December 19, 2025 • 41 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 18, 2025.
0:30 We take on President Trump’s prime-time address from the White House. It wasn’t just a speech — it was a strategy session aimed straight at the 2026 midterms. We break down why Trump wanted to remind Americans of Republican wins, warn about what a Democrat takeover would mean for the country, and question whether results alone can win over voters who are still feeling the pinch at the grocery store. Was this a rallying cry for the base, or a message meant to sway the middle? We dig into what really came across.
9:30 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- Inflation dropped to 2.7% last month.
- The Republicans were able to pass their health reform plan out of the House of Representatives this week.
- President Trump lowered the classification on Marijuana today, reducing it from a Schedule I narcotic to a Schedule III narcotic.
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13:00 Control of Congress could make or break Trump’s agenda, and Democrats are ramping up talk of impeachment yet again. The left is still obsessed with relitigating Trump, using impeachment as a political weapon to fire up their base, even as wages rise and prices ease under his administration. Is this about policy — or just about keeping anti-Trump outrage alive?
16:00 American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burelson weigh in on what sounds like a big early signal for 2028: Marco Rubio saying he won’t run if JD Vance does. We talk about friendship, chemistry, and why a Vance–Rubio ticket could shake up the usual political playbook. Is this the start of a new GOP dream team — and real trouble for the left?
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.
23:00 A shocking story out of Mississippi has us asking a simple question: whatever happened to decency? We react to a woman accused of hiding razor blades and fish hooks in loaves of bread at Walmart — and what it says about how far things have gone. It’s a disturbing reminder that there are still plenty of good people out there… but stories like this make you wonder where common sense went.
24:30 Writer Matt Holloway checks in from AmericaFest in Phoenix with a live report from Turning Point USA’s massive conservative conference. He describes record crowds, high energy, and a movement recommitting to the MAGA agenda after tragedy. With faith front and center, a packed lineup of speakers, and growing buzz around JD Vance and the 2026 midterms, this is grassroots conservatives fired up and ready to show their support.
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32:30 Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making headlines for an unexpected culture clash at the State Department — banning the “woke” Calibri font and ordering diplomats back to Times New Roman. We react to Rubio’s crackdown, debating tradition, taxpayer costs, and what this says about the fight against woke culture in Washington, even down to the smallest details.
35:30 A new movie could be a bright spot at the box office — and it’s all about First Lady Melania Trump. Melania promises a rare behind-the-scenes look at her return to the White House, her role as a mom, and her influence during President Trump’s second inauguration. This could finally tell Melania Trump’s story in her own words, pushing back on the media narrative and spotlighting one of the most fascinating First Ladies in modern American politics.
39:30 President Trump just announced a major boost for the U.S. military — a $1,776 “warrior dividend” for more than 1.4 million service members. It's a reward for troops who went unpaid during the Democrats’ government shutdown and a reminder of the importance of valuing those who risk their lives for the nation. It’s a politically smart move and a show of support for the men and women in uniform that’s resonating across the country.
41:30 And we finish off today's show with the Grandma Stand in Mckinney, Texas that is spreading wisdom and warmth.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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not because they are easy, but because.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They are odd.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its dream.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
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Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is American Ground ready, you know, Stephen Power.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Lewis, This was strategy. It was not. It was a speech,
but it was more about strategy. I watched the President's
address from the White House on Thursday, No, this was Wednesday,
nine night.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I watched it too, And when he stepped into the
diplomatic reception room just after nine pm Eastern, this was
not about him pumping himself up. I now, I know
a lot of folks say, well, yeah, of course he was.
He was selling himself. He was touting all of his accomplishments,
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et cetera, et cetera, and I'm going to tell you, yes,
some of that is inevitable. But I think the real
reason that he made that address, that national address, was
to remind the American people that the Republican leadership in
this country had delivered results for them and to make
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sure that they rem And this isn't the first time
or the last time you're going to hear from President
Trump touting the accomplishments of Republicans in Washington, but he's
he wants to make the case to the American people
that the Republican Party deserves continued leadership in Washington in
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the midterms in twenty twenty six. And that is what
is at stake, Not his legacy, not his ego, But
what is at stake is retaining control over the Senate,
retaining control over the House, and moving this country forward.
There's nothing more important.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
What's that stake is just the Republicans retaining control. It's
America remaining America. It's America not becoming Venezuela. It's America
not becoming well.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
If the Republicans do not stay in control, America will
not remain America.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Right, But you're not going to convince people, Hey, you
got to vote for Republicans because Republicans want power, nobody's
going to vote. Well, you've got to got to convince them.
You need to vote for Republicans because if you don't
vote for Republicans, Democrats will get power and they will
destroy the country. They will do all the things they
want to do, which means they will have boys who
think they're girls who get to take showers with your
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daughter at school. It means that the Democrats will turn
this country into a socialist nightmare. They will socialize medicine
completely and you won't be able to see the doctor
at all. You'll still have to pay for your health insurance,
but you won't be able to use the health insurance
because there's going to be ration to medicine that the
Democrats will say, you don't get to drive a gasoline
powered car. We're going to drive forward GM and stillantis
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out of business by forcing them all to make electric vehicles.
And by the way, you can't buy a Tesla either,
because Elon Musk has said something that hurts somebody's feelings.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Totalitarian strand of the Democrat Party and this is where
they're gonna go. And if you don't vote for common sense.
If you don't vote for that, you're gonna end up
with uncommon nonsense.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But if you don't know how to communicate. And President
Trump being in business for so many decades, he understands,
you've got to tell people what you're going to do right,
then you've got to tell them when you're doing it right,
and then you've got to tell them clearly that you
did it. And most politicians fail at step three. They
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assumed the voters will remember, They assume the media will
be fair, which of course, for Donald Trump, he knows
they will never be fair with him.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And they and which is why he had speech in
the first But I.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Think the other part of it is that a lot
of politicians assumed that the results speak for themselves, and
Trump knows better. And that's why this address from the
White House mattered because he was and it was aimed
squarely at the twenty twenty six midterms. In my opinion,
I agree.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's what he was trying to work on, was the
twenty twenty six midterms. I don't know if he convinced anybody.
I don't know if he changed anybody. So those charts,
did you see the charts that were very clear. Look,
under Biden, real wages plummeted by three thousand.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That's not the case today. Under Joe Biden, real wages collapsed.
And that's not a talking point.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I get that. But look, the people who voted for
Donald Trump, by and large, are still with Donald Trump.
I don't think there's anything necessarily.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
You've got a lot of factory workers, construction workers, miners,
you got a lot of blue collar folks, yes, that
are with Donald Trump. But there are a lot of
those same folks in those industries that are died in
the wool Democrats that believe that the fat cats in
Washington and on Wall Street have forgotten them and the
unaffordability of everything is no concern to them, and that
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the Democrats are going to somehow come in. They still
are buying into this myth that the Democrats are going
to come in and save them, it's going to make
everything better, that they really care about the little guy.
And the truth of the matter is what Trump was
trying to make the case for is they don't care
about the little guy. And even if they did care,
they're not delivering the results for the little guy. But
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President Trump and the Republican party in Washington.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Is I agree that that's what he was trying to say.
My concern is, I don't think that's what came across.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
What do you think came across. I think what came
across watching completely two different addresses.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, we weren't. We just watch it from a different viewpoint,
And I was watching from the viewpoint of who is
this aimed at and what are they getting out of this?
I'm watching it with an idea of what is the
voter actually getting out of this? Any voter that's left
Donald Trump, any voter those never with Donald Trump. So
first of all, anybody that was a Democrat that's got
So you got to say, at least forty eight percent
of the country forty sive percent of the country watching
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that thing last night, This is just Donald Trumpy and
Donald Trump. He's speaking the way Donald Trump always speaks,
which has turned off that part of the country. So
they didn't get anything. If you were if you voted
for Kamala Harris, last night's speech turned you off. You
had nothing to listen to from that speech. So that
part of the odds is gone. So how is he
trying to read how cars?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Because under Biden cars were twenty two percent higher. That's
not what they received thirty seven percent.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You're reading the text in the script. You're not paying
attention to the way it was delivered.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Look, growing up, it was delivered. Oh now we're gonna
worry about now we're all hyper sensitive about how it's delivered.
What about results? What about being able to put food
on the table, what about being able to put a
roof over your children's head. I mean, forget the fact
that the tone wasn't something that you agreed with.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You cannot, in politics ever forget the tone. As soon
as you do, you will lose. To tell a politician
to president, get their tone is ridiculous. Re elected, and
he was elected, and then he wasn't elected, and then
he was He was elected, fraudulent, lost the midterms, wasn't elected,
and then was re elected. We went four years of
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Joe Biden because we didn't pay attention to the tone.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Oh I disagree. No, that was a fraudulent election that
was stolen, by the way.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
If he had had better tone, he would have been
able to out do the fraud he did in twenty
twenty four because he had a different well, partially because
they had such a contrast with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
But it is.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Political malpractice to suggest you shouldn't pay attention to tone.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
No, you have to.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And for folks that didn't like Donald Trump going into
last night's speech, there was nothing in that for them that's.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Gonna never be There would never be anything, And who
was that speech for? It is for those who are,
I guess, are not suffering from Trump derangement.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Central so from those who have been turned off and
aren't feeling where they are. If you have a feeling
as a voter, if you're not, if you're not a
voter who's like, I'm gonna look at all the charts
and the dads and anybody is looking at charts and data,
your ross paro voters are still with Trump. But anybody
who goes I go to the grocery store and it
still feels like I'm paying too much money at the
grocery store.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I'm not sure eggs are down eighty two percent.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You and I know that because we're looking at the
data I'm saying. And you go to the grocery store
and you still feel like you're spending more money. Those
are the people that Trump may have lost and I'm
not I'm sure last night's speech won them back. President
And I don't think that that approach is going.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
To He's delivering results. He told Americans what was broken,
what was fixed, what is getting better?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
But if they're not hearing it, it's not going to
sink in. And that's the problem with last night speech.
Let's get to the top three things you need to fromorrow.
First thing, you know them from a while. Inflation dropped
to two point seven percent last month. That's according to
the data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So you should love this.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You love data. The consumer price in deck showed a
decrease in inflation since September of point three percent, while
economists that expected inflation rise by point one percent. Some
of the biggest decreases came in housing, gasoline, and food
stocks jumped on the news, showing increase in the Nasdaq
and the Dow Jones indices.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh, inflation went down even though President's President Trump's tone
wasn't exactly I don't know melodic, right.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So it's a matter of is that information going to
sink into people? Are they going to receive it in
a way.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I got more money at the end of the month.
It sinks in.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
All right, second thing you needible for our Republicans were
able to pass their health reform plan out of the
House Representative this week. The Lower Healthcare Premiums for All
Americans Act passed on a nearly party lined vote of
two hundred sixteen to two and eleven. Republican Thomas Massey
once again voted with the Democrats to oppose the bill.
No Democrat voted in favor. The bill increases transparency on
pharmacy benefit managers. There are middlemen driving up who may
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be driving up the cost of drugs. It also allows
small businesses and other groups to pool together to purchase
health insurance at lower costs, and it expands health insurance
savings accounts. Unfortunately, it's not clear whether Republican backed proposal
could get through a filibuster by Democrats in the Senate
or not.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
You know, Speaker Johnson pointed out there are a number
of folks who the federal government is paying their health
insurance to the big fat cat medical or health insurance
companies who are either dead or have fraudulent Social Security numbers.
How is that good for healthcare? In this country, it's not.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And the third thing you need from our Trump lowered
the classification on marijuana today, reducing it from a Schedule
one narcotic to a Schedule three narcotic. The DEA classifies
drugs as Schedule three when they have a moderate to
low potential for psychological and physical dependence. President Trump said
he was making the change to allow more medical testing
with marijuana. Executive order also ask Congress to change federal
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law to allow CBD products to be more available to seniors.
President said medicines from marijuana are able to relieve pain
experienced by cancer patients without quote all the side effects
of some of the drugs where you just totally knock
out and out of it.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, you know, there's a lot of folks that say,
please President Trump, they were begging him, don't do this.
But it's marijuana, they believe, and the data mate suggest
is a gateway drug.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
But I think this is actually going to have more
impact on the polls than his speech last night. We'll
be right back with more American Ground Radio stick around.
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Speaker 5 (12:46):
And this was one of the reasons I think President
Trump obviously needs to make sure that Republicans regain or
retain I should say, control of the House, yeh, and
the Senate.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's critical for his agenda.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Democrats right now supporting impeaching President Trump has nearly doubled
since the last time the House voted on something like this,
because I think what a week ago or so, Al
Green of Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, he introduced to articles of impeachment. I think it's
like the sixth time he's introduced articles impeachment against Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Yeah, absolutely, but a full one and forty Democrats voted
for it. So I'm saying that there is movement in
the House. If the Democrats do get control of.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
The House, they will impeach president.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Hundred percent and frankly one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
They'll impeach him. It'll fail the Senate. They'll impeach him again.
It'll fail the Senate. I think they'll impeach him three
times in two years.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
But the country is stabilizing, Wages are rising, prices are
coming down. Americans are trying to move forward. And yet
the Democrats they're still obsessed. They're still trapped in twenty seventeen,
they're still relitigating their trauma, still convinced that in Teachman
is not a constitutional tool but a political one.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, it's because at this point at the ballot box,
the number one motivating factor they have to drive Democrats
to the polls is an anti Trump agenda. There's nothing
that the Democrats actually stand for that will drive Democrat
voters to the polls more than Donald Trump is hitler.
That's what motivates leftist vote exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
You would have thought they tried this at least twice twice.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It failed twice, the impeachment did I mean, but donald
Trump is Hitler worked in the midterms in twenty eighteen,
and that's the replay, and they think that that's what
worked in New York City and in New Jersey and
in Virginia in the elections this fall. Donald Trump's hitler,
we get to And the crazy thing about this is
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they get to say Donald Trump is Hitler and we
want to kill Republican babies in front of Republicans, and
you get elected the attorney general for the state of Virginia.
That's how powerful for Democrats, donald Trump is Hitler is
as a motivating factor.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
But see again, and I'll have to say Democrats don't
oppose Trump because of what he does. Necessarily, they oppose
him because of what he represents, a rejection of their
moral and political authority, and that obsession has not faded.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I think some people just think he's vile. I think
there's some people who absolutely hate the way he speaks,
he tweets. They think he's just rude and awful, and
that drives their tds.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, well, let's let's let's go back to recession times
with Obama and Biden.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
We've got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, did
you see where Marco Rubio basically endorsed JD Vance for president.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Well, let's ask our American mama's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And joining is now our American mama is Terry Needville
and Kimberly Burlason. So oh, Marco Rubio was asked Secretary
of State, are you going to be running for president?
And if so, are you going to run against J.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
D Vance?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And he said, if jd runs, I'm not going to run.
That sounds like a full throated endorsement to me.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yeah, and I think that he will be the vice
president pick. And I think they would make an amazing team.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I think they could make an amazing riven themselves. We've
actually heard in the past where JD Vance was asked
the same question, you know, would you run against Marco Rubio?
And JD Vance said, Marco Rubio is my best friend
in the administration. I don't think we're going to be
running against each other.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
You know what's interesting is I don't know if y'all
saw this, but Rachel compost Duffy did this interview with
the wives of the cabinet, some of the male cabinet members.
It was so fascinating because since she is one. Right,
she was able to ask those questions that maybe she's
been asked before. And she went around the room and
she asked each one, you know, what do you want
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people to know about your husband? And I really want
them to know he's actually really funny, or he's actually
really passionate about this, or he's actually you know, he's
actually a great cook or whatever. Right, And then a
few of them said funny. And then Marco Rubio's be
beautiful wife, She's stunning, She's beautiful. She said, he's really,
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actually really funny. And they all started laughing and said,
Marco wins, he's actually the funniest person. And I, you know,
for everybody to collectively say that, I was like, oh
my gosh. So it's no wonder because you can see
the humor any man who can be called little Marco
by President Trump in the first during the first term,
you know, when they were debating, and then come back
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and be his one of his greatest allies, one of
his grandest advocates, still maintain a sense of humor and
still have the humility to say if JD runs, I'm
not stepping in. It says so much about him, you.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Know, about that you know, most of the time these
presidents when people are running for president, you know, they
picked somebody based on who they think the voters they
could get votes for, But they don't really have a relationship.
I love the fact that they're already working together. They've
built a relationship. It works, they're calling each other best friend.
The thought of two people like that running the country
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excites me because I don't know if we've seen that before.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Actually, I mean you go back through time. I guess
you have Cheney, Dick Cheney and George Bush. They knew
each other because Cheney worked for George Bush's dad. Cheney
was the head of the search committee to find a
vice president for Bush. But they weren't this close. Yeah,
Bush didn't No Quail, Bill Clinton and al Gore hadn't
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been buddies. They select him because Al Gore is Republican
in Tennessee and he wanted to win Tennessee. Ronald Reagan
knew George H. W. Bush, but they've been rivals. I mean, yeah,
you just keep going back in time. Kennedy selected LBJ
because Kennedy wanted to win Texas. They weren't buddies. They
weren't pals, they weren't coworkers.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Well, and also j Die vance Has He's so real,
there's there's an authenticity about him and Marco. Megan Kelly
was talking about the vance Has had. I think they've
had numerous Christmas parties, but they had one where she
and her husband were invited, and she talked about how
she was watching him throughout the night and he's she said,
he's got this thing, and Clinton, you know, was praised
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for having the same quality. There's such a charm, there's
such a magnetzine that such a realness about him that
when you're speaking with him, it's not just I'm going
to give you one word to move along. He would
like answer back, Yeah, he's locked in and ask you
back a question like he's in that moment. But she
says she was watched she and her husband were watching
him throughout the night and said that it was just
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incredible to watch somebody so real, so comfortable, so comfortable
as his own skin, and you know, and to know
that in Marco seems to be the same way. Can
you imagine it just would bring a calmness.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I think, you know, it would be interesting because I
think they've both bought into Trump's MAGA movement. I think
they're both very much America first. I think they see
that you've got to have law and order, you've got
to take care of the American people. But they do
have a different tone about them compared to Donald Trump.
And the question is does that take away some of
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the the the piston vinegar from the left. If you
don't actually have Donald Trump as a foil, you get
Trump's policies without some of the antagonism.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
The left is in trouble and you see it by
some of these former lefties that are online and they're saying,
you know, the way you're doing it is wrong. I mean,
all you do is is just dump on Trump.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Look who's coming behind them.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You got Bill Mars kind of talked about yeah, and
you see Fetterman kind of talking about that too.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Comes to the right side.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So it's early, But if JD. Van's runs, Marco Rubio
would be the most likely other time to your person,
just based off a history Secretary State running. He's not
gonna run. Is there anybody else that could really win
the Republican nomination if JD. Vance runs?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
If he runs, No, I don't think.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
So Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson, I like him.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I like Mike Johnson too. I don't think he's gonna
run for president. And by the way, people once asked
me to run for a congress not man. He's just
a handful, and I said, I'm not running because Mike
Johnson's running. Smart move, Stephen, Yes, smart, smart move, best
best decision I made. If you like askar American Mama's
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turned out on Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much.
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And coming up next to your on American Ground Radio,
we are digging deep. Stick around, We'll be right back.
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Speaker 5 (22:29):
You just read these stories and sometimes you're just wondering
where did decent people go? And by the way, you
asked that question. There are millions of us in this country, decent, hardworking,
loving Americans, compassionate Americans, willing to give someone the shirt
off their back.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Okay, you were the one who asked where the decent people?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
But by when you read a story like this, and
I'm going to tell you what the story is. This
woman in Mississippi. Yeah, a thirty three year old woman
was arrested and charged after allegedly hiding razor blades and
fish hooks.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Wait, she's just thirty three. Yeah, she looks Did you
see the mugshots? She looks I would have said.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I said, but nevertheless, Oh, you think someone fifty three
looks old?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Is that the implication there were someone who's actually.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Want to back that up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If you actually are thirty three and you look fifty three,
I would have.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Very cleverly escaped.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
There, It's not cleverly escaped. That's that's the thought process.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
You're an ageist. Back to the story. So she is
thirty three years old but looks fifty three, and she
was arrested in charge for allegedly hiding razor blades and
fish hooks in loaves of bread in a Walmart store
in Biloxi, Mississippi. Isn't that crazy? And she went to
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multiple Walmart stores and did the same thing, like.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
This was her hobby or something. That's it's absolutely insane.
It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
People not have any conscience.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now you ask where decent, good people are. Oh, yeah,
I will argue that this weekend at least, there are
lots of decent, hardworking American people patriots in Phoenix, Arizona.
And I think we should call a friend of ours,
uh there in Phoenix. Oh yeah, absolutely, I think we
should call our friend Matt Holloway.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
But you got his numbers.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, that's that radio. He writes for a z Free
He's written for a lot of national publications, and he's
currently at America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona. Matt Holloway, Welcome
back to the American Ground Radio show.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Sir, Thank you, Steven, thank.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You doing We are doing great. All right, So you
are out at America Fests that's there in Phoenix. This
is the Turning Point USA event. This is the first
one that they're putting on after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Now you've been have you been to all of the
America fests in the past.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I've been coming settlely since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
This is twenty twenty one. So how is the atmosphere
at America Fest this year different than in prior years.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well, the atmosphere has changed significantly and you can feel
the differences to your security type. The crowd is energizing.
A lot of people are talking about a recommitment to
the work that Charlie Kirk left unfinished, and that's been
the through line of the entire event. As far as attendantos,
I was here when it was twenty thousand song for
President Trump. It's got to be thirty thousand, maybe even
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forty thousand. I've never seen a line like this to
get into the general speaking area. It's looped outside of
the building up right now, I'm standing outside the building
is the only place I could get quiet, and I
could get DEEF signals. Needless to say, I think the
cell powers are tad overwhelmed in there, but the crowd
is electrified. It's a constant bin as you walk through
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media Row, as you go from exhibition hall to exhibition hall,
and the narrative has been centered around the unfinished work.
It's yet to be done. And I'll tell you faith
has always been central anceested and well represented, but it's
to a new level this year. You see TP turning
point face people all around. You see different organizations that
are calling for a United States to return to Christ
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and it's an amazing atmosphere. It's surprisingly hopeful and spirits
are high. You would think that we would be looking
at a more somber event, but it's actually quite the opposite.
You're seeing this base electrified. You're seeing people motivated to
get back out there and finish the fight.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Now, now you've been there in previous years, and you know,
I'm sure there's a lot of young people there. Are
you seeing more of an older crowd or is it
simply more younger people showing up?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Well, I'll tell you in previous years, at eight thirty
seven through thirty nine, now I've felt like a senior
citizen walking around with how many young men and women
there are who are passionate about our country and who
are having earnest conversations. I stood next to a couple
of gentlemen who are having a very earnest debate about
the place of Judeo influence on American history versus Christian
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influence on American history and whether or not we're a
Christian nation. And it was a spirited debate and it
was fascinating to listen to. But as far as the
age spread is concerned, we're seeing a lot more from
older generations as well, which is a bit of a
change of taste for what has always been a more
collegiate focused organization. We're seeing a broader spectrum of Gen X,
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baby boomers, even some folks from the Greatest generation still here.
I've seen people in their seventies and eighties walking around
here on walkers and it's like, God help you going
through those escalators. But they've been coming out in grow
and again. The youth is here, very very well represented,
groups from high schools, groups and colleges all throughout.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
We're talking with Matt Holloway. He's done some writing for
American Ground Radio in the past, currently writing for AZ
Free News. You go check them out there az freenews
dot com. I'm looking at the list of speakers for this.
You mentioned last year you had President Trump there, Well,
we got Vice President Vance Erica Kirk Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon,
Donald Trump, Junior, Tolci Gabbard, Megan Kelly, Jesse Waters, Speaker Johnson,
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Greg Guttfeld, Benjapiro, Glenn Beck. This is a huge list
of powerful speakers. Is there anyone that pops out on
the list that people seem to be more excited to
hear from this year than others?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, I think, you know, the natural headline has got
to be Vice President jad Vance because he's been making
a lot of waves and there's a lot of talk
around advance twenty twenty eight presidential run, and we could
be in the very very early stages of that today.
He of course has been confirmed, but you know a
lot of people see him as the heir apparent to Naga,
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and that seems to be carried through the young people
that I've been speaking to, young men and women. They
want to hear what he has to say, and they
want to hear his vision for the future of the
Naga movement beyond President Trump. Of course, there are a
lot of people here too that are turning into the
skid and fetching the third term of President Trump. But
I don't know how much traction that's going to get
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in a split Congress.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, there's some there's some constitutional obstacles that you have
to get through. You say, you've been talking with a
lot of young people. Donald Trump gave us speech last night,
and there's there's some indication that that is to try
and convince people that that the Republicans need to have
another term. But there's also the discussion that a lot
of people are are turning away from Trump, that his
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his pull numbers are down. When you're talking with young
people there at America Fest in Phoenix, what is their
feeling about the upcoming midterms? What is their feel about
where they are right now as individuals and as families.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
They're dealing around the next midterm is existential because the
realization is solid among this group of young men and
women that the momentum that President Trump has been able
to garner so far, which has been limited by the
intractable Congress, they looks the best way to put us
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the heel that we need to look at the longer
view as well. This twenty twenty sixth mid term battle
is absolutely existential because if Congress is allowed to turn
back toward Democrat control, all the forward momentum grinds to
a halt, and so much can still be undone by
Congress at terms against the presidents. So this is really
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a make or break moment for the movement, but men
are also looking past it, looking further into the future.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
We've got to have fifteen seconds where you're headed next here.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Who's the next speaker?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
The next speaker, Belie America Kirk has already gone up.
The next speaker is going to be Michael Brand, I
believe coming up here Matthew Russell Brand.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Rather Russell Brand. That should be an interesting conversation. Matthew Holloway,
thank you so much for helping us out here in
American Ground Radio, and thanks for reporting from America fest
for us.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Thank you, guys, I have a great one.
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Power Lewis.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
All Right, So Secretary of State Marco Rubio is cracking down,
but not on the issues you might be thinking of.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
What what should the Secretary of State be cracking down on.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Well, well, he should be cracking down on foreign policy issues.
And you know countries that wish us ill, thanking, countries
who wish us well.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Rubio has done those things.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Well, now he is cracking down on woke type faces fonts.
So now he has told all of his diplomats you
may no longer use the Calibri font You've got to
return to the more traditional times new Roman effective immediately.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Why why why not?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
He says, it's too woke that the Calibri. I'm not
making this up.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I know, but I'm trying to figure out how Calibri
it's not. It's not comic sands.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
No, I mean that would be pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
We're writing to the iatolas, stop your nuclear development and
we're gonna bomb you. Smiley face.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
But at the same time he says that calibri. Uh uh,
you know, we need to return to a Sarah font,
you know, as Sarah like like what this country was
built on. You know, it's a tough font.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
This country was not built on Sarah fonts. This country
was built on cursive handwrits.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
First of both the Decoration and the Constitution were written
in cursive handwriting. And they were not written in typeface.
They weren't written font So you can't we weren't built
on Times New Roman.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Well that you don't have to argue with the Secretary
of State on that.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We were built on scripts. And by the way, I
think in cursive that that'd be a good back to.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
And by the way, during the Biden administration they switched
from a Sarah font to an autopin, well to an autopin,
but to calibri. H And do you know how much
that cost taxpayers?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Almost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
How does a free font that comes Well, they've got
to reprint stuff cost the government money.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
They've got to reprint stuff. So anyway, but the truth
is diculous.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's it's a fly.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Are we talking about this? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It's a free font. It's not like you have to
go and buy it from.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
But I do think that a Sarah font is a
little more traditional at Times New Rome.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
It is a little more tradition.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
It's a little more buttoned up. Right, it's a little
more classic. It's clean than you know, certainly more classical
than comic sands.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Right, but you go back to World War two era
and use a courier because it looks like a typewriters.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
I mean times New Roman. I mean, you know, it's clarity,
it's order, it's been around.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Okay, tell you what, let's get to a bright spot.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I'm doing all right, getting good grace.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You know, I think this could be a bright spot.
There's a new movie coming out next year in theaters.
And you know, you don't go to a lot of movies.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
You don't. Well, first of all, there aren't a lot
of movies worth going to see right these days, right, But.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I think you may want to go see this one.
I think you may want to go see this one
in the theaters.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Planes trains in automobiles, which, by the way, which is
a great holiday.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Was that the last movie you saw in the theater?
Speaker 5 (35:37):
No, No, No, I thank mission impossible.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Which one the first one?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I think the last one, okay, but they're all good anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
This one's coming out. It's called Milania. Now, as the
name suggests, it's about the first Lady, Malania Trump. But
this isn't some tell all by deep staters or by
leftists with tds. This is basically the film version of
an auto biography. It's about the transition from private citizen
back to first lady for the second time, told by
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Milania about Milania.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
So this is not some tabloid biography, right, because there
currently is one I think on Amazon Prime or Netflix,
you know that basically highlights some of maybe Milania's or
they tried to put her in a very I guess
untoward light.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Okay, Well, the trailer has been released for this film,
and it gives us teasing glimpses, but it's clear you're
going to see more about our first Lady than anything
else you've seen so far. A film crew followed her
around everywhere she went for the first twenty days of
January of this year. So that's the twenty days leading
up to Trump's second inauguration. Oh wow, So it's got
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her designing her dress that she wore, has got her
designing the hat. It's got her involved in helping the
president craft some of.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
His speeches, measuring for the in the White House.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
No, not that I mean she's but it's got her
involved in a lot of decision making. And it also
shows her as a mom with Baron. And here's here's
what I like about this. The media has done as
much as they can to either downplay Millennia or to
dismiss her altogether. And that's that's a crime.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
You have a.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Legitimate supermodel, immigrant polyglot, a powerful and successful woman in
her own right, who is also very feminine at the
same time. She should be a feminist icon. You should
have little girls growing up saying I want to be
like her. Look at how beautiful she looks, and she
speaks six languages, and there's not anybody there's not many
(37:45):
people who could put up with Donald Trump. But she
is able to stand on the same platform with Donald Trump.
There's got to be some internal strength and resolve, and
he's obviously got to respect her in order for that
to work. She should be a feminist icon on but
she's not. Because the people who declare who gets to
be a feminist icon hate her husband.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Okay, but wait a minute. I mean when I think
of a feminist, I think of someone that is basically
anti men, right, and.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
That's not what a feminist icon should be. I think
she there's a difference between being pro woman and anti men,
and you can be both pro woman and pro man
at the same time. It's like being pro life.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I think the other part is is that Milania doesn't
seek validation no from the media.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
She doesn't.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
She just does her thing.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
But she's taking control of her own narrative with this film.
No other first lady has done this, making a film
about themselves while their husbands are currently in office. Certainly
Clinton's have their media projects, you all. Obama's had their
Netflix deal, but those came after they were out of office.
I think this is a bright spot and frankly the
kind of media attention that's been long overdue for one
of the most important first ladies in American history.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Well, the left will spin it, of course.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Welcome back to American ground Radio.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Stephen Palmer, lewisar you know, and off the top I
failed to mention. Yeah, the Warrior dividend that President Trump
announced during his Wednesday White House address that more than
one point four million military service members right will receive.
They will receive a warrior dividend of one thousand, seven
(39:37):
hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
You know, I think that's I think that's good, and
I also think it's especially good given that the Democrats
shut down the government and caused our military personnel to
go thirty days without getting paid. What the Democrats did
to them is unconsidable. I think this bonus to the
members of the military is simply a legitimate payback for
the disruption that the Democrats caused in their lives earlier
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this year.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
But you know, especially for our men and women who
protect this nation so often, you know, we have federal
dollars going to all of these bogus causes and sometimes
places around the world that it shouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
It's wasted spending millions of dollars on drag shows in Mogadishu.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
And so to honor those men and women who put
their lives on the line to protect this country, that matters.
And for anyone who has ever worn the uniform or
loved someone who has, you know, that feeling appreciated is
not a luxury, it's a fuel.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
And it's also smart politically, because the Democrats either have
to say, President Trump, this is a good idea, or
they have to say men and women in uniform don't
deserve that money. We should have said whoa when I
say whoa ah mean. In McKinny, Texas, there's a booth,
(41:02):
a little booths set up in downtown. Across the top
of the booth is a purple sign that reads Grandma stand.
The idea is that sometimes you just need to talk
to grandma and get some good advice. So McKinney has
a rotating team of three grandmas. They take shifts sitting
at the booth giving advice to anybody who comes up
and wants to talk Grandma and Nancy told People Magazine
grandma's are non judgmental and loving people. Sometimes it's nice
(41:24):
to talk to someone who's basically a stranger, but you
still feel a connection with Nancy's best advice that there's
a choice between being kind and being unkind. Choose kindness
and choose love.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Oh yeah, I mean, I love my grandmother.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
If you want to talk to a grandma both I
think that's a cool idea. May your pursuit of happiness
bring you joy,
American Ground Radio with Lewis our Avalonian, Stephen Park settle up, partner.
This ain't no cattle drive. We're driving at the truth
and chasing that sunset painted red, white and blue. We
choose to go to the moon and do the other thing,
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not because they are easy, but because.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They are odd.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its dream.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avaloni and Stephen Park.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is American Ground ready, you know, Stephen Power.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Lewis, This was strategy. It was not. It was a speech,
but it was more about strategy. I watched the President's
address from the White House on Thursday, No, this was Wednesday,
nine night.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I watched it too, And when he stepped into the
diplomatic reception room just after nine pm Eastern, this was
not about him pumping himself up. I now, I know
a lot of folks say, well, yeah, of course he was.
He was selling himself. He was touting all of his accomplishments,
(01:35):
et cetera, et cetera, and I'm going to tell you, yes,
some of that is inevitable. But I think the real
reason that he made that address, that national address, was
to remind the American people that the Republican leadership in
this country had delivered results for them and to make
(01:58):
sure that they rem And this isn't the first time
or the last time you're going to hear from President
Trump touting the accomplishments of Republicans in Washington, but he's
he wants to make the case to the American people
that the Republican Party deserves continued leadership in Washington in
(02:19):
the midterms in twenty twenty six. And that is what
is at stake, Not his legacy, not his ego, But
what is at stake is retaining control over the Senate,
retaining control over the House, and moving this country forward.
There's nothing more important.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
What's that stake is just the Republicans retaining control. It's
America remaining America. It's America not becoming Venezuela. It's America
not becoming well.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
If the Republicans do not stay in control, America will
not remain America.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Right, But you're not going to convince people, Hey, you
got to vote for Republicans because Republicans want power, nobody's
going to vote. Well, you've got to got to convince them.
You need to vote for Republicans because if you don't
vote for Republicans, Democrats will get power and they will
destroy the country. They will do all the things they
want to do, which means they will have boys who
think they're girls who get to take showers with your
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daughter at school. It means that the Democrats will turn
this country into a socialist nightmare. They will socialize medicine
completely and you won't be able to see the doctor
at all. You'll still have to pay for your health insurance,
but you won't be able to use the health insurance
because there's going to be ration to medicine that the
Democrats will say, you don't get to drive a gasoline
powered car. We're going to drive forward GM and stillantis
(03:36):
out of business by forcing them all to make electric vehicles.
And by the way, you can't buy a Tesla either,
because Elon Musk has said something that hurts somebody's feelings.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Totalitarian strand of the Democrat Party and this is where
they're gonna go. And if you don't vote for common sense.
If you don't vote for that, you're gonna end up
with uncommon nonsense.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But if you don't know how to communicate. And President
Trump being in business for so many decades, he understands,
you've got to tell people what you're going to do right,
then you've got to tell them when you're doing it right,
and then you've got to tell them clearly that you
did it. And most politicians fail at step three. They
(04:15):
assumed the voters will remember, They assume the media will
be fair, which of course, for Donald Trump, he knows
they will never be fair with him.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And they and which is why he had speech in
the first But I.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Think the other part of it is that a lot
of politicians assumed that the results speak for themselves, and
Trump knows better. And that's why this address from the
White House mattered because he was and it was aimed
squarely at the twenty twenty six midterms. In my opinion,
I agree.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's what he was trying to work on, was the
twenty twenty six midterms. I don't know if he convinced anybody.
I don't know if he changed anybody. So those charts,
did you see the charts that were very clear. Look,
under Biden, real wages plummeted by three thousand.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That's not the case today. Under Joe Biden, real wages collapsed.
And that's not a talking point.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I get that. But look, the people who voted for
Donald Trump, by and large, are still with Donald Trump.
I don't think there's anything necessarily.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
You've got a lot of factory workers, construction workers, miners,
you got a lot of blue collar folks, yes, that
are with Donald Trump. But there are a lot of
those same folks in those industries that are died in
the wool Democrats that believe that the fat cats in
Washington and on Wall Street have forgotten them and the
unaffordability of everything is no concern to them, and that
(05:37):
the Democrats are going to somehow come in. They still
are buying into this myth that the Democrats are going
to come in and save them, it's going to make
everything better, that they really care about the little guy.
And the truth of the matter is what Trump was
trying to make the case for is they don't care
about the little guy. And even if they did care,
they're not delivering the results for the little guy. But
(05:59):
President Trump and the Republican party in Washington.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Is I agree that that's what he was trying to say.
My concern is, I don't think that's what came across.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
What do you think came across. I think what came
across watching completely two different addresses.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, we weren't. We just watch it from a different viewpoint,
And I was watching from the viewpoint of who is
this aimed at and what are they getting out of this?
I'm watching it with an idea of what is the
voter actually getting out of this? Any voter that's left
Donald Trump, any voter those never with Donald Trump. So
first of all, anybody that was a Democrat that's got
So you got to say, at least forty eight percent
of the country forty sive percent of the country watching
(06:37):
that thing last night, This is just Donald Trumpy and
Donald Trump. He's speaking the way Donald Trump always speaks,
which has turned off that part of the country. So
they didn't get anything. If you were if you voted
for Kamala Harris, last night's speech turned you off. You
had nothing to listen to from that speech. So that
part of the odds is gone. So how is he
trying to read how cars?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Because under Biden cars were twenty two percent higher. That's
not what they received thirty seven percent.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You're reading the text in the script. You're not paying
attention to the way it was delivered.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Look, growing up, it was delivered. Oh now we're gonna
worry about now we're all hyper sensitive about how it's delivered.
What about results? What about being able to put food
on the table, what about being able to put a
roof over your children's head. I mean, forget the fact
that the tone wasn't something that you agreed with.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You cannot, in politics ever forget the tone. As soon
as you do, you will lose. To tell a politician
to president, get their tone is ridiculous. Re elected, and
he was elected, and then he wasn't elected, and then
he was He was elected, fraudulent, lost the midterms, wasn't elected,
and then was re elected. We went four years of
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Joe Biden because we didn't pay attention to the tone.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Oh I disagree. No, that was a fraudulent election that
was stolen, by the way.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
If he had had better tone, he would have been
able to out do the fraud he did in twenty
twenty four because he had a different well, partially because
they had such a contrast with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
But it is.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Political malpractice to suggest you shouldn't pay attention to tone.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
No, you have to.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And for folks that didn't like Donald Trump going into
last night's speech, there was nothing in that for them that's.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Gonna never be There would never be anything, And who
was that speech for? It is for those who are,
I guess, are not suffering from Trump derangement.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Central so from those who have been turned off and
aren't feeling where they are. If you have a feeling
as a voter, if you're not, if you're not a
voter who's like, I'm gonna look at all the charts
and the dads and anybody is looking at charts and data,
your ross paro voters are still with Trump. But anybody
who goes I go to the grocery store and it
still feels like I'm paying too much money at the
grocery store.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I'm not sure eggs are down eighty two percent.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You and I know that because we're looking at the
data I'm saying. And you go to the grocery store
and you still feel like you're spending more money. Those
are the people that Trump may have lost and I'm
not I'm sure last night's speech won them back. President
And I don't think that that approach is going.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
To He's delivering results. He told Americans what was broken,
what was fixed, what is getting better?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
But if they're not hearing it, it's not going to
sink in. And that's the problem with last night speech.
Let's get to the top three things you need to fromorrow.
First thing, you know them from a while. Inflation dropped
to two point seven percent last month. That's according to
the data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So you should love this.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You love data. The consumer price in deck showed a
decrease in inflation since September of point three percent, while
economists that expected inflation rise by point one percent. Some
of the biggest decreases came in housing, gasoline, and food
stocks jumped on the news, showing increase in the Nasdaq
and the Dow Jones indices.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh, inflation went down even though President's President Trump's tone
wasn't exactly I don't know melodic, right.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So it's a matter of is that information going to
sink into people? Are they going to receive it in
a way.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I got more money at the end of the month.
It sinks in.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
All right, second thing you needible for our Republicans were
able to pass their health reform plan out of the
House Representative this week. The Lower Healthcare Premiums for All
Americans Act passed on a nearly party lined vote of
two hundred sixteen to two and eleven. Republican Thomas Massey
once again voted with the Democrats to oppose the bill.
No Democrat voted in favor. The bill increases transparency on
pharmacy benefit managers. There are middlemen driving up who may
(10:24):
be driving up the cost of drugs. It also allows
small businesses and other groups to pool together to purchase
health insurance at lower costs, and it expands health insurance
savings accounts. Unfortunately, it's not clear whether Republican backed proposal
could get through a filibuster by Democrats in the Senate
or not.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
You know, Speaker Johnson pointed out there are a number
of folks who the federal government is paying their health
insurance to the big fat cat medical or health insurance
companies who are either dead or have fraudulent Social Security numbers.
How is that good for healthcare? In this country, it's not.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And the third thing you need from our Trump lowered
the classification on marijuana today, reducing it from a Schedule
one narcotic to a Schedule three narcotic. The DEA classifies
drugs as Schedule three when they have a moderate to
low potential for psychological and physical dependence. President Trump said
he was making the change to allow more medical testing
with marijuana. Executive order also ask Congress to change federal
(11:20):
law to allow CBD products to be more available to seniors.
President said medicines from marijuana are able to relieve pain
experienced by cancer patients without quote all the side effects
of some of the drugs where you just totally knock
out and out of it.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, you know, there's a lot of folks that say,
please President Trump, they were begging him, don't do this.
But it's marijuana, they believe, and the data mate suggest
is a gateway drug.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
But I think this is actually going to have more
impact on the polls than his speech last night. We'll
be right back with more American Ground Radio stick around.
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Speaker 5 (12:46):
And this was one of the reasons I think President
Trump obviously needs to make sure that Republicans regain or
retain I should say, control of the House, yeh, and
the Senate.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's critical for his agenda.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Democrats right now supporting impeaching President Trump has nearly doubled
since the last time the House voted on something like this,
because I think what a week ago or so, Al
Green of Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, he introduced to articles of impeachment. I think it's
like the sixth time he's introduced articles impeachment against Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Yeah, absolutely, but a full one and forty Democrats voted
for it. So I'm saying that there is movement in
the House. If the Democrats do get control of.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
The House, they will impeach president.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Hundred percent and frankly one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
They'll impeach him. It'll fail the Senate. They'll impeach him again.
It'll fail the Senate. I think they'll impeach him three
times in two years.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
But the country is stabilizing, Wages are rising, prices are
coming down. Americans are trying to move forward. And yet
the Democrats they're still obsessed. They're still trapped in twenty seventeen,
they're still relitigating their trauma, still convinced that in Teachman
is not a constitutional tool but a political one.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, it's because at this point at the ballot box,
the number one motivating factor they have to drive Democrats
to the polls is an anti Trump agenda. There's nothing
that the Democrats actually stand for that will drive Democrat
voters to the polls more than Donald Trump is hitler.
That's what motivates leftist vote exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
You would have thought they tried this at least twice twice.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It failed twice, the impeachment did I mean, but donald
Trump is Hitler worked in the midterms in twenty eighteen,
and that's the replay, and they think that that's what
worked in New York City and in New Jersey and
in Virginia in the elections this fall. Donald Trump's hitler,
we get to And the crazy thing about this is
(14:51):
they get to say Donald Trump is Hitler and we
want to kill Republican babies in front of Republicans, and
you get elected the attorney general for the state of Virginia.
That's how powerful for Democrats, donald Trump is Hitler is
as a motivating factor.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
But see again, and I'll have to say Democrats don't
oppose Trump because of what he does. Necessarily, they oppose
him because of what he represents, a rejection of their
moral and political authority, and that obsession has not faded.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I think some people just think he's vile. I think
there's some people who absolutely hate the way he speaks,
he tweets. They think he's just rude and awful, and
that drives their tds.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, well, let's let's let's go back to recession times
with Obama and Biden.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
We've got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, did
you see where Marco Rubio basically endorsed JD Vance for president.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Well, let's ask our American mama's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And joining is now our American mama is Terry Needville
and Kimberly Burlason. So oh, Marco Rubio was asked Secretary
of State, are you going to be running for president?
And if so, are you going to run against J.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
D Vance?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And he said, if jd runs, I'm not going to run.
That sounds like a full throated endorsement to me.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yeah, and I think that he will be the vice
president pick. And I think they would make an amazing team.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I think they could make an amazing riven themselves. We've
actually heard in the past where JD Vance was asked
the same question, you know, would you run against Marco Rubio?
And JD Vance said, Marco Rubio is my best friend
in the administration. I don't think we're going to be
running against each other.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
You know what's interesting is I don't know if y'all
saw this, but Rachel compost Duffy did this interview with
the wives of the cabinet, some of the male cabinet members.
It was so fascinating because since she is one. Right,
she was able to ask those questions that maybe she's
been asked before. And she went around the room and
she asked each one, you know, what do you want
(17:02):
people to know about your husband? And I really want
them to know he's actually really funny, or he's actually
really passionate about this, or he's actually you know, he's
actually a great cook or whatever. Right, And then a
few of them said funny. And then Marco Rubio's be
beautiful wife, She's stunning, She's beautiful. She said, he's really,
(17:24):
actually really funny. And they all started laughing and said,
Marco wins, he's actually the funniest person. And I, you know,
for everybody to collectively say that, I was like, oh
my gosh. So it's no wonder because you can see
the humor any man who can be called little Marco
by President Trump in the first during the first term,
you know, when they were debating, and then come back
(17:46):
and be his one of his greatest allies, one of
his grandest advocates, still maintain a sense of humor and
still have the humility to say if JD runs, I'm
not stepping in. It says so much about him, you.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Know, about that you know, most of the time these
presidents when people are running for president, you know, they
picked somebody based on who they think the voters they
could get votes for, But they don't really have a relationship.
I love the fact that they're already working together. They've
built a relationship. It works, they're calling each other best friend.
The thought of two people like that running the country
(18:21):
excites me because I don't know if we've seen that before.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Actually, I mean you go back through time. I guess
you have Cheney, Dick Cheney and George Bush. They knew
each other because Cheney worked for George Bush's dad. Cheney
was the head of the search committee to find a
vice president for Bush. But they weren't this close. Yeah,
Bush didn't No Quail, Bill Clinton and al Gore hadn't
(18:45):
been buddies. They select him because Al Gore is Republican
in Tennessee and he wanted to win Tennessee. Ronald Reagan
knew George H. W. Bush, but they've been rivals. I mean, yeah,
you just keep going back in time. Kennedy selected LBJ
because Kennedy wanted to win Texas. They weren't buddies. They
weren't pals, they weren't coworkers.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Well, and also j Die vance Has He's so real,
there's there's an authenticity about him and Marco. Megan Kelly
was talking about the vance Has had. I think they've
had numerous Christmas parties, but they had one where she
and her husband were invited, and she talked about how
she was watching him throughout the night and he's she said,
he's got this thing, and Clinton, you know, was praised
(19:25):
for having the same quality. There's such a charm, there's
such a magnetzine that such a realness about him that
when you're speaking with him, it's not just I'm going
to give you one word to move along. He would
like answer back, Yeah, he's locked in and ask you
back a question like he's in that moment. But she
says she was watched she and her husband were watching
him throughout the night and said that it was just
(19:45):
incredible to watch somebody so real, so comfortable, so comfortable
as his own skin, and you know, and to know
that in Marco seems to be the same way. Can
you imagine it just would bring a calmness.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I think, you know, it would be interesting because I
think they've both bought into Trump's MAGA movement. I think
they're both very much America first. I think they see
that you've got to have law and order, you've got
to take care of the American people. But they do
have a different tone about them compared to Donald Trump.
And the question is does that take away some of
(20:20):
the the the piston vinegar from the left. If you
don't actually have Donald Trump as a foil, you get
Trump's policies without some of the antagonism.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
The left is in trouble and you see it by
some of these former lefties that are online and they're saying,
you know, the way you're doing it is wrong. I mean,
all you do is is just dump on Trump.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Look who's coming behind them.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You got Bill Mars kind of talked about yeah, and
you see Fetterman kind of talking about that too.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Comes to the right side.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So it's early, But if JD. Van's runs, Marco Rubio
would be the most likely other time to your person,
just based off a history Secretary State running. He's not
gonna run. Is there anybody else that could really win
the Republican nomination if JD. Vance runs?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
If he runs, No, I don't think.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
So Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson, I like him.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I like Mike Johnson too. I don't think he's gonna
run for president. And by the way, people once asked
me to run for a congress not man. He's just
a handful, and I said, I'm not running because Mike
Johnson's running. Smart move, Stephen, Yes, smart, smart move, best
best decision I made. If you like askar American Mama's
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turned out on Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much.
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And coming up next to your on American Ground Radio,
we are digging deep. Stick around, We'll be right back.
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To American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul lewisar avalone.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
You just read these stories and sometimes you're just wondering
where did decent people go? And by the way, you
asked that question. There are millions of us in this country, decent, hardworking,
loving Americans, compassionate Americans, willing to give someone the shirt
off their back.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Okay, you were the one who asked where the decent people?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
But by when you read a story like this, and
I'm going to tell you what the story is. This
woman in Mississippi. Yeah, a thirty three year old woman
was arrested and charged after allegedly hiding razor blades and
fish hooks.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Wait, she's just thirty three. Yeah, she looks Did you
see the mugshots? She looks I would have said.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I said, but nevertheless, Oh, you think someone fifty three
looks old?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Is that the implication there were someone who's actually.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Want to back that up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If you actually are thirty three and you look fifty three,
I would have.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Very cleverly escaped.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
There, It's not cleverly escaped. That's that's the thought process.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
You're an ageist. Back to the story. So she is
thirty three years old but looks fifty three, and she
was arrested in charge for allegedly hiding razor blades and
fish hooks in loaves of bread in a Walmart store
in Biloxi, Mississippi. Isn't that crazy? And she went to
(23:55):
multiple Walmart stores and did the same thing, like.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
This was her hobby or something. That's it's absolutely insane.
It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
People not have any conscience.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now you ask where decent, good people are. Oh, yeah,
I will argue that this weekend at least, there are
lots of decent, hardworking American people patriots in Phoenix, Arizona.
And I think we should call a friend of ours,
uh there in Phoenix. Oh yeah, absolutely, I think we
should call our friend Matt Holloway.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
But you got his numbers.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, that's that radio. He writes for a z Free
He's written for a lot of national publications, and he's
currently at America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona. Matt Holloway, Welcome
back to the American Ground Radio show.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Sir, Thank you, Steven, thank.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You doing We are doing great. All right, So you
are out at America Fests that's there in Phoenix. This
is the Turning Point USA event. This is the first
one that they're putting on after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Now you've been have you been to all of the
America fests in the past.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I've been coming settlely since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
This is twenty twenty one. So how is the atmosphere
at America Fest this year different than in prior years.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well, the atmosphere has changed significantly and you can feel
the differences to your security type. The crowd is energizing.
A lot of people are talking about a recommitment to
the work that Charlie Kirk left unfinished, and that's been
the through line of the entire event. As far as attendantos,
I was here when it was twenty thousand song for
President Trump. It's got to be thirty thousand, maybe even
(25:42):
forty thousand. I've never seen a line like this to
get into the general speaking area. It's looped outside of
the building up right now, I'm standing outside the building
is the only place I could get quiet, and I
could get DEEF signals. Needless to say, I think the
cell powers are tad overwhelmed in there, but the crowd
is electrified. It's a constant bin as you walk through
(26:04):
media Row, as you go from exhibition hall to exhibition hall,
and the narrative has been centered around the unfinished work.
It's yet to be done. And I'll tell you faith
has always been central anceested and well represented, but it's
to a new level this year. You see TP turning
point face people all around. You see different organizations that
are calling for a United States to return to Christ
(26:28):
and it's an amazing atmosphere. It's surprisingly hopeful and spirits
are high. You would think that we would be looking
at a more somber event, but it's actually quite the opposite.
You're seeing this base electrified. You're seeing people motivated to
get back out there and finish the fight.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Now, now you've been there in previous years, and you know,
I'm sure there's a lot of young people there. Are
you seeing more of an older crowd or is it
simply more younger people showing up?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Well, I'll tell you in previous years, at eight thirty
seven through thirty nine, now I've felt like a senior
citizen walking around with how many young men and women
there are who are passionate about our country and who
are having earnest conversations. I stood next to a couple
of gentlemen who are having a very earnest debate about
the place of Judeo influence on American history versus Christian
(27:23):
influence on American history and whether or not we're a
Christian nation. And it was a spirited debate and it
was fascinating to listen to. But as far as the
age spread is concerned, we're seeing a lot more from
older generations as well, which is a bit of a
change of taste for what has always been a more
collegiate focused organization. We're seeing a broader spectrum of Gen X,
(27:46):
baby boomers, even some folks from the Greatest generation still here.
I've seen people in their seventies and eighties walking around
here on walkers and it's like, God help you going
through those escalators. But they've been coming out in grow
and again. The youth is here, very very well represented,
groups from high schools, groups and colleges all throughout.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
We're talking with Matt Holloway. He's done some writing for
American Ground Radio in the past, currently writing for AZ
Free News. You go check them out there az freenews
dot com. I'm looking at the list of speakers for this.
You mentioned last year you had President Trump there, Well,
we got Vice President Vance Erica Kirk Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon,
Donald Trump, Junior, Tolci Gabbard, Megan Kelly, Jesse Waters, Speaker Johnson,
(28:30):
Greg Guttfeld, Benjapiro, Glenn Beck. This is a huge list
of powerful speakers. Is there anyone that pops out on
the list that people seem to be more excited to
hear from this year than others?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, I think, you know, the natural headline has got
to be Vice President jad Vance because he's been making
a lot of waves and there's a lot of talk
around advance twenty twenty eight presidential run, and we could
be in the very very early stages of that today.
He of course has been confirmed, but you know a
lot of people see him as the heir apparent to Naga,
(29:06):
and that seems to be carried through the young people
that I've been speaking to, young men and women. They
want to hear what he has to say, and they
want to hear his vision for the future of the
Naga movement beyond President Trump. Of course, there are a
lot of people here too that are turning into the
skid and fetching the third term of President Trump. But
I don't know how much traction that's going to get
(29:27):
in a split Congress.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, there's some there's some constitutional obstacles that you have
to get through. You say, you've been talking with a
lot of young people. Donald Trump gave us speech last night,
and there's there's some indication that that is to try
and convince people that that the Republicans need to have
another term. But there's also the discussion that a lot
of people are are turning away from Trump, that his
(29:51):
his pull numbers are down. When you're talking with young
people there at America Fest in Phoenix, what is their
feeling about the upcoming midterms? What is their feel about
where they are right now as individuals and as families.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
They're dealing around the next midterm is existential because the
realization is solid among this group of young men and
women that the momentum that President Trump has been able
to garner so far, which has been limited by the
intractable Congress, they looks the best way to put us
(30:27):
the heel that we need to look at the longer
view as well. This twenty twenty sixth mid term battle
is absolutely existential because if Congress is allowed to turn
back toward Democrat control, all the forward momentum grinds to
a halt, and so much can still be undone by
Congress at terms against the presidents. So this is really
(30:48):
a make or break moment for the movement, but men
are also looking past it, looking further into the future.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
We've got to have fifteen seconds where you're headed next here.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Who's the next speaker?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
The next speaker, Belie America Kirk has already gone up.
The next speaker is going to be Michael Brand, I
believe coming up here Matthew Russell Brand.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Rather Russell Brand. That should be an interesting conversation. Matthew Holloway,
thank you so much for helping us out here in
American Ground Radio, and thanks for reporting from America fest
for us.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Thank you, guys, I have a great one.
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Speaker 5 (32:14):
All Right, So Secretary of State Marco Rubio is cracking down,
but not on the issues you might be thinking of.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
What what should the Secretary of State be cracking down on.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Well, well, he should be cracking down on foreign policy issues.
And you know countries that wish us ill, thanking, countries
who wish us well.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Rubio has done those things.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Well, now he is cracking down on woke type faces fonts.
So now he has told all of his diplomats you
may no longer use the Calibri font You've got to
return to the more traditional times new Roman effective immediately.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Why why why not?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
He says, it's too woke that the Calibri. I'm not
making this up.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I know, but I'm trying to figure out how Calibri
it's not. It's not comic sands.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
No, I mean that would be pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
We're writing to the iatolas, stop your nuclear development and
we're gonna bomb you. Smiley face.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
But at the same time he says that calibri. Uh uh,
you know, we need to return to a Sarah font,
you know, as Sarah like like what this country was
built on. You know, it's a tough font.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
This country was not built on Sarah fonts. This country
was built on cursive handwrits.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
First of both the Decoration and the Constitution were written
in cursive handwriting. And they were not written in typeface.
They weren't written font So you can't we weren't built
on Times New Roman.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Well that you don't have to argue with the Secretary
of State on that.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We were built on scripts. And by the way, I
think in cursive that that'd be a good back to.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
And by the way, during the Biden administration they switched
from a Sarah font to an autopin, well to an autopin,
but to calibri. H And do you know how much
that cost taxpayers?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Almost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
How does a free font that comes Well, they've got
to reprint stuff cost the government money.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
They've got to reprint stuff. So anyway, but the truth
is diculous.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's it's a fly.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Are we talking about this? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It's a free font. It's not like you have to
go and buy it from.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
But I do think that a Sarah font is a
little more traditional at Times New Rome.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
It is a little more tradition.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
It's a little more buttoned up. Right, it's a little
more classic. It's clean than you know, certainly more classical
than comic sands.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Right, but you go back to World War two era
and use a courier because it looks like a typewriters.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
I mean times New Roman. I mean, you know, it's clarity,
it's order, it's been around.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Okay, tell you what, let's get to a bright spot.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I'm doing all right, getting good grace.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You know, I think this could be a bright spot.
There's a new movie coming out next year in theaters.
And you know, you don't go to a lot of movies.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
You don't. Well, first of all, there aren't a lot
of movies worth going to see right these days, right, But.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I think you may want to go see this one.
I think you may want to go see this one
in the theaters.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Planes trains in automobiles, which, by the way, which is
a great holiday.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Was that the last movie you saw in the theater?
Speaker 5 (35:37):
No, No, No, I thank mission impossible.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Which one the first one?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I think the last one, okay, but they're all good anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
This one's coming out. It's called Milania. Now, as the
name suggests, it's about the first Lady, Malania Trump. But
this isn't some tell all by deep staters or by
leftists with tds. This is basically the film version of
an auto biography. It's about the transition from private citizen
back to first lady for the second time, told by
(36:08):
Milania about Milania.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
So this is not some tabloid biography, right, because there
currently is one I think on Amazon Prime or Netflix,
you know that basically highlights some of maybe Milania's or
they tried to put her in a very I guess
untoward light.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Okay, Well, the trailer has been released for this film,
and it gives us teasing glimpses, but it's clear you're
going to see more about our first Lady than anything
else you've seen so far. A film crew followed her
around everywhere she went for the first twenty days of
January of this year. So that's the twenty days leading
up to Trump's second inauguration. Oh wow, So it's got
(36:51):
her designing her dress that she wore, has got her
designing the hat. It's got her involved in helping the
president craft some of.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
His speeches, measuring for the in the White House.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
No, not that I mean she's but it's got her
involved in a lot of decision making. And it also
shows her as a mom with Baron. And here's here's
what I like about this. The media has done as
much as they can to either downplay Millennia or to
dismiss her altogether. And that's that's a crime.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
You have a.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Legitimate supermodel, immigrant polyglot, a powerful and successful woman in
her own right, who is also very feminine at the
same time. She should be a feminist icon. You should
have little girls growing up saying I want to be
like her. Look at how beautiful she looks, and she
speaks six languages, and there's not anybody there's not many
(37:45):
people who could put up with Donald Trump. But she
is able to stand on the same platform with Donald Trump.
There's got to be some internal strength and resolve, and
he's obviously got to respect her in order for that
to work. She should be a feminist icon on but
she's not. Because the people who declare who gets to
be a feminist icon hate her husband.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Okay, but wait a minute. I mean when I think
of a feminist, I think of someone that is basically
anti men, right, and.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
That's not what a feminist icon should be. I think
she there's a difference between being pro woman and anti men,
and you can be both pro woman and pro man
at the same time. It's like being pro life.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I think the other part is is that Milania doesn't
seek validation no from the media.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
She doesn't.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
She just does her thing.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
But she's taking control of her own narrative with this film.
No other first lady has done this, making a film
about themselves while their husbands are currently in office. Certainly
Clinton's have their media projects, you all. Obama's had their
Netflix deal, but those came after they were out of office.
I think this is a bright spot and frankly the
kind of media attention that's been long overdue for one
of the most important first ladies in American history.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Well, the left will spin it, of course.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Welcome back to American ground Radio.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Stephen Palmer, lewisar you know, and off the top I
failed to mention. Yeah, the Warrior dividend that President Trump
announced during his Wednesday White House address that more than
one point four million military service members right will receive.
They will receive a warrior dividend of one thousand, seven
(39:37):
hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
You know, I think that's I think that's good, and
I also think it's especially good given that the Democrats
shut down the government and caused our military personnel to
go thirty days without getting paid. What the Democrats did
to them is unconsidable. I think this bonus to the
members of the military is simply a legitimate payback for
the disruption that the Democrats caused in their lives earlier
(40:03):
this year.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
But you know, especially for our men and women who
protect this nation so often, you know, we have federal
dollars going to all of these bogus causes and sometimes
places around the world that it shouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
It's wasted spending millions of dollars on drag shows in Mogadishu.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
And so to honor those men and women who put
their lives on the line to protect this country, that matters.
And for anyone who has ever worn the uniform or
loved someone who has, you know, that feeling appreciated is
not a luxury, it's a fuel.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
And it's also smart politically, because the Democrats either have
to say, President Trump, this is a good idea, or
they have to say men and women in uniform don't
deserve that money. We should have said whoa when I
say whoa ah mean. In McKinny, Texas, there's a booth,
(41:02):
a little booths set up in downtown. Across the top
of the booth is a purple sign that reads Grandma stand.
The idea is that sometimes you just need to talk
to grandma and get some good advice. So McKinney has
a rotating team of three grandmas. They take shifts sitting
at the booth giving advice to anybody who comes up
and wants to talk Grandma and Nancy told People Magazine
grandma's are non judgmental and loving people. Sometimes it's nice
(41:24):
to talk to someone who's basically a stranger, but you
still feel a connection with Nancy's best advice that there's
a choice between being kind and being unkind. Choose kindness
and choose love.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Oh yeah, I mean, I love my grandmother.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
If you want to talk to a grandma both I
think that's a cool idea. May your pursuit of happiness
bring you joy,
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