August 29, 2025 • 42 mins
This is the full show for Aguust 28, 2025. We ask the American Mamas about the Cracker Barrel response. We Dig Deep into why British and English flags are being taken down in Britain. Plus, more and more people around the world say their lives are getting better, and that's a Bright Spot. And we finish off with some words of wisdom from MLK that will make you say, "Whoa!"
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So on Wednesday, the unthinkable happened at Annunciation Catholic Church
in Minneapolis. You had this dranged gunman, armed with hate
and a manifesto. He opened fire from the outside, targeting
the innocent that were gathered within that church right which
was supposed to be a place of peace, of a
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place of faith, and he turned it into a battlefield,
and was.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Even a battlefield. There was no fighting back on a battlefield,
you have two different sides fighting.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
This was an ambush, it was a slaughter and once
again we're left with questions, could it have been prevented,
did people around the gunman miss the warning signs? Why
wasn't there an armed good guy there to stop the
armed bad guy? And most importantly, why weren't there pleas
of Catholic leaders taken seriously? Because they did? There were
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of There were pleadings from Catholic leaders in Minnesota, in
Minneapolis asking for years for the resources to keep their
community safe. And again, make no mistake about it, those
Catholic leaders did. They begged. In fact, they put it
in writing. They didn't wait for this tragedy. They saw
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what happened in Uvalde, they saw what happened in Nashville,
and they said, we need to secure our schools now.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, they also saw what happened after the Dobbs decision,
when there were molotov cocktails thrown at Catholic churches all
across the country. Two of the biggest trends in violence
in this nation since twenty twenty has been the burning
of churches, specifically Catholic churches, and the shootings at schools. Well,
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if you're a Catholic school, you know that you're a
potential target. And so for the leaders of the school
to go to the state and say, hey, it is
obvious that we are a potential target. Yes, because the
government's job is to secure our right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. And then the government goes nah, right,
those Catholic leaders saw it coming. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But on the other side of the table was Tim Wallas,
who's the governor of Minnesota. He was sitting on an
eighteen billion dollar surplus in twenty twenty three, and he
said nothing, He did nothing, He ignored them. And now
and now the consequences are soaked in blood, and let's
not gloss over this. The Minnesota Catholic Conference, which represents
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all six dioceses of the state, came forward in both
twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three after Uvalde, after
the Covenant School in Nashville, and they weren't talking about
hypotheticals at that point. They were talking about cold, hard reality.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
This has happened.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Kids and staff that were slaughtered in classrooms because they
were sitting ducks. And they asked. Their request was a
modest request. It was around forty four dollars per student,
not a blank check, not some extravagant wish list just
broadened the state's Safe Schools Initiatives, which already provides safety
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funds to public schools, and include private schools.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's it. Just whatever you're doing for public.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Schools, do it for private schools.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But Tim Walls wouldn't do it. Am I wrong? He
didn't do it because they were a Catholic school.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Why he did or didn't do it? You can speculate.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They were done it right.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Have a public school, yes? And and why and and well,
I tell you what. You you draw the conclusion from
this because while he was ignoring the bishops, while he
was ignoring the priests, while he was ignoring Catholic schools,
you know what he was busy doing. He was busy
making Minnesota a trans refuge state.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
YEP.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So his administration, his administration was rolling out the red
carpet for miners from across the country to come to
Minnesota to his so called gender affirming care state. So
he spent all of his political capital, legislative time, and yes,
resources on that project. There was plenty of money, apparently
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to fund puberty blockers for twelve year olds, plenty of
time to advertise Minnesota as the place to bring your
child for irreversible surgeries, but not a dime, not a
moment for Catholic schools saying please governor, help keep our
children safe from mass shootings.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And isn't it interesting that where Minnesota actively promotes transgenderism,
they have the highest rate of transgender kids anywhere in
the country. Isn't that an interesting little coincidence? As Bill
Maher said, if transgenderism is natural, then why is it regional?
Why do you have more transgenderism in places where the
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politicians are pushing the transgender narrative than you do evenly
spread out throughout the country. That doesn't make any sense.
It's almost like people are being brainwashed into being transgender,
Which isn't that what the shooter said that he brainwashed.
He brainwashed himself in Minnesota. He said that he was
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tired of being trans and that the only reason that
he had long hair is that that was basically the
last vestige of his trans quality that he had apparently adopted.
I mean, he still had the name Robin rather than Robert.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, that was the legal his name had been legally
changed by his mother. And look for Tim Walls again.
You've got to go back, You've got to go back.
You've got to hold these folks accountable. We can't just
gloss over this, because this is more than just a
dereliction of duty. This is moral bankruptcy. This is a
complete abdication of responsibility. Because imagine you're sitting on an
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eighteen billion dollar surplus in Many, Minnesota. You've got Catholic
leaders knocking on your door saying, look, Governor, we've seen Uvaldi,
we've seen Nashville. We're vulnerable. Help us, and you shrug
them off. And then you turn around and you say, hey,
you know, let's make Minnesota the sanctuary state for transsurgeries.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And yet the shooter in Uvaldi and the shooter in
Nashville were trans identifying individuals who went to those schools
specifically to kill Catholic children.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And Tim Wallas's and look for you folks listening right now,
this is Oh, you know, you can't predict the future,
Tim Walls, he didn't know this was going. You know
what I got to say to that is something I
can't say on the radio. You can't tell me about hindsight.
Don't tell me about what if the foresight was there?
Right this is at Monday morning quarterbacking the warnings were there,
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the requests were reasonable from the Catholic diocese there in Minnesota,
the money was available, and the governor chose to look
the other way.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And the logic is there too. Why do you think
people are born in the wrong body? That just doesn't happen? Why?
Why is that something you even believe? But see, this
is because that that absolutely goes against logic and reason
and sanity.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
But this is classical liberal governance. It's what we have
been talking about for years. Liberals love to talk about compassion,
about caring for people, but when it comes to real responsibility,
when it comes to protecting innocent lives, yeah, they're nowhere
to be found.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, but you know the mayor of the Democrat mayor
of Minneapolis, he's he's come out. He's got to he's
know us how to solve this. You know, he's gonna
stave all schools.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Is that what's he gonna do?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
He wants to ban semi automatic rifles. Okay, Now he
didn't mention the shotgun or the handgun that the guy
had that he also used in the attack. He just
singled out the rifle.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And in the meantime, those children, those children, those families
will suffer.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Let's get to the top of things. You need no
before Tom All first singd no before other. Department of
Homeland Security announced the five thousandth arrest of a criminal
illegal alien in the city of Los Angeles. That's just
since June, when Ice and Border Patrol agents began their
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stepped up enforcement in the nation's second largest city. DHS
Secretary Christy Nolmes says that's five thousand criminal illegal alien
gang members, child predators, and murderers taken off our streets.
Precious lives saved, families protected, American taxpayers spared the cost
of their crimes and the burden of their benefits. Democrats
in Los Angeles and across California have denounced the crackdown
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on criminal illegal aliens, saying that it's cruel and separates
families and called they call President Trump a fa for
enforcing the law.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Okay, criminals who are convicted in a court of law,
they go away to jail. That breaks up families too. Oh,
we're going to do away with jailing anyone the limits
any crimes.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So Lef's trying to do that too.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
In the in the in the name of keeping families together,
second thing you needed.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Before, there's some good news out of the US economy.
The Department of Commerce revised economic data for the second quarter. Now,
the Commerce Department is saying GDP grew at three point
three percent in April through June, up from their initial
reports of three percent. At the same time, inflation came
down to two percent, which is right in line with
what the Federal Reserves targets is. Consumer spending was up
one point nine percent in the second quarter. All of
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this suggests the economy is doing much better than experts
had predicted it would when President Trump began raising tariffs
earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
You know, it's interesting. During the Biden administration, all of
the reports coming out of the Department of Commerce were
much more rosier than they actually were. But during the
Trump administration, the initial reports are always more gloomier and.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Then the revisions go up. It's weird. And the third
thing you need to before in a while, Federal Reserve Board
Governor Lisa Cook issuing President Trump over her firing. Cook
is accused of committing mortgage fraud by claiming a house
in Michigan and a home in Georgia both to being
her primary residences. On mortgage papers just two weeks apart.
Presidents do have the legal authority to fire Fed Reserve
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government governors with cause, and President Trump claimed that having
a board member who apparently committed mortgage fraud to get
better interest rates on her mortgages should not be on
the board that determines the interest rates for the rest
of the country. However, in a lawsuit, Cook says it's
all about politics. Lawsuit claims the operational independence of the
Federal Reserve is vital to the ability to make sound
economic decisions free from the political pressures of an election cycle. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I mean, your history influences whether folks trust you, and
if your position requires trust financial fiduciary duty, what do
you expect We'll.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Be right back.
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Speaker 3 (13:14):
Welcome back to America, got radio Stephen Power, Lewis sar Evloni.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
You know after the horrific tragedy of Annunciation Catholic Church
in Minneapolis, you know, the reactions just started pouring in.
You had families that are grieving, parishioners that are in shock,
a community left in pieces. And what did Jin Saki,
you know, the former White House Press secretary now an
MSNBC or ms NOW host. What did she say? She said,
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prayer is not enough. Now, just think about that for
a moment. You have children that are gunned down while
praying in a Catholic church, and Saki's instinct is not
to mourn with them or for them, not to respect
their faith, but to sneer to attack prayer itself. This
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is the arrogance of the left folks. They just can't
help themselves. They look they look at faith not as comfort,
not as a source of strength, but as something to
be little and thank God, thank God. Senator jd Vance,
who obviously has a much larger platform to stand on
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than Jensaki, said this. He said, we pray because our
hearts are broken. We pray because we know God listens.
We pray because we know that God works in mysterious
ways and can inspire us to further action. Amen, amen, Amen, amen,
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that is exactly right.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So I have seen miracles through prayer numerous times. I've
seen it with people that were strayed inter me. I've
seen it with people that are friends to me. I've
seen it happen to me and through me. I don't
think Jensaki understands that. And so my prayer is that
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God does something where she actually gets to see God's
miracles working through prayer so that she can come to understand.
But we pray what he prays that he does.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
But we pray in tragedy because we cannot carry the
burden alone.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Of course not.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Jesus said come to me, all you who are weary
and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, because my yoke is light. Look, you and I
cannot solve the problem of school shootings. We cannot control
what happens inside the mind of every single person on
planet Earth. We just can't. And for anyone to think
that you can, my gosh, that's a level of arrogance
that I never want to aspire to.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Right to pray, it's not it's not weakness. Oh, it's
the greatest strength any human being can know.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It's understanding that while I can't solve these things, God can,
and he listens to our petitions. That's where the miracles come.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
We got a question for American mama's what did you
think of the cracker barrel? Response, Well, let's ask God.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
American mama's Alma Mama.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And joining us now our American mama's Terry Neediville and
Kimberly Burlison. So after they redid their logo, all the
Landa Lakes and the Washington Redskins and Uncle Ben and
Aunt Jemima, and then there's this backlash of people going
your little band aid sticker there is stupid. We hate it.
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So they put out the Cracker Barrel put out a
press release and a notice of their fans to their customers, says,
if the last few days have shown us anything it's
how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel. We are truly
grateful for your heartfelt voices. You've also shown us that
we could have done a better job sharing who we
are and who will always be. What do you think
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of the response?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
I think that response was code for we hear you,
but we ain't changing. We don't give all reals.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
If you go further into that, they are saying that
they're they're doing the kamala stuff. I mean the kamal. Yeah,
they're doing the word salad where they're saying everything, but
they're never they're not saying, but we are going to
change the logo back y'all spoken, we hear you. We're
gonna go back to what y'all like, the old decorations,
the nostalgia on the walls, and what we're going to
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really concentrate on our cleaner bathrooms, faster service, more pleasant atmosphere.
They didn't say that. They basically, we hear you, we
love you. We're gonna have We're still gonna have the pegbors,
We're still gonna have nostalgia. We're gonna have the rock
and chairs. But we don't get so get used to
the Delvita cheese looking cracker Barrel sign out there that's
we're not changing it.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
What do you think is so Cracker Barrel was losing money,
so they have been had They've had this kind of
woke agenda for a while now, and they're losing money.
They've been losing money, and then suddenly this happens and
everybody is just like no, no, So to me, I'm like,
why why this why? I thought it was like a
Coke classic moment. I thought it was kind of like
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how when Coke said they're going to change their formula,
so everybody starts buying that coke and then they're like, okay, okay,
we're just gonna call it Coke class that we're going
to do this other coke. I'm wondering if this was
all orchestra like on purpose, Is this a woke agenda
or oh yeah, yeah yeah, okay. I saw one pundit
say that this is all about getting rid of it.
You know this is about putting something out there because
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it's prime real estate liquidating it is that what?
Speaker 8 (18:51):
But there's pictures everywhere of empty parking lots at Cracker Barrel.
This is their stock has plummeted. Oh yeah, bye this
you have this hundred million new CEO with the big
you know, the big, big, old round black framed glasses.
She's she's trying to gas like America on one of
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the mainstream shows, and she says, you know, what we've
heard back is that everyone loves this. Everyone's so for it,
and they're not.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm like, you're not in the office.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Yeah yeah, our group around the lunch table, everyone loves it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
So I think of this, God, I'm such a nerd, Okay,
So I think of this as Sun Sue Son Sue
who wrote the Art of War, one of the oldest books.
He was a general, ancient Chinese general right, who wrote
the Art of War. One of the things he said
in there that applies to just about anything. He says,
if in a thousand battles, you know yourself and you
know your enemy, you will never be in peril. If
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in a thousand battles you know yourself but you don't
know your enemy, you'll be in periling about half of them.
And if in a thousand battles you don't know yourself
and you don't know your enemy, you will be in
trouble every single time. I don't think this new CEO
or the management team of Cracker Barrell knows one who
they are and two who their customers are. And if
you don't respect and love your customers, how can you
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serve them well?
Speaker 8 (20:12):
And on top of that, you mentioned earlier at the
top of the segment, you mentioned Angemima, Uncle Ben, Land
of Lakes. All of those that we saw lose their
hair identity, Yeah, their identity by.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Removing the person, they were removing the personality exactly.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
And what they don't realize is if y'all remember, and
I'll take ange Maima's family for one, they thought this
the Land of Lakes. There was an Indian nation that
thought this, like, what are you doing? This is heralding us,
this is lifting us, this is lifting our people. This
is the face of who we are. And so they
don't listen. They think they know better. It's kind of
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like a hairdresser. There's two types. There's the hairdresser that
you say, hey, I want to do this with my hair,
and the hair dress goes, well, I don't think that's
going to look good on you, but that's what you want.
I'm going to do it. Then you got the hairdresser
and you say I want to do that. No, I
got you girl, trust me. I'm going to do you
the ways, and you get it done. You're like, this
is not what I want at all, and so you
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have to go. You're like, Okay, I gotta fire her
because I want to go. I want to listen to
what I'm saying to you. Listen to what I like,
whether you agree with it or not. The reason that
people had such a time with this one, Kimberly, was
because Cracker Barrel represented nostalgia. They didn't have the best food.
I mean, they have great Southern cooking home food, but
when you go in they have that unique little gift
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store that has all those little unique old americana. You
go in and it's this big fireplace with all of
the fixings of your like maybe that your grandmother made.
It's nostalgia, so leave the man and the barrel alone.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
I think it was also the straw that broke the
camel's back. I think we're so seeing things that we
love being destroyed. Yeah, and this was one more and
we're like, enough is enough?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You just bud lighted cracker barrel.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, instead of going to the left with it, they
should have doubled down and they should have gone. We're
going to be even more country store than ever before.
If you like to ask our American Mama is a question,
go to our website Americanground Radio dot com slash mamas
and click on the ask the mama's button turned out
of Kimberly Burglson. Thank you so much, and coming up
next here on American Ground Radio, we are digging deep.
We'll be right back. Stick around, keep your ear to
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Speaker 2 (22:20):
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Speaker 3 (22:57):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen pow Lewis sorrow so.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Trey Goudy, the former congressman, the once touted bulldog of
ben Ghazi hearings right now. He's a TV host. He
is now telling America that after the mass shootings in Minnesota,
we're going to have to choose between security over freedom.
Take a listen.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Our system is reactive. Something bad happens, we react to it.
And what people are crying for now is how can
we prevent this?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
How can we stop it?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
And the only way to stop it is to identify
the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out
of their hands. And so we're going to have to
have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean,
how many school shootings? Does it?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Shut that off?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Just shut that off?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
He's missing a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Think about the absurdity of that statement, security over freedom.
That's the exact formula that tyrants have used for centuries
to strip liberty away from Americans.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Well, it's what Ben Franklin warned about even before this
country was formed, that anyone who would give up a
little freedom for a little security discsion.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
But whose hands do you keep guns out of? Everyonce?
Only the mentally ill, only the people the government says
might be dangerous. That's a very slippery slope, so steep,
I mean, I can't even go there.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What have instead our governments simply stopped promoting mental illness. Okay,
because most of these there have been a lot of
these school shooters recently which have been trans individuals, which
have transitioned in recent years, and we've got democratic governments
all over the country celebrating transitioning. But that is body chysmorphia.
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But that's that's largely with that problem.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
That's a larger mental illness issue, right, Okay, My point is.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
My point is is you'll cut down the odds of
a school shooting if you're cutting down on the number
of people who are prone to school shooting.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
But it's equally as ludicrous for Trade Goudy or anyone else,
and Trey Gouty is generally.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
A conserv yes, very much, But for anyone else.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
To argue that we've got to keep guns out of
the folks who don't need them or shouldn't have them,
how do you decide that? Number one? But number two,
just look at this from a practical effect. There are
over four hundred million guns in this country. You're not
putting that genie back in the bottle. The toothpaste is
out of the tube. There are more guns than people
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in America. So how do you control who gets one.
You don't you know who does criminals. Criminals don't walk
into bass pro shop, fill out a form and say hey,
I'm planning on a mass shooting. They get their weapons illegally,
and in this instance, this shooter got them legally. All
of the gun laws in the world. The fact of
the matter is, we're never going to keep guns out
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of the hands of bad guys.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But we've got to start dealing with our mental health
crisis in this country. And as long as we just
continue to say, oh, no, no, we should give into
mental health, well we're just going to end up with
more people who are completely out of their minds. Let's
dig deep, going down. There is a strange thing happening
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in Britain these days. People are putting up the British
and English flags all over the country and life posts,
they're drawing it in the streets.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
And patriotism now in Great Britain. Well, but then after
they raise these flags, their local governments are coming around
and taking them down again. Oh, because of the rise
of nationalism. And that's a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So you've got the Saint George's Cross, that's the red
cross on the white background. It's the traditional symbol of England.
And then you have the Union Jack, which is a
merger of the English, Scottish and Welsh flags that represents
the nation as a whole in Northern Ireland. Right, So
why would the governments be tearing down the symbols of
their own government. This is from the Independent British paper.
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But the flags have proved controversial and have been hastily
taken back down by council workers as they are thought
to be to spring from an organized effort called Operation
Raise the Colors, which has the backing of far right figures.
So yep, over in Britain it's seen as being far
right to support your country. Does that sound familiar?
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So great Britain. Essentially it's going to cease to exist altogether.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Apparently that's what the government wants. They don't want you
to be proud of your own country. The government doesn't
have they want to have a country. Yeah. But see
look in last year's election here in the US, you
could pretty accurately predict who's going to vote for President
Trump by seeing if they're flying a US flag at
their home.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
And that's absolutely shameful that that that's how we distinguish
ourselves now in this country, whether America.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
America enough to fly the flag, or whether you hate
America enough not to fly the flag. That's but that's
going on in Britain too, so also from the Independent,
there are fears that the flag could stoke division in
communities and that there could be anti immigration intents behind them.
Now the groups BAH this say it's just about patriotism.
This is from sky News. The groups describe themselves on
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a gofund me page as proud Englishmen who have a
common goal to show Birmingham and the rest of the
country how proud we are of our history, freedoms and achievements.
And there's another group calling themselves Operation Raise the Colors.
They're also encouraging the display of flags and emerge around
the same time. On a Facebook page which has more
than five thousand members. It wants to bring back patriotism
(28:27):
once and for all. There's nothing wrong with patriotism. There's
nothing wrong with loving your country. In fact, if you
don't love your country, you should probably not be in
that country anymore.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
But see, I think it unites people to be proud
of your country, right.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It can cut down a lot of division.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I mean, you've got people of like. Right here in
the United States, you have people of different backgrounds, different faiths,
different ethnicities. But the glue that holds them together. What
used to be true about America, the great melting pot, right,
is being proud to be an American. That is the
common ground, the shared identity. If you take that away
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here in the United States, for example, you've got three
hundred and thirty million strangers all pulling in different directions.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That unites us.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
That's not a country that is chaos.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
And as the flags get taken down in Britain, it
only makes more people want to put them up. And
so they say this is anti immigration, it's all about
anti immigration. Well why would people over in Britain want
to be anti immigration? Are they just bigots? Well maybe
because as the number of immigrants allowed into Britain has risen,
so have crime rates in the nation. Britain now has
(29:41):
a rape rate. Get this, The rape rate in Britain
is one hundred and nine per one hundred thousand people
per year. Oh my goodness, So you go ten years
one percent of your population would have been rate. That's
the highest rate of rapes in all of Europe. And
the rate of rapes in Britain started going up back
(30:04):
in twenty fourteen. Do you want to know what else
started going up drastically in twenty fourteen? Immigration in Britain.
It's been exponential ever since. It's a rising curve, and
the number of rapes has also exponentially risen along with
the number of immigrants coming into Britain. Now, I'm not
(30:26):
saying correlation is causation, but there's something going on here.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Well do you think so you're saying that by not
embracing your patriotism for your country, you're actually what you're
exhibiting self hatred for your country. And so therefore what
is behind the crime rate.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
What's behind the crime rate is you have a whole
bunch of immigrants coming from the Middle East, from Africa,
from places that do not have an English.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Tradition from Wait a minute, but it's not an English
tradition not to rate people.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That are some countries that look more harshly on rapes,
and there are some countries that will blame rape victims
for being victims of rapes. In the Middle East, especially
in Muslim countries, especially women who get raped are blamed
for being raped, not the men who are doing it,
and we've had an exponential rise in people coming from
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the Middle East and into Britain.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
But if you want a strong military, need you need
pride in your country.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
You do.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
If you want a strong economy, you need pride in
your country. If you want children growing up to respect
their elders and their culture and their values, you need
pride in your country because without pride, nations crumble.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And the number one job of a government is to
secure the rights of the people, its own people first,
and the number one right of that the right to life,
and then the right to liberty. And raping is a
violation of the right to liberty. And if you can't
protest that by showing patriotism, what can you do?
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Welcome back to American Great Radio, Stephen pard Lewis.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
So the insiders at Vanity Fair magazine, Oh yeah, yes,
they were feuding apparently about whether or not Milania Trump
should be on their cover or be their cover girls,
so to speak. They couldn't decide if it was worth
the backlash. They couldn't decide if it was you know,
(33:36):
is it safe to showcase a Trump. You know, they
were torn between their need for clicks and their hatred
or yeah, I'll put it that way, their hatred of
the name Trump. So Milania Trump decided to decide this
for them, and she said I'm not interested, period, end
(34:01):
of story. And that, my friends, is how you shut
down the cultural snobs of Manhattan and Hollywood all at once.
She ended the whole melodrama in one stroke, she said, no,
she's not interested.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
That is that is very interesting because vanity Fairs should
have already put her on the.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Wh during the first administration, should have already of course, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, it's it's unconscionable the way that the left has
treated Mulania Trump. If you hate Donald Trump, that's fine,
you can hate Donald Trump. But what Mlania. What is
Milania Trump done to deserve your hatred other than just a.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Well and the fact that she told them that she
was not interested. This is only going to fuel the
hatred of Milania even more because it's the reason that
they hated her in the first place.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Because she doesn't seek their love.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
They can't control her. She doesn't need their validation, she
didn't need their attention. And when she did get attention,
it was because of who she was, not because of
some carefully manufactured pr stunt. And they couldn't stand it.
They were used to first ladies who just played ball,
(35:25):
who gave them interviews, who bassed in their flattery, and
yet Milania she walked away, or moreover.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
First ladies who thought the way they did. They don't
like that Milania doesn't think the way they do, although
you know, how would they know? They've never bothered to.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Ask her, But she I think she's set a great
example for many others. You don't need their validation, you
don't need their covers, you don't need their awards, you
don't need their applause. You can live without them and
live better.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I agree. Let's get to a bright spot.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I'm doing all right, getting good grades. You just so bright.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Shame so more and more people around the world say
their lives are getting better, and that is a bright.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Spot all around the world. Or Americans getting weary of
winning under the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
No, no, no, this is all around the world. Gallop does
a global survey every year. They call it the Life
Evaluation Index. Gallup quote ask people to rate their current
and future lives on a ladder from zero worst to
ten best. Those scoring seven plus for the present and
eight plus for five years ahead are quote thriving, while
those rating both for or below are quote suffering. Everyone
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else is struggling. So that's how they rate this, and
they say in twenty twenty four, a median of thirty
three percent of adults across one hundred and forty two
countries rated their lives well enough to be classified as
thriving thirty three percent, one third, continuing a trend of
steady improvements in life evaluation going back more than a decade.
That is the highest number on record. One third of
(37:10):
the population on planet Earth says, you know what, I'm
actually doing pretty good, and I'm doing and I expect
to be doing better in the future. What's more is
only seven percent of people said they were suffering, which
is the lowest number on record. So you have fewer
people in abject poverty and abject destitution, and you have
more people are saying, you know what, life's getting better.
(37:31):
That's a bright spot.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Yes, absolutely, but look, you know we say all the
time it starts at the top. And here you've got
President Trump, right, he talks very positively. Everything is grand,
everything is large, everything is prosperous.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
We're winning.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
And look, I understand this is a global, a global poll.
But at the same time, America leads the world. Yes,
but what's the butt. There's no in any of that,
not in that.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
But in this what I'm about to say. Unfortunately, the
percentage of people who think they are thriving in North
America is decreasing, So they didn't break it out by country,
but USA is the largest country in North America.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Ye, but that also includes Mexico. It does include Mexico,
and it include Latin a lot of Latin American countries
there that.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Well, North America, not Central America, North America, so it
to include Mexico, US, and Canada. That's okay, okay, all right.
In two thousand and seven, sixty seven percent of people
in North America, so two out of three said they
were thriving. Today that's down to forty nine percent. Now
it's still higher than the global average, but it's on
its way down. This is also a trend in Western Europe.
Western Europe went down from fifty two percent down to
(38:43):
forty two percent. So in the most civilized, the most industrialized,
the richest nations in the world, the nations where we
have objectively have things the best, more and more of
us are seeing things through a pessimistic lens about the future.
And we need to change that because again, compare our
lives to people in Africa, and people in Africa and
(39:05):
Sub Saharan Africa are going, you know what, things are
actually finally starting to get better, and we go, gosh,
everything's awful here. That's a mindset thing, because objectively, life
is better in the US than it is almost anywhere
else on earth, I know.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
But to feel good about your life, I think that
begins with leaders who speak that into reality. Leaders who
don't apologize for their country but celebrate it. Leaders who
don't tell people they're powerless, but remind them that they're capable.
Leaders that don't traffic in despair but trade in hope.
(39:39):
And I think that's what you see from the Trump administration,
and I think that it resonates all over the globe.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
But if you want to believe that your life is
going to get better, you need to start with gratitude.
You start with gratitude. That's going to be a good
place to turn around a mindset that doesn't think it's thriving.
We'll be back, Welcome back to American ground Radio. Stephen Power,
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lewisar Eval.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I mean Tom Holman is sounding like a New York gangster.
I mean basically, well, I mean he's talking about that
Abrega Garcia.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah, the fellow that's been Kilmara Brega Garcia, the so
called Maryland Dad, who was actually an MS thirteen human trafficker.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
So now Holman Is is saying, Hey, I've got my
teeth into this guy, and I ain't letting go. Take
a listen, He's.
Speaker 10 (40:38):
Been indicted for human trafficking and anis moment. He's a
bad man, and I'm telling you I listen, I'm I'm
making I'm giving you my word. He will you be
parted from this country. I got my teeth in this thing.
I'm not letting it go. As far as the story, now,
he's gonna came asylum. First of all, he's beyond the
required one year.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Ok, he's been long.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
He said, he's got his teeth. He's got into this,
into this right, not necessarily into him right, but nevertheless.
I mean, that's the kind of tough talking that we
need in this country about law and order.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
What I don't understand is why the Democrats keep choosing
such awful examples of their heroes. Why did they turn
this guy into a martyr, a human trafficker, I mean,
a gang member, a wife beater. Why is an illegal
alien on top of all that? Why is that the
guy You're like, Oh, can't we all be like him?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I mean, this isn't some mealy malthd government suit giving
a press conference, you know, hoping nobody notices. No, this
is the real deal. This is a man who knows
what law enforcement means. You break the law, you pay
the price. You endanger Americans, you get shut down. Period,
simple into story, and we're gonna leave him saying wall.
(41:55):
When I say whoa ah, I mean whoa.
Speaker 10 (42:01):
Well.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Today is the anniversary of doctor Reverend Martin Luther King
Junior's I have a Dream speech. Here are some of
our favorite MLK quotes. Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase. The function
of education is to teach one to think intensively and
to think creatively. Intelligence plus character. That is the goal
of education. I have this one up on my wall.
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A genuine leader is not the searcher for consensus, but
a molder of consensus. In this last one, darkness cannot
drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate. Only love can do that.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
And we must keep doctor King's dream alive.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Amen, May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy
Because of you.
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
So on Wednesday, the unthinkable happened at Annunciation Catholic Church
in Minneapolis. You had this dranged gunman, armed with hate
and a manifesto. He opened fire from the outside, targeting
the innocent that were gathered within that church right which
was supposed to be a place of peace, of a
(01:25):
place of faith, and he turned it into a battlefield,
and was.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Even a battlefield. There was no fighting back on a battlefield,
you have two different sides fighting.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
This was an ambush, it was a slaughter and once
again we're left with questions, could it have been prevented,
did people around the gunman miss the warning signs? Why
wasn't there an armed good guy there to stop the
armed bad guy? And most importantly, why weren't there pleas
of Catholic leaders taken seriously? Because they did? There were
(02:00):
of There were pleadings from Catholic leaders in Minnesota, in
Minneapolis asking for years for the resources to keep their
community safe. And again, make no mistake about it, those
Catholic leaders did. They begged. In fact, they put it
in writing. They didn't wait for this tragedy. They saw
(02:23):
what happened in Uvalde, they saw what happened in Nashville,
and they said, we need to secure our schools now.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, they also saw what happened after the Dobbs decision,
when there were molotov cocktails thrown at Catholic churches all
across the country. Two of the biggest trends in violence
in this nation since twenty twenty has been the burning
of churches, specifically Catholic churches, and the shootings at schools. Well,
(02:48):
if you're a Catholic school, you know that you're a
potential target. And so for the leaders of the school
to go to the state and say, hey, it is
obvious that we are a potential target. Yes, because the
government's job is to secure our right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. And then the government goes nah, right,
those Catholic leaders saw it coming. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But on the other side of the table was Tim Wallas,
who's the governor of Minnesota. He was sitting on an
eighteen billion dollar surplus in twenty twenty three, and he
said nothing, He did nothing, He ignored them. And now
and now the consequences are soaked in blood, and let's
not gloss over this. The Minnesota Catholic Conference, which represents
(03:34):
all six dioceses of the state, came forward in both
twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three after Uvalde, after
the Covenant School in Nashville, and they weren't talking about
hypotheticals at that point. They were talking about cold, hard reality.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
This has happened.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Kids and staff that were slaughtered in classrooms because they
were sitting ducks. And they asked. Their request was a
modest request. It was around forty four dollars per student,
not a blank check, not some extravagant wish list just
broadened the state's Safe Schools Initiatives, which already provides safety
(04:11):
funds to public schools, and include private schools.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's it. Just whatever you're doing for public.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Schools, do it for private schools.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But Tim Walls wouldn't do it. Am I wrong? He
didn't do it because they were a Catholic school.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Why he did or didn't do it? You can speculate.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They were done it right.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Have a public school, yes? And and why and and well,
I tell you what. You you draw the conclusion from
this because while he was ignoring the bishops, while he
was ignoring the priests, while he was ignoring Catholic schools,
you know what he was busy doing. He was busy
making Minnesota a trans refuge state.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
YEP.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So his administration, his administration was rolling out the red
carpet for miners from across the country to come to
Minnesota to his so called gender affirming care state. So
he spent all of his political capital, legislative time, and yes,
resources on that project. There was plenty of money, apparently
(05:18):
to fund puberty blockers for twelve year olds, plenty of
time to advertise Minnesota as the place to bring your
child for irreversible surgeries, but not a dime, not a
moment for Catholic schools saying please governor, help keep our
children safe from mass shootings.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And isn't it interesting that where Minnesota actively promotes transgenderism,
they have the highest rate of transgender kids anywhere in
the country. Isn't that an interesting little coincidence? As Bill
Maher said, if transgenderism is natural, then why is it regional?
Why do you have more transgenderism in places where the
(05:57):
politicians are pushing the transgender narrative than you do evenly
spread out throughout the country. That doesn't make any sense.
It's almost like people are being brainwashed into being transgender,
Which isn't that what the shooter said that he brainwashed.
He brainwashed himself in Minnesota. He said that he was
(06:18):
tired of being trans and that the only reason that
he had long hair is that that was basically the
last vestige of his trans quality that he had apparently adopted.
I mean, he still had the name Robin rather than Robert.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, that was the legal his name had been legally
changed by his mother. And look for Tim Walls again.
You've got to go back, You've got to go back.
You've got to hold these folks accountable. We can't just
gloss over this, because this is more than just a
dereliction of duty. This is moral bankruptcy. This is a
complete abdication of responsibility. Because imagine you're sitting on an
(07:00):
eighteen billion dollar surplus in Many, Minnesota. You've got Catholic
leaders knocking on your door saying, look, Governor, we've seen Uvaldi,
we've seen Nashville. We're vulnerable. Help us, and you shrug
them off. And then you turn around and you say, hey,
you know, let's make Minnesota the sanctuary state for transsurgeries.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And yet the shooter in Uvaldi and the shooter in
Nashville were trans identifying individuals who went to those schools
specifically to kill Catholic children.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And Tim Wallas's and look for you folks listening right now,
this is Oh, you know, you can't predict the future,
Tim Walls, he didn't know this was going. You know
what I got to say to that is something I
can't say on the radio. You can't tell me about hindsight.
Don't tell me about what if the foresight was there?
Right this is at Monday morning quarterbacking the warnings were there,
(07:55):
the requests were reasonable from the Catholic diocese there in Minnesota,
the money was available, and the governor chose to look
the other way.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And the logic is there too. Why do you think
people are born in the wrong body? That just doesn't happen? Why?
Why is that something you even believe? But see, this
is because that that absolutely goes against logic and reason
and sanity.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
But this is classical liberal governance. It's what we have
been talking about for years. Liberals love to talk about compassion,
about caring for people, but when it comes to real responsibility,
when it comes to protecting innocent lives, yeah, they're nowhere
to be found.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, but you know the mayor of the Democrat mayor
of Minneapolis, he's he's come out. He's got to he's
know us how to solve this. You know, he's gonna
stave all schools.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Is that what's he gonna do?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
He wants to ban semi automatic rifles. Okay, Now he
didn't mention the shotgun or the handgun that the guy
had that he also used in the attack. He just
singled out the rifle.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And in the meantime, those children, those children, those families
will suffer.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Let's get to the top of things. You need no
before Tom All first singd no before other. Department of
Homeland Security announced the five thousandth arrest of a criminal
illegal alien in the city of Los Angeles. That's just
since June, when Ice and Border Patrol agents began their
(09:31):
stepped up enforcement in the nation's second largest city. DHS
Secretary Christy Nolmes says that's five thousand criminal illegal alien
gang members, child predators, and murderers taken off our streets.
Precious lives saved, families protected, American taxpayers spared the cost
of their crimes and the burden of their benefits. Democrats
in Los Angeles and across California have denounced the crackdown
(09:53):
on criminal illegal aliens, saying that it's cruel and separates
families and called they call President Trump a fa for
enforcing the law.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Okay, criminals who are convicted in a court of law,
they go away to jail. That breaks up families too. Oh,
we're going to do away with jailing anyone the limits
any crimes.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So Lef's trying to do that too.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
In the in the in the name of keeping families together,
second thing you needed.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Before, there's some good news out of the US economy.
The Department of Commerce revised economic data for the second quarter. Now,
the Commerce Department is saying GDP grew at three point
three percent in April through June, up from their initial
reports of three percent. At the same time, inflation came
down to two percent, which is right in line with
what the Federal Reserves targets is. Consumer spending was up
one point nine percent in the second quarter. All of
(10:39):
this suggests the economy is doing much better than experts
had predicted it would when President Trump began raising tariffs
earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
You know, it's interesting. During the Biden administration, all of
the reports coming out of the Department of Commerce were
much more rosier than they actually were. But during the
Trump administration, the initial reports are always more gloomier and.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Then the revisions go up. It's weird. And the third
thing you need to before in a while, Federal Reserve Board
Governor Lisa Cook issuing President Trump over her firing. Cook
is accused of committing mortgage fraud by claiming a house
in Michigan and a home in Georgia both to being
her primary residences. On mortgage papers just two weeks apart.
Presidents do have the legal authority to fire Fed Reserve
(11:19):
government governors with cause, and President Trump claimed that having
a board member who apparently committed mortgage fraud to get
better interest rates on her mortgages should not be on
the board that determines the interest rates for the rest
of the country. However, in a lawsuit, Cook says it's
all about politics. Lawsuit claims the operational independence of the
Federal Reserve is vital to the ability to make sound
economic decisions free from the political pressures of an election cycle. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I mean, your history influences whether folks trust you, and
if your position requires trust financial fiduciary duty, what do
you expect We'll.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Be right back.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
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Welcome back to America, got radio Stephen Power, Lewis sar Evloni.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
You know after the horrific tragedy of Annunciation Catholic Church
in Minneapolis, you know, the reactions just started pouring in.
You had families that are grieving, parishioners that are in shock,
a community left in pieces. And what did Jin Saki,
you know, the former White House Press secretary now an
MSNBC or ms NOW host. What did she say? She said,
(13:42):
prayer is not enough. Now, just think about that for
a moment. You have children that are gunned down while
praying in a Catholic church, and Saki's instinct is not
to mourn with them or for them, not to respect
their faith, but to sneer to attack prayer itself. This
(14:04):
is the arrogance of the left folks. They just can't
help themselves. They look they look at faith not as comfort,
not as a source of strength, but as something to
be little and thank God, thank God. Senator jd Vance,
who obviously has a much larger platform to stand on
(14:25):
than Jensaki, said this. He said, we pray because our
hearts are broken. We pray because we know God listens.
We pray because we know that God works in mysterious
ways and can inspire us to further action. Amen, amen, Amen, amen,
(14:48):
that is exactly right.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So I have seen miracles through prayer numerous times. I've
seen it with people that were strayed inter me. I've
seen it with people that are friends to me. I've
seen it happen to me and through me. I don't
think Jensaki understands that. And so my prayer is that
(15:13):
God does something where she actually gets to see God's
miracles working through prayer so that she can come to understand.
But we pray what he prays that he does.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
But we pray in tragedy because we cannot carry the
burden alone.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Of course not.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Jesus said come to me, all you who are weary
and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, because my yoke is light. Look, you and I
cannot solve the problem of school shootings. We cannot control
what happens inside the mind of every single person on
planet Earth. We just can't. And for anyone to think
that you can, my gosh, that's a level of arrogance
that I never want to aspire to.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Right to pray, it's not it's not weakness. Oh, it's
the greatest strength any human being can know.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It's understanding that while I can't solve these things, God can,
and he listens to our petitions. That's where the miracles come.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
We got a question for American mama's what did you
think of the cracker barrel? Response, Well, let's ask God.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
American mama's Alma Mama.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And joining us now our American mama's Terry Neediville and
Kimberly Burlison. So after they redid their logo, all the
Landa Lakes and the Washington Redskins and Uncle Ben and
Aunt Jemima, and then there's this backlash of people going
your little band aid sticker there is stupid. We hate it.
(16:55):
So they put out the Cracker Barrel put out a
press release and a notice of their fans to their customers, says,
if the last few days have shown us anything it's
how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel. We are truly
grateful for your heartfelt voices. You've also shown us that
we could have done a better job sharing who we
are and who will always be. What do you think
(17:18):
of the response?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
I think that response was code for we hear you,
but we ain't changing. We don't give all reals.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
If you go further into that, they are saying that
they're they're doing the kamala stuff. I mean the kamal. Yeah,
they're doing the word salad where they're saying everything, but
they're never they're not saying, but we are going to
change the logo back y'all spoken, we hear you. We're
gonna go back to what y'all like, the old decorations,
the nostalgia on the walls, and what we're going to
(17:47):
really concentrate on our cleaner bathrooms, faster service, more pleasant atmosphere.
They didn't say that. They basically, we hear you, we
love you. We're gonna have We're still gonna have the pegbors,
We're still gonna have nostalgia. We're gonna have the rock
and chairs. But we don't get so get used to
the Delvita cheese looking cracker Barrel sign out there that's
we're not changing it.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
What do you think is so Cracker Barrel was losing money,
so they have been had They've had this kind of
woke agenda for a while now, and they're losing money.
They've been losing money, and then suddenly this happens and
everybody is just like no, no, So to me, I'm like,
why why this why? I thought it was like a
Coke classic moment. I thought it was kind of like
(18:26):
how when Coke said they're going to change their formula,
so everybody starts buying that coke and then they're like, okay, okay,
we're just gonna call it Coke class that we're going
to do this other coke. I'm wondering if this was
all orchestra like on purpose, Is this a woke agenda
or oh yeah, yeah yeah, okay. I saw one pundit
say that this is all about getting rid of it.
You know this is about putting something out there because
(18:48):
it's prime real estate liquidating it is that what?
Speaker 8 (18:51):
But there's pictures everywhere of empty parking lots at Cracker Barrel.
This is their stock has plummeted. Oh yeah, bye this
you have this hundred million new CEO with the big
you know, the big, big, old round black framed glasses.
She's she's trying to gas like America on one of
(19:12):
the mainstream shows, and she says, you know, what we've
heard back is that everyone loves this. Everyone's so for it,
and they're not.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm like, you're not in the office.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Yeah yeah, our group around the lunch table, everyone loves it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
So I think of this, God, I'm such a nerd, Okay,
So I think of this as Sun Sue Son Sue
who wrote the Art of War, one of the oldest books.
He was a general, ancient Chinese general right, who wrote
the Art of War. One of the things he said
in there that applies to just about anything. He says,
if in a thousand battles, you know yourself and you
know your enemy, you will never be in peril. If
(19:50):
in a thousand battles you know yourself but you don't
know your enemy, you'll be in periling about half of them.
And if in a thousand battles you don't know yourself
and you don't know your enemy, you will be in
trouble every single time. I don't think this new CEO
or the management team of Cracker Barrell knows one who
they are and two who their customers are. And if
you don't respect and love your customers, how can you
(20:11):
serve them well?
Speaker 8 (20:12):
And on top of that, you mentioned earlier at the
top of the segment, you mentioned Angemima, Uncle Ben, Land
of Lakes. All of those that we saw lose their
hair identity, Yeah, their identity by.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Removing the person, they were removing the personality exactly.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
And what they don't realize is if y'all remember, and
I'll take ange Maima's family for one, they thought this
the Land of Lakes. There was an Indian nation that
thought this, like, what are you doing? This is heralding us,
this is lifting us, this is lifting our people. This
is the face of who we are. And so they
don't listen. They think they know better. It's kind of
(20:47):
like a hairdresser. There's two types. There's the hairdresser that
you say, hey, I want to do this with my hair,
and the hair dress goes, well, I don't think that's
going to look good on you, but that's what you want.
I'm going to do it. Then you got the hairdresser
and you say I want to do that. No, I
got you girl, trust me. I'm going to do you
the ways, and you get it done. You're like, this
is not what I want at all, and so you
(21:08):
have to go. You're like, Okay, I gotta fire her
because I want to go. I want to listen to
what I'm saying to you. Listen to what I like,
whether you agree with it or not. The reason that
people had such a time with this one, Kimberly, was
because Cracker Barrel represented nostalgia. They didn't have the best food.
I mean, they have great Southern cooking home food, but
when you go in they have that unique little gift
(21:30):
store that has all those little unique old americana. You
go in and it's this big fireplace with all of
the fixings of your like maybe that your grandmother made.
It's nostalgia, so leave the man and the barrel alone.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
I think it was also the straw that broke the
camel's back. I think we're so seeing things that we
love being destroyed. Yeah, and this was one more and
we're like, enough is enough?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You just bud lighted cracker barrel.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, instead of going to the left with it, they
should have doubled down and they should have gone. We're
going to be even more country store than ever before.
If you like to ask our American Mama is a question,
go to our website Americanground Radio dot com slash mamas
and click on the ask the mama's button turned out
of Kimberly Burglson. Thank you so much, and coming up
next here on American Ground Radio, we are digging deep.
We'll be right back. Stick around, keep your ear to
(22:19):
the ground.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
American Ground Radio with Lewis r avalone and Stephen Parr.
Four out of five farmers say, I trust my tractor,
my Bible, and American Ground Radio all three. I'll steer
you straight. That fifth farmer he ran a souldar farm.
(22:42):
I think.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen pow Lewis sorrow so.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Trey Goudy, the former congressman, the once touted bulldog of
ben Ghazi hearings right now. He's a TV host. He
is now telling America that after the mass shootings in Minnesota,
we're going to have to choose between security over freedom.
Take a listen.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Our system is reactive. Something bad happens, we react to it.
And what people are crying for now is how can
we prevent this?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
How can we stop it?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
And the only way to stop it is to identify
the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out
of their hands. And so we're going to have to
have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean,
how many school shootings? Does it?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Shut that off?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Just shut that off?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
He's missing a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Think about the absurdity of that statement, security over freedom.
That's the exact formula that tyrants have used for centuries
to strip liberty away from Americans.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Well, it's what Ben Franklin warned about even before this
country was formed, that anyone who would give up a
little freedom for a little security discsion.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
But whose hands do you keep guns out of? Everyonce?
Only the mentally ill, only the people the government says
might be dangerous. That's a very slippery slope, so steep,
I mean, I can't even go there.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What have instead our governments simply stopped promoting mental illness. Okay,
because most of these there have been a lot of
these school shooters recently which have been trans individuals, which
have transitioned in recent years, and we've got democratic governments
all over the country celebrating transitioning. But that is body chysmorphia.
(24:42):
But that's that's largely with that problem.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
That's a larger mental illness issue, right, Okay, My point is.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
My point is is you'll cut down the odds of
a school shooting if you're cutting down on the number
of people who are prone to school shooting.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
But it's equally as ludicrous for Trade Goudy or anyone else,
and Trey Gouty is generally.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
A conserv yes, very much, But for anyone else.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
To argue that we've got to keep guns out of
the folks who don't need them or shouldn't have them,
how do you decide that? Number one? But number two,
just look at this from a practical effect. There are
over four hundred million guns in this country. You're not
putting that genie back in the bottle. The toothpaste is
out of the tube. There are more guns than people
(25:23):
in America. So how do you control who gets one.
You don't you know who does criminals. Criminals don't walk
into bass pro shop, fill out a form and say hey,
I'm planning on a mass shooting. They get their weapons illegally,
and in this instance, this shooter got them legally. All
of the gun laws in the world. The fact of
the matter is, we're never going to keep guns out
(25:47):
of the hands of bad guys.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But we've got to start dealing with our mental health
crisis in this country. And as long as we just
continue to say, oh, no, no, we should give into
mental health, well we're just going to end up with
more people who are completely out of their minds. Let's
dig deep, going down. There is a strange thing happening
(26:11):
in Britain these days. People are putting up the British
and English flags all over the country and life posts,
they're drawing it in the streets.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
And patriotism now in Great Britain. Well, but then after
they raise these flags, their local governments are coming around
and taking them down again. Oh, because of the rise
of nationalism. And that's a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So you've got the Saint George's Cross, that's the red
cross on the white background. It's the traditional symbol of England.
And then you have the Union Jack, which is a
merger of the English, Scottish and Welsh flags that represents
the nation as a whole in Northern Ireland. Right, So
why would the governments be tearing down the symbols of
their own government. This is from the Independent British paper.
(26:55):
But the flags have proved controversial and have been hastily
taken back down by council workers as they are thought
to be to spring from an organized effort called Operation
Raise the Colors, which has the backing of far right figures.
So yep, over in Britain it's seen as being far
right to support your country. Does that sound familiar?
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So great Britain. Essentially it's going to cease to exist altogether.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Apparently that's what the government wants. They don't want you
to be proud of your own country. The government doesn't
have they want to have a country. Yeah. But see
look in last year's election here in the US, you
could pretty accurately predict who's going to vote for President
Trump by seeing if they're flying a US flag at
their home.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
And that's absolutely shameful that that that's how we distinguish
ourselves now in this country, whether America.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
America enough to fly the flag, or whether you hate
America enough not to fly the flag. That's but that's
going on in Britain too, so also from the Independent,
there are fears that the flag could stoke division in
communities and that there could be anti immigration intents behind them.
Now the groups BAH this say it's just about patriotism.
This is from sky News. The groups describe themselves on
(28:05):
a gofund me page as proud Englishmen who have a
common goal to show Birmingham and the rest of the
country how proud we are of our history, freedoms and achievements.
And there's another group calling themselves Operation Raise the Colors.
They're also encouraging the display of flags and emerge around
the same time. On a Facebook page which has more
than five thousand members. It wants to bring back patriotism
(28:27):
once and for all. There's nothing wrong with patriotism. There's
nothing wrong with loving your country. In fact, if you
don't love your country, you should probably not be in
that country anymore.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
But see, I think it unites people to be proud
of your country, right.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It can cut down a lot of division.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I mean, you've got people of like. Right here in
the United States, you have people of different backgrounds, different faiths,
different ethnicities. But the glue that holds them together. What
used to be true about America, the great melting pot, right,
is being proud to be an American. That is the
common ground, the shared identity. If you take that away
(29:07):
here in the United States, for example, you've got three
hundred and thirty million strangers all pulling in different directions.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That unites us.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
That's not a country that is chaos.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
And as the flags get taken down in Britain, it
only makes more people want to put them up. And
so they say this is anti immigration, it's all about
anti immigration. Well why would people over in Britain want
to be anti immigration? Are they just bigots? Well maybe
because as the number of immigrants allowed into Britain has risen,
so have crime rates in the nation. Britain now has
(29:41):
a rape rate. Get this, The rape rate in Britain
is one hundred and nine per one hundred thousand people
per year. Oh my goodness, So you go ten years
one percent of your population would have been rate. That's
the highest rate of rapes in all of Europe. And
the rate of rapes in Britain started going up back
(30:04):
in twenty fourteen. Do you want to know what else
started going up drastically in twenty fourteen? Immigration in Britain.
It's been exponential ever since. It's a rising curve, and
the number of rapes has also exponentially risen along with
the number of immigrants coming into Britain. Now, I'm not
(30:26):
saying correlation is causation, but there's something going on here.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Well do you think so you're saying that by not
embracing your patriotism for your country, you're actually what you're
exhibiting self hatred for your country. And so therefore what
is behind the crime rate.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
What's behind the crime rate is you have a whole
bunch of immigrants coming from the Middle East, from Africa,
from places that do not have an English.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Tradition from Wait a minute, but it's not an English
tradition not to rate people.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That are some countries that look more harshly on rapes,
and there are some countries that will blame rape victims
for being victims of rapes. In the Middle East, especially
in Muslim countries, especially women who get raped are blamed
for being raped, not the men who are doing it,
and we've had an exponential rise in people coming from
(31:22):
the Middle East and into Britain.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
But if you want a strong military, need you need
pride in your country.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
You do.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
If you want a strong economy, you need pride in
your country. If you want children growing up to respect
their elders and their culture and their values, you need
pride in your country because without pride, nations crumble.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And the number one job of a government is to
secure the rights of the people, its own people first,
and the number one right of that the right to life,
and then the right to liberty. And raping is a
violation of the right to liberty. And if you can't
protest that by showing patriotism, what can you do?
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Speaker 3 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Great Radio, Stephen pard Lewis.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
So the insiders at Vanity Fair magazine, Oh yeah, yes,
they were feuding apparently about whether or not Milania Trump
should be on their cover or be their cover girls,
so to speak. They couldn't decide if it was worth
the backlash. They couldn't decide if it was you know,
(33:36):
is it safe to showcase a Trump. You know, they
were torn between their need for clicks and their hatred
or yeah, I'll put it that way, their hatred of
the name Trump. So Milania Trump decided to decide this
for them, and she said I'm not interested, period, end
(34:01):
of story. And that, my friends, is how you shut
down the cultural snobs of Manhattan and Hollywood all at once.
She ended the whole melodrama in one stroke, she said, no,
she's not interested.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
That is that is very interesting because vanity Fairs should
have already put her on the.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Wh during the first administration, should have already of course, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, it's it's unconscionable the way that the left has
treated Mulania Trump. If you hate Donald Trump, that's fine,
you can hate Donald Trump. But what Mlania. What is
Milania Trump done to deserve your hatred other than just a.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Well and the fact that she told them that she
was not interested. This is only going to fuel the
hatred of Milania even more because it's the reason that
they hated her in the first place.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Because she doesn't seek their love.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
They can't control her. She doesn't need their validation, she
didn't need their attention. And when she did get attention,
it was because of who she was, not because of
some carefully manufactured pr stunt. And they couldn't stand it.
They were used to first ladies who just played ball,
(35:25):
who gave them interviews, who bassed in their flattery, and
yet Milania she walked away, or moreover.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
First ladies who thought the way they did. They don't
like that Milania doesn't think the way they do, although
you know, how would they know? They've never bothered to.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Ask her, But she I think she's set a great
example for many others. You don't need their validation, you
don't need their covers, you don't need their awards, you
don't need their applause. You can live without them and
live better.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I agree. Let's get to a bright spot.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I'm doing all right, getting good grades. You just so bright.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Shame so more and more people around the world say
their lives are getting better, and that is a bright.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Spot all around the world. Or Americans getting weary of
winning under the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
No, no, no, this is all around the world. Gallop does
a global survey every year. They call it the Life
Evaluation Index. Gallup quote ask people to rate their current
and future lives on a ladder from zero worst to
ten best. Those scoring seven plus for the present and
eight plus for five years ahead are quote thriving, while
those rating both for or below are quote suffering. Everyone
(36:47):
else is struggling. So that's how they rate this, and
they say in twenty twenty four, a median of thirty
three percent of adults across one hundred and forty two
countries rated their lives well enough to be classified as
thriving thirty three percent, one third, continuing a trend of
steady improvements in life evaluation going back more than a decade.
That is the highest number on record. One third of
(37:10):
the population on planet Earth says, you know what, I'm
actually doing pretty good, and I'm doing and I expect
to be doing better in the future. What's more is
only seven percent of people said they were suffering, which
is the lowest number on record. So you have fewer
people in abject poverty and abject destitution, and you have
more people are saying, you know what, life's getting better.
(37:31):
That's a bright spot.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Yes, absolutely, but look, you know we say all the
time it starts at the top. And here you've got
President Trump, right, he talks very positively. Everything is grand,
everything is large, everything is prosperous.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
We're winning.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
And look, I understand this is a global, a global poll.
But at the same time, America leads the world. Yes,
but what's the butt. There's no in any of that,
not in that.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
But in this what I'm about to say. Unfortunately, the
percentage of people who think they are thriving in North
America is decreasing, So they didn't break it out by country,
but USA is the largest country in North America.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Ye, but that also includes Mexico. It does include Mexico,
and it include Latin a lot of Latin American countries
there that.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Well, North America, not Central America, North America, so it
to include Mexico, US, and Canada. That's okay, okay, all right.
In two thousand and seven, sixty seven percent of people
in North America, so two out of three said they
were thriving. Today that's down to forty nine percent. Now
it's still higher than the global average, but it's on
its way down. This is also a trend in Western Europe.
Western Europe went down from fifty two percent down to
(38:43):
forty two percent. So in the most civilized, the most industrialized,
the richest nations in the world, the nations where we
have objectively have things the best, more and more of
us are seeing things through a pessimistic lens about the future.
And we need to change that because again, compare our
lives to people in Africa, and people in Africa and
(39:05):
Sub Saharan Africa are going, you know what, things are
actually finally starting to get better, and we go, gosh,
everything's awful here. That's a mindset thing, because objectively, life
is better in the US than it is almost anywhere
else on earth, I know.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
But to feel good about your life, I think that
begins with leaders who speak that into reality. Leaders who
don't apologize for their country but celebrate it. Leaders who
don't tell people they're powerless, but remind them that they're capable.
Leaders that don't traffic in despair but trade in hope.
(39:39):
And I think that's what you see from the Trump administration,
and I think that it resonates all over the globe.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
But if you want to believe that your life is
going to get better, you need to start with gratitude.
You start with gratitude. That's going to be a good
place to turn around a mindset that doesn't think it's thriving.
We'll be back, Welcome back to American ground Radio. Stephen Power,
(40:14):
lewisar Eval.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I mean Tom Holman is sounding like a New York gangster.
I mean basically, well, I mean he's talking about that
Abrega Garcia.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah, the fellow that's been Kilmara Brega Garcia, the so
called Maryland Dad, who was actually an MS thirteen human trafficker.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
So now Holman Is is saying, Hey, I've got my
teeth into this guy, and I ain't letting go. Take
a listen, He's.
Speaker 10 (40:38):
Been indicted for human trafficking and anis moment. He's a
bad man, and I'm telling you I listen, I'm I'm
making I'm giving you my word. He will you be
parted from this country. I got my teeth in this thing.
I'm not letting it go. As far as the story, now,
he's gonna came asylum. First of all, he's beyond the
required one year.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Ok, he's been long.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
He said, he's got his teeth. He's got into this,
into this right, not necessarily into him right, but nevertheless.
I mean, that's the kind of tough talking that we
need in this country about law and order.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
What I don't understand is why the Democrats keep choosing
such awful examples of their heroes. Why did they turn
this guy into a martyr, a human trafficker, I mean,
a gang member, a wife beater. Why is an illegal
alien on top of all that? Why is that the
guy You're like, Oh, can't we all be like him?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I mean, this isn't some mealy malthd government suit giving
a press conference, you know, hoping nobody notices. No, this
is the real deal. This is a man who knows
what law enforcement means. You break the law, you pay
the price. You endanger Americans, you get shut down. Period,
simple into story, and we're gonna leave him saying wall.
(41:55):
When I say whoa ah, I mean whoa.
Speaker 10 (42:01):
Well.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Today is the anniversary of doctor Reverend Martin Luther King
Junior's I have a Dream speech. Here are some of
our favorite MLK quotes. Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase. The function
of education is to teach one to think intensively and
to think creatively. Intelligence plus character. That is the goal
of education. I have this one up on my wall.
(42:24):
A genuine leader is not the searcher for consensus, but
a molder of consensus. In this last one, darkness cannot
drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate. Only love can do that.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
And we must keep doctor King's dream alive.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Amen, May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Dateline NBC
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