Welcome to the party, pal. The Michael Duke Show. I have two guns. One for each of ya. Firearms Friday. As Thomas Jefferson stated, it is the right and duty of the people to be at all times armed. Say hello to my little friend! I say that the Second Amendment is in order of importance, but first for none. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that allows rights to exist at all.
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Not be infringed. Firearms. From my cold dead hands. Friday. Hello, baby. Firearms Friday. You know what it is. It's that one day a week where we get a chance to talk about Second Amendment issues and so much more. Hello, my friends. Hello. It's our favorite day of the week. It's Friday already, man. It's just been such a week. It's, I mean.
I'll be honest with you. Can I confide in you this morning? Can you keep it to yourself? My days never flew by so fast. uh when i was working for somebody else i'll be honest with you it just it never flew today that i mean this I can't believe we're coming up on two months since we got started down here with the radio stations down here on the peninsula. It's been a roller coaster, a wild ride every day. Go, go, go.
And it's a little bit invigorating and a little bit exhausting. I'll be honest with you, both of them. But, I mean, here we are, Friday already. Uh, partially I'm sure due to the short week, but, uh, anyway, it's, uh, it's good to be with you. Good to be with you here on this beautiful firearms Friday, 35 degrees down here.
in the subtropical paradise that is Homer, Alaska. And I hope you are staying warm wherever you are listening in the state of Alaska or somewhere live around the world on the internet at michaeldukeshow.com where folks are listening on the... listening on the live stream uh and we appreciate you guys tuning in wherever you are for this beautiful friday morning okay uh what do we got
What do we got? What do we got today? We got a bunch of stuff going on today. It is. Somebody just said, wait until you retire. Time goes by even faster. Well. Good for us. Good for us. I don't know if I'll ever retire, but we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. All right. So what do we got? We got a bunch of news stories to talk about today. There's a bunch of stuff going on around the country.
In regards to the Second Amendment and the fights, the fights continue. I mean, we are winning. We are winning. I will I will say that we're on the we're pressing the advantage. But. It doesn't mean that we slow down. we cannot we cannot slow down right now we got plenty of stuff to go over and uh plenty of things to uh continue to battle out and fight about so
We're going to be talking about those issues and more here in just a moment. And as always, of course, we'll be finishing up the show at the end of the show here this morning with Willie Waffle. who has teased me. He sent me a text this morning. He's got some huge James Bond news. So I'm excited to hear what...
Now, you know, I'm excited to hear what's going on with that because we try and finish up the show on a little bit of a lighter, lighter side note to make you get getting, getting, getting into the weekend a little funner, funner. That's a word. I just made it up and it's official.
Uh, what are some of the stories? Let me click through the tabs here and I'll tell you what some of the stories are that I've pulled up to discuss this morning. We're going to talk a little bit about the Colorado, um, semi-auto band, which, um, is. I mean, it is the most regressive, suppressive gun. It's the most sweeping ban in U.S. history. Just to put it. Just to put it mildly, the most sweeping gun ban in U.S. history. It's taken a turn, but I, you know.
And we'll talk about that. We'll also talk about how Gun Owners of America is still out there fighting the fight. Now, we've talked about this on the program before. There are lots of good gun rights organizations out there. We've had our problems with the NRA. They seem to be pulling themselves out of the funk, so to speak, and they seem to be getting their act together. But GOA has been the only no compromise gun lobby in the country forever.
And GOA is now taking up some challenges in Philadelphia, which we will talk about as well. We've got the latest from the debacle at the southern border with Mexico. We thought maybe that Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, had, you know, had finally seen the light. But that seems like probably it is not necessarily.
True. We'll talk about a little California gun loss and a new thing. Here's a new thing. It's a new thing in South Carolina, of all places. We're not we're not we're not doing gun free zones anymore. We're doing cease fire zones.
ceasefire what the hell is a ceasefire zone we'll we'll talk about that as well and um how not to be a mom that's going to be one of the big stories today how not to be a mom and uh we'll uh we'll do that plus oh i forgot i forgot man uh we're gonna take uh we're gonna take some of your phone calls
as well this morning, which means I have to turn the phones on, which I will do here in just a moment. So apologies. I apologize. We'll be taking and getting the phone lines locked in and launched here in just a second. So that if you want to sound off on a Second Amendment issue, you can you can do so now. And that's really that is the heart.
of uh firearms friday can i just say that right off the bat that's the reason why we got started on firearms friday all those years ago all those years ago we got started on firearms friday Because we wanted people to understand fire. We wanted to demystify firearms. Part of the problem... that we've been dealing with in this country for quite some time is the fact that there was a concerted push by
I don't want to just say it's the left, but I mean, it's the establishment elite to disarm the citizenry. Why? Well, I think in part it's because of what I call the narrative. I've talked about the narrative for years. And I can't take credit for the phrase. I wish I read the article about 15 years ago and I had it around for quite a while and I referenced it quite frequently. And I don't know, somewhere along the lines, I lost the.
I lost. But there was a there was a discussion about the narrative and how that narrative basically came down to this. There is a group of people. a cadre of people a slice a demographic in this country i guess we would say that believe the following that the only way that society can move forward in a meaningful way is through the direct, benevolent intervention of government.
Meaning that there's no way that people could just come together and move society forward without the guiding hand of the state. And not the state of Alaska, but the capital S, the state. Right? That's what they believe. And because of that, because they believe that that's the only way that we can be better and that we can move forward and we can do all these things.
they want the state to have a heavier hand in every aspect of our life. Because again, they believe that that's the only way we can better ourselves as a society. That's the only way we can move forward.
And you know what's standing in the way of a better world through the state control? The only thing standing in the way... of a better world mandated by the state which by the way would have to do this um if if the people disagreed it would have to do it through force and violence the only thing standing in the way are those pesky, rugged individualists who believe in individual liberty and freedom, who just want to be left alone.
who just want to exercise their freedoms and be free and do what they want to do without hurting anybody else. And that those rugged individualists also believed in that individual right.
to protect themselves from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Who would quote the founding fathers when the founding fathers talked about an armed citizenry was the only check against governmental forces? And that's really... where it's coming from, that they want us, this group, this demographic of people who believe in the narrative, they want us to get with the program.
But because we have these pesky beliefs in rugged individualism and private property and self-defense and the ability for people to decide for themselves what is best. They decided, they, the collective they, I guess, of this demographic, decided long ago that the best way to do that was to prevent us from being able to defend ourselves from that.
And that by disarming those people, those people that they disagreed with, those people who are rugged individuals, those people like you and me, that they would then have... the ability through the power of the state to coerce people into doing the things that they wanted to do because the people would have no way to push back. I mean, look at what happened in England.
Right? I mean, the most recent examples of what's going on in England. You know, first, we talked a little bit a couple weeks ago about this. You know, England got disarmed. And pretty soon they started talking about, you know, taking away all. knives right uh that you couldn't have anything longer than two or three inches and that they wanted to do it then they wanted to talk about registering kitchen knives and then when it got beyond that then you got people like
Idris Elba, who, I mean, is a great actor, but an obvious moron. This is the solution in England now. The truth is, is that kitchen knives are perhaps 25% of the knives used in most of the... Terrible crimes. That's one of the stats in the films. And those kitchen knives are usually a domestic situation. Okay.
So kitchen knives, of course, it's very difficult, the domestic knife. I do think there is areas of innovation that we can do with kitchen knives. I hate to say it, not all kitchen knives need to have a point on them. That sounds like a crazy thing to say, but actually it would reduce. You know, you can still cut your food without the point on the knife, which is an innovative way to sort of look at it.
That's innovation, man. That's innovation. Just cut the ends off all the knives and that'll stop all the, that'll stop bad guys from doing bad things. But now in England, now they're arresting people for memes. Four memes. That's the most recent thing that's going on. You know, people dropping memes that the government didn't agree with that they'll classify, you know, and now they've got a classification that's like hate speech. But it's I mean, there's it's.
This is what happens when you disarm. The government has the universal monopoly on force and power, and they can come arrest you for saying something that they don't agree with. Now, in America, we still have the ability to keep and bear arms, and that is an implicit check on the government, not an overt threat. Not an overt, you know, come to my house and you'll find out, right? No, no, no, no. I'm just talking about there is an implied threat that they know that they can go so far.
And no farther. And then with an election like we just had where gun control was on the ballot, gun control was one of their big talking points and everything else. And they got crushed. People are starting to say, and then, of course, post-COVID, too, again, we remember there was a lot. There's no atheist in a foxhole, right? During COVID, a lot of people on the left who bought into the narrative and who bought into the lies that it was easier to get.
gun than it was to get a library book and some of these other crazy things that have been said over the years they realized that a lot of that was just rhetoric and not and some of it was just flat out lies and and and And deception. And so we ended up with a lot of people, especially women and minorities who became first time gun owners. And we had a lot of people who were on the left.
who were anti-gun but then discovered when they tried to be able to defend themselves because society was collapsing at that point. I mean, there was police were like, you're on your own. If you want to, you know, call 911, you're on your own. And they discovered that.
When they had to be self-reliant on their own and they had no ability to defend themselves, it was a scary proposition. So that has become a non-winner. It was never really a winning argument for those on the left, the gun control argument, but it became even less so. And so that's really what Firearms Friday is all about. Demystifying the fire because this concerted effort by the establishment elite to paint the firearm as the root of all evil.
It is the reason why. You know, Johnny was such a good boy until he got a gun and then he went mad and killed people and arrested and home invaded and before that he was a perfect angel. No, he wasn't. Johnny was a thug. You gave Johnny something that made him feel powerful, and he went and used it. It had nothing to do with the gun. It was the fact that Johnny was always a thug. That bad people do bad things.
And that for every instance of the use of a firearm in something bad, there is a hundred uses of a firearm being used to prevent such a thing from happening. So it's a whole thing. This is what we're going to talk about today. And the phone lines, by the way, the phone lines are now open. If you'd like to sound off, I'd love to hear what you have to say. 319.
527-3864. There is no such thing as a dumb gun question. I mean, even if it's like, which end did the bullets come out of? We'll tell you. We'll tell you. We'll, we'll do it. No such thing as a dumb gun questions. Um, but we'll, uh, we'll do it. And even this one, Frank just asked a question in the chat room. We got to go here. But Frank said, maybe a dumb firearm question. Why do police in England wear bulletproof vests?
Well, because by, Frank, I hate to tell you this, but criminals, by their very definition, yeah, they don't obey the law. Why do police wear bulletproof vests in cities with the highest amount of gun control? because criminals don't care and they'll have guns and shoot it it's been legal to shoot at cops too by the way that's exactly why do you have a fire alarm in your house a smoke detector and fire extinguishers you don't want your house to burn down but just in case
All right, we've got to go. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense, Liberty Base, Free Thinking Radio. If you missed the show, you can listen to it on your time with Duke's On Demand. Oh, and it's free. Like America used to be. Streaming live every weekday morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com. Okay, fine. What do we got here? What do we got here? Um, yeah, Anthony caught me in. Oh, you mean England, the knives with no tips can kill you land? I mean, yeah, come on.
First of all, I'd much rather be stabbed than slashed. I don't know if you've ever seen pictures of a knife attack, the aftermath of a knife attack. But I got to be honest with you. I would much rather be if you said I'm going to slash you or I'm going to stab you through. Which one would you rather have? Stab me through. Do not slash me, please. Because it is horrific. Horrific. Oh, man. Wait, wait, Chris said, what, what, Chris?
I hope your wife's not in the chat. He said, smoke alarms let the wife know that dinner is ready. Oh, man. Let me go back up here to the top and see what you guys are. i've been talking about this morning uh good morning good morning good morning all you ungovernable people says brian um good morning Good morning. I'm just getting through the good mornings. And good morning to you all. Frank says, you look thinner to me. He says, you look thinner, Michael.
Yeah, I lost about 25 or 30 pounds over the course of the last 18 weeks. Stress is one hell of a drug. Anthony says, fun thought experiment. If we, the people, unanimously decided to no longer let our second two-way rights be restricted or violated, they wouldn't be, since the people doing the restrictions have no recourse in the...
No gun ideology. I mean, that's the thing. What Anthony is saying in a nice way is that when guns are outlawed. Only outlaws will have guns, not because all the people who have guns are criminals. But because law abiding, rational thinking people will say, I'm not going to comply with that. That makes no sense at all. And therefore, legal law abiding people will become outlaws.
See, to me, there's a difference between the word outlaw and criminal. Outlaw means that you're just outside the law. You're just ignoring the law. You're not actively breaking the law against somebody else. You're just ignoring the law. of the land that in many cases makes no sense it is what you know we talked about the irish democracy before and this is a big part of that whole kind of concept
But when guns were outlawed, only outlaws will have guns, doesn't just mean that it will be criminals. It mean many people who have a disagreement with that law and don't believe that it's constitutional or truthful or useful. We'll become outlaws because they'll just keep their guns and stay quiet. That's the three S, you know, nevermind. I won't talk about the three S's, but we'll probably get. get banned right off of Facebook or YouTube because of that. But there you go.
Fun thought, says Frank. America was founded and gained its freedom from imported firearms. Not imported firearms. The United States was, in many ways, the hub. We were the genesis of firearms manufacturing, innovation, and development. I mean, the gun, we were a nation that percolated along and grew along with the firearms industry.
Some of the greatest guns of the era were right here and built right here and innovated right here and manufactured right here. We imported some guns to begin with, but we basically became the hub of the new world. as far as firearms goes uh it's just it's it's pretty amazing
Yeah, Brian says, all hail the state from which all things good and pure and true flow. I mean, that's that's kind of a sarcastic way of talking about people who believe in the narrative. They say it's only through the state can we get can we. do it i mean it's it's it's crazy crazy conversely said brian outlaw being an outlaw means you are not protected by the law which i mean
That would make all of us outlaws at this point, wouldn't it, really, in a lot of ways? All right, let's keep going. Here we go. The Michael Duke Show, Common Sense Radio. What the hell is an assault weapon? Does that mean that if we hurt your feelings, you should consider the Michael Dukes show Assault Radio? Okay, we can accept that. Here's Michael Dukes. Kind of a d**k, but somewhat funny. Well, he's not wrong. I mean, you know, sometimes I can be a Richard just like anybody else.
All right, let's keep going on. We're answering questions and talking about things in the chat room and everything else. Frank makes a... Frank makes an interesting point in the chat room when he talks about, you know, that America grew up around the whole.
He said, fun thought, America was founded and gained its freedom from imported firearms. He said it was ironic that England was one of the first importers of firearms to New America. And it's true. That was how it all began. But it wasn't too long.
thereafter especially after the revolution and and when i'm asked by people especially people from foreign countries, because over the course of these years and being kind of a voice for gun rights and things like that, I've had the chance to have conversations with people from other nations, especially from Europe, where they go, Oh, you Americans, you have such as the sick love affair with guns. And I'm like, it's baked into our DNA. Frank is right. I mean, the first.
Firearms were imported into America because the first colonists in the first batch, there were not the first generation of newborn Americans, but many of those first. colonists and and the first folks that just kept coming over for me those a lot of those people brought their guns from from europe or they imported guns but shortly thereafter once america was established as a colony then later on as a nation
We became the innovative hub for firearms. I mean, some of the greatest designers of firearms in the world. From Samuel Colt to John Moses Browning to, I mean, you know, just to the Henrys and the Winchesters and the, I mean, more and more, it just, it became part of what was baked in. They were, you know, the rifled barrel, the Kentucky rifle, the things that changed so many things about warfare.
and freedom and everything else i mean guns are baked into our dna as a nation because we grew up as the firearm progressed we grew up as a nation and part of that innovation was You know, fighting against the oppression of England, that mandated some changes. It mandated changes not just in firearms, but in entire military tactics. You know, the whole idea of... guerrilla warfare and uh you know taking cover and i mean prior to that
You know, two armies would march and line up in front of each other and just shoot each other to drag dolls. I mean, that's what they did. They didn't they didn't take cover. They didn't hide. They didn't try and, you know, and outflank each other. I mean, it was it was. It was a total different change, right? So that we were evolving as this was all evolving. And then, of course, westward expansion was a big deal.
As we pushed westward and, you know, more and newer firearms were needed and used to help take territory and expand and have people protect themselves and their families and their loved ones from. you know, from outlaws and from Indians and other bad people, just people who were just bad at heart. And so it really is all part and parcel. of who we are as Americans. And it really is a difference because Americans are frightened people. What?
I don't know what Frank was trying to say there. He says, because America are frightened people. I don't think because I carry a gun, it doesn't mean that I'm frightened. It means that I'm trying to prepare for something. I'm trying to prepare for the worst case scenario. I don't own a gun because I mean, I don't own a fire detector because I assume a smoke alarm or a fire extinguisher because I live in fear of fire. I.
have one because of the chance that that might happen, right? I'm not living in daily fear that my house may burn down, but just in case, just in case. I didn't say Indians are bad people. I said Indians and other people who are bad. So don't read into it, Frank. That's what I'm saying. Oh, did he say fighting people or frightened people? Oh, fighting people. Okay. I apologize. So much bad spell checking going on in the chat room because Americans are fighting people.
That's why I appreciate it. Thank you, Frank. Sorry about that. Somebody clarified it for me. I missed the R. I missed the R. All right. So anyway, here we are talking about different stories around the country and everything else. But the whole point of Firearms Friday. is to demystify, to talk about the history, to put it in perspective, because we have been spoon-fed a pablum from those You know, from those institutional elites out there for years who bought into the narrative that.
We must be, you know, one, we must be knuckle-dragging troglodytes for loving firearms. in a civilized society we wouldn't need them and everything else although anybody who says in a civilized society we wouldn't need the ability to defend ourselves is not a student of history because human nature my friend There is 5,000 years of human nature that we can pull from in recorded history. And in every instance, no matter how advanced we are, they will tell you one thing.
Human nature always wins and that there will be people who will try and take advantage of and oppress other people. That's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. So anyway, that's why we talk about Fire on Friday, because the news media, the entertainment industry, they vilified gun owners. I mean, when was the last time you really saw...
Well, maybe I should say that now because there's been a few instances recently in some of the movies and everything else where they don't treat a firearm owner like he's some kind of beer swilling, redneck, you know, low IQ kind of person, which is how they've. treated them in, you know, news and entertainment feeds for years, right? The situational stories or the dramas or the police procedurals where some gun owner.
is uh treated as if he's some kind of moron an idiot that's what the character comes out to be and that's what the and the only people who should have the guns and the only people who are the smart ones are the the main characters or the cops or whatever even though of course
We watch in these stories and we're intrigued. Most of these people are breaking the law in every scene, the actual law of the land, not the fictitious law of the land. They're breaking the law in everything that they see. So we're here to demystify. And to change people's minds and to give them the information that they need, because they're not hearing this. They're not hearing this in the average, you know, that the average talking head doesn't know jack about firearms.
The average person on a cable news network, even a news network like Fox News. I still remember when the Sutherland Springs shooting happened in Texas. And that's when the guy went in to shoot up the church with the AR-15. And a guy happened to be driving by as they came out, and he had heard what was going on, and he raced over or whatever, and he had his AR, and he shot the perpetrator and killed him.
And I still remember the commentary and it was Greg Jarrett from Fox News, who's just one of the talking head commentators. And he went on this diatribe for about two minutes about how. Oh, it's amazing that an AR-15, you just push this button and it turns it into a full auto. And I mean, I wish I wish I had the audio from that because I just it was one of the first times that I really realized that even a news outlet that at the time Fox News.
was probably the most conservative news outlet in the country. This was back in 2014, something, 2016. And I just realized that even, I mean, the people at Fox News were idiots.
And it was really where I just realized that none of these people really understand what's going on. They don't understand it at all. And it was all about emotion. Jarrett was obviously spun up about it and upset. But... it was just they just don't understand it and yet people are taking it as gospel you know that's that's what it's all about
All right. We're coming up on the break here. I've got these new stories. I just, I don't know. Sometimes I just get on this subject and I rant a little bit and I apologize because I wanted to get to these stories. But now Fred is calling in from Rhode Island. Um, and so we're going to take a quick break and when we come back, we'll open up the phone lines with Fred and we will, uh, we'll start, uh, we'll start getting on. Yeah. We've been spoon fed Pouchois.
That's what we've been doing for the last 40 years in this country. Everybody out there has been spoon fed Pouchois from the entertainment industry, the news media, the politicians. and unless you've been born and raised with firearms and firearms safety and guns and if you had a love of history and you understand their place in history and what they did you just take it as gospel because you don't know any better it's not like i can blame a lot of these people
That's where they're getting their information. But we're here to demystify the firearm. The firearm is just a tool like any other. And that's what we're here to talk about. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense Liberty Based. Free Thinking Radio. broadcasting live through a series of tubes. Allowing all of these entities to provide streaming stuff going on the internet. Well, it's kind of hard to explain. Sorry.
Streaming live every weekday morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com. And now Frank is complaining that he did not get any Pouchois. Oh, man. I'm so sorry, Frank. Maybe you got the Americanized version of that. We call that BS. I mean, you know, pooch. I have to laugh that people pick up my euphemisms here, which I'm sure I picked up somewhere else when I was very young. You know, what did I say one time that people looked at me crazy and I'm like, you know.
There was something about, I said something about Skookumchuck, and they were like, what? I mean, Skookumchuck, you know, they were like, what? I think the first time I said poochwa on the program, somebody said, wow, wow. And then somebody else said, oh, yeah, that's from, actually, I think it's a, is that something from the Midwest? I don't remember where I got it. Anyway, it's one of those things where I just took it.
just took it for, um, all right. Anthony said, this is before I read the, it was fighting people instead of frighten people. my again i apologize there is so much bad spelling in the chat room and not not i shouldn't say bad spelling you know you could tell when people are typing something and autocorrect changes the words
And so I've gotten to the point to where I'm trying to infer something sometimes from some of the comments because I'm trying to figure out what autocorrect corrected it to. And so I dropped an R in there. Because he used fighting like it was a cowboy. Those are fighting words, right? And he used that instead of fighting. And so I thought without the R, it'd be frightened anyway.
But anyway, Anthony said, I'm not scared of crap, buddy. I could arm a full fire team and keep them fat with ammo for a month over here. Fear isn't part of the equation. Right. Again, it's not that I have fear. I'm just prepared. You know, that's. That's the other thing yet. All right. You got your first what, David, when you were 16? Your first dose of Pouchois or your first firearm?
Because this day and age, you're getting your first dose of Pushwa when you're like, you know, not even a teenager. You're getting it in grade school, baby. Grade school. All right. Uh, Oh, urban dictionary has a definition of push. Oh, now you're going to make me go look. I've been using push wall for 20 years. So, uh, let me see what urban dictionary says. uh for push i'm sure i i'm sure um i'm sure that uh let me look
Oh. No, see, I'm using it in a different context. Either one of those. I mean, I've been using that for... When was that added? 2007? Okay. Well, so my definition of Pouchois predates this by about 20 years. So there you go. Yes, you're right. I would not read what that definition is on the things. Yeah, so. Get out of the gutter, says Harold. What do you mean, get out of the gutter? When was I in the gutter? Harold's gutter.
He's St. Harold, holier than thou. Get out of the gutter! Only I can go into the gutter and besmirch people. Only I am available for that. Thank you, St. Harold. Thank you. Bless us now. What's the topic here? It's Friday, Harold. What do you think the topic is? Guy can't even read the room. Comes in, just drops a bunch of stuff, and then starts like, what's going on? I don't know. It's Friday. Maybe you should check yourself before you wreck yourself. All right, Pilgrim?
All right. Terry said, when we lived in Australia, we always caught hell for our guns in the Second Amendment. i mean you had your guns in australia or because you were from america and you caught that that's a there's a story there terry that i'd love to hear more about that's for sure um Is this Meltdown Friday? No, Harold. Not at all. Not at all. There's a guy that just loves to throw a verbal hand grenade into a room and watch people die.
I mean, you know, he's just like, oh, you know, it's one of those things. What's the old thing? Some people just want to watch the world burn. Yeah. It's verbally. That's kind of where Harold is. He just wants to verbally watch the world burn. All right. Fred's on the line. We're ready to talk to Fred. Thanks for being patient with me, buddy.
We're going to be with you here in 22 seconds. And we are ready to go. All right. We're ready to jump in. Please like and share the show. Like and follow. You know, ring the bell. think to do all the stuff, we'd love to hear what you have to say as well on the email, me at michaeldukeshow.com. Let's get to it, shall we? Let's do this thing. What the hell is an assault weapon? What isn't?
If I assault you with a penguin, doesn't that make it an assault weapon? Does this mean that if we hurt your feelings, you'd consider The Michael Dukes Show assault radio? Okay, we can live with that. Here's Michael Dukes. Those assault penguins are no joke, man. No joke. All right. Firearms Friday continues. And we are...
I need to push this button. I didn't realize I hadn't pushed it yet. We need to get over to talking with you, our listeners. If you've got questions, we've got answers. What is going on? Oh, I know what's going on. I'm sorry. I'm going to go over to Fred. Fred's in Rhode Island. He's on the line, but I had neglected to.
I had neglected to click the most important component of this whole deal to make it all work because we are a low-budget radio show, in case you hadn't checked that out before. That's just how we roll around here. Okay. Now I'm ready to go. Let's go talk to Fred in Rhode Island. He joins us every week just to give us the perspective from the occupied East Coast of America under.
I mean, Rhode Island and it's right there in the heart of that blue, blue, blue territory that just hates freedom and guns, which is ironic since it was the birthplace of freedom in America, that whole area. But, you know. We'll see what we can bring from the New England crowd out there. Good morning, Fred. What's on your mind, my friend? Hey, good morning, Michael. You know, speaking of your bourgeois, I mean...
One person's bourgeois, another person's sugar-coated crap, to put a mile in. So Harold's got to realize that. You have to go into the gutter to find a... To find the progressives who wanted to destroy all your rights and take all your guns. Because that's where they live. I mean, they live right in ground zero. Right. Crapland. So, you know, thanks.
Sorry, Al. Yeah. That's reality. That's just the way it is. That's right. So, yeah. Well, anyway, one main reason I called is, you know, you mentioned the news media and the Hollywood crowd, the Hollywood elites and the news media. Apparently, this whole thing with Doge used to becoming really interesting. The more you look at it and the more you follow it, the more disgusting this whole thing really is. What they've been doing with taxpayer funds.
in their own little, you know, they turned the Treasury into their private little ATM is what they did. So anything they want to fund, whether you agree with it or not agree with it, without any other concession other than this is what they wanted to do. You know, they just dive right into it, you know, and it is ruining the country from an economic standpoint because there's nothing to back it except the, you know, the printing presses at the Mint.
They need more money. They print more money. There's nothing to back it up as far as value goes. And eventually, toilet paper is going to have a greater value than a dollar bill. The way they were going at it under Biden, he would have destroyed the economy in another four years with brain-dead reform. being Biden's replacement. So it's unfortunate, but I think the famous scenario from Dragnet from years ago was if you want to solve a crime, follow the money.
And I think this definitely applies in this particular scenario that we're dealing with in this day and age. The news media has been paid off and probably has been paid off. And as time goes on, I guess the payments got greater and greater and greater and greater. Well, it was kind of like selling their soul. They've been selling their soul, you know, to. push their narrative you know well it's it's a it's a combination
Yeah, I think the money came later, Fred. I think it was a combination of things. I think it started out as an ideological marriage between the establishment elites and the media. That started out as an intellectual kind of marriage. of marriage to begin with where they both believed in the same ideology they both believed that only government could could guide us you know through these dark times ahead and and they started to believe it and then pretty soon
Once everything was settled, then you started to see monies being paid to all these different things. And it is eye opening to see the amount of money that's being spent on programs that the American people had no idea about. It's like I've been following the Doge X. X account for all, just for the list every morning, they're posting new lists of things that we've been paying for to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars that I think the average American would go, what?
Why are we paying for, you know, cultural things in, you know, in Sladovia and Bosnia? And, you know, why are we paying millions of dollars for them to get, you know, it's underwater. basket weaving and and and uh you know cultural appreciation stuff and and it's millions of millions and millions of dollars so i think originally it was more about the ideologies lining up between the the the you know the media the fifth the state and and the political elites and then
The money started to flow. And so now you're seeing that as well. And so, yeah, I think it is. It's insane. And I think the people should be outraged. And what's really ironic is watching the freak outery that's happening on the progressive. narrative driven people who believe in the narrative watching the freak outery that's happening over on that side over the fact that they're uncovering this stuff and finding it i mean they are having a meltdown over it
Well, they should have a meltdown of it because they are about to be discovered. I mean, what's been the dark little secret for all these years is now going to become public knowledge. And of course they're going to freak out. They're going to do everything they can to divert, to delay. and to, you know, divert, you know, and deflect. Any association they have to, they're running scared. They're like rats on a burning ship. They can't get out of there fast enough.
And, you know, of course they're going to do that. You know, this is what they do. Lie, cheat, steal. And this is going to be the apex of their mantra, lie, cheat, steal. But especially the lie pot. You know, they're all going to eat their own. is what they're going to wind up doing in the long run. They're going to destroy themselves. I think they're hurting themselves more than anything else, Fred. They're hurting themselves because they're standing on...
the podium in front of the American people beating their chest about how bad this is. And yet the American people are reading through some of these things that are being paid for. And the American people's going, but. wait, I wouldn't support that. I wouldn't believe in that. And yet you're pushing, you're pushing it more and more and more. It makes no sense there. There's not even a moment of self-reflection amongst a lot of these people.
Well, like I said, it's coming out. It's all coming to light. And I've always been pushing this thing about globalists, you know, but I think the globalists are into it too. But who are the ones who greatest receive the greatest benefit? of having taxpayer free money throwing it, you know, drop them in a lap. You know, that's where you're going to find a lot of this gun control nonsense, where it comes from, where it's going.
who's been dabbling in the taxpayer funds, you know, getting all this at the taxpayer's expense, which is really, I mean, if that doesn't frost your cake, I don't know what will. I mean, that's just disgusting. I've been paying for this all these years, working and paying taxes, and this is what I've been supporting? Are you kidding? Inadversely, of course. Yeah, no, it is crazy. And, again, there's a tremendous amount of outrage going on.
Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry, Fred. I'm still here. I had myself muted. So, yeah, there's a there's a tremendous amount of outrage for all of these people, you know, but but again, all they have to do is look at the list. you know, What was the list that came out just a couple days ago from the Doge Tracker? Improving learning outcomes in Asia, $47 million. Biodiversity conservation in Nepal, $19 million.
Strengthening political landscape in Bangladesh, $29 million. Consortium for elections and political process strengthening. whatever that means, $486 million. UC Berkeley Cambodian Youth Enterprise Development, $9 million. The Prague Civil Society Center got $32 million. I mean, you start looking at this and you're... They're like, okay, what is going on? Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Hub, $40 million. It's...
$10 million to Mozambique for a thing that they got. At some point, people are going like, okay, wait a second. We are having a huge problem here, and this is where you're at? I just, I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. Well, it's amazing what they could do with, like, just 10% of that money here in this country. What we could do, what we could clean up, what we could improve as far as infrastructure, as far as housing, as far as this and as far as that, healthcare.
There's so much we could do with that money here, and they're just sitting there burning it by the truckload, which is really infuriating. Thank God for the Second Amendment, because these people, in time... They would have sent this country right up the rails. I think they were deliberately working on it to some degree because I still believe their intent is tyranny. Yeah.
No. Well, again, their intent is that the and I don't know if they specifically imagine tyranny, but going back to that whole discussion about the narrative, they believe. that society will only be better through the direct benevolent intervention of government. So to them, it's not about the tyranny. It's about making sure that the people, the experts, and you hear that all the time, let the experts decide that government is in charge.
see it as tyranny they see it as the most uh useful way for society to move forward um and they wouldn't understand that it's tyranny until you gotta look at it that adolf hitler had the same idea It wasn't tyranny. It was a better way of doing things. To Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh, the same concept. You know, you saw one.
You name the dictatorships of the world, and that has been their goal all along. I have a better way of doing things, and I'm not interested in equal rights for anybody. I don't care what they say. We're doing it my way or the highway. And that is just, you know, that has been, this is why we exist. We didn't put up with this crap in the 1700s with England. which which founded this nation and now they're sitting there and you know what goes around comes around here they go again
All right, Fred, it's good to talk with you, my friend. Thank you for sounding off today. We appreciate it. We've got lots of news stories to cover here in the next hour. Appreciate you being part of it. Folks, we've got to go. The Michael Duke Show, Common Sense, Liberty-based, free-thinking radio, hour two of firearms. Friday is dead ahead if you got to go be kind love one another live well we'll return more with more in just a minute Okay. Oh, man. Let's go back up here.
scrolling down here david says i'm rich i have chickens and i recently found out that i have more eggs in my fridge than walmart does he's not kidding he's not kidding i actually went to walmart yesterday I was up in Soldotna and I decided to go to Walmart, which by the way, the Walmart in Soldotna is like the nicest Walmart I've ever, it's in the world.
was clean and bright and polished and the shelves were all faced and there was like eight people in the walmart when i was there at one o'clock in the afternoon it was crazy but he's right there was not a single egg on the shelf in walmart I've got more eggs in my fridge than Walmart had yesterday. It was kind of crazy, kind of crazy. And then I went over to Echo Lake Meats and got myself some farm fresh eggs as well. So, I mean, some good stuff over there.
um yeah it's all it's all good um chris said i just bought the big package of eggs i believe it's five dozen for thirty dollars When my kids were younger and my oldest son was living in the house, that kid could eat some eggs. We used to buy a five dozen pack like every 10 days. And they were only like 13 bucks for five dozen. Yeah, I know. I know. Those were the good old days. Those were the good old days. Did I see Bondi, the chief counsel at ATF Hicks?
You see that, I don't know, Brian explained that for me, but I haven't, I know I'm not familiar with it, hit me with it. All right. Thanks, Fred. Echo Lake, yeah, Echo Lake Meats. Oh, man, they had some, oh, man, they had some stuff. I hadn't been there before. And I stopped in. I got a chance to meet the owner. He actually gave me the full nickel tour of the, oh, she fired Hicks. Okay, good. I got the whole nickel tour over there at Echo Lake Meats.
He showed me his new dry, dry aging machine and his full fish processing, their smokers. And I mean, he just gave me the whole, I got the, I got the whirlwind tour and man, they got some good looking food there. I walked out of there with some gourmet cheese and some handmade sausage that they made and some other stuff. I had already bought a roast, so I didn't get anything. I was going to get some steaks, man. They had some.
beautiful ribeyes there that were just gorgeous. But I'd already wiped out my budget for meat earlier because I got a roast. So anyway, it was... But yeah, Echo Lake Meats has got some crazy stuff. It was crazy. Frank says, are not Walmart eggs farm fresh? Well, come on, they can mark them farm fresh. But you and I both know that the ones that came out of the chickens' butts two days ago at some little home farm in Kenai was a lot more farm fresh than what you're getting from...
Walmart or Safeway or Fred Meyer or wherever you're getting them. You and I both know that. Right. So anyway, um, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm all ready here. I did not see that Pam Bondi forced out the chief counsel at the ATF, but that's a good sign. That is a super, super good sign. I'm super excited about that.
Um, so yeah, it'll be, I mean, it'll be different. David Nelson just said store-bought eggs are usually pretty old before they're put on the shelves. Yeah. I mean, if you look, I, we had chickens when we lived in North pole, we had chickens for about five years.
And because up until the time we left, in fact, we gave the chickens to my parents. And I think they had them for at least another year or so before they had to chop them all up. But those chicken, I mean, chicken eggs like that, you just.
i mean you crack a yolk and the first time we cracked the yolk on one of our eggs from our own chickens i was like is there something wrong with this chicken this yolk is orange it's not yellow it's orange like bright or i'm like there's something wrong and then i realized it's because those old eggs that we were getting from the store they're old and they'd lost some of their color and their verve and their oh man delicious
Delicious. Okay. Where were we? Sorry, you guys get me talking about chicken eggs. I want some fresh. I want some farm fresh. Sunny side up eggs with a side rasher of bacon. That's what I want. It's delicious. Delicious. OK, so when we get back on the air here, phone lines are still open, but we're going to talk about the Colorado semi-auto ban. We're going to talk about the GOA joining up in Pennsylvania over the ghost gun ban and the Mexican president.
Talking tough. Talking tough. We know how tough she is. One phone call from the president and she buckled like a cheap. I mean, she we know it. So we'll. We'll keep going on that. And then maybe, just maybe, we can get down to... Oh, I do want to get to this story about the... The ceasefire zones. It's not a gun-free zone. They're taking it to the next level. Now it's a ceasefire zone. So we're going to talk about that as well.
All right, so I guess that brings us right to here. Right to here. We've got to get back to it. Let's go. The Michael Duke Show, Common Sense Radio. Let's do it. Welcome to the party, pal. The Michael Duke Show. I have two guns. One for each of you. Firearms Friday. As Thomas Jefferson stated. It is the right and duty of the people to be at all times armed. Say hello to my little friend! I say that the Second Amendment is, in order of importance, the First Amendment.
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Hello, how are you doing? How you doing? How's you doing? How's it going? You ready to go for this beautiful Firearms Friday? It is that one day a week where we set it aside to talk about Second Amendment issues and more. And I have not gotten to a single story yet this morning. Why? I got my rant on earlier on. I just...
You know, I keep coming back to this that, well, I start to describe why we started doing Firearms Friday and it just, it goes on from there. It just goes on because, you know, we are a nation. whose very DNA has the basis of firearms and firearms ownership and so much, so much more.
So we're going to get into this here this morning, but I'm ready to I'm ready to get into some of the stories if you are as well. And of course, at the end of the show this morning, we're going to finish it up on a little bit of a lighter side with our friend Willie. Waffle from waffle movies.com. Who's going to come in and give us our weekend entertainment review. We're going to talk about stuff and have a good time. It's going to be amazing. All right. You ready to go? Are you?
Are you ready to make all this happen? It's time to go. Let's get into some of the stories. One of the big stories that we've been watching, of course, is what's been happening down in Colorado. If you haven't been following this, they have a bill in the Colorado State House called SB3. which is SB3, is essentially the anti-gun crowd saying the quiet part out loud.
They actually have been there. Actually, they weren't going for an assault weapons ban. They weren't going. They actually said it. Semi-automatic ban. The semi-automatic. ban, ban on all semi-automatic magazine-fed firearms, which would include A lot of handguns and a lot of, you know, any shotgun that was magazine fed, any kind of rifle that it was. I mean, it's it's a huge. In fact, it it the most.
The most sweeping firearms ban in U.S. history, essentially. Now, the good news is, if there is any good news to be found. in this is that it faced some major changes a revised version of sb3 was pushed through the house due in part to conversations that the bill sponsored had with Governor Jared Polis of Colorado, who has some libertarian tendencies and kind of showed that.
You know, after he was elected, he kind of so there was a question as to whether or not Polis would support SB three as it was written. And so his office reached out to the reached out to the. sponsors of the bill apparently there were some discussions that went underway and they amended they amended the bill now originally
SB 3 allowed those who already possessed the prohibited firearms to be able to keep them. There was a grandfathering clause in that legislation. So even though the gun was banned, if you had it before it went into effect. You could keep it, but nobody else could acquire one. There's no way in the future. But after talks with the governor.
they revised it, that it still prohibits the sale, manufacture, and possessions of the vast majority of semi-automatic long guns, but it also contains a carve-out. For residents who would undergo an additional 12 hours of training and receive a firearm safety certificate from their local share. Then.
It would be so so you could still get it. You just have to go to the government hat in hand and take their training course and beg their permission to sign off on it for you to be able to exercise the right. It's which is basically a permit to purchase scheme. Which we already know, coming from the Supreme Court of the United States, that permit to purchase is unconstitutional. I mean, this is obviously going to face some legal challenges.
But it essentially became a permit to purchase for some of the most popular and commonly owned long guns in the country. Because you would have to get state certification and receive that safety certificate, they would now have a backdoor registration.
on everybody because they'd have your name. If you went through the extra training, they know that the reason you did that was because you wanted to buy a gun. They may not know exactly which gun you bought, but it's a backdoor registration scheme. Which some of the Republicans in Colorado during this debate on this on the Senate floor pointed out. According to according to KOAA.com news, nearly a dozen Republican lawmakers took to the floor on Tuesday to voice their opinion against the bill.
Many of them saying that the amendment it takes a right and turns it into the privilege with the amendment that they're talking about. Senate Minority Leader Republican Paul Lundin said, This is not a privilege granted by the government. It is a right inherent to who I am, and it's enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans also voiced concerns over a registry being created for purchasing these types of firearms.
And according to another Republican senator, he said, I've had hundreds of emails, so many that I can't answer them all. The point is, people are really concerned about this, the idea that they have to put their name on a list. Now. Even if this passes, and it sounds like it probably will, there was more resistance in the Senate than there's expected to be in the House. They're expecting it to kind of fly through the Colorado House of Representatives.
They're going to get more support in there. It passed on a vote of 19 to 15 in the Senate. And although Polis hasn't come out and officially endorsed it, obviously the changes came from. discussion between his office and the bill sponsor. So it's probable that the governor is going to go ahead and ink his signature on this in the end. But again, even...
With the watered-down language, even with this softer version of this, it would still impose the most sweeping semi-automatic gun ban in United States history. Which, again, leads me to ask a lot of questions about Colorado. I mean, it is a beautiful state. I visited it. It is a beautiful state with lots of great people. But at some point, you've got to ask the question,
What are you guys thinking? And especially this whole idea of permit to purchase, which again has already been deemed unconstitutional. That was part of the Bruin decision. That was part, you know, that was part and parcel that Heller and McDonald started to kick the underpinnings out and Bruin kind of put a bullet in that.
This is going to get challenged, and I'm assuming it's going to get challenged all the way up to the Supreme Court. But you know what? The politicians in Colorado don't care. They got their virtue signaling on. They got their virtue signaling on. They are, well, no, we're going to, we're going to, and it's not their money that would be fighting this kind of fight. It'd be the state's money.
Right. It'll be your money used against you as a private citizen. And so they're OK with that. Because it's a delay. It's a delay, delay, delay, delay and deny. That's what they're all about. Delaying the rights of people and denying the rights of people through this kind of process of we'll just keep throwing laws at the books and you, you, the citizen, have to pay to challenge them.
Even though they're blatantly unconstitutional. I mean, a right delayed is a right denied. So even the delay is unconstitutional. But. This is where they're at. And so here we are. It's going to go crazy. Now, watch what happens over the next few weeks in Colorado. You just watch what's going to happen. There is going to be an absolute. Land. What are we? I guess a land rush, gold rushers. If you.
If you are a gun store in Colorado and you haven't stocked up on every version of the weapon that's about to be outlawed, you've missed your chance because you are about to sell a gazillion of them. Absolutely. A gazillion. Of those of those guns. So I'm hoping that some of the gun stores in Colorado are.
are ready for this because they are about to, the sales of those guns are about to go through the roof. Absolutely go crazy. And that should tell you something too, by the way, about people who are in Colorado. And the fact that there's been this elite capture of their legislature and everything that's happening there. It is astonishing. And it's coming to a point now. I mean, I remember when Magpul pulled out of Colorado.
and went to Texas. And there was a big, because I read it, there was a big long commentary from, I can't remember if it was Travis Haley or whoever it was at the time that was the talking head, the voice for Magpul. And they stated very specifically that the reason that they were pulling their multimillion dollar industry out of Colorado was because of the antagonistic behavior. of the legislature, the way they were treating businesses and people.
in the state of colorado when it came to gun rights because magpul was all about manufacturing accessories for guns and firearms and especially ars right and and other um other types of guns And they were all about that. And they pulled out. And I think at the time they were. It was in the third. It was a 30 million dollar a year business, something like that. I mean, it was not chump change.
And yet we've seen this time and time and time again where businesses are up and moving. Who just said who said it yesterday? What was the other one? It wasn't a gun thing. Oh, KFC moved out of Kentucky. The headquarters of KFC now moved to Tennessee or Texas or someplace. Partially because of the, you know, when you are antagonistic towards industry in your state.
whether it's a gun industry, whether it's a restaurant industry, whether it's a cork, and they just pick up and leave. That should be a warning, especially when it happens over and over and over again. This will be overturned eventually. Now, will it be in the next two to five years? Maybe. I don't know. But I know that it's going to cost somebody.
Some private citizen or organization will have to spend millions of dollars because we know that that's I mean, when John Sturgeon took the case for Alaska Navigable Waters to the Supreme Court. It cost over $2 million. I think the final bill was somewhere like 2.7. Maybe somebody in Fairbanks can correct me if I'm wrong. I think it was over $2 million.
For him to take it to the Supreme Court against the National Park Service and win. It took years. It was three or four years and two plus million dollars. So this bill. will be declared unconstitutional because again, we've seen similar bills. We saw that's what was one of the problems with New York was that it was a permit to purchase. You had to pay to play. And the Supreme said, no, that's not a right. No, you can't do that. It's shell issue. It's not, you know.
So this will be overturned. But who's going to have to pony up the two, three, four, five million dollars to take it all the way up to the court? Meanwhile, the state will be defending it with the people's money. This is the problem with people who are in power in these various state legislatures who don't have a respect for the Constitution. And they I mean, they know they know that it's unconstitutional, but they're going to pass it now.
and transfer the burden of proof of that over to the citizenry, and in the meanwhile, delay and deny them the ability to exercise their fundamental rights. All because they believe that they know better than you how to run your life. And that the government should be involved in every aspect because that's the only way we can move forward in a positive way. That's what it's about.
Okay. Sorry. Got a little, got a little ramped up about that one. We're going to be back with more here in just a moment. The Michael Duke show common sense, Liberty based free thinking radio up next. President Trump made a decision about some of the stuff that's going on in Mexico. And the Mexican president, Claudia Chambon. Oh, she's mad. She's mad. We'll be back with more The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense Radio.
Running on 100% pure beard power. Oh, also some coffee. We dip our beard in coffee. Ha, nice beard. The Michael Duke Show. OK, I got I got a little carried away. Craig Campo just sent me a message and said it was one point six million. But that didn't include travel costs. And that was just the legal fees. So, I mean, add another $100,000 probably for all the other stuff. Wow. Oof, man. Bing, bing, bing, bing. What is this?
Friday the 21st from 5 to 7. Today, coffee with a cop. Okay, I'll mention it. I'll mention it, Craig. Craig wants me to mention something. I want Craig to sponsor the show. Craig, you should sponsor the show. That's what you should do. I'd mention stuff like this all the time, but I'll mention this for you, brother. This is good stuff. Just saying.
Somebody needs to go into Campos and say, you should sponsor Dukes' show. You guys are both two old Fairbanksons, and we should just... I'm a capitalist, man, trying to keep the lights on around here. All right. Here we go. Let me see what's going on. Semi-autos will boom in California or in Colorado. Sturgis went to the U.S. Supreme Court. I know, I know. I'm still confused.
Anthony said, I'm still confused. Constitutionally speaking, how arbitrary specs, magazine, limizations, barrel lengths, et cetera, somehow is not legally considered infringement on the Second Amendment. Yeah, no, I'm with you. I'm with you. I have often wondered how does that work?
How does that how is that not an infringement? If you said that my freedom of speech was fine, except it was limited to only the spoken word and not the written word, and that I couldn't do it on a computer, but I can only do it.
After I, you know, if I wrote something that I had to wait three days before I could post it and I had to prove that I wrote it three days before, before I could post some screed that I was upset about and all that. If we started it, you know, again, this is the substitution game. If you put the same. limitations on freedom of speech or freedom of religion that they put on the Second Amendment, it would be a whole different story, right?
Sure. You can only write it with a pen and with a quill and ink, no ballpoint pens, because that's what the founders used was pen was quills and ink, right? You couldn't do it electronically. You couldn't use a bullhorn. You could only use your own spoken voice. You couldn't do, I mean, so many.
So many different I mean, you know, there's so many different parallels to what they try to do. The Second Amendment to to issues around guns that if they tried to do it around any other fundamental right, people would be up in arms. Right? How is it not an infringement? Well, it's regulation. Scalia said it was right. Scalia was wrong, by the way. I mean, I just hate to say that, but he was just flat out wrong.
but here we are doing our thing going going over there so all right well we will issue my clarification on the whole john sturgeon thing here in just a second It was 1.7 million, not 2. 1.7, 1.6, what did he say? He said 1.6. 1.6. That's just the legal fees. None of the other stuff. which I'm sure probably accounted for more, but, well, I think that's maybe where I came up with the $2 million, was that it was $1.6 in legal fees and then another $400, I don't know.
Anyway, we'll just talk about the, I will clarify to be just the legal fees. Okay. We'll go from there. Anyway. Barbara just said, you gave inflation adjusted dollars. Probably. Probably at this point. Yeah, probably. That's going on. Yeah, a ballpoint pen is considered high capacity. We can't have any of those high capacity writing implements. That's right. Not an automatic. It's an automatic, right? Because you don't have to dip it. It's an automatic high capacity.
I think I might lead with that because that's a perfect example of what we're talking about. All right. Let's keep things rolling here. We are about five seconds out. And then Willie Waffle is going to join us after this next segment. So let's get to it. Like, share, subscribe, ring the bell. Let's do this thing. Right now.
What the hell is an assault weapon? You know, if we could just figure out how to get all of the murder guns and the attack guns and not keep selling those to people and just sell protection guns, I think that would be great insult. Does this mean that if we hurt your feelings, you'd consider the Michael Dukes show assault radio? Okay, we can live with that. Here's Michael Dukes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Hey, we're back. Firearms Friday.
is a thing. We're going to do the Mexico story. People want me to do the Mexico story. First of all, I need to clarify. Craig Campo reached out to me and the two million number that I used. I was I may have been all inclusive and I think I actually got that number from John Sturgeon when I talked to him. But Craig said, to clarify, just the legal fees to take Sturgeon's case all the way to the Supreme Court.
was 1.6 million dollars that didn't include all the other stuff so i don't want to overstate it when i said it was more than 2 million but it was at least 1.6 million in Just the legal fees, not the travel, not the time, not the pay compensating anything. Just the legal component was one point six million dollars. And then Craig said, hey, would you also mention that tonight at five to seven at Campos?
It's a coffee with a cop and his canine, Kenny, at Campos. Apparently it's a meet and greet for the local trooper there at Campos from 5 to 7 p.m. So... If you're of a mind to go have coffee with a cop and meet his puppy, then tonight at Campos. Today's the 21st, right? Yep. Tonight at Campos from 5 to 7 p.m. Okay. So there's that. Before I get into the story about Mexico, Anthony makes a good point. He says, I'm still confused, constitutionally speaking.
how arbitrary specs, like magazine limitations, barrel length standards, etc., somehow is not legally considered an infringement on the Second Amendment. And I said, yeah. That's exactly it. What if they impose those same type of arbitrary specs, those same type of restrictions on your First Amendment right? Now, first of all, that means you could only have your free speech. In the written free speech, you could only write it with a quill and ink. You couldn't type it.
You couldn't even use a ballpoint pen. Why? Well, because a ballpoint pen is an automatic high capacity writing instrument. Because they don't have to ink it, right? And it's high capacity and it's automatic. We couldn't do that. We'd have to, you couldn't put it on the internet.
without waiting for three days to cool off in case there was something that, you know, without, and somebody would have to check it. Somebody from the government would have to check it to make sure that it's okay for three days. And you could talk at a rally, but you couldn't talk with a bullhorn or a sound system because the founders didn't have that. Right. I mean, how ridiculous is it? The same type of arbitrary.
regulations and restrictions on another freedom, another basic Bill of Rights freedom, people would lose their minds. There's nowhere. There's just no way that they would stand for that. But for the Second Amendment, it's all Gucci, right? Oh, it's, oh, yeah, no, regulation. No, it is an infringement. Is an infringement. All right. So let's get over to the story about Mexico. Mexico. So. We all know what happened before with the whole.
Tariffs on Mexico, right? I mean, the president just basically said, you know what? You're not treating your southern border, our southern border, your northern border with enough respect. You're not doing enough to take down these cartels. And so we're going to impose tariffs.
And we know that lasted all of just a couple hours before the Mexican president said, OK, we'll do whatever you want. We'll put more feds on the border. We'll do more. We'll go after the cartels. Now, did we believe it? Did we think she was sincere about it? Yeah, I was dubious. The president has now gone a step further, though. He has now designated at least some of the Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. including the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco cartel.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration labeled eight different cartels as terrorist groups. They've gone beyond the pale. They are no longer just criminal organizations. They are now terrorist groups. They constitute a national security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime. Now, by labeling them as terrorist groups, there's been a speculation that maybe that.
raises the possibility of military action where maybe the United States in preemptive or responsive defense of its own sovereignty may attack those terrorist groups on foreign soil. So Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum seems to have a problem with that. Previously, they had threatened to—now remember, the government of Mexico—
is trying to prosecute a legal war against gun manufacturers here in the US. And now she's threatened to up the ante, but she's also trying to talk tough about the US intervention into... into her failed state. When the president made this announcement, she came back with, this cannot be an opportunity for the U.S. to invade our sovereignty. With Mexico, it is a collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionalism.
less invasion, except for the fact that we're being invaded on the southern border. We've got criminal cartels who, I mean, really are, I mean... have all the aspects of a terrorist organization moving stuff and invading across our southern border i mean it's an invasion is one way for is if it's one way it's great if it's not it's bad
The problem is, is that Scheinbaum and all the presidents, all the leadership of Mexico has had a chance to do something about the cartels for years and they've done nothing. It's either been go along to get along. Or, and in some cases, it's not just capitulation, it's cooperation. There were stories for years about how elements of the Mexican military were working.
with the cartels that mean that's where the whole zeta thing came from the special ops zeta uh uh cartel guys they had a whole group called the zetas which are all Mexican military special forces that were operating with these guys. I mean, this is known, right? But she said, oh, no, no, we can't have that.
So she said on Thursday that Mexico is going to follow through on their promise to expand its legal action against U.S. gun manufacturers following the decision by the president to designate cartels as terrorist groups. So she's going to try and accuse the.
US arms manufacturers of negligence in the sale of weapons that end up in the hands of drug traffickers. It's their fault because they built the guns, even though her government has lots of the guns that they built as well. But it's their fault. that these ended up in the hands of criminals and bad guys in terrorist cells. You know, you could do something. You have a failed state at this point. You could do something. I mean...
And Tom Knighton over at Bearing Arms makes the point. Something that Scheinbaum needed to consider is that if her military and police forces couldn't resist a criminal gang, how would they do against the 82nd Airborne? Or the first Mardiv, right? You drop the first Mardiv across the line there. What are they going to do then? It's insane. Absolutely insane. But this is what we're dealing with right now. This is what it looks like.
All right, we got to go. I got one line on hold. We're going to talk to them off the air here in just a second. But I got Willie Waffle coming up and I'm on a time constraint here. So we're going to be back with more in just a moment. Don't go anywhere. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense. Liberty Bay's Free Thing and Radio. Streaming live every weekly morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com.
Okay, let me go over to the phone lines. I apologize. I was deep into that story there and wanted to get to it. But Ron's calling from North Pole. Hello, my friend. Good to hear from you. What's happening? Yeah, Michael, this is Ron at North Pole, and I've not had an opportunity to do so before, but let me offer congratulations on your entrepreneurial venture. Oh, well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
And secondly, this thing you were talking about with the Mexican government and the cartels, it's a bit like a dog chasing its tail. It is. It is in a way a bit like a dog chasing his tail or some preening peacock out there telling you how much they're going to push back against you when they have no ability to do so. I mean, he hasn't... He hasn't brought out the big guns. I mean, she folded like a house of cards when he pushed hard on the tariffs. I mean, she keeps popping off about this.
OK, well, we'll just institute the terror. If you're going to continue to do this, then we'll just, you know, we'll continue to push back on you. I mean, if they can't control their own. If they can't control the criminal element inside their own country, maybe that's what it's going to take is somebody going in there and fixing it for them at this point. I mean, the stories that are coming out of Mexico.
of not just the drugs, but the human trafficking and everything else. I mean, there is a cadre, there's a group of people there in Mexico that are subhuman. They have no respect for human life at all. It's all about power and violence. And that's all they understand. And so something may have to happen eventually. Well... I've been accused in the past of being a rather crude fellow, and it seems to me that a Ma Deuce every few hundred yards would probably solve the problem. Yeah, Ma Deuce.
Ma Deuce really is the trump card in many, many arguments, I will say right now. It won't take much. When she speaks, people listen. I'll cut you loose, Michael. We'll let you get on with Willie. Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Yeah, when Ma Deuce speaks, people listen. I think that is a classic axiom for anybody who's ever seen Amadeus go to work. When she speaks, people stand up and listen right now. That's 100% true. All right. Okay.
Let's see. So like Afghanistan, a group designated as a national threat terrorist group creates the possibility of U.S. forces deploying into another nation to attack that organization and act. And the act to not be considered an invasion or disruption of the country's government, at least as far as the U.N. is concerned. Yeah, I mean, I, you know, yeah.
Miguel says you can ask anyone from Mexico. She's stating that because the cartels run Mexico and the government there. And that's what that's what my. understanding is, is that that for years, the cartels have had an outsized influence and in some cases and with some presidents have basically run the country. And again, the more you hear about some of the stories about what's happening and coming out of the northern states of Mexico, the more you realize that, I mean, these people have no...
No respect for human life at all. It's all about the accumulation of power. And you've got a group of people who have just been, they've been programmed. To, you know, with no remorse, no mercy, no nothing else. They'll kill you as soon as look at you. It's a thing.
Anthony said, additional to my last comment, the more notable thing is that it allows us to deploy our tier one groups into these countries without involving or informing the local government, so long as the action is limited in scope of operations against that terrorist group. yeah he's talking about tier one operators sending in the seals delta uh force recon marines the raiders marine raiders right that's what they get a chance to uh that's what they get a chance to do now
By designating them terrorist organizations, now they can perform ops against them. Yeah, it's terrifying. I don't know how many of you have watched the show Lioness or have watched the show Seal Team. Is that a SEAL team? David Boreanaz from Bones? Their last seasons of both of those shows, the final season of SEALs and the latest season of Lioness, both deal... with issues going on down at the Mexican border. And it is amazing to watch.
And I did some after watching some of those shows, I went and did a little bit more research on some of the things that are going down there because I'm like, this has got to be some of this has got to be fictionalized. It's all true. And in fact, it's worse than the way it's portrayed on the shows. It's. horrific what's going on down there and yeah it might be time to send some tier one operators down into that area and clean out that clean that stuff out all right willie's on the line
We got to go. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense, Liberty-based, free thinking radio. Like, share, subscribe, ring the bell. Let's go. Okay, this is it for Friday. You ready for this? Let's continue on here. Willie Waffle, wafflemovies.com, comes on board to share with us. Hello, my friend. Are you ready for the weekend? Are you ready for some entertainment? Oh, I'm always ready for the weekend, baby. I'm going to sleep it hard. I'm going to eat my lunch hard.
I'm going to watch TV hard. Okay. I'm going hard. I get it. You're going hard the whole weekend. All right. Well, that's good. All right. Well, I know we got some exciting news, but we'll keep that for, I guess, our last news story. Let's start off here. Let me turn the music down because that's just irritating. Let's go over here and get started with a Blue Bloods spinoff.
Again, full disclosure, there's just not enough hours in the day to watch TV, I guess, these days. I love me some Tom Selleck, but I have never watched Blue Bloods. I hear it's a great series. It's been going on for umpteen seasons. And I know they're talking about bringing it to a close. And this is a spinoff, so give me the rundown here.
Oh, yeah. No, I mean, this is actually really big news. I'm with you. I think Blue Bloods is a good show. I've watched it. There's 14 whole seasons. It came to an end, you know, last fall. And there was a lot of talk about, well, why are they ending it? It's still doing well. It's still getting good ratings. Everybody involved with it wants to keep the money train rolling. Well, the money train is making a new stop, my friends.
There's going to be a new Blue Bloods show. It is going to be known as Boston Blue. And it will star... Mr. Donnie Wahlberg. That's right. Danny Reagan himself, one of the stars of Blue Bloods, is going to end up moving up to Boston. He's going to become a cop or detective up there, and he's partnered with, well... Another detective who's well-connected to the Boston version of the Reagan family. Okay. I don't know who any of these people are. It's big.
It's big. It's a big deal. Okay. It's a big deal. All right. All right. Yeah. I don't know why they get, although Tom Selleck, I mean, I guess doing the math, Tom Selleck is like. in his late 70s right i mean he's he's oh yeah yeah he's getting up there so maybe that's part of the deal is he's just like i'm tired i just you know no he's one of the people who wanted to do it Oh, really? Yeah, he was actually very, very actively saying,
I want to keep doing this. I think the show is still successful. If CBS doesn't want to do it, I'll sign up to do it with somebody else. And so, you know, I would not be surprised if we have a visit from him on the new show. Now it's going to be on. cbs and they made a deal this this is how much they believe in the show straight to series they're not messing around with a pilot they're not messing around with anything they're like dude
Start putting the show together. We're going to put you on next season. So either the fall of this year or the winter of 2026. The new Boston Blue will be premiering. Okay. All right. Well, I guess when I finish Criminal Minds, I'm up to season... seven, nine, eight, nine, something like that of, of criminal minds. I guess I'll have to switch over to blue bloods and see, check that out and see what it is. Okay. Um, all right. That brings us over to Amazon prime and.
The Chosen, which I have heard about, and I guess it's gotten some good buzz, but give us the rundown here. Yeah, so this is a TV series about the life of Jesus Christ and his disciples. It's been airing on the CW kind of intermittently for the past several years, and they're going to be jumping into a fifth season very soon, and they're going to end it with season six.
Six and seven. Now, while it's been on CW, it's also been streamed on a various different variety of platforms. Hulu had the rights at one time. Netflix had the rights at one time. Peacock had the rights at one time. Well, that's all over. The big boys, Amazon Prime, have stepped in. They are going to be the exclusive streaming home as they get ready for the next season. But here's the really interesting thing. Seasons six and seven.
are essentially going to be two movies. They're going to be focused on the crucifixion of Christ and the resurrection of Christ. And they are going to put them out theatrically first. and then stream them.
which they're just basically saying we're all in. We're all in. All right. And this is, like I said, this has gotten some buzz. I know several people on the show, some of the listeners have mentioned it in the chat room before, and I saw something else. I can't remember where I saw it, but yeah, I mean, this is this. This has got some good reviews, I guess.
Yeah, no, it's been very popular on CW. You know, really, the fact that it's been intermittent really isn't like the fault of, you know, fans not following it or, you know, the show not being good. I mean, you had big writer's strike. yet a lot of things that have happened and kind of put the show off kilter a little bit. But they've kept moving forward. They've kept putting out the series. And it looks like they're going to have a massive, massive... A couple of years here. Okay. All right.
Well, there's not a whole lot of other news except 007. There's 007 news. And, you know, on this show, Willie and I will never turn away from 007. Low 7 News. Give me the rundown. What's happening, my friend? This is massive. When this came out yesterday, I literally gasped because it's a huge deal. James Bond as we know it. is changing. The James Bond franchise has pretty much been run since the beginning by Cubby Bricoli and his family, Barbara Bricoli as well.
They have always had total control. They have always cast who's James Bond. They've always approved the script. They've always been in control. Yesterday it was announced. They are handing control over to Amazon. MGM. Really? Wow, that's shocking. That is really shocking. It's massive. Now, they're still going to have a financial interest, of course.
And Amazon's taking over. And it's MGM because MGM was the studio that was partnered with the Procolis for years and years and years. And Amazon bought them a few years ago. But here's what's going to change now. We've been sitting around wondering when we're going to get the next James Bond. It's going to happen. They're going to pick an actor. They're going to make another movie. But more importantly, you're going to watch Amazon.
exploit the living daylights out of this thing. Disney exploits Marvel. Disney exploits Star Wars. You're going to get... You're going to get spinoff movies, spinoff TV shows. You're going to get reality shows. You're going to get behind the scenes stuff. You're going to get more James Bond material than you've ever thought you ever needed. Yeah, 12 episodes of Money Punny. doing her laundry or something. And what is, what does Q do on the weekend and stuff like that?
Yeah. No, I mean, I, you know, when you said, because I didn't know what the news was, Willie just told me there was James Bond news. I thought they were going to finally announce a new James Bond, which everybody's kind of been waiting for. There's been talk about, well, it could be Idris Elba. It could be the kid.
from kick-ass it could be i wish i crave in the hunter i can't remember his name right now aaron taylor aaron taylor right i mean you know there's there's all these and i was like okay i mean i you know really like to know who the next james bond is now that daniel craig is done and uh
But yeah, I mean, this is this is even bigger than that, because you're right. This is this is a whole thing for for the broccolis, the broccolis. It's broccoli to actually step aside on this because they've been involved forever. They really have. And now now I think we're really understanding. Oh, by the way, it's I'm now remembering Taylor Johnson. Pardon me. Taylor Johnson. Or, you know, you know, it's the full the full name. Right. Three last name is. Yeah. Three names.
And so now we know why there's been such dragging of the feet to name the next James Bond, because something like this doesn't just happen overnight. They have obviously been going back and forth. They have obviously been negotiating this. And I think, you know, that they held back because that was the plum.
You know, the Amazon said, yeah, we want to do it. We want to take it over now. You know, we don't want you to do another movie. We want to do the next movie. And I'm sure they made it financially worth it. I'm sure it'd be worth, I mean, cause that. Because especially the Daniel Craig James Bond movies are worth bank. I mean, millions and millions and millions of dollars. Okay.
All right, well, we'll keep an eye out for that, and you'll keep your ear to the ground, I'm sure, for everything that's going on. Anything else in entertainment news, or does that wrap up the news part? That's the news part, and have a pleasant tomorrow. I couldn't research. You're such a geek. All right. That brings us over to the streams and to the theater. I'm sure my wife has probably already watched this one. She watches every murder documentary in the world.
American Murder, Gabby Petito. I actually know something about this case because every time I walk into the room, my wife is watching court TV or something, and I'm just like, okay, all right. So tell us about this documentary series. I think it's excellent. I was just, I bought in, man. Like, I am just enraptured by following this. It's basically three pieces, each one about an hour long. And it is the story, if people remember, Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie. They were this.
young couple that was traveling, traveling out West in their little minivan, you know, trying to become video bloggers and, and, you know, become, you know, stars of the internet when he murdered her. And.
she was missing for weeks and weeks and you know it was it was one of those cases people will remember that everybody had their eyes on right where did she disappear to what had happened to her and and so you would think that well gee i know the story i know what happened but what really makes this so fascinating is the way they kind of Get behind the scenes. They do a lot of interviews with the FBI agents and the police who are investigating the piece. You get to see some footage that.
that the two of them had, had made for this, this video blog that they were going to do. Right. Cause you also see. They were doing like a whole van life thing, right? Where they were blogging. And there's people who do this on YouTube. They take their trailers or their RVs and they go, they blog about their life out there. And I guess people are looking for escapism and they were hoping to hit it big here.
um and uh and something didn't go quite right no you know did not at all and and you know what really got me i mean the the two the two things that really stood out for me from the whole series You might remember there was an incident where the two of them were stopped in Moab, Utah, where there was a traffic stop.
And they were interviewed for possible domestic violence. And you get to see more police footage about that than you have ever seen. You see the conversations between those police officers. and Brian Laundrie. You see the conversations between the police officers and Gabby Petito. You see the police officers taking Brian Laundrie to a hotel to separate them for the night. I mean, you see...
so much here and get such a picture of the relationship that they had. The poor girl was just an anxiety-ridden person. I mean, she was really not in a good place emotionally. You get to see him. as kind of this suspicious dude who seems to be willing to twist the truth to his advantage. I mean, it's fascinating to watch. The second thing I loved was I loved episode number three. Episode three is where you kind of see the FBI and the police officers.
putting together the timeline of events, putting together how they know what happened each day and each minute leading up to the horrible tragedy, and then how Laundrie basically fled. And went back to Florida. And you see the role his family played. And you see them breaking down. Here's where he called his family. Here's where he was in Grand Teton. Here's where he was here. And they show you this is how we know. when it happened. And they go through how they ended up finding her and all that.
And I was just glued. I was glued to my screen. I couldn't look away. So negative one to four waffles. Where are we at on American murder? I'm at four waffles. Wow. I'm at four waffles. I thought it was so good. Okay. All right. Well done. We got about two and a half minutes here. So we got zero day and the monkey hit me with both, I guess. Okay. So the monkey.
This is in theaters. And, you know, here we go again. And I always lead with this. And I want to be very honest. I do not like a lot of movies that just are dedicated to gore and disgusting gruesomeness. And that's what the monkey is. And the monkey wants to do it. It almost wants to be more comedic than it really is. Like, you know, like you can see they're trying to make it a joke. They're trying to get some laughs out of it, but they just don't have the skills to make it funny.
So it's based on a Stephen King short story. It's about this pair of twin brothers. They find this mysterious monkey wind-up toy, like one of those organ grinder kind of monkeys. And wherever the monkey goes... tragedy follows. And so, you know, all of a sudden it makes a reemergence in their lives.
And they have to try to figure out how we're getting out of this mess. How do we get this monkey off our back, right? Oh, very nice. I wish I had thought of that. You like that. Yeah, you like that, huh? Trying to get out of it. I meant one waffle. One waffle, okay. How to get out of the grind. All right, let's go over to Zero Day Netflix quickly here, about a minute. Less than a minute. Yeah, new Netflix.
Yep. New Netflix series, six episodes long, all available right now on Netflix. And it is about a former president of the United States played by Robert De Niro. He's been called out of retirement to head up an investigation of who. unleashed a cyber attack on America that essentially shut everything down and led to many, many, many deaths. And when things came back on, there was a message. We can do it.
Again. And now he's in charge of trying to find out who's responsible before it's too late. All right, quickly. Negative one to four. Just give me a waffle meter right now. I'm at three right now. I'm at three waffles. All right. Well, you have to hear the after show or listen to the podcast to hear more. We'll see you on Monday. Whoa, we were so close. So close. I tried. Yeah. I got to tell you.
I'm not a fan of Robert De Niro anymore. I really am not. I hear you. He's gotten to the point where he irritates me when I see him, unfortunately, because he's a brilliant actor. i can't even watch it was like i was able to watch the godfather again recently because he was so young but anything with his old craggy fakes just makes me go Oh, this guy is so irritating. Anyway, but, I mean, the premise sounds good. Just give me some backstory real quick and a little bit more before we let you go.
So, you know, it really is. It's a series that's playing on two different storylines. Right. The main storyline is who are the criminals? How are we going to catch them? How are we going to find out who's guilty? How are we going to bring them to justice? And that's the best part of the series. Then you've got kind of the soap opera part of the series.
All about Robert De Niro, the mysterious things that happened in his past. Why did a president who was so popular not run for a second term? All the different players in the game, all the different politicians.
their angles? What are they trying to get at? And I think that gets a little bit... a little bit too overwrought for me you know there's just too many things that happen in the personal life that I go Jesus I didn't know I was watching Jung and the Restless man I did not realize that's what was happening but I think the
I think the crime thriller part is so compelling that it's worth watching the show. I really do. Yeah, and it's got a good cast, Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, Joan Allen. I mean, it's got some well-known names in it, plus De Niro. Maybe if I run out of other things to watch, I'll end up watching it. Zero day on Netflix. How many episodes is it? Like half dozen? It's six episodes. Six episodes.
They range from about 45 minutes to an hour long, each one. So, you know, hey, like I said, I've got the whole weekend. I'm about halfway through the series right now. I got the whole weekend to get through the last three episodes, so I'm ready to go. Hey, I'm excited. There are so many really good streaming shows out there right now. I told you about Paradise on Hulu. It's fantastic.
The pit on Max is fantastic. I mean, there's lots of really good stuff to enjoy. And here I am watching 10, 15 year old episodes of Criminal Minds, you know, because I've got to catch up. all right hey that's the beauty of streaming i can watch what i want when i want and when it's ready for me i had i had to laugh because they were looking at something on screen and it had the date on the screen and it was like 2009 and i realized man this show is old i didn't even
think about that anyway uh all right well willie thank you so much my friend as always it's good to talk with you and we will see you next week uh anything next week what's this next new yeah we got a new woody harrelson movie it's called Last Breath. It's about scuba divers that are trying to save somebody before it's too late. Okay. All right. Thank you, my friend. It's good to talk with you. We will catch you next week then. Have a good one.
See you then. All right, folks. I'll let you know on Facebook if I get Nick Begich and... and or Sarah Montobano on Monday. We'll see where we're at. I'm working on it. It's going to be a busy day. All right, we will see you then. Be kind, love one another, live well. We'll see you on Monday. lizard internet people. It's the Michael Duke Show.