STINCHFIELD TONIGHT OCTOBER 20TH, 2025

Summary

Podcast Summary: Stinchfield Tonight – October 20th, 2025

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Grant Stinchfield
Date: October 21, 2025

Overview

This episode of Stinchfield Tonight addresses pressing issues in American politics, including the Trump administration’s military action against drug trafficking, the impact of drugs from Latin America, debates on the government shutdown, Obamacare and the cost of healthcare, crime statistics and media narratives, climate hypocrisy, and left-wing protest culture. The host and guests provide a distinctly conservative viewpoint, challenging mainstream coverage and critiquing Democratic policies and perspectives.

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Main Segments & Key Insights

1. US Military Strikes on Drug Boats (00:00–05:43)

• Main Theme: Trump administration’s hardline actions against drug traffickers, including bombing vessels transporting narcotics toward the US.
• Key Points:
  • Host Grant Stinchfield frames military action as a "war against narco-terrorists." He highlights video evidence of attacks on boats and submarines operated by cartels and militant groups.
  • Critique of media for downplaying the cartel problem and focusing criticism on Trump’s aggressive strategies.
  • Quote:
    • “You killed a fisherman. A fisherman in a submarine. As President Trump says, you don't fish from a submarine.”
      — Grant Stinchfield (01:38)

2. Tariffs & US-Colombia Relations (02:18–03:34)

• Summary: Trump proposes increased tariffs against Colombia, blaming its government for inaction against drug production and export.
• Notable Moment:
  • “Colombia is out of control, and now they have the worst president they've ever had. He's a lunatic who's got a lot of problems. Mental problems.”
    — Unidentified Commentator (02:33)

3. Border Security and On-the-Ground Insights (05:43–10:59)

• Guest: JJ Carroll, former Border Patrol deputy and author of "Treason".
• Insights:
  • Carroll shares direct operational experience from the Pacific coast, corroborating the volume and sophistication of drug trafficking.
  • Carroll supports Trump’s military intervention, mentions the use of intelligence assets, surveillance tech, and human sources.
  • He emphasizes the need for similar action on the Pacific coast, noting Mexican cartels have shifted routes in response to a more secure land border.
• Quotes:
  • “If you would have told me back then that…he's going to bomb these out at sea, I would have never believed it. But here we are, we have a great leader.”
    — JJ Carroll (05:57)
  • “We have a moral problem in America that must be addressed as well.”
    — JJ Carroll (10:45)

4. Shutdown Politics & Shifting Public Opinion (11:18–15:43)

• Discussion: Analysis of the ongoing federal government shutdown.
• Key Observations:
  • Trump’s approval has not suffered during this shutdown, unlike in 2018–2019; the narrative is shifting away from automatic blame on him.
  • Host posits Democrats are losing support due to lack of constructive policies and reliance on opposition to Trump.
• Guest Inputs: Comparison of public opinion data, notably a drop in those blaming Trump for the shutdown.

5. Obamacare, Health Care System, and Reform Debate (15:43–23:20)

• Guest: Dr. Kelly Victory, Disaster and Emergency Medicine specialist
• Discussion Points:
  • Obamacare’s flaws, subsidies, and the Republicans’ & Democrats’ opposing strategies.
  • Long-term costs, over-coverage, and prospects for repeal or reform of the Affordable Care Act.
  • Preference for catastrophic insurance options that cover major events, not routine care.
• Quotes:
  • “It is perhaps the worst piece of legislation ever passed, certainly in my lifetime… I suspect that it was crafted to fail.”
    — Dr. Kelly Victory (17:20)
  • “Everything should not be covered for everyone. It simply makes it too expensive.”
    — Dr. Kelly Victory (21:33)

6. Crime Statistics & Media Manipulation (24:08–32:51)

• Guest: Dr. John Lott, President, Crime Prevention Research Center
• Discussion:
  • Official FBI crime data vs. victimization surveys; dramatic increases in unreported crimes noted by public surveys.
  • Lower arrest and reporting rates attributed to police and political changes post-COVID.
  • Critique of the media for citing only favorable (lower) crime numbers from FBI reports, ignoring victim surveys showing increased crime.
• Quotes:
  • “We've had this huge surge, this 59% increase over the last four years in terms of the actual total amount of crime.”
    — Dr. John Lott (29:14)
  • “The national crime victimization data has kind of been the gold standard for crime data because we know most crimes aren't reported to police.”
    — Dr. John Lott (30:09)

7. Climate Politics & ‘Fake Meat’ Industry Downfall (35:50–41:26)

• Guest: Mark Morano, Climate Depot publisher
• Highlights:
  • Collapse of “Beyond Meat” used as a symbol for the failure of climate zealotry-driven markets.
  • Critique of the UN, Al Gore, and the broader climate agenda targeting agriculture.
  • Ridicule of the taste and composition of plant-based meat alternatives.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • “Al Gore was a huge investor…this was the solution to getting rid of agriculture, to getting rid of cows.”
    — Mark Morano (36:28)
  • “I just think it tastes bad and I think the burger sucked and nobody wanted to eat it.”
    — Grant Stinchfield (37:55)
• Climate Summit Irony:
  • UN COP 30’s destruction of Amazonian forest to make room for a highway for climate delegates highlighted as hypocrisy.
  • “I'm calling it now clear cut 30 instead of cop 30…It’s the height of hypocrisy.”
    — Mark Morano (39:17)

8. Protest Culture & Dem Rhetoric (42:34–46:58)

• Topic: “No Kings” rallies and protester rhetoric
• Key Moments:
  • Host describes the rallies as filled with “angry old bag white women” and mocks the violence-laden calls from some attendees.
  • A protester openly states willingness to “kill Stephen Miller,” calling him a Nazi (44:29).
  • Host emphasizes that such rhetoric undermines any legitimacy of the movement:
    • “Do you see why these people get no say? In my mind, they have no legitimacy when they are calling for the death of these people.”
      — Grant Stinchfield (44:37)

9. Trump & the Ukraine War Question (46:58–47:16)

• Segment: Clip of President Trump responding to a reporter about Ukraine's war.
• Quote:
  • “If you knew anything about what Ukraine were talking about, you'd be able. You do… I don't think you do, because it's a little more complicated than that, but it sounds easy.”
    — Donald Trump (47:04)

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Noteworthy Quotes

• On drug enforcement:
  “President Trump is saving the lives of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Americans because Venezuela is starting to get the message.”
  — Grant Stinchfield (01:55)

• On media narratives:
  “The media doesn't want to focus on what Colombia is doing. They only want to focus on what President Trump is doing instead of all of these poisonings…”
  — Grant Stinchfield (03:30)

• On inflation of crime statistics:
  “We've had this huge surge, this 59% increase over the last four years in terms of the actual total amount of crime.”
  — Dr. John Lott (29:14)

• On climate hypocrisy:
  “Imagine the carbon footprint of these giant ships that are showing up by the way, ships that the UN just tried to tax globally...”
  — Mark Morano (40:20)

• On protest violence:
  “If I had a chance, yeah, I would [kill Stephen Miller].”
  — Unidentified Protester (44:33)

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Timeline of Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamps | Content Summary | |---|---|---| | US Strikes Drug Boats | 00:00–05:43 | Military action against drug traffickers, media response, Trump’s policy | | Colombia & Tariffs | 02:18–03:34 | US-Colombia tensions, Trump’s tariffs | | Border Security & Cartels | 05:43–10:59 | JJ Carroll shares border patrol insights | | Shutdown & Approval Ratings | 11:18–15:43 | Poll data, Democrat strategies, government shutdown | | Obamacare & Health Care | 15:43–23:20 | Dr. Victory on ACA, insurance costs, single payer debate | | Crime Stats & Media | 24:08–32:51 | Dr. Lott on crime reporting, victimization surveys | | Climate Politics & Fake Meat | 35:50–41:26 | Beyond Meat collapse, climate summit’s forest clearing | | Protest Culture / No Kings | 42:34–46:58 | Recap of anti-Trump rallies, protester rhetoric | | Trump on Ukraine | 46:58–47:16 | Trump’s response to Ukraine policy question |

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Conclusion

Stinchfield Tonight (October 20th, 2025) presents a robustly conservative outlook on current American political events, with extended focus on Trump administration policy, anti-drug operations, government shutdown politics, the realities of crime, and the intersection of climate, commerce, and protest movements. The host and guests consistently advocate for strong policies, media skepticism, and exposing what they deem as mainstream or leftist hypocrisies.
Listeners are provided with an alternative narrative to mainstream news, delivered with pointed critique and direct language throughout.

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Transcript

[Grant Stinchfield]

This is an I Heart podcast. Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. Here's a message for you. You send deadly drugs to the United States, drugs like fentanyl, you will be considered a terrorist and you will. Well, there's a good chance you will die. Take a look at the latest video of these strikes on drug boats. This one apparently is the latest strike. We're told that boat is operated by Ergesito de Liberacion national, which is a D designated terror group. Now, here's the other strike that's getting a lot of publicity. This one apparently is a submarine, a Colombian based submarine. That strike killed two of the four people on board. The other two, Marco Rubio decided to send back to Colombia and Ecuador respectively. This is President Trump on these strikes. The Columbia president says that US Killed a innocent Colombian fisherman in one of the strikes.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 1]

They said that when we shot down a submarine that they would just fishing.

[Dr. John Lott]

This is a sub.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 1]

This was a submarine that was meant, by the way. This was a submarine that was meant for one reason and made for one reason to carry massive amounts of drugs.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Do you hear the deceitful media? You killed a fisherman. A fisherman in a submarine. As President Trump says, you don't fish from a submarine. What you can do is try to hide your sneaking of drugs into the United States. Now, the president isn't just taking lives of terrorists. What I believe is President Trump is saving the lives of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Americans because Venezuela is starting to get the message. Not completely. Colombia, though, has yet to get the message. Here's President Trump again.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 1]

They don't have a fight against drugs. They make drugs. They refine drugs. They make cocaine. They have cocaine factories that they have no fight against drugs. And I'm stopping all payments to Colombia because they don't have anything to do with their fight against drugs.

[Dr. John Lott]

No.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 1]

Colombia is out of control. And now they have the worst president they've ever had. He's a lunatic who's got a lot of problems. Mental problems.

[Grant Stinchfield]

He's got mental problems. Look, you have got to have mental problems if you are going to cross President Trump and send anything in the United States that's ultimately going to kill American citizens. Now, it's not just the drug traffickers that are going to be hit by President Trump if they're trying to operate one of those vessels headed towards the United States. Trump is hitting back hard against Colombia with tariffs. Now he is proposing a huge increase in tariffs, which would cause a lot of damage to the Colombian economy. And they Better think pretty closely about all of this. But again, the media doesn't want to focus on what Colombia is doing. They only want to focus on what President Trump is doing instead of all of these poisonings, these murderous poisonings here in the United States.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 2]

It's important for the American people to recognize these are narco terrorists who are trying to bring poison into our country and kill our citizens.

[Grant Stinchfield]

What happens to them, I don't really.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 2]

Care, so long as they're not bringing poison into our country.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So the left is reeling now that President Trump is swift and he is decisive. They don't know what to do with a president that acts like this, that literally acts like a commander in chief. Because think about this. Even if common sense says the move is 100% right, even if for the safety and security of Americans, you say the move is 100% right, but if the move comes from President Trump, well, then throw all that out the window, and the left and the media is going to say, no, let's fight, fight, fight. Let's reject whatever comes from President Trump, even if the American people want it. Well, there's no question that, that what is needed here is the truth about what's going on. And unfortunately, although the United States is striking these vessels, it has not really presented clear evidence of exactly what was on those ships and why the actions were taken. As former secretary of Leon Panetta, a liberal, of course. Now, do you think the Obama administration, the Biden administration, did anything to stop the flow of these drugs like fentanyl in the United States? Absolutely nothing. He wants proof. Talk to a family member of someone who died from a fentanyl poisoning. Millions of them in America. You talk to them, they'll give you proof of what's going on. The American people are grateful for all of this. And it's about time Americans stop dying at the hands of these foreign terrorist groups, sending these drugs to the United States. Well, joining me now is former deputy Border Patrol agent in charge and author of the book Treason. JJ Carroll is with us. Jj, welcome to the program.

[JJ Carroll]

Thank you for having me on. I ran a unit on the Pacific coast that just what Donald Trump is doing. There were many nights that I ran this unit. Ten years ago that I was sitting on the beach surrounded by thousands of pounds of narcotics, arresting 20, 30 people, having boats sit offshore. And I would ask myself, why are we allowing this to happen? What if I wasn't there and all these thousands of pounds of narcotics got through? And, Grant, there were many times where I thought, if we just had A president that had some courage. If you would have told me back then that one day we're going to have a president that has so much courage he's going to bomb these out at sea, I would have never believed it. But here we are, we have a great leader, and he's doing what needs to be done.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so, jj, obviously you support the move by President Trump to use the military against these boats, bringing this, this poison to our country. How do you make sure you got the right boat? Right, because nobody wants to take out a fishing vessel. I don't think that's happened as of yet. But how do you do it from an investigative standpoint?

[JJ Carroll]

You have trackers on the boat, you have live intel, you have cameras that you can see the bundles on the, on the boat. You can see the boats have, have manufactured gas tanks, you can see the narcotics in the bundle in the way that they're packaged. Leon Panetta is just an old, stupid liberal. We did this. I have guys that were on, on the coastline with high powered cameras, and they could tell me the number of people on the boat and how many packages were there, how I could ask them, what do you think the poundage is? Do you think it's £1,000 or 10,000? They could make an honest guess from a camera seven miles away. So you're telling me that an aircraft, a military vessel that's in the sky, can't tell you? Of course they can. We know exactly what's happening. The left would rather have Americans die of fentanyl, cocaine and heroin than kill people that are bringing an end. We live in an alternative universe. Grant people that have intelligence and people that just hate Donald Trump.

[Grant Stinchfield]

It is amazing because you would think anybody would be saying, oh, finally, we're stopping this, this horrible stuff from coming into America, and yet they take the side of these drug dealers and rogue nations like Venezuela. Do you think, jj, that we have assets on the ground, whether it's sources, agents in countries like Venezuela and Colombia that are keeping an eye on things like this and, and given us the tip when these boats leave shore?

[JJ Carroll]

Absolutely. I had it in mind a decade ago when we didn't have, we had President Obama, so we didn't have any backing, but we had land assets, we had people inside the organizations put trackers on the boats. We had live intelligence, like human intelligence, telling us where they're going to go, how much narcotics are going to be in, and on and on and on. So this isn't like Donald Trump is telling them, hey, just go off the Pacific. I mean, the Atlantic coast and just bomb some boats. You know how stupid that is? You know how ignorant the left hates Donald Trump that much. But I will say this from, from everything Donald Trump is doing, I applaud it. But, sir. Mr. President, you have to do that on the Pacific coast. We are getting hammered. I'm talking, I got a picture, a video from friend of mine just today showing another narcotic boat landing and offloading their narcotics on the Pacific coast land from San Diego, all up to Santa Barbara. It needs to be both coast. And we have to begin to understand the, that we are at war and we have to act as if we're in war.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, jj, this is in some respects breaking news that you revealing here. What nations are those boats coming from? Do we know that are headed to the Pacific coastline of the United States?

[JJ Carroll]

These boats are coming in every night. And they're from the Caloa drug cartel. They're coming straight from the cartels in Mexico. Absolutely. I did this for a decade. The majority of all the the narcotic boats that we caught were seeing a lower drug cartel. One of my agents testified against El Chapo Guzman. We were ripping their loads. It's the same thing going on today during Brighton. They were landing almost nightly. Almost nightly. So now we have it happening. This isn't like, is it happening? It's, yes, it's happening, but how much is it, how many times a night or a week is it happening up and down the Pacific coast? Donald Trump needs to focus on the Mexican cartels as well.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so Mexican cartels, Pacific coast. I would imagine much of this that's playing into it, jj, is that the cartels have had to change their business plan when the border shuts down. The trafficking of human beings gets virtually shut down. Bringing drugs across the southern border becomes much more difficult. Is this a result of that?

[JJ Carroll]

It is a direct result. I saw this 10 years ago in the border patrol when we started to shut down the San Diego border. Then the next thing they do is they take the path of least resistance, which is the Pacific Ocean, and they start to utilize that. That's what you're seeing in the Atlantic. That's what you're seeing in bringing the narcotics any way they can. And we also have to have a very honest discussion. Why are they bringing so much narcotics into America? Because we are a drug addicted nation and we demand that product. So they're just providing a source, an avenue for those narcotics to come to us. Because we are ordering it like we're ordering off Amazon. We have a moral problem in America that must be addressed as well.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, there's a lot of facets to this for sure. President Trump, I hope he heeds your advice. Start look at the Pacific coast, too. The more we stop this stuff, the more American lives are saved. J.J. carroll, as always, the book is treason. We appreciate your service to this country, my friend. Always good to see you.

[JJ Carroll]

Good to see you. Thank you.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. All right. That's fascinating stuff. Now, you heard me say earlier that President Trump is decisive and his conviction, I think, is what makes him so well respected, certainly amongst all of his make America Great Again supporters. But I think even around the world now, even with the shutdown, Democrats are crying. But it seems to ME People are 100% with President Trump. Even CNN sees it.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 2]

In 2018, 2019, Donald Trump's net approval rating was already falling. The shutdown was eating in and it was popular sport. It was down three points already at this particular point and would fall considerably more. It was very much on the decline. You come over to this side of the screen. This shutdown hasn't eaten into Donald Trump support at all. His net approval rating is actually up a point.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So why is that? Well, one, because President Trump is seeing success and the American people see that. But I think the other reason of this is the Democrats are a total 180 from where President Trump is. The Democrats are the party of nonsense. The Democrats are the party of violence. The Democrats are the party of we hate Donald Trump with no other policy to offer up other than that. And that has opened Americans eyes.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 2]

CNN again blame Trump for the shutdown a great deal. In 2018, 20, 19, 61%, more than three in five Americans blame Trump a great deal for that particular shutdown. You come over to this side of the screen. Look at this. It's a different world. It's a different world. 48% of Americans blame Trump a great deal for this particular shutdown.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So the clear reality is the longer this shutdown lasts, the more the Democrats suffer. While Americans will start to suffer at some point, most of us don't even feel what's happening. I don't know. Do any of you, unless you work for the federal government in some capacity, do you feel this? The answer is most likely no. Now this is Kevin Hassett with the National Economic Council.

[Kevin Hassett]

My friend Senator Shaheen from New Hampshire, a very, you know, sound minded Democrat came out and supported opening the government on Friday. So it means that there are sort of cracks in the Schumer armor I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end sometime this week. But I can tell you that if it doesn't, if it doesn't, if the story that we've been basically hearing from moderates that, look, we just can't do it in front of the no Kings rally, if that ends up not being true, that I think that the White House is going to have to look very closely along with Russ vote at, you know, stronger measures that we could take to bring him to the table.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So it's all about imaging, I guess. Oh, we don't want to fold now. We just had the no Kings rally, which, by the way, we wouldn't have a government shutdown if we had a king, which is also how dumb they all are. So Democrats are left with one Hail Mary, and that is so called Obamacare health care. They know that health care costs are through the roof. They know that America's health care system is most certainly broken. They know the Obamacare system sucks. Who created it, by the way? The Democrats did. So they tried to tie Obamacare to this shutdown. It's really not related to. But Democrats have made it related in somewhat of a sly move, I will give them that. This is Jamie Raskin.

[Jamie Raskin]

These are people who seem content to throw millions of people off their health care and shut down the government of the United States and threaten the livelihood of federal workers. If anybody shouldn't be paid during this horrific period, it's Mike Johnson and the Republican members of Congress.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so if that's the message you hear, the only one you get, well, you might say, wow, this is crazy. But the reality is that's just not true. And so John Thune, the leader in the Senate, has offered up the idea, let's blew a standalone bill to offer up a vote on continuing the subsidies to Obamacare, meaning we'll pick up some of the cost as your premiums go up. Because everybody on October 1st that's on Obamacare got to know your premiums are going to go up. So I say, all right, now you think that would work for Democrats? Doesn't really work for me. But you think it would work for Democrats? Nope. They expose themselves again. This is Bernie Sanders.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Are you on board with that? Just to get this over with?

[Bernie Sanders]

No, because that would not get it over with. I want to see the shutdown ended tomorrow as a result of Trump's big, beautiful bill, which to mind one, was one of the worst pieces of legislation passed modern history. This is what is going to happen. 15 million low income and working class Americans are going to lose their health insurance. Studies indicate that when you take away health insurance with so many people, you know what happens? 50,000 people will die.

[Grant Stinchfield]

None of their predictions ever come true, by the way. Now, is a full repeal of Obamacare possible? Remember, this was all the talk going all the way back to 2011. I don't think a full repeal is possible, but I think some fixes most certainly are. Is this tied to the shutdown? No. But what about this idea of subsidies? We don't want illegal aliens getting Obamacare. We got a lot of things that are being spent in Obamacare that don't need to be spent on Obamacare, which drives the cost of insurance up. All of it's pretty confusing, though. And I want to bring in now a good friend of ours, chief of disaster and emergency medicine for the wellness company, Dr. Kelly Victory is here to help explain some of it. Dr. Victory, it's great to have you on the program.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Thanks as always for having me, Grant.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, Doctor, here I'm going to ask you a wild question. What is Obamacare to you? Because I bet you if you asked 10 people what Obamacare is, you'd get 10 different answers.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Well, I am probably one of the few people on the planet who actually read Obamacare cover to cover. Before it was passed, I spent about six weeks in a law library in Cleveland, Ohio, going through it. Although people commonly say it's about 2,900 pages, it's actually well, more than 10,000 pages of legislation because every single paragraph references other legislation. So you have to go and pull that book and look to see what they're talking about. And it is perhaps the worst piece of legislation ever passed, certainly in my lifetime. I knew that it wouldn't work at the time. There's no way that anything penciled out, if you will, you don't have to be an economist to know that it was going to fail. And frankly, I suspect that it was crafted to fail because the Democrats believed it would be the quickest route to getting 100% of Americans onto a universal health care platform, something they've wanted for a long, long time. But to be very clear, the Democrats passed Obamacare. They were largely responsible for writing it. They passed it. They were responsible for adding in then the subsidies that were required because of the onerous cost, the absolutely outrageous cost of this thing. We were sold a bill of goods, but they also put in the expiration dates on those subsidies, and now they want to extend. So as you rightly point out, Grant Health Care has nothing to do with the shutdown whatsoever other than the fact that health care polls well, particularly with Democrats. And so they have co opted this and tried to tie the two together in order to make it seem as if the Republicans. The fact that we have the shutdown going on is in part responsible for the escalating cost of Obamacare and health insurance. And the reality is that it's a horrible bill. It co opts the entire concept, the construct, if you will, of insurance by saying fundamentally that everything has to be included. I am well past, for example, my childbearing years, but if I were on Obamacare, I am required to have maternity care. I don't have children yet. I'm required to have pediatric dental coverage in my policy in Obamacare. So it would be tantamount to trying to do a bumper to bumper policy on a car where everything including, you know, rotating the tires, the oil changes, the fuel and everything else is included. That isn't insurance and that is part of the problem. So can it be repealed? Probably not. There was, you may recall, back in 2017, we were close to getting it repealed, pulled back entirely were it not for that singular vote of John McCain.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm like you, I'm 56 years old and here's some personal information for everybody out there. I'm also snipped. And if I was on Obamacare, I too would have to have this maternity ability to take care of newborn children and infants when it's just not a possibility for me. Makes no sense. You brought up something very interesting. This idea of universal health care, this is what they talk about, about the single payer system. Well, the single, single payer would of course be government. Here's the tip off. This is Ro Khanna, he's a Democrat. Roll it. Look, I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene. The health care system is. Wait, I never thought I'd hear you.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Say that about anything.

[Grant Stinchfield]

I mean, do you think those words would come out of your mouth?

[Unidentified Male Commentator 2]

She's, she said the cost of living insurance is terrible. They're ripping off the American people.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Premiums have gone up.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 2]

That's why I believe we need single.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Payer health care with Medicare for all in this country. Single barrels of Medicare for all. How you pay for that, I have no concept. I don't think they care. But I'll ask you this, Dr. Victor, if you can, quickly, and maybe it's impossible to answer this quickly, is there a simple way to bring the cost of health care insurance down, which I then guess you got to Bring the cost of health care down as well to make that happen.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Well, two big things. Obviously we need to continue with the Maha movement and trying to make Americans healthier again because it is stunning ill health of Americans that is driving up healthcare costs. Everybody needs, unfortunately to be on a slew of medications for all of their chronic diseases. But the biggest issue with regard to the insurance itself, grant, is that we've got to return it to what it was meant to be, which is to cover for the catastrophic, the unanticipated and overwhelming issues. So we need to bring back what we had when I was growing up called major medical or catastrophic insurance, and then allow people to pick and choose the things that they want to have covered. Everything should not be covered for everyone. It simply makes it too expensive. It's no different than a homeowner's insurance. Homeowner's insurance doesn't pay to cut the lawn and clean the gutters and paint the house. Those are things you pay out of pocket for. And the costs go down when they are not expected to be covered by insurance.

[Grant Stinchfield]

You know, I'll give you one quick example. When I change TV networks or jobs or whatever, and I may be without insurance for a little bit, I wanted catastrophe insurance. I'm blessed that I do well in my life and other businesses that I could have a $10,000 deductible. I just want to know that the cost of a million dollar bill is going to be covered. I'll pay the $10,000 deductible. Not allowed to have that on the private market. I mean, there's just no way to do that. And so, you know, I've got to pay all kinds of money out and it just hurts everybody all the way down the line. It's fascinating conversation. We could probably do a whole show on it, but we don't have that much time. Dr. Victory, always good to see you. Thank you.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Thanks for having me.

[Grant Stinchfield]

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[JJ Carroll]

All right.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Democrats have been lying about crime statistics to keep criminals on the streets. We expose the lie next.

[Dr. John Lott]

Foreign I.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Am proud to report to you that this administration is taking the fight to criminals. And that fight includes arresting illegal aliens. All right, listen to this.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Since January, the Department of Homeland security has arrested over 480, 000 criminal illegal aliens. 70% of those individuals have criminal charges.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So 70% of them have criminal charges either pending against them or they were convicted in the past of some other crime. Now, it's not just the illegal aliens they're going after. The FBI is hard at work. Finally, the FBI is going after real criminals, not just J6 grandparents who were taking an unorganized tour of the Capitol. Now they're going after bank robbers and fraudsters and terrorists and violent criminals and drug traffickers. Listen to this.

[Jamie Raskin]

This is going to trip you out. 28,000 violent crime arrests in 2025. And the year is not even over, you say, what does that mean? Put it in comparison. Prior three, four years, the FBI under prior leadership had averaged about 15, 16,000. We're at 28,000, 28,000. We're not even done with the year. We haven't even hit Thanksgiving or Christmas yet.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so let's expose the big lie in all of this. I want you to take a look at this graph. What it basically says is that in 2020, crime was sky high. And then from 2022 to 2024, under the Biden era. Look at that drop. It dropped basically 48 decrease in violent crimes. But that is the FBI arrest records. Those are the reported crimes. Okay, but when you look at the national victims Survey. All right, this is the survey of Americans who actually believe they were victims of crime. Crime soars under Biden. Violent crime up 59%. Rape up 67%. Robbery up 38%. Aggravated assault up 62%. The little gold lines that, that's President Trump's first term down in virtually every area. But this is the victimization survey, which means they talk to about 250/something thousand people and they say, hey, were you a victim of crime? And those are the numbers that are through the roof. So, people, this explains why people feel like crime is up when the media is telling them, no, no, no, crime is down. Well, how does this happen? I want to bring in now to talk about all of this. The president of the crime prevention research center. Dr. John, it's great to have you back on the program.

[Dr. John Lott]

It's great to talk to you, Grant. Thanks for having me on.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so it seems counterintuitive that reported crimes would be down. But when you interview random folks and the number of people who say they've been a victim of a crime goes sky high through the roof, something's not jiving here.

[Dr. John Lott]

Right? Well, I mean, so we have these two numbers. We have crimes report to police and we have total crimes that are there. And prior to Covid, those numbers tended to go up and down together. Since COVID they've gone in opposite directions. And there are several reasons for this. One is arrest rates have plummeted over the last few years. And if people don't think that the criminals are going to be caught and punished, they're less likely to go and take the time to go and report crimes to the police. The other thing is it's become relatively more difficult in many places to go and report crimes to the police. So six, seven years ago, if you called up 911 and reported a violent crime, they would send out police to go and take the report from you. Now, in many parts of the country, if you call up 911, they'll say, well, is the criminal still there? And people almost always say, no, they've already left. And in that case, what they'll say is, well, you can come down to the police station and you can wait in line and you can get a police report filled out. Well, you know, you make it more difficult, more time consuming for people to go and fill out a police report. Some people are going to say it's not worth their time to be able to go and do that. So what we've had over the last few years is we've had this drop in the number of crimes reported by a little bit. But we've had this huge surge, this 59% increase over the last four years in terms of the actual total amount of crime. That's the largest percentage increase over any four year period that we've had by far than any four year period since they started collecting this data.

[Grant Stinchfield]

I guess I'll ask you a rhetorical question, John, but why does the media ignore the latter number you mentioned about crime up and seem to focus on these crimes reported number?

[Dr. John Lott]

You know, as you say, it's rhetorical question. You know, it depends on what fits the narrative that's there. So, I mean, last year, several times, many times during the election, Trump would go and point to the national crime victimization data. We didn't have the data yet for 2024, but we had the data for the first three years of the Biden administration. And it was up a lot over that period of time. And yet when Trump would go and make that or I would. I had a piece in the Wall Street Journal last year, did lots of radio and TV interviews about the first three years. The media just basically ignored it. And so, you know, and you can find headline after headline last year where the media was saying violent crime is down, but people mistakenly think that it's increasing. The national crime victimization data has kind of been the gold standard for crime data because we know most crimes aren't reported to police. And we know you need to, you know, if you go to ask most people, do you care about what's happening to the total amount of crime, or do you care about what's happening to the amount of crime that ends up getting reported to police? You may care about both, but people are primarily going to care about what happens to the total amount of crime.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah. Yeah, of course. Last question for you. I've seen in mostly blue cities, in their attempt to limit the violent crimes, they reclassify crimes. So what once was an aggravated assault now may be just a basic assault. And they've moved these crimes to lesser and lesser categories. Does that play a role in any of this?

[Dr. John Lott]

Well, not directly. I mean, I'll give you an example. You have something like Manhattan, where Elvin Bragg is the District Attorney. They basically are refusing to prosecute violent criminals for firearms offenses. What makes the difference between an aggravated assault, which is a felony, and a simple assault, which is a misdemeanor, and doesn't get included in the FBI data when you're making comparisons across cities is whether or not a weapon was used and often whether a weapon was used. Well, they're refusing to include that in the charges. When they finally prosecute these individuals. The thing is, they put pressure on the police then not to include the weapons in their police reports because they don't want to take the full hit for kind of downgrading the charges against people. They want the police to kind of pretend that there is nothing there. And of course, we've seen similar types of accusations from police in D.C. the administration is investigating that. You know, to me, the amazing thing is that you've had the number of police that you've had who have come forward and had sworn statements about the pressure that they have faced to not to downgrade the crimes when they put together their police reports.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Well, you know, I think those cops that are coming forward are like all of us. They want the truth so they can respond to crime where it is in a legitimate fashion and know what the facts are as compared to this wishful thinking magic show of numbers which seems to be the Biden administration. The mainstream media love to subscribe to Dr. John Lott. All, all you do over at the Crime Prevention Research center is not a magic show dealing with facts and numbers. And it's very hard for people to dispute the findings that you come up with. Which is why you have, which is why we have you on all the time. Thank you, sir, as always.

[Dr. John Lott]

Well, thanks for being there, Grant.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. We appreciate it. Again, we'll be following this because you gotta go to sources you trust because the mainstream media today, man, just not trustworthy. All right. If you are dealing with high blood pressure, joint pain, weight gain or brain fog, you need to learn about energized health. Their patent pending protocol addresses the root causes of these issues through intracellular hydration. Founders John and Chelsea Jubilee are sharing this powerful information during their upcoming 555 Challenge. Lose five pounds in five days for only five dollars. And right now you can upgrade your 555 Challenge experience by going to my555challenge.com upgrade. There you'll get personal coaching, real tools and the ability to measure your hydration. The five day experience starts today. Register now at my555challenge.com forward/upgrade. All right. Climate zealots are mourning as their beloved fake meat is dead as the beef it is trying to replace. We get into this next. Welcome back everyone. I want you to take a look at this headline headline from Climate Depot. I don't know why I get such satisfaction in this, but it reads fake meat faces real death. Beyond meat. The poster child for plant based meat once worth 7.8 billion is now almost worthless. This from Climate Depot. It is now worth just 79 million. It's also burdened with about 800 million in debt and struggling to stay afloat. So you know what I did? I pulled the five year chart on Beyond Meat. Look at this. Do you know at one point this was well over $200 a share. It is now below $2 a share. And even just over the last few weeks has plummeted by like 50%. So not doing well. Poor soul who paid $200 a share for this. Maybe Bill Gates is the only one. Joining me now is Climate Depot publisher Mark Morano. Mark, welcome back.

[Mark Morano]

Thank you, Grant. A great chart. You got There, I think that pretty much says it. You can follow that. That's basically how the whole climate agenda has been faring these recent years as well.

[JJ Carroll]

All right.

[Grant Stinchfield]

And it kind of tracks with where hysteria started, right? I mean, we've had hysteria for a while, but boy, through the Biden administration, he was so controllable. They just took over the climate zealots. And now you see that stock price tanking. What was Beyond Meat all about? What did it really represent? Mark?

[Mark Morano]

Well, yeah, that chart you showed with a big spike, that was about the time of Greta Thunberg. And interestingly enough, it was the time of the big UN agricultural report where they basically said that modern agriculture is not sustainable on the planet and we had to get rid of cows. And this is amazing. You know, the UN has said that cow emissions are more damaging to the planet than planes, trains and automobile emissions combined. Now this, a big name in this is Al Gore. Al Gore was a huge investor with his, with his investment team back in 2019, 2020. This was the, this was the solution to getting rid of agriculture, to getting rid of cows. This was touted as a healthy alternative. This was just going to skyrocket. Beyond Meat started showing up in grocery stores. They made everything from sausage to hamburgers, hot dogs, all sorts of fake vegetable oil, processed meat. Now, if you paid attention in the early days, CNN Nutritionist actually came out and condemned this saying, if you actually want to eat healthy, you may want to reconsider. There's a lot of saturated fat. There's 22 ingredients. It's ultra processed. It's got all kinds of weird vegetable oils. The MAHA movement in addition to the Trump effect. You know, RFK Jr. May take as much credit for killing this as anyone, because people looking at this saying an ultra processed gross goo burger is going to be healthier for me than the actual thing. And it just tanks.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, you may disagree with me on this, but I don't even think this was people pushing back against the saturated fat or people pushing back against the climate agenda. I just think it tastes bad and I think the burger sucked and nobody wanted to eat it.

[Mark Morano]

Yeah, I gotta tell you, I never even tried one, so I don't know what they tasted like. I accidentally bought, I think it was beef jerky in the grocery store. And then I looked at it like, oh, this is plant. And I threw it out. I didn't want to try it. It looked disgusting. I mean, the whole idea of imitating it was not going to work. And so they tanked. They timed the Initial IPO to a UN report. Al Gore pumped the money in. This was part of Gore's quest to be a carbon billionaire. And it's all just gone belly up.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah. All right, let me go to the next one because this is about as great an example of leftist hypocrisy as it gets. This was a headline in your your Climate Depot. UN Climate Summit COP 30 clear cuts 10000Amazonian trees for highway. Meanwhile Greenpeace claims nations need to attend COP30 to fight the forest destroyers are for us around the break but they cut 1,000 trees for the highway to get to the climate comp.

[Mark Morano]

Tens of thousands of acres. I'm calling it now clear cut 30 instead of cop cop 30. This is the UN climate summit. This clear cut 30. It's the height of hypocrisy. It was so bad Grant that the BBC had to do a feature article about the Amazon forest being felled to build a road for the UN Climate summit. And Greenpeace with no sense of irony, no sense of self awareness says we must attend this summit. We must travel around the world with huge carbon footprints to save the trees as they chop them down to to make room for the limousines and for all the highfalutin world leaders, corporate CEOs, Hollywood celebrities, billionaires who attend these UN climate summits. It's incredible. And there's no sense they are not aware of their own hypocrisy.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so I imagine they'll have diesel trucks running down the new highway they clear cut for to bring all the equipment in. And then all those people you talked about are flying in on their private jets just burning all kinds of fossil fuel fuels.

[Mark Morano]

Yeah, it's going to be a huge carbon footprint. This is a very far away summit. I'm going in person. I'd be happy to do live reports from. It's in Brazil and they don't even have enough hotel rooms. You know what they're doing? They're bringing in cruise ships to dock in the rivers there to make makeshift hotels for the several week conference. Imagine the carbon footprint of these giant ships that are showing up by the way, ships that the UN just tried to tax globally because they're 3% of global emissions. It was going to be hundreds of billions of dollars in tax. And Donald Trump scrambled and killed the UN climate tax. So the irony is the UN is going to have cheaper ships because there won't be any global tax on them as they as these huge carbon footprint ships go into this Amazon city along with the new highway along with all the clear cut forest.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, Climate Depot publisher Mark Morano. We're going to put you to work that we're going to put you on assignment. The roving reporter in Brazil for, for us. Quite frankly, we really do want to have you on that week. It'll be fascinating and I'm sure you'll come up with all kinds of great stuff. So thank you, my friend.

[Dr. John Lott]

All right.

[Mark Morano]

Thank you, Grant.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, you got it. All right, folks, if you miss the October 15th deadline or oh, back taxes, know that the IRS is ramping up enforcement and every day you wait only makes things worse. Here's the harsh reality. The IRS can charge a penalty of 5 a percent per month, up to 25% of your total tax bill just for not filing. That's in addition to what you already owe. Luckily, Tax Network USA is here to help. Tax Network USA specializes in resolving financial chaos and getting you back on track fast. Your consultation is 100 free. Just call 1-800-905-8000 or visit tnusa.com rav and let Tax Network USA help before the IRS makes the next move. All right, Democrats. Democrats across the country ramped up their violent rhetoric at the no Kings rallies over the weekend. We'll get into that.

[Dr. John Lott]

Foreign.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Welcome back, everyone. I would imagine that unless you're some influencer out there that you did not attend one of the no Kings rallies over the weekend. This was a scene of the uneducated, uninformed and people who have no idea what they're really protesting. It looks like a bunch of baby boomers. Most of the people were older than me. Me. Most of them happen to be just angry old bag white women, quite frankly. And it's such an ugly look for Democrats. It really is. Um, this, folks, is one of the protesters. That really shows you how violent these women can be. Check this out. You gotta grab a gun. We gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot. Not an angry woman, but an angry man. Same thing. Ridiculous. But the FBI ought to investigate that individual calling for ICE agents to be shot. That's what they're no Kings protest is about. Now, I know you've heard this analogy before, but if President Trump was a king, do you really think they'd be allowed to protest? All the king's men would just go round all of them up and throw them in prison. But he's not a king. If he was a king, you really think we'd have a government shut down right now? Of course not. Government would be open. We'd cut spending everywhere, quite frankly, would put America back on track. If President Trump could simply have his way. That's not how the system works. And that's okay. We will work within it. Unlike them, who, again, resort to. To violence. Here's another.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Who are you gonna kill?

[Grant Stinchfield]

Nazis.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Who do you find as a Nazi?

[Dr. John Lott]

What do you mean? It's pretty.

[JJ Carroll]

In this.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

In this context, who's a Nazi?

[Grant Stinchfield]

Stephen Miller's a Nazi.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

So you're gonna kill Stephen Miller?

[Mark Morano]

If I had a chance, yeah, I would.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Stephen Miller's a Nazi. I mean, really. And so you're advocating to kill one of President Trump's closest confidants, A great spokesman for the president, a great thinker, negotiator. All the above. That's who you want to kill. Do you see why these people get no say? In my mind, they have no legitimacy when they are calling for the death of these people. None of us have ever called for the death of these people. Unless it had to do with a criminal court and being convicted of treason. And then the possibility of the death penalty is open. But that is for a judge and jury to decide, not for us. Now, you had the usual suspects as far as the leaders were out in full force. Corey Booker being one of them. Jay Pritzker, another. Here's Jay Pritzker. Cut eight again, folks. As you look at this. What is it? Pritzker's a boomer. It's just a bunch of old folks out there who missed their college days of the 60s, I guess. And so that's what they do. Cory Booker, another one. He's not a boomer, but he is a dope. Looks like this is what democracy looks like. What democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. This is what. What democracy looks like. No, that's actually not what democracy looks like. In fact, it's not even close to what democracy looks like. Nobody knows how to deal with dumb reporters better than President Trump. We will see that next. And welcome back, everyone. So President Trump held a bilateral meeting with the Australian Prime Minister today. Apparently, reporters just don't get it. You know, President Trump's pretty amazing, but he can't do everything on his own. Listen to this. The most powerful man on earth. Why don't you just enable Ukraine to.

[Dr. Kelly Victory]

Finish this war tomorrow?

[Unidentified Male Commentator 1]

Well, if you knew anything about what Ukraine were talking about, you'd be able. You do.

[Dr. John Lott]

I don't.

[Unidentified Male Commentator 1]

I don't think you do. Really? I don't think you do, because it's a little more complicated than that, but it sounds easy. We're in the process of trying to make a deal.

[Grant Stinchfield]

That reporter is an idiot. Just enable Ukraine to finish the job. As if US Sending Ukraine more money, more weapons, will allow Ukraine to finish the job. Russia is not as powerful as we thought. Otherwise it would have run over Ukraine. Ukraine quicker. But Russia's no patsy either. You think if all of a sudden Ukraine ups its attacks against Russia, Russia's gonna roll over and fold? All hell would be unleashed on Ukraine. But that reporter doesn't see that either. It's gonna do it for us. So great having you along. Stitchfield's army rolls. Thanks to all of you. We'll see you back here tomorrow night. See you soon. This is an iHeart podcast.