6/4/26 - The AI Jobs Boom: What You Haven't Been Told

Hey folks, Mark Levin here. Before we dive into today's episode, I want to talk about my go-to gold and silver company. Monetary gold is over 25 years helping Americans understand physical gold and silver with an education-first, no-pressure approach, and support for IRA-eligible options. Monetary gold has a complementary guide. It's free to help you understand precious metals. Call them right now, 877 now gold, or visit mark lovesgold.com and request the free guide. Make sure to ask for details that... That's 877 now gold or visit mark lovesgold.com. Performance may vary. You should always consult your financial and tax consultant. Now let's get to the show. Well, he's here. Now broadcasting them from the underground command post. Deep in the boughs of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-district building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. Well, the AI Jobs Boom is coming. Yeah, the AI Jobs Boom is coming. I know, it's like counterintuitive. It's everything you haven't been told for how long? We'll talk about that. This version of the Democrat Party happens to be the most dangerous yet. You know, if you can't trust Islamic terrorists, who can you really trust? And, well, what is this exactly? As we take a look at House committees. Pretty much the lowest form of the American political condition, all among the things that we're going to be diving into. It is great to be here with you. I've actually missed you. I'm sure you haven't missed me. I mean, there's ever going to be a night that you tune in. You're like, yeah, great. I got this guy rather than Mark. But I actually miss you. It's talking to Mr. Producer before the show, Brian Mud, always an honor and a pleasure being in for the great one and being here with you. I love you guys. I love this audience. It's been over four months. I was talking to Mr. Producer. I'm like, this has been too long. But it's much better that you have marked than me. So I understand all of that. But it is good to be here with you. As always, there are two sides of stories, one set of facts. And I'm going to bring some facts that you know, some you don't know, and some that are probably going to blow your mind. And I know that could be hyperbole. I don't think it is. I don't think it is because to the extent that I have shared, the blow your mind material, I have not had anybody who, I mean, no literal mind's blown yet that I'm aware of, but nobody had any idea. So you live through it and you will be shocked by the facts pertaining to. And it has to do with gas prices and get into some of the economic stuff.

And, well, it is, as I mentioned, an honor and a pleasure to be here with you. You can catch me at Brian Mud Radio socially. Would love it if you check out the Brian Mud Show podcast wherever you get your podcast. I wanted, I was trying to figure out where do I start. It's the hardest thing about this show and where the stock market ended today. And with the economic momentum that is building, I wanted to start with the economy. There's a really good chance that for a while now, you've been taking a look at your 401K. You've been taking a look at any investment accounts you have. And you've been going, heck yeah. This is freaking phenomenal. And at the same time, there's a reasonable chance. So you go about your day-to-day life and you go, gas is what? Man, this sucks. You go to the grocery store and you're like, good Lord. And so in many respects, you have probably been living what feels like a tale of two economies. And it's the two economies where it feels like the economies for the haves and the have-nots. Now, again, if you're invested as over 60% of Americans are in stocks, you've been participating in a very big way what the historic run the stock market has been on. led by the AI boom. But nevertheless, in your day-to-day life, I mean, look, it's real when you're just trying to make ends meet and you take a look at gas prices, you take a look at groceries, and it's like, yeah, I don't know. And even some people that otherwise are supportive of Trump start getting nervous because I don't know about this Iran thing. And it just comes down to gas prices at a certain point. And then you hear about AI and you're like, oh my God, it's going to take my job and everything else. I'm here to tell you it's not. I mean, it will for some. But man, is it going and already is creating more jobs than it's taken away? And Reganomics was real. And that's where I want to start by talking about AI jobs booming and that it's coming and that we're seeing the early signs and that we've just had the first two months of it actually. It's time that we talked about some really good economic momentum. When I say economics was real. Look, trickle down economics is a real thing. People always, the left always tries to make fun of it. No, it is real. When you have a massive amount of wealth that is being generated by companies, they're going to redeploy that money. And now money is going to find its way all over the place in the economy. And it's starting to happen. So let me walk in on this. You had Sam Altman. Now, he's the founder of Open Eye, of course, the parent of Chad GPT. He's on Capitol Hill yesterday. He had this to say. I think that the impact on jobs has been less than many people in our field expected. It doesn't mean that it'll always stay the way in the future. I think it's very understandable to feel anxiety about this, but it at least hasn't gone so far like people expected. Yeah, hasn't gone so far the way that people had expected? Because what had people expected? What have you heard about for years? All you've heard is that, oh, man, AI, it's going to come and take away your job. And so now that we're advancing in the AI age and are already at the point where most jobs are impacted by AI in some way,

What we're seeing is the exact opposite of what those alleged experts told you would be the state of play. And by the way, this should not come as any kind of a great surprise. How often have the alleged whizbang economist, the so-called futurist, been completely wrong? By the way, that has become such a thing. Have you... increasingly heard, not just here's an expert, but here's a, here's a futurist. I finally figured out what a futurist is. You know what a futurist is? It is, I'm a futurist. I'll take a look at them and listen to them. And I'm like, no, I'm pretty sure that you are just like a homosexual alphabet Liptard. And I think you're unemployed. I think what a futurist is is somebody who is actually just unemployed at the moment. Remember, like, networking events once upon a time, and in some circle still is this way. It's like you go and you and meet people and, you know, you're kind of bounce around. People come and talking like, hey, and so it's the, what do you do kind of thing? And they go, oh, I'm a consultant. Oh. And so you try to be polite at that moment. And so you're like, oh, well, who or what do you consult? Where the honest thing, the honest conversation, there's, oh, you're just unemployed. Got it. Right. You know, consultants were just really unemployed people. Well. Not that there aren't legit consultants, but yes, it was hijacked by the unemployed. A futurist is somebody who maybe used to have some game. It's all washed up or is young and just thinks, oh, I'm an influencer now. By definition, wouldn't like every entrepreneur be a futurist? You know, having created something that had been done before and doing something that have been done before and being successful with it, wouldn't that be? You ever hear Elon Musk call himself a futurist? You ever hear Steve Jobs, I'm a future, no. You hear what I believe are the unemployed people calling themselves future. I'm sorry, got off on that tangent. But these people are just so often wrong. The whiz-bang economist types, the future, the futurist. And the examples are endless, but as a reminder, do you remember when these same types of people told us for the better part of a year? That inflation was only transitory. Just so transitory. You know, because you would have these elitist scumbags like Federal Reserve Chair. Jerome Powell, this is where he earned his nickname too late. Now former Fed Chair, but still Fed Governor. You know, for over 10 months, you have the Jerome Powell. We, the elitist, look down our noses at you little peasant common folks. So we don't use the language of you commoners. We use language like transitory. It's so temporary. It's transitory. Before that Jack Wagon and all the others like them had to admit.

Oh, yeah. Kind of screw that one up, huh? Yeah, it was kind of worse. But by then, by inflation had become the greatest inflation crisis in over 40 years. Or how about how there wasn't a subprime mortgage crisis leading up to the housing crisis and great recession? Yeah, it was just fine. It all going to work out. So if you've heard me talk about it, and I don't know that I have on the show, I don't believe I have, but I have actually, for my audience, been saying it for years in an effort to combat the unfounded job loss fears, that what we're actually going to see with AI, productivity gains, but also job gains. Productivity gains, but job gains. And why? What is the history of this country? Is the history of this country that, hey, we innovate, we do all these amazing things, and then it sucks? Or is it that, hey, we innovate, we do all these amazing things that change, everyday life, change the world, and things get better and better, and better. That's the history of this country. But it's so easy to get bogged down in the futurist, the unemployed people. They don't know things but say stuff. And no shortage of people in this world who don't know things but say stuff. Hence why there are two sides of stories and one side of facts. So let's break this down a little bit. This much we know. April's job growth. Okay. So now we're going back two months ago. And then last month's jobs report. Not a mistake. So if you go back to the previous month, go back just over a month ago. You had the ADP private sector jobs report. Then you had the Government's Bureau of Labor Statistics report that followed. And they both said the same thing. That in April, despite the Iran War, despite the higher gas prices, despite the age of AI and all the fears of job laws and all that stuff, something really unexpected. It ended up playing out instead. Job gains are actually the best since January of the previous year. Actually, the highest since President Trump was just getting settled into office for the second go-round. They doubled expectations job growth back in April. And so in April, in total, 115,000 jobs were added. And by the way, the reason why a number like that is impressive now, when we used to have hundreds of thousands a few years back, is because over two-thirds of the jobs that were added during the Biden administration went to people who were in Mexico, saddled up to a border patrol agent and went, A, uh, essay is where they say a seldom. Yeah, uh, those people, the magic A-word people. Over two-thirds of the job gains during the Biden administration were illegal aliens. And I'm not going to get into all that here right now, but again, 97% of everybody who claimed asylum has turned and has gone through the process has been determined to be nothing more than illegal alien. Most of them never even show up for their court appearances. 97% nothing more than illegal alien scamming the system. And that's where all the jobs are going.

So when you hear 115,000 jobs added these days, these are actual Americans. These are illegal citizens in the United States of America going to work. And what happened? Well, the wage gains totaled 3.6% year every year, which was actually higher than the rate of inflation. That's just every three. For that month, we're talking about April. More recently, it went up to 3.8. But stand by. So anyway, that helped illustrate a month ago how the consumer economy. continue to get by despite the highest gas prices than three and a half years. But the most exciting thing, and it was the biggest storyline with the most significant implications, well, you had many tech-related jobs that have been cut due to AI innovations. Those job gains have been well more than offset by everything that it takes to build all this AI. All the infrastructure that goes into it, this includes job gains with construction firms, utility companies. technology that supports the AI companies. But that was the information I gave you a month old at this point. What have we learned most recently? That news is even better. So we'll dive into it next. I'm Brian Mud, in for the great one. Mudd Love in.

I talk about protecting your liberty, your family, and your future. And right now, I think one of the smartest moves you could make for your financial future is gold and silver. Gold just had a pullback. You know what that means? It means you have a window, a real opportunity to get in at a lower price before the next move up. And it's coming. The fundamentals haven't changed. Washington keeps spending. Inflation keeps eroding your savings. And gold keeps doing what it's always done. holding its value and everything else is shaky. That's why I trust monetary gold. For 26 years, monetary gold has been the gold standard for helping Americans own gold and silver in a tax-sheltered retirement account. Five stars from the Better Business Bureau. Get help taking control of your retirement. Visit mark lovesgold.com or call monetary gold at 877 now gold for a one-on-one consultation. That's 877 now gold or mark lovesgold.com. Performance may vary. You should always consult your financial and tax professional. Talking about the AI jobs boom that is coming and how you're starting to see the AI boom in the real economy and how things are going to be just getting better from here. Generally, Brian Mud in for Mark Levin. Mark will be back with us tomorrow, by the way, so you can look forward to that. All right. We ended up taking a look at what happened a couple months ago. And it was like, oh, the economist shocked. Oh, my gosh, job so much better. And wage growth came in higher than inflation. And so, yeah, it sucks to pay four bucks or whatever for gas. But you know what? If you get beyond some of that, things are actually starting to get better. Then we had what happened yesterday. So April was good. Well, what did we find out yesterday that the jobs related news even better in May and seems like it's kind of getting better by the day. Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Trade deficit for goods declined by approximately $370 billion compared to the same timeframe ending March 2025. The economy has added 313,000 net. private sector jobs and 13,000 manufacturing jobs in the past two months. Yeah, bingo. So in yesterday's ADP report, you had 120,000 private sector jobs that were added. That was for May. And that was not only better. than expected again. That was not only better than April once again. That was yet again the best number that we had seen since January 25 when Trump was just getting settled back into the Oval Office. And where were the jobs added? The answer is everywhere. The answer was just about everywhere. So you had 49,000 jobs that were at with companies with fewer than 20 employees. That's a big deal. 49,000 with companies fewer than 20 employees. And they had 40,000 that were added with the largest companies. And then a lot of growth with companies of all sizes in between. Okay. So what is especially important about that? Well, first, small businesses, man, they are your leading economic indicators. The only time you have small businesses and especially small, when you're talking about companies under 20 employees, they're only hiring more employees.

When business conditions demand it. You know, they're only going to hire more people. When the cash registers ringing, they've got to have more people in there to make it happen. And it's also a good sign to see the largest companies, the ones that are adapting AI in the workplace, the fastest, that are also adding large numbers of employees. So as the AI age has arrived, the smallest companies, your leading economic indicators, they're growing the best. Second fastest growth is the largest company. This is a win. This is a win. And so it's working on both ends of the economy. I'll tell you what it means for you coming up next. Brian Muddin for the great one, Mark Levin. I talk about protecting your liberty, your family, and your future. And right now, I think one of the smartest moves you could make for your financial future is gold and silver. Gold just had a pullback. You know what that means? It means you have a window. A real opportunity to get in at a lower price before the next move up. And it's coming. The fundamentals haven't changed. Washington keeps spending. Inflation keeps eroding your savings. And gold keeps doing what it's always done. holding its value and everything else is shaky. That's why I trust monetary gold. For 26 years, monetary gold has been the gold standard for helping Americans own gold and silver in a tax-sheltered retirement account. Five stars from the Better Business Bureau. Get help taking control of your retirement. Visit mark lovesgold.com or call monetary gold at 877 now gold for a one-on-one consultation. That's 877 now gold or mark lovesgold.com. Performance may vary. You should always consult your financial and tax professional. Mark Levin, America's, Paul Revere. Call him now at 877381-3811. Talking about the AI jobs boom that is coming and how the Trump economy is about to come together in a very big way. Brian Mudd, in for the great one, Mark Levin. First half hour of the show brought you the information about how now two months in a row we have had job gains that have blown away expectations of Wall Street economists, completely the opposite of what the futurist said we're going to happen with AI and jobs. Now, we're actually seeing the single best growth in jobs with the smallest companies. Companies under 20 employees. And that large companies are still adding a lot of people too. And the reason is because as the AI boom is happening, you also have everything that has to support it. So if you work with your hands, man, it's a good time to be in the workforce. You got people in construction. You got the, you know the biggest wage gains over the past year? Trades. All of the top wage gains, they are not people that are, you know, engineers that are working in the tech field. They aren't. The biggest wage gains are coming with HVAC technicians.

I mean, my God, you want to make some fast money. You get certified. You start doing, you know how much AC it takes to cool down all these AI data centers? You know how many people it takes to build all these things? I know people hate them. I get that. I understand all the unhappiness around. It takes a heck of a lot to power all this AI. Everything that goes into it. seemingly people just kind of forgot about all those jobs. So what's happening here? is that the age of AI is here. It's a riot. But also, it isn't what you are told it was going to be economically. And the reason is, because this is the United States of America. And when we have great economic activity that is taking place, in this system, we all benefit. In a free economy, everyone benefits. And that's what's starting to come together here. So let's walk through this a little bit more. Smallest companies, hiring the most, largest companies, hiring the second most, good growth, all the way in between. Bottom line is, it always makes the news when you have like a high profile tech company that announces AI-related layoffs. Those exist. They are real. There's a lot of disruption out there. But what doesn't make the news is when all these less sexy-sounding companies and jobs, the construction jobs, H-Pact jobs, the whatever that goes in, and certainly the small companies, those under 20 employees, all these jobs are being added. Nobody talks about that stuff. But the numbers show it. They show it happening in a very big way. So you have the smallest and the largest companies that are currently in growth mode. which tells you that this economy isn't a big-time growth mode. You take a look at what's been going on in the stock market, the incredible run, these record highs. It's not a mistake. Stock market's a leading economic indicator. So what else happened in the ADP report we got for May? How about income growth? Well, if you stayed in your job over the past year, on average, you're making 4.4% more. If you switch jobs, you're making 6.5% more on average in the private sector. That still gets you well ahead of inflation, even with it having been higher last month. So each of the last two months, we have seen, despite the higher gas prices, Higher inflation that comes off of that, grossers, everything. Average person, average family is still doing better than they were before. It may not feel that way when you go pay four bucks for gas, but it's actually in the numbers here. Now, the average Americans continuing to get ahead, and it actually looks like as the AI boom accelerates, you're going to see more of this economic growth accelerating too. Let me give you something that's kind of crazy here for a moment. If you take a look at the stock market, a lot of people are like, oh my gosh, how can this thing keep going? I don't know what's going to happen over the short run. In my life, I have never seen, I've been investing since I was 11 years old. I have never seen the kind of growth we just had to start the year without a recession before it.

The average company, the average S&P 500 company, produced earnings growth of 28% year every year. 28%. You take a look at these record highs for stocks and all this activity. It's like, oh my gosh. You know how much the S&P 500 is up year to date? 10.5% at today's close. 10.5%. Earnings growth has almost been three times what the market has done. So in other words, it's not like the Domcom era where it was all fake and you put on a suck puppet and put a dot com behind it and yeah. And then it was all crap and the bubble burst and that was that. Now, this is real. The earnings are real. We've had this historic run with the stock market and actually the run has only been about a third of what the earnings growth has actually been. That's like holy crap got a territory. But here's the more important point. I mean, if you're investing and you look at your 401K and your investments, that's awesome because you're benefiting. But it's also that all of those earnings are being redeployed back into the real economy. The wage growth I was just talking about, the wage, the jobs themselves that I was just talking about, the fact that small businesses are actually growing the fastest right now outside of the Pure Play AI companies. And so. In other words, you're not going to be in a position all that much longer where it's going to necessarily feel like a tail of two economies. One where you look at your 401k and you're like, heck yeah. And then you go and get gas and you're like, wow, this sucks. And I'm struggling to pay bills. But instead, what you're going to get is an overall better and growing economy that is led by tech AI investment. One more here from Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary. Before President Trump took office, our trading partners exploited America's markets, our regulatory state's mothered businesses, and our tax code was poised to punish workers and job creators. Today, his policies are driving lower taxes, bigger paychecks, and broader prosperity. Two sides of storage. One set of facts. Facts. All that right there. It is true. Stay out of the way of this thing. Regulated appropriately. everything that has always happened in the history of this country will happen only faster than ever before because of how fast everything is happening with all this growth, all this AI investment. You'll probably remember back in the 90s with all the dot-com stuff, remember how it was going to be the retail apocalypse, how you're never going to have a retail store again. And it'd be no physical or anything. It'd only be online. And in the end, what happened with the advent of the consumer internet age? In the end, you had tens of millions more jobs than existed before. And industries and companies that hadn't even been dreamed up before because of the opportunities possible. So the history of U.S. innovation has shown that, yeah, gains and technological achievement are going to lead to dislocations in certain jobs. That's real. And so your specific job could be in the crosshairs. However, on balance, going to be well more than offset. And we're already seen it. Already seen it in a massive way. We're going to have significant net additional jobs over the longer term. And it's not even going to be a cliff getting there. It's going to be a ramp up getting there. So as we're in the early stages of AI adaptation in the United States, we're seeing those dynamics play out.

And none of it is an absolute guarantee that it just works like clockwork. Because everything here is happening faster than in previous cycles, including the 90s and early 2000s.com stuff. But there is actually a lot to be excited for in our economy and world today, especially if we do soon end up with some kind of resolution with Iran, with a reopened straight of Hormuz. And so, yeah, you know, you're going to have AI that will disrupt a lot of the economy. You're going to have a lot of jobs disrupted. But the net benefit of AI, what is doing to rapidly grow corporate America, grow earnings, have that money redeployed, growing the overall economy is going to end up making the overall situation so much better for the average person. And then, Consider this. Let's say for a moment about the Iran situation, because this is like the Groundhog Day stuff, right? You know, every day you hear, oh, we're close to a deal, and then it doesn't end up happening, right? And if you are particularly concerned about gas prices, then you're just hoping somehow another sticks. You know, again, if you can trust Islamic terrorist to stick to terms of a ceasefire, who can you trust, really, is what I'm talking about. But if $4 gas is sustainable, then what we're doing right now is sustainable. This was President Trump over the weekend, his interview with Lara Trump. With the oil superpower, far greater than even Saudi Arabia, even Russia. But you add them up. These are two big monsters. You add them up, and we double it. We have a great country. We've had tremendous success. We have done things that are unbelievable. Yeah, so you then wait into the whole Iranian saga. We're day in and day out. It's kind of like you feel like it's an episode of something that is, you know, like daytime TV where it just in this weekend even has kind of taken on the feel of a soap opera with a life of its own. You know, the whole leaked depictions of what went down on Monday between President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump was said to have gone off on BB about Hezbollah and Lebanon. And then how Trump ended up kind of confirming that yesterday, which was an indication, by the way, to Benjamin Netanyahu from Trump, that he really doesn't want a problem in trying to get this ceasefire to turn into some kind of a deal. You know, it was interesting. Earlier, the president held a press conference. It went on a long time. The president was like over an hour. It took tons of questions. One of them was that Hezbo said they weren't going to stick to the ceasefire that's agreed to with Israel. And he said he really wasn't worried about that, that Hezbo actually had reached out to him to discuss the ceasefire with Israel. So he thinks they're just, you know, saying stuff to be determined. But anyway. One of the single biggest things that is so often not known or is forgotten is the brilliance of what President Trump has been doing here and how it's only led to $4 gas. One of the things that President Trump will regularly say about the Iran conflict and about gas prices where they currently are.

Is that, well, if people just know that this is about Iran not having a nuclear weapon and they would have had a nuclear weapon, we'd have a nuclear war and all this, then they'll be supportive of it. And that can be true to a point, but it's actually even bigger than that, right? Because what Trump has done, going back to the beginning of this year and what he did with Venezuela is actually preventing World War III. I mean, yeah, what's going on right now is about Iran. But what it's actually about is China. It's about Russia. It's about preventing a nuclear World War III. You know, for a long time talked about the new access powers, right? China's not just China. China is what? China is Russia. China has been Iran. China has been North Korea with a little rocket man, had been Cuba, had been Venezuela, still is Nicaragua. So China. has led this whole new access network. And it had all been pointing in one direction. And that is ultimately something that could arrive at the level of World War III, especially with their military buildup. But what did Trump do? So first, Trump goes and he ends up making Maduro go missing in Venezuela. And so what did that end up doing? Well, biggest oil reserves in the world in Venezuela, barely any oil that had been harvested there. And so Trump goes in, and for the oil that had been in Venezuela, 80% of it had been going to China. Now, it was still only 2% of China's oil, but still a big deal to them. So Trump goes in there. Maduro goes missing. He gets Venezuela to play ball with us. We're getting all the oil. You have Chevron that's in there increasing production. By the way, just over where we were when Maduro was still in place, production in Venezuela is already up 50% daily from that level. And it's all coming this direction. So China gets caught off from their oil supply from Venezuela. We become the beneficiaries of that as we're ramping up production on oil. Then what ends up happening? Well, then it's Iran. Then it's Iran. And that's the big one. And that is ultimately what prevents China from being able to do anything that arrives at the level of World War III. Why? Because that's 47% of China's oil. And so China doesn't even have the ability to come after us militarily and run their country right now. It's all part of the brilliant. So pick up there next. Brian Mud, in for the great one.

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It is Brian in for Mark Levin and talking about the economic boom that's being driven by AI at the same time that President Trump has so brilliantly knee-capped China prevented a nuclear World War III while the downside to us has just been a short-lived price of gas at foreign change. It is stunning, it's remarkable, and he doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for all of this. One of the things that in the day to day, this gets down to for most people, for the average American, everything that's going on with Iran and whatever else, it still comes down to, okay, well, what does this mean to me? As in, what am I paying for gas? What am I paying for groceries? And at varying points during the past few months, I posed the question to my listeners that have been concerned about this. Ask the question. Look, if oil were, say, 20 bucks cheaper than it is right now, and so gas be basically close to where it was before the Iran war, how would you feel? What do we be even having this conversation today to day to day? And so that is to say that in the day to day, a lot of people still don't really care about Iran if they don't feel like they're paying higher prices for it. But what if it suddenly didn't feel like we were paying for what was happening in Iran? I'm going to explain how so much of this comes down to psychology, not even to real economics. Psychology, not real economics. See, the average cost of a gallon of gas today, $4.24. $4.24. And did you know that on an inflation-adjusted basis, even if gas averaged 424 for the entire year, I mean, we'd only be talking about equalling the ninth most expensive year for gas? What's more? What do you have known that four of the top five all time in each of the top three years for the most expensive gas in American history came from what administration? This will boil your mind. I'll have it for you next. Brian Mud, in for Mark Levin. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by Pure Talk. Pure Talk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to puretalk.com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening, and thank you so much for this sponsorship, Pure Talk. He's here. Now, broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-district building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. Okay, so my question for you was, name that administration. Would you know that four of the top five all time in each of the top three years for the most expensive gas came during? What administration?

I'm going to break down something that I do think is going to surprise a lot of folks. That's been my experience thus far. Hey, it is Brian Mud in for Mark Levin. He's going to be back with us tomorrow so you can look forward to that. In the meantime, it is an honor and pleasure being here with you. I love being here with you. I miss you, actually. And so it's always great to have the opportunity. You can follow me at Brian Mud Radio socially and would love it. Check out the Brian Mud Show podcast wherever you get your podcast. So what administration is it? For the top five all time for gas prices, three of the top in all the top three years. It happened to come during the Barack Hussein Obama administration. Let me ask you something. Can you remember any significant coverage of gas prices during the Obama administration? Can you remember any day-to-day discussion about, oh, my gosh, affordability of just can't pay this for gasoline?

You want to know something that's really going to deploy your mind? You know the most expensive year for gas in American history? It happened to be his re-election year of 2012. I'm not kidding. See, if you think about these things, if you're of a certain age, your mind's going to go back to the 70s. You might be thinking about the early to mid-70s energy crisis. You might then think about Captain Peanut. It's my semi-affectionate nickname for the late Jimmy Carter. You know, sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you govern like one. He was a good peanut farmer, just not good, putting the peanut farmer in the White House kind of thing. So, yeah, Jimmy Carter and all of his inflation that he brought about, you might have thought back to 2008. And the spike we ended up seeing that summer. And it is true that in very short spikes in those windows of time, there were absolute prices adjusted for inflation that were higher. But if you actually take a look at a full calendar year and you average out the price for regular unleaded in this country, none of those years were at the top. All of them were during the Obama administration. And so one of the things I pointed out in the first hour, is that for each of the past couple of months, yeah, gas prices have sucked. Nobody likes paying over $4. And if you're paying over $6 in California, that's your fault for still living there. More in California in just a bit. When you take a look at wages and wage growth, it's staying ahead of inflation, even with the Iran War. When you consider what's being accomplished by heading off not just Iran, but most notably China and preventing the nuclear World War III, that we're only talking about $4.24 for gas is otherworldly kind of amazing. But here's the deal. On an inflation-adjusted basis, the most expensive year for gas. In our country's history was 2012, Obama's reelection year, when in today's dollars, it was $5.7. That was the average price you paid in 2012, 507. Wasn't even an election issue. The second most expensive year, the year before, 2011. When it was $5.4.5 a gallon. That's right. We spent back-to-back years in today's dollars with regular unleaded pacing over five bucks a gallon. And nobody said boo. No, where's the news? Where's your GSS news? Your godless solaceousintern news media. You know what the third most expensive in American history happened to be? 2013. Where it averaged 484 that year. And then in 2014, it was 457. So you get this. Here we are at 424. People are like, oh, gas prices. For a four-year stretch coming out of the Great Recession, no less.

So things already had sucked pretty bad for a lot of people for a long time because of the housing crisis, financial crisis, all that stuff. And then on top of it, for a full four-year period under the Big O, we were paying somewhere between 457 to 507 for gas. And nobody said anything about it. Your GSS news didn't cover it at all. Zero impact on the Obama re-election bid. And so it's more than just a thought exercise at this point. How much of this really is psychology? How much of it is really you're being told, oh, this is awful versus I actually can't really afford that. Again, for the people that it's real, I don't discount it. But I'm talking about the averages here. And the fact of the matter is the average household in this country is doing better than a year ago. In absolute dollars coming through the door with gas prices, with inflation where it is. That was not the case under the Biden administration. The average person ended up losing during the Obama administration. 1.2% of buying power, meaning the average person was worse off at the end of the Biden administration than they were going into it. It's a fact. Under Trump, we were 1% better off through year one, and that's actually accelerating even with higher gas prices and thus higher inflation under the Iran War. Now, To put this even to more perspective, because this really is going to be in your memory because it's recent, even in 2022, the peak year of Biden inflation, that only led to gas being an inflation had adjusted 435 per gallon. Which, by the way, think about this. Here we are with 20% of the world's oil supply cut off in the Strait of Horm moves right now. And Biden inflation was worse. Just Joe Biden and Democrats and what they did to this country was worse than what we have going on with Iran. And the street of war moves being close. I mean, just more illustration of the catastrophe that all was. So Biden worse than what things are now. all of the worst years in American history under the Obama years. And so consider this. One of the things I ended up doing over the past day, I took a look at the price of oil. It has averaged $91 over the past week. Let's see where we are in real time. I know it was down earlier today. Probably I ended up holding, yeah, it did. So oil, 92 and change real time. 92 and change real time. It's average 91 over the past week. So with some help of AI tools, because that does make life a lot easier than it otherwise used to be, I modeled what the average price is for regular unleaded fuel would be in this country. If...

Just the status quo happened. If it was Groundhog Day, if a deal doesn't get done, if we just end up with things more or less where they are like this. And if there aren't any other supply shocks, like a destructive hurricane coming through the golf or something like that, takes a lot of our energy offline without some kind of other supply shock. You know what the answer would be? The answer would be $4.5 nationally. We're actually 19 cents lower than the price that you pay on average of the pump today. If the status quo continues like this with oil pacing about as it is over the past week, we would average gas this summer. It's 19 cents lower than where we are today. And over a dollar less than the peak Obama year. You know what that would mean? Those prices wouldn't even equal a top 10 year for gas prices in this country. Wouldn't even be a top 10 year in American history. It would also mean that we would have seen the peak in inflation for the cycle because those pressures would ease a bit as energy prices be coming down as well. And so here's the thing. If $4 gas is sustainable and economically the numbers show that it is, And all those Obama years, somehow or another, managed to work with gas over five bucks. What you end up seeing here, if this whole thing ends up coming together, is remarkable. It is an economic boom, potentially unlike anything that we've ever seen. We have been increasing U.S. production in oil, increasing Venezuela and their oil production, mentioned 50% above, reworking supply chains around the world. So the shock will not be as great as it had been earlier on if this thing does continue. But even if this thing just starts to play out like this in perpetuity, $4 gas is sustainable. The current state of affairs in Iran, in theory at that point, could be sustainable if necessary. For us, yes, for Iran not so much, because here's the next thing. The economic impact of what's happening in Iran, it's like the worst of the Great Depression there every day. About a third of their economy is now offline. That is worse than the peak of the Great Depression and the United States. on top of the damage that's been done to that country. So for us, we go, oh, $4 gas. For them, peak Great Depression territory. So somewhere along the way, they might actually crack. I mean, they are freaks over there. These aren't just any Islamic terrorists. These are well-a-man-believing Islamic terrorists because, you know, the only thing that is freaky or dickier than... somebody who is a Sharia law believer and thinks you kill all the infidels is somebody who does that. And then thinks, you know, if we just kill enough people, if we just wash the world in blood, then this 12th Amman, this well-a-man that's been hanging out there for like 13, 1,400 years in a well, it's going to come out and things are going to be great. I mean, it is kind of hard to negotiate with that. And that is who these people are, which is part of the reason why this is so difficult. These are not your transactional kind of Islamic terrorists by any means.

At some point, they might actually stay uncle. And we kneecap China's access network all at the same time. Preventing a nuclear World War III, taking a lot of the energy offline to China, reworking alliances and energy supply chains around the world. And then if you do actually get a deal done. 28% corporate earnings growth, a stock market that is only 10.5% higher on back of that. Small companies that are growing jobs at the fastest pace in years. Large companies are growing a lot of jobs too. Wage growth that is accelerating. And then you get inflation that comes way down at the same time. That is an exciting time in this country. And all of that is in play. But again, even if it isn't, Even if it's status quo, this can still be the onset of an economic boom. We're already seeing that play out, too. I'm Brian Mud, and for the great one. Mud. Love in. Paying 70, 80, 90 dollars a month to big wireless for unlimited data is insanity, especially when Pure Talk, my wireless company, is going to give you unlimited high-speed data. for just $34.99 a month. Unlimited, high-speed data at Pure Talk used to start at $55 a month, but because Pure Talk is constantly pushing to give you more for less. You can now get unlimited high-speed data for just $3499 a month. So if you've looked at Pure Talk before and you didn't make the move, please check them out again. And if you're wondering, is Pure Talks Network really as good as the overpriced big guys? Try it out for 30 days with no contract, no cancellation. fees. You have nothing to lose. 30 days. Check it out. Their U.S. customer service team is standing by to help you switch in as little as 10 minutes. Go to puretalk.com slash levin. That's puretalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N to claim unlimited high-speed data. Just 3499. Again, that's puretalk.com slash Levine. L-E-V-I-N. Switch to my wireless company, America's wireless company, Pure Talk. Again, that's puretalk.com slash Levine.

In theory, they're pretty close to signing a paper. We've actually gotten along with them very well. And you know what you saw for the last few nights? It takes two to tango. You understand that we hit them very hard on something else. Unrelated. Maybe deal comes together. Close to sign of the paper. You know, you have one person no tango. You got two? Yeah, good by tango. So, yeah. It does feel like a groundhog day at times with all this stuff. But you do sense, and especially Trump. kind of calling out Benjamin Netanyahu Yahoo even a little bit publicly now. It's like, look, I'm getting to the finish line in this thing. It's a sign that he does not want Benjamin Netanyahu Yahoo mudding up the waters at this point. Although, look, I mean, if you're NN Yahoo and Hesbo is firing into Israel, just imagine if somebody was firing into your neighborhood or what are you going to want your leaders to do. So you understand NJahu and Israel's position all day long in this. But nevertheless, you get the sense of maybe it could be different this time. But even if it isn't, I've laid out a scenario that. ends up being pretty darn good. Let's go to the phones. We've got Phil and Philly. Welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for taking a call, Mr. Mode. The way we're kicking this around us, old vets here in Philly, the only way we can see this absolutely ending. You can't negotiate with the madmen is the Shaw. He talks a good game here on American soil, but what he's got to do is we've got to get them in country under protection of the Kurds. And we have to fund and arm the people of Iran through the Kurds and get old school with those flyers that get dropped from 30,000 feet. The Shaw has returned. Freedom is at hand. Join the fight. Join the revolution. I mean, it's the only way the Shaw... You bring up a good point. And you might recall in the very beginning, you heard the Kurds. And then Trump took them off the table. And what I'll tell you is I talked to some folks that are in the know, including some intelligence peeps. And they have said the Kurds are not reliable. And the Iranian people wouldn't accept them. If the Kurds go in there because the Kurds don't have a country, they're going to want to take the country. Like they're not. people that are just going to be altruistic for our benefit that way. And so I don't think that's an option. That is the complication because, as you point out, if you don't have a military, this is where it gets so muddy with Iran. Even if you go bombs away again and you start killing everybody. So we killed the first string. We killed the second string. We killed Mozart. In theory, there's an Ayatollah who was bombed in the beginning that still isn't shown his face at the light of day. The IRGC does all the messaging. I think Trump was hoping to get to somebody who would be transactional. And these people are freaks. These are not just your Sri al-Islamic freaks. These are people that are 12thabam, well-am freaks that believe that they've got to wash the world in blood, so their well-a-mom comes back out.

And so you're right. Trying to negotiate with that doesn't get very far. And you can put it in the shop. But the problem is the military is never going to back him. And how are you going to get all the IRGC out of there? That's where the economic starvation that Trump is working on probably makes the most sense that way. Um, got a couple other good calls there. I'll tell you what. Take a couple more of, uh, of your calls coming up after the bottom of the hour. And now I'm going to tell you about how this version of the Democrat Party is the most dangerous yet. Break that down for you coming up as well. Brian Mud, in for the great one. Mark Levin. Paying $70, $80, $90 a month to big wireless for unlimited data is insanity, especially when Pure Talk, my wireless company, is going to give you unlimited high-speed data. for just $34.99 a month. Unlimited, high-speed data at Pure Talk used to start at $55 a month, but because Pure Talk is constantly pushing to give you more for less. You can now get unlimited high-speed data for just $34.99 a month. So if you've looked at Pure Talk before and you didn't make the move, please check them out again. And if you're wondering, Is Pure Talks Network really as good as the overpriced big guys? Try it out for 30 days. With no contract, no cancellation fees, you have nothing to lose. 30 days, check it out. Their U.S. customer service team is standing by to help you switch in as little as 10 minutes. Go to puretalk.com slash Levin. That's puretok.com slash L-E-V-I-N to claim unlimited high-speed data. Just 3499. Again, that's puretalk.com slash Levin, L-E-V-I-N. Switch to my wireless company, America's wireless company, Pure Talk. Again, that's puretalk.com slash Levin. He's driving the media mad. Mark Levin, call in with your outrage. 877-381-3811. Yeah, so this version of the Democrat Party is the most dangerous yet. I'm going to be getting to that shortly. Brian Mud in for the great one, Mark Levin. And we've been talking through the first half of the show about varying different economic things coming together. And then also... Whether or not things work out the way that we hope, in short order, will work out in Iran, a deal being done, something that is satisfactory to our interests, how actually this whole situation is a heck of a lot more sustainable than most people in the day-to-day think it will be. The economics not only supported right now, but actually going forward, are improving. I want to get some of your thoughts as well as we look to Patricia.

In Front Royal Virginia, Patricia, welcome to the show. Thank you, Brian Mudd. You had me giggling after you said the little euphemism about Carter. I will never, ever look at a can of Mr. Peanut again with thinking about your name and laughing my A-off. So a guilty pleasure back in the day. I am from suburban Atlanta. I grew up in suburban Atlanta, and I grew up in suburban Atlanta. It did a radio for a number of years in Georgia before I ended up moving to South Florida over 20 years ago. And I would do a daily parody. And... Some of my favorite involved Jimmy Carter. And so I had, and I wish I still had the material from back then, somewhere in translation, I got lost. But I used to do, you remember the old almond joy commercial. It was sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you sometimes you don't. And so I had a whole parody song done with Jimmy Carter drops and everything else. But the whole thing was sometimes you, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you govern like one. So anyway, I'm glad you were amused by that. That was a guilty pleasure of mine for a long time a while back. Very much. My, I preface that, my question is, Brian, how would you feel if you lived by, and I know this was the previous segment, but how would you feel like if you lived by a data center? What were your thoughts on that? Now, I see, you're exactly right. And it's, you know, funny you mention it because I take a look at it all the time. Here I am in, you know, South Florida. We literally just today in western Palm Beach County had the Palm Beach County Commission call off a vote that was scheduled next month for a massive data center. And so even in a lot of people don't necessarily think of the Palm Beach as a rural area. There is rural territories. You get far west in Palm Beach County. It's a massive place and out near Lake Okeechopee. It's rule. But even there, there is so much pushback. Two of the reddest counties in the state of Florida. So massive red state. And among the reddest counties in the state of Florida just to our north just had data center. proposals that were canceled because of backlash by people. And so there are three things I suppose I have to offer about the data centers. One, I get it.

The not in my backyard thing, I get it. It's always easier for somebody to say, hey, look at the economics of this. Hey, look at how we need this, you know, in the AI race and everything else. And something else when it's next door to you. So that just, you know, understood. The next part of it is the reality that a lot of the early data centers, the way the arrangements were done, did take advantage of people. It's kind of like sports teams, right? You have some sports teams. that will go in and the ownership is shrewd and you have crappy local governments and, you know, the residents just get raped in pillage by the owners because the taxpayers end up on the hook for everything and the owners make all the money, right? And so some sports arrangements and deals are done better than others involving new stadiums, relocations and all that. And, you know, so data centers were kind of the same way. A lot of data center deals were terrible, and people are paying so much more in power costs and everything else. There are some water issues here and there that come up, although those tend to be exaggerated. So there is a reason why people are leery. So the first thing is there is a right and wrong way to go about it. You need to have confident people that are negotiating these deals. One of the things that we had been taking a look at, for example, in the state of Florida, we have a law that has passed where if any data center comes, you cannot have the power company that passes on an increase. You know, you have the state of Florida that... is the regulator over the utilities, and they will not allow any increase related to a data center, period, end of story. Data centers have to pay for all that. And so that is the first thing, is from a point of public policy, you can mitigate some of this if you do it the right way, and if it's regulated properly. And so I think that does need to happen generally. The other thing, and this is just from a point of economic understanding and some of the engineering behind this. Not all data centers are the same. So hyper-scaling, I'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty of this because this is wonky stuff pretty quickly. But a lot of your hypers, these are your massive big, very dense, power-heavy data centers. That is the majority of what's out there. You have what is called photonics that ends up using much less power. you can get much more accomplished with a lot less generally. And my belief is the photonics aspect of AI data centers is the direction that we should be going rather than the hyperscale route. And that would also mitigate the need for power at a similar scale and also some of the other concerns. So those are my structural thoughts about it. My third thought is this. With all that stuff having been said, one honest conversation we have to have with ourselves as the country is I understand everybody hates AI. I get it. But it's happening. It's here. And if the United States of America doesn't lead in it, China will. And it's over for us.

Because whoever wins the, I mean, you talk about the space race with Russia back in the day. Whoever wins the AI race will be the world superpower and the dominant player going forward. And it better be us. And so one thing I can promise you that China is not doing is giving a rip about what's in somebody's backyard. If they need to build a data center, they're going to build a wherever the heck they want to. If they need to build them everywhere that it's inconvenient, because that's what's convenient for the government. That's what they're going to do. And so China right now is maxing out everything they can, trying to exact all that advantage. And we argue amongst ourselves because we don't want it in our backyard. We have the advantage in AI right now. That will not remain the case if we don't do what is necessary in the very near term to provide the level of power to take care of the AI needs for the United States, remain the dominant player. So. Those would be all my thoughts on it. Now, I actually have more, but I'll stop there. So, yeah, there you go. And that is all I will. It's not all I got to say about that, but that is all I will say about that for now. All right. So I have been promising that to tell you about this version of the Democrat Party being the most dangerous yet. So let's get into it. Starting with this from the House Homeland Security Committee yesterday, DHS Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, about the ridiculousness that played out in New Jersey, all these radical groups that are organized around the country yet again, bringing people into New Jersey, funded by the way by groups like Indivisible, which is behind no kings. It's the same Marxist communist. that are funded by George Soros and the Bill Gates Foundation, those people, all the same group. Anyway, DHS Secretary, Markwayne Mullin. I've had officers bit, hit, scratched. We had one get threatened that they were going to kill him and his family. That's peaceful. Yeah, but it's probably, CNN would probably call it like a mostly peaceful protest, right? I mean, it's not like the fire in the background, but that would be like the, uh, The current ICE, mostly peaceful protests, where you're only getting death threats and people bitten. I mean, you know. Okay, so let's talk about some things. There's always two sides of stories, one set of facts. And here's the fact. This version of the Democrat Party is dangerous. Non-opinion, not hyperbole, indisputable fact. And you might have, you know, some woke pronoun Olympian out there that might, indisputable? It is indisputable. When you recently, and you have this going on right now, as you have the efforts for funding, reconciliation, to try to get the Department of Homeland Security funded for the duration of President Trump's term. You had the original effort with Senate Republicans back in April. That reconciliation process. Sent a minority leader Chuck Schumer at the time. Remember that good old Chuck Schumer is the late Great Rush Limbaugh used to say. That is your highest elected Democrat official currently in this country. He said this. He said America is crying out for relief from high costs.

And you're here adding $140 billion to an agency that nobody, two groups, Border Patrol and ICE that nobody respects in this country. Nobody respects Border Patrol and ICE in this country. Now. I'll walk for a moment past the obvious absurdity of Chuck Schumer pretending to be some kind of spin threat who cares about affordability. He who led the Senate's passage of the Democrats, American Rescue Plan Act. Remember that? How it rescued us. The two near two trillion dollars in spending, that was like the gasoline poured on the Biden inflation fire, major catalyst for the 40 plus year high inflation. And then the Inflation Reduction Act, which was like, you already had the bonfire. And they're like, and now we'll just go ahead and bring the bonfire to a gas station and let that thing go. That was the additional $1.2 trillion of bogus debt spending and all that inflation. So the odds are you don't need me to tell you just how blatantly and intellectually dishonest Chuck Schumer is. But what's important to know? is how radical he and his Democrat Party is. Because you likely will remember that the Democrats backing of the BLM led Marxist defund police movement of six years ago, had devastating consequences on communities. Here's a refresher on what that devastating, Democrat policy did to people in communities that embraced. Defunding police. No, total crime rates. See, people never really go back and take a look at the long-range view of this stuff. Total crime rates in those locations rose by 30%. So where you had a community that embraced some form of defunding the police back in those moments, total crime rates of 30% in those communities, murders rose by 44%. Man. Who wouldn't want to support something like that, right? Who wouldn't want to vote for those politicians? And of course, it eventually became so bad that the Democrat Party who backed the policy along with their allies and in GSS News, they just kind of like quietly backtracked a little bit, acknowledging the failure, though not publicly. And just, God, we like police now until they out of themselves with ICE, right? But what the defund police movement proved is that this version of the Democrat Party is that dangerous. This went down in South Carolina today. This is South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson. This isn't just about the manufacturing of the documents. This is about stealing people's identities. Many of these documents involved social security numbers of real U.S. citizens. They involved real driver's ID license numbers of real citizens here in South Carolina. So people's identities were obviously being compromised as part of this racket. And what kind of racket was it?

Two managers were arrested as part of that sting, Christopher Douglas Ramey and Sandy Lynn Willis. They were arrested on state grand jury charges. And 48 workers were detained by ICE as part of an immigration component to this operation. Yes, you had these people that were. And this organized identity theft ring, employing people, and have them working. And this is in South Carolina. You only imagine what happens in blue states. And so there are so many violent outcomes that come about. But you on a regular basis have identity theft and all kinds of other ways that these illegal aliens are ruining people's lives. And where are those people going to be? And what will be of these types of situations, if not rise? The only entity that has any authority to detain and deport people. So, of course, it wasn't just BLM and defunding police that made many communities less safe. Most of all, around that time, he had the open border policies too. And you might recall, I had mentioned it a number of times on this particular program, if you've been a long time listener. My analysis demonstrated by the end of the Biden administration, so many criminal illegal aliens were running rampant through our country, through our communities, that a quarter of all crime in this country, a quarter of all of it, was happening by illegal aliens. I mean, it's a stunning thing. I'll pick up there next. Brian Mud and for the great one.

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With open borders and the proliferation of the Mexican cartels and their illicit cattle trafficking, the New World Screw Room began to make its way north, hitting Mexico in 2023 and 2024. Ain't that special? Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlings testifying that. Illegal alien screw worms are still screwing out. You're talking about getting screwed by the Biden administration. It still happens every day and in so many ways with illegal aliens committing crimes of this country. Taxpayers that continue to get ripped off. But even illegal alien screw worms screwing us and cattle and the food supply. It's the gift that keeps ungiving, the open border Biden administration. And on that note, mentioned that by the end of the Biden administration, we saw that a quarter, unbelievable figure, quarter of the crime committed in this country was by illegal aliens, not included 24% of all drug trafficking, 25% of all property crimes, 28% of all fraud. By the end of the Biden administration, non-citizen crime rates had become... 914% higher than the average legal citizen. Remember how you would always have the lies? Oh, the average person that just, they're just trying to get a job or you're more likely to commit a crime than them. Remember how they would always, you are more likely to commit a crime than an illegal alien, which is a joke unto itself, right? When your first act of being here is an illegal act, I mean, but. Yeah, not so much. The facts actually showed that by the end of the Biden administration, non-citizens, nine times more likely to commit a crime than you. In fact, during the four years of the Biden administration, total crimes committed by non-citizens rose by 626%. And so that was one way that very clearly demonstrated this version of the Democrat Party is dangerous. And that takes me back to the comment by Chuck Schumer that I started with. where he said you're here adding $140 billion to an agency than nobody, two groups, Border Patrol and ICE, and nobody respects in this country. I mean, obviously it's absurdly false. I mean, I don't know a single conservative or, for that matter, person with a brain in their head and two functional brain cells within that head that don't respect Border Patrol and ICE. But that's actually not the point. The point is this. This version of the Democrat Party doesn't respect Border Patrol. They don't respect ICE. And what have Border Patrol and ICE been responsible? The reduction in crime rate in 2025, the first year of the Trump administration, assaults 10% lower, robbery is 22% lower, homicide is 21% lower, property crime 27% lower. In fact, biggest one year drop every court. Be right back.

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No, broadcasting them from the underground command post. Deep in the boughs of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-district building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark the Ben. No city is better prepared than New York. No city knows how to handle crowds, extra riders, intercept criminals, online threats, and we will keep, no city is better prepared to keep its trains and buses running on time. I mean, if Kathy Hochul doesn't install, instill some confidence about New York heading into the World Cup, I mean, hey, you got Zohran Mamdani too. You know, it's kind of funny because for those of us that are a long, long way from New York City, thankfully, and for somebody like me in a place with a lot of people that have come a long, long way to get away from New York City permanently, not really concerned with the World Cup anything. Because let's be real. Most Americans are not soccer fans. And those that are, okay, you can get excited. But it's just, it's not really one of those things, right? Where most of the rest of us are sitting there worried in the day to day. I actually wasn't too concerned about New York candling all this until you hear Kathy Hochul and Mom Dottie start talking about it. I'm like, oh yeah, we're going to have problems. Hey there, Brian Mud in for Mark Levin. Always an honor and a pleasure being here with you. You are going to have the great one back tomorrow night. So you can look forward to that. You can always connect with me at Brian Mud Radio socially and would love it if you would go ahead and check out my podcast, the Brian Mud Show podcast, wherever you get your podcast. And as we have been most recently discussing. This version of the Democrat Party is the most dangerous yet. And I ended up bringing you the very specific reasons, the very statistical reasons for that based upon defunding police, based upon open border policies. But then you take a look at where we would be in real time if Democrats still had control of things. And you think about the implications as we're in this midterm election cycle. And so I left off in the previous hour talking about the remarkable amount of crime by the end of the Biden administration, a quarter of all crime in this country committed by illegal aliens. And then in year one of the Trump administration, you had assaults dropped by 10%, robberies dropped by 22%, homicides dropped by 21%, crime, 27% lower overall. It was the largest one-year drop in a lot of those categories ever recorded, including homicides. And why? How and why was it that magically all of that historic crime reduction took place? Well, it was one person. It was President Trump, and it was two agencies. It was Border Patrol and ICE. Specifically, President Trump allowing for Border Patrol and ICE to do their jobs. And after four years of open borders, sanctuary policies,

Just by stopping illegal immigrants from coming into this country with Border Patrol and then having ICE target criminal illegal immigrants, you got historic reductions in crime that immediately took place. Imagine that. And so there are literally hundreds of thousands fewer victims of crime in this country over the past year. I just think about this real quick. Hundreds of thousands. If you do the math and the reduction. versus what had been happening. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who have not been victims of crime that would have been, including many of them dead, simply because of Donald Trump being president and because of Border Patrol and ICE doing their job. But Chuck Schumer says nobody respects them. But more important than that, Chuck Schumer and every single congressional Democrat, even the Frankenfeeder, who's made a great comeback. You know, John Fetterman is the hot, hot Democrat with all the conservatives these days. Check his voting record. He says a lot of good stuff. Every once in a while, he falls on to a halfway decent vote. This guy is 90% with the rest of them. And so people get taken by the Frankenfetter. He talks a good game. His voting record still sucks. By the way, Todd Blanche, you know, Trump came out and this is a deviation. But, of course, you had the last night President Trump say this. I'm instructing Dan and everybody else that's involved in that very complicated process, which is going to go, I think, very quickly, that we are going to make him permanent attorney general. Yeah, so there you go. What did John Fetterman say today? John Fetterman, he's not going to, he's going to vote now. So I just, I caution the people get taken in, get all excited about the Frankenfeeder. The game that he talks is a lot better than the game you vote still. Be mindful. But anyway, every single congressional Democrat continues to vote to defund ICE and Border Patrol. And actually, the entire Department of Homeland Security more often than not, right? I mean, how long do they hold up funding for the Coast Guard Secret Service TSA? So six years ago, Democrats rally behind defunding police. Five years ago, Democrats rally behind open borders. Today, the Democrat Party stands for defunding at times the entire Department of Homeland Security for a record amount of time. And absolutely, ICE and Border Patrol and perpetuity. And so Democrats have been quick to try to turn the page on the incredible policy failures, seemingly suggesting that it was just kind of like, that was Biden and moved on from him, along with their willing accomplice this in GSS news. But in reality, the current version of the Democrat Party is the most radical yet. You know, people are, oh, gas prices. I know. Nobody wants to pay four bucks for gas. And again, if you're paying six bucks in California, that's just because for some reason you've decided to screw yourself in life by staying there. And again, more on California, and they're just so hard to count votes. We'll get to that in just a bit, too. What do I do with this ballot? It's just so hard to count it.

So as the big O would have said, as Barack Obama would have said, let me be clear. If you vote for Democrats, you are voting for more murders to take place. This is a fact. This is an opinion. There are two sides of stories and one set of facts. If you vote. For Democrats, you are voting for more murders to take place. Do you want more murders to take place? Vote for Democrats. If you vote for Democrats, you're voting for open borders. If you want open borders, vote for Democrats. If you are voting for Democrats, guess what you're voting. You want more rapes to take place. This is a fact. If you vote for Democrats, you are voting for more people to be raped in this country. If this is uncomfortable, the problem is with you, not with me. You're the one who's jacked up in the brain because you're the one that's acceptable for more people to be raped, more murders to take place, for open borders to be a thing. If you vote for Democrats, you're voting for more assaults. If you vote for Democrats, you're voting for more robberies. If you vote for Democrats, you are voting more for every type of criminal thing. The freaking devil himself is driving this thing. It's so freaking evil. The people sit there and go, man, gas prices. I don't like Trump now. Give me a Democrat. You're an idiot. You want to be a victim of crime?

This has been proven in the most visible ways. You are bat, crap, crazy nuts to vote for Democrats. It is stunning to me, and it is an alarming possibility to me that so many people have been radicalized in such a way. That they could ever be considered a voting for people. You would have thought that after Biden, the Democrat Party, it's like the autopsy. They would have gone back and said, man, we really blew that thing. No. All they've done is become more radical. Back then, when they had control of things, yeah, the borders were open, but they were still funding the ICE and Border Patrol at a point. Now they don't they want to do that? They just want to get rid of it. Defund and disband, ICE and Border Patrol. See, yeah, it's stunning to me and it's alarming to me that so many people in this country are so brain dead as to think that it makes any kind of sense to vote for Democrats. Because I think you have to be brain dead to say, yeah, I want more murders. I think you have to be brain dead to say, I want more people raped or just plain evil.

Think you have to be brain dead or part of the criminal element to want more assaults and more robberies. More of every type of criminal thing. Who would do that to themselves? When you talk about masochistic? And so it had been my hope that the radicals on the left would not win out. And that reasonable Democrats of the past would take the party back. That is not what has happened. Remember, this is Chuck Schumer. He is as establishment Democrats against. High selected Democrat official. He is now taking a look at Graham Platner in Maine and going, yeah, I'm behind this guy. That's how far gone he is. This is Chuck Schumer who now. is for defunding ICE and Border Patrol. There are no reasonable elected Democrats left. There are no reasonable Democrats running for office. Period. There aren't. The reasonable one John Fetterman, I'm not going to vote for Todd Blanche, reasonable one John Fetterman goes out there and talks a good game and gets a lot of play in conservative circles, and then goes out there and votes the same as Chuck Schumer, almost always.

Voters need to wake up before they vote for those who are woke. Because the impact of the policies coming out of the Democrat Party would make this a fundamentally unsafe country. If you thought defund the police was bad, you just imagine what defunding Border Patrol and ICE would do. And that is precisely. what these people want to do. I'm Brian Mud, in for the great one. Mud, love in. With Donald Trump back in office, one of his biggest adversaries, top Democrat Dick Durbin of Chicago is leading the charge to derail President Trump's agenda at every turn. And now Dick Durbin has a new scheme, a government takeover of your credit card. Right now, Americans have thousands of credit card options, all with equal, strong security. But Senator Dick Durbin's plan could result in less security. That means more risk for your credit, your identity, and your financial future. Dick Durbin's bill isn't about helping consumers. It's a giveaway to corporate... which could shift costs onto you while putting your rewards and fraud protections in jeopardy. We've seen Dick Durbin's failed policies before. His last big banking regulation backfired, leading to higher costs than fewer benefits for American families. Tell Republican senators stop Dick Durbin's government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Learn more at guardyourcar.com. That's guardyourcar.com paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

Yeah, so this version of the Democrat Party is the most dangerous yet. Another example here. This California representative, Ro Khanna, he was on with Martha McColl in Fox News today. Overall, in my view, Dr. Amawi is someone who saved Tammy Duckworth's life. He went into Gaza to save the lives of innocent people there, and I believe he has the character to serve. The character to serve. Someone who associated with the blind cheek. Someone who conspired with an Islamic terrorist in the first attempted bombing at the World Trade Center in 93. Someone who actually testified for the blind cheek in the case of an Islamic terror attack in the World Trade Center. Someone who just won a Democrat primary for Congress in New Jersey. Ro Khanna's like, oh, yeah, that got great. Oh, by the way, Ro Khanna also backing your good old, what exactly is Graham Platner? The whole not, it's hard to understand what goes on there. You know, he's in therapy along with his wife. Yeah, there are all the Democrats behind him too. But yeah, so how dangerous is this version of the Democrat Party? We are literally willing to endorse people who ended up associating with Islamic terrorists that committed terrorist attacks on this country. That is who we are supportive of us, the Democrat Party of 2026. You are back crap crazy insane if you vote for Democrats. You are a masochist if you vote for Democrats. Nobody who would give a rip about themselves with their family would vote for a Democrat. Let's go to Roy in Dallas. Roy, welcome to the show. Good evening. Thank you for taking my call. In your topics here, I like to cover also how President Trump and including Vice President JD Vance and Tom Homan and others have done a fantastic great job. in securing our country, especially our southern borders. With the Democrats contemplating what they're doing is trying to undermine this strategy for us to secure our country and secure all American citizens on our soil. And I point fingers at people like Jesse Jackson's son and Pramila Jayapal who went to Cuba just a couple of months ago to undermine President Trump. We've got transnational gangs operating within our borders, as well as in the country of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. We're doing everything we possibly can to stop the flow of illegal drugs, stop the pedophiles and the child murderers that have come into this country. Take example for that 90s. four-year-old man in New York City that was pushed off a subway platform that was eventually died from his injuries from an illegal alien being into our country. Look at the numbers of how many people have been placed into these centers, especially here in our state of Texas in Cactus in Dilley.

Those people get better treatment, and they get medical services, they get cared for, and they are getting their due process. And thank God, you know, we're doing something about it now. Where's the other two administrations of Obama and Joe Biden? They did nothing. And I'll also throw in Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to boot. Good call. You're right about a lot, although I would say that both of those administrations did a lot, but most especially the Biden administration, they did a lot to create this problem that is now in the process of correcting. But the... version of the Democrat Party that wants to overwhelm the system, that wants to go full rules for radicals, that believes that they can have power forever if they just flood this country with illegal aliens, and they're willing to have your wife raped to do it. That's the most dangerous version of the Democrat Party yet. Be right back.

Mark Griffin, America's think tank. And you can call them at 877381-3811. This election system that they've created here is just another monument to their uselessness, another version of high-speed rail. That one hit me in all the right places. That is Steve Hilton. A couple things. I could use more Steve Hilton in my life just generally. And in the grand scheme of sound bites, that's way the heck up there. I mean, that's like all time territory. Brian Mudden for Mark Levin. Steve Hilton, of course, the Republican, gubernatorial candidate in California, who still as of this moment, is shown with a lead. It's just so hard to count votes. It's so hard to count votes. You know, it just, it was, the election was only two days ago. We've gone to 59%. In California, they have, 59% of the vote counted now from two days ago. And the California governor's, it's so hard to count votes.

Steve, uh, Steve Hilton one more time for you. This election system that they've created here is just another monument to their uselessness, another version of high speed rail. Another monument to their uselessness. That is spectacular. I love it. I love me some Steve Hilton. This needs to happen for any number of reasons. So as we have seen all throughout the course of the day today, a funny thing has happened. As it's so hard to count votes in California. For the votes, the few that have come in, it's remarkable how they all seem to be for Facerra and Tom Steyer in the Democrats race. It just blows the mind how all the sudden. Look at this, Steve Hilton might not have the lead here much longer. Because, you know, we've got to make sure that we're counting all the votes. Now, all those votes that came in after Election Day when we figured out how many we needed to steal the election. I'm sorry, just all those, everybody needs to make sure they have their vote counted. L.A. Mayor. 59% in California, so you know in L.A., I mean, a big city, but, I mean, of course, they're going to be farther along. They almost have made it to two-thirds of the vote counted. Two days after the election, they've almost made it to 66%. There's 65.8 real time. Funny thing has happened in this race. You have had Spencer Pratt's lead all throughout the course of the day. Whittle down, whittle down, whittle down. Karen Baz, you have had, well, she's safe now. You've had your GSS news that have said, well, she's moving on to the general election. But Spencer Pratt, still shun with the six-point lead for now. He's up 33,000 votes moving over ramen noodles.

And it's a choice to create a system to where you can go out there and try to find these votes. And I don't know. I don't have the front row seat that I did and the connections in election supervisors in California that I did when this went on in Florida. But we've seen this before. And there are so many reasons that there need to be voter reforms put in place clear across this country. But this is intentional. What happens in California is intentional. All these games that are played in so many states around the country, if the state of Florida can have every vote tabulated in approximately an hour from the time the polls close, there is no reason that every single state in this country can't do. It's a choice not to. It's a choice not to have a ballot backup, a paper ballot backup. The choice is to invite voter fraud into the system. And so what I would encourage you to do with your state, especially if you're in a red state where you have people with brains that might do things, everybody needs to put the election reforms in place that we did in the state of Florida. Everybody needs to mandate that every ballot, every vote-by-mail ballot, is counted prior. prior to the polls closing so that that information could be released when the polls close. That's how it gets done. Everybody needs to have a time accountability at every election office in this country. There needs to be a paper ballot backed up for everything. There's no reason not to do this, to not to do it as a choice. And there's a lot of choice in a lot of places. That is pretty messed up. All right, it's go to the phones here. I got John in Salisbury, North Carolina. John, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for taking my call. You bet. On off topic, I mean, it's California. You talk about, you mentioned, I originally called up, talking about Iran, but saying that I actually spent a lot of time in Redondo Beach, I can just tell you that obviously they're going to steal this best they can, you know. That's going to happen. I hate to tell you that. I would like to think differently, but I have no reason to. So I fear you're probably right. Yeah, I know you want to comment on Iran. What was your thought there? You cannot. I just think we're going to end up being, we're going to be back there again. I mean, I'll just be frank and honest with you. I don't see it being resolved, despite the best intention. I just don't see, I don't see getting resolved at all. You know what, yeah, and look, I, this is the thing, right? And I can't say that this was a miscalculation by Trump. It may have been.

One thing he's been able to do is negotiate successfully with the Middle East. You know, his first year, the very first foreign trip he made was all throughout the Middle East, right? And he was treated like a hero throughout the Middle East, UAE, Qatar, and, you know, varied countries that are questionable at best. And he didn't go to Israel during that trip. That was all intentional. And the reason was he's trying to reset the alliance in the Middle East, knowing what he intended to do down the line. He wanted them to break from China and to go with us. And that was effective. And then we had what happened in Venezuela. And yeah, Maduro was taken out. But then what do you do in leadership? Well, as it turned out... His number two was like, I'll work with you. So Maduro's number two, suddenly Trump is like, look, this is the way it's going to be. And she's like, okay. And that's all worked out for us. And so you can see the moment where intelligence comes back and says, look, we've never seen anything like this. We've got the three tiers of Iranian leadership in one place and one time on a Saturday morning. do we take this shot? And it's just so tempting that he says, yeah, go for it, without necessarily having come up with the rest of the contingency there. And if he did miscalculate in this deal, it was thinking that you could get to somebody who is transactional, thinking that, okay, well, the Ayatollah, he's bad crap, crazy nuts. And maybe that next tier of Mullahs and Iran, maybe they're nuts too. The problem is, in that society generally, You know, number one, they're Islamic terrorists. And what I'll always say to this is to the point that you made, well, if you can't trust an Islamic terrorist, who really can you trust to cut a deal with? I mean, even if you cut a deal, you've cut a deal with an Islamic terrorist. I mean, what is that ultimately worth? And so there has to be some kind of leverage you permanently hold over them or else you know they're not going to keep with the deal. The bigger problem with Iran in particular, is that these aren't just like your Sharia law terrorists. These guys go even further. These guys believe in a freaking well imam. These people are so out to lunch nuts that they believe that there is a 12th Amman who has been hiding in a well for like 13, 1,400 years now. And if the world is just washed in blood, sufficiently, Wellamam is going to come out. And so the problem is, where do you go within the Iranian structure to get to somebody who hasn't been indoctrinated in Wellam belief? Because if somebody's goal is simply to bring about the well-abom, and the way you do that is by washing the world and blood, the only way you're going to get there if you're Iran is through a nuclear World War III, which, by the way, is the point of why this likely was necessary by Trump. Because if they had a new, they were going to use it. This is what they are based upon.

We would have had a nuclear World War III. And then China is part of that axis. And so it's China and it's Russia and it's Iran and it's North Korea and it's Venezuela. And it's, you know, Nicaragua and Cuba are strategic, more geography, Nicaragua, some resources. But it's us against them at that point. That's what we're dealing with. That's what Trump is prevented. But in terms of negotiations, your point is well taken. And so what he's leaned on is the economic piece. Again. In this country, we are spoiled, and it's like, oh, I don't like paying four bucks for gas. Okay, I mean, that's the extent of it for us. Over there, it's the Great Depression. Again, the economy in real time in Iran is the equivalent as the absolute worst it was in the United States during the Great Depression. That is what they're in. It's not getting better. It gets worse by the day over there. And so what Trump is counting on is, okay, even if these people are well-a-mom believing freaks, they can't be trusted. They can't, it's not sustainable for us. Part of what I talked about earlier in the show, it is not at all sustainable for them. So at some point, he's believing this cracks. The only thing that ends up becoming a flying the ointment is the midterms. And so that, and that's why he said recently, I don't care about the midterms. I believe he does care about the midterms, but the bottom line is, in the grand scheme of how this story needs to go, if we just go bombs away in there, who are we putting in power? No Iranian military backing is going to come for anybody that we put in place. And so there aren't a lot of great answers at this point, but economic starvation does provide the best opportunity for them to find their way past Wellam for now.

I'm Brian Mud, and for the great one. I don't like anybody telling me I can't be proud of my country where I'm from. I'm born here. I'm raised here. I'm proud of it. I represent it everywhere I go. I wear the American flag all the time. Amen. And that shouldn't have to be something that is like, Well, good for him or an outlier or something that needs to be explained, but that is. That is Vanilla Ice that he was on with Martha McCollum, Fox, and talking about his participation in Freedom 250, that whole nonsensical thing where it's just absurd in its face. I mean, starting with the fact that it was a fair. You know, people first he had the left that made fun of, oh, there are no way listeners there. It's a fair. Do you have any clue what goes on at a fair? It is not. You know, Woodstock 26. It's a fair. And then you have the woke leftist D players, as overpaid D players, as Trump put it, that end up backing out. And it just like ridiculous. Good fries. He's a good dude, by the way. He's a character, but a good guy and all about this country. And as we take a look at, you know, what's in front of us. If you missed the first hour plus of the show, from an economic standpoint, we are actually in a really good place. It may not feel like it unless and until you look at your investments. You take a look at your 401k and you go, that's pretty good. It may not feel like it when you're paying the bills, looking at gas prices. We're actually in a pretty good place. And it's actually a place that is getting better in real time. You're going to get the jobs report tomorrow morning from the government. We got the ADP yesterday. That government jobs report is going to drive home a lot of what I was talking about there. And whether or not there, if there's resolution in Iran that really works, it's going to be incredible during the back half of this year. If we don't, it's going to be good, the back half of this year. Do your part. So we get ready to celebrate this country's 250 to make sure there's 250 more. It's been a pleasure being with you. Brian Muddin for the great one, Mark Levin.