):
at the Grammys, some of the wardrobe selections he's had
in the past. It doesn't lend a lot of confidence
that you're going to watch an entertaining show versus when
they have recognizable stars that we've all known their music,
enjoyed their music, have you know, have played their music.
It's not a social experiment that halftime show or shouldn't
be making. That certainly was with this one, and so

(09:37):
I didn't have any desire to watch it. And again
saying it wasn't as offensive or that they were able
to avoid, just all they had to do is just
say the offensive stuff in the language you don't understand,
and everyone should be fine. Again, it misses the point
of a halftime show for me. So I think that
I I was thinking that this might be a tipping
point where Roger Goodell's going to hear who's going to

(09:59):
pay all the big money for at halftime shows or
commercials during those shows that repel a good portion of
the of the football audience away from it. I mean,
it's it's it has the opposite effect. And so I
don't know, maybe maybe jay Z gets to keep making
a mockery of our halftime shows from here on.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Output guess he calls that entertainment. Yeah, yes, so all right,
more coming up the Rod and Greig Shows, starting off
your Monday right here on Utah's Talk Radio one oh
five nine O ky NRS. For quite some time about NGOs,
I know, one of your favorite topics.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yes, it was a disaster, had no idea how bad
it was.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, well we're thanks to those we're finding out what
they've been up to and what they've been doing. Well,
we've just found out the President has decided to stop
our tax dollars from funding trans ideology abroad through NGO's
surprise surprise. Right joining us on our newsmaker line to
find out what's going on is a contributor to the
Federalist Sarah Wilder. Sarah, how are you welcome to the

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Rod and Greig Show.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Thanks for joining us Sarah, Great, thank you so much
for having me.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
What exactly is the president done when it comes to
these our tax dollars going to fund these trends ideology organizations?

Speaker 5 (11:10):
So basically what Trump has done if you've expanded what's
called the Mexico City Policy, which blocked foreign aid US
foreign aid going to organizations that promote support abortion, and
it sort of expanded that to also include aid going
to organizations that promote gender ideology. So, as you mentioned,
these are the kinds of things that Doge was doing
a lot of great work and exposing. Yeah, and and

(11:34):
basically it takes Trump's you know, general America First policy
he's had in this administration and sort of expands it
to take well, if we're not supporting this gender ideology
here domestically, why are we supporting it overseas?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Sarah, Here's my question these I think these executive orders
are important. I think the administration's policies and how they
decide to administer the money is important. But do they
zengios follow it. So I keep seeing these many bus
bills or these budget bills that were passing, and I
kept seeing in the in the fine print it was
being reported that these NGOs were still receiving funds for

(12:07):
doing things that were contrary to what we would hope
they do or that are legal here in the United States.
This recent decision by the President does is it enforceable?
Do you see it making a real difference on how
those NGOs spend overseas.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
Well?

Speaker 5 (12:23):
I think these policies are obviously a great place to start,
but they're not going to be you know, they're not
going to deal with everything, right. Obviously, we still have
promoted abortion in different ways, even though we had the
Mexico City policy ban that for quite some time, right,
But they are a good place to start.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
You know.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
And I don't think we can really let the perfect
be the enemy of the good here. Following this up
with like actual legislation would be great. And then obviously,
I mean the ultimate end goal would be to just
make funding and supporting these types of things just unthinkable
in the first place.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Sir.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
How did these NGOs almost become uncontrollable or just disappear
and go off and do what they ever wanted without
any one ever paying attention to them? How on earth
did that happen?

Speaker 5 (13:04):
I mean, I think they support causes that that are
very you know, feel good. It's over going to help,
you know, little kids. And then you dig a little
deeper and it's like, oh, you're actually going to help
you know, an eight year old who's mentally disturbed, you know,
transition their gender from boy to girl or girl to boy.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
Right.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
It's it's when you look at you know, these war
torn countries or countries just in a terrible way, right,
and you're a you're an empathetic American and you really
want to help, and you want to use our rich,
vast resources to help. It's very easy to be caught
up in the way these NGOs and just the girls
in general talk about foreign aid and it's like, how

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could you ever want to stop this?

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Right?

Speaker 6 (13:42):
That would be that's.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
What bad guys do.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
Right.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
You look at the way this recent decision from President
Trump has been framed by gender idiologues, and they just
talk about how it's affecting thirty billion dollars in US
foreign aid, right, no discussion about what exactly that foreign
aid was and how we actually should spend that. Foreorn
aid doing a lot you know, things that are a
lot more helpful and do tangibly benefit these people. But
it sounds good in the short run, right, And we

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don't have very smart people in politics, and so they're
not prone to look deeper, and they're also not form
to look deeper because they're gonna they're going to sort
of sound bad.

Speaker 9 (14:17):
You know.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Trump is obviously a very hated person, and part of
it is because he does things like this, right that
are easy headlinds for liberals to say. You know, he's
slashing aid to these poor countries, right, So it is
a lot of weaponized empathy going on, and then just
some very smart marketing tactics on the part of the angos.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
So I'm going to use this word vaguely. I don't
mean it might be legally fraudulent. It might be, it
might not be right, but I'm gonna use the word
fraud is the taxpayers had no intention or knowledge that
their taxpayer dollars would be used in such a way.
And I would I would say overseas, gender ideology, social engineering,
in ways that if you were to look at the

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polls in America, Americans just don't support these things, let
alone want their taxpayer dollars to be spent towards them.
Then you get it. Domestically, and you look at states
like Minnesota, potentially California, Maine. There's states where there's a
lot of talk that there's a lot of waste in
federal funds being used again, but things that the American
people had no intention to see it used for, even fraudulent.

(15:20):
How much of our budget do you think we'd like?
I mean, it's such a big budget, and we have
so much deficit spending. How much do you think could
be found or could be identified that's in this category
of spending that the American people by mass majority do
not want to be engaged in at all. How big
are we talking about here a size in terms of
our budget.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
I bet it's bigger that even you and I would imagine, honestly.
But you're totally right about the just being totally out
of step with the way Americans think. I think ey sighted.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
It might be.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
A project from America's new majority that found that fifty
nine percent of Americans would support a lot like what
Trump just put in place, even though the media is
sort of acting like this is drastic and radical policy,
when in reality, obviously it's drastic and radical to be
funding these things overseas. But yeah, there, I mean, just

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domestically and and you know, in foreign affairs. I think
what Doges has discovered is that really just the tip
of the iceberg of what's going on behind the scenes
with the massive, massive, you know, omnibus bills and budgets
that you couldn't even read if you had, you know,
every single secent of two years to read. A lot

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of things are hidden into that. And I don't think
as taxpayers we really have any idea of the extent
of which you know this is actually going on.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think they'd put up with
it either. Sarah, great to have you on the show.
Good work on this, Thank you very much, and enjoy
the rest of the day.

Speaker 10 (16:54):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Line Sarah Wilder. She is a contributor to The Federalist.
Greg let me ask you this. I have a quick
question for him. Reading Sarah's article, do you think the
American people would be happy to know that a US
eight grant issued fifteen million dollars for condoms to the Taliban.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
To the talent to the Taliban. There you go. I know,
I don't think that's on the I don't think that's
a kitchen table issue. I don't I don't think anyone's
worried about that issue as they are sitting around the
table trying to make the you know, balance the budget,
food on the table pay the morning.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
We had a deep discussion in our family last night.
I watched Super Bowl on fifteen million dollars in condoms
to the Talib, to the Taliban of all people in
discussion we had, yeah, right, all right, more coming up.
The Rod and Greg Show rose along on this Monday
and Utah's talk radio one oh five nine KNRS. Commentaries
continued Greg, as far as the US Olympic athletes are concerned,

(17:48):
and some of the comments they made during the first
full weekend of the Olympics there in Milana and Cordina, Italy,
you know, taking an opportunity to say they aren't happy
being an American super disappointed.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but listen to one skier
that said, you know, I'm doing this basically for my
family and friends, and just because I'm wearing the flag
doesn't mean I agree with everything that's going on.

Speaker 10 (18:11):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
You made a point before the show started that, you know,
the media, especially the international media, trying to draw these
types of answers out of our American athletes by asking
questions basically with the premise being do you completely support
what's happening in your own country? And I guess the
answering honestly, they're either naive or whatever they're in. But
I just think that it should not be hard for

(18:32):
an Olympic athlete American. It's on our US Team USA
to just instinctively identify that they are on foreign soil
and that they love this country. And if we have fights,
it's within the family. But as far as you're concerned
Italy and as far as you're concerned international press, I'm
nothing but proud to have this flag on my uniform.

(18:53):
End of story. And when you don't hear that, I
think that maybe the Olympics need the Olympic Communities to
ask or US Olympic commedians to ask that question. Can
you can you answer that you're proud to be actually
earn a spot on this team or is this going
to be an embarrassment for you or are you going
to say that you're representing something other than our country
like that guy did. He says, my friends and family
are really who I'm here for. If you can answer

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that you're proud to represent the country. I don't care
how good you are at that sport. I don't Why
would I Why would I cheer for that individual?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Do you think they're being pushed by the media.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
I do.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I think they're being baited.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Are they being bathed?

Speaker 2 (19:28):
I think they are, and but I have it doesn't
It doesn't excuse it to me because for me, because
I've seen an Olympics past, those that win the gold
representing our country, and on that podium when the national
anthem is sung I or played, I've seen tears stroll
down their faces and I can't imagine those same individuals
if you went back a week earlier and said, how

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does it feel to represent this country? Well, I'm not
really here for my country. I'm here for my for
my friends and my family, and you know, I don't
agree with everything. And then they're sobbing as they're standing
there hearing the national anthem as they win the gold medal.
I have to think that that emotion you're seeing in
real time, or we have seen in real time in
the Olympics representing our country is genuine, authentic and would
not lead them to be baited by a miserable international

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media that wants to get those athletes to criticize our
own country.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Two things. Someone brought up this point, Greg. You know,
they do not understand American history because American history is
meeting taught to these kids anymore. You know, they didn't
live through the Cold War, they didn't live through nine
to eleven for crying out that that changed us. We
understood what was going on in the world. They didn't
live in it. They have no idea what this country
has been through. Why in part because history is not

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being taught in American schools anymore the way it should be.
So these kids, that's not an excuse. Yeah, I know it,
but it gives them. It gives you a perspective. I mean,
someone wrote today, patriotism recognizes our flaws, which is okay
to do right, but also the extraordinary experiment that is America,
and this is an experiment. Can we govern ourselves?

Speaker 2 (20:59):
It's just seems so odd to me that if you
come from a country, a war torn country, a country
that doesn't have the same quality of life, and you've
immigrated here, that your first instinct. And I'm not talking
about the Olympic athletes in this moment. But I'm saying
those that are immigrants to this country would would fly
the flags of the countries in which they have escaped,
and that they don't see the difference in the quality

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of life and the opportunities here where they don't want
to embrace it or be a part of it. They
want they it's it's division and not assimilating as a
as a as Americans from day one. Then you look
at these young Olympians and you you're thinking, to your point,
you're not taught our American history. I mean, there's a
it's it's I mean, this is I mean we've I've

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read where if you're a communist, if you were a
USSR back in the day, you knew you weren't going
to throw bombs that American beat us. You were going
to do it from within. You were gonna and you
were going to corrupt our institutions, our our public schools,
our universities, our media. You were you were going to
corrupt us from within. That's how you win. And it
feels like.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Good job, you can well. Herb Brooks, who was the
coach of the Great USA hockey team in nineteen eighty,
is remembered as saying, it's the name on the front
of your jersey, not the name on the back. That's
what really mattered. Now, the coach of that team, Mike
L Ruzione, had this reaction when we found out what
this athlete and what these athletes are saying about America.
Here's what he said over the weekend. I just don't

(22:22):
get it.

Speaker 11 (22:24):
Look, everybody's got the right for their opinion and what
they have to say, but the Olympic Games is not
the forum for that. The Olympic Games is about representing
your country. Look, I've said this, and I'm old school.
I've said many times, other than being a police officer,
a firefighter, somebody in the military who protects our country,
there's no greater feeling than putting on a USA jersey.

(22:45):
You're not playing for Boston or Chicago. You're playing for
your country and take great pride in that you've got
an issue with the country. The Olympic Games is not
you know, your soapbox to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
If you're a skier, go ski. You're a hockey player,
go play hockey.

Speaker 11 (23:00):
You can talk about you know, the country you know
at home or on one of your Instagram pages or
something like that you're representing the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Take yeah, represented the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's how I feel.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Talk about Plaine Hockey talk about you know, now we've
had a few of the athletes get up there, Greg
and really, you know, they became very emotional. They talk
about their country, they talk about the support that they've
had and how they are able to achieve this. But
there are some out there who are just going to
mouth off and say, well, I can't stand by. I
can't stand up for what my country is standing for
right now because I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
I think that you know, they they measure a lot
of things to qualify to be an Olympian on Team USA.
There's a lot they go through a lot of regional qualifiers.
There's lifelong training. There's kids that don't go to regular
public school but home school or do something so they
can train all the time. But fundamental to all that
training and performance, if you can't represent your country proudly

(23:57):
and feel the weight of that of all of us
watch she can cheering for you because we're all Americans.
If that completely escapes you, then you're I think that's
worse than not score. You know, doing something skiing at
the fastest you know, speed and winning your trial. I
don't want the best athletes who don't want to represent

(24:17):
our country or feel like it's qualified. They have to
qualify that representation somehow. Then you've missed the point, and
that actually gets to the heart of why we watch
the Olympics. If we're not watching it because we're all
in this together as Americans, then I don't know what
the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Is well, and you watch them, yea, we all admire
their skills. I mean I watched the downhill. They're flying
down that mile that hill at ninety miles an hour. Greg.
It's taking those absolutely poor Lindsay Vaughn. You know she
wanted to win so badly, and then of course, thirteen
seconds in yes today broke her leg and not participating.
But how they do this? I mean those figure skaters,
so the pops led looser on youre going, how on

(24:54):
earth do they do this? That's what we admire. We
don't care about your opinion.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
And we all become fancy sports. Will never watch again,
you know, we'll watch these sports. I will watch sports
or have watched sports during the Olympics that I don't
watch it.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
You don't watch during the year.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
I can care less about figure skating, I can care
less about speed skating, I could care less about I
still can't watch curling, but I but I don't watch
those until we get to the Olympics, and then I'm
the biggest homer in the world that I'm I'm living
and breathing by every by, every you know, every contest
we are. I'm not going to do that if people
just don't even want to represent this country or be

(25:28):
proud of proud doing it.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
All right, Mary, coming up, Rod and Greg with you
on this Monday afternoon. You're on Utah. It's talk Radio
one oh five nine, Okay, nrs. The Sunday morning talk
shows had a number of Democrats on defending why they're
opposed to voter I d you know, and they say
it's an eighty twenty issue. The American people want it,
why don't you want it? And they they danced around

(25:50):
those questions like you wouldn't believe. I mean, it was
amazing to watch this weekend as Hakeem, Jeffries and Schumer
just bancing around saying, well, it's Jim Crow, it's Jim Crow.
It's no it is.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Not no, and they actually can issue in such a
dishonest way. And I do want to get into that.
I mean, I mean you want to get into it
now because I I I'm telling you this whole you've
got to bring your passport or your birth certificate to
the polling place is just a blatant lie. And I
can it's the easiest way to illustrate how big of
a lie it is. It's to pull out your driver's license,

(26:24):
like I just did, look on the right hand corner,
and if you see a star, the gold with a
star there this you couldn't get this without a birth
certificate or a passport to begin with. And fifty out
of fifty states now have this real ID. And if
you don't have it, that's fine, But you don't get
on a domestic airline. You don't you can't get into

(26:44):
a federal building. There are all kinds of impacts to
your life right now. If you don't have a driver's
license that has real ID. You do not need a
passport or a birth certificate to go vote the way
the Democrats keep telling the American people, they will. You
just have to look on that right hand corner of
your legal state issued ID. And if you see that star,
that is the same ass the passport or birth certify.

(27:05):
And I'm I'm betting most people can find that star
right there on that Well, you have to have They're
not issuing them anymore without them.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, if you travel anymore, you absolutely have to have it.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
And so let's take that further. If if not having
that star on there means that it's having a chilling
effect of voting for minorities, and you're assuming that minorities
aren't sophisticated enough, wealthy enough, or interested enough to fly
domestic airlines, which would be racist because that is just
fundamentally not the case.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, you're ready for this. This is a kicker. This
one cracks me up. Senator John Ossoff, you know who
he is, the Republican from Georgia or the Democrat from Georgia. Yes,
had an event coming up Saturday. To attend the event, needy,
id you need the idea?

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Of course, you need an idea to get into the
Democrat National Convention. You need the idea to get into
anything that they're doing. They have walls around their very homes.
These people when they cry about walls along our border,
and nothing that they do applies to them nothing.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
I mean, that is so two faced. I'm against voter
I d and oh by the way, if you want
to hear it, come hear me speak. You have to
show voter ID.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yes, you got to show an ID legal ID.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Have I
got time to play this, I don't think I do. No,
we'll hold this for the next half hour because we've
got a lot to talk about, and we'll open up
the phones five o'clock hour. A lot happened over the
weekend with Bad Bunny, the halftime performance, the US athletes
making comments about how much they just wish America was

(28:34):
a better place during their award time. Oh Andray brought
this up, the story the medals are cracking or they're breaking,
they're breaking apart.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I have a running list for my friend Brad Wilson,
who's you know. I think he's the CEO of our
Olympic Utah Olympic Games coming up. He's there now, they're
there for the month. I have a list of Okay,
they can't hate America. Okay, make sure you make sure
that's on there. The metals can't break. Make sure that
or not, you know that you got him out of
something better than the bubblegum machine. Okay, I'm making the list.

(29:06):
That's my first two observations out here.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
All right, another hour The Rotten Greg Show is coming
your way on this Monday. Stay with us. We have
late breaking news for you. Greg. You'll love this. The
American freestyle skier Hunter Hess has now issued a statement

(29:31):
backtracking his statement early over the weekend affirming his love
for the United States of America. So apparently there's a
lot of backlash. This is what he said. He just
posted this on Instagram. Greg, get over here and read it.
He says, I love my country. Let's see, there is
so much that is great about America, but there are

(29:52):
always things that could be better. One of the many
things that makes this country great is amazing. As to
how it all began, Team USA next week when I compete,
I support them every step of the way. Thanks everyone
for your support. Oh he's back to acking just a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yes he is, as he should. It's it's really frustrating
that he said it to begin with. But at least,
I mean, you know, at least there's there there's a
recoil and there's a response back, and I hope it's
an example for the rest of the athletes just to
your sport. It's like the what did you say the
coach of the of the USA Hockey the clip you
you should have herb Brooks. Yeah, anyway, he he just said,

(30:34):
if you're if you're there to play hockey, play hockey. Yeah,
just I mean, just and to be proud to be
from the country that you've you're representing. I mean, is
that so hard? I don't understand. Of all the things
they do to represent team USA and to go to
the Olympics, you know, being able to say to the
world that you love the country that you represent should
not be the hardest part of how you got there.

(30:54):
And so it shouldn't. You shouldn't have to coach them
or tell them, but apparently you do. But at least
a kid less and he and he restated his position,
So there's that.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, damage has been done. Yeah, I don't think he
can take back things.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well, you can't, but hopefully the other athletes are paying
attention and they just go play their sport and keep
their dumb ideas to themselves. Again, we don't cheer for
you because we care what your worldview is. We want
you are representing us. It's like I'm out there when
I see that. When I see the USA guys competing,
I may as well be competing. That's when they win.
I win. That's how I feel. America wins. I win.

(31:31):
What countries did we all be.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Wins? We all win.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
When I look at that metal count and I see
the United States, I want to see it at the top.
I don't want to see Norway. I don't want to
see Japan. I don't want to see Germany. I want
to see the United States because why Because I'm American
and I want to be on top. That's because we
are the land of the free, home of the brave.
We have the loan superpower of the world. We should
act as such. Boom. That's what I want out of
my Olympic. I want Team USA to feel that way too.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, and they should get out of there. Yeah and
they should.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah. I wouldn't win a thing, but boy, I give
a good fiery speech if they let me.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
You've got a list for Brad Wilson, who's ahead of
the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
I told you I'm a list for my friend Bratt.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
List number one, you have to declare your allegiance to
the un edged state.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
You gotta love your country, and any question that's posed
to you has to wrap around how much you love
this country.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
And point number two, your medals don't.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, point number two, you can't have your medals break
just by using having them. They're breaking this. I heard
one of the Olympians say, don't jump up and down
with it around your neck. It'll break. What what if
you jump up and down it'll break? That means you
got it out of a crackerjacks box. That does not
mean you came from a podium of a World Olympic Games.

(32:42):
That's all I got two things so so far we
create Folks, as you're watching, if you want to add
to the list, I'm not even kidding. I'm gonna have
a list for Brad when he gets back from there
for our games. And so if you have some things
you want on that list, let me know. Yea, I'll
start it. I'll start including them.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
How about how about another thing you could add that list?
Make sure Utah has snow.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, no, that's going to be could.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
You get you know, put that down a prerect we're
holding the Olympics. Is that we have snow.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, I'm confident we'll have all the snow we need.
Glad you are, I am. Everybody was sweating a great
salt lake and we had those big winters and.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Ever came back years ago we had like nine hundred
inches at out. What happened?

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I know. It's just it's cyclical. That's the way weather works.
It's not what man does. Man can't make a lar
or pay for something to be done to change the weather.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
El Nino and Nina or whatever they're called.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yep, those patterns, we can call it all Mother Natures.
It's in charge. We think we're in charge. You're quick
to find out otherwise.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
We think we're about to tell the weather what to do. Right, Yeah,
not gonna happen, all right. We want to put up
the phones to you tonight as you work your way home.
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Speaker 2 (34:01):
Greg.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
A couple of things talk about, certainly, these athletes speaking
out and sharing their opinions and what you make of that?
What are your thoughts on that? And also on the
halftime show during the no one wants to talk about
the game because, let's be honest, the game sucked, okay,
but let's talk about the halftime show. You watched the
TPUSA show. I watched bad Bunny. You know, didn't understand

(34:24):
a word he said, Glad I didn't after I'm reading
some of the lyrics now, you know. And the show
itself was it was a show. Okay, that's that's what
they do. I guess I don't know, but I saw
this number today. He is speaking out on behalf of
the Puerto Rican population, right, Yes, Okay, they're basically six

(34:44):
million Puerto Ricans in the country and they make up
one point seven percent of the population. Okay, not a
whole lot of folks out there.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Nope, nope, no, I yeah, I don't think that was
a I don't think that show it was even trying
to do what halftime shows in the past have done.
And look, the NFL. I don't know how long we
can talk about it. I mean, there were some journalists
out there that went in covering the Super Bowl wanted
to just harold back to Kaepernick isn't it important that

(35:16):
we have these Olympics where or the super Bowl where
you know, Colin Kaepernick began a movement. Blah blah blah.
This guy was adopted by two white people that you know,
and he acts like he's oppressed. Anyway. Colin Kaepernick is
about the most mediocre quarterback that started for a while,
got benched and really acted out behaving this way because

(35:36):
he was madd he got benched. That's that is the
origin story of this whole Kaepernick taking a knee during
the national anthem. But some of the some of the
journalists wanted to talk about that more than they wanted
to talk about the super Bowl. They thought that was
there was some kind of full circle that we were
having the Super Bowl where Kaepernick, you know, was oppressed
and he acknowledged it and expressed it for all the

(35:59):
world to see. Blah blah.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
The Washington Post highlighted him in The Washington Post last
week just laid off a third of their staff. Why
because subscriptions to the paper died, you know, and they
can't relate, So what do they do. They highlighted Kaepernick
last week as to a hero we should all look
up to.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah, No, he's not a hero we should look up to.
I mean his parents must be looking at each other
going what did we Where did all this angs come from? Like?
But I mean, this kid has not a rough day.
We got we would put them all through all the
football camps, he got to do everything. What's he so
mad about? I mean, what's he got against Betsy Ross?
Remember he's mad about the Vets?

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Did like the flag?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
No, I mean the kid's and he said what he was.
He was mad, he got benched and he wanted the
cause he was acting out. That's exactly what. It's no
deeper than that, I hate to tell you.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
All right eight eight eight five seven eight zero one zero,
trip played five seven eight zero one zero. On your
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or leave us some message on our talk back line.
Lines are open to you. We can talk about the
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way home on this Monday evening? American athletes behaving badly
at the Olympics all coming up on Talk Radio one

(37:09):
oh five nine, Okay and r I Sere we talked
about some of these athletes who are dissing on America,
well representing this country in Italy. And we just had
one of the skiers, freestyle skier who went after now
backtracking just a little bit, saying he actually does love
this country. How nice of them to say that.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, shall we go to the phones.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Let's do. Let's go to Aaron and Smithfield. Aaron, welcome
to the Ridding Greg Show.

Speaker 6 (37:32):
How you doing.

Speaker 7 (37:33):
I just wanted to, you know, speak a little bit
about what brazy Johnson and the amount of effort she
had to go through and the amount of time that
it took for her to get to the peak. I
think she won her first World Cup race just earlier
this year. She's out of a Park City academy.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Uh huh.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
And just just the amount and you guys know professional golf, yeah,
and being an alpine ski racers, like in a pro golfer,
there's no money in it at all, and you know,
until you win, and even when you win, there's no
money in it unless you get sponsors and you win
the Olympics. But most countries they'll take their kids at

(38:13):
maybe eight, ten, twelve years old and they sponsor them
and they raised them in these ski academies were US racers.
They have to do it on their own. My daughter
was an Alpine Academy racer and an alpine racer, and
it's just the amount of energy, effort and commitment that
it takes, so we certainly don't want to, you know,

(38:34):
I'll say short play her opportunity, her hard work and
how paid off for and being out of Jackson and
being a Utah racer.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Hey, Aaron, is it somehow arduous with all you just
described being that hard to become a successful as a
downhill skier and potentially representing the country. Is it too
much to ask that they love the country or represent
it without complaint when international media asks them to do so?
Or am I am I being too judgmental?

Speaker 7 (39:04):
I kind of feel a little bit bad for these people.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
And you said it earlier.

Speaker 7 (39:07):
They're being set up. They're being set up by the media.
And look who who it is, because you're when you're racing,
you race for the US Ski and Snowboard Association, and
it is that love and that's what keeps you going
and your goal all the time, even though you race
world top or fist racing or whatever is to get
to the Olympics and represent your country.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, Aaron. And by the way, Breezy Johnson,
as I recalled Greg, was very emotional when she stood
on the podium.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
She was yeah. I mean she she just and that's
what you want to see. That's that's what makes me
at least want to watch them.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, and that's that's what gets the country behind you. You
don't have you know, cry or whatever, but they want to.
We want to honor your efforts. And like Karin was saying,
you know, most of these countries around the world sponsor
their athletes. They identify them early, and they train them
and train them and train them and take care of them.
In this country, you got to go find sponsorsh It's
a little bit different here. All right, Let's go to

(40:02):
our talk back line see what our great listeners have
to say tonight. That is one of the comments coming
in on the Tacquik line right.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
Now, Brian from augdu Greg, come on, man, you gotta
retract your statement about curling. That's the best sport to
watch on the Olympics right now. I dare you, since
your buddy man to go and watch the men's US
team when they curl a little bit later this week

(40:28):
and just enjoy the experience, because you'll have so much
more fun than watching figure skating or anything else.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Challenge acceptance, kind sir, I will do it. I will
do it. I've heard about the sport for so long,
I haven't really really gotten into it. But you know
what I message receipt, I think I will.

Speaker 10 (40:46):
Just f y.

Speaker 12 (40:47):
The US Mixed Devils team is in the Golden Metal
match tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Tomorrow morning, all right, experience would be loosely compared to
boldly No, it's not really really, it's not the same
thing at all.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
See I came clean without that. I don't watch it.
You clearly don't watch it. I've seen it well, I've
seen image. I've seen seen you watched it.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, we should don't think they have a curling thing
up in Ogden where we could we should go try
it someday.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Can I just baby steps here? Can I just watch
it at ten a m.

Speaker 9 (41:21):
Tomorrow morning?

Speaker 12 (41:22):
Ship or a World championship going to be up there
with that Ogden place.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Look, I just want to take the listeners nice advice
to try it out. I'm just going to do that.
I'm not going to ogden to go truble. I want
to watch it. Just let me watch it first.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Can't you try it out? Wouldn't it be fun to try?

Speaker 2 (41:37):
See you go from zero to one hundred miles an hour?
Can I just can I just ease into this? Please?
I just want to watch it.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
You're a big chicken.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
No, I just want to see. I think I see
what they do. They kind of scrub the ice before.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
I think they're called stones, is that right? I think
the thing that they throw a goll stones they try
and knock them out of the middle.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Isn't it like shuffle boards with the with the rock.

Speaker 12 (42:00):
Yeah, just from my very limited understanding of the sport
greg the brooms. What they do is they clear out
like ice chips and things to clear the ice for
it to slide further.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Yes, but they can also.

Speaker 12 (42:15):
They can direct move those chips to make the the
rock curl, the stone curved stone curl to get it
to where they wanted to go.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Can they slow it down?

Speaker 12 (42:23):
Yeah, you just don't touch it. Yeah, you don't sweep.
That would slow it down because it's rolling over the chips.
But they when they sweep from man, they're sweeping hard. Yeah,
they're going going one hundred miles an hour if you
watch it. I watched some of the US game against
Italy earlier today before I came to the radio station,
and the US dude is working hard, he was breathing hard.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Who's our main competition? Who's this gold medal round again?

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Wow?

Speaker 12 (42:48):
Did Italy today? And Italy was the prior Olympic champion.
I think they play. I don't don't quote me on this.
I want to say it's Switzerland, but I think I'm
probably right. I think the Canadians are always pretty good
at this too. I think the Canadians too well at curling.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna broaden my horizons and I'm
gonna watch this. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna watch it is.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
I still think we should go do it. I think
it'd be fun. I'd love to see you do it.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Let's just baby steps, please, just baby steps. Let's just
let me watch it. I'll let you know you're all right.
Let's go to another list to as a coming on
our talk back.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Line, Rod.

Speaker 13 (43:24):
The only reason that Schumer Company under believe that this
is Jim Crow is because the Party of Jim Crow
long to understands. You take people's rights way is Jim Crow.
But we're not taking any rights a way, we're taking
away their ability to get people to vote.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
Do not have it right?

Speaker 1 (43:47):
They amen to that. People who do not have a
right to vote, we're taking that right away.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
From thinking about it. If you don't take their right
there where they don't have a right and they vote,
they cancel out our votes. Yeah, I mean that means
my vote very illegal. Someone who is not eligible to
vote votes. They take someone who is eligible and erases
that vote if they voted opposite.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
What more coming from the talkback line?

Speaker 14 (44:08):
Why won't anybody ask these people, these Democrats that say
Jim Crow two point zero, Well, where did the Jim
Crow laws come from? What party were in support of
the Jim Crow laws? Why won't anybody ask him these questions?

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Because the media is reluctant to ask those tough questions.
That's why they won't ask him about it. Is that easy?
They're reluctant to ask him Gregg? Is that easy?

Speaker 7 (44:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
They don't want to ask because it's the Democrats that
have pushed all this stuff. I mean it's been there,
it's been their party that's been the source of all
these things. And by the way, I would argue that
the critical race theory and everything else that the Democrats
push is just a continuation of the same type of
embraces the same thing.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Yep. Another comment on the talk back line, Hey, Ron
and Greg.

Speaker 15 (44:51):
One thing I've been asking myself is what are these
athletes that have nothing good to say about America? What
do they think would happen if they lived and say,
like North Korea, maybe areas of China, something like that.
You have nothing good to say about the country that
you're supposed to be representing.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
What happens when they get home? Anyway, That's just my
happ That's what someone said today. If if you live
in a fast foot country like you claim you are
living now in America today, you wouldn't be making any
comments like you're making.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
You'd get home and then no one will ever find you.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, where do you go? We don't know, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Somewhere gone gone. When he's nice, he's a nice person.
You wouldn't hear of him again?

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Wouldn't hear from him? Adel? All right, more of your
calls and comments on our talk back line and your
phone calls at eighty eight eight five seven oh eight
zero one zero coming up right here on the Rod
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k n RS.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
It's a whole weekend. It's like Presents Day weekend, which
also includes Valentine's Day, so you get it's a two
for it's kind of two holidays and one. But you know,
I think I got a reservation, a reservation. I got
it ahead of time because Queen Beee told me to.
She said, you're going to start wandering like an hour

(46:06):
before dinner time on Valentine'sday where we should go? I
would suggest you.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Look, Yeah, that's a very very good idea, very very good.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
Right.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Actually, after the show, I'll give you a tip as
to what to do at that dinner reservation. Okay, that's
very yeah. I did it once, blew my wife away.
She loved it.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Very nice. I love uh, I love life hacks like that.
I need them too, because I've been dragging my knuckles
around for a long time.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
It's whole noticed.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, I'm trying to be the renaissance man.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
All right, if you just joined it is now we're
talking about anything. What was on your mind tonight? We
talked about the Olympics, what the athletes are doing at
the Olympics, certainly about Bad Bad Bunny. Uh at the
halftime show last night, much more interesting than the game
turned out to be. And the TPUs a event that
you watched, Greg, I know I watched Bad Bunny. You

(46:55):
watched tp USA.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
I wasn't gonna watch that, but it's so funny because
you know, not only I have a So my daughter's
at her friend over there. They were without they're watching
it at our home for a while. They're going to
head over to her house where her dad is, and
since our kids are the same age, I'm her father
is probably the same age as me. And she's getting
this text when we've switched over to the YouTube channel

(47:17):
to watch it, and he's saying, how do I get
off this Bad Bunny? How do I get on the
other show? I can't find it anywhere, And she's saying,
I can't even text it to my dad how to
do this. He's I just got to get over there
and switch it because he's just going crazy having to
watch this and he can't find it.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
You can find it.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
So I think the six million streams, which again are
not individuals, because there's they're mostly Super Bowl parties, so
there's more people. They're they're that number is big. But
what's impressive about that number is that you have to
put a little effort in to find it. It wasn't
just like flipping the switch you did.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
All right, let's go to our phones tonight eight eight
eight five seven eight zero one zero cell phone dial
pound two fifty and say hey, Rod or leave it's
coming on our talk back line till we go to
the phone.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Yeah, let's go to Ruby. He's been waiting in Salt
Lake City. We welcome to the Rod and Greg Show.

Speaker 16 (48:03):
Hi, Hey, guys. Totally made me laugh right now talking
about the Olympics two thousand and two. I worked for
them for three and a half years and we had
an opportunity to go do different things for the Olympics.
Curling was one of them, and we had to sit
and watch it. That was the most boringest thing ever.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Hik you rub Then we wait the whole dime, okay.

Speaker 16 (48:25):
But then we wait to go as a team and
play with our entire department. Oh my gosh, can I
tell you it was one of the most funnest games
we had played, and it was just a riot. I mean, yeah,
oh yeah, you're going to have a blast competitive.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Rod's trying to drag me to go play this thing.
I'm saying, baby steps, let me just watch it tomorrow
morning at ten am. But you're saying that I won't
be disappointed.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
I hate it.

Speaker 16 (48:50):
Yeah, you hate watching it. You got to go play
it and go with a group of fun people. So
go with your office and go and play, or go
take your wife out on her all the times.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
You know that's a risk. Yeah, I don't know about that.
I don't know where you go there. But so you're
saying Rod was right.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
You know, it looks like it looks like ruby. To
be honest, it looks a lot of fun to play.

Speaker 16 (49:13):
It's a blast toast And I didn't realize how competitive
I was playing that. And I'm like, hurry him cause
you have to brush the ice so it gets warm
and then your stone will follow that that that heat, right,
and that's kind of what pushes it down the ice,
and that's how you end up winning.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
So let me get this straight. So the brush isn't
to clear the chips out of the way, is to
heat the ice so the stone will go a certain direction.

Speaker 16 (49:39):
I'm sure it could be used for both. It is
more for us to warm the ice up so that
the stone will fallow.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
It wow, and it was fine, So I.

Speaker 16 (49:47):
Would say, definitely, go and do it. Don't get a chicken.
Go out and do it. You'll love it.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yes, ma'am Rebby, I'm okay, we're selling you to have fun.
I always defer to the collective wisdom of our audience.
I've not been I've never been steered the wrong way.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Is there an event at the Olympics that you would
like to do?

Speaker 2 (50:06):
You know what, I've never really thought of it, But
the only one that I can see myself doing would
be the Bob slide.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
I've thought about the Bob. I don't think I would
you do the lush.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
I don't like the loosh. There's nothing between you and that.
I usually in that like spamdex outfit and a helmet
that just looks cold and doesn't it looks dangerous. But
the but the Bob said, you're in this little you're
in this slid.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Two or four?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
I do? I like the four did it.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Slid?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
See? I would like to do that because because I
like the team aspect of it and then you're just
all diving into this little missile heading down the mountain
and they wasn't taking the.

Speaker 12 (50:41):
Pretty scary, but it was a blast. Yeah that ah,
it was. It was for the radio station I was
working for at the time. It was just I can't
remember if it was before or after the two thousand
and two Olympics. I think it was slightly before, but
they had a promotion. They were promoting that people could
go up there and do it. And we had an
Olympic driver in an Olympic break oh person, and so

(51:02):
you're in the middle. We're just there along for the
ride in the middle. Oh that's it was scary, Yeah, scary,
but I.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Think it'd be fun.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
I would love that.

Speaker 10 (51:09):
Ye.

Speaker 12 (51:09):
At one point you go around that corner like ninety
miles an hour and you were upside down.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Wow, it feels that way anyway. But that of all
the things, because I've gone. You ever go into Park
Shaven the summertime when they're flipping off those little ramps
into the pool, they do the tricks and stuff. I've
seen that had family from out of state come with,
I will always take them there. It's the only time
I go there, so I'm taking family from out of
state to see it during the summertime. But but I
don't I have zero desire to do that. I look

(51:35):
at that thing looks steep from where I'm sitting. I'm
sure if you stand with yeah, I wouldn't be doing that.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
I think it'd be fun.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Yeah, would you really do it?

Speaker 1 (51:43):
If I was like fifty years younger.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
That's a that's a likely excuse. You wouldn't want to
do it. You'd be afraid.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
But I was there for the Olympics to see him
do that, and it's amazing.

Speaker 10 (51:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I think that's crazy though, I think that's crazy. I
but I think running into that little sledge head down,
you don't even know what you're missing because you can't see.
You're just like I think you just just you know,
you have to just get a good start.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
Era.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
When you were in the middle, that's led. Did you
see anything? Could you see things coming? I mean, you're
going so darned fast.

Speaker 12 (52:12):
Wear a helmet's got visor, you can look around, you
can tilt your head and look around.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
It's not very errodynamic.

Speaker 12 (52:18):
I mean it it's moving though. I mean all you
really see is white flash. Yeah, yeah, it is moving
and you're done, what in less than two minutes easily?

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Oh it was not even maybe forty five seconds.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Wow, yeah, sign me up. That's what I do.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Oh yeah, I do that. I'm with you. I wouldn't
do the louge.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Oh, I would not do that one. That one looks crazy.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Of course, my big belly would hang it out. But
you know what, I've noticed something at the at the
Louge runs this year. Heavier men are doing it than
they used to. Really weight goes faster downhill.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Oh that makes sense. Gravity. Yeah, that's one of those
those factors you have to put into the louse.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Large men wanted.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
He just just the outfit alone just seems a bit
You wouldn't want to wear that. Yeah, no, I don't
wear that a little tight. Yeah, it just doesn't look.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
You're right up against your face. Yeah yeah, but you
know you get in trouble.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
But you know, winter sports, I'm not. I'm just you know,
I like I like warmth anyway, I probably if you
were to pick a pick the winter or the summer games,
you kind of like the summer. I like the summer games. Yeah,
just the sports I identify with more than these Nordic
sports like boxing, like the track and field. I don't
have to like do it to understand it, but I
love watching those guys race. And you know, I just

(53:42):
like track and fields. Cool, pull vaulting, Yeah, pull vating
is great. Yeah, that's all the track and field events. Like,
I like, what's what's the gymnastics? Is that that's that's
summer right?

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah, that's not a winter sport.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
I mean they do it indoors, but.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
You know, you do the rings and yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
I like that. I like the horse what do they
call this?

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (54:03):
So wrestling. Wrestling's in there too. That's good.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
More coming up the Rod and Greg Show with you
on this Monday and Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Can us all from our show today?

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Yeah, we've learned about Curly I have.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
I'm Citizen Hughes happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yeah, and I brought our cat happy to be here
as well. On Friday. Greg, remember the the huge blow
up over this video that the White House released. This
video that yes, you know, yeah, isn't funny. How that
just kind of drifted off over the last couple of days. Yep,
people finally explained, Look the whole thing and you'll understand
this even though Lion King. Yeah, the whole Lion King video,

(54:37):
you and I both. I mean, it was stupid to do, right,
and he shouldn't have done it, but you know, you
dig into it, folks, Come on, don't get don't get.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
All the faces of all the Democrats and from the
Lion King, so all the animals. But yeah, it was
it was an unforced air. But you know what, you know,
even even Baber's struck out right. Yeah, So you don't
you don't they missed opportunity. I don't. I don't. I
don't approve it that it's not It doesn't define this
presidency or his administration at all.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
You know.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
It's interesting. Van Jones from CNN interesting interaction he had
with three black voters who voted for Donald Trump, you know,
in twenty twenty four. So we went back to him
and he asked him, Greg if there if they would
take back their vote or if they would you know,
are they happy with their vote for Donald Trump? Here's
what surprise surprise is what they said, if you had.

Speaker 10 (55:29):
To do it all over again, would you vote for
Donald Trump again? Yes?

Speaker 6 (55:33):
Or no?

Speaker 8 (55:34):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (55:34):
I would Now in the future, I am not a
die hard Democrat or a diehard Republican. If there were
a Democratic candidate who was more aligned for me than
I would vote Democrat.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
If you go back in time, would you vote for
Donald Trump? Yes or no?

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Yes? I think I might know the answer on the.

Speaker 17 (55:53):
Same Yes, if you had to do it all over again,
would you vote for Donald so up?

Speaker 10 (56:04):
Yes or no?

Speaker 5 (56:04):
One absolutely yes.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Those are three black voters, random of course, selected by
CNN and Van Jones. And guess what they said, No
regrets about voting for Donald Trump.

Speaker 10 (56:16):
No.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
I think that I think he's moving the needle in
incredible ways. So I don't think the Republican Congress keeps
pace with him, and they talk about him more than
they do them They actually do work themselves, and I
think that if they have any trouble in the midterms,
it's because they're not doing the work. President Trump has
a pace going that they don't match. They just want
to talk about my opinion, I'm so disappointed in the

(56:38):
Republican Congress. However, you're picking from, you know, pick between
the two the Democrats. You don't want them in charge.
I mean, if whatever, we have a president that's able
to do at least they haven't stopped him.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Get the voter ID packaged through. Yeah, the Save Act
through Greg, and I think the American people go because
since an eighty twenty issue, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 10 (56:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
You know, we had a great listener that called in.
I think they work maybe work at the DMV, that
wanted to correct me to say that the real ID
actually lets a temporary residency. Get that real idea. I'm
going to look into that because I've understood it differently,
but I appreciate the heads up because we want to
be accurate on the show. And I'll find out. But
we'll keep going.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Coming up Chinese bio Labs next, if you like. I mean,
it's different from what we normally do with all the
talk that we have on this station. This an hour
where they tell stories of regular Americans, some very well
known Americans, very important events, non important events, you name it.
But they have these great stories about you just real
people and what they do, what they do.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Yeah, we're going to get into that later this hour.
Talk to the host of this Showy and kind of
get a flavor for what's again.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Yeah, that'll come up and we think you'll enjoy that.
We're doing that. No, don't get mad at saying you're
canceling ground zero. Ground zero is canceling itself. Yes, flyd Lewis,
who's the host of the show, worked in this assault
Lake City Radio for a number had some health problems
and cannot continue doing the syndication. So the replacement for
ground zero is our American Stories. If you're up late

(58:09):
at night working or doing whatever you do that time
of night, give it a listen. We think you'll enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Greg.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
This is the story that I think has been overshadowed
by everything going on with the disappearance of Catherine Guthrie, yes,
and with the Olympics and other things that are going on.
But this is about Chinese bio labs here in the
United States.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Yeah, we had some really disturbing news that broke last
week where these were these biolabs by Chinese nationals that
have this home one home in near Las Vegas, but
many more, including in other states like California. They discovered
some disturbing scientific experiments that were going on all kinds
of things. They went and investigated storage unit people that

(58:51):
were inspecting it. We're getting very ill just being near it.
So there's been some very some concerning things going on,
and where it's origin are even more concerning.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
Yeah. Well, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, his
name is Representative Rick Crawford, He's a Republican Arkansas is
warning that these illicit biolabs on US soil, the FBI says,
are linked to Chinese nationals. What is going on? Joining
us on our Newsmaker line to talk about that is
Nick Balacie, as a senior editor at Just the News.
Nick's thank for joining us tonight. Give us a little

(59:22):
background on these biolabs here in America.

Speaker 18 (59:25):
Yeah, so, there's a lot of alarm among lawmakers, especially
the ones in the majority in the House. Specifically, we
did a story of Just the News on the House
Intelligence Committee chairman saying that there could be a connection
and the latest biolab that was discovered in Nevada to China.
The person who owned the home where the materials were

(59:48):
found has links to China, and it's really raised concern
about the possibility of this leading to some sort of
a pandemic because, you know, as the chairman mentioned in
our interview, you know, it's not far from a military
facility where this home is located. Why else would these

(01:00:09):
materials be in there if not to possibly do harm
in the future in some way to the United States.
And it's really something that I think the Chairman's going
to be digging into and members of the Intelligence Committee
possibly in the Senate as well, and they're going to
be keeping an eye on this because it could be,

(01:00:29):
you know, there could be a connection to this latest
discovery to similar types of labs that have been discovered
in the past in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
You know, I don't know that it's going to take
Sherlock Holmes to say that these Chinese nationalists who have
these homes, I mean, this guy has a home in
Las Vegas. They come to find out there's multiple homes involved.
There's vials of you know, test tubes and all kinds
of things inside there. So it almost it doesn't sound
to me like it's prospective this could be happening. It

(01:00:59):
sounds like we or in the event, are they still
holding out hopes that these are just you know, random
lab efforts going on and that it's not coordinated with
the Chinese government.

Speaker 18 (01:01:12):
Yeah, so they're still doing an investigation on that. I
know the FBI is involved as well, and I think,
as you know, right, the challenge here is, even if
they discover that there was some sort of malicious inten
here with these materials and he was plotting something, sometimes
it's hard to connect it to the Chinese government, right,
because they try to wash their hands and say, oh, well,

(01:01:33):
he's not a government official or he's not related to
the government anyway. But as you know, right, in a
lot of these countries, there's these dark groups that operate,
you know, in the black market, and you know they
do business with the government, but it's hard to as
the United States, it's hard to kind of do an
investigation and pinpoint it because we're not necessarily getting cooperation

(01:01:56):
from China and a lot of these investigations and so,
I mean you see that with ventanol too. I mean
they say, oh, we're not doing this, we're not doing that,
and then we find out when we continue and keep
digging and digging that the government is involved in a
lot of these types of malicious things going on. That's
a challenge. But again in this particular case, looking at
justice Nevada situation, we don't know exactly what the intent

(01:02:20):
is and if there's a connection to some sort of
network in the United States that maybe could be coordinated.
Like you said, could it go beyond just the houses
he has. We're gonna find more about that, and I
think just the News we had a piece as well
about Cash to tell he's making this a priority at
the FBI as director to dig into these biolabs and

(01:02:42):
these homes that we find. In the course of these investigations,
we find materials that could be you know, hazardous and
point to some sort of possible plot. But like I said,
with this Nevada situation, we'll have to find out exactly
what's going on here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Yeah, I was want to ask you, Nick, how comfort
of the investigators into this and the FBI digging into
all of this that this Las Vegas discovery is not
an isolated one. There could be homes all around the
country like this. How confident are they in that belief?

Speaker 18 (01:03:12):
Dick, Yeah, you know that door is open. We haven't
heard a top government official and the Trump administration and
law enforcement say that that's off the table, that it's
not possible. It's a possibility, and it's one of those
things that once you keep digging and digging, it could
possibly give them leads. Just looking at this specific most

(01:03:36):
recent case in Las Vegas. This could be a lead
for the investigators into following the trail and maybe seeing
a connection. And even if it's a network of just
this guy's homes, that's concerning, and the connection possibly to
China is concerned given their past actions on issues, and
we know with COVID, I mean that broke out as

(01:03:58):
we know, we know the history. That's a whole separate story.
But I mean, it's scary to think that this is
in the United States. Now, that's a lot quicker of
a way to spread things in the United States if
you've got a problem domestically. So the fact that this
was discovered is a good sign, I think for the
American public, regardless of what the intent is of having

(01:04:19):
this guy having these materials. The FBI seems to be
on top of it, but we definitely are going to
keep following it, just the news to see, you know
what this leads to. There could be multiple stories to
do on this. I'm sure there will be in the
coming weeks, in coming months.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
So prediction from you this the Gentleman has I'm looking
at an article that came out late last week that
said that the Gentleman who owned this home owns homes
in California, multiple homes in the Las Vegas area. His
girlfriend is a Chinese nationalist that was about to be
prosecuted and fled to China. So there is a there's
I mean, there's thoughts, but you're right, they might not

(01:04:57):
be able to connect it. And certainly the Chinese government
will never us up and say yeah, that's us, We're
we're doing all these labs, these biolabs in your country.
But my I guess my question to you and prediction
is if if my assumption was the correct one, and
this is this, this is uh Chinese sponsored and they
are doing this potentially you know, two harmed Americans, and

(01:05:18):
it's if we're finding out now there's probably more than
what what happens next, I mean is this. Are we
going to see a greater effort of drilling down who
owns homes and and who I mean, what happened? If
this is all true, what can we expect from our
government to help solve this, because it seems to me
like the I don't want to say it sounds like
the genies out of the bottle on that.

Speaker 18 (01:05:40):
That's a great question. The chairman of the House Intel
Committee Carverson Crawford. He's saying that the status quo is
unacceptable period. So regardless of what the outcome is of
this Vegas case, he thinks it's wild that they can
so easily buy up properties and buy a planned and
buy you know, commercial facilities and whatnot from China, being

(01:06:04):
a Chinese national and this case being an example. So
I think Congress is going to do more. There's legislation
that's been introduced actually that would put up some more
guardrails and more requirements to kind of make it a
little harder for them to have this kind of influence
in the United States domestically that those bills have not
moved forward. But I think this is a this is

(01:06:26):
renewed attention to this issue, and at least while the
Republicans have control with Crawford at the helm in this committee,
I think it could be a good starting point the
Intelligence Committee, because they're privy to all this information that
the rest of Congress doesn't have. I mean, because they're
getting all these breathings, so they know a lot and
that coming from him carries a lot of weight.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Nick, thank you very much for joining us. We're talking
about these Chinese bio labs one which was discovered in
Las Vegas. Kind of scary, they're probably And this one,
my guess, was located near the airfield air Force is
it Nello's down there in Las Vegas. Probably, So you
look around the country. I mean, we could have one
here and we don't even know it near Hill Air
Force Base.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
That's exactly right. And as we passed legislation that would
prohibit foreign national especially on the list of what they
call I don't know if it's terrorist countries or we
have a list of countries of which China, North Korea,
I ran, they're all on this list. They can't buy
and purchase land here in the state of Utah. But
it's very difficult for our clerks and are to know
where you know where these or the trea what do

(01:07:31):
we call them? The is it? What's the off the
office the county assessor. It's hard for the assessor's office
to know some of the shells, you know, owners to
know that it's these foreign entities that are owning them.
But we're they're working on it, but we better we
better get better at it because it's happening right now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
All right, Mark coming up Rod and Greg with you
on this Monday afternoon here on Utah's Talk Radio one
oh five nine can orus, one hundred and thirty million.
It's not about right now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
This is a record, yeah, yell.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
I think last year was at one twenty six, so
this would be a record if it hit one thirty
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Yeah, yeah, No, I've seen anywhere from one thirty one thirty,
five hundred and thirty five million. However, I will say this,
I looked into this. Ratings are a bit of a
I don't know. It's a. It's a it's an algorithm,
it's a, it's a, it's analytics, it's it's this, it's that.
It's forty two thousand actual homes that Nielsen monitors their homes.

(01:08:28):
Then there's one hundred thousand points that are devices. They're
either some are even body devices, but there are devices
one hundred thousand what they call devices that will also
try to pick up or track what you're watching. So
you got one hundred and forty two thousand points of
which they extrapolate one hundred and thirty five million people watching.

(01:08:52):
My question is, if I have six million known sources
where a show is streaming, do I have them more
dependable number than the one hundred and forty one hundred
and forty two thousand points a light that the ratings
company uses.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Yeah, we have. We have the same thing in radio.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
I know. Yeah, and I'd rather, you know what I like.
I like our streaming numbers because I know those are humans,
not just a just a you know, in equation, you know,
just a formula.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
There's a certain number of people in this metro area
that determine our failure of success.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Yeah. Well, you know, I back when, ut when I
used to have an opinion about UTA, I used to
want them just to count the people that got on
and off on the bu Ranger buses. But they said, no, no,
we like to do the sampling. We sample. I'm like,
why don't you just count?

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
It's not that hard. Yeah. Now a week we were
talking about that. Seattle is now considering eight jock tax
for professional ballplayers, baseball, hockey, football players who come into
that city and play. They'd be taxed the day they'd play. Right, Well,
it happened on the Super Bowl in California has the
wildest tax system that you ever have. But this Bloomerasizem,

(01:10:05):
he does a radio talk show on WFA and in
New York, one of the best sports talk stations in
the country. He broke down the amount of money that
Sam Donaldson, the winning quarterback, will have to pay in
taxes because he played the Super Bowl in California yesterday.

Speaker 19 (01:10:22):
For winning the Super Bowl, the winning team, each player
gets one hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars. In other words,
the Super Bowl isn't a part of their salary, and
because the game was played in California. In California has
a jock tax and they look at duty days. So
each team spends seven days in the state of California,

(01:10:44):
so those are seven duty days, and they pierce your
regular salary at three point five percent, so he has
to pay. When you take an account, he got the
one hundred and seventy eight thousand plus is overall salary.
He has to pay the state of California for spending
seven days there two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars.

(01:11:08):
That's just so stupidly it ends up costing him seventy
one thousand dollars to go play in California. Now, if
I'm the NFLPA, now you got to remember it's probably
even more than that because since he's in Seattle, he's
playing he's playing against San Francisco forty nine ers, that's
another day he's there. And he's playing against the LA Rams,

(01:11:30):
that's another day he's there.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
So he's probably had.

Speaker 19 (01:11:32):
Like nine or ten duty days or maybe even more
than that in the state of California. So if I'm
the NFLPA, I'm like, hey, we're not playing any more
super Bowls in you know, in California, which not doing it?

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Yeah, right, I don't blame him. No, So he shakes
one hundred and seventy eight to win the Super Bowl,
but because of the duty days and his overall salary,
he's going to end up paying the state of California
two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars. In Texas makes
a whole lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
And if the NFL, ever, if they keep that kind
of tax structure for NFL any play, you know, professional
athletes and what we're talking about the NFL, they would
be insane to host another Super Bowl in that state.
But let me compare that when we as a state
hosted the NBA All Star Game. My goodness, you had
you had Ryan Smith coming up, owner of the Jazz.

(01:12:24):
You can't pass this law on transgender You can't pass
the law that the bands boys from playing girls sports,
because we could get the the the All Star Game canceled.
They could cancel it and it would be a big
nightmare for us. You have to play nice because we
have this big, important venue that's going to bring all
this second onic opportunity that was for legislation in a
general session. They were so worried. How on earth do

(01:12:46):
you flip from don't pass the bill that the that
the liberals in the NBA might not like to taxing
the ever living daylights out of the athletes that play
in that city. I don't think that's really a good
part of their bid. If they're biding to the NFL
to police choose one of our stadiums to host in
the NFL or as the super Bowl, how can that
track structure ever look appealing as a potential site for

(01:13:09):
a Super Bowl ever going forward, or any state that
would do it that way. Yeah, hit the road.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
I think seventy eight thousand dollars to win the Super Bowl.
Good for you. And by the way, Yoa's two hundred
and forty nine thousands you know, so you're at a
loss of seventy one thousand dollars right there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Yeah, yeah, I I and he's doing. What Boomer was
talking about was the NFL Players Association, the players associations,
the union should tell the owners.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
We're doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
We're not doing that anymore. You can foot the bill,
Roger with yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Well, there were there were stories. Greg and I shared
this when we talked about this briefly last week. Rush
Limbaugh would never work in New York City after he
left because they would du dy day. Yeah, he'd be taxed.
Robinson Cano great second basement for the Yankees left the Yankees.
Where do you go play Seattle? They don't have a
due de tax yet in Seattle. He went there because

(01:13:58):
there's no state income tax. He said, I can make
a lot more money playing out of Seattle. Yeah it
makes sense, Yeah, it does, all right, Moore. Coming up,
we'll talk about a brand new program coming to Talk
Radio one oh five nine canters is called Our American Stories,
and we'll talk about it next here on the Rod
and Greg Show and Utah's Talk Radio one oh five
nine k and RS. Speaking of our lineup tonight, we're

(01:14:19):
making some changes tonight. As a matter of fact, for
a number of years, I think everything's I've been here, Greg,
and it's now what fifteen sixteen years on the can RS,
we've always aired ground Zero with Clyde Lewis. Yes, Clyde,
many of you know, was on Salt Lake City Radio
for a number of years before he moved. But he's
had a syndicated program called ground Zero. Well over the

(01:14:40):
last several months last year, really Clyde has been fighting
some real health issues and those health issues have caught
up to him and no longer able to do the
program or syndicate the program called ground Zero. So we
have a new program coming our way called Our American Stories,
and it's a great program.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Yeah, it's exciting, and I'm telling you I at first,
you know, I hate change. I don't want to see
ground zero go. But it's going to go, whether we
like it or not. I's doing all right. But what
was going to take its place? That's the big question.
And I'm super excited about the show that's coming, and
we're gonna get a little bit of preview right now.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Yeah. The program is called Our American Heroes, Our Stories.
It is a collection every day of great stories of
American people or great events that took place in America today,
very similar to what Paul Harvey, who was in my opinion,
the best storyteller ever in his rest of the story segments,
so you would hear in the evening. But now the
new program is called Our American Stories and it's put

(01:15:36):
together by Lee Habib, who is the host and creator
of Our American Heroes. And Lee is joining us on
our newsmaker line right now. Lee, thank you. You've been
in this business for a very very long time. Tell
us a little bit about Our American Heroes and how
it came about.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Lee.

Speaker 10 (01:15:52):
Well, I've done a bunch of you know, political talk shows.

Speaker 8 (01:15:54):
I started Laura.

Speaker 10 (01:15:55):
Ingram Show, I went to law school with her, and
then I've been at Sale Elements in that Salem Media group,
and we do We did the Charlie Kirk Show, and
we did You Hewitt and Bill Bennett and Eric but Texas,
all kinds of Larry Elder, Dennis Prager.

Speaker 6 (01:16:09):
But you know, around twenty fifteen, twenty.

Speaker 10 (01:16:10):
Sixteen, Bill Bennett, who was one of our hosts at Salem,
said Leo, Lee, what would it sound like to have
a storytelling show? Like this American Life, only the people
who made it. That's the NPR show. Only the people
who made it love their country. What would that storytelling
show sound like? No opinion, no division, no anger, pre recorded,

(01:16:31):
just beautiful stories about everything, sports, the arts. And it
was born in that way. And then it's a nonprofit,
so I was able to go out and secure some
considerable funding because it's more than just a call screen
or and a host. I have a sweet and team
of producers and we put together a beautiful show every
night but every dimension of American life. We did a

(01:16:53):
story about the super Bowl this past Friday. Your audience
didn't get to hear it this year, but we play
it every Friday before or the super Bowl, and it's
his story, not only how the super Bowl came to be,
but how the super Bowl Halftime show came to be
and how it needed to be revived. And then an
alternative came, and now an alternative to the halftime show
came and was born last night as an alternative to

(01:17:15):
Bad Bunny. But then it happened way back in nineteen
ninety two, when in Living Color decided to put on
something more lively than.

Speaker 6 (01:17:22):
The traditional boring stuff. That have been happening.

Speaker 10 (01:17:25):
During the halftime shows since sixty seven. So we love
telling stories like that, but also of George Washington history stories,
music stories, just triumphal, beautiful stories about a good and
beautiful country. And it's just grown every year. And in
twenty twenty one, Premiere Networks picked it up. That's the

(01:17:46):
iHeart Syndication Unit. And now I think we're on four
hundred and ninety stations around the country.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Lee, I think you're really onto something here. I do
think there is an appetite for just good stories that
make us feel good about being an American being, you know,
just living today. And my sense of that is I'm
an old head, but I watch the reels. I watch
things that you know, people share online that are not
always contentious and argumentative, but are funny or are inspiring.

(01:18:13):
You know. The NFL will even do this when they
profile certain players and the challenges that they experience in
life and how they overcame them. Maybe give our listeners
a sample or an idea of what they can expect
as you premiere on our station tonight. What kind of
stories will you be sharing this week or today or
what's it? What's it feel like?

Speaker 10 (01:18:32):
Well, ultimately you're going to get a mix of stories.
Some will be eight minutes long, some will be twenty
minutes long. Every once in a while one that's an
hour long. And for instance, in the next week or
week and a half, you're gonna hear from Steven Ambrose
from the grave his a state, the great writer has
given us some of his best talks, their stories. And
the Transcontinental Railroad story is an amazing story. You know,

(01:18:54):
this time in the American epoch is it's one of
the most disruptive things that ever happened.

Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
It's a lot like AI today. People were worried, what's
going to come of.

Speaker 10 (01:19:03):
These railroads, how's America going to change, what's going to
happen to the agricultural world, what's going to happen to
American life, Who's going to win, who's going to lose?
And it's an epic, dramatic story, and there's Stephen Ambrose
telling it. And we're also having stories about a guy
in San Francisco who had a real talent for talking
people on the Golden Gate Bridge who are about to

(01:19:25):
commit suicide off of the Golden Gate Bridge. Wow, and
committing suicide. And so that story is sitting next to
a story about a young lady who had been in
the sex business, the sad, tragic business of sex trafficking,
only to be saved by a beautiful Christian couple who
adopted her. And now she's out and about trying to

(01:19:47):
save other young women who were trafficked her in the
sex industry, in the trade. So what we're trying to
do is mix the beauty of the sacred and what
happens in the world of the sacred. And that's our
eight stories, and in the secular too, in our sports
and our music and our cultural life, and then of
course just our straight history stories. My personal favorite is

(01:20:10):
the story of Abe Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which I did myself.
I was the subject matter expert. Usually it's the best
historians and best writers, and it's produced like a mini documentary.
But on this one, I'd been to that battlefield, my
dad went to Gettysburg College, and I knew why it
took Lincoln three months to give that speech. He didn't
give it till November. The battle happened in July, and

(01:20:34):
a lot of people died, and the problem was they
had to bury all those soldiers nine thousand people had
to be buried, six thousand horses and donkeys had to
be buried. So finally, when Lincoln has to give this speech,
he's walked the grounds the day before. It's so overwhelming
that the speech is only seven hundred words, and it
may be the most important speech ever given on American

(01:20:56):
soil and one of the most enduring. And we tell
the story behind in the story of that speech, how
it came to be, how it got written, what happened
on that sacred ground, and that particular story. We do
that in twelve minutes, and that will always be followed
a tragic story like that by something mirthful, something happy,
and something that people connect to. One that's coming up

(01:21:18):
for the Daytona five hundred is a remarkable story not
only of Dale Earnhardt's last day of his life because
he died in the beginning of a new century with
the giant new racing contract.

Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
But he died in an interesting way.

Speaker 10 (01:21:32):
He wasn't the intimidator trying to plow through cars in
this particular day on one of the final laps. He's
actually playing the role of protector. He's trying to he's
trying to get in front of other cars and block
them from passing. The number one and number two cars,
both of which were Team Earnhardt, and that is his
son and Waltrip.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
We're both ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
So in the end he dies playing the role of protector,
and we find out he imitated his.

Speaker 10 (01:21:59):
Father and got into the same profession that his dad did,
a dangerous one.

Speaker 6 (01:22:04):
His mom didn't want him to do it, but it
was nothing else.

Speaker 10 (01:22:07):
Dale Earnhart wanted to do for race cars. By the way,
he's the last guy to have ever died on a
NASCAR track. Because of his death, major changes were made
to the chassis and to the safety features that have
mitigated that from happening again. But it's a remarkable story
about an American life and even where stock car racing

(01:22:27):
and NASCAR was born, because it was born in Moonshining.
Moon Shining is what started NASCAR. So these are rich,
beautiful stories. People want them and there's nothing political about them.
But what is deeply political with the small p is
the idea of e pluribus unem and that is from
the many one. All these different stories about different ethnicities,

(01:22:52):
women and men, old and young, Italians and Germans and
Jews and Christians and Asians, all coming here seeking a
better life. You know, millions of people, hundreds of millions,
didn't come here to change America. They came here to
have America change them. And that's the story we remind
people of all the time. What a beautiful place, this is,

(01:23:14):
what are remarkable place. This is how blessed we are
to call this place home. I call it the American privilege.
That's the privilege that matters to me most, that we
were blessed enough to be born in this place, having
not done anything to win all these freedoms, but treating
this inheritance properly, that's really the call of the show.

(01:23:34):
This is an inheritance that gets passed from generation to generation.
We didn't do anything for it. The least we can
do is understand it and know it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Lee, Hubby Lee, thank you for joining us on our
any hour Newsmaker line. Of course, the host and creator
of our American Stories. And you'll hear it tonight at
ten o'clock. And I loved what he said at the end. Greg.
You know, these American athletes who are a competing right
now in the Olympics, do they realize the privileges they
have had by growing up in this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Country, and that I doubt it, and that the immigrants
that came here came not to change the country they
were arriving in, but to have that country change them.
And I think he is right. And I tell you what,
History Channel's done this on a number of occasions with
the men, the men who build America, and then they
show the different phases and even the frontier and different

(01:24:25):
Our country is so rich with incredible stories that we
just I fancy myself a lover of history, and there
are just still stories to this day I have never
come across and when I do, I'm blown away. I'm
blown away. So I look forward to this show because
I think there are so there's no lack of good,

(01:24:46):
inspiring stories about this country that should help us feel
as proud of this country as we should.

Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
Yeah, And as you pointed out, Greg, the people who
came here for the most part, especially in the late
eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds, they were coming because they
were and even the very very founders really really going
back to the foundings of this country, people recognized that
they they were subject to the kings or the queens
or the dictators. They didn't want to do that anyway.

(01:25:12):
They wanted to be citizens, and the difference between being
a subject and a citizen is it's totally different. And
that's what they wanted to be self determination. They wanted
to determine what they were going to be and what
they wanted to do. This country, unlike any other country before,
it afforded them the opportunity to do.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Prospect alone, own land, and to do what you want
on that land alone. Was something that they didn't have.
They had a caste system, and the landowners or one
class and the peasants were of another, and neither never
did the two ever cross. So here you could actually
own property. You can make your way. Yeah, it's a
beautiful opportunity. And anyone that comes to this country from
wherever they came the things that what they've found here

(01:25:55):
is something they want to fundamentally change or they resent.
I don't think they get them dream I don't think
they're understanding it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
They don't. All Right, more to come. Final few thoughts
here on the Roden greg Show, right here on Utah's
Talk Radio one oh five nine, Kay and r I
will of developments tonight in the disappearance of Catherine Guthrie.
First of all, the deadline has pass and second deadline
for ransom to be paid there in. Late this afternoon,
Savannah Guthrie issued a new statement, an appeal to America

(01:26:25):
that their family needs help. Here's what she said.

Speaker 9 (01:26:30):
Hi, there, everybody, I wanted to come on and just
share a few thoughts as we enter into another week
of this nightmare. I just want to say, first of all,
thank you so much for all of the prayers and

(01:26:56):
the love that we have foult my sister, brother and
I and that our mom has felt. Because we believe
that somehow, in some ways, she is feeling these prayers
and that God is lifting her even in this moment
and in the darkest place, we believe our mom is

(01:27:19):
still out there. We need your help. Law enforcement is
working tirelessly around the clock trying to bring her home,
trying to find her. She was taken and we don't
know where, and we need your help. So I'm coming

(01:27:43):
on just to ask you, not just for your prayers,
but no matter where you are, even if you're far
from Tucson, if you see anything, you hear anything, if
there's anything at all that seems strange to you, that
you report to law for men. We are an hour

(01:28:04):
of desperation.

Speaker 6 (01:28:07):
And we need you out.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
An hour of desperation. Greg, this is the most bizarre
story I've heard in a long long time.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Yeah, I am. Look, I told you before, I'd pay
the six mil. And then I would go Liam Neeson
on them movie taken, and I go find whoever this is.
But but I would pay the money on the chance.

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
Even if it is a kidnapping, Greg, There's some people
are saying, maybe it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
Who knows it's the kidnapping. Could be an inside job.
We don't know. But here's the thing, uh, As I've
learned that Savannah Gothrie is married to a gentleman with
a high high net worth, and that this is an amount.
This is not an amount that it would be prohibitive
for them to be able to pay. On the even
on the outside chance that she would be returned safely,
I would pay it and then I would go look
for the people that did it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Bring mom home?

Speaker 5 (01:28:53):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
That does it for us? Tonight, had up shoulders back.
May God bless you and your family, this great, great
country of ours. Thanks for listening. We're back to are
witch for have a good eating

Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
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