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Steve Gruber
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
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Steve Gruber
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Right up over this hill, we got one cartel.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
I see him.
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Steve Gruber
Live. Breaking news right now here on Real America's Voice Filtered. These people are domestic terrorists and unapologetic. We're here to take a stand for God and country. Does feel good. America's Voice Live starts now. Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Gruber. It is Thursday, the 6th of November in the year of our Lord 2025. Let's get to today's top stories. As always, thank you for joining us here for real America's Voice and America's Voice Live. We appreciate you spending time with us. Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats have voted to leave the shutdown in place 14 times now, all while Americans are left without a paycheck and some without food and close to the holiday season. Nonetheless, I'll bring on Congressman Tim Burchett to discuss how this shutdown may end today. Also, with Zoran Mamdani's win on Tuesday, many New Yorkers are looking to relocate even police officers. And the Houston Police Department is ready to accommodate that unfortunate situation by recruiting officers straight out of the nypd. More on that coming up as well. And then later, from New York City to Ivy League schools, it seems the liberal insanity doesn't stop. Especially at Harvard, where an internal report noted that the prevalence of students with outstanding grades is suspiciously high. Coincidence or leniency with a great inflation? All the details and updates for you on that today, but I Want to start here with the Democrat Party. Now, I told you yesterday, the Democrat Party is dead and gone as of Tuesday. This week, the Democrat Party that you've known all your life is no more. Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Dan Goldman, all the establishment Democrats try to pretend like Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani was not the future of the Democrat Party. Now they're all throwing their weight behind him and their support, congratulating him on the big win, projecting confidence in the 34 year old's reign over America's largest city. Even though he has no experience to do so. They're going to be looking towards his campaign as the blueprint for next year. Going all in on socialism and free stuff. Jeffries and Schumer know that their days are numbered. They'll all be replaced by the likes of AOC and Mamdani and people even farther to the left. This New York councilman is already hinting at challenging Jeffries next year. The would be speaker of the House. Listen to this. So let me ask you about you.
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Can you confirm or deny you're considering.
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Steve Gruber
A challenge to Hakeem Jeffries?
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
So listen, Chris, I've been hearing from.
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Steve Gruber
A lot of concerned constituents, especially within Bed Stuy about how they feel about.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
The leadership of our Democratic Party. New Yorkers are are tired of our leaders spending our money bombing buildings and.
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Steve Gruber
Homes abroad instead of building affordable housing and protecting homes here.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
They're tired of seeing snap gutted.
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Steve Gruber
They're tired of seeing health care.
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But do you think he's respons responsible for that?
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
I do believe that Democratic Party leadership is not stepping up to this plate.
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Steve Gruber
In the moment that they should.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
However, I am looking at my time within the council as being a great.
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Steve Gruber
Tool to support my constituents within Bed Stuy and Crown Heights clk. I have a feeling we'll be talking.
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In the days and weeks and months.
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Steve Gruber
Come you're going to run, right?
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Listen, I'm focused on supporting Zoron and supporting my constituents within the 36 council district.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, this is the new message. The old guard of Democrats aren't radical enough. But listen to what he's focusing on. It's economic issues. Pay attention to that. It's really important. I want Republicans to pay attention to this as well. Zuram Downhill won because he tapped into the very same vein that Donald Trump did. Does that shock you? It shouldn't. Trump won because he made the middle class feel seen after they'd felt forgotten for years by the establishment. Mamdani won this week because he emphasized and empathized with young voters who also feel forgotten because they can't afford an apartment or the electric bill or food. Unfortunately for them, they don't realize that his solutions aren't going to help solve that issue in any way, shape, or form. The farther left New York has gone, year after year, it's gotten more and more expensive. Not sure how they're missing out on that part, because probably they're too distracted with the idea of someone young and new, not on the actual issues. How do I know that? Well, here's a sample. I know that you're in here casting your votes. Who'd you cast your vote for and why? Mamdani. I think he's just. I'd like to see someone my own age, you know, up there talking and fighting for us.
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Alicia DeGravi
I voted for Mamdani.
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Steve Gruber
Do you feel like socialism would work in New York City?
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Alicia DeGravi
No, not necessarily.
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Steve Gruber
All right. Mamdani really played up his likability among young voters, not just in New York, but across the country, even the world. Like this guy who thinks Mamdani is great because he has a cool mom. A cool mom. That's enough. Listen, I haven't lived in New York City in 10 years now, but I am so invested in Mamdani winning this mayoral race. I just think as a country, it would be really good for us to see someone who young, who has, like, good, progressive ideas about how to make people's lives better, who seems to have a good relationship with his cool mom, and who seems nice, win something. I think we need that. So, New York, I hope you are all out there early voting. We're counting on you. Go, Mamdani, go. Go, Mamdani, go. All right. Give me a break. None of that is going to make New York more affordable. Were more safe, not a bit. But Mamdani convinced them he can do that. And we can't just mock the younger voters anymore. We have to meet them where they are because obviously they're a big voting bloc. 81% of young women voted for him. 81%. It's becoming clear it's either left wing or right wing populism at this point. Richard Barris covers the polls as well as anyone I know. He called it on my friend Steve Bannon's show. Here's what he said.
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Richard Barris
The bottom line is that people are. Are thinking about voting for somebody like Mamdani. Because, I mean, if you look at that chart, if you put it up right now, you'll see these are all pocketbook issues and cost of living Inflation, can I get a better paying job. Even health care, which has been a number five, number six issue for years, it's back in the top three. Now the good news is, you know that, that study that you cited, I reviewed that the other day actually. You know, climate change, the environment, all of these woke issues that the Democratic Party chose, chooses to focus on, they're way down at the bot. Somebody like Mandani caught fire because he did. He struck a nerve. He's talking about the issues that, that people want to hear right now. And we may not like the, the solutions from him, but again, the end, at the end of the day, I think corporate Republicanism, corporate Democratic, you know, whatever that, that those parties are dead. They're gone. They have gone the way of the dodo, you know, and we're either going to end up with left wing populism or we're going to end up with right wing populism. That's it. That's the trajectory this, this country's on.
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Steve Gruber
That's the trajectory we are on. So now the question becomes this. Will Republicans figure it out? Will the Republicans figure it out and stick with it? As I've already proven, the young voters are looking for change and we don't have time for them to figure out that left wing populism is a load of crap. It promises everything and gives nothing but pain. Madonna. He himself has his track record, actually in a profile, he's done this. Listen to this. In a profile of Mamdani, the New York Times revealed that when Mamdani ran for student vice president in his Bronx private school. Private school, he was never poor. He promised things like free juice from locally sourced fruit, which he admitted was impossible. He just knew that buzzwords would go a long way. He knew that in high school. Fast forward to today. He's promising a bunch of magically free housing options for homeless people when housing is already too expensive for the average Joe with an actual salary. Free bus rides too, that somehow won't become traveling homeless encampments. And when he's asked about who's putting the bill, he doesn't even try to answer the question. He just pivots to something else. Here it is. How do you pay for it? Who's going to end up footing the bill for those programs? So I'll answer that question by first explaining some of the endorsements that Andrew Cuomo has received. I'll answer that question. But let me tell you about Andrew Cuomo. He never answered the question, by the way. Not at all. He doesn't have a way to pay for it. Looks a lot like what about ism? It's still going strong as a campaign tactic. In other interviews, he's boasted about raising the taxes on billionaires, which young voters just love. Eat the rich and all that, without realizing that the rich are already taxed out the wazoo. In New York, it would just exploit more loopholes or leave the state altogether, leaving the middle class even more taxed and tired than they were before. But the Democrats are out of the closet. They're not ashamed anymore. They're not ashamed of completely embracing the socialist label. Just take it from these Democrat influencers and former New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman. Here they are. How do you feel about a socialist mayor of New York? I feel electric.
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Steve Gruber
I feel like. I feel like being uncompromising in your values. Whether it be about touching that third rail of speaking out against Israel or primarily focusing on affordability in your campaign strategy is, turns out very effective. It's something that I know you know. It's something that I have spoken to every Democrat about. Can I curse on something, please? Sorry. It's something that I talked about every Democrat that's like, oh, why do we keep losing? I'm like, this is why. And now I can just point to Zaron and say, hey, he did it and he won. But now socialist is not a dirty word anymore. Socialist is not a dirty word anymore. Well, that's why they jump to communist, right? You got to be communist. Yeah, they immediately jump to communist. Social is not a dirty word anymore. Democrats, listen up. Take some lessons and don't be fooled. Democrats will be taking lessons. They'll continue experimenting with just how far left they can go and still get away with it. And Republicans, they need to take their own lesson. They cannot get comfortable just because they saw Trump win in 2024. Republican voter turnout in Virginia was abysmal. Less than 50%. It can't be. Voters were not motivated by turnout for winsome Earl Sears. And let's be honest, she was an anti Trump candidate. Never got the endorsement, never got the support. As a result, Virginia now has a super majority of Democrats in the House of Delegates. A complete disaster. By contrast, Democrats showed up big for Jay Jones for Attorney General, despite the fact that he was clouded in a huge scandal after fantasizing about killing his political opponents and their kids. That should have ended any political career. But Democrats, they stuck to the affordability narrative and prevailed. Even though the AG has little or nothing to do with that. Let it be a lesson. To Republicans focus on the issues. It's how you won in 2024. It's how Donald Trump got elected. We have to give voters more than just something to vote against. Exposing the Democrat Party for what it is is a start. But. But the Republican Party cannot stop there. They exposed J. Jones and Mamdani wasn't enough. We have to give them clear cut solutions, hope there will be moderate voters out there who are concerned about the way the Democrat Party is going. They'll be concerned about the rise of socialism. We have to give them a real solution, a real party to turn things around. Listen to this, Hank. I keep hearing from Republican sources that they are excited in one way or another by Mamdani's victory. And they say, look, Mamdani is going to energize the socialists in the far left and the progressive around the country and therefore it's going to be better for Republicans to run against. Should Democrats be scared? Worried, Concerned, Ecstatic?
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
They should.
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Steve Gruber
Democrats should be somewhat concerned. Why? I said something that may or may not make sense, but every time Mondami opens his mouth, he likely creates another suburban Republican.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Why should Democrats be scared?
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Steve Gruber
Because this outcome tonight may very well reduce the probability that they can undo what Donald Trump has done, which is to recreate the traditional battle between the cities, the suburbs and the exurbs. One can only hope, but only if the Republican Party gives them an alternative that they can embrace. And that's exactly what has to happen starting right now, before the 2026 midterms. Republicans, pay attention. Don't mock, learn, learn before it's too late for you and this country. Coming up after the break, many New Yorkers are looking to relocate after Mamdani's win for mayor. Even police officers and the Hous Police department, well, they've got an offer to recruit officers from the nypd. More on that coming up.
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Steve Gruber
All right, the exodus has begun out of New York City. Didn't take long. After Mamdani's marital win, the New York Post announced that Jewish Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker has already resigned. Did the next day. Children are changing schools in Houston, Texas. The police union is recruiting New York police officers, touting Houston's 832 million dollar budget that includes a 35.5% pay raise over the next five years. Hello New York. How do you like Texas? Mamdani criticized New York police calling to defund what he called a rogue agency. The union took to X, asking, are you disgusted with the election of Zorran Mamdani and are you promoting their supportive state and local governments and their need for 1500 officers, adding they may already know former NYPD people employed in Houston. So come on down, the water's nice. Almost immediately after Mamdani's New York City win, parents began pulling their kids from New York schools and applying to elite private schools in other states, mostly Florida, of course. School placement consultant Christopher Rim told the New York Post 23 clients contacted him within 30 minutes of the Associated Press's analysis. He said other parents had reached out over the summer, saying they didn't know what they would do if Mamdani won. Six families moved to Connecticut before the school year even began. A JL Partners poll found 9% of New Yorkers would definitely leave if he won, and 25% are considering it. These parents have children enrolled in some of the city's top schools, like Trinity, Riverdale, while others are looking at transferring to New Jersey and Greenwich. Many are concerned about rising anti Semitism and Mamdani's anti Israel views. Some families have said they are pulling their kids college applications at New York University in Columbia because they no longer want their kids in the city. Can you understand it? This story just gets better. We'll keep you updated as it continues to go along at Breitbart Exclusive reports. State Department officials say slashing the refugee resettlement program has saved American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. Removing the program was another Trump campaign promise kept the Biden administration expanded it to facilitate mass migration used to radically transform America. President Trump announced only 7,600 new refugees will be allowed into the United States in 2026. That is a 94% decrease from Joe Biden in 2024, when 125,000 was the allotment expanded to more than 224,000 South Africans, the highest refugee number since 1994, costing Americans $3.2 billion, or $14,000 per refugee. Now, the Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $20 billion in just two years and included medical services. It funded cars and helped start businesses. State Department deputy principal spokesperson Tommy Piggott said Trump's mandate ended the abuse of a program of mass migration that fueled the worst border crisis in American history. The Department of Homeland Security announced new protest guidelines to begin immediately, mandating no masks or other covers that conceal identities. The new rules originally were to take effect in January, but were changed after violence spiked and protesters began wearing inflatable costumes. Prohibited conduct includes disorderly behavior, assault, fighting, harassing, intimidating, threatening and, of course, lewd acts, including inappropriate disposal of feces, urine and other bodily fluids. Also prohibited are masks, hoods, disguises or devices that avoid detection or identification while violating any federal, state or local laws. Most importantly for locals, no loud noises or noxious odors. These mandates include enhanced charges on property, drones or tampering with digital networks. The new policies give federal agencies more tools to combat agitators. And of course, they're expected to be challenged in court, because why wouldn't they be? Oklahoma Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen revealed late Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer held a backroom meeting prior to the elections, instructing Democrats to continue the shutdown now in day 37. For those of you keeping score at home, he wanted it closed until after the elections. On Tuesday, he said one Democrat felt like their head was in a guillotine. And Senator Dick Durbin wanted a break with democrats and reopen D.C. that's what he claims. Here's Mullen.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Chuck Schumer, in a private meeting with other Democrat senators, said that if you'll just wait till after the election, I'll release the handcuffs. I added the handcuff part, but basically I'm paraphrasing what he said. The reason why is because they're afraid their base wouldn't show up today in Virginia, New Jersey and in New York. So it's been about politics. It's never been about policy. It's been about holding the American people as leverage points, regardless of the damage they cause to the livelihood of these individuals. But elections are more important than the Dems because why they know their polls is at the very bottom than it's ever been for the Democrat Party.
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Steve Gruber
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Steve Gruber
All right, well, Tim Burchett, unfortunately is a Busy man. He did not make it today. He had to reschedule. So that's where we are with that. We will get him back on. Entertaining guy from Tennessee as the congressman for sure. And we apologize for that. The Schumer shutdown continues into day 37, further extending the longest shutdown in history. As you know, Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats have continuously voted to leave the shutdown in place. I think we're at 14, 15 times Americans are left without a paycheck while still having to work. Remarkable. And the fact of the matter is, if you're a TSA employee, for example, and you don't show up because you're not getting paid, you'll get fired. The truth is that most of the Democrats in the House and the Senate don't really care about whether or not American federal workers get paid. They've made that clear. They're still collecting their paychecks, you see, and that's all that seems to matter to them. On the other side of the aisle, House conservatives have endorsed a new short term federal funding bill that would end the shutdown, all while rejecting wasteful Obamacare subsidies. With the 2025 elections now behind us, many believe that a vote to reopen the government could be close at hand. But we haven't seen it yet. We all know that the Democrats kept the government shut down in order to manipulate the elections. It worked. Part of the same draconian tactics they've used for years. We'll keep you updated. If something happens and a vote happens, of course, you'll be the first to know. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis returned fire with humor after the disastrous New York City mayoral election Tuesday. According to a Daily Mail poll, more than 765,000 New Yorkers are, quote, definitely leaving the city. Another 2 million are considering getting out, fleeing. In one of the biggest exoduses in American history, speculation rose that many would head to Florida. Well, on election day, DeSantis joked the soon to be elected mayor would be Realtor of the year in way more places than Palm beach if he wins. Later Tuesday night, when asked where the New York refugees would be placed, DeSantis tweeted this. Southern Connecticut. The idea of a mass exodus from blue states remains fresh in Floridians minds. People escaped from all over the world during COVID and Biden's four years of governmental mismanagement. Bringing their blue state ideologies to red states is an unwelcome intrusion to many at this point. It is time to stay and fight and fix what you've messed up, don't you think? You got this situation created. Do something about it. All right? Last night, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced American forces eliminated another drug boat. The 16th boat that has now eliminated 66 suspected drug traffickers. Hegseth posting on X today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transporting illegal narcotics all along a known international trafficking route. No Americans harmed. Two narco terrorist pirates killed. The war on drugs began under President Richard Nixon. Congress passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and control act in 1970. Full Admiralty gives the authority over high seas vessels and the 66 pirates attempting to traffic drugs to unsuspecting Americans. They should know that before they leave the shoreline. Let's see here. The exodus has begun out of New York City after the socialist Democrat Mamdani's win. New York Post announcing the Jewish fire Commissioner Robert Tucker resigned. And kids are changing schools. We know that as well in Houston, as we mentioned, the police recruiting as many people as they can. Why not? Why would you stay in New York if you're a police officer? Why would you stay there when you know that you're not going to be treated well, that you're going to be mocked? You know, why would you stay? All right, we're going to take a quick break here and we'll be back. It's America's Voice, live on a Thursday.
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Steve Gruber
Well, college and the courses associated with them are not supposed to be an easy endeavor. It's meant to be a proving ground to ensure students know what they're doing when they go out into the real world to prove they can do work, real work. Harvard, which is associated with high prestige, recently came under fire after an internal report noted that the prevalence of students with outstanding grades is, well, suspiciously high. We call it grade inflation. The report further notes that more than 60% of grades awarded to undergraduates are now all A's. 60%. And what's more is that some instructors mentioned fear of negative student evaluations and reprimand from Harvard officials if they weren't lenient with their courses. Leaving one to wonder if most students at Harvard are just skating by. Here with me to discuss this is Campus Reform Associate Editor Alicia DeGravi. Alicia, thank you for being here.
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Alicia DeGravi
Thank you so much for having me.
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Steve Gruber
So, great inflation. I've talked about this for years. I have people, oh, that's not true. It's not true. There's no great inflation. There's great inflation in high school. I'll give you an example, and then you tell me what you think. I went to a high school. The class had about 160 students that graduated. One student had a perfect 4.1. He went to Harvard. When my daughter graduated about 15 years later, there were 16 students with perfect 4.0 or better. That just same size class, 160. It went from 1 to 10%. Doesn't make sense, does it?
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Alicia DeGravi
No, not at all. I mean, Harvard is handing out A's like candy. And I think we have to consider that if we care about the economy, we must care about grade inflation. Because grade inflation is a metric that shows us just how successful higher education is in actually preparing students for the workforce. And the problem here is that if everyone's told they're a winner, no one is actually a winner. I mean, a degree no longer guarantees success. Recent college graduates face the same unemployment rate as Americans without a high school diploma. So grade inflation weakens the value of a college degree. And Harvard itself, in this report, has admitted that its grades just no longer mean anything. Harvard's great inflation statistics speak to frightening trends in American higher education. We no longer prioritize merit in the classroom because we've lost our standard for excellence.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. So what does that mean? If you're a doctor, lawyer, architect, engineer, coming out of Harvard, and you're getting all these remarkably wonderful grades? If it's a law firm looking to hire the best, oh, they look at the resume and say, my gosh, he's got tremendous amounts of A's. He's done remarkably well. This must be the guy. Or the woman doesn't matter. It's deceiving. Or maybe worse. Alicia, maybe it's just flat out dishonest. What do you say?
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Alicia DeGravi
Right. I mean, the problem here is that feelings have replaced standards, and professors aren't preparing students for the workforce. The root cause of this is that professors are pandering to Gen Z. They're inflating their egos. And as you said, many professors feel pressure to give A's so that they avoid negative student evaluation. So my generation, Gen Z, has become so entitled that we actually think our professors have a right to make us feel comfortable. And one crazy point about this report is that in response, a student said the thing that they were most worried about was the mental health toll that would be caused if Harvard finally steps up to the plate and increases its standards here. I mean, this just isn't surprising to me. This culture of comfort doesn't stop in the classroom. It follows students into the workforce. And that's why so many employers now say Gen Z isn't ready to work. At the Leadership Institute's Campus form, we've reported that only 8% of hiring managers think Gen Z is ready for the workforce. So basically, when comfort matters more than competence, a college education just collapses into therapy.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. So if you're leaving Harvard and now you want to go to a prestigious medical school and your grades are inflated, isn't that dangerous?
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Alicia DeGravi
Yeah, I mean, it's incredibly dangerous for the standards that we have in our economy. And what's even worse is that this is not just an Ivy League problem. It's happening across the country at schools like Emory and UT Austin. Nationally, get this, the median college GPA jumped over 20% in just 30 years. So academic excellence is merely dying by inflation. And Harvard acknowledging this problem with great inflation is a step in the right direction. Harvard continues to say that they don't need any outside interference from the Trump administration. Well, I think they do. Harvard must sign Trump's Compact for Excellence in Higher Education, which calls for a return to merit in the classroom. The compact calls on schools to require the SAT for admission. And quite frankly, America doesn't need higher GPAs. It needs higher expectations.
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Steve Gruber
It does need higher expectations. It makes me wonder if you would be able to take the average GPA of a Harvard graduate 10 years ago, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, or any major Ivy League school or any major school in this country that's considered a school of excellence, which there are many. If you're able to do that, compare where we were 10, 25, 50 years ago. I think it would be jaw dropping. Alicia, I think that people go, wow. And where people not as smart 50 years ago? I don't believe that. Neither do you. Do you?
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Alicia DeGravi
No, not at all. With a median GPA of 3.8, Harvard students can practically count on straight A's just for showing up. I mean, what message does that show them? Attendance equals excellence, and entitlement has replaced effort. America needs to do something about this.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, we have to do something about this. We have to improve. So other than Trump's initiative, shouldn't it be on these universities, these colleges, these places of higher learning to expect more of their students? Or let's say you go to a state school, you go to the University of Iowa, and you want to go to medical school, and Your grades are 3.5, and the Harvard students, 3.8. Who's the medical school going to choose? Even if the kid at Iowa has worked harder, knows more, and deserves the position in the medical school more than the guy from Harvard. I mean, the institutions have to step up. They shouldn't have to be forced to do it. They should want to do it, shouldn't they?
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Alicia DeGravi
I think you're exactly right. And one thing that Harvard has noted in this report is that part of the problem is that a lot of these professors are being told to be more sensitive, get that sensitive to students who aren't prepared for college. So, you know, another, you know, problem with this is just the DEI complex here, where students are, you know, being told that, you know, equity is, you know, is related to great inflation.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, I'm going to find out here real quickly. One great thing about AI is I can tap it out. I can find out what the numbers are. But, Alicia, I really appreciate you being here. It's a problem. Great. Inflation is terrible. It should not be that. And we should expect more. By the way, 50 years ago, the average GPA at Harvard, 2.8. I just looked it up. 2.8 50 years ago, today, 3.83. You tell me, folks, is there great inflation Right there it is. I like AI some days, Alicia. I really do. That's pretty smart. Greatly appreciate you being here.
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Alicia DeGravi
Thank you for having me.
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Steve Gruber
All right, don't go anywhere. America's Voice Live. We'll continue in a moment.
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Steve Gruber
The prevalence of violent incidents in public schools has, well, it's been disturbing on the rise with some victims unfortunately being caught by surprise with no means of defending themselves at all. School shootings in particular, unfortunately have been happening too often and school security personnel still not allowed to carry weaponry in most places that would be sufficient in defending against a violent perpetrator. Well, the company Burna has thrown their hat in the ring and is offering to arm school security guards with their non lethal self defense weaponry which fires non lethal ammunition to deter assailants at a moment's notice. Here with me to discuss his former police captain and the CEO of Burner Technologies, Brian Ganz. Brian, nice to see you again.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Steve, great to be on the show with you.
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Steve Gruber
All right, so look, I think that if we had special resource officers, we could reduce violence. I believe in some school, if you have schools that carry concealed actual firearms, there's never been a school shooting in those places. The problem is many school districts, many states absolutely refuse to consider that. And that's where you come in. So tell us about your technology, your equipment and how it can make a difference in a tight situation.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Well, as you and many of your viewers may know, Burnham makes non lethal firearms. These are firearms that shoot either kinetic rounds designed to inflict pain or chemical irritant rounds that shoot pepper and tear gas to incapacitate an attacker. So as a former, as a current gun owner, I, you know, I carry constantly, but I also carry a non lethal weapon because not every incident is going to require lethal force. We feel very strongly that this is also the case in many schools where, as you say, they're not able to carry lethal weapons. And even if they are, in those cases where there's a melee where kids are running, about the last thing you want to be doing is firing lethal rounds. We have a number of former law enforcement officers on the Burner payroll that do training of our institutions, schools, churches and they say that when this is happening, if you fire that round, if it doesn't hit the intended target, it's going through a number of walls and there may be collateral damage. What we provide is something that can incapacitate an attacker without inflicting any unintentional injury to any of the surrounding students. So we have seen an enormous uptick in our sales to schools, and I will be honest with you, predominantly private schools or parochial schools and also to houses of worship. There are many, many, many church groups where they have not only people in the congregation carrying their firearm with their concealed carry permit, but also carrying burners so that if there are a number of people running around and they feel uncomfortable firing a lethal round, they're able to fire a non lethal round and incapacitate an attacker. Just this week, our team, which is comprised of a number of former SWAT officers, did a training of over 50 church groups and their security teams on how to protect against an active shooter situation with a non lethal firearm.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah. So how has your company been doing? Because from everything I read, Brian, it's going great. Guns, no pun intended. But tell me.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Well, you know, I came up with this idea back in 2018 because, as I told you before, I had a situation where I. I had a gun with me. I was being attacked by somebody without a gun, and I chose not to use my gun, and it ended up badly for me. And at that moment, I wanted to create something where I could stop an assailant without necessarily having to use deadly force. Since selling that first, what we call Launcher back in 2019, we have now sold over 700,000 launchers, which you can see on the wall behind me. And this year, we'll do over 125 million in sales. So we are seeing a tremendous amount of adoption of this technology. And interestingly, most of our sales are to current gun owners. Over two thirds of our sales are to people that carry a firearm because they want to have both lethal force and something lower down on the continuum of force. So just like police have the ability to run all the way up the gamut of everything from a verbal command, you know, stop on the ground, hands behind your head, all the way up to lethal force, you know, using a baton, pepper spray, a taser, and then ultimately their service weapon, we wanted to give our consumers the ability to have something they could use before they needed to resort to lethal force.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, I think that's fair. And it's worked very well for you. How often do you do these trainings you mentioned you just trained 50 more at a church group. What are your expectations? Where will the company be in a year or five years? And how many people will be carrying burner technology into situations where maybe they can stop a deadly threat?
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Well, look, there are, you know, nobody knows exactly how many gun owners there are in the United States, but I estimate there's about 110 million of us. I don't know what percentage would be willing to carry a non lethal weapon in addition to their lethal weapon. You know, it was interesting. I'm friends with Sean Hannity. I was at his house and we were shooting in the backyard. And I said to Sean, you know, what do I represent? Do I represent 5% or 10% of gun owners? And he said, brian, you know what? I'm a gun owner too. We represent 90% of gun owners. 90% of gun owners live in mortal fear of pulling that trigger and taking a life. Because what happens to you is crazy. I mean, your life changes forever, legally, financially, even if you beat the charges, you're gonna spend a lot of money doing so and a lot of time in court. So I think that there's a pretty big percentage of gun owners that are our target audience. And there's also, you know, a big percentage of people that don't own a firearm for whatever reason. They have small kids at home or their wife told them that if they bring home a firearm, they might as well pack their bags. But there's a certain percentage of these people that want the ability to protect themselves without the risk of taking a life. So, you know, I really anticipate that Burna can go from 125 million in sales to being a billion dollar a year sales company. And a lot of it is through our sales to institutions like churches and schools.
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Steve Gruber
Well, Brian, you're exactly right about one thing. Even if you're completely right, if you pull the trigger and kill somebody, you are going to be put in handcuffs and taken to jail. That's the protocol that will happen. How it turns out, well, that's a roll of the dice, that's for sure. Brian Ganz, thank you for being here.
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Zoran Mamdani Supporter / Guest
Steve, thanks for having me on. Take care.
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Steve Gruber
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Steve Gruber
All right, what makes America wonderful? We do it every day here to put a smile on your face before you go on your way. Look, a lot of heavy stories here every day. So something nice is always good to take with you and put a smile on your face. So today's story comes to us from Slidell, Louisiana, or as they say, Louisiana, where a mother helped local law enforcement catch shoplifting suspects. Yeah, it's true. Leslie Smith, a mom of three, used her own car to help Sgt. Jeff Cars track down and apprehend two suspects in a getaway car. When the sergeant was alerted to a shoplifting in progress, the suspect, Kelsey Baird, ran out of the store after spotting the officer jumped into a waiting car for her outside before speeding off and out of the parking lot. Police body cam footage shows Mrs. Smith offering to help the officer while the suspects were on the run. The citizen officer duo able to catch the speeding car while Jeff coordinated with other officers through his radio. Suspects Kelsey Baird and Eric Bordreau were charged with theft, resisting an officer by flight and drug possession. That part's shocking. The police chief praised Mrs. Smith for helping local law enforcement. She was awarded with a citizenship award during a ceremony with the police and the Slidell mayor. After helping the officers apprehend the suspects, Mrs. Smith she went back to shopping at TJ Maxx. Thank you, Mrs. Smith, for your bravery along with the men and women of the police force for keeping our great country safe. Thank you for reminding us of what makes America wonderful. All right, your question of the day. Do you think the Democrats are going to reopen the government now the elections are behind us? Well, Lisa Latia says yep, but they're opportunists. They don't care how it affects Americans. Samuel Rayner no, I don't think they will open it until they get their new voting base insurance through the government. That being the illegals, of course. Diane Simon writes this. No, because it's still closed and it's Thursday. Good observation, Diane. Well done, Gerald. I'm going to spit this out. Gerald Bourse, not until Trump is gone. What, they're going to keep it closed for three years? I don't think that's going to be happening. Bart Halsey no, they only care about health care for illegal aliens and woke programs abroad. Sadly, there's a lot of truth to that. Joanne Pizzolo, Email all Democratic senators, tell them to reopen the government. I think that's been tried. And Florida Girl 10 has this yes, their goal has been achieved. They got their people elected while making Republicans look bad. Democrats don't want us to end the filibuster and get Trump's train moving ahead like lightning. Nor do the rhinos. In fact, that's going to be our question for tomorrow. James, make a note of this. Should the filibuster be ended? Should the Republicans get together, end the filibuster, yes or no. And you can tell me why. If you want to be part of this question or any other question of the day, follow me on social media. You know, all the places, Truth, Getter X, Facebook, whatever, wherever you are, you can be part of that by following me. And if you want to send me an email, we do that from time to time. Just go to stevegruber.com send me an email and we might use that on the air as well. All right. Standing by with this perfectly quiet hair is bowling. Send him on look who's talking. The good looking.
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Jim (Market Commentator)
Talking about perfectly coiffed hair. Gruber.
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Steve Gruber
It is pretty good, isn't it? It is pretty good. I'm not going to.
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Jim (Market Commentator)
What color are you using these days?
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Steve Gruber
Oh, sorry, I don't. See, that's the thing. I don't color my hair. That's all right. You know, it's my sauce, my people like. Yes, you do. No, I don't. Ask my wife.
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Jim (Market Commentator)
I shouldn't ask. I shouldn't ask. Listen, I just, I, I, you know, I, I saw you, I did see your beautiful wife. Lovely wife in Phoenix, Arizona. That's right. At the.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, she did that moment.
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Jim (Market Commentator)
How's everything? You know, kind of crazy day in the markets today, Steve. We got about a minute left before it closes, but a little bit of a down. I'm gonna contend, I'm going to stay with this theory that the day of and the two, two of the three days that that mom dummy basically essentially won the New York City election, markets have crashed. And I think, I think the smart money on Wall street says, you know, let's take some money out of this. We've had a great run. It's been a massive move up in the markets over the last more than a year. I think it started late, almost as Biden was leaving. And they're not, not willing to take that risk of, of this socialist creep that's. That America is experiencing right now.
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Steve Gruber
No, they don't. It certainly gives legs to the idea of some of these big companies saying, you know what, Texas looks nice and take a lot of their action to Texas. I mean, I think that's going to happen. I do.
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Jim (Market Commentator)
Yeah. Florida looks really nice, too. It's just I keep seeing these New York and New Jersey license plates driving around here. Oh, and they drive awful. They're horrible. They just, they think they own the road, maybe New York. But, yeah, I'm not looking forward to the exodus as it may be, of New Yorkers. New Yorkers. More New Yorkers coming down to Florida.
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Steve Gruber
Coming down, setting up camp, driving up real estate prices again. Yeah, it's almost a certainty, you know, but just. This is Jim.
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Steve Gruber
Jim started advertising with iHeartRadio way back in April, and now I have customers out the door. And this is Sarah.
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Alicia DeGravi
Hi.
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Steve Gruber
She started putting a portion of her marketing dollars in podcasting back in June.
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Alicia DeGravi
Business is booming. That's why I'm working on a Saturday.
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Steve Gruber
Want to be like Jim and Sarah. It's easy. All you have to do is own or manage a business and reach out to iHeart. Get started today at 844-844-IHeart or iheartadvertising.com.
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