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0:12 Are you ready yeah okay let's do it bill martinez live a program about current events our culture our values our politics and our future and now bill martinez. Hey right now six minutes after the top of the hour i'm bill martinez and he is dr john lott john how. We doing Doing great. Good to talk to you. Always good. And we got some good news here. Some amazing new government crime data just released, huh? Yeah, it just came out yesterday. The Bureau of Justice Statistics numbers usually are released in September, but they were just released yesterday, the very end of October. And it's stunning.

0:54 I mean, we've never seen such large drops in crime ever recorded before in U.S. History. Uh, You had a 25% drop last year in felony violent crime, a 13% drop in rapes, a 27% drop in robberies, a 31% drop in aggravated assaults. Property crime also fell by a record of 19%. These are the largest drops we've ever seen since they started recording this data. What's causing this, John? Well, I I think there's some obvious things that are going on. It's not rocket science. If you want to reduce crime, you have to make it riskier for criminals to go and commit crime. And that means higher arrest rates, higher conviction rates, longer prison sentences, letting victims be able to go and defend themselves. And all those things have changed. uh, in the last year and three quarters. So you look at the FBI, the FBI arrested more than twice as many people last year as they did in 2024. Uh, U S look at the U S attorneys around the country. Uh, they're much more serious about prosecuting criminals in Washington, DC, for example, uh, during the Biden administration, uh, the U S attorney who's appointed by the president there, uh, only brought criminal charges against 33% of those who had been arrested by police. Under the Trump administration, that's gone from

2:24 33% to 96%. Wow. That's a huge change. And not only that, even the 33% that they brought criminal charges against, many times the prosecutors were asking for simple probation. They didn't want to actually put the criminals in jail. that's changed dramatically under the Trump administration. And also you have illegal aliens. I mean, to me, it's not a coincidence that during the Biden administration, when we had this record increase in violent crime, I mean, felony violent crime during the Biden administration increased by 59%. We've never seen such a large increase. And yet at the same time, we had this record inflow of illegal aliens coming into the country.

3:13 We have 12.8 million that we knew about. That includes people that voluntarily turned themselves into the border, those that we caught coming across, as well as so-called guideways. It doesn't include the ones that we never monitored coming across the border because 67% of the border agents that would normally be guarding the border were pulled off of that duty. Instead, we're being used to process the illegal aliens who are coming across and And about 30% of the passive monitoring equipment was broken during the Biden administration, was not being fixed. So you had large areas of the border where we had no eyes and nobody guarding it. And so we have no idea how many more millions came in. But so you had this big influx there. And now the border's closed. And on top of that, they've been deporting illegal aliens. And it's not just, you know, 70%. of the illegals who have been deported had either been convicted of crimes in the United States or had been charged with crimes. But even many of the 30% that hadn't been either convicted or caught had criminal records in their home countries. So those individuals were being deported. But it's much more than that.

4:33 But John, let me interrupt you for just a second here, because the left and these liberals, progressives, are saying, oh, well, they're just ignoring the ones that are doing the crime, and they're getting these illegal immigrants that are just here illegally because they came into the country illegally, and they really haven't done anything that's criminal other than entering the country. So, I mean, their argument, their counter-argument is so. Here's the thing, Bill, which is extremely misleading. What they want to count as somebody with a criminal record are only individuals who have been convicted of crimes. They don't want to include individuals who have been charged. And the problem that you face is that what's happening is when these individuals get picked up and taken to the local county courthouse where they're formally charged with committing a crime, ICE will frequently be there to go and pick them up at that point. What you have to understand is how costly it is. to go through the criminal justice process to go and convict individuals who, as you say, are already in the country illegally. So if somebody commits murder, you're talking about legal costs in terms of public defender, prosecutor, court time, holding them in jail, of something between $ 2 and $ 3 million if the individuals go and decide to fight the charges. For something like rape, it may be

6:05 like $ 1. 8 to $ 2 million. For something like robbery and aggravated assault, you're probably talking about something around $ 1. 3 to $ 1. 5 million. These are real costs for the legal system there. Well, the legal. System that affects everything else, like affordability, right? I mean, because it all bleeds into it, doesn't it? Yeah, I agree. I agree. It's not surprising that we had this big increase in rents and other things that were occurring at the same time we have You know, at least 12.8 million, but likely millions more, you know, maybe 15 or more million coming into the country.

6:45 Not counting already the 20 million we had before, John. Yeah, no, I agree. Yeah. I mean, this is this is insane. I mean, and the way they're polishing these numbers. And then I heard news today, John, that there's I think in New York and also in Massachusetts, they're, you know, doing the shenanigans that you and I have discussed before many times on this show is that they start reclassifying some of these crimes. They start making them less. So now it. you know, it really prejudices, you know, some of this data right now, this is, this is great news because it hasn't quite been manipulated to the degree that they're proposing. I mean, lives, real lives have been saved. Uh, as a result of this, we have last year in 2025, we had a record low murder rate. We've never seen such a low murder rate before recording the United States.

7:37 And if you look at the data from the FBI, it's continued to fall this year. Uh, if you compare the first seven months of this year to the first seven months of last year, it's down another 18.4%. Uh, so it's actually kind of accelerated a little bit. Uh, but you see drops across the board in terms of rapes and, uh, robberies and aggravated assaults. Uh, rapes are down another, uh, 11% robberies down another 17%. You know, uh, You know, these are really major changes. And it's not just the direct victims of violent crime and property crime. I mean, those are big, you know, costs that are imposed on people. But you have the indirect ones. When you have more crime in an area, businesses close, people lose their jobs, you lose places to go and shop.

8:32 People who own homes in those areas, when there's higher crime rates, depress the property value for those areas. You know, Democrats claim that they care about the poor, that they care about the minorities. But those are the areas where the crime is overwhelmingly concentrated in the United States. One thing that's unique about the United States is how heavily concentrated murders in particular are in tiny areas in the United States. The latest data. I'll tell you what, before we go there, I want to hear that, but we got to go to a quick break. We'll pick it up. We got more from Dr. John Lott after this. Stay with us.

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13:52 Right. Well, the United States is very unique in terms of how geographically concentrated murders are in the United States. The latest data that we have for 2025 shows that 53% of the murders occur in 2% of the counties. 57% of firearm murders occur within 2% of the counties. Those 2% represent a little bit over 20% of the U.S. population. But even within those counties... Even within that 2%, about two-thirds of their murders take place in 10-block areas within those counties. So, you know, you don't see that in other countries. You don't see it in countries like Canada or Australia. They're much more dispersed in terms of murders.

14:46 Why is it so concentrated in those areas, John? Is it gang-related? It's largely gang-related. So you have gangs fighting against each other over drug turf and things like that. That makes a big difference. And so there's nothing that we can do? We just let them fight to the finish? Well, no. I mean, what you do is the same thing we've been doing. And the reason why we've seen this big drop in violent crime, you have to make it riskier for criminals to go and commit crime. And you do that with things like higher arrest rates, higher conviction rates, longer prison sentences. letting victims be able to go and defend themselves. I mean, one thing that we haven't talked about has been the huge increase in the rate that people are carrying concealed handguns legally in the United States. If you compare 2024 to this year, there's been about a little bit over five percentage point increase in the rate that people are carrying concealed handguns. And a lot of that is due to the fact that now we have 29 constitutional carry states. So we have about 21.5 million Americans that have a concealed carry permit.

16:00 But on top of that, we have 29 states where it's no longer necessary for people to be able to go and have a permit to be able to go and carry. And we've seen big increases in the rate that people are carrying. That's a huge change. And interestingly, it's who's disproportionately carrying. If you look at Blacks and Hispanics, they're carrying all or most of the time at the highest rates compared to their share of the population. Is it because of the areas in which they live in and the threats that are about? I think that's part of it. And a lot of it has to do with constitutional carry. So look, one thing you see is that if you have to pay high fees to be able to go and get a permit, It's basically poor people who are less likely to go and get permits. If you're going to reduce crime, you have to have it so that the people who are the most likely victims of crime be the ones who are able to go and protect themselves. Police are extremely important, but the police understand themselves that they virtually always arrive on the crime scene after the crimes occurred. The question is, What's the safest course of action for people to take in order to protect themselves? Having a gun is by far the safest course of action. There's two groups of people who benefit the most from having a gun. As we just mentioned, the people who are most likely victims

17:32 of violent crime. In a wealthy suburb where there's no crime, you can have 100% of the people carrying, but if there's no crime, you're not going to see a reduction. It has to be the people, mainly the people who are the likely victims. And the other group of people who benefit are those who are relatively weaker physically, women and the elderly. Women who behave passively are about 2.4 times more likely to end up being seriously injured than a woman who has a gun. And, you know, men benefit also, but it's much smaller. It's about 1.4 percent, 1.4 times. And the thing is, anyway, you just have the situation where you've had this huge change in the rate that women are carrying and the rate that Blacks and Hispanics are carrying, particularly poor ones. And that's had another big increase, impact on crime rates.

18:30 Yeah. John, let me ask you a little bit off the topic here, just a little bit, because the government has made some adjustments, this administration, in terms of being able to access suppressors. And I understand that we have, I don't know, I don't know how much time we have, but we're now able to, in Florida at least, purchase suppressors without having to pay that stupid tax. Right. Well, you know, you'll have to see how long that lasts because you have the Democrats, if they take control of Congress, are already promising and have been promising specifically not only to put back the tax, but to make it like $ 4, 000 or something like that. You have Chris Murphy from Connecticut who's lobbying for a $ 4, 000 tax. My guess is if the Democrats take control of Congress, you're going to see a massive government shutdown. The reason you're going to see that is because they want to go and abolish ICE. You actually have over 103 of the Democrats in the House vote to abolish ICE. Pretty much all the rest want to dramatically cut its funding. You technically have funding set up through the budget reconciliation through Trump's term. But my guess is the Democrats, when they

20:01 take control of Congress, are going to want to claw that back. And that's going to be one of many issues, which as well as the taxes that you were talking about that they're going to want to put back in. It's going to set up a veto fight, and the government's going to shut down. If you think the Democrats shut down the government for a record amount of time this last time, I think it's going to be even much worse this next time. How are they going to claw back all these suppressors? People in Florida are buying suppressors nonstop for obvious reasons. They're stocking up. Right. Well, I mean, I'm just saying if they put the tax in, you know, put a $ 4, 000 tax, they're not going to be able to put the tax on ones that you've already bought. But what can happen is, is that if you get a Democratic president, they will go and say, OK, well, now you had to register these things. So right now, the Trump administration is saying, well, this was set up as a tax that It wasn't set up as a registration. They only had the registration in order to enforce the tax. Courts in the Fifth Circuit and others have struck down the registration, saying it's not necessary since you no longer have the tax. But if they put the tax back in, my guess is you could have some interesting legal thoughts by a Democratic president who would say, okay, not only are we going to put in the registration and maybe a $ 4, 000 tax,

21:31 for anybody who wants to go and buy it from that point on, once the tax is put in, but you're going to see that they could go back and say, all those who bought it before, we're going to require that you have to go and register it, even though they can't make them pay the tax. Once again, I mean, there's such a clear choice between these parties. I mean, one promotes freedom, the other promotes an expanded government and less freedom. I mean, We don't have to go back that far, John. I mean, we just have to go back a couple of years and think about the four disastrous years and suppression that we experienced under the Biden administration, which really is the poster child for the Democratic Party, even more so now with the DSA taking over it.

22:19 You know, people are going to have to make a decision what they want on that. I mean, you have all sorts of regulations on what type of oven you can have and all sorts of things there. And that's just... You know, people have to make that decision for themselves. Well, maybe, you know, the Democrats just have too much time on their hands. Well, actually, they're just driven by taxes. I mean, they just got to find a way to take anything that you have in your bank account out of your bank account and in their control because they're trying to convince us that they can handle it so much better than we can. but they're the ones that have stuck us with a $ 40 trillion debt, just case in point. We've got to leave it there. He's the author of Gun Control, Ms. Dr. John Lott. John, where can they go for more information?

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26:38 It's a new generation of AI agents, you can say, designed to work across apps, tackle assignments, complete steps toward a goal. For small businesses, those capabilities could change how everything works. From customer questions to marketing goals, get handled. And here to tell us more about it is Diana Dukas. She's an expert at Meta, and she's talking about AI's ever-expanding role in small business. Diana, welcome to the show. Good to have you with us. Thanks for having me. What an exciting time, huh? Very. Yeah, I love this, that whenever innovation comes about, and of course, it's coming full steam ahead here. And I understand why some people might be a little bit nervous, but even like, I think if we go back for our generation, when the computer first came about, we were a little nervous about the computer, right? And we did okay.

27:29 I mean, we didn't have, you know, mass murder or, you know, the world falling apart or anything like that. And so here it is. We're on this new and exciting frontier, right? We're really excited about the opportunity that AI can play for small businesses, especially in this personal AI agent space. Well, Diane, as I was saying, these are exciting times. You know, this is kind of the new frontier, right? It's really exciting, especially for small businesses being able to utilize this technology. Right. As we say, for small business owners, there's rarely a shortage of ideas. The bigger challenge is finding enough hours in the day to put them into action, as you say.

28:10 A new AI solution designed to help with everything from customer support to content creation and everyday business tasks now available, right? Yes. And so we have launched Muse for Small Business. It is a personal AI agent that is really designed to act on a small business owner's behalf. And so When you're thinking about, especially as folks are starting to get a little bit more familiar with this versus your more traditional AI, your more traditional AI is you go to the site, you put in your question or your query, and it gives you a list of things for you to do, instructions on what to do next. Muse, on the other hand, is designed to actually do those things for you. And the idea is so that it acts on your behalf, so saves you time, can automate kind of routine tasks so that you can focus on other things.

29:01 You know, that's what I love about this because it really is a total viewpoint in terms of, and it seems to be, with my experience, very intuitive. It's impressive. I'm glad that you think so. We're really thrilled with the response so far, and hopefully that ease of user interface is key to that. Well, you know, heretofore, small businesses would have an executive assistant, You know, helping out and filling this needed function. I mean, this is a needed function in small businesses, isn't it? It's absolutely a needed function. But the idea is that this is kind of a force multiplier. allowing for businesses to kind of put on their Iron Man suit a little bit and supercharge their already existing operations and their employee set. And so it's really designed to be an additive tool and supporting folks, businesses, where they may not be able to hire additional folks, but they may now be able to.

30:03 Well, Diana, you know, in business, we think of time as money. And this is such a time saver. I mean, what would have taken you maybe weeks, some cases, maybe even months, you can move with such rapidity. I mean, what does that do in terms of power for small businesses? Absolutely. So time often equals money for small businesses, right? As you mentioned, they're wearing so many different hats. They're the front of the house, the back of the house, the CMO, the CSO, everything. And by allowing for MUSE to take on some of these tasks and support the broader company, it allows you to really focus on working kind of on your business, not in your business. And this is a key example. There is a sixth generation farmer in Delaware who every year has to analyze his frost data and make sure that he's compliant and has all of the information so that he can make the right decisions for his business moving forward. That to date has taken him nine weeks to do so. He has never hired somebody else to do this task for him. He does it himself. And it has taken him nine weeks out of the year to do this. He was able to utilize Muse and it was able to analyze this data and compile it for him in a matter of hours.

31:19 And this allows him to get back to what it is that makes him to continue the family run business, which is being a farmer. What I also like about this is the historical data component that it holds the history so that you can go back and refer and have cross comparisons. So next year, he's going to be able to take what he did this year and analyze that in the mix. And Muse will do that for him, right? Absolutely. And so Muse, if you connect it to your Facebook, your Instagram, other connectors, the ideas around Muse is to meet businesses where they are. And that means you know, allowing them to connect to your email, to your calendar, again, to your Facebook and Instagram account. So it can have a really strong understanding of your brand, the awareness, can run analytics on it, but then also to work across the businesses that small businesses are already using. So again, thinking about your payroll with Intuit QuickBooks or building a flyer with Canva or setting up a Shopify account. And Muse can work across those connectors to really move your business forward.

32:31 Right. We're talking with Diana Dukas. She's from Meta. And, you know, one of the, as we know, often spoken about concerns that small business have with anything technical and especially in the genre of artificial intelligence is that. you know, what guardrails are there? You know, is my privacy, am I going to be violated in some sort of way by this new machinery, right? Sure. I'm really glad you brought this up because security and privacy have been, one, the top priority, but also baked into building Muse from the beginning. And so it is actually hard-coded into the service. So there are no settings to turn on or off or anything for you to figure out as a business owner. They are set for you.

33:16 But a really key differentiator here and what's really, really important is that it allows the business owner to stay in control. And so Muse cannot act without explicit permission. So it won't buy anything, send anything, publish anything, spend without your permission. And that is absolutely key to keeping the business owner in charge and really continuing to use this as a tool, but not something to go and make business decisions for you. Meta has done a great job in its experience, in its life experience, in gathering information the hard and long way because that's what businesses do. We learn by our mistakes.

33:57 But Meta has been at the forefront and has taken advantage and has been able to incorporate this knowledge to be able to present this type of platform that has been rigorously vetted, right? Absolutely. And we've had the honor of being home to over 200 million businesses across the globe. And we continue to want to iterate and ideate on ways that Meta can show up to support the small business community. Earlier this year, we announced Meta's fall business with the intent of designing products and tools and resources with the small business first in mind. And Muse is just one of the ways that we will continue to do this.

34:38 Well, Diana, we're just around the corner from, oh, my goodness, the holiday rush. I mean, you just go to retail operations right now. I mean, you're getting bombarded. We've got Halloween. We've got Thanksgiving and already Christmas. You know, we're just October right now. Come on. So with these coming weeks, how can small businesses benefit with Muse to manage this holiday rush? Sure. So as you mentioned, the holiday season is kind of like the Super Bowl for small businesses. So many actually make their annual revenue in this time period. So we want to make sure that small businesses feel confident going into the holiday season so that they know how to get the most out of it and be the best to their customers. So you can give Muse a task of analyzing my brand campaign or find me new customers or Great, it will work with you to design a new marketing campaign to find these new customers that may be interested in your very bespoken personalized service or product, okay?

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39:49 800-830-5050. You'll find out if you have a case and how much it's potentially worth. Thanks, John. You heard it, folks. Take advantage of this opportunity and call now. 800-830-5050. Advertisement sponsored by Legal Help Center may not be available in all states. Not available in California. Hey, glad you could join us. I'm Bill Martinez. He's Jordan Goodman, America's Money Answers Man. Jordan, how are we doing? Great to be with you, Bill. Hey, we got things to catch up on, but I don't know if you saw this. There's so much that's happening out of Europe. The question is, why would we follow their lead? There's so many things that we've already embraced from the other side of the pond that aren't really serving a clear benefit. But this latest one is that why should we follow, you know, the Europe green policies that have been so costly for them that, you know, those that came over for the World Cup saw, wow, you guys got air conditioning, you got ice, you know, what is this thing that's called ice? Because we can afford it, but yet they can't. You know, I think what was it, 80% of the country doesn't even have air conditioning in And they're so committed to these green policies.

41:11 It's like, OK, well, what's the benefit? I mean, even if you're without ice and air conditioning, I mean, is life so much better without electricity? Well, they're really a big problem in Europe right now because they've spent far too much. They've taken on huge amounts of debts, in many cases to support non-citizens, people from North Africa and Middle East and Africa and so on, who are not productive people in many cases, and they're revolting in the streets and the police are not able to control them. I mean, they've tried, I think over the last week, 80,000 policemen or something like that, and just protests all over the place. Yeah, but the people and the policies towards law enforcement has become rather milquetoast, I mean, pretty much the same to a degree here in America, although everybody that is not if they're not from England or if they happen to be an immigrant, the immigrants have become a protected class.

42:13 You know, like that one instance where that one young man was stabbed and he's trying to tell him, hey, I've been stabbed. This guy did it, who was an immigrant. And the guy dies. I mean, with handcuffs on, Jordan. It's very ridiculous. This is crazy. The end result. And it's not only France. This is Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Albania, Spain, England. You know, it's almost all of Europe is in such flames right now over this thing. So I think the result of this politically is the right wing is going to come in and try to clean it up. In France, they've got elections next spring. Quite likely Marine Le Pen of the rally party is going to come in. She's very anti-immigrant. Nigel Farage could win in England. He's kind of the anti-immigrant guy there. The AFD in Germany and throughout Spain is about to have an election as well.

43:09 Most people in these countries do not like seeing all these demonstrations and riots and violence and looting. Well, of course. And of course, what happens is the radical left, you know, they haven't seen a riot or any kind of violence that they can't jump in the middle of. And so you have these professional rioters. I mean, they have frequent flyer miles like you can't believe, Jordan. I mean, they're, you know, they're all over the world and planet just causing all kinds of havoc and problems. But, you know, that's... Frequent riot, right, right. Frequent riot points, right? Yes, exactly. I mean, but it's just, it's insane. And so what happens and, you know, and I want to be careful because some people think, well, it's anti-immigrant. know what it is, you've got to define what anti-immigrant means. You're talking about the immigrant who comes into the country to pillage, rob and steal, and rape and kill. Those kind of immigrants, no bueno. Immigrants who come in, like what we've had traditionally here in our country, who have come in and said, look, I want an opportunity. And I'm willing to bust my back, work hard, produce and based on merit, you know, provide a better, you know, better future for my kids. And many of those immigrants have done so. That's awesome. America is all the better for it. But unfortunately, all immigrants are getting classified immigrants. into this category of immigration because of what Joe Biden did to our country. And these

44:39 other immigrants who came in that were told, hey, it's a free for all. Come in, take advantage, you know, steal, rob, do all this fraud and everything like that. Open up a leering center, you know, offer hospices that have no bodies and no people. And don't worry, the government will just, you know, the government, this nondescript entity will just send you all kinds of billions of dollars. Thank you very much. Yeah, now people are sick and tired of that. I mean, in Europe, a lot of these people have come and have not integrated with the society at all. They've kept to themselves these so-called no-go zones. The police don't even go into them because it's too dangerous for them. So that's really a problem. Now, this has not just happened. This has been going on for generations. In France, people have been coming in from Algeria and Morocco and Africa and Middle East for a long, long time. Some of those numbers are pretty staggering. In some of these cities, I think I saw recently in Belgium, Brussels, 57% of the population is now non-Belgians, is immigrant. Over 50% in Amsterdam and a lot of these places. This is not a few small people. This is a huge number of people.

45:46 In England, 10 mayors. Of major English cities are Muslim, including London. So this is not something you just say, well, go back to where you came from. They're there and they're gonna be there. They just have to integrate into society and not be so destructive, which. Is not what- And there doesn't seem to be an indication that they're interested in integrating in society, because they have a society of their own mind that they want to have, and it doesn't include the people who are already there. They want to have Sharia law. They want to impose Sharia law. And that's happening in the United States. There are places in Dearborn, Michigan and Texas and other places where there's very strong Islamic communities that want to impose Sharia law. They have their own Sharia schools and courts.

46:37 Yeah, exactly. And look, you've got New York, Times Square, Jordan. I mean, in a million years, who would ever think? I mean, you couldn't even have a Christian demonstration at Times Square. Now you have the call of prayer, the Muslim call of prayer in Times Square. What's wrong with this picture? So I don't know how you so-called reverse it. I mean, Trump came in to get immigrants out, and we've stopped new illegal immigrants from coming in, but we got a lot of them still here, and it's causing a tremendous political divide. I mean, here you have al-Sayed in Michigan, you know, a Muslim. People say he was with the Muslim Brotherhood.

47:18 Well, he said it. He said it, but of course, that's before I didn't mean to say it. I said it, but, you know, kind of deal. I mean, it's just so political, but, you know, you got to take them from a word, and this is why I've been saying, Jordan, You know, we have got to exercise some serious fundamentals here. I mean, can you imagine? I mean, here we are, all these elected officials who have access to, you know, this government information, top secret information. They're not vetted. There's no security clearance on these people. You just let them come in and, you know, run a committee and have access to all. Are we nuts? It seems so. In many cases, so is Europe. So it's going to be interesting to see how this works out.

48:02 I mean, one way it could work out is the right wing, in effect, takes over these places and confronts these people. And they're going to be more than the police. It's going to be aggressive. You know, there's no doubt it come down. In fact, to be honest with you, I'm surprised that vigilantism has not been. become, you know, on the rise. You know, the right wing is arming itself. And you see these in Britain, it's called True Brit. I get these videos all the time. It's like the flag. And, you know, we have to push all these people out and all that. And the same in France. So it's a real cultural clash here. But like you said, the amount of people that come in, I mean, you know, I was looking at this chart that I keep with me, how Islam is colonizing non-Muslim countries.

48:50 In Austria, 2010, the population was 475,000. It's projected to double in about two years. France, 4.7 in 2010. Now, in two years, almost 7 million. It will grow, too. It's not happening in Eastern Europe. This is not happening in Hungary and Poland and Slovenia and so on. They have said, no, we're not going to bring in all these immigrants. They're much more peaceful in these places than in Western Europe, where they let everybody in like crazy. Well, the UK is going to grow almost double in two years. They started at just under 3 million, projected to be about 5.5 million in two years. The United States, 2.8 million back in 2010, projected in two years to be at 2030. And I think that's a conservative deal because the other thing that people and the Muslims themselves said, it said, look, our reproduction rate is 10 times your rate in America. So we're just going to overtake you just by sheer numbers.

50:01 And they say that explicitly. They want to impose Sharia law. Around the world. They want Islam to take over the world. So we're fighting them on the ground in Iran, but they're infiltrating in other ways. It's much more pernicious. You just can't bomb them into submission the way we're trying to do in Iran. Well, because, again, this is the West. We do not understand people who want to fight to the death. Because in the West, we respect life. We love life. They don't care. You know, this is why they've wiped out, I don't know, numbers 40, 60, as high as 80. I've heard as high as 80,000, you know, citizens there in Iran.

50:43 In Iran, yes. Yeah, when there's suicide bombings and, you know, the martyrs, the whole thing. You're right. It's almost like the Japanese in World War II. Kamikazes, right? Yeah, well, that's one thing, kamikazes. But, I mean, it's not, you know, for them, the Iranians, the IRGC and them, and they're ilk. It's bad enough you're killing somebody, but oh, before you die, I'm going to rape the holy heck out of you. That's right. It's bad. It is bad. And Christian culture has become kind of the minority in the world these days. Well, and this is why, you know, people of faith and people that believe in morality and ethics have got to take a stand against this, because like you said, it's so pervasive. And the Trojan horse is amongst us.

51:29 And as if that's not bad enough, we're feeding the Trojan horse. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. And they're getting political power in various ways. So this is a big clash coming up. Over the next year, there are elections in all these places in Europe and France and England and Spain and Germany. And we'll see. I think all this is going to feed the kind of anti-immigrant right wing. We don't want to do it anymore. Tell everybody how they can be in touch with you. They can always email me, jordan at moneyanswers.com. We call ourselves ASAP Travel for one reason. We can help you book a ticket ASAP. For those of you that don't know, that means as soon as possible. That means no wait time. You get through right away. No searching online. Our specialty is the lowest available fares on the big name airlines. You know them. We can't tell you their names. You can fly domestically or internationally and save more money than you could if you call the airlines directly Our proprietary software goes underneath the hood of the major airline booking systems and finds you the best rates available. So if you're ready to make your travel plans right now, business or vacation travel, we have all the major airlines always at great rates. Call ASAP Trips and we'll have your ticket in your inbox in 15 minutes.

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