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August 14, 2025 41 mins
This is the full show for August 13, 2025. We ask the American Mamas if men should be NFL Cheerleaders. We Dig Deep into the law suit against John Gruden and why he was fired from the NFL.  Plus, New York City is closing its last remaining hotel migrant shelter, and that's a Bright Spot. And we finish off with this year's Kennedy Center Honors Awardees who will make you say, "Whoa!" 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (01:00):
This is American Ground Radium. Stephen Parvard.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
The You know, there's a lot of things that we
talk about on this show that some degree may be academic,
some may be theoretical, some philosophical. But boy, this one
has got me all stirred up because it has fatal consequences.
This is about This is about liberal ideology and the

(01:25):
lives that it costs. And and look, this should have
every single American who has ever stepped foot on an
airplane just as fired up, because what we are learning
right now is that the Biden Administration's FAA, the Federal
Aviation Administration, right is not just a case of bureaucratic stupidity.

(01:48):
It is not just incompetence. I mean this is dangerous.
This is playing roulette with the lives of hundreds of
millions of Americans who trust that when they get on
an airplane, the people who guiding that plane through the
skies in those air traffic control towers right know exactly
what they are doing. But the Biden administration, Pete Boutigeg

(02:13):
remember his Transportation secretary. Yeah, he lowered the standards for
becoming an air traffic controller. You didn't hear about this,
did you. No, it was it was quietly, quietly done. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
And so we've certainly seen some problems with air traffic
control in recent years. I remember the crash that happened
in Washington, d C. Back in January, the fatal crash
between the hell airplane exactly where you only had one
person at the airport working the jobs of two different people.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
So here is the cold, hard fact. In twenty twenty three,
FAA officials, under the tutelage of Cabinet Secretary Pete Boutigeig Yeah,
lowered or scrapped the best qualified tier for Canadone. It's
scoring eighty five percent or higher on the air traffic

(03:04):
skills assessment, now this exam. So instead what they did
was they rebranded. They did away with the best qualified
tier and they rebranded the top tier as well qualified.
So no longer. And not only did they change the name,
they lowered the threshold to eighty percent. So before, in

(03:27):
order to be hired, yeah, you had to make an
eighty five percent or more on the Air Traffic Skills
Assessment exam. Okay, and then you would be hired. You
would be considered best qualified.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Eighty five percent. So when you're playing with people's lives,
do your people to be five percent?

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Right? Oh that's another discussion. But the Biden administration lowered
that to eighty percent to eighty percent, So now we're
only eighty percent, right, and we're playing with people's lives.
I mean, that's you're talking about safety. Five percent is everything?
I mean, I mean air traffic. I mean, look, the
exam to be an air traffic controller is a rigorous

(04:07):
test for a reason, because air traffic control is not
like being a greeter at Walmart. No disrespect to greeters
at Walmart.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
But rarely are you a greeter at Walmart.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Who's I mean, split decision? People arguably an air traffic
controller is one of the most high stakes jobs in
the country. Stress margin for error is zero, and by
lowering the bar just five points, it doesn't mean you
just let in people who are almost good enough. It
lets in people who are not good enough by the

(04:39):
FAA's own prior standard. Were not qualified. They weren't by
the FAA's own previous standard. Those folks making eighty percent
on this exam were not qualified to be at the top.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Did they talk about why they lowered the qualifications di
They wanted to get more minorities in those positions.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Exactly. It wasn't because technology now makes up for weaker skills, right,
They lowered it because too many people. Too many people
in the Biden administration preferred applicants under the diversity, equity
and inclusion programs, and they thought those folks needed to

(05:26):
be hired to the exclusion of applicants who.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Were actually qualified. So instead of getting people who were
qualified to protect lives, they got people who looked more
like America but weren't qualified to actually do the job.
They were hired to do a job which, again, every
single minute, your job is to keep hundreds of people safe.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, if you make the metric of who is an
air traffic controller. If you make the metric skin color
or gender, or you know, as the left offense says,
the lived experience instead of skill, instead of knowledge, instead
of aptitude, you are playing with fire. And here we are.
So our worst fears have been confirmed. People who should

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have never been in the academy in the first place
were waved in because the Biden administration wanted the diversity
numbers to look good. And now you have those folks
over the Potomac. All of those lives changed forever well.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
And there's been several near misses this year across the country,
of planes taxing, of planes landing, there have been several
near misses. It wasn't just the one over the one
crashed over the Potomac. There have been several.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
But you know what else is so infuriating is the
quiet part. This change was made quietly. There was no
press conference, there was no public debate, no explanation to
the flying public that hey, we're going to make it
easier to become an air traffic controller. So just be
aware that the next time you're cruising at thirty five

(07:07):
thousand feet there may be folks in air traffic control
towers all across the country who shouldn't be in those jobs.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
And the fact that they did it quietly means that
this was an unjust use of Pete Budagigt's power. Recall
that in the Decoration of Independence you just said we
sometimes we talk theoretical stuff. Well, this is one of
those times. Go back to the Decoration of Independence. It
says that government gets its just power from the consent
of the government, so that if government is doing something

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that the people didn't consent to government doing, then government
is exercising by definition, unjust power. It's doing something that's unjust.
So if you're making secret rules in a back room
and you don't tell people what you're doing about how
the government functions, then you are doing something the people
cannot consent to. You can't consent to something you don't

(07:58):
know about. So he's making a change that put people's
lives in risk so that he could have a more
diverse looking workforce, and the people could not consent to that.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
And I do want to point out, because you brought
up diversity, I brought up diversity. This does not mean
that people of color are not smart enough to be
air traffic controller.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Of course not.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
But here's the thing. An air traffic controller and for
those of you who may not fully appreciate what an
air traffic controller does, understand this. They are the ultimate
multitaskers have to be and that isn't look that is
nothing to do with your skin color or intelligence. There
are a lot of type of intelligence. This is a skill.

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And there are some people that are born with the
ability to multitask all of these channels open in their
brain and be able to keep up with each one
and know where they left off on this one and
that way, and to.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Think three dimensionally, and there's some people who can't exactly there.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
It has nothing to.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Do with your sex. It has nothing to do with
your race. So if we're prioritizing sex and race over
the ability to think three dimensionally multitasking, then we're doing
the wrong thing. And the people didn't consent to it,
which means this was unjust, It was unwise, it was Unamerican.
It has nothing it has to do with skill level.
It's like that should have been the only criteria.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
It's like the NBA drafting me. I mean that you'd
make it more diverse, but it wouldn't be entertaining.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Let's get the tougher things you need before the mom
you'd be a little entertaining.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
It'd be kind of probably be a lot entertaining.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Second that you need before our first thing you need
before of President Trump is vowing to fight a new
global carbon tax being proposed by the United Nations. The
Unit Nations proposed instituting a tax on global shipping industries
in an effort to lower carbon emissions. The UN's International
Maritime Organization proposed the net zero framework earlier this year,
and the entire UN is set to vote on at
this fall. Trump administration called the proposal a global carbon

(10:03):
tax on Americans and promised to retaliate against other nations
that the tax passes The UN.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Well, yeah, I mean, and look, Trump has already said
I'm going to withdraw all funding of the UN.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
And the UN does not have the power or authority
to tax nations. That's not its job. Its job is
to stop wars, not tax people.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
It's just more of this climate change agenda nonsense.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Second thing you needable from all The city owned a
grocery store in Kansas City, Missouri, has closed. Kansas City
Sunfresh Market was owned and run by the government of
Kansas City, but it didn't generate enough revenue to remain open,
as the store shelves were often empty. The city spent
more than eighteen million dollars running the market, including an
emergency funding last year of seven hundred and fifty thousand
just to keep the doors open. A note was posted

(10:48):
on the doors to the market this week saying, Unfortunately,
due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we are no
longer at this time able to serve the residents of
this important community. Democratic socialist Zorroon Momdami, who's leading the
race to be the next mayor of New York, has
announced plans to open several government run at grocery stores
in the Big Apple.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Let's see, that's a lie. It certainly was within the
government's control. They made a bad decision to try socialism.
It wasn't unforeseen social It always fails, sales every time,
and the third thing you needed before in all, The
United States of America is accusing the United Kingdom of
human rights abuses and its annual human Rights report card
issued earlier this week.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
The Trump administration says the UK has specific areas of
concern when it comes to human rights, particularly in the
area of free speech. The report says significant human rights
issues included incredible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression,
including enforcement of or threat of criminal or civil laws
in order to limit expression, and crimes, violence or threats
of violence motivated by anti Semitism.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
I think they're absolutely right. The United Kingdom, which had
the Magna Carta, has decided that being politically correct is
more important than free speech.

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Speaker 4 (12:42):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parver Lewissar Evalon e.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
So for some of our more mature listeners. Uh, this
sound will sound very familiar. Take a listen. You've got mail, Yeah,
you've got mail.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
You've got mails from MAOL.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Well AOL.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Did you ever an AOL account?

Speaker 5 (13:01):
I certainly did. Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. And look,
big news from AOL, the granddaddy of consumer internet. They
are officially shutting down their dial up service at the
end of September, under thirty years.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
I'm surprised they still had dial up.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
But hold on, okay, because AOL dial up service is
a lifeline actually for millions of Americans who live in
rural America, because AOL is more than just a novelty.
It's a lifeline for them because you know, cable companies
have ignored small towns. And when DSL was a rumor,

(13:43):
when wireless inn you know, wireless mit cell phones and
not internet, AOL was there, right. I mean, you could
live in the middle of farmland or up in the mountains,
but as long as you had a phone line you
could get online.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
But they're not making enough money to keep it profitable.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
No, I get it. I'm in faulty them for it.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
And at this point you can get starlink anywhere in
the US.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
No, it is different. You've got more options today and dial.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Up still you just you can't even download a picture
off off of dial up. I mean to be able
to watch that video take take forever. It takes forever.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
So if you could load up a website at all, right,
you now have far more options than you used to.
And so I yeah, I'm surprised it was still going,
but especially now with starlink and there's some other satellite services,
I just think they're too expensive. But with Starlink and
the satellites that are up there on that even in

(14:41):
rural areas, you can get very good high speed internet.
But there's pockets of America that have been left behind
because the big ISPs, the Internet service providers, I mean,
you're right, they don't see enough profit profit in running
fiber to a house five miles outside of town.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right, because that's very, very expensive, Which again is why
when the Biden administration was trying to do this whole
We're gonna get broadband to the whole country, they decided
not to go with Elon Musk because Elon Musk was
bringing free speech to Twitter. The Biden administration black balled
elon musk Starlink, not because it wasn't the best option.

(15:20):
It was We've spent billions on broadband and gotten nothing
out of it from the federal government when we could
have spent tens of thousands and gotten a whole bunch
of people hooked up.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Anyway, It's just I thought it was interesting AOL ending
dial up internet service. Yep, after thirty four years, we
got a.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Question for American mama's. Dear mama's, should men be NFL cheerleaders?

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Well, let's ask Merrick and Mama's.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
And Joni's now our American moms tearing out Ofville and
Kimberly Burlison. So apparently the Minnesota Vikings have added two
men to their cheerleader roster in addition to the women,
and apparently a lot of fans just not happy about
all this. Should men be NFL cheerleaders?

Speaker 6 (16:18):
This was funny because people are really mad about it,
and I guess these two guys are going to be
the new head cheerleaders. So they're doing a lot of
tiktoks or doing a lot of whales.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
The men are the head cheerleaders.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
They're the head cheerleaders for the Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
What's funny, real quick? Are they going to man splain
cheerleading now? Is that?

Speaker 6 (16:35):
I don't know, but they're like they got the hair
flip down. They've been doing that a lot of hair flips.
But when I saw that fans were upset about it,
I did not realize that there's like twelve. I think
this might be the thirteenth NFL team to have male cheerleaders, right,
which I had no idea.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah, it started several years, I think like Atlanta Falcons
or Tampa Bay Buck was one of those. As one
of the teams in the South. I believed that I
had no idea I had already had some male cheerleaders.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
What I couldn't what I couldn't believe is Minnesota, of
all places, the fans are.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Mad, same place at voted for Tim Moles.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
I'm like, what you're mad?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Like that?

Speaker 6 (17:10):
That's what blew me away. The thing about cheerleading, I mean,
this is not a male taking a woman, This is
not sports is a totally different thing. Their cheerleaders have
been both male and female, and fact I think they
started as male right.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
And so well at West Point. Actually, my father was
a cheerleader in high school and his roommate. He may
have been the cheerleader at West Point as well. But
at West Point initially they didn't have female cadets. So
the cheerleaders, the yell leaders as they were called, were men.
And you still have a lot of especially in college,

(17:47):
you have a lot of yet yeah, yell leaders at
Texas a andem. You still have a lot of men
that are doing that are in the cheer squads. At
all universities that I can think of, you've got male
cheerleaders mictually with the female squads. But in the NFL
it wasn't. It was all female for so long.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
It was all female and it was dancing. It's not
you know, a lot of the male cheerleaders it's the strength.
You know, they can throw girls up, hold pyramids, that
kind of thing, Whereas this is just dance and very
feminine dancing. And but I don't care, you don't, I
don't care. No, I don't care, just because I think
it's a space that has always been men and women.

(18:28):
Yet it's a dance team. But it's one of those
places that doesn't bother me because it's entertainment.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I think I know what the deal is, though, I'll
be honest, I think that with the people who are frustrated.
First of all, I didn't know they were the head cheerleaders.
So that's just two more places that normally would be
probably held by women. And we're talking about two different
kinds like the yell leaders. The cheerleaders have passed that
hold and the ones that are still in college that
hold the girls up and they do all the they
do all the strength strength work. When you have these

(18:57):
two guys when they're on TikTok, they're doing the flamboyant
hair flip and it looks like they've gotten glamorize their face,
and some men probably are uncomfortable watching them shake their
rear end in such a seductive way. And so there's
probably that element to it that makes people uncomfortable, is
my guess. I can only surmise that, but I think

(19:19):
most people probably don't care. But the all eyes will
be it's still kind of a drag queen type thing
where people are fascinated.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
That's where that's where I'm like, is this, how are
you doing it? Are you doing it like the college cheerleaders,
where there's still is a masculinity to it. The male
cheerleaders aren't necessarily doing the high kicks up to the
head and they're not shaking their butts and it's it's
a it's a stringth thing and it's a cheer thing
and there's still a masculine way to do it. Or

(19:50):
is this drag? And yeah, as a football fan, you
know what, I don't need to see drag. I did
not want to spend all that money or watch on
TV to watch drag when I'm trying to watch football.
I want to watch football.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting because we're we so believe
the people they have the right to live their life
the way they want to. And this this is clearly
a passion of theirs. When you look on TikTok or reels,
the ones that make the their reels go viral are
those whether it's in the marching band or it's on
a girl's drill team. Are the flamboyant ones who are

(20:24):
like doing the the whole z snap and they you know,
they flick their hair style that I think that makes
some people uncomfortable. Like Kimberly said, she's she's fine with it,
she says, not uncomfortable. I'm not uncomfortable but I would
beat my attention would be watching. That's the one that
my eyes would go to, just out of fascination. So
the men that are going to these NFL games, especially

(20:45):
the Minnesota Vikings, you know, to see these these men
out there that you almost wish you had their face.
They're beautiful people, and I think that maybe some of
the men are just like, no, I don't want this
in my face like I want to.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
You know, they can turn away, absolutely, we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
That's the danger. Yeah, that's the danger. They will.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
And the point is is y'all are saying that this
is there's been a backlash. So I'm just trying to
I'm just trying to surmise why. And that's the only
thing that can come up with for me.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
It would be are these men doing masculine things? Or
are these men pretending to be women? Because I am
tired of men pretending to be women and having that
shoved in my face. Yeah, I'm not okay with that.
If you like askar American Mama was a question, go
to our website Americanroundradio dot com slash Mama's a click
on the ask the Mama's button. Terry Nettivill Kimberly Brothers,
and thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Andy.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
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Speaker 4 (22:29):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Pop Lewis sar Avaloni.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
You remember we were talking about Delia Ramirez, right, and
she was talking about how she was a Guatemalan before
she was this is American citizen.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
This is a congresswoman. Congresswoman Delia Ramirez was saying that
she's a Guatemalan, that that she's a Guatemalan before she's
an American, that that's where her allegiance. And by the way,
she said this when she was in Mexico City, not
even in the US, but down in Mexico.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
She was saying, and now she's revealing that nearly half
of her family in this country is undocumented.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Her husband she said, her husband's an illegal alien. I
guess her mother was an illegal alien. Her father I
think was illegal residents.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
But yeah, and then she says, you know that we're
going to fight for our rights. Well, illegal immigrants do
not enjoy the same level of rights as American citizens,
like voting, for example.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
That's yes, that's a right that American citizens have that
illegal aliens don't have. Here's another right. American citizens have
the right to live in the United States of America.
If you come into the country illegally, you do not
have the right to live in America. Now you immigrate
to the United States legally, you follow our legal systems. Man,
Not only do we want you in the United States.
When you take your citizenships test and you pass it

(23:53):
and there's that ceremony that you become a citizen, we
will cheer that, we will put that on the news,
and we will celebrate that moment.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
But even if you're here illegally, you do have the
right to do process. Sure, of course, you do have
the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishmently,
but you don't necessarily enjoy the full rights of freedom
of speech.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
There are, how so, which freedoms of speech does well.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
In other words, I mean, the fact that you might
decide that you want to protest instead of being arrested
or apprehended by ice doesn't mean that your free speech
rights are being infringed upon.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Right you can. You still have the right to protest,
but that I still has the obligation to arrest you.
So that's that's a different thing.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
All right.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Did you see this court case out of Las Vegas
with the NFL. Do you see that because we've got
football coming back? And John Gruden, the former coach, says, hey,
I got fired and it wasn't very cool.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Uh, And I thought I've only heard a little bit
about this. I thought maybe we talked to somebody who
knows a little bit more about the case. Who we
call Sam Mirozovsky, a new Nevada based attorney who's been
following this case. Sam. Welcome to American Ground Radio, sir.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Hey, guy's great to be with you.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
Did I say that last name? I think I butchered
that Mirozovsky.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
No, it's perfect, Arrajovsky, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
I did it, great, excellent. Okay. So John Gruden was
fired and he says that before he was fired.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
Former coach of the what is that the Raiders?

Speaker 4 (25:28):
The Raiders, And he says, before he was fired, the
league leaked emails of him making him look bad, and
then he sued the league, and the league said, well,
now you have to go into arbitration, and you have
to go into arbitration. The person doing the arbitration is
basically the person you're suing. Is that about right?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, yeah, so the NFL would love to have this
covered in an arbitration agreement because then everything can be
done quietly, behind closed doors. They can control the process. Uh.
And and that's the thing that the NFL wants here,
because they don't want to have the discovery made public.

(26:10):
That what I suspect, you know from the very beginning
that Goodell Commissioner Roger Goodell, uh was the one behind
the leaks of these Gruden emails in a deliberate sabotage
against both Gruden against the Raiders. You know, Gruden had
you know, Goodell has a kind of a little bit
of a of a conflict there with with the Raiders

(26:32):
and he so so this has been a this is
a fascinating case, and and we had a big decision
a couple of days ago, where the Supreme Court of
Nevada said, nope. Yet, you know this thing is outside
of the bounds of of the of the of the
arbitration agreement. Good that Grudden is a former employee and

(26:53):
is a former employees now bound by it. So the
thing is going to go to open court. The NFL's appealing,
so we'll see where it goes from here.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
So the NFL is trying to get to the US
Supreme Court on this. Do you think the US Supreme
Court is going to take this case up?

Speaker 3 (27:09):
I don't possibly. I mean, obviously it's a high profile case,
but I think you know, this is the Nevada law
will govern here, So they're they're you know, the Supreme
Court has I think, on two or three different occasions,
taken up arbitration. Uh uh you know clauses uh and

(27:32):
and has has gone through and looked at these cases
they've had. They've had at least two decisions that have
sort of contradicted each other. So they may they may
take it up if there's a particular issue that's interesting
to the Supreme Court. Otherwise they'll just take it back.
I don't have a crystal ball on that. Uh. But
but you can see. I think the interesting thing for

(27:53):
everybody to see is that the NFL is so concerned
about this lawsuit glowing open, and the last past couple
of years, people have forgotten about it because it's just
been laying going through all these procedurals. Who's but yeah,
procedural hurdles has just been sort of laying dormant. But
it is a nightmare. And I when this originally came out,

(28:15):
I think, I think if the allegations by Gruden see
the light of day, there's a strong chance Roger Goodell
was his job. And that's really what's on. You know,
on the line, we're.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Talking with the VATA base attorney Sam muir Jowski.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
Okay, but Sam, why why should just everyday American worry
about the outcome of this case? What is the impact
to just ordinary Americans?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Well, yeah, Well everybody has a different opinion about this.
I think NFL football under Roger Goodell has gone into
the toilet. That's my personal opinion. So what I what
I think is good. I think that this would be
a needed a cleaning house of the NFL. And and
Gruden is a look, Grudden is has become a Crusader.

(29:08):
It is suspected. I don't have confirmation of this, but
one of these rumors that is possibly true in Las
Vegas circulating among those of us in the know that
Gruden's lawsuit is actually being funded, his legal fees are
being paid by Mark Davis, and that and one of
the reasons that we believe this to be true. Again,

(29:32):
it's a rumor, it's not confirmed, but Gruden is using
some of the same attorneys that represent Mark Davis. If
Mark Davis was at odds, was John Gruden. Davis is
the you know, eight hundred pound gorilla. He absolutely wouldn't
you know, wouldn't be lending you know, his his his
financial resources or his people. There'd be a conflict there.

(29:52):
He couldn't. They couldn't. They couldn't work on the same
you know, they couldn't work for somebody that was at
odds with Davis. So I think I think this is
are really a fight against the NFL. Whether you like
the Raiders, don't like the Raiders, don't you know, know
anything about Vegas or whatnot, there's this could lead to
one of the most major shake ups in the NFL

(30:13):
that that we've seen, certainly in my lifetime.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
Okay, so we got about thirty seconds. So what is
Goodell's beef with the Raiders?

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Well, I I think there was some conflict there with
with with Mark, with Mark Davis, and I think that
that what what the Goodell's Again, people have been saying
that Goodell wanted to wanted wanted wanted to sink them
by linking leaking out these emails against Gruden, and there
was some beef. I don't know exactly what it was, uh,

(30:43):
but there was there was a conflict, and and it
was done very deliberately to sabotage the Raiders and to
put Mark Davis in a position where he couldn't do anything,
but you know, ask for John Gruden's uh departure from
from the team.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Very interesting stuff. We've all the insight. We're talking with
Sam Mirajowski, a Nevada based attorney. Of course, this is
a Nevada based case. Sam, Thank you so much for
spending some time with us here on American Ground Radio.
Appreciate you, sir, You bet my pleasure.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Well, coming up next.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Here on American Ground Radio, you got a bright spot
for you, some good stuff happening. I want to make
sure you know about it. Stick around.

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(32:13):
Stephen Palmer, Lewis Avalon.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
You know this is one of those about time moment
or about time all right. I mean, because look for
years that you had the Biden administration or the State
Department for the Biden administration, one of the same. They
tiptoed around one of the most dangerous, manipulative, well connected
terrorist backing organizations in the world, and that is the

(32:38):
Muslim Brotherhood. Oh they called it political activism. Right, they
said it was a social movement. No, they acted like
it was just another in geo out there doing you know,
community outreach.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
No, give me a breakness the mother Muslim Brotherhood.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Anybody that's been paying attention in the last few decades
knows that the Muslim Brotherhood is not some friendly little
civic club. This is the ideological mothership for some of
the most radical anti American, anti freedom movements on the planet.
I mean, they've perfected the art of hiding behind a

(33:17):
suit and tie, while at the same time, what are
they doing. They're financing, they're encouraging, They're feeding violent extremism
from Egypt to Gaza to right here in the United States.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Look, Egypt banned the Muslim Brotherhood and anybody associated with
Muslim Brotherhood because Egypt said they're a terrorist organization. Egypt
is a Muslim nation, So for them to be banning
the Muslim Brotherhood, absolutely it suggests this isn't just a
social club.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
So I bring all of this up because now Secretary
of State Marco Rubio has confirmed the days of the
Muslim Brotherhood hiding behind political activism are numbered. Okay, because
now they will be considered a terrorist organization. So we've

(34:06):
designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Yeah, that's
an about time kind of thing. Yes, it's about time
we did that again. Egypt did that back in twenty thirteen.
We're twelve years late. We're twelve years late of doing this.
This should have already been done.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
But back when Egypt did it, Barack Obama was president.
You get in Donald Trump Trump one point zero, the
State Department still had a whole bunch of deep state
activists in it.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
So I think he's put the Muslim Brotherhood on notice.
And what this also does it tells our allies, yeah
in the Middle East, that we won't undercut them by
cozying up to their enemies.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
You know, I think Marco Rubio has done an excellent
job so far as leadership at Secretary of State, absolutely
and executing the vision that Donald Trump has for our
foreign policy. First, let's get to a bright spot.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
I'm doing all right, getting good grades.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Well, the city of New York is closing its last
remaining hotel migrant shelter. When Texas started busing illegal immigrants
to New York City, the city responded by creating shelters.
They used hotels, sometimes very fancy hotels, to be their
shelters for illegal aliens, and in some cases they kicked

(35:33):
military veterans out of those hotels so that illegal aliens
could move in. The Row Hotel was the first hotel
that they used this in. It's just a couple of
blocks off of Times Square, which is.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
A pretty can be well. Look, staying anywhere in New York,
especially Manhattan, yes, is expensive, but if you're just a.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Couple of blocks off of Times Square, that's that's some
of the most expensive real estate anywhere in the country.
It's and by the way, the Row Hotel is a
luxury hotel. The city was using all of its one thousand,
three hundred units at a monthly cost of five point
one three million dollars. The city again, just on this

(36:16):
one hotel every single month five point one three million
dollars to house illegal.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Alien That's a lot of shower caps and the little
miniature soaps, little miniatures shampoo and conditioner.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
So that was the first hotel that they did and
it's now the last, and they are ending their contract
at the Row Hotel and everybody that's in it's moving
out now. Some of the people who were staying in
that hotel, a fancy, very luxury hotel. Some of them
were gang members in Trendy Arragua. Okay, So the City

(36:52):
of New York spending five point one to three million
dollars a month to put gang members into a fane
hotel blocks away from Times Square, and those Trendy Ragua
members fought with police officers, literally fought with them in
the hotel and on the streets just outside numerous times.

(37:15):
Because in New York, you punch a cop, you go
to jail, and they let you write back.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
You know.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
It's so interesting. Though. Hotels are a business. They exist
to rent rooms to paying customers, tourists, business travelers, families
visiting the city. But every time you put an illegal
immigrant in one of those rooms, you're taking it off
the market for someone who is actually contributing to the economy.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
Right, So you'll actually be driving up the cost to
hotel rooms in the City of New York by putting
illegal immigrants in these fancy hotels. Just from the Daily Wire,
city residents are celebrating the closure and the end of
mass sheltering. Hallelujah, I'm happy that's happening. Set a resident
of the Camelot apartment complex across the street. We pay
a lot of money to live here, and it doesn't

(38:02):
seem fair. That's exactly right. Americans, citizens, legal residents were
spending a lot of money to live right across the
street from where the city was putting up trend de
Arragua with their own tax dollars.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
I mean, those are dangerous folks, obviously, obviously, but look
getting illegal immigrants out of New York City hotels. And
I know a lot of folks say, oh, y'all are
just cruel. You don't care about people or humanity.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
America firsts I care about Americans first.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
But this is smart, this is fair, it's putting citizens
in common sense. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
First, this is a bright spot. New York taxpayers should
never have been paying to house, clothe, and feed illegal aliens,
people who had no legal right to be in the
country in the first place. The city's policies drove up
housing costs, they drove up crime, and they drove down wages.
And it's a good thing they're kicking them out. It's
a bright spot.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Welcome back to American Grand Radium. Stephen power Lewis ar Evaloni.

Speaker 5 (39:17):
So polling for the upcoming New York City mayor's race
shows that none other than Zo Ran Ma'm danny, Yes,
the self proclaimed socialist, is now leading. He's expanded his lead. Yeah,
he's now leading by nineteen points.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Basically, he's at fifty percent.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
That's not a squeaker. Obviously, that's a landslide in the making.
And if you don't know who ma'am Danny is, let
me paint the picture for you. This is a man
who has never met a hard left policy he didn't like.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Right, he's he's he's in favor of globalizing. The Intafada,
which means the Indo Fada, by the way, was the
violent murder of Jews in Israel. He wants to globe
He despises capitalism, the very system that built the city
he wants to run. He lives actually in rent controlled
apartments in New York that's supposed to be for low

(40:10):
income people, but he also lives off of his parents'
money that he's running for mayor. And he said that
if he ran out of his savings, he knew that
his dad would just give him money.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
But here's the thing, do you think if he in
fact does win.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
Do you think all across the country, folks who consider
themselves independent may pull more to the right because they
see what extremism looks like, I mean up close and personal.
As the mayor of New York City, well.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
You're gonna see a whole bunch of billionaires immediately move
out of New York. And I do think you're gonna
have a lot of independence that are just like whoa woo.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
When I say whoa ah, I mean wow.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
President Trump announced this year's Kennedy Center Honor Award ease.
They include Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa your favorite Oh Yes, absolutely,
the rock band Kiss, singer Gloria Gaynor I will survive
remember that song? Oh Yeah, country music star George Strait,
I Love George Straight, and Broadway star Michael Crawford, who
began as the Phantom of the Opera. At the announcement today,

(41:23):
the President raved about all the award recipients he also
personally approved on the list of who's going to get
the award, turning down several nominees President said were too woke.
President also joked since nineteen seventy eighth Kenner Honors have
been among the most prestigious awards in the performing arts.
I wanted one, I was never able to get one.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
I guess Rosie O'Donnell, she's already got one. Ellen Didjeres,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
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