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0:00 Are you ready? Yeah, Okay, us doing Bill Martinez Live, a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Hey, good morning America. Good to have you with us. Bill Martinez here along with Horace Cooper at six minutes after the top of the hour. Mister Horace, how are we doing. It's a great day to live in America. It's amazing. You know, the square ups his craziness here. Horace. By the way, as the former constitutional law professor recognized the legal commentator and author. You know, with all this stuff upside down. You and I've talked about this before. I mean, this is in so many ways is a spiritual battle, because you can't understand it in a practical sense with you know, anything but the spiritual because you know, like the Book of Isaiah said, Horace, there will be that time when that which is right will be called wrong.

0:59 Good will be called evil, suite will be called sour. Everything's the opposite. And this is where we find ourselves right now, especially with the rise of the Democrat Socialists of America. You know, when you think about the numbers, I think the membership now, according to Bernie Sanders, people is about one hundred and twenty thousand card carrying DSA members. But they have created such a tsunami of interest and movement that they are they're attacking capitalism and our way of life just front and center. Oh absolutely, that's true. Absolutely, that our way of life is under siege.

1:40 I mean, I just recently had a peace published called They're Coming after the Senate. Well, at least that's what the editors of the piece put on. And all I did was outline the. DSA platform and explain how in the year of our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, they have undercut or desired to undercut and rewrite the entire system. It isn't just checks and balances. It isn't just unique roles for various institutions. It isn't just federalism. All of those work together to actually make it harder to get things done.

2:25 And there are people that are like, I'm so upset that government isn't able to do everything I wanted to do. Our founders believed that liberty. Was protected by not letting government be able to do everything that it wants to do. Right, Yeah, exactly, because the thing is you look at it. I mean, I think it's quite interesting here because you consider where we are right now economically, because that's the big issue, affordability. They say, Okay, we have record high stock market, record high after tax family incomes, the lowest crime rates in fifty years, lowest number of Americans laid off from their jobs in half a century, the biggest investment boom in forty years, and a Democratic Party floating around in outer space on the economy, and yet voters prefer them over the Republican Party. What's wrong with this picture?

3:15 Horus, Well, there's part of this is a unhappiness about where America is for a long time, starting in the late nineteen fifties, very minor and dramatically so. In the nineteen. Sixties and then all the way through the Ford administration, the federal government did something that it started during the Great Depression. It said, if you have a problem, I have a solution. It didn't work during the Great Depression. In fact, economists say that the Great Depression was extended precisely because of the things quote that were being done to mitigate It didn't work during the Great Society. It didn't work during the expansion of the administrative state. Even during the Nixon administration, and yet after an interregnum, we are back to the American people being deceived, being being soothed by those who say, well, if there's a problem, we can just use more government.

4:29 What we absolutely which. Means more taxpayer funds, that's what that means. Well, yeah, of. Course it's more taxation, but of course it's actually more regulation, it's more government control. What we actually need is more independence. We created the world's largest welfare state, and yet today numerically there are more people who were unhoused or homeless than there were before we started. In the nineteen sixties, we spent and more federally on education, and yet the latest scores show our kids are actually performing under par and yet we see no real improvements. You look at the metrics, and where you can tell progress is if government is absent, are largely reduced in its presence, what you see is an amazing.

5:25 Degree of accomplishment. Except where you see great government, what you see is stagnation. And yet the cost of this stagnation increases and increases and increases. I'd say stagnation along with fraud. I mean, look what's happening in the welfare program's Horus. The latest report right now is totaling something like one hundred and eighty billion dollars in fraud. And when you look at Medicare, Medicaid, Earned Income tax Credit, the SNAP program, shuttered Venue, Operator's Grant program, all other program I mean, in total, these welfare programs bigger government one hundred and eighty billion in that's just in one category here we're talking about.

6:14 So there's a term. It's called bleed the beast. We make government so big that a new enterprise, a criminal enterprise, but a new enterprise has developed. I am just going to suck off of this excess. When you spend the way our government is spending, you have so much that we absolutely need an Assistant Attorney General who's sole job is to track down this fraud. But I'm going to tell you, while I do support this, I do believe people need to be held accountable for their theft and their fraud. I also think we need to shift away from the government.

6:58 Is the solution. That doesn't work for us, That is absolutely a long term failure. And where I am really disappointed is when I look at DSA, there are Democrats who advocate the same policies of DSA, but they pretend that they're not members of the DSA. They and the DSA have learned nothing. We are following. We're walking down a path that most of Europe has already traveled down. And most of Europe already knows that they are spending per capita eighty plus percent of their per capita generated on just social programs.

7:47 This is unsustainable. Why we would be tripped into following down that path that we already know is a failure is a real remarkable surprise for me. Yeah. Well, it reinforces the incompetence of our educational system that our leaders somehow do not know how to construct a mathematical equation that's positive and beneficial. Absolutely, that's true. You know, you look at healthcare. The countries that got the headstart on government provided healthcare are showing how it just.

8:28 Fundamentally doesn't work. It doesn't mean we don't care, it doesn't mean that we're unconcerned. In fact, it's precisely because we do care and that we are concerned that we look around and see in Canada and the UK people countries close to us, how many of their citizens are unhappy or often end up dying Canada is pushing assisted suicide rather than figuring out a way to address the medical needs of their society. More market forces, more privatization will get. More people care. There isn't a system that says everybody can have a Rolls Royce. There isn't such a system, and if you try to do it all, be lucky to come out with akia exactly.

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14:28 Oh see, when he got the pardon, the first thing that I said was that he's under a mistaken impression. He thinks that everything he has done he can get away with legally. He might not be able to be prosecuted for his past actions, but if he lies about them today, he can be prosecuted. A pardon doesn't cover future activity associated with past criminal activity. I am a little disappointed that the Senate, when they were holding their hearings, announced that they were going to try to force him to answer questions and catch him in a lie. By doing so, he authorized, excuse me, they authorized in some ways his invocation of the Fifth Amendment. But we have his diary and it tells everything about this odious individual.

15:28 Well that's what I thought, you know. I thought it would have been interesting if one of the senators would have asked a question and ignored doctor Fauci and answered it with an extract from his diary. Oh yeah, absolutely. When you look at it, what you see is a man, by the way, who knows says I was lying to my diary, who was selfish, who was insincere, who sought to self aggrandizement at the risk of the lives of Americans. We now know that what he knew. You could take the vaccine. It didn't prevent you from getting COVID. You could not take the vaccine. It didn't prevent you from getting COVID.

16:17 You could do a six feet of separation. It didn't prevent you. You could wear a mask, it didn't prevent you. What we should have been doing. And I said this on your program. If local governments, state and local governments believed that there were measures, maybe they were draconian, but there were measures that they wanted us to operate under. Locally, they needed to meet, they needed to hold a vote, follow the regular process so that citizens could see who was doing it. These executive orders by government by governors was never was never the model that our founders had intended, and it left a lot of people unavailable to access who made.

17:12 This decision, Why was it exactly? And how do I appeal it? And what happens for us the next time when where there really is an emergency and the emergency youth Authorization is put into gear and the people say, no, you fooled us before, we're not going to pay attention. I mean, it gives us the opposite security that we need to have. And you know, so much of the government has been compromised and invalidated, and there's been such a breach of trust between the people and the government that they you know, the government is very laissez fair about this. Whether we're talking about, you know, voter fraud, we're talking about what happened with with COVID, what we're talking about fraud that you know, when Doge came in and Elon must said, I think there's at least a trillion dollars of fraud out there, and of course he was able to find a little bit under two hundred billion, and they all but tarred and feathered him out of DC.

18:10 Remember, oh yes, see what Elon Musk said was, we can't sustain this. And by the way, I can just calculate how much fraud there is. There's probably a lot more, but I can calculate how much fraud there was. And the elites said, if you target the government responds to whatever problem, education, homelessness, sickness, whatever the problem was, the environment, if you do it, what you really mean is you don't care if people get harmed. And that is what allowed people to attack him, to target him, and ultimately he's no longer serving in government. We cannot sustain the multi trillion dollar deficits that we are running. We cannot sustain.

19:05 I wish we could get him back. If not him someone like him to turn this around. Yeah, we're almost relying on a twenty five year old journalist who's gone around and exposing the fraud. You know, they talk about people being injured. How can you say people are not being injured when you have such waste and fraud operating in all these programs, Just like I mentioned, with just the welfare programs alone, one hundred and eighty billion dollars in fraud. I just spoke at the WCS conference at Colorado, Colorado University, and there was a gentleman in the audience from the UK and he told me, for the last six years he has been using private care for all of his medical treatment. That's because he can afford it, but the lion's share of citizens in the UK can't. And he said he did it not to be an elitist, but he did it because when his wife needed treatment for what they thought was lung cancer, she was placed on an eighteen month back list by the NHS and they said, no, we don't think we want to do that. Well, thank god it turned out that wasn't the right diagnosis.

20:28 But what if it had been and they waited until it was too late. In the UK, that is what is happening to a large number of people, and today in America we are seeing it, and it is precisely because we either have to throw billions and billions more at it, or we have to give a lesser and lesser service. If we continue this model, we're going to ruin the lives of American people. And so you're right, it isn't a choice between being selfish and inconsiderate. It's a choice between how many more people can we properly care for if we redesign the system, versus how many people's lives will be harmed if we stick with what we're doing.

21:21 Well. See, this is all part and parcel of what Barack Obama called the fundamental transformation of America. This is it, ladies and gentlemen, this is what he had proposed, and he did it in a very charming sort of way, and people applauded him. And it's just amazing to me, Horus, after all this evidence that people are still you know, supporting him. They look at him as you know, probably the best American president we ever had, and I think of all the lies and everything, and you know what they did. He along with Joe Biden and that administration, what they did to our economy, and it's it's laughable, and it just kind of reminds me if you remember all back in what the latter nineteen eighty eight, there was a Saturday Night Live deal, you know, when they had Bush. They were mocking George W. Bush and saying something that was rather incomprehensible about the economy and Dcaucus at the time. His response was, I can't believe I'm losing to this guy. And this is what I feel.

22:27 I feel the same way about what's going on, you know, with the DSA and what's happening with our country. I cannot believe we were losing to these people. Well, I'm going to have to be a little bit of an Obama truther here, and that is there are all these people that glorify him. There all these people that say amazing and wonderful. PolitiFact, which was the independent fact checker, said he told the. Lie of the year. Oh wait, not noble, glorious, no lie of the year. If you like your doctor, you can keep it. If you like your plan, you can keep it.

23:09 I went from one hundred and eighty seven dollars a month insurance plan in the private sector. I'm still in the private sector to an eight hundred and eighty dollars a month. My health situation hasn't changed. And yet that was the only way I could keep my plan. Oh and by the way, I looked around, and the other. Plans were even more expensive unless I went to the government care. I actually like living, I liked being healthy, and so I didn't. So it was a lie that if I liked my plan, I can keep it. It's a lie. If I like my doctor, I could keep it. He told it. He did it to get.

23:54 This dramatic power grab into place. So all those people up there that want to honor him, that want to adore him, you want to talk about lying to the American people. He stood in front of us, and it was worse than I did not have. Sex with that woman, Miss the Lewinski, because that involved only two people. This involved several million people. Yeah, you're talking three hundred and fifty million Americans. Oh yeah. By the way, he is the former constitutional law professor, recognized legal commentator, and author, the one and only Horace Cooper. Thank you, Horace, take care of God speed my friend, you too.

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28:12 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here along with doctor Wilford Riley. Hey, Well, how are we doing? Doing pretty well? Sleepy as we get ready for the start of the semester. But I'm doing doing happy and I'm glad to be alive. Well yeah, amen. Well, Doctor Rufford Riley is a professor of political science at Kentucky State University. Uh, you know, I was going to ask you about the kids that they're not back in class yet, so, uh, you know, just to see what they're saying about one Caitlin Clark and the w n b A. A lot of the kids. I mean, we're a southern school and both Apple Lachan and Black Kentuckians have a long kind of legendary basketball tradition. They're right on the border with Indiana k Wildcats and all that, So, I mean there are guys that watch the w n B A, and I think a lot of people are surprised that they're watching the w NBA, which now has this subplot of Caitlin Clark, who's the best female gunner probably in college histories, in the league, and they're kind of jordan rulesing her with their racial elements. Every time she goes to the hoop, people gramm her by the waist and throw her down and so on. You know. The Sophie Cunningham, who's actually on Clark's team, is another player who's gotten a lot of attention. She released her own line of shoes.

29:24 So there are people now that are walking around with the female players athletic shoes which are like bright pink. So I mean, yeah, they're guys that are going to watch them and watch Asia Wilson and so on in the fall. Most people, I don't think they really have deep thoughts about it. They just think the league has managed to move itself up to the point where it's reasonably competitive, like you know, watching our team, which is a D one double a level, or watching you know, college basketball. I think that's how it's viewed. Yeah, well, no doubt that. Sophie Cunningham. Of course, recently with what happened in Seattle and with those two young girls, those teenage girls being you know, I guess verbally attacked by the owner that was suspended for five games. It's kind of ludicrous. But you know, what happens on, you know, on the floor in play has just been you know, you keep thinking, well, is Sophie Cunningham going to be the female version of Lambier for Detroit?

30:18 Remember, Yeah, well, I think that's kind of her role where you've got the and I mean they're they're both Caucasian, they're both pretty funny, they're both I mean, like, so there are some similarities there, but more importantly, like, yeah, if you have a star player that's getting abused, I mean, the power forward of the center is usually going to come over and tell people, you know, if this happens again, you're not getting to the hoop, and that that has an effect. I like Cunningham. Sophie Cunningham's very funny. Cunningham's also the person who did that pointing me. Oh, I love the finger thing. That was just a great yeah. Like you're just shitting me on the court. But it's also just become a meme where people have Sophie Cunningham pointing at like the president of Venezuela and saying he's still here with Sophie Cunningham pointing at a door and saying, well, that's where trans athletes should go. And I mean they're they're left wing versions as well, so be coming in pointing at the debt. So yeah, I think she's she's gotten some attention for herself pretty well. The harassment or abuse of Clark, I mean, I think there are two elements.

31:14 One is there is a racial and social class component. The other is just any time you're a veteran in a league and someone's making you look stupid. I mean, remember some a version of this happening to Steph Curry, the real. Michael Jordan, the same thing, right, Yeah. That's what I was gonna say. The real nineteen eighties version was the Jordan rules, where the Detroit Pistons had a set policy you can't shoot from within this many feet of the hoop. We've got Lambier in there, We've got I think that Ronman in there. So when Jordan started doing it, he didn't he didn't agree, he didn't submit to that. They would just knock him down, they would hit him, tackle him. There's a great video called When Basketball Was a Man's Game that shows all of this fighting in the nineteen eighties and nineties with like Jordan and Pippen boxing with Lambier and Tom.

32:00 Some people are just fin say Thomas, I mean, here's he's that big a guy. But I mean he was, he was a past Yeah no, but. I mean there were guys on what's his name, but it ramb Us from the Lakers telling people, I mean it's an old I mean, you really remember that any of this stuff, like I don't approve of it happening to Clark, but any of that stuff Bird Parish that it would not have been viewed as very unusual. And the men's or even the women's game until recently. I do think that since the systems changed, the w NBA seems to be trying pretty hard to make itself unappealing. So certain things do work in marketing, Like you now have these two very attractive people. The fact that their Caucasian probably doesn't hurt, but they're kind of heartland checks.

32:43 I mean, Sophie Cunningham's from Indiana. I believe they play in Indiana and Bird watches the games. You know, they both are good marketers. So you have again Cunningham with the shoes, and the response of the league has been basically sort of neutral harassment. You know, they had a hoster of the thirty best WNBA players and they didn't put Caitlin Clark on it. Yeah, the fans had to pick her for the All Star Game. And when you look at this like this Seattle Storm thing where the owner almost got in a fight in the crowd, or if she was picking on these two teenage girls kind of see why, I mean the owner And I'm not trying to be stereotypically funny here, but it's like a five foot four butch lesbian who's currently in a lesbian marriage, who's a major Democratic donor. And the question is, is that what people are really looking for in sports? Like, yeah, I don't think so.

33:33 Yeah, I think we you know, you would think that they could learn some lessons even in the modern era. What happened, you know in football with Kaepernick, you know, trying to make something out of nothing. But I got to tell you this. I got to handle to Caitlin Clark and how she's responded. She's responded, you know, in some way Jordan esk Like when they tried to bring up something, you know, in get into the political realm, she stayed away from it. She says, look at my business is on the basketball court. That's what I'm about. And she did not, you know, take the bait to get into the political fray. Now, Sophie Cunningham has kind of entered into that, but she's still is walking a fine line just staying, you know, with her with her dogma that you know that men should not be in women's sports.

34:27 Yeah, And I mean I think that the trans thing again is an illustration of how bizarre our politics have gotten in recent years. I mean, we've always accepted there's look you address however you want, remember, Prince, if we're talking about the old days, Kurt Cobain, guys are walking around, howf guys are walking around dresses playing guitars. So that's fine, but to actually believe you're a member of the opposite sex. I actually talked about this with a Native American uncle and a couple of other people pretty recently. I think some of this is on video, but there's never been a society before that has thought that men would actually be women. You're taking people that have the mental illness of genderdice for you, if we're being blunt and you're presenting what they're saying as factually true. And Cunningham said, well, no, I mean these are girls sports. You're gonna change in a locker room with sixteen year old girls or foremones on both sides. You obviously can't have varsity boys doing that.

35:19 And it's just it's such an obvious truth, and I think again it endeared her to a lot of people. As sort of this blunt talking, you know, midwestern athlete. But yeah, both Clark and Cunningham and for that matter, other good players like Asia Wilson. In the WNBA, it's the same thing as the NBA. But if you ask them generally, Cunningham's made some exceptions. But what do you think of the level of physical play in the league, or what do you think? Much less about President Trump, They're going to say something like, well, my jobs to come out here, follow Jesus, score points and please the fans. And I actually I'm a big fan of athletes saying that I don't want to hear your take on you know, geopolitics, like they got they got a player and coach Steve Kerr out of his sheelle a few times I remember back in the day, and he would talk about Palestine, and he is from a diplomatic family. But are his insights really better than those of say someone in my field or in New York Times Well general report, let's keep it on that side, but probably not so I approve of like I'm here to I'm here to shoot the ball coach kind of kind of.

36:18 Commentary, right exactly. And the thing that's amazing to me again, you know, taking a look at what they should have learned from, you know, the Kaepernick story in the saga, and you know, just stick to your knitting, you know, do what you do best, keep it on the floor. And and the WNBA and the officials, the officials especially, That's that's what surprises me, will because the officials seem to be very active in maintaining kind of a blind eye to the abuse. I mean that situation with Clark when she's on the ground and I can't remember the player's name, but she, you know, she literally had her fist in her throat. It's like, okay, come on, yeah, no doubt.

37:00 Yeah, I think that again. There are two levels. There's some irritation with Clark, specifically because the characteristics were describing. The other is that, I mean most pro sports leagues you have a star system one and also a lot of cheating too. And we've got enough cameras around now that you can see it. But I mean I remember, like in the Chicago men's basketball leagues, and this is obviously not the NBA or anything, but when you got to that point where you're playing against guys and money might be on the table, people would start doing this stuff like trying to punch you in the crotch, and if you came to that for the first time from the high school team or something, you would point it out to the reftling you try to hit me, and he would just say the play on, play on, move down the court. And that's what the refs are doing there, they're saying you play on. The issue though, is now you have cameras going on ropes up and down the court.

37:44 You can't you can't really do that. And as the WNBA gets more viewers, bluntly, there're going to be more people seeing that stuff. If you've got four thousand people a game and they mostly hate Clark and Cunningham, that's you might get away with that. As it is a whole bunch of fans of those players that are now pointing this out. And the response of the kind of left leaning sports media, which is a weird phrase to say it is accurate, has been sort of Clark is bringing races to the games, like that's the spin that they've put on it that these racist maga hypes are these actual athletes are coming out now to watch this player as opposed to the dubs old fan base, which was mostly gay. Frankly like they were known for that, it was a famous upper class lesbian day, and that's they're going to have to decide what they want to do.

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43:33 Well, I think that this actually gets into something you said about athletics, where people use those lines like you know, the knitter to her reals or like cobbler to his last or whatever. Like. There traditionally have been things everyone was expected to do. You were expected to have a well and before you had a profession, I mean, you were expected to be generally athletic, or to work in high school, probably army after that stayed college. Like, there's this whole list of things are expected to do, pursue marriage, so on. We've had an enormous collapse in a lot of that. But I think a lot of academics on the right, in fact predicted going back to VP. Moynihan, although he was a politician, but as fatherhood's collapse, I mean, you have a seventy percent father absence at least in birth in the black community. It's up to forty percent for whites, fifty six percent for Latinos. Who surprised me, go ahead, yeah, but I mean it's it's there. There's a whole lot going on there. But I mean that would include like the Puerto Rican Cubans on communities in the USA. So when people say we're getting very traditional Latino immigrants, that's true if you're talking about like the Mexican upper middle class or something. But that's a huge category as is Asian.

44:39 Asian includes Pakistani for example, So if you broke out Japanese and Korean Americans, he'd probably find almost no crime. As versus there's an increase in crime in the Asian community. You have to ask, well, what's it, what's an Asian and anyway, But that's I think that because of a lot of these issues, you do have a lot of people that are basic, we rootless, and that have never started on the steps in life and I don't mean to do that get off my lawn thing that every male who owns a Nettie over thirty sometimes sinks into. But when I talk to students, there often is a lack of knowledge about what I think most of us would have considered very basic things like how do you talk to a girl, like not profanely, but also not in an entirely just friendly way. How do you invite someone on a date? And that extends to new things now like how do you write a paper without AI and COVID last point? And it is really I've had people ask how'd you guys write those fifteen page papers we used to assign in this class before AI tools and you go through the whole thing like where you do an intro, you do a theory section, and today I mean, I would say the rate of cheating, frankly, if we don't allow AI in the class is would probably be one hundred percent unless we just blue book people.

45:55 And that's not a commentary on Appalachians or African Americans. That would be the case in every school, like people have found. I think it was Mit where one of the professors thought he had his best stats class ever. He'd given them the midterm, and he let them take it home, and here's the sumptions that these are mit kids. No one's going to cheat on the midterm. But everyone comes back and the average for the classes in ninety six. So he starts assigning these more advanced statistical problems and everyone starts solving them easily. And then finally as the final in person, because that's the school policy, half the class doesn't come to it, and most people that do fail. So you've got this supplementary technology that's replacing a lot of skills. Anyway, across all of this, you get a lot of people that don't really mature and leave the nest.

46:39 And when you think about when you would find love, if we're talking on the romantic side, that would probably be first in high school the ideals to America high school sweetheart. Then you go to college, fraternity or whatever you're dating more widely good or bad that it's a reality. And if you if you skip over both of those, or you don't interact with people during both of those, and you don't do the military, where again there are a lot of women in the near some of those bases. If you don't do that, by the time you're twenty four, if you're living with your parents, what are you going to do? It becomes an issue and Dad's in particular, need to point this out, like, don't be abusive, but you know, I want you to apply for this number of jobs. I want you to join this men's organization, go to this church with us, because if you don't have a social framework by a certain point in your life, you're not going to get one. And in my experience as a men's mentor, that's when alcohol and drugs kind of creep in. There aren't a lot of drunks at seventeen of them. There aren't a lot of consistent drunks at seventeen, right, you know, but if you get to that mid if you get to almost middle age twenty eight, twenty nine and you haven't done these things, you're probably not going to do them. That's the problem.

47:44 Well, and to me, it's like you only have one life here, and it's sad to think that your human potential and what you could provide for a family, for a culture is wasted. And you know, and what do you do You wake up one day if you live to be sixty and go, oh my god, I missed. I missed the boat because I didn't participate, I didn't get in the arena. Yeah. I mean well, first, I think there are two levels there. On the one hand, when people, when motivational speakers, going back to the old sales trainers, zig Ziggler will say, you know there's never too late, Well, that's correct at some level. I mean we've had sixty year old graduate from our pre law program and go to UK or even Yale Law, and I mean that's so never give up.

48:32 But in practical terms, in terms of when like the human male body would start to fall apart or something like that, there are a lot of things physical dreams, be a lumberjack, being athlete you can't achieve after a certain point, and there are other things that are going to be far more difficult in practice. So when we talk about you know, you can become a doctor at fifty, sure, but you have to then find a hospital that's going to hire you on one of those five year residency contracts, I mean, like, so that's that's probably that might not occur either. Yeah, plus your stuff when you say, well I'm fifty, I've just got my license as a doctor, Well, what's your experience. Oh this is my first gig. That's a tough one. Yeah, it's very it's very difficult to sell that. And again it's once you commit to a certain path in life.

49:18 And I'm not encouraging people to say genuinely abusive marriages or something like that, but it's usually best to stay on that pet. I mean another posts kind of feminist category that we've seen this increased a little post me too statistically, is the person who's been a housewife and home manager for twenty years kind of gets bored and decides to leave and pursue her dreams. There was a cold cadre of these people that were linked with the business, sort of upper middle class female trips to Latin America to try ayahuasca. But I mean, you realize your life is not exactly what you want it to be, and you then try to change pursue exactly what you want to do. The reality is that if you've never had a job, male or female, and you're an extern whole job running a house of the job, but you're fifty forty eight, you're probably not going to work for the law firm you think you're going to work for. So there when you're making these decisions, there is an element of practical evaluation. Of course, life's not perfect, but what happens if I go this route versus what happens if I go this route? And I think we're being encouraged not to make that practical decision right now.

50:22 Well, you know, I think it's interesting because, you know, to hear you talk, it reminded me in my early years in broadcasting, there was a personality in LA radio that had captured the imaginations of a lot of lonely housewives. And in fact, I think it was also at the time when Glenn Campbell had come out with the song Everyday Housewife, right and kind of the doldrums of it, and this particular personality was almost encouraging the lonely house housewives to attack the mailman should they so desire. And you know, when you think, wow, what what you know? And and I believe that as a socialized construct and analysis, there were women that were buying into this and doing it and destroying their families and everything because they thought, well, hey, look at you know, this radio personality was all very contemporary and seemed like the cool thing, you know, surf's up and you know, because it's la you know, everything's relative to the serf surfs up. So there, let's go ahead and you know, go have some fun with a postman.

51:30 Yeah, I think this is something that's really common. Actually, so the two levels there, and I obviously haven't taken ayahuasca, but there are a bunch of bunch of chemicals of this kind that supposed they like oopen the doors of perception. My reaction to them is someone who actually meditates and so on down. The line has always been that a lot of the revelations seem intensely obvious your life is now. I'm sure they feel religious and transcendent in the moment, but of course your life isn't perfect. You know. I'm sure you love each but of all the people in the world, would you have picked your husband if you could have met every one of them? Like these are not actually very deep points. The question is you now live the life you live? Will it make your life better to not go to the gym or the dojo or something, but to have a rabbit affair because the guy on TV told you to Probably not, but that pitch, and that pitch to sort of dissatisfied up middle class women who are also the primary buyers of consumer products self help books. They have flaws just as we do. Is something that's gone on for a really long time, and you still see it today on social media, right like the constant oh what is mine? The idea right now is that women do everything in relationships and men contribute nothing. So like women will frequently list everything that they do around the house or in a part time job, like and I cook and I watch and it would be very easy and I respect that, but very easy for God to do the same thing, Like

53:01 then I get on the trade and then I get off it, and then I walk down the street carrying a forty pound backpack or twenty pound briefcase. Like, yes, we know you have a job. That's what all that adds up to. So I think it's important to kind of logically break that down and as well, is that bad? Do you dislike running your home or working as a lawyer? And I think put that way, the vast majority of people would. Say, well, no, not really right and exactly and then and this is where you know they can be mentored or even look at parents and hopefully if there's a healthy family where they see you know what happens when mom and dad stays together and the children, the family coming together at Christmas and you know, special holidays to mom and Dad's home and things like that. You know, those traditional you know, kind of rock Well type of painting expressions and ideas that I think warm the hearts.

53:53 I think that's the ideal. I think that's what most people would like to have. Yeah, of the available human options. Yeah, I think most people would like to find love, have a professional job, being fit, reasonable brain health, and so on. I mean, yeah, of course, a lot of peak guys, in particular wo prefer to be king of the world. The problem is that not everyone can be king of the world. This was always my issue with sort of like the Andrew Tait faction of the right, where people would say things like, you know, Alexander the Great wasn't committed to monogamy and these other silly rules, and it was well, Alexander the Great was one of the eight or nine most impressive people in history, so like he probably gets an exception, you know. I mean that's even then. I mean, the standard belief in the Catholic Church, I think is that him and even Cortes and so ownar and purgatory frax amount of years for their deeds. But if you're an insurance salesman in des Moines, you're probably not going to conquer Greece anytime soon, so you might as well bring your wife some flowers home. Like you are, in the life path that you have set yourself on and being tempted by the almost impossible. Sure, you can work toward that, you can build up your safe. One day you can say I'm a millionaire. That's fine, But at any given day you're not going to do those things. It's not going to work out well. If you leave your wife for two waitresses that you think are in love with you, that's not going to be successful generally. And that's why even a rational a moralist, even someone like Sam Harris, would say, well, the reason we have ethical rules is

55:23 simply that those are the rules that, over time, through evolution or whatever, we have determined work for people. Amen. I think that's a very logical argument. Why can't you have a wife and a mistress? Well, because from one hundred years of observation of the nation of France we see that it doesn't work very well. That's it. You don't really have to go into these sort of deeper analyzes. Exactly On that happy note, we'll leave it there for now. Doctor Wilford Riley, the professor of political Science at Kentucky State University, thank you will have a good day. Bill. We call ourselves a SAP Travel for one reason. We can help you book a ticket ASA. For those of you that don't know, that means as soon as possible.

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57:49 What does that say about the Democratic Party? Yeah? I think what we're seeing right now is you are seeing the furthest left wing, the socialist base of the Democratic Party is now taking over there war with the establishment, and their candidates are winning across the country, from Mam Donnie to Graham Platner to now l said, this is where the energy, where the juice is among Democrat voters, and what they're saying is radical and these people are socialists, they are communists. We have to do more than tell the public just that word that, we have to say what they're actually for. The one thing, the only thing I'll give the socialist credit for, is that they're so crazy they're willing to say out loud the things they support. And they're out of the closet. Exactly. Yeah.

58:29 And if you look at the dssay the Democrats socialists, their their platform, their tax proposals, the things they would do to the economy are horrifying, their immoral and we have to be sounding the alarm on this because it's what they're saying out loud they're going to do when they're putt in power. Right exactly, Well, I mean that's what mum Donnie did in New York and so like it just cracks me up. The New Yorkers they act like they're surprised and going, where were you at? I mean, this is what he campaigned on. I mean, you know, this is basically the first job of his life that he's had and here he is in Gracie Mansion, not Gracie mansion. But he's in New York, in New York City. But he's he's got you know, control of you know what capital is, you know, the capitalization headquarters of the planet, New York City.

59:22 And look what he's made no bones about this. He's publishing the list of people who are going to be subject to the peditaiy A tax because it's the point is to be vindictive. If you look at his his outright socialis chief of staff, they're like they're absolutely glowing and excited about this. And then of course the second they move forward with their tax increase, they're telling the public this is only on second homes worth five million dollars and then aloe and behold, it also applies to million dollar apartments in New York City, which that has a lot of people in a high cost area like New York City. Right, this is just evidence that when Democrats say we're only going to raise taxes on the wealthy, it's the beginning of a sense tins that finishes first, then we're going to come for you.

1:00:03 Yeah, I mean that has been the pattern, you know, for over one hundred years, has been consistent, and you know, you know another case in point. Look at the poster child of all this is this, you know, the entire state of California, the Uniparty. Yeah, that's exactly right, and they are causing their tax base to flee. We're at atr we're always pointing out the U haul data that Democrats like to pretend it's only the wealthy wellth you know, a billionaire is not renting a U haul to move and to lead the state that is that is that is a normal families, American households, working class, middle class who are who are moving with U hauls. And what you see from the U haul number is California is always among the top states with people leaving the state. They're moving to Texas, they're moving to Florida, they're moving to low income, low tax, less regulation states.

1:00:53 Uh. And that's going to continue to hollow out their tax base. And while we're seeing these radical progressives as socialists posing things like a wealth tax because they're out of money where else to go. It's a desperate attempt in there. And you see the governor of New York yelling at the people that she told only three or four years ago to go ahead and leave the state. We don't need you now. She's begging them to come back. Yeah, come back and bring a friend. Yeah, yeah, it's great tax your friend. Well yeah, I don't know if you were were of this, but in California, and they've been kind of doing this in a subtle sort of way, but they want to codify it, and that is, if you leave California, you're still beholden to California. I think they want as much as ten years of tax revenue because their claim is is you made your money in this state and you just can't take it because somehow it belongs to the state.

1:01:39 Right And of course, what is this going to do. It's gonna prevent new people from moving into the state. Why would you start a business in California if you know that's what they're going to do to you that if you ever have to leave, they're gonna come in sofie, they're going to raise your taxes while you're there, and they're gonna prevent you from leaving. Why start a business there in the first place. And that's the unseen cost of this is that anyone who's going to college has the next bright idea, you know, why would they start their business in California. They're going to go elsewhere. It's the unseen cost and as we'll continue to see California hollow out. Yeah, they chased they chased us down for about five years, and they kept sending messages in my accountant. You know, we had already told them we'd closed out the business and we had moved to you know, to Florida, and he had been in touch with them repeatedly, and they said, you know, and they just they just relented until I don't know, they finally, you know, we haven't heard from them in at least ten years. But they chased us down for at least five years. They were constant just being an annoyance, but they had no standing. There wasn't anything they could do.

1:02:42 Yeah, and congratulations I winning in your fight with the state of California. I'm sure they were relentless. Well, that's exactly their proposal. They just see, there's no policy for growth, there's nothing to help small businesses. It's just what can we do to get the most money out of you as possible. To keep funding this, Democrats spend to keep being the party of government, to keep handing out money to the public sector unions, it's what democrats do. They take from you, they take from families, and they give to their Democrat constituents. Yeah, so they can maintain power. That's the bottom line. Has nothing to do with serving the American people. It's serving themselves. I mean they've had a long history of this. I mean, how does someone like Nancy Pelosi, for example, you know, come away earning you know, millions upon millions of dollars. I mean it's to the point they've dedicated a you know, an app, an investment app and you know, what are Nancy, what are Nancy and Paul up to?

1:03:39 And what's their latest investments? Right? Well, that's the way Democrat politics, That's the way socialism has always worked. It's always them who get rich. You look at right now, this this new candidate who just won his primary in Michigan, Abdul Sayid. His whole thing is running against you know, then we're gonna come after, We're going to eat the rich. He's a one percenter himself. I completely misses that, the hypocrisy of it all. And of course, like this is what you're seeing these democrats, Uh, the gram Plantner consultants who did this preposterous interview where they're talking about all the all the ways they failed to vet the candidate. How did they miss that the Democrat Senate candidate was a rapist when it was right out there in the open. You know, they they miss it because they're they're you know, millionaire socialists who are trying to seize power.

1:04:26 That's right, yeah, exactly. Yeah. They got away with it with Bill Clinton, but this time around it's a little bit more of a challenge just because of you know, the uh you know, you know, the social media networks that are available now, and uh, it's it's hard to overcome. And here it is. I mean, in this particular case, let's let's unwrap a little bit here the one percent lifestyle of one uh al, I'll say yet, go ahead. Yeah, well, well of course, and I think we should we should focus we're talking about before where of course it's not enough to just say the word socialist. We have to remind them public what that actually means, because alarmingly, socialism now has a favorable view, and that favorable view from Democrat voters.

1:05:08 But what that actually it's amazing, it's amazing because when you talk about Democrat, you're talking highly educated Democrat voters. It's not the common man they say they're serving the common man. The common man is not buying in the message. They know there's no such thing as a free launch right. So that's exactly right. And let's talk about what l we mentioned. The at least the socialists are willing to say what they're for. So what else I U is for? What his campaign plank is, What he's running on is to soak people in new tax increases, to bury American families. He wants to impose a payroll tax increase on American workers. He wants to raise the capital gains tax rate, raise the top income tax rate. And then, alarmingly, the most shocking thing I saw on his planet I thought was crazy, was he wants to take the death tax, major death tax, and increase one of the most immoral taxes the book that President Trump has provided significant relief for. He wants to lower that all the way down to an exemption of just one million dollars. I mean that any inheritance you want to pass on to your kids, your total net worth million dollars, That is absurd. You're talking about a lot of farms in Michigan that would be hit by that if they're trying to keep the farm in the business. A lot of lake houses in Michigan would be subject to a million dollar death tax level. He wants a double death tax. By eliminating stepped up basis.

1:06:23 This is the inflation adjustment. This is insane. So you're talking about what has really motivated entire political movements, the death tax. Bringing this back to something we saw to all the way before the Bush ears, eliminating stepped up basis with a second death tax. Dramatically, you're now coming after people's life nests, their savings, they've worked all their life to pass on to their kids. And what does he want to do with it. It's just because he hates those people. Deeply im moral tax. This is what this guy's running on. Yeah, as if you're not dead enough, we're going to make sure you're really dead. That pallet of pavers collecting dust, the beginnings of a garden, those stray fence posts. Are you haunted by half finished projects on your land? John Deere is here to say not anymore. Our compact tractors allow you to swap implements easily, and they're backed by the nation's largest dealer network. You always have the right idea and with the right tools, those projects can get finished for good. Nothing runs like a deer. Learn more at John Dere dot com slash Compactractors hop.

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1:11:21 That's magavitamin dot com Nutrition for Patriots. The Americans for Tax Reform Tax Policy director Mike Collins continues with us, Yeah, you're exactly right, I mean, but that is socialism. Socialism on its face is immoral because it's godless. Exactly rightly, think about what this man's running on. But with this death tax increase, he is saying that when you die, not only is it enough to face the certainty of taxes and death in life, but also taxes after death. Right, he wants the government to come in and take thirty seven percent of your life safe. You could go to Las Vegas, but your entire savings on a blackjack table or a spin in the wheel, not in a garment or anything. But if you want to be responsible and pass it on, if you want to take your family owned business and give it to the next generation, he's going to come and take thirty seven percent of it.

1:12:17 That infuriates people, rightfully, so, and this is what this guy's running on. This This is what socialism means. Yeah, Like as if it isn't tough enough that you've lost mom or dad, exactly right, you're grieving that, and then now the state comes in and gives you even more grief to deal with. There's a great example of this. Christinome when she was in Congress, she used to leave the effort to repeal the death tacks entirely. She had a personal story from it and was that when she was twenty two, she had to come back from college because her father got killed in a green silo accident and the family had to deal with pain the death tax that she had to step up at ages twenty two in her father's death and start talking about how are we going to save our family is land because we have to pay the government a massive tax now because her father died.

1:13:05 This is the type of thing that people have to deal with when paying the debt tax. This guy wants to take it all the way down. I believe it's a thirty million dollar exemption now, all the way down to one million people. That is a massive tax increase, greatly impacting the number of families that would be hit by this. You see, and the delusion here in the slide of hand especially, you know, to these young people, they think, well, a million dollars, that's a lot of money. But wait a minute, when you have property that's worth multiple millions, fifteen million, twenty million dollars, a million dollars you can't recover, how are you going to make up that difference? Exactly right? And when Democrats talk about the death tax, they talk about raising you know, only the top income tax. What they understanding is that there are millions of individually owned small businesses that pay taxes for the individual side. So when they're talking about millionaires, if you're talking about a million dollar company, that's a little bit of a different question.

1:14:01 You're talking about people who are employing a small amount of people. That's the backbone. You know, ninety nine percent of exactings in this country is what you're talking about. You're going to raise taxes on You're coming to hit the little guy, and you're coming to hit their workers. And this is exactly what this guy's campaigning on, what would be the largest tax increase in American history, and he's just out there opening it. We need to be shouting from the rooftop. So this is what Democrats will do if they take back Congress. Yeah, and these people need to see the supply chain. Just like you said, If they attack the owners, then who's going to provide the jobs? You know? And I think that you know, Jeff Bezos had a great response when he was asked about why he didn't pay more money like this, if the guy doesn't pay a lot of money already, it's like, wait a minute, you know, you know, you'd be shocked at the at the check.

1:14:46 If you saw the check that he had to write. Of course they do it all electronically now, but even if you saw the digits going out and you're going, oh my god, that's a lot of millions of dollars you just sent out, and they're saying, well, why don't you give more? Well, okay, I give a lot already to the government. And they're this inefficient, they've got this much fraud and corruption. You know, even Elon Musk went in to give a Lookxie thought, you know, just on the surface that easily there's a trillion dollars of fraud and waste, right, and they all but tarred and feathered him. He could probably get up to about two hundred billion dollars worth of revelation. And even right now in the latest reports, medicaid itself is I think they are about one hundred and eighty billion dollars in fraud just in medicaid a loan mic.

1:15:32 Yeah, exactly right. And of course, you know, we look at the example of Minnesota and it seems the Democrat Party was fully aware of. This that a lot. Of course, they were dramatically increased under Governor Waltz's watch, and I think it's because they're willing to turn the blind eye to it because it's all money flowing to their constituency from taxpayers. Right. And if we look at well, the other thing is is you got to watch the rest of the flow. There's also they get they get part of the viig they're that money they're getting there. I mean, this is this is a mafia operation, is what it's come down to. And this is why the mafia goes and you call me a criminal, give me a break. We we saw examples in Minnesota of these these left wing groups, of these of the seconds of the community getting money and giving it back to the state Democrat Party rank tax payer dollars flowing through fraud back to the Democrat Party to go and win elections for Democrat candidates.

1:16:24 Uh So that's that's I think the fig you're talking about there. And and just again what they're going to come and do to American households. Even Barack Obama understood and set out loud that you don't raise taxes in a when the economy is down. What they're proposing is just insane. Like they back to the Bezos point, Yeah, they think they can come and tell you know, oh, we're going to raise the corporate income tax, and that's only gonna hurt big businesses. We're only gonna take money. We're going to punch them in the nose, and you won't be impacted. President Trump understood the most pro growth thing he's done and both of his terms, was to take our corporate rate of third thirty five percent, highest in the developed world, down to twenty one percent. Even Communist China's only at twenty five percent rate. We finally got below Communist China's. Corporate democrats think that, you know, this is a way you can hide who actually pays taxes.

1:17:16 All the economic literature out there shows at about fifty to seventy percent of the corporate tax is burden by workers in the form of lower wages. If you want to give people a pe increase, the best thing you can do is cut The corporate Democrats are running on returning to pre Trump levels. The opening bid from every Democrat is going to be repeal the Trump tax cuts. Oh yeah, now itself, it would be the largest tax increase we've seen in probably seventy five years. Right. The other part of the biso's response, and I'm not sure, I articulated it, but he said, look at I'm better off taking the money that I have. I'm gonna pay my taxes, but the money I'm better off investing it in the company and creating more jobs and paying people more than giving it to the government that's loaded up with all this fraud and waste, and they've already proven to be inefficient anyway, So why would I put good money after bad in a sense? And I think that's wisdom.

1:18:10 And people who are in that corporate arena, at that level, they understand that that their investments and their people. Like if you remember when Trump had in his first term, had you know, given all this money back to the corporations, right, Nancy Blosi, all the Democrats were going crazy, Oh, they're just going to spend that money and everything. They don't you know, this is just how stupid they are because they don't understand how business works, you know, a businessman, especially when they start early. I mean they're taking loans from relatives, you know, parents, doing everything they can to start up the business. Development now gets to the point where it's doing really well and they've got you know, hundreds thousands of employees in that and what are they going to do when they get a windfall. They're going to put it right back. They're going to capitalize their business and they're going to invest in What do they do?

1:19:01 They gave bonuses to their people. They shared that money, and the Democrats were just shocked, and even the mainstream media they didn't even know how to report on it. Mike, Yeah, And Democrats they want to talk about, is if all of that new investment in the economy, you know, that doesn't that doesn't hit main street, that doesn't hit people's retirement accounts. Right, they have to wake up? What time it is? It's We now have sixty two percent of Americans involved in the stock market through their four to one k's, the ra their retirement plans, their pensions. We're seeing a great rally in the stock market right now this week. My gosh, we're tending that the majority of Americans aren't noticing that aren't seeing their retirement accounts. I have my kid's new Trump account on my phone.

1:19:44 I was going to say, real, in another ten years, what do you think that number is going to be. It's going to be seventy seventy two percent probably, you know, because you've got all these young people with the Trump accounts that are getting involved with whether or not it was ones they're just born. They're saying, hey, any any kid you know, you can, you can put any kid into it Trump account. And that's and that's what we want, right, that's right. When you have people invest in the market, it changes not just it changes their behavior from a voting standpoint, but it changes the type of news they're consuming, what they're following, a better understanding of how the overall economy, how the stock market's impacting them directly. They're crucial important things. This is the direction of American society's headed in more people invest in the market, so that when we're seeing new investment, new cap acts in American businesses, pro growth, tax policy, helping the market rally, that's benefiting all household it's helping people's retirement savings, their savings.

1:20:37 And you'll have a positive attitude about the economy instead of you know, the media trying to find reasons to you know, make it look bad because you know it's it's not in their political interest to give you an objective report on what's going on. I mean, listen to how many of them are even talking about the stock market and what kind of you know things that they've been generating, and the kind of you know income that people are looking at their four oh one case and you know they're celebrating these days as opposed to getting depressed. Right. Yeah, And of course we have to look too what's driving that, because we had a great report out this week showing that because of the Trump tax cuts, primarily, we have seven straight months of growth in the manufacturing sector, a complete reversal of the contraction we saw during the bite in years. The Democrats themselves will will go and argue that, well, manufacturing is the backbone of the middle class. Well, if you look at the manufacturing sector right now, it's doing pretty well. I think the PMI square that's to be up to fifty six percent. These are record highs and against seven straight months of growth in the manufacturing sector.

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1:25:41 Hey, we're back with you, America. I'm glad you can join us for more information on the show You're going to Build Martinez Live dot com. Sisily Waters is going to be joining us. She's the director of Communications with FMCSA, and we've got an important message for veterans. Some great, high demand career opportunities are in are in the for you. With qualified commercial truck drivers in high demand nationwide, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is highlighting how vets and transitioning service members can turn their military experience into rewarding civilian careers. FMCSA is committed to helping military personnel transition into the transportation workforce through programs that make it easier, faster, and more affordable for qualified military drivers to obtain a commercial driver's license. One initiative, the FMCSA Even Exchange Program, allows eligible military drivers to exchange their military driving credentials for a CDL and transition more quickly into civilian careers, and here to tell us more about it is Cicily Water cisly welcome to show. Good to have you with us.

1:26:51 Thank you so much, Bill, happy to be here. Well, what an exciting opportunity to be able to fast track something like this and to help vets because we know that commercial drivers are in demand right now. That's right, and we're so excited that President Trump rolled out this Freedom Hauler's Initiative recently. And what the Freedom Hauler's Initiative is, It's really about highlighting this wonderful opportunity and pathway for our nation's veterans. It allows them to continue serving their country even after they've hung up the uniform, but serving in a different way as a truck driver. Well, talk about the qualities that veterans, because sometimes veterans, you know, they've been so focused on their military career when they get out and enter into civilian life, they have a hard time transition because they can't quite connect the dots and appreciate what they bring, you know, to the workspace.

1:27:48 Oh don't I know it, Bill, I'm a veteran myself. I served ten years in the US Air Force, and I can tell you that sometimes as a veteran, you don't even realize those qualities that you are bringing that civilian employers are looking for, and particularly in the trucking industry, those employers are going to be looking for inherent qualities that veterans likely already possess. And those include things like safety and professionalism, like leadership and accountability, experience operating that complex equipment and driving those big trucks, and just the ability to work independently and complete a challenging our critical task like transporting loads of critical equipment from across the country, and so many of our veterans are going to have those inherent qualities.

1:28:40 Well, Cilely, you're talking to a veteran as well a marine, and it's okay. My brother, my oldest brother, was Queer Air Force, so we love the Air Force. Our family had just about all the services covered with our dad and the Army, our second brother in the Army, and then my oldest and Air Force and me and the Marine. So you know, we had it very well covered. So we we appreciate the veterans transition and what they've had to go through. I say the number one thing the veterans have in their ethos is they show up for work every day on time. You got that right, Bill, And you know, just like your family. My dad was in the Marines and my husband is currently serving in the Maryland National Guard, and so we're a military family, and you're right, just that commitment to showing up, you have that self discipline, and all of those qualities are needed as a successful truck driver.

1:29:33 Well, how do fmcsay's programs, including the even Exchange program help vets and transitioning service members earn CDL more quickly? So, the Federal Mortar Carrier Safety Administration, we are an element within the US Department of Transportation, and we have a program known as the even Exchange Program, which allows military veterans who meet specific qualification to streamline that CDL licensing process. So in participating states, veterans can have both that CDL driving skills test as well as the knowledge test. Both of those can be waived for them, allowing them to really just do a true even exchange of their military credentials for commercial driving license.

1:30:24 Of course, commercial driving you know, news has been upfront center here recently and what Donald Trump did in solving an issue we had to, you know, take people who had gotten a CDL that were immigrants that didn't even know how to speak the language. And you know, and that it's one thing to say, look at okay, we've got to bring safety back to back to our highways and byways. Certainly that was critical, but the fact of the matter is is that suddenly we we found ourselves in need of commercial drivers. So talk about an answer, you know, to a problem that came upon us unexpectedly when there was this void. I mean, it was necessary.

1:31:08 You know, we had to get people who are unsafe, they didn't understand the language off the off the highways, and you know, and away from these these commercial drugs. Right, that's right, And we truly appreciate the President, the leadership of Secretary Duffy, and at FMCSA we have administrator bars and they are really focused on safety. You know, it really all stems from safety, as you mentioned, and this is just a natural opportunity and a natural transition to take these veterans who we know already possessed those core qualities that can make them successful, safe, great truck drivers and make that pathway and that transition easy for them.

1:31:53 And that's really what this freedom Hauler's campaign and the even exchange program is all about. Yeah, we love this, you know commercial truck drivers. Course, now, as I just laid out, now, even an increased demand and the kind of queer opportunities and benefits that veterans can expect in the transportation industry is huge. I mean you're talking a lot of these drivers, I mean pretty quickly are making six figure incomes, if I might say. That's right. So you've got great paying jobs that also still allow the veterans to serve in a capacity where they can still give back to the country, support something greater than themselves. And as a veteran, you know what I'm talking about here, Bill, when when I say that, we always have that sense and desire to want to do something greater than ourselves and to be true patriots for the country. And that's just another way to be able to do that.

1:32:50 Let me ask you about the cm BOSS grant. What is that about? Yeah, so the CMVOST. That's a long acronym. You know, the federal government were great in developing our acronyms, But that stands for Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training and so at FMCSA we have a CMVOST grant program that allows us to give federal funding to CDL training programs. Many of these training programs are going to be housed in your local community, colleges or other training sites, but we give this federal funding to those programs so that those programs can then provide scholarships to veterans as well as their families to pay for CDL training completely out of pocket, with no out of pocket expense to them.

1:33:43 Wow, that's what a great program that has been implemented to make it you know, as we say in the vernacular easyps right. That's right, making it easypsy, just a smooth transition. So you've got opportunities there for those veterans who do have the experience of driving the heavy vehicle and can participate in the even exchange program. But then also for those veterans who do not, they can take advantage of free CDL training through our CMVOST grant. Well, we're talking with Cicily Waters. She is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, as we like to say with the initials, because you know government types, they love initials.

1:34:26 FMCSA Director of Communications, Cicily. As we start to wind things down here, let's talk about the FMCSA highlighting its military driver programs around Higher a Vet Day. Yeah, so Higher a Vet Day is just a day every year where we ask employers to really think about what can you do to further promote bringing in those qualified veterans into your companies, into your agencies. And the trucking industry has really answered the call on that. In fact, Warner one of our great partners, they have committed to hiring at least fourteen hundred veterans over the next year.

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1:39:51 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here. Good to have you with us. Great to have the one and only Adam Altster pluck dot com. Hey, mister Adam. How are we doing, Betty? Oh, I'm good. How are you doing? Hey, I'm doing okay. Just keeping an eye on the communists. You know they're coming, they're here. Actually, Oh man, I mean there's so much we could say, but I think my response is keep praying and and just watch because I mean we already see what's happening in New York City that the easily made promises are not so easily kept. Let's put it that way, right. Well, that's historically consistent, isn't it Exactly? That's what the socialist the communists do. And you know, I got to tell you people of faith that I'm running into you know, they're starting to get nervous. And I said, well that's I think that's a good response. Yeah, but you don't want to be frozen in fear. You want to seek God to say, Okay, what what are we What are you telling us? I mean, is this is this one of those Old Testament warnings that came before judgment, you know, and of course we've had lots of warnings over the recent decades of space and where we are right now, you know, we're seeing what secularization of a society can do.

1:41:07 I mean, it's real clear. You know, as you say, I've been using it seems more often than not, the term contrast. It's we're not in a gray area anymore. It's it's either or right now. That's right, and I think it behooves us as much as we can, you know, without jumping up and down and just screaming in a way that you know, people tune us out. To keep talking to the younger generations about the reality of communism, because I think with gen Z there is there's a disillusionment. There's a disillusionment with you know, the perceived inequities of capitalism. And you know, when we have news stories about billionaires and trillionaires, it's not hard for me to see how that can happen.

1:41:58 But we've got to press the pos button and say, okay, wait a minute, this is a conversation we need to have because whatever the problems with capitalism might be, they're nothing compared to the mess of communism. Well exactly, I mean it's a growth opportunity. And you know, this is the thing that I've been trying to communicate with the young people in my orbit, and I said, said, you don't want to waste your time if you could talk to some of these people, especially they were young ones, and when their government got taken over by socialist communist fascists, I mean, it took years, it took decades. It was like their life was was wasted because maybe this happened when they were teenagers, and by the time they got out of it, you know, they're seniors. I mean they're fifty, sixty, seventy years old, and so what can you do at that point to recapture those years that were lost, those years of productivity, those years of creativity, the years that you know, could define you where you could be the best version of yourself instead of being told what to do and how to do it right.

1:43:07 Well, and that's the thing I mean. Communism in economic theory is called a command economy, which is that somebody up in an office says, this is what you're going to do, and you know, I saw an article about these grocery stores in New York City and the list of rules that they're going to have, this is what you have to do, and there's no they're They're given as an edict without any connection to market reality. And that's the fundamental problem with command economies is you don't you don't have any connection with what the market is actually doing. And those of us who took some economics, we know about Adam Smith, we know about the invisible hand.

1:43:53 We know that the market works in ways that you can't always predict and some times makes you scratch your head a little bit. But it's a constant ebb and flow in response to supply and demand at the most basic level. And I've told all my kids, you know, when you go to college, I think the most important classes you might take might be microeconomics and a macroeconomics class so that you understand at the basic level, assuming that you know, they get a good teacher and not somebody who's trying to indoctrinate them why these dynamics work the way they do and why communism can never deliver on what it promises because it does the communis. No person, no matter how smart, and no team and no office full of people, is going to be as smart as the market. That's just the reality of it.

1:44:44 Well here it is. I mean, you could have one or two people up in the Ivory Tower making a decision and it's your intelligence against three hundred and fifty million cmulative intelligence exactly. I mean, it doesn't make sense. And even our founding fathers kind of understood that by the race of God, and I think, you know, by insight from the Holy Spirit, to realize you can't put enough laws into place. Right, you know. I mean if God himself who came down, you know, and the law came down from Mount Sinai with Moses to say, hey, I just want you to do ten things right, Just just do just do these ten things, you. Know, and we'll be cool.

1:45:24 Right, Yeah, And here we are, you know, centuries later, and we're still dealing with that. But the fact of the matter is is those ten simple things, those are the boundaries. And that's what you need. That's first steps to measure yourself, to say, okay, can I keep the law. It's like, you know, driving down the road and there's a fifty five mile an hour speed limit. Well, just ask yourself, am I meeting the objective of the law? Am I obeying the law? Am I breaking the law? Right? And what are we? Nine out of ten are breaking the law and the one out of ten he's getting run over and he looks like one of those cartoon cars, you know, you know, they're just spinning in the in the slow lane as everybody goes passing by them.

1:46:08 Right, yeah, that's exactly right. And so I think, I mean, we laugh about it, but but it does have serious consequences. It does. And hopefully what we can do is connect these thoughts in such a ways say, look at you know, we've been breaking the law for a long time here, and now it's starting to catch up with us. And meanwhile, because we've been breaking the law, we've set a pattern and the next generation comes in and goes law, what law? Who cares about the law. Let's just get rid of you know, let's get rid of the police. Let's see, we don't need the law. We don't know stinking law. Right, right, and yet there are always economic consequences, right, you have the politics that says, well, you can just steal whatever you want out of these stores because it's all insured anyway, and nobody gets hurt, right up until the moment those retailers decide to say no, our loss is at this location and are unsustainable, We're gone, and then all of a sudden there's a real cost to everybody else, and we're seeing that happen. So you know, as usual, we're sort of all over the map here, not necessarily talking about entertainment, but just media discernment, because I think the connection to what I do at plugged In is that, more than ever, our kids are getting ten and fifteen and thirty second sound bites that oftentimes are based on emotion that have nothing to do with reality or fact, and we have to teach them not only to discern stuff in you know, TV and movies and music, but you know, all of these voices are

1:47:42 coming at them, and they don't have, without training, the ability naturally to necessarily know what's true and what's false. And so we've got to be involved with that as parents well. Without a doubt, and especially right now, I mean, you know, of course, you know to me, I look at plugged in as a you know, a culturally impactful Yes, it's movie, it's entertainment, but it gets us all thinking if we're thinking about movies or think about entertainment, and that then okay, guess what what's valid? What's a valid conversation and question you can have about the about the culture in terms of entertainment, and that you can utilize that same skill set when it comes to it comes to news, like, for example, what we've been dealing with with doctor Fauci.

1:48:27 And you know, as you just said, understanding being discerning between a truth and a lie, and understanding also that when you stand on the truth, that there is a cost for that right, right, exactly right, And many of us paid that price for truth. And you know what, at the end of the day, Adam, I'm glad I paid that price. It was painful and I still feel some of the effects of it to this day. But but I'd much rather pay the price for truth than for the lie. Well, that's exactly right, because we know where the lie takes us. The lie takes us. Into the black hole. And maybe it's one small step and we don't necessarily feel it initially, but.

1:49:10 That's the problem. I mean to use another cliche, it's the frog and the kettle. Right. When you put enough for those lies, as you know, sticks of wood on the fire and heat the kettle up, eventually the frog's cooked. And we don't want to be the cooked frog. I don't want to be a cooked frog personally. Well, well, I'll tell you what. Let's in these last couple of minutes here together. Yeah, let's talk about some you know, some movie types you know. Yeah, so this is the time of year where there's just a whole bunch of drek in theaters. It's a bunch of R rated stuff that is really extreme, and so there's. Not much new worth talking about. I think it's interesting that Spider Man continues to massively overperform, even out pacing fairly optimistic projection. So I think that speaks to people like Spider Man, they like Tom Holland, and they like Zendeia.

1:50:06 I don't know that. Probably and probably the hunger for good entertainment and entertainment right that you can go in and take the family and enjoy. Why not, you know, and you know, when there's nothing in theaters worth really talking about. We also review tv uh and there is a new show called fluff Piece, which is a kids show and it's a part of the Wonder Project and that of course is the the initiative from John and Andy Irwin, and it is a sort of a sub subscription on Prime Video and they have things like Sarah's Oil House of David, you know, the the Moses series, and fluff Piece is about an investigative journalist named Fiona Flash and she has a cute little dog with glasses named Fluff and they are investigating mysteries in their hometown, like is a mythical pegasus really casting its shadow high above town. So it feels like a throwback to mister Rogers kinds of entertainment where you really didn't have to worry that there's a doctrination baked into everything that's happening, which unfortunately, even with shows aimed at young children these days, that's often the case. So you can check out our full review of that obviously at plugged in dot com.

1:51:31 There he is Adam Holtz and a Ministry of Focus on the Family right. A Ministry of Focus on the Family and we review music, movies, TV video games, YouTube channels, books, technology. Come check it out at plugged in dot com. Have you written a book where do you have a manuscript ready and just need to find the right publisher. Christian Faith Publishing supports authors like yourself to bring their books to life, and right now we're offering you a free writer's guide designed to steer you towards book completion. Christian Faith Publishing evaluates each manuscript we receive. If your book earns approval, we take care of everything editing, designing, printing, promotion, and widespread online and in store distribution. Picture your book, greasing the shelves of specialty Christian bookstores, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and numerous other retail destinations. It's time to get that manuscript published and to work with a publisher who shares your values of integrity and honesty. You can get your book published, get your manuscript reviewed, and a free writer's guide today.

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