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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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are honest are not concerned with your watchful vigilance, and
those with integrity are not concerned with your discernment. Every
American is obligated to voice their concerns and stand up
for their freedoms and liberties.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
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We live back down from Bye.
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We're a free Americans. All right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
to Patriot Confederation for what is the nineteenth of August
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twenty twenty five. I'm your host, Bad Billy from Twin Falls, Idahope,
joined as always by John Grovenor out of Nashville, New Hampshire.
How you doing out there, brother, doing great man?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I can't believe we're in the middle of August, already
towards near the end of August, I mean, are getting there.
It's just incredible, incredible to me to think the year's going.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
By so quick.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I don't know if this speeding of time is of
old age or what's going on, but it's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Man, it's happening. It is happening, indeed, and I'll tell
you what I've had about enough of the warm weather.
It's been a hot summer, I'll tell you that. But
here we are going into fall, and says Halloween is
probably my favorite holiday out of the whole years.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, fun holiday.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, indeed, joining us this week right out of southern Novada.
When I talk about heat too, I think he'd know
something about it. We have Cody Whipple, Yes, right right
out of Night County, Nevada. Thank you very much for
joining us. How you doing today, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm from Lincoln County. I live in Clark County, so
that that Night County is the neighbor.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Okay, my mistake. That's the same area, yes, same area, yes, sir,
and Clark County I know all too well. I lived
five years in Las Vegas myself, and I do understand
the heat there because I had to work in it
a lot. So yeah, it's probably pretty warm right now.
I can imagine, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's Uh, it's a nice cool one o eight today,
so that's better than one fifteen.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But at least it's a dry heat, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's a dry, dry one o eight. Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Dry or humid, it's still not fun to be out
in for too long, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And even when I lived in Reno, times it got
it got up. Besides one hundred and ten, I think
when I lived in Reno.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
So the cowboys in the old days, when we're around
in the desert like that, or the heat like that,
with all them coverings, with the dust jackets and the
hats and the bandanas, or is that just Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh, that's that's real, because you got to stay covered.
Even the workers here in Vegas, they they started about
four am and they'll work till two or three in
the afternoon. But uh, you keep covered hat, shirt, and
then the sweat that you're producing actually cools you off
because you have a breathable shirt. So that's all real.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I see them guys working asphalt. Man three hundred and
fifty degree took me to asphalt on the ground in
the middle of summer, and I look at them and go,
you poor bastards. I don't envy you a bit I work,
but I appreciate them.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
A lot of concrete companies and they're pouring before dark. Yeah,
you know, before May life, before in the dark, before daylight.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh yeah, I remember that all too well, because so, yeah,
it would stay warm until what almost midnight ten and
before it started cooling down, and that's when they'd start
getting to work, and then they'd quit right around eight
in the morning or so yep. And then, of course,
the first winter I lived in Vegas, it actually snowed.
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Can you believe that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You have to be to the far west of town
to see a snowflake, but it does.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Happen, oh, Red Rock, Yeah, it actually that was two
thousand and eight, and the way it snowed that year
was just something extremely rare.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I remember that snowstorm.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes, so you are running for Congress, please give your
district again.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Nevada's fourth district, so it's un northern Clark County, so
we have north Las Vegas, and then you head up
by fifteen to cities like Logan, Dell and Mesquite over
ten and then you had up to the west over
to perumpt and then there's two two roads up the
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middle of the state, ninety five and ninety three. Ninety
five goes up towards Reno and ninety three goes towards Elco,
and so our district goes all the way up to
uh Hawthorne and a little bit of Story County on
on the west side, and on the east side it
goes up to the northern end of Lincoln County.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yes, yeah, it's got to be one of it's got.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
To be one of the biggest districts in the country.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I would I would guess, he says, Perump Nevada. You
know who I think of when he says that, other
than the late great Art Bell.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, Oh, there's there's a joke about Perump that I'll
I'll share with you offline when we're done. Uh nice, Yes, indeed,
So before we get into your campaign, why don't you
give the listeners a little bit of background about yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Sure, so, I'm uh, twenty five years in rule Nevada,
in twenty five years in urban Nevada. I've got a
great story to tell with playing eight man football in
a little town of Alamo, Nevada, Pranica Valley High School.
At one point, Pranica Valley High School had more wins
than anybody else in the country at one hundred and
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six in football. So we have a kind of a
history of you know how it is southern Idaho, Idaho, Nevada.
These these schools are the center of the communities, and
so sports was played such a critical part of my life.
And nineteen ninety one I was a Nevada State Basketball
Player of the Year at single A. Ninety two I graduated,
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I got a scholarship to Virginia Tech to play quarterback,
and by nineteen ninety five we were playing Texas and
the Sugar Bowl and beat them twenty eight to ten.
So that's the sports side of course. Growing up was
lots of boy Scouts, you know, the Scout oath and
the Scout you know, the Scout law, FFA County Fairs
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and steers. So definitely a great childhood. My earliest memories
were getting in the truck at daybreak, driving out to
Dry Lake Range, getting on the back of a horse
with a canteen and riding behind because at that young
age you always have to trail, so it felt like
year's worth of trailing cattle when you're that young. So
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great experience growing up and then moving on to college
at Virginia Tech. I met my wife there. We've raised
three beautiful daughters, I've coached them all in fast pitched softball,
so I've coached them against a lot of those Idaho teams. Boy,
those teams up there don't like to lose.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Of course we don't.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They're the worst losers good night there. They hate to lose.
So we see them in Salt Lake or Denver. But man,
those Idaho teams, they do not like to lose. But
always a good game against you know, Boise and Twin
and Pocatello teams.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So yes, absolutely, and eight man football, I know exactly
what you're talking about because I myself, I grew up
in a very small town twenty miles north of boisea
population of about seven hundred, so I can definitely relate there.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yep, Idaho still has eight man football too. Yes, one
of the coaches in our town coached in Challice, and
so we go to Challice some years and they come
down to Pranaga Valley. So that's kind of a little
rivalry between Idaho and Nevada.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, So basically the you know, the area
you live in. I know after being there myself is
prit is fairly blue. What do we look at Nevada?
Nevada has a very very red, red history. Yes, yeah,
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but you know, I mean you can't you have to expect,
you know, Reno in Vegas to be blue areas. I
mean Vegas, of course, one of these Democrat run cities
that you know that they're they're working on on ruining
more and more every day like that, you know, like
they've done to uh, Minneapolis, and they've done to Austin, Texas,
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and they've done to Detroit.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But they're they're they're killing our they're killing our state.
They're killing our state. They're making it difficult for businesses
to move here. We're getting we're getting beat to death
by Salt Lake and Phoenix right now. Businesses are not
coming here. The businesses that we have find it very
hard to continue doing business. Federal land is an issue.
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We're run. We've run out of land here. It seems
like the congressmen and women from our district, there's three
that represent we're supposed to be representing Nevada, but we've
got three Democrats right here in Las Vegas that don't
ever leave Las Vegas. So not a lot of not
a little, not a lot of items being taken care
of outside of Las Vegas. These days, and that's going
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to change here in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, you know, we're looking at the same thing in
New York State. You know, I mean, you got New
York City, which we we don't need to go there
since they already have a communist And I'm not just
talking to democrat a socialist. This guy is a communist
who's running for mayor. But look at the rest of
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New York and you know, they and those that are
in New York City are all but he don't just
don't seem to care about the rest of the state. Yeah,
I think that.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Just shows you how bad our schools are because his
popularity is with the youth. And you know, I raised
three daughters that are very conservative, and but it took
it took an effort to do that. Private school sports,
they all wrote, they all ride, they hunt, and they don't.
You know, the youth are not getting that, so they're
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following people that are making it easy. And you know, well,
that's that's how somebody like that guy in New York
is able to gain gain power. Is it's it's it's
unbelievable that that's happening right now in New York City.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Well, I hope you can hear me. I had my
computer just did something really funny. You guys can still
hear me, right, yes, we hear you. Okay, but uh yeah,
I think you know the best, the best behave children
that I've seen are actually home schooled. You talk about
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private schools as well. In fact, I can tell you
one of the schools that I worked security at, what
uh is a private school just outside of the Summerline
area that I was talking about a little a little
while ago, and uh, you know, all the kids at
that school, I remember there were great kids. But what's
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being taught in public schools? That definitely needs to change.
You know what, Since I am having a little bit
of problems with my computer, let me go ahead and
put on our first commercial break, and we'll continue this
discussion when we come back in just about about a
minute and a half. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we
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are back. And I see that I was able to
fix that little problem in that short amount of time.
But we were talking basically about education, and I have
to ask, is that one of the issues that you
plan on tackling during your campaign?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's our number one issue education. We got the economy
and then we've got energy. So education's number one for us.
It's the most critical thing we do in the state
of Nevada. We're dead almost dead last, and we've got
to make We got to change that.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Now, Ken, you tell me exactly what are the things
they you think they are teaching in public schools they're
in event especially the Vegas area. If you're not going
to a high class school like Bishop Gorman.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, so my daughters went to Faith Lutheran and for
Bishop Gorman is a great school too, but my girls
went to Faith. And really what's changed is the standards.
They've lowered the standards so far that you know, you
get to the point to where you're not learning anymore,
you're just showing up. And you know, I like the
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schools that make it tough. That's why I sent my
daughters to private school. And it doesn't matter in the
state and about it. Every student in this state deserves
a quality education. It doesn't matter where they live. And
you know, that's got to change. We've got to those
standards have got to go up. You know, passing students
for doing the bare minimum is not the right thing
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to do. It leaves them unprepared. And you know they're
not ready for life with with with the education they're
receiving here in Clark County and some part.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Of the state.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You know, the thing of it is is we we've
spent a lot of money on these schools, don't we.
I mean, we spend millions of dollars building these buildings
and funding these teachers, and we get minimal use out
of them. I mean, couldn't we add a twelfth grade cycle?
Could we not get children by going year round where
they'd be graduating by the tenth grade with a twelfth
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grade education and moving on to get them an oh,
what's the garden it?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I went to public school, Well, what an associates associates
degree by the time their twelfth year is up.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
What you're talking about is there's a lot of people
out there making suggestions as far as year round school.
I know in Lincoln County where I grew up, they
went to four days a week, which was best for
that for that school district because all those schools travel
on Friday and Saturday for sports. Nobody was showing up
to school. So I believe in making changes where they
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make sense. But ultimately, the only way you're going to
make education better is with competition, and competition, in my opinion,
starts with choice. When you start opting out of public
schools and going to a school that I don't care
if it's an old Kmart Strip school that's done by
a universe, Versity of Phoenix or Liberty University. Go learn
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something and be prepared. You know, if the money is
able to stay with the student and they're able to
invest it into their son or daughter or student, man,
that sounds like a whole lot better situation than just
making them go to this local school and you know
they're not keeping control of the classrooms. They've got five
and six principles, assistant principles. You know, it's just a
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big administrative, you know process that the students are the
last ones that actually receive something. You know, they first ones.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Well, school used to be about discipline, structure and stuff
like that, and you get that from private schools. When
you say you get to private school, they really come
out functioning adults. You know, they learn how to they
get thought process related to organized thought process, things like that.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Where they're functioning people.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
But sitting in public school anymore, they like that, don't they?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's they are college ready. My daughters were college ready
after private school. My daughters are in geology, mechanical engineering.
My one daughter was able to get her pilot's license
before she graduated. You know, those are the opportunities I'm
talking about. And I and listen a lot of people say, well,
you can't afford those private schools, And I say, you
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know what, build some schools without football stadiums and without
basketball gyms. That are millions of dollars. Let's just focus
on schools and learning centers. Yes, somebody that somewhere you
can go learn. You know what costs. What makes those
schools so expensive are the sports programs. Everybody wants to
go to Gorman. The Fatiita's built a twenty five million
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dollar football stadium. I think you know that's not for everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I mean, I was actually working security when they were
building the new Bishop Gorman on the outskirts of Vegas.
But you know, so I know about that stadium you're
talking about it. It's really nice. But yeah, that's that's school.
I mean, we're talking it costs a minimum of what
ten thousand dollars to register? I'm not sure, but I
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got something else to throw at you there, Cody number one.
I am a foster father of a special needs child
and he's thirteen with the mind of a four year old. Now,
I mean, I sometimes wonder why we put him in
school because he's he really doesn't have the a lot
of the abilities. He's probably not going to get any
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further than writing his name. I could be wrong, but
you know, he's he's exactly what I say, special needs,
you know, and like he's putting special programs that I
think are worthy of our tax dollars. Now, uh, this
is what gets me cooking on the front burner is
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my grandson. I saw him a little over a week ago.
He's about ready to go into third grade, and I said,
all right, times, I said, time for times, tables and
cursive writing yep. And his mother said, now they just
do everything on tablets. We don't teach cursive anymore. And
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I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's time. It's time to bring back pens and paper
and real books.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes, yes, I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How you learn. My spelling has gotten horrible because I
don't have to spell anymore. My computer, my phone does
it for me, my laptop does it for me, and
think about it. You know, when we were taking vocabulary
tests and spelling tests that we had to beat. You know,
we had a teacher with a red pen correcting us.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I remember the good old days when I remember I
just got, I got, I got a piece of paper,
and you know, I do math on a deuced spelling
whatever and if it and if it didn't pass, I
remember it was right there with a big and big
red ink. F. Yeah, and you.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Haven't got that red marker and drew that line down there,
didn't you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think there was a couple of times I did that. Yes,
only fool yourself though, right, that's right, because it's kind
of hard to make an a out of an F. Yes,
though he got a better to be Yeah, oh yeah,
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that would That would have probably worked a little bit
better had we thought about that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
And we were greedy, that's what we got caught.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, But you know, and I'm call me old school
if you want, call me old fashioned, but you know,
the way kids behave these days, I'm sorry. I believe
in discipline, not abuse, and it's time to bring back adults. Hey,
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I got a good story for you, Well tell me.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So. I grew up in a small school district. My
mother was my third grade school teacher. Oh, probably the
worst year of our lives, right, She felt like she
told me that I had to have everybody's attention all
the time because my mom was teaching the class. She
had me spanked by the principal. To this day, I
still remember that my aunt was the secretary. She had
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to come rescue me. So listen, if you had a
mother that was getting you spanked by the principal, you
probably had a five star mother.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
There you go, there you go. I actually it was
just earlier today too. I saw that picture of Rocky
Balboa and it said me, after rolling my eyes up
my mother in nineteen eighty six, that was me. That
was me if I if I'd tried any of that
crap to it. Yeah, education, there needs to be a
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grip on education, and there needs to be a grip
on teachers what they're what they're teaching. No more communism,
no more critical race theory, and teaching self loathing. That's
going to lead to a higher suicide rate, you know,
I transgenderism.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Let the teachers teach. They're getting so many new directions,
they're getting so much that they have they're having to
do the impossible. Let them, let them teach, like you say,
the things that they have to integrate. It's unnecessary.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I mean, uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
It's political. That's all that is is political.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, I mean, there's no way I'm going to stand
for segregation and prejudice. I will never stand for that.
As a matter of fact, here's a little story before
we have to go to break here in about five
minutes too. Is you know I was told that the
in word was acceptable back in the eighties, and I said,
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if it was so acceptable, why is it that when
I said it, the moment I got home, I got
whooped and a bar of soap shoved in my mouth. Yeah,
that wasn't I was.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I was a teenager in the nineteen eighties, and trust me,
it wasn't acceptable. People didn't just go on public dropping
that word around everywhere. Maybe in close quarter friends or something.
They might have used the word, right, but they didn't
just go in public and just use the word like
it was nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Listen, I played Division one football. I became very comfortable
around the word. You know, our locker rooms were you
know there nothing was off limits in those locker rooms.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Right, and close quarter situations, you know, among friends or something. Yes,
it was used in different various ways. It wasn't always derogatory,
it was it.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Was almost the salutation.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And then and then you know what we need too,
is we need more coaches like Ken Carter. He did not.
He did not tolerate the use of that word and
taught taught his players to respect themselves. Plus, Uh, just
as you saw in the movie, he said, these are
student athletes. Student comes first, and you have stressed that
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quite clear yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Without the books, you don't get to play.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, so did you also I have to ask you
also work as you also worked as a coach at UH,
did did you have academic standards as well?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well? So I we I taught softball. We coached softball
at the rec level and then club level, and then
uh when I coached football. We could absolutely had academic standards.
We had if at Faith Lutheran, if if you had
one bad test grade, you didn't play. And so you know,
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from week to week, about the third or fourth week,
the boys knew that teachers in the school were not
going to allow that to slide. And once you teach them,
you're not going to allow them to slide on a grade.
They grow up really fast and understand if they want
to get on the field that they got to keep
those grades up. And you know what, that makes them
grow up a little bit faster. It makes some reality
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set in that I have to go to class, I
have to shut my mouth, I have to learn to
go out and play on Saturday with my friends.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
See, and when I was in school, and pretty much
the standard was is that say you're all maintaining an
A plus average, but you fail a math test or
you fail a science test and you're dropped down to
a B. I mean, that's not gonna get your deducted
playing time. But once you start dropping to a D,
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then the coach is going to get on you.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I think I think if we had missed homework assignments,
they didn't play.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I like that. I actually I really like that. I
think that's that's what what should be done, what's important. Yes,
so we're almost the bottom of the hour, and that
means we're gonna go ahead and take our bottom of
the hour break and I want to discuss uh uh
some of the other issues when we come back in
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just just around three minutes. All right, ladies, and gentlemen,
we are back once again. We're being joined by Cody
Whipple out of Southern Nevada. Now, Cody, Uh, we before
we started the show, we were having a private conversation
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about human trafficking, which is problem everywhere. You know, whatever
the solicitation may be, mostly for sexual purposes or you know,
general uh illegal slavery, whatever it may be. But you
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talked about how all the churches in your neck of
the woods united to fight against this. So tell us
more about that.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
So everybody's everybody knows the trafficking has been a problem
in Southern Nevada Las Vegas for a long time.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It's very much event driven with.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Uh you know.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Now we've got Formula one, We've got uh uh you
know NFL with the Raiders. We had the Super Bowl,
which is great. Vegas is doing an amazing job as
far as being an entertaining city to come and enjoy.
But the problem with that comes all the trafficking and
drugs and crime. And uh so, really what happened here
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is we we were we've we've went to Desert Springs
United Methodists for a very long time, and uh, the
churches that Jesus Christ the Latter Day Saints, Catholic collectively
in Las Vegas, all the denominations got together and created
new legislation that put traffickers in jail. There was no
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noose slaps on the wrist. I mean they it, they
go to jail. So we we actually saw a collective Uh,
the churches got together and made a big impact here
in Nevada with with legislation.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That is amazing, That is amazing. I mean you know
that because this is a problem we need to clamp
down on. I mean, we we worry about our youth
because I mean that come on, that that's who's carrying
the torch for us going forward. And uh, well, you
know you worry.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You worry about the people that can't fight for themselves.
And it's it's our jobs right as Christian men to
make sure that we're we're protecting them. If we see
the problems, we got to stand up and do something
about it. And I think that's what happened here in
Las Vegas. We don't want to be known as sin city.
We want to be known as a great town to
raise a family, start a career. And uh, you know,
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I think we've got great families here in Las Vegas.
That that with these different it didn't matter what church
you were, and everybody got together and fought for the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Absolutely. You know what too, when I was speaking of churches,
you know, my whole life, I always I wanted to
go to, uh, one of the one of those primarily
Black Baptist church where they really take their worship seriously
and all that. And when I lived in South Carolina,
I lived in Tennessee, I I didn't get to go
to one of those churches because I was always working
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or whatever the case may be. I finally got to
go to one of those churches in North Las Vegas.
It was oh man, it was amazing. Yeap, Yes, we
have them, and.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
They were and they were right there with all the
other they were just as vocal and just you know,
everybody showed up and worked together.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yes, yes, that's amazing. So you said earlier to the UH,
the other issues you want to tackle, of course, uh
the economy And what was the other one?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
You said, Well, energy we're getting you know, as a
cattle rancher, I had to shut off wells this year
because I can't produce enough hay to pay for the
labor fuel and power.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Uh that's you know the fact that you're having a
the the video or the the commercial you had is excellent,
what a what a great representation of we need to
know where our food's coming from. And energy is killing everybody.
So you know, ery the cost of energy raises the
price of everything. So if you want to talk about
cost of living or attainable affordable housing, whatever it is,
(29:51):
it starts with energy. And and you know everybody is, uh,
you know, we need some different up, We need geothermal,
We need to look at some nuclear, we need to
look at you know, the I'm not as big a
fan as the wind. I've in communications. I work with
solar and wind a lot because we're in remote areas.
(30:12):
Solar is great, it's not always not. We always have
to have a generator, some type of fossil fuel to
back it up, and that's where nuclear geothermal comes in.
But the wind, I'm not a big fan of the wind,
but I think that solar is an option. I just
don't like to see it all over our Nevada ranges.
You know, they're well I haven't got used to that yet.
(30:36):
I need I think we can do so much better.
What happens if we have you know, this is a living,
breathing earth, and we have an asteroid hit and we
got clouds, and you know, solar is going to go
away for a period of time. So I think we
need to have more options hopefully bring the cost of
energy down.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Well, I agree with you. One one thing, you know,
of course, that they they use to drive this is
the belief that climate change is real. I'm climate change
has been debunked. In fact, I've had an expert right
here on this show that has helped debunk the myth
of climate change. Uh, just about every time we've talked
(31:16):
to him, you know. But uh, I mean that's one
way to get to that they're teaching in schools that
we were talking about, is you know, the myth of
climate change, you know. I mean I remember when I
was a kid, they were going on about this, saying, oh,
in about thirty years, we're not going to be here
because the ozone layer is going to go, and here
(31:37):
we are thirty years later. The O.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
When I was a kid, they were talking about another
ice age.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yes, oh yeah, global cooling in the seventies, then in
the two thousands, is global warming? Now it's climate change.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I'm all about clean water.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
And clean air, of course, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Uh. And and as as being being a farmer and rancher,
we're the first environmentalists. We've taken care of the land
and the water for long before the EPA or fish
and wild anybody showed up. We were doing it long
before that. So the as far as the global warming thing,
you know, as far what's happening out in the oceans
(32:15):
that I can't see, I can't speak to that. But
we've landed. We've lived in a desert. I'm fifty one
years old. I've lived here. My mother married my father
and came out here in the late fifties. And people
want to predict what's going to happen to the desert.
I'm like, yeah, your guess is as good as mine.
It's this is the desert. If we get water, that's great.
(32:35):
If we don't, we've lived, We've learned to live without
it for years. That's why the Colorado River and these
these basins in every one of these valleys is so
critical to the future of our state. So, you know,
I don't I don't see that either, and I hate
to see. You know, the Green New Deal was just
an incredible waste of money.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Oh oh absolutely, that's that's the whole premise behind climate changes.
And I mean, the Earth is perpetually changing. That's why
you have a desert out in Nevada. That's why you
have a desert, the Sahara Desert, and so on and
so forth. It's it's all over the globe. You got
these different There used to be lush, green places. Yours
is always changing. It's always going to go through cycles.
(33:12):
But climate change itself is nothing more than to politicize
the environment for the purposes of passing legislation people would
otherwise not choose to have.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
My father, my father in law is a coal miner,
and that has crushed Appalachia.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Oh yeah, and we got coal mines in Utah and
uh West Virginia, and of course that it's like that
that that industry is just slowly disappearing.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And we got to produce still. We got to produce still.
Everything that we use in this United States, we've got
to produce it ourselves. And so the more we ship
over the ocean, it just becomes an issue getting it back.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yes, And one thing I don't get Cody, is they're
having wood imported to the shores of Oregon, Oregon. I mean,
how much wood do you have an Oregon? What what
three quarters of the state is all forest and you're
importing wood.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, if more people understood log it, graze it, or
watch it burn, that is truth.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Oh it's these.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Forests are are so much healthier when you manage them.
Everything that's managed. The African animals that have the best
management programs have the best numbers of anelope and deer
and elephants and so any you know, the you got
to be able to manage these resources, and you got
to do it conservatively. You can't do it in a
way that you put that before us, right, it's all
(34:52):
it all works together.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Well. Uh, I had somebody else here on this shows
from Oregon, and uh he was talking about you know,
back in the day when they used to wisely manage
the forest, back in the fifties and sixties, they only
had one bad wildfire in that whole time frame. Now
(35:15):
you hear about them every year because they're not allowed
to get rid of the dead and dying trees. You know,
if it burns, it's just natural. I'm like, yeah, you're
and you're killing the environment without the management are you
that stupid?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, I think in everything you take anything, that's the cycle, right.
You want to take the mature and let the yet
the youth grow, the young, young trees young. You got
to get the old stuff out so that the new
stuff has room and the sunlight can hit it. So
it's I think it has to do with a lot
of things.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Well, I think it it basically comes down to the
you know, to the to the one thing that we
don't want in this country, and that is communism. You know,
if you know how to do all that stuff and
yourself sufficient, you don't need to rely on the government.
Oh but the government wants you to rely on them
so they can control everything and every aspect of your life.
(36:16):
And that's what we've really got to push back on
because this is what our forefathers warned us about the.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Thing that I'm running because I'm tired of being lied to.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
My father was a downwinder. They said there was no
problem with that nuclear dust falling all over the deserts.
That was a lie. You know, there's so many the
COVID what we learned during COVID masks, you know, masques, vaccinations,
the control that they were trying to, you know, and
(36:51):
then I'll be honest with you. I and I listened,
we talked a little. I was listening to, you know,
the Epstein thing. And you know, Lavoy Finnickham was a
paid you know, this man was. I live in southern
Nevada and he grew he was in southern Utah. I
knew of Lavoy before all of that, and I knew
(37:14):
that this man was a great rancher and a great neighbor.
And so I just hate these lies, and you know what,
to be honest with you, I had somebody I spoke
to some of the other day about the media here
in Las Vegas, and I said, are they purposely telling
the wrong stories? Are they really that far to one side?
(37:35):
And this woman told me, no, they believe this, They're
that far over there. They just they're not trying to
tell the wrong stories. This media has just been educated
to tell the story that they're doing. And I swear
it's I wish we had a better method to get
the right information. I oh wait, there's a lot out there.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You know what we are, the media me John Uh,
you know, Maurice, those of us at at Patriots Prayer
Network and then of course I think I can throw
in Bob Frantz, John b Wells, Sebastian Gorka. If you
want the truth, these are the sources you're gonna get
it from. Yeah, ABC, NBC, CNN, you're not gonna get
(38:21):
the true. You know.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I brought up Arpell earlier, but Arpel used to refer
to what he did as the cutting edge of information.
I can listen to Art Bell and four years later
here as if it was news what they were talking
about on the Arpell Show, it was alternative media. He
was right, they were the cutting edge. Legas and media's death.
(38:43):
They've ruined it for themselves. They've lied to us. They've
been the mockingbird media for too long. They changed from
the CIA right in these reports to put on the
media to heaven commentary from CIA or former CIA agents.
You know, it's still the mockingbird media.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
They just did it differently.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
They're but they're failing.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Oh yeah, they're miserably failing.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Running these cities, educating our students. They're they're failing. You know,
when are people going to wake up like doing the
same thing and expecting a different result. Everybody know that's
not going.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
To happen, Yes, repeat and failure and expected a different
result is a is a sign of insanity.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Indeed, Well, we're at our final quarter, so we're going
to take our final break. We'll be back in about
a minute and a half. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
we are back and just gonna wrap things up here,
uh in the next uh ten minutes here with Cody
Whipple and Cody of course, a question that I wanted
(39:49):
to ask earlier in the show, but we got tied up.
Another conversation is, you know, giving your campaign run, what
is it that you promise your constituents in order to
make them happy?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Well, it covers a large group, right, we have a
large district obviously, veterans and seniors. You know, I got
to make sure that the money being spent on veterans
and seniors is spent in an effective in a way
that is helping the people that need it most. You know,
(40:25):
I listen, I try to. You know, here in Las Vegas,
they're looking at a long term care facility for veterans.
There's nothing like that right now. They can get help,
but any type of long term you know, so we
could look at a long term care facility for rehab
in the rural areas. Like I said, for twenty five years,
I've played in pretty much every basketball gym and every
(40:47):
football field and baseball field, and nothing has changed in
twenty five years. The rules need restaurants, rest stops. We
are roads the main you know, everybody goes up US
ninety three oh four lane. I mean there's not a
passing lane on it. So you know, there's infrastructure that
(41:08):
we got to work on. Education we got to work on,
and then just making sure that seniors and veterans have
the support that they need and somebody that's not going
to lie to them. You know, I've ran a business
for twenty years. I've wrote every every month, I write
paychecks to my employees. I know what it means to
be writing your name on the front of those checks,
not the back. So you know, that's common sense, a
(41:33):
good business understanding, understanding that the programs that we have
need to be maintained and ran. Well, my you know,
when my father passed away, if it wasn't for Social Security,
my mother probably wouldn't have been able to make it.
She was a school teacher and all five of her
kids went to college. You know, so you know, understanding
(41:54):
the process and making sure that it's working for everybody
is what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Oh, you just mentioned social security, and it's like I've
been hearing this every year since i've I've been able
to vote. Oh, but the Republicans and the Conservatives want
to cut social security for everybody. But you know, and
and it's never happened. Trump doesn't want to do it. Uh.
(42:21):
The Bush he was a globalist, but he didn't want
to go that far, you know there. I mean, especially
I understand what Ross Perot because they said that about
him too. They said he wants to cut off everybody's
social security and looked into it and no, he wanted
to cut off social security for elderly billionaires that already
(42:44):
had more money they could than they could ever spend
for the rest of their lives. So why do they
need to collect a check? I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
You know, it has a lot to do with the
able working bodies, right, Anybody with an able working body
needs to be contributing. If they're taking out of the
system and it doesn't belong to them, then you need
to evaluate that and make sure that is it for
good reason or is it because they're trying to, you know,
take advantage of the system. I think with our government
(43:12):
and the swamp, what everybody gets upset about is why
does it cost billions of dollars to do basic things
when we make it work every day in our community.
So I think, you know, understanding a little bit more
of that and bringing a little common sense to the
job is. You know, social security is it's critical for
those families that have to use it. It's in our
(43:34):
Like I said, my mother was able to raise five
children after my father passed away and get them to
college and now they're all successful adults. So that's that
safety net. It needs to be there for the people
that need it.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
I think it's kind of disgusting, to be honest with you,
because we all pay in to it, and when somebody
retires they get a portion of what it costs to live.
You know, a twelve hundred dollars sixteen hundred dollars a
month is nothing today. You know we're written out places too,
bedroom places for three thousand dollars a month. Nobody can
afford to live on what they're willing to give them.
But yet they got usaid and stuff. We finally've been
(44:09):
robbing that and giving billions and billions of dollars away
every year to foreign countries and NGOs and all sorts
of things to benefit a political party more or less,
and they left our elderly twisted in the wind where
they can't decide if they're going to pay for the
medication off their Social Security or pay for food.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
We definitely need was president President Trump, and that America first.
With me, it's going to be Nevada first. And we
got to be that we're doing our jobs. We don't
want to be sending it away and expecting good things
to happen and when we could be doing it right
here for ourselves.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
You know one other thing I like a lot too, Cody,
is you know back in two thousand and one I
mentioned I worked in Jackbot. Well, I got fired from here,
and then I I got an I got another job
that was only temporary, so once that job was over,
I could I could draw unemployment. And at that time,
(45:09):
you know what, you just got your unemployment and as
as long as you weren't working, you got it until
it ran out. Well, I uh, I didn't. I didn't
keep mine until it ran out. I ended up getting
a job before it ran out. But now if you
want to keep on drawing an unemployment check, you have
to provide proof that you've been job hunting. And I
(45:33):
like that well.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
And even here in Clark County, the people are abusing
that because they'll show up for a job interview and
then they won't they won't show back up for the job. So, uh,
you know, it needs to be there while you're looking
for a new job. But you know, the people that
are taking advantage of it, it's costing the state of Idaho,
it's costing the state in Nevada, and we need to
(45:56):
make sure that those people don't receive it after after
you know, they need to get back to work.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Absolutely absolutely. Yeah. I did though once. Uh you know,
in two thousand and two, I did. I did take
a couple of months off because I I was making
enough to live and maybe buy a couple other things.
But you know, it's like I want more money than this,
you know, so I I took like a couple of
(46:23):
months vacation just I was lazy for a couple of
months whatever. But after after after that, when I wasn't
getting the money that I really wanted, I realized, you know,
I got.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
To get another job, I understand.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Yeah. And then I got a job, I started getting
the things I wanted. Again.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
The need for money is a motivator.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
It is those toys, those toys, that fishing boat, those things.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
Well. Uh, and of course I'm I'm working extra hours
of so my day jobs because I want some more guns.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah, there you go. Oh that's another habit.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
That was another thing too, is I had people telling
me that I wouldn't be able to carry my carry
my gun in the state of Nevada. And I know
Nevada is not constitutional carry like Idaho is. But last
I checked, they do honor my license that I can
carry concealed.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yep. We you know, that's a tough question. I think
the Second Amendment just is the Second Amendment. It shouldn't,
you know. I think our protection is our protection. And
but you know, having a little bit of training, I'm
okay with that. I think, you know, doing a background.
(47:46):
You know, as much as I dislike laws, I think
I'm okay with trying to get the crazies under control.
I you know, it's any anytime you can prevent something
from happening, I'm all for it. I just don't like
the the overreach.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
The thing about it is one of the US constitutions
of the City of the United States, government has a
responsibility to protect you as a citizen. Or does it
say if it said that, Boy, they sure to screw
that up when they when they had.
Speaker 3 (48:11):
The Duskegee experiment.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
And I can probably go through all the experiments, but
you get where I'm going with this. So they really
don't care about you as a citizen. It's more about
just disarming you as a citizen.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
That's all. It is.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Beautiful. I have beautiful daughters and I make them every
time I met the ranch with them, I make them
do clip drills. Bang bang new clip, bang bang new clip.
I want them to be able to protect themselves no
matter the situation.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Because it's their responsibility.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
First, tell them keep firing. Let uncle Brett take care
of this. He's the lawyer. Yeah, if you feel like
you're in harm, you're my daughter. We'll we'll, we'll, we'll
figure this one out. You take care of your safety.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Well, that's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
They have the inability to control crime, but they want
to disarm you as a citizen. Something does does it
seem right?
Speaker 3 (49:00):
Here now, I just got to ask you real quick,
but we won't have any time to go into any
stories or anything. Since you're a rancher there in southern Nevada,
I have to ask you. Did you have any part
with the Bundy standoff in twenty fourteen?
Speaker 2 (49:18):
So that's funny. I have a communications company, so I'm
not going to say who, but he definitely coordinated some
activities with two A radio and there were some patriots
out there that were definitely benefiting from some communication networks
that were out there in the in the rural Nevada.
(49:38):
My brother Brett walked Clive and Bundy out of Federal
Court a freeman. My brother Brett's an attorney. You know,
people out here are it's a little fifty to fifty,
you know. They My father knew Cleven and they bought
and sold cattle together. I went to I was an
FFA with the boys, and but what the BLM dead,
(49:59):
what the limited should never happened? They were wrong, wrong.
Speaker 3 (50:04):
Wrong, And I'm I'm happy to say that I'm I'm
friends with Am and Bundy. And what Saint Luke's Hospital
has done to him is is just beyond atrocious. It
makes me so sick.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
That stands on their morals. They stand on their morals
and I respect that.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yes, So with that said, we are running out of show.
We looked down in the ticker there, Cody and uh,
just to make sure that is correct, codyfocongress dot com.
If they want to look you up and help you w.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Www CODYK for Congress dot com. You know, Uh, campaigns
take a lot of money. We're self funding some, We're
raising money. We're raising money from a lot of the
families in Las Vegas. We're starting local first. Obviously, for
a federal race, we're going to have to look to California,
Texas or Florida. But the small donations are great too.
(51:02):
A twenty twenty dollars, fifty dollars. It's it's a full
time job. I thought I was gonna be able to
work the cattle ranch, my communications company, and campaign, and
I'm finding out that the campaign has taken eighty percent
of my time. So I'm bringing my daughter in and uh,
we're gonna we're gonna call our divide and conquer a
little bit instead of me doing everything.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
There you go, there you go, man, it's got strategy.
There Billy absolutely, I love it, and uh on tap
for next week, we're gonna have a returning guest if
you remember Christopher Key, and of course some of the
bizarre things he talked about. Hopefully we're not going to
talk about those said things again. We're gonna be talking
(51:48):
about other issues. But yeah, we'll be having him on
next week. Cody, I really appreciate your time and I
want to wish you luck in your campaign, and God
blease you.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
I appreciate you with the invite. Thank you very much.
It's nice getting to talk to coast to coast in
one day. So thank you.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Guys, absolutely, thank you, and ladies and gentlemen, thank you
very much for tuning in to Patriot Confederation. God save
the Republic of the United States of America.
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(01:06):
twenty twenty five. I'm your host, Bad Billy from Twin Falls, Idahope,
joined as always by John Grovenor out of Nashville, New Hampshire.
How you doing out there, brother, doing great man?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I can't believe we're in the middle of August, already
towards near the end of August, I mean, are getting there.
It's just incredible, incredible to me to think the year's going.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
By so quick.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I don't know if this speeding of time is of
old age or what's going on, but it's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Man, it's happening. It is happening, indeed, and I'll tell
you what I've had about enough of the warm weather.
It's been a hot summer, I'll tell you that. But
here we are going into fall, and says Halloween is
probably my favorite holiday out of the whole years.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, fun holiday.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, indeed, joining us this week right out of southern Novada.
When I talk about heat too, I think he'd know
something about it. We have Cody Whipple, Yes, right right
out of Night County, Nevada. Thank you very much for
joining us. How you doing today, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm from Lincoln County. I live in Clark County, so
that that Night County is the neighbor.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Okay, my mistake. That's the same area, yes, same area, yes, sir,
and Clark County I know all too well. I lived
five years in Las Vegas myself, and I do understand
the heat there because I had to work in it
a lot. So yeah, it's probably pretty warm right now.
I can imagine, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's Uh, it's a nice cool one o eight today,
so that's better than one fifteen.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But at least it's a dry heat, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's a dry, dry one o eight. Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Dry or humid, it's still not fun to be out
in for too long, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And even when I lived in Reno, times it got
it got up. Besides one hundred and ten, I think
when I lived in Reno.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
So the cowboys in the old days, when we're around
in the desert like that, or the heat like that,
with all them coverings, with the dust jackets and the
hats and the bandanas, or is that just Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh, that's that's real, because you got to stay covered.
Even the workers here in Vegas, they they started about
four am and they'll work till two or three in
the afternoon. But uh, you keep covered hat, shirt, and
then the sweat that you're producing actually cools you off
because you have a breathable shirt. So that's all real.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I see them guys working asphalt. Man three hundred and
fifty degree took me to asphalt on the ground in
the middle of summer, and I look at them and go,
you poor bastards. I don't envy you a bit I work,
but I appreciate them.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
A lot of concrete companies and they're pouring before dark. Yeah,
you know, before May life, before in the dark, before daylight.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh yeah, I remember that all too well, because so, yeah,
it would stay warm until what almost midnight ten and
before it started cooling down, and that's when they'd start
getting to work, and then they'd quit right around eight
in the morning or so yep. And then, of course,
the first winter I lived in Vegas, it actually snowed.
(04:16):
Can you believe that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You have to be to the far west of town
to see a snowflake, but it does.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Happen, oh, Red Rock, Yeah, it actually that was two
thousand and eight, and the way it snowed that year
was just something extremely rare.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I remember that snowstorm.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes, so you are running for Congress, please give your
district again.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Nevada's fourth district, so it's un northern Clark County, so
we have north Las Vegas, and then you head up
by fifteen to cities like Logan, Dell and Mesquite over
ten and then you had up to the west over
to perumpt and then there's two two roads up the
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middle of the state, ninety five and ninety three. Ninety
five goes up towards Reno and ninety three goes towards Elco,
and so our district goes all the way up to
uh Hawthorne and a little bit of Story County on
on the west side, and on the east side it
goes up to the northern end of Lincoln County.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yes, yeah, it's got to be one of it's got.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
To be one of the biggest districts in the country.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I would I would guess, he says, Perump Nevada. You
know who I think of when he says that, other
than the late great Art Bell.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, Oh, there's there's a joke about Perump that I'll
I'll share with you offline when we're done. Uh nice, Yes, indeed,
So before we get into your campaign, why don't you
give the listeners a little bit of background about yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Sure, so, I'm uh, twenty five years in rule Nevada,
in twenty five years in urban Nevada. I've got a
great story to tell with playing eight man football in
a little town of Alamo, Nevada, Pranica Valley High School.
At one point, Pranica Valley High School had more wins
than anybody else in the country at one hundred and
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six in football. So we have a kind of a
history of you know how it is southern Idaho, Idaho, Nevada.
These these schools are the center of the communities, and
so sports was played such a critical part of my life.
And nineteen ninety one I was a Nevada State Basketball
Player of the Year at single A. Ninety two I graduated,
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I got a scholarship to Virginia Tech to play quarterback,
and by nineteen ninety five we were playing Texas and
the Sugar Bowl and beat them twenty eight to ten.
So that's the sports side of course. Growing up was
lots of boy Scouts, you know, the Scout oath and
the Scout you know, the Scout law, FFA County Fairs
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and steers. So definitely a great childhood. My earliest memories
were getting in the truck at daybreak, driving out to
Dry Lake Range, getting on the back of a horse
with a canteen and riding behind because at that young
age you always have to trail, so it felt like
year's worth of trailing cattle when you're that young. So
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great experience growing up and then moving on to college
at Virginia Tech. I met my wife there. We've raised
three beautiful daughters, I've coached them all in fast pitched softball,
so I've coached them against a lot of those Idaho teams. Boy,
those teams up there don't like to lose.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Of course we don't.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They're the worst losers good night there. They hate to lose.
So we see them in Salt Lake or Denver. But man,
those Idaho teams, they do not like to lose. But
always a good game against you know, Boise and Twin
and Pocatello teams.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So yes, absolutely, and eight man football, I know exactly
what you're talking about because I myself, I grew up
in a very small town twenty miles north of boisea
population of about seven hundred, so I can definitely relate there.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yep, Idaho still has eight man football too. Yes, one
of the coaches in our town coached in Challice, and
so we go to Challice some years and they come
down to Pranaga Valley. So that's kind of a little
rivalry between Idaho and Nevada.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, So basically the you know, the area
you live in. I know after being there myself is
prit is fairly blue. What do we look at Nevada?
Nevada has a very very red, red history. Yes, yeah,
(08:49):
but you know, I mean you can't you have to expect,
you know, Reno in Vegas to be blue areas. I
mean Vegas, of course, one of these Democrat run cities
that you know that they're they're working on on ruining
more and more every day like that, you know, like
they've done to uh, Minneapolis, and they've done to Austin, Texas,
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and they've done to Detroit.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But they're they're they're killing our they're killing our state.
They're killing our state. They're making it difficult for businesses
to move here. We're getting we're getting beat to death
by Salt Lake and Phoenix right now. Businesses are not
coming here. The businesses that we have find it very
hard to continue doing business. Federal land is an issue.
(09:35):
We're run. We've run out of land here. It seems
like the congressmen and women from our district, there's three
that represent we're supposed to be representing Nevada, but we've
got three Democrats right here in Las Vegas that don't
ever leave Las Vegas. So not a lot of not
a little, not a lot of items being taken care
of outside of Las Vegas. These days, and that's going
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to change here in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, you know, we're looking at the same thing in
New York State. You know, I mean, you got New
York City, which we we don't need to go there
since they already have a communist And I'm not just
talking to democrat a socialist. This guy is a communist
who's running for mayor. But look at the rest of
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New York and you know, they and those that are
in New York City are all but he don't just
don't seem to care about the rest of the state. Yeah,
I think that.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Just shows you how bad our schools are because his
popularity is with the youth. And you know, I raised
three daughters that are very conservative, and but it took
it took an effort to do that. Private school sports,
they all wrote, they all ride, they hunt, and they don't.
You know, the youth are not getting that, so they're
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following people that are making it easy. And you know, well,
that's that's how somebody like that guy in New York
is able to gain gain power. Is it's it's it's
unbelievable that that's happening right now in New York City.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Well, I hope you can hear me. I had my
computer just did something really funny. You guys can still
hear me, right, yes, we hear you. Okay, but uh yeah,
I think you know the best, the best behave children
that I've seen are actually home schooled. You talk about
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private schools as well. In fact, I can tell you
one of the schools that I worked security at, what
uh is a private school just outside of the Summerline
area that I was talking about a little a little
while ago, and uh, you know, all the kids at
that school, I remember there were great kids. But what's
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being taught in public schools? That definitely needs to change.
You know what, Since I am having a little bit
of problems with my computer, let me go ahead and
put on our first commercial break, and we'll continue this
discussion when we come back in just about about a
minute and a half. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we
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are back. And I see that I was able to
fix that little problem in that short amount of time.
But we were talking basically about education, and I have
to ask, is that one of the issues that you
plan on tackling during your campaign?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's our number one issue education. We got the economy
and then we've got energy. So education's number one for us.
It's the most critical thing we do in the state
of Nevada. We're dead almost dead last, and we've got
to make We got to change that.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Now, Ken, you tell me exactly what are the things
they you think they are teaching in public schools they're
in event especially the Vegas area. If you're not going
to a high class school like Bishop Gorman.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, so my daughters went to Faith Lutheran and for
Bishop Gorman is a great school too, but my girls
went to Faith. And really what's changed is the standards.
They've lowered the standards so far that you know, you
get to the point to where you're not learning anymore,
you're just showing up. And you know, I like the
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schools that make it tough. That's why I sent my
daughters to private school. And it doesn't matter in the
state and about it. Every student in this state deserves
a quality education. It doesn't matter where they live. And
you know, that's got to change. We've got to those
standards have got to go up. You know, passing students
for doing the bare minimum is not the right thing
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to do. It leaves them unprepared. And you know they're
not ready for life with with with the education they're
receiving here in Clark County and some part.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Of the state.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You know, the thing of it is is we we've
spent a lot of money on these schools, don't we.
I mean, we spend millions of dollars building these buildings
and funding these teachers, and we get minimal use out
of them. I mean, couldn't we add a twelfth grade cycle?
Could we not get children by going year round where
they'd be graduating by the tenth grade with a twelfth
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grade education and moving on to get them an oh,
what's the garden it?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I went to public school, Well, what an associates associates
degree by the time their twelfth year is up.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
What you're talking about is there's a lot of people
out there making suggestions as far as year round school.
I know in Lincoln County where I grew up, they
went to four days a week, which was best for
that for that school district because all those schools travel
on Friday and Saturday for sports. Nobody was showing up
to school. So I believe in making changes where they
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make sense. But ultimately, the only way you're going to
make education better is with competition, and competition, in my opinion,
starts with choice. When you start opting out of public
schools and going to a school that I don't care
if it's an old Kmart Strip school that's done by
a universe, Versity of Phoenix or Liberty University. Go learn
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something and be prepared. You know, if the money is
able to stay with the student and they're able to
invest it into their son or daughter or student, man,
that sounds like a whole lot better situation than just
making them go to this local school and you know
they're not keeping control of the classrooms. They've got five
and six principles, assistant principles. You know, it's just a
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big administrative, you know process that the students are the
last ones that actually receive something. You know, they first ones.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Well, school used to be about discipline, structure and stuff
like that, and you get that from private schools. When
you say you get to private school, they really come
out functioning adults. You know, they learn how to they
get thought process related to organized thought process, things like that.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Where they're functioning people.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
But sitting in public school anymore, they like that, don't they?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's they are college ready. My daughters were college ready
after private school. My daughters are in geology, mechanical engineering.
My one daughter was able to get her pilot's license
before she graduated. You know, those are the opportunities I'm
talking about. And I and listen a lot of people say, well,
you can't afford those private schools, And I say, you
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know what, build some schools without football stadiums and without
basketball gyms. That are millions of dollars. Let's just focus
on schools and learning centers. Yes, somebody that somewhere you
can go learn. You know what costs. What makes those
schools so expensive are the sports programs. Everybody wants to
go to Gorman. The Fatiita's built a twenty five million
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dollar football stadium. I think you know that's not for everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I mean, I was actually working security when they were
building the new Bishop Gorman on the outskirts of Vegas.
But you know, so I know about that stadium you're
talking about it. It's really nice. But yeah, that's that's school.
I mean, we're talking it costs a minimum of what
ten thousand dollars to register? I'm not sure, but I
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got something else to throw at you there, Cody number one.
I am a foster father of a special needs child
and he's thirteen with the mind of a four year old. Now,
I mean, I sometimes wonder why we put him in
school because he's he really doesn't have the a lot
of the abilities. He's probably not going to get any
(17:53):
further than writing his name. I could be wrong, but
you know, he's he's exactly what I say, special needs,
you know, and like he's putting special programs that I
think are worthy of our tax dollars. Now, uh, this
is what gets me cooking on the front burner is
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my grandson. I saw him a little over a week ago.
He's about ready to go into third grade, and I said,
all right, times, I said, time for times, tables and
cursive writing yep. And his mother said, now they just
do everything on tablets. We don't teach cursive anymore. And
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I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's time. It's time to bring back pens and paper
and real books.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes, yes, I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How you learn. My spelling has gotten horrible because I
don't have to spell anymore. My computer, my phone does
it for me, my laptop does it for me, and
think about it. You know, when we were taking vocabulary
tests and spelling tests that we had to beat. You know,
we had a teacher with a red pen correcting us.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I remember the good old days when I remember I
just got, I got, I got a piece of paper,
and you know, I do math on a deuced spelling
whatever and if it and if it didn't pass, I
remember it was right there with a big and big
red ink. F. Yeah, and you.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Haven't got that red marker and drew that line down there,
didn't you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think there was a couple of times I did that. Yes,
only fool yourself though, right, that's right, because it's kind
of hard to make an a out of an F. Yes,
though he got a better to be Yeah, oh yeah,
(19:50):
that would That would have probably worked a little bit
better had we thought about that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
And we were greedy, that's what we got caught.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, But you know, and I'm call me old school
if you want, call me old fashioned, but you know,
the way kids behave these days, I'm sorry. I believe
in discipline, not abuse, and it's time to bring back adults. Hey,
(20:17):
I got a good story for you, Well tell me.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So. I grew up in a small school district. My
mother was my third grade school teacher. Oh, probably the
worst year of our lives, right, She felt like she
told me that I had to have everybody's attention all
the time because my mom was teaching the class. She
had me spanked by the principal. To this day, I
still remember that my aunt was the secretary. She had
(20:43):
to come rescue me. So listen, if you had a
mother that was getting you spanked by the principal, you
probably had a five star mother.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
There you go, there you go. I actually it was
just earlier today too. I saw that picture of Rocky
Balboa and it said me, after rolling my eyes up
my mother in nineteen eighty six, that was me. That
was me if I if I'd tried any of that
crap to it. Yeah, education, there needs to be a
(21:14):
grip on education, and there needs to be a grip
on teachers what they're what they're teaching. No more communism,
no more critical race theory, and teaching self loathing. That's
going to lead to a higher suicide rate, you know,
I transgenderism.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Let the teachers teach. They're getting so many new directions,
they're getting so much that they have they're having to
do the impossible. Let them, let them teach, like you say,
the things that they have to integrate. It's unnecessary.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I mean, uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
It's political. That's all that is is political.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, I mean, there's no way I'm going to stand
for segregation and prejudice. I will never stand for that.
As a matter of fact, here's a little story before
we have to go to break here in about five
minutes too. Is you know I was told that the
in word was acceptable back in the eighties, and I said,
(22:16):
if it was so acceptable, why is it that when
I said it, the moment I got home, I got
whooped and a bar of soap shoved in my mouth. Yeah,
that wasn't I was.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I was a teenager in the nineteen eighties, and trust me,
it wasn't acceptable. People didn't just go on public dropping
that word around everywhere. Maybe in close quarter friends or something.
They might have used the word, right, but they didn't
just go in public and just use the word like
it was nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Listen, I played Division one football. I became very comfortable
around the word. You know, our locker rooms were you
know there nothing was off limits in those locker rooms.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Right, and close quarter situations, you know, among friends or something. Yes,
it was used in different various ways. It wasn't always derogatory,
it was it.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Was almost the salutation.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And then and then you know what we need too,
is we need more coaches like Ken Carter. He did not.
He did not tolerate the use of that word and
taught taught his players to respect themselves. Plus, Uh, just
as you saw in the movie, he said, these are
student athletes. Student comes first, and you have stressed that
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quite clear yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Without the books, you don't get to play.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, so did you also I have to ask you
also work as you also worked as a coach at UH,
did did you have academic standards as well?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well? So I we I taught softball. We coached softball
at the rec level and then club level, and then
uh when I coached football. We could absolutely had academic standards.
We had if at Faith Lutheran, if if you had
one bad test grade, you didn't play. And so you know,
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from week to week, about the third or fourth week,
the boys knew that teachers in the school were not
going to allow that to slide. And once you teach them,
you're not going to allow them to slide on a grade.
They grow up really fast and understand if they want
to get on the field that they got to keep
those grades up. And you know what, that makes them
grow up a little bit faster. It makes some reality
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set in that I have to go to class, I
have to shut my mouth, I have to learn to
go out and play on Saturday with my friends.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
See, and when I was in school, and pretty much
the standard was is that say you're all maintaining an
A plus average, but you fail a math test or
you fail a science test and you're dropped down to
a B. I mean, that's not gonna get your deducted
playing time. But once you start dropping to a D,
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then the coach is going to get on you.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I think I think if we had missed homework assignments,
they didn't play.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I like that. I actually I really like that. I
think that's that's what what should be done, what's important. Yes,
so we're almost the bottom of the hour, and that
means we're gonna go ahead and take our bottom of
the hour break and I want to discuss uh uh
some of the other issues when we come back in
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just just around three minutes. All right, ladies, and gentlemen,
we are back once again. We're being joined by Cody
Whipple out of Southern Nevada. Now, Cody, Uh, we before
we started the show, we were having a private conversation
(25:50):
about human trafficking, which is problem everywhere. You know, whatever
the solicitation may be, mostly for sexual purposes or you know,
general uh illegal slavery, whatever it may be. But you
(26:10):
talked about how all the churches in your neck of
the woods united to fight against this. So tell us
more about that.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
So everybody's everybody knows the trafficking has been a problem
in Southern Nevada Las Vegas for a long time.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It's very much event driven with.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Uh you know.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Now we've got Formula one, We've got uh uh you
know NFL with the Raiders. We had the Super Bowl,
which is great. Vegas is doing an amazing job as
far as being an entertaining city to come and enjoy.
But the problem with that comes all the trafficking and
drugs and crime. And uh so, really what happened here
(26:54):
is we we were we've we've went to Desert Springs
United Methodists for a very long time, and uh, the
churches that Jesus Christ the Latter Day Saints, Catholic collectively
in Las Vegas, all the denominations got together and created
new legislation that put traffickers in jail. There was no
(27:16):
noose slaps on the wrist. I mean they it, they
go to jail. So we we actually saw a collective Uh,
the churches got together and made a big impact here
in Nevada with with legislation.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That is amazing, That is amazing. I mean you know
that because this is a problem we need to clamp
down on. I mean, we we worry about our youth
because I mean that come on, that that's who's carrying
the torch for us going forward. And uh, well, you
know you worry.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You worry about the people that can't fight for themselves.
And it's it's our jobs right as Christian men to
make sure that we're we're protecting them. If we see
the problems, we got to stand up and do something
about it. And I think that's what happened here in
Las Vegas. We don't want to be known as sin city.
We want to be known as a great town to
raise a family, start a career. And uh, you know,
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I think we've got great families here in Las Vegas.
That that with these different it didn't matter what church
you were, and everybody got together and fought for the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Absolutely. You know what too, when I was speaking of churches,
you know, my whole life, I always I wanted to
go to, uh, one of the one of those primarily
Black Baptist church where they really take their worship seriously
and all that. And when I lived in South Carolina,
I lived in Tennessee, I I didn't get to go
to one of those churches because I was always working
(28:43):
or whatever the case may be. I finally got to
go to one of those churches in North Las Vegas.
It was oh man, it was amazing. Yeap, Yes, we
have them, and.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
They were and they were right there with all the
other they were just as vocal and just you know,
everybody showed up and worked together.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yes, yes, that's amazing. So you said earlier to the UH,
the other issues you want to tackle, of course, uh
the economy And what was the other one?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
You said, Well, energy we're getting you know, as a
cattle rancher, I had to shut off wells this year
because I can't produce enough hay to pay for the
labor fuel and power.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Uh that's you know the fact that you're having a
the the video or the the commercial you had is excellent,
what a what a great representation of we need to
know where our food's coming from. And energy is killing everybody.
So you know, ery the cost of energy raises the
price of everything. So if you want to talk about
cost of living or attainable affordable housing, whatever it is,
(29:51):
it starts with energy. And and you know everybody is, uh,
you know, we need some different up, We need geothermal,
We need to look at some nuclear, we need to
look at you know, the I'm not as big a
fan as the wind. I've in communications. I work with
solar and wind a lot because we're in remote areas.
(30:12):
Solar is great, it's not always not. We always have
to have a generator, some type of fossil fuel to
back it up, and that's where nuclear geothermal comes in.
But the wind, I'm not a big fan of the wind,
but I think that solar is an option. I just
don't like to see it all over our Nevada ranges.
You know, they're well I haven't got used to that yet.
(30:36):
I need I think we can do so much better.
What happens if we have you know, this is a living,
breathing earth, and we have an asteroid hit and we
got clouds, and you know, solar is going to go
away for a period of time. So I think we
need to have more options hopefully bring the cost of
energy down.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Well, I agree with you. One one thing, you know,
of course, that they they use to drive this is
the belief that climate change is real. I'm climate change
has been debunked. In fact, I've had an expert right
here on this show that has helped debunk the myth
of climate change. Uh, just about every time we've talked
(31:16):
to him, you know. But uh, I mean that's one
way to get to that they're teaching in schools that
we were talking about, is you know, the myth of
climate change, you know. I mean I remember when I
was a kid, they were going on about this, saying, oh,
in about thirty years, we're not going to be here
because the ozone layer is going to go, and here
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we are thirty years later. The O.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
When I was a kid, they were talking about another
ice age.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yes, oh yeah, global cooling in the seventies, then in
the two thousands, is global warming? Now it's climate change.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I'm all about clean water.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
And clean air, of course, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Uh. And and as as being being a farmer and rancher,
we're the first environmentalists. We've taken care of the land
and the water for long before the EPA or fish
and wild anybody showed up. We were doing it long
before that. So the as far as the global warming thing,
you know, as far what's happening out in the oceans
(32:15):
that I can't see, I can't speak to that. But
we've landed. We've lived in a desert. I'm fifty one
years old. I've lived here. My mother married my father
and came out here in the late fifties. And people
want to predict what's going to happen to the desert.
I'm like, yeah, your guess is as good as mine.
It's this is the desert. If we get water, that's great.
(32:35):
If we don't, we've lived, We've learned to live without
it for years. That's why the Colorado River and these
these basins in every one of these valleys is so
critical to the future of our state. So, you know,
I don't I don't see that either, and I hate
to see. You know, the Green New Deal was just
an incredible waste of money.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Oh oh absolutely, that's that's the whole premise behind climate changes.
And I mean, the Earth is perpetually changing. That's why
you have a desert out in Nevada. That's why you
have a desert, the Sahara Desert, and so on and
so forth. It's it's all over the globe. You got
these different There used to be lush, green places. Yours
is always changing. It's always going to go through cycles.
(33:12):
But climate change itself is nothing more than to politicize
the environment for the purposes of passing legislation people would
otherwise not choose to have.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
My father, my father in law is a coal miner,
and that has crushed Appalachia.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Oh yeah, and we got coal mines in Utah and
uh West Virginia, and of course that it's like that
that that industry is just slowly disappearing.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And we got to produce still. We got to produce still.
Everything that we use in this United States, we've got
to produce it ourselves. And so the more we ship
over the ocean, it just becomes an issue getting it back.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yes, And one thing I don't get Cody, is they're
having wood imported to the shores of Oregon, Oregon. I mean,
how much wood do you have an Oregon? What what
three quarters of the state is all forest and you're
importing wood.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, if more people understood log it, graze it, or
watch it burn, that is truth.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Oh it's these.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Forests are are so much healthier when you manage them.
Everything that's managed. The African animals that have the best
management programs have the best numbers of anelope and deer
and elephants and so any you know, the you got
to be able to manage these resources, and you got
to do it conservatively. You can't do it in a
way that you put that before us, right, it's all
(34:52):
it all works together.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Well. Uh, I had somebody else here on this shows
from Oregon, and uh he was talking about you know,
back in the day when they used to wisely manage
the forest, back in the fifties and sixties, they only
had one bad wildfire in that whole time frame. Now
(35:15):
you hear about them every year because they're not allowed
to get rid of the dead and dying trees. You know,
if it burns, it's just natural. I'm like, yeah, you're
and you're killing the environment without the management are you
that stupid?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, I think in everything you take anything, that's the cycle, right.
You want to take the mature and let the yet
the youth grow, the young, young trees young. You got
to get the old stuff out so that the new
stuff has room and the sunlight can hit it. So
it's I think it has to do with a lot
of things.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Well, I think it it basically comes down to the
you know, to the to the one thing that we
don't want in this country, and that is communism. You know,
if you know how to do all that stuff and
yourself sufficient, you don't need to rely on the government.
Oh but the government wants you to rely on them
so they can control everything and every aspect of your life.
(36:16):
And that's what we've really got to push back on
because this is what our forefathers warned us about the.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Thing that I'm running because I'm tired of being lied to.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
My father was a downwinder. They said there was no
problem with that nuclear dust falling all over the deserts.
That was a lie. You know, there's so many the
COVID what we learned during COVID masks, you know, masques, vaccinations,
the control that they were trying to, you know, and
(36:51):
then I'll be honest with you. I and I listened,
we talked a little. I was listening to, you know,
the Epstein thing. And you know, Lavoy Finnickham was a
paid you know, this man was. I live in southern
Nevada and he grew he was in southern Utah. I
knew of Lavoy before all of that, and I knew
(37:14):
that this man was a great rancher and a great neighbor.
And so I just hate these lies, and you know what,
to be honest with you, I had somebody I spoke
to some of the other day about the media here
in Las Vegas, and I said, are they purposely telling
the wrong stories? Are they really that far to one side?
(37:35):
And this woman told me, no, they believe this, They're
that far over there. They just they're not trying to
tell the wrong stories. This media has just been educated
to tell the story that they're doing. And I swear
it's I wish we had a better method to get
the right information. I oh wait, there's a lot out there.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You know what we are, the media me John Uh,
you know, Maurice, those of us at at Patriots Prayer
Network and then of course I think I can throw
in Bob Frantz, John b Wells, Sebastian Gorka. If you
want the truth, these are the sources you're gonna get
it from. Yeah, ABC, NBC, CNN, you're not gonna get
(38:21):
the true. You know.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I brought up Arpell earlier, but Arpel used to refer
to what he did as the cutting edge of information.
I can listen to Art Bell and four years later
here as if it was news what they were talking
about on the Arpell Show, it was alternative media. He
was right, they were the cutting edge. Legas and media's death.
(38:43):
They've ruined it for themselves. They've lied to us. They've
been the mockingbird media for too long. They changed from
the CIA right in these reports to put on the
media to heaven commentary from CIA or former CIA agents.
You know, it's still the mockingbird media.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
They just did it differently.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
They're but they're failing.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Oh yeah, they're miserably failing.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Running these cities, educating our students. They're they're failing. You know,
when are people going to wake up like doing the
same thing and expecting a different result. Everybody know that's
not going.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
To happen, Yes, repeat and failure and expected a different
result is a is a sign of insanity.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Indeed, Well, we're at our final quarter, so we're going
to take our final break. We'll be back in about
a minute and a half. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
we are back and just gonna wrap things up here,
uh in the next uh ten minutes here with Cody
Whipple and Cody of course, a question that I wanted
(39:49):
to ask earlier in the show, but we got tied up.
Another conversation is, you know, giving your campaign run, what
is it that you promise your constituents in order to
make them happy?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Well, it covers a large group, right, we have a
large district obviously, veterans and seniors. You know, I got
to make sure that the money being spent on veterans
and seniors is spent in an effective in a way
that is helping the people that need it most. You know,
(40:25):
I listen, I try to. You know, here in Las Vegas,
they're looking at a long term care facility for veterans.
There's nothing like that right now. They can get help,
but any type of long term you know, so we
could look at a long term care facility for rehab
in the rural areas. Like I said, for twenty five years,
I've played in pretty much every basketball gym and every
(40:47):
football field and baseball field, and nothing has changed in
twenty five years. The rules need restaurants, rest stops. We
are roads the main you know, everybody goes up US
ninety three oh four lane. I mean there's not a
passing lane on it. So you know, there's infrastructure that
(41:08):
we got to work on. Education we got to work on,
and then just making sure that seniors and veterans have
the support that they need and somebody that's not going
to lie to them. You know, I've ran a business
for twenty years. I've wrote every every month, I write
paychecks to my employees. I know what it means to
be writing your name on the front of those checks,
not the back. So you know, that's common sense, a
(41:33):
good business understanding, understanding that the programs that we have
need to be maintained and ran. Well, my you know,
when my father passed away, if it wasn't for Social Security,
my mother probably wouldn't have been able to make it.
She was a school teacher and all five of her
kids went to college. You know, so you know, understanding
(41:54):
the process and making sure that it's working for everybody
is what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Oh, you just mentioned social security, and it's like I've
been hearing this every year since i've I've been able
to vote. Oh, but the Republicans and the Conservatives want
to cut social security for everybody. But you know, and
and it's never happened. Trump doesn't want to do it. Uh.
(42:21):
The Bush he was a globalist, but he didn't want
to go that far, you know there. I mean, especially
I understand what Ross Perot because they said that about
him too. They said he wants to cut off everybody's
social security and looked into it and no, he wanted
to cut off social security for elderly billionaires that already
(42:44):
had more money they could than they could ever spend
for the rest of their lives. So why do they
need to collect a check? I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
You know, it has a lot to do with the
able working bodies, right, Anybody with an able working body
needs to be contributing. If they're taking out of the
system and it doesn't belong to them, then you need
to evaluate that and make sure that is it for
good reason or is it because they're trying to, you know,
take advantage of the system. I think with our government
(43:12):
and the swamp, what everybody gets upset about is why
does it cost billions of dollars to do basic things
when we make it work every day in our community.
So I think, you know, understanding a little bit more
of that and bringing a little common sense to the
job is. You know, social security is it's critical for
those families that have to use it. It's in our
(43:34):
Like I said, my mother was able to raise five
children after my father passed away and get them to
college and now they're all successful adults. So that's that
safety net. It needs to be there for the people
that need it.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
I think it's kind of disgusting, to be honest with you,
because we all pay in to it, and when somebody
retires they get a portion of what it costs to live.
You know, a twelve hundred dollars sixteen hundred dollars a
month is nothing today. You know we're written out places too,
bedroom places for three thousand dollars a month. Nobody can
afford to live on what they're willing to give them.
But yet they got usaid and stuff. We finally've been
(44:09):
robbing that and giving billions and billions of dollars away
every year to foreign countries and NGOs and all sorts
of things to benefit a political party more or less,
and they left our elderly twisted in the wind where
they can't decide if they're going to pay for the
medication off their Social Security or pay for food.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
We definitely need was president President Trump, and that America first.
With me, it's going to be Nevada first. And we
got to be that we're doing our jobs. We don't
want to be sending it away and expecting good things
to happen and when we could be doing it right
here for ourselves.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
You know one other thing I like a lot too, Cody,
is you know back in two thousand and one I
mentioned I worked in Jackbot. Well, I got fired from here,
and then I I got an I got another job
that was only temporary, so once that job was over,
I could I could draw unemployment. And at that time,
(45:09):
you know what, you just got your unemployment and as
as long as you weren't working, you got it until
it ran out. Well, I uh, I didn't. I didn't
keep mine until it ran out. I ended up getting
a job before it ran out. But now if you
want to keep on drawing an unemployment check, you have
to provide proof that you've been job hunting. And I
(45:33):
like that well.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
And even here in Clark County, the people are abusing
that because they'll show up for a job interview and
then they won't they won't show back up for the job. So, uh,
you know, it needs to be there while you're looking
for a new job. But you know, the people that
are taking advantage of it, it's costing the state of Idaho,
it's costing the state in Nevada, and we need to
(45:56):
make sure that those people don't receive it after after
you know, they need to get back to work.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Absolutely absolutely. Yeah. I did though once. Uh you know,
in two thousand and two, I did. I did take
a couple of months off because I I was making
enough to live and maybe buy a couple other things.
But you know, it's like I want more money than this,
you know, so I I took like a couple of
(46:23):
months vacation just I was lazy for a couple of
months whatever. But after after after that, when I wasn't
getting the money that I really wanted, I realized, you know,
I got.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
To get another job, I understand.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Yeah. And then I got a job, I started getting
the things I wanted. Again.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
The need for money is a motivator.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
It is those toys, those toys, that fishing boat, those things.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
Well. Uh, and of course I'm I'm working extra hours
of so my day jobs because I want some more guns.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah, there you go. Oh that's another habit.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
That was another thing too, is I had people telling
me that I wouldn't be able to carry my carry
my gun in the state of Nevada. And I know
Nevada is not constitutional carry like Idaho is. But last
I checked, they do honor my license that I can
carry concealed.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yep. We you know, that's a tough question. I think
the Second Amendment just is the Second Amendment. It shouldn't,
you know. I think our protection is our protection. And
but you know, having a little bit of training, I'm
okay with that. I think, you know, doing a background.
(47:46):
You know, as much as I dislike laws, I think
I'm okay with trying to get the crazies under control.
I you know, it's any anytime you can prevent something
from happening, I'm all for it. I just don't like
the the overreach.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
The thing about it is one of the US constitutions
of the City of the United States, government has a
responsibility to protect you as a citizen. Or does it
say if it said that, Boy, they sure to screw
that up when they when they had.
Speaker 3 (48:11):
The Duskegee experiment.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
And I can probably go through all the experiments, but
you get where I'm going with this. So they really
don't care about you as a citizen. It's more about
just disarming you as a citizen.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
That's all. It is.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Beautiful. I have beautiful daughters and I make them every
time I met the ranch with them, I make them
do clip drills. Bang bang new clip, bang bang new clip.
I want them to be able to protect themselves no
matter the situation.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Because it's their responsibility.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
First, tell them keep firing. Let uncle Brett take care
of this. He's the lawyer. Yeah, if you feel like
you're in harm, you're my daughter. We'll we'll, we'll, we'll
figure this one out. You take care of your safety.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Well, that's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
They have the inability to control crime, but they want
to disarm you as a citizen. Something does does it
seem right?
Speaker 3 (49:00):
Here now, I just got to ask you real quick,
but we won't have any time to go into any
stories or anything. Since you're a rancher there in southern Nevada,
I have to ask you. Did you have any part
with the Bundy standoff in twenty fourteen?
Speaker 2 (49:18):
So that's funny. I have a communications company, so I'm
not going to say who, but he definitely coordinated some
activities with two A radio and there were some patriots
out there that were definitely benefiting from some communication networks
that were out there in the in the rural Nevada.
(49:38):
My brother Brett walked Clive and Bundy out of Federal
Court a freeman. My brother Brett's an attorney. You know,
people out here are it's a little fifty to fifty,
you know. They My father knew Cleven and they bought
and sold cattle together. I went to I was an
FFA with the boys, and but what the BLM dead,
(49:59):
what the limited should never happened? They were wrong, wrong.
Speaker 3 (50:04):
Wrong, And I'm I'm happy to say that I'm I'm
friends with Am and Bundy. And what Saint Luke's Hospital
has done to him is is just beyond atrocious. It
makes me so sick.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
That stands on their morals. They stand on their morals
and I respect that.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yes, So with that said, we are running out of show.
We looked down in the ticker there, Cody and uh,
just to make sure that is correct, codyfocongress dot com.
If they want to look you up and help you w.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Www CODYK for Congress dot com. You know, Uh, campaigns
take a lot of money. We're self funding some, We're
raising money. We're raising money from a lot of the
families in Las Vegas. We're starting local first. Obviously, for
a federal race, we're going to have to look to California,
Texas or Florida. But the small donations are great too.
(51:02):
A twenty twenty dollars, fifty dollars. It's it's a full
time job. I thought I was gonna be able to
work the cattle ranch, my communications company, and campaign, and
I'm finding out that the campaign has taken eighty percent
of my time. So I'm bringing my daughter in and uh,
we're gonna we're gonna call our divide and conquer a
little bit instead of me doing everything.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
There you go, there you go, man, it's got strategy.
There Billy absolutely, I love it, and uh on tap
for next week, we're gonna have a returning guest if
you remember Christopher Key, and of course some of the
bizarre things he talked about. Hopefully we're not going to
talk about those said things again. We're gonna be talking
(51:48):
about other issues. But yeah, we'll be having him on
next week. Cody, I really appreciate your time and I
want to wish you luck in your campaign, and God
blease you.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
I appreciate you with the invite. Thank you very much.
It's nice getting to talk to coast to coast in
one day. So thank you.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Guys, absolutely, thank you, and ladies and gentlemen, thank you
very much for tuning in to Patriot Confederation. God save
the Republic of the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
We're all the feeding ma
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