The Bill Martinez Show 09 21 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, good morning. Welcome. Six minutes after the top of the hour, Bill Martinez here, along with Mike Pallance from Americans for Tax Reform. He is the tax policy director there. Hey, good morning, Michael. How are you? Good morning, Bill. Good to be with you. Doing well. Hey, good to catch up with you. Let's talk the wealth tax. I mean, this just keeps cycling back. You can tell when particularly the Democrats get desperate. You know, they got to go after money. That's what they do. It's in their DNA. And the American people should see this is that Look, right now, just like it started, what, back in 1913, it starts with the wealthy, and then it ends up falling on everybody. So, you know, the American taxpayer should be forewarned. We've seen this Trojan horse before, have we not?

0:59 Exactly. What taxes are, taxes are tapeworms. They only grow in one direction. You can look at the payroll tax, which started at only 1%, now at 12.4%. The income tax, we were told, was going to be on millionaires and billionaires. And we still have ridiculous things like the phone tax that we were told was going to pay for World War I still in place. So this is what happens. They apply these taxes. They say they're only going to apply it on the rich. They're only going to apply it in emergencies. And they grow and stick around and they apply it for everyone. It's how Democrats take money from those who make it and redistribute it to their voters. They are the party of government. It's what Democrats do, what we're seeing now. the emergence of these wealth taxes, which we should be clear, this is the creation of a federal, a new federal property tax. This is a tax on the things you have, not the income you make.

1:46 They say it's only going to apply to millionaires and billionaires, as we just said. In time, the authors of the study, Gabriel Zuckman, Thomas Piketty, these are French economists, which is kind of like saying jumbo shrimp, but French economists are a thing apparently. That's where this is coming from. You're seeing these Democrat socialist candidates. It's in their agenda. They're all running on it. You have Ron Wyden, the lead tax writer for Democrats in the Senate, has introduced a wealth tax. This is what's coming down the pike if Democrats take Congress next year. Yeah, we need to follow French economists, don't we? I mean, they have such an incredible track record, right? You've got that ridiculous statement from Macron the other year where he said, you know, America is so good at innovating.

2:29 What the French are really good at is regulating. The French should regulate. For the world. As if he doesn't see how those two things, why the French are bad at creating new things while having a heavy hand in regulation are linked. That's what we need to stay away from. We need to keep America not like Europe. Well, interesting right now that you have the convergence of this wealth tax idea. Again, the personality of the Democratic Party is way out of the closet and exposed. And then with J.D. Vance and all that he's doing as the fraud czar and exposing billions upon billions. I mean, Elon Musk told us, what, 18 months ago that there's at least a trillion dollars in fraud and waste. And even with the billions of dollars that J.D. Vance is exposing, I mean, it's just way at the tip of the iceberg, is it not?

3:17 Of course. And we've seen how the Democratic Party is directly linked to this fraud. I think Minnesota continues to be the great example of this. Yeah. Back to where we have leering centers instead of learning centers somehow earning federal taxpayer dollars. And then, of course, to see some of that money funneling its way back into Democratic offers with contributions to Democrats. They willingly turn a blind eye towards it because they know they benefit from it. It both benefits their constituencies and then encases the party directly. When you look at our programs like Medicaid, we're talking about tens of billions of dollars in improper payments per year. Republicans and President Trump's one big beautiful bill. have already taken a lead in tightening up on some of this combating fraud. I think you, for that reason, have seen Democrats talk about this less because the public's become more aware of the fraud. But that's happening in Minnesota.

4:04 Just imagine what's happening in states like New York and California. Oh, my gosh. They haven't fully uncovered this yet. Right, exactly. And, you know, and every day and every week, it seems like there's more stuff being exposed here. It's impossible to deny that. And as you say, it is really happening more in blue states. There's incidences in red states as well. But, you know, I think they're all starting to get the memo because, you know, Todd Blanch and the team are coming in saying enough of this stuff. You know, we're going to come after it. Meanwhile, the Democrats are going crazy. Speaking of the big, beautiful bill. They see all that America has received with no tax on tip, no tax on Social Security, all the benefits.

4:45 I mean, the average household income now, Mike, you saw that number has increased dramatically. The Democrats are going nuts because they believe in their heart of hearts. American citizens either don't deserve it or they don't know what to do with it. So that's why we need them to take our money and tell us what to do with it. And meanwhile, they've successfully managed to increase our debt to $ 40 trillion. So, oh, yeah, let's give them more of the same, right? And I think on the back of the Trump tax cuts that we talked about this last time, Bill, I think we're starting to see signs of the economy ready to take off. The GDP numbers coming out of the Fed, Atlanta Fed, for the third quarter are looking so strong right now. Their forecast right now is at 5.1%. That seems extraordinarily high, but even the average they're showing is about 2.5% growth, a significant increase from last quarter. I think that's driven by all the investment, key provisions in the Trump tax cuts driving that. We're seeing likely expense and cost recovery. These are what's going to boost wages for workers. That's what we need to get back to talking about is how these Trump tax cuts put more money in your pocket by letting you keep more of your own money and because businesses can pay workers more and have to compete over those workers leading to higher wages.

6:01 That's what's really going to deliver for families is seeing those real wages increase. And again, three and a half years under the Biden administration, the inflation that they drove and caused from overspending, three and a half years, people did not see their real incomes increase because of inflation. Now they're back up on the rise. Now we're seeing the economy start to take off. And Donald Trump's throwing out a lifeline, whether it's the Trump accounts for young kids or even, you know, which drove, I know it drove the Democrats nuts. I mean, heads were exploding when he said, hey, look it, if we sweep in the midterms, I'm going to give you all $ 5, 000. And, you know, and you just sit there and go, whoa, OK, that's pretty good. I mean, the Democrats are so funny.

6:43 They've been buying votes like crazy. And now they're accusing Trump of buying votes by offering, you know, a $ 5, 000 incentive if they, you know, keep Republicans in control. so that the rest of his, you know, the rest of his plans and objectives can be realized. I mean, if the Democrats come in, you know, we might as well do COVID all over again and just bring everything to a halt, right? I think if you take Trump accounts, it's such a great contrast with Republicans and Democrats. Look at what a crazy state like California is doing right now, where Gavin Newsom has said, actually, you know, I think be driven by the fact that they're. Called Trump accounts. Yes. How petty this is, but they're going to treat contributions...

7:24 from employers to their employees' children's Trump accounts as taxable income to their workers. You have to pay taxes on any contribution your employer makes to your kid's Trump account. That is insane and petty and small. We should not be doing that, of course. And then you take Republicans coming up with new ways for you to save and invest, be part of the economy. where I think there's going to be a generational change in the way we consume economic news. I think every time we're opening up a new savings account, you're probably converting a Republican voter. And then to have Democrats pushing this wealth tax to come after your life savings, come after all of your assets and your property, just insane to think that that's what they're campaigning on. And that's the direction we're seeing at the state level, California, New York, Washington, Oregon, Democrats in the Senate, And these DSA candidates on the campaign trail, Democrats are united in this march for the creation of a new federal property tax.

8:24 Well, and a new government, you know, with the DSA taking control of the Democratic Party. Oh, yes, by the way, right? Well, I think what's so scary is you put these two things together. A wealth tax is by nature, it's a direct tax on capital. This is unconstitutional. Right. What Democrats are saying at the same time they're going to do is stack the Supreme Court And that's how they're going to pass this, because they're going to rush this through. They're going to break the Supreme Court in order to put forward this confiscatory tax. It's just terrifying what they're in lockstep doing. Yeah, exactly. 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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14:10 I mean, you know, here we are. Donald Trump is saying, look, this is what's in the pipeline. We've got all this investment, what, over $ 20 trillion of international investment coming in. You know, what's going on with AI? And I know that Barack Obama and the Democrats, you know, they want to turn this into the big Magilla. And, you know, here's the scary ghost, you know, that's coming out is AI, like as if, you know, our experts can't figure out. how to make this work. And they've got a bad track record, whether it's Y2K, whether it's the green energy scam thing that we've endured, all that we went through with PPP and the pandemic and all this. The Democrats have consistently been on the wrong side. If they get control, which they want, they will turn this over to a world body.

15:07 This will end up being controlled by the United Nations if you're ready for that. Great. I think, of course, with something like data centers, the public has concerns. Innovation happens fast in America. We have to get people comfortable with what data centers and AI technology is bringing and the changes it's going to make. But if you look at what Democrats are doing on the campaign trail against data centers right now, it is the exact same playbook as where they were on fracking. Right, exactly. They were on nuclear power. You can sit back and ask yourself, have Democrats ever been on the right side of these questions? That's my point. Have they got anything right? I was watching a clip of Mark Ruffalo, the actor, in 2010 in upstate New York fighting for the fracking ban.

15:48 And it is terrifying how similar it is to the same playbook on data centers where he's got a mason jar of allegedly dirty water. He's warning about farmers. He's calling for the temporary moratorium just so we know what's going on. And then what ends up happening? New York State passes this moratorium. They lose out on the 300,000 jobs that Pennsylvania gained because of this. And you had the situation where Pennsylvania literally drank New York's milkshake. That's the same thing that's here. The opportunity, the job creation. and what this means to the American economy moving forward. Democrats are all on the other side of this, all trying to kill this off. Well, look what we did with nuclear energy, another case in point. And here they are, they're all concerned that China's going to get a leg up and all this, and it's like, hey, look it, you already got history here.

16:35 China says, thank you very much for stalling out and stepping away from nuclear, and look what they're doing. Exactly right. There's no one who, I think the Chinese are sitting back and laughing at this. They're full speed ahead. Yes. And so I don't think there's anyone benefiting more from us potentially hitting the brakes here on innovation. But I think at the end of the day, I think we'll end up. Getting this right. I think the Congress right now is doing some things to address people's concerns about rising energy bills. I think that's the most important thing we can get the public comfortable with, is the idea that data centers are actually across the country and in localities. What we're seeing is. They're leading to lower property taxes and lower energy bills as they're bringing new production online. Well, how far flung is it when Trump says, Look, once the Iran conflict is over with, the gas prices are going to come down and that we're going to get a lot of relief, whether it's regular fuel or diesel fuel. Right now, there's no question what's happening in the Middle East is affecting those costs. But, I mean, in a lot of ways, I can say this. With confidence based on the past, if the Democrats were in charge right now, gas prices would be through the pick and roof. I mean, the fact that they're there where they are has been mitigated in large part because of the strategy and, you know, the tactics that Trump has used.

17:54 to protect oil prices to a degree. And meanwhile, we're moving full speed ahead with our relationships with, you know, Venezuela and what he's been able to do there, the replenishment of the strategic oil preserve that, gasoline reserve that Biden, oh yeah, by the way, in order to juice the midterms, he opens up the coffers, right? Empties out the strategic oil reserves to benefit Democrats. You know, so Democrats are just, I mean, they're so hypocritical. I just don't want to hear from them anymore. The hypocrisy is on full display, where you've got, since the beginning of the Obama years, Democrats pushing a carbon tax, deliberately trying to make oil prices more expensive, and home heating prices more expensive, opposing fracking. You would think that they would sit back and talk about how these high gas prices have been great for the environment. Of course, they're not doing it. They're just trying to grab the current political moment. But I think, to your point, the Trump administration's made some great decisions. Another one I would add to that would be Jones Act relief and the waiver that they provided, allowing it So it's easier to transport port-to-port oil to keep pressure on prices coming down, the new exploration and development they're allowing to happen. And I think one of the remarkable things we've seen is that natural gas prices have actually stayed relatively flat or dropped in the United States compared to the rest of the world. That is, during this conflict, that is a historic and monumental sign of how powerful the American industry is and how dominant we are now. One thing we should avoid doing that's been discussed, I believe, Senator Leader

19:25 Thune floated this and the governor of Louisiana, too. There was some discussion about doing an export ban on diesel. This is something we should be very careful to avoid. Republicans rightly oppose any effort from the Biden administration to have a ban on exports of crude oil. If you do that, that is a signal to stop domestic production. It'll only end up raising prices, not on just diesel. but on gas prices overall. We got to make sure we avoid that. It's a bad idea that's been floated and Trump should continue his opposition towards. Why can't Thune do the math on this? I mean, it just seems so obvious. What am I missing? Yeah, drill, baby, drill. We are the lead exporter of diesel.

20:07 We want to make sure we maintain And so much of the effort we've seen in the Trump administration on reindustrializing, so our manufacturers can increase our exports. We don't want to damage the export lead we have in the oil and gas industry. That would be very damaging towards American energy dominance. What about the situation in Canada? What do you make of this? Yeah, and I think most likely what we have going on right now is I think you have the Canadians trying to leverage the pre-election situation to get the most they can out of these trade deals. It's always hard to know what's going on behind closed doors. But I think what you've seen is the Trump administration has started to actually provide some tariff relief ahead of the election on things like coffee on bananas, groceries, things that I think are providing direct relief for consumers. I've confidence the Trump administration will strike a deal here soon.

21:00 Right. And meanwhile, I mean, the Canadians, this is no big surprise. I mean, they did back during the Trudeau's senior and junior term. you know, their alliance with China. So they've been in bed with China for a long time. And, you know, and they look at China's governance being superior to America's. So, you know, again, this isn't a surprise. And some of this stuff seems petty. And, you know, the Canadian prime minister is hurting Canadians as well in all this, right? Yeah, exactly right. And then it's frustrating, too, because, you know, I think if they're playing their own political games, you know, I think someone who's directly benefiting from this would be El Saeed, the DSA.

21:42 Candidate in Michigan. So I think there's an element of the Canadians trying to play games and pressure the administration while they know we have a tough midterm coming up. Well, it's interesting because El Saeed, I'm still surprised that he's ahead in the polls. I mean, basically statistically tied with Rogers there, but I'm just surprised. I don't know if there just hasn't been enough advertising, you know, that Republicans have been keeping their powder dry for a moment, and maybe they're going to do a blast in the last four or five weeks. Trump's opening up the coffers. I've heard anywhere from $ 400 to $ 800 million that he's going to be writing checks and getting it out there to get these guys across the line, right? Yeah, you've seen the MAGA Inc. PAC, which is the president's PAC, where I believe his former key advisors, Chris LaCivita and James Blair, who did the Trump campaign, they're starting to unleash the coffers right now. I think they're kind of flooding the airways with their cash. And that's good to see the cavalry coming in. But it is hard to see what El-Sayed, I mean, you had this interview last night, actually, I don't think has fully been made public yet, but parts of it released with Hassan Piker, who's been his key surrogate on the campaign, you know, saying that America, pound for pound, worse terrorist than Al-Qaeda.

22:54 When you see someone like that, and you see the candidate hugging that person, refusing to distance himself from it, actively campaigning with him, it's hard to see that polling. And it. Would, would vote to put someone like that in the Senate. I'm confident at the end of the day, they'll make the right decision. See, they don't understand that, you know, with the Muslims, they believe in Takiyah, that it's okay to lie. See, Americans, our ethos is, is that, you know, you don't lie. You, you maintain your trust with the people. Muslims could care less. And the means to the end, that's what justifies their deception. And, you know, and I, and I heard the conversation between Piker and, and, and El-Said was that, hey, look, do whatever you have to do to get elected. We'll figure out what happens. We'll figure it out on the other side.

23:46 Kind of like the same thing that Barack Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright had, right? Well, I think the people that these candidates choose to surround themselves with are a fairly good indication of who it is that they're politically trying to appeal towards. So it's concerning whether he means it or not. It's concerning that he thinks Hassan Piker is is a big part of his coalition and necessary to winning the Senate, because it means that that's who he's going to be representing when he's in the Senate. The fact that he thinks someone who's essentially saying we deserve 9-11, we're worse than Al-Qaeda, that that's a huge part of the Democrat Party that he can't win without. That should be alarming. I think it shows that these candidates are too dangerous to put in office.

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28:53 And you got to know, I mean, what was said before, you know, the Democrats, it's so funny because I think there was, I can't remember the Republican that did it, made a reference to when you get out of the primaries, then you etch a sketch. And the Democrats have, you know, they've become artistes in etch a sketch. You know, they'll say one thing in the primary, when it comes to the general, then all of a sudden it's like, who are you voting for? I mean, that's not the same person that was just politicking for the last three, four months, right? It just came out that James Tallarico, who got the Democrat nominee for Senate in Texas, he's running around eating barbecue and walking back his previous statements that there are six biological genders, that God is non-binary, right? But some insider recorded at his home church, the pastor, talking about, oh, yeah, he's just doing that for the election. He's just trying to win the election. We know he's just as radical as we are, and he's going to vote that way once he makes it into the Senate. So admitting he's lying.

29:57 Right. And she approves of it, and she's his pastor. That's a great church. The theology of that church is terrific. You're allowed to lie to people about your political beliefs so you can steal their votes. Well, of course. I mean, that's the same thing in Michigan, right? And that here you've got this radical that has been leading the way and has gotten Abdul, you know, the vote. And he's pretty much just said, hey, I don't care if he distanced himself from me. It's just it's important that he get elected. Just like Obama with Jeremiah. Jeremiah, right. Exactly. Right. Exactly. So it's the same thing. And it's just, you know, See, this is the problem we have with our government and why they violate the first principle of any relationship, and that has to do with trust. You violate trust, forget it.

30:51 And what's happened is they've conditioned America to become so cynical that they're willing to accept this time and time again. And look what it gets us. It gets us $ 40 trillion in debt and all these policies that are upside down. They don't make sense whatsoever. They're anti-American policies. And they're pro-World Economic Forum. That's really what it comes down to, John, in my opinion. It's interesting, the Michigan race, because you've got a radical Muslim who supports Sharia law running with the support of a whole bunch of weird sex degenerates and radical socialists.

31:33 Muslims are using the Democrats as useful idiots to gain power all across America, but it's interesting. There's a principle of Islamic theology called Takiyah, where it's permissible and indeed obligatory to lie to non-believers in order to advance the power of Islam. Islam is less a religion with political implications. It's more like a totalitarian political movement that has a chapel out back. Islam from the beginning has been about getting political power, getting wealth, taking women by force from their husbands and making them part of your harem. The Muslim slave trade existed into the 19th century, actually still exists in parts of Africa. To see the Democrats and the Muslims each think they're fooling the other. They each think the other is the useful idiot.

32:31 Yeah. You know, like somehow they think they're going to be the last man standing. Chuck Schumer, I'm saying. And look what happened. I mean, perfect case in point. Just look at what happened with with Minnesota. Yeah. Let in 80,000 refugees and soon they're running the stake. The entire state. Raping the state. Right. Exactly. And look what happens, you know, with crime and law enforcement and all that situation. I mean, Ellison and, you know, I mean, it is just an absolute fiasco. And the thing that's so upsetting, as you say, John, here we are, $ 40 trillion in debt, and we the people are supporting it. We're giving them money. But you're not allowed to complain about the fact that your country is being colonized by foreigners. If you do, let's see what happens. Beau French, great guy who's running for railroad commissioner in Texas, which sounds like a silly, like a do nothing job, but in fact it controls the energy infrastructure of the state. It's incredibly important given how big oil and gas are in Texas. He's running and he tweeted a picture of University of Texas football fans at a game and they were all Indian. And he said, now we see the scope of the problem.

33:46 In other words, Texas is being overwhelmed by immigration from third world countries, from Muslim countries, H-1B visas, taking away Texans' jobs, affirmative action. Texas schools, it's really hard for a white Texan whose family has been paying taxes for generations. It's really hard for them to get into the University of Texas because there is a stealth affirmative action program in Texas where the top 5% of Texas residents, not citizens, not legal residents, just residents, the top 5% in each school district gets it. Well, what that means is you get places like Irving that have become almost all Indian or almost all Muslim. And you get border towns like Brownsville where the schools aren't very good. It's not that hard to be in the top 5%. You're less qualified than the top 20% from Highland from say Highland park school district. So effectively they found a way to do affirmative action and it's virtually impossible for Texas taxpayers to get into the university of Texas. They have to end up going somewhere else. Beau French was highlighting this fact that Texans are being purposely displaced by business elites that want cheap labor. by Democrats who want cheap votes. Well,

35:16 the backlash against him was ferocious. That rhino John Cornyn, who thank God will not be in the Senate anymore, has endorsed Beau French's left-wing Democrat opponent. And so has Karl Rove, that evil Machiavellian depraved genius who ruined the Republican Party through the 90s and 2000s. who gave us George W. Bush and the Iraq War and open borders and massive Muslim immigration after 9-11. Exactly. Karl Rove just endorsed a pro-trans for transfer children, open borders, anti-Israel, radical left-wing Democrat who's still wearing a COVID mask that says protect trans kids. This is so Karl Rove is endorsing him. What the rhinos are showing us, they hate ordinary Americans. They hate blue collar voters. They hate ordinary Texas patriots. They hate us enough to turn us over to self-styled Marxists and pro-Sharia Muslims. Everything Pat Buchanan said about the rhinos back in 1992 and 1996 has been proven true. The George Bush faction of the Republican Party would rather burn America down than let it be controlled by actual patriots. It's just appalling. Speaking of that, what

36:48 about that Texas congresswoman, Salazar? No, she's Miami. Well, Miami, I'm sorry. Right. Miami, Florida. Right. Exactly. Maria Salazar, who is demanding amnesty for tens of millions of illegals and saying, if you don't do that, they can't live dignified lives. She she sponsors and called the Dignity Act. Right. Dignity. You know, there's dignity in being held accountable to obey the laws of the country. Exactly. She wants to treat them like rescue pets. Oh, look, we found 10 kitties in the yard. Can we keep them, Daddy? Yeah. She's not treating them with dignity. Dignity would be deportation to their home countries and a nice little check as a bonus, a little pat on the back. Lots of luck back home.

37:35 Well, dignity is what immigrants who came here legally and they came here and assimilated and added to the tapestry of this great American idea. That is dignity, not giving people a way to escape accountability. Because what does that set them up down the road, John? I mean, this is all then this becomes part of their legacy and part of their, you know, family DNA that it's OK to cheat because, you know, you're going to have people like Maria Salazar and all these sympathetic, you know, clients. pearl clutchers that are just going to, you know, they're really not doing them any favors whatsoever. We got to go to quick break. We've got more from Dr. John after this. Stay with us.

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42:27 Hey, welcome back. As promised, Bill Martin is here. We're talking with Dr. John Zimerick. Well, John, yeah, there's just too many others like Maria Salazar. In fact, when I first heard her, because I'm here in Florida, when I first heard her say the Dignity Act, as soon as she said the Dignity Act, I knew that was trouble. Yeah, I wonder if it's a stupid acronym. They love stupid acronyms. I think the Patriot Act was an acronym. And they're always so cringeworthy. But when they choose these high-flown expressions, it's an attempt to tap into a perverse form of Christianity.

43:09 Right. Sort of a mutation of Christian compassion. I've said before, white guilt is the new gospel of Antichrist. It is a new false religion that people who view Christianity cynically as a political weapon or tool, they try to replace the gospel where Jesus died for our sins with a new gospel where your country, your race, your ethnic group, You focus not on your own sins, but the sins of your ancestors and other people's ancestors. And you punish your descendants. And God doesn't even come into it. But you feel redeemed. You're redeeming yourself from the sins of other people using scapegoats, namely your own people, the population of your country. You're punishing them. You're destroying their future.

44:07 You're doing like in Britain, flooding the country with Pakistanis who form rape gangs. or in Germany where they brought in all the Syrian refugees, there was immediately a rape epidemic. These innocent women are the ones bleeding for the supposed sins of your ancestors. It's a demonic hijacking of Christianity. It almost turns Christianity on its head. Instead of focusing on your own moral failings and going to God for healing and restoration, you're looking at other people's moral failings condemning them feeling good about yourself and punishing someone else yeah there you go you. Got that two by four in your eye that jesus talked about here you're worried about your brother splinters right and you and you're walking around with a two by four walking into walls here.

44:58 But p but i tell you what it feels real good at the time you get you get to feel better than your ancestors better than your neighbors those trump voters over there those redneck bigoted xenophobes those blue-collar rubes, the people of Walmart. You get to feel better than your ancestors and your neighbors, and you don't have to care about your progeny or your descendants. I mean, it's a really good deal. I mean, if you're selling your soul, you're getting some coin for it, though. Yeah, but it's so delusional. I mean, this is the deal. I used to say this all the time during the Obama administration years, because it was life by theory. You know, we're going to throw out all the empirical evidence and the data and stuff like that, because the thing that is hysterical is people will look and make fun of the people at Walmart. And guess what? Most of those people at Walmart are pretty happy campers. They're enjoying life.

45:53 They could care less about what those highbrows think about them. In fact, they think they're all silly driving around in their overpriced cars that they've mortgaged their mortgage to the hilt. and all to all for show just so that they can, uh, eat at some expensive five-star, you know, French laundry restaurant and get all the wine they want. And meanwhile, Hey, uh, Papa and mama, you know, they're, they're happy at home and, uh, having a nice, a nice dinner with the family. Right. Something really liberating about not giving a damn what other people think of you. And I think I was born with that chromosome. Cause I never gave a damn, uh, But when I got when I got to Yale, I noticed everybody cared what everybody else thought. They were like cannibalistic sheep. And if the sheep start going one way, everybody follows and they don't want to be last in line.

46:47 They have to get up front. And so that's that not intellectual arguments, not even indoctrination by the professors. It was the power of groupthink. Right. People really, really want to feel accepted. by the right set, by the right crowd. They really want to fall in line and be part of a movement. I think a lot of the people, look at Nazi Germany. The Nazis only got like 37% of the vote in their best election before they stopped having elections. The other 63% of the population voted against the Nazis. But within a couple of years, it was probably 80% supported them. Because it was the thing to do. It was the movement. It was what all the educated people were doing. It was what was accepted in society and what was touted in the press. And you don't want to be left out.

47:43 You don't want to be the weirdo. You don't want to be the redheaded stepchild. So you're going to line up and get behind what all the best people are doing and saying and thinking. And of course, today, if you look in the entertainment industry, in academia, people are falling all over themselves to denounce Israel for defending itself, to denounce Trump for deporting sex traffickers and drug traffickers from the country, to denounce parents for trying to protect their kids from transgender propaganda designed to plant the seeds of gender dysphoria in young children's heads. It's like.

48:27 Purposely putting typhoid in the water supply of a city. Yeah. Well, it's amazing, John, because it's the return of the lemmings. Remember 1985, that great Apple commercial they did during the Super Bowl? And here we are. I mean, after all these years, people saw that and they kind of laughed and the whole deal. And here we are. I mean, the lemmings are back. There's just something inherent about our humanness That leaves us vulnerable to this groupthink until, you know, you become like Germany or you become like Iran or any other third world country, right? One of my best friends, Jonathan Leaf, you should have him on your show, has a new book called The Primate Myth, where he says that we have distorted the study of human beings by looking to chimpanzees as very close relatives of mankind and trying to explain human behavior by looking at the way apes act. In the book, The Primate Myth, he talks about how human beings really behave much more like elephants and dolphins and whales, which are highly social animals. And this leads to some good things.

49:45 When we cooperate, we can do amazing things. Exactly. But also when we cooperate, we can go crazy all in the same way and all at the same time. And he points to the fact that dozens of Hollywood celebrities now say they have transgender kids. Way, way, way higher than the general population. How does that happen? It's social contagion. Somebody starts to do something, and it seems kind of fashionable, and suddenly people start imitating it. And so I think you would enjoy interviewing Jonathan. He just did the Naomi Wolf show. I'll give you this contact. Oh, well, yeah, please, please. Yes. You know, and thank you. You turned me on to Jeff Simmons and he's, it was a great conversation. What a great book.

50:31 Oh, I'll have to watch that. Yeah. That was the book Oppenheimer's Demon. Right. Exactly. Yeah. A lot of fun. Look forward to having him back too. We're going to continue this conversation with him, but anyway. So anyway, we are, We are highly social animals. We're not quite like ants, but we're also not like chimpanzees, which are wildly individualistic. We are somewhere in between. And our social natures can lead to great things like fighting the Nazis together, pulling together to defeat the Japanese. But they can also lead to terrible things like the COVID panic. where everybody was snitching on their friends and family, not wearing masks and not getting the dead baby vaccine. Trump derangement syndrome, where people have really convinced themselves that half the country are quasi-fascists who want to commit genocide. You need to, you need, well, there's a great, great old short story by Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes.

51:37 Oh, yeah. And let me, It's deeper than people remember. These two con artists convince the king that they're going to make him a suit of clothes that's the most beautiful in the world, but it can only be seen by people who are wise and sophisticated. Right. They give him a non-existent suit. He's completely naked, but he doesn't want to admit he's not really wise and sophisticated, so he claims to see it. And all his courtiers who want to be seen as wise and sophisticated, they all pretend to see it too. Again, they're not afraid of the emperor punishing him. They're afraid of looking like rubes, looking like unsophisticated fools. So the entire city, having been told that it's the mark of sophistication, to see these clothes, they all pretend to see it. Except there's one little boy who says, but he's completely naked. And then everyone's humiliated and the two con artists are thrown in prison or executed or something. That tells you something about the power of the sheep instinct, the herd instinct, social contagion.

52:53 Right. You should be that one kid, that one boy saying the emperor is naked. There's also a famous picture of all this crowd of Germans giving the Nazi salute and one guy with his arms folded. Be that guy. We've actually located that guy. He survived World War II, thank God. I think somebody should make a movie about him. Well, or be Mordecai at the gate, right? That's right. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Well, and this is the deal, is that you get these theorists and these people, and you got to understand, who's pulling the string here, John? We got 30 seconds left. Go ahead. I'll let you wrap it up. Screwtape, the enemy, the father of lies. All wars are ultimately spiritual wars, and we're in a spiritual war right now. Prayer, fasting, the sacraments, study your Bible, stay close to the person of Jesus Christ. He's going to be the only thing that keeps you standing in the maelstrom that we're entering now.

53:49 Exactly. Dr. John Zimerick, he's the author of The Second Amendment, No First. John, thank you. As always, appreciate your time. God bless. Take care. Hey, just a quick reminder, you can catch the show on all major podcast platforms like YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen. Be sure to download or subscribe so you don't miss any Bill Martinez Live episodes. 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. Christian Faith Publishing evaluates each manuscript we receive.

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55:23 Hey, good morning. Welcome. Six minutes after the top of the hour, Bill Martinez here, and we've got Stan Ferris joining us. Stan's had an incredible background in leadership and developing churches, revitalizing pastoral leadership, decision-making, community and belonging, and church planting based on biblical applications. Stan, welcome to the show. Good to have you with us. Well, thank you, Bill. What a pleasure it is to be with you today. Thank you for your time. It really is a blessing to be with you. Well, the blessing is ours, and I know our audience is going to agree after they hear about your book, Pivotal Decisions. Tell us about the book.

56:05 Well, Bill, really over the last year, several years of my ministry, dealing with people, really for 30 years as a pastor, I've started recognizing that people were paralyzed, it seemed, in making decisions. And how do you make good decisions? And they were living in regret of past decisions. And so out of that, God began to disturb my life that there's a need to try to help lead people to make better decisions. And really, Bill, out of that, God began to work in my own life that I realized in my life, I need to maybe be more intentional about how I'm making decisions so that I honor God with my life and in my decision-making.

56:56 You understand a lot of times when I talk to people about this particular topic and making decisions, they go, I really want to hear from God, but I just am not, I don't seem like I'm connecting. It just seems like the, you know, the telephone cord somehow is disconnected. Do you get that response as well? I get that a lot. You know, as a pastor, I hear a lot, Bill, people asking me, how do I know God's will? And how do I know for sure this is God that's leading me in this direction and not even is it the spiritual enemy that's leading me this way? And how do I know that I'm making a good decision here? I hear that a lot, Bill, as a pastor. And out of that really is one reason why I wrote this book, Pivotal Decisions, to try to help people see that while I can't guarantee you there's these three easy steps to take, you don't always make a good decision. Right. I can show you in this book how you can build a foundation that's going to help you make good decisions.

58:02 Well, you know, is the decision based on the outcome? Because the Bible says we'll know them by the fruit. Is the fruit of the decision evident? It is, Bill. Here's what I've found, that most people, when they're making decisions, they make reaction-based decisions. In other words, they're just reacting to what's happening in their life. They're reacting to their circumstances, whatever it might be. Pivotal decisions, again, doesn't tell you take these three steps, you'll always make a good decision. If you always made a good decision, you wouldn't need Jesus. And we need Jesus and His grace.

58:47 But what this book does, it teaches you about values-based decisions. And so you have a foundation where you know what your values are. They're biblical-based values. And out of that foundation of values, a value-based decision-making process, it's going to help you make good decisions. But it's also going to help you win. you make a bad decision. It's going to help you be able to turn to God and let God help you through that hard season of a bad decision. You experience God's grace and you can keep on going because you have that foundation of a value-based decision-making process. Most people are just reacting. So people, one of the big things, Bill, I see all the time in families as they're making decision, they make decisions based on comparison. So they're comparing their life to somebody else's.

59:44 And they see little Johnny over here in this family, He's on a travel sports team, and he won a tournament, and they see the pictures on social media, and they begin to compare their life, their kids to little Johnny. And so they think, well, I need that for my son. I want my son to be on a travel team. And they make that decision, and it's a reaction-based decision. It's not good for their family. It's not good for their spiritual life. It's not good for them, and it's not values-based decision. And pivotal decisions, they are value-based, values-based decisions. And those values are based on Scripture, are they not?

1:00:26 I mean, I often find when people are very confused and they've kind of drifted away, and we're going to talk about that because you bring that up in the book as well, is that I find that often it's they're not in the Word of God on a consistent basis. And, I mean, God gave us His Word. I mean, think about it. Here we are. We're so blessed in this century, the 21st century, Stan, to have the Word of God and to have other people, hopefully, around us that are in the Word of God. Boy, there's, you know, oh, and oh, yeah, let's not forget the Holy Spirit as well. You know, I mean, we have such an array of fortification and information to help us stay on track. But if we're not tapping into it, And you say if you're doing it based on a knee-jerk reaction or an emotional deal or, you know, like a lot of times people feel like, well, I got to make the decision, you know, right now. I go, okay, why? Is it life and death? I mean, if it's a life and death situation, then there's a sense of urgency, right? But if it's not necessarily life and death, then I don't think we need the same expediency, do we?

1:01:32 That's right. That's right. And I kind of divide it up this way, Bill. I look at decisions. We make thousands of decisions a day. And most of those decisions are habit decisions. It's just we don't think about them. We get out of the bed. We walk to the kitchen. We get in our car. We put the car in drive. Those are habit-based decisions where just out of habit, we make those. We don't think about them. Then we have some small decisions that can have a big impact in our life. For instance, you make the decision of what you had for breakfast today. It's a small decision, the big picture of life. But over 20 years, if you are eating donuts every day for breakfast, well, that's going to have an impact in your life. And then we have major decisions, Bill, that do impact your life. Who you're going to marry. Will you have kids? Those type of decisions. What job will you take? Those are major decisions.

1:02:33 But there's also another category that are pivotal decisions. These are destiny decisions. These decisions are going to transform your life. For instance, pivotal decision number one is I will make the decision to know God and to know him well. It all starts there. That transforms your destiny. And if you know God and know him well, God might not give you the three-step process to know exactly what to do every time. but you know God and you know Him well, that value that you've built into your heart and to your soul, then the Holy Spirit is gonna lead you in your decision making. And you might not know exactly what to do, but Bill, I believe that if you are following the Scripture, you have the Holy Spirit in your life, and you know God and know Him well, that even when you don't know the exact thing to do, the Holy Spirit's gonna lead you in the right direction.

1:03:32 Well, exactly. If there's a course correction that's necessary, God is there, not for you to get over it, but to get through it. Because in getting through it, we learn so much, don't we, Stan? We do. And sometimes God puts you in those positions because that's how you're going to learn. And that's why you sometimes are close to God. My wife, over 20 years ago, she was diagnosed with cancer. Praise God, she's doing well. Thank God. And God answered her prayers in her life. However... We both will say to you, Bill, that it was during that season of life that we really experienced the presence of God in a special way. And we grew closer to God. We grew in our faith. God used that difficult season for a real positive thing in our lives.

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1:09:26 Oh, that's right. We all ask that question. And I think that we have a whole culture of people, Bill, that are confused. And they're confused because we have a spiritual enemy, number one. And they're confused because we have a culture that is teaching a worldview that is totally anti-Scripture and anti-God. And it is not led to freedom and happiness and all that is promised. Instead, it's led to massive brokenness. And because of that, as Christ followers, we need to have a solid base in our life. And these pivotal decisions will help you build that solid foundation to build your life on, to make sure that your worldview is in line with Scripture. I mean, think about this, Bill. When Paul writes in Ephesians, about the armor of God, put on the full armor of God.

1:10:22 Every piece of armor is a defensive piece of armor, except for one. Except for one, exactly. And that's the sword of the spirit. And that's the word of God. And when you align your life with the word of God, which these decisions help you do that, you align yourself with the word of God, doesn't mean life's always going to be easy, but you have a foundation to weather the storm. And just like I preached recently in one of my sermons, the Apostle Paul, he was teaching the church in Corinth in 1 Corinthians 15 and 16. And Paul tells them that God has opened a door for ministry here, but there's going to be adversaries.

1:11:04 And it's not going to be easy. And we shouldn't expect it to. To live for Christ in a culture the way our culture is going, it's not going to be easy to be a follower of Christ. But if you have a foundation built in your life, these biblical values, these pivotal decisions, you build those into your life, then you have a foundation to weather the storm and to stand against the wave of the secular culture. I think that this is one thing that's under-presented when people come to Christ, is that you're entering into a battlefield, and a battlefield of where you need to know this, the leader of your church was crucified, okay? And he says, pick up your cross and follow me. I mean, think about that. So even before you come to make a decision, you need to be prepared and consider the cost, do you not?

1:12:04 That's right. And I think, Bill, and this is especially prevalent in American churches, where we have this idea that If we are saved and we are trying to live for Christ, that life is supposed to be easy. Maybe even believe that God kind of owes us that kind of life. But that's the opposite of what the scripture teaches us. That as we get closer to the coming of Christ, there's going to be more persecution. It's going to be harder. There's going to be more pressure. And that's why you have to align yourself with scripture and build these disciplines into your life. So you have a solid foundation to stand on when those storms come and the pressure that certainly is already happening. It was just going to get worse. You have to have this foundation in your life.

1:12:56 And you got to know that God is there for you in the same way that Jesus was there for Peter. I mean, people look at Peter and say, wow, you know, he denied the Lord three times. But God, you know, meets him there on the beach and says, hey, Peter, I want you to know all that considered. You're still my guy, right? That's right. That's right. I mean, God is a God of grace, and we're thankful that Jesus, He is a God of grace and a God of second chances. I have a plaque on my wall I keep in my office, Bill, so that anybody that walks in my office that's struggling, I can point to. It's one of my favorite verses in the Bible, in the book of Jonah, where God says, the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time.

1:13:42 And God has second chances. With the grace of Jesus, we know that God's always with us. And even when we make a bad decision, we come to Christ and he restores us and there's redemption found. And I live in that everyday, Bill, and grateful for it. Well, in your book, you talk about, you know, even though you said, look, it's not about three steps here, but Jesus did kind of lay out three steps. And he said, well, remember, repent, return, right? So remember, what are we to remember here? Remember what God has done, Bill. Remember where we started. You know what we all have in common is where we started. And we separated from God. We started alienated from God. We started with no hope. And we have to remember where we came from. And where we came from was a place of hopelessness. And then we remember that and it should point us to a heart of gratitude and a heart of commitment to the Lord. When we remember where we started and he rescued us when we had no hope and brought redemption. And we remember where we started and we remember the way that God intervened in our life and to our brokenness. And he gave us hope through Jesus Christ. We remember that. And that's the starting point. Right.

1:15:08 You remember. And then in remembering where you were and being honest and confessing to God and for that moment, being able to see, maybe not to the depth that God does, but beginning to see, you know, what sin has done to you, how it's hurt God. And when you do that and you fall on the rock of that reality, you I don't know how you not repent, Stan. But when you repent, that seals the deal, doesn't it? Yeah. You remember that. You remember your hopelessness and you remember your brokenness. And there was absolutely nothing you could do about it on your own, Bill. And God rescued you from that through Jesus Christ. And that leads you to repentance. You turn from your sin and you turn to Jesus again. because he is the only one that is worthy to save you because of what he's done for you.

1:16:08 Right. You remember and you return, you repent and you return to Christ. Yeah. I think the thing that's underestimated greatly here, Stan, is that, you know, the power of forgiveness, you know, when Jesus was talking about forgiving sins, it was freaking out, you know, the religious leaders at the time, they go like, who, who is he to forgive sin? Only God can forgive sin, right? And Jesus transferred that ministry to us by the power of the Holy Spirit. And I believe that we underestimate the power of forgiveness, and particularly as it relates to sin. What do you say?

1:16:49 Yeah, I think, you know, I spent a whole chapter in the book talking about forgiveness and the power of forgiveness. But I start by building a picture of the result of unforgiveness. And, you know, it starts with you realizing how much Jesus has forgiven you. And the grace that is evident in the forgiveness of Christ for the Son of God to die on the cross and willingly die for our sins, shed his blood for us. uh, that we could experience his forgiveness. Um, we remember that and that is, leaves us build no choice, uh, but to offer forgiveness to others. And when we don't, we, we really are denying the power of the grace of Jesus in our own life. And we're also, um, We're also living, putting ourselves in our own prison of unforgiveness, and we hurt ourselves, but we also are denying the power of the grace of Jesus and the work that he's done in our own lives when we are unwilling to forgive.

1:18:12 Stan, we've got about a minute left, and I did want to address the 310s rule. I love this. I'm going to use this quite often going forward. Go ahead. And if you can do it, summarize it in a minute here, okay? Go ahead. Yeah, the three tens rule has been around a long time. And it's a rule that there's a business model as well, I think, for this rule. But the three tens rule is really powerful as you're making your decisions. You ask yourself, first, will this decision I make, will it matter in 10 minutes? And then you ask, this decision I'm making, will it matter in 10 months?

1:18:55 And then you ask, this decision I'm making, will it matter in 10 years? And the reality is, Bill, that most of the decisions we're making are not going to matter in 10 years. Mm-hmm. And now they might matter in 10 minutes. And it might even matter in 10 months. But the vast majority of the decisions we're making that we're stressed over and we're worried about and we're anxious about, we're not even going to remember that we made them in 10 years. On the other side of this though, Bill, there are some decisions we're making that will matter in 10 years. And these decisions I talk about in the book, Pivotal Decisions, They're going to matter in 10 years. If you make these decisions and put them in your life and build your life on this foundation, then it's going to matter in 10 years. It's going to matter in 10 years if you know God and know him well. It's going to matter that you have built community into your life.

1:19:51 It's going to matter that you have been willing to forgive someone that has hurt you. It's going to matter in 10 years that you are reading the Bible and you are protecting your mind and you are leaving a legacy to the next generation of faith, a legacy of faith. Those decisions, these pivotal decisions, they will matter in 10 years. So we get caught up in a lot of things, Bill, that in 10 months, they're not going to matter. Exactly. I agree with you. Than being focused on things that's going to matter in 10 years. Well, it's been a joy. Stan Paris serves as lead pastor of Franklin Heights Church in Rocky Mountain, Virginia. He's the executive director of the FHC Network and author of the new book, Pivotal Decisions, available at all the places, right?

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1:24:30 Hey, we're back with you. Good morning. Glad you could join us. Bill Martinez here. For more information on the show, you can go to Bill Martinez Live Background, a little bit of background information. You know, for many families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease, an ordinary afternoon can shift without warning. Pacing, aimless, wandering, and repetitive behaviors can upset an otherwise pleasant day. It's called agitation-associated dementia due to Alzheimer's disease, what they refer to as AAD. And for the 7 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease, it's one of the most common and disruptive yet least understood symptoms. Although as many as 75% of people with Alzheimer's disease experience AAD, a new survey found that 68% of care partners didn't realize the agitation. was connected to Alzheimer's disease. And here to talk more about it with us is our special guest, Dr. Brent Forster. He is the psychiatrist-in-chief and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center. And Karen Finocchio, Alzheimer's caregiver advocate. Welcome to the show, Brent and Karen. Great to have you with us.

1:25:38 Thank you, Bill, for having us. Thanks so much, Bill. Dr., let me ask you first, what is agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease? Well, as you mentioned, agitation is a very common syndrome as part of Alzheimer's disease and frankly, other dementias as well, occurring in about three quarters of all people with dementia. And it is incredibly disabling. The symptoms vary widely from subtle symptoms like pacing and wandering and general restlessness to to more obvious symptoms that can be disruptive and frankly cause safety concerns like physical aggression, punching or kicking or hitting or yelling loudly. But these symptoms really vary widely from patient to patient, from individual to individual. And according to a recent survey, because some of the symptoms can be subtle, about two-thirds of all family care partners don't even recognize some of the symptoms we just described as agitation.

1:26:40 And nearly 100% of care partners say that the agitated behaviors adversely impact their own quality of life as care partners. I got to imagine it turns the household upside down. You have all that energy, you know, that's released in the household. So it causes quite the disturbance. So, you know, we touched on this momentarily that agitation changes daily life for both the person with Alzheimer's disease and the care partner, right? Absolutely does. And I'll let Karen, who has had her own experience with this, maybe answer from your perspective.

1:27:21 Sure. Yeah, you accurately nailed it. It's an upheaval. Yeah. You know, in our journey, it started with being very unpredictable from a very predictable person. And then it really became unmanageable because it impacted, drastically impacted just daily life living, dressing, leaving the house, going out for dinner. And then ultimately unsafe for both, you know, my mom and our family, but You know, we watched it with stem from frustration and denial on the care partner side. So there was a delay.

1:28:01 And then also from my mother's side, which was definitely frustration and fear. But it really impacted just your daily habits and the unpredictable nature, much like the survey showed three out of four care partners, which we had known earlier, we wish we had known earlier. We knew that there was. A change in behavior. We just weren't able to identify it at that point. Yeah. But how do you prepare for this, Karen? Because, you know, people can tell you, hey, this could happen, but you don't know until you're in the battle. And all of a sudden you have a loved one, in your case, your mother, and all of a sudden this behavior is being demonstrated that heretofore is foreign to you.

1:28:47 Yeah, 100%. You know, as care partners, we know the loved one best. We see the behaviors, and it's really important really important, at least in our situation, we watched the behaviors and we worked very closely with their treatment team and the docs and the nurses and everyone that had the professional and clinical background to help us figure out what was going on. And so that was really critical throughout the entire journey. And this was a very long journey and one that is different for every single person. every single family that goes through it. And when we were able to work closely with the team and get the agitation in her situation controlled, although the Alzheimer's wasn't going away, I had flickers of my old mom and I wouldn't trade that for anything. And that was a holistic approach and really being active participants in her care.

1:29:52 Yeah, it's interesting because I think, and doctor, you would know better on this and I don't want to be reckless with any kind of assessment here, but it's almost like in dealing with somebody who has an addictive behavior, you know, you go from island to island, you know, you deal with the craziness and you're on an island of peace and then you go through more craziness and you're back on another island of peace. Is that fair to see it that way, doctor? Bill, it's a really interesting question. I would say that, like Karen was just describing in her mom's situation, what her mom's situation was like was one person's experience and one family's experience. And it varies widely. Everyone is an individual.

1:30:36 Everyone's brain is different, right? Everyone's environmental situation is different. And their families are at different stages of understanding and coping and managing and dealing with this illness. But these agitation behaviors can definitely fluctuate. They can come and go. There may be predictable triggers and antecedents or that may come out of the blue. Both are possible. And so what's really important is that the family has this keen sense of observation and is not doing it alone. When you're in the moment living with a loved one who's got these symptoms, you're just trying to manage day to day, right? And your perspective is going to be very different than an outsider's who is not as emotionally connected as you are as a family member and may be able to do a more objective assessment. And that's why, as Karen was mentioning with her mom's situation, she had a whole team that was helping to understand what was going on with her mom and to help them figure out the right treatment plan and approach. Because just like these symptoms are different in everyone, the approach to treatment is also different.

1:31:36 It's not like one size fits all. And I think that's a really important point that people need to understand. Karen, in the process that you went through with your mom, was there anything that you found that could kind of settle her, that was kind of a go-to, you know, I don't want to say therapy, maybe you could say therapy, but something, you know, like a hug, a touch, or something that would just settle her? Did you discover anything like that? Much like like Dr. Forrester just said, it depends. It depended upon where she was at. It depended upon what the trigger was. So it was really about being nimble and understanding where there were bigger changes that needed to be flagged.

1:32:24 And as Dr. Forrester said, sometimes as a care partner, you're in the weeds and it's frustrating and it's tiring and you're stressed. you, you, at least for, for myself, like you, I didn't take care of myself the way I should, um, because I was, I, I wanted to care for my loved one. But when you, you know, when we found one thing that we found, again, this wasn't the entire duration of her journey. It was a very small part of it, but for my mom was music and we would put a piece of music on and she would just sit and dance. And, and, but that was, that was one microcosm.

1:33:05 Right, exactly. Of a very long journey. Well, Dr. Foy, I believe, well, yes, I can only imagine. Dr. Forster, in your opinion, as we wrap things up, we've got a little over a minute left. How can healthcare providers and care partners move towards having earlier conversations around agitation after an Alzheimer's diagnosis? I think the assessment of agitation and other behavioral symptoms needs to be part of the comprehensive assessment package. It's not just assessing someone's memory and orientation to where they are or their ability to make good judgment. Their cognitive functioning is critical to assess. Their day-to-day functioning, their ability to bathe and dress and pay bills and drive, those are all important to assess as well. But the third major domain, in addition to cognition and function, are these behavioral symptoms including very prominently agitation. That has to be part of routine assessment. It is often when they see a specialist like a neurologist or someone like me, a geriatric psychiatrist, but most people with dementia, their loved ones will never be taking them to a specialist because there's a supply-demand mismatch, if you will. So it's the primary care clinicians that really need to also understand that agitation is part of this comprehensive assessment.

1:34:24 Exactly. Well, our thanks to Karen Pinocchio, an Alzheimer's caregiver advocate, and Dr. Brent Forrester, psychiatrist-in-chief and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center. Final word, Dr. Forrester, where can we go for more information? A couple of resources I'll let Karen comment as well. First of all, there are a number of outstanding advocacy organizations that are regional, state-based, and some that are national. There are books that are written on this topic. But it's really, I think, incumbent upon all of us to educate ourselves. And I think Karen has another resource she wants to mention. Sure. Often when you're in this journey as a care partner, it can be very silent. It can feel very isolating and scary. And to take that first step, there's a website, alzgoals.com.

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1:39:50 Hey, welcome back. Glad you could join us. Bill Martinez here with Dr. Bonner Cohen. Bonner, how are we doing? Hi, doing very well, Bill. And I hope that you and our listeners are too. Well, Bonner is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for Constructive Tomorrow. Always great to have his genius on here. And we've got, you know, some serious issues to catch up on, particularly, you know, clean energy, quote unquote, isn't the future, nor is it really clean, huh? That's exactly right. Just as the soaring global demand for energy, particularly electricity in the U.S., for instance, to power data centers and what have you, just as that's coming to the fore, of course, the Trump administration, to its credit, has done away with a lot of the handouts to wind and solar industry, making it financially less attractive for investors to put their money in wind farms and solar farms, which, by the way, offer practically no benefits or additions to our energy supply in any event. Lo and behold... A study recently came out. It was published by MIT, which gave the study a lot of prestige. Not to worry.

1:41:23 Clean energy is going to be able to come through the recent unpleasantness in the regulatory area and that we can count on more wind power and more solar power in the years to come. Well, there's actually no reason whatever to believe that. Now, the developers and the Greens, of course, are going to continue to push that, hoping for a regime change in Washington that will restore the handouts to green energy. However, If you look at the global energy picture, it's quite fascinating. Despite all the sound and thunder for green energy, fossil fuels still make up 86% of global energy needs.

1:42:22 86%. Wind and solar, 3%. That figure has not undergone any substantial changes over the past 20 years. Bonner, let me stop you for just a second, because I know how Trump looks at this. He's a business guy, and I'm the same way. I look at the bottom line. All right, so here we are. For 3% yield, how many trillions of dollars have we spent on this boondoggle? Yes, that's right. How many trillions of dollars have we spent? How much land have we put to produce this 3% when producing other things on that land, including food, for a grand total of 3%. It's true that we're producing more wind and solar power, but we're also producing vastly more oil and natural gas.

1:43:23 Exactly. And that more than offsets the increase in wind and solar power. So what MIT has effectively done here by publishing this study is given some intellectual heft to an argument which simply is not supported by readily available data. Well, I mean, even if you got solar and wind up to 12%, it still wouldn't be worth the investment. Would it? No, it wouldn't, simply because it would still have to be backed up by batteries, which themselves do what? All batteries die.

1:44:06 Yes. Which means, and this gets us to this whole thing of how clean is clean energy, you have to dispose of dead batteries. I was going to say, exactly. You have to dispose of dead solar panels, and you have to dispose of dead wind turbines. And so where do they go? The graveyard? Most of this stuff cannot be recycled, so it winds up in landfills all across the country, particularly in the Midwest, where a lot of landfills are now becoming graveyards for wind turbines, particularly the blades, which are very long and very full of very toxic material that can in no way be recycled. There is nothing clean about this. That puts aside the whole matter of extraction, how you get to wind turbines and solar panels and batteries to begin with by mining in places like Central Africa and China, where there are zero environmental standards worthy of the name in place.

1:45:12 Yeah, just kill those countries environmentally, right? They have to be dumped. Yeah. Well, that's incredible. Well, you know, and you think if we'd have taken that money and kept it, you know, put it in nuclear, you know, like China. I mean, that's why China exploded. I mean, they just took full advantage. And here we are running a similar pattern with, you know, these data centers and AI, you know, potentially. I mean, we're revisiting, you know, that mistake. And look what China said yesterday. Thank you very much. And they've been running away with nuclear development. And meanwhile, we've got all these environmentalists saying, oh, you can't do that. And now others are saying, man, what a missed opportunity here. And maybe it's not too late.

1:45:56 That's right. By the way, China is not only investing a lot of money in nuclear, but of course, to power everything, they still rely very heavily on coal. They have not turned their back on coal at all because China has a lot of coal, doesn't have as much as we have, but they still have a lot. They have a demand for energy 24-7, 365. And even though they put a lot of investment in wind and solar too, they're not stupid enough to become completely reliant on that. And so for that, they need relatively affordable and reliable energy. By the way, they don't care about environmental standards. So they're putting up brand spanking new coal power plants all over the place in addition to supplying the world. with the components that go into wind turbines and solar panels and the materials that go into the batteries to back up the wind and solar panels.

1:47:01 Exactly, right. Well, another topic I wanted to discuss with you was the landmark Supreme Court wetlands ruling. And you wrote about that, Dr. Cohen. Yeah, and this is something we need to pay attention to. A lot of people who live in rural areas throughout the United States have found themselves on the receiving end of some very confusing wetland policies administered by EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers going all the way back to 1972 simply because the language spelling out where federal jurisdiction begins and ends with respect to private land, is very loosey-goosey. And that has forced landowners around the country to defend themselves against allegations that a stockpond or a drainage ditch on their property constitutes a functioning regulation by EPA or by the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, finally, a couple of years ago, the US Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, sacked the EPA, slapped very strict restrictions on what these agencies can do. They demanded there be

1:48:35 a continuous surface flow from whatever body of water there may be on your property to a navigable water of the United States, meaning a bay, a river, a large lake, or what have you. Nevertheless, despite that decision, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in two cases has completely ignored that, which means that the career people there are behaving as if nothing had happened. And they recently put a stop to a housing development north of Salt Lake City. A developer wanted to put in 245 new home sites in one of the fastest growing real estate markets in the country.

1:49:25 Along comes the Army Corps of Engineers and says your drainage ditch is subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act. Never mind that said drainage ditch has no continuous surface flow to the nearest navigable water, which is the Great Salt Lake. So this shows how important it is. a final rule on this, which is going to tighten things up even more. Because if you leave federal bureaucrats in Washington to their own devices, they will behave as if absolutely nothing had happened because they love to throw their weight around and tell landowners around the country what they can and cannot do on their own property.

1:50:18 Are they looking for a handout there, a little bit of graft or something? Certainly the environmental groups who are working hand in glove with these federal bureaucrats, which they have been doing for decades, want to show their donors that they're still waving the flag here and still trying to shut down as much farming and ranching and other private property ownership as they can. And for that, they've had a very warm and fuzzy relationship with federal bureaucrats. exactly what the Sackett decision was designed to shut down and actually should have. But as I said, lo and behold, if you don't pay real close attention to what federal bureaucrats are doing, and quite frankly, the Trump administration's people at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers appear to have been asleep at the wheel on this and allowed it to happen. they're going to continue business as usual.

1:51:21 Of course. We need to keep our eye on this because it entailed a tremendous amount of interference in our own property rights, what you can and cannot do on property that you have bought, paid for, and on which you pay property taxes. And then you have to defend yourself against absolutely ridiculous allegations that from, in this case, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Talk about it. You have a land on your property that you don't. Exactly. Dealing with unelected bureaucrats. Oh, how much fun. We've got to leave it there for now. Dr. Bonner Cohen, the Senior Policy Analyst in the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. Also, a quick reminder, you can catch this show on all major podcast platforms, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen. Be sure to download or subscribe so you don't miss any Bill Martinez live episode.

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