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August 17, 2025 42 mins
This is the full show for August 18, 2025. The American Mamas are back with the Cringe Crown award of the week. We Dig Deep into a study about virtue-signaling. Plus, President Trump wants to get rid of mail-in ballots, and that's a Bright Spot. And we finish off with a fitness competition that will make you say, "Whoa." 
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Speaker 6 (01:00):
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Speaker 7 (01:03):
President Trump is the President of peace. He's the peace President. Okay,
and look, you really can't say this any other way.
If President Trump manages to pull this off, I mean,
not only not only will you have essentially assured Republican
dominance I believe in the upcoming twenty twenty six mid terms,

(01:25):
but he'll likely secure the election of his chosen successor
and earned himself a No Bell Peace Prize with certainty, which,
of course, one of the co hosts on American Ground
Radio foretold many many weeks ago.

Speaker 6 (01:44):
Okay, I'm not quite convinced a peace deal in Russia
and Ukraine gets the mid terms, nor does it necessarily
re elect Get JD vance the next line.

Speaker 7 (01:55):
Why why you want it? Why you want to Stampa over?

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Here's why? Here's why? Because because George H. W. Bush
won the first Gulf War and he had soaring, soaring
political fortunes.

Speaker 7 (02:09):
Guess what that was? There was one war? How many wars? Have?
How many wars? As President Trump? Now, I get that ended,
I get all that, and comparison to George W.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Bush, No, there is because people don't vote on foreign
wars unless American people are involved. Once the war's open,
we no longer people in the war. We're not voting
on that. We're voting on domestics.

Speaker 7 (02:32):
You remember in Congress when I think Nancy Pelosi was
speaker and they and everyone had the Ukrainian flag. Remember
I remember that, all the Democrats, you know, peace for Ukraine, etc.
Et cetera.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
And they know what happened. Now guess who delivered that? Okay,
but do you know what happened next? They had all
those Ukrainian flags they were waving. They lost the mid terms.
They had the flags, they're waving them around.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
I understand talking about people aren't voting on foreign affairs
as much as they vote on domestic affairs. Now, I'm
not talking about people. I'm talking about Democrats.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
I get that, But I'm talking about people because people
are ones who vote both Democrats and Republicans and independence.
So they're going to be voting on domestic issues. They're
going to be voting on their income table issues, are
going to be voting on the job market. They're going
to be voting on whether these tariffs are helping the

(03:24):
US economy by bringing jobs back or hurting the economy
by leading to inflation, like the left says, those are
the things they are going to determine. Now, I think
the outcome is going to be the same. I do
think at this point Republicans are poised to hold the
House if and probably expand their lead in the House.
I think they're likely to expand their lead in the Senate,
and I don't think they're getting to sixty seats, but

(03:45):
I think they're going to pick up a couple. But
that's going to be more about domestic stuff than whether
he gets peace between Putin and Zelensky.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
Well, apparently President Trump said that he had he had
a very good meeting with President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine.
He also met with the President Macron of France. He
also met with President Stubb of Finland, the Prime Minister
of Italy Georgia. Georgia Milani also met with Prime Minister

(04:17):
Caer Starmer of the UK, the Chancellor of the of
Germany Friedrich Mirts, the President of the European Commission. This
list goes on and on, but it's part of a
coalition of folks coming to the table to support a

(04:38):
piece between Zelenski between Ukraine and Russia.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
Well, you know, it is interesting because when Putin came
to Alaska, there were no other countries representatives that came
with him. Right, Okay, there's no other country that's supporting that.
That really is like actively openly out open saying I
support Russia. But see that the other part have. They're
all coming in. They're saying, you know what, we think
Russia is wrong in this, we think Ukraine's right in this.

(05:05):
We're gonna support Ukraine as they go and talk to Trump.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
No, that's true, but you know, the left, they tried
to turn that Anchorage Summit. I'll call it Anchorage the
Anchorage summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin. You know,
they tried to say that was a failure because it's
ridiculous because President Trump didn't immediately declare you know that

(05:29):
there was peace. That's absolutely innes the war was over.
The media be clowns itself by saying nonsense like that.
But see they try. Here's the other part. You know,
they try. They try to back folks into a corner.
And we need to give the Trump administration some room.
As the kids say to cook, you know, give give
let Trump cook.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
President Trump has ended six wars this year. I'm gonna
trust his instincts when it comes to ending another war,
and frankly every American should because Donald Trump not only
has ended more wars than every American has, donald Trump
has ended more wars than any other single human being
has in American history as far as I can see.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
So obviously, I'm very proud of President Trump. You know
who I'm equally as proud of, Who's a Marco Rubio.
He has He has really I don't say grown up,
but he has certainly matured into a statesman. He is
thriving as our secretary of State here. He is on

(06:32):
face the nationists. I don't know whoever the host to
the rat.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
It speaking of declining herself.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
My god, doesn't this set a dangerous precedent that the
United States now accepts this concept that it is okay
to seize land by force.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, Putin's already sees land by force, and not in
and of itself, is not a positive President.

Speaker 8 (06:55):
This whole war a you're demanding a withdrawal for president.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Well, again, here's the in order to have a deal here,
in to reach the end of this conflict, both sides
are going to have to make concessions. That's just a
fact in any negotiation. No, no, but but this is
not about accepting. This is about what Ukraine can accept
and what Russia can accept. They both have to accept it,
otherwise there won't be a peace deal. Okay, if there
aren't concessions, if one side gets everything they want, that's

(07:22):
called surrender. That's called the end of the war through surrender.
And that's not what we're close to doing, because neither
side here is on the verge of surrender anything close
to it. So in order for there to be a
peace deal, this is just a fact. We may not
like it. It may not be pleasant, it may be distasteful,
but in order for there to be an end of
the war, there are things Russia wants that it cannot get,
and there are things Ukraine wants that it's not going

(07:42):
to get. Both sides are going to have to give
up something in order to get to the table in
order to make this happen. That's just the way it is.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
The naivety of that question from someone whos supposed to
be I don't think it's naive for her to ask
the question.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
She's asking the question in trying.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
To further narrative, right, But it's it comes from a
naive premise that one we're the ones. It's yes, I was,
I was being as nice as I could. I'm assuming
ignorance rather than malevolence. So it's a it's a it's
a naive question that shows her ignorance of of how

(08:19):
this stuff actually works. You don't end a war. Her
whole point of you know, you're you're gonna justify a
land grab. You're gonna say that taking land by force
is Okay, No we're not. But the number one way
you stop another country from taking land by force is
to be stronger than them, no, and Ukraine is not

(08:40):
stronger than Russia.

Speaker 7 (08:42):
Guess what, when you're in the middle of negotiations, you
do not broadcast what you've conceded, what you're gaining, what
you actually want, what you're willing to concede.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
Because that ruins the negotiations.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
So we may not know the details today we're not
supposed to be. We may not know them tomorrow. Momorrow,
we may not know them for months. And that's okay
because diplomacy, peace is a long game. And when you've
got Donald Trump at the helm, the man who shattered expectations,
just give him some room.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Given his track record of the last six months and
during his first administration, he deserves more trust in this
than any other human being in our lifetimes. Let's get
to the top three things you need noble for them all.
As we were just talking about President Trump hosting another

(09:35):
peace negotiation with the White House today. In addition to
the Ukrainian President of Vladimir Zelenski, European commissioned to President
Ursula Vonderland, UK Prime Minister Cure starmer German Chancellor Friedrich Maher's,
French President Emanuel Macrome, finished President Alexander Stubb, Italian Prime
Minister Georgia Maloney, NATO Secretary Mark root All attended the meeting.
This comes after someone with Russian President of Vladimir's of

(09:56):
Vladimir putin Alaska last week. While President Trump didn't announce
a deal at the end of the conference, he did
announce that European leaders were prepared to put more sanctions
on Russia if the peace talks failed.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
I mean, this isn't I mean, the stakes are high here,
very much so. I mean, this is a ward that's
dragged on for years, It's claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
And if Trump can bring peace, if he can end
this war, it's not just a win for Ukraine or
for Russia or for America, but for the world.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
Second thing you needed for norm Michigan City councilman is
in hot water for allegedly stuffing ballot boxes last year.
Democrat Abu Musa is remember the ham Trammick Michigan City Council.
Video obtained by investigators show Musa twice stuffing a ballot
box with several bundles of ballots. The video was discovered
as part of another investigation to whether Musa actually lives

(10:43):
in ham Trammick or not. Musa won his primary election
last August by just seventy six votes, but of the
eight hundred and forty three votes counted in the election,
only two hundred eighty six were actually cast on election day.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
You know, I'm sure that such an event was just
an anomaly there in Where is that in Michigan?

Speaker 6 (11:01):
Hamp Trick, Michigan. Actually about half the city council's under investigation.
Right now, MSNBC is changing its name. The company that
had been named because of a joint venture between NBC
and Microsoft will now be called My Source New Opinion World.
It will go by the acronym ms NOW. This comes
as MSNBC's parent company, Comcast, is spinning off several of

(11:21):
its programming products into a new company called Versant and
will include ms NOW, CNBC E, and sci Fi. In
addition to the name change, ms NOW is getting a
new logo that looks like a red equals sign on
a white flag. Despite the name and local change, the
so called news outlet plans to keep its far left
biases intact.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
Ms NOW and I don't even know what that acronym
means New Opinion.

Speaker 6 (11:45):
They were just trying to say ms now.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
Could you not get a little more creative with that?
I mean, I like MS now.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
The acronym's pointless, but they're trying to be cute.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
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Speaker 6 (13:13):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio.

Speaker 7 (13:14):
Stephen par with lewisar So, Hillary Clinton, huh the woman
who spent nearly a decade blaming her twenty sixteen loss
on Donald Trump. Well, it was just it was it
kind of was his way. No, you know what, No,
she did that to herself. Yeah, but if he hadn't
been in the race, she's still it won. That's true.

(13:34):
That's certainly true. Faul I get that. But she was
not saying it's a bad thing. But she blamed Trump,
she blamed blamed Russia. Of course, that was a lie. Sexism.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
I can't believe she bought into her own life. She
was the one who made up the lie, and then
she thought that that was the actual reason.

Speaker 7 (13:50):
And I guess, really, what I'm saying is she blamed
anyone but herself. What had happened was exactly Well. Now
she is saying that if Trump in fact ends this
war in Ukraine, that he would deserve glory.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
He would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 7 (14:10):
She said, that's pretty remarkable for Hillary Clinton. I mean,
she's not a very you know, she's not one of
those big people. You know, like they say, you know,
the bigger the person, you know, the smaller the you know,
the more humble that they are. Right, Yeah, it takes
a big person to forgive, you know that sort of thing, right,

(14:30):
She's not that's not Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
Okay, but notice the standard she is set here. It's
not enough that Donald Trump stopped the war between Cambodia
and Thailand. It's not enough that Donald Trump stopped the
war between Israel and Iran. It's not enough that Donald
Trump stopped the war between Pakistan and India. It's not
enough that he stopped the war in Congo. It's not

(14:54):
enough that he signed the peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Did you mention enough Abraham Accords? No, that was even
the first term. I was just going just the last
six months. She's not happy with the seven wars he's
stopped so far this year. No, no, it has to okay,

(15:14):
if he gets an eighth war, then then he deserves
a Nobel Peace Prize. Well, name anybody else. It was
won a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping even two wars.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
I guess she thinks this is the big daddy of
it of them all, right, Teddy.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the war
between Russia and Japan.

Speaker 7 (15:37):
But I mean, just think of that.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
That was just one war.

Speaker 7 (15:40):
I mean, this is poetic justice. I mean seriously, for
years she has smeared Trump, She's lied about Trump, She's
tried to delegitimize.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
Trump, all that, all that Russia, Russia, Russian nonsense. That
was her brain child. And and history. And I say history,
it's really Donald Trump's results that is forcing her to
eat her words. We got a question in for our
American Mama's, dear Mama's what's the Cringe Crown Award of
the week.

Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, let's ask god American Mama's.

Speaker 9 (16:10):
Alma mama.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
And joining us now our American Mama is Terry Needeville
and Kimberly Burlason. Okay, so the question is who is
our Cringe Crown Award winner this week?

Speaker 8 (16:32):
Jennifer Wells. Who's that you get the crown?

Speaker 4 (16:35):
My friend?

Speaker 8 (16:36):
She is a podcaster. She has a podcast with another lady.
What's the name of their podcast. I've had it, I've
had it. That's the name of This is the name
of the podcast for two women that get on their
podcast and they just really vent about what things they've
had it with.

Speaker 9 (16:51):
Okay, and they're usually funny. They're funny. Yeah, I've liked
some of the things until Trump became president.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
Yeah, oh, so now they're mad about Trump?

Speaker 8 (16:59):
Oh are they mad?

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Hmm? All right. Here is a clip from their most
recent podcasts.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
With white people that triple Trump, that have the nerve
and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a
Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to perhaps their gay hairdresser.
I don't think you should be able to enjoy anything

(17:27):
but cracker barrel. And if you want to triple Trump,
and you want to browbeat DEI, and you want to
browbeat gay people, and you want to browbeat black people
as you've been doing for four hundred years, and you
want to browbeat this generation of immigrants that come over
here and open up businesses, earnestly pay their taxes. You
want to demonize them and call them rapists and felons

(17:49):
and all that, when the felon is the teeny weenie
mushroom piece of cankles mctok okay.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
So we kind of have to that at that point,
because you're saying a whole bunch of stuff you cannot
say on radio. George Carlin would be blushing. So basically,
white people aren't if you voted for Donald Trump. White
people aren't allowed to go to Mexican restaurants anymore. Yeah,
that's what she's upset.

Speaker 8 (18:15):
Right, Asian restaurants or Indian races. This is my thought.
You know what, if conservatives can't go to these restaurants,
those businesses will go out of business because we're the
only ones working. Secondly, those people that own those restaurants
are probably conservative because they own a small business.

Speaker 9 (18:33):
And can I add they're legal, they're legal immigrants. They
always forget to put that part in there.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
See that. That is one of the things that's so
interesting about this whole debate is that the left intentionally
forgets to use the word legal because conservatives are not
mad about immigrants. Conservatives are irate that we have allowed
illegal immigration. We have allowed people to break the law
to come to this country to unfairly get a leg

(18:59):
up against Americans and for Americans Safety Net to be
paying for their health care, for their food, for their housing,
when we don't do that for every American that is
already in the country. Well, that's that's the problem, right.

Speaker 9 (19:14):
And you know, I don't know if she should get
the cringe crown or the unhinged crown because she's so unhinged.
And when she says browbeats, oh yeah, browbeat, browbeat LGBTQ,
browbeat the blacks? What is she? Who is she talking about?

(19:35):
Nobody I know in my conservative circle feels that way.
They love everybody. So that's part of the narrative that
the left is pushed.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Now.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
I don't love it when you want to take young
children and cut off their breasts and their genitals and
replace it with something artificial for non medical reasons that
I hate that because that is destructive, totally different children.

Speaker 9 (19:59):
This is that, you know what I say, keep doing
these podcasts because all they're doing is moving more and
more people to the right. This is so hateful. Then
it's not there's nothing about it. It's true. And I
look at her and I think, who are you're You're
an elitist in New York or California. You know, you
came from Bravo or whatever. So you you and your bubble,

(20:22):
you know, y'all have everything. You're the ones that preach
climate but yet you have jets that you jet all
over the world for. And so then she talks about,
you know, these are these are the people the immigrants
these the immigrants are the ones that help they come
over here and they build their business. We're not talking
about illegal immigrants, honey. We're talking if they want to
come over here legally, yes, we will support them. Everybody

(20:44):
else we love that.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
And when they become citizens and they have that citizenship ceremony,
we will cheer.

Speaker 9 (20:50):
And I guarantee you most of them are probably conservative.
I guarantee you. Yeah. And the other thing that just
drives me nuts is you know she's she comes in
and she talks like this, and all it does is
give our people, I mean people on the left that
are friends of ours more fodder. They get on there
and they share this and they're like, you're talking about
make you know me?

Speaker 8 (21:10):
Well, they're thinking, is stupid. It's like if you say
conservatives hate gay people, so do we hate all of
you because you're obviously pedophiles because you've voted for Biden.

Speaker 9 (21:19):
Yeah, I mean stupid. It's stupid.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
They're thinking, is so stupid and out of touch with reality.
Jennifer needs a freaking dose of sunshine being around normal people,
and she needs a meal at Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
She has grass.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
I do think there's also a danger when you're hosting
a show and the job on your show is to
explain what you're tired of. We wrote a book called Bridespots,
Big Country. We always have a segment on our show
talking about Bridespots in our moment of woe because we
always want to be highlighting something that is going right,
because it's so easy to get dragged down by what

(21:55):
you see is going wrong. If the whole point of
your show is to tell people what you hate about
what's going wrong, that's kind affect your psyche.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Amen, you're right.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
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Speaker 6 (22:39):
Get back to being yourself. Welcome back to American ground
radio Stephen Power Lewis are Avaloni.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
Well it ain't going to spank itself.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
That doesn't sound right, or.

Speaker 7 (23:03):
How about all you can eat?

Speaker 6 (23:06):
Because these these these are to these are for the
same story.

Speaker 7 (23:11):
Well these are yeah, basically these are very provocative, obviously
profanity laced type merchandise. In Virginia Beach A lot of
a lot of beach towns have you know, like they
have the shorts and and that's what's on the on
the butter of the shorts back of these shorts. Yes,
it ain't gonna spank itself. When I've gone down to

(23:32):
New Orleans, there are all kinds of shirt vulgar clothes stores. Yeah, sure,
and especially in some of these beach towns they're family friendly,
uh you know, and some of them are family for
the most part. Okay, some areas, and you know, families
have to endure you know, their kids saying what does

(23:53):
that mean, right that this ain't gonna spank itself, referring
to you know, your dairy air the person that is
wearing said shorts. So the city council passed a resolution
encouraging Atlantic Avenue boardwalk retailers to remove voluntarily vulgar merchandise

(24:16):
from storefront displays. Okay, it's it's non binding and it's
not a law. It's voluntary. I have no problem with
the city council suggesting that. Normally, when city councils are
passing resolutions, I'm like, that's not your business. I get
what they're doing here, and okay, is it a violation
of their First Amendment rights for the city council to

(24:39):
suggest you need to kind of shut that down?

Speaker 6 (24:42):
Not at all, because it's not binding. It's a resolution
saying we would like it if you wouldn't do that.
Anyone has the right to walk up to a business
and say, you know what I would I've I'm resolved
that you should not do this, But anyone.

Speaker 7 (24:56):
Has that right. But you know, here's the thing in
New York City. You walk, you know, down any street
in New York City, there's these tourist shops and sometimes
there are four letter words on these t shirts. Absolutely,
I do have a problem with that because there's kids.
I mean, I guess there's there's not a law here. No,

(25:17):
I mean, but at the same time, there's not a
law that necessarily will fix that. But it's just common decency.
You've got kids right walking along, you know, a busy
New York City street, you know, and on their way
to you know, Ellis Island, or I'm going to catch
one of the ferries to Ellis Island, or going to

(25:38):
the Empire State.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Building, and you're displaying that in your store. Speaks badly
about you, But it also speaks badly about your town,
because you are a tourist shop in a tourist area,
and that it sends a bad message about what your
town's all about. If that's the imagery you're putting out
about your town.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
I think so. But again, it's not a law, but
I do applaud them.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
I applaud them for that's I think that's the right
way to do it, because they didn't pass a law
saying we're gonna ban speech because it is speech. But
they did say, look, come on guys.

Speaker 7 (26:13):
But there's also a lot of money. Virginia Beach welcomes
about fourteen million visitors each year, wow, generating two point
five billion dollars in spending. I'm not sure if that's
all for the shorts. Yeah, yeah, all you can eat
or you know, trick fill a or whatever else is
on your darrier side leed stigny.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
Going down, down, down down. So there's a new study
out in the Hill called performative virtue signaling has become
a threat to higher ed. So performative virtue signaling. So
this is basically you're pretending to be part of the
politically correct crowd in higher education. So they wrote, between

(27:01):
twenty twenty three and twenty twenty five, we conducted one
four hundred and fifty two confidential interviews with undergraduates at
Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. So they're in Illinois,
they're in Michigan. We were not studying politics. We were
to studying development. We asked, have you ever pretended to
hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed

(27:23):
socially or academically? An astounding eighty eight percent said yes.
So eighty eight percent of college students at Northwestern at
Michigan University are saying I'm pretending to be more of
a leftist than I actually am, just so I can
get by in college. They wrote, this dissonance shows up everywhere.

(27:48):
Seventy eight percent of students told us they self censor
on their beliefs surrounding gender identity, seventy two on politics
or sixty eight percent on family values. More than eighty
percent said they had submit class work that misrepresented their
views in order to align with professors. Eighty percent.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
For many, this has become second nature, an instinct for
academic and professional self preservation. Eighty percent of college kids
are pretending to hold views they do not actually endorse,
just so they can get a better grade on their paper.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
That is that is a remarkable what is the number again?
Eighty percent?

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Four out of five. They then did an experiment. They
asked what do you think about gender? So eighty seven
excuse me, I'm sorr sorry. Eighty seven percent identified as
exclusively heterosexual and supported a binary model of gender. Nine
percent expressed partial openness to gender fluity. Just seven percent
embrace the idea of gender as a broad spectrum. And

(28:55):
most of these belongs to activist circles. Okay, but would
you ever te house someone that would you ever tell
someone what you think about gender identity? And remember, by
the way, the vast majority eighty seven percent, there's just
two genders. So seventy seven percent said they disagreed with
the idea that gender identity should override biological sex in

(29:17):
such domains of sports, healthcare, or public data, but would
never voice that disagreement out loud. Seventy seven percent they
are hiding their views on gender. Thirty eight percent describe
themselves as morally confused. They're uncertain whether honesty was still

(29:37):
ethical if it meant exclusion. So is it still honest?
Is it still ethical to be honest if your opinion
is going to offend someone else?

Speaker 7 (29:48):
But you know what, I guess what's even more troubling
is that these academics who claim to be all about
learning and in terms of developing one's mind, yes, education,
they're not about that at all. I mean, because it's
accept I mean, here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
This is indoctrination, not education.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
But if you find out this type of information, let's
just say you're a professor and you find this out
and you say, you know what I don't want do
you I guess for the liberal do they say, oh,
this is exactly the way that we would like them
to be, to be more enlightened, or do you say,
you know what, this is wrong. I'm going to change.

(30:31):
We need to change the image of academia to be
more open, to be more and we're going to go
the other direction because if we have created this, if
this is this hostile environment to the truth, we need
to fix it right because our students are leaving universities
wondering if telling someone the truth.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Is ethical tell it. They're questioning whether it's right to
tell people something that is true that the report says.
We do not fault students for perpetuating a climate that
is hostile to intellectual integrity. We fault the faculty, administrators
and institutional leaders who built a system that rewards moral

(31:14):
theater while punishing inquiry. In shielding students from discomfort, they
have also shielded them from discovery. The result is a
generation confident in self righteousness but uncertain in self They're
convinced they're taking the moral high ground, but they don't

(31:35):
actually know who the heck they are because they haven't
been allowed to express who they are through four years
of college. And we're paying for that.

Speaker 7 (31:46):
And I don't see it getting any better at this
point unless someone, you know, unless they decide to change.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
Good point.

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Speaker 6 (33:15):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen Parr with Lewis
sar Avaloni.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
You know, I think this is good news, okay, that
the US drinking rate is at a new low.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
I saw that the lowest since the nineteen thirties, nineteen
thirty five, I think right.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
So apparently Gallup has been recording for nearly ninety years
they been tracking, I should say the amount of alcohol
we consume as a nation, and the percentage of US
adults who say they consume alcohol has now dropped to
fifty four percent, which is the lowest that they have

(33:55):
ever recorded in their ninety years of tracking.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
And I think a lot of that actually is the
young generation that's coming up, that they aren't as much
into drinking alcohol as previous generations have been.

Speaker 7 (34:07):
But I think also Americans are more health conscious than ever.
I think I think we're getting I think I.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Think we've got some Americans who are more health conscious
than others, but than ever. But the United States has
the largest, the largest percentage of its population that is
obese of any nation on Earth. And it's not even close.
It's like forty percent of our nation is overweight, and
the next closest is like twenty five. So, yes, we

(34:37):
do have some people who are focusing on it. Yes
it is a topic of conversation, but when we still
have forty percent of our country that is overweight, you
can't say that we are more health conscious.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
I get it, but I still think this is good
news because fewer Americans drinking. Look, I'm not against drinking
by any means, you know, I'll have a good margarita
at every decade or so, no or Bloody Mary, Bloody
Mary's every yeah, once, every blue move. But here's the thing.

(35:07):
Fewer Americans are drinking, and I think that means healthier Americans.
I think it lowers the risk of chronic disease. That's true.
Drunk driving absolutely a less less strain on our healthcare system.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
And if it's part of a trend that's going to
grow where we do actually start to deal with our
healthcare issues, where we actually start to realize that our
pursuit of health is up to us and that we
need to be making better choices as individuals rather than
expecting the government to make us healthy, then yeah, I'm
all in. You know what, I will drink to that. Wow. Okay,

(35:40):
tell you what, let's get to a bread spot.

Speaker 7 (35:43):
I'm doing all right, getting good grace.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
Shame so President Trump posted online over the weekend quote,
I am going to lead a movement to get rid
of mail in ballots and also, while we're at it,
highly inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines. I
do think this is a bright spot. I know there's
folks on the left that think this is fascism or whatever,

(36:10):
but mail in ballots du lead to fraud. There's it's
so much easier to cheat with them than with other
forms of voting. And when you have people cheating during election,
that is a leg that is a legitimate that is
a official threat to democracy.

Speaker 7 (36:30):
One hundred percent. And look, the fact of the matter is,
I mean they've done studies on this. This is going back.
Actually it was George W. Bush that commissioned a study
on a study on this, and by the way, it
wasn't just Republicans Harder And in that report, they found
that twenty five percent of mail in ballots never got counted. Huh,

(36:54):
because they either got lost they come back to late,
or they came back too late, or the or the
person requesting the ballot never got it in time.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
This is just this is a problem.

Speaker 7 (37:06):
I mean, it is mail in ballots is the cheaters paradise.
I mean, you don't need a PhD in political science
to understand this.

Speaker 6 (37:15):
Right, because it's so easy to cheat. You get the ballot,
you get somebody else's ballots.

Speaker 7 (37:20):
Steal their mail because you can make you just stole
their vote, make copies of ballots. You can stuff, you
can go around like other people's.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
Like like they apparently did in that Hamtrak Michigan. Yes,
all right, absolutely, he wrote, we are now the only
country in the world that uses mail in voting. All
others gave it up because of the massive voter fraud encountered.
We will begin this effort, which will be strongly opposed
by the Democrats because they cheat at levels never seen before,

(37:49):
by signing an executive order to help bring honesty to
the twenty twenty six Mitrum elections. Now, he's not quite
right on that. There are other countries that do use
mail in ballots, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, several others. By
the way, have you noticed all those countries they now
have like far left governments in them. Huh. They use
mail in.

Speaker 7 (38:09):
Boundies, so the easier it is to cheat, you can
get more liberal leaders.

Speaker 6 (38:13):
Okay, But there are also lots of places that ban
mail in bollots, like France. Most countries actually ban mail inbouots,
not all, but most. And I don't know if the
executive order is going to solve this. Democrats are definitely
going to sue. Some judge is going to issue a
nationwide injunction. I think there's a constitutional question over whether

(38:33):
the president, through an executive order, can mandate that there's
no mail in ballots anywhere. But the point is he's
going to push this issue through an executive order. That
may lead to some action in Congress, but at least
it is going to create a conversation in the US
and it's likely, i think, based off of his previous
track roads of stuff like this, it's actually going to

(38:53):
push the country to the right on this issue.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
And by the way, it is minorities and young people
who are more likely to use mail in ballots, and
those have the highest percentage of not being counted at all.
So if you're someone that's out there that you know
you're all all in on vote on doing or doing
away with voter ID because it disenfranchises minority voters, I

(39:20):
mean you should be you should be against mail in ballots.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Because that definitely disenfranchises You're disenfranchised as a voter if
your ballot never makes it to being counted exactly. And
yet huh, I don't know what they want.

Speaker 7 (39:34):
They just get.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Lost, weird, just just disappeared. I think this is a
bright spot. It's not going to be a slam dunk.
There's going to be a fight. But yeah, we need
to stop mail in ballots in this country. It's just
too easy to cheat with them in our elections.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
Our democracy is too important and it erodes the integrity
of our elections.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parker.

Speaker 7 (40:14):
The well, you know cost Co, you know the warehouse
giant cheap hot dogs. They also have you know, great
hot dogs dollars fifty. It's a good deal, all right. Well,
they now announced that they will not sell mifit press
stone miph for press stone for prestone, which you know,
again is not a cough syrup, it's not aspirin. It's

(40:37):
a drug that is designed with one purpose and that
is to end at pregnancy. Now it's an abortion drug.
Costco half of the abortion drug cocktail. Costco has never
sold meph for prestone. But they're making a position or
taking a statement, they're making the announcement that they will
not sell that drug. And that is you know, we certainly,

(41:01):
I say that's an anomaly to some degree because you
have all these other major pharmacies and retailers like CVS
and Walgreens and write Aid. They have all announced in
recent years that they do and certainly continue to this day,
dispensing this abortion inducing medication. So Costco just came out right, medication,

(41:24):
it's a poison.

Speaker 6 (41:25):
Yeah. So Costco just came out and said we're not
going to sell it. And do they say why they were.

Speaker 7 (41:30):
Well, they cited load demand, but they've never sold it
in the first place. I guess maybe they don't have
a lot of customers asking for it. But this was
a bold statement, a bold pro life statement, and it's
making you say WHOA. When I say WHOA?

Speaker 4 (41:53):
I mean.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
Earlier today, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsath and Secretary of
Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior had a
fitness competition. Their challenge was to see which one of
them could do fifty pull ups and one hundred puss
ups in five minutes. The challenge came as part of
Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again campaign. Hag Seth has complained
that under previous administrations, the fitness standards for the military

(42:15):
were relaxed, leading to a lack of fitness. So they
posted a video of their challenge online working out with
other soldiers. The Secretary of Defense finished the challenge in
five minutes and twenty five seconds, and the Secretary of
Health and Human Services finished just behind him. So not
the one actually achieved it, but to be fair, Secretary
of Kennedy is seventy one years old, so doing fifty
pull ups and one hundred push ups in less than

(42:37):
six minutes, it's quite an achievement.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
For both of them. They're leading by example.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy.
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