Show full transcript 0:50 questions. I was there and we'll get to that. But she did make some news saying Kimberly 0:54 Gillefoil has been asked to resign as the ambassador to Greece. Number two, the probe into Ilhan Omar 1:00 dating back to the Biden administration has triggered an explosion of anger from the laugh 1:04 after her DC home was raided by federal agents Monday of this week. But remember, nobody is 1:09 above the law. And number three this week, the Department of Energy issued an emergency order 1:14 for the PJM interconnection. The grid that keeps the lights on for more than 65 million 1:20 in Americans across 13 states and the District of Columbia 1:23 where I'm sitting this morning. 1:25 Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed it under Section 202 1:28 of the Federal Powers Act. 1:30 It runs from today through Friday. 1:32 PJM had already declared a maximum generation alert 1:35 and a load management alert. 1:36 Demand has forecast hit roughly 112,000 megawatts. 1:40 Well, tens of thousands of megawatts of generations 1:42 sit offline for routine fall maintenance 1:45 and transmission work. 1:47 Warm fall weather pushing the load even higher. 1:49 The order gives operators temporary relief from environmental restrictions so they can 1:53 run specified units harder without the pushback. 1:58 As there was last resort, it even lets them order big data centers and industrial customers 2:02 to flip on their own backup generators before the system hits energy emergency alert level 2:08 three, in plain English. 2:10 The largest grid operator in the country is being handed emergency power so families 2:13 and businesses don't sit in the dark. 2:16 You see blackouts are possible. 2:18 You can sit in the dark and sing about Mother Earth like all good communists want us to do. 2:24 This is not an act of God, it is the predictable result of terrible energy policies and fantasies 2:29 about windmills, solar panels, and rainbows powering the future. 2:33 For years the left treated reliable dispatchable power, coal, natural gas, nuclear, as the 2:38 enemy. 2:39 They closed plants, blocked pipelines, and layered regulation on top of regulation 2:43 while insisting intermittent renewables would somehow fill the gap. 2:47 When the sun sets or the wind dies or a storm rolls through, the gap becomes a crisis. 2:52 Today's emergency order is simply the bill coming due. 2:55 Look at the physical reality of the solar fantasy they sold the country. 2:59 Here it is. 3:02 To power 100,000 homes for one hour, you need 50,000 tons of solar panels, about 3,000 3:10 AFL fields. 3:11 To power for one hour. 3:14 But of course, that's assuming that the sun is shining. 3:17 If I want to produce this hour of electricity in the evening when the sun isn't shining well, then I need I need batteries 3:24 Now for one hour of electricity for this 100,000 homes. You need about 50 Tesla batteries 3:30 This is about two basketball courts worth of batteries 3:34 But of course I have to charge these batteries 3:36 So that means I need additional solar in the grid so that we have an access to charge them 3:42 So we add another 600 AFL fields of solar panels 3:46 This is for one hour, and then those batteries are fully discharged. 3:54 That is the scale of the problem. Tens of thousands of tons of panels 3:59 and basketball courts full of batteries just to keep a modest number of homes 4:03 lit for one hour after dark, and that is before you add the extra 4:07 panels needed to charge those batteries in the first place. 4:10 It's not a serious industrial strategy. It is a religious ritual 4:13 dressed up as engineering. When those panels fail to deliver, 4:16 the grid operators reach for emergency federal orders. California already lives the daily version 4:21 of this experiment. Here it is. The energy crisis in California leads straight to Sacramento. 4:28 California is an energy island. I have been saying this for a very long time because 4:33 of the terrible policies coming from Gavin Newsom. California is more susceptible to global 4:41 events. I mean, we have two refineries that have shut down in California. 20 percent of 4:46 our gasoline refinery has disappeared overnight. We have the major pipeline going from the Central 4:51 Valley, which I represent, the energy capital of California, leading up to the Bay Area. 4:55 That pipeline is about ready to shut down. You have no domestic production. I was on the 5:01 offshore platform that was started by President Trump to bring in oil, supplies to our state. 5:08 California has said it to themselves. You compare California's gas prices to the 5:12 rest of the nation. The gas crisis and the energy crisis in 5:16 California is because of California. So we need to expand production. We need to 5:20 be investing in energy infrastructure. Nearly $2 a gallon above the national 5:25 average. More than half of it. The direct result of Sacramento's own 5:29 policies. Drivers cross state lines to fill up. That's the model the left 5:34 wanted for the entire country. Higher prices, less reliability, and 5:37 lectures about the greater good while working families pay the tab. 5:41 The same ideology that made California's energy system a cautionary tale is 5:45 the one that hollowed out the middle Atlantic grid. 5:48 Now flashback to the people who actually wrote the rules. 5:51 It had nothing to do with protecting your rights. 5:53 It was all about advancing an agenda. 5:56 Listen, here's one of Joe Biden's climate advisors explaining. 6:00 We have solutions that can deliver. 6:02 We're actually going to do 100 rules this year alone on appliances, just like you asked. 6:11 We are developing partnerships on how we work together for new building standards, even 6:16 for sustainable airlines. 6:19 Who to thunk that they'd be all in, but they better be or they're going to be out 6:24 of here, right? 6:26 One hundred new appliance rules in just one year. 6:29 Airlines told they would be out of here if they did not comply. 6:34 This was not about cleaner air or a better life. 6:37 It was about control, controlling what you cook, how you wash your clothes, what you drive, 6:42 and eventually how much electricity you're actually even allowed to use. 6:45 Every one of those rules made the system more brittle. 6:49 Every retired coal or gas plant that followed those rules is a plant that cannot answer today's emergency call. 6:55 The same spirit lives on in candidates who still campaign on the Green New Deal. 6:58 Here's Abdul El Sayed, running to represent Michigan, of course, in the U.S. Senate, who 7:03 has been included in this power of good emergency order. 7:06 Michigan's on the list. 7:07 Listen to this. 7:11 I made a commitment that we need to move Michigan to 100 percent renewable energy. 7:15 We know that the future is not going to be fossil. 7:19 I don't think the chevrons and the exons of the world, where the Saudi Aramcos of 7:23 the world should continue to exist. 7:26 Number two, the Green New Deal. 7:27 I just think that this is such a sweeping change in the way that we understand how we need to be moving as a society 7:34 That I think it's it's extremely powerful and ought to be harnessed and invested in 7:41 You're taking the anti pipeline stance. Yeah, I do not believe that we're constructing pipelines in 7:47 Moving fossil fuel. I heard you say you wanted to shut it down 7:50 But then what is the alternative for moving those fossil fuels to its destination? 7:55 Why do we need to be moving fossil fuels? 7:59 I won't personally argue with you that. 8:01 I probably agree with cars with a modern-day cigarette. 8:04 They're just, they're like this, like why do we do it this way? 8:10 Ban fossil fuels, shut down oil companies, kill pipelines, ban gas-powered cars, 8:16 and somehow they promise prices will fall and the lights will stay on. 8:20 It's not a serious governing agenda. 8:22 It's a demolition plan when the grid is already stretched too thin 8:26 and the infrastructure is already too fragile. 8:29 Doubling down on the same subtraction policies 8:32 is not courage, it is malpractice. 8:36 Even the physical infrastructure they forced 8:38 into the landscape is proving fragile. 8:40 We'll talk about that coming up. 8:42 While 13 states in the District of Columbia 8:44 face this emergency today, 8:47 Democrats are still pushing the policies 8:49 to put us into this position in the first place. 8:52 We'll have more on daybreak after this. 8:54 How fragile is the infrastructure? 9:11 It's a question we like to ask. 9:13 Well, a massive solar installation in Indiana, 9:16 red state territory that's still bought 9:18 into the Green New Deal pitch, ripped apart by storms, 9:21 toxic materials leaching into the soil farmland 9:24 taken out of production and left contaminated forever. 9:26 Low energy output ruined ground higher costs 9:29 for the ratepayers that are left holding the bag. 9:31 That is the end state of the solar religion. 9:35 Intermittent power, land that can't be used, 9:37 and in emergency order every time the weather turns against the ideology. 9:42 Flashback again to the 2019 campaign trail when the future of American 9:46 agriculture was being casually rewritten. Kamala Harris's green new deal 9:51 doesn't care about you or the cost of your electricity. In fact, she doesn't 9:56 even care to keep your job. She just thinks farmers can get a new one while 10:00 she faces them out. Listen to this. So in investing in the economy that is 10:07 going to actually contribute to reducing the harm of the 10:12 environmental crisis. 10:13 Things like insulation and maintenance of wind turbines. 10:17 You know what the skills are required for that? 10:19 That's pipe fitters. 10:20 That's electricians. 10:22 That's welders. 10:23 So many of the jobs that currently exist and the skills 10:26 that currently exist are the skills that we need 10:29 for those jobs. 10:30 So that's why my plan is to make sure that we give 10:33 people an $8,000 tax credit to be able to transition 10:36 their skills that they have into the jobs that need to be filled. 10:40 But we also need to do it in a way that thanks the people that you have just listed 10:44 for the jobs that they have done for generations that have built the economy of our country. 10:49 And understand that this is not about looking down on it. It's just about saying that as we 10:54 move forward, let's transition those folks into with the skills they already have that are so 11:00 valuable into the jobs that need to be performed. 11:05 Farmers in Iowa told their profession would have to transition. 11:09 An $8,000 tax credit was offered as consolation for the loss of a way of life. 11:14 The people who feed the country were informed that climate goals required them to start over. 11:19 That same mind-setry of power-planned workers, pipeline welders, and coal miners is obstacles 11:25 rather than people. 11:27 Subtract the jobs, subtract the generation, and then act surprised when the grid needs 11:31 federal rescuing like today. 11:33 And then the purest distillation of the ideology altogether, listen. 11:38 Because think also about the impact on not only the local economy, not only on an investment 11:47 in the entrepreneurs and innovators from and in the community. 11:52 Think about the impact on something like public health. 11:55 When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of 12:02 our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water. 12:07 Clean energy, electric vehicles and reduced population, 12:11 whether it was a slip or a window into a deeper world view, 12:14 the priority was clear. 12:16 Fewer people, less energy demand, 12:18 more centralized control, 12:19 the rest of us were expected to accept higher costs 12:22 and lower reliability as the price of moral progress. 12:26 Contrast that with the alternative 12:27 that actually works, listen. 12:30 Energy and we will drill baby drill. 12:33 We're going to drill, baby drill. 12:35 That's going to bring down prices of everything 12:37 because energy brought it up. 12:39 We're going to terminate the Green New Scam. 12:41 It's called the Green New Deal, it's a scam. 12:43 We took almost $10 trillion for nonsense, 12:46 for absolute nonsense. 12:48 We'll do bridges, we'll do roads, 12:49 we'll do things that we need, 12:50 but we're not going to be spending it 12:52 or wasting it stupidly and have China laugh at us. 12:56 In the meantime, they're building a coal plant every week, 13:00 But now I hear it's two coal plants a week and we're dying for energy. We don't have energy. Why aren't we? 13:08 Creating great energy plants great sources of energy instead of playing this game with wind that it's ruining everything 13:15 Killing all your birds destroying the fields all these gorgeous fields 13:19 You got windmills all over the place and you have birds you want to see a bird cemetery 13:24 Just go under a windmill you see thousands of birds dead. It's a green scam 13:28 It's a it's a shame. Look, I'm all for clean energy. I want clean water. I want clean air 13:34 But you can't destroy your country over it. I'm a big fan of solar, but it's it can't fire our plants 13:39 It's not going to fire our plants fire up those plants 13:42 We got to get them going and the only thing that can do that is fossil fuel right now 13:46 And the only thing that can make electricity, which we all want is right now fossil fuel and nuclear 13:55 Terminate the Green New Deal, fire up the plants, use the fuels that can actually keep 14:00 the grid stable, fossil and nuclear, while we build whatever clean technology can stand 14:04 on its own without bankrupting the rate payer or blacking out the hospital. 14:09 That is not anti-environment, it's pro-civilization. 14:12 Reliable power is the foundation of every other good thing, jobs, food, medicine, 14:17 security. 14:18 This week's emergency order is temporary. 14:19 The deeper problem is not. 14:21 God, past leaders spent years subtracting reliable capacity, learing rules on appliances 14:25 and vehicles, telling farmers and energy workers their livelihoods were obsolete, and treating 14:30 population prosperity as problems to be managed. 14:33 The result is a grid that needs federal emergency powers just to get through a warm October. 14:38 America First Energy Policy is the opposite. 14:41 Build the plants, drill in mind what we need, keep nuclear in the mix, let technology 14:46 compete without mandates that punish reliability. 14:48 The people who pay the bills and sit in the dark when the system fails deserve better than rainbow fantasies and emergency orders 14:55 They deserve power that works when the sun goes down or when the wind doesn't blow and when the temperature rises anything less is not progress 15:02 It is a decline 15:04 With a green logo on the blackout notice 15:08 It's no wonder so many people are scared of AI because it's changing everything including how criminals steal from you home title 15:15 lock this hour's sponsor. 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And Katie Zakaria was out there 16:46 for her first briefing and everybody I mean the room was packed it's usually full but it was packed 16:53 to the brink yesterday and I had gotten a good position we are not one of the people that have 16:57 a seat in the room but you get there early you stand up front kind of how it works and 17:02 and I did and I was in a great position when my colleagues was on the other side and we had a 17:08 basically we had people at the corners ready to ask questions and she came out and delivered 17:12 a statement and it was look in fairness it was clear she was nervous she delivered 17:19 the statement she made a couple of small gas laughable stuff referred to her 17:24 husband as my husband the president which is fine it was cute jitters and I 17:31 get it you're looking out at a pack of vipers 90% of people in that room want 17:37 to shred you up and get a gotcha moment and get you to say something or 17:41 or make a mistake on something or turn something into a viral moment. 17:46 But it was a departure from Caroline Levitt. 17:48 She only took two questions after she took an original question from a Breitbart reporter 17:53 sitting in the new media seat, which they say is going to continue by the way. 17:57 He asked about that, which I appreciate. 17:58 The new media seat will continue. 18:02 But then she only took two questions, one from Fox and one from somebody else and 18:06 then said, oh, I've got to go because the president's getting ready to leave. 18:10 And on the schedule he was still you know half an hour or more from his 18:17 departure time as it turns out we stood out there for an hour or more. Not sure 18:22 she had to leave. I think she might have pulled the ripcord and gotten out of 18:27 there. We'll see if she does better. I think she will get better than the 18:32 Scare Mucci record of the shortest tenure. What was that 11 days? Scare 18:37 Mochi. He's a piece of work. Anyhow, I wish Katie Zacharia well. She got out there. She broke the ice. 18:45 But when you come back, you need to take a lot more than two questions. You got to stand in there 18:48 and take as many as possible. Just my observation. I'll take a break and be right back. 19:17 Getting back 19:17 into it now. It is a Wednesday partway through the week. Of course, here in Washington, D.C., 19:23 so many topics to get through 19:27 and make sure that we are taking care of it. 19:31 Anthony, give me this update here 19:33 because I'm missing what I need. 19:36 Who do we have on tap here 19:37 because I'm seeing a little problem with my target. 19:42 Alvin, welcome back to the program, son. 19:44 I'm having a little bit of difficulty here. 19:45 Nice to see you. 19:48 Nice to see you. 19:49 How are you, my friends? 19:50 Always great to kick off my day with you. 19:52 A little glitch in the system here. 19:55 So as we head to the midterms, 19:56 what's on your mind 20 days to go? 19:59 Tell me what's top of mind to you 20:00 as you look around this country. 20:03 Well, obviously for what we do our courage as a habit, 20:06 we always believe that every problem 20:07 can be traced back to how, what they're teaching children. 20:10 As my favorite quote from Abraham Lincoln, 20:13 the philosophy of the schoolhouse in one generation 20:16 will be the philosophy of government in the next. 20:19 Obviously in your show you've covered 20:20 every generation loves socialism and communism more. 20:26 And so today's kids under 25, under 28 20:30 are more for socialism than any other time in history. 20:34 There's a reason why that's not by accident 20:35 because that's what they're taught in schools, 20:38 not only obviously in K through 12, 20:40 but this is the way the teachers 20:41 are trained in teacher colleges. 20:44 And so they get brainwashed 20:45 and then they of course turned that brainwashing 20:48 on very, very young, impressionable and captive children. 20:53 You know, that's been a problem for a long time. 20:56 I look at the Howard Zins of the world. 20:58 I look at the people that are training our children, right? 21:01 And they've taught them that the American dream is dead. 21:04 And America was always a villain. 21:06 Look, America's been the greatest force for good 21:10 in the history of the world. 21:11 And free markets mean free people. 21:13 And you look at some of these candidates. 21:15 I've got Abdul Al Sayed and Michigan where I live. 21:17 I look at Troy Jackson out in Maine. 21:19 I look at Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota. 21:21 These people don't want freedom. 21:23 They want control. 21:24 And they tell our children, as they come through the educational 21:28 system, as you rightly point out, this is the way it should be. 21:31 And this is not the way it should be, right? 21:34 Well, yeah, if the American dream is dead, 21:36 it's because they killed it. 21:38 You know, it's not because it was not because it was dead 21:41 by organically died. 21:43 Obviously, the American dream is still alive. 21:45 There's a lot of there's more people right now being successful than ever before just because there's things are harder 21:52 For a lot of reasons but things are easier too for a lot of reasons today 21:56 You can start a business a lot easier than you could you know, 30 years ago 21:59 And so it's really about just what they're focusing children on, you know, Steve 22:04 We you and I both know that it is very human to want to go after something 22:10 a strive for something that you can't quite get right. 22:13 That's very human. 22:14 It drives everybody. 22:15 It gets you up out of bed in the morning. 22:18 And it's innate. 22:20 You don't have to teach that to a human being. 22:22 It's once they find it, and our job as parents 22:25 and mentors and coaches and things like that 22:27 is to help, is to put the children in that place 22:29 to find that thing. 22:31 Cause obviously we don't know what that thing is 22:32 for every child, but what the schools are doing 22:35 through social emotional learning 22:36 is that they're telling the child what that lifelong pursuit is. White supremacy, fighting Nazis, 22:43 fighting fascism, fighting, you know, police brutality, that kind of thing. And so what they're 22:49 doing is they're putting these children, what I say is they're breaking their potential. 22:53 And it is a horrible thing. And whether it's the midterm or whether it's, you know, 22:57 president election, whether it's a local election, whatever it is, everybody must spend time fighting 23:04 this indoctrination in K through 12 or it doesn't matter what you do outside. 23:08 Something else they're doing, part and parcel to this is breaking the family. 23:14 They know, I mean, Karl Marx knew, Engel knew, if you broke the family, you could break society 23:20 and you could get power. 23:22 So the schools teach you, well, your parents, if they don't accept you, we'll use transgenderism 23:26 as an example. 23:27 If they don't accept you, we've got a school counselor here that will, and some 23:31 States are going so far is to try to say that if you do not call Johnny, Jenny, or whatever, 23:38 that that's child abuse. I mean, this is how extreme they want to be, right? If the parents 23:43 don't line up with a child's preferred pronoun or whatever. So the schools and the government 23:49 trying to cut out the parents and the government wants to be the parents, right? 23:54 Absolutely, right. And it's not just some states. It's all states, not by law. Okay. 23:59 not by law. I'm not saying every state has that law because some states obviously have a law against 24:03 it. Some states have a law for it, but it's the school counselors from the American school counselor 24:09 association. And people can go to courage is a habit.org and type in school counselors. And we 24:13 have a ton of information and evidence on that is that that's how they're training counselors in 24:17 all 50 states. So whether your school, whether your state has that law or not, it doesn't 24:21 matter because these school counselors, they behave as missionaries and their mission is 24:25 your children. That is exactly what you said. Their whole mission is to separate children 24:31 from you. That's how they're trained and they'll say, oh, we work with all parents, 24:35 but they don't finish that sentence, Steve. What they mean is that we work with all parents 24:39 if they agree with the transgenderism and all the left-wing ideology that we push. 24:44 You taught me something here during our podcast. Alvin was on The God of America 24:49 with Ivy and I. And something you taught me is that the counselor, that school 24:54 Councilor is the only person in that school that's allowed to meet with your child one-on-one 24:59 and you have no idea what goes on. You can sign an opt-out so you don't have to go through that, 25:03 right? Right. So you better know that as a parent or a grandparent. That one person can take 25:10 your kid into a closed room by themselves with no other supervision and put whatever they want 25:15 into their heads. And that's dangerous to me. Oh, it's super dangerous because we would 25:20 not allow that in any other form, we wouldn't allow it in any 25:24 other form outside, but something happens to Americans when 25:26 they see that building with the word school on it. They're 25:29 critical thinking stops the trust. Now, obviously, there's a 25:32 lot of change, you know, over the last, you know, five, seven 25:35 years, because of the right movement. But we would never do 25:38 that. We would never allow that in any other setting that 25:40 we drop a kid off behind closed doors to a stranger and 25:44 say, go ahead, get as invasive as you want, ask 25:47 anything you want about what's going on with his 25:49 family how he feels how she feels. But for some reason we 25:53 can do that into it because we also Steve we as adults have 25:56 also been brainwashed to because the great majority of us 25:59 went to public schools. And so this is just a lot of the 26:02 schooling that needs to happen and you know, 26:04 fortunately organizations like mine help parents the school 26:07 themselves because there's so many things that the lies 26:10 that we took and then and then we have to be able to 26:12 the school ourselves so that we can protect our children. 26:15 Well, look, you're right. 26:17 I went out about my very business. 26:19 I graduated from high school in the early 80s. 26:21 I went out about my business. 26:22 I drive by the school. 26:23 I go to business school because I knew what we were taught. 26:26 We were talking about Chairman Mao. 26:27 We were talking about Stalin. 26:29 We were talking about communism. 26:30 We were talking about how America was an exceptional nation. 26:33 You think, well, the same thing must be going on now. 26:35 Same thing is not going on now. 26:36 There's the problem. 26:38 We just assumed it was all just rolling along 26:39 and everything was good. 26:41 It wasn't. 26:43 And we need to fix that. 26:44 And I want people to know how to get a hold of you. 26:46 How can they find you because you dig into this every day how to protect the kids from the counselor 26:51 how to make sure your school is 26:53 Transparent to whatever extent you can get to make sure you look at the school books and how kids are being indoctrinated. How do they follow you Elvin? 27:01 Well, thanks Steve. I appreciate it's always great to see you go to courage is a habit org 27:05 That's courage is a habit org 27:07 We have a massive catalog and we make it for parents everyday parents with school-age children 27:12 and we are on all socials at Courage Habit. 27:16 And so we always love engaging with our supporters, 27:20 even our enemies, but our catalog is for you. 27:23 And so do a search and find our opt-out forms 27:25 and protect your children. 27:28 And Courage is a habit. 27:29 Look, you need tools, folks, for your kids, 27:31 for your grandkids, Alvin's done the work, 27:33 use the tools, get that sheet signed 27:36 so your kid can't be alone with a counselor. 27:38 That's one easy example, one easy example. 27:40 Alvin, I appreciate the work you do, Sir. We'll talk again. Thank you. Thank you very much. I mean, 27:46 he's out there. He's done the work. You have the tools. He's equipped you to make sure that 27:51 your kid has a good experience and isn't, you know, transformed into something unrecognizable. 27:56 We'll take a break. It's daybreak on a Wednesday back after this. 28:13 Hope Leo had a restful night, we're told, in the hospital after having surgery for what was 28:18 originally called a nodule on his lung. 28:21 It turned out to be lung cancer. 28:23 So Pope Leo recovering a tranquil night 28:26 in the hospital after cancer surgery. 28:27 So says the Vatican. 28:29 I want to get a good analysis of this. 28:32 We have Peter McCullough here, 28:33 doctor, chief of scientific officer 28:35 of the wellness company. 28:36 Dr. Nice to see you this morning. 28:38 These nodules oftentimes, they're very small 28:40 and they're not usually cancer. 28:42 But in this case, obviously we've learned 28:44 it's lung cancer. 28:45 What kind of prognosis was it caught early sounds like maybe but you're the expert let 28:51 us know. 28:52 The correct terms have been used now a pulmonary nodule is what we see on an x-ray or CT scan. 28:59 When the nodule approaches certain characteristics size irregularity what's called speculations 29:08 and when we think there's about a 65% chances cancer then we go directly to surgery. 29:14 That's exactly what happened in Pope Leo's case. 29:17 So they thought from the beginning it could be cancer. 29:20 He's had the right lower lobe taken out, 29:23 which is typical. 29:25 It's done through scopes, Steve, 29:27 in the chest, thoroscopes. 29:29 The whole lung is, that lobe is deflated. 29:31 It's pulled out. 29:32 It was actually placed in a plastic bag 29:34 and it's pulled out. 29:35 Now it's gonna undergo testing 29:37 that Vatican's already said it is cancer. 29:39 It's adenocarcinoma. 29:41 almost certainly it's non-small cell adenocarcinoma. 29:46 And there'll be a search for any spread through that, 29:50 how much it spread through that lung tissue. 29:53 He'll go through a series of PET scans 29:55 and then a key decision will be made. 29:57 Do they stop with surgery as intent to cure 30:02 or will he get additional treatment 30:04 for areas of worrisome for spread 30:08 and they would show up on a PET scan? 30:10 He's 71 years old. Give me the prognosis. I mean, you obviously don't have his file, 30:16 but a best guess. 71 years old lung cancer. What's the long-term outlook here? 30:23 I think all things consider what I've heard, the outcome is excellent. Even patients who 30:29 have spread of non-small cell lung cancer, it depends on what tumor markers exist, 30:34 but there's advanced therapies now that you know patients can take and they can live with lung 30:40 cancer for many many years even over a decade. Let's hope that this is surgery for cure. There are 30:48 some reports that he smoked earlier in life. I can't confirm that but some stations are reporting 30:53 that. And keep in mind that he almost certainly took COVID vaccines because the Vatican 30:59 and strongly advocated for them the rules of coming in and out required 31:03 vaccination so we have that in the background as potentially risk factors 31:08 for the development of this cancer. Yeah all right we'll keep an eye on that as 31:12 we go forward. Pope Leo we wish him the best in his recovery. Shifting gears 31:17 the plague like a like a ghost out of the Middle Ages the result of a lab 31:23 acts that were told in Russia first question talked us about what this 31:27 plague is? Plague is caused by bacteria ursineus pestis. I think the lab worker Daria Shippolova, 31:37 28-year-old scientist who worked in the anti-plague lab in Ertikusk in the Siberia, 31:44 I think she actually died of multi-drug resistant plague. Now the laboratory that she works in 31:50 controls all the testing and the results and so far is essentially saying none of the test 31:58 showed anything. Well, I can tell you, it's a bioweapons lab. It's not going to 32:03 tell the truth here. Now, she didn't spread it to anyone. The Russians were 32:07 very adept in locking down everything. They took this very seriously. They're 32:11 locked down seven hospitals. No one in, no one out. You know, did a tremendous 32:16 amount of testing. They probably had everybody on prophylactic 32:19 antibiotics to the best they could. And so they've isolated this case. Now, 32:23 You know, in the distant, possibilities include tularemia and anthrax. 32:30 But the bottom line is our Department of State has said the Russians are working on bioweapons. 32:36 They are not coming forward with any honest reporting at this point in time. 32:41 And I think we can consider this case close, but it shows you how dangerous this bioweapons 32:47 laboratory activities really are. 32:49 They really are. 32:50 I mean, because accidents happen, whether it's in China or Russia. 32:54 And look, let's not kid ourselves, America plays in these same arenas, whether we'd like 32:58 to think so or not. 32:59 We're in the same place, aren't we? 33:01 We do the same things, whether we admit it or not. 33:05 We are. 33:06 We have the national laboratory in Galveston, Texas. 33:11 I tell you what, everything going on in there is equally as dangerous. 33:16 none of the countries are abiding with the 1972 33:21 Bioweapons Convention where everyone says 33:23 that they wouldn't do this. 33:24 Now it seems to be a race to develop biological threats 33:28 and at the same time develop countermeasures 33:30 primarily vaccines. 33:31 I do think the majority of efforts in these labs though 33:34 are to develop the countermeasures, 33:36 the therapeutics and the vaccines. 33:38 The wellness company has put together kits 33:41 to address this sort of thing, 33:43 this sort of an emergency because 33:44 whether it's cancer, and now you don't have a kid for that, or it's a disease early treatment is 33:52 the key. Tell me about the kids the wellness company has. Well, there's a whole array of kids, but 33:58 they have these multi-use antibiotics. So in the case of something like plague, can you 34:04 imagine if natural plague came back from flea bites? And that can happen if a, by the way, 34:13 is overtaken with fleas, immediately think about the possibility that the fleas are coming 34:19 from the dead rodent. 34:20 That's how natural plague is spread. 34:23 There we have doxycycline, Traumatopyrinosulfamethoxasol. 34:28 We have the drugs that could be used empirically, quickly, clearly in the setting of national 34:35 emergencies, hurricanes, floods, this is where you need the drugs and we have 34:40 them in the kit. 34:42 You've got to be prepared and the wellness company has set the gold standard for these 34:45 kits. 34:45 Doctor, thank you as always, my friend. 34:48 Thank you. 34:49 All right. 34:50 TWC.HELP slash Gruber, the promo code is Gruber, QR code is right there on your screen. 34:55 They've got the medical emergency kit, the contagion kit, which would be more applicable 34:59 to what we just discussed. 35:01 They've got a travel kit, a kit for kids, and they've got the best first aid kit 35:04 I have ever seen and used many times. 35:06 www.TWC.HELP.com slash group of the promo code GURU will save 10% and look at all the 35:11 other products that the wellness company has available from doctors like Peter McCullough. 35:16 We'll take a break on daybreak and be right back. 35:36 All right you've been asking and today you shall receive. I've had a lot of people 35:42 ask me what are you guys going to do after the song One Nation that we released back in June 35:46 made the billboard top 10 at number six in July. Had great success because of you 35:53 And people have been saying, is there another song coming? 35:55 Well, today the answer is yes. 35:58 Coming up in the next hour, I'm going to introduce you 36:00 to Jason Belard, a remarkable voice. 36:04 He wrote a remarkable song, and I helped him 36:07 with collaborating at the end, did a little bit 36:10 of percussion work, brought it together. 36:13 Jason Belard, in association with the Freedom Project, 36:17 you're going to hear a great song next hour. 36:19 You're going to meet Jason, a remarkable man 36:21 lives in a small town in Louisiana with a voice as big as America. And I think you're going to be 36:27 excited. You can pre-order the song today. May God bless America. We're going to talk about that 36:32 coming up. And so I've got to be honest. I'm pretty excited about it. Let me tell you what 36:37 I'm not excited about. Look, Airbnb's are great, but I've got to be honest about this one. And 36:45 they I don't even know who owns a place. It's the worst bed I've ever had an Airbnb. 36:49 be. I swear. I think they paid $15 for it. It's the worst bed I've ever had, which is why I miss 36:56 my ghost bed. I love being in DC. I love being in the mix, but I hate being away from my ghost bed. 37:03 I slept lousy, and I mean lousy the last two nights. My oar ring just turned red and blew 37:09 up on my finger. That's not true, but it's just terrible. Look, I can't wait to get back 37:15 the ghostbed. It's the best thing that I've done this year. Made in America, the ghostbed mattress, 37:21 if you get one, you can try it for 101 days risk free. They've got so much technology, right? 37:26 And coming out soon, they've got the climate pro. This is going to be a mattress topper 37:30 that you can adjust in halves. 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This is 38:28 your country, your morning, your daybreak with Steve and Ivy Gruber. A new hour starts 38:34 right now on Real America's Voice. All right, welcome to it here on a Wednesday. Glad 38:41 to see you. Good morning. A lot to cover here in Washington this week. It's been busy as you can 38:47 imagine. We'll get to all of that. But first three big things this hour. Number one, the president 38:52 hot on the campaign trail. Chris crossing the nation this week. He's already been in Ohio. 38:56 He was in Alaska last night. Then flew to Las Vegas where he'll be in Bullhead City a little 39:01 bit later in Arizona today. Then on to Montana later this week. Kentucky and Georgia 39:06 of barnstorming like never before. Number two, President Trump saying again that a major 39:11 decision on what will happen next in Iran is imminent, but what does that mean war or peace? 39:16 I think it's a decision Tehran has to make. And number three, I am feeling more bullish about 39:21 the midterms. New polls in Texas show Ken Paxson sneaking into the lead in that Senate race. 39:27 In Michigan, I've made it clear, Abdul has a major problem with black voters and Jewish 39:31 voters. And I believe that means that Mike Rogers will win in Michigan and in Minnesota. 39:35 A state I told you in August was going to be in play, and it now appears all the momentum 39:40 is with Michelle Tafoya, the former NFL reporter in that Senate race for the Republicans, something 39:45 the Democrats never counted on. 39:48 Let's start there, in fact. 39:50 In Minnesota, Michelle Tafoya is getting all the momentum in this run for U.S. Senate. 39:55 And here's why. 39:56 Listen. 40:00 Ideas and solutions. 40:01 So, today I'm releasing my five-point plan to stop gang violence and rebuild a safe and 40:08 united Minnesota for everyone. 40:11 Five things I'll prioritize in my first eight weeks as Senator. 40:16 We will do more in eight weeks than Peggy Flanagan has done in eight years. 40:21 Point one, simple, name the problem. 40:26 A politician who cannot even say the phrase Somali gang violence will never fix this 40:31 problem. I agree with Ramsey County Sheriff's Deputy Jamashine, who is Somali himself. And 40:38 he said, and I quote, we have to be honest, we do have a Somali gang problem, unquote. 40:46 Once we name it, we can fix it. 40:50 You got to name the problem before you fix it. Tafoya says it's also time to protect 40:54 that kids, from gangs on social media, 40:58 he adds a tool for them too, 41:00 here's something else she said. 41:02 Force big tech to do its part. 41:06 These social media platforms profit off our kids' attention. 41:11 They cannot pretend to be powerless now. 41:14 As Senator, I'll work with Democrats and Republicans 41:17 to expand the Kids Online Safety Act 41:20 and hold tech companies liable 41:22 if they don't work closely with law enforcement when their platforms are used for gang violence. 41:31 Pretty important. Yeah, you didn't think about those platforms being there to attract kids to 41:38 gang activity, but there it is, right? There it is. Michelle Tafoya, now within one point, 41:43 according to the polling, and if she's within one point, look, Republicans are hard to poll. 41:49 Republicans return polling information at less than 2%. 41:52 percent. President Trump going to Alaska yesterday. Very important. It's only 600,000 people that 42:00 are voters in Alaska. The president showing up and creating enthusiasm for Dan Sullivan, 42:04 the incumbent senator. Very important. And he can change the outcome in Alaska. It's 42:10 smart politics is what it is. It's very smart politics for the president to be going 42:15 to Alaska. I mean, how often does the president go to Alaska? Not very often. He's been 42:19 there a couple of times, but this time was to motivate Republicans to get out and vote 42:25 and keep Alaska red because look, the opponent there, Mary Paltola, hates energy. Energy 42:31 is Alaska. It's the number one driver of the economy there. Let's shift to Michigan. Again, 42:36 I tell you, Abdul El Sayed has a problem with black voters in Michigan. It's becoming 42:41 ever more apparent. Here's an example. I'm a lifelong Detroiter. I'm passionate 42:47 about education. I voted for Barack Obama but this year I'm voting for Mike Rogers. Abdul is way too 42:54 arrogant and way too extreme. He will kill our jobs and make our communities less safe. Mike Rogers 43:01 will get to work for us. Better schools, safer streets, more jobs and affordable healthcare. 43:08 Let's send Mike Rogers to the Senate. I'm Mike Rogers and I approve this message. 43:14 And where's Mike Rogers working? 43:17 The black churches, excuse me, in Detroit, 43:22 Southeast Michigan. 43:23 Look, a Democrat to win statewide in Michigan 43:26 has to win the black vote by about 90%. 43:29 Kamala Harris got 87% of the black vote in 2024, 43:33 and she lost. 43:35 The latest numbers coming out of Southeast Michigan 43:38 show Abdul getting 67% of the black vote, 43:41 driven primarily by black women who are saying, 43:44 we don't want this. 43:46 This is a step too far. 43:49 And if Abdul cannot attract the black vote and black women, 43:53 he's gonna have a problem. 43:53 Plus obviously the Jewish vote, 43:55 which is just under 2% of the Michigan voters, 43:58 about 100,000 Jewish voters in Michigan, 44:00 mostly again in that Detroit area. 44:04 If Abdul doesn't win Detroit decisively, 44:06 he can't win and Mike Rogers will. 44:08 Here's another example when it comes to black voters in Michigan, listen. 44:14 Abdul El Saeed is for Palestine, but Mike Rogers is for Michigan. 44:19 Abdul El Saeed is a puppet. 44:20 Well, they're strange somewhere. 44:22 I think Abdul cares more about the West Bank than West Detroit. 44:26 I feel like he cares about Palestine more than Michigan. 44:28 We need someone who is speaking for us first. 44:32 Mike Rogers is more in tune to Michigan and what it needs. 44:35 Mike Rogers is going to make sure that our concerns are being met. 44:40 I'm a lifelong Democrat, and this year I'm voting for Mike Rogers. 44:45 A lifelong Democrat, and look, I've met a number of those folks in my travels, black 44:50 and white doesn't matter. 44:52 Lifelong Democrats that are stepping up and saying, I cannot vote for Mike, or cannot 44:58 vote for I'll say it, I'm going to vote for Mike Rogers, very important. 45:03 So, the debate in Maine recently, Susan Collins dissected Troy Jackson. 45:08 So on election night, Maine's going to be your first bellwether, if you will. 45:14 Maine's going to be the first to report if Susan Collins is having a good night in Maine 45:19 and winning, which I think she will. 45:21 Look, the last time they had an election for a senator in Maine with Susan Collins, 45:25 she led not a single poll. 45:27 Not one. 45:27 Not one. 45:28 She won by 8.6 points. Wasn't even close. Keep that in mind when you have these 45:36 black pill people. Oh do them and gloom. No there's not do them and gloom. There's 45:39 real possibilities and Susan Collins. So watch Maine first then you'll get to 45:45 Ohio and Michigan and some of the other places but Maine's gonna be a real 45:48 tell on election night and you heard it here first but watch that race 45:52 Susan Collins wins. 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This is not good for 48:30 national security or for my personal security, is it? 48:34 Not at all. We wouldn't do that with semiconductors. We know that Washington understands that. 48:41 Why would we do it with medicines which go to the heart of everyday life all across 48:46 America? 48:48 You know, one of the most critical ones that I think about, antibiotics, I think we're 48:52 back to making some now. 48:53 But for a while there, China had, well, they do what they always do. 48:57 They buy into an industry, in this case pharmaceuticals. 49:00 They corner the market, drop the price, bankrupt everybody else, and they're the sole survivor 49:05 because they have government control, and they can do that. 49:07 And they've done that with pharmaceuticals time and time again, haven't they? 49:12 They have. 49:13 And it's a playbook they've got. 49:14 it's a very well understood act and open playbook. They don't hide it. Our problem is how do we 49:21 respond to it and how do we take it seriously? They did it with antibiotics. I'd hate to see 49:27 them do it for a disease like Alzheimer's. What we want to do is have the next discovery 49:33 on a drug for Alzheimer's come from America, not from China. 49:40 Absolutely true. So the question then on the table is this, is the Trump administration, 49:46 is Secretary Kennedy, are the other players inside the administration doing what needs to be done 49:51 to protect Americans and their medications, no matter what it's for? Could be for obesity, 49:57 could be for diabetes, could be for cancer, could be simply antibiotics. What are we doing, 50:04 And are we doing enough? 50:06 They're making a start. 50:08 They're scratching the surface. 50:10 This is a problem which the Chinese have studied 50:13 for over 30 years. 50:15 They figured out how we innovate, 50:18 how we find new medicines. 50:20 They built their system to be the best of the world. 50:24 We had the best system. 50:26 We need to rebuild it, Steve. 50:28 We have something. 50:29 It's part of the problem and this is a place 50:34 that I disagree with the president, I've been clear about this, I think it's potentially 50:39 reckless to have 700,000 give or take Chinese students in America at our universities and 50:46 research facilities on any given day. 50:48 Because what you just said there is they've got their plan, and part of their plan 50:53 is stealing our innovation, isn't it? 50:56 Well, I think today what we're seeing, Steve, is that stealing innovation is a national 51:02 security issue for sure. And by the way, it's not just China. It's many other countries take 51:08 the innovation we have. That's definitely understood. However, we have the engine to make 51:14 that irrelevant. And we need to get that engine started. It's the engine that was started in 1947. 51:21 It was powerful at what made America extraordinarily strong and the center of innovation. Right 51:27 But now what you're seeing in China is an exponential growth in patents. 51:34 They have got astonishing scientists. 51:37 Their patents are coming out left, right, and center, and now I believe more than ours. 51:43 So what used to be the case where they took from us is no longer the case. 51:48 Now they're inventing their own, and we need to rev up our engine if we're going 51:53 to compete effectively and all the systems that support that need to be put into place 51:59 and strengthened. 52:03 So what has to happen right now to get us on track in your estimation? 52:08 What has to happen? 52:09 What is the most urgent need for us to get our medicines and our pharmaceutical industry 52:14 ramped up to where it needs to be? 52:17 Dave, really straightforward. 52:19 One, the administration needs to say that this is a strategic national asset, and they're going to protect and grow it. 52:28 Two, we need to, under that, immediately strengthen, make the FDA what it can be and was, and we are seeing elements of that happen as we speak, 52:42 faster, better medicines, and rapidly produced for the American public. 52:47 So those two things will help it. 52:50 Congress needs to stand behind the administration and say, we want the best innovation in medicine 52:55 as we possibly have and build the bills that actually do it. 52:59 So that's really the third one, more difficult because you have a divided Congress. 53:03 However, the administration can make a big difference today by stating its intent. 53:10 Jeremy Levin, I really appreciate you being here. 53:14 The problem is crystal clear. 53:16 It really is. 53:17 The question is, are we going to do something about it? 53:19 I almost wonder if the Defense Production Act should be called into effect here to ramp 53:24 up things faster. 53:25 Last word to you. 53:27 No need to put extra money into this industry. 53:31 The industry has the capital. 53:33 It has the brains, has the innovation. 53:35 We now need to see an administration with fundamental intent to make America extraordinary 53:41 in this area as it can be and should be. 53:46 I think I agree. 53:47 I think everybody agrees. Thank you for being here today. Good conversation. 53:51 Thanks, Steve. Real pleasure seeing you. 53:54 Nice seeing you, my friend. We've talked about this problem on this program for years, 54:00 ever since I read ChinaRx, and learned about how much we rely on China for our basic medications, 54:07 antibiotics, insulin. You name it, they've got their fingers in it. 54:12 Not a safe place for us. We saw what happened during COVID. They stopped sending 54:15 shipments of PPE. You remember that, of course. They turned ships around and said, we'll keep 54:19 it for ourselves. America gets nothing. Can't have that with our prescriptions. I'll take 54:27 a break and be back on daybreak. 54:51 Well, we heard it first yesterday from Katie Zecharia, the new White House press secretary, 54:56 when she said that the administration that Donald Trump had asked Kimberly Guilfoyle 55:00 resign as the ambassador to Greece. Of course, she was the long-time partner of Donald Trump, 55:07 Jr. Used to be on the five over on Fox. And then she became the ambassador to Greece, 55:12 but she got embroiled in a lot of controversy and a lot of problems. 55:19 There were accusations that she took $100,000 to pay off a credit card debt to give people 55:25 access to the White House or try and now it's true she's out she confirms her 55:30 access to the Ambassador degrees. These scandals just not going anywhere. The 55:39 allegations like I said she sought help from a Trump donor to pay off a hundred 55:43 thousand our credit card bill offering access to senior administration 55:46 officials promote the interests of a Greek company and mistreated embassy 55:51 see staff regularly. Those are the accusations, but she's out now. She is a former ambassador, 56:00 a former ambassador. Kimberly Guilfoyle out as the ambassador to Greece. Winter is coming. 56:07 My Patriot Supply sponsor for this hour. 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Ethiopia, most commonly here in the DC area. 57:54 More than 500,000 Ethiopians, Christian Ethiopians are here in the DC metropolitan area. 57:59 And I ask, because I'm curious about their impression, 58:03 when I come to DC, after the National Guard came here 58:06 and I saw a number of National Guard troops 58:08 over the last couple of days in DC, 58:10 I say, is the city safer? 58:12 And to a man, to a woman, they say, yes, it is. 58:16 Now, some of these people, one yesterday, 58:19 lifelong Democrat raised in DC, 58:21 said, I don't really like Donald Trump, 58:22 but yeah, he made the city safer and cleaner. 58:26 And he admitted that. 58:27 So, yeah, D.C. is a safer, cleaner, better city, and it's improving pretty regularly. 58:34 You know, the fountains are cleaned up, the memorials are cleaned up, the reflecting pool 58:38 has been redone again, and with the National Guard here, crime is down in D.C. 58:44 And look, that's a big accomplishment. 58:46 For many years of my life, Washington, D.C. was one of the most dangerous cities 58:50 in America. 58:51 Not a good look. 58:52 Not a good look for America, right? 58:54 So, now he brought in the National Guard. 58:58 The consensus, I think it's fair to say, is the place is safer, cleaner, and better 59:02 than it was before he did all those things. 59:04 So, hopefully, those things will remain in place no matter what happens. 59:08 Meanwhile, Donald Trump yesterday, both at the gaggle as he was headed to Marine One 59:12 and then in Alaska, said he will make decisions on Iran very quickly. 59:19 He said Iran is a failed country. 59:20 They have no economy. 59:21 They have 300 percent inflation. 59:25 They're not paying their troops. 59:26 They have no money. 59:27 We control the state of Hormuz, and a lot of oil is coming out of the state of Hormuz, 59:31 which is true. 59:33 Trump also confirmed a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MBS, while sharply 59:38 criticizing recent Houthi attacks throughout Saudi Arabia. 59:42 Well, I can tell you that. 59:43 Do you really think I can tell you that? 59:45 I'd love to tell you that, but I'm not going to tell you that about what the 59:51 United States and Saudi Arabia might do. 59:52 who, in partnership to deal with the Houthis, who have repeatedly attacked Saudi Arabia, 59:58 saw the missile attack on the airport here a couple of days ago, just horrible people 60:03 sitting there waiting for their flights, and the whole terminal blows up. 60:08 A lot of people killed, a lot of people injured, of course, the damage to the airport 60:11 extensive. 60:13 Meanwhile, I've had this for a couple of days, and I haven't leaned on it, but 60:17 I want to. Kid Rock, appearing with the president, I think it was in Ohio, not buying it when 60:24 it comes to extremism. Kid Rock, taking to the podium, he's been a Trump ally for a long 60:30 time. Here's one of the things he said. 60:33 I was born in Dearborn, Michigan. So was my father, raised there. My grandfather raised 60:39 him there. And as we know, I don't know if people understand how it got to be one 60:42 of the biggest Arab populations outside of the Middle East and the world. I call 60:46 more of a religious ideology. I know there's extremists and there's mild 60:52 diversions of it. I don't want to see my grandkids one day have to fight some 60:56 civil war over religious ideology. This is scary. I think Al-Said's a wolf in 61:01 sheep's clothing. All right so there he is sitting down for an interview and here 61:07 he is in front of the crowd. We are not and we will never be one nation 61:16 under Muhammad because we are and we always will be one nation under God. Yeah, he fired up the 61:28 crowd with that now, didn't he? Again, the president traveling extensively right now. He was in Ohio 61:33 and Alaska yesterday. And look, the Alaska trip is smart politics, 600,000 voters in Alaska, 61:39 a close Senate race, Dan Sullivan, the incumbent there. I believe Dan Sullivan will 61:43 squeak that one out. But you have ranked choice voting in Alaska. It's also on the 61:48 about to be eliminated, but it's in play this time around. 61:51 It was almost eliminated two years ago, very close, 61:54 and didn't get taken out. 61:56 Ranked choice voting is just a scheme, 61:58 where you pick your first, second, 62:00 and third choice or whatever. 62:01 And then the person who doesn't win the election 62:03 can actually win the election. 62:04 That's the only way they got Mary Paltola 62:06 into Congress in the first place 62:07 as a Democrat in Alaska here, 62:09 a couple of election cycles ago, 62:12 got her in through ranked choice voting, 62:14 not by a normal voting system where a winner takes all. 62:18 You have the winner and then you have the second place 62:19 and that adds points and it's a scheme. 62:22 It's a scheme. 62:24 It's not legitimate voting. 62:26 But I do believe Dan Sullivan pulls that one out in Alaska. 62:32 Meanwhile, JD Vance on the road in Texas. 62:35 He is in Texas. 62:37 The president was just there as well 62:39 because that's a close Senate race. 62:41 I don't know what the truth is about where 62:42 Tellerico was for 10 or 12 days, a lot of speculation about where he was, where he wasn't. 62:49 The New York Times says they have video of Tellerico at home, but they won't show anyone 62:53 the video. 62:54 So again, there's no evidence of where he was or what he was up to for an extended 62:59 period of time. 63:00 Longest I've ever seen anybody off the campaign trail. 63:02 So JD Vance back in Texas yesterday talking about energy in Texas is incredibly important. 63:09 Incredibly important. 63:10 And here's what he had to say about it. 63:13 So today I am pleased to announce that the Trump administration working with the refinery 63:19 at Della has used the Defense Production Act and we are going to expand the refinery right 63:26 here in Tyler, Texas, we're announcing that today. 63:37 And here's what we want to do, ladies and gentlemen. 63:39 We want millions of gallons of commercial grade and military spec fuel to come out 63:45 of this refinery in addition to what it's already producing. 63:52 And what that means for you and your families 63:55 is lower costs to fly from one place to another. 63:59 It means lower costs to drive your car 64:02 into work every single day. 64:03 It means a more reliable energy supply, 64:06 but also a stronger national defense. 64:09 And it will also mean hundreds of good paying new jobs 64:13 just like Austin's right here in Smith County. 64:18 Job's always good news on the campaign trail for the folks there in Texas that'll 64:22 swing a few votes the redway I can assure you of that look winner is coming 64:28 that's why we need energy it's also why you need a muskox muskox is the best 64:32 final shirts you're ever gonna own look everybody owns a muskox in my orbit I 64:38 do Ivy does Anthony does sister Sarah does we all do brother Shane's got 64:43 one because I gave him one I said I felt sorry for him because he had one 64:46 of those shirts. He had one of those old flannel shirts that had no elbows left. I said, would 64:50 you wear a shirt that's respectable? Got him a muskox. The American Grand Flannel now made 64:55 in Illinois in mahogany. It's a great shirt, heavyweight, comfortable, rugged. You can 65:00 feel the quality the minute you put it on. The best part, this one is made in America. 65:04 They're not all made in America yet, but they are working on it at muskox. If you support 65:08 American craftsmanship and want a flannel shirt that looks great and will last, 65:12 You want the American Grand Flannel Mahogany, just go to 65:16 GoMuscox.com slash Gruber. GoMuscox.com slash Gruber. You'll save a little bit of 65:23 money right now. It's an investment. I understand that. But you will have this 65:27 for the rest of your life unless of course your wife is like Ivy and they 65:31 just snatch it from you and you're not looking. Yeah, it's true. These are 65:35 great shirts. It's a look. Fall is here. My favorite time of the year. It's 65:39 Muscox season. Go muscox.com slash grouper. The Mahogany Grand 65:44 Flannel made in America and Illinois just the way I like 65:46 it. All right. After the break, you've been asking I'm going to 65:49 deliver. Jason Belard will be here. May God bless America. 65:53 Brand new song. We collaborated with him some but he wrote a 65:57 great song here. His voice is remarkable. His story is 66:02 remarkable. He's from a small town in Louisiana. He 66:06 He believes in God, he believes in America, 66:09 he believes in hope and faith. 66:12 You'll meet him after the break right here on Daybreak. 66:33 Welcome back to the program. 66:34 I've got something really special 66:36 I want to share with you this morning. 66:38 As you know, we've been doing music here 66:39 at Real America's Music 66:40 and Steve Gerber and The Freedom Project. 66:42 We had pretty good success with One Nation 66:44 back during the summer, but we met a new man, 66:47 a new voice, a new voice for America. 66:49 And I want you to hear this 66:50 because I think it's going to blow you away. 66:53 Roll it. 67:01 Hmm. 67:24 Silence in the pulpit, led to chaos in our nation. 67:31 Men and women's locker rooms somehow called for celebration. 67:37 They alienated the working class 67:40 while teaching our boys they were girls. 67:44 They polluted the minds of our children 67:46 and bragged about it to the world. 67:50 People who grieve for the future of our children 67:54 began to pray. 67:57 God heard and gave us strength to stand 68:00 though there was a price to pay. 68:03 Then Godly men like Charlie Kirk 68:06 spoke up and lost their lives because they broke. 68:15 May God bless America 68:17 when every tear is wiped away. 68:45 I want you to meet the man with 68:47 the voice that just blew me away 68:49 the first time I heard it. 68:51 Jason Belard is here. 68:52 Jason, good morning. 68:54 What a remarkable song. 68:56 Remarkable voice. 68:58 We're releasing that song here 68:59 officially in a couple of days. 69:01 You can pre-order it. 69:02 and you can see the whole video 69:03 coming up on Friday, but 69:06 what an amazing song about America 69:08 and the challenges we face. 69:09 First of all, tell the folks where you're from, 69:11 a little bit about yourself. 69:13 I'm from Hackberry, Louisiana, 69:15 a little town not far 69:18 from the Gulf of America. 69:20 And you didn't want to 69:22 get into politics, you told me. 69:24 And you said, because you want to serve God. 69:27 You've been clear about that 69:28 from the first time we spoke. 69:30 you want to serve God, but now you're gonna use your voice to talk to more 69:35 people. So tell me about this song. I find it an amazing song, an amazing video. 69:40 Tell us where it came from. Well, like you said, I didn't, I really didn't want 69:47 to be involved in politics. I felt like it was a compromise and I didn't 69:53 realized there was so much in scripture, you know, but anyway, I 69:59 started watching Charlie Kirk videos. And I was amazed at the 70:05 balance he had between scripture and politics. And it was a very 70:12 peaceful balance as well. And I was really, I thought it was 70:20 awesome at the possibility of Charlie Kirk being president 70:23 when my kids were grown and then whenever he got shot I cried that day. I cried that day. 70:36 He was the first person I ever really listened to when it came to politics. Now I listened to Jeff 70:42 quite a bit you know Jeff but I mean Jeff got quite a bit of arguments about things in the past 70:48 but we've always been really good brothers in Christ and he was patient with me. 70:54 But when Charlie Kirk died, I realized this is about my children's future, and it made 71:04 me want to step up and I talked to Jeff about that and he said, well, why don't you write 71:09 a song about it? 71:11 And that's where May God Bless America came from. 71:14 I want to tell people, he's talking about Jeff, Jeff Reed is the man who edited the 71:19 video and made this, this video is terrific and stepped up and, and Jeff has his own 71:24 challenges right now physically, but he's also stepping up. Do you think this is a time of calling 71:29 for Americans to step up and talk about the truth of God and save this country? 71:35 100 percent. We're called to be a mouthpiece for the Lord. We're called to speak up when evil 71:42 is happening. We are called to speak up and to fight evil with good and to fight evil with 71:49 truth. We're called to have discernment to know what's right and wrong according to what God has 71:57 said in His Word. And nowadays, there is just so much confusion and chaos. Everybody does what's 72:05 right in their own eyes. Nobody seems to. I mean, not nobody. I mean, it's just the next 72:12 generation has lost a desire for truth. They think that however they feel, that's the truth. 72:23 But it's not. They need something more than that. They need to know what God has said. 72:28 They need to know what's going to impact society or their own lives in a negative 72:37 or a positive way. God is the one who calls the shots. And unfortunately this next generation 72:45 has been brainwashed so bad that they don't know what truth is. They don't know what a boy is. 72:53 They don't know what a girl is. It's just it's become so chaotic. Well, I think it's a powerful 73:00 song you wrote. And folks, we're gonna put a QR code right here. You can pre-order this song 73:06 of fun right now. We'll be 73:08 playing clips of it today, 73:11 tomorrow, and of course, 73:12 Friday. You can download it. It's 73:13 just going to be 69 cents on 73:16 iTunes. We're going in big on 73:17 this song. 69 cents and you can 73:20 support Jason Bellard and his 73:22 voice. In his cause for his 73:24 kids and our kids and saving 73:26 America, Jason. It's a real 73:27 honor to be able to work with 73:28 you on this project truly an honor. We gave an assist to get it over the finish 73:33 line and I appreciate you my friend. God bless you. Thank you. We'll take a 73:39 break and be right back. 74:04 Let's check in on sports now with Brock Palm Bush. With a 74:08 look at sports I'm Brock Palm Bush. The Tampa Bay Rays scored three runs in the 74:11 fourth inning and that was enough as the Rays evened up the American League 74:13 Championship Series at one game apiece with a three to one victory over the 74:17 Cleveland Guardians last night at Tropicana Field in game two. Liam 74:20 Hicks's two-run RBI single in the fourth, gave Tampa Bay the lead for good. 74:24 Freddie Peralta went six innings to get the win. Game three is tomorrow night in 74:28 Cleveland. It was an off-day for the National League championship series. Game 74:31 three between the Milwaukee Brewers and the LA Dodgers is tonight at Dodger 74:35 Stadium. Brewers lead the series two games to none. All 32 NHL teams were 74:39 in action last night. 16 games were on the slate. Winners included New 74:43 Jersey, Florida, Carolina, Seattle, Chicago, and Utah. And in college 74:48 football. There were two games. Middle Tennessee beat Delaware 33 to 30 and Jacksonville State got 74:53 past Florida International 27 24. That's a look at sports. Back to you, Steve. Hi Brock. Thank you 74:59 for that. A reminder that the brand new episodes of Forgotten America, the podcast drop every 75:05 Monday morning at 9 a.m. We're in season two now. Great support from you. I really appreciate 75:11 Our reach on YouTube has grown exponentially because of people like you the QR codes there you can become a subscriber absolutely free 75:22 Follow the podcast forgotten America brand new episodes every Monday morning at nine while we work our way through season number two 75:30 Found a new guy yesterday 75:33 Yeah, Peter Navarro's medical advisor during COVID is going to join us on the podcast 75:39 And he is a remarkable doctor. We'll have him up soon. I also want to say I'm watching the chats 75:47 here. The chats are remarkable right now going wild over Jason Belart, right? So there's the QR 75:54 code, there. You can pre-order that song. And the crazy thing is you didn't even hear the best 76:02 That's part of it. 76:03 It gets better from there. 76:04 You heard the first couple of minutes. 76:06 It gets better from there. 76:08 Those Louisiana roots, that bluesy Christian gospel style, oh, it's real. 76:14 His voice is something special. 76:16 We're proud to have him as part of Real America's music, I can tell you that. 76:20 And from here, sky's the limit for Jason because his message is so important right 76:25 now. 76:27 Thank you for being here on a Wednesday. 76:28 This is Daybreak. 76:37 America's awake and we're just getting started the headlines that matter the 76:43 stories they won't tell you and the voices fighting to be heard this is 76:49 your country your morning your daybreak with Steve and Ivy Gruber a new hour 76:54 starts right now all right welcome back to it as we continue hour number three 77:01 here of daybreak live from Washington DC this week I come here you know every 77:05 so often because I want to keep connected, if you will. Made some great connections yesterday. 77:11 Peter Navarro has a great new book out. I sat here and taught him yesterday during the afternoon 77:15 show. We'll get to that. But first three big things. This hour number one, the Fed rate hikes 77:21 are unlikely in October. Inflation remaining relatively calm despite increase in oil prices 77:28 over the last few months. Number two, speaking of oil and gas, gas down again 77:34 from yesterday we're down to where we were a month ago so that's good news it 77:38 peaked now it's back down and that's good news and number three it's all 77:43 about the midterm but 20 days to go it is all about the midterms and I know 77:47 that because I I was there as the president part of the White House 77:51 yesterday aboard Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews and then on to 77:57 Walsilla Alaska where he gave a big rally last and boy did they turn out 78:01 Wasilla is only a town of 9 or 10,000 people. 78:04 They packed in there. 78:05 Excited that the president was in Alaska. 78:07 And for the president, that's smart politics. 78:09 Look, Alaska only has about 600,000 voters. 78:12 They have a tight Senate race that's important. 78:14 The race for governor also important. 78:17 The governor giving his endorsement in the Senate race, 78:19 excuse me, previously, and the governor's race yesterday. 78:23 So that's really, it's all important. 78:25 And there's enough there that when the president goes 78:29 to a place with 600,000 voters, you don't have to persuade very many people to get out and vote 78:34 to change the ultimate outcome. Now, as I spoke about before, Alaska has ranked choice voting, 78:39 which is a scheme that was put together by those on the left to try to get Democrats elected. 78:44 It worked once when Mary Paltola was elected to Congress a couple of cycles ago. She's the 78:49 one running for the U.S. Senate seat now. I don't think the scheme works this time around. 78:53 We would certainly hope not. Alaskans are going to vote to get rid of 78:57 of ranked choice voting on the ballot this year. 79:00 So hopefully it'll be gone 79:01 and we won't have to worry about it. 79:03 Meanwhile, J.D. Vance was in Texas, 79:06 J.D. Vance was in Texas, 79:10 pushing expanded refinery operations, 79:12 talking about jobs and energy and infrastructure 79:15 and the future in Texas. 79:16 That's also an important Senate race. 79:18 But I wanted to share this clip with you. 79:21 Texas voters, when they hear the facts 79:25 about Ken Paxton and James Talarico, right? 79:28 People that otherwise have not connected with the race 79:31 because a lot of people aren't paying attention yet. 79:33 Now they're starting to say, 79:34 oh, we're getting close to the election. 79:35 I should figure out who I'm voting for. 79:37 This is very telling. Listen to this. 79:40 Are you guys voting for Paxton or Talarico? 79:43 Paxton or Talarico? 79:46 It's the Senate race coming up in November for Texas. 79:49 Paxton or who? 79:50 Talarico. 79:53 No one. 79:53 Not voted in the election? 79:56 All right, make sure you vote do research and vote. All right, you got to make your voices heard 79:59 What's Paxton looking like like accent is endorsed by President Trump. He's a Republican. He's a Christian man 80:04 He believes there's only two genders 80:06 De-regulation so they have more flexibility and freedom which should lower prices for Americans. Okay. He wants to keep the border strong 80:12 He wants to continue Trump's deportations. He's a Christian man. He believes that we should not abort unborn children 80:18 So he's a very you know Christian Republican. So that's Paxton you said that's Paxton 80:22 Okay, and the other guy Talarico wants to do more we want to do so he's blue he believes that there's six genders 80:29 He also he also said God is non-binary and he also said children can determine their own gender and 80:36 He yeah more more social programs more money for you know raise taxes things like that 80:42 We're gonna cross out that guy 80:44 We're going for Pakistan 80:47 You're going for Paxton. We're going for Paxton. Are you a Christian man? 80:51 I believe in God 80:53 I'd love to hear that. 80:55 And the reason why we're talking about this today is because Kashi, have you heard of Kashi? 80:58 The prediction market? 80:59 Yeah, I have heard of Kashi. 81:00 So, right now, they're predicting that Paxton only has a 35% chance to win. 81:04 In Texas. 81:06 Texas is a red state, and they think that Talerico is the favorite at 65%. 81:11 What do you think about that? 81:13 We're going for the red. 81:14 All right, make sure you guys vote all right. 81:16 Thanks brother. 81:16 Appreciate it. 81:18 There you have it. 81:18 once you learn the facts, a guy who didn't really seem to know says I'm going 81:22 for Paxton. Now that you know the facts, the Texas race is tight. He's right 81:28 about the calcium markets, but these prediction markets are often wrong. I 81:32 remind you that Hillary Clinton had a 91% chance of winning in 2016, 81:36 according to the New York Times on the morning of the election. 91% was 81:39 almost a given. I remember her celebration party, the gathering. It 81:44 it went from jubilant to despair 81:47 over the course of the evening. 81:49 Let's do that again, shall we? 81:51 Meanwhile, Mike Rogers continues to pummel Abdul El Sayed 81:55 about his relationship to terror organizations. 81:58 Here's an example. 82:00 He just lied again to the Michiganders. 82:04 He just looked right in the camera 82:05 and said no relation, no interest 82:08 in the Muslim Brotherhood. 82:09 An organization that supports the Muslim Brotherhood 82:13 is one of his major funders, number one. 82:16 He wrote an op-ed in Arabic a few years back 82:18 supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. 82:20 This guy cannot tell the truth on this 82:23 and that's why I think he's in a little trouble today. 82:26 A little trouble. 82:27 I think he's in a lot of trouble. 82:28 The big problem for Abul El Sayedan, 82:30 I know I'm repeating myself, but it's very instructive. 82:35 Black voters are not breaking for Abul El Sayed. 82:38 Not in the most critical areas of Michigan 82:40 for the Democrats to win that is Detroit. 82:42 That's Wayne County. That's Oakland County. And it's black women who are saying, yeah, that's not my cup of tea. 82:49 And apparently, there's been a lot of friction. I learned this. I didn't know this previously until this election cycle. A lot of friction between the Middle Eastern community, if you will, Dearborn and Hamtram. 83:00 And black voters in the black community. So a lot of friction between the Middle Eastern community, the black community in southeast Michigan. I didn't know that as something I've come to learn talking to people doing my research. 83:10 A lot of distrust going both ways. 83:13 So that does not bode well for Abdul El-Sahed. 83:15 He has to carry about 90% of the black vote in Michigan to win, commonly got 87%. 83:20 Of course, she lost Michigan in 2024. 83:23 Right now, the latest numbers show Abdul El-Sahed getting about 67% of the black vote. 83:29 That's 20 points lower, 20 points lower. 83:34 And I stick with my prediction that Mike Rogers will win, and I think that others 83:38 will win as well. 83:39 I want to go to bite number six here. Anthony changed the line up a little bit for you. 83:43 But Speaker of the House Mike Johnson also calling out all of this suspect polling. You know I told 83:49 you the polls were going to tighten back in August and September. You get into October the polls 83:53 are going to magically tighten. Yeah well they have because they were garbage polls then and 84:00 there might be garbage polls now showing Democrats with this big blue wave. Listen to the speaker. 84:06 I think I've got eight states this week, I've been doing this for almost two years and I'm 84:11 telling you the polling is wrong. 84:13 Now you have a lot of polling organizations right now acknowledging that they're under 84:17 sampling Republicans because Republicans don't want to respond to polls anymore. 84:21 So CNN did a story, Dana, just this week and acknowledged that Republicans have been 84:26 underestimated in October polls, 14 of the last 16 elections going back to 1994. 84:33 Don't buy it. 84:34 I'm telling you I'm on the ground in the swing districts. I am seeing huge energy and crowds 84:39 It feels like 2024 to me. That's not registering in the polls and we're fired up 84:45 Yeah under estimate Republicans look I get polls all the time 84:50 The end of my phone 84:51 But most Republicans do not respond to them most Republicans just ignore it, right? What do you do? 84:59 If you get a poll to your phone 85:00 Do you ever answer it or to your email or anywhere else for that matter ever get a phone call and answer a poll? 85:06 Well, that's my question to you. 85:09 Send me an email, stevegruber.com. 85:11 I'm curious. 85:13 I also have noticed this phenomenon. 85:16 No yard signs of any numbers for Republicans. 85:19 I think Republicans just don't advertise anymore. 85:22 Is that you too? 85:23 You don't put out yard signs, you just do the old-fashioned thing and vote. 85:27 Stevegruber.com, send me an email, tell me what you're doing. 85:30 This is Daybreak. 85:44 My good friend Ron Radamaker is on tap this hour. 85:48 He's joining me right now. 85:49 Ron's a travel writer, author, speaker, storyteller, 85:51 and our guy gets lost and awful. 85:52 Ron, good morning. 85:54 Good morning, Steve. 85:55 How are you? 85:57 I'm good. 85:57 We were just talking about the new press secretary 86:00 at the White House. 86:01 I was standing no more than about six or seven feet 86:03 from her when she was up there at the podium. 86:06 She struggled a bit, but at least she broke the ice. 86:09 She only took two questions. 86:10 I should say three. 86:11 She took one from the new media chair 86:12 from Breitbart. But only two questions to the, well, the serpents that were attending 86:20 her first baptismal, if you will, because look, there are a bunch of vipers out there. 86:25 They just want to make her do something that they can turn into a viral moment or whatever. 86:29 So she got off the ground, wasn't, wasn't great, but it wasn't awful either, your 86:33 thoughts. 86:35 Well, I, I do, I do a lot of public speaking. I know that you do too. When you first 86:39 start that kind of an activity. That's the one thing more people are more afraid of than anything 86:46 else in the world is public speaking. That's correct. And it's fine to find your sea legs, 86:51 and I don't know how much of it she has done, but I want to give her a day or two to get used to 86:56 getting no friendly questions, and she doesn't get any. They want to ask her a question there 87:01 after Trump, so she's got to step up, and I'm sure she will. I mean, they must have looked 87:06 a lot of people. I'm only going to give her another day or two. So far, though, I'm enjoying 87:10 all the backlash because I love the drama. Just love it. Yeah, she'll be fine. I'm not 87:15 worried about her. She'll be fine. I like to talk about, enough about me, let's talk about you. 87:20 What do you think of me? No, that's not what it is. Let's talk about Michigan. It's fall, 87:24 the greatest place in the world in October is Michigan, in my estimation. Let's talk about 87:29 you. It is the second week of October and you know what that means, color is peaking everywhere. 87:38 We've taken a number of trips recently. I put a picture of Benny the Troll upon Michigan 87:42 Backroads. That huge sculpture is found in germ pass colors peaking all across the UP. 87:50 Tunnel of trees. Everybody that's for some reason, everybody wants to go drive the 87:55 a ton of trees for color choice at the risk of offending some people. 88:02 It is not the top drive in the lower peninsula. 88:05 It's a good one. It's not the best. 88:07 Unfortunately, this year, 88:10 a lot of it is still closed off there. 88:11 A lot of detours because of the floods. 88:13 But if you're going that way, 88:15 one of the great stops is the Pond Hill Farm, 88:17 which is at the harvest spring's end of that drive, 88:21 and they've got fantastic stuff going on there. 88:23 our friends at Parrown Hill Farms. Another group drive which people forget all 88:28 about is Route 33 and that's over on the east side of the state. It's the way you 88:33 go to go to the Black River for the sturgeon, sturgeon rustling and the 88:38 colors up near on away and out at the sinkholes are fantastic right now. I 88:44 would just caution everybody if you're gonna go out there via the down hill, 88:48 down River Road out of Grayling one mile before the turn to the old western 88:53 town of Coopersville the bridge is out and that will result in a 17-mile dirt 88:59 road detour. So don't go that way but the color will be red with anger but that's 89:09 not the color you're looking for. I did it I went and photographed it when 89:15 be putting pictures up later. And I don't mind a detour. I found a lot of great stuff on detours. 89:20 I even met a girl on a detour once. Of course you did. Why wouldn't you? 89:28 That is a good story too. I'll tell you that one sometime. But that's a long detour and it was 89:38 muddy and my camper, my car, everything's covered with mud. So just be aware, go a different 89:44 But the colors over on that side of state are fantastic right now. 89:47 Yeah. 89:48 You know what I like about the back roads of Michigan this time of the year? 89:51 All the farm stands, I do. 89:53 I love them. 89:54 Peaches in Leland, squash down in Central Lower Michigan. 89:58 Oh, yeah. 89:59 You know, pumpkins. 90:00 And I can't help but give a shout out to Bob Barkham, who does a remarkable job there 90:05 outside of Hazlett, Michigan on Hazlett Road. 90:09 His operation gets bigger every year. 90:11 His donuts are the best on the planet. 90:12 They come out of there they're warm he's got fresh cider and by the way he says 90:16 here's the secret to cider it gets better the later of the year gets because 90:19 the apples get sweeter as you go further and further into the fall anyhow Bob 90:23 does a great job. Well I want to add so well I'd like to add something to that 90:27 but you said it all I mean that is the perfect description of Bob Barkham's 90:32 place and the donuts are top-notch. There is a farm I was talking about 90:38 over by the Onaway and that part of the state. Over in Rogers City, the Ox Heights farm is having 90:47 a chestnut roasting festival. So they've got a great farm stand too. And again, wonderful color 90:53 out that way. So what else we got going on here? Let me look at my notes here. So, oh, 90:59 it is Halloween time. So I wanted to talk about a haunted destination across the state. Once 91:06 to Port Sandalac, the Luke Harrison Mansion is the historical museum there. They'll be 91:12 having a number of events. And I don't do a whole lot with haunts. A lot of other authors 91:17 have done a lot with haunts. I don't do it, but this particular place has a very long 91:22 history. They know who the ghost is and the tragic story behind her death. And they 91:29 They say they have an audio recording of her activities recorded by certified ghostbusters. 91:37 So if you're on Port Sands, check out what she's saying. 91:42 She doesn't. 91:42 She's playing a piano. 91:44 She was a little girl who was here. 91:46 And back in the 20s, she was playing piano and she decided to walk across the road 91:51 to Lake Huron. 91:53 This is when there were two cars in the entire thumb. 91:57 She managed to get hit by one. 91:59 And her father, who's a doctor, was away in Deckerville, I believe it was, 92:02 tending to someone else, couldn't get back in time. 92:05 She expired and her ghost is seen regularly on the beach. 92:09 But they, every now and then, music will start playing upstairs at the piano. 92:13 Well, there's no piano up there anymore and basically that is her activity. 92:17 So I have a word for that, Ron, that's creepy. 92:20 Yes, that's creepy. 92:22 All right, Michiganbackroads.com, Michiganbackroads.com. 92:27 Ron he doesn't play the piano he just he just spins tails and they're good 92:31 ones you can find his books you can find his pictures you can find his 92:34 recommendation on where to go in Michigan Michigan Backroads.com. Thank you 92:39 Ron as always my friend thank you thank you. Thank you Steve it's always so 92:43 great to be here I'll see you next week from the road next week. Oh well 92:48 that's exciting thank you very much Ron will be on the road as he often is. 92:52 It's a beautiful time of year look this is the best time of the year to be 92:55 in Michigan period paragraph 92:57 and a Michigan back road that doesn't get any better. 92:59 I'll be right back. 93:06 All right. 93:09 Everybody needs a side hustle, right? 93:11 Everybody needs a side hustle. 93:12 Anthony's got one, I usually have one or two, 93:14 everybody needs one. 93:16 But here's what, maybe if you have a side hustle, 93:19 what you're doing should be legal. 93:20 I'm just throwing it out there. 93:22 All right, here's the headline. 93:23 A man uses AI songs, right? 93:26 Creates AI songs and 10,000 bots 93:30 to distribute these songs and collect $8 million in fraudulent music royalties, say prosecutors. 93:37 $8 million. A North Carolina man sentenced to 18 months in prison after prosecutors say he used 93:41 AI or superintelligence, whatever you'd like to call it, to create music and thousands of bots 93:48 to fraudulently collect more than 8 million in streaming royalties. Michael Smith, 54, 93:52 of Cornelius, North Carolina, pled guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit 93:56 at wire fraud, sentenced October 6th, 93:58 according to the US Attorney's Office. 94:00 You see, nobody was actually downloading the songs, 94:02 the bots were going and cycling them through. 94:05 And I've learned this since Real America's Music 94:08 put One Nation out and we made it to the top 10 94:12 on Billboard Magazine, but those streaming numbers, 94:16 they pay. 94:18 If somebody's listening to your song 94:19 over and over on Spotify, it's a good thing for you. 94:22 But if bots are doing it for you 94:24 and you're not really getting the streams, 94:25 but you're getting the royalties, well that would be illegal. That'll get you in jail apparently. 94:31 Prosecutors described the case as the Justice Department's first criminal prosecution involving 94:34 AI-assisted music streaming fraud. From 2017 to 24 Smith created thousands of fake accounts on 94:42 streaming platforms including Amazon, Apple, Spotify, YouTube Music. He then used automated 94:48 software to continuously stream songs he owned, many of which were generated using AI, 94:53 allowing him to collect royalty payments for streams that didn't actually come from real listeners. 94:59 He created something with a machine, had other machines monetize that thing that he created 95:05 by a machine and collect the payments. At times, Ms. Operator's many as 10,000 bot accounts at 95:11 the same time and spread the fraudulent streams across thousands of songs in an effort to avoid 95:15 detection by the anti-fraud systems, according to prosecutors, but he did not get away with it. 95:24 Does he get to keep the money? 95:27 You know, I don't know what happens to the money. I'm guessing he probably socks over the way. I'm guessing 95:32 Yeah, you'd hope I mean a year and a half in prison for eight million bucks might might not be the worst thing 95:40 Anthony what do not advocate for crime. Oh, all right 95:45 But you you have a valid point, I'll be right back. All right, so 96:00 Your privacy, right? Your privacy. 96:04 Should it be up for debate with the government? 96:07 Look, I don't like all the surveillance, but, you know, there's a balance here. 96:11 Am I a fan of flock cameras? No, quite clearly I'm not. 96:15 But can flock cameras help catch criminals, prevent terrorist attacks and things of that nature? 96:20 I'm quite sure they can. It's a fine line, I guess. 96:24 us. David Martin, we're up from Davidson joining me now. David, good morning. 96:30 Good morning, Steve. Alright, so the government collect and store information on me or you 96:37 are basically innocent people because they have the technology that can do it. You've 96:41 got some bills out there to say no, but there is a fine line here for law enforcement 96:45 isn't there? I mean if a child is abducted or you're looking for a criminal or you're 96:48 to stop a terrorist attack. This technology has real upside, doesn't it? 96:55 It does have an upside. I could argue either side. I could be in pro-law enforcement, but 97:00 I'm also a huge privacy guy. On the law enforcement side, ever since BLM, anti-ice, you know, 97:07 defund the police, recruitment is down. They need something to, you know, the cost 97:12 of police officers on the street, you know, how do we make sure that our communities are safe? 97:19 So they are leaning towards this technology. So now what the state has to do with the legislation 97:24 is put these guardrails in to make sure that our privacy is kept. I mean, 97:30 that is collected from numerous sources, even your Bluetooth talking to your tire pressure. 97:35 It's incredible how much data is out there, and we need to make sure our privacy is protected 97:39 especially cat you know you're exactly right about that i mean whether it's my phone my car 97:46 my television set the that are devices that i own that monitor me and listen to me i've seen 97:53 demonstrations with the television sets unplugged and still collecting information 97:59 unbelievable but then you've got flock cameras and all this else so tell me about these bills 98:03 House Bill 5492 and 5493 and what they say and what they would what they'd 98:09 actually mean if implemented. So in a nutshell if an ongoing investigation is 98:16 using the data then it can stay until the case is closed out. If you're not 98:23 using the data whatever is stored it has to be cleaned out every 14 days. So 98:29 So, it's not continuously running, it's not continuously stored for things, for example, 98:34 the NRA is concerned that if they store this information, you go to gun shows and you go 98:39 to a gun store and you go to the range, you know, are they actually finding out and tracking 98:45 your second amendment exercise? 98:47 And that's a concern. 98:49 So, we do not want the data stored and that's the big guard row we're putting 98:53 in there is that if you're not using it for an active investigation, the prosecutor 98:56 not using it, then it gets cleaned out after 14 days. 99:00 Well, let me ask you something then, 99:02 because this is something else that's come up, David, 99:05 and a lot of people have talked about it. 99:07 I call it the God switch, 99:08 the ability of AI to shut down your vehicle 99:12 if it thinks you're not performing properly 99:14 behind the wheel. 99:16 And I see the safety aspect of that, 99:17 but worse than that, my truck collecting data on me, 99:21 I drive a 2022 Silverado, it collects information on me. 99:25 And then that information can be shared with my insurance company. 99:28 Oh, he was driving 10 over in this zone, or he swerved for some reason. 99:32 Maybe he swerved a mis-a-deer. 99:33 They don't know. 99:35 But all of this information can be used by my insurance company at some point to jack 99:41 up my rates. 99:42 I don't like that either. 99:43 If I'm a driver who has a million miles and no accidents, which I am, then why 99:49 should the insurance company be monitoring everything I do in my vehicle? 99:53 I think that I don't like it. Look, it's the government, it's big corporations, it's the insurance industry. 100:01 All of these people are collecting data on me. I mean, there's a giant file on every one of us somewhere, 100:05 but we've got to protect our privacy, whatever is left of it, David. 100:09 I know. And, you know, thankfully the free market has squashed a lot of the mandates for electric vehicles, 100:16 but there's still going to be electric vehicles out there. And then how do we get road tax out of them? 100:19 So how do they monitor the mileage it goes on and they would know everywhere you go 100:24 So there's and if we go to toll roads to pay for things then if you exceed 100:30 X number of miles an hour in the time allowed from one 100:34 Pull boot to the next you'll get fined 100:36 So there is a lot of monitoring out there on our personal business. That's for sure 100:42 Yeah, and I don't like that either, you know cameras giving me a ticket for allegedly running a stop sign or a red light 100:48 or whatever it may be. I think, I think a person has to be involved, not just a machine. I think 100:56 that there has to be a person involved with issuing a ticket. We've seen the horror films, 101:04 David, of the one woman that comes to mind. She was accused of being a porch pirate, 101:09 stealing stuff off a porch while you're, you know, the flock came and put you in that 101:12 neighborhood. It wasn't her. The only way she was able to protect herself is because she 101:16 had cameras inside her own vehicle to prove she wasn't there. That's not the 101:20 way this should work. Yeah, that's a prove yourself innocent. Or you know, in 101:25 your your charge is guilty. You know, I'm against red light cameras. But we've 101:30 had many, many workers lately too many three or four this year workers on the 101:36 road killed because people do not slow down and construction zones. Now when 101:40 they have Jersey buries up, they got a little bit of safety, but it's just 101:43 Just an orange barrel, terrible safety. 101:46 People do not slow down, they're on their phones, they're distracted. 101:50 And so we do have some bills to punish people that do that and have cameras to verify it. 101:59 But there has to be a person sitting in a command post verifying that occurred then, 102:04 not just sending out an automatic ticket. 102:06 Let me ask you this. 102:08 Does the Fourth Amendment even exist anymore? 102:11 Honestly. 102:12 Well, whether it's corporations of the government or insurance companies. I mean, that's a fair question, isn't it? 102:17 It's a very fair question. I'm battling this to this day. 102:20 It's one of my biggest goals in the state of Michigan is our 102:24 Constitution is stronger than the US Constitution because we're not just secure in our paper's homes 102:28 And in effects we're also we're secure in our possessions in Michigan, which is private property 102:34 So is your vehicle private property? What are you know? What is the mandate for them to? 102:39 to ask for a warrant to search your vehicle, 102:43 to get that information off the cameras 102:45 and use it against you. 102:47 What type of warrant do they need to obtain 102:50 to get that information? 102:52 You know, you raise another question for me, David, 102:55 because the automobile companies now 102:57 are putting in tech in their cars 102:59 so that in order for your radio to work, 103:01 you have to have a subscription. 103:02 In order for your mapping service to work, 103:04 you have to have a subscription. 103:05 So even though you've paid for your car, 103:06 which is your property now, 103:08 The things inside it don't work unless you buy a subscription from the manufacturer. 103:13 I find that offensive as well. 103:15 I'll give you the last word. 103:17 Well, that goes along with many things that we do, you know, our property tax, you know, 103:22 the lien on that, if you don't pay your property tax to you really on your home, there's, 103:27 you know, it's a fine line between, yeah, it's a fine line between protecting our 103:34 rights and having safety and services and it's a balance that we have to work 103:39 on all the time here in Lansing and favor the individual. Well I sure hope you 103:46 guys do well on the 3rd of November. We need more freedom not more government 103:50 control that's what I'll be voting for. I'm actually going to vote on the 24th 103:55 of October a Sunday because I can and I'm okay with that. David Martin nice 104:01 talking to you I appreciate the fight because I think privacy has 104:05 to just become a quaint old idea. 104:07 We need to protect it. 104:08 Thank you. 104:09 We're in for the win. 104:10 Thanks, Steve. 104:11 Thank you very much. 104:12 Greatly appreciated. 104:13 David Martin and Davidson. 104:16 What do you think about all that? 104:17 Stevegruber.com, send me an email. 104:19 I'd like to know your thoughts on privacy, 104:21 the Fourth Amendment, all the cameras, all the tech, 104:23 watching you all the time. 104:27 Back in a moment on Daybreak. 104:52 All right, we're just going to go through some 104:54 of the headlines I'm seeing right now. 104:56 The president is waking up in Las Vegas today. He's on his way to Bullhead City, 105:03 Arizona for a rally, and then on to Kalispell, Montana for a rally, as he goes all over the 105:08 country. Later this week he'll be in Kentucky, Georgia, Florida. I mean, it's been a busy week. 105:13 This guy's 80 years old. He flies around like he's 25, nonstop working. And the question is, 105:20 Will Republicans turn out in the midterms? 105:23 I think they will at numbers that the Democrats don't expect, because for years now, over 105:29 several cycles, the Republicans have been grossly underestimated. 105:34 Over the last 16 election cycles, 14, 14 of the polling numbers of 14 of those election 105:42 cycles showed Republicans doing far worse than they actually did. 105:46 These polls overestimate Democrat turnout, underestimate Republican turnout, and the latest 105:52 numbers I'm seeing, this is important. 105:54 The most excited group of people to vote are those 65-plus, 77 percent. 106:00 Of course, Democrats always count on the young folks to turnout for them. 106:04 Their enthusiasm level is at about 33 percent. 106:08 So that's pretty remarkable and not good for Democrats who think they're going to 106:15 Blue Wave as big as Connecticut. I can assure you they are not 106:21 Ilhan Omar 106:22 Her family members now being subpoenaed in this investigation as you know Monday of this week 106:27 There's a pre-dawn raid on Ilhan Omar's home in DC 106:32 The HSI spent six hours in there coming out with numerous containers and in boxes of 106:39 Well evidence I suppose 106:42 The question is about her immigration status. 106:44 That is where it began. 106:46 But let's be clear about this. 106:47 This did not start under President Donald Trump. 106:50 Ilhan Omar tries to call it a political witch hunt or whatever. 106:53 But this investigation, which is not just about immigration, 106:57 there's a lot of different things involved here, 107:00 began during the Biden administration. 107:02 Not during the Trump administration. 107:03 It began during the Biden administration, 107:05 but they just kind of didn't go anywhere with it. 107:08 Well, with the change in the Department of Justice, 107:10 they picked it back up, but it's an ongoing investigation for years now. The question is, 107:15 where does it lead? And the answer is, I don't know. The inflation number just dropped. It's just 107:20 coming in 3.7%, a little bit hotter than expected. It was 3.4% last month, 3.7%. So the question 107:32 then becomes, will the Fed raise rates just before the election? The odds, according to 107:39 the numbers here. The odds of the Fed raising the interest rate by a quarter point before 107:43 the election for an October increase is a 15% probability. Look, I don't know what these 107:49 things mean. Everybody handicaps everything anymore. Vegas will bet on anything. Vegas 107:56 will bet on anything, right? They'll bet on political races. They'll bet on anything 108:01 you can imagine. And I honestly think there's some money to be made. I don't gamble. 108:05 But if I did I'd be putting my money on Mike Rogers and Susan Collins and some 108:11 others to say the least. So let's see here just trying to keep up on everything 108:19 happening inflation up a bit and JD Vance giving a warning back to Ilhan 108:26 Omar here for a second. JD Vance saying he has no plans and the 108:33 administration has no plans to butt in to the DOJ investigation of Ilhan Omar. 108:38 He did insist that the law will be enforced if immigration fraud is uncovered. 108:44 We don't want to be like the Biden administration, we never want to be like that, where they 108:48 would allow the law to go after their political opponents. 108:51 We really want to let the law, the facts drive this. 108:54 And if justice requires something else to be done, then of course we'll take a step 108:58 when we have to. 109:00 Of course that raid was on Monday. 109:03 You know conservatives repeatedly accused then President Joe Biden's DOJ of politically 109:07 persecuting President Donald Trump because, well it did, that'd be one reason for saying 109:12 that because it did, the Mar-a-Lago raid by the FBI. 109:18 When we now know that many of the agents said we don't have probable cause here. 109:23 I mean as the Arctic Frost investigation comes out, as we find out about Jack Smith 109:27 collecting and reading and looking at the information of Republican senators, Republican members of the 109:34 House, Susie Wiles, you know, looking at all these people, the President Chief of Staff, of course, 109:42 and investigating everything. Well, that's a problem. In the Trump administration, 109:48 Todd Blanche said this, said, Vance, excuse me, unlike the previous administration, we let the 109:52 facts and the law drive this stuff. So the President, I really don't butt ourselves 109:55 into DOJ investigation. We're not trying to micromanage this. We're not trying to tell Attorney 110:01 General Todd Blanche to do one thing or another. We try to let the facts drive this thing. 110:07 So we're going to let the investigation unfold. If, of course, criminal wrongdoing is 110:12 discovered or potentially fraudulent immigration is uncovered, then obviously there will be 110:15 legal proceedings following that. Look, I think that's the right approach. 110:21 Let the facts fall out wherever they are. I don't like Ilhan Omar's politics, 110:26 But if she didn't break the law, then she can continue on. 110:30 But if she did break the law, just because she's a member of Congress, should not insulate 110:34 her from the consequences. 110:37 Right? 110:38 I mean, that's the bottom line. 110:39 If you broke the law, if I broke the law, I'm not immune to the consequences. 110:45 Why should she be? 110:48 But I would not do that just because I don't like her politics. 110:52 I mean, I think Bernie Sanders could be locked up for being a cook, but of course that won't 110:57 happen. 110:58 But I think his ideas are kooky. 111:00 I always have. 111:01 But it's not criminal. 111:03 It's just moronic. 111:04 There's a difference. 111:05 There's a difference. 111:08 Anyhow, so we'll see where that goes. 111:13 The real thing about Omar is that she, I mean, she hates this country. 111:17 And you see that when she's back in Somalia, 111:20 so this is my homeland, I want to raise my children in Somalia, 111:22 well then do that. 111:23 Why are you here? 111:26 If Somalia is such a wonderful place for you 111:27 on to raise your kids, the door's over there. 111:31 Check it out. 111:36 Anyhow, all right, we're gonna take a break. 111:37 I've got some final thoughts on this Wednesday 111:40 from DC after this Sunday break. 112:05 All right, Anthony and I talked about this the other day, 112:08 but we didn't get too deep into it. 112:10 But all right, Anthony. 112:12 You're a Lansing resident officially, correct? 112:16 That's right. 112:18 Do you have a serial killer in your ranks? 112:21 You know, I don't know. 112:23 It kind of seems like it. 112:25 Yeah, all right. 112:26 So around the, well, I'm fairly clear on that. 112:30 You work too much. 112:32 That's not your side hustle. 112:33 The Lansing River Trail, five men 112:36 have been killed in the last year. 112:39 One of us stabbed and the suggestion is out there now that there's a serial killer operating 112:47 in Lansing and that's, I mean, does that concern you? 112:52 I mean, I like the River Trail. 112:54 It's a great place to bike. 112:55 I've walked it many times, biked it many times. 112:58 These attacks all happen at night and it's involving mostly, I think they're all homeless 113:02 men, the five that were killed, right? 113:04 That's correct. 113:06 Yeah. 113:06 now. So it's either a single or serial homicide offenders or just violent offenders that tend 113:12 to go after individuals who are vulnerable. Nobody's quite sure, but five deaths so far, 113:16 dating back to October of 2025. And then July of 26, July of 26, August of 26, August 113:23 of 26. If it is a serial killer, they're picking up their pace, homeless men, 54, 113:30 757 and then the two last victims 22 and 23 and then another 57-year-old man. A suspect 113:39 arrested in the August 20th, 2026 murder of Daniel Lasky was 22. Edward Joseph Smith 113:45 23 was arrested but 10 days later another man 57 years old was found under the East 113:52 Cesar Chavez Bridge with severe facial trauma. He died September 1. His death was ruled 113:58 blunt force homicide. I don't know, man. Anthony's my detective on this case. I'll 114:06 see what he finds out for me. Yeah. Well, my uncle works, he works for the 114:11 Ingham County Sheriff Department. He's on the dive team too. He found one of the 114:15 the knives in the river. Really? But there, I think the general consensus is 114:20 that it is, it could be a serial killer, but most likely homeless on 114:23 homeless all right well maybe it's a homeless a homeless serial killer I 114:28 don't know I know the Lansing city slash all right keep the face fight the good 114:33 fight keep the faith God bless America I'm Steve Guru this is day break 114:36 remember only you can save America your vote is your voice my friends use it
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