December 16, 2025 • 41 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 12, 2025.
0:30 We dig into new FBI data showing that California led the nation in active shooter incidents from 2020 to 2024 — 25 incidents, more than any other state — and the irony is impossible to ignore. This is the same state with the most aggressive gun control regime in the country: assault weapon bans, magazine limits, waiting periods, registration, red flag laws, ammo restrictions, carry permit mandates — layers upon layers of regulation. If gun control worked the way it’s sold emotionally and rhetorically, California should be the safest state in America. It’s not.
That’s the core question they keep coming back to: why doesn’t gun control work where it exists the most? The answer is uncomfortable for the left. Laws don’t stop criminals. They only restrict law-abiding citizens. Shooters don’t follow magazine limits, don’t wait ten days, don’t register firearms, and don’t ask permission. California’s system controls one group of people — responsible citizens — while leaving violent criminals untouched.
9:30 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- The US trade deficit dropped to the lowest level in five years.That's according to data released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- Half of the commercial drivers licenses issued in the state of New York to foreign workers were issued illegally.
- The Leader of Black Lives Matter in Oklahoma has been arrested for embezzling $3.15 million.
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13:00 We step back from politics and wrestle with one of the oldest and hardest questions there is: why God allows suffering. We reflect on how some tragedies are so overwhelming, so senseless, that the only human response is to ask “why.” And they point to the assassination of Charlie Kirk as one of those moments — a young man devoted to ideas, speech, and persuasion, taken suddenly, leaving behind a family and a nation trying to make sense of it.
15:00 American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson tackle a listener question that hits a nerve for a lot of people: what do you do when you’re in your late 50s, you know you still have something to offer — but you don’t feel a clear passion anymore?
The Mamas talk about how passion isn’t always something you “figure out” in advance. Sometimes it finds you. Sometimes it only makes sense in hindsight. They reflect on how certain seasons — raising children, leading nonprofits, stepping into unexpected roles — demand everything you have, and when they end, it can feel disorienting. But that doesn’t mean you’re empty. It means you’re available.
If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com/mamas and click on the Ask the Mamas button.
23:00 After revisiting the debate over gun laws and crime, we dig into a case out of Atlanta where a homeowner shot two juveniles allegedly stealing packages off his porch.
While no one defends theft, the discussion makes a clear distinction between protecting property and using deadly force. Gun rights come with limits, and firing at someone who is fleeing raises serious legal and moral questions. Exercising a right irresponsibly only undermines the right itself.
26:30 We move on to Maryland, where lawmakers are considering a $25-an-hour minimum wage — a move activists are calling “survival,” not radical. But survival for whom? We break down what a $25 minimum wage actually means for employers, especially small businesses, and why economists warn it could lock people out of the workforce entirely. When the first rung on the ladder costs $52,000 a year, employers stop taking chances — and the people shut out first are young workers with no experience.
California is a real-time case study: higher mandated wages, fewer jobs, more automation, and young people locked out of entry-level work altogether. The conclusion is blunt — every time government raises the minimum wage, someone becomes unemployable by law.
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small dreams. I have a dream that one day this
nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of
its tream.
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American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avaloney and Stephen Park.
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This is American Ground Radio. Step Paul with Lewis sar Avlonas.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now, this isn't going to surprise you for any of
our listeners.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It might surprise me because I don't understand about.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, it's not going to surprise you, trust me, all right, Okay,
Because there are there are There is data out from
the FBI's Active Shooter Report and it indicates now that California.
How ironic is this because it is the most gun
restrictive state in the country. Okay, California led the nation
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in active shooter events or incidents for the five year
period twenty twenty through twenty twenty four with twenty five
active shooter incidents. That is more than any other state
in the Union. Now pause right there, because if gun
control worked the way that it was sold to the
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American people, or to or intended to be sold to
the American people emotionally, rhetoric, rhetorically, theatrically, California, with all
of their gun restrictions, they should be the safest state
in the nation. They have a assault weapons ban, they
have a high capacity magazine ban, they have universal background checks,
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they have a red flag law. They have a bump
stock ban. They have sweeping ghost gun regulations. They have
a ten day waiting period on gun purchases, gun registration requirements,
a concealed carry permit mandate, a limit a limit on
how many guns a law abiding citizen can buy per month,
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a ban on carrying firearms on college campuses for self defense,
a ban on K twelve teachers being armed in the
classroom for self defense. Extensive gun storage laws, tight ammunition
purchases and control regulations. I mean they have layers upon
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layers of bureaucratic enforcement stacked on top of all. In
other words, California has done everything the gun control movement
has demanded and then some, And yet, according to the
FBI itself, California leads the nation in active shooter incidents. Now,
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if gun control works, why doesn't it work where it
exists the most? I mean, that's not a rhetorical question,
it's a constitutional, legal policy question, and the answer is
deeply uncomfortable for the left because what California proves conclusively
is that feelings, intentions do not make good policy. You know,
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what does you know? What does? Conservative principles? Conservative principles,
The Second Amendment does not exist to make people feel good.
It exists to recognize a pre existing natural right, the
right of self defense. It is not contingent on government approval,
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bureaucratic competence, or whatever the legislative mood might be. Here's
the first truth California refuses to accept. Criminals do not
follow gun laws because every restriction that California piles onto
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law abiding citizens is irrelevant to the person intent on
mass of violence. The shooter doesn't care about magazine limits.
The shooter doesn't wait ten days. The shooter does not
submit to background checks. The shooter does not register firearms.
The shooter doesn't ask for permission from a permitting authority.
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I mean, gun control as practice in California controls only
one group of people, you know who, that is.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Law abiding citizens.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's not crime prevention, that's disarmament.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Okay, But now I look at this list from the
FBI and it says California had the most twenty five.
That is followed by Texas at twenty twenty two and
Florida at thirteen. Which given that you've got the three
states with the largest population, that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It kind of makes sense. But you also have had
a mass exodus of folks from California to those states
as well. That's true.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But yeah, I mean California still has the largest population.
If this was just a completely random distribution, you would
expect them to have the largest number of active shoot events.
But if now that still goes with your point here
that if gun control are working, if California because Texas
second largest state, right, so, Texas is the second largest state.
Texas has very lax gun control compared to California. Texas
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you can open carry, you can walk around the state
with a gun as long as you're not next to
a school or in a government building or something like that.
You can walk around with the gun all you want.
You can't like pull it out and point it at
people's that's brandishing a weapon, but you can have it
on your person. California, you have to be a certain
kind of person in order to be able to get
a gun in the first place. But if California's gun
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laws had stopped these active shooter events, you would expect
that Texas is wild West. Everybody can carry carry a gun.
Grandma's walking around with glocks. You would expect that that
would lead to more shootings if the theory of the
left on gun control was correct. This data simply shows No,
You're still the largest state. You're still having the most
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active shooter events because the gun control laws that you
have in place aren't stopping it.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Okay, but consider the percentage of adults living in homes
with firearms. So in Texas, forty almost forty six percent
of adults report living in a household with a firearm.
In Florida that's around thirty five percent. In California it's
twenty eight percent. So guns per capita in California much lower,
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are much lower, and yet they have the highest number
of incidents with respect to mass shooters.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And it looks like just a ballpark. Just looking at
the numbers on the service, I haven't run run the numbers,
but it looks like you would be within a standard
deviation of the population. So basically the expectation of population
compared to Texas and Florida, it looks like you're, if anything,
Florida is actually lower than Texas in California in terms
of the number of actor shoot of events compared to
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the population. So you know, look, I think if you
added in Illinois, if you added in New York into
this discussion, I think you can see a lot more
active shooter events in Illinois than its population suggests in
New York. You it is. You said that California's got
the most restrictive gun laws. I kind of think New
York actually has the most. Does I think New York's
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got the most restrictive.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That was a pretty extensive list that in California. Yeah,
I mean we could certainly look at at New York.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
But as well in New York, if you want to
get a if you want to get a permit to
even own a gun, you got to know somebody. If
you aren't if you weren't rich, if you aren't famous,
then screw you. You don't get to get a gun.
That's that's just how it is.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, I get that. But I think it's also important
to realize, as most folks do, that California has embraced
basically prosecutorial leniency. Absolutely bail reform that releases repeat offenders.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, it's not bail reform, it's bail abandonment.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Decriminalization of you know, very serious conduct like you know.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Stealing the thousand dollars worth of stuff that's no longer
a crime in the state of California.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You know. So there's there's a culture there in California
too that I think feeds that. And that's why I
say a lot of folks have have moved from California
to Texas, and I think, but those are their culture
with them.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
But those those are the people who are who are
committing the mass shootings. Those are the people like, you know, what,
I want to be able to raise my family without
having to step over drugs.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well they should be. They should be.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, in general, that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Who's showed it. Nevertheless, if gun control works so well,
it should be working in California, and it's not.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Let's get to the tough of things you need no
before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
First thing you need know no be for a while.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
The US trade deficit dropped to the lowest level in
five years. That's according to data release by the Commerce
Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The trade jefficit dropped by
nearly eleven percent in September to fifty two point eight billion.
The cause of the drop is mostly due to an
increase in exports along with a slowing of the increase
in imports. Exports rows three percent while the imports only
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increase point six percent. That changes being attributed to President
Trump's global tariffs and hard negotiations with other countries.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And god forbid that the United States Supreme Court decides
that the President of the United States, the commander in chief.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Can't do tariffs. They overturn his tariffs. That's going to
cause a huge problem for our economy. That's going to
be a big, big issue. Second thing you needed before tomorrow.
Half of the commercial driver's licenses issued in the state
of New York to foreign workers were issued illegally. That's
according to an investigation by the Department of Transportation Secretary
of Transportation Sean Duffy said, they're just giving eight year
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commercial driver's licenses to people who are coming through their
DMV and sending them out on American roadways, and again
they're endangering the lives of American families. Duffy is threatening
to pull seventy three million dollars in federal funding from
the state of New York if they don't revoke all
of their illegally issued CDLs within the next thirty days.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And you know, as dangerous as that is for those
states who have motor voter laws, right, they're registering these folks,
so they're giving illegal immigrants fake driver's licenses essentially, and
then registering them to vote in our elections.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And the third thing you needed before tomorrow, the leader
of Black Lives Matter and Oklahoma has been arrested for
embezzling thirty three point one five million dollars to Sheela
Sherri Amore. Dickerson was arrested by the FBI this week.
FBI Director Kashpttel says Dickerson used her position a top
BLM to quote steel donor money and enrich herself. The
money was meant to cover pre trial bail for BLM
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rioters who we arrested during civil disturbances during the twenty
twenty summer of mostly peaceful protests. But investigators say she
put that money in her own bank account and then
used it for personal travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
She also allegedly used the money for shopping sprees and
fifty thousand dollars worth of groceries delivered to her home.
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Who buys that much groceries.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I think she characterized this as reparations, and she was
using this as an example to show if we did
have reparations, how well everyone would live. Everybody gets to
go to Jamaica and he yes, I guess we've.
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Speaker 3 (12:46):
You know a lot of folks say why why does
God allow pain? Because there are sometimes in life where
the pain, the disappointment is so incomprehensible, the tragedy is
so so incomprehensible that the human instinct is really only
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to ask one question, and that is why why would
God allow such pain? And you look at what happened
September tenth, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and you've got
this nation, you know, mourning his death. Here, you've got
a young man that was devoted to speech and ideas
and persuasion. He's got this, you know, young family, and
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his life was just robbed from him. And it doesn't
make any sense. And yet for those who are of faith,
they know that God can use tragedy, can use all
of what happens in our lives for good sure. And
so in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Jenny McCarthy
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has come forward. Now you know, of course she was
the playboy model. I don't know what else she was
the actress, but she has now revealed that she and
her husband Donnie.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg's brother.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Have become devout Christians since Charlie Kirk's death.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That's not something I WoT, she.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Said, plainly, without embarrassment, without qualification. She said, I started
Bible study immediately. Wow. Now the question is, you know,
I mean God specializes in bringing good out of tragedy.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Absolutely, But the question.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Is how many more Americans are not even Americans, folks
all around the globe who were brought to Christianity, brought
to the faith that it ignited, that that belief.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's it's thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands in this country. I've seen that uptick,
and it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But Jenny McCarthy, I.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Didn't see that coming. We got a question for American mama's.
Dear mama's, what do you do if you're in your
late fifties and you feel like you have something to
offer but you don't have a passion.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, let's ask our American mama's.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Mama, Mama, she said, and joining us now our American
mama's Terry Ediville and Kimberly Burlison.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Okay, so you got stuff to offer, you just don't
know what that is. What do you do?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Yeah, it's very interesting thing to be at this age
because you realize always thought that being in your fifties
was old until I got here and I realized, oh
my gosh, I am still so young. But this question
came to me from a friend. And her husband's a
colonel in the army. She was fgr family.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Ready.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
You know, she's the go between between command and families.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Okay, if something happens.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
This was during a hard time, you know, this is
when they were losing a lot of soldiers. And she
said that it became her passion to be that person
for families that were fort Hood.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
She became that person. Oh and fort Hood lost lot,
a lot.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
And so she said that it became a passion for her.
She felt like it was a mission. And she said,
now that it's over and I'm at this age, I
don't know what to do. I feel like I have
so much in me, but I don't know what my
passion is. And so I started thinking and I said,
maybe passion just find you or maybe you just enjoy
your every day and just she said, my fa My
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passion now is my family. But I don't know what
I want to do in life. And I thought the
only time I ever had that full passion passion was
with our nonprofit with military families. I could walk into
any door, I would talk to anyone, I would ask
for money, I would talk to general. I did everything
I could to make that happen because I had so
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much passion about it. And the only thing I feel
passionate about out now is my children, my family. But
I'm like her, I don't have a passion for anything more.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I love this.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
I feel like this is a blessing.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
You know.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
This is probably your passion, is it?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
This is one of them. Yeah, quite clearly, this is
you know. I wake up every morning and my thought is, Okay,
what are we talking about today? And how do we
get the message out? And yeah, but it's definitely a calling.
But I'll tell you what I did not want to
do American ground radio. When American Ground Radio started, I
did not want to do it. Lewis had been talking
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with radio stations. They'd asked us to do a show,
and I was like, I don't know if I want
to do that, but we started doing it.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Well, it was the Reservation.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I had done a radio show before that went back,
and so I kind of felt like, you know, there
there's worry about it. I don't want to be back
in that spot where I was Oh yeah, and we
were on you know, we were creating conservative ground, trying
to teach about developing leadership and inspiring voters, and that's
where I thought we were heading. And then you know,
this opportunity comes along and the door opens and you go, Okay,
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I'll walk through that door. Terry, what do you think
about this?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Where do you go? I?
Speaker 8 (18:10):
You know, I've had I will say seasonal purposes. There's
like a purpose will come into my into focus, you know,
like the children's hospital and like the baseball team or
you know whatever, something comes along and then I'm like,
I'm all in. But throughout my life as a mom,
my purpose in life, and I always knew this would be.
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It was to be a good mom and a good grandmother.
So Kevin and I I was I remember this like
a couple of months ago, I was watering the flowers
in the backyard and I started crying, and Kevin said,
he walked, goes what is wrong? And I said, I said,
you know the kids are all adulting. You know, two
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of the three are married. I've got this grandson I
absolutely adore, and my son and daughter in law most
likely will be moving this summer twelve hours away. Probably Yeah. Well,
resident say he'll finish med school. And I said, all
I've ever really known is how to be a good
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mom and now a good grandmother.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And the.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Little one that makes me a grandmother is about to
be gone. They're about to take him away. And what
am I going to do?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
What am I to do?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
And he said, Terry, you always find something, something always
comes along your path, and you always jump in, just
like you know you've done. And he listed some things
that I did that I'd forgotten about, and he said,
You're just one of those like it'll strike you. You
do your thing, you leave your mark, and then you
go to the next thing. And I thought that that
broughtab me comfort.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
One thing it made me think of is what Dad
told us, you know, right before Dad died, when I said,
was it always your dream to play football? Terry Bradshaw
to play in the NFL, and he said, no, that
was Terry's dream. Dreams are contagious and you must follow
whatever you even someone else's dream, it's contagious. Follow it,
do it with them.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
That's it. And that's where I think you'll end up
finding your passion again is just go see where there's
a need. Go look and see where something that you
could do. Is there a hole you can fill? And
you start doing that and maybe it's not your passion today,
but it can become your passion over time. Your kids
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weren't always your passion because you didn't always have them right.
They couldn't have been your passion because you didn't have
them true, and now you know, you've gone through this
and they've grown up and they have benefited from your passion.
If you don't know what your passion is, my encouragement
go figure out where you can serve, and as long
as you find someplace you can serve, you will find
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your passion. Well.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
And I will say this and not to counter that,
but my personality is not that. My personality is not
to look in the community and who needs to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Grow a garden? Who needs the help?
Speaker 8 (20:57):
It is something that has to come and a god
does all the time. For me, it has to be
something that comes across my face, my mind and my
heart and I go, wait, what was that? What are
they doing? How does this help them? Wait, let me
know more about this. I'll dive, you know, dive in
there and look at it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
So that's my.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Personality is that it'll strike me. And I think that
happens a lot with people. It just happens to be
their right place, right time.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
But you're not stuck at home, No, you're out doing
You're involved, yes, And that's I think where you run
across those opportunities for sure. If you like to ask
for American Mama's a question, go to what is side
America now radio dot com. Slash mam is a click
on the ask of the Mama's button. Turned out of
Ooki brothers, and thank you so much. Coming up next
year on American Ground Radio, we are digging deep. We'll
be rab back. Stick around, keep your ear to the ground.
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Speaker 3 (22:29):
You know, we were talking earlier about gun rights, and
you know how California leads the nation, and you know,
I guess what mass shooter incidents right, And look, don't
get me wrong. Gun rights, like all rights, come with responsibilities,
of course, and force comes with limits.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
So this week you had an Atlanta, Georgia homeowner who
shot two juveniles who were allegedly taking packages from his porch.
Now they were stealing these packages. It appears that is undisputed. Okay,
but the question is and and again the law will
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dictate this should he have shot them? And in most states,
in most states, deadly force and shooting someone is deadly forced. Yep,
deadly forced must be justified. So if these and I'm
not justifying the what these juveniles were doing, and that
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the homeowner didn't possess the right to protect his property,
but if they were running away and you shoot at someone,
that's not you're not exercising your gun rights in a
responsible manner, and certainly not according to the law if
a jury or a judge were to determine it. Otherwise,
not a legal way either.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, I mean that's that's that's likely true. This is
this is part of our problem with our society right now,
is that we've we've raised people who think that it
is okay to go steal off of porches and people
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are tired of that. And you can't excuse something, you
can't excuse behaving poorly. Again, you have do the right
thing in the right way for the right reasons. But
you also need to understand that if somebody is stealing
off of a porch and somebody else sees them, you
are putting your life in your own hands when you
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start stealing from someone.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And I don't justify this, I don't. I don't mean
to make an excuse whatsoever. Yeah, but when you have
a society where crime has been minimized, excused and normalized.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
And people are arrested and then they get out of
jail because they bail and they're arrested again, they get
out of jail, when when the vast majority of the
crimes in this country are are perpetual by people who
have been arrested eight times or more.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And it's just shrugged off. As you know, that's just
the way that it is.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
People will get tired that. This is where you get vigilantism.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
There is an environmental frustration that is as bred there.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
When the state doesn't protect your liberty, people will start
to protect their own liberty, and they may do it
by violating somebody else's right to life. That's why the
state has to be doing this. If the state doesn't,
then people will get out of hand.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And that's why again it matters who you elect into
office and the policies, because it's not just one decision,
it's countless decisions of our public officials all across our
country that breed this type of environment.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Let's dig deep. Okay, we're digging deep. The state of
Maryland is considering raising the minimum wage in that state
to twenty five dollars an hour. Now, this is being
pushed by an activist group called One Fair Wage. They
post online, quote, twenty five dollars isn't radical, it's survival.
(26:09):
Twenty five dollars an hour, so they want.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
To do it's survival, Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
The Daily Wire reached out to an economist to see
what a twenty five dollars an hour minimum wage would
do to the state's economy. This is Rachel Gresler, a
Maryland based economist. She said, quote, you need these starting
wages to be able to step onto the ladder and
then be able to climb it. If that first step
is twenty five dollars an hour or fifty two thousand
dollars a year, a lot of people would just never
(26:33):
be able to step onto it. What she's talking about is,
in order to get your second job, you first have
to get your first job. But you can't get your
first job if you don't have any experience. This whole thing.
I can't get a job if I don't have experience.
But I can't get experience if I don't have a job. Well,
when the minimum wage is low, employers are willing to
take a risk on people who have no experience. But
(26:55):
when you raise the minimum wage to twenty five dollars
an hour, the very first person you hire for that
twenty five dollars an hour job had better be good
at the job or you just lost fifty two thousand
dollars a year as an employer.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And you know, if you're someone out there listening and
you're like, yeah, raising the minimum wage sounds great, I
really like what that elected official or that candidate is saying,
you've got to remember something. When they are mandating a
higher minimum wage, they're not the ones paying the worker.
That's true, the employer is. And guess what happens. And
(27:26):
employers respond the same way every time that they are
required to raise wages artificially. They cut hours. Yep, they'll automate,
they'll raise prices, they'll stop hiring that, or they'll just
shut down, go out of business completely.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
And this stop hiring is the part I really want
to focus on because the people they stop hiring first
are the youngest people in our society. So when Ronald
Reagan was sworn into office in January of nineteen eighty one,
the federal minimum wage was three dollars and thirty five
cents an hour. At that same time, the labor force
participation rate for sixteen to nineteen year olds, for teenagers
was around sixty per cent fifty five to sixty percent,
(28:01):
So the majority of teenagers in the United States of
America in nineteen eighty one had a job for three
dollars and thirty five cents in Now you worked when
you were a.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Teenager, I did. But I want to I want to
step on top of that point. To make this point
is that what folks don't understand that a job, a
job is not just income, it is training, right, and
so minimum wage jobs are not supposed to be careers.
They're supposed to be stepping stones.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
They must get you started.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
They teach you about punctuality and responsibility and customer service
and work ethic. But when you raise the minimum wage,
you raise the cost of teaching those lessons.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
To where the employer feels like they can't afford to teach.
They need to jack expertise.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And stop offering them.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
So the labor force participation rate bubbles around fifty five
sixty percent like that through the nineteen eighties until around
nineteenninety two, when Bill Clinton was elected, the number of
teams in the workforce drops below fifty percent by two thousand,
so we go from sixty percent to below to fifty
percent by the time George W. Bush's elect Well, the
minimum wage stayed at three dollars and thirty five cents
an hour through the eighties. It then rose to four
(29:05):
dollars and twenty five cents an hour by nineteen ninety two.
So as the minimum wage goes up by almost twenty
five percent, the percentage of teens in the workforce starts
to fall by more than twenty five percent, and it
gets worse in the two thousands. By two thousand and nine,
the federal minimum wage was raised to seven dollars and
twenty five cents an hour, more than twice what it
was back in nineteen eighty one. The youth labor force
(29:27):
participation rate dropped from around sixty percent to thirty five percent,
and that's about where it's been today. About one in
three teenagers has a job.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
But these folks in Ohio, in Maryland, Maryland can't. They
just look at California and they go, well, hey, if
raising the minimum wage worked, then wouldn't California be an
economic utopia? Right cause California.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
California raised its minimum wage for fast food workers to
twenty dollars an hour, and as a result of that,
the number of people working in fast food in California
has decreased.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Right toted. Automation and self checkout replaced the cashiers. Young
people were just locked out of the job market and
it remains so today, and.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Fast food places just went out of business. See this
is the whole point here. The higher the minimum wage
goes the fewer young people who are able to get
their first job. And that work is so important, Lewis,
as you were saying, it teaches you how to be
on the job. It lets you start saving money while
you're still living with mom and dad. Is it any
(30:29):
wonder that this current generation says they can't get enough
money to buy a home. Well, it's because they couldn't
start working at sixteen. Some of them didn't start working
really until twenty four.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
But every time you rate again, every time you raise
the minimum wage, you make someone unemployable, yes, by law,
and you don't eliminate poverty, you eliminate opportunity.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Most of of the people this generation didn't start working
into their twenties, and it's because we've been raising the
minimum way. Work is important not just for the money,
but for the sense of purpose and self pride, and
we've robbed two generations of that in the name of
a living wage that only postpones young people being able
to start living their lives in the first place.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
It's not compassionate. If you put someone out of a
job or rob them of the opportunity in the first place,
we'll bereb back.
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Speaker 1 (32:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
So this week President Trump signed legislation honoring the nineteen
eighty United States Olympic Hockey team. Okay, sure, great team,
the nineteen eighty team. Yeah, now, look, I think this
is quite nice. I think this is great. It honors
excellence and grit and teamwork and patriotism. Sure, that's all fantastic.
(32:39):
They weren't supposed to win, that's why it mattered they did.
But this is also vintage Trump. How So, because look
here we are what how how many years are we
forty five years later? Yeah, you know what he's doing.
You know what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
He's trolling Canada. He No, he's trolling Russia.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
He's reminding Russia that they lost, and not just lost,
but they lost at the height of the Cold War.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, they lost the whole while the whole world was watching.
They lost to a bunch of college kids from a
free country who played for pride, not for their state.
And that symbolism matters, and that symbolism is with a
capital s. The Soviet Union poured money and power and
ideology into that team. It was propaganda on ice. Victory
(33:31):
was supposed to prove the superiority of the system. And
here came a bunch of Americans who didn't read the script.
They just played the game and they won.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
And not just Americans, but college kids because back in
those days, the US Olympic team was only amateurs. You
weren't allowed to be a professional athlete and make the
US Olympic team, and so these they weren't. They were
just college kids.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
So again Trump signs this law honoring the nineteen eighty
hockey team. Yeah, lebrating American greatness. He's honoring real heroes,
whether intentionally or not. He is now also giving Moscow
a gentle but unmistakable nudge. Remember Lake Placid, Remember when
you were unbeatable, Remember when you weren't.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Donald Trump is the troller in chief. He is the
best person on the earth at trolling someone.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
But it's not mean spirited. It's history.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
I mean, yeah, but he did he have to do it.
He didn't have to do it, but he did.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
But yeah, look, he's reminding Putin that we're winners and
they're losers.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
And that is not fake news. You are fake news. Okay, kids,
it's fake news Friday. Here's how we play our game.
I'm gonna read you a headline. You tell me whether
it's real newsake news, or really fake news.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
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Fake news it was reported, but it is not Drew,
that's right. And then really fake news, well that's just
us making it all up.
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Speaker 3 (35:17):
So yeah, absolutely, it could mean the difference between getting
what you want for Christmas, right and getting Cohl's because
you're stocking.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We are sending the scores to Santa all right. First one,
President Trump directly fueled death threats against Marjorie Taylor Green.
Real news, fake news, are really fake news.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Well, of course that is fake news.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
That's fake news. That's right. The Biden administration allowed up
eighteen thousand terrorists into the United States. Real news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
That's real news.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
That is real news. According to the US National counter
Terrorism Center Iran in Egypt, We'll be playing in a
gay Pride Day match in Seattle during next summer's World Cup.
Real news, fake news, really fakeing.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That is real news, really crazy.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
It's hilarious. The European Union makes more money finding American
tech companies than it does taxing European tech companies. Real news,
fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
That is real news. That is absolutely real news, ridiculous
but real news.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
But it kind of explains why they're trying to find
all the American tech companies. American tech companies, because the
American tech companies are making money and the European ones, aren't.
People in Canada, Britain, France, and Germany think Donald Trump
is a stronger and more decisive leader than their own
elected officials. Real news, fake news, really fake news news.
That's that's absolutely right, about fifty percent more. Luigi Mangioni
(36:31):
is too stunningly handsome to stand trial. Real newsfake news
are really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
That's fake news.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, oh, I mean no, there's there's plenty of women
all across this country, maybe some men, but they all
think he's just too handsome. He shouldn't be prosecuted.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
So global warming slows intellectual development. Real news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
That's fake news.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Yeah, that's fake news. This was a study done by
climate zelots in New York, but they only looked at
youth education achievement in temperature in a bunch of third
world countries. They didn't take into account any other variables
like oh, wars or economic development.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Okay, uh.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
The arc of the United States is demanding that President
Trump stopped comparing their clients to Tim Walls. Real news,
fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
That's really fake news. That's right. This week, a Nigerian
prince was scammed by a Somali immigrant. Really newsfic news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Yeah, that's really fake news. Zorn Momdammi's win in New
York proves Jasmine Crockett can win a Senate race in Texas.
Real news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
That is absolutely fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
That's fake news. Jasmin Crockett said that, Yeah, Jasmin Crockett
has never advocated for political violence. Really news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
That is also fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
That's fake news. Jasminic Crockett also said that no Democrat
has ever advocated for political violence. Red newsfic news, really
fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Oh, she said that too.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
She said that too. Stake news. That's fake news as well. Okay,
and how about this, The Trump administration is giving pay
raises to Amtrak workers by taking money away from Antrak executives.
Really fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
That's real news.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
That is indeed real news.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
And then we also have let's see how much time
we got left. Okay, all right, yeah, we still got
just blowing through the you're doing you're doing great here,
amazingly well.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And the one that you say I got.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Wrong, we're gonna send that to the judges.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I'm going to contest that.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
How about this, Families in California haven't been able to
build gingerbread houses this season because they're still waiting for
their building permits to be approved. Real news, fake news
are really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Okay, that's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, that's really fake news as well.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
It could be true.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Okay, And this last one, The University of Michigan has
named Marco Rubio as its interim head coach. Real news,
fake news, really fake.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
News can't be the same, Marco Rubio. I'm gonna go
with real news because I feel like you're trying to
it's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
That's that meme that Marco Rubio is. Okay, that's our game. Kids,
Go to our Facebook page, tell us what the score was.
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You were listening to American Ground Right.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Power, Lewis Sarval.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
You know, we talk a lot on this show about
how life is sacred, not because government grants it value, no,
because God, God gave it. God does right.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
And today in Illinois, Governor JB. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed
a bill legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill people.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Now they did that in Canada well about a lot
about ago, and then they've slowly eroded it down. And
now if you're just sad, you can get exactly you
can get a permit.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
To It's expanded in Canada that for example, people with disabilities,
people with chronic conditions, as you pointed out, people struggling
with mental health impression. So I mean it's a slippery
slope that ends up becoming a free fall, and.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It's not just a hypothetical slippery slope. Canada has shown
exactly where this goes. This goes from just poor people,
old people who are dealing with cancer, to young people
who just give up on life.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Well, and Illinois becomes with this new law, becomes the
twelfth state in our country. You know, Billy Graham said,
the measure of a society is how it treats its
weakest member, and by that standard. By that standard, laws
like this are an indictment. They tell the sick, the
suffering that their lives are negotiable.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
And we've got to say whoa.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
When I say whoa ah, I mean whoa.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Well, we were talking earlier about the importance of work.
Here's some words of about work Chris Bulwich. The only
difference between dreams and achievements is hard work. Thomas Edison.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in
overalls and looks like work. Theodore Roosevelt, Far and away,
the best prize that life has to offer is the
chance to work hard at work worth doing. And Vince
(41:21):
Lombardi the only place success comes before work is in
the dictionary.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah, absolutely, and look, success isn't always measured in dollars. No,
it's the progressive realization of a worthy goal.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
So work at it, and when you do, make sure
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We choose to go to the moon and do the
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Not because they are eamy, but because.
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They are on. It is time for us to realize
that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to
small dreams. I have a dream that one day this
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its tream.
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This is American Ground Radio. Step Paul with Lewis sar Avlonas.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now, this isn't going to surprise you for any of
our listeners.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It might surprise me because I don't understand about.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, it's not going to surprise you, trust me, all right, Okay,
Because there are there are There is data out from
the FBI's Active Shooter Report and it indicates now that California.
How ironic is this because it is the most gun
restrictive state in the country. Okay, California led the nation
(01:29):
in active shooter events or incidents for the five year
period twenty twenty through twenty twenty four with twenty five
active shooter incidents. That is more than any other state
in the Union. Now pause right there, because if gun
control worked the way that it was sold to the
(01:50):
American people, or to or intended to be sold to
the American people emotionally, rhetoric, rhetorically, theatrically, California, with all
of their gun restrictions, they should be the safest state
in the nation. They have a assault weapons ban, they
have a high capacity magazine ban, they have universal background checks,
(02:13):
they have a red flag law. They have a bump
stock ban. They have sweeping ghost gun regulations. They have
a ten day waiting period on gun purchases, gun registration requirements,
a concealed carry permit mandate, a limit a limit on
how many guns a law abiding citizen can buy per month,
(02:36):
a ban on carrying firearms on college campuses for self defense,
a ban on K twelve teachers being armed in the
classroom for self defense. Extensive gun storage laws, tight ammunition
purchases and control regulations. I mean they have layers upon
(02:56):
layers of bureaucratic enforcement stacked on top of all. In
other words, California has done everything the gun control movement
has demanded and then some, And yet, according to the
FBI itself, California leads the nation in active shooter incidents. Now,
(03:16):
if gun control works, why doesn't it work where it
exists the most? I mean, that's not a rhetorical question,
it's a constitutional, legal policy question, and the answer is
deeply uncomfortable for the left because what California proves conclusively
is that feelings, intentions do not make good policy. You know,
(03:42):
what does you know? What does? Conservative principles? Conservative principles,
The Second Amendment does not exist to make people feel good.
It exists to recognize a pre existing natural right, the
right of self defense. It is not contingent on government approval,
(04:04):
bureaucratic competence, or whatever the legislative mood might be. Here's
the first truth California refuses to accept. Criminals do not
follow gun laws because every restriction that California piles onto
(04:26):
law abiding citizens is irrelevant to the person intent on
mass of violence. The shooter doesn't care about magazine limits.
The shooter doesn't wait ten days. The shooter does not
submit to background checks. The shooter does not register firearms.
The shooter doesn't ask for permission from a permitting authority.
(04:50):
I mean, gun control as practice in California controls only
one group of people, you know who, that is.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Law abiding citizens.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's not crime prevention, that's disarmament.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Okay, But now I look at this list from the
FBI and it says California had the most twenty five.
That is followed by Texas at twenty twenty two and
Florida at thirteen. Which given that you've got the three
states with the largest population, that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It kind of makes sense. But you also have had
a mass exodus of folks from California to those states
as well. That's true.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But yeah, I mean California still has the largest population.
If this was just a completely random distribution, you would
expect them to have the largest number of active shoot events.
But if now that still goes with your point here
that if gun control are working, if California because Texas
second largest state, right, so, Texas is the second largest state.
Texas has very lax gun control compared to California. Texas
(05:49):
you can open carry, you can walk around the state
with a gun as long as you're not next to
a school or in a government building or something like that.
You can walk around with the gun all you want.
You can't like pull it out and point it at
people's that's brandishing a weapon, but you can have it
on your person. California, you have to be a certain
kind of person in order to be able to get
a gun in the first place. But if California's gun
(06:12):
laws had stopped these active shooter events, you would expect
that Texas is wild West. Everybody can carry carry a gun.
Grandma's walking around with glocks. You would expect that that
would lead to more shootings if the theory of the
left on gun control was correct. This data simply shows No,
You're still the largest state. You're still having the most
(06:33):
active shooter events because the gun control laws that you
have in place aren't stopping it.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Okay, but consider the percentage of adults living in homes
with firearms. So in Texas, forty almost forty six percent
of adults report living in a household with a firearm.
In Florida that's around thirty five percent. In California it's
twenty eight percent. So guns per capita in California much lower,
(07:01):
are much lower, and yet they have the highest number
of incidents with respect to mass shooters.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And it looks like just a ballpark. Just looking at
the numbers on the service, I haven't run run the numbers,
but it looks like you would be within a standard
deviation of the population. So basically the expectation of population
compared to Texas and Florida, it looks like you're, if anything,
Florida is actually lower than Texas in California in terms
of the number of actor shoot of events compared to
(07:33):
the population. So you know, look, I think if you
added in Illinois, if you added in New York into
this discussion, I think you can see a lot more
active shooter events in Illinois than its population suggests in
New York. You it is. You said that California's got
the most restrictive gun laws. I kind of think New
York actually has the most. Does I think New York's
(07:55):
got the most restrictive.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That was a pretty extensive list that in California. Yeah,
I mean we could certainly look at at New York.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
But as well in New York, if you want to
get a if you want to get a permit to
even own a gun, you got to know somebody. If
you aren't if you weren't rich, if you aren't famous,
then screw you. You don't get to get a gun.
That's that's just how it is.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, I get that. But I think it's also important
to realize, as most folks do, that California has embraced
basically prosecutorial leniency. Absolutely bail reform that releases repeat offenders.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, it's not bail reform, it's bail abandonment.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Decriminalization of you know, very serious conduct like you know.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Stealing the thousand dollars worth of stuff that's no longer
a crime in the state of California.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You know. So there's there's a culture there in California
too that I think feeds that. And that's why I
say a lot of folks have have moved from California
to Texas, and I think, but those are their culture
with them.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
But those those are the people who are who are
committing the mass shootings. Those are the people like, you know, what,
I want to be able to raise my family without
having to step over drugs.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well they should be. They should be.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, in general, that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Who's showed it. Nevertheless, if gun control works so well,
it should be working in California, and it's not.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Let's get to the tough of things you need no
before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
First thing you need know no be for a while.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
The US trade deficit dropped to the lowest level in
five years. That's according to data release by the Commerce
Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The trade jefficit dropped by
nearly eleven percent in September to fifty two point eight billion.
The cause of the drop is mostly due to an
increase in exports along with a slowing of the increase
in imports. Exports rows three percent while the imports only
(09:46):
increase point six percent. That changes being attributed to President
Trump's global tariffs and hard negotiations with other countries.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And god forbid that the United States Supreme Court decides
that the President of the United States, the commander in chief.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Can't do tariffs. They overturn his tariffs. That's going to
cause a huge problem for our economy. That's going to
be a big, big issue. Second thing you needed before tomorrow.
Half of the commercial driver's licenses issued in the state
of New York to foreign workers were issued illegally. That's
according to an investigation by the Department of Transportation Secretary
of Transportation Sean Duffy said, they're just giving eight year
(10:20):
commercial driver's licenses to people who are coming through their
DMV and sending them out on American roadways, and again
they're endangering the lives of American families. Duffy is threatening
to pull seventy three million dollars in federal funding from
the state of New York if they don't revoke all
of their illegally issued CDLs within the next thirty days.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And you know, as dangerous as that is for those
states who have motor voter laws, right, they're registering these folks,
so they're giving illegal immigrants fake driver's licenses essentially, and
then registering them to vote in our elections.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And the third thing you needed before tomorrow, the leader
of Black Lives Matter and Oklahoma has been arrested for
embezzling thirty three point one five million dollars to Sheela
Sherri Amore. Dickerson was arrested by the FBI this week.
FBI Director Kashpttel says Dickerson used her position a top
BLM to quote steel donor money and enrich herself. The
money was meant to cover pre trial bail for BLM
(11:15):
rioters who we arrested during civil disturbances during the twenty
twenty summer of mostly peaceful protests. But investigators say she
put that money in her own bank account and then
used it for personal travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
She also allegedly used the money for shopping sprees and
fifty thousand dollars worth of groceries delivered to her home.
(11:37):
Who buys that much groceries.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I think she characterized this as reparations, and she was
using this as an example to show if we did
have reparations, how well everyone would live. Everybody gets to
go to Jamaica and he yes, I guess we've.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
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Speaker 3 (12:46):
You know a lot of folks say why why does
God allow pain? Because there are sometimes in life where
the pain, the disappointment is so incomprehensible, the tragedy is
so so incomprehensible that the human instinct is really only
(13:06):
to ask one question, and that is why why would
God allow such pain? And you look at what happened
September tenth, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and you've got
this nation, you know, mourning his death. Here, you've got
a young man that was devoted to speech and ideas
and persuasion. He's got this, you know, young family, and
(13:32):
his life was just robbed from him. And it doesn't
make any sense. And yet for those who are of faith,
they know that God can use tragedy, can use all
of what happens in our lives for good sure. And
so in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Jenny McCarthy
(13:56):
has come forward. Now you know, of course she was
the playboy model. I don't know what else she was
the actress, but she has now revealed that she and
her husband Donnie.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg's brother.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Have become devout Christians since Charlie Kirk's death.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That's not something I WoT, she.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Said, plainly, without embarrassment, without qualification. She said, I started
Bible study immediately. Wow. Now the question is, you know,
I mean God specializes in bringing good out of tragedy.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Absolutely, But the question.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Is how many more Americans are not even Americans, folks
all around the globe who were brought to Christianity, brought
to the faith that it ignited, that that belief.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's it's thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands in this country. I've seen that uptick,
and it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But Jenny McCarthy, I.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Didn't see that coming. We got a question for American mama's.
Dear mama's, what do you do if you're in your
late fifties and you feel like you have something to
offer but you don't have a passion.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, let's ask our American mama's.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Mama, Mama, she said, and joining us now our American
mama's Terry Ediville and Kimberly Burlison.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Okay, so you got stuff to offer, you just don't
know what that is. What do you do?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Yeah, it's very interesting thing to be at this age
because you realize always thought that being in your fifties
was old until I got here and I realized, oh
my gosh, I am still so young. But this question
came to me from a friend. And her husband's a
colonel in the army. She was fgr family.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Ready.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
You know, she's the go between between command and families.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Okay, if something happens.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
This was during a hard time, you know, this is
when they were losing a lot of soldiers. And she
said that it became her passion to be that person
for families that were fort Hood.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
She became that person. Oh and fort Hood lost lot,
a lot.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
And so she said that it became a passion for her.
She felt like it was a mission. And she said,
now that it's over and I'm at this age, I
don't know what to do. I feel like I have
so much in me, but I don't know what my
passion is. And so I started thinking and I said,
maybe passion just find you or maybe you just enjoy
your every day and just she said, my fa My
(16:36):
passion now is my family. But I don't know what
I want to do in life. And I thought the
only time I ever had that full passion passion was
with our nonprofit with military families. I could walk into
any door, I would talk to anyone, I would ask
for money, I would talk to general. I did everything
I could to make that happen because I had so
(16:57):
much passion about it. And the only thing I feel
passionate about out now is my children, my family. But
I'm like her, I don't have a passion for anything more.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I love this.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
I feel like this is a blessing.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
You know.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
This is probably your passion, is it?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
This is one of them. Yeah, quite clearly, this is
you know. I wake up every morning and my thought is, Okay,
what are we talking about today? And how do we
get the message out? And yeah, but it's definitely a calling.
But I'll tell you what I did not want to
do American ground radio. When American Ground Radio started, I
did not want to do it. Lewis had been talking
(17:32):
with radio stations. They'd asked us to do a show,
and I was like, I don't know if I want
to do that, but we started doing it.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Well, it was the Reservation.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I had done a radio show before that went back,
and so I kind of felt like, you know, there
there's worry about it. I don't want to be back
in that spot where I was Oh yeah, and we
were on you know, we were creating conservative ground, trying
to teach about developing leadership and inspiring voters, and that's
where I thought we were heading. And then you know,
this opportunity comes along and the door opens and you go, Okay,
(18:05):
I'll walk through that door. Terry, what do you think
about this?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Where do you go? I?
Speaker 8 (18:10):
You know, I've had I will say seasonal purposes. There's
like a purpose will come into my into focus, you know,
like the children's hospital and like the baseball team or
you know whatever, something comes along and then I'm like,
I'm all in. But throughout my life as a mom,
my purpose in life, and I always knew this would be.
(18:32):
It was to be a good mom and a good grandmother.
So Kevin and I I was I remember this like
a couple of months ago, I was watering the flowers
in the backyard and I started crying, and Kevin said,
he walked, goes what is wrong? And I said, I said,
you know the kids are all adulting. You know, two
(18:53):
of the three are married. I've got this grandson I
absolutely adore, and my son and daughter in law most
likely will be moving this summer twelve hours away. Probably Yeah. Well,
resident say he'll finish med school. And I said, all
I've ever really known is how to be a good
(19:14):
mom and now a good grandmother.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And the.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Little one that makes me a grandmother is about to
be gone. They're about to take him away. And what
am I going to do?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
What am I to do?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
And he said, Terry, you always find something, something always
comes along your path, and you always jump in, just
like you know you've done. And he listed some things
that I did that I'd forgotten about, and he said,
You're just one of those like it'll strike you. You
do your thing, you leave your mark, and then you
go to the next thing. And I thought that that
broughtab me comfort.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
One thing it made me think of is what Dad
told us, you know, right before Dad died, when I said,
was it always your dream to play football? Terry Bradshaw
to play in the NFL, and he said, no, that
was Terry's dream. Dreams are contagious and you must follow
whatever you even someone else's dream, it's contagious. Follow it,
do it with them.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
That's it. And that's where I think you'll end up
finding your passion again is just go see where there's
a need. Go look and see where something that you
could do. Is there a hole you can fill? And
you start doing that and maybe it's not your passion today,
but it can become your passion over time. Your kids
(20:25):
weren't always your passion because you didn't always have them right.
They couldn't have been your passion because you didn't have
them true, and now you know, you've gone through this
and they've grown up and they have benefited from your passion.
If you don't know what your passion is, my encouragement
go figure out where you can serve, and as long
as you find someplace you can serve, you will find
(20:45):
your passion. Well.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
And I will say this and not to counter that,
but my personality is not that. My personality is not
to look in the community and who needs to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Grow a garden? Who needs the help?
Speaker 8 (20:57):
It is something that has to come and a god
does all the time. For me, it has to be
something that comes across my face, my mind and my
heart and I go, wait, what was that? What are
they doing? How does this help them? Wait, let me
know more about this. I'll dive, you know, dive in
there and look at it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
So that's my.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Personality is that it'll strike me. And I think that
happens a lot with people. It just happens to be
their right place, right time.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
But you're not stuck at home, No, you're out doing
You're involved, yes, And that's I think where you run
across those opportunities for sure. If you like to ask
for American Mama's a question, go to what is side
America now radio dot com. Slash mam is a click
on the ask of the Mama's button. Turned out of
Ooki brothers, and thank you so much. Coming up next
year on American Ground Radio, we are digging deep. We'll
be rab back. Stick around, keep your ear to the ground.
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen Paul with lewisar Abalone.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
You know, we were talking earlier about gun rights, and
you know how California leads the nation, and you know,
I guess what mass shooter incidents right, And look, don't
get me wrong. Gun rights, like all rights, come with responsibilities,
of course, and force comes with limits.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
So this week you had an Atlanta, Georgia homeowner who
shot two juveniles who were allegedly taking packages from his porch.
Now they were stealing these packages. It appears that is undisputed. Okay,
but the question is and and again the law will
(23:11):
dictate this should he have shot them? And in most states,
in most states, deadly force and shooting someone is deadly forced. Yep,
deadly forced must be justified. So if these and I'm
not justifying the what these juveniles were doing, and that
(23:33):
the homeowner didn't possess the right to protect his property,
but if they were running away and you shoot at someone,
that's not you're not exercising your gun rights in a
responsible manner, and certainly not according to the law if
a jury or a judge were to determine it. Otherwise,
not a legal way either.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, I mean that's that's that's likely true. This is
this is part of our problem with our society right now,
is that we've we've raised people who think that it
is okay to go steal off of porches and people
(24:16):
are tired of that. And you can't excuse something, you
can't excuse behaving poorly. Again, you have do the right
thing in the right way for the right reasons. But
you also need to understand that if somebody is stealing
off of a porch and somebody else sees them, you
are putting your life in your own hands when you
(24:37):
start stealing from someone.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And I don't justify this, I don't. I don't mean
to make an excuse whatsoever. Yeah, but when you have
a society where crime has been minimized, excused and normalized.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
And people are arrested and then they get out of
jail because they bail and they're arrested again, they get
out of jail, when when the vast majority of the
crimes in this country are are perpetual by people who
have been arrested eight times or more.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And it's just shrugged off. As you know, that's just
the way that it is.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
People will get tired that. This is where you get vigilantism.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
There is an environmental frustration that is as bred there.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
When the state doesn't protect your liberty, people will start
to protect their own liberty, and they may do it
by violating somebody else's right to life. That's why the
state has to be doing this. If the state doesn't,
then people will get out of hand.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And that's why again it matters who you elect into
office and the policies, because it's not just one decision,
it's countless decisions of our public officials all across our
country that breed this type of environment.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Let's dig deep. Okay, we're digging deep. The state of
Maryland is considering raising the minimum wage in that state
to twenty five dollars an hour. Now, this is being
pushed by an activist group called One Fair Wage. They
post online, quote, twenty five dollars isn't radical, it's survival.
(26:09):
Twenty five dollars an hour, so they want.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
To do it's survival, Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
The Daily Wire reached out to an economist to see
what a twenty five dollars an hour minimum wage would
do to the state's economy. This is Rachel Gresler, a
Maryland based economist. She said, quote, you need these starting
wages to be able to step onto the ladder and
then be able to climb it. If that first step
is twenty five dollars an hour or fifty two thousand
dollars a year, a lot of people would just never
(26:33):
be able to step onto it. What she's talking about is,
in order to get your second job, you first have
to get your first job. But you can't get your
first job if you don't have any experience. This whole thing.
I can't get a job if I don't have experience.
But I can't get experience if I don't have a job. Well,
when the minimum wage is low, employers are willing to
take a risk on people who have no experience. But
(26:55):
when you raise the minimum wage to twenty five dollars
an hour, the very first person you hire for that
twenty five dollars an hour job had better be good
at the job or you just lost fifty two thousand
dollars a year as an employer.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And you know, if you're someone out there listening and
you're like, yeah, raising the minimum wage sounds great, I
really like what that elected official or that candidate is saying,
you've got to remember something. When they are mandating a
higher minimum wage, they're not the ones paying the worker.
That's true, the employer is. And guess what happens. And
(27:26):
employers respond the same way every time that they are
required to raise wages artificially. They cut hours. Yep, they'll automate,
they'll raise prices, they'll stop hiring that, or they'll just
shut down, go out of business completely.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
And this stop hiring is the part I really want
to focus on because the people they stop hiring first
are the youngest people in our society. So when Ronald
Reagan was sworn into office in January of nineteen eighty one,
the federal minimum wage was three dollars and thirty five
cents an hour. At that same time, the labor force
participation rate for sixteen to nineteen year olds, for teenagers
was around sixty per cent fifty five to sixty percent,
(28:01):
So the majority of teenagers in the United States of
America in nineteen eighty one had a job for three
dollars and thirty five cents in Now you worked when
you were a.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Teenager, I did. But I want to I want to
step on top of that point. To make this point
is that what folks don't understand that a job, a
job is not just income, it is training, right, and
so minimum wage jobs are not supposed to be careers.
They're supposed to be stepping stones.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
They must get you started.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
They teach you about punctuality and responsibility and customer service
and work ethic. But when you raise the minimum wage,
you raise the cost of teaching those lessons.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
To where the employer feels like they can't afford to teach.
They need to jack expertise.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And stop offering them.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
So the labor force participation rate bubbles around fifty five
sixty percent like that through the nineteen eighties until around
nineteenninety two, when Bill Clinton was elected, the number of
teams in the workforce drops below fifty percent by two thousand,
so we go from sixty percent to below to fifty
percent by the time George W. Bush's elect Well, the
minimum wage stayed at three dollars and thirty five cents
an hour through the eighties. It then rose to four
(29:05):
dollars and twenty five cents an hour by nineteen ninety two.
So as the minimum wage goes up by almost twenty
five percent, the percentage of teens in the workforce starts
to fall by more than twenty five percent, and it
gets worse in the two thousands. By two thousand and nine,
the federal minimum wage was raised to seven dollars and
twenty five cents an hour, more than twice what it
was back in nineteen eighty one. The youth labor force
(29:27):
participation rate dropped from around sixty percent to thirty five percent,
and that's about where it's been today. About one in
three teenagers has a job.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
But these folks in Ohio, in Maryland, Maryland can't. They
just look at California and they go, well, hey, if
raising the minimum wage worked, then wouldn't California be an
economic utopia? Right cause California.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
California raised its minimum wage for fast food workers to
twenty dollars an hour, and as a result of that,
the number of people working in fast food in California
has decreased.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Right toted. Automation and self checkout replaced the cashiers. Young
people were just locked out of the job market and
it remains so today, and.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Fast food places just went out of business. See this
is the whole point here. The higher the minimum wage
goes the fewer young people who are able to get
their first job. And that work is so important, Lewis,
as you were saying, it teaches you how to be
on the job. It lets you start saving money while
you're still living with mom and dad. Is it any
(30:29):
wonder that this current generation says they can't get enough
money to buy a home. Well, it's because they couldn't
start working at sixteen. Some of them didn't start working
really until twenty four.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
But every time you rate again, every time you raise
the minimum wage, you make someone unemployable, yes, by law,
and you don't eliminate poverty, you eliminate opportunity.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Most of of the people this generation didn't start working
into their twenties, and it's because we've been raising the
minimum way. Work is important not just for the money,
but for the sense of purpose and self pride, and
we've robbed two generations of that in the name of
a living wage that only postpones young people being able
to start living their lives in the first place.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
It's not compassionate. If you put someone out of a
job or rob them of the opportunity in the first place,
we'll bereb back.
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Speaker 1 (32:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
So this week President Trump signed legislation honoring the nineteen
eighty United States Olympic Hockey team. Okay, sure, great team,
the nineteen eighty team. Yeah, now, look, I think this
is quite nice. I think this is great. It honors
excellence and grit and teamwork and patriotism. Sure, that's all fantastic.
(32:39):
They weren't supposed to win, that's why it mattered they did.
But this is also vintage Trump. How So, because look
here we are what how how many years are we
forty five years later? Yeah, you know what he's doing.
You know what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
He's trolling Canada. He No, he's trolling Russia.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
He's reminding Russia that they lost, and not just lost,
but they lost at the height of the Cold War.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, they lost the whole while the whole world was watching.
They lost to a bunch of college kids from a
free country who played for pride, not for their state.
And that symbolism matters, and that symbolism is with a
capital s. The Soviet Union poured money and power and
ideology into that team. It was propaganda on ice. Victory
(33:31):
was supposed to prove the superiority of the system. And
here came a bunch of Americans who didn't read the script.
They just played the game and they won.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
And not just Americans, but college kids because back in
those days, the US Olympic team was only amateurs. You
weren't allowed to be a professional athlete and make the
US Olympic team, and so these they weren't. They were
just college kids.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
So again Trump signs this law honoring the nineteen eighty
hockey team. Yeah, lebrating American greatness. He's honoring real heroes,
whether intentionally or not. He is now also giving Moscow
a gentle but unmistakable nudge. Remember Lake Placid, Remember when
you were unbeatable, Remember when you weren't.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Donald Trump is the troller in chief. He is the
best person on the earth at trolling someone.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
But it's not mean spirited. It's history.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
I mean, yeah, but he did he have to do it.
He didn't have to do it, but he did.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
But yeah, look, he's reminding Putin that we're winners and
they're losers.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
And that is not fake news. You are fake news. Okay, kids,
it's fake news Friday. Here's how we play our game.
I'm gonna read you a headline. You tell me whether
it's real newsake news, or really fake news.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Okay, so real news was reported and it's true, that's right.
Fake news it was reported, but it is not Drew,
that's right. And then really fake news, well that's just
us making it all up.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
That's right. Okay. And this week, if you tell us
what your score was, go to our Facebook page Facebook
dot com slash American Ground Radio. You also go to
our Instagram page and you can tell us what your
score was there either way.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
So yeah, absolutely, it could mean the difference between getting
what you want for Christmas, right and getting Cohl's because
you're stocking.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We are sending the scores to Santa all right. First one,
President Trump directly fueled death threats against Marjorie Taylor Green.
Real news, fake news, are really fake news.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Well, of course that is fake news.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
That's fake news. That's right. The Biden administration allowed up
eighteen thousand terrorists into the United States. Real news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
That's real news.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
That is real news. According to the US National counter
Terrorism Center Iran in Egypt, We'll be playing in a
gay Pride Day match in Seattle during next summer's World Cup.
Real news, fake news, really fakeing.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That is real news, really crazy.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
It's hilarious. The European Union makes more money finding American
tech companies than it does taxing European tech companies. Real news,
fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
That is real news. That is absolutely real news, ridiculous
but real news.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
But it kind of explains why they're trying to find
all the American tech companies. American tech companies, because the
American tech companies are making money and the European ones, aren't.
People in Canada, Britain, France, and Germany think Donald Trump
is a stronger and more decisive leader than their own
elected officials. Real news, fake news, really fake news news.
That's that's absolutely right, about fifty percent more. Luigi Mangioni
(36:31):
is too stunningly handsome to stand trial. Real newsfake news
are really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
That's fake news.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, oh, I mean no, there's there's plenty of women
all across this country, maybe some men, but they all
think he's just too handsome. He shouldn't be prosecuted.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
So global warming slows intellectual development. Real news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
That's fake news.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Yeah, that's fake news. This was a study done by
climate zelots in New York, but they only looked at
youth education achievement in temperature in a bunch of third
world countries. They didn't take into account any other variables
like oh, wars or economic development.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Okay, uh.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
The arc of the United States is demanding that President
Trump stopped comparing their clients to Tim Walls. Real news,
fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
That's really fake news. That's right. This week, a Nigerian
prince was scammed by a Somali immigrant. Really newsfic news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Yeah, that's really fake news. Zorn Momdammi's win in New
York proves Jasmine Crockett can win a Senate race in Texas.
Real news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
That is absolutely fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
That's fake news. Jasmin Crockett said that, Yeah, Jasmin Crockett
has never advocated for political violence. Really news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
That is also fake news.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
That's fake news. Jasminic Crockett also said that no Democrat
has ever advocated for political violence. Red newsfic news, really
fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Oh, she said that too.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
She said that too. Stake news. That's fake news as well. Okay,
and how about this, The Trump administration is giving pay
raises to Amtrak workers by taking money away from Antrak executives.
Really fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
That's real news.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
That is indeed real news.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
And then we also have let's see how much time
we got left. Okay, all right, yeah, we still got
just blowing through the you're doing you're doing great here,
amazingly well.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And the one that you say I got.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Wrong, we're gonna send that to the judges.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I'm going to contest that.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
How about this, Families in California haven't been able to
build gingerbread houses this season because they're still waiting for
their building permits to be approved. Real news, fake news
are really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Okay, that's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, that's really fake news as well.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
It could be true.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Okay, And this last one, The University of Michigan has
named Marco Rubio as its interim head coach. Real news,
fake news, really fake.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
News can't be the same, Marco Rubio. I'm gonna go
with real news because I feel like you're trying to
it's really fake news.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
That's that meme that Marco Rubio is. Okay, that's our game. Kids,
Go to our Facebook page, tell us what the score was.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
You were listening to American Ground Right.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Power, Lewis Sarval.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
You know, we talk a lot on this show about
how life is sacred, not because government grants it value, no,
because God, God gave it. God does right.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
And today in Illinois, Governor JB. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed
a bill legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill people.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Now they did that in Canada well about a lot
about ago, and then they've slowly eroded it down. And
now if you're just sad, you can get exactly you
can get a permit.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
To It's expanded in Canada that for example, people with disabilities,
people with chronic conditions, as you pointed out, people struggling
with mental health impression. So I mean it's a slippery
slope that ends up becoming a free fall, and.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It's not just a hypothetical slippery slope. Canada has shown
exactly where this goes. This goes from just poor people,
old people who are dealing with cancer, to young people
who just give up on life.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Well, and Illinois becomes with this new law, becomes the
twelfth state in our country. You know, Billy Graham said,
the measure of a society is how it treats its
weakest member, and by that standard. By that standard, laws
like this are an indictment. They tell the sick, the
suffering that their lives are negotiable.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
And we've got to say whoa.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
When I say whoa ah, I mean whoa.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Well, we were talking earlier about the importance of work.
Here's some words of about work Chris Bulwich. The only
difference between dreams and achievements is hard work. Thomas Edison.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in
overalls and looks like work. Theodore Roosevelt, Far and away,
the best prize that life has to offer is the
chance to work hard at work worth doing. And Vince
(41:21):
Lombardi the only place success comes before work is in
the dictionary.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah, absolutely, and look, success isn't always measured in dollars. No,
it's the progressive realization of a worthy goal.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
So work at it, and when you do, make sure
your pursuit of happiness brings you joy
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