The Bill Martinez Show 09 09 26

0:00 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 bill martinez here we got christian briggs back with us uh we had to go after him hard uh he's been running he can hide but we can catch up to him sooner or later And we're just glad that he's back. He's the CEO of Heart Asset Management and a political and economic strategist. Christian, welcome back. Good to have you with us. Thanks, Bill. Love being here. Hey, lots to catch up on. Well, first of all, let's talk about these flock cameras and, you know, the craziness that that's bringing as if we don't have enough to deal with already, right?

0:48 Yeah, you know, flock cameras, 117,000 already installed across the United States with another 150,000 expected over the next two years. When you start to get about 300,000, and that's a pretty good number, but when you start to get to 350, 400,000, you're pretty much surveilling about 80% of the people in about 600 of the largest cities in America. I mean, think about that. I mean, you know, when you and I were growing up, not a big worry, but we saw the creep. It's a slow creep, but now it's like, it's almost like on the other side of the mountain, you know, gaining momentum, right? Yeah. And remember, Flock Camera is owned by Palantir. Palantir holds more information and data than any other single company from the intelligence communities.

1:35 So what brought this to bear is that, you know, we found out that, you know, law enforcement was using this for personal purposes, right? And so then all of a sudden it was like, oh, you know, the shroud is pulled back and we're seeing what's behind the veil. And this is pretty crazy. Yeah. So what you have is law enforcement has to have a specific login and password to be able to utilize the systems for identifying anybody that might have gone mostly traffic violations, red light, running, speeding. But now they're using it for a host of things, including some law enforcement officers.

2:17 are using it to track their wives or husbands or girlfriends or boyfriends or nieces, nephews or somebody they just met. And they're doing it in an extremely nefarious way. And what's interesting about it is how many of the law enforcement officers have been charged with felonies for doing this. And in fact, it's gotten so bad that some cities now are talking about banning the cameras altogether. Well, yeah. I mean, is it too late to put the genie back in the bottle here? Oh, it's way too late. Now, this is all tied into when you go to the airports, you have your digital ID, your biometrics. They actually can see through the front windshield so they can match your biometrics face recognition with your license plate to confirm it was you who was driving. And so if they ever want to use it against you for transportation, no problem. Also, it's all going digital for your wallet here in the next 18 months.

3:06 We're not going to have much use for cash anymore. Mm-hmm. So this sounds a little bit like what they've been doing in Israel in terms of some, you know, concentric lines of defense, that they're doing some preemptive surveilling so that even before you get through the, you know, through customs or even your first contact with any kind of airport personnel, they've got you pretty well profiled to make sure that you're not a threat. Yeah, pretty much. The biggest thing is, is that what determines a threat? Is it political? Is it physical? Is it retribution? Is it going to be things where bad actors are in control of all the surveillance? And once you have the three elements tied together in the next two years, that's your transportation, your money, and your health care, it'll all be at the centralized systems that the government now has built. And Palantir and Flock will be the ones that correlate the information and follow you. And if they want, they'll turn your money off, your health care off.

4:09 I was going to say, I mean, this is like Canada all over again with the trucking incident they had a couple of years back, right? Yeah, it's 10 times worse, 10 times worse. Because what happens is Canada didn't have the cameras. They had the ability to turn your money off from deprogramming it. And what's interesting about how it's facts tracking here, just think what happened to Europe six months ago. They, the central bank digital currency, the CBDC with with more flock cameras, with Palantir, with the understanding that e-euro will replace cash within the next 24 months. So they're pretty much going to go 1984 if you've ever read the book. Right, exactly. Yeah, who hasn't? In fact, there's a resurgence of book reading on 1984 because we're living it out.

4:54 I mean, I remember when I first read that book, it was like, okay, well, this is interesting. I mean, you could see some of the early evidence is of where the trajectory was taking us. But little did we know in such a short period of time, especially after 9-11, right? Yeah, for sure. After 9-11, no question. The Patriot Act ushered in the entire way the book was written. When you look at the book and the way it was formulated in the 50s, kind of at this futuristic understanding of where we're going to have one world government, one great reset that kind of changes the whole entire world's landscape and centralizes power. Well, when you centralize power, what that means is you're controlling the masses with just a handful of class type people. And those people now have got themselves at a point where they can now just flip a couple of switches. We do a few more pieces of legislation. We remove the balance of cash from society.

5:48 It's over. And at that point, people are going to start wondering what just happened when their wealth is confiscated. Look, you don't understand what happened this week in the European Union. They just passed the first phase of to take all the savings of corporations and individuals next year and let the European Union better use your $ 10 trillion in savings, look it up, and then they're going to invest it how they feel necessary or what they feel is the best use of the money. And they'll send you an IOU, they said. Now, that sounds pretty good. They'll send you an IOU, kind of like our government sends us an IOU for Social Security, right? Yeah, I did a report a couple of years ago. You have to live to 156 years old in order to be able to get the value of the money you put in it at just a 5% return. So God bless if we can live to 156, we'll break even on Social Security payments.

6:40 Well, God bless if we could move everybody into Trump accounts. Forget about Social Security. It's already bankrupt. I mean, they have no shame. in paying up those IOU chits. And they have the audacity to tell us that it's going bankrupt and it'll be gone. You know, we'll be lucky to have it five years from now. So, all right, let's quit fooling ourselves. Let's empower the people, give them the power to go ahead and open up their own individual brokerage accounts and actually have a retirement account that grows and works in their best interest as opposed to this boondoggle. I mean, what a ruse, Social Security, the way it was perpetrated upon the people to even give them any kind of false hope, Christian. False hope. So when Roosevelt came up with this idea, it wasn't a safety net that he knew in the same way that we now know it. He knew then that eventually it would have to be a government-run system, and he was hoping for socialist, and that's why it's social security. It's a socialist program. But in his mind, he thought he could just take it very much like what Obama did with the Affordable Care Act, and that is create this absolutely bureaucratic nightmare with red tape, making it so convoluted to maintain private insurance with healthcare that it would collapse. And that's what Roosevelt wanted was the economy to collapse and then go to a socialist communist society.

8:05 And then Obama tried to do it with healthcare. And eventually we'll get to a socialized medicine. And then of course you'll have coverage will be for everybody, but you'll have much, much worse medicine. And that's the sad part is that The quality of care goes down dramatically, but the coverage goes to everybody. But then you suffer. Right, of course. Well, it's shared misery. That's the tradition of socialism. Going back to what you were talking about, and especially this latest move by the EU and this movement, I mean, this continues to move forward. And this is this one world government. I mean, all these things are being lined up. The trajectory is right there. And you wonder, at least I do, is saying, is this inevitable? For how long can we push back? I mean, Donald Trump has come into office. He's helping us, you know, to kind of hold back. you know, the insurgence of the European Union, the one world government. And, you know, the Democrats forget it. They hate Trump so much they can't even see it. Well, they're kind of for a one world government anyway, the truth be known. So, you know, that serves their purpose and interest. But it doesn't serve the interest of over 50 percent of America that, you know, still loves their, you know, they still love their jobs.

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13:53 We're talking with Christian Briggs, the CEO of Hard Asset Management. He's a political economy strategist and congressional advisor. He's also the host of Hard Asset Money Show. So what say you, Christian, on that? Well, I say this, that if the Democrats sweep the Senate and the House here in the next few months, and then they're successful in 28 to gain back the White House, And you have anybody within the administration that has the kind of influence that Obama had, a lot of his people that he installed in there and appointed from various positions, not just in the things of which we know from a secretary position, but really behind the scenes, especially in the intelligence community, and they leaned far left.

14:36 That will be the way of the country. There's no way to reverse how far we've come. One of the senior advisors in the Trump administration here in the last week or so has recently come out and admitted that socialism in America is inevitable. And his timeline was between 28 and 32. And I'm thinking it's going to start to begin the process in 28. Because remember, we're going to be completely digital from transportation to health care to money. We're not going to have the kind of privacy and the control over our own assets much longer. So really, it doesn't really take much of somebody who leans left, not far left, just left enough where, you know what, we're going to flip that switch. Now all that wealth belongs to the government. We'll give it to you in small incremental payments called grants. That's your universal basic income.

15:26 And so when you start to think about that, it's like, oh, it all makes sense. We're building massive amounts of multifamily federal housing that Trump's ordered. Because he knows at some point AI and robotics are going to, at least on a lower level, replace about 25 to 50 million jobs. And that's within five years. Five years. Elon Musk went on the record and said they're going to produce a billion robots within 10 years. A billion robots. The vast majority will be in that G20, which is the largest industrial size of countries in the world. And all of a sudden, that's a billion people. Guess what? They're not working. What are you going to do with them? What are you going to do with these people? And that's the question people need to realize is that they're building a society.

16:09 That's why Facebook is meta. Okay, Bill, listen to me carefully. Called the metaverse. You need three things in which to control people. Food, shelter, entertainment. Okay? So the Soviets did it very carefully. So we're doing it. We'll give you a universal basic income. Buy your food. We'll give you government housing. You got your shelter. We'll give you a metaverse. So you go anywhere in the world, but you'll never leave your living room. There's your entertainment. You can watch movies. You can watch shows. You can go and travel. You can hang out with your friends. You'll never live outside that government living room. Wow. It's amazing because fast forward, I mean, this is like the Roman Empire, you know, and gladiators and that sort of thing for entertainment, right? Now you just get to sit on your couch, pop some popcorn and, you know, be entertained, be amused, right?

16:57 Right. Yeah, if you want to watch Gladiator 1, Part 2, whatever, I liked one better than two. Two's not bad, but one's better. And if you want to be actually in the movie, you'll be in the movie. You'll be able to pick up your sword. You'll be able to be there. And you'll never leave that government house that they provide you for. That's what they said. Remember, give the people entertainment. Distract them. In fact, you know that they lower the IQs. The more we watch programs, the more we entertain ourselves with sensual overload right your senses you're just you can feel it they are lowering the iq a recent study came out that showed since 1980 right to through uh end of last year the average the average human being in the world has lowered their iq by 23 at a minimum at a minimum When people think, well, that doesn't sound like a lot. It does because the average IQ was around 95. Now we're in the 70s. When you get to 60, you shouldn't be able to drive a car. We're talking some countries in the world and continents are in the low 60s, upper 50s. We're talking about people that can't even sustain a focus on a business or a focus on doing anything that's going to be super productive. And those are the people they're just going to put in the housing, their goggles on, and Apple's doing it. Look at Apple. They've got that 3D stuff.

18:21 Meta's got it. And all of them are going to get there eventually because they know that's where the masses are going to be. So give them what they want. Well, and that's the dream of the politicians. I mean, they've been saying forever and ever, I mean, thank God, you guys are so lucky that we're here doing the job. We're doing your bidding because we're so much smarter than you. It's like a handful of politicians and so-called elites are much smarter than the cumulative intelligence of 350 million people. But if you drop that down to the lowest common denominator and you start losing IQ points along the way, then you're a lot more amenable. Yeah, you are. And that's the funny thing about it is that When you start to look at the pieces individually, you kind of like, okay, I kind of get it, kind of don't. But when you put the pieces together, how do we transform to a cashless society? We've got to go the genius act, the clarity act. You got to go digital first. Even if the digital system is a little bit more private and less control, it'll get there eventually though. It'll get to full control, but you got to switch at least to do that. It's the way of the horse and buggy. In order to get cars, fundamentally in everyday lives you got to get rid of the horse and buggy first and do cars now the cars are going to be what autonomous you can't even drive them if they don't want you to go there they'll turn that thing off vehicles.

19:38 Well they can control tiger woods now in the autonomous. Car tiger is going to be the cab's number one customer here because he got his license suspended for five years is what i read But when you think about that, why was climate change so important? It was to move us to an electrical grid and electrical environment, electric cars on and off. Look at what you have with Nest. Nest is a thermostat company that Google overpaid for years ago because it had market penetration. that can be outside tappered with, right? So Google determines, oh, you're way too much use on your AC. Turn it off. Yes. And that's what's happening, Bill. If you look at all of the systems you can put into place, it lowers the IQ. It makes people more docile. And number three, it confiscates all of their wealth. Why do you think gold and silver and other commodities is not just about AI data centers build up? Precious metals are going up dramatically for many reasons, including governments do not trust the United States' dollar anymore, nor do they trust our debt.

20:40 Right, exactly. And you got some socialists, you know, suggesting that we should give up the dollar as the petro resolve. And it's like, what, are you kidding me? I mean, what you just demonstrated that you talk about lowering your IQ, you're not at 30, you really brought it down to 50 real quick. Oh, 100%. Here's kind of what I think is going to be the factor that really makes everything kind of come together. And that is, once you see the midterms lost, once we legitimately lose the midterms, and we're not talking about fraud or mail-in ballots, this will be legit. You look at that 18 to 36-year-old demographic, 96% now aligned with socialism and or communism ideology, 96%. That's up from 12% 26 years ago. So now when you think about that and how that's going to resonate from local governments to state governments, all the way to that federal level. And on top of that, you've got 12 million Muslims out there that are voting 100% Democrat by 28 to 32.

21:48 We don't have that many new Republicans coming in the party to vote and to maintain the growth of conservative values and voting consistency. So now by 28, if not for sure by 32, There's no federal government that's going to be so far left that you don't even need your right hand anymore. It'll be obsolete. Yeah. Speaking of AI data centers, all part and parcel of the formula, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. The data centers was to hold data. It's to hold massive amounts of data. And so when you think about all the data that we have now, think about your phone. You've got music, movies, photos. Data that's been put on there is now in the cloud. You don't even own it anymore. You should have a SIM card. Remember, you could take your SIM card out. It was all on there.

22:32 They got rid of that real fast because then you didn't need them. So now you pay monthly for the pleasure of having all this cloud storage space. So that data center is built for specifically the systems in which we're talking about in today's show. The money, the healthcare, the transportation, biometrics, all the things which is like digital IDs. What a scam, Chris, when you think about it, is that you're paying somebody to surrender your liberties. You're not surrendering. They're taking them. I know, but you're participating in it. It's not like they're necessarily coming in with a mask and a gun. I mean, we're willfully turning it over to them.

23:14 All the people that put their pictures of their children and themselves and their lives on Facebook and Instagram... I once said, if there was ever any people out there that can prove that walking brain donors exist, talk about the men and women, the moms and dads and the grandparents that put their kids on Facebook for the whole world. Do you know that 50% of pedophilia is because pedophiles use Facebook posts to find their targets? Yeah, now what they're doing around the world, is they're taking images of your children and grandchildren and they're putting them in pornographic child movies. So why would anybody put their entire life up?

24:00 If you don't want privacy, move to North Korea. Go to Cuba. No problem. You got it. There is no privacy. People bitch and complain here. Oh, I want privacy and I want security. You put your whole family on the internet. Are you crazy? Exactly. Yeah. Got to leave it there for now. He's the CEO of Hard Asset Management, political economy strategist, congressional advisor, Christian Briggs. Thank you, Christian. Take care. My pleasure. Thank you, Bill. Have a great day. Have you written a book or 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.

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28:03 And welcome back. Bill Martinez here with Jenny Beth Martin from the Tea Party Patriots Action. Jenny Beth, good morning to you. Good morning. It's so good to be with you, Bill. Well, always good to have you here and talk about, well, the sprint is on for the midterms. We'll find out what kind of country. I almost sound like, you know, what was asked of Benjamin Franklin coming out of that conference, right? Well, what kind of country did you give us? Well, a Democratic Republic, if you can keep it, right? That's right. And we will keep it one way or the other, but it might be... We just have to remind people what's at stake and why it's so important to to keep our Republican, not let it go to communism. I can't believe we have to worry about communism, but we do.

28:44 That's where we are. Yeah, that's that's the reality of it. I think in part what I've been saying, Jenny Beth, is that I get that the kids have been indoctrinated and and this movement is going on. And I'm saying don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You need to listen to what these kids are saying. Because the thing is, capitalism has the answer for the ills that they think they're subjected to. What happened is that a corrupt and fraudulent form of capitalism, still even better than socialism, has caused a problem because... of the way waste and fraud has crept into our government and has compromised these issues of inflation and affordability, has it not?

29:25 Well, yes, you're right about that. People are worried about affordability. They're worried about the ability to get a job to live the American dream. And those are real concerns and real fears that people have. They're getting out of college. with tens of thousands, if not over $ 100, 000 in debt. And these are real problems. $ 100, 000 in debt that's not on a house, that is an alarming amount of money, especially if you get out of college and you're making a starter salary, the kind of salary that you make when you're first out of college because you don't have the experience yet. The problems that they're facing right now largely are twofold. One, because of the debt and the fraud that you just mentioned, which is lying, cheating, and stealing of tax dollars. That's all that it is. And it needs to stop. We need to quit spending so much money on things that would be lying, cheating, and stealing.

30:26 But the other thing is, Bill, they think a little bit of socialism is a good thing. And part of what's happened with capitalism in America is that it has been corrupted with socialism. And we need to show them that some of the problems are happening because the government got too involved. When the government got involved in student loans, the cost of college went sky high and people started leaving college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. that they never should have had in the first place. We have a lot of work to do to show them what caused the problems and how to solve it, but they don't need to throw capitalism out. That's the answer right there.

31:10 Right, because that's the engine that really made America into a superpower, and it will be the engine that takes us into the next century God willing, because all you got to do is look at the mechanism of socialism. Where have they ever been successful? Do they have anything they could point to and say, hey, look at what we've done here? There's not one example. Whereas with capitalism and what America has done, there are many examples. I mean, just look at here recently what happened in South America. As soon as big government got out of South America and took all those taxpayer funds out of South America, what did those socialist countries do? They went capitalist. They got, you know, and look what they're doing. They're starting to thrive again. Venezuela, they were eating out of trash trucks last year, Jenny Beth. And because of what Trump did for them and the future that he's cast for them by utilizing their natural resources— they're starting to thrive again.

32:09 And of course, we know the success of Argentina. After seven decades of socialism, they were in the dumps. At one time, one of the most prosperous countries in South America. They finally dumped now with their new president. Look what they've been doing. They're thriving. So the opposite examples are so empirical and undeniable. And it's not, I mean, it's not even an argument. It's just, hey, look, let me show you. You show me yours. I'll show you my cards. and lay it out and then consider some critical thinking, especially in light of where this country is and the leadership it has right now. Donald Trump has done an incredible job to leverage the assets of the country, whether it's with tariffs, evening out the playing field, having this unfair advantage of foreign labor coming into our country and taking the jobs of these young kids that are living out of their basements of their mom and dad's house, Jenny Beth.

33:04 Yes, you're exactly right. And President Trump has done amazing things around the world and for America. And the things he's doing around the world will make America a stronger, more prosperous country. And he's making America safe as well. President Reagan said, Something along the lines of, I may have the quote a little bit off, but the American people will do the right thing if given all the facts. And what you're talking about doing is giving people the facts and making sure that they understand what is happening. And that's going to be our job over the next several weeks as we get closer and closer to Election Day, giving people the facts about where we stand, what we're trying to accomplish, and what caused many of the problems that we're facing right now. And as you were going through and talking about the problems with socialism and problems with communism, I want to highlight for your audience a website, and I haven't memorized everything in the website, though it would be a good exercise for me to do so.

34:02 It is called contrastforamerica.com. Contrastforamerica.com. It's a website that Speaker Johnson and the House Republicans have put together highlighting the failures of communism around the world throughout history. And It is a good website for us to go and look to, to be reminded of where it has failed and why it won't work here in America. But we've got to arm ourselves with those facts and then help Americans understand what the facts are. Yeah, the young people, because this is a government of four by four people, it speaks of self-responsibility. You have the government that you deserve. OK, so think about that.

34:44 So that means that if you haven't done your due diligence, if you haven't exercised some critical thinking, taken responsibility for yourself and your family, you are going to get run over by a bureaucracy that is interested in one thing, power and control. They're not interested in you. That is the legacy of communism and socialism, is it not? Yeah, it is the legacy of communism and socialism. They're not interested in you. You know, one thing that young people do understand, so they may have been taught that socialism is good, but what they don't like is big government. They didn't like it when it came to the lockdowns. They didn't like it when it harmed them when they were in high school and college. And they understand the consequences of big government. So we have to remind them that socialism is actually big government. And work to remind them of that. You didn't like the lockdowns. You didn't like the government controlling that much of your life. You didn't like being told you had to sit six feet apart from somebody or somebody got sick next to you, they took a ruler out to find out if you were within six feet and whether you, a healthy person, had to quarantine for two weeks, you didn't like the mask, whatever it is that you didn't like about all of that overzealous government control, that's what it would be like if you're voting for socialism, if you're voting for communism.

36:07 It may not be lockdowns related to a virus, but the government will come in and exert power and lock you down in your own life for some reason and work to control your life very much the way they did during lockdowns. Yeah, exactly. I mean, it is big government on steroids. I mean, here we are, you know, just celebrating Labor Day, which is a good thing. You know, laboring is good. I think that's when people are happiest is when they're productive. and working on a job. And look at what happened. The latest job reports, it shattered all expectations, Jenny Beth. 162,000 new jobs were created in August. Economists had expected only about 55,000 new jobs. The thing is that I think almost all those jobs were all private jobs. They were not public jobs, which means they weren't for government jobs, which is during the reign of Obama, every time we had an increase in jobs, it's because he added numbers to government, right?

37:15 Right. So the jobs are private sector jobs. They're not government jobs. And in fact, President Trump has been cutting government jobs, which makes people upset who had those jobs. But it's good for America to have fewer government jobs and more private sector jobs. Oh, there was something you just said about how people can be the happiest when they're laboring. Some people are going to hear that and go, no, I hate my job. Or what is he talking about? How could he possibly think that? Bill, I think that there is dignity and work. There is dignity and it isn't just work that the dignity is. There is dignity in knowing that you did something that enabled you to provide for yourself. When you no longer can take care of yourself and you are dependent on other people, you feel a loss of dignity when that happens. You feel a loss of self-respect when that happens. But no matter what the job is, when you know that you are going and working and providing for yourself and providing for your family, you can wind up feeling much, my alarm keeps going off, you can feel much better about yourself because of that. And that's what you were trying to say, that you can be the happiest when you're laboring. It isn't so much necessarily that you enjoy the the physical exertion, but it is the fact that you are able to take care of yourself. You're able to provide for your family.

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43:47 Yeah, this was a terrific month. And, you know, I remember, you know, during the crash in the late 2000s, just watching these numbers month after month, just just plummet hundreds of thousands of jobs. down every month. It's a really, really encouraging report. It's a strong report. It shows it's really great news for Labor Day. It was a terrific report that came out on Friday. And, you know, there's going to be some people who will look at this and say, look, the economy is humming and we're going to have to, you know, we need large-scale immigration to keep it going because we need to fill, we're creating these jobs, we need to bring in people to fill them. But the labor report really doesn't reflect that.

44:30 It shows that there's still so much room to grow. And so our message is we want to keep this progress moving, and we should be using immigration policy, managing immigration policy, so that we continue to provide new economic opportunities to American workers. And they are out there, the Bureau of Labor. Bureau of Labor statistic numbers show it. Go ahead, Bill. Jump in. No, I was just going to say, we need to incentivize the American labor force. I'm sure you were going to start to quote the numbers that we still have 7 million Americans who are unemployed and they're looking for work, not to mention those that are underemployed, Jeremy. That's right. Yeah. I mean, if you count the people who are looking for work and can't find it, or they're working part-time when they want to be working full-time, meaning they can't find the full-time job, or they want the job, but they've recently given up looking. You're talking about a population that's greater than the population of the state of Pennsylvania. Now, you can just kind of imagine that. That's more than 17 million Americans. And so there's still lots of room out there for employers to reach out to American workers and American communities and fill these jobs. And a lot of times what we see with immigration, especially large-scale immigration, is that it allows employers policymakers, the media, and even the public to kind of ignore these Americans who are not quite in the labor force. We say, well, we don't see them because we've got all these people coming in to take the jobs, but we really should be

46:01 because society pays for these Americans who can't work, who can't provide eyes of dignity for themselves. And speaking of dignity, I mean, this is the thing about Labor Day, and we always talk about this when we come to Labor Day, and that is the significance of labor. what that does for the individual. I mean, survey says that a person who is working is happier because they have a chance at being fulfilled. And of course, the next step from fulfillment is realizing the American dream, which is freedom. Because when you have money in your checkbook and you're able to provide for your family, it increases that freedom IQ quotient. You know what I mean?

46:42 We want to live self-sufficient lives of dignity. And the dignity part is important because it means that we did this for ourselves. We are contributing to our community. We're contributing to our country. We're contributing to the economy. And we are living self-sufficient lives because of it. And we can make our own decisions. We're not dependent on handouts from other people or from our neighbors. We're actually dependent on ourselves. But to do that, we need policies that actually serve the public good and not just the bottom line of a particular industry. And sometimes those things are in conflict. Now, they don't have to be completely in conflict. You can increase productivity for workers and have a tremendously successful industry or company or business, whether it's a huge company or a very small business. You can find workers, invest in them and increase their productivity. That means in some cases, investing in mechanization and producing higher paying jobs.

47:41 And so we can manage this in a way where the American people really win, the taxpayers win. And again, we get some Americans back into the labor force. One sobering statistic is that labor force participation dropped just a little bit, about a half point down from January. But we have roughly, of working age Americans, 60% of them aren't in the, sorry, 60% of them are working, but literally 40% of working age Americans aren't working. Now, some of that is by choice. Some of that, you're raising a young family, you're in school, but you're talking about tens of millions of prime working age Americans, including men who are simply not working. And so this is a great labor report, but we should not take our foot off the gas pedal and Congress can help us by moderating immigration policy to create new opportunities for these Americans.

48:37 Yeah, we've got to look with fresh eyes to incentivize these people who are on the sidelines for whatever reason, especially if you are capable of working. But maybe you're depressed or something just hasn't gone your way or for whatever reason. And you're not participating. Well, you know, we've got to raise you up and get you in the arena to where you can have this sense of fulfillment and dignity that you referred to earlier. Because that's critical to our mental health, is it not? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the sense of being able to take care of yourself, to provide for yourself, much less provide for a spouse. Provide for a family.

49:17 This hits family first. marriage, child raising, all kinds, all facets of society. If you don't have a job, and I think you're right, the psychology aspect of this is really important. We want to have a happy society. We want to have a happy and healthy, mentally healthy society. And we just know that work is really important for men and women, but probably even especially for men. And there's some good news on that front, too. For instance, non-college educated workers are seeing increases in economic opportunities right now. And that's a real boon to society. At the same time, college educated workers, new graduates especially, are entering a very, very difficult labor market. We've got AI coming in. But we also have a lot of massive guest worker programs that essentially give employers discounts for not hiring American workers.

50:13 And this affects not just elite, wealthy, highly educated Americans, but also working class or middle class Americans whose families have gone into debt so that they can go get an education and enter a field of their interest and their study. And we should be helping them find employment and investing in our and our own American workers. They should be the priority, our American citizens. But what's happened is that we bring in all these foreign employees under some sort of ruse, and then we incentivize more of the same at the expense of the American worker. What is wrong with this picture? Well, it's wrong.

50:57 And the good news is, I think more and more people are talking about it. We talk about it here almost every week. Immigration is a labor policy. It's a wage policy. It's an economic security policy. The GOP convention is this week, and I'm sure they're going to talk about the great gains that we've made at the. Border, border security. And I'm sure they're going to talk about the importance of interior enforcement as a public safety issue. And all of those things are true, but I really hope they don't miss the opportunity to talk about immigration policy and immigration enforcement as an economic security issue, because we're talking about creating economic security for American workers. That includes U.S.-born citizen and naturalized citizens and legal permanent immigrant residents.

51:40 Yeah, this is an opportunity for the Republican Party to counter narrative what the mainstream media has been putting out there and leading people to believe. This is why some of this polling is so bogus, in my opinion. I mean, the people do not have the facts. They don't have all the information. which is amazing to me because I'm suggesting and encouraging the people to use your critical thinking. I mean, look at where the country is right now with the leadership that we have right now. There has not been a modern day leader that I'm aware of that has leveraged the assets of America in such a way to level out the playing field to where trade is coming down and where even drug pricing right now, the Trump accounts, at every turn, tariff. I think the tariff opportunity, once we get some of these activist judges out of the way, we could really do something about the $ 40 trillion in debt that we're in, not to mention doing something about Social Security to really make it into something that's vibrant. I got to tell you one thing that really yanks my chain here, and this is just me, and that is that every time I watch an AARP commercial talking about how they're going to save Social Security, and I'm saying, yeah, but you guys are the ones that are putting 85% of your money to Democrats that are doing everything they can to take money out of Social Security and put it in jeopardy. So don't tell me that you're looking to protect Social Security when you are investing in the wrong group. Just a sidebar, sorry.

53:12 No, that's fine. And I think it's a question of priorities. And as you note, these, and trade is not my area of expertise, but all of these things that you mentioned, the idea behind them is to promote investment in domestic workers, in Americans' families and their paychecks and what we take home, and our ability to contribute to our own society. That's what we're talking about here. We want to be able to contribute to our own national economy. And we want as much buy-in, as much participation as possible. That's why the labor force participation rate is a really important metric. What percentage of Americans are participating in the economic activity of America? And when it comes to the labor force, it's a very high percentage who are not. And that's due to a whole bunch of factors.

54:01 Immigration is just one of them. But we should manage all of these policies, including immigration, with the idea of getting more domestic buy-in, not less. And it's not a one-to-one. Again, it's not the only cause of this. But you can manage it in such a way so that you incentivize. I think we've lost a lot of the muscle memory of saying like, hey, let's go out and let's train people. Let's recruit them. The idea of recruiting, we've basically turned this over into an online portal where you can say like, hey, there's a global workforce out here who would love any job at any wage under any condition, and I can sign up for it basically online, and the government will help me find that person. Well, that's a great deal if you're an employer, if you're hiring and filling these jobs, but it's not a great deal for the country. We can do the same kind of innovation, but with domestic recruitment.

54:50 And as these numbers show, there is no shortage of available working-age Americans that we can pull from to pull our country back together into one economic, middle-class, thriving country again. Well said. He's the co-president of Numbers USA. Jeremy Beck, right here on Bill Martinez Live. Thank you, Jeremy. Take care. You too, Bill. 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.

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56:31 Really well, Bill. Thank you. Well, thanks for coming on. I want to talk about your forthcoming book, 1776, Rising America's Second War of Independence. I believe it's so important because, and appropriately titled, by the way, it was genius. I know this was, you know, something inspired you. If it wasn't current events, God himself perhaps, you know, to say, look, we need to get back to, you know, founding principles. I've often said that in operations, you know, a good leader, when they come to an organization and see that it's lost its way, will say, hey, look, let's retrace our steps. Let's find out where did the organization make a hard left and depart from its founding principles.

57:16 And I believe that's where America is right now. And it requires that leadership. And I believe your book is going to be contributory to this direction or this redirect is that we need to. go back and see where did we make the wrong turn and where we deviated? Because when you find that and you run the timeline, you start seeing the degradation of the fruit and the value of our founding principles that caused America to rise to superpower status in such a short period of time, Scott. Well, you're absolutely right, Bill. Unfortunately, a lot of the the process of leading to where we are took many, it's really decades that this has been taking place. It's been called the long march through the institutions. And this comes out of the cultural Marxist school that believe that the way we take down the capitalist system, and of course, they really have been focused on America from the very beginning, if you will, of this whole cultural Marxism, was to work internally, to work within the institutions and take down America from within.

58:39 It's a subliminal and long process. It doesn't happen overnight. So for instance, how has our public school system been lost if you will well which. Was one of the first institutions they targeted. Scott right yeah you can go back to john dewey in the 1920s and 30s right you know who who you know who's hostile to god he he wanted god removed you know from you know from public school curriculum and discussion and so forth. And of course, America was a Christian nation from the beginning, not structured as a theocratic state, but really empowered by the fundamentals of the Christian faith and tradition, which is that people have unalienable rights.

59:34 The first of which is really freedom, that they are free to speak, to think, to congregate, even to protest government. The American people have these guaranteed freedoms that really come from God, not the state. Right, exactly. And it's the state's job to, you know, to protect them. Well, Scott, I want to go back and focus on education. Our founding fathers realized, yes, we weren't going to be a theocratic society. We were going to have the freedom to choose the religion that you wanted. But yet the understanding is, is that you were going to hold to some, you know, some core principles that came from the Bible. And the basic core principle is that without God, you render yourself stupid is what the Bible basically says in short order.

1:00:20 Okay. And so you had to stay connected to God. I mean, here you are, you're talking education. We're talking about, you know, raising smart people, you know, intelligent people. Well, how do you have intelligent people? If you, you know, make the wrong choice and say, okay, I want to do it on my own. I want to ignore the creator of the universe. who knows all things, right? So let's not get his input on this because we got some elites over here that have gone to said specific university that's so special and they know better than God Almighty himself. And this is basically, I mean, they didn't tell you that up front, but that's basically, it started the slow creep because in and of ourselves, in our fallen humanity, we will default into selfish ideology. And so we can do as the Bible says in the book of judges, as we darn well, please, until we realize the hard way and the hard lesson that doing as you darn well, please is not in your best interest, but God in his love and mercy says, Hey, Scott, if that's what you want to do, have at it. That's true.

1:01:29 We, you, you, you, uh, free will, free choice is, is part of, uh, the endowment of our Lord is that we have to make, um, we are free to choose. And so we're given all, you know, we're given all of the, um, the criteria to make right choices, but still our fallen nature man is basically rebellious and he rebels against God's order that, that just goes back to the, to the garden of Eden. Right. Exactly. Exactly. So, so here it is. You have, education. And I don't know, I was reading here a summary, you know, the teachers unions met over the summer, right? And the things they came out with, Scott, you think that they would, after what we understood about COVID and really pulling back the shroud of education and seeing the kind of stuff that was happening and going, yeah, this is really a hot mess. I mean, what they're teaching our kids and they're not even teaching, they're indoctrinating our kids. This has to stop. And, you know, an uproar was there and, you know, people were leaving public schools and going into homeschooling and other alternatives because of the corruption that was understood, that was imposed upon in our education system. You think that they would have gotten together and said, hey, we got to stop this. We got to focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic. Let the political stuff go aside. Let's just educate the kids. You think they would?

1:02:58 No. They've actually doubled down on it. And at the public's expense. Yes. Yeah. These are taxpayer. This is, you know, taxpayer funded. I mean, the Department of Education was founded in 1979. And at that time, you know, American education ranked in the top, probably the top eight of the industrialized country. Maybe we were, you know, between five and eight ranking. We weren't one, but we were in the upper echelon. today we're at the very bottom yeah so you know the state of public education is measurably so much worse today than it was before this department of education was founded right it's very costly bureaucracy right exactly billions of dollars to you know to you know to with an outcome that your schools are failing no you close the bureaucracy down you turn it back to the To the communities, to the states and the communities where it used to reside. Remember, we didn't have a Department of Education until 1979. That's only, what, 47 years ago. Before that time, our education was working very well. Right.

1:04:20 Yeah. So again, you go back and you say, when did we make the wrong turn? Let's reverse that turn. Let's get back on track, right? And because of the political pressure, it's not something you do overnight. But it really commands that we, the people, again, take the keys away from the irresponsible teenagers. Oh, I fully agree. I mean, I do think that, I think it's Linda McMahon, who's the Secretary of Education. She took that job knowing full well that If she succeeded, she'd put herself out of work. Right.

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1:10:25 When you have alternatives, you have a capitalist system, you have a socialist system. Now, hopefully you've intellectualized it enough to understand what capitalism delivers versus what socialism delivers, There's enough information out there, especially now in the age of social media and what's available on the internet. You can Google it. And in short order, you can get a pretty good working knowledge of the pluses and minuses of each option, can't you? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And it's really common sense, although people that don't have any sort of.

1:11:06 Background in thinking in a simple way about why the free market system works so well and why socialism fails, the brief explanation is that the free market system is based, first of all, on voluntary exchange. And people will only exchange their money for the good. For value. Yeah, what's the value, right? Yeah, when there's a value proposition that makes sense to them, that they think they're getting a good deal. The seller, on the other hand, feels the same way. I'm getting a reasonable return for all the energy that went into producing this product. So it's a process of constant self-correction, Because sometimes decisions aren't good, the product doesn't work, so that product is removed. But pricing is the key to it all. In the pricing system, people don't realize how powerful pricing is in a free society. Prices are a carrier of information. And that is what enables people to make decisions. When they think they're getting a fair price, they, they can say, yes, I'm in, I'm going to buy that.

1:12:32 Right. When prices are set by government, which is what socialism does. Remember socialism does not work with a pricing system. So who it's, who sets the prices on things? The government. Are you kidding me? Yeah. Mayor Mamdani in New York. I mean, it's, it's just, it's, It's an utter failure right from the gate. I mean, it's just not going to work. To your point, you look at the trail of both ideas, and you see what capitalism and the free markets have generated, jobs, productivity, a happier constituency, because people are most fulfilled and happy when they're being productive you can be productive when you are your own person and being the best definition of yourself whereas with socialism it is the government that sets standards that limits you that puts a governor over you and i say a governor in terms like a regulating mechanism that says scott powell you can only operate at this level I know you have so much more to offer, or I don't care about that you have so much more to offer. No, because it's going to make everybody else envious. So we're going to dumb you down so that you are in line with the lowest common denominator, so to speak. Boy, that gets me excited, doesn't.

1:13:56 It, you? Well, it's well said, Bill. You know, socialism is the road to a low common denominator. Very simple. It really is. It lowers everything. It lowers quality. It lowers standards. It brings inefficiency into the, you know, into the economy. Right. And there's proof to that end, Scott, right? I mean, you look over history and you don't even have to go that far back. I mean, you can just see like what happened immediately. It was interesting. I thought, and of course the mainstream media, they're so disingenuous, have failed to really report on what happened when Donald Trump came in and took the NGO money out of South America, right?

1:14:37 Right. Yes. How quick did the South Americans say, whoa, we're out of here. And they became capitalists. I mean, in a matter of months, Scott, and now look at, look at the GDP of those, you know, those countries now and how they're flourishing. I mean, we're not even talking about Argentina because Argentina went through their transition a while ago with, uh, melee and, uh, you know, for 70 years, they were being crushed by these socialistic ideas that, you know, to the disdain of people who are from Argentina here in America going, are you guys crazy? What are you doing? We did that for 70 years. This is nuts. You know, you need to run away from that craziness, right?

1:15:22 Absolutely. Well, what happens too is that when you don't have competition, then you don't have any check on corruption. And unfortunately, corruption is... lurks in in the soul of many people if they can exploit someone else if they can gouge people on prices uh if they can introduce a product that has a limited life but looks pretty good and they can sell it because it it looks good but actually it has no real you know shelf life right as it fails fairly quickly all those sorts of things that uh you know um happen in a what we would say an inappropriately structured economy, that is what socialism is.

1:16:14 That's what it does. And Scott, people need to open their eyes to see that. And I'm going to put the spotlight on Democrats because the Democrats have become very efficient in suddenly doing this. They have done it through the use of their elective power to to bring factions into play and protect whether it's unions, special interest groups, this cabal that has corrupt the system for what? For power and control so that they would get reelected. See, this is all mucking up the machinery. You see, and the young kids right now that are revolting, I'm saying, hey, look it, you've got, you know, you're seeing things right. It's not that you're wrong.

1:16:54 You're seeing things right. You're just coming to the wrong conclusion here. Because it goes deeper than just seeing this as, oh, it's the problem of the billionaires. No, it's a deeper problem. It's a root problem that a party, a political party, doesn't want you to look into. Because if you did, then your eyes would be truly opened up. And then what would happen is with this new knowledge and this enthusiasm that you have to say, hey, yes, this is fixable. We can do it. You will now put your energy behind fixing the problem and being a part of the solution and not adding to the problem. Does that make sense? It does make sense. And you asked a good question in the beginning is how.

1:17:39 Why does Lyda McMahon take over the Department of Education with a mission to shut it down, to sort of redirect our public education system and how it's been very difficult for her. It's not happened so far to the extent that really it needs to. And that's because of the nature of bureaucracy. When bureaucracy gets established and it gets it becomes the employment place of people who don't buy into the system of competition and free market, but rather have a socialist disposition to everything, including education. They become like sand in the gears. They will slow the whole reform process to a halt. And that is the big challenge for all of our agencies. You know, the The agencies that really run our government are in, you know, they are made up of people who, you know, who've been appointed, who are unelected, unelected right and yet they have the power of the legislature in many ways they create the rules of of uh the the agency and and the domain that the agency is is responsible for like the department of interior uh that has a you know an environmentalist orientation uh of course will slow down you know, the development of, you know, of the resources

1:19:12 that are part of God's blessing to us that he intended us to use. And so it is that, you know, you have most all of our agencies are really the problem now, and it's not an easy problem to solve. I think, you know, I would suggest that one of the best books on the subject is a very short book by Ned Ryan. Yes, yes. Who really analyzes the problem of our agencies, that we really need to return to our Constitution. There were no agencies at the founding of the Constitution. Well, our founding fathers wanted us to avoid that, clearly, you know. Yes, yeah. I'll tell you, we got to leave it there for now. He's the author, member of the committee on this present danger, China, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, Scott Powell. Thank you, Scott. Take care. Great, Bill.

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1:23:41 Bill Martinez here. We've got Laura Montferrat is going to be joining us in just a few minutes to talk about some tips and saving, you know, with back to school expenses. We know when it's time to get back to school, you know, sometimes we get, you know, rushed and we make some mistakes. And next thing you know, we're spending probably more money than our budget called for. with the new school year because, you know, that's what happens. You know, I want to make sure, you know, our kids are well equipped to getting back to school and back to school season doesn't necessarily mean that we break the budget. And this is why Laura is here to help us understand what we can do. She's a consumer credit card executive at Bank of America. Laura, welcome to the show. Good to have you with us.

1:24:21 Hi, thank you for having me. Talking about saving on school supplies and back-to-school shopping. I mean, parents, grandparents, we've all been there, done that. We've made some mistakes and gone, oh, why did we do this, right? We should have attacked this challenge a little bit smarter, right? Yeah, there's a few tips I can share on how to think about it. And one is just start by auditing your inventory at home. Do you have leftover notebooks, pens, pencils from the previous school year? And then from there, create a list of necessities so that when you go to the store, you're not tempted to make a lot of impulse purchases. The other thing I'd say is when you're at the store, think about what credit card you're using. Make sure you're getting rewards for where you're spending. So as an example, the Bank of America Customized Cash Rewards Card gives you 3% cash back in a category of your choice. One of those categories is online shopping. So that is a great option for back to school. Right now, actually, new cardholders earn 6% back in that category of choice for the first year. think about. Do you want cash back?

1:25:21 Do you want points? You can use those throughout the year to offset your expenses. And the other thing I'd say is layer on those discounts. Look for digital coupons, store loyalty coupons, ask for student discounts. There's a lot that's out there on technology, apparel. You can also look at secondhand or refurbished options. Not everything has to be brand new to be great quality. And there's a lot of verified refurbishment programs out there that offer course materials, technology at a fraction of retail prices. Yeah, these are great tips, Laura. I'm glad you brought that out. I mean, even starting with checking your own inventory at home, what was left over from last year's school season, or maybe the older child that you could reuse some of these products so you're not having to go ahead and just purchase something brand new because it's brand new. And the other thing is looking for those extra discounts and seeing how they're competing because They're competing aggressively for your back-to-school business, are they not?

1:26:22 They are. And there are also verification sites like Unidays or Student Beans that can also help you unlock extra savings. So keep an eye out for those opportunities. Well, and this is also a good opportunity to teach our kids healthy budgeting practices early on, right? It is. I think the earlier you start, the better. And just helping kids understand the difference between what's a need and a want. and having those conversations when they want to buy something and just even giving them control over their own spending money starts to help lay that foundation. Turn an everyday routine into what we're going to call a financial micro lesson. Take them to the grocery store, make it a learning moment. You give them a budget, tell them to pick out the family snacks. Now they have to make decisions on, should I board this store brand or should I buy the name brand? And you can really use those moments to teach them that credit, debit, online purchases, guess what? They are all tied to hard earned money. And how to start to think about that becomes really important at an early age.

1:27:18 Yeah, exactly. And then they get to contend with the sibling that wants something else that's different than what they've put in the basket, right? Exactly. Just, you know, not that we want to raise the level of contention as if you don't have enough already in the household. We're just, you know, just saying, hey, look, there's some fun things that parents can have here while at the same time, you know, teaching some responsible financial budgeting practices to So how can teens and young adults, Laura, learn to balance social spending while sticking to a realistic budget? Yeah, you know, as teens start to earn their own income, whether it's from a part-time job or their allowance, you can help them think about a simple rule, which is 50% for their needs, 30% for their wants, and 20% for savings. Now they can take that 30% for their wants and treat that as their fun budget. Have them list out what do they want to spend it on?

1:28:11 What is the budget and the limit they're going to set for themselves? That way they start to learn about budgeting without having to sacrifice the social life. And they can start to make decisions around, do I want to go to my friend's birthday party or to the concert? They got to prioritize and make those decisions. The other thing I'd say is what we're going to call loud budgeting. Encourage your teen to be upfront with friends about, I can't afford this maybe. rather than just trying to overspend to keep up with everybody. Maybe it's okay to suggest this cheaper hangout spot or get the costly outing. I think teens are often surprised that they get more understanding around those things than they expect. Right. Well, and the impact that it has, Laura, on the peer group, right? Because there's probably others in the peer group that want the same thing, but they're just reticent to say something at the risk of maybe being canceled out of that peer group.

1:29:02 Exactly. And now it's just creating the conversation that probably wants to be had, and others are going to feel the same way. Well, we're talking with Laura Monferred. She's a consumer credit card executive at Bank of America, responsible for ensuring consumer card products and services, meeting clients' financial needs, driving responsible growth, and managing product And speaking of driving responsible growth and some understanding, you know, how can we help our kids, you know, build their credit responsibly? I think it's important at an early age to help your teen understand the fundamentals of credit cards, which is, you know, let's talk about the golden rules. Pay the bill in full and on time every month. Keep your balance below the credit limit. and treat that credit card just like you would a debit card. You only spend what you have in the bank. And so helping them understand how to think about credit is important. The other thing is they can start to build credit under your supervision.

1:30:02 So what you can do is add your teen to an existing card account that you have as an authorized user. And now they're going to start to establish their credit history before applying for their own card. So it's a great way to jumpstart that. And then when it comes time for them to get their own credit card, have the conversation around what's the best card for them. Maybe it's just a no-fee card that gives rewards on everyday spend like gas, groceries, dining. That might be a better fit than a premium high-fee travel card. So helping them start to think about the rules of credit at an early age and start to establish their credit history is a great way to get started. Yeah, Laura, I like that because you align it with their budget, right? And that way they don't get themselves into a situation where they're overspending and then they can't pay the card off in full. And then they get themselves into basically some sort of compromise and be beholden to that payment. And it's frustrating. I know for our kids, when they challenged it and started realizing that the payment they were making was just covering interest and it wasn't doing much on the principal, it caused them to get very frustrated. And I said, Well, let that pain teach you, right?

1:31:19 It's important to learn early on the idea of budgeting, the idea of paying the bill on time, and the concept of interest and making sure that they understand that before they get their first credit card. Right. Well, let's talk about families and some strategy here. How do we start building a financial safety net for unexpected expenses that happen? Yes, they happen. So I would say safety. Set small achievable milestones. What you don't want to do is set this big lofty goal that then just deters you from doing anything. So just like you prepare for bad weather, prepare for financial surprises. It could be a car repair, a medical bill, home improvement. So a good rule of thumb is work towards a cushion of three to six months worth of living expenses. And one easy thing to do is just set up automatic savings tools. And you can teach your kids and teens to do this as well.

1:32:09 Set up automated transfers from checking directly into a savings or an emergency fund and It could be $ 5, $ 10 at a time. It starts to add up and starts to get you in the habit of it. Bank of America, we have as an example, the Keep the Change program, which automatically rounds up your debit card purchases to the nearest dollar. And then it transfers that from your checking your savings. But you don't have to think about it. It might not be big dollar amounts, but it starts to add up and it becomes easy. The last thing I would say is find the hidden money. We all, and I'm guilty of this too, we sign up for monthly subscriptions and memberships and we never use them. We forget about them. So find those, cancel them. You just found free money. Now put that into your emergency fund. So just find these simple ways to start to get your account going.

1:32:52 Well, as we wrap things up, Laura Manfred, thank you for these great tips. Just summarize real quickly as we wrap things up and then tell them where they can go for more information. Sure. So- Think about setting a budget for your teen. Start small and set up easy ways to start saving. Make it a habit. You can learn more by going to BetterMoneyHobbits.com for more financial guidance and savings advice. Well, she's a consumer credit card executive at Bank of America, Laura Monferrat. Thank you, Laura. Take care. Have a great day. Thank you, you too. A new study finds a major increase in STEM learning in after-school programs, but gaps remain. Today, 92% of parents with children in after-school say STEM is available, up from 69% a decade ago. That's 6.4 million kids now getting STEM in after-school. Emma Binet, Overdeck Family Foundation.

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1:37:43 Well, that might be a little strong, but I do like one and only no baloney. I may have to trademark that. Okay. All right. We can get t-shirts on that one. Yes. Well, anyway, glad you're feeling better. It's good to have you here. We missed you. Paul Aceh did a great job, by the way. He didn't embarrass you. Well, that's good. I mean, he is sort of my boss these days, so I wouldn't want him to embarrass me. No, no. Anyway, it's good to have him on. I want to talk to you. Have you had a chance to read up at all on Jonathan Cahn's new book, Rabbi Cahn? I have not, so talk to me about it and I will respond. Okay, you'll love this. The Altar of Pergamon. It's the mystery of the dark angel and the future of the world. Now, Jonathan Cahn, who was initially broke into the scene, how many years ago, with the Harbinger. Okay, this was after 9-11.

1:38:32 Great book. I mean, I told him when I first read it, interviewed him the first time, I said, you chicken skinned me. Because throughout the book, you know, and he didn't quite understand what I meant by chicken skin because, you know, he goes, well, here I am. I'm a Hebrew and I'm talking to this Mexican Gentile. What does he know? And, uh, so anyway, he was, uh, he was very, you know, grace extending, let's put it that way. And then a couple of years later, you know, we were talking with a group of other people and I mentioned that, you know, his revelation is chicken skin me. And he had kind of quizzical look. And I said, you don't understand what I mean by that. He goes, no. And a couple of other people said, we don't either. I go, you know, like goosebumps. And I don't know why I said chicken skin, but it just, I don't know if I was at the time, you know, dealing with poultry or whatever it was, but Anyway, it was chicken skin and that's what it was for the longest time.

1:39:21 And he just thought, oh, that's just Martinez being goofy. But anyways, when he finally got it, but the deal is about Jonathan, you know, like with the Harbinger and all his other books, you know, you have this sense that Jonathan, first of all, as a Messianic rabbi understands the old Testament, all the nuances of Jewish tradition and everything. And he brings that into light in the conversation. But it's just that the things that he writes about you, you, I tell you, you have this sense that he's talking directly to God, and God's giving him his marching order to say, okay, I want you to talk about this. The people need to know about this. Like with 9-11, okay, and the Harbinger, which is so uncanny because the points that he brought out in that is that, did you know the scripture on that day at 9-11? Did you know what it was? I mean, and this is everything.

1:40:10 This is liturgy, you know, the liturgy. We're talking Catholic, you know, synagogues, everything like that. Isaiah 9.10. Which says what? Refresh me. Exactly what happened on 9.11. It sets it up. It sets up the deal that what happens was the Jewish nation was judged and they got defiant. And they said, they didn't stop to think, you know, hey, let's take some inventory here. You maybe this calamity that's happened to us, you know, that we've been attacked and all of a sudden we can't defend ourselves, you know, our shield is gone, our shield is gone, Skippa. You know, they didn't even think, they just thought, okay, if we built it bigger and better, then we'd be able to defend ourselves. Nobody stopped to think for a moment, hey, have we upset God? Is God's hand lifted away from us, right? So he brings that to bear and he associates and runs the parallel between Here in America on 9-11, what happened to us?

1:41:11 That all of a sudden the shield and the barriers and the protective elements are missing. Right. And we don't stop to think that, hey, wait a minute, where's God in this? Have we left God? Has God left us? What's going on? Well, and I think, you know, just like the Israelites, I think it's possible to read the Old Testament. And if you read a big chunk at once, you're like, man, these guys weren't very smart. Like they learned lessons. for about 30 seconds, and then they forget them, and then they have to learn them again. And yet, I mean, I look at where we're at culturally on so many different issues, and 9-11 was 25 years ago, which actually seems impossible. It's both a long time, but it's a blink historically. And I think, man, have we lost track so quickly of some of the core lessons of nine 11.

1:42:07 And I think we had a moment as a culture, maybe of taking stock of a lot of things. But at that moment, I fear has passed a long time ago at this point. For about three weeks was that moment. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It wasn't very long. Yeah. People, people, you know, they scrambled to churches and unfortunately the church was not prepared. They, they didn't, know how to respond. So the people came and says, well, that's not very relevant. So I'm leaving. So they were here. They went, they didn't even buy a t-shirt. They just left. And, uh, you know, sadly. And so anyway, uh, so Jonathan, you know, comes up with these kinds of things. And there was so much about nine 11, even to where, you know, politicians were making statements. They didn't even know that were Bible quotes and they were all tied in to Isaiah nine. uh, verbatim, uh, Barack Obama, even same way, you know, on that capstone that they put, you know, what he wrote on the capstone right there, right there in the Bible. It's, it's a reiteration of the defiance of the children of Israel instead of seeing, Hey, wait a minute. Have we, what are we doing here? And so we have continued to amble forward. And now from, you know, as you say, 25 years, it's going to be 25 years next Friday, uh, of the anniversary of 9-11, and Jonathan has been chronicling these calamities and these signs of judgment, whether he did

1:43:41 it with the return of the gods and, you know, just... He's had 10 bestsellers. This will be in his 11th. No doubt it'll be a New York Times bestseller as well, right out the gate. But here, it's what's happening right now, and it's understanding what the altar of Pergamon represented. And if you remember, Pergamon was... was born out of Turkey. It was one of the seven churches that Jesus had talked about in the book of revelations. Right. And, and what was at Pergamon was the, was the throne of Satan. And when the throne of Satan was on earth, it was buried, you know, buried and crushed. And this was after the resurrection of Jesus, all that went underground. Okay. And it got buried and the whole deal.

1:44:23 Now you get some curious archeologists from Germany, but then it wasn't Germany, it was Prussia, but they were curious and they brought, You know, they dig this out and piece by piece, they put it in carts and take it to Germany. All right. Yeah. It's now Germany. And all of a sudden the altar, Satan's throne is manifesting itself. And it's interesting on the timing of this, when the altar goes to Germany and it starts, it runs coincidental with the birth of Adolf Hitler. Okay. It's just starting to come to me out. Okay. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. So this is what I'm saying. This all ties. So when you think about history and what's going on and the effect of what happened and what caused World War I and World War II, and you see the demonic, you know, for those, you see where we are right now, Adam, is if you don't have eyes to understand, you know, it's why Jesus spoke in parables.

1:45:19 Is that what he was here? The people didn't have eternal eyes and ears. It was all very temporal. And so here we are today, if you're temporally fixed, you're going to miss out on what is hugely significant right now. And it's happening in the spiritual. And this is the manifestation of the demonic of the throne of Satan, which is the altar of Pergamon, which is its tentacles have left Europe and now coming into the West and were even manifest under the Obama administration. Because if you remember, if you remember his, one of the speeches that he gave, If you remember the backdrop, I remember when I saw this, I go, this is bizarre.

1:46:01 I didn't quite sense that it was demonic. I just knew I was uncomfortable about it. But when you now look at it in light of this book and what Jonathan reveals here. Yeah. It's hanging. And I think I don't have to look very far into our culture. And you and I talk about cultural stuff every week. But I mean, I think the other thing that's not related to the book, but I can't help but think about, you know, is this Lindsay Clancy trial and the response to a mother, you know, killing her own children, somehow trying to turn her into the victim. I know that there's a real conversation happening about postpartum depression, and I don't want to minimize that. I wrestle with depression myself. I'm sympathetic to the reality that there are hard things that people have to deal with. And yet I, I just feel like, you know, why do you call that which is evil good? You know, like that something happened here that is, is bigger than that issue. And I think much darker and we're seeing, um, so many women just rallying to the side of this woman saying, Oh, she was just misunderstood. I'm like, Man, it's hard to get my head around where we're at culturally.

1:47:23 Well, because we don't want to take responsibility. Oh, that's the core issue. We have for the decades now, we need to blame something or someone else. We can't say, hey, look, it was my decision, my choice. And yeah, it's this decision and what's being, you know, decided by this jury is so key. Because like you said, it will put a message out to the rest of people dealing with depression, that it's okay. It's okay to murder somebody. You're justified. Again, I think, I want to be careful here, but I think about the Old Testament and its references to sacrificing children to the pagan gods. I think that we are in a culture that both literally and metaphorically sacrifices children to God. that want to devour them, you know, instead of pointing them toward the one true God.

1:48:25 Right, exactly. Well, you know, look at the numbers of abortions, you know. Oh, yeah. Perfect case in point. And here we are. I mean, even after Roe v. Wade, everybody's freaking out going, oh, that's going to do away. Actually, abortions are up. since we moved Roe v. Wade to the States. So look, that's to be determined. You would think that there's enough heartbreak because we have testimonies of women who have bought into the big lie and they regret that they have aborted their children. You talk about dealing with depression, suicide, all that's been associated with the choice that they've made. It's absolutely heartbreaking, not to mention for these children that didn't even get a chance to live a life, have children, have a family, or even realize what God had imparted in them in terms of a purpose and a vision. Anyway, we got to leave it there. As always, I appreciate your insight.

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