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I mean , come on guy be nice if you , if you , stayed with us on these things . We've got a lot going on . We'll do some local stuff here off the top . We'll do some mail , which you're going to do here in just a second .
Talk a little bit about the mayor's race , by the way , hearing some rumor on polling , I'll give you a little bit of the dirt on what I'm hearing a kind of interesting guy running for mayor who we had not heard of and he's doing quite well , at least on signatures .
We'll get to that and a little bit of an article from the journal talking about COVID vaccines and pushing hard for COVID vaccines for kids , which okay Interesting stuff with Trump and Russia .
Russia's starting to call him out , which is interesting stuff to see how this is all going to play out , and I thought this sort of thing might happen at some point and we'll get into the details on that . But it is interesting . New polling data is out across the country for Republicans and Democrats .
Each has a stronghold on certain issues and some you would expect , and I think some would be a little bit of a surprise here as well . There is now the latest list of dangerous dogs , and one of the favorite dogs of New Mexico is on that list .
So we will get into that Some incredible pictures of severe weather across Eastern New Mexico , some tornado pictures which are just stunning , so we want to show you those . And then one paraglider caught up in a storm and he ended up in a really tight spot and is lucky to be alive , and we'll show you that as well .
Okay . Well , let's start with some mail , because we've got products to talk about , we've got all kinds of things to get out .
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So let's uh , let's start with Sagittarius . It says hope you guys had a good Memorial day honoring our fallen military heroes . I've got a three-part question for the crew . First question for Mark and Christy what are your opinions and thoughts of the Democrat former mayor of Las Cruces , ken Miyagishima ?
Okay , we call him Mayor Ken . Okay , mayor Ken , yeah , yeah , running for governor , yeah .
Second question what kind of chance do you think he has against the other Democrats running for governor ?
Okay .
That's actually a two-part question . I don't know she might have had a third question , I don't know .
Listen , I cut these real quick sometimes no , hey look , I understand .
Sorry , sagittarius .
We go with your top part of the comment .
So , mayor Ken , I think obviously we're commenting on a Democratic primary which we're by no means qualified to comment on , but we'll do it anyway . I think he's going to have trouble raising money , and so I think the way he'll benefit is if he can find a lane , raise some money , stay in the race in hope of a breakdown of Holland or Bregman .
I think Holland or Bregman have a better chance . Holland definitely , as we've said . I think Bregman trying to run as a centrist is laughable , but whatever , there are some Republicans over the past couple of weeks who held a fundraiser for him , for for Sam Bregman , which I think is an unbelievable mistake , but whatever .
So I think Mayor Ken will have trouble fitting in that lane . However , given what's going on with Holland and that Holland , I think , is either going to not get hit and get through or she'll get hit and she has a glass jaw and she's going down Right .
But my guess is , if I had to put a paycheck on it , it'll be that she'll slide her way through without ever having to really get into the middle of these things and fight it out .
So I think , if that's the case , mayor Ken probably never gets the opportunity to get some traction , but he's always got that puncher's chance , given that the front runner is very vulnerable If she does start to break down a glass jaw .
I've never heard that expression .
Oh , it's a , uh , it's a boxing turn well , I figured that rocky . Yeah , I put it it means that if you get hit , your jaw is gonna break .
You're going down , let me give you my two cents on this , which is very different , very different , two cents .
Just because of being in a statewide campaign with you for , uh , two races , I learned a lot about the differences between bernalillo county so albuquerque proper , and how important that is when you're running in a statewide race and Las Cruces , and how those two communities rarely know about each other or people in those communities .
For example , a lot of people didn't know who you were in Las Cruces because they don't get our television stations down there .
They get El Paso .
They get El Paso market right , so vice versa . I don't know who Mayor Ken is Never even heard of the guy right . They get El Paso market right , so vice versa . I don't know who Mayor Ken is Never even heard of the guy right .
So I think what's going to have to happen is can he get enough money raised to get name ID up in the northern part , up here in Bernalillo County , as we've said numerous times ? Not that the other counties don't matter , but Bernalillo County is the biggest county in a statewide race and it really matters what kind of benchmark you can make in Bernalillo .
County . Right , and really , when you talk television , marcus . So to be clear , albuquerque is about three quarters of the state , so it's not just Bernalillo County , it is you know it is . Silver City , Socorro County , all the way up to Farmington , all the way over to Colfax County and all the way down to Lee County .
I'm saying , like what always shocked me was that in Las Cruces that was basically the only county it's Las Cruces , yeah . They did not know who you were . They're in Clovis . They didn't know who you were .
Yeah , Clovis is Amarillo . So yeah , those , yeah , no .
I was shocked . That was like a shocking difference , like you could see the difference in a name ID when you crossed into that city where people did not know you , against the rest of the state , the rest of the state .
So I just think if Ken is well known down in Las Cruces , he'll have to market himself across the whole state because a lot of us won't know who he is .
So that's all I was trying to say there . True , and again , holland performs like she should , and it will never matter .
She doesn't come back to the Sam Bregman Republicans throwing him uh fundraisers .
There are some Republicans , uh , that were very supportive of us , that that are , that are that have thrown him a fundraiser , which I think is a terrible mistake goodness , and it is it is a mistake you should not make . I mean , if you're gonna burn money , just go out to the backyard and just light it on fire .
It'll at least keep you warm for a minute , because that's more than what a donation for a republican to bregman will do for you donate it to our show , our show guys .
If you want to donate some money to a Republican cause or conservative cause , no , I don't want Bregman money .
If that money has the stank of Bregman on it , I don't want it . I don't want it , guy , oh gosh .
Okay , yeah , a guy who changes his stripes depending on who's asking for him .
Oh , yes .
You'll Uh as you'll learn . You'll learn that if you , as we , keep watching him in this race he'll be whatever you need him to be , as we go along in this election cycle . So , okay , l Davis rocks . She says great show . Creatine is one of the most researched supplements .
A friend who was a nutritional coach said that if the elderly took creatine , they would receive benefits we talked about . But also , especially as we age , if someone were to fall and break a hip or a bone , they'll recover faster .
One of the most important things with creatine is to make sure you drink plenty of water , which I know many elderly are not great at . Not only elderly are not great at it . Sometimes the rest of us are not so great at it .
No , it's really good advice .
More creatine um conversation here , uh says . There's so many creatine products out which one to use ? Well , of course we had to bring our favorites in , right , so I made you bring up yours , which are disgusting , but I told you to bring it up , yeah , so , uh , mark's is go ahead and show that and tell everybody it's called create .
I support creatine gummies .
I know , Do you eat my ? You use mine .
I take dad's creatine every day .
I don't love the way it tastes , but I like the way it works .
Yeah , and it makes me thirsty , but you know creatine makes everybody thirsty . Yeah Well , and it helps . And again , creatine helps to , helps you in the gym and the respect that it kind of pushes you to be able to lift a little bit more .
Okay , and the reason I take cognitive health too . Yeah , I was gonna say the reason I take creatine is because we get older women , we lose muscle mass faster which I'm sure any woman out there who's lifted for her life knows that because it's tough to keep the muscle on . And number two , just brain fog and helping us , like keep active memories .
So I have two different , two different kinds . I use the pause nutrition Okay .
All right , it's online , you can get that . Sure , it's $80 a bottle .
It's not $80 a bottle here . You know what's great about this one it's powder and it's flavorless , Unlike those things oh , they're delicious .
These are watermelon flavored . Oh gross , they're gummies . They're fantastic .
And then this other one I've just started is called Rho Nutrition and it's liquid .
You have multiple different creatines .
I do because I'm trying to find different creatines that I like . So yeah , I'm kind of a sampler of things .
I guess . So yeah , don't worry . Multiple bottles .
There was a special for Memorial .
Day . Okay , just because it's on sale doesn't mean you have to buy it Sometimes , when we want to save money , we do Anyway . You aren't saving money . You're spending more money .
Listen when the boxes show up from Amazon you just don't pay attention . How about them apples ? All right , okay . Okay , now here's this guy , mike . Mike , you called this like it is for Mark . Uh , it says apparently Mark supplement is A&W root beer . Um , which is you know he is , uh , he is an A&W fan and diet .
It's yeah , it's zero sugar . A&w . It's delicious .
It really is Fantastic you think that we're getting sponsored by all these places .
Yeah , no , we're not getting a dime .
We're not getting a dime , we're just telling you what we like . All right , Okay . And then this one . I don't know where Deborah was coming from with this . I don't know if she was upset that we were talking about the Trump calling Putin out , and maybe we were like , hello , what did you think Putin was going to do ?
I don't know if that's what generated this comment , but Deborah says Trump's IQ is higher than you realize . He is not a fool . He plays D chess 5D chess . For goodness sakes , okay , I don't think he's saying that . Trump's dumb . I don't think he'd be the president of the United States if we thought Trump wasn't .
No , I don't think he'd be president , I always thought that was comical when people were like George Bush , you're an idiot you know it's like no , he's not .
You're not an idiot , I don't think that's the quite the thing that we're trying to talk about .
I I mean , you go ahead and respond to that however you want , but honestly , our story was really about , uh , the fact that if you think putin was just going to be like , oh , trump's in office now , I think I'll just and the war , yeah , let's go to he's into this thing for a million people , like meaning they've lost up to a million people .
It's craziness , and if you think you're just going to say to them , oh , you're going to change this , you're not . So the reality is that we're going to have a showdown here to some degree , so get ready . I mean , this is going to be one of those deals , and it's not like we can't handle
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Russia . However , this is significant , and so I think we're going to talk about it here in a bit . But we're not saying that . But we're also going to tell you what we think and when we think it . And if we disagree with what Trump's doing , we're going to say we disagree , I disagree what he's done with Russia and Ukraine .
I don't think it's going to work , and I don't think JD Vance is right on this . I think Rubio is more right on this than Vance is Okay . So when we them , we're going to tell you that , and we're not here to be some honk for Trump or anybody else .
I think a lot of what's going on and a lot of what he's done is good , but there's stuff where I think he's making mistakes and and we're about to talk about some of that Okay . So if you want somebody who's just going to just rubber stamp everything that the administration does .
There are plenty of people out there who are , who are you know sniffing up that tree . We're not one of them . But we'll also tell you just be honest with you and you can disagree and tell us we're full of it . That's totally fine .
I think it's also like it's called a conversation , which I think is what we need to be bringing back , is that you're not always just singing the praises of one leader or the other . You can be fair and balanced and try to say listen . I disagree with them on this part and which I have been very vocal about all through the election .
All the last two years we've been online on on this show , so I think we call it like we see it , we always will , and that's kind of , if you want to watch our show , great , that's kind of where you're going to get with us on that . So anyway , okay , let's move on . Let's talk a little bit .
These petitions that are due uh , coming up June 21st , by the way for all the signatures required to get on the ballot for the mayor's race here in Bernalillo County A lot , of signatures that you need to have in Albuquerque . compared to what ? Is it 3,400 or 3,000 , something like that ?
You need to have to be on the ballot and I think a statewide race is what ? 3,400 or 3,500 ?
Yeah , something in that neighborhood . So the city does put out the numbers . So it's kind of interesting because you're seeing all the candidates kind of scramble here Els , let's go in here tight and kind of show you what's going on . And if you look at some of this , you'll see a surprising name at the top of the list .
Now , not only is he at the top of the list because he's got all the signatures he needs , but it's it's interesting just to look at how this is going and how many have been rejected . So Daniel Chavez is running for mayor . I believe he's an independent , I don't know him . He apparently owns a bunch of of parking lots downtown , so I don't know .
Probably charge for parking and stuff like that . I think he's done pretty well . So he put some money in for himself , and what he clearly did here is he hired canvassers to go out and get signatures for him , which is a pretty common thing to do . There's nothing wrong with that . But he's got himself already verified Thirty four hundred signatures .
He's on the ballot and he says he's not going to use the public financing . So he says he's going to basically raise money himself or put money in himself . Ok , so , so he's got that . So he's already using some of his money for that . Okay , so he's all set to go . Now you got some of these other candidates who this is where we're talking about .
If you don't have even a dent here , say you're not at 500 signatures here already , you're done . Okay , you're really going to have trouble . So if you look and see here , brian Fajar , he's 69 signatures . Um , uh , miss adair's got four . Uh , she's got 14 signatures . Not gonna happen . Uh , ubias has 2 000 signatures so he's closing in .
He's 70 , 70 ish percent of the way there . He'll get there . It looks like herrick is doesn't have any signatures . Louis sanchez has 1382 . He's he's , he's in . He's knocking on the doorstep trying to get that done . Uh , miling armijo , she's only at 700 . That's going to be a heavy lift unless she wants to pay money to get that done .
Miling Armijo , she's only at 700 . That's going to be a heavy lift unless she wants to pay money to get people to go canvas and get signatures for her . Eddie Varela Eddie's got 1,562 . Really impressive . That's really good . He's got to keep going . Obviously he's halfway and Eddie's getting there . But Patrick Seiss , he's got very few signatures .
Darren White he'll get there eventually . I think Darren , if he gets into a tight spot , will likely bring canvassers in and get the signatures that he needs . And Mayor Keller , he's almost there , he'll get there , he's got a machine , so
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he's fine . So all I'll tell you on this is I think you probably have looking at these numbers and if these things play out , you're going to have Keller , you're going to have Darren White making this , you're going to probably have maybe Louis Sanchez , you buy us and Chavez , so you're going to have a fair .
You're going to have four or five candidates that are going to make it . Um , and that's on the higher side of what we thought about maybe three or four . I think four or five , judging by these . And again , this is just to get on the ballot . This isn't the public financing . You got to have 3,700 signatures and they've got to give you $5 donations .
Okay , so that's why the public financing is tougher than this . This one's easier . This is just hey , will you sign this ? And it just has to be somebody that's a registered voter in Albuquerque , not Bernalillo County , albuquerque , and then you can only sign one . You can only sign one Exactly , so that's how that works .
So this is easier than the than getting the public financing is . So just so you know . And , by the way , so there's rumor out there that polling has been done . Okay , and the polling basically shows Keller with about a 10 point lead .
Wow , okay , however however and this is why this is interesting Keller's got 10 point leads , got approval rating in the 20s though . Oh . So what you've got here is a couple of people in this race have name ID . It's really Keller and it's really Darren White . Those are the two people who have some name ID . Keller obviously has high name ID . Darren's .
Darren's probably would be second behind him . So just something to think about . But if you're , you know , if you're Darren White and you're looking at this , you're you're probably in second in this poll . That's my understanding . And then , with Keller , you're concerned because your approval number is so low .
So what that shows is people don't know the other candidates . So once they get to know the other candidates , you start to lose support because you don't . So if your approval ratings in the 20s , he's done OK , but I do think he's going to spend a lot of money to try to boost that up and see what happens here .
It's going to be a close race . I know that this is like a bipartisan race and all of that thing . It's not . You know you're not supposed to really talk about the parties and all that , but I do think it's important because , you know , right now , looking at this , it looks like you're lining up probably more Democrats to be on the ballot than potentially .
The only Republican is going to be Darren White , daniel Chavez Right , he's either an independent or a Democrat .
We're not really sure ?
No , he's an independent . Oh , he's an independent . Okay , so yeah , and he's an independent .
Oh , he's an independent , okay , and so yeah and he's , but what's interesting with him is getting those signatures . So he clearly , if you look at the number of signatures that have been rejected , that he turned in .
Seems super high .
Well it's super high because he paid for it . So what he did was he put canvassers out there and they got a bunch of signatures that they get rejected . It's not that he spent real money to go and get these signatures to get on the ballot , and so that's why he has so many rejections . He has 20, . Let's see what he has here 2,336 rejected signatures .
That just shows you he spent the most money by far of anyone to go get this done , cause his guys just go around that they're not . They're not activists who go around and say are you a voter , are you ? You know they do all this . They just get people to sign .
They try and burn and they eventually get there and got him the 3,000 signatures that he needed , or 3,400 , or whatever he has here . So , as you look at those numbers , that's why he's got so many rejected signatures , just because he paid a lot of money to get these done . And again , nothing wrong with that . I mean , that's just fine .
Well , it'll be interesting to see what his platform is , how the differences that show up about these guys . I can't wait to . I mean , I've never heard of this guy , which doesn't mean anything , but it'd be interesting to see . Like , what's he going to say ?
Oh , we need to reduce crime , we need to reduce homelessness . We've got to come together . This shouldn't be a fight that is political . I don't know . You know , he has a boilerplate website which doesn't say much . So we'll see how effective he is at communicating and how effective he is at getting his message out there .
And is he good in a room and do people start to gravitate toward him ? And you'll know pretty quickly . If you start coming out of rooms and people are like I really like this guy , he's really good , then you'll know . And then if he has the money to put in himself which he apparently does , at least to some degree , then he could be a contender .
But if not , if he's just one of these guys that puts in $100,000 , blows $100,000 on expensive consultants and some polling and some canvassers , well then he'll flame out quickly .
But we'll see .
He's got a shot .
Okay , well , something interesting coming out Now . The CDC has made some reversals on the COVID vaccine . However , the Journal took a new , like a kind of the standard approach of writing that story , so we wanted to show it to you guys . It says here the New Mexico Department of Health falls in line with CDC reversal of COVID vaccines .
Kids and pregnant women are no longer recommended to vaccinate . This is by Jillian Barkhurst at the journal and basically he she goes on to say a couple of things .
A health and human services secretary , robert F Kennedy jr , announced Tuesday that the centers for disease control and prevention will no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children and pregnant women , contradicting the medical consensus among pediatricians and OBGYN .
Oh , there's a consensus now . I forgot to see that . That's where you start to see her articles show its colors . Right there there's a consensus and you're against . This is old talk that we've heard a million times , right , which is there's a science , there's the science , and then there , and then there's this , this guy over here , which again is ridiculous .
But anyway , keep going well , and that's the first sentence too the new mexico department of health will follow this protocol quote as of now . Officials said Kennedy is best perhaps best known for questioning the safety of vaccines and other governmental health interventions .
I don't think that's what he's best known for , but whatever this fear and vaccine hesitancy accumulated in Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again initiative , his platform when he ran for president in 2020 , before dropping out and endorsing President Donald Trump , this change on the federal level will trickle down , making the vaccine less affordable and accessible , said Dr
Tina Tan , an infectious disease physician at Lurie's Children's Hospital of Chicago . So , basically , if you keep going , if you go on here , it says .
And then Kennedy says this yeah , kennedy says .
Last year the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot , despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children , kennedy said . In a video released on social media , tan called this claim completely incorrect and even dangerous .
Then in the next paragraph okay , they completely contradict what they just said , and she says this for children .
Most infections are mild , but there is a slight chance of contracting multi-system inflammatory syndrome , a disease where organs and tissues swell months after their initial symptoms , leading to hospitalization . Tan said .
Okay , again , that is less than 1% . And just sit there and say , everybody keep daxing up to make sure that this one little area you know that is less than 1% . And to sit there and say , everybody , keep daxing up to make sure that this one little area , you know that this slight chance of a slight chance is dealt with .
This is the kind of thinking and the science has been decided and you have to do this and even though there's a tiny chance , this is the sort of stuff that's maddening . This is an article right out of 2022 or 2021 . Really it is or 2020 , for that matter . You agree with the sciences . We lay it out . That's not true .
It's ridiculous and the fact of the matter is , if we could go back in time and not vaccinate our kids , I would have not vaccinated them . They did not need to be vaccinated , are my parents ? Absolutely ? I would have vaccinated my parents and remember this vaccine came out in a very compressed time frame , when we needed it very , very quickly .
And now there's an opportunity to step back and do more peer-reviewed research to figure out exactly what's going on with this and the impacts on kids , the impacts on adults , all of it . You know what's going on with vaccine injury . Is it a significant issue , is it not ? This is what should be happening here , not this old school .
We've already decided , as the science community take another shot , stick it . I don't believe , I don't understand why the journal is doing this . I really don't , and the perspective of it is incredibly irritating when you read it . This old well , what we've decided ? The science has been decided . No , it hasn't been decided .
Well , and they're like how about the data on actual how many kids were so gravely impacted by COVID that were unvaccinated ? I think that'd be an interesting piece of data that I have yet to find , which I have been looking for . So , again like can we look at data and then make the decision on what's ?
best for no , because it's been decided .
So it's just like- that science has spoken . Have the conversation , and that is again like . You may not agree with everything that RFK Jr has to say , but at least he's stirring the pot and saying let's have a conversation about this stuff , let's figure it out . Is this actually still the protocol I read recently ? They're actually reviewing now .
Do children today need all 72 vaccinations that they're recommending ? Have we done any data research on that lately ? Have we actually studied those results yet ? Are they absolutely necessary ? And I would love some new data on that because , trust me , as a kid I didn't get 72 vaccinations .
Right , right , no , no , no , there's definitely and that's again . You're right , though , to say that that a discussion needs to be had on some of this stuff .
And again , we vaccinated our kids and and , believe me , they got the COVID vaccine too , which we regret I got it , which I regret getting you know for for reasons that we don't discuss on this show , but it is .
It is definitely a regret of ours , but again , I'm glad we had it , I'm glad my parents got it , so I think it definitely served a good purpose .
It's just to go now . It just shouldn't have been crammed on everybody's throat and it shouldn't have been mandatory to keep your job to travel . All that Absolutely true , the fact when a government comes in and says you have to do this or you're going to lose your job , or you cannot travel , or you can't go to school or you can't .
I mean all the fact that there was just not enough information out there at the time to make that call .
Right , and now there is enough information , and to still write articles like this , like it's 2020 , is irritating , right . That's why that's where I pulled it . But OK , so let's get to Trump and what's going on with Russia .
We had a clip in our last show where Trump was talking about Vladimir Putin sort of going off the deep end with sending a ton of missiles and drones into Ukraine , and the reason we want to talk about this issue again is because we're starting to see things kind of reach a boiling point with Russia , and the interesting thing is , how is Trump going to handle
this ? Because I think he's being called out by Russia and the question is he's got one of two directions to go . It'll be interesting to see which one he takes , but let's go back to the soundbite with Trump and then we'll get Putin's response and then the Russian response more broadly . So here's Trump about four days ago .
Yeah , I'll give you an update . I'm not happy with what Putin's doing . He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin . I've known him a long time , always gotten along with him , but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don't like it at all .
Ok , we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities . I don't like it at all .
OK , let's stop right there . That's good enough , else All right . So Putin then responds so there is a translation on this , so we'll just let you listen to this and then we'll get into it . We need to get them in a chokehold .
They're trying to strangle us and we should reciprocate . We did not chase anyone out .
No , you invaded , but whatever .
We provided the best possible conditions to work in our market and they're trying to choke us . And we should act in a mirror fashion .
Okay , and then that's . It's not a ?
A , so he was talking about a variety of different things in that , but but the overall point here is he's starting to push forward , and then trump hears this , and then trump responds with this he says what vladimir putin doesn't realize if if things weren't for , if it wasn't for me , lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia , and I mean
really bad .
He's playing with fire .
Okay , and then the Russian news network comes out , rt , which is the basically state-sponsored media in Russia . What do they say ?
President Trump warns Moscow , claiming Russia avoided quote real bad consequences only thanks to him . Putin doesn't realize he's playing with fire . Trump's message leaves little room for misinterpretation until he posts the opposite tomorrow morning .
Okay , so they're calling him out . They're basically just calling him out and saying oh , you say this now , you're gonna say something else tomorrow morning , whatever . They are flat out calling him out .
And then Dmitry Medvedev , who was the former president of Russia and now is kind of Putin's bag man , okay , and Russia says you know , it would really be bad as world war three . That's what he said . So you got something interesting here , because I think Trump's being pulled in one of two directions .
I is being pulled by a certain part of the , the Republican establishment now , which is we're the party of peace . No , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no . Don't do anything , don't do anything , right . Kind of the JD Vance model , which is why we involved in all these things . We don't need to be . Don't touch any of it , OK .
Well , if you don't touch any of it , putin's knows that he's watching , xi Jinping knows that he's watching . Eventually they're going to call you out and they're going to say OK , we'll do what we want . I'm going to fire as many missiles as I want into Kiev . What are you going to do about it , mr ? Don't get involved in anything Now .
I'm not saying you have to be involved in all these things , but Trump's got to make the decision , which is one of two things Is he either Mr Peace , who always backs away and won't do anything , or is he ? I'm a man of my word . If I had to guess Trump is a don't cross me guy , my guess is he's not . Mr . Oh , no , no , no , no .
Why are we involved in this ? Why are we involved in this ? You can't be both . You can't be both , and Russia is going to force him to choose . So what we're seeing now is we're seeing troops and troop movements in places like Sweden and Finland , and they're concerned with what's going on now .
New members of NATO and Finland and they're concerned with what's going on now . New members have made NATO and what's going to happen here ? What , what ? What does Trump do ? Does he level massive sanctions on Russia ? Maybe that that might be a good way to start ? Does he go to his , his good friend Zelensky , and again whipping Zelensky forever ?
But at a certain point , you start to realize who the big problem is , and I got news for you it ain't Zelensky . You can disagree on what to do with the Ukraine , but the problem here is the fact that Putin went into Ukraine . Putin is continuing to move forward here , and if you think he's going to stop , what makes you think that ?
Are you okay with him taking all of Ukraine ? And if you are , then are you okay with him going into Poland ? Because what makes you think he's not going to ? He took Georgia , he took Crimea , he's trying to take all of Ukraine . What do you think this is ? And so this whole thought process that we can be like , well , stay out of it . Ukraine's terrible .
No , it's not . Now it doesn't mean we put soldiers on the ground Absolutely not . But do we give more weapons to Ukraine ? Maybe , maybe . Do we sell them more weapons , maybe ? I mean . So all I'm saying on this is you can't be Captain Peace and Captain Don't Cross Me at the same time . You can't be that person . It doesn't work .
Don't cross me at the same time . You can't be that person . It doesn't work . So now , I'm not saying we got to bomb anybody , we don't . But you better adjust the way you're approaching this . If you're Trump because Trump is going to be forced to say which one he is , and I think he's going to be captain Don't cross me .
And so when he's captain , don't cross me , he's going to drop some serious sanctions and my guess is he opens up more arms sales to Ukraine .
Okay , all right . Well , let's look at a little bit of this approval ticking up a little bit for Trump , like his approval ratings
¶ Political Approval Ratings and Polling
are slowly increasing again . Right now it's looking like his approval rating is at 53% , which is up 7% .
Yeah , Rasmussen yeah .
And so this is the highest approval he's had since mid February , which is interesting .
Yeah , I think he said some things you know kind of start to settle out a little bit , and I think you know this kind of ebbs and flows .
I also think if , if the economy continues to improve , if they pass , you know , the big beautiful bill through both houses and you get it , you get the prolonged tax cut , you get things like that , I think that stuff could be good , you know , and we'll wait and see what happens .
Some of the other things , but not not a total surprise , and I think a lot of this is buoyed by Hispanics as well .
Yeah , it says here that , uh , his job approval with Hispanics is strong right now . If you look at this , uh , 60% of Hispanic voters approve of what Trump's doing , to 40% who disapprove .
Yeah , those are solid numbers , right so ? And then this gets . Then this gets us to the other point , right ? So we broadly look at the parties , and they were , they were polled as well , and this is interesting . So which party wins which issue ? Okay , immigration Republicans have a 16 point advantage over Democrats .
Immigration Republicans have a 16-point advantage over Democrats . Crime Republicans a 16-point advantage . The economy 8-point advantage . Here's what I'm talking about from April , when you had all the tariff craziness . Right Now that starts to back down and all of a sudden , republicans are up 8 on Democrats with the economy . Gun laws up 7 for Republicans .
Inflation Republicans up six . Okay , so again , inflation continuing to decrease . That's good . Now , what issues are Democrats winning on ? Gender identity , plus five . Education , important plus eight . Healthcare important plus 10 . Abortion , plus 12 . And climate change plus 10 . Abortion plus 12 . And climate change plus 18 .
So , again , if you care about climate change at all or you care about abortion , some big issue for you that you're flying your flag on , you're going to like Democrats for that . But interesting stuff .
Now one other thing as we get ready and Ella , this is clip 22 , as we get ready for the generic ballots coming up here in 2026 , who do you favor , right , just a broader question . Usually , democrats are ahead significantly on this . Who do you favor ? And right now it's very close Democrats 48 , 45 for Republicans , and so those numbers are coming down too .
Okay , republicans are staying where they are , but Democrats numbers are coming down a little bit as well . So , again , just something to watch . If you're at 48 , 45 going into 2026 , you got to toss up election on whether the Republicans lose the house and the Republicans do not lose the Senate with those numbers .
Okay , and let's explain that a little bit . I think just again , when you have somebody in office , a political party in office so right now obviously we have Trump in office what does that typically do to your state rate or the federal races in the states ?
Right , it usually kind of sometimes flips those correct , and this is saying it's not necessarily going to do that .
Well , I think that really with a broader question is , when you ask the generic ballot question , you just are getting a temperature on how people feel about the parties and usually , as a general rule , you would see Democrats with around a 10 point advantage .
When there's a Republican in office . No , no , no , no . Now just in general .
Yep , yep . The Dems always have a 10 point advantage .
They , for a long time , have had a significant advantage in that . Yeah .
Interesting yeah .
It's not necessarily have anything to do with who who's in office or whatever . Yeah it's not necessarily have anything to do with who who's in office or whatever . So yeah , and so that numbers come down and that's again . You saw evidence of that in 2024 .
Like , you saw the country shift Right and I think this is still an example of that that there's no reason to believe right now that Democrats are pulling back a bunch of votes . They haven't found that message yet . They don't have it yet .
Like they keep , they're hitting Trump on various things and everything else , but they don't have a reason for people to go back to them . If they get that reason , then you'll start to see those numbers widen back out again . If Trump can keep the economy humming along , if he can fix some of these other issues overseas , then then that number is going to stay .
That gap's going to stay and I think you'll see a very the house is going to be a total toss up right On whether Republicans hold it or not . I think the odds are still probably good that the Democrats take it back over with a few extra votes , but we'll see . They're not going to get the Senate . The Senate's going to stay Republican .
Okay , so we'll see . All right , so now we're going to talk about a dangerous dog .
¶ Most Dangerous Dog Breeds
Yeah , so we got the . Yeah , I know we're like jumping all over the place on this , but I saw this and I know how many New Mexicans I have some good friends who have pit bulls and and actually they can be such a sweet dog , but so , but I saw this study and I thought it was interesting .
It says most dangerous dog study reveals the 10 breeds most likely to land you in court or the hospital , which is not great . So let's look at this uh report in a nutshell here and I always love when they do in a nutshell okay , a little bit of a little bit of a nutshell here , okay . Okay . Pit bulls are the statistical outliers .
They account for almost 27% of all dog breeds . That's a really high number and 61 fatalities far more than any other breed , despite being a small fraction of the dog population . That is a bummer . A vaccination rates are troublingly low . The most dangerous breeds have poor vaccination compliance . That's not necessarily a surprise With shepherds at just 9.25% .
So German shepherds mainly , and pit bulls at 17% . So if pit bulls are more vaccinated than German , shepherds are creating additional health risks for the bite victims as well , which is a total bummer . And even family friendly breeds can be risky . This is going to be shocking here .
Okay , so let's go to the list and show you what's going on with this list , of course , and here it is . Okay . So this is percent of all bites . I mean the , the , the number on pit bulls .
Just , I think obviously you got to make sure , if you get a pit bull , that you're you're training it well , you're you're , you know , raising it in an environment where you really care for it , cause there are a lot of new Mexicans who love pit bulls .
I mean and they're .
They can be really sweet dogs , but like anything , you got to be careful . German Shepherds , mainly um , are second on the list is most dangerous . Uh , boxers are up on that list . Uh , let's see Rottweilers . Oh sorry , german shepherds are at five . So and then you get down to australian cattle dogs and then get all the way down check out number 10 .
Yeah , that's the . The crazy one is the lab . Yeah , a labrador's retriever .
I mean , those are just like the sweetest dogs ever yeah , so , yeah , they , they are , but but still I think you got , you know , incidents 136 and then percent of all bites . There's 6% of all bites here . Their vaccination rate is actually a bit higher here and the severe bite rate is lower than some of the higher , higher dogs that you see there .
But it just is kind of one of those things that you never quite know , and a lot of this has to do with how you raise a dog .
Right , well , and the Huskies are not on there , because you know what the Huskies do They'll just woo you to death . They will just bark and woo at you and sing to you , like that's what they do , yeah .
But no , huskies are thought of as dogs that can bite too . I mean , it's definitely . You know , we read all sorts of lists about Husk people who don't get a Husky , but it's not necessarily because they'll bite you .
It's because they will dig holes in your house and run away from you . Well , there is that and all the other things tear up your shoes . That kind of thing A little bit different .
Oh man , okay . So we want to show you some amazing , amazing pictures from Floyd , new Mexico
¶ New Mexico Tornado Images
. And so we had severe weather on Sunday and that season you know we get into may , may is severe weather season in new mexico , clash of air masses , and it leads to some incredible pictures .
So this is , uh , quincy vagel who said , one more set of photos from yesterday's tornado chase in and around floyd , new mexico , showing the tornado shift from a ghostly white toward a red swirling menace . I greatly appreciate all the support and feedback . Quincy did an incredible job on these pictures .
So here's the ghostly white I mean just unbelievable , probably an EF1 tornado , maybe an EF2 , but probably an EF1 right there . Let's go back up to the pictures and that's an incredible shot . And then you start to see it draw the dust up from the surface Right , and so that's why you're getting that color .
Start to mix in here and then take a look at this picture Unbelievable .
Looks like out of a movie it is . It's a stovepipe tornado it is .
It is beautiful structure on this and this is the kind of tornado we like out in the middle of nowhere .
Right Doesn't hurt anybody .
Yeah , structure on this and this is the kind of tornado we like out in the middle of nowhere , right yeah , not . Right in the middle of a town , not going after anything , and then check out this last shot as it starts to rope out .
You can see just picking up more dirt . It literally looks like a car . It looks like something from the movies . Yeah , it's unbelievable Hollywood movie . It's unbelievable , it is Great shots .
Oh , quincy did an unbelievable , it just did an incredible job and we do get some of that stuff . So we do have moisture now over the state . It's been good we're getting some rain , especially in the Northern mountains here . That's been very good . Fire danger backing off a little bit temporarily .
Anyway , month of June tends to be hot here and it tends to be dry and with less severe weather . So we'll wait and see what ends up happening here .
But the more moisture we can stay in the mix with which I do think we're going to see some moisture here over the next two , three days Northern mountains are going to stay , you know , at least wet in and out , with showers , humidity levels up higher . You can see in the Albuquerque area you've got more cloud cover lately .
You know , we've seen that each day . This is not . Ella has been very concerned about the UV index out there trying to get a little bit of sun and she's concerned .
Yeah , if you have a teenager who's now watching these apps that tell you when it's the best time to go outside in the sun . So it's the weather app .
I mean , it's been around forever . I think the UV index . It's not a new thing . But it's like why waste your time out in a UV of five when you could go out there at nine or 10, ?
you know what I'm saying . Let's not get too much sun . Okay , it's not good for your little skin . I mean , you get some , cause it , the sun is good for you .
And then it makes you look good .
Oh gosh .
Makes your hair bright and your skin dark . It's beautiful .
All right , okay , all right .
Spoken like a teenager .
All right .
I can't argue with her .
I was the girl that laid underneath my black trampoline .
Okay , so I could just toast myself .
Not the best choice of my life , right , really Definitely not no , is your skin now you're like , hey , I'm glad I did that .
Uh , I would say , I started wearing sunblock 20 years ago . So , that you know . At least I got ahead of the game .
You did a little bit .
You did a little bit .
Apparently it's important to get good . Well , yeah , that's what ?
yes , so that's what I worked with the uh , a cancer doctor , and they actually said 15 minutes of sun a day on your back , the largest range area . I thought it was your face no , no no on your back , no I thought like if you get vitamin d on your back , is is actually very healthy for your immune system .
So he he was very clear in saying I'm not suggesting you go out there and just bake yourself . He just said but there is a difference between laying out in the sun and actually trying to get the vitamin D from the sun as an immunity builder , and so you're supposed to get it across your back for 15 minutes a day if you can .
That is what the cancer doctor I worked with had recommended , so take that for what it is .
Okay , one more weather story and then
¶ Paraglider Caught in Dangerous Updraft
we'll get out of here , okay . Okay , this story is from China . Paraglider gets caught in an updraft in a store . Okay , now here's the thing that you got to know he gets sucked up five miles into the right . Okay , so you figure how high is five miles up ? Roughly it's about 25 , 25,000 feet , 20 , I think .
He went as high as 28,000 feet and , to give you an idea , the temperature drops roughly , on average in the atmosphere four degrees for every thousand feet . So therefore , as he goes up , he ends up in air that's about 40 below zero . Holy moly and so check out the video .
It's just wild to watch this guy like he is locked into this super cold air and he can't get , he can't do anything about it . You know , it's not like he can put him pull himself down . The updraft just keeps taking him and he's just sitting there , going I don't know what to do .
And you see , his hands are in those sort of mittens that are on the side of his parachute . There it is . See his hands there , see how high up he is . He he's completely locked into super cold air and he can't move his hands because he's got him , you know , kind of inside those mittens which are keeping him warm and he's just sort of sitting there .
He's like how do we get out of here ? Eventually the updraft backs down and he eventually lands .
He's lucky to be alive I was gonna say that had to be very scary . This was over china by the way .
Yeah , it's in china . It had to be very scary for him now . Oh my god , do you have ?
any idea how long he was up there ?
I don't I mean it doesn't , it didn't say but I do know it got as low as 40 . Uh , fahrenheit and celsius . At that point fahrenheit and celsius collide , so it's wow , it's doesn't matter . Five miles into the sky , yeah , yeah , basically 20 basically he's at the top of everest is the way to look at it holy cow and and that's just super cold .
I mean year round that's super cold . Doesn't matter that it's may right right it just , I mean , it just is so , so cold , so anyway . But you can see him kind of looking around going . This is crazy so well .
I wonder if he'll be in that paraglide anytime soon after that I might be like I think I'm done , I'm gonna retire from that danger sport .
I mean , think about it like he has no engine on him or anything . No , he can't . He just well , it's like a kite , and if you can't if you have no way to get back down , you just have to wait for the air yeah , you kind of got to try to steer your way out of it a little bit , if you can .
Um , he was able to do that , but realistically he can't do a lot . A lot of that just depends on however it shakes out .
Holy cow , yeah .
And , by the way , one quick thing we are working on One of the stories we talked about in the gas price story that some of the new restrictions that could well be imposed on New Mexicans , raising gas prices 30 to 40 cents . We are working on that right now , getting some clarity on it , and we'll have more on it for you .
We're but that is not something we're we're forgetting about and it's something you need to know about , and we're going to have more on it shortly , I promise .
Okay , All right . Well , hopefully you were entertained today and you know to go buy some creatine .
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