August 8, 2025 • 41 mins
This is the full show for August 8, 2025. We ask the American Mamas about the Dave Ramsey song. We Dig Deep into how schools in Houston, Texas have improved. Plus, it's Fake News Friday! And we finish off with a an astronaut and hero who will make you say, "Whoa!"
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This is American Ground Radio. Steve, I'm Barbara, Lewis sar.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I mean this nutcase in New York City, which one
Mandamy Okay, Oh my gosh, this guy running it's a
complete out and out socialist.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, and he's also anti Semitic. Don't forget about that.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Oh it's disgusting. It is. It is absolutely disgusting, and
you would think, but again, this isn't a guy that
I think is familiar with history, okay or reality that
is well.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I mean he's lived his entire life off of his
parents' money, okay, and he said that he's okay taking
time off his job to run for mayor because he
figured if he ran out of money, his daddy would
just give him more.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Well, now, this self proclaimed progressive darling of the Democratic
Socialist Party is making it crystal clear that if he
becomes mayor, he's going to declare war on charter schools. Now,
this isn't rumor, this isn't political spind this is straight
from his own mouth, or rather from his own own
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survey responses.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
He's going to declare war on charter schools.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The New York Post got a hold of his answers
to a pre primary questionnaire, and Ma'm Danny flat out
says he will fight efforts to open more charter charter
schools in New York City. And let me repeat that.
He's not going to review the issue. He's not going
to study it. He's not going to say, well, maybe
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it helps some kids.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's just going to ban it.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
He's going to actively fight the very schools that in
New York City overwhelmingly serve minority, working class students. And
you've got to ask yourself the question why.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Because he's bought and paid for by the Teachers Union,
which is really becoming the most leftist union in the country.
It really is.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
You know, it used to be.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, you'd say something like the Teamsters was the
most leftist union or something like that. No, no, no, no,
it is the teachers Union. They are the most radical.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
They are the slow the money, They are the least patriotic.
And it's weird because you know, teachers work in classrooms
where American flags are supposed to be hanging from the
walls every single day, and yet the Teachers' Union is
so anti American. And we're talking about charter schools where students,
often from low income neighborhoods, are out performing their peers,
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especially in reading and math, especially.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
In places like New York City.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I mean students where parents actually line up overnight just
to enter the enrollment lottery. Schools that are sending kids
to college who might otherwise be trapped in this cycle
of underachievement or or worse, a life of crime on
the streets because of failure in school. They have well
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of the failures. But oftentimes in these neighborhoods, you've got
birds of a feather that are flocking together, folks that
are just in this revolving door of prisons.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, and when you get kids that are in failing schools,
they are more likely to drop out. And when you
just drop out of school, if you don't get your ged,
it is hard to do anything legitimate in this country.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
And again, let me repeat, these are students who are
the majority of them are minority kids, black in history,
Mark Black and Hispanic kids, immigrant kids, kids whose parents
are working two and three jobs just to make ends
meet and who desperately want their children to have a
shot at something better. And mem dammy wants to take
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all of that away from them.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, and you know, it's the kids that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Are getting hurt. And that's the part that's truly disgusting,
right because we're not talking about shutting down elite private
you know, academies where the tuition is fifty thousand dollars
a year. We're talking about denying access to schools that
are lifting kids out of poverty, are that are helping
them break as you point out, the cycle of failure
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and giving them a fighting chance. I mean, the hypocrisy
is staggered. Well, here's the Democrat party. It says, oh, well,
we care so much about everyone. No, you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And this is a guy who has admitted that his
upbringing was privileged. His parents were well off. His dad
was a university professor, you know, his mother filmmaker. He
went to you know, private school's he went to. He
got privilege. He lived a privileged life. So for him
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to be taking away opportunity from kids who don't have
that is reprehensible.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
And I know there's a lot of folks listening. You know,
you're listening all across the country and you're saying, well, look,
I don't live in New York. I mean, let them
reap what they sow, right, I get it. But the
reality is New York City is a cultural and economic powerhouse.
At least it has been. I don't think it will remain.
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If Mandammy becomes New Yorkers becomes elected, New.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
York is about to do a massive job on on
their city. But you know it's not just New York.
Seattle's about to do the same thing. Seattle is about
to elect a radical socialist to that city to be
not just the mayor, but also on the city council.
They're about to elect several socialists to the city council.
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It's about to be a socialist takeover of the largest
city in the Pacific Northwest, and you could do it
again in the largest city up in the northeast. We
could be having our large coastal cities taken over by
people not just that the Republicans call socialists, but who
are proud to call themselves socialists.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You know. And it's not that I wish this upon
the city of New York, not Seattle or wherever. No,
but you know, it was it James Carville that said
that if Man Dammy in New York City is in
fact elected, that it will basically create a Republican or
a red tsunami. That was to sweep all across this
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country because every single day Americans will see in New
York City.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
How bad the left's ideas actually are. San Francisco is
one of the best advertisements for Republicans across the country,
and even San Francisco's had to moderate in recent years
because they went so far left. They ended up with
human fece maps all over their city because they had
such a massive homeless population. Well, you're about to do
it in Seattle and New York. And Mondami wants to
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have government run grocery stores in New York City. We've
already done that in Kansas, and those grocery stores are
bear They look like the grocery stores in Cuba and
the grocery stores in the Soviet Union. You know why,
because government run grocery stores all end up looking the same.
They are failures because that's not what government's supposed to do.
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Government's job is not to run a grocery store. Government's
job is to protect our rights to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. It is not to interfere in
the free market. Government's job is not to solve all
of our problems. Government's job is to allow us the
safety and security and the freedom to solve our own problems.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
So I do think everyday Americans, even those that don't
live in New York, you, those that live hundreds, maybe
thousands of miles away, they're going to see the destruction
unfold in real time, just like the folks in Venezuela did,
in Cuba, in East Germany.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, but those folks, even though they saw the destruction
in real time, they didn't stop it. All the examples
you saw your you pointing out that people didn't recognize
their errors until it was too late, And.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Well, it's about to be too late, especially if you
believe what was that The Real Clear Politics.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Average of polls have compilation polls thirty eight percent, Andrew
Cuomo at twenty five percent.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
So what is he up thirteen is making.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
According to average polls. Now, the only bright spot on
that is all those polls are awful that none of
them are done by polling agencies that got anything close
to the right answer in twenty twenty four. But still
it's pretty scary.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
We need to stand with New Yorkers, well, those New
Yorkers that don't plan to vote for socialism.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Let's get to the top two things you need noble
forre tomorrow. First, signy no for in a mile. The
US Department of Justice is offering a fifty million dollar
reward for the capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. Maduro
has been the dictator of Venezuela since the death of
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Hugo Chavez in twenty thirteen. Attorney General Pam Bondi accused
Maduro participating in the drug trade in the United States
through Trende Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Cartel of
the Sun. Bondi said today the DEA has seized thirty
tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, with
nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents a
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primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in
Venezuela and Mexico. In nineteen eighty nine, the US invaded
Panama to arrest Panamanian President Manuel Noriega on drug trafficking charges.
Noriega ended up passing away in a federal prison inside
the US.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, and Maduro isn't just another crooked politician. He's a
narco terrorist. I mean that's the official charge.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And he's sending cocaine shipments into the United States and
harming Americans, destabilizing our communities. It's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Second thing you needed to before the contempt of court
ruling against the Trump administration has been overturned. Washington DC
Judge James Boseburg had ruled the Trump administration was in
contempt of court for not turning around a couple of
airplanes that were filled with illegal aliens heading to l Salvador.
The d C Circuit Court of Appeals rule to one
decision that the planes Bozburg ordered to be turned around
were already out of US airspace and thus he had
no jurisdiction over them. Further, the courts do not have
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jurisdiction over foreign policy. The executive branch does well, absolutely
yep to one of these no brainers, and yet Bozburg
has show need apparently has no brain and the third
thing you needed to know before a while. The Department
of Justice has opened up an investigation into New York
Attorney General Letitia James's lawsuit against Donald Trump's business dealings.
That case found President Trump liable for four hundred and
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fifty four million dollars for defrauding banks and insurance companies. However,
during the trial, all of the banks and insurance companies
James accused Trump of defrauding said they weren't taking advantage
of They enjoyed doing business with Trump and hoped to
do more business with him in the future. The DOJA
investigation is now focusing on whether James deprived Trump of
his due process rights or not. James campaigned on getting
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Trump even before she announced what crimes she thought he
might have committed. Representative for James called the investigation into
her a quote weaponization of the justice system.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Letitia James was never seeking justice, she was always seeking power.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And vengeance for Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
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Speaker 5 (12:58):
I know there are a lot of bigger fish to fry,
but let me just tell you. I'm gonna I'm gonna
make a prediction here, all right. I think that before
President Trump's term is up, yes, there will be legislation
signed into law making English the official language of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Now, didn't he already do that in an executive order?
Didn't he already do Basically, he said that government documents
need to be in English. They need to be in English.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But I'm talking about legislation.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Okay, that they think it's going to go through the House.
In the Senate.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I I know that sounds controversial, but.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I think it'll make it through the House. I'm not
sure unless you attach it to a spending bill. I
don't think it makes it through the Senate because you
got that sixty vote filibuster.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
And the reason that I'm saying this, I was reading
a story where US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that
fifteen hundred trucks have been taken off our roads in
the United States because drivers behind the wheel couldn't speak English.
And that was part of the.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Executive order that Donald Trump signed, was that if you're
going to be driving trucks on US highways, you need
to be able to speak English.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
But that's been a federal law for decades. It was
the Openheimen and Force. The Obama administration relaxed the enforcement
of that law so tremendously.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So Trump's executive order comes back in and says, no, no,
we're actually going to enforce this. I and you're saying
fifteen hundred trucks have been taking.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Fifteen hundred trucks. And look, you know, my father was
an immigrant from Italy. You know, he spoke with an accent.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
He spoke Italian to begin with.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
But my point here is he didn't speak perfect English,
but he could certainly communicate. Obviously he built a business
and you know, raised a family, all of those things.
I'm not talking about speaking the Queen's English here, right,
but you should. I do agree that it is a
critical safety matter that if you're driving, especially an eighteen
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wheeler for example, right, that if you're involved in an
accident or you witness an accident, that you would be
able to communicate in English. Well, it's also police officer
to first responders.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It is also an important cultural matter, and culture does matter.
But we want to be a melting pot, right, We
don't want to be just a mixing bowl. We've got
all these different tribal, Balkanized communities. We want a mixing
pot where everybody is an American. But how can you
feel part of a group if you don't speak the
same language as that group.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
It's very difficult.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas,
have you heard the Dave Ramsey song.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Well, let's ask American mama's.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Ama May is now our American mama's Terry VI and
Kimberly Burlason. So there is a song out there called
Dave Ramsey's Money, and basically the guy is saying, look,
I bought a boat. I bought it on credit and
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Dave Ramsey would approve. But I get to spend time
with my kids out on the lake, and spending that
time with my kids is worth going into debt. It's
worth doing something that Dave Ramsey wouldn' approve of. Because
I'm buying memories. That was one of the lines I
really liked from the song, I'm buying memories. You guys
have heard this song. What do you think of it?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I've heard of it. Jared Hicks, he's the one that
sings it. I heard it last week and I loved it.
I loved it because it kind of reminded me of
our childhood because we had the same thing. We did
not have a lot of money growing up. It was
very definitely feast or family had it. We had big things,
we did it. Yeah, and but going on a beach
vacation that was going to happen, even if it meant
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it was the last dime we had in our account
doing things with our family. We had no idea our
dad would die so young, right, you know, And now
we have all these memories. One off Sonny my daughter,
one of her best friends, who's a Christian artist, her
husband's dad. He worked his entire life. He's saved, and
he saved, and he saved because he couldn't wait to
retire and to go do things. He retired and died
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two days later, not going on one single vacation.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
His entire life.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh, Kimberly.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
So when I heard this song, I thought, there is
a balance. Yes, you want to make wise choices, but
you also want to those memories are more valuable than that.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
That is a line in the song too, is our
bills are paid? Yes, So it's not that he's going
so far into debt that he can't pay his bills.
But he's saying, look, yeah I'm going I'm going into
debt to buy a boat. Yeah, but I'm still able
to pay my bills. I know, Dave Ramsey wouldn't approve
of what I'm doing, but I'm spending time with my
kids and with my family, and I'm still being responsible.
I think he's talking, he's trying to talk about a balance.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Yeah, there is a balance.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well, and you know, Kimberly was just alluding to our
childhood and those memories. I mean, growing up like that
just built something inside of us. Memories are the most
important thing. Lindsay, I would say, is the best as
taking her whole, her family, her kids on these great vacations.
I married a man who is was like his dad.
He is tight, he likes to save. In fact, we
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got into it a couple of weeks ago because I
got something and he said something about, you know, he's
looking online every night to see what I spent. And
I said, I said, Kevin, I said, do you have
another family somewhere?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
How how is this? How is this amount a problem?
I just spent this kind of money on a rug
or whatever it was. And I see, the beautiful thing
about us is that there is a balance. So he
can kind of rain me in if I'm going too far,
which I don't feel like I do. But I can
also I've built a case throughout our entire life together
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with our children because I know the importance. And then
afterwards he's so hot. He's like, I'm so glad we
did that. I'm so glad we had these pictures, you
know when we go and look looking through mirrors, pictures.
We just did this recently, and oh that was fun.
In my head, I'm thinking, do you remember the fight?
Do you remember the case I had to build for
us to do this? You know, because just money, Like
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he's saving up and said the other day when we
were having this discussion, I said, are you saving up
so that when we die our kids will have money?
Because I was sure like to just live and just
go and do and you know, out even outside of
Dolly Wood, so like Hawaii, let's do something, and so
you do if you have that good balance. I really
think that you're missing out if you just spend your
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whole life save and save and saving for when you
are retired, because that's when it's harder for you to
get around. You know, things happen when you age, as
we all know, and there's things.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
To do that don't require a lot of money, right
go camping. I feel like a lot of people use
money as their crutch, like, ah, to get out of it.
We can't even know, we can't do it. We can't
do we don't have enough money, Mom's got to work whatever.
And I feel like it's just an excuse. And then
later in life they're so sad.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, like what do you regret? There's so much for
your art. Dad died at fifty eight. Imagine. I mean
he had so many plans ahead that we were all
going to do together, so many and he was also
a dreamer. So we grew up with this person who
made sure that we had memories. We went on a trip,
and not only did we take our family and trip,
but he was like, Barbara, get your sisters and their kids,
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and I'll get my sisters and their kids.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And the mothers.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and the mad mothers. It was like a whole thing.
And Dad was like, well, I'm taking care of it all.
We're going to I just bought us an RV.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
We're going.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I mean that's how he was, and so to have that.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
He was such an example that way. Yes, to include.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Everybody, right, and he had no idea he was going
to die so young. I know, we have all these
wonderful memories and pictures and he was the life of
every party. So it's like, Okay, you have a choice
in your family to be that person that will fight
for your family to go and have these memories. It's
so worth it, you guys. And like Kimberly just said,
it didn't have to be somewhere far.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
You can go camping.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You can even do a staycation and make it fun
and have a movie or whatever. But memories are the
most important thing.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We've done a lot more than the staycation stuff in
our family and hanging out with the kids. It is
absolutely fun. And again, I know some people that go
too far and they get in massive debt because they're
going to Vegas and they're going to all these trips
and like, you can't if you haven't paid off the
last one, what are you doing? So I do understand
that there's a balance, but yeah, I mean, if you're
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saving up treasures on Earth, yes, yeah. If you like
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a Kimberly.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Brothers and thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Thank you Andy.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Coming up next year on American Ground Radio, we are
digging deep. We will be right back, so stick around.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
There's more fresh roasted American Ground Radio brewing.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So stick around. That's good radio with Lewis.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Our Avalone and Steven Parr.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Welcome back to American Around Radium. Stephen Poward.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Lewis, President Trump is absolutely right on this whole census issue.
This I agree. I say, the issue the proposal for
a mid decade census.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It's not a proposal's executive order. He's ordered it. You
got to do it.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
And really, the truth bomb in all of this is illegal.
Aliens should not be counted in the US Senate or
the census. Rather for the purposes of political representation, I
mean that that affects.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Your congress person.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Congress person also affects your electoral college does.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
But it's not just about that. It's also that the
census got it wrong. They got it rhetorically wrong. Absolutely
Red stage Or, Texas and and Florida each should have
had three extra seats. They each should have had three
extra seats in the House. California should have lost a seat.
New York should have lost a seat. It's it's absolutely wrong.
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What was done. Basically, what by the census being wrong,
not even forget, you know, counting the fact that they
were adding illegal immigration, just that they got the count
wrong so badly it left twelve a net change of
twelve seats, six for Republicans versus six of Democrats. So
the Democrats got six extra seats, Republicans got six fewer seats.
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That's a net change of twelve extra seats, which is
more than the margin that john that Mike Johnson has
in the House.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Right now, let's see, the left is an upset with that.
What they're really upset with. I mean, I think you
could probably get some liberals to even go along with you,
to say, yeah, well if it's inaccurate, right, I mean
some some. But really, what has got the left all
wound up across the board globally is the fact that
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President Trump is saying the Quiet part out loud. Well,
it's not really the Quiet Party.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
The Republicans have been saying for a while that.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
You should not count illegal immigrants, no, in the census,
you should not be elected to Congress to represent people
who shouldn't be in the country. But if you look
at this Historically, the Founders never intended this. No, the
Constitution says count all persons. Yes, I get that right,
it says persons, but it does exclude Indians.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It excludes Indians who are on reservation.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
But it was also talking So what.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It's saying is there are certain people, if they aren't
supposed to be be holding to the federal government, we
shouldn't be counting them.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
No, that's true. But at the same time, I believe
the Framers were talking about those under in terms of
when they were talking about persons, the Framers were talking
about those under the jurisdiction and the protection of US law,
not people who have evaded or violated the law to
get here. The purpose of the census was always tied
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to representation, right, meaning those represented in Congress should have
a legitimate connection to the country's political process. That's if
you're here illegally, you don't have that connection. You're not
part of wheat the people as much as look, we're
a nation of immigrants, right, But these are the facts.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Let's dig deep.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
In twenty twenty three, the public schools in Houston, Texas
were a mess nation's fourth largest city. One hundred and
twenty one of the school district's two hundred and seventy
four campuses received a D or F rating from the
State of Texas on their annual state tests.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
So wow, one.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Hundred and forty percent right. In particular, Wheatley High School
in Houston had a failing grade for seven years in
a row.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Row seven years. Yes, and no one thought. No one
stead to do something a little different. Now.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
While Houston is the largest city in Texas and Texas
is a red state, Houston itself is very decidedly run
by Democrats. It is a blue city, and that was
the case with the school district. The school district was
dominated by Democrats, but the failure coming out of those
schools gave the state of Texas the right to move
in and take over the schools according to state law.
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And that's just what Texas did. For the twenty twenty
three twenty twenty four school year, Governor Greg Abbott ordered
the takeover the Houston schools. The Republican controlled state took
over the schools in the Democrat controlled city. Mike Miles
was named superintendent of Houston Schools by the TEA. They
fired the old superintendent and that was two years ago,
(26:53):
and the elected school board was also fired. They were
replaced with an appointed board of managers who were focused,
all of them laser focused. We're going to make the
schools better in Houston. That was their job. Now it's
been two years. Do we know what's happened?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
They succeeded wildly.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
This week, the Texas Education Agency announced there were no
schools in Houston ISD with the failing grade. None. There
were sixteen that have ds. They went from one hundred
and twenty one schools with d's and f's to just
sixteen schools with d's and zero with f's in just
two years. Most of the schools in Houston now have
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a's and b's. The majority of schools in Houston now
have a's and b's on the state tests in just
two years.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
But you know, here's the thing. We always talk about
how government gets it wrong. Right. They incompetent. They're not
very good at managing anything.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Too much of the time. That's the truth. So especially
in Democrat runs city. Okay, but what was the difference here?
What was the difference here that you had the state?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Right? I mean, and I get it Texas is tremendously successful.
Folks want to live there. People are moving there in
droves because they the state government, the local government.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Usually, but there are pockets of failure throughout Texas. There
are places where there's always exceptions, but it seems like
most of these exceptions are places where Democrats run things.
There are problems. You know, Austin's got a big problem
with its budget and it doesn't have enough police officers.
Why it's run by Democrats, So you've got problems here
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and there. Houston obviously had a massive problem with its schools.
Here's what Superintendent Miles said. He said, every child, no
matter where they are in Houston, no matter where they
are on this map, has a high performing school and
a or B campus near them. That's never been the
case in Houston or any other large urban district. So
this isn't just something that This isn't just Houston's turn around.
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No other large school district Los Angeles, New York, Chicago,
no other large school district in the country has had
this level of success that Houston has achieved in the
last two years.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
I understand, but I keep coming back to the state
is actually successful at managing something and the only explanation
I can come up with is that the state didn't
have to play all of the political games that the
school board may have had to engage in or not
just had to wanted to.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
For some of these people that got elected to the
school board, they got elected so they could do DEI.
They got elected so that they could push a socialist
agenda on the school.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
So the state didn't have to play politics with the activists,
with the unions, with the career politicians. They had a
clear mandate go in improve the schools, period. And I
think that's why it worked. I mean, I think that's
one reason it could have worked. Miles said, what we're
trying to do is to get to read, write, do
math at grade level, and be prepared for the year
twenty thirty five's world in workplace. If we do that
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well over the next several years, Houston.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Will have a populace graduating from high school that many
of whom will go to college. But many of them,
many of them who do not go to college, will
have a livable wage, a high school job, a high
demand job. And that's what the city needs now. So
here's what they did. Yes, whether they did well They
did raise teacher salaries, that was part of what they did,
but they also added a merit based bonus system. So
(30:31):
if you are a great teacher in Houston, it is
possible for you to make over one hundred thousand dollars
a year. They focused on merit based bonuses for teachers.
The lift goes, oh, merrit's racist. No it's not.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But see, I think this proves that the rot in
public education isn't inevitable. It's a choice. It's a choice.
That's right. School Boards can choose to cling to the
same old, failed system, or they can do what Mike
Miles did, blow it up and rebuild it for the kids,
not the system.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Focus on the science of reading, focus on teaching the fundamentals.
Make sure you're rewarding great teachers and getting rid of
bad ones. Make sure you're rewarding great principles and getting
rid of bad ones.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
So the question is now whether Houston can keep this
going once the elected school board returns.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
They just extended Mike Miles contract till twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 5 (32:17):
Stephen power Lewis. Governor Abbott made it about as clear
cut as it gets. If you've got a job to do,
when you've taken an oath to serve the people, you
show up. That's right. Don't run, you don't hie what
you do, and you sure as heck don't hop on
a plane to avoid doing the work you were elected
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to do.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Right, But the Democrats do this every time they know
they're going to lose. Every time they've done this. They
did this in twenty twenty three, they did this in
twenty twenty one, they did this in two thousand and three.
They've done this so many times, I know.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
But if everyday Americans, everyday Texans, pulled a stunt like
this in their own jobs, Yeah, they'd be fired before
line show up late. Yeah, okay, strike one, walk off.
It's the job. You're out.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
There was a job you didn't want to do today,
so you went to Illinois. Fine, stay there.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
The private sector and I know all of you listening
right now, you understand this. We understand this. The private
sector doesn't let you clock out when things get tough, right,
why should public services? And remember, these lawmakers aren't volunteers.
They're paid by the taxpayers.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Now in Texas, they only get paid seven five hundred
dollars a year, but they do get a stipend for
a day. But they're one of the least paid legislators
in the country.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
And if you're wondering what we're talking about, all these
Democrat fifty six state reps decided to flee the state
of Texas rather than to stay and debate the issue
of redistricting in the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Because they can't say that these districts that are being
drawn or are racist, because they're not that most of
the districts that would create brand new Republican districts would
be majority Hispanic districts. It's just that Hispanics have moved
to the rights so much because they watch what Joe
Biden did to the border, to the Texas border.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
So I think it's a smart move for Texas Governor
Greg Abbott to move to have these seats declared vacant,
these elected seats in the state legislature.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
What the state law says. And he's issued arrest warrants,
and the FBI may be getting involved in going around
and arresting them now in Illinois and New York. But yeah,
I agree with you. He should declare the seats vacant.
That they're vacant. Now we've got a quorum, let's move forward.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yeah, I mean, and what else would you call it?
You don't show up for your work, You don't show
up to your job. Yeah, the positions open all of
a sudden.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Well, but you know what, given how Kamala Harris was
as vice president, some of those Democrats may have been
vacant while they were there.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
That's true, that's certainly true.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Let's get to fakeness Friday. 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 news, fake news, or really fake news.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Okay, so real news it was reported and it's true,
that's right. Fake news it was reported but it's not true.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
And then really fake news, well that's just us making
it all up.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And you can go on our Facebook page, Facebook dot
com slash American Guy Radio and tell us what your
score was. Oh, in their fabulous prizes.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Well they're double points because it's back to school season.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Oh that's a good point. Yeah, so double up on these,
all right. First one, President Trump gave a press conference
from the roof of the White House this week. Real news,
fic news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Kind of I'm gonna go with yes, yep.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
That's real news. He answered questions from reporters up on
top of the White They were down yell SIGRed Service
agents were stunned by President Trump being able to easily
walk on a moderately sloped roof. Real news, fake news,
really fake.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
News, that's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
The Secret Service raised water levels in an Ohio River
so that Vice President J. D. Vans and his family
could go kayaking. Real news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That's fake news. You know they no, no, no, but
hold on. They raised the level of the river so
that they could provide security, so they could go boats,
get on larger boats, larger boats, so that providing could
go kayaking. Yes, all right, Trump fired. You don't seem
to approve of it.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Trump, Well, I mean, it's not that I approve or not.
It's it just it is. It's kind of a lot
for one family to go kayaking. But okay, Trump firing
the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is just
like Hitler. Real news, pic news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
That is fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
MSNBC said that drug cartels have started carrying around kryptonite.
Defend off Ice officer Dean Kane real news, pic news,
really fake news.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
But Dean Kane is now working for ICE.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Superman is now part of the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement Agents.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And I didn't give you your ding. There's your ding.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Former CNN anchored Jim Acosta did an interview with an
AI version of a seventeen year old boy who was
murdered in a school shooting. Real news, pic news, really
fig news.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
That was creepy and just unconscionable. But that is real news.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
That's real news. Moms for Liberty is an extremist hate group.
Really news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
That's fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, but the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee calls them
a hate group. There are radioactive wasps in South Carolina.
Real news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Radio active Yeah, radioactive wasps. I'm gonna go with fake
news on that.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
And that's real news. They are four WASP nests that
a former military nuclear testing site called Savannah River, and
the wasps in those WASP nests are radioactive. NPR isn't partisan,
real news, fake news, really fig news, that's fake news.
That's fake news. A new poll shows people with nose
rings are more likely to believe in socialism. Real news,
fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
That's real news.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
No satire by Andrew Claven. It could be real news,
but they haven't actually done the poll. He just set
it in an article. Jimmy Fallon once tackled Greg Guttfeld
in a bar in New York City. Real news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
I'm gonna go with real news on that.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
That's real news. Greg Guttfel brought it up when he
was on Follow this week and follow and went, oh, yeah,
I remember that McDonald's is releasing a new happy meal
for adults. Real newsfake news are really fake news.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
I'm gonna go with real news.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
It is real news. South Park made fun of Charlie Kirk,
and Charlie Kirk loved it. Real news, fake news are
really fake news.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
That's real news.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
That's real news. President Trump jerry mannered the US to
include Canada and Greenland. Real news, fake news are really
fake news.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah, and the last one. The state of Texas has
started building a wall along the Red River to stop
Democrats from fleeing the state. Really news, pic news, really
fig news.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
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Speaker 5 (38:39):
You know, happy a happy meal for adults. You think
that makes for a happier country. I mean, because you know,
happiness is really an inside game. I think they're just
playing inside meal.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I think they're just trying to play nostalgia with gen xers.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
That's all I'll play alone.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Yeah, I might weiver have ax to ground.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
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Welcome back to American ground Radio. Stephen par with Lewis
r Avalon.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Do your job. That's what I would say to the
Mexican president the audience, Shine bamb President Shinebahm, standing in
front of the cameras today declaring for the world to
hear that US troops will not be entering my country
to fight drug cartels. Then you know what I would
(39:39):
say to you, exactly, do your job. I mean, that's
what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
US doesn't want to come into Mexico to fight the cartels.
The US simply wants the cartels to stop coming into
the US.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
So President Trump, well, there are rumors that President Trump
signed a secret order authorizing a US military strike against
the cartels in Mexico. Not invade Mexico right, not topple
the government, but direct action to dismantle these transactional or
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these transnational I should say, terror organizations that are murdering
tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Well, he has declared them officially to be transnational terrorist organizations,
which does then allow, according to US law, the President
of the United States to use military action against them.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
But see Mexico has been unsuccessful at fighting the cartels.
You would think that she would say, finally, the United
States is stepping up to help us defeat the cartels
that are killing our citizens as well, But instead she's
saying whoa.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
When I say whoa.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
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NASA rocket on his way to the Moon. He was
flying with fellow astronauts John Schweigert and Fred Hayes on
Apollo thirteen. Shortly into the flight, the space capsule experienced
an explosion and a loss of oxygen. Lovell had to
adapt to regain control of the spacecraft and then find
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a way to get him and his crew back home.
They were able to fly around the Moon and returned
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Kevin Bacon. Jim Lovell passed away today at the age
of ninety seven. His family released the statement saying we
are enormously proud of his amazing life and career accomplishments,
highlighted by his legendary leadership in pioneering human.
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Spaceflight, and we are proud as well.
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Speaker 5 (01:02):
I mean this nutcase in New York City, which one
Mandamy Okay, Oh my gosh, this guy running it's a
complete out and out socialist.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, and he's also anti Semitic. Don't forget about that.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Oh it's disgusting. It is. It is absolutely disgusting, and
you would think, but again, this isn't a guy that
I think is familiar with history, okay or reality that
is well.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I mean he's lived his entire life off of his
parents' money, okay, and he said that he's okay taking
time off his job to run for mayor because he
figured if he ran out of money, his daddy would
just give him more.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Well, now, this self proclaimed progressive darling of the Democratic
Socialist Party is making it crystal clear that if he
becomes mayor, he's going to declare war on charter schools. Now,
this isn't rumor, this isn't political spind this is straight
from his own mouth, or rather from his own own
(02:00):
survey responses.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
He's going to declare war on charter schools.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The New York Post got a hold of his answers
to a pre primary questionnaire, and Ma'm Danny flat out
says he will fight efforts to open more charter charter
schools in New York City. And let me repeat that.
He's not going to review the issue. He's not going
to study it. He's not going to say, well, maybe
(02:25):
it helps some kids.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's just going to ban it.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
He's going to actively fight the very schools that in
New York City overwhelmingly serve minority, working class students. And
you've got to ask yourself the question why.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Because he's bought and paid for by the Teachers Union,
which is really becoming the most leftist union in the country.
It really is.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
You know, it used to be.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, you'd say something like the Teamsters was the
most leftist union or something like that. No, no, no, no,
it is the teachers Union. They are the most radical.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
They are the slow the money, They are the least patriotic.
And it's weird because you know, teachers work in classrooms
where American flags are supposed to be hanging from the
walls every single day, and yet the Teachers' Union is
so anti American. And we're talking about charter schools where students,
often from low income neighborhoods, are out performing their peers,
(03:21):
especially in reading and math, especially.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
In places like New York City.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I mean students where parents actually line up overnight just
to enter the enrollment lottery. Schools that are sending kids
to college who might otherwise be trapped in this cycle
of underachievement or or worse, a life of crime on
the streets because of failure in school. They have well
(03:45):
of the failures. But oftentimes in these neighborhoods, you've got
birds of a feather that are flocking together, folks that
are just in this revolving door of prisons.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, and when you get kids that are in failing schools,
they are more likely to drop out. And when you
just drop out of school, if you don't get your ged,
it is hard to do anything legitimate in this country.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
And again, let me repeat, these are students who are
the majority of them are minority kids, black in history,
Mark Black and Hispanic kids, immigrant kids, kids whose parents
are working two and three jobs just to make ends
meet and who desperately want their children to have a
shot at something better. And mem dammy wants to take
(04:29):
all of that away from them.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, and you know, it's the kids that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Are getting hurt. And that's the part that's truly disgusting,
right because we're not talking about shutting down elite private
you know, academies where the tuition is fifty thousand dollars
a year. We're talking about denying access to schools that
are lifting kids out of poverty, are that are helping
them break as you point out, the cycle of failure
(04:55):
and giving them a fighting chance. I mean, the hypocrisy
is staggered. Well, here's the Democrat party. It says, oh, well,
we care so much about everyone. No, you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And this is a guy who has admitted that his
upbringing was privileged. His parents were well off. His dad
was a university professor, you know, his mother filmmaker. He
went to you know, private school's he went to. He
got privilege. He lived a privileged life. So for him
(05:31):
to be taking away opportunity from kids who don't have
that is reprehensible.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
And I know there's a lot of folks listening. You know,
you're listening all across the country and you're saying, well, look,
I don't live in New York. I mean, let them
reap what they sow, right, I get it. But the
reality is New York City is a cultural and economic powerhouse.
At least it has been. I don't think it will remain.
(05:58):
If Mandammy becomes New Yorkers becomes elected, New.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
York is about to do a massive job on on
their city. But you know it's not just New York.
Seattle's about to do the same thing. Seattle is about
to elect a radical socialist to that city to be
not just the mayor, but also on the city council.
They're about to elect several socialists to the city council.
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It's about to be a socialist takeover of the largest
city in the Pacific Northwest, and you could do it
again in the largest city up in the northeast. We
could be having our large coastal cities taken over by
people not just that the Republicans call socialists, but who
are proud to call themselves socialists.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You know. And it's not that I wish this upon
the city of New York, not Seattle or wherever. No,
but you know, it was it James Carville that said
that if Man Dammy in New York City is in
fact elected, that it will basically create a Republican or
a red tsunami. That was to sweep all across this
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country because every single day Americans will see in New
York City.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
How bad the left's ideas actually are. San Francisco is
one of the best advertisements for Republicans across the country,
and even San Francisco's had to moderate in recent years
because they went so far left. They ended up with
human fece maps all over their city because they had
such a massive homeless population. Well, you're about to do
it in Seattle and New York. And Mondami wants to
(07:33):
have government run grocery stores in New York City. We've
already done that in Kansas, and those grocery stores are
bear They look like the grocery stores in Cuba and
the grocery stores in the Soviet Union. You know why,
because government run grocery stores all end up looking the same.
They are failures because that's not what government's supposed to do.
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Government's job is not to run a grocery store. Government's
job is to protect our rights to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. It is not to interfere in
the free market. Government's job is not to solve all
of our problems. Government's job is to allow us the
safety and security and the freedom to solve our own problems.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
So I do think everyday Americans, even those that don't
live in New York, you, those that live hundreds, maybe
thousands of miles away, they're going to see the destruction
unfold in real time, just like the folks in Venezuela did,
in Cuba, in East Germany.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, but those folks, even though they saw the destruction
in real time, they didn't stop it. All the examples
you saw your you pointing out that people didn't recognize
their errors until it was too late, And.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Well, it's about to be too late, especially if you
believe what was that The Real Clear Politics.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Average of polls have compilation polls thirty eight percent, Andrew
Cuomo at twenty five percent.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
So what is he up thirteen is making.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
According to average polls. Now, the only bright spot on
that is all those polls are awful that none of
them are done by polling agencies that got anything close
to the right answer in twenty twenty four. But still
it's pretty scary.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
We need to stand with New Yorkers, well, those New
Yorkers that don't plan to vote for socialism.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Let's get to the top two things you need noble
forre tomorrow. First, signy no for in a mile. The
US Department of Justice is offering a fifty million dollar
reward for the capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. Maduro
has been the dictator of Venezuela since the death of
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Hugo Chavez in twenty thirteen. Attorney General Pam Bondi accused
Maduro participating in the drug trade in the United States
through Trende Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Cartel of
the Sun. Bondi said today the DEA has seized thirty
tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, with
nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents a
(10:03):
primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in
Venezuela and Mexico. In nineteen eighty nine, the US invaded
Panama to arrest Panamanian President Manuel Noriega on drug trafficking charges.
Noriega ended up passing away in a federal prison inside
the US.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, and Maduro isn't just another crooked politician. He's a
narco terrorist. I mean that's the official charge.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And he's sending cocaine shipments into the United States and
harming Americans, destabilizing our communities. It's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Second thing you needed to before the contempt of court
ruling against the Trump administration has been overturned. Washington DC
Judge James Boseburg had ruled the Trump administration was in
contempt of court for not turning around a couple of
airplanes that were filled with illegal aliens heading to l Salvador.
The d C Circuit Court of Appeals rule to one
decision that the planes Bozburg ordered to be turned around
were already out of US airspace and thus he had
no jurisdiction over them. Further, the courts do not have
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jurisdiction over foreign policy. The executive branch does well, absolutely
yep to one of these no brainers, and yet Bozburg
has show need apparently has no brain and the third
thing you needed to know before a while. The Department
of Justice has opened up an investigation into New York
Attorney General Letitia James's lawsuit against Donald Trump's business dealings.
That case found President Trump liable for four hundred and
(11:16):
fifty four million dollars for defrauding banks and insurance companies. However,
during the trial, all of the banks and insurance companies
James accused Trump of defrauding said they weren't taking advantage
of They enjoyed doing business with Trump and hoped to
do more business with him in the future. The DOJA
investigation is now focusing on whether James deprived Trump of
his due process rights or not. James campaigned on getting
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Trump even before she announced what crimes she thought he
might have committed. Representative for James called the investigation into
her a quote weaponization of the justice system.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Letitia James was never seeking justice, she was always seeking power.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And vengeance for Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
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Speaker 5 (12:58):
I know there are a lot of bigger fish to fry,
but let me just tell you. I'm gonna I'm gonna
make a prediction here, all right. I think that before
President Trump's term is up, yes, there will be legislation
signed into law making English the official language of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Now, didn't he already do that in an executive order?
Didn't he already do Basically, he said that government documents
need to be in English. They need to be in English.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But I'm talking about legislation.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Okay, that they think it's going to go through the House.
In the Senate.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I I know that sounds controversial, but.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I think it'll make it through the House. I'm not
sure unless you attach it to a spending bill. I
don't think it makes it through the Senate because you
got that sixty vote filibuster.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
And the reason that I'm saying this, I was reading
a story where US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that
fifteen hundred trucks have been taken off our roads in
the United States because drivers behind the wheel couldn't speak English.
And that was part of the.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Executive order that Donald Trump signed, was that if you're
going to be driving trucks on US highways, you need
to be able to speak English.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
But that's been a federal law for decades. It was
the Openheimen and Force. The Obama administration relaxed the enforcement
of that law so tremendously.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So Trump's executive order comes back in and says, no, no,
we're actually going to enforce this. I and you're saying
fifteen hundred trucks have been taking.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Fifteen hundred trucks. And look, you know, my father was
an immigrant from Italy. You know, he spoke with an accent.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
He spoke Italian to begin with.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
But my point here is he didn't speak perfect English,
but he could certainly communicate. Obviously he built a business
and you know, raised a family, all of those things.
I'm not talking about speaking the Queen's English here, right,
but you should. I do agree that it is a
critical safety matter that if you're driving, especially an eighteen
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wheeler for example, right, that if you're involved in an
accident or you witness an accident, that you would be
able to communicate in English. Well, it's also police officer
to first responders.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It is also an important cultural matter, and culture does matter.
But we want to be a melting pot, right, We
don't want to be just a mixing bowl. We've got
all these different tribal, Balkanized communities. We want a mixing
pot where everybody is an American. But how can you
feel part of a group if you don't speak the
same language as that group.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
It's very difficult.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas,
have you heard the Dave Ramsey song.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Well, let's ask American mama's.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Ama May is now our American mama's Terry VI and
Kimberly Burlason. So there is a song out there called
Dave Ramsey's Money, and basically the guy is saying, look,
I bought a boat. I bought it on credit and
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Dave Ramsey would approve. But I get to spend time
with my kids out on the lake, and spending that
time with my kids is worth going into debt. It's
worth doing something that Dave Ramsey wouldn' approve of. Because
I'm buying memories. That was one of the lines I
really liked from the song, I'm buying memories. You guys
have heard this song. What do you think of it?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I've heard of it. Jared Hicks, he's the one that
sings it. I heard it last week and I loved it.
I loved it because it kind of reminded me of
our childhood because we had the same thing. We did
not have a lot of money growing up. It was
very definitely feast or family had it. We had big things,
we did it. Yeah, and but going on a beach
vacation that was going to happen, even if it meant
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it was the last dime we had in our account
doing things with our family. We had no idea our
dad would die so young, right, you know, And now
we have all these memories. One off Sonny my daughter,
one of her best friends, who's a Christian artist, her
husband's dad. He worked his entire life. He's saved, and
he saved, and he saved because he couldn't wait to
retire and to go do things. He retired and died
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two days later, not going on one single vacation.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
His entire life.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh, Kimberly.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
So when I heard this song, I thought, there is
a balance. Yes, you want to make wise choices, but
you also want to those memories are more valuable than that.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
That is a line in the song too, is our
bills are paid? Yes, So it's not that he's going
so far into debt that he can't pay his bills.
But he's saying, look, yeah I'm going I'm going into
debt to buy a boat. Yeah, but I'm still able
to pay my bills. I know, Dave Ramsey wouldn't approve
of what I'm doing, but I'm spending time with my
kids and with my family, and I'm still being responsible.
I think he's talking, he's trying to talk about a balance.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Yeah, there is a balance.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well, and you know, Kimberly was just alluding to our
childhood and those memories. I mean, growing up like that
just built something inside of us. Memories are the most
important thing. Lindsay, I would say, is the best as
taking her whole, her family, her kids on these great vacations.
I married a man who is was like his dad.
He is tight, he likes to save. In fact, we
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got into it a couple of weeks ago because I
got something and he said something about, you know, he's
looking online every night to see what I spent. And
I said, I said, Kevin, I said, do you have
another family somewhere?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
How how is this? How is this amount a problem?
I just spent this kind of money on a rug
or whatever it was. And I see, the beautiful thing
about us is that there is a balance. So he
can kind of rain me in if I'm going too far,
which I don't feel like I do. But I can
also I've built a case throughout our entire life together
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with our children because I know the importance. And then
afterwards he's so hot. He's like, I'm so glad we
did that. I'm so glad we had these pictures, you
know when we go and look looking through mirrors, pictures.
We just did this recently, and oh that was fun.
In my head, I'm thinking, do you remember the fight?
Do you remember the case I had to build for
us to do this? You know, because just money, Like
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he's saving up and said the other day when we
were having this discussion, I said, are you saving up
so that when we die our kids will have money?
Because I was sure like to just live and just
go and do and you know, out even outside of
Dolly Wood, so like Hawaii, let's do something, and so
you do if you have that good balance. I really
think that you're missing out if you just spend your
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whole life save and save and saving for when you
are retired, because that's when it's harder for you to
get around. You know, things happen when you age, as
we all know, and there's things.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
To do that don't require a lot of money, right
go camping. I feel like a lot of people use
money as their crutch, like, ah, to get out of it.
We can't even know, we can't do it. We can't
do we don't have enough money, Mom's got to work whatever.
And I feel like it's just an excuse. And then
later in life they're so sad.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, like what do you regret? There's so much for
your art. Dad died at fifty eight. Imagine. I mean
he had so many plans ahead that we were all
going to do together, so many and he was also
a dreamer. So we grew up with this person who
made sure that we had memories. We went on a trip,
and not only did we take our family and trip,
but he was like, Barbara, get your sisters and their kids,
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and I'll get my sisters and their kids.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And the mothers.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and the mad mothers. It was like a whole thing.
And Dad was like, well, I'm taking care of it all.
We're going to I just bought us an RV.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
We're going.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I mean that's how he was, and so to have that.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
He was such an example that way. Yes, to include.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Everybody, right, and he had no idea he was going
to die so young. I know, we have all these
wonderful memories and pictures and he was the life of
every party. So it's like, Okay, you have a choice
in your family to be that person that will fight
for your family to go and have these memories. It's
so worth it, you guys. And like Kimberly just said,
it didn't have to be somewhere far.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
You can go camping.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You can even do a staycation and make it fun
and have a movie or whatever. But memories are the
most important thing.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We've done a lot more than the staycation stuff in
our family and hanging out with the kids. It is
absolutely fun. And again, I know some people that go
too far and they get in massive debt because they're
going to Vegas and they're going to all these trips
and like, you can't if you haven't paid off the
last one, what are you doing? So I do understand
that there's a balance, but yeah, I mean, if you're
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saving up treasures on Earth, yes, yeah. If you like
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Speaker 5 (21:30):
Brothers and thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Thank you Andy.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Coming up next year on American Ground Radio, we are
digging deep. We will be right back, so stick around.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
There's more fresh roasted American Ground Radio brewing.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So stick around. That's good radio with Lewis.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Our Avalone and Steven Parr.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Welcome back to American Around Radium. Stephen Poward.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Lewis, President Trump is absolutely right on this whole census issue.
This I agree. I say, the issue the proposal for
a mid decade census.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It's not a proposal's executive order. He's ordered it. You
got to do it.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
And really, the truth bomb in all of this is illegal.
Aliens should not be counted in the US Senate or
the census. Rather for the purposes of political representation, I
mean that that affects.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Your congress person.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Congress person also affects your electoral college does.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
But it's not just about that. It's also that the
census got it wrong. They got it rhetorically wrong. Absolutely
Red stage Or, Texas and and Florida each should have
had three extra seats. They each should have had three
extra seats in the House. California should have lost a seat.
New York should have lost a seat. It's it's absolutely wrong.
(23:12):
What was done. Basically, what by the census being wrong,
not even forget, you know, counting the fact that they
were adding illegal immigration, just that they got the count
wrong so badly it left twelve a net change of
twelve seats, six for Republicans versus six of Democrats. So
the Democrats got six extra seats, Republicans got six fewer seats.
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That's a net change of twelve extra seats, which is
more than the margin that john that Mike Johnson has
in the House.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Right now, let's see, the left is an upset with that.
What they're really upset with. I mean, I think you
could probably get some liberals to even go along with you,
to say, yeah, well if it's inaccurate, right, I mean
some some. But really, what has got the left all
wound up across the board globally is the fact that
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President Trump is saying the Quiet part out loud. Well,
it's not really the Quiet Party.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
The Republicans have been saying for a while that.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
You should not count illegal immigrants, no, in the census,
you should not be elected to Congress to represent people
who shouldn't be in the country. But if you look
at this Historically, the Founders never intended this. No, the
Constitution says count all persons. Yes, I get that right,
it says persons, but it does exclude Indians.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It excludes Indians who are on reservation.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
But it was also talking So what.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It's saying is there are certain people, if they aren't
supposed to be be holding to the federal government, we
shouldn't be counting them.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
No, that's true. But at the same time, I believe
the Framers were talking about those under in terms of
when they were talking about persons, the Framers were talking
about those under the jurisdiction and the protection of US law,
not people who have evaded or violated the law to
get here. The purpose of the census was always tied
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to representation, right, meaning those represented in Congress should have
a legitimate connection to the country's political process. That's if
you're here illegally, you don't have that connection. You're not
part of wheat the people as much as look, we're
a nation of immigrants, right, But these are the facts.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Let's dig deep.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
In twenty twenty three, the public schools in Houston, Texas
were a mess nation's fourth largest city. One hundred and
twenty one of the school district's two hundred and seventy
four campuses received a D or F rating from the
State of Texas on their annual state tests.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
So wow, one.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Hundred and forty percent right. In particular, Wheatley High School
in Houston had a failing grade for seven years in
a row.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Row seven years. Yes, and no one thought. No one
stead to do something a little different. Now.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
While Houston is the largest city in Texas and Texas
is a red state, Houston itself is very decidedly run
by Democrats. It is a blue city, and that was
the case with the school district. The school district was
dominated by Democrats, but the failure coming out of those
schools gave the state of Texas the right to move
in and take over the schools according to state law.
(26:32):
And that's just what Texas did. For the twenty twenty
three twenty twenty four school year, Governor Greg Abbott ordered
the takeover the Houston schools. The Republican controlled state took
over the schools in the Democrat controlled city. Mike Miles
was named superintendent of Houston Schools by the TEA. They
fired the old superintendent and that was two years ago,
(26:53):
and the elected school board was also fired. They were
replaced with an appointed board of managers who were focused,
all of them laser focused. We're going to make the
schools better in Houston. That was their job. Now it's
been two years. Do we know what's happened?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
They succeeded wildly.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
This week, the Texas Education Agency announced there were no
schools in Houston ISD with the failing grade. None. There
were sixteen that have ds. They went from one hundred
and twenty one schools with d's and f's to just
sixteen schools with d's and zero with f's in just
two years. Most of the schools in Houston now have
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a's and b's. The majority of schools in Houston now
have a's and b's on the state tests in just
two years.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
But you know, here's the thing. We always talk about
how government gets it wrong. Right. They incompetent. They're not
very good at managing anything.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Too much of the time. That's the truth. So especially
in Democrat runs city. Okay, but what was the difference here?
What was the difference here that you had the state?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Right? I mean, and I get it Texas is tremendously successful.
Folks want to live there. People are moving there in
droves because they the state government, the local government.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Usually, but there are pockets of failure throughout Texas. There
are places where there's always exceptions, but it seems like
most of these exceptions are places where Democrats run things.
There are problems. You know, Austin's got a big problem
with its budget and it doesn't have enough police officers.
Why it's run by Democrats, So you've got problems here
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and there. Houston obviously had a massive problem with its schools.
Here's what Superintendent Miles said. He said, every child, no
matter where they are in Houston, no matter where they
are on this map, has a high performing school and
a or B campus near them. That's never been the
case in Houston or any other large urban district. So
this isn't just something that This isn't just Houston's turn around.
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No other large school district Los Angeles, New York, Chicago,
no other large school district in the country has had
this level of success that Houston has achieved in the
last two years.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
I understand, but I keep coming back to the state
is actually successful at managing something and the only explanation
I can come up with is that the state didn't
have to play all of the political games that the
school board may have had to engage in or not
just had to wanted to.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
For some of these people that got elected to the
school board, they got elected so they could do DEI.
They got elected so that they could push a socialist
agenda on the school.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
So the state didn't have to play politics with the activists,
with the unions, with the career politicians. They had a
clear mandate go in improve the schools, period. And I
think that's why it worked. I mean, I think that's
one reason it could have worked. Miles said, what we're
trying to do is to get to read, write, do
math at grade level, and be prepared for the year
twenty thirty five's world in workplace. If we do that
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well over the next several years, Houston.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Will have a populace graduating from high school that many
of whom will go to college. But many of them,
many of them who do not go to college, will
have a livable wage, a high school job, a high
demand job. And that's what the city needs now. So
here's what they did. Yes, whether they did well They
did raise teacher salaries, that was part of what they did,
but they also added a merit based bonus system. So
(30:31):
if you are a great teacher in Houston, it is
possible for you to make over one hundred thousand dollars
a year. They focused on merit based bonuses for teachers.
The lift goes, oh, merrit's racist. No it's not.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But see, I think this proves that the rot in
public education isn't inevitable. It's a choice. It's a choice.
That's right. School Boards can choose to cling to the
same old, failed system, or they can do what Mike
Miles did, blow it up and rebuild it for the kids,
not the system.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Focus on the science of reading, focus on teaching the fundamentals.
Make sure you're rewarding great teachers and getting rid of
bad ones. Make sure you're rewarding great principles and getting
rid of bad ones.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
So the question is now whether Houston can keep this
going once the elected school board returns.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
They just extended Mike Miles contract till twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 5 (32:17):
Stephen power Lewis. Governor Abbott made it about as clear
cut as it gets. If you've got a job to do,
when you've taken an oath to serve the people, you
show up. That's right. Don't run, you don't hie what
you do, and you sure as heck don't hop on
a plane to avoid doing the work you were elected
(32:37):
to do.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Right, But the Democrats do this every time they know
they're going to lose. Every time they've done this. They
did this in twenty twenty three, they did this in
twenty twenty one, they did this in two thousand and three.
They've done this so many times, I know.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
But if everyday Americans, everyday Texans, pulled a stunt like
this in their own jobs, Yeah, they'd be fired before
line show up late. Yeah, okay, strike one, walk off.
It's the job. You're out.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
There was a job you didn't want to do today,
so you went to Illinois. Fine, stay there.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
The private sector and I know all of you listening
right now, you understand this. We understand this. The private
sector doesn't let you clock out when things get tough, right,
why should public services? And remember, these lawmakers aren't volunteers.
They're paid by the taxpayers.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Now in Texas, they only get paid seven five hundred
dollars a year, but they do get a stipend for
a day. But they're one of the least paid legislators
in the country.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
And if you're wondering what we're talking about, all these
Democrat fifty six state reps decided to flee the state
of Texas rather than to stay and debate the issue
of redistricting in the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Because they can't say that these districts that are being
drawn or are racist, because they're not that most of
the districts that would create brand new Republican districts would
be majority Hispanic districts. It's just that Hispanics have moved
to the rights so much because they watch what Joe
Biden did to the border, to the Texas border.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
So I think it's a smart move for Texas Governor
Greg Abbott to move to have these seats declared vacant,
these elected seats in the state legislature.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
What the state law says. And he's issued arrest warrants,
and the FBI may be getting involved in going around
and arresting them now in Illinois and New York. But yeah,
I agree with you. He should declare the seats vacant.
That they're vacant. Now we've got a quorum, let's move forward.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yeah, I mean, and what else would you call it?
You don't show up for your work, You don't show
up to your job. Yeah, the positions open all of
a sudden.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Well, but you know what, given how Kamala Harris was
as vice president, some of those Democrats may have been
vacant while they were there.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
That's true, that's certainly true.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Let's get to fakeness Friday. 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 news, fake news, or really fake news.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Okay, so real news it was reported and it's true,
that's right. Fake news it was reported but it's not true.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
And then really fake news, well that's just us making
it all up.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And you can go on our Facebook page, Facebook dot
com slash American Guy Radio and tell us what your
score was. Oh, in their fabulous prizes.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Well they're double points because it's back to school season.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Oh that's a good point. Yeah, so double up on these,
all right. First one, President Trump gave a press conference
from the roof of the White House this week. Real news,
fic news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Kind of I'm gonna go with yes, yep.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
That's real news. He answered questions from reporters up on
top of the White They were down yell SIGRed Service
agents were stunned by President Trump being able to easily
walk on a moderately sloped roof. Real news, fake news,
really fake.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
News, that's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
The Secret Service raised water levels in an Ohio River
so that Vice President J. D. Vans and his family
could go kayaking. Real news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That's fake news. You know they no, no, no, but
hold on. They raised the level of the river so
that they could provide security, so they could go boats,
get on larger boats, larger boats, so that providing could
go kayaking. Yes, all right, Trump fired. You don't seem
to approve of it.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Trump, Well, I mean, it's not that I approve or not.
It's it just it is. It's kind of a lot
for one family to go kayaking. But okay, Trump firing
the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is just
like Hitler. Real news, pic news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
That is fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
MSNBC said that drug cartels have started carrying around kryptonite.
Defend off Ice officer Dean Kane real news, pic news,
really fake news.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
But Dean Kane is now working for ICE.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Superman is now part of the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement Agents.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And I didn't give you your ding. There's your ding.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Former CNN anchored Jim Acosta did an interview with an
AI version of a seventeen year old boy who was
murdered in a school shooting. Real news, pic news, really
fig news.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
That was creepy and just unconscionable. But that is real news.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
That's real news. Moms for Liberty is an extremist hate group.
Really news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
That's fake news.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, but the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee calls them
a hate group. There are radioactive wasps in South Carolina.
Real news, fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Radio active Yeah, radioactive wasps. I'm gonna go with fake
news on that.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
And that's real news. They are four WASP nests that
a former military nuclear testing site called Savannah River, and
the wasps in those WASP nests are radioactive. NPR isn't partisan,
real news, fake news, really fig news, that's fake news.
That's fake news. A new poll shows people with nose
rings are more likely to believe in socialism. Real news,
fake news, really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
That's real news.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
No satire by Andrew Claven. It could be real news,
but they haven't actually done the poll. He just set
it in an article. Jimmy Fallon once tackled Greg Guttfeld
in a bar in New York City. Real news, fake news,
really fake news.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
I'm gonna go with real news on that.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
That's real news. Greg Guttfel brought it up when he
was on Follow this week and follow and went, oh, yeah,
I remember that McDonald's is releasing a new happy meal
for adults. Real newsfake news are really fake news.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
I'm gonna go with real news.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
It is real news. South Park made fun of Charlie Kirk,
and Charlie Kirk loved it. Real news, fake news are
really fake news.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
That's real news.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
That's real news. President Trump jerry mannered the US to
include Canada and Greenland. Real news, fake news are really
fake news.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah, and the last one. The state of Texas has
started building a wall along the Red River to stop
Democrats from fleeing the state. Really news, pic news, really
fig news.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
That's really fake news.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Let us know what just scores weren't. Kids. Go to
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Speaker 5 (38:39):
You know, happy a happy meal for adults. You think
that makes for a happier country. I mean, because you know,
happiness is really an inside game. I think they're just
playing inside meal.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I think they're just trying to play nostalgia with gen xers.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
That's all I'll play alone.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Yeah, I might weiver have ax to ground.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
You're listening to American ground radio.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Welcome back to American ground Radio. Stephen par with Lewis
r Avalon.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Do your job. That's what I would say to the
Mexican president the audience, Shine bamb President Shinebahm, standing in
front of the cameras today declaring for the world to
hear that US troops will not be entering my country
to fight drug cartels. Then you know what I would
(39:39):
say to you, exactly, do your job. I mean, that's
what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
US doesn't want to come into Mexico to fight the cartels.
The US simply wants the cartels to stop coming into
the US.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
So President Trump, well, there are rumors that President Trump
signed a secret order authorizing a US military strike against
the cartels in Mexico. Not invade Mexico right, not topple
the government, but direct action to dismantle these transactional or
(40:18):
these transnational I should say, terror organizations that are murdering
tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Well, he has declared them officially to be transnational terrorist organizations,
which does then allow, according to US law, the President
of the United States to use military action against them.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
But see Mexico has been unsuccessful at fighting the cartels.
You would think that she would say, finally, the United
States is stepping up to help us defeat the cartels
that are killing our citizens as well, But instead she's
saying whoa.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
When I say whoa.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
In April of nineteen seventy, Jim Lovell took off an
NASA rocket on his way to the Moon. He was
flying with fellow astronauts John Schweigert and Fred Hayes on
Apollo thirteen. Shortly into the flight, the space capsule experienced
an explosion and a loss of oxygen. Lovell had to
adapt to regain control of the spacecraft and then find
(41:21):
a way to get him and his crew back home.
They were able to fly around the Moon and returned
safely to Earth, and their whole ordeal was turned into
the movie Apollo thirteen, starring Tom Hanks, Garry Sniez, and
Kevin Bacon. Jim Lovell passed away today at the age
of ninety seven. His family released the statement saying we
are enormously proud of his amazing life and career accomplishments,
highlighted by his legendary leadership in pioneering human.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Spaceflight, and we are proud as well.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
May your pursuit of happiness spring you joy,
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