September 16, 2025 • 29 mins
Dr. Renata Moon addresses the vaccine controversy that has been stirred by comments made by RFK Jr. Then Bill O’Reilly commentator and author of the book confronting evil talks about the evil that lead to recent evets like the assassination on Charlie Kirk. Finaly Financial Advisor Matt Schultz talks about the importance of managing your personal finances and budgeting.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And welcome to Viewpoint Alabama on the Alabama Radio Network.
My name is John Mountain. I'm joined by doctor Reenie Moon.
She is a pediatric physician. You're a pediatric physician or.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Noah, thank you for having me on. Yes, I'm a
practicing pediatrician and pediatric hospital physician both.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you work with a lot of very young patients.
And one of the things the hot button issue these
days is do the kids need all the fact vaccines
or even any of the vaccines that are currently being
offered almost required in almost every state. But now there's
this is kind of controversial because we're hearing from Florida
that maybe it's not going to be required anymore. What
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are your thoughts about this?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As a physician, Yeah, you know, so, I've practiced pediatric
medicine for over twenty five years, and I have always
been supportive of traditional childhood vaccines, trusting my regulatory agencies
like many physicians have. But now I'm concerned. I'm not
just concerned, I'm alarmed because we all saw what happened
with COVID, right. I think everyone saw that very clearly.
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Our nation's children should never have been given this COVID
shot with clear severe side effects from it potentially, so
much has to be cleaned, much has to be discussed,
And I'm highly in favor of what I'm seeing happening
right now at our highest levels of government, with Riki
Junior cleaning these federal public health agencies. We need to
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get trust back for the American people and for the physician.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
How much danger do you think done has been done
by the recommendations, the mandates requiring the vaccine and it's
not really a vaccine, it's a shot because it's an
mRNA vaccination, which is very different from the traditional sort
which we grow in an egg. So how much damage
has been done to public's trust for vaccinations by the
COVID nineteen mandates.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think it was a massive loss of trust for
all of us. Right we saw we saw physicians and
society absolutely break ethical boundaries that we never thought we
would see, especially here in America. You know, the freedom
to make your own health care choices without being bullied
or coerced or forced into doing something. So you know, nowadays,
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I travel around, I work in different clinics in different
hospitals around the nation, and I've been very actively engaged
in speaking out about how wrong the COVID shot was
for children. It never should have been recommended, And I
see the loss of trust in people's eyes. So when
I go into a clinic and i'll, you know, I'll
just take a full history and I ask people about
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their shot record for their children, I see the strust
that they have in their eyes now, and it's there
for a reason. We've completely lost trust in our federal agencies.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
With regard to the COVID vaccination for children. I understand
the logic. The thinking was, well, anyone could spread the
disease or the virus, and children could catch it, and
even if they're not affected, they could spread it to
the elderly. But at the same time, these children were
a lot of people are thinking they could have been
damaged by the vaccine because we could have introduced something
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into their immune system. We're bombarding children with all these
vaccinations before the age of two, before the age of
six months in some cases, and their immune systems might
not be able to create the immune cells, the memory
cells that are able to fight all or any of
these vaccines, and it might even damage the immune system's
ability to fight things in the future. Is that what
I'm understanding.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I think the COVID shot, like you said earlier,
was not a vaccine. It was not a true vaccine.
It was called that, but it was really a synthetic
genetic product that never should have been given to our
nation's kids. This where was the pandemic for our kids.
We all saw very rapidly that our kids were spared.
They didn't have their fatalities from COVID like we were
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seeing in some of their populations. They're really elderly. There
was no reason to give them this relatively untested product
that very quickly we learned actually had fatalities associated with it,
had injuries to the heart associated with it. This never
should have been given to our nation's children. I am
fully in support of what doctor Lottipoe, the Surgeon General
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in Florida, has said about this. This never should have
been released, honestly on anyone, but especially on our nation's children.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let's talk about doctor Loudipoe and the things that he
has said, because I think this has been mischaracterized of
You always like to toss around the word ban. They
say Florida has banned vaccinations, But Florida's not banning vaccinations
or even banning them for children. What Florida I think
is doing and what doctor a Lotobo is doing, is
he is making it optional, making giving putting parents in
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the driver's seat to decide do they want their child
to get this vaccination or any vaccination.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And parents absolutely should be in the driver's seat. We've
watched the parental rights just get eroded around our country.
It's terrible to watch. Who has their their children's best
interests at heart. Really it's generally the parents, right, You
know your kids the best. You make decisions for your family.
What doctor Lodipo is saying, and many many physicians, including myself,
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support everything that he is saying. He's saying, you get
to decide. You're going to speak with your doctor, You're
going to look at data, You're going to make a
decision for your own families about what is best. But
he is highlighting the fact that there is a huge,
huge concern from many well trained, highly experienced physicians saying,
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wait a minute, these COVID shots, they're bad news. So
he's putting that out there front and center for people
to think about.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is Viewpoint Alabama on the Alabama Radio netw My
name is John Mounts. I'm speaking with doctor Rene Moon.
She is a pediatrician, and she's sounding the alarm on
a lot of these shots out there that we're requiring,
and in some cases they might not be helpful and
they might be hurting. Now, doctor Moon, I'm going to
play Devil's advocate a little bit here, because there was
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a time when there were no vaccinations for anything, and
we had a lot of terrible diseases killing kids. You know,
there are people still to this day who were negatively
affected by polio, or by smallpox or all these things
that we've largely eradicated by vaccinations. Are you saying that
all vaccinations should be looked at with a jaundice I
or as it specifically, the mRNA vaccines like the code vaccine.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know, like I said at the beginning of the show,
I am absolutely not anti vax I am pro science,
pro data, and pro the health of our nation's children.
I think now, after the covid era and what we
saw happened with a shot that clearly should never have
been given to children, we have realized as a society
that we have a massive problem with our regulatory agencies,
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these public health agencies. We trusted them to look at
the data and to make the right decisions for our population,
and that clearly didn't happen with the COVID shots. None
of us want to see, you know, some of the
horrible diseases from decades ago come back. We also live
in a different type of society now. We live in
a society with better water supply, better healthcare in general. Right,
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we live in a different world. And so in the
context of today's world, which of those shots would your
child benefit from and which could harm them if any
I don't know the answers to that. We need to
understand this and look at it critically. We also need
to understand than in nineteen eighty six, a law was
passed that gives the vaccine manufacturers protection against liability for
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making these products. So what does that mean. It means
they can't be sued for any the side effects that
these products might have, and you're not protected, So you
have basically an open card for them to create whatever
vaccine they want with no checks and balances on the system.
And we saw how that ended, or how that's played
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out with COVID. We can't have a repeat performance of
this again. We need to clean house, just like RFK
Junior is doing, and we need to understand the real
truth about shots, which ones benefit, which ones don't.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Doctor Munyum raised a great point there. I remember during
the height of COVID when there was what they called
the Emergency Authorization, which meant that Pfizer and the other
people who made the shot for COVID could not be
held liable in the event that their product failed. And
now that we're a little ways down the road we've
had a chance to test it, I'm thinking that even
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still those manufacturers cannot be are not going to be
held liable for any of the problems these shots caused,
or any of the other shots that they're proposing, because
I'm sure that they're out there saying, Okay, well that
SHOT's no good, but we got this new one, and
we're going to require you to get this one. It
seems almost like there's a little bit of a money
in the driver's seat as opposed to an interest in
public health.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's all run by money. I mean, the level of
corruption that the COVID era uncovered is just unimaginable. It
is horrifying. And yes, I think you're absolutely right. So
what we're seeing, as was doctor Loadipoe's. He's basically saying,
as a parent, go in with your physician, have an
honest discussion back and forth with your physician, find someone
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that you trust, and make choices that are based on
the best interests of your child. Okay. So obviously, if
we discover that that vaccine, for example, the COVID shot,
can be fatal in some cases, why would you give
that to your child given that the illness itself is
only extremely rarely fatal. They've not shown that there's any
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benefit for you to give this shot to your child.
So you have that conversation with your physician, make those decisions.
Guaranteed that if there are vaccines out there that your
child really would benefit from, what parent with no risk,
what parent wouldn't want that for their child? Right? So
let's let this all play out in a way that
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is absolutely rooted in science and data and common sense
and without force. Right. That's what That's what actual Latopoe
is saying, and we fully support him.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Doctor Moon. When you see a patient, when they present
with symptoms and they're tested, and I'm talking to child
maybe like say a five year old to six year old,
and they've tested, and they do test positive for COVID,
what are your recommendations? Usually, I realize it's customed to
the patient, but in general, what are the treatments now
available for kids maybe that were not available or at
least not readily available during the initial ballut of COVID
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that we had, there was.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
A lot of fear mongering with COVID. The COVID pandemic
for our kids really didn't exist. Okay, we were not
admitting them in any large numbers to the hospital. The
kids that I saw with COVID were all smiling at
me and had a cold. Okay, I'm not saying that
there weren't some fatalities. There absolutely were, just like there
are with any other virus. Every year, there are fatalities
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from viruses, but they were very small in number. Overall,
the chance of your child dying from COVID was similar
to being hit by lightning. It just was extremely rare occurrence. So,
if your child has COVID, they have a cold, and
like any other cold, make sure they stay hydrated, watch
the color of their lips, make sure they're not turning
blue or getting dehydrated, or you know, having some of
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the other issues that land kids in the hospital for
dehydration and things. We admit kids to the hospital over
and over again for different viruses. COVID is not one
that I have been admitting to kids to the hospital
for with any amount of frequency. It's we're admitting kids
for other viruses. It's common, it happens every year, and
we cannot live in fear of viruses.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Doctor Moon. I feel like there's a lot of misinformation
out there, and sadly a lot of it is actually
being created by our own government governmental agencies with regard
to COVID and vaccinations that sort of saying, where's a
good place people can turn to for unbiased, peer reviewed,
well thought out information about vaccinations and shots like the
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COVID shot. Is there a good place people can go
to a resource on the internet?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You know, there may be I'm not familiar with one.
We are living in really unprecedented times, right, We're living
in this a of just crazy internet fear mongering and sensationalism,
and it really is hard for people to know where
to turn. But at the end of the day, in medicine,
in medicine, and when I graduated from medical school, I
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took an oath to do no harm, and that's what
we need to live by, Like, look at your child,
talk with your physician that you trust, talk with your
nurse practitioner someone who you trust, and make good decisions
for your family that you feel comfortable with. But I
don't have a specific website to tell you to go
to right now, because obviously this whole social media technology
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mess has really resulted in a very hard time for
parents to really, you know, make sense of it all.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, I guess actually what I was getting at doctor Moon.
Is there a place where because clearly you have a
good understanding a grasp of this topic, is there a
place where people can follow you and some of the
things that you are saying in publishing and I see
where you've spoken before large groups of people about what
you know. Is there a place people can follow you
and what you're having to.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Say as a practicing physician who was pro vaccine my
whole career. Again, the COVID shot rolled out, there were
massive issues with it, and I had questions. I began
to see problems in my community. I began to see
young people and community members that were clearly having problems
from the COVID shots. We all know that this is
not old news right now. Pretty much everyone knows that
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at this point. But because I was so worried about
the fact that these were being recommended for children, I
spoke at a US Senate hearing in December of twenty
twenty two, where you can actually get online. I'll tell
you where to look. But I spoke and I just said,
there's a massive increase in my alcarditis, the hard inflammation.
This is the package insert from the product. It was
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labeled as intentionally blank at the time. No, I wasn't
giving it to a patient. I just had access to
a box of it. So I opened it with my
nurse and we pulled out this blank package insert. So
I expressed my conscers learned at a Senate hearing, And
as a result of my just saying that at that
Senate hearing, my medical school employer terminated my employment as
a professor. And then a week after they did that,
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they reported me to the Medical Commission to investigate my
medical license for simply asking questions about why this was
being given to children. That should tell you everything that
you need to know right now about how broken our
system is. We don't come after people and especially physicians,
but any of us. We don't come after any of
us for the freedom to speak to our own government
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with safety concerns. Right, But that's what happens. So if
you want to read more about what happened, I encourage
you to look at the website. It's called Silent Majority
Foundation dot org. Silentmajorityfoundation dot org. Look for doctor Moon.
I'm under I think it says our work and it
says freedom of speech. Please know that there is a
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donate button there. I don't get a penny of that.
I don't want many. I want us to be free
and to be able to make our own healthcare tool.
That button is there to help the legal team that
is fighting for freedom for all of us. So it
does not go to me personally. It is for the
freedom movement.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Doctor Reene Moon, thank you so much for joining us
this week on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Thank you for having me on. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program from
the Alabama Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And my name is John Mounts, and right now we
are honored to be joined by the World Round TV
journalist and commentator, author and host of No Spin News
on Billoreilly dot com.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Mister Bill O'Reilly, thanks for having me in John as
everything in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Thanks a great Bill. Of course, we're all still very
much in shock over what happened a week and a
half ago when Charlie Kirk was unceremoniously executed while appearing
before a large crowd. And that's the reason why we
have you on to address the issue of evil and
evil is really it's been around for a long time.
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It's it's nothing new, is it.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Well, evil has been around since kanaan Abel, So there's
a reason that story is a genesis in the Bible.
And all Americans and everybody in the world have to
make a choice. Are we going to lead a good
life or are we going to lead a life that
hurts other human beings. The definition of evil is that
you hurt another person intentionally with no remorse. That's the
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definition of evil. And we're not talking about self defense,
we're not talking about any of that. We're talking about
you like to hurt other people. Vladimir Putin on the
cover of my book. Now that they talk, Adolf hitler
Iyad Toldahomoni, this is nine to eleven week. All those
people enjoyed inflicting pain on other human beings. That is evil,
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and they were all allowed power by regular folks. Regular
folks gave them power and Putin's running wild. Now in Russia,
they killed and wounded millions of people over Ukraine for
what and Russian people allow this. So this is a
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warning that evil is on the rise, John, in the
United States and in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And bringing this back to something a little more current,
even before the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there was another
incident that occurred, and this is the reason we actually
originally booked you to talk about the incident involving Yuria
Zuruka who died on that train, and of course the
guy sitting behind her who killed her, he was evil.
But I'd like to talk about some other evil, peripheral evil,
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which was all those people seated right around her on
that train, because I've seen the footage now of what
happened following the stabbing. Is all those people continued to
do nothing.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, I don't know how much they knew, so it
would be probably unfair of me to analyze that at
this point. But I'll tell you who enabled this whole
thing on that bus and that was the judge to
let this guy out after he beat the hell out
of his own sister, which was his fourteenth arrest, and
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the judge didn't hold this guy, let him go out
on the street. That judge should be disbarred, booted from
the bench, and scorn by everybody that's got to stop.
The passers by were in the in the car, the
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guy's flashing a knife. They're not going to do anything
most people anyway, but the judge no excuse.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Well, when you think about, like, because what I was
getting to was the whole quote, you know, the only
thing it takes for evil to triumphus, for good people
to do nothing. You think about what happened with Daniel Penny,
and he actually attempted to do something on that subway
train to protect people, and evil descended upon him because
he attempted to do something to stop evil.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
That's because the man who prosecuted Penny, Alvin Bragg, is
doing evil every day. I'm not going to call Brag
the DA in Manhattan, an evil person, but he's doing
so much evil that it's staggering. And the people of
New York City of Manhattan vote him in. He's not
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being recalled, he'll probably win reelection. So that's where the
evil lies. Casting a ballot. I got a lot of
social media blowback this week when I said it, if
you vote for man Donnie, he's running for mayor of
New York City, because I'm a New Yorker, you cast
that ballot, that's an evil act because man Donnie will
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not enforce the law. He says it. He says it,
So you are voting for more death, destruction, rape, assault.
You don't think that's an evil act. It is. And
of course when you go after evil, it comes after you.
So that's what I've been dealing with on social media
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this week. But that's fine, because I want to bring
attention to the book that people need to wise up
about evil and fight it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I guess they call them sins of commission and sins
of omission. I think a lot of us were very
guilty of the sins of omission of looking the other way,
of like those people on that commuter train did keept
looking down at your phone and keep looking away, like
pretending like you're not seeing the evil right before our eyes,
And then it keeps happening, and you have these situations
where nobody does anything, and then everyone shrugs and goes, oh,
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that's terrible. I sure which somebody would do something about it.
Sometimes somebody has to be us.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, that's for sure. And that's what I want in
your own neighborhoods and your families. If there's evil going on,
you have to fight it and confront it, have to
be strong and brave. And many, many people are cowardly and apathetic.
And we've got to stop that trend because there's just
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too much of this stuff now going on. Look at
the drug trafficking. My god, you've got people who are
being glorified for selling drugs. Now. These people should be
in prison for thirty years. They're destroying lives, killing people.
You know, we have two chapters on al Chopo and
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the other idiot, Pablo Escobar in the book about how
insidious is It's two things drive evil, money and power,
but it cannot take root unless non evil people allow
it to.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And like you point out in your book, Bill, it
did all start with the Book of Genesis, and you
talk about Cain and Abel, but we can even take
that back further to the fall in the Garden of Eden.
I guess evil is going to be with us because
men will always do evil. It's going to be a
constant battle. We're not going to overcome it in our lifetime,
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and we won't overcome it until Jesus comes back. But
we can do our best in our own way in
our world to try and, like you say, confront it
and make our world. Just if each one of us
tries to make it a little better, then maybe maybe
we'll see a world that's at least a little better.
And I guess at the end of the day, that's
kind of our own responsibility.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Well, it's our obligation. So there's a reason that can
enables stories in Genesis, okay, and human beings got to
choose what kind of life you want to live. And
I'm trying to mobilize now. Way too much evil in
this country, in this world, and we all have to
recognize it and do what we can to tamp it down.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Mister Bill O'Reilly TV journalist, talk show host, author, and
now you have a YouTube channel with like one point
oh two million subscribers. Thank you so much for joining
me today on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Appreciate that, man, John, You're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a
public affairs program from the Alabama Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
More than one in three Americans, including nearly half of
all parents of young kids, have had a friendship end
over money, according to the latest twenty twenty five Friends
in Money report. Lendingtree dot COM's survey of two thousand
Americans revealed a troubling truth. Money often strains relationships, leading
people to hide finances, feel judged, and even lose relationships.
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Joining me now to talk about this is lending Tree's
chief financial analyst, Matt Schultz. Matt, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I often feel some of the same strains that we're
talking about in the survey. One of them is when
you have friends and they want to do something fun,
but fun costs money, and you kind of don't want
to spend the money or can't spend the money, but
you don't know what to say, so a lot of
times you back away, and that's hurting relationships.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like we've all been there,
and it can be really hard to be honest with
people about your financial situation and not wanting to do
these expenses of things. And one of the things we
saw on our survey was about seventy percent of Americans
say that they've turned down some sort of social outing
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because it was too expensive, but a lot of them
didn't tell the person why.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, if they say, hey, let's go out to eat tonight,
well that's great and all. But at the same time,
going out to eat is not like a like a
ten dollars thing anymore. Now it's you know, fifty sixty
dollars for just two people to go out to eat.
And you know, there's that awkwardness when the when the
who's you know, we ordered advertiser. We're going to split
the advertisers. Okay, guess we'll split the appetizers. You know
that who's going to pay the tip? I guess I'll think.
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You know, it's a lot of money, but you don't
want to just look like a jerk in front of
your friends, so you make up an excuse, Oh, I
can't because the kids have a football game tonight at school,
or I've got work or something like that, and so
you try and come up with reasons not to.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, no, there's no question about it. And we found
in the survey that's about one in three people say
that they've lied to their friends about being in a
better financial situation than they are. And that's kind of
an example of what you're talking about. But a lot
of it gets down to what a lot of our
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parents probably told us, where if if you have friends
who are judging you about how much money you have
and you not being able to do these things because
they cost too much money, maybe they're not your real friends.
It can be a tough pill to swallow, but there's
there's some truth to some.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Of that, and it can go the other way too, right, Matt,
Because there's a lot of times when you don't want
to come off as bragging, but actually you're doing fairly
well for yourself. But you don't want to come out
and say, oh, I'm doing so well, I have so
much money. You don't actually say I make one hundred
thousand dollars year. It's very taboo in our culture to
talk about money one way or the other, because you
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don't want to come off as bragging that you're doing
well because that might make the other person feel bad.
You also don't want to come off as I'm inferior.
I don't have nearly as much money coming in, I
have an older car or more worn out clothes. Or
whatever it is. So why is it as Americans, we're
so I don't know where we're We will talk about
all sorts of like bedroom proclivities, but we won't talk
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about money.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah, it's you're right, there is something that is so
personal about about money. And I don't know that I
have a good reason why why that is such a thing,
but but there's no question that it is. And and
you're right. I mean, our survey found that that that
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people said that they had been judged about money, and
that they had judged people about money. But we also
found that some people were judged for for being too
spendy and some people were judged for being too frugal.
And that's part of what makes it challenging, is that
when you're in a group of people, you don't always
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know what is you know where you kind of fit in,
and it's it can make for a really tough social situation.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And Matt, there's something that is even a bigger problem
about this, which is if you have kids and you
feel like you don't want to uh as they say,
open the kimono to show the kids what's going on
with the checking account. You don't want to tell them
what's happening economically. Kids are brought up in this vacuum
of they don't have a real understanding of just how
much rent costs, or the mortgage costs, how much it
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costs with the gas in the car, and so they
don't understand a lot of times when you say, why
it is we can't go out and grab McDonald's tonight
because well, we had to pay the mortgage two days ago,
and I'm afraid we don't have that money. But you
don't want to. You don't want to make your kids
feel like you're they're sitting on some sort of economic landmine.
But at the same time, they should know something about it.
So what's the right how much should you share with
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your kids? And I guess it is age dependent too,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I'm a believer that it is never too early to
talk to your kids about money. You just need to
keep it relatable and you need to a degree keep
it fun and for them to understand, because kids are
interested in money and they want to know. And I
think that one of the things that you can do
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is that you can without giving your kids an economic
lesson or opening up the books too much, having them
participate and talking with them about things that matter to
them most can be a way to have this conversation,
like it always comes up around back to school. If
you have a certain amount of money, and maybe your
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kid doesn't care about a backpack, but they really want
this cool lunch box. That's a way to kind of
have this conversation, to get them involved and to teach
them a little bit about decisions when it comes to
making money.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And that's the reason why it's so important to explain
I have to do it all the time of my daughter,
the difference between wants and needs. You may want this thing,
but it doesn't mean you need that thing. And also
understanding the value of something of you know, you want
a new one of these, that's great, but the old
one still works. And oh but my friends have new
I don't care. The old one still works, and I'm
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not made of money. All those things start coming out
of your mouth that you heard your parents say, you
reach a certain age, and those start coming out of
your own mouth. Matt. For people who want to read
the complete survey, it's available on lending Tree's website.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Yep, absolutely that and lots of other good information about
managing your money properly.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Lending Tree's chief consumer financial analyst, Matt Schultz. Matt, thank
you so much for joining us this week on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Thank you you've been listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public
affairs program from the Alabama Radio Network. The opinions expressed
on Viewpoint Alabama are not necessarily those of the staff, management,
or advertisers of this station.
And welcome to Viewpoint Alabama on the Alabama Radio Network.
My name is John Mountain. I'm joined by doctor Reenie Moon.
She is a pediatric physician. You're a pediatric physician or.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Noah, thank you for having me on. Yes, I'm a
practicing pediatrician and pediatric hospital physician both.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you work with a lot of very young patients.
And one of the things the hot button issue these
days is do the kids need all the fact vaccines
or even any of the vaccines that are currently being
offered almost required in almost every state. But now there's
this is kind of controversial because we're hearing from Florida
that maybe it's not going to be required anymore. What
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are your thoughts about this?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As a physician, Yeah, you know, so, I've practiced pediatric
medicine for over twenty five years, and I have always
been supportive of traditional childhood vaccines, trusting my regulatory agencies
like many physicians have. But now I'm concerned. I'm not
just concerned, I'm alarmed because we all saw what happened
with COVID, right. I think everyone saw that very clearly.
(01:04):
Our nation's children should never have been given this COVID
shot with clear severe side effects from it potentially, so
much has to be cleaned, much has to be discussed,
And I'm highly in favor of what I'm seeing happening
right now at our highest levels of government, with Riki
Junior cleaning these federal public health agencies. We need to
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get trust back for the American people and for the physician.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
How much danger do you think done has been done
by the recommendations, the mandates requiring the vaccine and it's
not really a vaccine, it's a shot because it's an
mRNA vaccination, which is very different from the traditional sort
which we grow in an egg. So how much damage
has been done to public's trust for vaccinations by the
COVID nineteen mandates.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think it was a massive loss of trust for
all of us. Right we saw we saw physicians and
society absolutely break ethical boundaries that we never thought we
would see, especially here in America. You know, the freedom
to make your own health care choices without being bullied
or coerced or forced into doing something. So you know, nowadays,
(02:15):
I travel around, I work in different clinics in different
hospitals around the nation, and I've been very actively engaged
in speaking out about how wrong the COVID shot was
for children. It never should have been recommended, And I
see the loss of trust in people's eyes. So when
I go into a clinic and i'll, you know, I'll
just take a full history and I ask people about
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their shot record for their children, I see the strust
that they have in their eyes now, and it's there
for a reason. We've completely lost trust in our federal agencies.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
With regard to the COVID vaccination for children. I understand
the logic. The thinking was, well, anyone could spread the
disease or the virus, and children could catch it, and
even if they're not affected, they could spread it to
the elderly. But at the same time, these children were
a lot of people are thinking they could have been
damaged by the vaccine because we could have introduced something
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into their immune system. We're bombarding children with all these
vaccinations before the age of two, before the age of
six months in some cases, and their immune systems might
not be able to create the immune cells, the memory
cells that are able to fight all or any of
these vaccines, and it might even damage the immune system's
ability to fight things in the future. Is that what
I'm understanding.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I think the COVID shot, like you said earlier,
was not a vaccine. It was not a true vaccine.
It was called that, but it was really a synthetic
genetic product that never should have been given to our
nation's kids. This where was the pandemic for our kids.
We all saw very rapidly that our kids were spared.
They didn't have their fatalities from COVID like we were
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seeing in some of their populations. They're really elderly. There
was no reason to give them this relatively untested product
that very quickly we learned actually had fatalities associated with it,
had injuries to the heart associated with it. This never
should have been given to our nation's children. I am
fully in support of what doctor Lottipoe, the Surgeon General
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in Florida, has said about this. This never should have
been released, honestly on anyone, but especially on our nation's children.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let's talk about doctor Loudipoe and the things that he
has said, because I think this has been mischaracterized of
You always like to toss around the word ban. They
say Florida has banned vaccinations, But Florida's not banning vaccinations
or even banning them for children. What Florida I think
is doing and what doctor a Lotobo is doing, is
he is making it optional, making giving putting parents in
(04:45):
the driver's seat to decide do they want their child
to get this vaccination or any vaccination.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And parents absolutely should be in the driver's seat. We've
watched the parental rights just get eroded around our country.
It's terrible to watch. Who has their their children's best
interests at heart. Really it's generally the parents, right, You
know your kids the best. You make decisions for your family.
What doctor Lodipo is saying, and many many physicians, including myself,
(05:11):
support everything that he is saying. He's saying, you get
to decide. You're going to speak with your doctor, You're
going to look at data, You're going to make a
decision for your own families about what is best. But
he is highlighting the fact that there is a huge,
huge concern from many well trained, highly experienced physicians saying,
(05:31):
wait a minute, these COVID shots, they're bad news. So
he's putting that out there front and center for people
to think about.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is Viewpoint Alabama on the Alabama Radio netw My
name is John Mounts. I'm speaking with doctor Rene Moon.
She is a pediatrician, and she's sounding the alarm on
a lot of these shots out there that we're requiring,
and in some cases they might not be helpful and
they might be hurting. Now, doctor Moon, I'm going to
play Devil's advocate a little bit here, because there was
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a time when there were no vaccinations for anything, and
we had a lot of terrible diseases killing kids. You know,
there are people still to this day who were negatively
affected by polio, or by smallpox or all these things
that we've largely eradicated by vaccinations. Are you saying that
all vaccinations should be looked at with a jaundice I
or as it specifically, the mRNA vaccines like the code vaccine.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know, like I said at the beginning of the show,
I am absolutely not anti vax I am pro science,
pro data, and pro the health of our nation's children.
I think now, after the covid era and what we
saw happened with a shot that clearly should never have
been given to children, we have realized as a society
that we have a massive problem with our regulatory agencies,
(06:44):
these public health agencies. We trusted them to look at
the data and to make the right decisions for our population,
and that clearly didn't happen with the COVID shots. None
of us want to see, you know, some of the
horrible diseases from decades ago come back. We also live
in a different type of society now. We live in
a society with better water supply, better healthcare in general. Right,
(07:07):
we live in a different world. And so in the
context of today's world, which of those shots would your
child benefit from and which could harm them if any
I don't know the answers to that. We need to
understand this and look at it critically. We also need
to understand than in nineteen eighty six, a law was
passed that gives the vaccine manufacturers protection against liability for
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making these products. So what does that mean. It means
they can't be sued for any the side effects that
these products might have, and you're not protected, So you
have basically an open card for them to create whatever
vaccine they want with no checks and balances on the system.
And we saw how that ended, or how that's played
(07:52):
out with COVID. We can't have a repeat performance of
this again. We need to clean house, just like RFK
Junior is doing, and we need to understand the real
truth about shots, which ones benefit, which ones don't.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Doctor Munyum raised a great point there. I remember during
the height of COVID when there was what they called
the Emergency Authorization, which meant that Pfizer and the other
people who made the shot for COVID could not be
held liable in the event that their product failed. And
now that we're a little ways down the road we've
had a chance to test it, I'm thinking that even
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still those manufacturers cannot be are not going to be
held liable for any of the problems these shots caused,
or any of the other shots that they're proposing, because
I'm sure that they're out there saying, Okay, well that
SHOT's no good, but we got this new one, and
we're going to require you to get this one. It
seems almost like there's a little bit of a money
in the driver's seat as opposed to an interest in
public health.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's all run by money. I mean, the level of
corruption that the COVID era uncovered is just unimaginable. It
is horrifying. And yes, I think you're absolutely right. So
what we're seeing, as was doctor Loadipoe's. He's basically saying,
as a parent, go in with your physician, have an
honest discussion back and forth with your physician, find someone
(09:08):
that you trust, and make choices that are based on
the best interests of your child. Okay. So obviously, if
we discover that that vaccine, for example, the COVID shot,
can be fatal in some cases, why would you give
that to your child given that the illness itself is
only extremely rarely fatal. They've not shown that there's any
(09:29):
benefit for you to give this shot to your child.
So you have that conversation with your physician, make those decisions.
Guaranteed that if there are vaccines out there that your
child really would benefit from, what parent with no risk,
what parent wouldn't want that for their child? Right? So
let's let this all play out in a way that
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is absolutely rooted in science and data and common sense
and without force. Right. That's what That's what actual Latopoe
is saying, and we fully support him.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Doctor Moon. When you see a patient, when they present
with symptoms and they're tested, and I'm talking to child
maybe like say a five year old to six year old,
and they've tested, and they do test positive for COVID,
what are your recommendations? Usually, I realize it's customed to
the patient, but in general, what are the treatments now
available for kids maybe that were not available or at
least not readily available during the initial ballut of COVID
(10:23):
that we had, there was.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
A lot of fear mongering with COVID. The COVID pandemic
for our kids really didn't exist. Okay, we were not
admitting them in any large numbers to the hospital. The
kids that I saw with COVID were all smiling at
me and had a cold. Okay, I'm not saying that
there weren't some fatalities. There absolutely were, just like there
are with any other virus. Every year, there are fatalities
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from viruses, but they were very small in number. Overall,
the chance of your child dying from COVID was similar
to being hit by lightning. It just was extremely rare occurrence. So,
if your child has COVID, they have a cold, and
like any other cold, make sure they stay hydrated, watch
the color of their lips, make sure they're not turning
blue or getting dehydrated, or you know, having some of
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the other issues that land kids in the hospital for
dehydration and things. We admit kids to the hospital over
and over again for different viruses. COVID is not one
that I have been admitting to kids to the hospital
for with any amount of frequency. It's we're admitting kids
for other viruses. It's common, it happens every year, and
we cannot live in fear of viruses.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Doctor Moon. I feel like there's a lot of misinformation
out there, and sadly a lot of it is actually
being created by our own government governmental agencies with regard
to COVID and vaccinations that sort of saying, where's a
good place people can turn to for unbiased, peer reviewed,
well thought out information about vaccinations and shots like the
(11:49):
COVID shot. Is there a good place people can go
to a resource on the internet?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You know, there may be I'm not familiar with one.
We are living in really unprecedented times, right, We're living
in this a of just crazy internet fear mongering and sensationalism,
and it really is hard for people to know where
to turn. But at the end of the day, in medicine,
in medicine, and when I graduated from medical school, I
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took an oath to do no harm, and that's what
we need to live by, Like, look at your child,
talk with your physician that you trust, talk with your
nurse practitioner someone who you trust, and make good decisions
for your family that you feel comfortable with. But I
don't have a specific website to tell you to go
to right now, because obviously this whole social media technology
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mess has really resulted in a very hard time for
parents to really, you know, make sense of it all.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, I guess actually what I was getting at doctor Moon.
Is there a place where because clearly you have a
good understanding a grasp of this topic, is there a
place where people can follow you and some of the
things that you are saying in publishing and I see
where you've spoken before large groups of people about what
you know. Is there a place people can follow you
and what you're having to.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Say as a practicing physician who was pro vaccine my
whole career. Again, the COVID shot rolled out, there were
massive issues with it, and I had questions. I began
to see problems in my community. I began to see
young people and community members that were clearly having problems
from the COVID shots. We all know that this is
not old news right now. Pretty much everyone knows that
(13:26):
at this point. But because I was so worried about
the fact that these were being recommended for children, I
spoke at a US Senate hearing in December of twenty
twenty two, where you can actually get online. I'll tell
you where to look. But I spoke and I just said,
there's a massive increase in my alcarditis, the hard inflammation.
This is the package insert from the product. It was
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labeled as intentionally blank at the time. No, I wasn't
giving it to a patient. I just had access to
a box of it. So I opened it with my
nurse and we pulled out this blank package insert. So
I expressed my conscers learned at a Senate hearing, And
as a result of my just saying that at that
Senate hearing, my medical school employer terminated my employment as
a professor. And then a week after they did that,
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they reported me to the Medical Commission to investigate my
medical license for simply asking questions about why this was
being given to children. That should tell you everything that
you need to know right now about how broken our
system is. We don't come after people and especially physicians,
but any of us. We don't come after any of
us for the freedom to speak to our own government
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with safety concerns. Right, But that's what happens. So if
you want to read more about what happened, I encourage
you to look at the website. It's called Silent Majority
Foundation dot org. Silentmajorityfoundation dot org. Look for doctor Moon.
I'm under I think it says our work and it
says freedom of speech. Please know that there is a
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donate button there. I don't get a penny of that.
I don't want many. I want us to be free
and to be able to make our own healthcare tool.
That button is there to help the legal team that
is fighting for freedom for all of us. So it
does not go to me personally. It is for the
freedom movement.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Doctor Reene Moon, thank you so much for joining us
this week on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Thank you for having me on. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program from
the Alabama Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And my name is John Mounts, and right now we
are honored to be joined by the World Round TV
journalist and commentator, author and host of No Spin News
on Billoreilly dot com.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Mister Bill O'Reilly, thanks for having me in John as
everything in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Thanks a great Bill. Of course, we're all still very
much in shock over what happened a week and a
half ago when Charlie Kirk was unceremoniously executed while appearing
before a large crowd. And that's the reason why we
have you on to address the issue of evil and
evil is really it's been around for a long time.
(15:53):
It's it's nothing new, is it.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Well, evil has been around since kanaan Abel, So there's
a reason that story is a genesis in the Bible.
And all Americans and everybody in the world have to
make a choice. Are we going to lead a good
life or are we going to lead a life that
hurts other human beings. The definition of evil is that
you hurt another person intentionally with no remorse. That's the
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definition of evil. And we're not talking about self defense,
we're not talking about any of that. We're talking about
you like to hurt other people. Vladimir Putin on the
cover of my book. Now that they talk, Adolf hitler
Iyad Toldahomoni, this is nine to eleven week. All those
people enjoyed inflicting pain on other human beings. That is evil,
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and they were all allowed power by regular folks. Regular
folks gave them power and Putin's running wild. Now in Russia,
they killed and wounded millions of people over Ukraine for
what and Russian people allow this. So this is a
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warning that evil is on the rise, John, in the
United States and in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And bringing this back to something a little more current,
even before the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there was another
incident that occurred, and this is the reason we actually
originally booked you to talk about the incident involving Yuria
Zuruka who died on that train, and of course the
guy sitting behind her who killed her, he was evil.
But I'd like to talk about some other evil, peripheral evil,
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which was all those people seated right around her on
that train, because I've seen the footage now of what
happened following the stabbing. Is all those people continued to
do nothing.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, I don't know how much they knew, so it
would be probably unfair of me to analyze that at
this point. But I'll tell you who enabled this whole
thing on that bus and that was the judge to
let this guy out after he beat the hell out
of his own sister, which was his fourteenth arrest, and
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the judge didn't hold this guy, let him go out
on the street. That judge should be disbarred, booted from
the bench, and scorn by everybody that's got to stop.
The passers by were in the in the car, the
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guy's flashing a knife. They're not going to do anything
most people anyway, but the judge no excuse.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Well, when you think about, like, because what I was
getting to was the whole quote, you know, the only
thing it takes for evil to triumphus, for good people
to do nothing. You think about what happened with Daniel Penny,
and he actually attempted to do something on that subway
train to protect people, and evil descended upon him because
he attempted to do something to stop evil.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
That's because the man who prosecuted Penny, Alvin Bragg, is
doing evil every day. I'm not going to call Brag
the DA in Manhattan, an evil person, but he's doing
so much evil that it's staggering. And the people of
New York City of Manhattan vote him in. He's not
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being recalled, he'll probably win reelection. So that's where the
evil lies. Casting a ballot. I got a lot of
social media blowback this week when I said it, if
you vote for man Donnie, he's running for mayor of
New York City, because I'm a New Yorker, you cast
that ballot, that's an evil act because man Donnie will
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not enforce the law. He says it. He says it,
So you are voting for more death, destruction, rape, assault.
You don't think that's an evil act. It is. And
of course when you go after evil, it comes after you.
So that's what I've been dealing with on social media
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this week. But that's fine, because I want to bring
attention to the book that people need to wise up
about evil and fight it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I guess they call them sins of commission and sins
of omission. I think a lot of us were very
guilty of the sins of omission of looking the other way,
of like those people on that commuter train did keept
looking down at your phone and keep looking away, like
pretending like you're not seeing the evil right before our eyes,
And then it keeps happening, and you have these situations
where nobody does anything, and then everyone shrugs and goes, oh,
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that's terrible. I sure which somebody would do something about it.
Sometimes somebody has to be us.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, that's for sure. And that's what I want in
your own neighborhoods and your families. If there's evil going on,
you have to fight it and confront it, have to
be strong and brave. And many, many people are cowardly and apathetic.
And we've got to stop that trend because there's just
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too much of this stuff now going on. Look at
the drug trafficking. My god, you've got people who are
being glorified for selling drugs. Now. These people should be
in prison for thirty years. They're destroying lives, killing people.
You know, we have two chapters on al Chopo and
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the other idiot, Pablo Escobar in the book about how
insidious is It's two things drive evil, money and power,
but it cannot take root unless non evil people allow
it to.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And like you point out in your book, Bill, it
did all start with the Book of Genesis, and you
talk about Cain and Abel, but we can even take
that back further to the fall in the Garden of Eden.
I guess evil is going to be with us because
men will always do evil. It's going to be a
constant battle. We're not going to overcome it in our lifetime,
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and we won't overcome it until Jesus comes back. But
we can do our best in our own way in
our world to try and, like you say, confront it
and make our world. Just if each one of us
tries to make it a little better, then maybe maybe
we'll see a world that's at least a little better.
And I guess at the end of the day, that's
kind of our own responsibility.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Well, it's our obligation. So there's a reason that can
enables stories in Genesis, okay, and human beings got to
choose what kind of life you want to live. And
I'm trying to mobilize now. Way too much evil in
this country, in this world, and we all have to
recognize it and do what we can to tamp it down.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Mister Bill O'Reilly TV journalist, talk show host, author, and
now you have a YouTube channel with like one point
oh two million subscribers. Thank you so much for joining
me today on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Appreciate that, man, John, You're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a
public affairs program from the Alabama Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
More than one in three Americans, including nearly half of
all parents of young kids, have had a friendship end
over money, according to the latest twenty twenty five Friends
in Money report. Lendingtree dot COM's survey of two thousand
Americans revealed a troubling truth. Money often strains relationships, leading
people to hide finances, feel judged, and even lose relationships.
(23:23):
Joining me now to talk about this is lending Tree's
chief financial analyst, Matt Schultz. Matt, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I often feel some of the same strains that we're
talking about in the survey. One of them is when
you have friends and they want to do something fun,
but fun costs money, and you kind of don't want
to spend the money or can't spend the money, but
you don't know what to say, so a lot of
times you back away, and that's hurting relationships.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like we've all been there,
and it can be really hard to be honest with
people about your financial situation and not wanting to do
these expenses of things. And one of the things we
saw on our survey was about seventy percent of Americans
say that they've turned down some sort of social outing
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because it was too expensive, but a lot of them
didn't tell the person why.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, if they say, hey, let's go out to eat tonight,
well that's great and all. But at the same time,
going out to eat is not like a like a
ten dollars thing anymore. Now it's you know, fifty sixty
dollars for just two people to go out to eat.
And you know, there's that awkwardness when the when the
who's you know, we ordered advertiser. We're going to split
the advertisers. Okay, guess we'll split the appetizers. You know
that who's going to pay the tip? I guess I'll think.
(24:38):
You know, it's a lot of money, but you don't
want to just look like a jerk in front of
your friends, so you make up an excuse, Oh, I
can't because the kids have a football game tonight at school,
or I've got work or something like that, and so
you try and come up with reasons not to.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, no, there's no question about it. And we found
in the survey that's about one in three people say
that they've lied to their friends about being in a
better financial situation than they are. And that's kind of
an example of what you're talking about. But a lot
of it gets down to what a lot of our
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parents probably told us, where if if you have friends
who are judging you about how much money you have
and you not being able to do these things because
they cost too much money, maybe they're not your real friends.
It can be a tough pill to swallow, but there's
there's some truth to some.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Of that, and it can go the other way too, right, Matt,
Because there's a lot of times when you don't want
to come off as bragging, but actually you're doing fairly
well for yourself. But you don't want to come out
and say, oh, I'm doing so well, I have so
much money. You don't actually say I make one hundred
thousand dollars year. It's very taboo in our culture to
talk about money one way or the other, because you
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don't want to come off as bragging that you're doing
well because that might make the other person feel bad.
You also don't want to come off as I'm inferior.
I don't have nearly as much money coming in, I
have an older car or more worn out clothes. Or
whatever it is. So why is it as Americans, we're
so I don't know where we're We will talk about
all sorts of like bedroom proclivities, but we won't talk
(26:16):
about money.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah, it's you're right, there is something that is so
personal about about money. And I don't know that I
have a good reason why why that is such a thing,
but but there's no question that it is. And and
you're right. I mean, our survey found that that that
(26:38):
people said that they had been judged about money, and
that they had judged people about money. But we also
found that some people were judged for for being too
spendy and some people were judged for being too frugal.
And that's part of what makes it challenging, is that
when you're in a group of people, you don't always
(26:59):
know what is you know where you kind of fit in,
and it's it can make for a really tough social situation.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And Matt, there's something that is even a bigger problem
about this, which is if you have kids and you
feel like you don't want to uh as they say,
open the kimono to show the kids what's going on
with the checking account. You don't want to tell them
what's happening economically. Kids are brought up in this vacuum
of they don't have a real understanding of just how
much rent costs, or the mortgage costs, how much it
(27:29):
costs with the gas in the car, and so they
don't understand a lot of times when you say, why
it is we can't go out and grab McDonald's tonight
because well, we had to pay the mortgage two days ago,
and I'm afraid we don't have that money. But you
don't want to. You don't want to make your kids
feel like you're they're sitting on some sort of economic landmine.
But at the same time, they should know something about it.
So what's the right how much should you share with
(27:51):
your kids? And I guess it is age dependent too,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I'm a believer that it is never too early to
talk to your kids about money. You just need to
keep it relatable and you need to a degree keep
it fun and for them to understand, because kids are
interested in money and they want to know. And I
think that one of the things that you can do
(28:18):
is that you can without giving your kids an economic
lesson or opening up the books too much, having them
participate and talking with them about things that matter to
them most can be a way to have this conversation,
like it always comes up around back to school. If
you have a certain amount of money, and maybe your
(28:39):
kid doesn't care about a backpack, but they really want
this cool lunch box. That's a way to kind of
have this conversation, to get them involved and to teach
them a little bit about decisions when it comes to
making money.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And that's the reason why it's so important to explain
I have to do it all the time of my daughter,
the difference between wants and needs. You may want this thing,
but it doesn't mean you need that thing. And also
understanding the value of something of you know, you want
a new one of these, that's great, but the old
one still works. And oh but my friends have new
I don't care. The old one still works, and I'm
(29:15):
not made of money. All those things start coming out
of your mouth that you heard your parents say, you
reach a certain age, and those start coming out of
your own mouth. Matt. For people who want to read
the complete survey, it's available on lending Tree's website.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Yep, absolutely that and lots of other good information about
managing your money properly.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Lending Tree's chief consumer financial analyst, Matt Schultz. Matt, thank
you so much for joining us this week on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Thank you you've been listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public
affairs program from the Alabama Radio Network. The opinions expressed
on Viewpoint Alabama are not necessarily those of the staff, management,
or advertisers of this station.
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