The Night Cap with Gary Jeff Walker -- 5/20/24

Good evening. I'm Gary Jeff Walker, and I am so embarrassed. I'm right now speeding up. I seventy one to make it to the show tonight. I haven't done a nightcap in like a month and a half and I overslept. I'm five minutes away from the studio. I've got a great show for you tonight, including Dan was my second amendment guy. I've got Dave Hatter, my it guy, the Mad Hatter, all kinds of things for you to be scared about about technology and what is happening to our lives in

this nineteen eighty four forty years later. I've got sid Roth, who is a Jewish man who believes that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Yes, that's true. A fantastic show tonight. I don't want you to miss and I'm trying not to miss it right now. I'm such a hypocrite. I always complain when people are late for a seven o'clock bar shift. I work as a bartender until seven pm, and when they're late for a secon, how could you be late for a seven o'clock shift? I'm going, how can

I be late for a nine o'clock shift? What the heck is going on with me. I guess it's just a matter of my advanced age. I'm suffering from Joe Biden disease. But I will be there in a few minutes. Dan Was is standing by in the line right now, and I hope I can get there after the commercial break. Drew Westerhouse is in charge. If anything goes wrong, it's his fault because I'm trying my darnedness to make it there in time. I will see you in the studio in just a

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it comes to your Second Amendment right and it is not a privilege. It is a right for all of us as American citizens if we're obeying the law to own and bear firearms. Once again, joining us on the night cap. Been a long time, Dan was, how are you? Danny? Hey? Gary? Jeffs so great, great to be on your show, and you're you're my favorite radio host. How's that? Oh geez, I'm gonna go back with this love fest. Let's get down to the nitty gritty.

Let's get let's get down to tech tax facts. Dan. All right, mister, was first off, you live in New York and you have been dealing. You have been dealing. You have been dealing with h with the the face that is the once appointed now elected somehow Governor Cathy Local and her continued efforts to try to take guns out of the hands of law abiding

New York citizens. No matter what the Supreme Court says, no matter what the Constitution's Bill of Right says, no matter what the law is, they are always trying to find a way in New York to upend our constitutional right to bear and to own firearms. And there's a brand new gun grab on the horizon in New York. It hasn't passed yet, but it was a bill introduced in the New York Senate. So if you can elaborate on that a little bit as we begin, well, in this particular one they're trying

to go it looks like it's another attempt to go after your manufacturer. Now, the gun grabbers have always wanted to go after the manufacturers. They think of that as cutting the head off the snake. If they can put the manufacturers out of business or prevent them from selling in their particular state, in this case New York. Uh, that's success to them. So in this case now, and I should mention that there's a thing called the Protection of

Lawful Commerce in Arms Act and what that is. It's a it was a law put in place to protect firearm manufacturers from being sued for the misuse of mishandling or illegal use of their of their products. So in other words, if somebody goes out and hurts somebody with a gun, you know, glock or Smith and Wesson can't get in trouble for it, theoretically because it's it's

not their fault. They didn't do it, uh this, But what happens is they want to try to. They they've hated that PLCAA because it protects the fire arm manufacturers. They want it to be where you could just, you know, sue firearm manufacturers anytime you want it. But but we can't do that. We shouldn't be able to do that. They you know, it's like almost like if if you had a if you wanted to sue General Motors because somebody, uh you know, built their car to you know,

put too much horsepower in their car and hurt somebody. It's it's ridiculous. You don't sue the manufacturers, but they loved so in this case, they're trying to go after Block in particular for what's called the block switch. Now glock has this mechanism that you can do it. You can turn your block into you know, convert it from a semi automatic into a full automatic,

so it shoots multiple rounds with one pole of the trigger. This is an attachment, it's a it's something that is not part of the fire army. Can it can be, But they're trying to sue Block or they're trying to make it so anybody who manufactures or sells one of these products is subject to

felony. But it's not only the weird thing about it, in the very strategic thing about it in the text when they write the bill was it also included any guns that could be converted, which is really interesting and I hope everybody catches this stuff because not only are they going after the glock switch or the item or the thing that makes that transforms it from a semiomac, they

also want to go after the gun that can be converted. And there's the bill states that if makers of convertible pistols adapt their design to ensure they cannot be converted into machine guns. Simply by installing a pistol converter, they will no longer be subject to the sale prohibition. So what this means is the New York State will determine which guns can be converted and the State of New York will have the final word on which gun can be sold in New York,

which is basically going to be nothing. Just like they are trying to determine where you can have a firearm and where you can't in those sensitive safe areas. Yes, you're allowed to carry a firearm if it's legally licensed and registered your law abiding citizen, but you just can't carry it here or here. And when they tried to do that, Dan, they tried to limit basically anywhere but your home. You could actually be carrying a legal firearm in

the state of New York. Where are we with those laws? Have even in your home? They want im locked up so they can so you can't use them. That's another story. But yeah, so New York State had all these very restrictive gun laws, and there was a case called brew we call it the Bruin case, And what it did was it went after those

New York state laws, and it defeated them, It killed them. So we were back to the point where people, and it's particularly in New York City, could carry a gun out of their home, out of their residents. So Hopel and her gang gun grabbers knew that they were going to lose this case. Well, eight days later they had a whole new package of restrictive, unconstitutional gun laws and they put it. They signed everything back into

law, basically, only this time even worse. Where every place was a sensitive location, you could there really was no gun you know, pro gun zones. It was all gun free zones. And not only that, they did something that was interesting and very strategic. Rather than requiring businesses to put signs up saying no guns allowed, they deemed all private businesses gun free zones

unless the business owner put up a sign welcoming guns. So do you understand how how difficult this is because you would have to now put up a sign in your business window saying yes, we do welcome carrying of firearms, and nobody's really going to ever do that. Whereas before the business owner, if they didn't want firearms in their establishment, they would have to put up a

sign refusing them. Yeah. I'll also that this has been kind of one of the points of gun grabbing, and I don't know if it's gun grabbing or not. I'd like your thoughts on or take on this. There has been a large move and some gun rights people have said, you know what, this may have some merit. We could agree to this of the banning of private gun sales. Tell me where you come down on this and why it's a good idea or a bad idea to even think about it. Yeah,

that's an awful idea. Our founding fathers when they wrote the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment doesn't say the right of the people to keep them bare arms shall not be infringed as long as the government knows who's transferring guns to whom, and we in document read you know, serial numbers and create a on registry. Now, they didn't say that. So what they're trying to

do with this is they're trying to it's called universal background check. Any firearm that transfers hands or ownership has to go through an FFL, a licensed dealer, And if you want to transfer a firearm to a friend, to to a relative, to a you know, whoever, you would have to either go to a fire a dealer and have them broker the transaction right and do back checks and risk risk risk the background checks. Remind me about that and

I'll tell you why the background checks are such a risk. Or you have to get your own license, you have to become a licensed firearms dealer, which is very costly and very extensive, which nobody would really do. So the idea there is to put a halt to private gun sales. And it's always been an American tradition to sell guns to your friend, hand them,

trade them, build them yourself. It's always been an American tradition. But these gun grabbers today are really trying to put a stop to all that stuff. So would would that also limit us sales or or transfers just maybe not even any money exchanging hands? Uh? Within families? Well, yeah, exactly, it would. It would hurt that So like a dad, a dad wants to pass a firearm onto his son, So has he got to go to a firearms dealer or a licensed firearms dealer to transfer that weapon to

his own flesh and blood? Is that what you're telling me? I think I think right now, father, that that type of transaction from a father to a son, or father to a to a daughter, or mother to a son, whatever that that I think that's okay. But as far as the steps on, now that would be different. I think that's where they that's where everything changes. So yeah, so it's immediate family, but anything beyond that makes it, you know, it changes it and you could become,

you know, a felon. So but the reason that we don't want I wanted to get back to this point was the reason we don't want these background checks is because because ninety five to ninety nine percent of the background check denials are false positives. So let's give you an example of two thousand and seventeen, there were two hundred, one hundred and twelve thousand background check denials and and so what happened was there was only twelve thousand investigations. So in

other words, they denied good people for no good reason. And so you had you had a lot of people go without getting were unable to get a gun because they were falsely denied. And it could be for any reason. It could be for a mistake on the paperwork, it could be a similar social Security number to somebody who was convicted felling or something like that could be any reason that you could be denied. So there are many ways you can

get denied. But the interesting thing is out of one hundred and twelve thousand denials you only had, they only did twelve and twelve thousand investigations and there are only twelve prosecutions. Similarly, where its one hundred and twelve, about one hundred and twelve thousand people went were falsely denied. And so the background check system is it doesn't work is the biggest problem. But they want more

of that now. They want now they want to get into your family transactions and your friend transaction and your personal and private firearm transactions, which is unconstitutional to start with, and it doesn't do anything to stop violence or crime because you know, the bad guys, the gang members are trading them, trading them anyway. They don't care. They don't follow any of these laws. This is all designed, yeah, for the law criminals. Criminals don't care

about laws. Dan. This is the one big issue I think we've always had on our side. That's that's the chit we've had that no one can deny, is that criminals don't follow the law. That's why they're criminals. I wanted to get to you the red flag laws, and you you've been outspoken on against these red flag laws that have been proposed and have passed in

some states. And the argument always is, whenever someone who was obviously mentally ill uses a firearm and the commission of some horrific crime, everyone says, well, there were red flags. How come this person wasn't stopped from getting a gun? And that's what we need, are red flag laws. People hear that, and they don't understand exactly how they work and how anyone could be red flag for any reason by someone who just didn't like them. Yeah.

Well, another thing also is, you know, when you're talking about red flag laws and things like that, the anti gun side always comes to us and they say, well, what do you propose to do about mentally ill people getting their hands on guns? What do you plan to do about criminals and violent people getting their hands on guns? And my answer is always the same. It's actually a question when did it become my responsibility as a gun order to solve all these problems in the world just so I can keep

my god given right to firearms. It's not my responsibility. That work is well beyond and above my scope of expertise. That's the work for psychologists, psychiatrists, and law enforcement. I shouldn't be responsible to do that. So what they do is they let a lot of people out of jail, especially here in New York and other Blue states. So they let people out of jail. They have this bail reform where no bail in a lot of places, you can commit crimes and you can just walk free and they hope you'll

come to court. It's ridiculous. So they create these problems and then they say, well, we need red flag laws because we need to be able to confiscate guns to prevent bad people from doing bad things. Well, why the hell are the bad people not in jail, And that's my question. So what they do is they perpetuate a society of violence and crime, and then they use that violence and crime to justify more restraint on law abiding gun

owners. Because ultimately, Gary Jeff, the deal is they don't care about the criminals getting guns. They care about their political opposition getting guns, and that would be the conservative of the Republican and people who might decide that they've had enough. If tyranny should should boil over. Well, I mean, it's definitely on the stove right now. We've seen what's been going on in

the Manhattan courtroom with President Trump and this trial. Anybody else, and I know we're veering off topic here, Dan, but anybody else if they'd committed a misdemeanor of falsifying records that had it expired, it wouldn't be somehow trumped up, no pun intended into a federal election charge by an attorney who has no power to enforce or prosecute federal election charges. So you're real, You're right. It's all about keeping people who are ideologically opposed or politically opposed to

you from having access to protection under the law exactly. I mean, once you're in this, in this conversation, in these Second Amendment circles for long enough, you really start to be clear about the intent of gun control laws and gun restrictions. Now, people on the outside don't always see the you know, how they may how they make the sausage, so to speak, and they think, well, well, Jon, background checks sound like a great idea, you know, or what we need, red flag laws.

We've got to confiscate guns from Betsy. But they don't understand why the real reason behind these gun control laws. And if if I could explain this to everybody, it would be a great thing. Thankfully for people like you who we can broadcast this this information over a large amount of people. And I just did ted Nusians show, which was great, and I've done Sean Hannity showing some of the some of the other uh, you know, radio and

TV shows. Dan, you got it. You got to do me a favor and get me a connection with uh with Teddy, I'd love to talk to him. Listen, Uh, if you want to find out more about your Second Amendment rights and what Dan was is talking about. Check out ammo land. That's a great website shooting sports news ammo Land. He has articles in there that regularly appear and loaded Mike, And of course there's Dan's website, Good Gunbadguy dot com. Thank you, Dan, I appreciate it as

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I'm Sean Galvagher, News Radio seven hundred WLW. This week's marketers from cap in eons. We have to welcome back our tech guy, the Mad Hatter, Dave Hatter, who's here. He's got his aluminum foil cap on so the aliens or even worse, the government can't read his thoughts, although they're getting closer and closer to being able to do it. Some tech talk on a Monday night cap here on SEVENLW. Gary Jeff and Dave Hatter as always welcome, my friend, How are you always? My pleasure to be

here, Gary Jeff. I had to cut an ear hole in the tenth foil hat so I could hear you on the phone. You know, there is first and foremost you and I. Just before we came on the air talking about how nineteen eighty four wasn't just a book or an album by Van Halen. It is happening now, and George Orwell was only forty years too early with his predictions. The surveillance state is on full bore, and the new police tech that they have now supposedly can detect phones, pet trackers,

and library books in a moving car. Tell me about this horror. Yeah, this is some pretty wild stuff, Gary, Jeff, And you're right. Orwell was unfortunately was more of a profit than a novelition was off by it by forty years. So you know, everywhere you look now you're under surveillance, whether it's cameras and or microphones, smart devices, et cetera. And if you think about it, the problem is likely to get much worse

before it gets better, because the devices continue to get smaller. Life is increasing, devices can be powered by solar, Everything is connected now to Wi Fi or at least the cellular network. So you know, the idea that you could be under constant surveillance, I think is much more pervasive now than anything Orwell could probably have dreamed of back in nineteen forty nine when he wrote

that book. So in this particular case, and I think you and I have talked about sort of an offshoot of this before, stingray, which is a device law enforcement and use to set up what appears to be a cell phone tower, so your phone will connect to it. Yeah, they'll off

and use it for surveillance. This is kind of a similar technology. The company behind this makes license plate readers, and basically what they've come up with is a way to use the capabilities of a license plate reader to essentially, you know, identify you through the license plate and then capture the device. You know, because all these devices are connected to the cell your network and

or Wi Fi that's throwing out a signal. Not exactly how they're doing it, it wasn't disclosed, but you know, anything that is emitting some kind of radio signal can potentially be intercepted, and you know, they're the research on it so far is pretty much what you said. You know, whether it's like an air tag or a smart device of some sort, or the car itself, or perhaps even a library book it's got some kind of tag

from the library in it, they can pick all that stuff up. And the point of this technology is, you know, because it's ultimately tied to a license plate, then even if you move those devices to another car, now they know the device, they know it belongs to you, So the original connection to your license plate they still know it's used. So again kind of like a sting ray with a cell phone, but a lot more pervasive because it's picking up really anything, throwing off an elect you know, some

sort of digital signal over wireless at this point. And that's how I understand it. And you means that if you have an overdue library book, the police may be pulling you over for the late fee. There is no escaping your local librarian at this point that you know. It's it'll be like you know, I in the sky, except now the library, and we'll know where you're at at all times. This kind of goes hand in hand with the past TikTok ban in this country. If it's not divested of from China

by January first, we'll see how that goes. But Australia says in a study that China uses global apps and games for propaganda. Well, no, duh, yeah, I would encourage people, Gary Jeff, you know, I'm a big fan of Twitter slash x because you can get on there and follow all kinds of accounts that share all kinds of useful information, namely the

Select Committee. This is a House US House committee, to Select Committee on a Chinese Communist Party, and whether it's discussions about Sentinel or TikTok or other CCP apps like that, they're a good source and a steady stream of information like this. So yeah, I think it's interesting that the Australian defensive mechanisms have come out and pointed this out. And like you said, no,

Doug, I mean it's I just can't stress enough to people. If you are using something that is quote free unquote write any app software, however you want to think of it. If it's free, you are not the customer. You are the product. You're paying with data rather than your money, and then they monetize that data. Now they mentioned TMU and other online shopping sites to complete with compete with Amazon, so that's a slightly different model.

But even if it's not some sort of fig op propaganda tool like TikTok, they're still collecting enormous amounts of your data. It's going back to China. It's under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. And I think about this,

Gary, Jeff. Even if you didn't use TikTok. Do you think TikTok the company behind it, name White Dance, doesn't have access to that information from these other companies, And that whichever ones of these apps, sites, shopping platforms, whatever you're using that's based out of China, they're not

all sharing your data and doing incredibly granular dossier. Ain't about you. If you follow that Select Committee site, you know they'll talk about on there the idea of the Chinese Communist Party going after dissidents in other countries and using the information they're collecting to harass and target people. So when people tell me I have nothing to hide, I don't care about any of this sort of stuff.

You are giving it potentially very granular and potentially very insightful psychographic information about yourself to the main adversary of our nation. And you know, could that be used against you in any number of ways above and beyond the possible lack of the psyops part of TikTok, which is pretty clearly defined at this point. Well, I think the answer is clearly yes. And you know I'm not the only person and raising his concerns. So I'm glad to see other

governments besides the United States. You know, TikTok in particular has been banned by many governments around the world. Said, Canada is moving to do this, aren't they or have they already done it? I don't. I don't think they banned it. What I saw over the weekend was a story that says, I think it was the Canadian defense minister whose name escapes me urged Canadians to stop using TikTok for all of the reasons you and I have been

discussing for a long time. So again, whether it's an actual ban or you know, the military slash intelligence agencies of different countries warning about TikTok in particular, the list just keeps going up because I think is more information is revealed about what they're doing, it's obvious that it's not just collecting your data. It really is like a SIOP tool, and you know, the power to propagandize and persuade is pretty obvious at this point. Wow, TikTok.

Well yeah, but I mean, like you said, even if even if you stop using TikTok, if you're using other apps that have Chinese origins, you think that bite edance still doesn't have access to that information because you stopped using TikTok. That's the thing that about centralized communist government that some people just don't quite understand. And I think Canada's effort may in fact be due to the fact that they don't want competition from another communist country. Maybe it's I

don't know. Yeah, this stuff is all very interesting and I wish people would take it more seriously. Well, I don't think it gets any more serious than a robot dog armed with AI aimed rifles undergoing undergoing US Marine Special Ops evaluation. So I guess that the robot dogs are working on being the few the proud hoorah for the robot dog tell me about this. This is

just crazy. I think it's crazy too, Gary Jeff, because from what I can tell and what's been released to the public so far, there's two of these that they're testing. You mentioned the Marine Corps of Special Ops testing these things. You know, it's a robot dog like people have seen. These robots aren't new, but I would say for anyone listening tonight that hasn't gone out and really looked at the current state of robotics, it's pretty incredible

what these things can do now. You can check out the optimist line from Tesla. You can check out Boston Dynamics and see what these things are capable of. Oh, by the way, hold on you did you see that creepy video of the Boston Dynamics robot dog that was all dressed in fluff and fur and doing the little dance. It was just really really creepy. No, I have not seen this out. Yeah, and maybe that's how the

Marines will soften this up. They'll put a little doggy costume on it so when it opens up with it's M sixty on you, it'll it'll feel less terrified and something that just looks like a you know, robot out of a Black Mirror episode. So you know, again, the robotics aren't new where I think this gets really interesting, and from what I've been able to read

about this, that's all I know. Is what I've read is that currently these devices aren't testing and the weapon systems are still under the control of a human being, much like the weapon systems on like a reaper drone or something. Right, you know, they're not fully autonomous at this point. But when you look at the advancement in robotics and you look at the advancement of

AI. I don't think it's far fetched to think that in the not too distant future you're going to be at a place where these systems would be, you know, fully autonomous and fully capable of making decision when to engage. Now, I hope that doesn't happen, but it feels sort of inevitable to me at some point, if for no other reason, Gary Jeff, because like everything in human nature, we will be in an arms race with our

adversaries. And if if the Chinese or the Russians or whomever the inemy do sure is, has fully autonomous weaponized robot dogs or whatever, then you know there's gonna have There's gonna be the counterclaim. We we've got to have them too, right, we got to be posts. It's funny. I'm sure you've you've probably seen both of these movies. Fail Safe, which is a classic, and then you know Doctor Strangelove, which is sort of the black comedy version of fail Safe. Right, you know, Uh, for folks

who haven't seen Doctor Strangelove, I just can't recommend it. I think it's one of the funniest movies ever and just the whole, the whole way it's played. You know, we've got to out you know, we've got to have more of them than this, and it just that's where it feels like we're going with all of this stuff. And for people who think this stuff is science fiction, uh, just go see for yourself. Watch the videos

these companies are putting out. And the thing that's always the most terrifying to me, Gary Jeff, is this is what the public is aware of, right, this is just regular news stories though, and I I have brought this up before. If we're seeing it and we think it's really out there, the stuff they're not showing us that they have, yes, imagine it. I mean we would all we would all like be jumping off cliffs or something before they could come get us. Yeah, it's you know, right

out of the realm of terminator at this point. Because again, if you see what these things are capable of, and they're letting the public be aware of it, who knows what there is in a lab somewhere, whether it's here or hopefully not China. Hopefully we are ahead of them. You know. Again, I hate to be the doomsday guy, but some of this stuff is pretty maybe it's not scary but certainly startling, and you know,

the pace of change and improvement in this technology continues to increase. That's why I say, I think, you know, we can't be more than maybe five or ten years out where you're going to have enemies that have fully autonomous versions of these things, and in order to be able to defend against them, you're going to have to have your own. So where all goes mutually

assured. Mutually assured robot dog destruction is what we're talking about. I wanted to ask you about something else that we didn't really plan to chat about, but it's something that has come up numerous times on my email, and it will be a reference from someone who I've never heard of talking about accessing my PayPal account, which I don't have a PayPal account. Uh, and there's

an invoice for a certain amount of money that he's charged. If I want to see the invoice, I always just delete the thing because I know I don't have a PayPal. How do people get scammed like that? Well, I mean your approach is smart. First off, I would just remind everyone it's so easy to send an email or a text, or even make a

phone call that can be spoofed. Spoofed is the sort of nerdy name for you know, it's fake, it's bogus, right, It's easy to spoop whole website, to go out and copy a legitimate website, set it up on a different server with a slightly different domain name that's not obvious to the naked eye. All of these things are very easy. All these things are very doable even by people without much technical skill. The bad guys know this. The bad guys know that. You know, folks are often rushed or

don't really understand the idea of spooping and how easy it is. And you know they know that. Then then you take spoofing and throw some social engineering on it. Right now, I'm going to send you an email or a text or whatever the claims that you owe money or something. Right, they're trying to catch you off balance, create a situation that deals urgent and you need to act on it. Your account's going to get canceled, you're going

to get built or whatever. And you know they know that in many cases because I can get a list of one hundred million email addresses, and some number of people on that list is going to have pay or are going to have PayPal. Some won't, but they still might click on it because they'll be like, well, what is this? Is this something I should care about? But it's so easy to do this, And the best way to not get scammed is, you know, first, stop and take a breath.

Another thing you're going to get via email or text is going to be so urgent that it must be acted on that very second. Right, stop, take a breast. Think do I have a PayPal account? Have I ever had a pay Pal account? And if the answer is no, well then you should do exactly what you just suggested, Gary Jeff, just to

just delete it, ignore it out of hand, and move on. If you do have a PayPal account, or maybe had one in the pass, and you think it could be legitimate, the best bet is to then go to a computer or you know, I guess on your phone it's necessary. I hate to do anything on the phone if I have access to a computer, because it's just easier. Go to the PayPal website. You type in the url PayPal dot com. Don't click the links, don't call the numbers.

All of that could be fake, right, And that link might take you to a bogus login page where they feel your credentials, or if you successfully log into their bogus site, they do something even worse, download malware or whatever ransomware sort of thing. You know, you go to PayPal on your own using the PayPal URL that you've looked up on your own, log into your PayPal account and see is there's something in there that says you know

you owe moneyard there's a problem or whatever. You know, they know people will get caught off guard, especially if it seems urgent, and they know people will click those links. If you just step back, take a breath, stop, think about what you're doing, and then if you feel like there's you know, some need to act on it again, don't click the links, don't call the numbers, go on your own to the site that

they're porced to have sent you. You know, it could be like a UPS scam, right, your package couldn't get delivered, it's held up, blah blah blah. Well, then you go to UPS, go to ups dot com, log in with the tracking number you have and look it up. Just assume that anything you get that was unsolicited and sent to you via whatever mechanism could be fake. I know we're going to be out of time

here, but remind you the next time we talk. I know someone recently had their Facebook account taken over, and you know one of the reasons, people, why do I care about that, Well, because now her Facebook is spamming all kinds of stuff to other people. They're trying to use, you know, her authenticity and legitimacy as a person that has friends on Facebook

to spam her friends and and scam them. That's pretty common. So, you know, any anything you get electronically that's unsolicited, just assume that it's a high of a likelihood of uh fakeness, not illegitimacy for lack of a better word, and act accordingly. Yeah, and the government will never send you something on in the mail, or they may in the mail, but they'll never call you on the phone or email you. They'll just come.

They'll just come directly to your house and take you into custody. Dave Hatter, thank you so much. We got to run always my pleasure, Garrett. Yeah, thanks right, the Mad Hatter on a Monday night, as we continue on seven hundred w l W. Meanwhile in the end Tented Castle, the Princess, I'm so sick. Why are you crying. Thanks opposed to marry Prince charming? Isn't that what you want? Are you kidding? He's not charming? What he's messy? You should see the bathroom after he

showers, he leaves hair on the seu. What are you going to do? I'm gonna listen to Eddie and Rocky. They always hear me up. What about the Prince? You marry him? And is Harry's so Edie and rock tomorrow afternoon at three on seven hundred wlw uh oh rah, that's buzzed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the Woots evening May twentieth, twenty twenty four and joining I told you we had a stellar lineup a guest and this is a guy that I've wanted to have on the program for a

long time and I finally got the connection through the pr people. And he is a host of Supernatural. He is with the Middle East Broadcast Network. He has sold over three million books, and he is a Jewish man who believes in Jesus Christ, King Jesus the Messiah. Sid Roth, Good evening and welcome to the Nightcap. Oh it's my pleasure. Gary. You know I told you I just hung up on the phone with an Israeli soldier who, like myself, is a Jewish believer in Jesus. And he's right in

Rapha. He's with an elite group of Israeli soldiers whose job is to destroy all of the tunnels from Gaza to Israel. And his life is in the balance every second. And I saw his He was a couple of day vacation he took from the front because it's really close. He lives in the Galilee, and so he was there on a two day r and R and he's there with small children in his family, and he does not know if he's going to live the next minute, because there's nothing with a greater risk in

the job that he has. But I have to tell you the greatest risk in the world, in my opinion, and this may shock you, Gary, the greatest risk in the world is American Christianity. And why do I say that, And I know it's kind of almost an oxymoron. The reason is the greatest risk in the world is many Christians have said, I believe in Jesus because my parents do, but they have never had the real purpose.

You believe in Jesus perhaps because your parents do, but the real purpose is in this life to have your own experiential knowledge of God through Jesus. This is what happened to me. When I was thirty years of age. I was separated from my wife and family. I left my job that was a mess, absolute mess. It was the early mid life crisis. I was a college graduate. I worked for Merrill Lynch is an account executive. But I reached my breaking point and I got involved in the New Age,

which Deuteronomy that's in the Torah, the eighteenth chapter called an abomination. I had just read this in a book. I read about Jewish people that were involved in the same thing I was involved in that lost the life because Deuteronomy eighteen says any Jew that goes to fortune telling and psychics and seances and things of that that nature would die. And so it listed very prominent Jews in

this book. My hero was in there. He was the Jewish man of the Beatles at that time, Brian Epstein, the Jew and at that time only one group from the Beatles had died, the Jew Brian Epstein. And so I was afraid to go to sleep the night because I've broke into something in the New Age called astra projection where my spirit would leave my body. And those that think, oh, he's just kind of crazy, now they actually study this at American universities today. It's called astro projection. And I

was afraid to go to sleep at night. But I finally I said, I can't take it anymore. If I die, I die because I was afraid my spirit leave my body not make it back in time. And I had a script that Rod Surley never even imagined that was so horrific. And so through sheer exhaustion, I went to sleep being in the worst shape a human can be, separated from my wife and daughter, no job, just

a mess. Everything's coming apart in my life. I went to bed with the biggest fear a human could possibly have, but I was so exhausted I didn't care if I even died. And I have to tell you, as a young boy, my big fear was the fear of death because it was unknown to me and I didn't know what happened to me. So I went to sleep and I woke up that morning. And this was when I was age thirty. When I woke up that morning, the greatest presence of peace

I had ever experienced in my life flooded the room. If you had been in my room, Gary, you would have felt that. Anyone would have felt that. I felt the presence of God in a tangible way the first time in my life, and I have to tell you I've been addicted to the presence of God ever since. Because there is no drug, no alcohol, there's no entertainment that can replace the experiential knowledge. Your own experiential knowledge. He knowledge is good, but it doesn't spend. The only thing that

spends is experiential knowledge. And I want everyone listening to consider they are listening to your show, Gary, by divine appointment, and it's their time to come to know God. And if they will just say in their own words, Jesus, I've made mistakes. I'm so sorry. I believe that your blood washes me clean. And now that I'm clean, Jesus live inside of me, and I make you my Messiah and Lord. If they were just say that in their own words, they would have an encounter with the living

God. It may not happen the minuture pray it, like it didn't happen the minute I prayed it. I actually prayed a little prayer a few days earlier. Nothing happened, and I figured, well, it was a waste. But then that night I told you about, I was flooded with the glory of God. If you say a prayer to that nature, it will be as effective, maybe not the same thing that happened to me, but as effective as God feels you needed at this moment in your life. And

I wouldn't want to live in this world. I've never seen such a contrast of light and darkness, evil and good, a division in my life, and it's happening so rapidly, and there is a defense. Yes, the world, according to the Bible, will get darker and darker, but the glory of God, the light of God, is about ready to shine on you. And I tell you you'll be walking in the presence of God and no weapon formed against you will prosper if in your own words, you make

Jesus your Messiah and Lord. Right now, sid are you continuing obviously you're continuing your minute history in Israel with other Jews. You told me about a billboard that you've you've contracted on broadways. Well, and there's two There are two things. First, what you just mentioned, I'm the owner of Middle East Television and that is a regular television network that is available in every home in Israel that has a TV. And in addition to that, I've just

lit up Broadway. At least that was the headline of the newspaper article. What did I do? I don't know if anyone's ever done this before. I bought one of the biggest billboards, not the biggest, not the one in Times Square that they see on New Year's Eve, not that one, but one very close to it, right in that same geographic area. And we have seven Jewish people that leave in Jesus, of which I'm one of the seven. And the headline flashing on the news under the picture says,

I'm Jewish and I believe in Jesus. That is running four times an hour, every hour for the next three months, and that's why the headline was Rath lights up Broadway. That's great, that's phenomenal. Amen. So I wanted to talk to you about some worldly events that continue to maybe point to possibly the return of Jesus. What do you know about this helicap copter crash that killed the Iranian president and what does that mean for events as they unfold

between Iran and Israel and what's going on in the Middle East? What do you think, Well, there's certain things we know and certain things we speculate. I do know that Iran will one day be totally destroyed. What I don't know is the timing. I believe God puts kings in place, and I believe that God thought it that this guy would die because he was really the heir apparent. I mean, they were grooming him to really be the

leader of Iran. And someone else will be there that I believe will be pivotal in a war between Israel and Iran, and maybe even Russia and China will join in. That things are happening, Jerry, I'm sure you see the same thing I do. Things are happening so rapidly in the world. I've never seen the anti Semitism it's just reared up in the University's happened so fast and so big. I've never seen the hatred for Israel in my lifetime

that is going on right now. Things are intensifying and speeding up. And there is only one defense, and that one defense is the whole purpose of life, and that's to know God experientially. Do you think that Joe Biden

has turned his back has betrayed Israel with his bold arms. Absolutely. Absolutely, he has given so much money to Hamas, not really directly to Hamas, but just tell Ustians we all know ends up in the comforts of Hamas leaders that are in very big cities and big hotels, spending the millions of dollars on a lavish lifestyle. I mean, we have a Hebrew word in Jewish and he actually Yiddish. It's called michuga. It means crazy. The

world is going crazy. Gary. Well, and like you said, there is light and there there is hope, as you mentioned, through the power of God and through the belief in Jesus Christ. And you were following that path and have been since you were thirty years old. Said now, I'm very worried by the way and the question you asked earlier about President Biden. I'm extremely worried, not because of him, but because of what he stands for. And he is playing right into the curse of Genesis twelve three.

I God will curse those who curse the Jewish people or Israel. That's what he's doing. I have great fear for the US. We're going to go through it. We're going to go through a bad time. But I believe the presence of God is going to be so large that it's going to hit America, that it's going to give everyone that one last chance. Because no one knows when you're when the end will come for America, the end will come for uh Ran. No one knows what, but we do know.

Even more important than that, no one knows when their end will come, when they will die. I've talked to people, young people. Everyone's young to me. I'm maybe three years here, but I talk to younger people and they're dying. You don't know when your end will come, but you can know for sure where you're going, not because I tell you, not because Gary tells you, because you know. And that's the most important message

I have for anyone right now. Get to know God experientially, yourself excellent. How can people find out more? Said Roth? What? What are some places where you would tell them to seek what you were, what you are disseminating, what you are telling people? Is there? Is there a website? Is there somewhere where they can be more in touch with said Roth story and your God's story. We have an online network. It's called It's Supernatural. Isn it's Supernatural Network. You go to the app store, you

google in sid Wroth and you'll see a nice orange chapter. There's no charge. It's a seven day a week, twenty four hour a day network of all original, mostly original programming. We have some that's not, but mostly original programming that will allow them to transition from religion to relationship. But not so much because someone says it, but they tell you how to do it and what is the benefit, And they tell you the benefit by their lives,

and you'll see genuine miracles. They'll pray for you. So you just all you do is type in sid Roth in the app story and get my is and supernatural app. That's the best way, said Roth. I've been blessed by this conversation myself, and I appreciate your taking time to talk with us tonight, and we will watch and we will learn, and hopefully we learn to have that experiential revolution within ourselves so we can we can be with

you in paradise. Let me pray this prayer for everyone listening. At this end, I can't go ahead bother and that, by the way, the Hebrew for Jesus is yes Suah. He responds to English Spanish Hebrew, but I'm Jewish. I like to use his Hebrew name. I mean his mother

wasn't even married back then. She was Miriam. So Miriam had a son by the name of Yesua Jesus. So I pray that Gary and every listener right now would have an encounter with you Racha Kodish spirit of the Living God, and would know your shore even better than I know him, and would hunger for more of him every day of their life. And let it start right now by everyone that says in their heart, right now, Jesus, I make you my Savior and Lord, and say it out loud. It's

something about the spoken word of God. And I pray the blessings of Genesis twelve three will land on everyone listening, which says I God will bless those who bless the Jewish people. And I believe the greatest blessing in the life of everyone listening is to make issue of their Messiah and Lord and be a blessing to Israel and walk in the blessings of God. No matter what happens on your left, no matter what happens on you right, you will walk

in the shalom of God. O me Amen. Thank you said so much. Thank you Gary. Bye. It is the nightcap, and it continues in minutes maybe seven hundred WLW ah Good Day starts with a good Morning. Here's Lucy. She's feeling down. Not only did her cat run away, she just can't meet the right man. But there's one man in the morning that's always right. Mike mcconaell. Good Morning. He gives Lucy the latest news, weather, traffic, sports, and morning Plus. She loves his

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coming. To be honest with you, It's entitled a Republic If we can Teach It, Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis. Jeff Sigenge Hello, how are you fine? Thank you and great to be with you and your listeners. Well, thank you for being on tonight with us. I remember getting a pretty good civic education in public schools in this country, But that tells you

how old I am. I graduated in nineteen seventy nine, which was, of course, the first year of the implementation of the federal Department of Education, and things seem to have just gone downhill in a lot of cases since we had that centralized bureaucracy in Washington. You know, any kind of perceived ill in society is usually made worse when federal Washington, centralized Washington declares a

war on poverty or drugs or education or whatever. Is there a direct correlation between more federal involvement in public education and a scaling back of teaching civic education in schools, Jeff, Absolutely. One thing that we demonstrate in the book is since nineteen seventy nine, and even a few years before that, we have been doing less civic education, teaching US history and US government and civics, and we've been doing worse civic education. And some of that blame lies

directly at the feet of the federal government in the US. Department of Education. Your listeners, no doubt know about no Child Left Behind law that put a lot of emphasis on reading, in math and testing those things. Well, if you test those things, guess what they don't teach. They don't teach the other things that aren't tested. Andy and government have been losing ground just in terms of the number of hours that are spent on them in elementary,

middle and high school. And as to add to that, the push for STEM education, the numbers have gone down and down even more, and yet it seems like we've got less and less of graduating student populations that are really excelling in math and especially reading. You know, even with No Child Left Behind, even with the STEM programs you're talking about, and we certainly have seen a decline in patriotism and civic pride. Absolutely that it's a real

crisis. The crisis is both ignorance, understanding, and devotion. You know, there's a test that's given every four years called the NAPE Test. In twenty twenty two, only twenty two percent of US eighth graders scored proficient in US Government and only thirteen percent scored proficient in US History. That means three out of every four kids is not even proficient in the very knowledge that they

need to be American citizens. It's an alarming crisis. I was in elementary and the first well the first year of middle school in Illinois, and there was pretty good public education in this state of Illinois at the time. And we learned in the state of Illinois not only about US history as early as gosh, as early as first grade, but we also learned about Illinois state history very early on, and that was a regular part of the curriculum.

And when I moved to Tennessee, there was an entire year we were focused on Tennessee history, which of course relates to American history because it was one of those expanding states out west. The frontiersman and all of that, and we learned about Davy Crockett and all these other historical characters. And I think that teaching history is a major part of a proper civic education. You absolutely right, we have to know our story to feel like we're part of that

story. And you know, when you don't do it, what you end up with is young people who are not the kind of informed patriots that Ronald Reagan said that we need, so just last year to give you an example, Gallup poll ask people, are you extremely proud to be an American? Over sixty five, almost seventy percent said yes. Under thirty, only twenty five percent said yes. It's the biggest gap they've ever recorded. Why are

young people not extremely proud to be Americans? Because of the things that they believe about America's history and founding principles? Well, from the sixteen nineteen project, which is just full of so many holes and CRT and now we have the DEI that's been pushed in classes across the country and the wholeful lot more and more than in classes, in corporations and everything else where, your immunable

characteristics mean more than your actual abilities. And I always thought America was a great meritocracy, but seemingly in the last twenty years we've lost a hold of that as well. Yeah, and we need to get back to teaching the principles of our founding look at our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution. We need to get back to reading those texts, studying them together with young people and understanding that those are the principles that bind us together. That's above our

group, our our ethnicity, our background. That's the things that make us Americans, that can lift everyone up together and unite us. We absolutely, for the sake of the republic, we have to get back to teaching those things. Jeff. Second, I can't tell you how enthusday I am about this book, and it's Do you have some hope that we can actually turn

this around? I do. I do because I'm also executive director of the Ashbrook Center, as you mentioned, and whenever we run programs, which we do around the country for students, teachers, and citizens in American history and founding principles, when we do, they respond, they love it. They're hungry for it. To be in a classroom with some of our Ashbrook teachers gives you hope. And I've seen it for myself. I've experienced it. I have a lot of hope. But we got to get the word out.

Your listeners can go to Ashbrook dot org is our organization's website. We've got a lot of resources and they can just know more about our mission, connect with us, and we've got to get this book out, get folks reading it, and above all, we got to get back to educating our young people in our history and founding principles. A republic if we can teach it Fixing America's civic education crisis. The author Jeff Sikinge, Thank you, professor, Thank you for having me. You bet we'll have to do it

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Service. All the questions I could ask, especially with what you've heard about Secret Service lately and DEI and all of that, but he is an author of a book called Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country, something that many of us have been kind of aware of, at least in a cursory level for quite a while. I've just been talking to so many people about this, long time before the current Department of Homeland Security even even admitted that

there was an issue. But and the FBI director Charles Chris Ray, Christopher Ray, Charles Marino, welcome to the show. How are you, sir?

Thank you so people. I don't think people understood. But when President Trump was trying to do the things that he was doing during his administration, to stem the tide of illegal h what i'd like to call foreign criminal trespassers on our border, and outlining the issues that I believe you probably outline in your book of the dangers of this unobated illegal invasion, especially at our southern border, but all of our borders by not enforcing the laws that are already

on the books. In fact, the Biden administration has sued Texas and saying that their enforcement of federal immigration laws is unconstitutional. Don't get that, but like some thirty thousand plus Chinese men have come illegally across our border and they're still flooding in. How many of those are spies? You're talking about hamas terrorists, You're talking about all manner of people, if they're unvetted and we don't know who they are. You know, look what nineteen terrorists did on

September eleventh, two thousand and one. Think about thousands and perhaps millions of people that have the same ill intent towards our country. So outline if you could, what the book is talking about, Chuck Charles. Yeah, well, I can tell you as a country, we currently face more threats from

more places than at any time in our history. And as if that's not hard enough, we have a presidential administration under President Biden's leadership, who sets the national security strategy for the country, which is why he owns this crisis in its entirety. But with all of those threats that we're facing that I mentioned from all these different places, he is not stopping it. He is literally ushering each and every one of these threats that we face across our borders

and into our country. We are encountering people from over one hundred and eighty different countries. Let that sink in one hundred and eighty different countries. Many of these are special interest locations where we know terrorist organizations are up and running

with a deep patred for the West. And then you talk about state actors like our number one adversary in China, who has historically been working with the Mexican cartels to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans through the production of fentanyl. China provides all the synthetics and the Mexican cartels produce the drug with those ingredients, and we have an eighteen hundred percent increase in Chinese nationals coming into the

United States since the Trump administration. Numbers that high nobody moves from China without the sign off of the PRC, the People's Republic of China. So, as you indicated, we're dealing with a whole host of threats coming from both state and non state actors into the country, and this administration really is unprecedented. Will show in how they have completely walked away from their federal responsibilities of

enforcing the border and in greation laws of this country. Well, the conjecture is Charles, is that they're doing this strictly for a voting base that they know will be loyal to them. It's been estimated by an electoral studies study done starting in twenty fourteen that as many as twenty five twenty seven percent of non citizens of foreigners are voting are registered to vote illegally in this country. And I think that in twenty fourteen they admitted eight point four percent admitted illegals,

admitted that they illegally voted and their votes counted. So, I mean there's a reason behind this that the Biden administration is doing it and so strictly to remain in power as long as they can. They're subverting our ability to protect ourselves as a sovereign NAT's yeah, and let's look at the sequence even more closely to show that the vote is the ultimate goal here. They want those in the country illegal to be eligible to work, to have work permits,

they want them to have driver's licenses. They now want to issue issue and actually a federal ID specific to illegal immigrants, and all of this documentation is going to allow them ultimately to vote. So not only do you have the concern about the illegal voting that's going to take place, but they actually want to facilitate and make this legal for those who don't even belong in the country to cast their vote. So, yes, it's about power. Yes,

it's about putting politics over national security. It has from the start, and what this administration has shown to all Americans, which by the way, this border crisis. I got to tell you, I'm out on the road now doing much book signings and people are very openly coming up to me and saying, I am a Democrat, this is a problem. I am a

Republican, this is a problem. The President has unified both Democrat and Republican voters on this issue because it's no longer isolated to the border, it's now been present within their own communities and they're seeing this and being impacted by it. And one thing that Americans are getting sick and tired of hearing from this administration is that what they're now experiencing and seeing as a result of this crisis

isn't actually happened. They're being told that they're dreaming all of this, and it's an insult. It's an insult to the American people, and it's also endangering their lives they've made. Look that if we want to really critique this administration, we have to ask three simple questions was the world Is the world more stable under President Biden? Or was it more stable underfo President Trump? Right? Are our adversaries more empowered now under President Biden than they were under

former President Trump? Right? And finally, is the United States a more

dangerous place to live under President Biden? And the answer is yes. Well, I just I hope that at some point there is a reckoning and we have the ability to maybe call up the current DHS Secretary of may orcus on charges of treason because I believe that the under the instruction of the Biden regime, they are giving away our country literally, Well, there needs to be accountability in these positions, obviously, because my orcus has proven that you can

swear an oath to protect and defend the United States of America and then get into the position and do nothing to support what you took an oath for. So it's a shame. We now need to hold people accountable, especially when it comes to protecting the country, if they're not going to get in there and do the job that they swore an oath to do. And that's a

big problem. And I can tell you he is implementing. The Secretary's implementing these policies at the direction of the President, and each of these policies with respect to the border and immigration undercuts the federal responsibilities of the agencies that fall under him. So as a result, they're undercutting the statutory authorities of these

agencies. They're switching agencies like Customs and Border Protection to prevent them from enforcing the law, to become an agency that just processes as many illegal migrants into the country. And the other thing is it impacts the moralities agency. So now we're losing a lot of good people who actually took the same oath the Secretary Homeland Security did, but they're not being allowed to do the jobs that they actually want to go out and do to keep the country safe. Charles

Morino, There's a lot of consequences. Charles Morino, thank you for your time tonight. And I'm sorry terrorist on the border and in our country. It's out now. Read it. Open your eyes, folks, it is really happening. Thank you, Charles. Another hour of the Nightcap with the fur Bowl coming up. Just ahead, News, traffic and weather. News Radio seven hundred WL Cincinnati Day nineteen complete the Trump hush money trial well the

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Andy Furman in this half hour because we got lots to talk about. Andy. It's been way too long since you and I had a little ted of tay, a little chance to chat. Now is our time. Let's make the most of whatever it is is seventeen eighteen minutes. We've got what has been cooking on your back burner you're willing to bring to the front because it's about to boil over inside you. Andy. Not only is it cook so, first of it's about time this freaking station. We get back on the

air. Really, I mean the Reds. Let's take go out of time. I have no idea what's going on because the newspapers they're playing on a Friday. You know, you don't read it till Sunday. There's no Saturday paper, so you know. Now we could get back into no Mattlis Butio and and Andy. You can hear every game all season long right here in the home in the morning on seven hundred lorning. I know, I know, I know, stop with the promo. You don't have to kiss but

anymore. You don't have to do it. I know they're on me. Everybody knows they're on there. How many people are staying up in the morning listen to a basebo No, Look, Candy, did you have a DVR? You could DVR the broadcast. I'm not doing that. Look. Look, I like live stuff everything live, like this show. Like right now, let's get into it. And I want to be the voice of a common schlet, a common fan. And I got this platform. Thank god you gave it to me. I'm going to talk about it. The NFL

is a great it's a great entity, it's a great business. I understand it's a business, and I have one hell of a business model because they want to get revenue, revenue streaming. That's what they do at the expense of guys like you, me and everybody else. Let's take an example. A family of four wants to go to an NFL game. You can't get out of it without spending four hundred dollars plus parking and concession in New York. Right, go to a Giant game in New York. It's two hundred

bucks to park. Okay, So now they're bleeding us if you don't want to go to a game. They got all these platforms. You have no idea what freaking platform the game is going to be anyway. Anyway, they got Netflix, they got Amazon, they got ESPN Plus, they got Peacock, said the NFL Sunday ticket. I figured out how much is going to cost a month if in fact you have to do this. Are you are ready? Are you ready for the numbers? Now? Yes, this is

making me sick. Netflix six ninety nine a month, Amazon Prime Video eight ninety nine a month, ESPN Plus ten ninety nine a month, Peacock five ninety nine a month. NFL Sunday Ticket for payments of one twelve to twenty five a month, as if you don't have YouTube right right subscription fee for all streaming services per month per month if you want the NFL right now one hundred and forty five twenty one cents without a prime membership and your YouTube TV

plan. This is outrageous. It's a monopoly. It's got to stop. And I want somebody to start a movement for all fans of this league to say, wait a minute, stop gouging us. I get it. You want to st a revenue stream, I get it. He Roger Goodell, the commissioner, works at the bequest of the ownership, and he's making the owners real rich at our expense. I mean, it's enough already, don't

you agree. Well, all these streaming platforms you're talking about, all these apps, they have paid a lot of money to the NFL so they can who cares provide these games? So they've got to make their money, bet money from us. Yes, they're recouping them. You and me, Now, Andy, let me ask you this. Do you believe, since you're on this everyman kind of rant right now, do you believe that all NFL games should only be on broadcast TV that you can pick up with a simple

antenna. Yes, yes, I agree. Yes they should be on over the air free TV. Why not. Why shouldn't they, you know why over their free TV by people watching them at one o'clock on the East Coast every Sunday made that league what it is. That's what made the league what it was really back of the sixties. Don't really care about the NFL. Matter of fact, home games are blackouts. There was a blackout rule when

I was a kid, I couldn't watch the New York Football Giants. My buddies used to have to drive the Connecticut on Sunday to watch the games on TV to get past the ninety mile radius distance that approved the blackout. I remember that. So listen, listen. Were you in favor of the blackout? No, no, it's a stupid rule. They thought that a blackout would create more people going to the games. That's why they blocked it out, because people would stay home watch it on TV. Well, you know

what, they lifted the blackout. People in fact did stay home and watch on TV. And now what they're doing, they're sort of creating another blackout situation. If you will, A paywall to watch these games. I don't think it's right, and no one's really bitching about it, and I don't understand it. I don't understand it. And you know what, these people behind microphones that I work with and nationally, locally whatever, I don't hear

Lance Mcallisy yelling and swimming about it. I don't hear Mowagger talking about it. Why aren't they upset about it? Why am I the only idiot upset about it? Because I guess they just have the Well, it is what it is, and that's the way things have changed, and that's today yesterday. Lance doesn't want to ruffle the feathers. There's want a rough liney, I get it. Look, I'm one of those guys. I like to rock the boat a little bit. There's nothing wrong with rocking the boat.

You do it some usually, usually, usually I would disagree with you on almost everything, vehemently, just because it makes for better radio. But I can't do it tonight because I'm not with you. I'm not doing It's just how we really feel. So anyway, you said something very telling, you know, in the games were at one o'clock Eastern. I have believed for a long time in my heart of heart, Sandy, that God himself the supreme being who is in charge of everything that happens. Okay, don't I

thought you were. I thought you were an atheist. No, I believe in Jesus Christ is my savior. Anty I didn't know that. So here's here's what I'm And by the way, I want you to tune into podcast because I know you didn't hear it earlier. I had sid rothon who is a Jew who believes in Jesus, and I think maybe you should benefit from that conversation. But I'm I believe in Jesus. He was a Jew. He was a Jew. I believe as the Messiah, as the Messiah.

No. See, that's what that's where we differ. Anyway, back to our conversation about the NFL. I believe that God ordained one pm Eastern to be the kickoff times of all NFL games. I think that's the only right

time to watch NFL is Sunday at one pm. What has helped facilitate the need for all these different platforms and the ability to you know, broadcast them against several networks and several platforms is the fact that we got Thursday night games we got Monday night games, we got Saturday games sometimes during the season. We got these games in Europe. How do you feel about the games in

Europe? Is that okay? Again, it's very similar to the to the different platforms of the TV revenue situation because they're expanding their brand and that's what they do with Netflix and they do with Amazon Prime and Peacock whatever it may be. They're expanding the brand. And I get it. It's a very

popular sport. They want everybody to have a taste of it. And what do they do when they expand the brand, Well, people watch what people spend money on jerseys, whatever it may be, and that's exactly what it is. They make more money, you know. But they're doing the same thing, doing the same thing that cable company and satellite companies do and cell

phone companies do. They forget about their current customers. They're always looking for more, and if you're a new customer, you get all kinds of little perks and gifts that the person who's been paying the weight of these companies for the last twenty years don't get because oh they're just old. We've already got them. We're gonna hook some new fish on the line. So that's my

little gripe about it. The NFL's doing the same thing with all of these different platforms and charging all this money just so you can watch their product. Isn't the advertising on network TV enough? NFL? No, it's not a knot. You want more, more more, you you're up on this more

than I am. I understand as a legislation in Ohio for sports bars and taverns to get these games free, and that would be great because I think these sports bars and taverns believe that these situations are hurting their business by people who used to go there and watch a game on a Sunday afternoon, have a couple of cold ones and maybe a pizza or something like that, and and now they can't do it because they would have to pay to get these

games broadcast into their sports bar. So I think there's a legislation in Ohio only not Kentucky, but in Ohio to get the sports bars to veto these things and get them free, which would be amazing and it'd be great for their business, and it'll be great. I think that's what shit. I really don't I really, I really don't like to go to sports bars in Ohio. In fact, I really don't like to go to the right even

though I don't like watching games there. But if it means the only outlet I can watch that game for free rather than pay for it, I will do it. I will do it. I wear headphones so I wouldn't have to hear the yelling and screaming at the sports bar. I wear headphones, and that's what I'll do and get there early so I get a good spot. But other than that, I have no desire to go to a sports on. Hold, hold on, hold on, let me ask you something.

You just brought something else us up, and I want to address this with you and find out where you stand on this. Andy Furman, you talked about the yelling and screaming during games. I've always found that a little bit like troglodyte neanderthal activity, because you understand, while you may be emotionally invested in your team and what you're watching and what's happening on the screen, they can't hear you. Do these people who are yelling it's whether it's at

home or in a sports bar. Do they under do these people who were yelling and screaming during the game understand the players, the announcers, the referees can't and they don't care. No, But it's a vehicle for after the game when the coach and or players are interviewed and say, man, the fans really were like the twelfth Man. They got us the victory. You know, you've got to seattle that if you're if you're in the if you're in the arena, you're at the stadium, yeah they can hear you.

But when you're sitting at home or you're in a sports bar, they can't. They can't hear you, and they don't care. Well, you know what I would tell you, there's a difference. When you're at the stadium and you're yelling and screaming, you're actually rooting for your team. You invested, you paid money for a ticket, that's why you're there. But sports bar at home, you're not vested, but you're yelling because you have money on it. You bet on it, and if a guy dropped the pass,

you go nuts and you throw something at the TV set. You know what I'm saying. That's so that's a difference yelling. There's a different reason reasoning for yelling. One because you're a fan and you're rooting the other one because you got money on the deal and you're really upset or real happy, And a lot a lot more people are in that category too these days, so kind of associated with that. You know what I can't stand. I

watched the PGA Championship this weekend. I mean after Scheffler got let out of uh, you know, Louisville traffic jail. Anyway, so I'm watching watching it and and this bugs me to death. And it's every tournament, every important shot, somebody feels like they've got to yell. As soon as this the golfer has swung at the ball and made contact, they got to yell something. What is when did that start in golf? And why do they do that? They do it just to hear themselves on TV? Is what

they do. That's exactly right. And I'll tell you, son, it's funny. I was checking my Twitter count or what do you call X y Z, whatever the hell you want to call it. And Dan Horde obviously was there, and he made a comment on Twitter saying that it seemed to him that everybody at that tournament in Louisville was yelling who they I heard a couple of days. Yes, it's crazy. I look, people are crazy. You don't have to see a live shot during the news, and there's

always some clown behind the guy woman. Usually it makes it makes more sense. And the broadcaster who's doing the stand up usually right. And I'll tell you something else. It's funny because the TV producers they're the blame, the producers and directors. When you go to a game, a live game that's on TV and they pay the stands and the guys that wear the stupidest outfits of the NFL games, the football games they get on TV, which tells people, you know what I'm going to get on TV. I'm going to

dress like a moose. You know what I'm saying. That's what they do. So I don't care about who's in the stands. I really don't. And another thing that hurts me when I'm watching the game, they'll put these stupid little headlines on the bottom of the screen and it covers up all the important information that really does you know the little notes that you scroll the scroll on the bottom say, after the first quarter is over, They'll say,

Joe Burrow has had three first downs in the first quarter. Who care you know that. I mean, the stop it already. I don't need to know every single thing that is going on. But that again is for the gamblers, Andy, because there are bets, some stuff like that the whole game. So there was one more thing you wanted to get off your chest. And we got about five minutes left so quickly. Well we may we may need more. But I want to talk about Harrison. Butker, the

kicker, the kicker from the Kansas City changed my team. We spoke of an addicting college and Kansas and you talk about this all the time, Gary, Jeff diversity of speech, and that's basically what he had do. I agree what he said entirely. No, not really because he foolish to go in that direction. Yes, but why is he getting killed? He was getting foolish to go. He wasn't foolish to go in any direction. Your point is he has the right to spouse his beliefs, especially when he was

invited by this college to speak at their commitments commencement. It's a small NFL, it's a small Catholic college who got a devout Catholic to give a commencement address. In the story, he was talking about scriptural things and the order of what he believes is is man and woman's role in life according to God. And that's all he was doing. But the NFL wanted to distance themselves from him because all they want to you know, it's bad enough to his

feedback and negative feed back for what he did. I get it, everybody. You know, I'll go on the radio. You go on the radio, you say, you know, you get it. You stick ahead above water. That's's gonna happen, right, You're used to it. I'm used to it, no doubt. But when the NFL does that and they have diversity signs in every end zone, you know, let's be one, it

takes a village. You know, I'm saying, they have that diversity garbage and every end zone in every stadium, in every field, and now you have a guy speaking each diversity and you you're saying, oh, well, we don't know this guy. He's not part of us. That's his deal. And the Kansas City chief said that approssriate. They did the same thing because this whole, this whole move, this whole move to diversity in our society, diversity, equity, and inclusion. It has nothing to do with

diversity of thought, which it should include. It's all about checking boxes. Are you are you a Hispanic transsexual woman? Are you this? Or are you that? And you're gonna get hired because you're you're checking a box. It's not about diversity of thought or or allowing freedom of thought from anyone and in speech that you may not agree with to be allowed. They're they're hypocrites, is what they are. And when they talk about the worst thing is

where are his teammates? Not on one teammate of him and the Kansas City chiefs to come out and say, you know what, get off his back. He had to say something. You don't have to agree with him, but leave Maloney's our teammate. Everybody runs a hide, you know why, because they're afraid of that canceled culture garbage. They're afraid of it. They know that if they say something, they'll be in just in worse shape. But you know what, His jerseys sold big time, big time over the

weekend. People will buy in his jersey, Yes, and that's that's amazing because not many people buy jerseys of Kickers. Because people in this country have had enough of this dei craft. They've had enough of this canceled culture majority. No, it's it's a very small minority, a very small, loud minority that has been pushing all this garbage. And the reason that it's existed this long is because people haven't made a stand. They're afraid when people when

people stand up to bullies, guess what, the bullies go away. It's not just for middle school, but it's in adult life too, when you stand up to the bullies. And that's all the DEI crowd are a bunch of canceled culture bullies. When you stand up to them and you say no, I'm not going to apologize, I'm not going to back off my statement. That's when they shrink and go away. Because there are more There are more of us than there are there are more of us. Who's that Lou

Holtz stood up to him yesterday? God bless Lou Holtz because he again I'm not saying I agree with everything he had to say, but has every damn right to say what he says. You know what, Andy, I don't know that I agree with everything he said. Most of it, I do, and I think, but I do think it's instructive that as we end this conversation, go tell your wife to be a good wife and make you a sandwich, all right, and to wash the floor. I do my

laundry right bye for a ball, Thank you, I love you. Goodbye. We'll close the nightcap with Lee Habib coming up right afternoons. Rocky Boyman here. I played in the NFL, and that's pretty cool. I'm also a published author, and that's pretty cool. I also once shared an elevator with a Dalai Lama and that's also pretty cool. But none of that compares to hearing the podcast of the Eddy and Rocky Show. The iHeartRadio app. Now that's very cool. There's a lot to celebrate this month, graduations,

the end of the school of year. In warmer months, Lina had celebrated the Clean Home by calling the Cleaning WLW. I bring to you someone that I really love having on the air. He is the host of Our American Stories, the creator of that program. And also he's with Salem Media and has been since well for a while, and he helped co found Laura Ingram's radio show back in two thousand and one. And I always tell people, as a radio guy doing interviews, if you get to rate, if you

do an interview, with another radio guy or gal. It's always wonderful and this guy especially because he's got great information. Lee Habib, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. All right, we are talking eighteen sixty four first tonight, and we're talking eighteen sixty four. You did an Our American Stories segment on eighteen sixty four, and why well, people are always chiming in the twenty twenty four is the most divided this country's ever seen,

and maybe not so fast. Talk about eighteen sixty four and the great divide that was existing in this country at the time, Lee, or we're in mid in the thick of the Civil War in January first, eighteen sixty four. Lincoln's morning that day, January first, he's greeting a bunch of folks who love Lincoln and good morning. In the afternoon, he learns that the Confederate troops have logged within sixty miles of DC six thousand and forces. This

is a complete source of frustration for Lincoln. He's won Gettysburg, he's won Vicksburg, he's won Chattanooga in sixty three, but in sixty four, here are these rabid and just pesky Southern troops they're too close to home. And by the way, they just won Chancellorville a big victory, and he could Lincoln could not get Richmond to fall. Richmond was only ninety five miles for the nation's capital. Due South slavery was still intact, and these troops,

Lincoln learned, were re enlisting at record rates. In other words, they were highly motivated. They wanted to keep their way of life and not just slavery. A lot of Southerners didn't own slaves, or they had one or two. They liked the idea of their state autonomy too. The North thought for slavery. The South fork in part to defend slavery, but the South

also fort because they didn't want the North to call them the shots. So it was a complicated, complicated work, mostly driven by slavery, but there were other factors. And his eighteen sixty four goes, on, my goodness, the South keeps holding its ground and exacting huge losses on the Union and

on Lincoln. And this was their hope. By the election of eighteen sixty four in November, they were hoping, get the body count high enough and they'll nominate they'll run the Democrats, an anti war president that ended up being McClellan. Not exactly a pacifist. The guy is a general. He's gonna basically say we can't win this war. And by July Lincoln is suffering epic casualties. Grant suffered huge losses against Lee in the Battle of the Wilderness at

Cold Harbor. Grant lost and get this number, because it's a crazy number, in Cold Harbor, Virginia in forty five days, Grant lost sixty thousand men and gained only sixty miles of territory. That ten percent had twelve thousand

troops five miles from DC. Things were not looking good for Abraham Lincoln at that moment, and he was so sure he was going to lose that he had his entire cabinet signed a blind sealed memorandum essentially saying, if we can't win this war, there's going to be a peaceful transition of power and the Union will be separated. The Union will be separated. And then came the

news, right, because then came a political event that changed everything. And it was a memo that Lincoln got on September third, and it just had six words and he said, Atlanta is ours and fairly won, They'd won the battle they needed to win. Lincoln did, and that was the heart the big city and the heart of the Confederacy. And everything changed from that

day on and Lincoln won, and he won decisively. But boy, if you would have told him at the beginning of August of eighteen sixty four that he was going to win, I don't think he thought he had a chance. Most of the leadership at his party didn't think he had a chance. And I'll tell you the biggest thing. They were facing a huge economic decline. The Union had tremendous debt, It had huge bills to pay and couldn't even pay the soldiers. Worse, the dollar had dropped to thirty seven cents.

So when people say we've never been divided or more divided, I go, eh, slightly more. And when people say, you know, things are you know, things are just worse economically, I go, oh, my goodness, you don't know. I mean, imagine if the dollar was worth thirty seven cents, right, I just imagine that and forget about you know, three percent inflation and nine percent inflation. The devaluation of the dollar is the worst thing that can happen. It's as bad as inflation, if

not worse. Well, I mean it's good where some people say we're headed that way Lee, But Grant loses sixty thousand that's one tenth of the soldiers who were killed in the entire Civil War in forty five days, that's right, and he and we lost ninety thousand soldiers. The Union law I say weak as I grew up in New Jersey, I live in Mississippi now that slips out now and then, But the North lost ninety thousand troops in eighteen sixty four just to North. So see, it seems like the bloodiest year

of the Civil War. And that's not even counting Gettysburg and Vicksbert the other things you mentioned. So here's a question, if if Sherman's victories on the March to the Sea and the capturing and burning of Atlanta was the big victory that Lincoln and the Union forces needed to wind up tilting the balance in this Civil War, why was Grant so lauded and why did Ulysses has Grant become president and not Sherman If you're going to give it to a victorious Union general.

Was Sherman just not political? Or what was the deal with that that I am not sure of. I mean, I've read a lot of differing accounts, enough so to make me not have a discernible opinion. I think sometimes generals just get certain territories. But what Sherman had finally was a Union commander who led him loose, who led him loose. McClellan hadn't. And as you know, Lincoln had had a series of commanding generals who were fighting

with great hesitation. So here was Grant allowing Sherman to do his business. Losses, keep going, inflict pain in flick, punishment, keep going. And that march to the Sea was fast. I mean he hands Savannah over to Lincoln as a Christmas present. Well, Lincoln had lost had lost a son in the Civil War. I mean, that's the other thing that I think needs to be said about this. It wasn't just that the President saw felt the loss and felt the grief of all these people who were lost fighting

for the Union side, But he also lost a son in battle. He did, And I know that he knows that the brothers are fighting brothers in this war too. The guys who had gone to West Point and were friends were now killing each other. And lee An honorable man, but ended up citing with Virginia. It was his home state, and he was tortured by that choice. But I had to choose, and he had to choose sides. And he was fighting up and going up against guys he'd gone to college

with at the nation's finest military preparations school. This is an epic tragedy. And Lincoln understood this. And you know who understood this more than anybody. Women understood this greater than anybody. He was looking for his brothers. So we did a beautiful story on this. He was searching for his brother. His brother was on some battlefield where he worried about the casualties. Women is the most famous poet in America. And he comes down to Washington, d

C. He's checking all the military hospitals and he finds his brother. But what he also discovers is these Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers without legs, ready to die. And his greatest service, Women was tending as a medic to the needs of these guys, and not just medic, spiritual needs prayer books. And he would write these essays about this, and it's Witmen's greatest work.

I believe it's not Leaves and Press. It's his memoir about serving as a medic and some of the heartbreaking things that he had to see, not just the Union losses. These were eighteen to thirty year old boys in the Confederacy being butchered too, and it broke his heart. And the writing and what Whitman witnessed was carnage of the very worst kind. So what Lincoln had to deal with from the time he started to the time he lookt to he

got martyred because of his position in the war. He had one real happy day in his presidency, and it was the day he was murdered that strong I did not know this. One thing I love about talking to leh a Bibe is that I always find out things I did not know. And I consider myself to be, you know, fairly, fairly adept at American history because I just love it. You know, it intrigues me and it trances me, and I dive into it. But well, were we do interesting?

Like we we did a story of Lincoln's last day. And Lincoln's last day essentially was on Good Friday, and that morning he had learned the Richmond had fallen. Lee had surrendered the night before Washington, d C. New York, all the major northern cities had a party that made V Day look like nothing. Giant party. They called it the Grand Illumination. In Washington, d C. He gets up in the morning on Good Friday and his

staff is dismissed. He sees his son for the first time. His living son, who was serving under a general, General Grant, was there. There was joe viality in the room. Lincoln did predict though they had a bad dream, kind of dreamed that every time he had it during the war, something he said of consequence, of great consequence happens. He goes out for the carriage ride that day with his wife. His wife writes in a journal that day that it was the first time she had seen her husband truly

happy. That he was talking about the future, about returning to Springfield to practice law one day and to one day see the Pacific. That night, they go to see American Cousin, a comedy. As he walks into the Ford Theater, everything stops jubilation. Hail to the Chief has played standing ovation for minutes, which went into minutes. Then the play goes on. It's funny. Lincoln's into booth laughing out comes John Wilkes booth, no mask,

no attempt to hide himself. Everyone in the theater knew who he was. He was the equivalent of bread Pitt in theater. And he executes the president and kills him on the spot, jumps onto the stage, screams the salva's of ngs to the audience and six semper Tyrannus and gets on his horse, thinking he's going off to his destiny as a conquering hero. That he's killed

the tyrant. So even after the war, the idea that it was over, the idea that the war was over, well not in not in his mind right, and not in a lot of folks minds who still hated the North, hated the price. And if you want to talk about an economy that was eviscerated, the South was left just bankrupt, nothing left, nothing left, so much burned at the ground, many of the boys dead, the slaves worthless. This was a lot of wealth was tied up in the

slaves. The Southern. The Southern life was over and had to be rebuilt and recast, and by the way, the Northern, the Northern life had to be recast and rebuilt as well. And so we you know, some of our stories aren't peppy and happy stories, but you walk away from them going wow, this country's endured much, were resilient. Moreover, there were

remarkable people like Lincoln who really paid the price. I mean, imagine, he gets killed on Good Friday, martyred, like some people who are Christians believe Prist was martyred, and and what a day to die, or what a day to get executed. He dies the next night in the in the morning, but for all intents and purposes, he dies on he dies on

Easter weekend. Uh wow. And you talk about the devastation of the Southern, of the Confederate economy, the Southern economy, there's that great poignant line in the night they drove Old Dixie down and says, take what you need and leave the rest. But they should never have taken the very best. And that's that's what the South was left for in the aftermath. Nineteen sixty eight is also pointed at as now a pivotal year and maybe a year that

America may have been as divided as it is now. And you're working on nineteen sixty eight right now, Lee, right, indeed, because what a year it was the Vietnam War. The conscription numbers are going up, the body counts going up. More and more young Americans are facing the draft. Right, so this was personal. This is very different than from the Rivers

to the Sea crowd. Most colleges there was no protests. There was maybe a dozen colleges that had protesters, but the average state university I live in Oxford, Mississippi, home of all miss there were like twenty kids out. There were thirty thousand kids at our campus. And I could tell you that I got reports from all over the country, you know, because this wasn't personal. This is a bunch of kids with you know, green air who

don't even understand what river and what sea they're talking about exactly. And there are some good there are actually some good cultural critics of Israel, and Israel's allowed to be criticized, right, Israel's not perfect, We're not criticized. We're free speechers, me and you. But but in the Vietnam War was personal. These kids didn't want to go to the war. They thought it

was unjust. Answer that the civil rights movement, I mean, the civil rights movement was in full fledged segregation is still alive, not just in the South, but in the North. The North was just segregated to the South. There was just no laws. But I know in New Jersey where I grew up, Newark was all black. Jersey City was all black again. It was all black, and the whites lived in white neighborhoods. In the black lived in black and there was no law against black and whites living together.

But white people just refused to do it. That's just as bad, right, Who cares if there's a laws or not. It was just as racist. So we're trying to reconcile our original sin of racism. We've got Martin Luther King assassinated, and you've got the Vietnam War as it under bay, and it was chaos in the streets, and the young kids were already marching for sexual rights and sexual revolution. The bill had just come out. People were saying, don't trust anyone over thirty. By the way, I

don't trust anyone under thirty. And then cops are pigs, the soldiers are bigs, were spitting on our holds when they come home. It sounds familiar, right, and it is familiar. And then Chicago was the Convention, the Democratic Convention. Can you believe they're doing it. They're they're doing it again, into it again in Chicago. The Democrat nationals, oh, geez,

you can't make it up. And anyone who doesn't think there's not going to be some kind of repeat of the last one doesn't understand the hardcore activists on the left. Then if you remember, it was the Weather Underground, now it's Antifa. Then it was Black Black Panthers, now it's Black Lives Matter. And they don't speak for all black people or even most black people. Any of these groups don't speak for who they say they speak for.

They speak for themselves, and they're a radical part of the left, and they've co opted the Democrat Party. Everybody thinks the Republican Party is in trouble, are in a mess. No, the Republican Party is pretty I think pretty you know, on the same page. Mostly most people might not like it, but they're on the same page. But the left, the traditional blue dog Democrat, the Bill Clinton's of that party, the Evan Buys, the Harold Fords there, they don't even know what Even Chuck Schumer, he's

like, what the heck happened to our party? What happened the Democrat party. Well, you know I have reckoning in Chicago. There's going to be a reckoning in Chicago. There is a clear another clear line, And you

brought up the Weather Underground. Who's a member of the Weather Underground, Bill Ayres, who later became a noted professor and is part of that that so called academic elite that have been teaching the radical policies and thought think, you know, group think to these kids now for the last forty years, fifty years. So there is a clear, clear line pointing from nineteen sixty eight

to what we've got on college campuses in twenty twenty four. League. Now those kids seize the citadels of power in the universities of the media, and that the oppressed oppressor matrix has made its way from a little fringe group in the sixties, when I was in college, the oppressed a presser matrix was just starting to take hold. Friends, Fanan's work, read The Wretch to the Earth. You need to read no other book your audience, and Wretched

of the Earth to understand not traditional Democrats. This is not the Democrat Party. This is Marxism. It's retreaded Marxism. You have to an oppressed oppressor matrix, using identity as the formulating a thesis of the movement. Catch our American stories. There's a podcast app you can get. Lee Habib, thank you so much for making my night. I appreciate it anytime, anytime, you got it. And that closes the nightcap. We'll be back with our

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