August 15, 2025 • 42 mins
This is the full show for August 14, 2025. We ask the American Mamas what they think of the no cell phones in schools policy. We Dig Deep into Scott Bessent's attempt to ban insider trading by members of Congress. Plus, homeless people in D.C. are being moved from the street to rehab, and that's a Bright Spot. And we finish off with a turtle that will make you say, "Whoa!"
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Speaker 4 (01:01):
You know, I have seen a lot of political shananigans
in my time. I mean a lot. But what California
Governor Gavin Newsom just pulled, what he is trying to
sell to the American people and his own constituents there
in the state of California as some sort of noble
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democracy saving crusade. Well, I think this is the single
most or one of the single most egregious, most cynical,
most brazen political power grab in modern history of this country. Okay,
I'm talking about his announcement. You saw this announcement that
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he is calling a special election November fourth, right to
essentially rig California's current congressional map and replace it with
a jerry mandard monstrosity.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You're using the wrong words. He has called a special
election to take the current jerry mandered California so jerry
and turn it into an even more jerrymandered map.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well in the process, it looks like what he's doing,
or attempting to do, is to wipe out the last
remaining Republican seats in the state, not trim them, not
adjust them, but eliminate them. Gone that from nine seats.
Republicans hold nine seats in the state of California. He
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wants to reduce that down to zero.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
In the last election, about forty three percent of the
voters in California voted Republican, but only seventeen percent of
the congressional seats went to Republicans. That's how heavily jerry
mandered California is they have ninety seats. Oh they should
have they statistically speaking, twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
That's called democracy. And here's the kicker. Well he's calling,
he claims he is saving. Let me tell you something.
If this is what Gavin Newsom and the left thinks
is saving democracy, then I think we've just found the
dictionary definition of Orwellian doublespeak. Because in the real world,
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in the real world where all of us live, in
the America most of us live in, saving democracy doesn't
mean disenfranchising nearly or over forty percent of your state voters.
It doesn't mean silencing their vote in Congress. And it
sure as heck doesn't mean shredding the oath you swore
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to uphold to the Constitution, both to California and to
the United States Constitution.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I mean, now he's mad because Texas is gerrymandering. He's
saying gerrymandering its districts to be more favorable for Republicans.
And Republicans in the state of Texas have indeed said
we want to eight five more Republican friendly seats in
the state of Texas than we currently have. But here's
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what Gavin Newsom doesn't understand. Even if you add those
five seats, most of which, by the way, our majority
are minority majority seats, they just happen to be Hispanic
majority seats, Okay, And there's actually not as much stretching
and clawing of the districts as they're currently is. These
are just big blocks of districts that are getting set.
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They just drew the lines differently and you can clump
population together, and now it's minority majority who happened to
be Republican. But even if this map gets passed through
in Texas, which I think it will, it is still
less jerrymandered statistically speaking than California's current map. So Gavin
Newsom is saying, if you make your map even a
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little less jerrymandered than California's map, we're gonna make ours
even more jerrymandered.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now I don't think it's gonna flow.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So in Texas, the state legislature gets to decide how
the maps are drawn. In California, they changed that loss
several years ago to where the people have to vote
for it. So Governor Greg Gabbott in Texas he calls
a special session of the Texas Legislature, he's gonna have
to call another one and the legislature will draw it.
In California, Gavin Newsom can't call it just a special
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session legislature. He has to call a special election of
the people. But it turns out the majority of voters
in the state of California. Don't want a more Jerrymanderd
map than the one that currently exists.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, because this is Banana republic stuff, and let's we're
not sugarcoating this.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
What Newsom is proposing is the kind of move you
see in unstable countries that are run by strong men,
you know, the drill. Right, They redraw the maps, they
eliminate the opposition, they declare it's all being done quote
unquote for the people. It's the same playbook used by
rigimes that have no interest in actual democracy, only in
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maintaining their.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Own grip on power. And in America, right, I mean,
we've always prided ourselves on being different. We've had peaceful
transitions of power, we've had competitive elections, well at least
in theory here in recent recent years. But we've always
prided ourselves for most of my lifetime, on a level
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playing field for political competition. But moves like this, well,
that just chips away at that foundation. It normalizes the
idea that it's okay to use the machinery of government
to silence your opponents. And once that idea takes hold,
I mean, it's very hard to get that back and
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could New York State do the same, Well, again, New
York's already done it. New York redistricted. They're in the
twenty twenty senses that the courts slap them down. No,
but the map survived. They were able to ride out
five Republican districts in the state of New York in
this last redistricting process. Yes, they got shot down, but
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they came back and they were still able to get
rid of five Republicans out of the state of New
York by redrawing the lines. There's just not that much
more line drawing.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You can do.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Same thing with Illinois. Illinois cannot jerrymander a whole big change.
They kind of already have. They've already done. It's rigged
as much as they possibly can make. And that's where
I'm like with the Democrat Party. I call them the
Party of projection, because whatever they accuse you of doing,
they've already done. Gavin Newsom says, We're going to respond
to your jerrymandering with more gerrymandering. Texas is responding to
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the jerrymandering in California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon,
all over the country. The left has already jerrymandered their
districts to a grow tesque amount. But here's the thing.
All you liberals who are going to rush to Gavin
Newsom's support or to his side to support what he's doing.
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Many again, it's only one third of Californians want to
do this.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
But you've got to remember, if you're a leftist and
you're going to support or otherwise encourage what Gavin Newsom
is doing, you're a hypocrite. And the reason that I
say that is because, remember, it's the Democrats. It's those
on the left that lecture the rest of us about
inclusivity and fairness and the will of the people. But
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apparently the will of the people only counts if those
people are Democrats. If you're a Republican in California, Gavin
Newsom's message is clear. Your voice doesn't matter, your voice
doesn't matter, your vote doesn't matter. You don't deserve representation
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in Congress. And that's not just hypocrisy. That is contempt.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That is contempt for nearly or over forty percent of
his own California constituents. Contempt, understand what I'm saying, Contempt
for the constitutional principle of equal representation. But the Democrat Party,
especially the leaders of the Democrat Party, have already told
you this, Lewis, I'm done with it. They've already told
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you done with it. They've already told you. Anybody who
votes for Donald Trump as part of the basket of deplorables,
they already told you they don't like us. Is this
any surprise. Let's get to the top three things you
need no before tomorrow, first singing you need noble for tomorrow.
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Apparently Washington, d C. Is abandoning it's sanctuary city policies.
This comes up to President Trump federalized the DC police
and brought in the National Guard to combat crime in
our nation's capital. DC has long refused to cooperate with
ice officers and detainer requests. Washington DC Police Chief Pamela A.
Smith released a statement saying, quote, effective immediately, members may
assist federal Immigration enforcement agencies with the following sharing information
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about persons not in MPDA custody, providing transportation for Federal
Immigration Agency employees, and detained suspects. However, the order stops
short of fully cooperating with the effort to remove illegal
aliens from the city, as officers are still banned from
arresting individuals solely based on their immigration status.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You know, this is hilarious And what is so funny
about this. I know it's a dangerous subject. That Don't
get me wrong, It's a serious subject. But here is
the police chief in Washington, d c. Thinking she is
going to appease President Trump by this somewhat compromise move.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Second thing in edible from President Trump is flying to
Alaska to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin about
ending the war in Ukraine. President Putin today praise the
efforts of President Trump to bring the war to an end,
saying the Trump administration is quote making quite energetic and
sincere efforts to stop the fighting, stop the crisis, and
reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved
in this conflict. President Trump is using a carrot and
stick approach. He's offering to increase trade between Russia and
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the US, while at the same time threatening secondary tariffs
on any country doing business with Russia if Putin refuses
to end the war.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You know, why was Alaska chosen? I mean, I know,
it's kind of because it's a halfway point.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, no, Russia used to own Alaska for a while.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Two.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Putin can't go to most countries in the world where
he'll be arrested for war crimes.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It's just very I don't know, it's giving that feeling
of rachievank.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And the third thing you did before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A member of the Department of Justice has been fired
after attacking a Customs and Border Patrol officer with a
subway sandwich. The incident happened in Washington, d C. After
President Trump's federal law enforcement search started this week. The
man was seen on video calling the officer's fascist and
then throwing his sandwich at them. He then attempted to
run away before being caught. US Attorney Jene Piro announced
that the man had been charged with fellow the assault
on a federal officer. Turns out the man worked at
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the Department of Justice. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired him
after the assault, saying this is an example the deep
state we have been up against for seven months as
we worked to refocus the DOJ. So he threw his sandwich, Yeah,
at ice officers.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
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Speaker 3 (13:12):
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So Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
A sanctuary city for years YEP, safe harbor for illegal immigrants,
a place where the leadership prided itself. A city government
there in DC.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The city government prided itself on refusing to cooperate with
the federal government, even though the entire point of the
city of Washington, d C is the federal government and
why Washington C was founded. It's why Washington d C exists.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No, but it's just it's kind of it's comical that
now all of a sudden, the city Council, the chief
of Police there, it's like they've had some grand epiphany
since President Trump has announced that he's going to take over.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No, their epiphany is they're screwed if they don't, because
Donald Trump is just going to steamer on them. He
took he's taken federal control of the Metropolitan Police already.
The chief of police now works for the president of
the United States of America. She wants to keep her job,
she better do what the president says.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
But here's the thing. You can't play both sides with
Donald Trump. You can't whisper to your far left allies,
don't worry, We're still on your side, and then publicly
pretend now, all of a sudden, you're about law and order.
I mean, Trump doesn't buy it. No, I mean he
doesn't go along to get along. If he thinks you're
playing games with public safety, he's going to call you out.
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But this is I think what this chief of police
thinks that she's doing is appeasing President Trump, fooling him,
pulling the wool over his eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Is she that dumb? I don't think that's what she's doing.
I think she's going I don't have another choice here.
If I fight the President, I lose, So I have
to put out this memo saying we will cooperate with ICE.
Now she did it the least the fewest steps you
could take, is what she said. She said, the officers,
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you're not supposed to be arresting people because they're illegal immigrants.
If you arrest them for something else, you can tell
ICE about them, but you can't just ask about their
immigration status with no other probable cause.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So she's like, we're.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Going the very smallest step possible to where I can
say I am cooperating with Trump. I don't think she's
trying to appease them. I don't think she's trying to
fool them. I think she's trying to save her own ass.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I think so as well. But let's just remind folks
sanctuary policies aren't compassionate. They're reckless. They tie the hands
of law enforcement, They shield criminals from consequences. They make
communities left safe and if and that's not just speculation,
it's reality.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
All soft on crime policies are bad. Not because you know,
I'm I want people in jail, but because I want
people not afraid to walk through their neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Now, I get it, and I do think this police
chief is this isn't about a heartfelt conversion. This is
really about survival.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
We got a question for American mamas. Dear mama's, what
do you think of the no cell phones in schools policy? Well,
let's ask American mama's and joining is now are American
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mamas tern Edville and Kimberly Burlison. This is going on
a lot of states in Texas, Louisiana, New York.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I don't know all of them, but this is going on.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
In a lot of different states where schools are basically
outlawing cell phones for students. Yet you have to put
them into a covey at the check in of the school.
They can't be just in your backpack, they can't be
in class, you can't have them during the day. What
do y'all think of this?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Well, I think it's funny. They started this in Texas.
This is a new thing in Texas. But I saw
a man on TikTok. He's an educator in Texas, and
he said he is already just in the one week
that they've been in school, he has seen such a
drastic change in students.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Really, he said.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
One thing is they're taking notes, okay. And he said,
and when they have breaks, they're talking to each other,
because that was not something that we ever saw. And
he said, it feels like a little bit of old school.
And I thought, wouldn't that be so funny if notes
are started again, you know, remember when you'd make that
your note and you may like a person again. You're right,
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So I do think that this is like maybe it's
reconnecting people. I don't know what the real reason. There's
a lot of cheating.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Oh oh oh oh, you're talking about notes, not taking
no notes from what the what the teacher is talking
about that?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But they're notes to each.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Other, right, No, I'm taking notes, okay, taking notes that
I'm saying, we may see a resurgence of writing notes
to each other, football to each other.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
The other thing that he said was they're actually coming
up and asking him questions about what he on their notes?
They're coming up, he said, he said, I mean, is
it this easy? Has it been this easy all along?
All we had to do was take the phones out
of their hands in the classrooms.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And we could get our kids back. We get our
kids back, exactly.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
And I think also there's a little element of bullying
that happens through cyber bullying during school hours that has
really hurt hindered so many, especially girls.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You know, well, think about how hard it was for
teachers even to catch you passing a note, right, how
much easier is it for you to bully someone on
on text or on social media? Yes, yes, when when
it was hard to catch a physical note being passed,
and that now that now the notes being done over
the internet and you can't even see And just.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Think about this. There's a been a lot of cheating
at every level, you know, when you've got your phone,
there's been a lot of ways that they can cheat.
And so the children and the young adults in college,
they don't learn what they're supposed to learn to go
to the to go into the workforce. Now, if you
have this in place, and hats off to Texas, you know,
just they I love that they lead in this way.
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They are the ones that are going to show us
these kids will be better prepared for college because they'll
have to learn. You have nothing else to do but
listen to your teacher talk. You know, maybe they have
these group you know, group think tanks that we used
to have, you know, the teachers and y'all get together
and y'all it's called critical thinking.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Again.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
You're teaching children how to be critical thinkers in this
world because that kind of was lost. You had your phone.
I do it now. I you know, a lot of
my critical thinking skills are probably gone because instead of
trying to think about I'll just google what does this mean?
What are you? You know? What is this? What are
they trying to say here?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Right?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Instead of be thinking from myself.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I've also seen that chat cheapt has changed. I don't
know if y'all seen that. They've kind of updated it.
So now a lot of kids were using that to
write notes, to write papers. Well, now they have a
for teachers to you'll use. It's a tool that shows
you what part of it was taken out, the percentage
of it that was restructured, reworded, so that now they
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can't get away as easily.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
So they're actually using chatchibt to help find kids.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That are using chat chi.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Exactly, exactly interesting. You know you said that about critical thinking.
I'm wondering if a lot of this has to do
with our test scores in our country that we're falling below,
and maybe maybe there's this concerted effort to help us
rise in the ranks when it comes to our education,
because I think we're dumbing down our kids. So we
have been, and maybe there's this new let's let's do
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something to change that.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
And having that that in the hallway, face to face
talking to each other, the social awareness, social you know,
to be able to have those social cues that I
think has also been lost with the phones. You know
that you didn't have to call the girl's house and
talk to the father. Oh gosh, yeah, you know what
I mean, Like all of that's been kind of misplaced
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by easily texting. You can easily text anything because you
don't have to worry about being embarrassed. So taking away
the phones also allows you to reconnect as people. I
remember summer when she was younger, she went to summer
camp and she loved it because you could not bring
your phones. She loved to have that, you know, element
taken away from her because she was able to really
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engage with other people, and other people weren't on their phones.
Like you'll go to the restaurant now and you'll see
everybody's on their phone.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I love this.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I think it's going to be really helpful to the students.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well again, happened in Texas.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It's also happening in Louisiana, happening in New York State,
It's happening in several states across the country. This is
definitely a growing trend, and it looks state's supposed to
be the laboratory of democracy. We've had some success in
multiple states. Perhaps every state should be doing this. I agree.
If you like descar America Mama's a question, go our
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you so much, and coming up next to your on
American ground Radio, we are digging deep.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
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Speaker 3 (22:57):
American Ground Radio, Stephen Poward, Lewis oar Avalonaiky. So they've
announced now that the delegation is set, the agenda is
set for this Alaska summit between Putin and President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, and this is not.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's potentially a big deal.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I mean when you see the lineup of folks that
are coming along, I mean you've got the Foreign Minister
for Russia, the Defense Minister for Russia, the Finance Minister
for Russia. Which is interesting. The finance minister is there
for a peace settlement. But that's because Donald Trump is
using economics as leverage to create peace.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
But when you see a lineup like this and that
there's lots of other folks that are that are coming
as well. But when you see a lineup like that,
it tells you one thing. Both sides are coming prepared
to talk about the whole picture, military, economic, diplomatic, strategic
This is not a photo op unless it's a photo
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op to pretend that they're coming, compared to talk about
the whole picture. That's what I think is what's going
on here.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's where I'm concerned, because I believe that.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
You think it's Trump. President Trump said that Putin. He's
basically was fed up with Putin's bs.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Putin is a world class chain yankor Donald Trump is
a world trust troller, right, he controlled better than anybody
else on the planet. Vladimir Putin can yank your chain
better than anybody else on the planet. He will look
you in the eye and he will tell you, oh, yes,
I think we agree on a whole bunch of different things.
And you can say, well, I want you to behave
this way, and he'll go, okay, I understand that you
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want me to behave that way. And then he goes
and he does what he was going to do anyway.
So unless Putin really does understand, the United States is
going to start putting massive economic pressure on him.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Because he wants because President Trump wants peace in Ukraine, yes,
and in Russia for that matter, right, I mean, he
wants the dying of soldiers to stop well.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Because part of it.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Look, we are trying to get rare earth minerals out
of Ukraine. It's in the US national security to have
a supply of rare earth minerals that is not dependent
upon China. But we can't really do that if Russia
is flying drones into Ukraine and blowing everything up. Ever
doing this for that? Are we is that? That's really
what we're saying. I mean, you're going to say that's
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why the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's the only reason.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
What I'm saying is Donald Trump believes that economics is
better when there's peace. That war makes people poor, that
war disrupts economies, it disrupts GDP growth, and Donald Trump
wants everyone in America to be able to thrive. And
for us be able to thrive, we need the rest
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of the world to stop fighting with each other.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
So there are going to need in order to end
this war in Ukraine. There will need to be security
guarantees for Ukraine, I believe. I think so territorial compromise.
So at some point, I don't know if someone's willing
to do that, but that I think that has to happen,
And then there has to be the lifting or easing
of certain sanctions in exchange in exchange for reducing agreed
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troop or having troop withdrawals in the first place.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Let's dig deep, going down down. So while all that's
going on, Scott Besson, the Secretary of Treasurer, says he's
looking for ways to crack down on insider trading by
members of Congress. See, this is this is an administration
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that is able to walk in chew gum at the
same time, they're able to focus on a variety of
different things all going on. You know why, because the
members of the cabinet were not selected based on reasons
or on d I right criteria. They're based on Yeah,
they're based on excellence. So he wrote, or he said,
you're doing an interview this weekend, I am going to
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start pushing for a single stock trading band because the
it is the credibility of the House and the Senate
that you have at some of these eye popping returns,
whether it's Representative Pelosi, Senator Wyden, every hedge fund would
be jealous of them. He says, people shouldn't come to
Washington to get rich, They should come to serve the
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American people and it brings down the trust in the
system because I can tell you that if any private
citizen traded this way, the SEC would be knocking on
their door. And I think Besson should know exactly what
he's talking about here, because not only is he currently
the Secretary of the Treasury, he used to be a
headfunge manager himself. He used to have to pay attention
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to stock trades and what would get the SEC's attention
and what wouldn't get the SEC.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, you know, there's gonna be a lot of folks
that say, oh, well, you know, members of Congress they
have a right to invest like anyone else. But let's
get real. Members of Congress are not just like any
one else. They sit in these closed door hearings when
they get market moving information before the public ever hears
a whisper of it, right, and then they help craft
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the laws and the regulations that can make or break
entire industries. And when they trade stocks in those companies
that they regulate, I mean, it's not participating.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
In a free mike. It's not a free marketing at
that point. It's rigging the game in their favor. Because
one of the things about having a free market is
that there must be There must be equality of information everyone.
You cannot have a free market if some people have
information that other people do not have. This is a
big problem. The Motley Fool dot com keeps track of
(28:42):
trades made by members of Congress. They wrote in twenty
twenty three in Nvidia was traded or held by members,
including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while the Chips and
Science Act was being negotiated and voted on. Other members
made trade in twenty twenty four involving social media companies
while the TikTok band Slash divestment bill was being negotiated
(29:04):
and voted on. Members sitting on committees that deal with
national security traded shares of defense companies, while others that
sit on committees that oversee health traded medical device stocks.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, if you look at Congress as a whole, this
was in twenty twenty two, Congress as a whole beat
the market by nearly eighteen percent. And that is in
a year when the S and P five hundred was
down nineteen percent. So we either have the greatest collection
of financial geniuses in human history sitting in Congress, or
(29:37):
they're getting information that the rest of us don't have,
and then they're acting on it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And if they were financial geniuses, why do we have
thirty seven trillion dollars in debt? So because it's not
their money, because the evidence suggests they aren't financial geniuses.
This Motley fool wrote. One hundred and thirteen members of
Congress made two hundred and sixty one trades in twenty
twenty four, involving seven hundred ndred and six million shares
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or other assets twenty twenty five. This year is on
pace to be a record year, with seven eight hundred
trades involving three hundred and sixty two million shares just
through Dela July. Now, look, it's not every member of Congress.
You've got five hundred and thirty five members of Congress,
so that means insider trading is being done by about
twenty percent of our congressmen and women. So you got
(30:24):
a majority not engaging in this. But that's not the point.
Twenty percent of insider trading in Congress is a huge
corruption issue, and it's bipartisan. The ten members of Congress
who made the most trades so far this year include
five Democrats and five Republicans. Now, ro Kana the Democrat
currently takes the cake. He's made two nine hundred and
(30:44):
thirty eight trades this year alone, totally more than forty
one million dollars in trades this year alone. That's five
times a number of trades made by the second place congressman.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
And you know what, if there are a lot of
folks who go to Congress, I don't know that they
start out this way thinking that they're going to become
you know, mega rich, right based on stock investing, on
inside of training. But here's the thing. If there are
any folks that go to Washington, DC or decide to
sign up and run for Congress because of that, and
(31:16):
this ban on stock trading by members of Congress discourages them, yeah,
I say amen, A men, A men, Because then what
you're doing is you're keeping the wrong kind of people
who really don't aren't there for the public service as
much as they are for their own enrichment.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well, and it also proves that members of Congress at
least twenty percent do not have a code of conduct,
do not have a sense of ethics.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well, that's worth it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
It's an allegation they just happen to beat the market
in a down year.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
No, You've got people that are doing trades on committees
where they're getting information. If you have any ethics at all,
you don't make that trade.
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Speaker 2 (33:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Stephen Parr with Lewis sar Ron Howard. You know Opie
Yeah from Andy Griffith. Well, yeah, also all the Happy Days.
It's a happy Days Richie from having and of course.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Great director, sure, countless movies, one of which is Hillbilly Elegy, right,
which was the film adaptation of JD. Vance's twenty sixteen
memoir Right, you know he gave this. So Ron Howard
is giving this interview, and it sounds like he's distancing
himself from JD.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Vance. He says he's been doing that for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
He says, I wouldn't have expected Vance's rhetoric to be
as divisive as it sometimes is. Now that's pretty vague, okay,
But then in the very next breath he says, well,
I'm max not really listening to every word that the
Vice president is saying. So which is it. You're either
(34:07):
listening intently and that's how you're picking up on how
divisive it is, or you're not listening and you're just
pandering to the leftist and the Hollywood crowd that's listening
to your interview, who might associate you with the vice
president of the United States, whom they believe to be,
you know, the second incarnation of the devil himself, just
(34:28):
second to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
And what if just I'm just throwing this out there.
What if the only reason what jd Vance says could
be construed as divisive is if you're not actually listening
to what he says, but you're hearing what you think
you want to will yeah say, or more to the point,
you're hearing what you don't want to hear. You're hearing
(34:51):
things that he's not saying that makes you mad. It
could because you want to be mad at him because
he's the vice president for Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But see, in Hollywood speak, divisive means he's saying things
about my friends, or he's saying things that my friends
might not lie. Right, And that's the tell. This really
isn't about the truth, right, It's it's not about policy.
I don't even think it's about tone. I think this
is about Ron Howard and the social acceptability of Ron
(35:21):
Howard having directed He'll Billy what is Elegy Elegy?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
But he's also I mean a follow thirteen and I
mean just a number of great films that he's that.
But to be associated with jd.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Vance, see, there's a lot of folks that would say, oh, oh, oh,
so you're yeah, so you believe what he believes, And
and those folks who say what he believes that they're
not even listening either.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
But at the time when they were making the movie, JD.
Vance was not a Republican. He was a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
And you know what, that raises a great point. I
don't think Ron how would have directed the film if
he had been.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Let's get to a bright spot. I'm doing all right,
getting good grades. You just so fright. I gotta shame,
all right.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
So, as part of the federal takeover Washington, d C's
law enforcement, the Trump administration is tearing down homeless encampments
in our nation's capital. And what's more, the administration is
giving homeless people in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Two choices. Here's Carolyn Levitt explaining, take a listen.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
The Metropolitan Police Department, with the support of the new
federal agencies who have been surging on the streets of
the District of Columbia, are going to enforce the laws
that are already on the books here in Washington, d C.
For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored,
and the homelessness problem has ravaged this city. So DC
Code twenty two thirteen oh seven in DC Municipal Regulation
(36:56):
twenty four to one hundred give the Metropolitan Police Department
into authority to take action when it comes to homeless
encampmentce encampments, So homeless individuals will be given the option
to leave their encampment to be taken to a homeless shelter,
to be offered addiction or mental health services, and if
they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to
(37:17):
jail time.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
That is a bright spot. Now.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I know there are a lot of folks on the
left who are going to say, no way, that is cruel,
that is dehumanizing.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
This is actually very compassionate. And here's why. Because there
are the two leading causes of homelessness in America are
drug addiction and mental illness, often both either through mental
illness leading to drug addiction or drug addiction leading to
mental illness. So if you don't want people to live
(37:51):
their lives on the street, and we certainly don't, then
you have to treat what democrats would call the root
causes of homelessness. You have to treat addiction and mental illness.
And that's what the Trump administration is doing here.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
No, but the left, when they talk about compassion, what
they mean is leave them alone. Let them do whatever
they want. But see, real compassion means doing what is
best for someone. For example, if your child was addicted
to drugs right living under a bridge, filthy, hungry, surrounded
by predators, would you say, well, you know, I don't
want to impose my values on them.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I'll just let them be.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
No, that's not compassionate.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
You'd get them, help, you intervene, you do whatever it
takes to save them. That's what compassion is. That's love,
and that is what the White House. As White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was pointing out, that is what
the White House policy is.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Going to be.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
And inforce yourself some help exactly, or go to jail
because there's already laws on the books. That's the sad
part about this. This is not a new law, This
is not an executive order. This was a law that
was already on the books in Washington, d C. Washington
DC police could have been doing this all along for decades.
The problem is politicians in DC didn't want to enforce
(39:08):
the law. And let's be clear, the politicians in Washington
d C are one hundred percent Democrats, all of them,
so democrats who were responsible not only for making the laws,
but enforcing the laws, didn't want to enforce law, and
as a result, tens of thousands of people have been
wasting their lives high and out of their minds on
(39:29):
the streets of our nation's capital. And that is not
compassionate in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
No, if you're trying to solve homelessness, it's messy, it's confrontational,
it's a lot of work. It's a lot easier just
to say, oh, we're respecting their choices, right and did
then just walk away.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
But moving people from homelessness to rehab is a bright
spot one hundred percent, and we should be doing it
in every city in the country, not just DC.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul Lewis.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Are this mayor's race in New York City?
Speaker 10 (40:18):
Man?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I don't This is not just a political contest. I
think this is a cultural flash point because you have
this Zoran meme.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Danny Yes, anti smit anti Semitic and communists.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
I mean, if they elect him, oh my god, it
is I mean, look, this guy is not your run
of the mill progressive. This is a rabid left Winger.
The policies that he is in favor of are so radical,
and they're masked as compassionate reform. See left always about
(40:54):
feelings and intentions, and they care so much.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
But to quote Ross pro there's gonna be a giant
suckingd sound. See giant second sound. All all the billionaires
coming out of New York. They're gonna be heading to Florida.
They're gonna be head in Texas. They're gonna be heading
down towards South, They'll be heading towards Tennessee. They're gonna
leave seat. It's simple. See one of them, job's gonna
go with the two. Oh, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Here here's the other part of this, along the financial
side of this. Part of the reason I think New
York City may collapse under the weight of a men
dammy mayoral administration is because he's proposing a flat two
percent tax on anyone earning more than one million dollars,
(41:36):
rent freezes, government runs supermarkets in every borough.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
So that means you're not gonna have any new housing
in the City of New York, and nobody's going to
maintain the housing that's there. You're not gonna have any
grocery stores in the City of New York universal daycare
as well.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
It's we gotta say.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
Whoa when I say wow, ah mean wow.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Sallyanne brooks Bank had a pet turtle named Matilda, and
Sallyanne will let Matilda play out in the garden since
there's a wooden border to the garden to keep Matilda safe.
But one day early this summer, Matilda was somehow able
to escape. Sallyann thinks she must have climbed up a
zucchini stalk and used it like a bridge to get
over the wooden barrier.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Either way, Matilda was gone.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Sally Ane couldn't find her anywhere days past than weeks,
and Sallyen started to lose hope. After a month, Salianne
saw a picture of Matilda on Facebook. A local shopkeeper
said a young girl had found the turtle and brought
it to the store to see if it could be
reunited with its family. Turns out Matilda had traveled about
three miles away in that month one month, which means
she averaged about zero point zero four miles per hour
(42:41):
over the month period. Sounds like she finally came out
of her shell.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Me your pursuit of Happiness bring you joy,
Because of you, American Ground Radio has heard in more
markets than you can shake a stick at, which in
California is now considered a microaggression against trees.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I wrap the chainsaw fellas.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We choose to go to the mood and do the
other thing, not because they are amy, but because they
are on.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up and live out the true meaning of its trees.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avaloni and Stephen Proko.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
This is American Ground Radios even.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
You know, I have seen a lot of political shananigans
in my time. I mean a lot. But what California
Governor Gavin Newsom just pulled, what he is trying to
sell to the American people and his own constituents there
in the state of California as some sort of noble
(01:22):
democracy saving crusade. Well, I think this is the single
most or one of the single most egregious, most cynical,
most brazen political power grab in modern history of this country. Okay,
I'm talking about his announcement. You saw this announcement that
(01:42):
he is calling a special election November fourth, right to
essentially rig California's current congressional map and replace it with
a jerry mandard monstrosity.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You're using the wrong words. He has called a special
election to take the current jerry mandered California so jerry
and turn it into an even more jerrymandered map.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well in the process, it looks like what he's doing,
or attempting to do, is to wipe out the last
remaining Republican seats in the state, not trim them, not
adjust them, but eliminate them. Gone that from nine seats.
Republicans hold nine seats in the state of California. He
(02:31):
wants to reduce that down to zero.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
In the last election, about forty three percent of the
voters in California voted Republican, but only seventeen percent of
the congressional seats went to Republicans. That's how heavily jerry
mandered California is they have ninety seats. Oh they should
have they statistically speaking, twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
That's called democracy. And here's the kicker. Well he's calling,
he claims he is saving. Let me tell you something.
If this is what Gavin Newsom and the left thinks
is saving democracy, then I think we've just found the
dictionary definition of Orwellian doublespeak. Because in the real world,
(03:16):
in the real world where all of us live, in
the America most of us live in, saving democracy doesn't
mean disenfranchising nearly or over forty percent of your state voters.
It doesn't mean silencing their vote in Congress. And it
sure as heck doesn't mean shredding the oath you swore
(03:38):
to uphold to the Constitution, both to California and to
the United States Constitution.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I mean, now he's mad because Texas is gerrymandering. He's
saying gerrymandering its districts to be more favorable for Republicans.
And Republicans in the state of Texas have indeed said
we want to eight five more Republican friendly seats in
the state of Texas than we currently have. But here's
(04:06):
what Gavin Newsom doesn't understand. Even if you add those
five seats, most of which, by the way, our majority
are minority majority seats, they just happen to be Hispanic
majority seats, Okay, And there's actually not as much stretching
and clawing of the districts as they're currently is. These
are just big blocks of districts that are getting set.
(04:28):
They just drew the lines differently and you can clump
population together, and now it's minority majority who happened to
be Republican. But even if this map gets passed through
in Texas, which I think it will, it is still
less jerrymandered statistically speaking than California's current map. So Gavin
Newsom is saying, if you make your map even a
(04:51):
little less jerrymandered than California's map, we're gonna make ours
even more jerrymandered.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now I don't think it's gonna flow.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So in Texas, the state legislature gets to decide how
the maps are drawn. In California, they changed that loss
several years ago to where the people have to vote
for it. So Governor Greg Gabbott in Texas he calls
a special session of the Texas Legislature, he's gonna have
to call another one and the legislature will draw it.
In California, Gavin Newsom can't call it just a special
(05:23):
session legislature. He has to call a special election of
the people. But it turns out the majority of voters
in the state of California. Don't want a more Jerrymanderd
map than the one that currently exists.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, because this is Banana republic stuff, and let's we're
not sugarcoating this.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
What Newsom is proposing is the kind of move you
see in unstable countries that are run by strong men,
you know, the drill. Right, They redraw the maps, they
eliminate the opposition, they declare it's all being done quote
unquote for the people. It's the same playbook used by
rigimes that have no interest in actual democracy, only in
(06:04):
maintaining their.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Own grip on power. And in America, right, I mean,
we've always prided ourselves on being different. We've had peaceful
transitions of power, we've had competitive elections, well at least
in theory here in recent recent years. But we've always
prided ourselves for most of my lifetime, on a level
(06:27):
playing field for political competition. But moves like this, well,
that just chips away at that foundation. It normalizes the
idea that it's okay to use the machinery of government
to silence your opponents. And once that idea takes hold,
I mean, it's very hard to get that back and
(06:48):
could New York State do the same, Well, again, New
York's already done it. New York redistricted. They're in the
twenty twenty senses that the courts slap them down. No,
but the map survived. They were able to ride out
five Republican districts in the state of New York in
this last redistricting process. Yes, they got shot down, but
(07:09):
they came back and they were still able to get
rid of five Republicans out of the state of New
York by redrawing the lines. There's just not that much
more line drawing.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You can do.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Same thing with Illinois. Illinois cannot jerrymander a whole big change.
They kind of already have. They've already done. It's rigged
as much as they possibly can make. And that's where
I'm like with the Democrat Party. I call them the
Party of projection, because whatever they accuse you of doing,
they've already done. Gavin Newsom says, We're going to respond
to your jerrymandering with more gerrymandering. Texas is responding to
(07:40):
the jerrymandering in California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon,
all over the country. The left has already jerrymandered their
districts to a grow tesque amount. But here's the thing.
All you liberals who are going to rush to Gavin
Newsom's support or to his side to support what he's doing.
(08:01):
Many again, it's only one third of Californians want to
do this.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
But you've got to remember, if you're a leftist and
you're going to support or otherwise encourage what Gavin Newsom
is doing, you're a hypocrite. And the reason that I
say that is because, remember, it's the Democrats. It's those
on the left that lecture the rest of us about
inclusivity and fairness and the will of the people. But
(08:25):
apparently the will of the people only counts if those
people are Democrats. If you're a Republican in California, Gavin
Newsom's message is clear. Your voice doesn't matter, your voice
doesn't matter, your vote doesn't matter. You don't deserve representation
(08:46):
in Congress. And that's not just hypocrisy. That is contempt.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That is contempt for nearly or over forty percent of
his own California constituents. Contempt, understand what I'm saying, Contempt
for the constitutional principle of equal representation. But the Democrat Party,
especially the leaders of the Democrat Party, have already told
you this, Lewis, I'm done with it. They've already told
(09:12):
you done with it. They've already told you. Anybody who
votes for Donald Trump as part of the basket of deplorables,
they already told you they don't like us. Is this
any surprise. Let's get to the top three things you
need no before tomorrow, first singing you need noble for tomorrow.
(09:34):
Apparently Washington, d C. Is abandoning it's sanctuary city policies.
This comes up to President Trump federalized the DC police
and brought in the National Guard to combat crime in
our nation's capital. DC has long refused to cooperate with
ice officers and detainer requests. Washington DC Police Chief Pamela A.
Smith released a statement saying, quote, effective immediately, members may
assist federal Immigration enforcement agencies with the following sharing information
(09:58):
about persons not in MPDA custody, providing transportation for Federal
Immigration Agency employees, and detained suspects. However, the order stops
short of fully cooperating with the effort to remove illegal
aliens from the city, as officers are still banned from
arresting individuals solely based on their immigration status.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You know, this is hilarious And what is so funny
about this. I know it's a dangerous subject. That Don't
get me wrong, It's a serious subject. But here is
the police chief in Washington, d c. Thinking she is
going to appease President Trump by this somewhat compromise move.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Second thing in edible from President Trump is flying to
Alaska to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin about
ending the war in Ukraine. President Putin today praise the
efforts of President Trump to bring the war to an end,
saying the Trump administration is quote making quite energetic and
sincere efforts to stop the fighting, stop the crisis, and
reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved
in this conflict. President Trump is using a carrot and
stick approach. He's offering to increase trade between Russia and
(10:54):
the US, while at the same time threatening secondary tariffs
on any country doing business with Russia if Putin refuses
to end the war.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You know, why was Alaska chosen? I mean, I know,
it's kind of because it's a halfway point.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, no, Russia used to own Alaska for a while.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Two.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Putin can't go to most countries in the world where
he'll be arrested for war crimes.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It's just very I don't know, it's giving that feeling
of rachievank.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And the third thing you did before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A member of the Department of Justice has been fired
after attacking a Customs and Border Patrol officer with a
subway sandwich. The incident happened in Washington, d C. After
President Trump's federal law enforcement search started this week. The
man was seen on video calling the officer's fascist and
then throwing his sandwich at them. He then attempted to
run away before being caught. US Attorney Jene Piro announced
that the man had been charged with fellow the assault
on a federal officer. Turns out the man worked at
(11:42):
the Department of Justice. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired him
after the assault, saying this is an example the deep
state we have been up against for seven months as
we worked to refocus the DOJ. So he threw his sandwich, Yeah,
at ice officers.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
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Speaker 3 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground, Rayow Stephen Parvard Lewissar eval
So Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
A sanctuary city for years YEP, safe harbor for illegal immigrants,
a place where the leadership prided itself. A city government
there in DC.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The city government prided itself on refusing to cooperate with
the federal government, even though the entire point of the
city of Washington, d C is the federal government and
why Washington C was founded. It's why Washington d C exists.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No, but it's just it's kind of it's comical that
now all of a sudden, the city Council, the chief
of Police there, it's like they've had some grand epiphany
since President Trump has announced that he's going to take over.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No, their epiphany is they're screwed if they don't, because
Donald Trump is just going to steamer on them. He
took he's taken federal control of the Metropolitan Police already.
The chief of police now works for the president of
the United States of America. She wants to keep her job,
she better do what the president says.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
But here's the thing. You can't play both sides with
Donald Trump. You can't whisper to your far left allies,
don't worry, We're still on your side, and then publicly
pretend now, all of a sudden, you're about law and order.
I mean, Trump doesn't buy it. No, I mean he
doesn't go along to get along. If he thinks you're
playing games with public safety, he's going to call you out.
(14:37):
But this is I think what this chief of police
thinks that she's doing is appeasing President Trump, fooling him,
pulling the wool over his eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Is she that dumb? I don't think that's what she's doing.
I think she's going I don't have another choice here.
If I fight the President, I lose, So I have
to put out this memo saying we will cooperate with ICE.
Now she did it the least the fewest steps you
could take, is what she said. She said, the officers,
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you're not supposed to be arresting people because they're illegal immigrants.
If you arrest them for something else, you can tell
ICE about them, but you can't just ask about their
immigration status with no other probable cause.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So she's like, we're.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Going the very smallest step possible to where I can
say I am cooperating with Trump. I don't think she's
trying to appease them. I don't think she's trying to
fool them. I think she's trying to save her own ass.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I think so as well. But let's just remind folks
sanctuary policies aren't compassionate. They're reckless. They tie the hands
of law enforcement, They shield criminals from consequences. They make
communities left safe and if and that's not just speculation,
it's reality.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
All soft on crime policies are bad. Not because you know,
I'm I want people in jail, but because I want
people not afraid to walk through their neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Now, I get it, and I do think this police
chief is this isn't about a heartfelt conversion. This is
really about survival.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
We got a question for American mamas. Dear mama's, what
do you think of the no cell phones in schools policy? Well,
let's ask American mama's and joining is now are American
(16:36):
mamas tern Edville and Kimberly Burlison. This is going on
a lot of states in Texas, Louisiana, New York.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I don't know all of them, but this is going on.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
In a lot of different states where schools are basically
outlawing cell phones for students. Yet you have to put
them into a covey at the check in of the school.
They can't be just in your backpack, they can't be
in class, you can't have them during the day. What
do y'all think of this?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Well, I think it's funny. They started this in Texas.
This is a new thing in Texas. But I saw
a man on TikTok. He's an educator in Texas, and
he said he is already just in the one week
that they've been in school, he has seen such a
drastic change in students.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Really, he said.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
One thing is they're taking notes, okay. And he said,
and when they have breaks, they're talking to each other,
because that was not something that we ever saw. And
he said, it feels like a little bit of old school.
And I thought, wouldn't that be so funny if notes
are started again, you know, remember when you'd make that
your note and you may like a person again. You're right,
(17:39):
So I do think that this is like maybe it's
reconnecting people. I don't know what the real reason. There's
a lot of cheating.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Oh oh oh oh, you're talking about notes, not taking
no notes from what the what the teacher is talking
about that?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But they're notes to each.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Other, right, No, I'm taking notes, okay, taking notes that
I'm saying, we may see a resurgence of writing notes
to each other, football to each other.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
The other thing that he said was they're actually coming
up and asking him questions about what he on their notes?
They're coming up, he said, he said, I mean, is
it this easy? Has it been this easy all along?
All we had to do was take the phones out
of their hands in the classrooms.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And we could get our kids back. We get our
kids back, exactly.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
And I think also there's a little element of bullying
that happens through cyber bullying during school hours that has
really hurt hindered so many, especially girls.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You know, well, think about how hard it was for
teachers even to catch you passing a note, right, how
much easier is it for you to bully someone on
on text or on social media? Yes, yes, when when
it was hard to catch a physical note being passed,
and that now that now the notes being done over
the internet and you can't even see And just.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Think about this. There's a been a lot of cheating
at every level, you know, when you've got your phone,
there's been a lot of ways that they can cheat.
And so the children and the young adults in college,
they don't learn what they're supposed to learn to go
to the to go into the workforce. Now, if you
have this in place, and hats off to Texas, you know,
just they I love that they lead in this way.
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They are the ones that are going to show us
these kids will be better prepared for college because they'll
have to learn. You have nothing else to do but
listen to your teacher talk. You know, maybe they have
these group you know, group think tanks that we used
to have, you know, the teachers and y'all get together
and y'all it's called critical thinking.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Again.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
You're teaching children how to be critical thinkers in this
world because that kind of was lost. You had your phone.
I do it now. I you know, a lot of
my critical thinking skills are probably gone because instead of
trying to think about I'll just google what does this mean?
What are you? You know? What is this? What are
they trying to say here?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Right?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Instead of be thinking from myself.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I've also seen that chat cheapt has changed. I don't
know if y'all seen that. They've kind of updated it.
So now a lot of kids were using that to
write notes, to write papers. Well, now they have a
for teachers to you'll use. It's a tool that shows
you what part of it was taken out, the percentage
of it that was restructured, reworded, so that now they
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can't get away as easily.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
So they're actually using chatchibt to help find kids.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That are using chat chi.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Exactly, exactly interesting. You know you said that about critical thinking.
I'm wondering if a lot of this has to do
with our test scores in our country that we're falling below,
and maybe maybe there's this concerted effort to help us
rise in the ranks when it comes to our education,
because I think we're dumbing down our kids. So we
have been, and maybe there's this new let's let's do
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something to change that.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
And having that that in the hallway, face to face
talking to each other, the social awareness, social you know,
to be able to have those social cues that I
think has also been lost with the phones. You know
that you didn't have to call the girl's house and
talk to the father. Oh gosh, yeah, you know what
I mean, Like all of that's been kind of misplaced
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by easily texting. You can easily text anything because you
don't have to worry about being embarrassed. So taking away
the phones also allows you to reconnect as people. I
remember summer when she was younger, she went to summer
camp and she loved it because you could not bring
your phones. She loved to have that, you know, element
taken away from her because she was able to really
(21:29):
engage with other people, and other people weren't on their phones.
Like you'll go to the restaurant now and you'll see
everybody's on their phone.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I love this.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I think it's going to be really helpful to the students.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well again, happened in Texas.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It's also happening in Louisiana, happening in New York State,
It's happening in several states across the country. This is
definitely a growing trend, and it looks state's supposed to
be the laboratory of democracy. We've had some success in
multiple states. Perhaps every state should be doing this. I agree.
If you like descar America Mama's a question, go our
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ass the Mama's button. Terry Netville Kimberly burls and thank
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you so much, and coming up next to your on
American ground Radio, we are digging deep.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
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Speaker 3 (22:57):
American Ground Radio, Stephen Poward, Lewis oar Avalonaiky. So they've
announced now that the delegation is set, the agenda is
set for this Alaska summit between Putin and President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, and this is not.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's potentially a big deal.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I mean when you see the lineup of folks that
are coming along, I mean you've got the Foreign Minister
for Russia, the Defense Minister for Russia, the Finance Minister
for Russia. Which is interesting. The finance minister is there
for a peace settlement. But that's because Donald Trump is
using economics as leverage to create peace.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
But when you see a lineup like this and that
there's lots of other folks that are that are coming
as well. But when you see a lineup like that,
it tells you one thing. Both sides are coming prepared
to talk about the whole picture, military, economic, diplomatic, strategic
This is not a photo op unless it's a photo
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op to pretend that they're coming, compared to talk about
the whole picture. That's what I think is what's going
on here.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's where I'm concerned, because I believe that.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
You think it's Trump. President Trump said that Putin. He's
basically was fed up with Putin's bs.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Putin is a world class chain yankor Donald Trump is
a world trust troller, right, he controlled better than anybody
else on the planet. Vladimir Putin can yank your chain
better than anybody else on the planet. He will look
you in the eye and he will tell you, oh, yes,
I think we agree on a whole bunch of different things.
And you can say, well, I want you to behave
this way, and he'll go, okay, I understand that you
(24:40):
want me to behave that way. And then he goes
and he does what he was going to do anyway.
So unless Putin really does understand, the United States is
going to start putting massive economic pressure on him.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Because he wants because President Trump wants peace in Ukraine, yes,
and in Russia for that matter, right, I mean, he
wants the dying of soldiers to stop well.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Because part of it.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Look, we are trying to get rare earth minerals out
of Ukraine. It's in the US national security to have
a supply of rare earth minerals that is not dependent
upon China. But we can't really do that if Russia
is flying drones into Ukraine and blowing everything up. Ever
doing this for that? Are we is that? That's really
what we're saying. I mean, you're going to say that's
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why the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's the only reason.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
What I'm saying is Donald Trump believes that economics is
better when there's peace. That war makes people poor, that
war disrupts economies, it disrupts GDP growth, and Donald Trump
wants everyone in America to be able to thrive. And
for us be able to thrive, we need the rest
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of the world to stop fighting with each other.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
So there are going to need in order to end
this war in Ukraine. There will need to be security
guarantees for Ukraine, I believe. I think so territorial compromise.
So at some point, I don't know if someone's willing
to do that, but that I think that has to happen,
And then there has to be the lifting or easing
of certain sanctions in exchange in exchange for reducing agreed
(26:11):
troop or having troop withdrawals in the first place.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Let's dig deep, going down down. So while all that's
going on, Scott Besson, the Secretary of Treasurer, says he's
looking for ways to crack down on insider trading by
members of Congress. See, this is this is an administration
(26:37):
that is able to walk in chew gum at the
same time, they're able to focus on a variety of
different things all going on. You know why, because the
members of the cabinet were not selected based on reasons
or on d I right criteria. They're based on Yeah,
they're based on excellence. So he wrote, or he said,
you're doing an interview this weekend, I am going to
(26:59):
start pushing for a single stock trading band because the
it is the credibility of the House and the Senate
that you have at some of these eye popping returns,
whether it's Representative Pelosi, Senator Wyden, every hedge fund would
be jealous of them. He says, people shouldn't come to
Washington to get rich, They should come to serve the
(27:20):
American people and it brings down the trust in the
system because I can tell you that if any private
citizen traded this way, the SEC would be knocking on
their door. And I think Besson should know exactly what
he's talking about here, because not only is he currently
the Secretary of the Treasury, he used to be a
headfunge manager himself. He used to have to pay attention
(27:43):
to stock trades and what would get the SEC's attention
and what wouldn't get the SEC.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, you know, there's gonna be a lot of folks
that say, oh, well, you know, members of Congress they
have a right to invest like anyone else. But let's
get real. Members of Congress are not just like any
one else. They sit in these closed door hearings when
they get market moving information before the public ever hears
a whisper of it, right, and then they help craft
(28:11):
the laws and the regulations that can make or break
entire industries. And when they trade stocks in those companies
that they regulate, I mean, it's not participating.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
In a free mike. It's not a free marketing at
that point. It's rigging the game in their favor. Because
one of the things about having a free market is
that there must be There must be equality of information everyone.
You cannot have a free market if some people have
information that other people do not have. This is a
big problem. The Motley Fool dot com keeps track of
(28:42):
trades made by members of Congress. They wrote in twenty
twenty three in Nvidia was traded or held by members,
including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while the Chips and
Science Act was being negotiated and voted on. Other members
made trade in twenty twenty four involving social media companies
while the TikTok band Slash divestment bill was being negotiated
(29:04):
and voted on. Members sitting on committees that deal with
national security traded shares of defense companies, while others that
sit on committees that oversee health traded medical device stocks.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, if you look at Congress as a whole, this
was in twenty twenty two, Congress as a whole beat
the market by nearly eighteen percent. And that is in
a year when the S and P five hundred was
down nineteen percent. So we either have the greatest collection
of financial geniuses in human history sitting in Congress, or
(29:37):
they're getting information that the rest of us don't have,
and then they're acting on it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And if they were financial geniuses, why do we have
thirty seven trillion dollars in debt? So because it's not
their money, because the evidence suggests they aren't financial geniuses.
This Motley fool wrote. One hundred and thirteen members of
Congress made two hundred and sixty one trades in twenty
twenty four, involving seven hundred ndred and six million shares
(30:01):
or other assets twenty twenty five. This year is on
pace to be a record year, with seven eight hundred
trades involving three hundred and sixty two million shares just
through Dela July. Now, look, it's not every member of Congress.
You've got five hundred and thirty five members of Congress,
so that means insider trading is being done by about
twenty percent of our congressmen and women. So you got
(30:24):
a majority not engaging in this. But that's not the point.
Twenty percent of insider trading in Congress is a huge
corruption issue, and it's bipartisan. The ten members of Congress
who made the most trades so far this year include
five Democrats and five Republicans. Now, ro Kana the Democrat
currently takes the cake. He's made two nine hundred and
(30:44):
thirty eight trades this year alone, totally more than forty
one million dollars in trades this year alone. That's five
times a number of trades made by the second place congressman.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
And you know what, if there are a lot of
folks who go to Congress, I don't know that they
start out this way thinking that they're going to become
you know, mega rich, right based on stock investing, on
inside of training. But here's the thing. If there are
any folks that go to Washington, DC or decide to
sign up and run for Congress because of that, and
(31:16):
this ban on stock trading by members of Congress discourages them, yeah,
I say amen, A men, A men, Because then what
you're doing is you're keeping the wrong kind of people
who really don't aren't there for the public service as
much as they are for their own enrichment.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well, and it also proves that members of Congress at
least twenty percent do not have a code of conduct,
do not have a sense of ethics.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well, that's worth it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
It's an allegation they just happen to beat the market
in a down year.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
No, You've got people that are doing trades on committees
where they're getting information. If you have any ethics at all,
you don't make that trade.
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Speaker 2 (33:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Stephen Parr with Lewis sar Ron Howard. You know Opie
Yeah from Andy Griffith. Well, yeah, also all the Happy Days.
It's a happy Days Richie from having and of course.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Great director, sure, countless movies, one of which is Hillbilly Elegy, right,
which was the film adaptation of JD. Vance's twenty sixteen
memoir Right, you know he gave this. So Ron Howard
is giving this interview, and it sounds like he's distancing
himself from JD.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Vance. He says he's been doing that for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
He says, I wouldn't have expected Vance's rhetoric to be
as divisive as it sometimes is. Now that's pretty vague, okay,
But then in the very next breath he says, well,
I'm max not really listening to every word that the
Vice president is saying. So which is it. You're either
(34:07):
listening intently and that's how you're picking up on how
divisive it is, or you're not listening and you're just
pandering to the leftist and the Hollywood crowd that's listening
to your interview, who might associate you with the vice
president of the United States, whom they believe to be,
you know, the second incarnation of the devil himself, just
(34:28):
second to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
And what if just I'm just throwing this out there.
What if the only reason what jd Vance says could
be construed as divisive is if you're not actually listening
to what he says, but you're hearing what you think
you want to will yeah say, or more to the point,
you're hearing what you don't want to hear. You're hearing
(34:51):
things that he's not saying that makes you mad. It
could because you want to be mad at him because
he's the vice president for Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But see, in Hollywood speak, divisive means he's saying things
about my friends, or he's saying things that my friends
might not lie. Right, And that's the tell. This really
isn't about the truth, right, It's it's not about policy.
I don't even think it's about tone. I think this
is about Ron Howard and the social acceptability of Ron
(35:21):
Howard having directed He'll Billy what is Elegy Elegy?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
But he's also I mean a follow thirteen and I
mean just a number of great films that he's that.
But to be associated with jd.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Vance, see, there's a lot of folks that would say, oh, oh, oh,
so you're yeah, so you believe what he believes, And
and those folks who say what he believes that they're
not even listening either.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
But at the time when they were making the movie, JD.
Vance was not a Republican. He was a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
And you know what, that raises a great point. I
don't think Ron how would have directed the film if
he had been.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Let's get to a bright spot. I'm doing all right,
getting good grades. You just so fright. I gotta shame,
all right.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
So, as part of the federal takeover Washington, d C's
law enforcement, the Trump administration is tearing down homeless encampments
in our nation's capital. And what's more, the administration is
giving homeless people in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Two choices. Here's Carolyn Levitt explaining, take a listen.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
The Metropolitan Police Department, with the support of the new
federal agencies who have been surging on the streets of
the District of Columbia, are going to enforce the laws
that are already on the books here in Washington, d C.
For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored,
and the homelessness problem has ravaged this city. So DC
Code twenty two thirteen oh seven in DC Municipal Regulation
(36:56):
twenty four to one hundred give the Metropolitan Police Department
into authority to take action when it comes to homeless
encampmentce encampments, So homeless individuals will be given the option
to leave their encampment to be taken to a homeless shelter,
to be offered addiction or mental health services, and if
they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to
(37:17):
jail time.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
That is a bright spot. Now.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I know there are a lot of folks on the
left who are going to say, no way, that is cruel,
that is dehumanizing.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
This is actually very compassionate. And here's why. Because there
are the two leading causes of homelessness in America are
drug addiction and mental illness, often both either through mental
illness leading to drug addiction or drug addiction leading to
mental illness. So if you don't want people to live
(37:51):
their lives on the street, and we certainly don't, then
you have to treat what democrats would call the root
causes of homelessness. You have to treat addiction and mental illness.
And that's what the Trump administration is doing here.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
No, but the left, when they talk about compassion, what
they mean is leave them alone. Let them do whatever
they want. But see, real compassion means doing what is
best for someone. For example, if your child was addicted
to drugs right living under a bridge, filthy, hungry, surrounded
by predators, would you say, well, you know, I don't
want to impose my values on them.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I'll just let them be.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
No, that's not compassionate.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
You'd get them, help, you intervene, you do whatever it
takes to save them. That's what compassion is. That's love,
and that is what the White House. As White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was pointing out, that is what
the White House policy is.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Going to be.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
And inforce yourself some help exactly, or go to jail
because there's already laws on the books. That's the sad
part about this. This is not a new law, This
is not an executive order. This was a law that
was already on the books in Washington, d C. Washington
DC police could have been doing this all along for decades.
The problem is politicians in DC didn't want to enforce
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the law. And let's be clear, the politicians in Washington
d C are one hundred percent Democrats, all of them,
so democrats who were responsible not only for making the laws,
but enforcing the laws, didn't want to enforce law, and
as a result, tens of thousands of people have been
wasting their lives high and out of their minds on
(39:29):
the streets of our nation's capital. And that is not
compassionate in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
No, if you're trying to solve homelessness, it's messy, it's confrontational,
it's a lot of work. It's a lot easier just
to say, oh, we're respecting their choices, right and did
then just walk away.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
But moving people from homelessness to rehab is a bright
spot one hundred percent, and we should be doing it
in every city in the country, not just DC.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul Lewis.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Are this mayor's race in New York City?
Speaker 10 (40:18):
Man?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I don't This is not just a political contest. I
think this is a cultural flash point because you have
this Zoran meme.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Danny Yes, anti smit anti Semitic and communists.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
I mean, if they elect him, oh my god, it
is I mean, look, this guy is not your run
of the mill progressive. This is a rabid left Winger.
The policies that he is in favor of are so radical,
and they're masked as compassionate reform. See left always about
(40:54):
feelings and intentions, and they care so much.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
But to quote Ross pro there's gonna be a giant
suckingd sound. See giant second sound. All all the billionaires
coming out of New York. They're gonna be heading to Florida.
They're gonna be head in Texas. They're gonna be heading
down towards South, They'll be heading towards Tennessee. They're gonna
leave seat. It's simple. See one of them, job's gonna
go with the two. Oh, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Here here's the other part of this, along the financial
side of this. Part of the reason I think New
York City may collapse under the weight of a men
dammy mayoral administration is because he's proposing a flat two
percent tax on anyone earning more than one million dollars,
(41:36):
rent freezes, government runs supermarkets in every borough.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
So that means you're not gonna have any new housing
in the City of New York, and nobody's going to
maintain the housing that's there. You're not gonna have any
grocery stores in the City of New York universal daycare
as well.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
It's we gotta say.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
Whoa when I say wow, ah mean wow.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Sallyanne brooks Bank had a pet turtle named Matilda, and
Sallyanne will let Matilda play out in the garden since
there's a wooden border to the garden to keep Matilda safe.
But one day early this summer, Matilda was somehow able
to escape. Sallyann thinks she must have climbed up a
zucchini stalk and used it like a bridge to get
over the wooden barrier.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Either way, Matilda was gone.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Sally Ane couldn't find her anywhere days past than weeks,
and Sallyen started to lose hope. After a month, Salianne
saw a picture of Matilda on Facebook. A local shopkeeper
said a young girl had found the turtle and brought
it to the store to see if it could be
reunited with its family. Turns out Matilda had traveled about
three miles away in that month one month, which means
she averaged about zero point zero four miles per hour
(42:41):
over the month period. Sounds like she finally came out
of her shell.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Me your pursuit of Happiness bring you joy,
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