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This isn't just like we have important business to handle. The part of the government that is shut down is dhs, a huge portion of DHS that is very important to national security. And they cut and run and they leave town. So where do they go? I don't know. Maybe they think they live in Disney World. They're going to get away with this. At must be where Lindsey Graham thinks he lives. He's caught in Disney World walking around with a magic wand. How about you use the magic wand to fund the Department of Homeland Security? And while you're at it, use it to get the Save America act passed. No, they're on vacation. And what about Bernie Sanders? I thought this guy is as a man of the people, he's flying first class, for crying out loud. Getting out of town as quick as he can when there's real business to handle. Now I said most members of Congress don't represent us. Not all. Our buddy Tim Burchett, he comes on this program all the time. He called his fellow members of Congress out. We shouldn't get paid, but we're a bunch of spoiled brats, ma'. Am. And you know, I get sick and tired of Congressman saying they can't, you know. You know how much money I could make if I just went home and worked. Well, dadgum it, go home. More people have played professional baseball than have been in the United States Congress. You need to treat it as. I treat it as an honor. Every time I get off that plane and look at that Capitol, I get chills. And. And when you don't, you need to pack it up and come home, ma'. Am. That's the kind of guy we need representing us. They're few and far between up there, so they cut and run out of here. You got this. Congressman Robert Garcia. He's from California. Why not go to Vegas, gamble with, I don't know, our national security? That's what they're doing. It's not a good look right now. And the bottom line is this really falls back on leadership, not individual members of. But know your lane here through all of this. I really do blame leadership. We have Department of Homeland Security, as I mentioned, partially funded. This is President Trump. You caught off guard when the Senate passed the DHS funding bill. It's a shame. They should really just go to a filibuster. They should terminate the filibuster and they should vote. That's what I think. Look, I think the Senate is playing. Playing it too soft. The Republicans are wonderful people, but we're dealing with very sick individuals. The Democrats are sick. There's something wrong. They're like terrorists. Republicans are wonderful people when they're not being woosbags, when they're not standing for all of us here at home, not to mention members of the Coast Guard who are freezing on a boat someplace while Bernie Sanders is flying first class. So TMZ is actually calling on people out there to take pictures of members of Congress on vacation. As I said, you know, look, you, you, you, you head out of town, you go on vacation. It's not a great look, but really, this is Thune and Speaker Johnson. They should have been saying, hey, there's no way we're leaving Washington. There's no way I'm cutting our, our crew loose. But they did. And the Democrats are to blame, too, when they do things like this. Listen to what Speaker Johnson laid out. The outrage. And the reason we were so upset, Lawrence, is because they sent us a bill that literally put the number zero in the bill for the funding of border security and customs and immigration enforcement. We can't do that. That was the biggest issue in the 2024 election. And it's outrageous to us. See, but nobody would know that because you're not in Washington to tell people about it. I understand you went on Fox News, but I didn't know that until I just heard it. A zero. Really? A zero. I don't understand what it is with Republicans that can't figure out messaging. They should have been screaming that from the top of the mountain, not just somehow passing it by during an interview on Fox News. A zero. A goose Egg. Now, Caroline Levitt put it this way. When it comes to comments, it is the job of Congress to fund these agencies. And Democrats in Congress have voted seven times against funding the Department of Homeland Security. Congress should come back and they should get it done. The President again made the decision to prevent this existential crisis we were seeing at our nation's airports across the country that was only going to get worse. And that's why he wants Congress to do his job. I'm waiting for the one member of Congress to just show up to work every day when nobody's there. And I'd be shooting videos every day. This is what I would videos every day. I wouldn't go home. I'd put my family aside for the good of the country and I'd go to work every day with nobody there and shoot videos in an empty hall calling out people's names and letting it just reverberate through the halls of Congress. Maybe my buddy Randy Fine, the great congressman from Florida, wants to pull that trick. Congressman Fine, I said most are not in touch. You're one of the ones that is. You've been outspoken in your criticism of this, of this cut and run deal. Welcome to the program, my friend. Thanks for having me. Look, you're not wrong. It's outrageous. And we passed a bill before we left that fully funded the Department of homeland security for 60 days. All the Senate has to do is come back and pass it. They could even just send one person to the floor to pass it, but they refuse to do so. And so the idea that people are in Las Vegas, Disney World, and frankly on trips around the world right now, as opposed to getting these hundreds of thousands of federal workers paid, it's embarrassing. I've done is I've asked for my pay to be withheld for as long as this goes on. Because what's really disgusting is when politicians expect to get their paychecks but don't care when the government workers don't get theirs. So Congress, where does this stem from? I mean, is this Thune and Johnson? Is it Thune who says, all right, we're going to let the Senate go home? It's the Senate's fault. The details, I don't know what happened is, I guess because they all wanted to get out of town at 3 o' clock in the morning on Thursday night, they passed a bill by unanimous consent that funded part of the Department of Homeland Security and basically permanently shut down parts of ICE and Customs and Border Protection, including, by the way, the investigators who investigate child sex Trafficking. So they like to talk about Epstein, but when it comes to actually investigating sex traffickers, they don't seem all that interested. So they passed that in the middle of the night and then they left. We didn't know they were going to do that. We woke up Friday morning to find out that the Senate had passed this crazy bill and then left town. We were supposed to also be leaving town on Friday, but we didn't. We stayed an extra day, we met, and on Friday night we said, look, Senate, we'll keep talking about these things for the next couple of months, but let's get the government reopened, the full government reopened, and we passed that. Republicans voted for it, and even a few Democrats voted for it to open the entire federal government. And that's where we are right now, I guess. I'm wondering, in order to get that crazy bill passed in the middle of the night, it had to have Republicans on board with this idea of defunding very important factions and areas of the Department of Homeland Security, including ice. Who are these Republicans? I mean, what. What are Republicans thinking? How do they even allow themselves to do something like this? Well. Well, we're not convinced that was the case, by the way. So apparently what they do is when they want to do something by unanimous consent, they let people know an hour in advance and they wait to see if someone's going to object. Well, they did this at like 3 o' clock in the morning. So they distributed their unanimous consent request at like 2 o' clock in the morning. Well, anyone with really nothing good happens after midnight. Many of them may have been sleeping. And so some of the senators may have found out after the bill had passed. To keep in mind, they did this in the middle of the night. There were only five senators on the floor when it happened, and they passed it by unanimous consent. They didn't even make the senators vote yes or no on the bill. So I don't know what led to this. All I know is it was a terrible mistake for the Senate to send us a bill saying $0 for ICE and $0 for Customs and Border Protection and then leave and go to Taiwan or Disney World or Las Vegas. I mean, it's just crazy. Congressman, I just want to drill down on this so everybody at home understands and maybe you correct me if I'm wrong. So they pull this move in the middle of the night with five senators on the floor, which means you don't have to have this, you know, big super majority to get this thing passed. They know what they're doing. In the middle of the night. This is not like, oh, it just happens to be two in the morning. Thune had to have known. He has to be the guy that says, okay, this is okay to come to the floor with this written in there. So somebody needs to be held accountable. Because if Republican leadership didn't want this to happen, am I right in saying it wouldn't have happened? Yeah. Look, I think what happened is, I think they thought they would cram it down our throats. They would pass this, they would leave, and we would say we have no choice but to pass it. But I got news for you. I was not voting for a permanent shutdown of ice and customs and border protection. That's simply not going to happen. And Republicans did not react well in Congress, in the House to being attempted to have it shoved down our throats. I think that's what they thought would happen. It just didn't work. It blew up in their faces. Now what they need to do is admit it didn't work, get their butts on airplanes. I don't care if they get their first class upgrades or not. They need to get their butts on airplanes, get back to Washington, D.C. and vote for our bill to reopen the government. Amen to that. Congressman Randy. Fine. It's always great having you on the program. I appreciate you laying all this down. A lot of people at home don't know the inner workings here, and really, it makes my stomach churn as you lay it out. But I appreciate you doing it, sir. Happy to do it. Absolutely. Thank you. And I, I guess, enjoy your vacation. You got one, you might as well take it. I mean, unbelievable, right, folks? Unbelievable. You want to know the next unbelievable story that I got for you? Who would have thought I'd be talking about NBA basketball right here on what we call our A block? I'll tell you what. The woke NBA now, the woke Chicago Bills fired a guy. They cut him. Guy by the name of Jaden Ivy. They cut him from the Bulls because, I don't know, he loves Jesus. He didn't like LGBTQ mania being shoved down his throat. I don't think he ever acted in any disrespectful manner. He posted this on his own personal Instagram on his own time, and it was too much for the Bulls and I guess, the NBA to take. They have, they have. They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA. They proclaim it. They. They show it to the world. They say, come, come, come join us for Pride, for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness do you agree that transgenderism, LGBTQ mania, is unrighteous? I ask you that because, biblically speaking, the Bible's pretty clear that it is. I don't care what you believe. Quite frankly, I don't care what he thinks. I think he has a right to say that. He's on his own time. He believes in the Bible. He believes in biblical values. That's what you're going to cut a guy over because he said LGBTQ mania was unrighteous? You got a lot of people spouting a lot of things in the NBA, and that's what they fire him for. Oh, and apparently he. He's totally crazy, folks. This guy happens to love Jesus. That, too, is too much for the NBA. The basketball setting is, you know, I'm born again, the Holy Spirit, and I've been saved by Jesus Christ. No matter what, how many DMPs, I don't. I don't get to play or. No matter how many points I score. Those things are a temporary thing. I like this guy. Jaden Ivy. His mom is the head coach for Notre Dame women's basketball. She raised a good young man right here, and that's who they cut. I don't think he was disrespectful in any of those two sound bites. I just played for you. So why would they cut him? He spelled it out. On an airplane, no less. They said, my conduct is detrimental to the team. Right. Why didn't they just say we. We don't agree with his stance on lgbtq. Why didn't they say that? But how. How is it. How is it conduct detrimental to the team? What did I do to the team? What did I do to the players? I did nothing. But, but. But practice with them, play with them, pass the ball to them. Good teammate to them. You know what I think? I think he'd be a great teammate, and I think he'd be a great influence on young men who need a good influence. Do you know what it must be like to go into the NBA making millions of dollars a year as a 19, 20, 21 year old young man? The world in front of you. Anything you want. Lavish indulgences, temptation. And he's there. He said he found Jesus. He's born again. He said his old Jaden is dead. That's the new Jaden. And I'm all for the new Jade now. He says it's a distraction of the team. What about the head coach of my favorite basketball team, the Dallas Mavericks? Back in, like, 2000, he was accused of domestic assault. He had a Hall of Fame career. I'm talking about Jason Kidd. You. You've got Reuben Patterson. He assaulted his kid's babysitter and kept playing in the NBA. Junior rider, remember him? Drug possession, traffic violations, you name it. A distraction of the team. He kept playing in the NBA. Jason Williams, hell of a player. He shot his limo driver, for crying out loud. And what happened? Kept playing in the NBA. But not a guy who loves Jesus, not a guy who talks about transgender mania and it being unrighteous. Apparently. All of this, according to the media, makes it look like Jaden is, quote, spiraling out of control. Yes, spiraling. When I've heard nothing but a young man who's grounded, but spiraling. This is the head coach, Billy Donovan, being asked by the media about that spiraling. But he seemed to be spiraling. What did you see? Yeah, I had not followed. Never seen that myself, but obviously that did share with me some of the stuff that was going on. I think it's a situation for him where, you know, it's on his own personal Instagram. I don't want to get into what he put out there, but certainly I hope for him, you know, he's okay. I don't know. You know, like, I've had conversations with Jaden and stuff, and he's been always about rehab in his knee and trying to get right. But I think organizationally, there's certain standards I think we want to have as an organization and try to live up to those each and every day. Live up to expectations. To me, he's living right up to his expectations. You tell me if this is living up to your standards one more time. He killed them. They're dead. The people he killed, they're dead. But God saved him. So why can't he save you from your sin that you're not willing to give up? He can save you from it. You're just not willing to give up. What a message. And that's who they kick off the team. This is why I hate the fact that I still watch the NBA. I told you, I have season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks. I love going with my son, but not when they treat young men like that. That young man, I actually don't even know how good a basketball player he is. If he's playing at all for any NBA team, he's got to be pretty darn good. I hope he gets a second chance. Bring him to the Mavericks. We need anybody with a pulse, quite frankly, and a pulse and love Jesus. That's a benefit. Come on, Jaden Ivey, you come play for the Mavs. I'll welcome you there. Now to an election update story. This one's crazy. Comes out of Palm Beach County. Apparently, a volunteer election worker has been arrested for stealing an encrypted access key just days before a special election for Florida's State House District 87, where a Democrat won in a district where Democrats have not won. In fact, I think this is the first time a Democrat has won this district, and they won by just the tiniest of margins. 2%. Is something hinky going on here? Why would this guy steal an access key with all kinds of data on it that we're told, oh, don't worry. Remember 2020, I don't worry. Everything's fine. Well, that's what the election supervisor said as well. Where we have our voter registration database that is entirely separate from our elections server. So when we are tabulating the ballots and counting the votes, that is a standalone server in our office, has no crossover with any, any of our databases at all, including the voter registration database. So this election worker has been arrested. John Panini is his name. Why? Why would he steal this? I want to bring in now reporter for Florida's Voice News and member of the Florida Young Republicans, Frank Kopalov is with us. Frank, welcome to the program. Hey, Grant, how are you? Thanks for having me on. I'm great, Frank. So any answer to that big question, what was the point of stealing this? What was he after? What was he doing? What was the motive? Yeah, so this theft occurred right before a critical special election that the Democrats unfortunately narrowly flipped on March 24, where Emily Gregory came up over the top over Trump endorsed candidate John Maples by fewer than 800 votes in a district that should lean conservative. And adding to the concern, this guy had posted anti Trump messages on social media in the days leading up to the incident and including criticism constantly of the president. So, you know, while political opinions are protected, you know, when someone with clear bias is, you know, given access to the election equipment, I would say it creates the appearance of a potential conflict and undermines public confidence. So, Frank, it's interesting because it seems like the Supervisor of Elections is kind of playing the whole thing down, but this guy was arrested. Law enforcement felt the need to step in and arrest him. What's the real story here? So the real story was that, you know, he allegedly took an encrypted access key from a voter registration terminal, and the Sheriff's office of Palm beach county was notified of it. They quickly obtained the warrants and they arrested him this past Saturday after searching his home. And the investigators recovered the stolen key along with a large amount of additional electronic devices and storage media. And now he's facing charges of grand theft and offenses against computer equipment. So right now, the latest I saw was that a judge did set his bond at $6,000 and he ordered him to have no contact with the elections office. I guess, Frank, my concern is what was he doing? Is it part of a bigger plot? If it can happen in President Trump's backyard, Palm beach, it could happen anywhere. This is Florida. This is not, you know, Minneapolis. It could happen anywhere. How concerned are you about what happened and the possibility of this going on around the country? Well, what I will say is, as a young voter, elections are the bedrock of our republic. So when a volunteer with a history of theft and anti Trump post can access sensitive equipment in a close race, it fuels, what would I say, legitimate skepticism. And conservatives have long fought for secure elections constantly with strong voter ID requirements, paper trails and rigorous vetting. And this case proves why those safeguards are essential. So no one should dismiss concerns simply because all of these officials claim that no voter data was compromised. Because the real issue in this situation is that the vulnerability that allowed this to happen in the first place, it's just unacceptable. Yeah, it sure is, Frank. Copy love. Great, great work, my friend. Florida's Voice News is the website where you can find him. And we appreciate you coming on the program, my man. Thank you. Thanks, Grant. All right. Absolutely. Keep us posted. Anything changes on this. All right. 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President Trump issued a stern message to our allies about the Straits of Hormuz, like, get your butts in gear, folks. The United States can't do everything by ourselves, and we're not going to pay for all of you to wage this war when it's the oil you need. Europe, I'm talking to you. This is President Trump's Truth Social post. It reads, you have to start learning how to fight for yourself. The USA will not be there to help you anymore. Just like you weren't there for us. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil. I love that. Pete Hegseth also talked about the Straits of Hormuz today. That's our Secretary of War. Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well. So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most. In fact, dramatically less than most. So the world ought pay attention to be prepared to stand up. President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran. It's not just our problem set going forward. I agree with the secretary. Look, President Trump did do the heavy lifting. He set everything up for success. You got to get a little help from the people that use that. And the world is a much safer place now with Iran decimated than it was just three or four weeks ago. So the other challenge, I think there's two others that President Trump needs to be concerned about. One is, who are you negotiating with? Because I'm not sure even the United States government knows who actually can make decisions. And the second is the Iranian people. They've somewhat been mia, missing in action in all of this. I thought they would do more to run a coup and take control, seize control of this government. And I haven't heard much from the Iranian people. First to the negotiations. And I think maybe some of the confusion about Iran saying, we're not negotiating, we are with it is because there may be more than one faction negotiating. Here's Caroline Levitt. We just heard from Iran. Again, they're saying no negotiations are taking place. They're calling the proposal excessive, unrealistic. So how do you square that? What? What? How do you explain that discrepancy between the two? I think the American people are smart enough not to take the word of a terrorist regime that has chanted death to America for 47 years at their word. Well, I certainly don't trust Iran But I do believe that the Trump team through Pakistan or whoever using as an intermediary could be talking to one group inside Iran while another group is telling the media, we've not said any to them and they think they're in charge. Everybody thinks thinks they're in charge right now when really nobody is. And that's a big problem. I want to bring in now to discuss this retired US Navy SEAL and chief talent Officer with Overwatch mission critical. Mike Sorelli is back with us. Mike, welcome to the program. And Grant, good to be back. All right, Mike, how concerned are you over? Are we even negotiating with the right people? I think President Trump has even led on to the fact that we've got to make sure we're negotiating with the right people. People, this is what I would describe as pretty damn abstract at this point. I think you're trying to negotiate with whoever's left. You know, you've got Arachi, the foreign minister, saying that they're not negotiating. We've been told that, you know, the Trump administration is negotiating with Goll off the par parliamentary leader. This is not a clean diplomatic channel, and there's no clear front man. So we're speaking to whoever is left. But the thing about Iran that people need to understand is that those, the Majlis, the people who wear the suits are not the ones that make the decisions. That is the internal security apparatus, the irgc. And so we may have a conflict, sort of a internal power struggle within Iran. I mean, you've got the son of the ayatollah who takes command. That's a little nepotism. I'm sure internally that doesn't sit well with everyone. So it's a very abstract situation. And right now, we'll talk to whoever we think has the power. And that is unclear to us. All right, President Trump talked about getting gifts, boats, oil. Let me run this latest clip from just a day or so ago. When I talked about four days ago, a present, I said they gave me a present, but I didn't think I was at liberty to say what it was. What it was, was 8 plus 2. It's 10 massive boatloads of oil. And today they gave us another present. They gave us 20 buckloads of oil that starts being shipped tomorrow. So I guess, Mike, what's confusing to me is, and I don't know, you may not know, it may be confusing to you, too, who's offering up the oil? I mean, how do you have one group and not another and somebody gives you 10 boats of oil and Another faction saying we're not negotiating with them. None of it seems, seems to make any sense to me. No, again, who, who are we talking with? And who holds the power? But you know, you've got two parts of the Iranian regime. Those who are more practical. You've got the hardliners who want to fight till the death. And those that are practical know that the, the ultimate success here is the, the survival of the regime. So the, the small gifts are ways of seeding the negotiations. And we quite frankly don't know where this is going to lead because of this internal strife in Iran. Guys, the likelihood, given our history, is they never negotiate in good faith is that this is not going to end well. And it's going to kick off a post negotiation failure phase of even more kinetic strikes, even possibly limited combat operations to seize key terrain like Kharg island or the coastal, you know, hubs like Cash Miland Lakar or even Bandar Abbas, which cause a direct threat to the Strait of Hormuz and what it will not be. And shame on the left media of sort of painting this narrative that it's going to be a 2003 style road march to Tehran. The President is not that foolish. He knows that he does not want to sustain war, so, you know, he's not going to make that decision. But these negotiations, in my opinion, will most likely fail. Let me show you some bunker buster video and you talk about how we will ramp this up. I mean, I don't think there's any end in sight until we are finished with the job. VO10 Guys, if you can, for me. This is the US dropping bunker busters. Do we have it? VO10. Okay. Dropping bunker busters. There we go. Thank you. Massive deep on this Isfahan ammunition depot. I know. It's also known for a nuclear facility as well. And while that's going on, Mike, I'll ask you the last question. Are you surprised the Iranian people have not played more of a role in this? I thought maybe we'd see more of the Iranian people trying to take charge here and boy, I just haven't seen any of it. Yeah. And so you know what I go back to your average American, your average American is not going to rise up in the face of adversity or oppression. There have been over a thousand detentions since the start of this war, from claims of espionage to spying. And they're stuck between bombs being dropped in an oppressive regime which the internal security apparatus, the Bajij, is still intact. So I think the ultimate next steps grant in order to push the people, regular people that oppose this regime. And let me say this, just because they haven't risen up doesn't mean loyalty to the regime. It just means that they're scared. Hit the power plants, hit the the energy infrastructure. Turn the lights out. We are going to have to cause a little more harm on both regime and the Iranian people to force them to a tipping point and that is going to be a bloody uprising for the good people of Iran. Yeah, it sounds like a good idea to be and we're getting to that point. Mike Sorelli, always good to talk to you and we appreciate you coming on as always. Thanks, Grant. Absolutely. All right folks, the Supreme Court has ruled against Wokeness in Colorado. Dozens of states will be affected as a result. We'll talk about that next. Support for the show comes from Public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On Public you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt. 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Eight to one, the Supreme Court ruled in favor that the free speech is and should be intact. Eight to one only. Katanji Brown Jackson, the radical. This is Kaylee Childs. She's the therapist that brought the suit. Issues of gender and sexuality come up regularly with my clients in our counseling conversations. And Colorado's law would hover over every conversation I have with my minor clients, threatening me with a five thousand dollar fine, suspension from practice, and losing my counseling license. If counselors wish to engage clients on these issues, the law limits them to one option of encouraging kids to reject their body. You understand what this law did was that if you had a kid that was struggling with gender identity, it would have made it illegal to bring them to a counselor who would bring them back to reality. That's wild to me. With me now discuss this. Director of outreach at Moms for Liberty, my friend Catalina Stube is here. Catalina, welcome to the program. Thank you. All right. What do you make of this ruling today, Catalina? How important is it nationwide, really? Well, it's a victory for parental rights, for free speech and obviously the protection of American children. I mean, this ruling is not Just about free speech. It's about stopping the dangerous ideological takeover of our children's mental health by gender confusion pushed relentlessly in schools and by activist counselors. We all know the months for liberty. We have fought tirelessly to defend parental rights against this insanity. I mean, every child is born in the right body, perfectly created by the Lord with a beautiful purpose, and God doesn't make any mistakes. I mean, yet school and the so called gender affirming counselors flood kids with confusing ideologies that tell them their bodies are wrong and their feelings define reality and the solution is irreversible. It amazes me. I mean, Catalina, it amazes me that lawmakers want to take away the right. I mean, this is what Moms for Liberty is all about. They wanted to take away the rights of parents from having a say in who your kid is even counseled by. This is the alliance defending Freedom. Chief counsel, after the ruling today, cut three. It means that if you're a licensed counselor in Colorado, you can help a young person who's struggling with gender confusion. Confusion. If you encourage them down the path of gender transition, but if you offer them a different perspective, help them grow comfortable with their body and realign their identity with their sex, then the law doesn't allow you to do that. It amazes me the lengths the left will go, Catalina, to get our kids and stop anybody from helping them when they're in need. I'll give you the last word here. Absolutely. And this is not compassion. I mean, this is not gender affirmation or caring about a confused child. I mean, is the denial of biological truth. And it leaves children, lifelong medical patients, dependent on drugs and facing devastated regret, infertility and health complication. I mean, the Colorado law tried to silence therapists, but now, I mean, instead of allowing parents and licensed professionals to address underlying mental health issues, force counselors into a one size fits affirmation model. So this decision is a direct rebuke to the radical gender agenda that has infiltrated our education system for decades. And we know that the schools are not neutral. I'm amazed. It was 8 to 1. You have some radicals on that Supreme Court. And even they sided with free speech here, which is really what this comes down to. It is a free speech issue. And eight to one, congratulations those liberal justices for at least getting it right. Katanji, Brown, Jackson, not so much. Catalina Stube, Moms for Liberty. It's always great having you on the program. Was good seeing you last weekend and we'll talk again soon. Thank you, Grant. Absolutely all right, folks, Real America's voice continues to release patriotic songs. Okay, one of them, the latest is now sung by my buddy, High Res. Okay, great rapper. If you don't know his music, you need to listen to this. God bless America the land of the free say a lot of you standing with me God bless America the home of the brave Follow the USA God bless America Greatest country on earth don't care if you say it's the word God bless America the truth and the lies Born here is where I die God bless America America, the land of the priest say a lot of you standing with me God bless America the home of the brave all of the USA God bless America Greatest country on earth don't care if you say it's the word God bless America the truth and the lies Born here is where I'll die Rav family, Real America's music has a new track to push to the top of the charts. God Bless America by High Res. Let's show the left we're proud to be Americans. Scan the QR code or search God Bless America on itunes today. Well, another great rap song by my buddy High Res. Songwriter, rapper, and a great music video producer as well. Hi, Rez. Welcome to the program, my friend. Thank you. Grand. Man, it's been too long. How you been? I've been great buddies. I guess the only thing I'm complaining about is I've been in other music videos of yours. I wasn't in this one, buddy. Next time, next time. You're absolutely right. That was a big miss on my part. All right, so tell me. And I was so excited to see this collaboration between Real America's voice and you. How did this come about? Yeah, Shout out to lj. Shout out to Parker. Man, it's also great to see you here with Rav thriving now, man, I'm just super excited that I'm a part of this, this movement. Early on, a lot of people have tried the whole conservative, anti Hollywood, you know, music label situation. And honestly, LJ Parker, the people at Rav and or I guess Ram Real America's music now, they're doing it right. They're, they're, they're treating it like how old school labels would. They know exactly what they're doing. They're developing artists, they're marketing artists. They're doing an incredible job. And I have nothing bad to say about what they have going on there. Well, all right, so when, when you saw this song, I take it you wrote it? Yeah, of course. All right. What sparked you to write This, I mean, most of your songs are all patriotic and have a message. What sparked this one? Yeah, for sure. I saw just once again this new kind of uprising of. I hate to call it communism or social. There's no word for it. It's really just this mind virus that's been going on for many years now. I think we could say it really maybe took a big turn under Obama with identity politics and things like that. I feel like racism was really on life support and bigotry and in general. And even conservatives were pretty liberal and accepting. Live and let live early 2000s. And I feel like Obama had to just revive it. And I made this record because it just felt like patriotism is missing in the world. You don't have to be left right. Granted, a lot of liberals are the ones that are not patriotic, unfortunately. But I just wanted it to be cool to young kids. Conservative values, patriotism, you know, what do you want people to take away from it? Is it just the aspect of patriotism here? Yeah, I hate to say that it's simple or basic. That's not my point. But I wanted it to be digestible to young kids who are consuming, as you just mentioned, you could be 100 genders, whether it's TikTok, social media, what's going on in their school system. I just want young kids out there to realize there are cool people making cool music. You know, that's with conservative values. Like, once again, doesn't have to be Republican music or MAGA music. You can call it what you want, but this is cool music that has core conservative values and people can play it around their kids for their kids. And that's really the goal of this music. There most certainly is a lane for this. And obviously with what real America's voice is doing now with its music division, with what you have done in the city, success, you've had so many others in this same genre doing it without the main record labels. I think it's only rocket ship ride from here. High res you. Thank you. Thank you. Absolutely. Yeah. As long as you guys keep supporting and you head over to itunes and grab yourself a copy. You listen on Spotify, whatever. If you guys keep supporting, we can keep delivering this music. Absolutely. All right, buddy, I'm going to tell people where they can find it. Always good to see you. Thank you and great work as always. Thanks, man. Have a good one. Absolutely. All right, folks, let's put that Q car QR code up on the screen again if we can. And then I want you to download all Right. God bless America today. There it is. God bless America. Download it today and let's push this to the top of the charts. It would be great. All right. We got a lot going on with the markets. Gold was now starting to see another rise again. And this, I believe this latest dip in gold was just the start of another very, very big rise. It's not surprising to me that gold is now on the uptick again. I want to bring in precious metal specialist for Birch gold. Philip Patrick is with us. Philip, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me. Grom. All right, so what do you make of everything going on in the world and how does gold fit in that? How's that for. For a question for you? That's a big one, Grant. The world is. Is an interesting place. A lot of instability. Obviously, with everything that's happening in Iran, the global economy is getting squeezed. We've got oil prices rocketing. I think Brent Crude was over 107 today. Hoping this will be a fairly swift military campaign. The longer it draws, longer it drags on, rather, I think the, the worse effect it'll have on the economy. I agree with you. Gold prices have dipped in recently. They are now on the ascent. This in my mind was welcome. We had almost 70% growth last year. We've got a lot of instability. People initially moved to cash. So we saw some dollar strengthening that has pushed gold down. But we're starting to see the ascent. And this is, I'll say as a final point, not atypical. We saw it before, oh, eight, a dip in gold before it went on to double in value. So fairly expected. Were you surprised that once we started this special operation in Iran that Powell and the Fed didn't lower rates? Typically any time we start something like this war, they almost always either start buying up and infuse the banks with cash or lower rates. That didn't happen here. Are you surprised? A little bit. Look, I think Powell was looking for any excuse possible to keep rates where they were. And I think a war in Iran, which is ultimately inflationary, gave him the excuse he needed. So the Fed at the moment are kind of stuck between two opposing dangers. Higher inflation from the oil shock and slower growth on the back of that as well. So I think at the moment they're going to wait and see. And I wouldn't be surprised if they held interest rates through the end of the year given what's happening. To me, that seems political in nature, has nothing to do with the state of the economy. Listen, I tend to agree they had the catalyst to cut rates for a while and they didn't do it. Inflation was marginally above target, but employment numbers were strong. So it felt political to me. But like I said, if I'm Jerome Powell, this gives me the excuse to hold firm. And I think that's what happened. All right. One of the things that you track is the movement of gold. Who's buying it, who's selling it? Are we, are we still seeing central banks buying up gold at that same pace that you've told me about before? The answer is yeah. So last fiscal quarter, we don't have the numbers for first quarter of this year yet. So large public fiscal quarter was the biggest on record for central banks. Early signs are we'll have another strong quarter. Whether it's a record or not, time will tell. We should know within the next couple of weeks. But last fiscal quarter, biggest on record for central banks. All right. And China's role in all this? You know, China's been eerily quiet during this, this whole war with Iran. Russia's been somewhat quiet year. A little bit more about Russia possibly helping out Iran, but China has just been quiet. Your thoughts on where China is right now, its economy, and what that means for gold? Listen, China are very interesting. I think they're waiting to see, once the dust settles, how things land. But there's. They're viewing this, I think, as a strategic opportunity. Listen, I think China, long term, their plan is to de dollarize. Ultimately, it's the biggest weapon we have. China want to cement their position as global leaders. They got a lot of work to do from where they are today. They have problems domestically, but I think longer term, their plan is to use their global influence to create blocks to de$ize and ultimately weaken our strongest weapon, which is our currency. So I think the Chinese have a plan and I think they're staying quiet on purpose to wait and see how things look after this conflict in Iran is over. Well, Philip, Patrick, it's always good to talk to you about this. It's fascinating stuff. We will see how it plays out. Exciting times for sure, to say the least. I'm going to tell people how they get in touch with you and the guys at Birch Gold. Thank you for coming on as always. Again, text America to the number 989-898. Get your free info kit on gold. Text America to the number 989-898. Nobody does it like Birch Gold. I'll tell you what, so many of our real America's voice viewers have used them to great Success. Um, some bad news which will get worked out. But a radical judge has now put the kibosh on President Trump's big, beautiful ballroom. The judge says, oh, no, no. The conservationists in D.C. have a point and Congress needs to vote on this now. Why? I don't know. President Trump is the steward of the White House. It's being paid for with all donations. But the judge says Congress needs to weigh in. This is President Trump today talking about the ruling. He said, we need congressional approval. Well, we built many things at the White House over the years. They don't get congressional approval when they build in the White House. It's totally separate. And especially when it's a donation. I mean, the ballroom is a donation. It's gotten great reviews, people love it. And presidents for 150 years have wanted this ballroom to be built. It's about time. And thank you for doing it, Mr. President. Now, here's the reason. You know, this judge was crazy. His ruling was filled with exclamation points. Many of you viewers, you email me, and I love when you email me. You can Grantstinchfield.com you can email me, but don't write in all caps. I look at you like a looney tune when you write me in all caps. Like I look at this judge as a looney tune when he literally wrote his ruling with all exclamation points because he has Trump derangement syndrome. All right, Radical leftists think we need to focus on the gaze of Hormuz during these times of war. That's right. Support for the show comes from Public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On Public, you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto and now generated assets, which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index. 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Like, you know, gays have always been very discriminated against, which is wrong on so many levels. Even in war. Yeah, even in war. Straits of Hormuz, the gays were left behind. Ah, it's. It's not straight that way. It's a land mass. But she wouldn't know that because she probably goes to an Ivy League school. And they don't teach you that these people are dumb. Aren't this is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.