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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 09-26-2023 15:00
"Right now, aviation companies like Lufthansa Technik are using virtual reality training to help their mechanics practice crucial engine maintenance skills, helping them prepare for real repairs. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact. Marah? Talking of regulators. Good lord. All right, let's head down the hall and check this out. You want to stay with us and listen or watch on YouTube. Lina Khan is straight ahead with Kaley Lines. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. This is Bloomberg. And of course, on Bloomberg Originals, it is Tuesday, September 26, 2023. And Tim and I are getting ready, as you just heard from Joe Matthew. We are going to be hearing from the FTC chair. This as the US FTC sued Amazon in a landmark and long anticipated antitrust case. They definitely have Amazon in their crosshairs. Yeah, we're looking forward to hearing from FTC Commission Chair Lina Khan, who's going to be sitting down with our own Bloomberg News, DC Bureau Chief Peggy Collins in just a few minutes. In the meantime, Carol, I'm seeing a redhead here across the Bloomberg terminal. We've got a lot to get to, but I got to get to this breaking news. Target is set to close nine stores across four different states, this due to theft and crime. What do they call that? Shrinkage? Shrinkage is what they call it in those earnings reports. And I wonder if we're going to start to see this from more and more companies. That is very interesting. I also wonder what it says about kind of the overall economic environment and consumer environment. All right, we're going to get to that. Keep on that. We're also going to get the latest on the auto strike and the growing pains and stresses of the EVAs.
AP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "collins" discussed on AP 24 Hour News
"Minaj olivia rodrigo and more will be performing at i heart radio's twenty twenty three jingle ball concert the tour will kick off in tempe florida on november twenty six and go to new york chicago detroit austin washington philadelphia atlanta areas near dallas and miami and wrap up in los angeles on december number first jingle balls twenty eight annual tour this year goes on pre -sale on october third for capital one cardholders and on october six for the general public i'm tiffany wong general mark milly is taking some swipes is former commander in chief at his retirement ceremony the outgoing joint chiefs chairman said u s military is unique it does not take an oath to a king or a queen or a or a dictator we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator and then there was milly administering the oath to successor cq brown emphasizing a few words that was report and defend the constitution of the united states of america the constitution of the united states of america against all enemies foreign enemies foreign and domestic without saying his name they were not so subtle jabs at donald trump who named milly chairman four years ago and last week condemned him as a poisonous train wreck whose actions in times gone by would have been punishable by death some saw that that as a threat prompting milly to ensure his family has enough protection saga or make at money the white house a federal government shutdown is now nearly certain after house speaker mccarthy's kevin last -ditch plan to avoid one failed hard -right it mccarthy's bill that would have had sharp spending cuts and severe border security provisions the also bill would have kept government operations going through halloween now a day before the deadline to to fund the government to there are few options to prevent the shutdown which would leave two million troops without pay federal workers furloughed and government services disrupted her make money at the white house the small southern african nation s with teeny is holding elections on friday to decide part of the makeup of its parliament even as it's extremely wealthy king retains absolute power s with teeny wedged between south africa and mosambique is the last absolute monarchy in africa and one of the few remaining in the world king t free who's 55 has been the monarch since 1986 candidates for the house of assembly the lower house and the senate the upper house cannot belong to political parties which were banned in 1973 and are nominated at a local level maswati has faced increased pro democracy protests in recent ye demanding reform were met by a harsh crackdown i'm charles through this month many congressional democrats and republicans found something they could agree on the admiration of diane feinstein we lost a giant in the senate majority leader chuck schumer speaking on the senate floor followed by minority leader mitch mcconnell was a trailblazer and her beloved home state of california and our entire nation are better for her dogged advocacy and diligent service gop senator susan collins maine of i rise with great sadness today to honor my my friend and our colleague senator diane feinstein feinstein died thursday united her home in washington dc at the age of 90. i'm shelly antler the strike against detroit's big automakers is expanding united autoworkers president sean fein says negotiations haven't broken down sadly but despite our willingness to bargain foreign gm have refused to make meaningful progress at the table so seven thousand more workers are on strike at a ford plant in chicago in a general motors assembly factory near lansing michigan fein says the u -a -w is building different a arsenal of democracy but this war isn't against some foreign country the front lines are right right here at home it's the war of the working class versus corporate greed about twenty five thousand workers seventeen percent of the union are on strike they want big raises and better benefits the automakers say they can't afford the demands the money is needed for the costly transition to electric goals i met donahue the commerce department says prices were up slightly in august and inflation gauge closely tracked by the federal reserve accelerated last month but higher gas prices the good news measures of underlying inflation slowed in the latest sign that overall price pressures are still moderating checking the numbers prices just rose under half a percent from july to august that's just two tenths of a percent from the previous month the latest data coincides with rising hopes among fed officials that they may be able to bring inflation back to their target without driving up unemployment or causing a recession i'm shelly atler i'm damian troy uc and this is markets in a minute wall street is climbing following some encouraging signals on inflation but it's still likely to close september with its worst month of the year so far s the &p 500 was 0 .7 higher in morning trading friday it's on track for its first three day winning streak of the month the dow is up 159 points and the nasdaq composite was one percent higher nike after jumped reporting strong profits for its latest quarter stocks broadly got a boost after treasury yields eased further off highest their levels in more than a decade yields fell after a report showed the measure of inflation that the federal reserve prefers to use was a bit cooler last month than economists expected oil prices rose damian tres new york
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from CMMThursday Hour 2 (Mike Collins 230921)
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AP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "collins" discussed on AP 24 Hour News
"Times lengthen for clergy green cards and an officer stop a potential church attack early next month the vatican will open an unprecedented gathering of catholic clergy and lay people from around the world the senate is intended to be a collegial collaborative event but the agenda includes divisive issues such as the role of women in the church and the inclusion of lgbtq catholics if there's an exhibit a for how elusive consensus might be it's the united states participation in effect there are two high -level u .s. delegations widely viewed as ideological rivals there are six clerics appointed by Pope Francis who support his aspirations for a more inclusive welcoming church and there are five clerics chosen by the u .s. conference of catholic bishops who reflect a more conservative outlook because of a procedural change in how the u .s. government processes some green cards faith communities across the country may lose thousands of leaders and workers there's suddenly a five -year wait for green cards for religious workers meaning most of those now here on temporary visas won't be able to stay long enough to get one that's because this spring the state department started including in their green card queue the growing number of visa applications by vulnerable miners from Central America who crossed into the United States illegally attorneys say faith leaders will have to leave precisely when the u .s. needs the most because of a surge in immigrant congregations requiring ministers with foreign language bills police say a Virginia man posted vague online threats of violence and images of a church before going inside with a handgun and two knives during a Sunday service police said he was arrested and no one was hurt after officers rushed to the scene Park Valley churches in the town of Haymarket Virginia about 40 miles west of Washington DC police did not offer a possible motive but it comes at a time when faith leaders are ramping up security after a stark uptick in concerning episodes at houses of worship in recent years I'm Walter Ratliff Wendy's new breakfast two for three dollar biggie bundles let you create your own delicious combo choose from sausage a biscuit egg and cheese biscuit small seasoned potatoes and a medium hot coffee but it's obvious which combo is sausage biscuit and small season potatoes well maybe it's the fresh cracked egg and cheese biscuit with medium a medium hot coffee or two savory sausage biscuits yeah whichever you pick you can't go wrong choose wisely choose Wendy's new two for three dollar biggie bundles living living suspect in the 1996 drive -by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas has been indicted on a murder charge Dwayne Kefi D Davis is accused of being the shot caller not the gunman he admitted in interviews and in a memoir he provided the gun used to shoot Shakur police lieutenant Jason Johansson says video shows a motive for the shooting revenge involving Davis's nephew Tupac Shakur who's wearing a shiny satiny shirt along with Marion Suge Knight who's a large man in a brown suit punching and kicking Orlando Anderson later that night 25 year old Tupac Shakur was shot he died a later week Suge Knight had only minor injuries 27 years later Sheriff Kevin McMahill says well I know there's been many people who did not believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was important to this police department I'm here to tell you that was simply not the case Davis implicated his nephew who died in 1998 I'm Ed Donahue iHeartRadio announces its 2023 jingle ball lineup Usher, Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo more and will be performing at iHeartRadio's 2023 jingle ball concert the tour will kick off Florida on November 26th and go to New York, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, areas Atlanta, near Dallas and Miami and wrap up in Los Angeles on December 1st jingle balls 28th tour this annual year goes on pre -sale on October 3rd for Capital One cardholders and on October 6th for the general public I'm Tiffany Wong. General Mark Milley is taking some swipes at his former commander -in -chief at his retirement ceremony the outgoing joint chiefs chairman said the US military is unique it does not take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator we don't take to an oath a wannabe dictator and then there was Milley administering the oath to successor CQ Brown emphasizing a few words that was support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies against all enemies foreign and domestic without saying his name they were not so subtle jabs at Donald Trump who named Milley chairman four years ago and last week condemned him as a treasonous train wreck whose actions and times gone by would have been punishable by death some saw that as a threat prompting Milley ensure to his family has enough protection Sagar Magani at the White House a federal government shutdown is now nearly certain after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last -ditch plan avoid to one failed hard -right Republicans rejected McCarthy's bill that would have had sharp spending cuts and severe border security provisions the bill also would have kept government operations actions going through Halloween now a day before the deadline to fund the government there are few options to prevent the shutdown which would leave two million troops without pay federal workers furloughed and government services disrupted Sagar Magani at the White House the small southern African nation of Eswatini is holding elections on Friday to decide part makeup of the of its parliament even as its extremely wealthy king retains absolute power Eswatini wedged between South Africa and Mozambique is the last absolute monarchy in Africa and one of the few remaining in the world King Maswati III who's 55 has been the monarch since 1986 candidates for the House of Assembly the lower house and of the Senate upper the house cannot belong to political parties which were banned in 1973 and are nominated at a local level Maswati has faced increased pro -democracy protests in recent years but activists demanding reform were met by a harsh crackdown I'm Charles de congressional Democrats and Republicans found something they could agree on the admiration of Dianne Feinstein Stein we lost a giant in the Senate Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaking on Senate the floor followed by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was a trailblazer and her beloved home state of California and our entire nation are better for her dogged advocacy and diligent service GOP Senator Susan Collins of Maine I rise with great sadness today to honor my friend and our colleague, Senator Dianne Feinstein Feinstein died Thursday night at her home in Washington see at the age of 90 I'm Shelly Adler the strike against Detroit's big automakers is expanding United Auto Workers President Sean Fain says negotiations haven't broken down but despite our willingness to bargain foreign GM have refused to make meaningful progress at the table so 7 ,000 more workers are on strike at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors Assembly factory near Lansing Michigan Fain says the UAW is building a different arsenal of democracy but this war isn't against some foreign country the front lines are right here at home it's war the of the working -class versus corporate greed about 25 ,000 workers 17 percent of the union are on strike they want big raises and better benefits the automakers say they can't afford demands the the money is needed for the costly transition to electric vehicles I'm Ed Donahue the Commerce Department says prices were up slightly in August an inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve accelerated last month but the boost was due mostly to higher gas prices the good news measures of underlying inflation slowed in the latest sign that overall price are still moderating checking the numbers prices rose just under half a percent from July to August that's just two tenths of a percent from the previous month the latest data coincides with rising hopes among Fed officials that they may be able to bring inflation back to their target without driving up unemployment or causing a recession I'm Shelley Adler I'm Damien Troisi and this is markets in a minute Wall Street is climbing following some encouraging signals on inflation but it's still likely to close September with its worst month of the year so far the S &P 500 was 0 .7 higher % in morning trading Friday it's on track for its first three -day winning streak of the month the Dow is up 959 points and the Nasdaq composite was 1 % higher Nike jumped after reporting strong profits for its latest quarter stocks broadly got a boost after Treasury yields eased further off their highest levels in more than a decade yields fell after a report showed the measure of inflation that the Federal Reserve prefers to use was a bit cooler last month than economists expected oil prices rose Damien Treacy New York AP news for this September Saturday 30th I'm Jackie Quinn there's been a flurry of activity at
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 116: Part 1: Eric McBride and the December 2015 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playerettes, dudettes, everybody in between, welcome back. This is the follow -on episode to last week with Rick Prado on the 22nd anniversary of 9 -11. We had a theme going here, we wanted to follow through on this next theme, and we'll tell you about that here in just a second, but first of all, welcome. As always, I'm here. I'm Morgan. I'm here literally with my partner in crime, and we're going to do what we did last time. I know some of you guys like small town police water, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do that when we're talking about something as serious as when we talked about 9 -11. And then this month we're talking with Eric McBride. He retired as the chief of police in San Bernardino City. If you guys remember, Alex Collins we had on was a deputy with San Bernardino County. His partner was killed, Jamie McBride. He was wounded by a piece of shit. We don't even want to mention his name. But we're getting into now the December 2015 terrorist attack at the city of San Bernardino. Fourteen people killed, I think twenty -seven wounded, and it just didn't seem right to follow on. You know, we wanted to have a couple serious discussions, so that's kind of what it was. So before we get started though, just a couple quick things. Head on over to Apple, Spotify, hit those five stars. Let us know what you thought of last week's episode. Let us know what you think of this week's episode. And don't worry folks, next week we'll get back into small town police water. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com, our book from our prior guest, Rick Prado. You'll see that up there, Black Ops, The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior. Great reading. You just got to get it. We've got everything you need there. Follow us on social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, at Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But follow us on Patreon too, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. We just recorded some great episodes. You can't make this shit up. We've got 9 -1 -1, Case of the Month. One rule we made is Murph never gets to pick a movie again. He has to submit it for review before we review it. I promise to do better in the future. Well, because you're on the hook for next month. All right. But guys, we have a lot of good stuff over there. Everything about, you know, we get into funny stuff, we get into serious stuff. Our Case of the Month has been recommended by you, the listeners out there. So head on over there, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. Now this is a show about crime. We normally are fun and jovial because this is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously and that's how we're going to do it. This is not about us having fun and joking at the expense of a serious incident like this. So our next guest, Aaron McBride, like we said, retired as the chief of police, worked his way up from patrol officer, but started off as a Marine, formerly on active duty. He's got some good stories there, but he comes to us through another long list of people, a family of service, the McBrides out in California. He does. You know, our good buddy out in San Diego, Mel Sosa, made an introduction for us, got us to Eric. But the McBride family is well known in the law enforcement circles out there as brother Jamie, his niece Tony, and then Jamie's other daughter are all police officers out there that have experienced violence that, you know what, most cops in the United States don't have to experience. I'm not sure what's going on with the McBride family here, but you know what, they don't shy away from it and they don't run away. They address the issues as they come to them, and they're protecting their communities. Eric here was just the fact that, I mean, he's a trendsetter. You're going to hear him talk about his high school career, getting out of high school early so he could join the Marine Corps early. And his whole life is service to his community and his fellow man. And you know, in my book, there's no greater calling that you're willing to dedicate your life to work for the public. A public servant, I think, is a term of a hero. And that's certainly who we have on here today. And I'll tell you, again, we've got to thank our buddies out there, Southern California Gang Conference, Mel Sosa, all of those people. They're brothers to us. They get us great gifts, great gifts, great guests, which are gifts for things like this. And I'll tell you, you've really got to sit down and listen to this because one of the things that's going to come out of this is stuff that has not really been talked about in the media before, and you'll hear him talk about a call that was received. He's been briefing this to law enforcement. On the day of, he was the, quote, deputy incident commander, but he was the incident commander for all intents and purposes. And so he's not the one at the tip of the spear out there, but this guy has the overview of everything going on. You're going to hear things that went well. You're going to hear about things that didn't go so well. But we will never get to hearing any of this, Murph, unless I ask you, are you ready to play the biggest, baddest? And as we see in this episode, too, the most dangerous game of all, the game of crime. Absolutely. So everybody get in, sit down, shut up, hold on. You're getting ready to hear a story about an incident that I wasn't even aware of, a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. So Eric, tell us what's going on, brother.
Mark Levin
Rep. Mike Waltz Outsmarts Kaitlan Collins Over Corrupt Biden Family
"What does that mean? You mean there's a body or something? I she don't means. know what That's direct evidence. That's an email. From Hunter Biden. And of course you don't need direct evidence, as I've said over and over and over again, that's direct evidence. Go. I mean, but Caitlin, the point of the inquiry is to give us greater to standing get the full evidence. If we get full cooperation, if they say we have nothing hide to and give it to us and we don't see anything, then that's where the facts lead us. So please don't get more evidence. The problem is, America, that Caitlin Collins has never read the Constitution. She's never actually read the impeachment clause. She certainly hasn't gone beyond that. And look at any of the scholarship or information, texts, What the framers said about impeachment. I guess it. Andrew Johnson was impeached. Eleven articles. Direct evidence they claimed that he violated a statute about the appointment and removal of presidential appointees. They clearly violated the Constitution, that is the statute. But nonetheless, that's mostly what he was impeached for. So what do they mean direct evidence? What kind of direct evidence do you need? I'll give you one Caitlin. This is why I keep telling these guys you got it. to You got go broader. Don't reject. Don't abandon what you've uncovered. That's crucial. Keep pursuing the 16th time. But there's more out there. I'll give you some direct evidence. The border. How many
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Saved by Grace - Ed Nelson Biography
"Well, greetings everyone. I'm here today with Emily Nelson, a 2016 BJU graduate, somebody I very much want you to meet. She has some exciting things to tell you and I pray that you will hang on with us for just a little while, maybe eight or ten minutes, and be blessed by what Emily has to say. She has written a biography of her grandfather, Dr. Ed Nelson, a graduate of BJU. I've known Dr. Nelson since I was really young. He's a few years older than I am, so you can imagine how ancient he really is, but you'd never know it. He's as energetic as he was when I first knew him. I've never met a man so restless for the cause of Christ and the gospel than Dr. Ed Nelson. Emily, thank you for taking your time to be with us. Thank you for having me. I want a quick question to get into this. Why should anybody want to read about your grandfather, Ed Nelson? Well, I'm biased for sure because it's my grandfather, but he really has had a remarkable life, and it's a life full of the miraculous, a life full of just believing God and expecting him to work. And I know as I helped him write this book, it was a real challenge to my own faith just to believe God at his word and to expect him to work. My grandfather, who loved your grandfather very much, as did my dad and as do I, my grandfather said, every great man at some point comes under the dominating influence of some great truth. What would you say is that dominant truth that gripped your grandfather when he was young and that kind of drove him through his life of ministry? I'd say it was probably this. I am a sinner, and I have a great savior, and I want to do everything I possibly can to further his kingdom because of what he's done for me. That's very well put, and I think it absolutely describes what propelled him through life. He was always in motion. I've never met him when he was not just like a meteor crossing the sky. His energy was remarkable. I've been with him on some long mission trips, and no moss ever grew under his feet. The title of the book is A Sinner Saved by Grace, so that was a good description. Tell me about the time, the point in life, when he became a grace -saved sinner. What was he doing at the time? What influence did God bring into his life that got his attention and brought him to Christ? Well, he grew up on a farm in Windsor, Colorado, which is a little bit north of Denver. He had aspirations of being a great farmer just like his dad was. When he was 17 years old, he was in a farming accident. They were a very moral family, and his dad would take them to church every Sunday, but it was not a Bible preaching church. When he was in that accident, the doctors said he wouldn't make it through the night. He prayed and said, God, if there even is a God, I want you to hear my prayer, and I want you to save my life. If you do, if I live, then I'll get a Bible and I'll read it. Well, he made it. Spoiler alert. He made it, but he did get a Bible, but he didn't understand it until about four years later, your grandfather, actually, Dr. Bob Sr., was preaching at the First Baptist Church in Fort Collins, and his mailman came by and invited him to the revival meetings. He didn't really want to go, but out of respect for the mailman and his testimony, he was like, fine, I'll go. So he went that first night, and your grandfather preached and said that he was a sinner and that he deserved to die. It made him so angry that he found that he would never go back. Well, the next day on the tractor out on the field, he was like, I wonder what he's going to preach about that would make me mad again. And so he went back, and that happened four nights. And on the fourth night, he was like, you know what? What this man is saying is true, and it's not, I haven't been angry at him. I've been angry at God because I know that this is truth. And so he surrendered his life, and he came to know the Lord that evening. And I asked him when I was writing the book with him, I said, Grandpa, what were you saved from? And he was like, I was saved from my own goodness, because he was such a good moral person. He was saved from his own goodness, and he said that he knew deep down inside that there were things that he would think or say or look at that were not godly. And nobody else knew it, but that's what he was saved from. From that point in time, his life changed forever. The self -righteous sinner may be the hardest sinner to open his heart to the Lord.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Judge In Uniswap Suit Says "Ask Congress, Not Me!"
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, August 31st, and today we are talking about the big decision in the Uniswap lawsuit. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it. Give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, another day, another good court result for the crypto industry. Anthony Sassano tweeted, the SEC in losing in court, name a more iconic duo. Now, what he was referring to is a class action lawsuit against Uniswap that has been dismissed. This case was filed in April of last year by a group of plaintiffs who claimed that they lost money due to scam tokens being listed on the decentralized exchange. Uniswap Labs, its CEO, the Foundation and VC backers were all listed as defendants who were claimed to be liable for those losses. The argument made by plaintiffs was that Uniswap had a degree of control over liquidity pools on the protocol. They demanded rescission of the contracts entered into to purchase the scam contracts, as well as compensation under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Plaintiffs supported their claims by arguing that Uniswap held control over, quote, liquidity provider funds and newly created tokens in Uniswap's proprietary core contracts. Essentially, they argued that Uniswap had control over assets deposited in smart contracts on the platform. They supported their claims by arguing that Uniswap used routers under its control to process transactions and provided liquidity tokens when pools were created. Plaintiffs also argued that collectively, the defendants likely held at least 88 % of Uniswap governance tokens, enough to effectively control the protocol, but ultimately did not advance evidence to support that claim. Now, why people are so excited about this particular decision is not just that Uniswap won. They're because excited the judge's order to dismiss the case speaks to a firm understanding of the underlying functionality of crypto protocols. Now, on the one hand, maybe we shouldn't be surprised because this is the same judge currently presiding over the Coinbase lawsuit and so has had a lot of context to learn about crypto law during that proceeding. At the same time, the fact that this judge is the one who is presiding over the Coinbase lawsuit is part of why people are even more excited than they might otherwise have been. Now, the judge explained in their order that, quote, The identities of the scam token issuers are basically unknown and unknowable, leaving plaintiffs with an identifiable injury but no identifiable defendant. Plaintiffs then sued whoever they could find, according to the judge, who said, quote, Undaunted, they now sue the Uniswap defendants and the VC defendants, hoping that this court might overlook the fact that the current state of cryptocurrency regulation leaves them without recourse, at least as to the specific claims alleged in this suit. Indeed, this lack of legislation and clarity around the crypto industry was a huge, perhaps defining theme of the ruling. The judge wrote that, quote, The court declines to stretch the federal securities law to cover the conduct alleged and concludes the plaintiffs' concerns are better addressed to Congress than to this court. Now, that is an absolute bomb of a statement, and we will come back to it in a little bit. The judge rejected the premise that merely deploying code on a blockchain could lead to legal liability, stating that, quote, The order made it clear that Uniswap's core functionality was not illicit, stating that, quote, The court finds that the smart contracts here were themselves able to be carried out lawfully, as with the exchange of crypto commodities ETH and Bitcoin. The defendants had made the argument in their motion to dismiss that the lawsuit was just as absurd as holding the, quote, The judge found some resonance with the argument, making it clear that the individual who committed the crime was liable for the consequences, not the car company. Now, ultimately, the judge referenced the unsuccessful class action brought against Coinbase last year and dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be retried. As I said, the community's reactions were significant. Marvin Amore, chief legal officer at Uniswap, writes, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said, Twang Vili, head of regulatory and policy at Bain, said, Mike Vavstak, general counsel at AllianceDAO, writes, Attorney Collins Belton echoed this theme, saying, Now, lawyer Stephen Paley, a partner at Brown and Rudnick, went a little bit farther in his explanation of just how significant this was. He wrote, While this opinion is primarily focused on application of US federal securities laws, we're going to see issue of developer and platform liability for third party misuse and harm heavily litigated in the coming decades. This isn't a case about products liability or negligence, but touches on some of the same issues. Foreseeability of harm, responsibility for third party misuse and third party damage. I predict much of this will be the subject of legislation, but common law decisions will lead the way to start. Mike Vavstak again also wrote a longer thread about a specific footnote in the case Footnote 8. He writes, It undermines a nasty tactic we've seen the SEC, CFTC and class action plaintiffs use against crypto. Namely, arguing that designing a protocol to avoid the law is the same as admitting guilt under the law.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Self-Defense Laws and Online Radicalization
"I believe they want to save the environment. The fact of the matter is none of the results of everything they do doesn't help the environment. Like you said, that guy just donated all these money to environmental causes. That money is going to go so these people can strap themselves to something on a highway instead of planting trees. All righty, welcome back. Mike Lomas, Go Legal Financial guys. I should have asked you. I guess I'm hosting. I just opened my mouth. Not that there's like a host here because we don't take commercial breaks, but we are the financial guys. It's a place where money meets politics and thanks for tuning in to a... I love these podcasts, by the way, between morning mics, podcasts, and radio shows. We're doing what we love to do, which is really cool. And I love the 45 minutes and out, 40 minutes and out, no commercial breaks. It's pretty good. It's nice. So I don't know where to start. Western New York here. Glenn, you're down in our Florida office now, but we'll be back here shortly. I'm in our Western New York office. I'll be down to Florida shortly, so back and forth. But Florida is all about hurricane, hurricane, hurricane. I love these environmentalists. So they're like, oh, by the way, every hurricane is a once in a lifetime storm. It's like, okay, I think they go the last... This has never happened before. Well, coming into like the Gainesville area, well, actually it was 170 years ago. Now, hmm, what did we not have 170 years ago? Oh yeah, the freaking automobile, right? Like they want to blame all this on climate change, but it happened 170 years ago. Because it's hitting that part. It's now global warming. And it's so stupid, right? I remember when we were talking to Congressman Chris Collins on the air one time and we were talking about, he was talking about Marco Island, houses on Marco Island. Just bought there. He just bought a house there and he bought there because there was no way that anything, though, the hurricane had never, ever, ever... Because of the way that... Let me back you up for one second. No, no, no, no, no. Let me back you up for one second. As we were doing that, because you and I, we have offices down in Palm Beach, the storm was heading right for Palm Beach. And he said to us, he said, that's exactly why I bought a Marco Island. When I kid you not, we got off the air two hours later. The storm had gone south around the tip of Florida and back up in Marco Island. It literally did. It jogged left and it curled around and it came right back and whacked Marco Island and went right across Naples and right across Lake Okeechobee. I know God's got much bigger things to do than listen to the financial guys at a Saturday afternoon. However, however, it was sort of weird that at 301, as soon as we got off, that storm turned. Really, you guys, karma right there. But the point is that storms, they do whatever. They hit different parts. It's not because of global warming. It's just stupid. Honest to God, what a dumb statement to make. We've been warm, cold, ice ages. We've had hurricanes that have hit the panhandle, Louisiana, Texas, because it just hasn't hit that particular exact spot of the coastline. Are you out of your mind? It has. 170 years ago. That's what's funny about it. 170 years ago it did. So really it did. But not within the last, you know, not since 1974 when they started to keep statistics on it. It's just stupid. These people are lunatics. By the way, we were talking for the show, you know, Patagonia, the guy who created the clothing brand Dives, right, left almost all of his fortune to environmental groups. That and along with Hollywood are the people that are funding these whack jobs that are putting other people at risk. Let me ask you this, though. Everyone's seen this video by now, right? The tribal police, they literally, they take the truck. I love it. They just run over the thing. They clear the road. They arrest everybody. We're not in violence. We're not in violence. Here's the thing, though. Let me ask you this. These are, are these, are these all beta males in that line? Because I got to be honest, if I'm anywhere near visibility of the front, I'm probably going to walk up there after a while, I'm going to probably pull off the road and maybe take a walk or drive down the shoulder. If I can see what's going on and I realize there's a protest, I'm rallying like, you know, half dozen, dozen other rednecks in that line. How long would it take to walk down the cars and grab, you know, nine, 10 other, you know, guys and just say, okay, we're moving. And when they say they're nonviolent, well, you're, you're holding up a, you're holding up miles and miles of people in the desert, right? I mean, look at, I drove, I drove through the desert a few weeks ago. It was a hundred degrees. If that 110 actually during the day, if I'm stuck on that road and there's nothing else, by the way, I can't like turn my car off and just sit there without air. I've got two kids in the car, right? There's people that have animals, pets in the car, right? So you turn that car off, you don't get air conditioning, you die. If you run the car, you eventually run out of fuel. I mean, they are a real threat. They are a real danger and they may not be violent, but it doesn't mean they're not putting people at risk. I tell you how many people could die at 110 degrees. I tell you what, you can be as nonviolent as you want while I'm kicking your head in to get you off the road. I gotta be honest. In the middle of the desert, you blocked the road in the middle of the desert. I'm finding as many of the rednecks as possible and you're getting an ass whooping. I gotta be honest. You're getting out of the road. They needed that. I'll give you 10 seconds to get out of the road or you're getting an ass kicking. Fortunately, it was on tribal land as we were talking before because had it not been, you'll get some liberal piece of shit prosecutor that will now charge the police officer instead of saying thank you for saving the lives of all these people that could have burned to death in their cars. That's the game now, right? That's why George Soros funded all these, right? You remember those folks in St. Louis, the attorneys who protected their home with an AR -15 and a pistol. Now, I don't agree with the woman waving it around like a pointer. That was clearly... But she didn't have the proper skills to let it go. That was her property. You can wave the damn thing any way she wants. Get off her goddamn land. She had the right to defend it. Get off her land. Get off her land. And they prosecuted her. They went after her, right? So all these people in these states, if you're a non -friendly state like New York, you have to really think twice about defending yourself. Think about this. I know. Somebody breaks into your home at two o 'clock in the morning. Think about this for a second. You're by yourself in your home. You don't have your kids. You don't have your wife. You have nothing to worry about to protect. You have an opportunity to go out the back door and get out of your home. Now, however, in New York State, you have every right to defend your home. Is it worth it? I mean, think about that for a second. I'm going to stop and think about that when I'm in New York now. Do I just leave the... I'm going to leave the house and let my guest just break into my home because otherwise I'm going to get prosecuted. Or at least I'm going to get investigated. What if you can't leave? What if you can't leave? What if they have you at gunpoint? Well, then I'm defending myself. Well, then I'm defending myself for sure. I mean, but that's ridiculous. It's to the point where it's just so asinine. I mean, the old saying, rather judged by 12 than carried by six, right? But still, you shouldn't have to think like that. In Florida, you don't have to think like that. In Florida, you can be in your car and have somebody threatening you in your car and defend yourself in your car. I .E. Florida's at a 50 -year low when it comes to crime, 90 -year low in Miami. Because the criminals know it. The criminals know it, right? They know. By the way, it doesn't make it. It's perfect. But I'll tell you what, it's a hell of a lot better. You know, look at... We own a financial company. When your crimes are up 50 % in one state and down 50 % in another state, those are pretty telling... That's a pretty telling tale, right? Like, you know what? Like when we pick stocks, we look at numbers and like, gosh, boy, those numbers are really good. Well, I think let's do more of that, right? Let's maybe buy some of that company, right? I mean, just sad where we are in the states like New York and California. How do you not look at the crime? By the way, I said to the group the other day, it was Chicago. There was a bunch of reporters who actually got mugged as they were doing their online report. The report. It's crazy. And like you said... I did a charity golf tournament with a client on Monday. He was part of our team. A police officer. And he said, he goes, Mikey, he goes, it's absolutely disgusting to see these same people that we arrest time and time and time again. One of the illegal aliens who was out on a bail to rob some cars. Illegal. In the country, illegal. He's out on cashless bail. A joke. A joke. But yeah, here we are now in the national media for the rest of the week and the weekend we'll focus on this tragic shooting in Jacksonville, right? This is one tragic shooting amongst many, many, many tragic shootings. The manifesto will be released right away, I'm sure, right? He's already is a white supremacist, 21 year old young kid, and you'll say, well, we should not have the guns. Okay. So he, instead of walking with an AR, he could have walked in with a pistol, done the exact same thing. But here's the thing that at some point, are we, I mean, are we actually going to have an honest conversation about what is radicalizing these kids? You know, whether it's on the right or the left, on either side. The mental illness problems, which we continue to say something, but we refuse to look at any of that, right? You've got a huge homeless problem in this country. Part of it is caused by the welfare. Part of it is caused by the massive amounts of mental illness that's out there. And instead of getting these people in the right spots, getting them medicated, you know, getting them in the right direction, we just let them back out on the streets because boy, they can't have that on their record. If they have mental illness on the record, they'll never recover. Well, guess what? If they have mental illness, they'll never recover. Right. Well, this kid, like this kid was the Asian one that's mostly white. Did you see that? That was a different one. Yeah. Yeah. The mostly white Asian. That was another, another classic headline from CNN. Right. The mostly white Asian. No, this one was the Jacksonville kid, a 21 year old and tragic. Yeah, sure. So anyway, so the, but the thing, they're all, everyone's out there immediately. It's like, we've got to do something about the systemic racism in the country.
The Breakdown
A highlight from The Continued Fallout of the Tornado Cash Arrests
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW, it's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys, it is Saturday, August 26th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, welcome back to the weekend. We have a lot of follow ups today. For a summer week, there was kind of a lot going on. And so let's dive in with a follow up to the most dramatic news of the week, which was certainly the indictment of Roman Storm and Roman Semenov in relation to their operation of the tornado cash protocol. You will remember that the pair are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit sanctions violations and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. Storm has been arrested and has already been granted bail. Semenov remains at large, but was added to the sanctions list personally. Now, the arrest caused an outcry across the crypto industry, with many appalled at the apparent attack on privacy, open source development and crypto infrastructure more broadly. Others, however, pointed out, and this was especially after the initial takes had cooled, that contrary to the popular industry take, the pair seemed to have not just been charged for merely writing code, but rather for willfully aiding money laundering by North Korean hackers, the Lazarus Group. Cryptocritic Row Rider tweeted, Now, of course, that claim and that assertion will be subject to much test in courtrooms in the future to come. The indictment has definitely raised serious questions about the government's approach to dealing with cybercrime. Some, for example, are suggesting that this represents a chapter in an ongoing fight against digital privacy. Rohan Gray, assistant law professor at Willamette, who is no fan usually of cryptocurrencies, said, I generally strongly agree with the claim that profiteering off these platforms makes the moral high ground much harder to maintain. But one, governments are considering criminalizing end to end encryption and other privacy tools, and two, PGP Zimmerman prosecution happened, so not sure fully convinced. Another topic of conversation is that some are pointing out that despite over four years of sanctions against North Korea, and even longer against other nations, little appears, at least from the outside, to change. DeFi Pulse co -founder Scott Lewis said, Now, at the very least, this case should see some of these issues robustly defended in court. Roman Storm has retained premier crypto criminal defense lawyer Brian Klein. Klein defended Virgil Griffith when he was accused of violating sanctions by traveling to North Korea to deliver a conference presentation about using crypto to evade sanctions. He has also represented Eric Voorhees, Kraken, and Block One in their dealings with the SEC. Attorney Collins Belton writes, Now, in an ironic demonstration of how impotent the approach of going after developers rather than hackers is, shortly after the arrest of Roman Storm, the FBI warned that Lazarus Group was attempting to cash out. On Tuesday, the FBI put out a warning to crypto firms that the Lazarus Group had moved $40 million worth of Bitcoin and were likely seeking to sell. The agency released a list of newly funded wallets which had aggregated funds, behavior that typically occurs as a prelude to those funds being deposited on an exchange. The Bitcoin was traced from the recent $60 million Al Halpo hack and the $37 million Coin Spade exploit. Crypto security expert Taylor Monahan was furious about the whole thing. In one instance, she tweeted, More crisply, she wrote, D .P .R .K. moved another $40 million literally as the U .S. arrested its own builders and circle jerked around how much they've checked notes impacted D .P .R .K.'s ability to move money. Moving on to our next update for an industry beleaguered by exchange folly, all eyes have been on and continued to be on Binance, and it appears that payment firms continue to turn away from them. On Thursday, Reuters reported that MasterCard is planning to sever ties with Binance and halt crypto card services in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Bahrain. The shutdown will affect Binance linked MasterCards, which allow users to spend their crypto. MasterCard will close the service on September 22nd, and the firm said that other crypto linked cards will not be affected. One bright spot this week for Binance was the announcement that MoonPay would offer Binance U .S. a solution to its lack of payment rails. The firm will allow customers to purchase Tether using debit cards, credit cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and then convert it into crypto using the exchange. Users will also be able to off ramp into U .S. bank accounts. Binance U .S. was, of course, forced to suspend dollar deposits after losing banking partnerships in June, going crypto only since then. The big question will be whether there are any customers left. Binance U .S. is currently recording just 10 million in daily volume, according to CoinGecko. By way of comparison, Coinbase has around 1 .15 billion in daily volume, and Kraken records about 500 million. Now, both of those firms operate internationally, so have some additional volume from offshore, but the difference is still clearly several orders of magnitude. Another Binance story that people are trying to make heads or tails of is that leaked communications from Binance show that staff have been contacting crypto projects with low liquidity over the past week. The exchange has asked for details of market making arrangements. Binance further asked if projects would be willing to place between 1 and 5 percent of their circulating supply in savings accounts on the exchange, which are subject to being lent out to traders. The rationale is that additional supply ready to be borrowed could allow traders to boost liquidity. If projects did not want to disclose their market making relationship or contribute tokens, Binance asked for an explanation why. A Binance spokesperson said that this outreach was part of a, quote, ongoing risk management initiative and claimed that this communication only reached a small number of firms with low liquidity, which could expose users to risks, including, they said, potential market manipulation. The spokesperson said, quote, The main purpose of our risk management outreach is to encourage project teams to take the recommended steps required to enhance their liquidity protection. Engaging market maker support is one way to enhance such protection. Now, for all of the speculation that there are nefarious explanations for this or that it represents Binance running out of coins, Matt Batsenelos, the founder of Glass Market, seemed to think it was perfectly normal. He said, We see this as a net positive for exchanges to be monitoring market makers to ensure they're providing liquidity. Speaking of exchanges and liquidity, the FTX bankruptcy team has tapped Galaxy Digital to assist with asset management as the firm begins to look at liquidations of their crypto holdings. FTX wants to begin selling, staking and hedging its crypto holdings, which make up over three billion dollars of the estate's assets. The plan at this stage is to return funds to customers in fiat rather than in Bitcoin or ETH, so hopes that some careful trading can help maximize value for creditors. In a court filing made on Wednesday, FTX outlined their plan. The filing explained that, quote, hedging Bitcoin and Ether will allow the debtors FTX to limit potential downside risk prior to the sale of such Bitcoin or Ether. Staking certain digital assets will inure to the benefit of the estates and ultimately creditors by generating low risk returns on otherwise idle digital assets, end quote. The firm signaled that the SEC approved investment advisor, which forms part of the Galaxy Digital Group, as an appropriate partner in this endeavor, stating that, quote, Galaxy Asset Management has extensive experience in areas relevant to digital asset management and trading, including with respect to the types of transactions and investment objectives contemplated. The filing also disclosed that FTX is concerned that selling all of their crypto holdings in one go would impact markets dramatically. They proposed placing selling decisions with expert market participants to figure out how to mitigate that risk through weekly sale limits or other trading strategies. Galaxy Digital had also previously disclosed that it had tens of millions tied up in FTX when it collapsed, raising questions of conflict of interest, which were addressed in the filing. The request is currently before the bankruptcy court, which will need to approve the decision before the plan can move forward. The hearing is scheduled for September 13th, and under the proposed plan, FTX will give creditors 10 days notice before the dumping begins. Summing up the feeling of just about everyone was Hal Press at Northrock LP, just what we needed weekly sales of half a billion aggregate amount of majors. Still, the best tweet award goes to CMS Holdings, who wrote, Do we think Novo gets a sleeve of the FTX bankruptcy legal team's logos? But with that, let's shift over to more positive, forward looking stories. Bitfinex have announced the successful API integration with Vakif Bank, one of the largest banks in Turkey. This will allow Turkish customers to deposit Lira into exchange accounts for free directly from their bank accounts. Now, hold aside whatever feelings you might have about Bitfinex or Tether or anything associated with them. Coming from the perspective of Turkish citizens, this is a positive development. This week, the Central Bank of Turkey surprised analysts by raising its main policy interest rate from 17 .5 % to 25 % in a bid to tackle rampant inflation. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a smaller hike to 20%. The central bank recently revised its annual forecast from 22 .3 % to 58 % inflation for this year, with official statistics for July showing inflation at 47 .8 % on an annualized basis, meaning these rates are still massively negative. The Lira saw peak official inflation over 80 % last year after President Erdogan fired three consecutive central bank governors between 2019 and 2021 as inflation shifted up above 15%. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, after years of monetary dysfunction, Turkey has become a major market for crypto adoption. Indeed, internal Binance documents leaked earlier this month showed that Turkey was the third largest market for the exchange behind China and South Korea. Bitfinex has been pushing hard into regions undergoing currency distress lately, last month, for example, launching a peer -to -peer platform for users in Argentina, Colombia, and Venezuela. Another company in the news this week having changed the arrangement around USDC is, of course, Circle. Circle have announced support for USDC across six additional blockchains. USDC will now be available on Polygon, Base, Polkadot, NEAR, Optimism, and Cosmos via the Noble Network. This expansion of availability was hinted at earlier in the week during the announcement that Coinbase would be taking an equity stake in Circle. As part of the announcement, the company said they would be winding down the Center Consortium, which was a self -regulatory body which governed USDC, and that Circle will now act as the sole governance organization for USDC. These new additions bring the number of blockchains using USDC up to 15. Now, some viewed the week's moves as an attempt to shore up USDC, which has been rapidly losing market share to USDT over the past five months. USDC's circulating supply has dropped by 40 % since the banking crisis in March, which temporarily threatened a small portion of Circle's reserves. That said, the stablecoin is still firmly the second most popular stablecoin in the industry with a current supply of $25 .8 billion. Aviva Litan, a senior blockchain analyst with Gardener, questioned whether adding networks would stem the bleeding for USDC, stating that, The bottom line is money is flowing out of the chains, and support for more chains won't make it flow in. However, one integration that was also announced this week could potentially see some moves in that area. On Wednesday, Solana Labs announced that they would be integrating their Solana Pay Network into e -commerce giant Shopify. This will allow online shoppers to check out using USDC. Josh Fried, head of commerce business development at the Solana Foundation, said, When thinking about this integration, we chose a stablecoin because merchants and consumers think in dollars. It creates a much simpler entry point when pricing is in a currency consumers and merchants naturally understand. Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle, tweeted, Maybe there's something to stablecoin payments after all. Companies whose core business is extracting 3 to 4 % on merchant fees will face a reckoning in the decade to come. Maybe merchant processing fees will settle in at something closer to 20 to 30 basis points, built around tech fees. Looking globally, HashKey will begin offering crypto trading to retail customers in Hong Kong from Monday. The firm was the first crypto exchange to obtain a license to service individual traders under the newly introduced regulatory regime. Initially, only Bitcoin and Ethereum markets will be offered, and retail customers will be limited to investing up to 30 % of their net worth. That restriction, obviously, is a new part of regulations that could prove extremely difficult to enforce. HashKey's CEO, Livio Wang, said of the limited offering, We thought it'd be better to be more prudent. In a bearish market environment, there could be higher risks trading the so -called altcoins, so we hope to offer tokens that come with relatively lower risks at first. The exchange will support deposits in Hong Kong dollars and US dollars. Wang also said that customers from mainland China will be strictly prohibited using IP bans. Lastly, closing on a shifting of tone, Dan Morhead is done with crypto winter. The Pantera Capital founder published a letter on Tuesday which noted just how long crypto markets have spent in the red. The period from August last year until this June was the longest period of negative year -over -year returns for Bitcoin, clocking in at a brutal 15 months. Prior to that, the longest period of negative returns was in 2015 at just under a year. The negativity can't last, according to Morhead, who wrote, Our view is that we've seen enough. There's just so long markets can be down. We believe the combination of recent positive events, the XRP ruling and endorsements by BlackRock at all, in addition to the Bitcoin halving expected to occur in April 2024, provide a strong setup for the next bull market in digital assets. And I will say, friends, on this late summer weekend, if that's just hopium, hand me the pipe. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
Mark Levin
The Republican Establishment Is Mostly Flatfooted
"More over unlike the Democrat Party the Republican establishment would rather betray its own base conservatives and try marginalize to it than battle the Democrat Party preferring to make appeals to the Democrat Party media demonstrate their supposed bipartisan common sense in pursuit of temporary political power and positive media coverage Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and the likes of Mitt Romney Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski Chris Nunes Hutchison Asa and Chris Christie are but a few contemporary examples of this defeatist mindset it is also one reason why and they Republicans like them constantly target Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Cruz, Ted Mike Lee and others who understand the nature of the threat and are willing to confront it takes uncommon fortitude, principles and foresight to recognize and engage the Democrat Party its surrogates and the American Marxist movements in addition to literally putting your career and freedom on the line you must deal with a rear guard action from the Party Republican even with all this I don't believe it can be said that the the Republican Party as an institution hates America or exists to again fundamentally transform America . it's not the home of the various Marxist movements that plot daily and in a thousand The Democrat Party seeks to effectively sideline the Republican party with repeated efforts to
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Democrats Looking For Another Candidate?
"You've spoken and we've heard you loud and clear. We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. We're redoubling our efforts to beat back the radical left's attack on your constitutional religious freedoms and to defend the sanctity of human life. This is your moment to get in the fight. Every tax -deductible gift will be doubled. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. This house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule. It has been said today, where is bravery? I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found. It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority saying, be damned with anything else. We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do. Why? Because we won an election. I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't going to be that fun. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Glad you're with us today. We're going to go, we're digging in deep. This is another time on the news that you may have passed up. We've got some interesting things, especially the Democratic primary. I told you we're going to talk about the presidential races coming up. I got an interesting one that is blooming out in California. Democrats do not like this, but we're going to talk about it anyway. A couple other stories out there that you may have crossed your radar, maybe didn't cross your radar. I want you to hear about it. But before we get to that here in just a minute, you can go on over these news. I have to tell you, there was a craziest article a few weeks back and this could, this could have probably, I could probably bring James in on this one because this would be one of those, you know, Friday's finest kind of things, but it actually intrigued me. Have you ever been, you know, this clickbait, you're going through, uh, you know, websites, you're reading the news and they had the little clickbait articles over there. And this one caught my eye. It said these eight habits daily could add up to 24 years to your life. A new study says even adding only one may lead to four extra years. Well, I said, you know, Hey, I'm getting up there. This is my birthday month, by the way, the Collins podcast. Not only are we about two years old on the podcast, I will, uh, birthday on August 16th of this year. So I said, Hey, this may be something interesting. If I can add some line to my life, what could these amazing thoughts be? So I went to the you know, they had talked about adding areas to your life. And then it came to the eight habits is under the CNBC make it, uh, uh, website. Anyway, it said eight habits that could add up to 24 years of your life. Folks, before we get into some real stuff, you got it. You got to just roll your eyes and laugh at this one. Here are the eight habits listed in order, starting with the highest impact on lifespan and include exercising, not having an addiction to opioids, avoiding smoking, managing your stress level, adhering to a healthy diet, not binge drinking, prioritizing, good sleep, and maintaining positive social relationships. I just got, I mean, I look, I hope you're laughing with me on this one because it's like, are you kidding me? Is this captain obvious is come on to the internet, but this is what clickbait gets you. Uh, you know, no one would ever guess exercising would have actually extended your life. Nobody would actually guess that being addicted to hard drugs probably lowers your lifespan, not binge drinking all the time. That's probably another one that your liver would probably thank you for folks in the silliness of this world. Sometimes you just have to take a step back. And here on the Doug Collins podcast, I'm willing to give you the very finest habits that can impact your life up to 24 years. Not sure how we actually engage that, but Hey, 24 years. But you know, look, we've had enough of it out there today. Uh, there's a lot of things going on. Let's get into it right after the break. Hey everybody, you know, about legacy precious metals, legacy precious metals. You hear from, uh, we taught once a month, we talk about legacy, press metals, talking about precious metals, being part of your portfolio, how they're your navigator. Well, now they're not only navigating in a new way. Uh, they're actually giving you a way to buy gold and silver. 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The Dan Bongino Show
Kaitlan Collins Forgot the First Amendment Exists
"Kaitlin Collins, and I mean, usually they're tyrants. I really believe this. Kaitlin Collins is really just stupid. I believe it. No, I really do, Jim. This is a grifter with no integrity. But it's not that. believe I she's really dumb. And this interview here is evidence she really had no idea the First Amendment's a thing. Here, take a listen. We have the discussion like we're just having. But it matters if those things actually occurred or not, John. Not under the First Amendment. if But it matters those things actually occurred because... No, not at all. Because under the First Amendment... It does matter if it was actually fraud. No, no. The First Amendment allows... Wait, John, let me stop you there. Because if he's saying that there was fraud, the First Amendment doesn't allow the President of the United States to go and claim there was fraud when he was told there was not fraud and then try to subvert the election by overturning legitimate electors. I mean, it says it right here in the actual indictment. Absolutely. The First Amendment protects off speech. If we're going to have a situation where the Department of Justice is going to fact -check politicians and indict politicians for political speech and whether or not they're factually accurate, then this country will shut down politically because it's a never -ending cycle of tit -for -tat. And that's the risk of injecting politics into the criminal justice system. So now, right people disagree with President Trump. What's going to happen four years from now if somebody disagrees with President Biden in terms of what he said during the election? That's why we don't criminalize political speech. Political speech under the First Amendment has an almost absolute protection. Nobody gets to judge It's true or not, except the American people. And we do that in an election. We do that in an election. We do that in the
The Dan Bongino Show
Jim Clapper Has No Regrets About Pushing Russian Collusion Agenda
"You doubt me if this is gonna happen? Jim, queue up for me, cut one. Here is lying piece of human garbage Jim Clapper the former director of national intelligence under Obama who knew from the jump that the collusion hoax story was a political dirty trick as the DNI could have shut this down immediately not only did he run with it Jim Clapper but later on after Hunter Biden's laptop shows up indicating that these bribes these foreign dealings may be real he's one of the signees of the letter saying that the laptop could be Russian disinformation knowing full well it's not you think he's apologetic listen to this turd listen to this absolute turd on CNN yesterday asked by Caitlin Collins and a Republicans pounce question about the laptop in the signing hood and he goes back to his well you can't prove the laptop was in Russia you see the standard of proof how it changes here listen to this well uh that's the question no i don't regret it i thought at the time that was appropriate to sound a warning about watch out for the dark hand of the Russians and in my case this is on the heels of what i saw the Russians do in 2016 to interfere and influence the outcome of our election here it goes again folks here we go again the dark hand of the
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Dan Goldman Waves Off FBI Doc Describing Biden Bribe
"Cue up for me if you would cut to this is disgraced congressman Dan Goldman again a total life loser a man with no human dignity at all on CNN talking about this FBI informant and the FBI unwilling to turn over the information and he just completely fabricates this entire thing and no pushback from the grotesque Caitlin Collins at all he says at the end he just makes this up yeah yeah this thing's this whole thing's been debunked what's been the bomb the bank records of the money transfers the informant being paid by the FBI absolutely none of this has been debunked at all but no pushback at all this is why mccrats feel free to lie because of imbeciles in the media like Caitlin Collins check this out do you view this as legitimate oversight do you understand why republicans want to hold the FBI director in contempt uh... no i don't at all and i don't both for procedural reasons and for substantive reasons first on the procedural side the FBI director has substantially complied by providing the chairman and ranking member access to this document which is disseminated to the rest of the committee uh... might impede on the confidentiality of sources but more importantly is that the the substance of this document uh... has been run over again not folks that is just a total complete fabrication from this zero human dignity life loser he is already in on the record p p and hoaxer he says that what about it's been debunked caitlin collins could have asked him a simple ship which part of the story is the bomb the pre -bought bank bank records going payments on her body the suspicious activity reports of u s
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump Dominates CNN Interview With Pure WrestleMania Energy
"A lot last night on CNN, it was a unbelievable tour de force from Trump vintage Trump, and I will say this, it is not what I anticipated. I was kind of upset. Trump was going to go on the fake news network, CNN, and I was wrong. I was dead wrong. It was incredible. And I will tell you what he did is he had fun. His demeanor made it all work. It was pure WrestleMania. It was like it was 2015, the glory days again. And CNN circling the drain, the ratings are half a million people are watching, which is literally if you just put on a video of cats playing with balls of yarn during that slot. It would do more than half a million. I mean, that's way more interesting than whatever they're doing, but he handled it perfectly. He made a mockery of the host, Caitlin Collins, who was. Obviously an overhead on this, but she's about to become a millionaire, I'm told. I'm about to, she's gonna get that Don lemon slot, which is it's highly coveted. Everyone in media wants that Don lemon slot. So she's gonna make a lot of money off of this, I guess. But CNN just offered her up for the slaughter in exchange for ratings. But this is going to be a furyk victory. Because he didn't win the night or whatever, but their brand is even somehow worse than it was going into last night. And the trick was the dichotomy of the way Trump behaved versus the way the moderator Caitlin Collins behaved. She had no joy. She has no fun. She acts so serious, but she doesn't have the content to be that serious. And Trump, who had all the content, was having a great time. And it was such a pleasure to watch the fallout afterwards, all the meltdowns. We would play lots of cliffs for you throughout the show, but I can't resist playing at least a couple. Right here at the outset. Here was one of the funniest moments I've ever seen, I think, of any public forum in my life cut one O 7, please. This woman, I don't know her. I never met her. I have no idea who she is. I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband, nice guy, John Johnson. He was a newscaster. Very nice man. She called him an ape. Happens to be African American. Called him an ape. The judge wouldn't allow us to put that in. Her dog or her cat was named vagina. The judge wouldn't allowed to put that in. And he went on from there. He kept saying things that were, he's talking points, the things that he wanted to convey to the public, but he did it in such a humorous way that the audience was cracking up
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Schools CNN's Collins on Pelosi's Refusal of National Gaurd
"Here listen to what she says first and then I'm going to play for you a flashback that she could have done herself played for herself She would have been more informed Check this out One of the big problems was that Nancy Pelosi crazy Nancy as I affectionately call it Crazy Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington were in charge as you know of security And they did not turn their job You're in charge of that They orange well I offered them National Guard I said we'll give you soldiers We'll give you a dash of God We'll give you whatever you want And they turned me down And in fact she turned me there She turned me down in writing They turned me down So you're acting defense secretary Chris Miller at the time He says you never gave a formal order to deploy the National Guard But when it was that day Just the opposite Wrote a book and he's a fantastic guy and he was ready to go They turned him down If you look the mayor of Washington D.C. lovely lady She said we don't know what we don't like to look Nancy Pelosi said oh we don't like the look If they would have had just I offered them 10,000 soldiers I said it could be ten It could be more but I offered them specifically 10,000 soldiers If they would have taken 500 soldiers you wouldn't have the problem They turned it down And if you look at the inspector general report he says they turned it down They made a terrible mistake Well Chris Miller was your acting defense secretary He says you never gave that order but back to what happened on that day You said you weren't saying that He has testified that You did not say that Oh my gosh Folks all the entertainment reporter at CNN had to do Caitlin Collins is actually look up this May 2021 public testimony that Chris Miller gave to Byron donalds a Republican congressman from Florida where he says exactly what Caitlyn Collins says he didn't say Totally completely unprepared
The Dan Bongino Show
Bad Administration Personnel Is Not Unique Issue to Donald Trump
"You had a Democrat versus Donald Trump It was a debate and Caitlyn Collins and CNN just got destroyed last night Absolutely wrecked Just wrecked But what are the lines of attack I saw a pop out this morning And again this is primary stuff People are I don't get into that I'm a Trump guy Again I've said it over and over We get that desantis is a fantastic governor but there's a lot of back and forth One of the hits on Donald Trump during the primary I discussed before as well He picked some bad people personnel wise Folks every single administration has done that It doesn't excuse it We should make better personnel decisions Period Complete full stop But that's not unique to Donald Trump Acting like that somehow disqualifying because Donald Trump made some bad personnel decisions is obscenely stupid George W. Bush wanted Harriet Myers on Supreme Court Harry admires remember that debacle I mean really You know we kept bringing Colin Powell back The guys no he's a Republican He's hasn't voted for a Republican in 50 years We've had our own we had Michael Steele once heading the RNC Michael Steele the guy yes you mean a guy on MSNBC raving like a lunatic about the conservatives that yes that guy So please spare me the my gosh Trump made bed but I get it Well we'll fix that I understand that People politicians make bad personnel decisions all the time
The Dan Bongino Show
Lincoln Project's Reed Galen Cries Following CNN Trump Town Hall
"Here it is Here's another member of the Lenin project sometimes known as The Lincoln Project Reed Galen career long grift there has never had a real job lives off his dad's name his dad's Richard some kind of political mucky muck or whatever Dude's never had a job Hates Trump now He lost it last night too on Twitter after the CNN thing Rick Wilson was probably in the next room I hope he was showering Here take a listen to this Is anyone surprised by what we saw tonight If you are you weren't watching the last 8 years Thanks again to CNN who helped get us into this in 2016 and is now helping us get deeper into this in 2023 We knew what he would do You knew what he would do Caitlin Collins I think probably tried the best she could given the circumstances You put her out there to do something that was an impossibility You filled the crowd with his sycophants You filled the crowd with people who clapped when he said he would pardon the January 6th rioters and insurrectionists Chris licht you will not sleep tonight and I do not feel bad for you Everything that we have been telling you not to do you continue to do So you and mister zaslav I want you to ask yourselves a question tomorrow Do you want to live in a free country or don't you Because maybe you can be the friendly media if and when Trump wins again But you know what I wouldn't count on it This is about all of us gang Let's get to work and make sure that this man never ever gets anywhere near the Oval Office again That's Reed Galen from the Lenin project Sometimes known as The Lincoln Project It's interesting about this guy because this guy used to try to get involved with my campaign all the time I've got just a library of emails from the city We kept turning him down He kept trying to shake us down for money trying to sell us his dad's email list and everything
The Dan Bongino Show
Pres. Trump Gives Honest Response on Debt Ceiling Default
"So he's asked about the debt ceiling by the hapless Caitlyn Collins movie reviewer He's asked about the debt ceiling And he says you know you didn't think that the debt ceiling should be used as leverage when you were the president and now the Republicans are using it as leverage to get spending cut Now the answer you usually hear a more kind of Polish diplomatic answer from a Jeb Bush type politician Where they be like well you need to understand we're in an economic crisis we're in now We weren't in years ago We have fluctuating interest rates we're in an inflation crisis The times are different So you have to evolve in your approach That Trump Trump's just like that I was president then I'm not president now Check this out Country is being destroyed by stupid people By very stupid people You once said that using the debt ceiling is a negotiating wedge just could not happen You said that when you were on the falafel So why is it different now that you're out of office Because now I'm not president Now Michael why do people like that People like it because everybody knows politicians are full of you don't You can fill in the blank right Go to my podcast if you want to hear the rest okay One censored show Yeah there you go Although we don't beep it out on a podcast right Folks Barack Obama Why did you change your position on gay marriage All this other stuff Just be honest because it was politically advantageous Trump just says it Because you know what I thought I had a political advantage I was in The White House by saying the opposite Now I'm saying people are like again I thought I didn't think it was his best moment on principle alone but folks the new rules baby They're in effect You got to do what you got to do and people clap because they're like at least he's the first guy to admit when you're in politics you got to do political stuff And he didn't try to hide it
The Doug Collins Podcast
"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Earlier. The first one is Afghanistan. An abject failure of the Biden administration. I mean, no matter how you look at it, abject failure, the Taliban. I watched the old movie Charlie Wilson's war the other day and at the end of it, you know, Charlie Wilson was saying, you know, look, the ball's still bounces. We got to stay here. This was in the 90s. And after we helped the Afghan rebels beat the Soviet Union, the Taliban and the fundamentalists came into the country, took it over, the late 90s was nothing but a horrific scene in I mean, not even a third world version of Afghanistan with the Taliban. Going there. And Osama bin Laden and the training and the treatment of women. And we're already seeing that again building up. And it seems like the prophetic words of Charlie Wilson said the ball still balances, you know, we've still got to be engaged. We're not and now the failure that happened in Afghanistan is going to be one that is, I think, going to come back many times in the campaign, but also the fact of what is the Taliban doing right now. And the more and more reports that we're hearing out of there, is there reverting back to the late 19 90s and that will present nothing, but a long-term problem for us. Number two, Ukraine. We're one year plus into this war, Russia, invasion of Ukraine, Biden administration has made it very clear that we're there behind Ukraine. They're going to give the funds and the equipment. The question is, will they have to up that commitment and will it involve other possibilities of use of troops or use of funds along with other allies in NATO? That's going to be, again, it's very much of a burdensome point on the Democrat side, but also the Republican side where Ukraine stands a year from now. We'll go a long way to this debate. And then it's the continuing conversation about China. And the fact that China is not our friend, we have got to work out a way in which we work together, but this idea of backing down from China this idea of moving away and not engaging China in areas across the world is going to be the next big area that for foreign policy for not only weeks, but months and years to come. So that's where I say this race right now. I've had people come up to us, we get a lot of them being, and by the way, if you ever want me to come and speak at an event or a Republican Party can start a party, maybe just a rotary club or whatever. I speak all across the country. Go to the Doug Collins podcast dot com that email button right there. Please hit it and say, hey, we got an event coming up with love to have you. Just let me know. If we can work it out, I'd love to come speak at your events. And when I go to these events, I ask these questions, what are we looking for in this race? Can the Republicans do it? Do the Democrats have an advantage? What I've laid out for you today gives you a good look at just some high level topics, but they're the things that are going to be again to cause this race to get more clarity as you go forward. Individual can especially on Republican side, you're going to say the very vicious normal fighting that goes on between Candice. And when Ron DeSantis gets in this race, if he gets in this race, I think it was interesting enough he just said the other day while he was in Japan. He said, well, I'm not in the right. We'll see what the polls look like later. I think they're going to have to make a decision pretty quick if he's getting in or not because right now Donald Trump is eating their lunch and it's showing up in the polls. So those are things we'll talk about in different times during the year, but I want to lay out the big picture plan I'll hear this topics at this moment. We see affecting this next 2024 presidential race..
The Doug Collins Podcast
"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Do. Well, Mark, you provide a great example of what our FBI and I've always I've been to one of their best defenders in talking about it because what you do every day and you know, coming from a law enforcement background myself, you know, know the sacrifice you might knowing that the issues and lock the two officers who were lost. I know the fam. I've always said and I always love to talk to families of officers and lava because I am one. You know, I've never been an officer per se, putting the gun on in that room, but there's a different family level out there that I can speak directly to because our anxieties are different. And I think it calls me to grow up and always want to have my hand on the wheel. Folks, you have been listening to an absolutely fascinating time with Mark, so you'll hear more, again, 20 years plus in the FBI, you know, ten years in Atlanta organized crime. But also working to train steel 13 years FBI S.W.A.T., this is the kind of stuff that lets us know out there that are people out there who still matter who care. I just want to say thanks for your service. Thanks for continuing on and thanks for coming on and sharing what my dad always used for his old war stories about the things going on. So appreciate you being with us. Well, you're very welcome and thank you for having me and thank you for your podcast and what you do to get this word out to everyone. So thank you also. Hey everybody, this is Doug Collins. I gotta tell you something. I gotta be honest. It's we're honest here on the Doug Collins show. One of the things that I've never learned. It's a little personal. I've never liked slippers. I've never liked the moccasin slivers. Everybody seems to be so excited about them. Until I got a hold of the my pillow slippers. The moccasins. And Lisa and I laces with me today. We got those boxes, and those mocks are amazing, aren't they? Yes, the my slippers are so comfortable and so easy to walk in. You do not have to wear socks, they keep your feet nice and toasty. It's just amazing. Look, we've used the pillows and the pillows, you know, just are great for keeping your head down. I'm a side sleeper and they just help keep my head up. And then one of the things that I have to say for folks for, you know, just an exciting thing. I don't wear being 6 foot four. The robes are not thing, but my little broad Lisa has a robe. She put that on today, kept her warm. She is one that always turns on the heater because she's always cold and warning the road kip you just nice and toasty this morning didn't it, like. So very true. Get out of the shark, pit it down and you'll stay warm. Folks, there's just so many things. Go to my pillow dot com, use the code word Collins. Use the code word Colin, COL INS, and they're just so many things there. Mike's got so much things. You'll get everything. It's such a discount that you will not believe it. My pillow is a great supporter here of the Doug Collins show and our podcast. We want you to be a part getting ready for Christmas. Things are coming up. Go check out the website. There's not only the pillows and there's not only the bedsheets, which by the way, the Giza dream bedsheets getting ready for. We're excited about that. So anything on there, just use the code Collins LL INS and you're going to get the best not only sleep, but you're going to get some of the best comfort for your feet, comfort for your body, comfort for life..
The Doug Collins Podcast
"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Welcome to the Doug Collins show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy p.m. investments dot com. Best legacy, p.m. investments dot com. You want to listen to a podcast? By who? Georgia, GOP congressman, Doug Collins. How is it? The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life. I could not believe my ears. This house wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule. It has been said today where is bravery. I'll tell you where bravery is found encourages now. He's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down. Questions not being answered in this majority say be damned with anything else. We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do. Why? Because we won an election. I guarantee you one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun. All right, everybody. Thanks for being part of the Doug Collins broadcast. We're glad you're back. Got a good one for you today. And we're gonna jump right into it. For those who know me very well, it's not the last few years have been a little interesting for me in the FBI. If you talk about Jim Comey, you talk about some of the top level. We've not probably had the best of worlds going on, but the field FBI agents are some of the best in the world. I truly believe that. And they have done some incredible work. And tonight, as we get started in this podcast, we start, you're going to really get a kick out of this because we have Mark soul here who is not only a marine. He's an FBI agent. He now trains. He's been all over the world. But he has some really cool cases. So Mark, let's just jump right into this. Mark, where are you from originally and sort of, how did you, how did you become you up until let's just say about the Marine Corps side? Let's go through that part first. Sure. I grew up in a Houston suburb called a Laporte Texas. And if you know anything about Texas, high school football is king, so everything around my high school upbringing and my wife's as well involved Friday night football. Hence, Friday night lights. But like so many after graduation from high school, the football career stopped there. So I lived in, I lived in that Laporte, Houston suburb, it's on the Galveston bay. It's a very blue collar community. My father and all my Friends, fathers worked in the chemical plants from the oil business. My father worked at as a contractor for Exxon, and so many others worked in the petrochemical plastics and so forth, very blue collar community. Of course everything in Houston is oil related. And then after graduation, I joined the Marine Corps. So I got in the Marine Corps, you're a West Coast marine. I was just out in San Diego. I flew over your area where you have I'm sure had lots of sweat, maybe a little blood and a little bit because you were back in the, and tell me about the good old days for this air force boy before we actually get into it, you know, tell me about the hard times at MCRD, San Diego. Yeah, so the Marine Corps loves to fight among themselves and then also fight among the other services. And the fight within the Marine Corps is which of the two boot camps or the more tough of the two and demanding and so forth. So out in San Diego, the east coast marines refer to San Diego as the Hollywood marines. Being close to Los Angeles and of course piles filmed out there in the 60s. That's right. And then, and then, of course, the east coast marines train at parris island. And the dividing line is the Mississippi River. If you're west of the Mississippi, when you recruit, then you go to San Diego and then vice versa for parris island. And the downside to Paris island I will admit is the sand fleas. And so if you've ever been to Charleston, Hilton head and et cetera, now imagine doing that in a 100° temperature and having sand fleas cover yet. And if you ever saw the old movie DI with Jack Webb, you're not allowed to slap those sand fleas. And if you do, you're going to have to bury one of them and have a proper funeral. And so on and so on. So, but like you said, the other day, San Diego can have its own misery and you're so close to the civilization of San Diego. Everybody is flying airplanes around your cars are driving and you're there on this recruit depot and you can't touch or be part of it. So it has a little bit of an emotional torture if you want to use that word, but it's a competitive robbery between the two depots and then once everybody graduates, one happy Marine Corps after that. Well, that is it. It was all interesting because it was we flew out. I mean, you've literally, if you've never been to San Diego, and by the way, it's just, you know, San Diego weather is just beautiful when you get into it. And for the most part, of course, if you're in the MCR and that's the least of your concerns at the bar. Compared to the 100° weather at Paris island. But we're flying right over and you literally you fly right over the you say the grinder, the drill field, you see everything right there.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Welcome to the Doug Collins show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy p.m. investments dot com. That's legacy, p.m. investments dot com. Do you want to listen to a podcast? By who? Georgia, GOP congressman Doug Collins. How is it? The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life. I could not believe my ears. This house wherever the rules are disregarded. Chaos and mob rule. It has been said today, where is bravery? I'll tell you where bravery is found encourages now. He's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down. Questions not being answered in this majority say be damned with anything else. We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do. Why? Because we won an election. I guarantee you one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun. Hey everybody, thank God it's Friday. Yes, it's Friday here. And today only Doug Collins showed his Friday's finest. It is a going to be. After all week, we have talked about it. We have, we've looked at the indictment. We've looked at the arraignment. We've talked about Trump in New York. We've been all over the place. Today on Friday's finest it is a Trump indictment free zone. We're not going to talk about it. We've talked about it all week. We'll make it back into it next week. But today, no, it's Friday. It's masters week as we speak. They're playing the lovely course in Augusta. The home of really, in my mind, American golf. I know they're going to be many out there who may disagree with that but fine. You can have your opinion and be wrong. I'm happy to let you be. But the masters is a special week. And the master's golf tournament is off. If you've not had chance this week, the par three tournament yesterday, the day before yesterday and all was just amazing with the families out there, you see it. It's just a different feel. I was also happy to say that the Liv golfers and the PGA players seem to get along pretty well on the par three essay so it'll be interesting to see where that all goes from masters weekend. I can't wait to also it is Easter weekend. And today, being a good Friday, last year, if you go back, I encourage you to go back to the Doug Collins podcast dot com. You can go back to last year. I did an episode of the podcast called. The day with no name. I would encourage you to go back and listen to that episode. It was last year right before Easter. It was talking about Saturday. We talk about good Friday. We talk about Easter, but so often we live in the middle. We live in the middle between the tragedies of Friday and the joys of Sunday. We live in that middle zone where nothing is ever really too high or really too low. It's in the middle and I think that's where God speaks to us the most if we're willing to listen. So a lot going on today and just been at James and I though we have got a Friday's finest that you will not believe. You're not going to believe some of the stories today. This is the kind of podcast that you need for a Friday going into an Easter weekend to just sit back and scratch your head and say, huh?.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Welcome to the Doug Collins show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy p.m. investments dot com. That's legacy, p.m. investments dot com. Do you want to listen to a podcast? By who? Georgia, GOP congressman Doug Collins. How is it? The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life. I could not believe my ears. This house wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule. It has been said today, where is bravery? I'll tell you where bravery is found encourages now. He's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down. Questions not being answered in this majority say be damned with anything else. We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do. Why? Because we won an election. I guarantee you one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun. Hey everybody, wow, what a day. Yesterday was, it was Tuesday, it was Trump day. Basically in New York City, Alvin Bragg, along with the police commissioners and the New York mayors, every shut basically everything down, costing millions upon millions upon dollars of taxpayer money for an indictment in an arraignment that I'm going to get to here in just a minute. They reminded me so much of the old Wendy's commercial. In fact, I won't even let you hear it hearing a little bit of the Wendy's commercial. Where's the beef? Where's the beef? I mean, this was just so amazing that what happened yesterday and what the build up to was it. We're going to get to that in just a few minutes. Today, on the podcast, because I wanted to keep you updated and letting you know what's going on as we see this coming up. But other things that bother me about this week and I want it before we ever get to this breakdown of the indictment breakdown of what's going on and why I believe this is just again a politically motivated indictment here is things that are not being discussed. And I think one of the things that's not being discussed yesterday that was really big to me is why was this while this was going on the Biden administration dropped the news that these weather satellites remember that weather balloon back about two months ago that floated all the way from China all the way up to the South Carolina coast before we actually blew it up. All the while it was taking laps and tours around the United States and a specifically around areas of national security such as miles from Al force base in Montana and some of our nuclear sites even making figure 8s over some of these areas. Now, what we heard back then was the Biden administration, all of this is nothing. There's no signal intelligence that can be brought from this. There's nothing that can be gained from this. Now, during this week, when nobody else is going to folks on it, especially the liberal media who is so fixated with Donald Trump that they can't even get breakfast without mentioning his name, I don't think. You know, they have went and dropped the information that, yes, this was able to gather signal intelligence. Electronic emissions things that come from our devices such as nuclear warheads, nuclear devices, nuclear communications, all these things were gathering and sending in real time back to China. Folks don't leave misled here. Don't let the shiny objects get in the way. I know that for many, you know, they want to talk about Trump and defending Trump or they want to prosecute Trump and everybody else. But at the same point, you've got an administration that is hiding the fact that they allowed a Chinese spy balloon to float over the United States completely before they shot it down while at the same time it was transmitting in real time data back to China. Now, also they could control this. We know about that because they're actually moving it around. We know that there was a probability now of detonation device in which China could have taken this balloon out. What if there had been other things in that balloon? They could have been biological or anything else. They could have been displayed over the American air base or any city or anything else. Folks, I've seen so little printed about this in the last 24 to 48 hours about this issue. Why? Because of the fixation of America on a indictment of Donald Trump for money paid to a former porn star to a former Playboy playmate and also to a dormant at Trump towers. Now folks, we're going to get to the indictment in a minute. But I just have to leave you with, where's the beef? Why is the beef? Where's the beef? Hey. Where's the beef?.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Speaking of New York accents while we're just in your shooting bowl we talk about baseball. What is it? Have you seen and this is our momentary for those listening to the no Collins podcast. This is our time we veer off on Friday's finest or whatever I'm thinking about. And then, have you called the Tulsa king the stoke near Sylvester Stallone? You know what? I watched it. All right, let me just, this is gonna, again, we're veering off track there for a moment. Yeah, but we do that. Sylvester Stallone annoys me to no end. And I think this is sacrilegious as an Italian. I know. I hate the movie rocky. Oh, no, okay. Well, and thank you everybody for joining the Doug Collins podcast today. We were having technical difficulties on the other side. A garbage movie. Let me get, let me get this. Rocky is about a really, really, really dumb Italian guy. Who dates his best friend's sister, which is always off the table. He's drunk best friend, sister. And then he just walks into this fight out of pity and nobody even wins the fight. It is dumb. It is a pointless movie. It's a guy running on the street, there are a million rockies out there that don't get their shot, and I'm supposed to feel love for this thing. No. No, no. Anyway. No. I know. I know. I know, it's a bad take. I'm aware. And I'll stand by it till I die. Wow, bad heart attacks here. And it's his voice and everything. And it's just. You gotta get his rugged, Jamie. I watched it. And if you can get over the fact that he can't speak English. The booth of show is really good. It is good. It is good. It's good. Okay, well, after all, after we all that, now we got unexpected takes on rocky. We got unexpected things on it. But the reason I went down this path was, you know, you said, put on your Yankee accent. Well, when you hear it about Boston, well, okay, I was gonna ask every southerner's question here to a true Jersey yank E up here. This part of the world of New York. What is it with how you do it? How you doing? No, I still use it. But I'm here. I mean, it has this weird connotation. Okay, it's weird. Again, I'm not gonna pretend I know the origins of how you done. But I think it's just easier like, again, it's just something that our uncle said our grandfather said. Now my grandmother's from Italy. So he's got an accent, so he doesn't have to. But people I grew up around in New York and north Jersey and stuff like that. They're just like, hey how you doing? What's going on? How you doing? It's one word, too. How you done? It's not even a, it's just an amalgam of the words, how you doing? It's weird, I guess, but like, I don't use it too often. I try not to because I think I sound like in the great words of my family. Italians, a govern. Yeah. But yeah, it's weird. It's how you doing. And everyone will say it to you. It's easier to say that. I guess it'd be similar to y'all..
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"There's a house that sits on the other side and you just look at it, it's just absolutely incredible. So folks, look, I want to put in the liner notes for the show. The show notes, I'm going to have the link for Valhalla resort. You see where you can get in touch with the hotel part. If you're just coming up, I mean, even coming for a few days, go to the hotel, got a spa, you've got the quaintness and the fun of hailing. And then you can get in a great round of golf. Or go down. Or if you've got a few days to spend, call my ahead of time, see if you might be can get in on some lessons, but also they have a, what do you call a simulated golf as well? I mean, there's things that you can play there. If the weather happens to be bad, you can always look into that option as well. But again, the folks at Valhalla are great folks. They mean the world to me and Lisa can't think of just a cute place to go, at least and I spent several nights up there just and it's only like I said, about 30 minutes in the house, but it's a getaway. With the sky bar, you're overlooking Appalachian Mountains, chimney top, there's just so many things up there that you want to and for me, especially in the spring, summer, and then into the fall. You get up there and you go, one of the cabins, or you sit out back on the sky bar up there, and the fires are the campfires or rolling through the mountains. It is just a beautiful place. The smells, you will want to keep coming back. So you go see this in the liner notes, you'll see how to get in touch with Valhalla. This is the first, but not the last time I'm gonna have my cone to talk more about golf as we go forward. Here on the Doug Collins podcast, but folks, got a lot of good things here. Keep your hands still, keep your body straight, make it a consistent swing and this year's golf will turn out better for you. Mike, thanks for joining me today. Thank you for allowing me to be on the podcast with you. And we look forward to people visiting our wonderful resort. I mean, just take that moment, look us up and it's easy for holla resort hotel dot com and you'll be amazed with what we have to offer you. It is a respite. It's a great place to get away. And the funny thing is when you get in, when you get here, it's like time stands still. You get to enjoy the experience and it just enjoy this beautiful piece of property. And this is the only place that I've ever played gough, where you might encounter a bear. I mean, they just like to hang out and watch you play. Yeah, and dear. You're not seeing a lot of deer on them already. But thank you. Thanks so much. All right, folks, we'll see you back on the dot com podcast..
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"On to another part of what we call basic stupidity out of local government. This week, we saw San Francisco, not the bastion of conservatism by any means, but also not the bastion of common sense. The San Francisco board expressed support for reparations in X upwards of $5 million to every. African Americans who were living in San Francisco. So a whole lot of money. Now here's the interesting issue. There's no way they can pay this. Yeah, they can't even afford to get the homeless people out of there to area. I mean, and here there's an interesting take. There's a former Black Lives Matter and this is a story that I saw earlier in the week from the Russo. It was a, he used to be part of Black Lives Matter now. He's with prager and Dennis and all those guys. But he may make the point, it's really interesting he says this, what he's basically saying, and he said. This is just virtual statement. Number one, nothing's gonna change, okay? Because there's no way they can pay this. And it really the concern and I've heard this from others in the community that it perpetuates a victim mentality. It perpetuates that, yes, the reason you're part lot in life is because of something that happened a long time ago and you've never recovered. So we're now gonna make you whole. And everything will be fine. James, you and I both know that just simply giving money to someone does not make them hope.
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"A lot going on in the dot com's podcast. So look, as I say, you miss one, you miss a lot, but you know what? You can always find it on the dot com's podcast dot com. Doug Collins podcast dot com. You can subscribe there, make sure that you never miss an episode. Hey everybody, my pillow, I just wanted to let you know my pill is having the biggest sheet sale of the year. You have all have helped build my pillow into an amazing company that is today. And now Michael and Dale, the inventor and CEO wants to give back exclusively to his listeners. The perk out bed sheet is set is available in a variety of colors and sizes and they're all on sale. For example, the queen size is regular prostate 89 98, but it is now only 39 98 with our listener promo code. Order now because they, when they're gone, they're gone. You're not going to be able to get it. These fertile sheets are breathable. They have cool Chris Phil. They come with a ten year warning 60 day money back guarantee. Don't miss out on this incredible offer. There's a limited supply. So be sure to order now. Call one 800, 9 8 6, three 9 9 four, use the promo code Collins. Or you can go to my pillow dot com, click on the radio listener square and use the promo code Collins. COL INS. Lisa and I sleep only sheets every night. You will want to have them as well. They're a wonderful product. Go right now, either 800, 96, three, 9, 9, four, code word Collins, or go to my pillow dot com. Also use the code word Collins to get this discount. You will not regret it. Hey everybody, you know about legacy precious metals. Legacy precious metals, you hear from we taught once a month. We talk about legacy press. I was talking about precious metals being part of your portfolio, how they are navigator. Well, now they're not only navigating in a new way. They're actually giving you a new way to buy gold and silver. In fact, let it go see fresh metals has put a developer revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online. In a few easy steps, you can open an account online, select your metals of choice and choose to have them stored in a vault or ship to your door. I'm more of a ship to my door kind of person. I enjoy having them with me. But they can do it either way. And you can now do it online. It gives you real access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time, anytime you'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar, this puts you in complete control of your money. This platform is free to sign up for just visit legacy p.m. investments dot com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold hinges against inflation and is against and against a volatile stock market, a true diversified portfolio is just more stocks and bonds, but a different asset class. This platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver no matter how small or large with just a few clicks. Remember, do as I have done, go to legacy p.m. investments dot com and get started today. And now you've got a new tool to help you along in your investments. And now, without delay, John bought. Okay, listen, okay, you brought this up. I'll go. You know, that is the most misunderstood. I mean, I remember this year. You remember in the national championship game this year. Everybody was freaking out. Then I'll go wasn't gonna be in Los Angeles. Yeah, I know. I mean, listen at all. At dog is more pampered and then PETA of course had to come out and say, well, we need to do away with live animal mascots, you know. This is the greatest mascot in America as Sports Illustrated indicated all those years ago. It was funny. And I'll tell you, you know, I've been around Georgia football long enough to know, I am very superstitious. I'll admit I was a little concerned that I wasn't going to make the trip out there. Of course, then you just think about George's defense and other can watch the game for wherever he.
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"It was healthcare, healthcare, healthcare, and that was due to our failure to get it done. It was interesting. And you just made something, and I want to point this out for the podcast, listeners, because they've heard me talk about Jason so many times and I just beat this drunk because it's something we got to understand. Democrats get policy done, even if it cost in position and power. But I'll show an example. You and I have talked about ObamaCare, Dodd Frank. You know, a lot of this stuff got put in, they got put out, but it's still here. That's right. Your Apollo. That's a lot longer than they do, and they don't care. They're more committed. They're more committed, ideologues than quite frankly, we are in a more positive sense of the term. The committed to their philosophy. It's not a good velocity, but they're committed to it. They're committed to it. More committed to the last poll. And that's a huge problem. And that really does stem a lot from the consultancy class. The consultancy class is obsessed with polling, obsessed with raising money, which is great, but we're never going to compete with them. You know, a very Goldwater and Bob Dole came together on one thing and I'm wondering what you think about this. And that is, you should be able to contribute to campaign if you can't vote. Well, what would that do to K street? I wouldn't have supported the infrastructure Bill in the last session. But you know as well as I do why it was passed. Every lobbyist was going to hold a $10,000 donation for your campaign said you vote for that or else. And the campaign manager saying, you got to vote for that. And that's how it gets done. And now that we're just getting our butts clean and fundraising, we need to start taking a look at that too because money and media really is diluted our message, which is a majority message. Well, and I think that's one of the things that we're not real good at. We're still the independent contractors out here. Democrats are a corporation. And you just got to look at it in that way, and how they act and how their members at. As we look forward, I mean, we got an election stock coming up. I'm getting and I've been out traveling going to come up and travel some more, but what I'm worried about right now is Republicans are doing the same thing. I'm seeing some similarities 2018 now. Look, before I get in and date on the Doug Collins podcast dot com, you send me emails. I believe the house is going to flip. The Senate is going to be closed, but I still think we're going to flip that back as well. But got a lot more work to do there. The house is going to flip. But I'm seeing house races that are a lot closer than they should be. On the same reasons, 2018 was bad is because they're not explaining or they're not at least giving a viable alternative to the mainstream narrative. They're not giving a mainstream narrative on the Dobbs decision. Abortion. We lost the New York 19 race, Jason, my personal opinion. We lost that race because you had the Democrat, did all abortion, the Republican was just focused on economy because that's what the consultants told them to do. And he never answered the abortion question. And I'm not saying by anyways, I'm his pro life as they come. You're not going to see dot Collins modifying that. But we've got to explain it instead of just letting them lie about it. I'm concerned we're going to lose 5 or 7 seats. We don't do this. No, you've been in politics longer than I have, but how many times? I mean, this is just AD nauseum. And you heard your campaign manager consultant say, if you're explaining you're losing. No, if voters aren't stupid, sometimes you need to explain things..
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Democrats do it better because they're willing to give up a lot if they can get a policy. They don't really care how it looks. But we like bumper stickers. You know, we want to do, you know, we try to blame things. And then we do the term limits. We do whatever we thought was ever popular. You've just hit something, and I've took a lot of criticism over the years about terms, 'cause I've said, frankly, right now in the United States House, it's less than 8 years. Did you and most people don't realize this, that in this next Congress, they'll be less than 40% of the membership of the Republican caucus have ever served with anybody that they came in before Donald Trump. So, I mean, I mean, it's huge turnover. And you see it a little bit in the Santa. It's always the anomalies. It's always the Schumer as the Pelosi's the Dan youngs even. I put that. But what happens is, is what you just touched on. Is the staff on Capitol Hill, which you got a lot of great folks, but a lot of those committees have been there 30 years and they don't like change. Then you go into the bureaucracy. That's where I think the biggest problem is, you know, I got, you know, if you want to talk to me, it's fine, but let's have a some kind of at least turnover in Washington and these cubicles up and down these streets because that's where the real governess is going because we in Congress sort of gave our power away to them. Right. No, you're right. We don't do civil service reform. All is lost. I think incoming president has control over three or 4000 employees out of 2 million. So, you know, he's going to come and go and you're going to get those political appointees. But really, Peter strzok and Lisa page proved where the departments are. And the same with these committee staffs and all of that. So I couldn't agree with you more. Look, what I write in the book, Doug, is that too often Republicans want to revert back to what I call comfortable conservatism. And by that, I mean, what are you going to alienate related advocate for term limits? And I happen to be in favor of them, but I agree with you that I'm in favor of them for everybody. But who are you going to alienate? Nobody. Wearing a Ukrainian flag lapel pin. We really going to alienate nobody. You talk about a tax cut. We believe in tax cuts, but it's about as safe a political position as you can get. But if you start talking about we really shouldn't have a biological male swimming against my daughter swim team in college. We really shouldn't have lawlessness in the streets, although they are talking about that. But we ought to close the borders. Or how about this? We get to the point right now with China. We're not too many generations ago of you unleashed a bioweapon on the world. That would have been considered an act of war. We don't want to talk about that stuff or globalism or private equity, our endless wars. All of that, because you really get people get upset and Human Rights Campaign really gets upset. I don't want to go there. That's too hot. Don't want to talk about climate. Don't want to talk about elections. You don't want to know about. So what gets changed? Not much. Nothing. And I think that, look, it's gotten even somebody with Kamala Harris. I mean, this is really an interesting point. Kamala Harris was asked by chuck Todd in a recent interview. And she made her standard pitch about the border being the most secure border. And even chuck Todd had to call bull. Well, and that came on the follow-up of Biden and Harris and the administration saying, well, the reason the NAP test scores for fourth graders hit a rock bottom low is become Trump mismanaged schools during COVID two and a half years ago. No. What? And this is the point though, Doug, and this is why you got out raised away. I got outraged. They have a Democrat media complex. They have money and media. And they can gaslight the country over and over again by repeating the lie. And that is effective. I hate to say it. Well, it is, and I also have the, you know, look, and I'm one of those conservatives. I think a lot like you. Look, we'll pull it out the fact of the liberalism and the media agenda that is driven. But also it's one of those things where I'm also seeing that comfortable conservatism which you've talked about. I'm seeing conservatives use it as a crutch, right? And they just sit it out and they won't push back. We got to push back and there's ways to do that. Because look, they're revisionist history. You're not talking about that. I made that example this morning when we talk on the radio was about this big drought in the West Coast. And we talk about climbing, if you don't believe in this cloud, huge dry out, it's been going on for about Frank has been off about 15 years now. But there were several articles. And I think I don't want to say we're afraid it was one of the larger publications said, it's the most, it's the worst drought in 1200 years. Okay. I'm slow, but I get math even if I had to take my hands and my shoes off, I could figure this out. That's 800 AD. So. There's an AD. The combustion engine is people. It's cows. It's whatever. I mean, they just undercut their own argument and they don't even understand that they're undercutting their own argument. But who's going to point it out other than Doug Collins? I mean, that's the issue, isn't it? I mean, that's what gaslighting is. You keep telling people, the sky is green when it's blue and pretty soon, enough people say, well, I'm not going to go there. It's green. And that's why they called it climate deniers. Then we went to vax mandate deniers. Now we're COVID deniers. Now we're at election deniers. At some point, this self censorship has got to stop and you're getting nothing done. I mean, the Democrats aren't consumed with being too radical. They don't mind it. And yet Republicans, I can guarantee you know this. It wasn't that long ago where the top Republican consultants were all members of The Lincoln Project. That's what those guys were. That's his advising Republicans not to talk about climate change. Not talk about this radical trans ideology, not to talk about China, not to talk about the board. I mean, so I do think, look, I mean, I was never going to be in danger of becoming a career politician. The voters thought of that. But I'm glad I stuck to my guns and didn't apologize for what I believed and got some good things done because I couldn't live with myself otherwise. What's the point of it all? You've got to do it. I started playing. And okay, I'm going to go here. You went there a little bit. Explain to me. Again, talk about revisionist history or just changing history. I don't care what you call it. Right. But how can you have, quote, and I'm tired of looking at this, you go on MSNBC, CNN, and sometimes even Fox or in others. And you see these Republican consultants who have not worked for criticized president Trump every day of the week. They criticize Republicans. They, I mean, they work against what is considered, you know, many of us consider conservative, but yet the mainstream media out there is because here's Republican consultants. No, those are not Republicans anymore. Let's at least move them to independent. Let's do something. They say they're not where the Republican voters are today. And if they were, they'd be out there being higher, but they just don't reflect it. That's the part where the media tries to make by using labels. Everybody look the same and that try to isolate those who are pointing out the deficiencies in their argument. It is hard to overestimate the falsity of Steve Schmidt or Rick Wilson ever be considered a Republican. And this whole notion of and this is I'm glad you brought this up because everybody thinks it's Trump's abrasive personality. And let's be honest, he's a different kind of politician. You and I both know. Not afraid to say that. But different times, call for different leaders. But it wasn't that buggy. I mean, oh, he's not humble enough. I think Barack Obama was humbled. Bill Clinton stumbled. It was the issues Trump was threatening them with. The end of globalism, the controlling the border, all of these issues that they were advising their Republicans on you. You really ought to come out with a climate platform. You really need to do that. And don't alienate the Human Rights Campaign by being a traditionalist, you can't do that. And so Trump was threatening that status quo issue wise, and I think that's why they turned on him. That's why they didn't like him. And now from Bill kristol to Schmidt, Wilson, they are venomous in their hatred. And I really do think the Republican Party needs to get serious about telling those people politely. Here's the door. We'll see because you can't operate like this. We saw that in the 115. You and I were working hard to pass the American healthcare act that undid the price controls. That let people choose the health insurance they wanted to get the CBO admitted it would lower premiums. Now, the reason we didn't get nicked in 2018 on the tax reform because we passed it and it worked. Had we passed that, I'm convinced it would have worked, but we had a couple of individuals in the Senate. I think, frankly, out of spite, in many cases, torpedo that legislation. And so we are our own worst enemy again. And we've got to have more cohesiveness in the conference. And I do think, you know, you probably closer to this than I am, but with Jordan and McCarthy sort of mending fences and coming together in James calmer on oversight and Jim on judiciary and Kevin going along with it. I think we're hopefully we're getting there, but it won't matter if we don't take back the house. Well, yeah, and I think that's an interesting point you make there.
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"This will be John. We'll talk more about the CFPB. Hey everybody, my pillow, I just wanted to let you know my pill is having the biggest sheet sale of the year. You have all have helped build my pillow into an amazing company that is today. And now Mike lindell, the inventor and CEO, wants to give back exclusively to his listeners. The perk out bed sheet is set is available in a variety of colors and sizes and they're all on sale. For example, the queen size is regular prostate 89 98, but it is now only 39 98 with our listener promo code. Order now because when they're gone, they're gone. You're not going to be able to get it. These fertile sheets are breathable, they have cool crisp feel, they come with a ten year warning 60 day money back guarantee. Don't miss out on this incredible offer. There's a limited supply. So be sure to order now. Call one 800, 9 8 6 three 9 9 four, use the promo code Colin, COL INS, or you can go to my pillow dot com, click on the radio listener square and use the promo code Collins. Lisa and I sleep on these sheets every night, you will want to have them as well. They're a wonderful product. Go right now, either 800, 96, three, 9, 9, four, code word Collins, or go to my pillow dot com. Also use the code word Collins to get this discount. You will not regret it. John, good to have you back on the show. I mean, lots going on. We're going to get to the CFPB stuff here in just a minute. But give me just sort of an impression. I mean, we've been talking about markets. We've been talking about, you know, over time when you've been with us before, that business issues and things going on in our financials. Where do you see us right now, John? There's a lot of folks out there that are still, you know, looking at the fan, they're looking at the now unfortunately unfortunately, having to look at it and getting into a political season, where are you looking at it right now? I look at the market, I never underestimate the initiative and entrepreneurship and innovation of the American people. No matter what politicians do to them, as my colleague Wayne Cruz says at CEI, we don't all politicians. You don't need a stimulus. All you need is just to remove the rocks on the that are keeping the garden from growing. And there are a lot of rocks, but people are find ways to get around them. And now with divided government with the Republican House, you have at least somewhat of a break and hopefully the courts that Trump appointed judges and maybe others who will see the who will take seriously the constitution will also give American entrepreneurs a break. Like in this case where they hopefully will place the consumer financial protection bureau some monstrosity created by Dodd Frank to be escaped the accountability of both the president and Congress under some constitutional constraints. Yeah, John, and I think let's do something and I thought about this as you were talking there because it's been around for a while now. People, you know, and it was, you know, Elizabeth Warren's baby. You know, brought up under Obama by the first time. Completely, I mean, we can get into a lot of good, but I want people to understand that this is more than just a court case. I mean, frankly, we have the attention span many times, you know, of folks that we will pay attention to what we need to pay attention.
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"Also use the code word Collins to get this discount. You will not regret it. Hey everybody, guess what? It's that time of the month again when we actually get to talk the markets. We get to talk about things that are made in your investments, making sure that your future is secure and I can't wait today. Charles long wins with his legacy precious metals, great folks. You know them, they've been a sponsor with us for years on our podcast. And it's just it's exciting to be there because they are the navigators in this industry. There's a lot of people out here will tell you a lot of things. Oh, send us this. You need somebody to actually sit down with you and actually say, hey, what do I need? How do I need it? This is where legacy comes in and Charles has been a great friend. He's not only a great friend. He's also, I'm a client. So as I'm holding here in my hand, the and this is not the only one, but I had to one of my sleeves here. Charles, explain to people what it's like. I mean, for me, it's pretty cool to sit here and seeing him, you know, a part of an investment. You're physically in my hand. It's funny, and that's one of the things I always kind of recommend people do. That's what real money feels like. Not the paper dollars or that card that you carry. Yep. And one of the fun things I've always done is the first time someone gets it, take one out and spend that silver dollar on the table. Just the sound of it, it's so different. As you're sitting, you're going to see this. I mean, I've had it here for a little bit, but I've been saving it for this. We're going to actually pop one of these things up. You know, and how about it goes back to the sort of that feeling when you're a little kid again. You know? Your daddy or your mom and sexual for those of us old enough to remember when a quarter would buy something. I remember getting, can I go to the concession stand? You know, when I was playing ball when I was little and dad would give me a quarter and I go buy a pack of gum or do something. And you just had it in your hand. You know, it was just like, and now I've actually caught myself talking about you. I've actually called myself like just doing away with change. I just don't want to deal with it. But here it is. We've opened it up. Folks, this is what it feels like right here. As we're beautiful. I'm not wondering if somebody is out there. Oh, am I going to get my certificate? Who's at the company's going to do something stupid this week in the stock value plummet? When you've got things in your hand, you've got your assets, and you say, and the great thing about it is they go up. And this is what's been happening. Tell us about the market, give us some update on the market now. You know, we had gold pull back just a little bit over the past few weeks. And that has a lot more to do with the traders on Wall Street, right? We're getting economic news and it's kind of like we talked about the last time we talked. Yeah, we're going to be higher for longer. The market didn't want to hear that. They said, no, we're going to get us off landing. We're going to start pulling back on rates. I'll go wash. You know enough about it. I know enough about it. There's no way that they don't continue to raise rates and don't hold them higher for at least this next year into the summer of next year. That's what it takes to beat this kind of inflation. And when you look at that, never take a day trading mentality towards your investment, right? Right. Most of us are not those people. We buy and we hold and we save for the long term, so we have safety and security. So goal pulling back, it's a great opportunity. If you haven't bought any metals yet, now is an amazing time to buy. You're getting them kind of on sale. So much so that even central banks around the world agree. 339 million. A 339 tons of gold had been purchased by central banks since October. Wow. Yeah, that has to do. And that's not just gold, isn't it? It's silver and other metals as well, correct? I mean, sometimes we get caught up in the fever, so to speak. The silver of the metals that y'all deal with. How is that and how do, you know, if people go about that as well. Silver is one of the most affordable investments you can make right now. Yep. It's for those who want to get value for their dollar, not just protected, but they're looking for something that has the potential to increase a little bit more than gold. And gold's done great. But silver is going to be a little bit better return. Because it won, it's more affordable. More people are moving into it. And also the applications it has. There's so many mechanical and electrical applications for it that you have demand built into that besides just the currency aspect. So it gives you really good potential for that. So other metals that you deal with because you know you're dealing with some others. 'cause everybody looks like double silver. Are there other alternatives or options out there for people to look at? There are, there's platinum and palladium. They're precious metals too. They move. They don't quite have the currency aspect to them that most people are looking for. Now, if you've invested and there's some additional monies you have, you want to get some more. Maybe we look into some of those because there's returns there. But the most important thing first is as we've talked in the past, build your foundation. Get your currency metals first, right? Get your things that move and protect against dollar loss..
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The Doug Collins Podcast
"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Goals. The question is, how can I best get there? I talk about this a little bit earlier, but I want to go back to it is motivational pep talks. Every day, find a note, find something, put it on your phone. Say it over and over, whatever it is, but say, hey, I'm moving toward my goal. I'm getting better. And especially especially, I put this back in here in times of when your goals are not being met. When you're not hitting where you want to be, it may be time to just say, hey, I can still do this. Let's reassess, go back to what we talked about earlier that reviewing your progress, holding accountable, asking for help, all of these things work together. So if you get to the point in your process and the goals are not being met as you want to see them, then maybe you need to just take a moment, you know, motivational pep talk and say, hey, let's get back out there. Let's go back to these review what I've already done review or am I doing something? Am I taking a step to do it? Am I talking to people who know what the plan is and finding out how they do it? Am I reading about it? I'm not learning, am I growing? Go back and reassess. That motivational help will always get you there. Another area that I do well some days and I do terrible some days. And this is something that I think will help you is planning your day. And whether you do it the night before, the day of, you know, list those things out that's got to be accomplished that day, things that you need to start on that day and these things that maybe you need to do a little bit and then put aside. Those are the kind of things if I could put one area of my life that I want to do better, this would be our accomplish a lot of things. In a day, sometimes and none of them would be on what I needed to do list because I'm inbox driven phone driven message driven. And many of us are like that. It's not something to be ashamed of is something just to grow from, because if you're never accomplished, the goal is if you're always being moved away from the goals based on the moment of the day. Now, things do happen. Things come up, calls do happen, emails come up and you got to take care of them. But if that becomes the norm, then there is no room for every day doing something to improve yourself to in doing something to improve the bigger picture. I call it also sort of the Little Rock and big rock syndrome. If you don't put prioritize the big rocks in the jar first, if you ever take a jar. You're amazed how much you can get in there if you put the big rocks in first, put the little rocks in and then you can go forward. But if you don't make room for the big things in your life, the big goal is the relationships, the family, the job, those kind of things, then you will let the little pebbles fill up the jar before you can ever get the big rocks in there. This is something you need to work on plan and just keep going until you succeed. And it's not always easy. You know, change is hard. I've heard different stories on this, but I believe it is a sort of settle in this. If you do something every day for 60 days, it will become a habit. It will become something that you do. It is something that your mind and it takes that long. Some for 30, some for maybe less, so I'm for a little bit more, but if you don't do it regularly, don't do it regularly, don't do it regularly. Then it's going to become something that you will be easier to put off and easier to forget. So you got to make this persistent, you got to do it every day and keep yourself motivated that this is my plan of action. And I'll tell you what, I'm going to work on this issue. Hope you will work on it because I think once you have that plan and you're moving forward, you'll see greater things in your life. Last one, though. Make sure that you take time for yourself. Goals and new things and all can become all consuming. If you don't take time to step back from whatever it is you do for your family for your job and just say, hey, I need to take the weekend and I'm going to energize. I'm going to do something that's fun. I'm not going to worry about other things. I'm going to make sure that my body, my spirit, my mind is all energized. That's what you need to do. And look, goals are tough to tiny sometimes, but stay positive. No one, you don't want to be around people who complain and whine and moan all the time. In your mind, doesn't either. When you're complaining, whining and moaning about why something can't get done and how something can get done. This is, again, it's a goal destroyer. It's a relationship destroyer. It's a lot of things. So one of the things you got to do is study positive, stay persistent, you know, do the things that are there to keep a joy about getting up and going each day. So as you're taking a step now, starting this Monday, I mean, many of you look at this on Monday mornings or you list it throughout the day, you're still on the first of the week. Look at your own goals. Maybe you didn't set a resolution. And that's fine. I didn't set any true resolutions for this year, either. But there are things that I want to accomplish. And as I was going back over this for my own life, I said, you know, this is probably something that a lot of people struggle with. We always get in there. But the first thing is for goals for your next adventures for whatever you want to go to goes back to the very first thing in this is you take it one day at a time and find something you can do to start right now. You start right now, hold yourself accountable, find those mentors, find the reading material, find the motivational article, find the things that keep you going so that you celebrate success along the way, then you will be able to accomplish your goals, be able to chart fresh air in February of this year and by December. Who knows where you can be? That's all I got today for the dot com's podcast. Glad you joined us be back with us soon. Go to the Doug Collins podcast dot org. Dot com and I'm sorry. College podcast dot com. You can find out past episodes. You can share episodes. You can follow.
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"collins" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Life. So I just wanted to lay out some of these and say, look, this is not a meeting session. This is not one of those sessions where you know you're 8 weeks in and you didn't keep your new year's resolutions. You know, a lot of people now, you know, won't even do a new year's resolution. I haven't done them in years, but I always do a sort of a self analysis of where do I want to be this year? And for me, this one is, I've been traveling a lot, I've been doing a lot of thinking. And it's probably a good time for all of us to have the show. So let's just start in a goals and areas of our families. And animals, this can be generic enough to where it can be any of your life goals. It could be in your professional life family life, you know, sports. I mean, it could be in your hobbies, whatever. That you want to do better. And so the first thing is, whatever you come up with, and this one is hard for me. Because I'm one of those that when I get motivated, I get thinking about it and I'm getting ready to go. I want to do everything all at once. I want to just go out and buy equipment I need or I want to go buy out and get a new planner. I want to go to get a new computer. I want to just do everything I can to say, okay, I'm going to do this as much as I can to accomplish the goal. And the reality is goals and goal setting are not daily activities. In a sense of that you'll accomplish the whole thing in a day. But what you can do is take just one step. So here's what I'm saying. If you've had that issue in your life and it might be a relationship. I mean, some of the goals are not always quantitative in the sense of a gaining a better job or getting more money or making a new sale or whatever. It may be in a sense of, hey, repairing a relationship. What do you do? Well, the first thing is just take one step a day. Take one noticeable step a day toward whatever you want it to be. And again, it can be in any area of your life. Take that one step. What could that once that be? It could be saying, okay, today I'm going to say, here's the plan for the next month. And my exercise program. I mean, everybody always gets trumped up on an excess pro. Well, today I'm going to do push ups every hour for the only hour for 5 hours. So that I can do ten push ups, 50 push ups today. That's more than I did yesterday. And or I'm going to go out and walk outside for 20 minutes. You know, that may be your one step a day that you look at it. It might be any job saying, what one step today can I do to improve my job and anything? I'm going to get better in this part of my product knowledge. Just part of our services knowledge, as part of the take one step. Too many times, you know, the old little saying is, is it, you know, you want to eat the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Well, so is planning. So is getting your focus on where you need to go taking it one step at a time. And not just one step in a day. You're not one step, you know, just one step in a day. But also then break that down a little bit further into really what the second thing is, what one small thing can you do right now? Now this gets us into that perspective. And if you're sort of watching on our rumble channel or other channels, you can take what's on my step going to be today. What am I doing today? And then what is one thing that I can do right now that gets me into that proper mode. This may be writing a letter. If it's a relationship, it may be determining when can I call this person and take them out to eat or go by, or stop by their desk, you know, write them a note and give them more of encouragement, whatever it may be. But it's not just saying do just a one step a day. Maybe taking one small step and saying, okay, here's what I'm going to do. But what is within that one small thing that you can do right now? It's easy to say, here's what I'm going to do. And then get lost in the actual action item. Remember, goals are envision boards and all of those things are great. But if they simply stay on the board, then they're not a company with action, you're not going to follow through. And I failed many, many times in my life in this. This is, you know, it's easy to come up with what I want to in many ways, but taking those concrete steps to actually do it right then. And I say, okay, you want to do this? What's your step? If you want to take that trip with your family, well, what about calling a travel agent? Travel nation. My wife, by the way, if you want to do that and you email me at Doug Collins, you know, go to the dot com's podcast dot com. There's an email button there. You know, look, there's ways you can get in touch with people who can help you on your travel dreams. You want to know that, call laces. But she can help you get there. But if you're going to take a trip, you got to plan it first. You got to actually take a concrete step toward doing something right now. So the first thing is make sure that you take a step and I want to make sure you're making progress incremental progress each day. And then also what is that one thing that you can do right now to get it? Let's get past the actual goal setting and actually doing something, but how do you prepare for that? Well, one of the ways is reading. This is motivational, because reading stuff. If you're interested in something, start reading about it. There never could be a better age for you to learn about things that are going on, especially if it's an activity, a hobby, a new skill, a new job skill, learning a language, whatever it may be. Our society today is just overflowing with ways that you can learn and make these new skills happen. So just reading in general, broadens your horizons. I've always said that the world would be a better place if everybody could travel. If everybody could go around and see the rest of the world in the eyes of those who live in the different places instead of just simply, you know, hearing about it, then it would be much better, but the next best step is to read is to understand and to listen to people who've either set similar goals to you or have some more accomplishments to you or something that you want to do, read and look that. Look for motivational articles. I mean, go to, I mean, many of you spend a lot of time on the Internet, go to YouTube. And look up and just put in motivational. You know, and maybe saying, hey, what can I do to get out and get going to help you back to those first two things that I thought about? You know, taking a first step and doing a concrete action, well, maybe you just need somebody to or something you listen to, whatever motivates you, start doing it. Our motivational articles, motivation videos, motivational speeches, whatever it is or reading. Elon Musk, you know, once it was asked, I think the famous question is once I ask you, how did he invent a rocket? He said, I read. He read about. Again, reading and I can speak to this from personal experience as a kid growing up and my dad was a Georgia state trooper. We didn't travel a lot. We went over. So for me, it was the radio and books. I mean, I would listen to the radio and it'd take me all over the place and I would read and reading would expand my mind and expand my horizons, reading is so important. I don't care what age you are. In fact, more and more studies these days are showing that one of the ways to combat the mention Alzheimer's and others is to stay mentally active. Well, mentally active is reading, doing things out there that can motivate you toward your goals. Now, one of the things I don't want to jump into this a little bit more is not just reading motivational, sometimes it actually, you know, especially if you have a specific goal. So you're a salesperson and you want to make a bigger sales goal than you ever had. Or you're wanting to improve your honey, you're fishing, you're wanting to learn how to get a better job, be a manager. Well, there's a couple of things that I want to emphasize here that can be put together and can sort of that you might need to consider. One is a mentor. If you don't have somebody in that area that feel that you look up to that can help you along the way, then maybe that's something you can do. John Maxwell, leadership teacher from for years now. I always talked about taking somebody out to lunch and paying them for their time. I mean, he made a comment that, you know, he would take them to lunch and give them a $100 to sit and let them let him ask questions of them. You know, as you go along and find somebody that's willing to answer those questions that you can talk to and find out how to do it. And if they're already doing it, maybe it wouldn't be a mentor, but maybe a one off person. If you see somebody else in your office that is really and this might be difficult if you're competing against each other, so to speak. But somebody who if you're in sales is really good in sales, well then go ask them how they do it. You know, just ask them. We don't have to be a long-term mentoring thing. You hopefully will find that mentor who can help you through a lot of things a lot. But it could be a one off in a sense or another office that says, okay, this person is really good at communicating. How can I get better? Ask them questions. Listen to their answers. You don't become them, but the principles underneath how they operate. I'm sure would be something that could help you in your leadership skills, your sales skills, your parenting skills, whatever it may be. This is so important to have that. Many people are learned by reading, learn by visual, but there's a lot of people who learn by actually having the actual show and talk to us as we go..
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"The bob show bob again and the beast and justin and It is mother's day happy. Mother's day may ninth twenty twenty one one and all out there and Let's dive right into talking about one mother who's been getting a lot of attention lately and we talked about it a little bit on the last show. Alison collins the school. Board board of education member formerly vice president. And we know she's a mother because most of her information comes from her daughters. Isn't that true. Would that's where she gets a lot of information about what's happening in the school. Getting the hubbub there otherwise a witness. She was a mother. So the the new wrinkle. That's happened in the past week. Is that the chronicle published. Kind of a bombshell article by heather knight who went around and talked to all of The people who claim to have been terrorized by alison collins over the past few like really decade i mean alison collins really kind of started out as a pta. Mom who would you know come. In and and rate the teachers and the principals and the administrators impose her will and throw sharp elbows. And i think you're giving her she doesn't come off to me is your typical. Pta mom since everybody that describes her says this has been a once in a career experience with this so it seemed like allison came in with an agenda from the very beginning little worse than your typical pta. Mom well yes. It seems like she had an agenda. Transcended the pta agenda to advance herself. This was gonna be her vehicle her ticket to ride. This is her ticket to ride as a pta parent with a degree in education correct meal. So i can't see anything that you that i'm reading that she's doing that wasn't done without a lot of forethought has to where it might take alison and her career patricia. The'll former principal was it of Francisco middle school in north beach She is claiming in this article by heather knight Let's see i guess. She was first principle and then she was In the district special education department. She says that She lost income credit toward retirement and even her relationship after she became so miserable that reporter laughter and She lays it all at the feet of Alison collins. she says. It's been four years and it still hits me. She ruined my life Strong words indeed. Let's also put in context. Missiles career was about eighteen years. She's about eighteen years into careers and she's got a long career. This isn't somebody that has this is somebody that's been in education for quite some time building up retirement equity of As you approach the twenty year mark so you know. It's it's heartless who after somebody's job like that just because you have a personal axe to grind with them and it seems that everything with miss collins is personal feel was one of three san francisco unified school district employees to told heather knight that collins took an active role in costing in their jobs for reasons. They didn't fully understand. Another one was John calloway will hear from him in a little bit. But you know he says this is about a bully. She's her own worst enemy. He led the elementary instrumental music program for the district visual and performing arts department until last year when he learned his contract wouldn't be extended at the boards. Behest so i wanted to go back and look at the actual school board meeting. That happened In march when the whole Shit hit the fan about Alison collins tweets. I if you don't if you're not familiar with The tweets go back and listen to our first episode in which we quoted from alison collins tweets which he Attacked the asian american community. students parents and teachers for Embracing what she called What was it white supremacist thinking and assimilation and trying to be the model minority to get ahead and not Supporting any now. That's all that's an accusation. It's easy to be made from the heights of russian hill from the heights of russian hill. Down into chinatown where the poor people live right. Yeah and these are the same poor students that she's complaining about that. Our daughters are complaining right. And so i you know i wanted to actually hear what went down in this meeting because it was a A meeting that was called It was called In a way that. I guess is somewhat unusual because it was an emergency meeting and usually these meetings are supposed to go through the president of the The board of education Commissioner lopez a has been a tireless friend and ally of of collins to all of this but two of the other commissioners Lamb and melita Introduced a resolution to strip collins of her vice president and committee roles and it caused Some some consternation on the board because it was just It's it's not something that is illegal to do but it's just unusual. I guess procedures of the rule book you pull out the rules you need. Yeah to play and You know the the whole process by which this meeting happened became the main focus of everything that collins had to say in this meeting. I in other words. She didn't really used meeting as a as a an opportunity to Apologize again or extend her apology but Instead you know became defensive about the way in which the meeting happened and how you know. She felt that it was just a political attack. Which just kind of demeanor seems like more evidence of of her own death. I mean this is a.