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Ali Beth Stuckey
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
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Rav
This is America's Voice live.
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Steve Gruber
And welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Gur.
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Rav
The pulse of the people.
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Steve Gruber
We need somebody that's going to hear.
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Rav
The people's voice, the truth the mainstream won't touch.
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Steve Gruber
This guy is by definition a globalist.
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Rav
And the stories that matter, Rav's own Ben Berklam.
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Ben Berklam
Right up over this hill, we got on Cartel. I see him, I see him. I see him.
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Rav
Live.
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Steve Gruber
Breaking news right now here on Real America's Voice.
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Rav
Unfiltered, these people are domestic terrorists and unapologetic.
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Steve Gruber
We're here to take a stand for God and country. Does feel good.
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Rav
America's Voice Live starts now.
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Steve Gruber
Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Gruber. Today is Thursday 29th January, the year of our Lord 2026. It's good. Today's top stories. As always, thank you for joining us here on Real America's Voice. It seems the situation in Minnesota could be cooling down a bit. Tom Homan, who was sent by President Trump to take command of Minneapolis, gave his first remarks since arriving there and speaking with Governor Tim Waltz where he stated, progress has been made. I'll bring on Ben Berkwam from Minneapolis for the latest. Also, Real America's Voice has a new edition coming to regular programming starting next week, a new show called After Hours with Alex stein. It'll be 11 o' clock Monday through Friday. I'll bring Alex on to give us an inside look into his new show as well. We've got that coming up. And then later, a new report shows that Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some professors have resorted to changing their curriculum, changing teaching styles, and get this reading out loud to the kids. Yeah, like it's kindergarten. All that and more coming your way. But first, I want to start with something just as important, if not more. There is a fight, my friends, for the spiritual heart of America going on all around us. There always is. But it's recently that I've been really seeing it and thinking about it as I watch parts of this country descend further and further into madness as they continue to reject God and his truth at every turn. The Bible warns us about what happens when people do whatever is right in their own eyes. Instead of following the true definition of right and wrong that God gives us, they call evil good and good evil. When people do whatever is right in their own eyes, it always leads to chaos and dysfunction and even bloodshed. As we've seen when people did whatever they thought was right in 2020, we saw entire cities burn, small businesses were ransacked and ruined, and well meaning people had their sympathy weaponized against them so that they just turned a blind eye to the destruction and worked to make themselves as anti racist as possible. Which really just meant hating themselves for being white it's happening all over again. It seems many conservatives had their eyes open to the ridiculousness of it all over the last five years, but many are falling for it again. It seems this idea that social justice and activism is a fine replacement for God, true justice and morality. We know these things are false. There are many threats to the spiritual heart of America and many of those threats are championed by the left. An attack on the truths about gender and sexuality, an attack on the family, hatred toward Christians and Jews, the weaponization of sympathy, the praise and normalization of obscene violence toward people you don't agree with, and so many more examples I could give. We've seen some ground won by having conservative leaders back in office. Trans identification is down dramatically among young adults. Part of that could very well be because our leaders are speaking the truth again and everyday conservatives are pushing back against the lies more than ever. And part of this drop could be because young adults are finally seeing that trying to change your gender isn't a solution to mental illness, it just exacerbates it. Either way, it's a win for the health of our nation. And there are other wins as well, like revivals happening across college campuses. Church attendance is back up. More and more people reading the Bible to see what it actually says. But the darkness is fighting back more than ever when it sees these winds. The enemy you see is angry. We're seeing the normalization of political violence against conservatives everywhere on social media, from people who work among us to even aspiring or elected politicians. Florida made the right call this week when it revoked the nursing license of Lexi Lawler, who made some vile wishes directed toward Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, who is expecting her second child. I must warn you, viewer discretion is advised. Here it is. As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Caroline Levitt a 4th degree tear. I hope that you rip from bow to stern and never normally again.
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Alex Stein
You.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, healthcare professional there. Unemployed healthcare professional. It's always especially concerning when you witness healthcare professionals exhibiting hate induced signs of madness because these people are supposed to be unbiased in their standards of care, but too many are clearly not. Here's another healthcare professional with some very disturbing tips. Tips for people who want to resist ice. Listen to this list.
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Ali Beth Stuckey
I thought of something good.
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Steve Gruber
I think it's something.
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Ali Beth Stuckey
The weirdest spot, sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers grab some syringes with needles on the end, have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever, whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe. Okay, for today's resistance tip, I vote. Anybody got any poison ivy, poison oak in their yard? Get some of that up with gloves, obviously. Get it in some water, like a gallon of water. Get some, get the poison ivy, oak water and I'm gonna put it into a water gun. Aim for, aim for faces. Hands.
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Steve Gruber
Sustenylcholine, by the way, is a paralytic. It's a water based paralytic that can kill people. It's been used in murders in the past. And that's what she's talking about. She also encouraged single women to go out on dates with ICE agents and drug their food. I mean, talk about pure evil. This is not some crazy, drugged out individual living on the streets, spouting nonsense. This is someone who made it through a degree of higher education, past test, past interviews, is part of society and has become convinced that she's on the right side of history by advising her colleagues to attack ICE agents with syringes and spike their beverages. This is what I mean when I say there is a war for our nation's spirituality going on, a fight for our soul. Literally. These people can't tell right from wrong because they've rejected the only one who has ever correctly defined those categories. God, I saved the best, or maybe the worst, if you will, for last. This is Elliot Forin. He's running to be the next Attorney General in the great state of Ohio. And what does he think is a winning campaign promise to kill President Donald Trump? You heard me right. To kill the president. Here it is. Hi, this is Elliot Forhan, candidate for Ohio Attorney General. I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump. I mean I'm going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in a sentence duly executed of capital punishment. That is what I mean when I say that I'm going to kill Donald Trump. And he says it all with a smile, like, this is just another routine for him, just another Tuesday out plotting the death of our president, who has already had two major and nearly successful assassination attempts on his life. This fight didn't just start with a war on conservatives. It started with a war on the family, which is one of the most powerful institutions created by God. And the elites know it, which is why they want to dismember it, and they always have. And the consequences have been devastating for everyone except the elites, of course. The great Thomas Sowell knows this. He speaks on it frequently. Here's part of what he said.
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Thomas Sowell
The first draft of the Communist Manifesto, which Ingalls wrote specifically wanted to dismember the family. And Marx decided that that wasn't going to fly. And so when he rewrote it, he left that out. But that's been there. If you follow the left back over the past two centuries, you see in there one way or another, where they try to undermine the decision making autonomy of the family.
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Rav
Hillary Clinton sense it as an enemy.
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Steve Gruber
From the very beginning?
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Thomas Sowell
Oh, absolutely. When Hillary Clinton said, you know, it takes a village to raise a child, someone said, it takes a village idiot to believe that. What they're saying is they want to come in there and tell them. You see, it's part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price when they're wrong. You see, when the parent raises the child the wrong way, the parent pays the price when the child goes down the tubes. But these third parties can sit back in their wherever they are, Washington or whatever, and if the things they tell us turn out to be wrong, it doesn't hurt them.
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Steve Gruber
When you destroy the family, you create chaos and dysfunction, which inevitably creates more dependence on government, which has never been a good thing in any place in the course of human history. You should be dependent on God and you're interdependent on your family, but nowhere else. We have generations of people who have now grown up believing that there is no real benefit to the nuclear family, to marriage. They believe that social media and the government can replace those institutions. So it's no wonder that they're more easily brainwashed and controlled by entities that don't actually care about them. I told you yesterday, the anti ICE movement didn't care about Alex Preddy. That's why it encouraged him to obstruct ICE agents to his own harm. They got a martyr out of it. You know who was concerned about Alex? His parents. They begged him not to confront police officers. They said, don't do it, Alex. He didn't listen, and he paid the ultimate price. We have millions of people in this country who are being brainwashed into believing that they can find their worth and purpose in social activism. A lie that is being very effectively sold to women everywhere because women tend to be more sympathetic and that quality is being weaponized against them. They just don't see it. Conservative Christian Ali Beth Stuckey gets it exactly right in one of her recent commentaries. Here she is.
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Ali Beth Stuckey
Women are made in the image of God, fully valuable. Christianity offers the value and the substance and the meaning and fulfillment to women that they are trying to find elsewhere, that they are looking to Glennon Doyle for and to Jan Hatmaker for. And they're not finding, they're just finding, you know, more vapidity, if that's even a word. I don't think it's vapidness, the noun of vapid. We'll go with the pity. They're just finding less and less substance and more and more just anger and bitterness turn to Jesus. I'm not just trying to make you be Republican. I just want you to know where your identity lies, that you can have the stability, the stability, the love that you're looking for in Christ. It's not going to be found in the one night stand. It's not going to be found in social justice. It's not going to be found in your activism. It's only going to be found in Him.
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Steve Gruber
And that's not a message you're going to hear from many on social media today, but it's an important one that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. At the end of the day, this isn't just about politics, platforms or personalities. It's about who we serve. A nation can thrive under good leaders and survive bad leaders, but it cannot survive abandoning God. The chaos we're witnessing is the fruit of that rejection. The answer isn't louder activism or smarter technology. It's repentance, humility and a return to truth. If America's heart is going to be healed, it won't be by replacing God, but by turning back to him. And that's the monologue coming up after the break. Earlier today, Tom Homan participated in his first press conference since arriving in Minnesota, where President Trump has directed him to tackle the ongoing issue of violent anti ice protests and protesters. Homan says progress has been made after he spoke with Governor Tim Walz. Details straight ahead on America's Voice live. Well, as we've been discussing now for weeks, this whole insurgency in Minneapolis, Minnesota, not an organic protest like we've seen in this country in the past. No, it is an organized pseudo military operation. It is well organized, well funded, and its communication is top shelf. It is designed to destabilize the government, not just in Minnesota, but, but in Washington. It's not going anywhere until it is taken care of head on. And that's why President Trump dispatched border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis, who met with Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz yesterday, held a press conference early today. This is what he had to say. I didn't come to Minnesota for photo ops or headlines. You haven't seen me. I came here to seek solutions and that's what we're going to do. And we come a long way and we got some good wins for the people of Minnesota, I think, and for the administration and for the safety, security of this city. All right, so Rav correspondent and host of Law and Border, Ben Berkwam joins me now from Minneapolis with more. Ben, nice to see you today. Despite the cold temperatures, the protests continue. I've seen people spit at, sworn at. We've seen confrontations one after another. Do you think Tom Homan is bringing the temperature down by being on the ground there?
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Ben Berklam
You know, that's really tough to say. I mean, this, this whole thing is set up. This, this is not a, liberals outraged because of Alex Pretty or because of Renee Goode. This is outrage for the sake of outrage. And it's not going anywhere until they get what they want. And this is the, you know, some of them want the overthrow of America. A lot of them are anarcho communists. And it's not just the activists that are out in the streets. It's not just the guys on the signal chats and the whatsapps. It goes all the way up to Tim Wall's office and to the mayor's office. This is the radical left in America. You know, it's really, it's domestic terrorism. And so the only thing I would see happening is some of the attacks being shifted to put more pressure. And we're already seeing that on Tim Walls when he said that they're working with ICE in the prisons. You already saw outrage against him for even saying that, even suggesting that we would hand over illegals to ICE in the prisons rather than having them go out in the community and pick up ice. So I don't think it's going to, I hope it does, but I don't trust Fry or Walz or any of these Democrats farther than I could throw them.
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Steve Gruber
You know, it's remarkable, Ben, there were what, 1600 illegals in local jails there. Tim Walls came out and said, we're turning over the people we've arrested and prosecuted and put in prison. That part might be true, but it's dishonest insofar as those 1600 and local jails and so forth should have also been picked up. They were prevented, the ICE officers, the CBP officer prevented from doing that. So when Walls comes out and says, oh, we're, we're cooperating. No, you're not. Look, I live in Michigan. We have a Democrat governor. Everybody knows Gretchen Whitmer. We don't have that problem here. They don't have the problem in Wisconsin or Indiana or Ohio or any other states that surround Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's unique there for a reason. Bad leadership. Your thoughts?
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Alex Stein
Yeah.
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Ben Berklam
It's the same thing we see in Chicago, Illinois. It's the same thing we see in Portland. Anywhere there's sanctuary jurisdictions where they have this revolving door that protects illegal aliens that then go back into the legal and illegal immigrant communities to victimize those communities. You're going to have this when you add to that weaponized Communists whose entire objective is to create chaos and havoc in this country. And they do it every two to four years, depending on the election cycle. Remember, this is where BLM, George Floyd, all of that happened in 2000 and now 2024, we had the Palestinian riots and now it's this. And so it's, it's the same song, different day. And you know, again, until we wake up, that the media is not on our side. Outside of media like ours, when you see anything come out of the media, any, anything they're saying about a kid being left and kidnapped by ice, just understand it's probably a lie and it's probably pushing for the political agenda of the left. And in this case, all this is about is the midterms. Nothing else matters to the Democrats. All they want to do is create enough noise to try to scare enough people into thinking that Trump's policies are bad. That's all this is about.
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Steve Gruber
Well, Ben, the problem is it seems to be working. The polling seems to be favoring the Democrats, from what I've been reading. And that's the problem. People buy into this. Defunding the police has always been a terrible idea in my estimation. But here we are with polling numbers. And that's why the Democrats are wanting to block the funding of government. But they also had seven Republicans join them in the effort to block the spending bill. So it's bled into the Republicans, too, including conservative Republicans like Mike Lee and Ron Johnson. So the polling numbers are a problem. Aren't they.
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Ben Berklam
Yeah, yeah, look, 20, 26 is what it all hinges on. If we don't get enough MAGA Republicans in the House and enough MAGA Republicans in the Senate or undo the filibuster, we're screwed. We are screwed as a nation because none of these policies, all these good policies President Trump is enacting right now through executive order, all go away as soon as you get another radical leftist Democrat in the presidency. And that's what they're betting on. They're biding their time. And it really comes down to us on the Republican side. We could win every election. We could get MAGA Republicans in every election and every House, excuse me, in every seat, if people just showed up. But the level of apathy, even in things like this, we win, President Trump wins, and you have people on our side that basically say, oh, yay, we've won. That's it. Now we can go home not realizing that The Democrats are 40 years ahead of us in activism and are playing the long game.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. I've said this a lot on this program over the last year, and I'll say it again now, never. Trumpers were problematic, but only Trumpers are dangerous. If you only show up when Donald Trump was on the ballot and don't show up any other time, well, you're going to get bad results because you'll lose the House and we'll spend two years watching impeachment after impeachment. And so in order for President Trump to finish the work that he started, look, there's a lot of work to be done and a lot of positive things that have happened. An improving economy, a closed border, good things happening internationally with trade deals. But if you don't turn out to vote because you're an only Trumper voter, that's a problem. Last word to you. Yeah.
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Ben Berklam
I couldn't agree with you more. That's every single person you have to show up at every single election. I don't care if that's federal, state, or your school board. Every one of them matter at this point, and in particular, the local races. But these next elections, these midterms are. We hear it all the time. But they are absolutely critical for the longevity of this nation, especially celebrating our 250th anniversary. You want to see another 10 or 20 or 100, you better show up, or if you don't, don't complain.
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Steve Gruber
Fair point. Ben Berklam, always appreciate you. Thank you for braving the cold weather of Minneapolis today. Thank you, Ben. All right, coming up after the break, Real America's Voice has a new edition coming to regular programming starting next week, a new show called After Hours with Alex Stein. I'll bring Alex on next to discuss. Don't go anywhere. All right. Excited to announce today our new addition to the real America's Voice family, Alex Stein. His brand new show, After Hours premieres this coming Monday night. It'll be on weeknights at 11 o' clock Eastern. You get to see that unique, exciting lineup. Inputs, politics, comedy, viral social media posts and his unwillingness to stand down all up there, plus unfiltered commentary, of course. I mean, discuss is Alex Stein. Alex, nice to see you today.
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Alex Stein
Steve, thank you for having me on. I'm really excited for my new show. I'm sure you're going to ask me about it. So I guess it's your show. I'll let you ask me about it. I'm so excited, though.
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Steve Gruber
Well, Alex, I guess I will ask you about it. I don't mind. Tell us about the program. Obviously, most people that have been watching social media for any period of time have caught you once or twice. Some love you, some hate you. You're kind of a guy who breaks one way or the other. No, no fence sitters with you. So I expect more of the same. Tell us about it.
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Alex Stein
Well, well, Steve, you actually nailed it because listen, you can see right now there's a big fracture on the right. You know, you got these people that say they're conservatives, but you got conservatives fighting with conservatives more than we're fighting against leftists. So I guess the reason why I'm so excited about this show is because, you know, I have some nuanced political takes. Like a lot of people are anti immigration. I'll be honest, I want amnesty for all big booty Latinas. If you're a nine, you're fine. If you're an eight, we don't need to have an immigration debate. And I know that's not a popular opinion amongst a lot of conservatives. So I hope that my show can actually unify the country in a time where we're most divided. So I'm really excited for this opportunity and I really look forward to bringing us all back together because that's what makes us stronger.
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Steve Gruber
It does put us all in the same field together. What are some, I mean, I've seen you out there. You're not afraid to mix it up. You're not afraid to go out there. You've, you've got a little messy along the way a couple of different times. So you're not, you're not going to stop doing that. Right. You're still going to be out on the street, inserting yourself into conversations, even when you're completely unwanted?
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Alex Stein
Oh, yeah, 100%. I mean, those are the places I want to be. If you invite me to your house, I don't want to go. People invite me places all the time. I could care less. But if it's a transgender rally, if it's an ICE rally, that's where I want to be. So, you know, I'm primetime Alex Stein. I think that I operate in a. I operate in a space that is more dangerous. You know, that's kind of where I like to stay. So you're right. Things are going to get a little messy, and you don't really know what to expect, because even when I'm in these situations, I don't know what to expect. So, you know, there's a. There's a lot to be had when it comes to going and confronting some of these protesters and politicians.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. You know, when you get out there and you have these conversations and you become the focal point, the lightning rod, you can really feel the hate. But I am concerned about something that I see happening in this country, even with conservatives. And I think you and I share this belief, this love of the First Amendment, of the United States Constitution. It is the envy of the world. Look what's happening in Europe. Look what's happening in Canada. They're silencing people like you, Alex. Sit down and shut up. I don't think you're ever very good at that. But that's what they want to do. They don't want to hear from you because you're disinformation, your misinformation, you're malinformation, whatever the heck that is. How important is it in 2026 to defend the principles of free speech?
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Alex Stein
Well, you know, the First Amendment is the most important. Some people might say the Second Amendment is the most important because that helps us defend the first. But listen, I'm lucky to represent Turning Point usa. I get to go to these campuses and I get to go speak. And Charlie Kirk died for the First Amendment in a horribly tragic way. And so if he's willing to put his life on the line, I think we should all do the same. So it's an honor and privilege to even be associated with Turning Point, a guy like Charlie. But just realize, like, that's. That's the stakes. The stakes are that high where people are. Are dying. If you're in the UK and you share some Sort of meme, you can go to jail. So we need to take advantage of the First Amendment here in America and definitely not lose it. And truly, there are people on the left that hate the First Amendment so much they will literally assassinate you. So it's a horrible tragedy. But we cannot let that tragedy, you know, just happen and not actually fight for Charlie.
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Steve Gruber
Speak up, be heard. Be loud, be proud. Alex has no problem with that. I know that. I've watched you for years. I think a lot of people have. And I wish you very well with this brand new program because you can see, yeah, there'll be some comedy, but some serious takes as well, because you use your sarcasm and your humor to make bigger points. It's After Hours with Alex stein, weeknights at 11 o' clock here starting Monday. Alex, last word to you.
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Alex Stein
Well, I'll just tell you guys it's going to be an exciting show. It's late at night, so, you know, things could get a little spicy. But Steve, you nailed it. I try to use satire to actually make a bigger point because, you know, a lot of people are sick and tired of just being told how to feel and what to think. So I like to use humor to kind of make people question the reality in which we live in. So this show will be doing that. It'll make people question, you know, the reality of the world right now.
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Steve Gruber
There you go. Alex Stein. I look forward to seeing it, sir. Thank you for being here.
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Alex Stein
Thank you for having me, Steve.
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Steve Gruber
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Will Witt
Thank you so much for having me. That's right, it's story time with the college students. Professors at Northwestern University and Pepperdine University are admitting that they have to read aloud to college students in the classroom because undergraduates can't comprehend full sentences. This is insane and really clearly shows that our education system is in shambles. But let's be honest about this. This is a problem that is that afflicts the entire education pipeline in the United States. Professors in college are inheriting this problem from K12 teachers. K12 education fails to prepare students for college because teachers are complacent and undergraduates can't catch up because professors, rather than bringing them up to speed, feel that it's okay to just meet students where they are and read aloud to them in the classroom. This is crazy. And it's really imperative that we show this here at the Leadership Institute's Campus Reform, because reading is a skill that is required for nearly all jobs. And I don't want to live in a world where engineers and plumbers can't read.
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Steve Gruber
So let me get this straight. We spend more will per student at every level in this country, K through 12. We spend more per student every year than any country in the world that I'm aware of. And when they get to college, they can't read at grade level. How are we going to have engineers or doctors? And sadly, Lawyers, too. But how are we going to have all that if people can't read? Look, you're going to get a communications degree. I mean, come on, what is going wrong in the public school system? I realize the unions aren't helping, but what else is wrong?
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Will Witt
Right. So the main point here is that the crisis is getting worse and the urgency reform is greater now than ever before. A few years ago, the talking point was that kids are going to college and not learning anything. Well, now we have something new. Now they can't read at all. And this problem is going to affect society at large once these students graduate and begin to flood the job market. And here's something else too. Companies are taking note of the issue at hand here. So we have several examples around the country where universities are having to or where companies are having to step in and help universities. So, for example, Google has recently partnered with the University of Texas to provide trainings to students in the form of apprenticeships. At the University of Wisconsin, there's something similar where they have partnerships with companies that are providing HR apprenticeships to students. Even companies are aware of the fact that students aren't learning things in college and are graduating. And this is going to affect American society as a whole.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, it's remarkably embarrassing that we can't get kids between kindergarten and graduation from high school. The ability to read anything will. It is embarrassing. I mean, you learned to read. I learned my mother was a schoolteacher. I'd have been in big trouble if I didn't know how to read. But she spent her time teaching kids how to read because the fact of the matter was literacy. She knew if you were illiterate, if you couldn't read, your life was going to be miserable. That was the day in the days we read newspapers and so forth. But if you can't read your computer screen and all you're doing is scrolling and looking at pictures and memes, your life is going to be awful. You can't make a living, you can't support yourself. You'll be on government handouts. Of course, some people like that idea. I don't. How do we raise the literacy in America?
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Will Witt
Well, what's crazy is that the solution to this problem is really quite simple. We need to move past the destructive COVID 19 education policies that have characterized our education system for years. Since 2020, professors need to stop meeting college students where they are and they need to start challenging them to be better and to do better. So instead of reading aloud to them in the classroom, like as bedtime stories, in higher education, professors need to call on students to read aloud in the classroom. It's not very hard to do that. And, you know, that would challenge students to be better. We need to take education to a higher level. That's what we need to see. Another thing that we need to see is standardized testing brought back on a large scale because we need objective measures to analyze student performance. The norm currently in American education as a whole is complacency. And we need to replace that with merit, rigor and challenging students to succeed because otherwise students are going to graduate and they're going to flood the job market with many different with students who can't read. And then you're going to have people like engineers and plumbers who can't read the directions before they take a job.
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Steve Gruber
Need to know how to use a plunger. Let's get the directions out. There you go. Well, I appreciate it. It's a frightening thing that they're having story time for college kids. We had lecture halls. We had lecture halls. We didn't have story time for kids and we didn't have to sit around and read, you know, whatever they read. Greatly appreciate it. It's frightening. But thank you for sharing.
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Will Witt
Thank you so much for having me. It was great.
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Steve Gruber
Really appreciate it. Just about time for a commercial break. Before that, I want to inform you that Real America's music has a new release out, a song titled the Somali Wall, sung by Natasha Owens. Here's a sneak preview.
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Steve Gruber
Hear you new name. Well, you know, there is some serious concern over chemicals and contaminants that are in our drinking water. We see it in the news too often and nationwide testing has clearly proven the presence of these contaminants and how they are responsible for many chronic health problems, even diseases like cancer. All right, we've got a home improvement expert joining me today. Skip Bedell is here to tackle this issue. We watched him for years helping families on the hit TV show Catch a Contractor. And for the last 10 years, he's appeared on hundreds of Times on nation's biggest TV shows. Now, he's here because, well, this is one of the big ones. Skip, nice to see you.
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Skip Bedell
Hey, Steve, thanks so much for having me today.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. How do we keep people safe and healthy? How do we get this garbage out of the water where it is?
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Skip Bedell
Man, it is really. It's. I think it's. It's a lot worse than people realize. You know, we. We hear about so many things in the news for years now, you know, all the heavy metals, things like lead, mercury and arsenic and all the damage that it does. But now, Steve, there's been a tremendous sweet spike in these PFAs. The PFAs, or better known as forever chemicals, incredibly dangerous to our bodies. And they're showing up nationwide, in every state. They're even showing up in America's blood results, if you could believe that. And these things are confirmed to cause all kinds of internal diseases, problems, every type of cancer, even things like early onset Alzheimer's and dementia. So very, very dangerous. And we have high levels of them across the nation.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. So what can we do about it? How many people drink filtered water already or bottled water for this very reason? Right. Doesn't that help mitigate the problem? Can't that get us by this?
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Skip Bedell
Well, you know, that's. That's the crazy thing, Steve, is that there's this false sense of security out there. People think that if they filter their drinking water that they're safe from it. And to be honest with you, I was one of those people. I mean, I've had a filter on my refrigerator for as long as I can remember, ever since they started putting water on the refrigerator. Probably 25, 30 years, I've had a filter on my refrigerator until I started doing a lot of research into this topic. And what I found that is horrifying, the tests show basically conclusive because of. Our skin absorbs everything. You know, our skin is the largest organ on the human body, Steve, and it absorbs everything we come in contact with just like a sponge. Which is the reason why many medications we get prescribed are applied topically, because it's one of the fastest ways to get a chemical into your body. It bypasses the digestive tract completely, goes directly into your bloodstream. So now you can imagine all the contaminants that are in our water. When we bathe and shower and wash our hands and face and brush our teeth, do all the things we come in contact with every day, we are absorbing all those chemicals into our body far more and far faster than we ever could get it from drinking it alone. So people think they're safe when they just filter their drinking water. In addition to that, when we shower, also those, the, the humidity and the vapors that are in the shower, we inhale those vapors, it goes directly into our lungs and right into our bloodstream. So the answer is that we have to have a whole house water filtration system. And after doing a lot of research, you know, being in this business for 25 years as a contractor, I've installed every kind of system you can imagine. And the whole house water filter is really the only way to have 100% peace of mind. Because now you're filtering all of the water that comes into your house, every faucet, not just the water that you drink.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. So if drinking the filtered water doesn't keep us safe, what is this water filtration system? Because obviously we need to know what it is and how we get our hands on it. Because if it's contaminating us, which you suggest, what do we do about it?
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Skip Bedell
Yeah. So this is a whole house water filter. It's the one that I have in my home for three years now. I could tell you a massive difference. It's like somebody flipped a switch. Everything from my hair and skin not being dried out, also feeling better, looking better overall, just way healthier overall feeling with it. But these filters are available at freedomwaterfilters.com or freedomwater systems.com rather. They basically do the job of a water softener and a filter all in one. They're completely maintenance free, so there's never anything to do to it. You don't have any salt to add, any filters to ever change. It's a very easy installation, Steve. It's just basically two hoses, One that goes into the filter and one that comes back out to your house. So this is a system that's going to allow you to filter out all those things in your water and give you peace of mind in your home, knowing that every water from all the locations that you're coming in contact with is completely filtered. And another thing that's really great about these systems, Steve, is that it converts the water from regular water to alkaline water. So people are paying a lot of money now to have alkaline drinking water, because that acidity level is very important, the ph level. So alkaline water coming out of this to every faucet in your home, super easy install and very cost effective. It's actually far less cheaper than buying bottled water. So definitely the way to go.
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Steve Gruber
All right. So where can people go to get this whole house water system for their own home?
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Skip Bedell
Yes. I would tell them to go to freedomwater systems.com that's freedomwatersystems.com and right now is a time to get one of these systems right now because the company is offering a promotional deal right now with promo code SKIP26. It did a special promo for bringing it on to RAV with me. You get $1,000 off the cost. So there's never been a better time to get one of these filters for your own home.
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Steve Gruber
All right. Thank you, Skip. Always good to see you, my friend. Thank you very much.
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Skip Bedell
Thanks so much for having me, Steve.
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Steve Gruber
And you heard it right. Go to freedomwater systems.com right now. Use a promo code SKIP26. You'll receive a thousand dollar discount today. Again, that's freedomwatersystems.com promo code SKIP26. Receive a $1,000 discount. And don't forget to check out skipbadell.com as well for more information. And a lot of other great products. He's out there checking them out all the time, putting them through the test and he can tell you what he likes and what he does not. After the break, we'll have a story that reminds us of how wonderful America is. Plus, your answers to our America's Voice. Question of the day. Why do you think some Republicans are siding to block the major funding of the government? We'll be back.
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Steve Gruber
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Steve Gruber
What makes America wonderful, We do it every day at the end of the program to put a smile on your Face before you go on your way. A lot of great things about this country, we need to talk about it sometimes. And we do every day here. Today's story comes to us from North Carolina, where a call for help was met with, well, so much more. Nana Abernathy made a call to her local tree removal company and explained that she was looking to stay warm as she had just run out of firewood, but added she had recently lost her husband, didn't have the means to pay for the service, as her Social Security check wouldn't come in for another week. Paul Britton, owner of Britain's Tree and Cane Services, was the one to receive the call. He took it upon himself to not charge her a dime. And while many of you think that's where the story ends, Paul gathered his team, and over the following days, they fixed Nana's leaking roof, repaired her heating unit, and even put a full set of brand new tires on her car. To top it off, Paul set up a GoFundMe account that raised over $20,000, ensuring that Nana Abernathy was truly taken care of. You know, sometimes we all have an altruistic itch, but Paul Britton's initiative to do all those repairs, not charge her a dime, is a testament to true compassion. And today, that's what reminds us, what makes America wonderful. All right, question of the day. Why do you think some Republicans are siding with Democrats to block a major government funding package? Linda Pendleton writes they're all in the same club. Maybe you're right, Linda. Robert Ruck. Maybe they believe they're losing the Republican base. Well, the polling numbers aren't good, Robert, on this whole ICE thing, no matter how you might feel about it. Larry fearing because they're in on the take. Well, some would wonder. Cheryl Classic says because they're rhinos. Rowdy Cates. Can't say for sure. All I know is they need to be kicking cans down D.C. boulevard. Lisa Lattea, she's here a lot. They're taking their mask off and showing us who they really are. Mark Connor. Typical corrupt politicians. They don't like MAGA any more than the Democrats. Afraid they'll lose their power over the people. Jan Rosenberg says they're all crooks. And Brenda Sue Gaitlin says mainstream media is brainwashing their constituents. Well, there might be a lot of truth to that. And one more and that stag Strickland gonna cut off their kickbacks, I would imagine. Yeah, they like the money, don't they? Appreciate you being here today, as always, don't forget to start your day right here on Real America's Voice with me. Every Monday through Friday at 6am The Steve Gruber show will be here. All the latest news and analysis for you bright and early. Bring the coffee, I'll bring the heat. All right. Deal. Follow me on social media. Go to stevegiver.com to send me an email if you'd like to, and we'll talk soon.
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Ali Beth Stuckey
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