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December 18, 2025 • 40 mins

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 17, 2025. 

0:30 Breaking news out of Washington: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is set to leave the Bureau early next year — and while this isn’t a scandal, it is a moment worth watching.

Bongino’s short tenure at the FBI raises real questions about leadership, culture, and whether outspoken media figures can thrive inside a process-heavy federal agency. We dive into why Bongino may be better suited for influence behind a microphone than inside the bureaucracy, what his exit signals for FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, and how recent FBI wins and missteps factor into the bigger picture.

9:00 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know. 

  • President Trump has ordered a Naval blockade of Venezuela.
  • Four Republican broke from their party to force a house vote on extending Democrat designed subsidies for the Democrat designed Affordable Care Act.
  • Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse is not seeking reelection to Congress next year.

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12:00 A new YouGov poll exposes a sharp political divide on immigration — and the numbers are hard to ignore.

Only 17 percent of Democrats say legal immigration should be reduced, compared to 66 percent of Republicans who want it cut back or ended altogether. We dig into what those numbers really mean, the difference between legal and illegal immigration, and why border enforcement has become a breaking point even for many Democrats after the Biden administration’s failures.

15:00 American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson take on the controversy surrounding Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and her decision to sit down with Vanity Fair — and why many conservatives see it as a major miscalculation.

We break down how a year-long interview turned into headline-grabbing quotes about Trump, JD Vance, and the White House inner circle, how off-the-record trust was allegedly weaponized, and why legacy media outlets are viewed as hostile territory for Republicans. The Mamas also unpack media bias, selective framing, and the broader lesson about walking into the “lion’s den” of left-leaning press — even when you think you’re being careful.

If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com/mamas and click on the Ask the Mamas button.

22:00 We dive into reports of new plaques placed beneath presidential portraits in the White House — and the controversy they’ve sparked. Do these bronze plaques represent historical record or political trolling? And where the line is between blunt truth-telling and misuse of taxpayer dollars? 

We discuss President Trump’s unapologetic style, the difference between opinion and history, and whether America’s obsession with politeness has replaced honest evaluation of past presidents.

25:30 We Dig Deep into the nation’s largest teachers union after reports that the NEA is promoting so-called “neo-pronouns” and “zeo-pronouns” in teacher training sessions. This isn’t education reform — it’s ideological activism replacing basic grammar, clarity, and classroom priorities.

We question why unions are focusing on made-up language and identity politics instead of improving student outcomes, and warning that redefining words isn’t about communication but control. 

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31:30 We break down President Trump's prime-time address, and it's a deliber

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Speaker 3 (01:02):
You know this is breaking news for a lot of folks,
but FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the bureau,
the FBI in January of next year, and this really
is now. Let's be very clear upfront, this is not
a hit job on Dan Bongino. He is the FBI

(01:23):
deputy director, right and this is not a eulogy either. Okay,
Dan Bongino didn't fail up, he didn't sneak in the
back door, he didn't embarrass himself in office, and by
all accounts, he worked hard, he challenged assumptions. I think
he did a good job. But it is still fair,
more than fair to say that this departure is concerning, Okay,

(01:47):
I mean, well, because not just about Bongino, but this administration.
Because here, Dan Bongino was never supposed to be the
norm FBI deputy director, right. But at the same time,
I mean, this is one of the shortest stints of

(02:10):
a deputy director of the FBI in American history.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
And Bongino came in with law enforcement experience as a
New York police no FBI experience, no FBI experience, but
he had I mean, you've had other direct Secret Service,
You've had other directors of the FBI that didn't have
FBI experience, But he had law enforcement experience. He was
in he was in New York Police Department. He was
a Secret Service agent during the Obama administration. Uh. Certainly,

(02:35):
obviously with his his radio show and his his media empire,
he had a lot of experience talking about this type
of stuff. And certainly the law enforcement experience was there
more so than than some other Again, some other directors
of the FBI that didn't have FBI experience.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Well, and and President Trump himself hinted that Bongino may
want to return to media, you know, to his podcast,
where his voice, I mean, very frankly carries more immediate
influence with fewer bureaucratic constraints. And let's be honest, I
think this explanation probably makes the most sense and people,

(03:13):
and part of it is we've got to remember people
thrive where their strengths are maximized. And I think Bongino's
strength has always been communication and advocacy and rallying people
to ideas. But the FBI Deputy Director's job, by contrast,
is this, you know, it's more of an inward facing process, heavy,

(03:35):
you know, constrained by layers of legal and cultural limits.
So I don't I don't necessarily see this as any
sort of failure. But at the same time, I don't know.
I'm conflicted because I do see where it's good to
be self aware. Right you may be in a job
right now and you're like, this really isn't the right

(03:55):
job for me, Or someone may get a may.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Want to run for office, and there looking at me.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, right. But but where I'm going with this is
is that you have a lot of elected officials who
because they're popular and because running for public office is
the best thing that they've got going. They throw their
name in the hat and they get elected into these offices,
and they don't have enough self awareness to say, you
know what, this probably isn't what this is not how

(04:24):
I can serve my community best. And at least Dan Bongino,
I think, in this instance, has made that assessment.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, he's going back to his podcast and as you
pointed out, his media empire. Some folks may say, well,
he just followed the money. It was all about the money.
Well maybe it is, but you know what, if he
did he did he served with I think he served
with honor. And that's more than most Americans can say

(04:54):
if you were called to serve in the federal government
and you would you leave a multimillion dollar contract I mean,
which he had he did with this radio show in
terms of syndication all across the country, and he just
left all of that, right, It's not like it continued.
No one sat in his seat.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
But see, I don't blame people for following the money
because the money. Following the money is simply listening to
the market. I mean, if if the market place is
saying you're worth more money doing this thing than you
are doing this other thing, then maybe you go, I
should probably do the thing where I make more money
because the market, the market thinks that's more valuable. I'm

(05:35):
apparently able to help more people by doing the thing
where I get more money than this other job. So
I don't blame people for following the money. You're following
the market clues. The market will tell you where you
are effective, where you are valuable, where you are able
to help people. That's what the market does when the

(05:56):
market's functioning correctly. Well.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
The media market currently is speculating right now about whether
Director Koshpatel, FBI Director Koshptel and Attorney General US Attorney
General Pam Bondi maybe next that they may be out
the door as well. That Bongino's exit. You know, it's

(06:19):
not signaling collapse at the FBI, right, but it may
signal transition.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well the FBI, this is this is one of the
things that I think is getting overlooked. Yeah, the FBI
has had a couple of missteps under Koshptel. They they
came out and announced the wrong suspect in the Charlie
Kirk murder had to correct that and then they got
the right guy. They came out and announced the wrong
suspect in Brown University the shootings over the weekend, and

(06:46):
they haven't been able to even find the right one.
Some of that's not just on the FBI, though, that's
that's on local officials. At the same time, in the
same weekend where there was a misstep with Brown, there
was a huge success out in California where the FBI
was able to stop massive bombings for New Year's Eve
in California. They were gonna plant multiple bombs in multiple

(07:07):
locations in California for a big time terrorist attack on
New Year's Eve. The FBI stopped that. And at the
same time, they stopped a mass shooting in New Orleans
with a guy connected to that California group had loaded
up a rifle and a bulletproof vest in his truck
and was on his way to New Orleans to go
murder people in New Orleans and the FBI stopped that.
So on the same weekend where you have a misstep,

(07:27):
you have two huge accomplishments that I'm not sure Christopher
Ray's FBI would have gotten done.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
No, but Bongino did have some public disagreements with the
Justice Department. One of those public disagreements was how they
handled the transparency and accountability with regards to the Epstein file.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
And you can say the DOJ messed some of that up.
Pam Bondi said she had these papers on her desk.
She did not.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
And again I think that Bongino also speculated about issues,
you know, before joining the FBI, he speculated about issues
like the January sixth pipe bombs.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Which by the way, they have a suspect on that.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
So some folks say, you know, that may have not
disqualified him because you know, but at the same time,
I just don't think this was a good fit for him.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Let's get to the top of the things you need
to for tomorrow. Pers you need to or from all.
President Trump has order of an enaval blockade of Venezuela. The
President posted on social media last night. Venezuela is completely
surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history
of South America. He added, for the theft of our

(08:40):
assets and many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling, and
human trafficking. The Venezuelan regime has been designated a foreign
terrorist organization the US plans on intercepting any oil takers
coming out of Venezuela, seizing the ships and the oil
on board. Venezuela released a statement to the United Nations
calling President Trump irrational and accusing the US of via
leading international law.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
But it makes sense, well, it is international law.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
It is. They are already sanctioned on Venezuela, and Venezuela
did seize US oil company assets when Chavez came to power,
and they have never reimbursed US companies for that theft.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
And Senator Fetterman is one of the lone Democrats supporting
President Trump in this move.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Second thing you needed from four Republicans broke from their
party to force a House vote on extending Democrat designed
subsidies for the Democrat designed Affordable Care Act. Obamacare has
never provided the cost savings that Democrats promised, and to
help cover up that failure, they put in place temporary
subsidies for insurance companies during the Biden administration. Democrats also
intended for these subsidies to come to an end and

(09:44):
shut down the government earlier this fall in an effort
to get a House vote. Speaker Mike Johnson has not
wanted to have a vote to extend the expensive subsidies
and instead wanted members to vote on a Republican led
health care plan. But three Republicans from Pennsylvania and one
from New York voted with all of the Democrats in
the the House to force a vote on the subsidies,
most likely in early January.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Of course, the headline from NBC News is centrist Republicans
revolved signing a petition to force a vote on Obamacare.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
And then Johnson's bill actually got passed through the House
later today. Second, the third thing you need before of
our Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse is not seeking reelection to
Congress next year. New House represents the fourth district in
Washington State is one of only two remaining Republicans in
the House that voted to impeach President Trump back in
twenty twenty one. New House released the statement saying he
was feeling gratitude for the tremendous opportunity to have represented

(10:33):
my home state in Congress. New House has been in
Congress since twenty fifteen. He won his last election by
just six points, creating an opportunity for Democrats to potentially
pick up a House seat next.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Year sounds like a situation where elections have consequences. I
think that's how Obama put it.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
That is how he put it. Republican's gonna have to
fight hard to keep that seat though, And it's interesting
only one Republican left too voted to impeach Trump.

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Speaker 3 (11:45):
I'm gonna give you two numbers, Okay, and then we're
gonna talk about it, okay. Seventeen percent. Seventeen That is
the percentage of Democrats in this country, according to this
new you gov poll. Want legalized migration to be cut
back seventeen percent. Now you contrast that with sixty six percent.

(12:11):
Sixty six percent is the number of Republicans in this
country who want legalized migration decreased or ended. Okay, sixty
six percent of Republicans want legalized migration decreased or ended,
while only seventeen percent of Democrats. Now a lot of
folks say, well, that's no big surprise. Well it isn't.

(12:34):
But at the same time, the Democratic Party objectively is
a lawless political party. How in the world can you
have what eighty three percent of a particular political party
who is in favor of breaking our nation's immigration laws.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
The poll said, you want, you want legal immigration.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yes, okay, legalized migration cut back?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Okay. But but just because you have eighty three percent
who say they don't want legalized migration cut back. Here,
you know what, I don't break in the law, but.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I I don't believe that the folks answering this question.
You could have you could have said, I know they
didn't say that in this poll, okay, But at the
same time, you could have said illegal migration. Democrats would
have answered the same way.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I don't know if it would have been a full
eighty three percent because even a majority of Democrats recognize
that Joe Biden did an awful job of controlling the border.
Even a majority of Democrats go, he did not do
the border was not secure, he did not do what
he was going to do. And for a majority of
Democrats to acknowledge that, I think you have a significant

(13:50):
number who go, yeah, we probably don't need as much
illegal immigration as we were getting.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
But do we need more immigrants in this country at
this point? We need legal im.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I don't have a problem with legal immigrants. What I want, though,
is legal immigrants who come from a background of republican government.
So I don't know how many more immigrants we really
need from countries that have only had dictators and theocrats
for their entire existence. We need people who understand what
America is about. And if you don't understand how democracy

(14:23):
works before you get to the United States, I'm not
sure how quickly you're going to be able to integrate
into society and to be successful here. What we don't
need is to be bringing in immigrants who are dependent
on the government dole from day one. That's what we
don't need. We've got a question for our American mamas.
Dear mamas, why would Susie Wiles ever talk to Vanity Fair?

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, let's ask our Americ in mamas.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Mama, mama, and joining us now our American mama's Terry
Ediville and Kimberly Burlison. So Susie Wiles, who's the chief
of staff for President Trump, does an interview on Vanity Fair.

(15:09):
And yeah, so in that article, she's quoted us saying
that Marco Rubio, I'm sorry that JD. Vance believes in
conspiracy theories, that Donald Trump has an alcoholic personality, and
all of these other things in US making a whole
bunch of headlines. And you got to know Vanity Fair
doesn't like you, right, you got to know that going in.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Well, I will say, first of all, I was so disappointed.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
I was like, God, why don't like How could you
not see this? Susie. She visited with this journalist eleven times.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Over our years? So he saiven years. He said he
first started talking to her January ninth, twenty twenty five,
which was eleven days before President Trump was sworn in.
That's when the interview started. Interesting, So you know.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
He was really smart to garner this rapport with her
right and he suggested, Hey, we've done this with every cabinet,
do this big project, and we put y'all in the hot,
in the limelight.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
And so she gave him all this information.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
I guarantee you she thought a lot of this was off,
you know, off the cuff or not off the cuff.
What is it when it's off the record, off the record,
And but he used every bit of it. And when
she's tried to come back and you know, kind of
roll it back and go, no, that's not what I said. Well,
he's got her voice, he's recorded everything.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, she's saying he took it out of context. And
my thought is, if you're going to write an article
and you're going to cover an interview that you that's
now spanned a year, yeah, there's no way in an
article you even could provide all the context for everything
that was said that you're going to put in that article.
There's no way.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
I don't know how Susie goes back into a cabinet
meeting or sees these people, because it looks like she
was because she's known as somebody who doesn't like the limelight.
But what they did with regard to the pictures of
them shows you the level of disgust and hate Vanity
Fair has for Republicans because in all the years that
Vanity Fair has been in publication, they airbrush, they make

(17:07):
their person look more beautiful. Sure, take away a little
wrinkles they got. Just these still shots of them no filter.
You can actually see where Caroline Levitt has her little,
you know, needle marks from having her lips done. Susie
wilds every wrinkle and it's like just their face, not

(17:27):
their hair.

Speaker 7 (17:28):
Kady Dance looks terrible. They did this to humiliate this.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Cabinet, and this is the same magazine they won't put
Malani on the cover. Yeah, I mean, you're dealing with
a literal supermodel who is the first lady in the
United States of America, and the magazine is supposed to
be talking about glamour, and you know, high society won't
put the first lady on the cover. It does.

Speaker 8 (17:48):
It didn't make sense to me that they did it.
But at the same time, anytime something doesn't make sense,
I always thinks there's a chest move that's being played.
One thing about Susie is she's not a yes man
and I actually like that she's a sounding board for
President Trump, so she might have differing opinions or different
thoughts about things, and that's what Trump That's what I
love about hearing this about Susie. It makes me feel

(18:11):
better about Trump. It means he's not filling his cabinet
with all these yes men. He's filling it with all
these different voices, all these different opinions and perspectives, so
that he has the ability to decide and decipher what
needs to be done for our country.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
The interesting thing also about this to me is that
everything that Susie said that she's quoted as saying when
they've asked other people the subject, like they went and
asked jd Vance, she says, you were believing conspiracy theories,
and he laughed. He says, Susie and I joke about
this all the time. And yes, I believe in the
conspiracy theories, but I believe in the conspiracy theories that
proved to be true. Like you know, giving masking our

(18:50):
children was a bad idea. I believe that the conspiracy
theories that turn out to have been true, Like you know,
Joe Biden was incompetent when they talked about Donald Trump's saying, well,
you know, do you have an alcoholic personality? Trump's like,
this is why I don't drink.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
H see, And that's what she's talking about the context,
like she trusted this person. Yes, he knew he was
going to spend he knew that he was going to
use the written word to put her and them in
the worst light. This is such a lesson. Why go
into the den of the end enemy? You know they
hate us, because otherwise they would.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
Have put Malania on the cover.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
I really don't understand why we cannot, Like it's almost
like Marjorie Taylor Green going to see an end? Why
why are you going into these places where you know
they're going to spend it?

Speaker 7 (19:33):
Leslie Stall, Yeah, you know, I just don't. I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
And if you are going to go in, I mean
you talk about going to the Lionsteent. I mean, you've
got to be so wise with how you say it
and what you say. I mean, you simply just can't
say things that that could be spot if you're going
to be talking to Vanage.

Speaker 7 (19:50):
There's an example that the writer talks about, you know JD.
I mean, yeah, JD.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
Vance is in such competition that he told the photographer, Hey,
I'll give you a hundred dollars if you make me
look better than than them, and I'll give you a
thousand if you can make me look better than Marco Rubio.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
That's clearly humor joke.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
It's a joke joke, but the way that it was
written was he's in competition with everybody.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
Rolling to pay right.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
I mean, I know several people. I've worked in media
for a long time. I know several people that have
made the exact same joke in the past when we've
had photography sessions. Uh so, you guys aren't gonna be
doing any Vanity Fair interview.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
You won't even get the magazine. I won't even read
the whole article.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
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Okiber brother, listen, thank you so much, Thank you, and
coming up next to your on American Ground Radio. We
are digging deep, so stick around. We'll be right back.
It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 3 (21:29):
So there is a Walk of Fame in the White House.
It's a gallery of presidential portraits. And President Trump has
paired those portraits with plaques, yes, underneath each portrait and
it kind of describes maybe the president's the past president.

(21:50):
It has accomplishment, a bit of a biography of each present.
So like for Joe Biden, it says sleepy Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Describe the portrait of Joe Biden.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Oh, that's the auto pin.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's so he didn't even put President Biden's picture up there, Okay,
but under picture of the auto underneath the auto pin,
it says sleepy Joe Biden was by far the worst
president in American history, taking office as a result of
the most corrupt election in the United States.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
And this is one of those cast bronze plaques you
would see at a monument or on you know, on
a school on a federal building. I mean it's legit.
I mean it's not like some somebody printed something out
and just taped it up under the under the portrait.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
This is a big bronze play. Now, I wonder who paid.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
For the platque. Okay, well we can we can talk
about that. I'm sure it's already allocated in someone's budget
there in the White House.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
But nevertheless, if it came from if it came from
any any government, uh spot, that's a waste of money. Well,
if it came from Donald Trump's campaign or his personal finances, that.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Okay, because it's more political.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Perhaps it's under.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Barack Obama's portrait. It says Barack Husaint Obama was the
first black president. YadA, YadA, YadA. As president, he passed
the highly ineffective Unaffordable Care Act, resulting in his party
losing control of both Houses of Congress and the election
of the largest House Republican majority since nineteen forty six.
Now here's where the question that I have from all

(23:17):
of that is this is it impolite? Because there are
folks that are going to say that's just impolite, how
unbecoming of a president. Is it impolite to tell the
truth as one sees it? Or has our obsession with
being polite in this country gotten us exactly where we

(23:39):
are today, where we don't acknowledge the reality of things.
We don't acknowledge whether someone has done a good job
or a bad job. You know what I'm saying. I mean,
yes that Some might say that's rude. Some might say
that is an honest criticism. That is certainly President Trump's position,

(24:00):
and it's worthy of being communicated. The American people can
decide if they agree or they disagree.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, if Donald Trump had put this up on his
truth social account, I'd have no problem with it. But
he's made actual plaques. That's put this up as if
it's actual history, and it's not actual history. It's it's
Donald Trump's opinion of it, and some of it is fact.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
The plaque for President o'biden. O'biden for President Obama says
that he is one of the most divisive political figures
in American history. You gotta take issue with that.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Well, he objectively, he called it the Unaffordable Act. Just
because I might agree with a sentence or two doesn't
mean it is unaffordable.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
It isn't unaffordable. What was the name of the act,
the Affordable Care thank you?

Speaker 2 (24:45):
So it now is not historical, and yet we've done
it as if it is a historical. He's trolling. I
get he's trolling. That's fine, But I don't want taxpayers
dollars spent on trolling. I think that's a way to
taxpayer dollars. I'm a conservative. I'm out in favor of
w your favorite wasting president, you're in favor of wasting
taxpayer doll.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, I'm certainly not in favor with wastes tax period.
It's gonna come down as soon as you I'll find
out who paid for it.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay, let's dig.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Deep, going down down.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
So I saw an article today in the New York Post.
Teachers Union pushes neo pronouns. This is by Carol Markowitz.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
A neo neo pronount's wrete that down.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
The pro prefix is neo comes from the Greek word
for new. So these are new pronouns. Neo pronouns are
new pronouns such as z zim, zerr and other letters
randomly shoved together. That's what the article. So, this is,
this is ALGEBTQ plus political correctness. But this is the
ne EA, the National Education Association, so many letters here,

(25:48):
the largest teachers union in the country, and these so
called neo pronouns were presented to teachers as a continuing
education course at an any A event. But wait, there's more.
The NEA was also promoting zeo pronouns. You have any
idea what a zeo pronoun is?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
My head hurts.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
At this point I.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Didn't know what a zeo pronoun was, and the reason
I did is because the prefix zo xeo doesn't exist.
Is three letters shoved together don't have any actual meaning.
This is a made up word. Zeo pronouns is from
the article Zeo pronouns are for conceptual identities such as cat, cats,
cat self. Cat is not a pronoun, It's a noun.

(26:29):
I have cats. Do you know what pronouns I use
for my cats? He? Him, she, her, they them if
I'm talking in the plural. So not only is the
NEA making up words completely and teaching teachers to use
those words as if they were not just legitimate but essential,
but in the process they're confusing nouns and pronouns in

(26:50):
the name of gender identity political correctness. You know what
the NA wasn't doing. They weren't teaching teachers how to
actually teach.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Okay, But pronouns okay, But there's only certain pronouns in
the English language. Yes, I mean, you can't personalize pronouns. Noiable,
it's not limitless, right.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
You don't get say my pronouns are because you don't
own pronouns. Pronouns part of the English language belongs to everybody.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
And by the way, pronouns are not nicknames. I mean
that seems to be what we're kind of creating. Here
are nicknames for certain types of people.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
And nouns are not pronouns. And since nineteen seventy nine,
there has been no improvement in our educational system based
on student outcomes. You could actually argue using the data,
there's been a serious decline in the quality of our
education in this country since nineteen seventy nine. And this
is part of why the biggest teachers union in the
country isn't helping teachers to be better at their jobs.

(27:52):
They're spending their time in an effort to push a
ridiculous political agenda on teachers, which means what they're actually
attempting to do is to push this ridiculous gender politics
agenda on little children. And it's you know what, it's
not just ridiculous, it's destructive to convince little bitty children
that they are a cat in the name of some

(28:12):
political correctness. You're you're creating mental illness in children when
you're supposed to be teaching them how to learn.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
But you know, okay, but let's get back to the
basics here. Language exists for one reason to communicate meaning.
It's to be understood. Yes, it's not to signal virtue
or virtue signal. It's not to showcase personal identity. It's
not to force strangers into awkward, you know, obstacle courses

(28:43):
about what what what do I call? What do I
call you? I mean? It's to communicate. That's the purpose
of language.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Why language exists. And the problem is is that the
left will change the meaning of plain words when they're
losing an argument. If they cannot win an argument like
a boy can become a girl without coming up with
new words like zeo pronouns, then they then they shouldn't
win the argument. Calling people cis ginger. There's no such

(29:11):
thing as cis. Before they created this cis pronoun so
that they could win an argument by somehow demeaning people
who are male or female. They go, well, you're cis gendered,
so you can't understand. No, I can't understand because your
ideas are dumb.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
But let me ask you something. What if this is
really What if this is some sinister plot to get
Americans to stop communicating with one another, because you know,
our country is already strained and we're already you know,
this is already at odds with one another, and if
we don't even know how to communicate with one another,

(29:47):
then we'll just stop doing that.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
This is about thought control. This is about thought police,
because if we can force you to use the words
that make our argument better, then we can control the
way you actually think about the world. That's why they're
making up these words and trying to make you use
them is because they're actually they're not just trying to
control your language, they're trying to control your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
We'll look at Europe.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
The Teachers Union is not trying to help teachers be
better at their jobs. You are trying to make sure
our kids are educated in a way that will make
them successful, productive members of society. They're trying to brainwash
children in doctrination and that's disgusting.

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Speaker 3 (31:17):
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is expected
to deliver a prime time address tonight where he will
outline the accomplishments of his administration nine o'clock Eastern and
preview what he has rightly called the America or America's
Golden Age. And you know here's the thing, prime time matters.

(31:39):
I know he's got truth, social you've got all the
other social media channels, but prime time addressing the nation,
you know, on all of the major television networks. I
think that's important. I think it sets the tone, and
I think that it shows leadership on his part to

(32:03):
step forward, to speak plainly, confidently, unapolologetically about what has
been done and what's coming next. And then, you know,
the left wing media can fact check him all the
way into twenty twenty six. You know, they'll downplay his accomplishments.
They'll exaggerate whatever setbacks that they feel like that his

(32:25):
administration has had. They'll ignore the context of what he's
talking about. They'll weaponize his tone, which, by the way,
you didn't have to do any of.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
That with.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
President Biden, right, No, exact, they the exact opposite. They
played up his accomplishments.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Oh look how competent he looked. He looked so refreshed,
he bright eyed and bushytailed. Oh my gosh, he looks
like he had an app to day.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
They minimized his setbacks, They put into context what didn't
make any sense because he was just speaking gibber And
of course, you know, he was always the loving grandfather,
you know, speaking to the nation.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, that's that's how they portrayed it. Look, it is
it is. You still get coverage doing speaking on primetime
more than you would other places, but you don't get
as much coverage speaking in primetime now as you used to.
Primetime is less important than it used to be. It's still,
don't get me wrong, it's still a very important medium.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
But it's more of a fireside chat from yester year
than And he's gonna get on social media, and he's
gonna get more traction from clips from prime time on
social media then I think he's gonna get from actual
being on prime to That is absolutely true.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Okay, tell you what, let's get to a bright spot.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
I'm doing all right, getting good grace.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Here's the bright spot. The state of Florida can now
ban sexually explain drag shows for minors. That's that's the
bright way.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Wait wait so they couldn't before.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
They could have. You could have drag shows yeah, with
inappropriate even obscenities.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Grinding, scantily clad and in front of miners.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Oh yeah, and that was not classified as inappropriate material.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Actually it was classified as protected speech, protected speech. Okay, Look,
it's crazy when this has to be talked about it.
It's crazy that it's taken a court fight to get
to the state of Florida being able to say we
shouldn't have you doing simulated sex acts right in front
of three year olds. But that that's where we are.

(34:48):
Back in twenty twenty three, the Florida legislature passed the
law preventing miners from being exposed to sexually explicit performances,
including drag shows. This is about the time when the
left was all so excited about drag Queen's Story Hour
in the books they were reading were oftentimes highly inappropriate
for children. Well, there's a venue in Florida called Hamburger Mary's.

(35:11):
Hamburger Mary's sued, saying this violated their First Amendment rights,
and a lower court agreed, and they blocked this law
from going into effect anywhere in the state of Florida,
stay wide. They said the law violated First Amendment right.
So the state appealed, and this week the Eleventh Circuit
Court of Appeals lifted the lower courts stay on every

(35:31):
part of the state except for Hamburger Mary's. So apparently
little kids still see explicit drag shows.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Okay, there, let's give a little history lesson here on
drag shows in general. Okay, not that I'm an expert,
all right, but as I understand it, these drag shows
were adult performance art art I say, performances, adult performances
developed in clubs and cabarets, club.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
And stuff like that. Men dressing up as women exactly. Yes,
And it was in these venues that were supposed to
be sexually okay, but when and a lot of it
was actually associated with adult gay culture at the time.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Okay. But if it was developed in clubs and cabarets
and in bars and nightclubs, for example, why are we
dragging that into children's spaces like libraries and classrooms?

Speaker 2 (36:24):
And because activists on the left are never satisfied. Once
they get an inch, they're like, it's time to go
a mile.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
You know what though, the other part of that is
when you think about it, you know, adults can go
to these drag shows in a cabaret club if you
aren't whatever, and you can walk out, and you can,
you know, But children in these libraries and these what
drag drag show story hour kids don't can't walk out.

(36:59):
The adults are the ones that brought them there. In
the first place.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
State Attorney General James Uthmeier celebrated the victory in court,
posting online quote. For two years, our law prevented children
from attending sexually explicit drag shows was held up in court.
Starting today, the law is in effect thanks to a
win on appeal by our office. If you're exposing children
to lude conduct, you're on notice. We're watching Pensacola. He

(37:22):
mentioned the city of Pensacola because that city has an
upcoming events scheduled this week called a drag Queen Christmas.
The city is putting art.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Have mercy, you don't protect. I don't see how you
can protect kids by dragging them into these adult type
inappropriate shows.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
And free speech doesn't mean you get to introduce sex
and sexual topics to other people's children. That's not free speech.
That's in doctrination and you should go to jail for it.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul with Lewis So.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
In Texas, you have Republican Senate candidate Wesley Hunt, friend
of the show, who is now pushing for legislation to
bar education benefits for illegal aliens.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
This is long overdue.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
But what this is kind of an interesting take though,
because if you can't look, if the political will is
not there to deport all illegal aliens in the country, right,
I know, there are a lot of folks say, you're heartless.
You're heartless because I see, I see where this is
going is you're going to bar the education of their children.

(38:54):
And by barring the education of their children in this country,
you effectively will force illegal immigrants to leave this country
because they don't want their children to remain ignorant and
not to be educated.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Right otherwise, And so much of Trump's initial plan on
this illegal immigrant crackdown was self deportation. He's going to
deport as many criminal illegal aliens as he can, and
anybody else he gets wrapped up in that that needs
to be deported will be deported. But with twenty thirty
million illegal aliens in the country at the start of
his administration, it's unrealistic to think you're going to be

(39:32):
able to deport every one of those people. So we
wanted as many of them to self deport as possible.
But the reason they're staying here is because we give
them so many benefits, and some of the benefits we're
giving them is education for their children.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
So the Department of Education could ban that. Yes from
the States.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
They should say well. On December sixteenth, nineteen ninety four,
a little known piece of software went on sale for
the first time. Netscape Navigator version one point zho hit
the market and change the world. It was the first
commercially successful web browser and allowed people to serve the

(40:14):
web for the first time. Throughout the nineties, Netscape dominated
the web browser market and almost every website that was
built tested their code by using Navigator. It was the
first browser to allow cookies, frames JavaScript. Netscape's dominance continued
until the late nineteen nineties until Microsoft started including their
Internet Explore for free with their operating system. By twenty

(40:38):
two thousand and one, Netscapes dominance and completely faded. The
browserre extinct by twenty twenty three. The product really did
change the world thirty one.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Years ago, this week and later, you've got mailed.

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