October 16, 2025 • 41 mins
Americans yearn for villages, self-sufficiency, true freedom and 'Autarky'! Henry Ford's words from 100 years ago are more important now than ever!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right. So if you're one of the three people
paying attention to how Off and we put a show
and you are out there, thank you for continuing to listen.
We are doing I think we're on pace now. We're
kind of doing two shows. We're doing two news shows
a month.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Trying to do more than that, but our schedules can
get into Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I think it's important. I think it's very very important
for the American people as we go through this reformation period,
as we go through this renewal period, I think it's
important that there'd be a place where Americans can listen
the at least idea. My idea is that we're one
of many many outlets out there. AM radio podcasts. Thank you. iHeartMedia,
(00:42):
by the way. And the construction crew remodeling the studios exactly,
they unplug the coffee. Not allowed to have coffee? What's
that all about? Well, I do not have coffee in
a radio station.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I disregard all those rules. Well, AnyWho, So I have
a service bringing in.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
There's got to be there's got to be a play
place where people who have a yearning for something. It's
not just to make America great again, it's that but
it's so much more than that. And this tent continues
to get bigger and bigger. I just this American people.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Tent like my waistline.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, so when I bump into people or places or
things that resonate with me, that like in harmony with
how I'm vibing. Let me give you three examples. Last weekend,
I was up in Charlevoi, Michigan. Took my dog Charlie, drove.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Up my mom and motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I wish my mom and stepdad we were up there.
They liked to go for annual pilgrimage. Pilgrimage up see
the colors. And I rented a place right on Lake Michigan,
just north of Charlavoie. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
My dad used to have a place up in Kolkaska
County on Torch Lake. And in the fall, it is
just it's crazy. The only better fall stuff is in Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They're in there right now. There are there are listeners
shaking their head going yep, yep, yep. And if you
don't know what we're talking about, please take a look
at northern Michigan the tip of the mint, or wander
up into the up if you're looking for something to
do this weekend. Put the kids in the car, especially
the kids, they'll thank you all their lives. Get them
exposed to the northern Michigan up north.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So a lot of conservatives.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
When when I bump into a lot of Americans up there,
we've got to stop with the labels. At this point.
You're either you either are spouse, understand, live and will
fight for American values and virtues, or you're not. So
I run in the last week three things that I
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bump into that tell me, hmm, this feels good, this
feels right. This is nostalgia Northern Michigan up there, government
shut down, not a clue, no one affected at all. None.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Maybe the folks at k I Saw Airbase. We have.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You got the lakes, Yeah, you've got the woods, You've
got local producers, farmers.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It just felt village y, pretty skiing shanty creek.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And it all. Yeah, in the winter it's phenomenal too.
So I felt this village vibe, and I'm feeling this
village vibe coming back, and it's gonna kind of be
a big part for our show. And I'm going to
work into this show the word autarchy. I just asked
you before we went on the air. Do you know
what the word a autarchy means. It's one of those
words that you'll you'll, it'll drive by in your life
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ten times.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I thought it was like a New Yorker who is
disappointed with Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Turkey A U T A r k Y. Autarchy one
of my new favorite words. It's one of those, as
I said's a drive by word. You see it, you
don't stop to look it up, you just keep moving
and it. Autarchy is being economically and financially free and independent,
and it's living in a system, a political system that
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autarchy is the basis. So I felt that in CHARLOI,
especially with the federal government shutting down, no one knew
the everything's working, everything's fine. Number Two, I like to
go through the little I like to walk down through
the villages and the towns, and then you find the
shop that's got the nostalgia, the mementos, the second not
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quite a secondhand store, but you know at.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The front of cracker barrel little.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Antique right right, and I see an original I presume
the original nineteen seventeen or nineteen eighteen, the original Uncle
Sam war Bonds poster framed laying in the back of
this antique store and instantly I got to have that
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grab that sixty five bucks, no big deal. And the
third is, so that's a a thing. And then Charlotte
feeling very villagy, and then place last night, my Archie
Bunker group of guys, we decide to go to the
Pine Club and Dayton. Now the Pine Club, for those
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of you that have been there, you know exactly. You
know exactly what it is and what it isn't if
you haven't been there, it is an it is It's
not an old school steakhouse. It is the old school
steakhouse of Ohio. It was like the Top six nineteen
forty seven. Yep, since nineteen forty seven. It's right off
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campus at University of Dayton. Did some quick research on it. It
used to be called Lonnie's Bar. Right now. I'm sure
I would have loved Lonnie's Bar as well. But the
Pine Club. I walked in for the first time in
my life. I've been wanting to get there for years.
I walk in with my crew and I look around.
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I'm like, I'm a this this is my kind of joint.
This is the kind of place where it's all pine
wood paneling, walls, ceiling. The menus are the same. There's
big giant menus, and then you have side dishes you
can't get anywhere else. It' stewed tomatoes. There's just it's
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it is it. It's if you love our show, you
would love the Pine Club.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
This is the this is your steakhouse.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
This is it. It's great steaks, classic service. It's a
different type of it's a classic service, not great service,
not bad service, classic service. It's the ladies that have
been there forever. It's nine nine out of ten guys,
nine out of ten people. There were men looks like
just a bunch of foursomes that show up or people
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come over from NCR, the university. And I'm sitting there
and I'm thinking, wait a minute. This has been around
since the very very end of World War Two. We
are in Dayton, We're not far from right Pat. I
wonder how many covert conversations have taken place at the
Pine Club over the decades, like pulled War spies right
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or Hangar eighteen. And it's just it has that vibe
being that close to right Pat, that you would imagine
that foreign espionage, foreign agents have spent some time there.
You know, undercover, willing, whatever, person spending some money. Cash only,
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no credit card, no trace, no trace you were there,
you pay cash only, no reservations. Your name's not going
to be on a list that you were ever there.
No reservations.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Just to be clear, they do accept credit cards today, No, not.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Cash only, no reservations. And Georgia, I think it was
HW went there and he had to wait. You know,
you got to get there. It opens at four, and
you bitter, get there at four and four fifteen. Otherwise
those full, those tables are gonna be taken. Then you're
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gonna wait at the bar. So we walk, we walk in,
and I'm like and the guy's like, hey, the bar's open.
I won't just sit at the bar and eat classic service.
Bartender said, can't eat food at the bar. To keep
people from doing that. The bars for waiting for when
your table or when your table pops up. So no reservations,
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only cash. You can write them a check, I guess.
And no desserts. No dessert No desserts, just steaks, onion rings,
stewed tomatoes, No desserts. Get in, get out. We don't
want you to lingering. We got to turn the table
around well.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Is the line from that one movie. I make hard
drinks for men who want to get drunk fast. Now
out the door, you, Pixie, the.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Closing, Now play People. A couple of days ago, I'm
at home doing some research prepping for the show, and
it's eight thirty in the morning. I've been in the
zone for a couple hours. Ding dong. The doorbell rings
eight thirty in the morning weekday, like, I'm down in
the rabbit hole research and something. It's only one of
three things, right, It's going to be absolutely someone I
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don't want to talk to, or it's going to be
more boxes for my wife's online shopping therapy. Or it's
someone's got to do some work on the house, which
usually meant about to spend some money on something I
didn't want to spend money on. What's the irrigation guy
to close out the irrigation system for the winter rise.
It open the door and I see he's in short sleeves.
He's got beautiful brand new ink right sleeve, full sleeve, beautiful,
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one of the best statues of liberty I've ever seen,
and a seventeen seventy six with the stars around it.
And I'm like, brother, come on in, Mikasa isu kasa.
So I think it is very very important at this point.
Let them in. Understand who your crew is is because
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the division that continues to escalate in America. Pay attention
and let your friends come in. As this tent gets bigger,
Let's keep an eye on where things are going. Anyway,
after the break'll talk about what all is happening. Quick
rundown the United States of America. All right, welcome back
(10:22):
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Sunday's eleven AM, and Sunday's seven pm. General. Quick rundown
Federal government fourteen things here we go. Federal government is
shut down. Trump administration is now digging into digging into
the government funding of domestic nonprofits. They're un there. They're
gonna unwinding the I R s taking a look under
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the hood to figure out how's all this tax, how's
all this tax money getting over to these in these
non profits and nng os that are undermining.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You give it to democrats.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I'm not even Look, I'm done with the labels. I'm
done with the labels. I'm not It's both parties. Number
three administration is putting covert ops into Venezuela to get
to the heart of the drug crisis in America.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Gold is hot, hot hot, Love it. A lot of
gotta pay attention to gold because gold's a bet against inflation.
Well no, well yeah, it is for investing, but that
means there's a lot of betters betting against fiat currency.
Trump may win the Nobel Peace Prize. Who thought this
was on your your Bengo card twelve months ago? The
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Supreme Court term coming up. Big cases can to impact
the rest of your life and the lives of your children.
Tear yes and voting. How we're going to count ballots?
Whose ballots are getting counted? And did I mention tariffs?
That's how we funded our nation for the first half
of our existence.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Then they flipped the snorkout.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Then they flipped the switch and put it on the
backs of the working people. Number seven, Trump sending Tomahawk
missiles to Ukraine, thinking it might break Russia's resolve. Bad idea,
bad idea. That is not.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No. I think threatening to do it it's a good idea.
Sending it is a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I have a feeling it's one of those head fakes
that the Donald is doing. But I God, I hope
we don't send tomahawks to Ukraine. Number eight. I don't
know if he's trolling the press or he's been dead, sirius.
The Arc de Trump in DC, coming off the Arlington
Memorial Bridge into d C. There was beginning, there was
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going to be a construction of an Arc d Trump,
and then World War Two broke out and they never
got back to finishing it. And he's you know, you know,
the guy's just driven by there enough. It's like, what
was going on there?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It used to be this is going to be a great,
beautiful thing. What happened?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So now now it's Arc de Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's coming. Nine. No kings protests across America protesting King
Donald Trump. Oh how little they know about history?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yawn.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's what we're going to talk about today. Number ten,
Keep an eye on this. La County little local government
declares a state of emergency. The emergency ice rates ICE
rates is what Los Angeles County has decided their commission. However,
many i'd love we got to look up who we
got to look up the commissioners of LA County well.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Left just leftist leftist, leftist leftist.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Declared that the state of emergency is the ice rates.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Is One other thing you left out, which is the
they're they're going back and recalculating the census numbers right
now because they were using algorithms that inflated the numbers
of a certain type of people and certain districts. And
if you go back and do accurate census counts, you're
going to find that California is going to lose about
fifteen seats.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Didn't know that San Francisco's next on Trump's checklist. Trump
might go to the Scotis oral arguments on tariffs. If
he does that, we're going to have to do a
segment on that. That's a big deal. When the president,
I don't know the president's ever got to oral arguments,
that's a big deal. I love the psychological warfare. There
number eleven ten thousand or more federal employees will be
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fired during the shutdown. Okay, excellent, We've been Look, we've
been talking about every party there should be two thousand
and three week. Both parties historically have talked about we
need to shrink the government. This is not a party issue.
This is an American issue. Number twelve Young Republicans racist
group chat leaked. Asked you about this earlier. You were unfamiliar.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Unfamiliar.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, So there's a group out there called the YRS
young Young Republicans. I think they used to be called
something else, but kind of there they are. They had
some sort of they have an encryptied text thread group chat,
and some really horrible, horrible things were said, very very
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very anti semitic. I don't know, Rachel will probably throw
it in there. I don't know yet because I don't
pay attention that much to the mainstream news. How much
traction this is getting. It was a topic of conversation
at the Koffelhouse with my twenty three year old son
the other night, and all he wanted to do is
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he wanted to see the Republican leadership decouple and disavow
from what was said. My position is crystal clear. The
Republican Party cannot have at its grassroots level at its
younger generation, the up and coming leadership saying anything along
those lines, because that reinforces what the left and far
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left and many other reasonable Americans worry about that there
are fascist type of white supremacists inside the Republican Party
every federal and state and even down to local school board.
If you're a Republican, you need to disassociate yourself from
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any of that type of language. And those whoever participated
in that, they need the political death penalty. They're politically done.
There's liability, there's no redemption, no room for that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I always hear these things and then half of them
turn out to be hoaxed.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Now, no, I've waited on this. There's been enough time
as of now in this recording. There's been enough time
for the alleged, for the young men who made the
statements to step forward and disavow them. I haven't seen
any of that yet. Number thirteen Southwest Airlines has a
new boarding plan, and number fourteen, India is college football's
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darling Number three.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I think right too.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Out of everything there, I gave you fourteen fifteen, sixteen things.
Let's talk about the Southwest boarding process. It's transitioning. Okay,
all right, we're doing that. They're gonna do the Wilma method.
You know, the Wilma method.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Uh are there somebody yells Wilma.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Wilma window middle aisle seats. There's going to be nine
separate boarding groups. And then of course you can pay
extra extra extra to get the priority boarding line, so
you can go get that extra row faster.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Thatf that make sense to do the window seats first.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well, when you just board from the back, board from
the back, or why don't we have we're just board
from the back. Why are we trying to cramp people
in at the front of the plane.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Just well, you've got to have they've got those extenders
that people walk out on, and I don't know that
those will reach all the way to the back to
a back door.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well you can, you can. I think people would be
fined if you back in the day, you roll the
stairs up to the front door and the back door
and the passengers disembark either from the front or the back.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Well, that works fine when it's not raining in eight degrees, but.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
There's another way to do this. It's dumb anyway. Inflation.
I don't care what anyone says inflation is out of control.
There's absolutely the grocery prices are now leading to changes
in shopping habits. People are cutting back on purchases. That's good.
We need to do this. We've become addicts to credit,
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We've become addicts to installments, We've been addicts to cheap money.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I did see, however, gas at two forty one this morning,
and I filled my car up for eighteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
How many gallons does that bugger take?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Generally about seven or eight.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Well, inflation in the grocery store is on the rise. Coffee, ground, beef, bananas,
blah blah blah. I read just finished Henry Ford's one
of his biographies, excellent, excellent one written by Gosh. I'm
drawing a blank on a guy's name, Henry Ford, have
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a new I'm now putting him in my Tier one
American figure that I love. Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
He's definitely the most influential person of the twentieth century,
Henry Ford.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There came a point in time, guys, where at the
in the nineteen early nineteen hundreds, the industrialist, the owners
of industry had to make a decision, how much are
we going to give to the working class. Henry Ford said,
give them more, pay more now, so you don't have
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to deal with strikes, communist led movements, unionization.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And you get better workers.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And that's what he did. He said, Look, we make
enough money. We need to make sure that our employees
make enough money so they can be consumers of these goods.
If they don't make enough money to gobble up all
the items that are being produced, then we will create
a depression because prices will go down because there's not
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there are on enough consumers to meet that demand, to
meet the sublime pardon me, the supply. And that's a
thousand percent of what happened. And we overproduced in the
early nineteen hundreds, overproduced the American consumers didn't have enough
money to gobble up everything, and as a result, we
wound up getting stuck with socialism. The state stepped in
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and did it for us. After the break, I want
to talk about what's happening with the economy, who our
biggest employers are, and then taxation and the whole got
some big ideas stick around Brad Kaffell, the general Board,
the Defense. All right, I'm attorney Brad Coffel. Money through Friday,
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of Ohio's eighty eight counties, fifteen county. I don't go
too but if you are a loved one.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We used to wander around aimlessly, but now it's wandering
around with the purpose.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I wish we had canals. I would love to go
to court on a canal, have a horse waiting. That'd
be great.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
No mosquitos or smells.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
If you what was the mosquito born disease, hilaria hilaria?
If if you were a loved one, as long as
you had a.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Chain link fence, you could keep the mosquitoes of that
timeout true.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
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you there, okay, I said the last segment, learn a
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lot about Henry Ford. Just finished a biography. In the
last several months, I finished JFK biography Joe Kennedy, William
Randolph Hurst and Henry Ford. Henry Ford was an amazing
guy and he was not formally educated. He was anti elite.
He saw his son Edseell go over to the elite side.
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There gross point getting that community. And Henry Ford said
Edsel and told everyone else, do not start financing your future.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Or I'm gonna name a crappy car after you.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That save your money. That's the way America is. Don't
finance your future, because don't you get in bed with
the creditor, with the banks, with the finance companies. You
no longer have your financial independence. And if you don't
have financial independence and you're you're tied down, you're really
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never free.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, he practiced what he preached because he went brought
out all of the stockholders of the Ford Motor Company
that had originally been with him to the point where
he had complete control over the company.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And he did not want the government's assistants for the company.
And he even though he threw in big time for
World War Two. He did not want the government to
have to come in and help out the working class.
So he Henry Ford told the other industrialists, the other
twenty two guys, said, look, you have to take care
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of your people. Otherwise the government's going to come in
and guys like FDR they're going to come in and
they're they're going to have to do something, and you're
and once the government steps in and starts writing checks
and creating jobs and writing checks and giving out loans
and forgiving loans, the only way to pay that back
is through raising taxes and printing more money. Both have
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the same effect. They punished the producer, they punished the people.
They're actually making America the number one nation.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
They punish the consumer too by raising prices with inflation.
So he told hidden taxes.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And this is when he doubled the average pay for
the factory worker, came out with.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The five dollars day, five dollar day plan.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The other guy, the other industrialized, you're crazy, you're crushing
our margins. And Henry Ford said it again, we need
to do it on our terms. Otherwise the government's going
to come in and have to bail out the working class.
And that's what happened. So now we look at our
top America's might America's top employers. The number one employer
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in the United States is Walmart one point six million people.
Amazon is one point one million in ups target Home
Depot number five.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That surprise you, It doesn't except for the fact that
Low's can't be far behind Home Depot.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, I think Home Depot sponsors game day set, so
that explains that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Number six is the Kroger Corporation, Number seven, FedEx, number
eight Berkshire Hathaway, of course with all the companies it owns.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Number nine Lows and number ten is Columbus Gold Strip Club.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Number ten is CVS CVS truck Stores. There's your top ten.
Do those top ten employers pay wages that allow one
single wage earner to sustain a home? Probably those are
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the largest employers. Henry Ford, what's called Fodism, was a
different economic model than Marxism or socialism. Fordism was an
extension of capitalism that it's the duty, moral and sound
business duty to extend the fortunes of the capital to
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the factory workers so that they had money to buy
to be consumers. We have producers. America had plenty of production.
We overproduced. We didn't have a consumer class that could
afford to buy that stuff, and as a result, the
industrials had to look at markets overseas, and Fordism said
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the profit extension needs to go down to the factory floor. Question,
what would Henry Ford say to Walmart or Amazon or ups?
Are you paying them enough we need to get Is
it possible to get to a point in America where
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you get a job at one of these big ten,
big twenty, big twenty five corporations that at the factory level,
one income is enough to support a middle class home
and have once parent at home with the kids. Is
it possible to even do that if Henry Ford's If
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Fordism had survived and American socialism, which is where we're
living under, didn't happen, how much would our working class
be making? How much of this political instability would we have?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The trouble that you have is that you know people
would take any criticism from today's Henry Ford. They would say,
you know, your factory is full of robots right now,
mister Ford, You know that list of companies that you
talked about are not the largest companies they're just the
largest employers because they haven't found a way to automate product.
Robots don't buy anything exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You have to have. You must have for a private
for a marketplace, free enterprise system to work. And my
concern is we're past the point of no return, that
we're literally jousting at windmills, that this government interventionism, this
Knesian economic.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Theory has it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The only way to undo this government intrusion into everyone's
lives is it has to be broken and reassembled. Which
leads to the next question is that what Donald Trump
and his administration is doing. Are they moving as fast
as they can to deconstruct not just the deep state,
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but the state, not just the administrative state, but the
state itself, this nation state, and get back down to
a local more sone interest economy, centrist politics. You shouldn't
have time to go out and protest eight hours over something.
There should be some work and should there should be.
We have a lot of idle people. While I'm mentioning this,
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did you see general the United Nations is putting out
with a global tax on carbon emissions. This is a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
This is a big deal and they can pay it
all right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
What you need to know is that you now have
a supra national something that transcends every country. If you
have a world organization that is going to put a
tax on all ships that emit carbon dioxide, and they
are they are anticipating the United Nations is going to
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generate the estimate ten to twelve billion dollars a year.
Where does that money go? The Trump administration is already
threatening sanctions on any countries that support this tax. Here
you have taxation with no representation. Those taxes on those
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shipping vessels will be passed on to you, and it
is overseen by one hundred and seventy member committee in London,
England called the International Maritime Organization. You never even heard
of them.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
By stuff that doesn't come on ships, like American products.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
We've been worrying about this. Now it's taxation with our representation.
We've got to get these governments and these entities out
of our lives. General, you want to throw give a
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Speaker 2 (30:49):
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Speaker 1 (31:07):
Citadel of a mean American manufacturing general. Last week, this
is our final segment. But I'm really really bothered. I'm stopped.
I'm no longer referring to the deep state of administrative STATEY,
just simply this state.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And now that it's been officially discovered.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And the Trump administration is going after it very hard.
And you're either on one side or the other of this.
You either needed you either want more government dependency in
your life or you you don't want any government dependency
in American lives.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Uh? We talked the last few segments that you have
to have production in your nation. You have to have
companies employing workers, paying them living wages where they can
sustain their family. Ideally one parent can work either not
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at all, but stay at home or work part time.
But you have to have American free enterprise. It made
America what it is. You have to have American consumers
for those goods, and the American consumers are not going
to gobble up the American produced products that they can't
afford them, so you have to pay them more. If
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the enterprise system would figure out a way to pay
higher wages to their front line, to their factory workers,
to their unskilled, then you make them more politically amenable
to traditional American economic and political principles. When you have poverty,
(32:55):
when you have extremely high inflation, you have un employed,
hopeless and helpless, and guess who wanders in from the forest,
your Marxists. The way we protect our nation from this
radical left economic theory and political thinking is we must
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immunize the American workers from the uber drivers all the
way up to in your factory, your middle management, and
corporate America must spend more on their people, including healthcare.
It just has to happen. We otherwise the government is
(33:38):
going to continue to do what it's doing. The responsibility
for literally being free and independent, that altarchy, what I
mentioned earlier au Ta RKY is the ability to be
financially independent number one, number two, to own your land,
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number three, to own one hundred percent of the fruits
of your labor. Get the taxation out. I am absolutely
against an income tax. We can find other ways for
this government to make money, but we shrink what it needs,
but to be free, to be independent, requires producers and
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consumers that can afford to buy, and consumers to have
the ability to purchase real estate real property. Once that
ownership has been stripped away from the many and concentrated
in the hands of the few and hand of the state,
the nation drifts towards servitude. Which is what is happening now?
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How did this happen? For fifteen hundred years in Western civilization,
we didn't have this problem. They didn't have this problem.
Our ancestors did not have this problem fifteen hundred years.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What do I mean?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, let's go over to England. Last show, we talked
about Martin Luther and the religious Reformation against the Catholic Church.
At the same time, same era, Henry the eighth wanted
to marry. Somebody had to get divorced. Couldn't do it,
you know, disconnects from the Catholic Church. Two other things
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happened that he dissolved the eight hundred percent monasteries that
were on the English countryside and all that land which
was estimated twenty to twenty five percent of the farmable
land of England. Twenty to twenty five percent of the
farmable land of England. He took over the crown, took
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over from the Catholic Church for fifteen hundred years what
we call medieval medieval England.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
He had a.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Patchwork of shires and hobbits and ents, right, those were
the ancient wise guardians of the forest. True, and you
had small proprietors dwarfs as well guild craftsmen. It was
our institutions ran by custom, not by contract. And these
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Catholic monasteries that held these vast tracts of land again,
twenty to twenty five percent of England for fifteen hundred
years was held in trust for local communities. The people
worked those lands, and the monasteries supplied the distribution at
the local level of the charity and the medical care
and the education. It was an open field system that
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allowed villagers to share in the pasture, the forests, the meadows.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
It was called the commons.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The commons were a birthright. It's a totally foreign concept,
not even sure most Americans' brains would even allow them
to understand this.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It would be like a state park that you could
go anytime you wanted and plant your own little plot
of land.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Commons were a cross right. So when white man pale
face showed up here in North America, the Indians, the
indigenous people were looking at white he going, what do
you mean? This is your land?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
This is They wondered how you owned land?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
How do you own land? It's like saying this is
my heir. And they thought the indigenous people thought that
were the white The Europeans had a mine virus, they
called it wittiko, and like, these people are cannibals. They're
going to cannibalize the land. They're going to cannibalize each other.
So for fifteen hundred years at least in England, the
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commons were at birthright, and for millennia you had a
distribution pattern of property and obligation where people all had
vested interests. The man could till, trade or craft without
surrendering his independence. Well, with the Protestant Reformation UH and
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the church selling of indulgences to finance Saint Peter's Basilica
in rom among other things, Henry the eighth declares himself
head of the Church of England. The eight hundred monastic
houses are closed. The crown was nearly bankrupt, and it's
what happened. One fifth of all the arable land in
the realm became his, and he sees those lands. He sold.
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Those lands not distributed to the poor, not to the parish,
not to the people that were working them and living
off them, but to courtiers, London merchants, the men who
financed Henry's wars. The effect was.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Immediate, built a few new palaces.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
That land at once supported thousands of people, became large
estates than landed.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Gentry closed off estates and they were no longer available
for the commons.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
And then they fenced them off, didn't they theosure and
the enclosure acts, and it stripped the village. These landlords
fenced off the common fields, and then it was the
nation of independent pret users became a nation of wage
earners and paupers.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And there were parliament members who opposed enclosure, but they
were few and far between.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
That forced a lot of people into economic independence, economic
dependence in the cities. The industrial revolution. Lawless was to
for wool, and the industrial revolution eventually came. But when
those people became dispossessed from their land, their political rights expanded,
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and those political rights are what land. Those men who
brought their families to America. Part of the reason they
came here was they knew that fifteen hundred years of
independence was vanishing and the average European owned nothing but
as wages and his debts.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
And they heard that land in America was free and
quite right too, and as.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
A result, America was founded. So we have to be
very very very careful as the Trump administration moves through
whatever it's doing here to educate the younger class, because
there's no one alive. There hasn't been anyone alive for
years that understands what true political and economic freedom means.
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We just don't know and keep an eye on. I
mean again, it's the inability for workers to support their family.
It's the high prices for groceries and other essentials. It
is the perpetual printing of money, and it is the
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perpetual taxation that now is leaking into the international sphere
where effective immediately you're now going to be taxed. You
not even know it, with no representation on these cargo
vessels that are being to be taxed by to you
in run by one hundred and seventy men. There you go,
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Thanks for listening. I'm Brad Koffel. That's the general This
is for the defense of the American people,
All right. So if you're one of the three people
paying attention to how Off and we put a show
and you are out there, thank you for continuing to listen.
We are doing I think we're on pace now. We're
kind of doing two shows. We're doing two news shows
a month.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Trying to do more than that, but our schedules can
get into Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I think it's important. I think it's very very important
for the American people as we go through this reformation period,
as we go through this renewal period, I think it's
important that there'd be a place where Americans can listen
the at least idea. My idea is that we're one
of many many outlets out there. AM radio podcasts. Thank you. iHeartMedia,
(00:42):
by the way. And the construction crew remodeling the studios exactly,
they unplug the coffee. Not allowed to have coffee? What's
that all about? Well, I do not have coffee in
a radio station.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I disregard all those rules. Well, AnyWho, So I have
a service bringing in.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
There's got to be there's got to be a play
place where people who have a yearning for something. It's
not just to make America great again, it's that but
it's so much more than that. And this tent continues
to get bigger and bigger. I just this American people.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Tent like my waistline.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, so when I bump into people or places or
things that resonate with me, that like in harmony with
how I'm vibing. Let me give you three examples. Last weekend,
I was up in Charlevoi, Michigan. Took my dog Charlie, drove.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Up my mom and motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I wish my mom and stepdad we were up there.
They liked to go for annual pilgrimage. Pilgrimage up see
the colors. And I rented a place right on Lake Michigan,
just north of Charlavoie. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
My dad used to have a place up in Kolkaska
County on Torch Lake. And in the fall, it is
just it's crazy. The only better fall stuff is in Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They're in there right now. There are there are listeners
shaking their head going yep, yep, yep. And if you
don't know what we're talking about, please take a look
at northern Michigan the tip of the mint, or wander
up into the up if you're looking for something to
do this weekend. Put the kids in the car, especially
the kids, they'll thank you all their lives. Get them
exposed to the northern Michigan up north.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So a lot of conservatives.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
When when I bump into a lot of Americans up there,
we've got to stop with the labels. At this point.
You're either you either are spouse, understand, live and will
fight for American values and virtues, or you're not. So
I run in the last week three things that I
(02:47):
bump into that tell me, hmm, this feels good, this
feels right. This is nostalgia Northern Michigan up there, government
shut down, not a clue, no one affected at all. None.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Maybe the folks at k I Saw Airbase. We have.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You got the lakes, Yeah, you've got the woods, You've
got local producers, farmers.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It just felt village y, pretty skiing shanty creek.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And it all. Yeah, in the winter it's phenomenal too.
So I felt this village vibe, and I'm feeling this
village vibe coming back, and it's gonna kind of be
a big part for our show. And I'm going to
work into this show the word autarchy. I just asked
you before we went on the air. Do you know
what the word a autarchy means. It's one of those
words that you'll you'll, it'll drive by in your life
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ten times.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I thought it was like a New Yorker who is
disappointed with Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Turkey A U T A r k Y. Autarchy one
of my new favorite words. It's one of those, as
I said's a drive by word. You see it, you
don't stop to look it up, you just keep moving
and it. Autarchy is being economically and financially free and independent,
and it's living in a system, a political system that
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autarchy is the basis. So I felt that in CHARLOI,
especially with the federal government shutting down, no one knew
the everything's working, everything's fine. Number Two, I like to
go through the little I like to walk down through
the villages and the towns, and then you find the
shop that's got the nostalgia, the mementos, the second not
(04:30):
quite a secondhand store, but you know at.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The front of cracker barrel little.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Antique right right, and I see an original I presume
the original nineteen seventeen or nineteen eighteen, the original Uncle
Sam war Bonds poster framed laying in the back of
this antique store and instantly I got to have that
(04:55):
grab that sixty five bucks, no big deal. And the
third is, so that's a a thing. And then Charlotte
feeling very villagy, and then place last night, my Archie
Bunker group of guys, we decide to go to the
Pine Club and Dayton. Now the Pine Club, for those
(05:16):
of you that have been there, you know exactly. You
know exactly what it is and what it isn't if
you haven't been there, it is an it is It's
not an old school steakhouse. It is the old school
steakhouse of Ohio. It was like the Top six nineteen
forty seven. Yep, since nineteen forty seven. It's right off
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campus at University of Dayton. Did some quick research on it. It
used to be called Lonnie's Bar. Right now. I'm sure
I would have loved Lonnie's Bar as well. But the
Pine Club. I walked in for the first time in
my life. I've been wanting to get there for years.
I walk in with my crew and I look around.
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I'm like, I'm a this this is my kind of joint.
This is the kind of place where it's all pine
wood paneling, walls, ceiling. The menus are the same. There's
big giant menus, and then you have side dishes you
can't get anywhere else. It' stewed tomatoes. There's just it's
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it is it. It's if you love our show, you
would love the Pine Club.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
This is the this is your steakhouse.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
This is it. It's great steaks, classic service. It's a
different type of it's a classic service, not great service,
not bad service, classic service. It's the ladies that have
been there forever. It's nine nine out of ten guys,
nine out of ten people. There were men looks like
just a bunch of foursomes that show up or people
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come over from NCR, the university. And I'm sitting there
and I'm thinking, wait a minute. This has been around
since the very very end of World War Two. We
are in Dayton, We're not far from right Pat. I
wonder how many covert conversations have taken place at the
Pine Club over the decades, like pulled War spies right
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or Hangar eighteen. And it's just it has that vibe
being that close to right Pat, that you would imagine
that foreign espionage, foreign agents have spent some time there.
You know, undercover, willing, whatever, person spending some money. Cash only,
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no credit card, no trace, no trace you were there,
you pay cash only, no reservations. Your name's not going
to be on a list that you were ever there.
No reservations.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Just to be clear, they do accept credit cards today, No, not.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Cash only, no reservations. And Georgia, I think it was
HW went there and he had to wait. You know,
you got to get there. It opens at four, and
you bitter, get there at four and four fifteen. Otherwise
those full, those tables are gonna be taken. Then you're
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gonna wait at the bar. So we walk, we walk in,
and I'm like and the guy's like, hey, the bar's open.
I won't just sit at the bar and eat classic service.
Bartender said, can't eat food at the bar. To keep
people from doing that. The bars for waiting for when
your table or when your table pops up. So no reservations,
(08:32):
only cash. You can write them a check, I guess.
And no desserts. No dessert No desserts, just steaks, onion rings,
stewed tomatoes, No desserts. Get in, get out. We don't
want you to lingering. We got to turn the table
around well.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Is the line from that one movie. I make hard
drinks for men who want to get drunk fast. Now
out the door, you, Pixie, the.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Closing, Now play People. A couple of days ago, I'm
at home doing some research prepping for the show, and
it's eight thirty in the morning. I've been in the
zone for a couple hours. Ding dong. The doorbell rings
eight thirty in the morning weekday, like, I'm down in
the rabbit hole research and something. It's only one of
three things, right, It's going to be absolutely someone I
(09:16):
don't want to talk to, or it's going to be
more boxes for my wife's online shopping therapy. Or it's
someone's got to do some work on the house, which
usually meant about to spend some money on something I
didn't want to spend money on. What's the irrigation guy
to close out the irrigation system for the winter rise.
It open the door and I see he's in short sleeves.
He's got beautiful brand new ink right sleeve, full sleeve, beautiful,
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one of the best statues of liberty I've ever seen,
and a seventeen seventy six with the stars around it.
And I'm like, brother, come on in, Mikasa isu kasa.
So I think it is very very important at this point.
Let them in. Understand who your crew is is because
(10:01):
the division that continues to escalate in America. Pay attention
and let your friends come in. As this tent gets bigger,
Let's keep an eye on where things are going. Anyway,
after the break'll talk about what all is happening. Quick
rundown the United States of America. All right, welcome back
(10:22):
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Sunday's eleven AM, and Sunday's seven pm. General. Quick rundown
Federal government fourteen things here we go. Federal government is
shut down. Trump administration is now digging into digging into
the government funding of domestic nonprofits. They're un there. They're
gonna unwinding the I R s taking a look under
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the hood to figure out how's all this tax, how's
all this tax money getting over to these in these
non profits and nng os that are undermining.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You give it to democrats.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I'm not even Look, I'm done with the labels. I'm
done with the labels. I'm not It's both parties. Number
three administration is putting covert ops into Venezuela to get
to the heart of the drug crisis in America.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Gold is hot, hot hot, Love it. A lot of
gotta pay attention to gold because gold's a bet against inflation.
Well no, well yeah, it is for investing, but that
means there's a lot of betters betting against fiat currency.
Trump may win the Nobel Peace Prize. Who thought this
was on your your Bengo card twelve months ago? The
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Supreme Court term coming up. Big cases can to impact
the rest of your life and the lives of your children.
Tear yes and voting. How we're going to count ballots?
Whose ballots are getting counted? And did I mention tariffs?
That's how we funded our nation for the first half
of our existence.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Then they flipped the snorkout.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Then they flipped the switch and put it on the
backs of the working people. Number seven, Trump sending Tomahawk
missiles to Ukraine, thinking it might break Russia's resolve. Bad idea,
bad idea. That is not.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No. I think threatening to do it it's a good idea.
Sending it is a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I have a feeling it's one of those head fakes
that the Donald is doing. But I God, I hope
we don't send tomahawks to Ukraine. Number eight. I don't
know if he's trolling the press or he's been dead, sirius.
The Arc de Trump in DC, coming off the Arlington
Memorial Bridge into d C. There was beginning, there was
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going to be a construction of an Arc d Trump,
and then World War Two broke out and they never
got back to finishing it. And he's you know, you know,
the guy's just driven by there enough. It's like, what
was going on there?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It used to be this is going to be a great,
beautiful thing. What happened?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So now now it's Arc de Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's coming. Nine. No kings protests across America protesting King
Donald Trump. Oh how little they know about history?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yawn.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's what we're going to talk about today. Number ten,
Keep an eye on this. La County little local government
declares a state of emergency. The emergency ice rates ICE
rates is what Los Angeles County has decided their commission. However,
many i'd love we got to look up who we
got to look up the commissioners of LA County well.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Left just leftist leftist, leftist leftist.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Declared that the state of emergency is the ice rates.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Is One other thing you left out, which is the
they're they're going back and recalculating the census numbers right
now because they were using algorithms that inflated the numbers
of a certain type of people and certain districts. And
if you go back and do accurate census counts, you're
going to find that California is going to lose about
fifteen seats.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Didn't know that San Francisco's next on Trump's checklist. Trump
might go to the Scotis oral arguments on tariffs. If
he does that, we're going to have to do a
segment on that. That's a big deal. When the president,
I don't know the president's ever got to oral arguments,
that's a big deal. I love the psychological warfare. There
number eleven ten thousand or more federal employees will be
(14:30):
fired during the shutdown. Okay, excellent, We've been Look, we've
been talking about every party there should be two thousand
and three week. Both parties historically have talked about we
need to shrink the government. This is not a party issue.
This is an American issue. Number twelve Young Republicans racist
group chat leaked. Asked you about this earlier. You were unfamiliar.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Unfamiliar.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, So there's a group out there called the YRS
young Young Republicans. I think they used to be called
something else, but kind of there they are. They had
some sort of they have an encryptied text thread group chat,
and some really horrible, horrible things were said, very very
(15:17):
very anti semitic. I don't know, Rachel will probably throw
it in there. I don't know yet because I don't
pay attention that much to the mainstream news. How much
traction this is getting. It was a topic of conversation
at the Koffelhouse with my twenty three year old son
the other night, and all he wanted to do is
(15:38):
he wanted to see the Republican leadership decouple and disavow
from what was said. My position is crystal clear. The
Republican Party cannot have at its grassroots level at its
younger generation, the up and coming leadership saying anything along
those lines, because that reinforces what the left and far
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left and many other reasonable Americans worry about that there
are fascist type of white supremacists inside the Republican Party
every federal and state and even down to local school board.
If you're a Republican, you need to disassociate yourself from
(16:23):
any of that type of language. And those whoever participated
in that, they need the political death penalty. They're politically done.
There's liability, there's no redemption, no room for that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I always hear these things and then half of them
turn out to be hoaxed.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Now, no, I've waited on this. There's been enough time
as of now in this recording. There's been enough time
for the alleged, for the young men who made the
statements to step forward and disavow them. I haven't seen
any of that yet. Number thirteen Southwest Airlines has a
new boarding plan, and number fourteen, India is college football's
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darling Number three.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I think right too.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Out of everything there, I gave you fourteen fifteen, sixteen things.
Let's talk about the Southwest boarding process. It's transitioning. Okay,
all right, we're doing that. They're gonna do the Wilma method.
You know, the Wilma method.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Uh are there somebody yells Wilma.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Wilma window middle aisle seats. There's going to be nine
separate boarding groups. And then of course you can pay
extra extra extra to get the priority boarding line, so
you can go get that extra row faster.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Thatf that make sense to do the window seats first.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well, when you just board from the back, board from
the back, or why don't we have we're just board
from the back. Why are we trying to cramp people
in at the front of the plane.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Just well, you've got to have they've got those extenders
that people walk out on, and I don't know that
those will reach all the way to the back to
a back door.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well you can, you can. I think people would be
fined if you back in the day, you roll the
stairs up to the front door and the back door
and the passengers disembark either from the front or the back.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Well, that works fine when it's not raining in eight degrees, but.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
There's another way to do this. It's dumb anyway. Inflation.
I don't care what anyone says inflation is out of control.
There's absolutely the grocery prices are now leading to changes
in shopping habits. People are cutting back on purchases. That's good.
We need to do this. We've become addicts to credit,
(18:34):
We've become addicts to installments, We've been addicts to cheap money.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I did see, however, gas at two forty one this morning,
and I filled my car up for eighteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
How many gallons does that bugger take?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Generally about seven or eight.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Well, inflation in the grocery store is on the rise. Coffee, ground, beef, bananas,
blah blah blah. I read just finished Henry Ford's one
of his biographies, excellent, excellent one written by Gosh. I'm
drawing a blank on a guy's name, Henry Ford, have
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a new I'm now putting him in my Tier one
American figure that I love. Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
He's definitely the most influential person of the twentieth century,
Henry Ford.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There came a point in time, guys, where at the
in the nineteen early nineteen hundreds, the industrialist, the owners
of industry had to make a decision, how much are
we going to give to the working class. Henry Ford said,
give them more, pay more now, so you don't have
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to deal with strikes, communist led movements, unionization.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And you get better workers.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And that's what he did. He said, Look, we make
enough money. We need to make sure that our employees
make enough money so they can be consumers of these goods.
If they don't make enough money to gobble up all
the items that are being produced, then we will create
a depression because prices will go down because there's not
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there are on enough consumers to meet that demand, to
meet the sublime pardon me, the supply. And that's a
thousand percent of what happened. And we overproduced in the
early nineteen hundreds, overproduced the American consumers didn't have enough
money to gobble up everything, and as a result, we
wound up getting stuck with socialism. The state stepped in
(20:33):
and did it for us. After the break, I want
to talk about what's happening with the economy, who our
biggest employers are, and then taxation and the whole got
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lot about Henry Ford. Just finished a biography. In the
last several months, I finished JFK biography Joe Kennedy, William
Randolph Hurst and Henry Ford. Henry Ford was an amazing
guy and he was not formally educated. He was anti elite.
He saw his son Edseell go over to the elite side.
(22:42):
There gross point getting that community. And Henry Ford said
Edsel and told everyone else, do not start financing your future.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Or I'm gonna name a crappy car after you.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That save your money. That's the way America is. Don't
finance your future, because don't you get in bed with
the creditor, with the banks, with the finance companies. You
no longer have your financial independence. And if you don't
have financial independence and you're you're tied down, you're really
(23:14):
never free.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, he practiced what he preached because he went brought
out all of the stockholders of the Ford Motor Company
that had originally been with him to the point where
he had complete control over the company.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And he did not want the government's assistants for the company.
And he even though he threw in big time for
World War Two. He did not want the government to
have to come in and help out the working class.
So he Henry Ford told the other industrialists, the other
twenty two guys, said, look, you have to take care
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of your people. Otherwise the government's going to come in
and guys like FDR they're going to come in and
they're they're going to have to do something, and you're
and once the government steps in and starts writing checks
and creating jobs and writing checks and giving out loans
and forgiving loans, the only way to pay that back
is through raising taxes and printing more money. Both have
(24:13):
the same effect. They punished the producer, they punished the people.
They're actually making America the number one nation.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
They punish the consumer too by raising prices with inflation.
So he told hidden taxes.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And this is when he doubled the average pay for
the factory worker, came out with.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The five dollars day, five dollar day plan.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The other guy, the other industrialized, you're crazy, you're crushing
our margins. And Henry Ford said it again, we need
to do it on our terms. Otherwise the government's going
to come in and have to bail out the working class.
And that's what happened. So now we look at our
top America's might America's top employers. The number one employer
(24:53):
in the United States is Walmart one point six million people.
Amazon is one point one million in ups target Home
Depot number five.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That surprise you, It doesn't except for the fact that
Low's can't be far behind Home Depot.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, I think Home Depot sponsors game day set, so
that explains that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Number six is the Kroger Corporation, Number seven, FedEx, number
eight Berkshire Hathaway, of course with all the companies it owns.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Number nine Lows and number ten is Columbus Gold Strip Club.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Number ten is CVS CVS truck Stores. There's your top ten.
Do those top ten employers pay wages that allow one
single wage earner to sustain a home? Probably those are
(25:54):
the largest employers. Henry Ford, what's called Fodism, was a
different economic model than Marxism or socialism. Fordism was an
extension of capitalism that it's the duty, moral and sound
business duty to extend the fortunes of the capital to
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the factory workers so that they had money to buy
to be consumers. We have producers. America had plenty of production.
We overproduced. We didn't have a consumer class that could
afford to buy that stuff, and as a result, the
industrials had to look at markets overseas, and Fordism said
(26:42):
the profit extension needs to go down to the factory floor. Question,
what would Henry Ford say to Walmart or Amazon or ups?
Are you paying them enough we need to get Is
it possible to get to a point in America where
(27:02):
you get a job at one of these big ten,
big twenty, big twenty five corporations that at the factory level,
one income is enough to support a middle class home
and have once parent at home with the kids. Is
it possible to even do that if Henry Ford's If
(27:27):
Fordism had survived and American socialism, which is where we're
living under, didn't happen, how much would our working class
be making? How much of this political instability would we have?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The trouble that you have is that you know people
would take any criticism from today's Henry Ford. They would say,
you know, your factory is full of robots right now,
mister Ford, You know that list of companies that you
talked about are not the largest companies they're just the
largest employers because they haven't found a way to automate product.
Robots don't buy anything exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You have to have. You must have for a private
for a marketplace, free enterprise system to work. And my
concern is we're past the point of no return, that
we're literally jousting at windmills, that this government interventionism, this
Knesian economic.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Theory has it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The only way to undo this government intrusion into everyone's
lives is it has to be broken and reassembled. Which
leads to the next question is that what Donald Trump
and his administration is doing. Are they moving as fast
as they can to deconstruct not just the deep state,
(28:51):
but the state, not just the administrative state, but the
state itself, this nation state, and get back down to
a local more sone interest economy, centrist politics. You shouldn't
have time to go out and protest eight hours over something.
There should be some work and should there should be.
We have a lot of idle people. While I'm mentioning this,
(29:18):
did you see general the United Nations is putting out
with a global tax on carbon emissions. This is a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
This is a big deal and they can pay it
all right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
What you need to know is that you now have
a supra national something that transcends every country. If you
have a world organization that is going to put a
tax on all ships that emit carbon dioxide, and they
are they are anticipating the United Nations is going to
(29:53):
generate the estimate ten to twelve billion dollars a year.
Where does that money go? The Trump administration is already
threatening sanctions on any countries that support this tax. Here
you have taxation with no representation. Those taxes on those
(30:15):
shipping vessels will be passed on to you, and it
is overseen by one hundred and seventy member committee in London,
England called the International Maritime Organization. You never even heard
of them.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
By stuff that doesn't come on ships, like American products.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
We've been worrying about this. Now it's taxation with our representation.
We've got to get these governments and these entities out
of our lives. General, you want to throw give a
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Speaker 2 (30:49):
Well, we talked so much about Henry Ford, and while
Chess Run doesn't carry Ford products especially, it is still
the best place that you can go to get a car.
It's a beautiful campus. You go up there on twenty
three North, not quite not quite to Delaware, but boy
is it a great place.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Citadel of a mean American manufacturing general. Last week, this
is our final segment. But I'm really really bothered. I'm stopped.
I'm no longer referring to the deep state of administrative STATEY,
just simply this state.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And now that it's been officially discovered.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And the Trump administration is going after it very hard.
And you're either on one side or the other of this.
You either needed you either want more government dependency in
your life or you you don't want any government dependency
in American lives.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Uh? We talked the last few segments that you have
to have production in your nation. You have to have
companies employing workers, paying them living wages where they can
sustain their family. Ideally one parent can work either not
(32:05):
at all, but stay at home or work part time.
But you have to have American free enterprise. It made
America what it is. You have to have American consumers
for those goods, and the American consumers are not going
to gobble up the American produced products that they can't
afford them, so you have to pay them more. If
(32:30):
the enterprise system would figure out a way to pay
higher wages to their front line, to their factory workers,
to their unskilled, then you make them more politically amenable
to traditional American economic and political principles. When you have poverty,
(32:55):
when you have extremely high inflation, you have un employed,
hopeless and helpless, and guess who wanders in from the forest,
your Marxists. The way we protect our nation from this
radical left economic theory and political thinking is we must
(33:18):
immunize the American workers from the uber drivers all the
way up to in your factory, your middle management, and
corporate America must spend more on their people, including healthcare.
It just has to happen. We otherwise the government is
(33:38):
going to continue to do what it's doing. The responsibility
for literally being free and independent, that altarchy, what I
mentioned earlier au Ta RKY is the ability to be
financially independent number one, number two, to own your land,
(34:01):
number three, to own one hundred percent of the fruits
of your labor. Get the taxation out. I am absolutely
against an income tax. We can find other ways for
this government to make money, but we shrink what it needs,
but to be free, to be independent, requires producers and
(34:23):
consumers that can afford to buy, and consumers to have
the ability to purchase real estate real property. Once that
ownership has been stripped away from the many and concentrated
in the hands of the few and hand of the state,
the nation drifts towards servitude. Which is what is happening now?
(34:48):
How did this happen? For fifteen hundred years in Western civilization,
we didn't have this problem. They didn't have this problem.
Our ancestors did not have this problem fifteen hundred years.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What do I mean?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, let's go over to England. Last show, we talked
about Martin Luther and the religious Reformation against the Catholic Church.
At the same time, same era, Henry the eighth wanted
to marry. Somebody had to get divorced. Couldn't do it,
you know, disconnects from the Catholic Church. Two other things
(35:25):
happened that he dissolved the eight hundred percent monasteries that
were on the English countryside and all that land which
was estimated twenty to twenty five percent of the farmable
land of England. Twenty to twenty five percent of the
farmable land of England. He took over the crown, took
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over from the Catholic Church for fifteen hundred years what
we call medieval medieval England.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
He had a.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Patchwork of shires and hobbits and ents, right, those were
the ancient wise guardians of the forest. True, and you
had small proprietors dwarfs as well guild craftsmen. It was
our institutions ran by custom, not by contract. And these
(36:14):
Catholic monasteries that held these vast tracts of land again,
twenty to twenty five percent of England for fifteen hundred
years was held in trust for local communities. The people
worked those lands, and the monasteries supplied the distribution at
the local level of the charity and the medical care
and the education. It was an open field system that
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allowed villagers to share in the pasture, the forests, the meadows.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
It was called the commons.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The commons were a birthright. It's a totally foreign concept,
not even sure most Americans' brains would even allow them
to understand this.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It would be like a state park that you could
go anytime you wanted and plant your own little plot
of land.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Commons were a cross right. So when white man pale
face showed up here in North America, the Indians, the
indigenous people were looking at white he going, what do
you mean? This is your land?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
This is They wondered how you owned land?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
How do you own land? It's like saying this is
my heir. And they thought the indigenous people thought that
were the white The Europeans had a mine virus, they
called it wittiko, and like, these people are cannibals. They're
going to cannibalize the land. They're going to cannibalize each other.
So for fifteen hundred years at least in England, the
(37:30):
commons were at birthright, and for millennia you had a
distribution pattern of property and obligation where people all had
vested interests. The man could till, trade or craft without
surrendering his independence. Well, with the Protestant Reformation UH and
(37:53):
the church selling of indulgences to finance Saint Peter's Basilica
in rom among other things, Henry the eighth declares himself
head of the Church of England. The eight hundred monastic
houses are closed. The crown was nearly bankrupt, and it's
what happened. One fifth of all the arable land in
the realm became his, and he sees those lands. He sold.
(38:17):
Those lands not distributed to the poor, not to the parish,
not to the people that were working them and living
off them, but to courtiers, London merchants, the men who
financed Henry's wars. The effect was.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Immediate, built a few new palaces.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
That land at once supported thousands of people, became large
estates than landed.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Gentry closed off estates and they were no longer available
for the commons.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
And then they fenced them off, didn't they theosure and
the enclosure acts, and it stripped the village. These landlords
fenced off the common fields, and then it was the
nation of independent pret users became a nation of wage
earners and paupers.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And there were parliament members who opposed enclosure, but they
were few and far between.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
That forced a lot of people into economic independence, economic
dependence in the cities. The industrial revolution. Lawless was to
for wool, and the industrial revolution eventually came. But when
those people became dispossessed from their land, their political rights expanded,
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and those political rights are what land. Those men who
brought their families to America. Part of the reason they
came here was they knew that fifteen hundred years of
independence was vanishing and the average European owned nothing but
as wages and his debts.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
And they heard that land in America was free and
quite right too, and as.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
A result, America was founded. So we have to be
very very very careful as the Trump administration moves through
whatever it's doing here to educate the younger class, because
there's no one alive. There hasn't been anyone alive for
years that understands what true political and economic freedom means.
(40:19):
We just don't know and keep an eye on. I
mean again, it's the inability for workers to support their family.
It's the high prices for groceries and other essentials. It
is the perpetual printing of money, and it is the
(40:42):
perpetual taxation that now is leaking into the international sphere
where effective immediately you're now going to be taxed. You
not even know it, with no representation on these cargo
vessels that are being to be taxed by to you
in run by one hundred and seventy men. There you go,
(41:05):
Thanks for listening. I'm Brad Koffel. That's the general This
is for the defense of the American people,
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