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You can bet. UC Athletics is in trouble unless you're a scholarship athlete for the Bearcats and then you probably should restrain yourself from doing so. What a nice, nice way to start the series last night against the Rockies. The Reds at home with a 7-2 banger. Ellie de la Cruz show. Incredible defense. Two steals. His 10th home run before the month of May and a fantastic pitching performance by Chase Burns along with dispensure steer two-run Jack. Okay, so it's the Rockies, but you win the ones you got to win. And they'll go out it again tonight here in the home of the Reds. Gary Jeff in for Sloanee once again. And I don't want to start this out on a down note. But when somebody says, but after a statement like that, you know what's coming. The suicide rate among our veterans, while it has been down, is still higher than the general public. Vets are three and a half to four times more likely to commit suicide. from PTSD, depression, you name it, than the general public. Well, our next guest, it's not about that necessarily, but it is about helping our vets who have seen things and experienced things. You and I probably can't even imagine. They've endured things that. It's just...

It boggles the mind. And they come home to a totally different environment. And it's hard to adjust a lot of times. Likewise, there are thousands upon thousands of animals in shelters that have literally no hope but a cage. if they actually get to live out the rest of their days. And that's no way to live. You want to live in a cage for the rest of your life or worse? So last fall, I had the chance to, through a press release, meet and talk to Vicki Lassandra. And she was spearheading and heading up a Cincinnati chapter of the Veterans Care Animal Services, the VCS. They've placed their first dog with a veteran. To hear more about this incredible program, once again, we welcome Vicki Lassandro to the show. Vicki, it's great to have you back on the air, and I know that there's a lot of good news with VCS that you'd like to share with folks. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you very much for that intro. Let me just correct. Veterans Companion Animal Services. Veterans Companion, okay, yeah. Yes, yes. I knew that. I knew that. You know, sometimes I just get lost in myself so people have to snap me back into reality, Vicki. Thank you. So Veterans Companion, Animal Services, and... When you started the Cincinnati chapter, when was it? It was last fall at the end of last summer. Well, we actually launched it Fourth of July. That's right. I thought that was an appropriate date. So launched it Fourth of July. So we've been, you know, about nine months now working on getting all of the right things in place. And as you said, we've actually placed two dogs. and are getting ready to place our third dog. That's great. That's great. Yeah. So go through the process because you're not just picking a dog out of a shelter that needs a home and giving it to a veteran. It's a lot more complicated than that. And you guys are doing all the heavy lifting and the legwork to make this stuff happen. You'd think that, oh, well, yeah, that's neat, that they're doing this. They're getting these rescue dogs out into a home and giving a veteran a chance to care for something, someone, a purpose. But it's way deeper than that, right, Vicki? It is. And we work very closely with the veterans to find the right dog for them. We like to say, you know, we put as much emphasis on the dog as we do the veteran, but we want to make sure that it is, it's the right dog. When we find, when we meet with the veteran, we get all the information about exactly what type of dog they want, what energy level.

What how much grooming do they are they able to do or do they want to do? Um, you know, are they, are they looking for a large dog, a small dog? So we don't just go pick out a dog for them. We find out what dog are they looking for? We don't guarantee breed, but everybody comes in with their favorite breed. And we work really hard to try and match that breed to them. Um, We offer seven weeks of free training once they get the dog so that it's not. Here's a dog. Good luck. Hope that dog works out with you. If there's issues with the dog, you know, we will work with them to make sure that this is the right match for them and the dog. We, you know, we don't, we don't give you a dog and say goodbye. You become part of our alumni and part of our family. We get together, you know, once or twice a year with the veterans and the dogs and have picnics. When we give you the dog, we give you all the supplies you need. We provide food for a year for free. We provide all your veterinary care for a year. That's amazing. We make this as easy and as stress-free as we can for the veteran who, as you said, is already struggling with anxiety and PTSD. The last thing we want to do is give them a dog that's just going to add to that. How does a veteran qualify if they're interested in having an animal to care for? They need to just say, I need a companion. We don't ask for any kind of medical records. We just, if they say to us, we need a companion, we're struggling with this. That's all we need to hear. And we start the process. We send them the application. They complete it. They fill out of forms that says meet your match. So we get, you know, we're able to capture all that information about what kind of dog they want. And, and we sit down and have a meeting with them. And then we go to work and we find that dog. And it's a struggle. We send them multiple dogs to choose from. We don't say here's a dog for you. So they really get to be involved in that process of picking their dog. Now, does the dog go to a foster family before it gets into the veteran's hands? Yes. If it's in a shelter currently, a couple of the shelters we work with automatically when they get a dog, it goes into foster care. But if it is coming directly from a shelter, we work with foster families that we're always in need of finding more foster families. But it will go for two to four weeks and we will get weekly updates about, you know, how is it eating? Is it food aggressive? How does it do with?

children or cats that might be in the house. And we try to match that. If the veterans has a family with other animals, we try to find a foster family that matches that situation. So we can really see the dog's behaviors. So what is it, what do you believe, and this is the driver of all this, because you're saving two. two beings at the same time you're saving a vet you're helping give a vet purpose you're giving an animal at home a home that they do not have up to that point what do you believe it does for the veteran oh we've got one of our veterans right now who um got cookie back in February. And if I talk to him on the phone, the smile I can hear on his face. And he constantly says to me, this dog changed my life. He was living alone. And he has a dog now that. is by his side every day and goes on little trips with him and loves to ride in the car. And it just has made the biggest different in that man's life. And it's, and that's our goal is to give them, like we said, many of them are suffering from loneliness, anxiety, depression. And there's just scientific proof of what a dog can do. you know, that human and animal companionship can just physically and emotionally make a difference in their life. And we've got proof to show that with the veterans that we've already placed dogs with. They say you're about ready to place your third dog with a veteran. You've been an operator. You launched it last July 4th. Are you having any big plans for your anniversary? You know, we just, we finally just got a permanent office that we will be using quite a bit and inviting people to come in and see what we're all about. And, you know, hear our stories and meet some of our vets. I'm sure for the Fourth of July event, we will, we will be doing something that will, you know, just get the community involved. And we're out there doing. A lot of community involvement this summer. There's a veterans appreciation event that's happening and we will definitely be there. We go to the VA once a month and set up a table, talk to vets and they are interested in the program. They sign up right there. So we're really starting to get out there in the community and giving people the opportunity to volunteer with us, to become a foster family, to, if you're a veteran to get a dog. You know, if you're, we finally have a trainer. And if you are a veteran who owns your own dog that we didn't place with you, we will give you seven weeks of free training with your dog. That's great.

So even dogs, even situations where you haven't placed a dog with a veteran, a veteran can still come to VCS and get that free training. Yes, yes. All they have to do is go to our website and there's a button at the top. They go to. the cost charity.org and there's a button at the top that says veterans apply and there you can apply for a dog or you can apply for training and that gets the process started that's amazing and again for the first year when you place a dog with a veteran you take care of the dog's food you take care of medical treatment that it needs and as you mentioned the treats Yeah, treats the training. When they're running low on any products that they need for that dog, we provide it. So, you know, they get the beds and the cages and the leashes and everything the day they get the dog. And then from there, throughout the year, we just don't want this to be a burden on that veteran that first year while they're building that bond with the dog. Sure. It's an incredible charity. I love it. I loved it the first time I talked to you. I love it even more now. And I'm glad to see that you're still going strong V-C-A-S, the Veterans Companion Animal Services of Cincinnati. And give the website again, Vicki, one more time. It's V-C-A-S Charity.org. All right. Fantastic. And feel free. to keep in touch you always do i appreciate that and as you mentioned you started launched last july but you're only up to on the verge of three placements right what what took so long to uh to really start things kicking in Yeah, it took us a while to find the shelters that, you know, we have, we have contracts with four shelters here in town that number one, if the dog is not the right dog for that first year, we will take that dog back and we will find them a different dog. So we had to find the shelters that, you know, would kind of work with our program. And then it's... Took us a much longer time than we expected to find a trainer.

So it's just, and then, you know, it's about a three-month process with each veteran. Okay. From the time they first fill out their application until we find the right dog and the dog's gone into foster care and things. So, you know, it's a process. It's not something that you fill out your application and, you know, two days later, you've got a dog. It's something we want to make sure, like I said, that this is right for the dog and the veteran. So love takes time. Love takes time. Yes, it does. Unless you meet somebody in Vegas. Vicki Lassandro from VECOS, the Veterans Companion Animal Services. Thanks again for the update, Vicki. Coming up afternoons, Reverend Jim Hardin from Compass Care USA. On the SPLC and the hot water, the Southern Poverty Law Center, suddenly finds itself in after they've been throwing that boiling water on groups like his. Mm-hmm. It's coming up. Gary Jeff in for Sloan, 700 WLW. 50 years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center was heralded as a champion of civil rights. Eight days ago? In the United States District Court, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on several charges, wire fraud, defrauding their donors, and the list is pretty extensive. Because while the SPLC, their state admission was always fighting white supremacy and extremist hate groups, They were actually funding the KKK, the Aryan Nation, the National Alliance, with the money they got from their donors. And then the money was, they were actually fostering hate, the hate that they're supposed to be opposed to as a group. And it's going to be interesting to see how the Southern Poverty Law Center gets off this hook. Because they're the ones that put the bait in the water in the first place. It's an amazing story. One of the groups that the Southern Poverty Law Center, before all this, had targeted, were pregnancy centers like Compass Care USA. saying that somehow they were a hate group when they were giving women an alternative to aborting their babies. The man who heads Compass Care USA as our guest for this half hour, and he is back now to talk about the SPLC and the big lie that they've allegedly been purporting. For the last, well, a couple of decades at least. Reverend Jim Harden, welcome to the show. Oh, thanks for having me back. It's always a pleasure to be with you. Well, I tell you what, there is, it's always a pleasure to have you. It's amazing how this thing is boomeranged back on the Southern Poverty Law Center, isn't it? It is. You know, we've always kind of known as.

You know, Christian pro-lifers that the system is, is, is not what it appears to be. You know, when you have a ostensibly private nonprofit organization that is so in league with federal law enforcement as to, as to give them lists, for example, and federal law enforcement would treat those lists as actionable evidence for investigation is beyond the pale. What is it? What kind of leadership do we have to have in government that would essentially allow the FBI to be co-opted by a communist-leaning entity that would essentially drive their investigative activity to silence or target the politically disfavored? Anybody who doesn't hold or carry the water of communist-leaning Democrats. get targeted for investigation, increased fines, increased, you know, uh, you know, time in jail. Um, you know, we're talking about people like Mark How who's a pro life leader in Pennsylvania. He got the FBI coming after him. You know, they, Don Swat raid on his home, putting his wife and seven children under the gun. What is it? This is absolute. Absolutely amazing. So yeah, the Southern Poverty Law Center has done some bad things. No doubt about it. It's clear now that the left is responsible for left is violence. We know that. But apparently, they're also responsible for violence on the right. It's amazing. This is classic communist-style propaganda. It's designed to dismantle. and to disrupt society so that no one knows what's going on. Like what is this is this true? Is this real? Is this right? It doesn't feel right. I mean, I don't think there's that much violence on the right. I don't know a lot of violent right wing people. In fact, the right wing people that I know are against violence. They're the ones that want to protect all people equally like preborn boys and girls peacefully giving their own money and their own time and their own resources to help women. have their babies. And yet the Southern Poverty Law Center created a list and they sent this list to the FBI. And the FBI created a memo of pro-life Catholics and sent it all across the country to investigate pro-lifers. And now we have whistleblower coming out of the FBI in 2020, 23 named Garrett O'Boyle. He said, look, they took us off of, of bona fide sex crime investigations, and there's many of them, unfortunately, to look into pregnancy centers. You've got to be kidding me. Pregancy centers in this country give away a half a billion dollars, a half a billion dollars. And it turns out the Southern Poverty Law Center is basically now a de facto. government agency designed specifically to attack Christian, Judeo-Christian organizations that, to wipe them off the public square. What did they charge, say, compass care or pregnancy centers with? What was the allegation? What was the thing that they used to target you and other groups like yours? What was their argument? What was their evidence?

right wing extremists. There was no evidence. There was no evidence. There was no evidence of any wrongdoing. That's the, that was the point. That's the whole point. There is no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever. There, there is nothing actionable that would, that would require the FBI to think that there's some sort of, of, you know, violence coming from, you know, Christian pro-lifers or to think that there's some sort of, of crime that's actually happening. from Christian proliferous. It's just not there. Well, as you mentioned, Jim, as you mentioned, Jim, the violence is coming from the left over, I mean, it's, you look at the scales here and there's all these obvious incidents that happened that were. perpetrated by the left and you know there's one or two on the right and those are pointed to as uh you see it's on both sides it's not equally on both sides at all one of your one of your pregnancy centers where women are choosing to save their baby or reverse abortions was fire bombed wasn't it right Yes, firebomb. Tell me about that incident particularly. Yeah. Well, we were receiving threats for, well, probably a year on the lead up to the Dobbs case, the Supreme Court case that eventually overturned Roe v. Wade, which happened in June of 2022. Well, on the lead-up, There's a lot of, you know, this kind of rhetoric, this kind of communist rhetoric saying that we're going to, you know, Republicans are going to rob women of their of their rights and we need to stand up. And, you know, they're starting using communist rhetoric that saying that pregnancy centers are, you know, part of this kind of patriarchal white. you know, uh, right wing extremist kind of movement that wants to make women a permanent socioeconomic to enslave women. This is the rhetoric that they're using. Okay. Then the, the Dobbs case was leaked illegally and you still don't know how if the first and only time an entire opinion was leaked to the public specifically designed to foment this kind of violence. So the in May shortly thereafter, uh, in 2022, they fire bombed a pro life entity in Madison, Wisconsin. They sent out this is Jane's Revenge. This is a pro abortion antifa front group known as James Revenge, sent out a communique saying they did it and that we have 30 days. Pregancy centers have 30 days to shut down or face a similar fate. And on day 30, I kid you not. By the way, we had already reported this to the FBI. We had already mentioned that we were receiving death threats. We were already trying to secure our perimeters. And the FBI did nothing. Okay. And, and so on day 30, this is the Biden administration's FBI. Day 30, we were fire bombed.

This is two perpetrators. This is a, we, we call it all on tape. We have all the evidence. Uh, it was a, it was a classic hit. I mean, these were professionals. They knew what they were doing. They were well funded. They came and, and, and, and actually, you know, lit up the entire office, half a million dollars of damage. Two firefighters were injured in putting up the blaze. We still don't have a resolution. Now, the FBI, this is, there were over 600 attacks since then on pro life training centers and. churches, pro-life churches, 600. We're talking about 20-20x increase in violence against Christian pro-lifers in 2023. 2024. And I predicted there, Jeff, that the violence would shift. People would get sick and tired of it and it would shift from, from violence to lawfare. And then they started and that's exactly what happened. They started writing legislation against us to purchase out of the public square. We have Letitia James, the attorney general of New York filing a lawsuit against us for business fraud of all things. We have Rob Bonta out of California finding lawsuits against us for the same thing, business fraud. specifically as it relates to chemical abortion, because we're telling women the truth that chemical abortion sends one in 10 women to the emergency room. And, and, and, and, and they're saying, no, no, it's safer than Tylenol. Are you kidding me? The Tylenol sent one in 10 women to the emergency room. Look, the thing of it is, is the FBI during the Biden administration was complicit in domestic terrorism. The FBI was complicit in domestic terrorism. And they were, they were partnering with the SPLC directly. Directly. I mean, how is it possible that the SPLC could have that much control over a federal law enforcement agency? You know, the rabbit hole goes so deep here, very Jeff. I don't know if it's, if it's, if it's enough to just prosecute SPLC on, on fraud charges. It's not just fraud. This is domestic terrorism. And this is what I've been saying for years now. You and I know that we have to take a step back and take a look at the FBI, take a look at federal law enforcement and figure out, okay, to what extent? Is federal law enforcement necessary? Because it's the perfect, according to the 10th amendment is the purview of the states to enforce the laws. Okay. Now, I believe that federal law enforcement is necessary, specifically it relates to international crime, national crime that crosses borders and things like that. But when, when you are, when the government, specifically Democrats have power over the DOJ and the FBI to such an extent that they begin to use it as a weapon, as a bludgeon. against the politically disfavored pro-life people or anybody, for that matter, specifically because they happen to differ with the communist Democrats. We've got a big problem on our hand. This is, this is, this is consistent with Bolshevik revolutionary style politicians. Okay, 1920s Russia. This is this, you know, after the revolution happened.

The Russian politicians would come out and they would basically, you know, attack Christianity and wipe it out of the public square and make it, you know, very difficult for people to live out their faith. This is what the first one is all about. It's not about me, you know, being a private Christian at home. It's about me being able to walk out my faith and my beliefs in the public square. I can speak it and I can act on it. And that's what Christians do. And by the way, when John Adams... One of the founding fathers said, well, you know, the Constitution was written for a moral and religious people and is wholly unsuitable for any other. He meant Christianity. He did it. This was not a bumper sticker coexist bumper sticker kind of religion he was talking about. He meant Christianity. He didn't mean Islam. He didn't mean Hinduism. He didn't mean any of that. Because Christianity is the only religion that respects the dignity of the individual. That respects the fact that we are made in God's image and that we are endowed by our creator, not our government. with the unalienable right to life. And we stand up as Christians and say, not only do we have the right to life, but every single human being must be protected equally under law. That is the purpose of a constitutional rule of law. It makes us all equal. Well, the communist and the human secularist believe that government is God, Jim. And that's why the Bolsheviks and the Russian politicians were directly going for Christians. because they want no God before them, as those that know better who are elected and now are in power. The SPLC, though, back to the original thing. They were funding the KKK, the Aryan Nation. They were funding the group in Charlottesville, we found out, donating to the group in Charlottesville. that started all the, there were good people on both sides hoax with President Trump. So they were actually funding to foment the hate that they said they were fighting. So they were defrauding their donors who believed that they were, they were a righteous group that was actually going after hate when they were actually funding hate. Oh, yeah, this is classic SIA. This is a classic psychological operation. They were funding hate and then denouncing the hate to foment destabilization, cultural destabilization. So they could get more donations. Yeah, of course. And ultimately, they want to destabilize. Look, my senses, and I, I, I. somebody might try to prove me wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong. And that is, I think that the SPLC had the same kind of agenda, has the same agenda as Antifa. Antifa is basically a Marxist, you know, ideologically driven group that essentially their goal is to destabilize and dismantle the nation state system that is undergirded by the Judeo-Christian morality and the free market in order to pave the way for a global communism.

And in order to do that, they have to foment all this kind of social destabilization and confuse people and divide people. And that's exactly what they did. That was their entire mission, was to foment division. And Rich Higgins was Donald Trump's first term, irregular warfare expert out of the Pentagon, okay? Rich Higgins said that essentially they were intending to target anti-communists and anti-capitalists as well. in order to foam in a civil war. Well, that's exactly what's happening. I mean, so the SPLC, I think, you know, has more to answer for than just fraud. I think we're talking about high crimes and misdemeanor's level of activity. Yeah, no doubt about it. So you continue your work in spite of the lawsuit that you mentioned filed by Letitia James charging your organization, Compass Care, with fraud, with business fraud. You're a totally non-profit organization. You provide all your services for free. So who are you defrauding? That's our question. Wait a second. How are we defrauding anybody when we charge no one anything for our services? We give away millions of dollars of free medical care. And so she's charging us with crimes that do not exist in the statute. They're just not, there's no laws that say that what we're doing is illegal. And yet she, she's, she's getting a hearing by the, by the Supreme Court in New York, as if, as if these are bona fide crimes. Well, she's going to lose. She slaps, she slapped us. She wants to slap us out of the public square, S-L-A-P-P. It's an acronym, but it means. a strategic lawsuit against public participation. She does not agree with our position, our pro-life position, and therefore she simply wants to abuse her power and abuse her position and slap us out of the public square. She wants to exhaust us with. with this political, you know, malarkey is my, one of my teachers used to call it. You know, so we're going to continue to move forward. Things are moving in our direction. We've got a couple of lawsuits now, one in federal court and one in state Supreme court. We did get an injunction against her from the federal court. We're likely going to get an injunction against her, hopefully. the judge will see it our way and say, yeah, this is definitely a slap case and dismiss the whole thing out of hand because it's just that ridiculous. This is wasting taxpayer resources. From Compass Care USA, Reverend Jim Harden, thank you, and thank you for the good work you continue to do on behalf of women and babies in New York and elsewhere around the country by speaking out. I appreciate your time. My pleasure. Yeah. As I mentioned, the last time I talked to the Reverend. Letitia James charging anyone with fraud is like Eric Swalwell telling you to believe all women.

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This Wednesday on the Scotts Lone Show, Gary Jeff Walker filling in. Again, my pleasure indeed. Hopefully it's yours. 700 W.L.W. So Saturday night at the Washington Hilton Hotel, of course, the White House correspondence dinner was supposed to occur. They'd all gathered there in the ballroom. When a guy who took a train from Torrance, California to Chicago, and then Washington, D.C. had checked into that hotel. on Thursday, and at a crucial point in the evening, he sprinted past the checkpoints towards the ballroom like he was working out for a pro day for NFL scouts. Thankfully, law enforcement subdued him before he could do any damage in... That action, though, there was a Secret Service agent. There was a law enforcement agent who was shot. He was saved by his protective vest. And as President Trump said, he's doing fine. It could have been entirely different. Our next guest is the founder, president, CEO of Invest USA, a national grassroots nonprofit that's helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vets for their police forces throughout educational public relations sponsorship fundraising. And as of June, three years ago, more than 13,520 concealable and active shooter vests had been distributed to police officers throughout the United States. the normal Kevlar, because there are rounds of ammunition that can penetrate the normal bulletproof vest. To talk about Saturday night, the failures and the triumphs of law enforcement in that event. and a continuing effort to keep those safe who keep us safe. Michael Letts joins us. Good morning, Michael. How are you? I'm doing great, Gary. It's always a privilege to be with you. We thank you for the opportunity. Now, just a little bit about your background that people may not know. Your organization's efforts have helped police officers. from areas devastated by big events, natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. And in nations like Nicaragua and Mexico, your involvement in this earned you a Congressional Gold Medal Award for Community Service. That's pretty cool. I didn't realize that. Yeah, you know, it's, of course, I've been a law enforcement for over 30 years, so also did work with intelligence community and with our special ops. And, you know, you know, it's a shame to have to go to funerals and bury my colleagues when they could have been saved by vest. And so we started this 32 years ago. At the time, Gary, the only thing that technology that was available was you had the old Vietnam era flag jackets.

Well, if you've ever served in combat in Vietnam, you realize you can't move. That flag jack is about all you can carry. So that doesn't work very well in the streets of America. So they began to work on a lighterweight vest called Kevlar, which is, you know, nothing but a fat piece of fabric. It's just a very tightly woven fabric, and you had 27 to 32 layers of it. It is able to stop around, I'd say about 10 layers out. It usually penetrates anywhere from 10 to 12 layers, the bullet. But also the great thing about it is it dissipates the force of the bullet itself. People are trying to keep that bullet from penetrating you. It's taking all that energy that comes with it and dissipating it over a broad area so that doesn't do internal damage. Well, they were successful, but the only thing that that vest, a Kevlar vest would do, you see this that call a concealable vest. the one you wear under your shirt. It will only stop a, a round from a pistol, a sidearm. That's it. A long-range rifle or an AK-47 shotgun, etc., or even a knife, will go right through it. And so that's what we had for years. About 10 years ago, you know, the criminal element changed. We went from people being ashamed of crime. That's why they put a pistol down their pants, and then they pulled it out at the convenience store at the last second and hit it again when they left. So our country being invaded by cartels, terrorists, human sex traffickers, you can go down the list. Those people are proud of what they do. They don't use pistols. They use AK-47s, automatic weapons. And so we decided we had to stop and create new technology to be able to provide protection. It's called an active shooter vest. That's titanium plates in them. Now, here's the sad part. When we started in Vest 32 years ago with just Kevlar, conceivable vests, 52% of cops had no protection at all. We got that down to 19%. Now we're trying to make sure every officer has an active shooter vest so that they can be fully protected. Unfortunately, Gary, I have to tell you, only 10% of officers have these vests. 90% of cops across the country do not have this new technology. Fortunately, what you saw Saturday evening with the Secret Service, he had one of ours. He had an updated active shooter vest because he was shot with a high-powered rifle, what we call a long-range rifle. If he had not had that on, I saw the hit, it would have gone right through a concealable vessel. He'd be dead. It was a dead on hit. But fortunately, he is alive. I'll go to show you how well they were, Gary. Of course, when he's hit, you know, we have to check you out just to make sure there's no internal injuries that we're unaware of. So we transported into the nearest hospital, Adam do the x-ray of the scans. And what does he say in the whole time? Can you hurry up? I have a president to protect. Get me back out on the street. It worked that well. And, of course, it goes to show you the value, the true heroism that we have in America's first responders today.

But that just, every cop should have that opportunity to be able to know that they can be protected and go home safe with their families. It's a shame that we don't, you know, the other tragic part about what happened Saturday night that I want to make sure that our listeners remember is, you know, Congress, especially in the Senate, is still not pass the Homeland Security budget. So these boys at Secret Service are working for free. They haven't been paid in two and a half months. And this is what I was saying on a national show yesterday. Imagine the stress of having to provide protection for your protect team. In this sense, it's the president. And making sure that you want to protect him, you want to be nice if you could come home to your family. And so you're in the middle of that engagement. You get a call from the house, from your spouse, your partner, saying, oh, by the way, power company called. If we don't pay that bill by 5 o'clock, you're coming home to a dark house. There's no more electric control of the power. Why should our law enforcement be divided mentally? Because of our Congress that can't do their job to make sure they get paid. These poor people are doing all they can to provide for themselves, their family, and to protect you and I and their protectees. And we can't do any better than making sure they get paid the salary that they've earned a shame. Well, what's a shame, Michael, is that Congress, the House of Representatives, the Senate, their number one job. is to make sure that the government can operate to provide the funding for that government, to provide for the common defense, including law enforcement and security, and also... to promote the general welfare. That's what the Constitution says that government's jobs, their first two jobs. Now, it's nice if you want to investigate your political rivalry, and they're really good at doing that. They're really good at doing all kinds of things that aren't their first priority, according to constitutional definition. They ought to get back to doing their job. That's one of the reasons. Congressional approval among the public, you know, they talk about the president's popularity ratings. Well, Congress is three times worse than the president. And it's consistent now. Yes, you're correct. Over the course of the last couple of decades, congressional approval among the public, the people that are their bosses, according to the Constitution, is very, very low. And that's the biggest reason why is that they're simply not doing their job. They're doing politics instead of their job. And they're doing it again with this.

One of the things I love about the president is when he was on the apprentice. You remember his favorite words, you're fired. It's time to tell Congress. You're fired. You're fired. You can't do the job. Well, you know what? In the House, everybody listening who votes is going to get a chance to do that here in the next six, seven months. In November, you'll have a chance to be the boss that you're supposed to be. of the person that you elect who represented you and you have a chance to say you're fired if they're not doing their job and that right now they're not by and large no they're not um you're correct and we've had five days of monday morning quarterbacking it's wednesday now after the event saturday night at the washington hilton The fact remains, Michael, and you want to talk about all the failings in hindsight of this. It was a hotel that was open to the public. There was one magnetrometer to check for weapons, one checkpoint. Now, Secret Service was there, and they did their job, and the President's not unhappy with the job Secret Service did because they did subdue the suspect without anyone getting seriously injured. So that's a bonus. But these kind of events have to be designated as national security events, don't they? When the president and all those members of Congress and all, practically all of the cabinet is there assembled in one place? Yeah, you know, it's interesting, Gary. I did work with the Secret Service. You remember this is the same hotel that Ronald Reagan was shot in. I just show you how old I had, how far back we go. Here's what I have standing all across the country here in the last few days. We are using the same protocol. and logistics for security operations that we did 45 years ago. Now, I can tell you this, Gary, from a businessman standpoint, you don't change with the time than adapt as technology and everything else continues to change. You know what happens to your business. You go out of business. It's time that the Secret Service update its protocol. and it's logistical support, and we start doing things a little differently. We've got to take this more serious. It is concerned now. I say that very quick to add to this statement, Gary. I'm not talking about the agents that we just discussed who take a bullet for the president. We jump up on the diocese and, you know, standing there waiting to detect that bullet if somebody's willing to fire it. They did a fantastic job. But I'm talking about the leadership that we can do better. Yeah. How would you feel about something like the White House correspondence dinner not being held in a hotel that's open to the public? This guy checked in on Thursday. He was able to check in with all of the components for his shotgun to be put together and these weapons that he had on him. And then again,

It's not that the security was lax, but it wasn't up to the task of the evening. Simply because, simply because of the location. You're exactly right. I mean, the president recognized that one, first part of his turn, first part of him being in office. And he said, we need to have a ball in here at the White House so we can secure. I hear, you know, people get all upset. Ah, I can't believe, you know, he's doing anything. He's putting his name on it, which he's not. Here's the issue you need to understand, folks. It won't be completed for the president Trump to ever use it. He wasn't looking out for himself. He was looking out for future presidents to make the job of providing protection detail much easier. And you just saw that validated. Saturday, we can't provide the kind of security we need when you're not taking over the hotel. People are still coming in, checking in, checking out, hotel that big. You've got all kind of interest in and exits, people getting off elevators. It becomes an extremely difficult task to provide the adequate kind of security that you're looking for. And that's why the president said, let's start doing these events at a ballroom here at the White House. And, of course, you know, it'd be open to the public, i.e. the correspondent center wants to be held there. Great. Whatever else needs to be held. Why should he have to travel around all these hotels in the D.C. area? Now, I understand if you're out campaigning in California, that's a different matter. We'll have to make sure that area is secure. And we can do that with updated and stronger protocols. But it was a brilliant idea. for him to be able to say, let's do a ballroom here at the White House that's security to begin with, and we can keep the security where it needs to be. Michael, that's, as always, a pleasure to talk to you, my friend. And, again, a lot of this is trial and error. And people say, well, we're just living in a different world. The world has always been dangerous, and we've always needed to protect the president. If we had the protocols in place that we have now, obviously, and the technology, which was not available at the time, Abraham Lincoln might have made it through his second term. John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have survived. So, again, it is, it's trial and error. And we have a president who... sparks some pretty strong emotions in some people. It's, in fact, a mental illness called Trump derangement syndrome. And the rhetoric on the left has been excessive and violent, and it has urged people who maybe don't have all the screws tightened up in their brains, the levity to think that they're doing the right thing. And Nicole Allen thought he was doing something that was justifiable. in attacking the president and his administration on Saturday night. So I don't know if it's any more dangerous, but we always have to be, what's the expression? The opposition only has to be right once. We've got to be right all the time. You're exactly right. It only takes one opportunity that we don't catch, and tragedy occurs.

Michael Letts from Invest USA. Keep up the good work, my friend, and we will talk again soon. I am certain of it. Thank you, Gary. God bless, God bless America. Do you keep up the good work of making sure we continue to tell the truth to the American people? Have a great day. I'll do my best. Dr. Gilda Carl, the 32nd therapist, will have a little bit more time than that. As we talk about masculinity, and fertility rates. How we looking in America? Not good. Gary Jeff in for Sloney on 700 WLW. You know, we have the FIFA World Cup coming to the USA. USA, USA. The Olympics coming here in 2028. Next month in San Francisco, the 26th. sperm racing World Cup, of course it's in San Francisco, where men will battle each other for $100,000 for babymaker's supremacy. I don't know how they measure this. I don't think I want to know. But the fact of the matter is, I mentioned this because... We have a real problem with fertility in this country. Our replacement rate is way under two. You've got a man and a woman. They don't have two babies. Then the population obviously mathematically declines to the point where a civilization could be completely ending. The human race. could be lost to talk about that and a few other things. A woman who is the author of real men, don't go woke. She'd been all over TV talk news shows before. She used to write a column in the National Enquirer asked Dr. Gilda. She also does the Ask Dr. Gilda column for Match.com. She was a therapist in HBO's Emmy Award winner telling Nicholas. She's a product spokesperson, a keynote speaker, Professor Emerita of Business and author of 19 books, again, including the aforementioned Real Men Don't Go Woke. Dr. Gilda Carl. Welcome, Dr. Gilda. How are you? Good morning. Good to talk to you, especially about this crazy topic. It is a crazy topic, and I don't even know how they measure the fastest. Yeah, we didn't get any of that information in the article, but it really is very interesting. Men don't have enough to compete against, I guess. And it's all about, once again, performance. Men need this stress like they need a hole in their head. But performance and excellence is part of masculinity, isn't it? Yeah, when it's not so overemphasized that they can't perform at all.

You're right. It's a bell-shaped curve. You work, work, work, work, work, work towards performance, and then you're depleted. And after a while, you wonder, what is this performance all about? Yes. Men have been so stressed. This is what I talked about in real men don't go woke. Real men are not toxic, as some people would like us to think. There's nothing toxic about men at all, unless they get violent and difficult to deal with and get into trouble. But the average guy... Who's a real man knows how to stand up for himself, for himself, knows how to navigate the world without going crazy and being angry and upsetting other people around. You just, you know. And this is what has happened today. Either we have people or males who are off the deep end going over the precipice. And those are the toxic ones, but not everybody else. And so the feminists, it seems, have decided that all men are toxic just by dint of their being masculine. And that has been very difficult for all men to deal with. And so what we're finding is that the guys are trying. to uphold themselves in a way that they will be attractive to women. We do know that men are more interested in relationships than women are. Shocking, isn't that? Because we've always heard that women are the relationship people. But it's the men who want to keep their relationships going. And so as a result of hearing so many negatives from the women around, they will start getting silent. And that is deadly. Silence is deadly when all of a sudden you're holding all your emotions in, like Will Smith did throughout his life. And then all of a sudden, like a warm bottle of champagne, the pop... The cork pop and there you are. And you don't even know how angry you have become and what reaction you are showing to the world. So that is one aspect of what has happened to men today. The woke men are just without a spine. And when...

When the left says to me, oh, the word woke, well, you're not even using woke the way it should be used. I said, if you don't like the word woke, say this. Real men don't go spineless. Real men don't go voiceless because this is what is contributing to men's suicide rate. And now we know that men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women are. And with the decrease in testosterone, with the thinning of the wide chromosome. I mean, so many things are happening to males today. They are trying to stay above ground and not be pummeled by these women who are out to get them thinking every man is toxic. Well, you can. So here we have a situation with sperm now. You can be. a real man and not be toxic, but you know what? We have bred this whole generation, it seems like, of beta males who don't want to take their natural position of leadership. Men were created, I believe, by God, to be natural leaders, leaders of families, leaders of countries. Not that women can't lead. I'm just saying, give you a prime example of... A real toxic male. Rosie O'Donnell famously, when the news came out about Eric Swalwell, she said men suck. No, Eric Swalwell. Eric Swalwell sucks. Don't pin that on me or any other. you know, guy with the man, the male chromosomes. I mean, geez. Yeah, but for Rosie O'Donnell, oh, please. Rosie O'Donnell isn't really a woman? Is she gay? And she's not even interested in men in general. No. So here is her rationale for why she's not interested in men. And I don't think there are too many men who are interested in her, frankly. Yeah, it's not, it's not really a loss to the male of the species, doctor. Gilda. No, I think not. But to add on, okay, over there in lane one, look at that sperm running. It seems to be overcoming the other one in lane two. Oh, but wait, wait, wait, the one from behind, lane seven. Oh, look at that guy. Go, go, go. This is what's going on. This is what we have to look forward to. More stress to win a game. And what are we going to see soon on their postings online on the dating sites? Are they going to be bragging that my sperm is, however they measure this? My sperm is stronger and won the World Cup of sperm racing. I mean, as opposed to other sperm. So this makes one more interesting, perhaps to the opposite sense. Is that where we have come? My estimation of being a real man is not only competing to win, but understanding how to lose.

Oh, that's beautiful. And you learn to grab onto your masculinity when you face loss. Because when you face loss, it motivates you, or it should motivate you, to do better the next time, not cause stress, but to actually be better and to do better. That's part of being a real man, is accepting loss. And learning from it. And learning from it. Learning from it. That's it, exactly. And I think a lot of people have to learn that. Not only women, men, but women as well. You learn more for having lost. I mean, if you process this correctly, you win more for having lost. than from having one because then you will be very excited and you will have your head in the clouds and you probably will have to continue working very hard toward another win and the next win and the next. Because every mountain needs to be climbed again and again. Don't you agree that a lot of this started 20 years ago when they started giving out participation trophies because they didn't want... anyone to feel bad about them spells because they lost I mean you lose you lose and you build on that loss to again excel to be better Yeah, we have molly coddled our young people, men and women. So if they don't win a race, they go into a tantrum. And we've seen a couple of sports people do this throughout the years. But this is no way to behave. You walk off with pride, whether you've won or a lot. You've gotten to that whole race. unto itself is something that should be accepted and appreciated. But if you only are at that race to win, that's where the performance can be debilitating to you. The need to perform always, perform, perform. You don't even know who you are after a while. Well, at the World Cup in San Francisco next month, you know, maybe the losers will be able to build on that and say, you know what? I need to train my sperm to be faster swimmers. Oh, my goodness. I can't wait to hear how they're going to do this. Real men don't go woke.

And I do believe that real men can be strong. And you say they can be strong through their vulnerability as well, right, Dr. Gilda? Absolutely. Absolutely. You just don't have to be some mighty mouse. You can show your emotions, your feelings, and your fears. Because ultimately, and trust me, I'm a woman who wrote this book, and this is coming straight, not from Tarvin, but from Jane. When we see men, who are vulnerable, who can say, you know, I feel bad about that. I just, I was depressed about this and this, that shows their vulnerability. And that shows that they are human beings, that they're not in some. in armor that nobody can penetrate. Women find that most attractive. And I said that to a fighter pilot one day. I said, you know, I find you most attractive when you're most vulnerable. And he thought I was cursing him. He never heard such a thing. He thought it has to be, hurry, go, go, go, perform, win, win, win. He had never heard. A woman say, I love your vulnerability because you're more human and touchable. So men have to understand what it is that women want and women have to get off their behind and stop criticizing men because the reaction is now silence. And silence is what kills people. You can't hold anything continuously inside your body and think that you're not going to be unhealthy because in the end. It will affect your health. It will affect your mood. It will affect how you win every other race that you're in. Dr. Gilda Carl, thank you so much for your time this morning. And good luck with real men don't go woke. It's my pleasure. Thanks so much for having me here. All right. We've got some big Supreme Court decisions coming down. Hey, this is Ryan Crest here. And if you're looking for some serious fun, head over to chumbac casino.com. At Chumba Casino, you can play all your favorite social casino style games for free anytime, anywhere. It's the most fun you can have on your phone or computer. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by law. See terms and conditions, 21 plus. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, advances life-saving healthcare, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.

Saturday, July 25th. I know I will be the best welterweight in the world. An undefeated phenom. That man is a rising star. And a frightening force. What a win for Shemil Musayev. Ascend on the nation's capital to fight for gold. Thad, the silverback gene. Silverback Nation makes some noise. Versus Shemil Musayev. Oh, it's over! For the PFL welterweight world title. Saturday, July 25th and 10 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. Hi, Uncle Laser here. America's built on fast cars, fast food, and even faster women. Photo casinos built in America. You know what they're fast out? Fast gas, rise, redemption. You see, only Moto is U.S. own and operate. Moto. It's American made. Is that who we are? And that's who we care about. Play for free at moto.us. Moto.us, the social casino board will prohibit. No purchase necessary. Visit motto.us. For more details. Details in minute. And to another hour of the Scott Sloan show on this Wednesday. April 29th, closing in on the end of the month. Boy, and some huge decisions coming out of the United States Supreme Court this morning. Number one was they struck down the second majority black congressional district in Louisiana, which was, as Samuel Alito, I believe, called it an unconstitutional gerrymandu. That was by a six to three. And what basically it did, this thing wound from Shreveport to Alexandria to Lafayette, about 200 miles down the state of Louisiana based only specifically along racial lines, which is, you know, the Supreme Court decided that is not equitable. That is not right. And it needs to go. As there are redistricting fights all over the country now of people just trying to gerrymander Republican against Democrat. And we saw what happened in Virginia where that's still not a settled deal. because it has to go through the courts, the vote that happened just last week in Virginia, that would have cut out all but one of the Republican-leaning districts in the entire state. So, you know, the House of Representatives obviously is a very, very slim Republican lead going into the 2026 midterms, which usually favor the party that's not in power in the White House traditionally. The other big decision that came down, and it relates directly to a guest we had on earlier today, Reverend Jim Hardin from Compass Care, there's an organization in New Jersey called First Choice Women's Centers, Care Centers, and they are also an anti-abortion or a pro-life faith-based organization that the Attorney General in New Jersey was suing.

to get the donor's names of that organization. A list of the, and First Choice said this violates, this violates the First Amendment, and they ruled nine zero on that, and First Choice can now sue in federal court in New Jersey. to keep that client and donor list out of the hands of the Attorney General. I want to know the names of people who are supporting life. Give it to me now. We have planned on having former Congressman Bob Livingston on the air, and we still may before the half hour is up. He has served in Louisiana from 1977 to 1999. He was on the House, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the last four years he served, and has a book out now, a memoir about lawfare called the Rainbow Chaser. And the interesting thing about this anti-lawfare memoir is that Bob Levingston famously was a supporter of the impeachment of Bill Clinton. when he was in Congress. And I just dined to ask him about whether they opened up a Pandor's box with the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Kenneth Starr and all that, those of us that remember and lived through that, as it extends to President Trump. He did in his first term, and the Democrats are promising, vowing to do it. if they get control of Congress in November. So we'll attempt to get a hold of Mr. Livingston. In the meantime, we'll take a quick break and come back. Your phone calls. Always welcome 5137497,000, 1-800, the big one. Any comments at all on the Supreme Court decisions and the second majority black congressional district being struck down in Louisiana? could portend well for Republicans in that state when it comes to the overall count in the House. And this first choice decision, this Women's Center in New Jersey, is helping women keep their babies and the chance to keep their donors private. on First Amendment grounds and them being able to sue the state of New Jersey, not in state court, but in federal court, which could make a huge difference. Gary Jeff and Froslone back after a break, phone calls and more on 700 WLW. You know, noticed when you're driving a car somewhere and you've got exacting directions of where you're going to turn next. And... That turn just doesn't appear and you realize you're on the wrong road. It happens with talk shows too sometimes. We had former Congressman Bob Livingston scheduled to appear and apparently there were wires crossed somewhere. But the person who helped us connect with the original interview is here.

and she just got back from Washington, D.C., and I think she's delightful to talk to, so I figured why not spend a few minutes with my friend Sandy Frazier. Good morning, Sandy. How are you? Well, I'm doing great. This is an unexpected pleasure. Well, for me, too. I had the whole show planned out, I thought. But, no, this is interesting. You just got back from Washington, and I asked you if you were at the WHCD. But you said you left before the dinner happened. So you narrowly escaped with your life, correct? Well, yeah, I'm saying that in Jeff, but, you know, being in Washington was really an experience, you know, because you hear all the time from President Trump how they've cleaned it up, which I agree. I mean, it's really beautiful now. And I went to Union Station. It was really spotless clean. They had a lot of National Guard. And, you know, I just walked up to all the National Guard. soldiers, guardsmen, I guess you call them, and, you know, thank them for their service because I was in a hotel and got in a little bit of a skirmish with a group of, I guess they were young people, but they were fighting. And boy, those National Guard, they're right on top of it. Fantastic, I'll tell you. Yeah, you're not going to alter everybody's personal behavior, but you can have the resources available to make sure if something like that happens, it doesn't get way out of hand. And that was happening on a regular before President Trump brought the National Guard into Washington, D.C. and helped the D.C. Metro Police kind of... solve their crime problem carjackings and murder was just running rampant in our nation's capital before this surge yeah i was surprised because i live in charleston south carolina now this is civil war territory and the blacks and whites they get along great you know i mean i'm one of the few people that ride the bus So it's like, you know, we all sit on the bus together. We hang out at the bus station and things like that. And, you know, I feel very safe here. And I'm a New Yorker. So, you know, I've been back to New York every three months for ever since I moved to Charleston. And I love New York City, but I just can't live under a communist. So I had to. I tail it out of there. Understandable. But what you're saying, though, is not just in places like Charleston, South Carolina, it's all over the country. And I have made this case over and over, by my own observation, Sandy, is that the so-called racial divide we always hear about in this country is mostly an invention of media and it's made up. It is being perpetrated.

and being put out there mostly to engender the fact that it exists at all. I mean, it seems like it's purposely being stoked and being presented that way, so people were perceive it in a certain way. And perception becomes reality. But the reality is I also bartend. And I see people who have all kinds of different skin colors and hair colors and everything else in my bar. And people routinely generally get along. Well, we do in Charleston. But when I was in Washington, I was taking a lift because I had to go to a big event over at the French Embassy. And it was a big book event and a lot of dignitaries. And they even had secret service there and everything. But I got in a list. And the man that was driving me, the driver, he. actually was playing a radio station. You'll appreciate this. And I'm not going to say who the host is, even though I know because I've been working in radio for over 20 years. But these people on the radio show were using foul language, and they were pretending like Barack Obama was still their president. And it was very unnerving because the guy wouldn't talk to me. And every restaurant I went into, they asked me for a photo ID in order to just order dinner. And also what? You had to have a photo ID to order dinner? To order dinner, I swear to God. I mean, I could not believe it. I said, you were, I thought they were kidding, you know, like, uh, we're going to card you. I said, oh, come on. I'm old enough to be your mom. They said, oh, no, we have to have a photo ID and a credit card up front because that's how many people they have walking out on the bills, I guess. And, you know, and I saw a lot of things with my own eyes that I just couldn't believe. It felt like a whole different world, but I am proud of the president and the cleanup effort and the fact that, you know, the king was there yesterday, the king and the queen, and we can be proud. They don't have those awful, what do you call it, those meridian dividers and things like that. It was horrible. And I was on Capitol Hill, too, you know, so, I mean, I saw everything. Well, um. The guest, we had hoped to have Bob Livingston, is now, after being a congressman serving for 22 years, he has his book called The Rainbow Chaser. I don't know why I'm plugging it since he dissed us. But anyway, he's also a lobbyist. And...

I tend to think that part of the problem with our government being dysfunctional is that the voice of the lobbyist is heard louder than the voice of the voter, probably because we don't speak up the way we ought to for our elected representatives to our elected representatives and talk to them directly. Well, you can thank Elon Musk now because with X, we have a wonderful platform, you know, where we can speak out and our voices are heard and no censorship and the whole thing. I'll tell you, I love X. And it's terrific. I did get to meet Bob when I was in Washington. It was terrific meeting him. He is an old world kind of politician, you know, with a lot of charisma and charm and everything. And I really liked him. And he was signing books and everything. And he was very gracious and had us at the top of the Capitol View building, which if you've ever been there, it is amazing. You can see... 360 degree view of everything. And plus I did get to see Julia Child's kitchen. Really? The highlight of my group. Yeah, I loved it. I love Julia. And Anthony Bourdain, you know, they were, Anthony loved Julia. So I always wanted to see her kitchen. I thought it was at the Smithsonian, but it was at the American Museum of Natural History or something like that. And, you know, and then I got to see all the, uh, um the history of america and everything and it was just so wonderful and my friend brigitte gabriel i'm sure you know of her he got me a VIP um tour of Capitol, the Capitol Capitol, Capitol Hill and everything. Next time I go, I'm getting into the White House. Very nice. Well, I'm sure you'll need your photo ID for that, too. Isn't it amazing you have to have a photo ID to get served in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., and yet there are a whole slew of states and Democrats who don't require you to have one to vote. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, and, you know, I hear that the Democrats also stood up for the king yesterday. Oh, geez. Or President Trump, you said at the dinner last night, he said, well, you did something I could never do. I got the Dems to stand up. No doubt. Isn't it amazing that the people that have no kings rallies are so falling all over themselves to see a king in person? Yeah. Another thing Sandy Fraser does is music. You sing and you're a musician. And you told me just before we went on the air, Sandy, that you have a new song of about all things, Nikolai Tesla.

Yeah, Nikola Tesla is a hero of mine because I really follow Elon Musk. And I think Elon Musk learned very young all about Nikola, Tesla, and the fact that he didn't get credit for so many things that he did. You know, when he died, he was at the New Yorker Hotel. And I went to the New Yorker last year several times. um to sort of investigate because i was writing this song about tesla it's called wizard and you can see it on all platforms you can listen to it on all platforms all over uh the internet uh sandy fraser dot com but i swear it was so it was so enlightening and such a great experience being at the new yorker So I could write the song and understand now reading his autobiography, which is terrific, his own words. And I love Tesla. He was a... He was a character, you know, somebody to really get to know in our history. And the fact that he died at the New Yorker, you know, and here's a fun little fact. When he died, there were, he left all these trunks behind. And the guy that ended up opening them, of course, the FBI took them. But the guy that opened them is the John Trump, which is, you know, President Trump's uncle, I think, went to MIT. And he got to open Tesla's trucks. and learned of all his secrets. Very cool. Sandy Fraser, thank you so much. Sandy Fraser.com. Listen to her song about Tesla called Wizard. And thank you for filling this space as I turn onto another highway after news. You're one of the greats in radio, and I love the station. Been working with you guys for years. Thanks, Sandy. Appreciate it. Have a great day. Cynthia Hughes on Lawfare and the Department of Justice or the Department of Injustice, as you may view it, right after news now. If we want. I want to help you on throwing that a life preservement for you. You're dying over there, really. I'm not dying. I'm not dying. I did fine. You're being a freaking phone call. I know. I gave Andy, I gave the phone numbers out once.

once. That's not begging. That's just saying, hey, if you want to call, call, and you did. So thank you so much. What's on your mind, Andrew? No, I call because I want to help you, but I do want to have a discussion with you. I think you kind of just blew over it at the beginning of the show with the Sorosby situation at the University of Cincinnati. Here's a deal, okay? The kid gambled. UC is probably going to fall for every game they played last year. The kid should never be able to play. college football and or professional football for the remainder of his life, all you got to do is look at the record books and look at Pete Rose. It's the same thing. College players now are pros. They're pros now. They're not. They can't play again. No, there's no death penalty in football. It was just in baseball, Andy. It's going to be. He will never play again. Never play again. I never thought he was really all that good. He's no Pete Rose. Let's put it that way. You know what? He was $4 million good for Texas Tech. That's how good he was. Well, that says a lot about Texas Tech's judgment. And it says as much about UC's judgment and their lack of supervision, lack of what they used to call institutional control at that university. And I think heads should roll at UC. Listen to you. You probably took a stand. You got some hanging downs. I love it. But I'm afraid that Satterfield's going to lose his job over this. I'm not sure. I'm not sure Satterfield should have kept his job anyway, Andy. I like the man. He's a good guy, all right? But you may have been a little over his head there, you see. But look, it's far for me to say this. I don't want to say it. But, you know, honestly, to bet, to allow kids to bet like that, this betting thing is out of control. And, you know, honestly, he's not the only one, all right? He's not the only one. That's all I'm saying. Of course he's not. But don't you think that this went on before, before there was all this legalized gambling, before there was so much regulation? In fact, I think it went on unchecked more than than it does now because... Well, how'd you do it? I'll give that with a street corner guy. Yeah, exactly. And there was no regulation. There was no regulation unless somebody spilled the beans on you. Now it's scrutinized all over the place. There's an electronic trail. Right. And you know what? I feel bad for the kid because he's got a disease. It is a disease, okay? Betting on ball and his strikes and baseball games, you've got to be out of your freaking mind, okay? So money does create evil. It does. Because if he didn't make the big money in NIL, he wouldn't have the money to gamble. Oh, there's no question about that either. I don't normally agree with you this much. So it's kind of disturbing to me personally.

I don't want to disturb you anymore. I'll let you go. You play have more calls. Furball. Thank you. Oh, one of the Saturday people are here, who's now a Wednesday people. Dave from Harrison. How are you? Hey, Gary, Jeff. I'm doing great. And yourself? I'm fine. I'm just fine. I'm playing out the string here for the next three and a half minutes. Well. If anybody can do it, so can you, I believe. Well, do you have anything to offer, Dave? Well, I was just wondering, you know, sometimes we get all caught up and all the catching up and all that stuff, but when was the last time you were a kid again? You know what I mean? Like, I don't know, had a staring contest with your cat. That happens on almost a daily basis, Dave. When was the last time you stuck your head out the car window and mood when you saw a cow? I don't remember ever doing that when I was a kid or an adult. Care Jeff? One of the last time you took a running jump over a big puddle. I'm afraid I'd sprain my ankle at this point or break a hip. I can't afford to do either. I know. All right. Here's a famous quote. Uh-huh. And see if you can guess who said it, okay? Uh-huh. Who is the more foolish? The full or the full who follows him. Hmm. That's something I will ponder until Saturday morning, and we'll follow up then, Dave. Thank you. That's Dave from Harrison who calls and tells bad dad jokes on my Saturday morning show, usually right after 6 o'clock news. Something for you to look forward to. Here's another one of the Saturday people. He's not usually on the air. He usually shows up at the bar after the show on Saturday, the after the show show. This is Al and Cleaves. Hello, Al. Good morning, Mr. Walker. It's great to be on the air with you. Yeah, this is like a first time. Have we ever been on the air together before, Al? I don't remember. Maybe once or twice before, but it's been a while. Yeah? What's going on? I survived. I was in Virginia for three days this past week. Congratulations. How was your trip? Fantastic. A lot of trains. I'll explain everything to you tomorrow when I see you. Okay, all right, yeah. I have a bunch of hats in the trunk of my car. There is one I could not wear while I was in Virginia. I didn't want to take the chance, but I did pick up another hat, and I'll show that to you tomorrow. Did you get any hats for me? Because I have a special size head. Yes, I've noticed that. All right, Al, go back to life in the tin can. We'll do. Thank you, sir. We'll see you around the house. Oh, you know, I'll take this call, Dave. Dr. Dennis in Annapolis, Maryland. Good morning. Good morning. Just a quickie here. Yeah. You talked about zombies. Phone zombies. Well, zombies in general, as far as the zombie apocalypse, the liberals have nothing to worry about because they have no brains for the zombies to eat.

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