Dixon & Vining Hour 2 (010324)

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All right, and we're back the Dixon and Vining Show on Talk 99.5 Birmingham's Real Talk. We are here to keep you informed, educated, entertained, and engaged. It's my job for another hour, one hour down, three more to go. And I think we've got some good stuff again, eight o'clock.

stephanie smith from the alabama policy institute can be coming in to talk about the alabama department government efficiency they're doing great work over there uh... really really impressed uh... with this thing they put together on the department of government efficiency for the state of alabama nine o'clock we're bringing on united states senator or coaches i call them tuberville uh... to discuss uh... trump appointments and also uh...

maybe talk a little college foosball, uh, as we go in, you know, to the end of the season. So, uh, good show up ahead. And for now, we're going to continue having, uh, this conversation. And so, um, I want to read something I, I, I, I copied and pasted this. I read the other day on, on, on the twitters, uh, a guy named Aaron McIntyre. He's a, a Blaze TV host, very, um, very much at the core of this America first movement. Some of the other guys you see,

that are really big on this is Charlie Kirk, uh, Jack Passobiak, uh, these kinds of guys, um, he says, sorry, but I'm not buying the argument that India or any other foreign nation has an army of gifted engineers who could improve their home nation and help them win in the global economy, but they just refuse to do it until they cross the US border and then magically activate. So the point is the argument that's being had by Elon and Vivek is,

You know, all these other countries just have these army of these unbelievably gifted and talented people that can take America to the next level, but they are currently living in suboptimal places. That's, you see how I use suboptimal. Donald Trump use a different word when he talks about those countries, but suboptimal countries that are not getting ahead. So if these people are so incredible and so great, why aren't they making their nation better?

Why do they have to come over here to magically be of value?

Well, Brian, to play devil's advocate here, which I know you enjoy that on occasion. It's not just about the individuals and their ability. It's about the environment that we have here in the United States. I mean, look at Elon Musk. He came from South Africa. He didn't create Tesla and SpaceX and SolarCity there. He didn't start PayPal there. He came here because of the resources that we have. And that's one of the things that makes this country great is we have the people, but we also have the resources we have.

We have the regulatory environment. We have the nuances that allow people to be successful. But again, back to your point, I think we can do a better job in making sure we have the right workers. We've let things down when it comes to STEM in our classrooms. We've been more concerned about DEI than we are about basic arithmetic. And I think we've got to get back to some of the core components in our education system.

and that's going to be part of it. Yeah, and I'm kind of going back to it. I 100% agree with everything you just said there. The key is why does that environment exist in America? Well, I think it's what we've created. I mean, granted, we do have some natural resources that come into play, but we also have a, we have a form of government that allows for that. Where did that come from? Well, obviously we started from our founding fathers, the Constitution, we created it.

What did they believe about Jesus, Derek? That's right. It's all about a Judeo-Christian value. I like he's leading the witness, which is okay. Yes, that's okay. And I completely agree, and we talked about a little bit of that off air as well, that our country is set with a philosophy that started with a Judeo-Christian belief. And the fact that we keep bringing people over here that don't agree with our philosophy is part of the problems we have. 100%. And so this gets back to the question I asked yesterday. We have this weird idea

The political elite, the ruling class of our country, the level of audacity and ignorance combined is amazing that we can export America to the third world and it will work seamlessly and that we can also import the third world into America and it will work seamlessly.

And they think that because they don't know that there's differences in people. Okay. And there's a lot of things that go into those differences. And I think a, uh, belief in the Lord Jesus Christ plays a huge role in that. Um, if you're listening and you're like, all right, you're talking about Jesus. Yeah. Right, right, right. Okay. Go back and just do some political history. Uh, where did our entire political philosophy come from? Um, I mean, we go all the way back to King Alfred and when, you know, we talked about King Alfred, the great, the book, White Horse King,

One of the things he did is he created English common law. English common law is the basis of the United States legal system when we founded our country and still is to this day. What is English common law? It's when he went and he pulled the general equity out of Israel's civil code in the Bible. The civil code in the Bible is basically all the stuff when you read the Bible, they're like,

if an ox goes a pregnant woman, you have to, you know, like there's like all this, if this happens, then this, if this happens, then this. And what it's showing is justice. What God believes is justice in a society when it's fair, if this situation happens, and otherwise another way of doing that, it said that you had to have a parapet around your roof because back in Jerusalem and Israel, when they had

uh... when they hosted people they would go on the roof that's the way that it worked it would be too hot inside the house is so they go to the roof to cool off and if you fell off the roof you would die so they said you're required to have a parapet around your roof what does that mean for us today it means that a homeowner or any property owner

is responsible for the safety of their guests. That's the general equity. And so we would pull from that. So America's legal system is based on English common law and Israel civil code and English common law is based on Israel civil code. And so you're seeing this, these rich biblical traditions that founded the Puritan political ideology. So you're talking about the English Civil War Puritans and the 1600s, okay, the 17th century. That political philosophy is what shaped and molded

of all of the thinking and the declaration of independence and the Constitution and all of this stuff. These were all devout Christians applying the word of God to the political environment. And that is how our nation is created in our nation was steeped in these traditions and these customs and these ways in this Christian morality.

and you remove Christian morality, you're removing the root in the tree and then expecting the fruit. In order to have the fruit, you have to have the root in the tree. We want apples, but we don't want the orchard.

And we're also seeing the fact that we're continuing to buy into this lie that we shouldn't talk about our Christian heritage. We shouldn't talk about this. Let's pull this out of the schools. Let's not have the Ten Commandments out here. But when you look back at it, it is one of the key components as to why

Our nation is great. It's all the way back is what was said in Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville back in the day. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. And that is centered around our godliness and our focus on our Christian heritage.

So I think you're absolutely right. And when you look at it, that's a big component. It's one of the reasons people want to come here, and then they want to come here and change it. And that's not what it's about. We've got to adapt to that. Even Elon said, he said, I'm probably a cultural Christian. And again, I don't know a man's heart, but he doesn't understand the impact that it can have on a society. And we've got to make sure that we continue to stand up for that. We've got to stand up for our faith.

And that starts on the air, on shows like this, in conversations we have with family and friends, in our businesses, and in the government circles. Yeah. Freedom cannot exist. The type of, and again, like what is freedom? Freedom is not the ability to smoke weed and have sex with whoever you want to. That's not the freedom that our Founding Fathers were talking about, okay? Freedom was the freedom to worship God the way that you desire. Like that was the freedom, like God tells us to live a certain way.

And there was, there was a time in certain countries in the West where you couldn't live the way specifically when there was a Catholic Protestant divide. But the point they were saying is that they felt that God wanted them to live this way. There was a government that said they couldn't live that way. And so to them, freedom was, I want to go be able to worship my God and raise my family as I choose. That is not the same thing as I want to be able to shoot heroin and, and, and, you know, be transgender.

That's not the same thing, right? Those are two different freedoms we're talking about. And to a society in order for it to be free, which means limited government, limited government interacting means that they're a self-governing society. And the premise is, is if you have a Christian country, that doesn't mean that every single person in the country is saved. What it means is that the legal system, the customs,

the overall general understanding of what is good and what is bad, you know, what is good and what is evil. There's just a general understanding that's in the ethos based off of, you know, our laws and our systems and our culture and everything that, you know, murder is bad, right? Like it's not, I mean, I mean, already murder is good if you believe in abortion, right? Like that's, that's the, the, the, the current culture is a culture of death and it's not long before, you know, you start getting into,

What do you call it when you jack of working in people? What's the word I'm looking for? They call it euthanasia. Euthanasia. Thank you. Yeah, euthanasia assisted suicide. I've got assistant, you know, coming in from all, all sides here. So point being when you start looking at those things, you're, you're really starting to see. I call it murder by the way. Yeah. Cause that's my point is that murder is becoming in vogue, right? All, all of these things that used to be vices are going to be virtues. And so I guess the point that I'm making is,

in order to have uh... our founders new in order to have freedom in order to have a constitutional republic in order to have this system of government you had it could only belong to a moral people and you can't have morality without religion and religion they were speaking of was christianity and i rest my case

Absolutely. And it's interesting that we keep trying to separate Christianity from our everyday lives. I remember early on in my career, I always thought that I had my faith in one silo and I had my business in another silo. And it's only been in the last six years where I realized, guess what? They can be part of the same silo. And that's why I make it very clear in my business that we are a faith-based organization, that a portion of everything that we make ends up going to

to missions and other areas. And I think it's important for us to get back into having these conversations. We don't need to shy away from having difficult conversations, whether it's about faith or it's about our political philosophies. We've got to have these conversations. And it used to be that they're like, oh, don't talk about religion or don't talk about politics.

Well, those are the things that we should be talking about. Those are things that should be front and center in our day-to-day lives because they have such an impact on everything that we do. And we bought into this lie from the left that, no, don't talk about that. And the reason being is they don't want us to focus on where our strength comes from and our strength comes from the Lord. And at the end of the day, that's where it's about and that's where we need to be focusing our efforts on.

So as we continue to look at what society is doing, I'm encouraged to see that this year we're going to have some excitement coming from D.C. in just a few weeks. And I'm hopeful that we're going to continue seeing how we can cut government on both the federal level and what we're going to do on a state level. Because at the end of the day, less government is the best course for us to have. Amen. So, well, it's about that time, Jared. It's about time to go to another break.

So we're going to do that. And we'll come back, continue the conversation. And yeah, so it is the Dixon and Vining Show on Talk99.5. We will be back. All right. We are back Dixon and Vining Show, Talk99.5. Man, we're entering into the 7 o'clock hour. We're not quite the halfway point.

Um, I think we kind of really made our points on, um, immigration H one B visas, but, uh, I'd like to bring the conversation, um, to a, a point of the, the real problem that does exist. We had a guy calling yesterday and he said, look, you know, so we're talking H one B, which is supposed to be like elite engineering talent for like tech companies or something like that. Okay.

Uh, my point is, um, I've seen that abused where people actually worked and were doing the job. So it wasn't that they needed to fill the positions. Cause that's what we're being told right now is there's no one to work there. Well, there was people who were working in those positions and then they were replaced with, uh, people from foreign countries and the people who were being replaced had to train the people from foreign countries that were coming over there to work for less. Right. And then, and then we were told, Oh, we have this huge problem. There's no talent. It's like, well,

So that on one hand, there's a problem. But the flip side of it is that businesses really do have a hiring problem. I can tell you that just from my perspective. It's hard to find good people. And that is a problem that we do need to take responsibility. And I do take what Vivek was saying in his criticism where he said that Americans are lazy.

We have, it's that whole cycle of, you know, soft times make soft men, right? Soft men make hard times, hard times make hard men, that whole, you know, strong man or whatever. And so it's that whole circle. We are, our prosperity has just about killed us. And so we do have, there's not a lot of rigor and challenge that's inherent in our education system. We don't challenge or hold accountable anyone. There's a lot of that whole egalitarian mindset

Um, and we don't push anyone to do anything ever except like on a football field, right? Like what is the only public education, uh, challenge and rigor that you see as an athletics. You see that they push people, hold people accountable, accountable, demand excellence. All that happens on the football field or, you know, on a basketball court or on a baseball field, uh, they can do that. But when it comes to education and everything else, it's like, Oh, it's okay that you can't read. That's fine.

Well I think part of the issue too is we've lost our focus in the education system. We've been more concerned about teaching art history or underwater basket weaving instead of true skills and that's why I think we've got to get back to focusing on reading, writing and arithmetic. The three R's of Alabama Education, reading, writing, arithmetic. Because I'm amazed how a few people

even know their multiplication tables today, just basic stuff that you need to know. And then we wonder why we're behind when it comes to STEMs. And then on top of it, we've been so focused on trying to achieve a test score that we're learning stuff that really doesn't teach our kids today about logic and how to make decisions. And then we also need to be promoting alternatives as well. When you look at the fact that we were talking off air about

some of the challenges in automotive and technicians. We need more automotive technicians. In Alabama, we employ over 130,000 automotive related jobs in the state. Yet you've got shops all across the state that can't find automotive technicians. And part of that is we haven't encouraged people that should be

more geared towards using their hands for basic jobs that it's okay. Not everyone needs to go to college. We've got great technical schools. I think one of the best things we have in our state is our community college system that supports everyday jobs. And you look at some of the benefits from that and the cost savings of that, it's a phenomenal program. And these tech programs are great. I mean we see even here locally in recent years there's been high school initiatives where we're teaching these

kids automotive technician, and you think about it, well, why would I want to be an automotive technician? Well, a master automotive technician makes over $100,000 a year. And these are good paying jobs that have good benefits tied to them. So we've got to do a better job of preparing people. And we talk about people being lazy. Well, we saw that during COVID, when we started paying people more money to stay home than to get out and work. And guess what? Afterwards, they're thought, well, why do I need to keep working?

Let me just get a check from the government. And that's a problem. Yeah, it's a huge problem. And we talked about yesterday. It's a pedagogical problem. What is pedagogy is this idea of? It's the, it's the, it's the whole encompassing. Another word is pidea. These are both Greco-Roman terms about creating the ideal man, these training systems of education and in culturing your children, the Greeks and the Romans.

They were obsessed with creating the ideal man. And so from birth until, you know, they went into manhood or womanhood, they had an entire system of education that went beyond information being stuffed into their head. It was a full-blown enculturation. What's interesting is the word the Bible used when it says train your children up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord or the nurture and admonition, depending on your translation, Ephesians 6.

Um, it says train your children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. The word is actually pidea. And so in the apostle Paul says we need to train our Christian up in the pidea of the Lord. What he's saying is that we need to train up our children, um, in the full blown enculturation. It's way beyond a education. It's not just the information you're putting in between their ears through book reading. Um, it's, it's the music that they listen to. It's the plays back in those days. It was, you know, the plays that they watched.

We're, you know, athletics, developing the whole, the body and the mind, all of this thing. It's an entire intentional system. Um, it requires intentionality develop a human into, um, a, um, an effective person who's going to be effective in life. Um, and we've kind of just outsourced that responsibility to an organization, the public school system that does not care about their development and just wants to monetize.

you know, their existence. And so again, I guess we can continue to have that conversation on the other side. Maybe we'll ship shift gears. We'll see where we are, but this is the Dixon and Vining show. Uh, we will be back. All right. We are back. Dixon and Vining talk 99 five, Brian Dawson, CEO of 18, 19 news here joined by my friend, um, Jerick Wilkins, entrepreneur, uh, and guy who, uh, challenged

Gary Palmer here in the sixth congressional district in the last go round. We are talking all the things we got really heavy into really the conversation that we had with Pastor Rich Lusk of Trinity Presbyterian Church yesterday from a theological perspective jumped into it with Jericho again today on a business perspective. We're going to shift gears a little bit talk about what's what you know some of the current events and

Um, something I'm not as good at is talking about national current events that, you know, kind of echoing whatever Fox news is talking about or something like that. Um, I like to get down into, you know, I guess maybe it's waxing philosophical maybe and, uh, I start to, uh, get high on my own supply as they say, uh, and, uh, start talking about things I want to talk about rather than what you want to listen to. Uh, and, and we'll give you some updates on, um, what's happening in the national political realm you've got.

the speakers race does the speaker of the house uh... i don't even know who's running against mic johnson is there someone else that's got their hat and ring no not at this point from what i've heard uh... the votes supposed to happen today uh... and i think that uh... speaker johnson will be able to pull that off that the challenge you have as you have such a slim majority i mean you've got one vote uh... could it could really impact this

But I think most everyone realizes that we have such a short window to get a speaker in place because nothing can happen in the house until we have a speaker selected. So that's got to happen because guess what's coming up in just a few days? Everyone remembers January 6 is when we certify the elections.

Well, we don't have time for a major speaker fight because of that and everything else that needs to get done. Obviously, Speaker Johnson took a lot of flack in December because of the CR and that whole debacle and how that went down. Obviously, everyone is still very concerned about what's going on with spending in Washington. And I think that we're going to see some some pretty significant changes coming with the new administration. However,

We really need to get the speaker selected today. From what I've seen, the only person that I've seen publicly come out against the Speaker Johnson at this point is Congressman Massey. So we'll see how this ends up playing out. But I expect that Speaker Johnson will be. Keep his speaker seat after today. Yeah, I expect that as well.

It's a mystery thing. I watched Tucker Carlson. He was interviewing Glenn Greenwald. Glenn Greenwald, by the way, is one of my favorite journalists as is Tucker Carlson on that national stage, Megan Kelly as well. James O'Keefe, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, but Glenn Greenwald is a guy that you should be following if you're not. The guy is, he's just a whiz when it comes to digging and finding things. Well, anyway, he was being interviewed by Tucker Carlson.

Uh, and Glenn Greenwald talking about a conversation he was having with Mike Johnson before he came to speaker. If you remember the speaker's race was such a, uh, the buckle. No one ever Mike Johnson is at the top of the list of people who never thought Mike Johnson was going to be the speaker of the house, right? It went through, uh, all these different people and he ends up being the guy. Well, prior to becoming speaker of the house, he was on with Glenn Greenwald and speaking passionately about how he wanted to infice a warrants and all these other really, really conservative things.

And then all of a sudden he enters the speaker's office and it's just like they, you know, the men in black things where they, they put the red radar in front of your eye and it's like forget any, you know, political principles you ever had. You work for me now and he just more money to Ukraine, more money to Ukraine, Faiso warrants, you know, CR, you know, spend as much money as we can. All of his principles went away the moment he took that office. And it's like, well, how much political pressure must there be on, um,

a speaker of the house the united states that they just immediately flip just like that there's a there's no doubt i've been very disappointed in in speaker johnson it's like we've got uh... you know paul ryan back in the swing of things is what it seemed like and i'm like goodness i had such hopes for him to be able to push things through but guess what with businesses usual in the house let's do these bloated continuing resolutions let's give you crane more and more money

Oh, the Pfizer renewal. Oh, there's national security. You guys don't know what we know. We've got to keep spying on Americans. And these are things that are just ridiculous to hear about, but it just shows you that the unit party is in full swing in Washington.

And that's what it's about. We talked about it. We got Democrats. We got Republicans. Well, there's a group of both of them that ends up influencing this more than we care to because we're not seeing true conservative principles. We've got a small coalition in the Freedom Caucus, which I'm very thankful that, you know, Barry Moore from Alabama has been a key component there. So I'm encouraged to see what's going to happen with us taking back the Senate. Look forward to talking to Senator Tuberville coach here in just a little bit.

I'm glad to see we have such a fighter on the Senate side, but we definitely need more fighters in the House. But it's going to be challenging because you've got a one vote majority that they're playing with at this point. And it's going to be difficult. It's one of the reasons we don't have a lot of time to get stuff done before President Trump's inauguration coming up on the 20th. But like I mentioned, they've got to certify the election on the 6th and you've got to have a Speaker of the House to get that done beforehand.

Well, uh, and, uh, I think, I think a new administration will bring new pressure to Mike Johnson. Uh, and he begins to behave differently under a Trump administration than he does under the current administration. Uh, and you know, you saw Mike Johnson going and hanging out with, um, you know, Donald Trump and Tucker and RFK and Tulsi and like going to UFC fights and stuff. And he was kind of like the nerdy little kid brother that, you know,

Um, so he obviously has good relationship with Trump. Trump trusts him. Trump has endorsed him fully. And again, once the guy that's been shot in the head for the country, endorses someone, you know, probably, you know, probably go with that guy. Unfortunately, the United States Senate did not do that. Uh, they went with John Thune and made Mitch McConnell the rules chair, which is

It makes things so challenging and I'm hopeful that we'll be able to put enough pressure on those members of the Senate to get confirmations through quickly, but it's important for everyone to realize that just because we won the election,

We may have won the battle, but the war is still waging. And we've got to continue the pressure to make sure that we can get the Trump era tax cuts renewed. We've got to make sure we can get these. The border secured and all of the things that he wants to get done is going to take a lot of work in both the House and the Senate. Clearly, President Trump has a substantial amount of political capital coming in with a massive win from the election.

So we've got to make sure that we can continue to support him in both the house and the Senate so that we can get, get back to an America first philosophy. Yeah, 100%. Um, on that note, uh, you said, we may have won, you know, the election, but the, the real war is ahead of us. And I've been telling people that and kind of Lord of the rings nerding out.

Um, in, in, if you're Lord of the Rings book reader or movie watcher, there's the whole, uh, battle of minus Tyrith, which is when, uh, the armies of Mordor come out down and lay siege to the castle in Gondor and it looks hopeless and it looks like there's no way they're going to win, but Rohan comes in and there's all these other things that happened and they end up winning this unwinnable battle. That was the election for us. We won this battle that we didn't know if we were ever going to be able to win, but guess what? After they won the battle in Gondor, they still had to go destroy the ring.

Okay. And so now we've won the war. Now we have to go destroy the ring. And I've said, do we have the stomach to go destroy the ring? When they go and start rounding up illegal aliens, you know, CNN and MSNBC and, you know, insert liberal media here is going to be running around with their cameras, doing all the sob stories about how children are being separated from their parents and owe this and owe that. And it's like, you know,

Trump was handed a mandate and the primary thing that he ran on was to like, you know, America first anti-immigration, uh, like that, like that was it. And that was a big key. He won on a campaign of, we're going to send the illegals back. Think about like what the temperature must be like in the country for you to be able to win a presidential election with one of the primary points of your messaging between you and vice president JD Vance or vice president elect JD Vance. Uh, the messaging was,

We're going to round up illegals by the millions and you win. So that tells you that that's what the American people want, but do the American people have the stomach to actually do that without falling for the media propaganda to make us feel bad about these poor people and everything else.

Well, I don't think it's the American people. It's going to be the neocons in Washington and the Uniparty that is going to be where the real battle happens. Because it's clear that the American people are tired of the invasion that's been happening at the southern border. They're tired of the massive inflation that's been a result of the inefficiencies in Washington

the overspending and all of the problems that we see. So the real battle is not with the American people because we're behind President Trump, we're behind him, and we know what needs to be done. What we have to do though is realize that there's a contingency within our own

party that may not have our best interests at heart and we're going to have to make sure we hold them accountable. I'm encouraged to see that Elon Musk again has made it clear that he will primary those that aren't willing to support President Trump and I think that's going to be what it takes because at the end of the day money influences these elections more than it should but it's just part of what we have to contend with. Yeah and thank God for Elon Musk.

All right, we're going to hit another break. We'll come back on the other side, finish this conversation. And then at the top of the hour, we'll be talking with Stephanie Smith at the Alabama Policy Institute.

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I, nine months before the election, I said, you're going to see the craziest stuff you've ever seen between now and November 5th. Um, I believe there will be, uh, assassination attempts on Trump's life and lo and behold, there were three, uh, two official ones. There was a third one talked about that yesterday. They were apparently training bomb sniffing dogs with live explosives at a Trump rally.

All right. Do you remember that? Yes. Yeah. It's like what? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But anyway, so they try to kill him now. I think they're going to try to kill us. I mean, that sounds hyperbolic, right? But I guess what my point is now you've got. I don't even know the guy's name. Jabar L. Begg.

ISIS. I don't know what his name is. But I don't think we need to even get credit on the air anyhow. We've got these terrorists. Yes. But so you're missing the joke is when anyway, but he, you know, this this total we were told by the FBI, the lady with the nose ring that can't speak. It's the public affairs officer for the FBI in New Orleans. This is definitely not a terrorist attack.

in the ice's flag on the truck, barreling into people by, you know, Muhammad blah, blah, blah, whatever his name is. His name's not really Muhammad. I mean, again, this is a joke. Uh, nothing like explaining a joke either to make it funny. It's probably because I'm not here helping you. I'm supposed to be a good sidekick. No, you're good. No, you're good. And I was thinking about it. So, you know what? I feel like I have to explain the joke, but I think everybody gets the joke of whatever is that, uh,

It's like on my Twitter when it happened, you know, I figured out whatever the guy's name was, and I put it, it was like Jabbar L, whatever, and I just put the Stephen Colbert going, surprise, as if, you know, the guy with the ISIS flag in his truck that mowed down a bunch of people, like, we're really surprised that that's who it was. So, um, any who... And there's no connection to Nevada, apparently. Yeah, there is or there isn't. They're saying there's not. There seems to be a lot of people... The people certainly look a lot different.

They do, and there's some background issues that seem to be the same, but I don't know. I do find it interesting, though, what I found most interesting on the Nevada thing is the explosion. Apparently, they picked the wrong vehicle because the Tesla truck was almost completely intact other than being melted in the center of all the doors, and panels were still there.

I saw Babylon be just posted that it was received the award from the terrorist as the least efficient vehicle to use for terrorism. Yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah, so it'll be interesting, you know, I'm going to be in Washington DC for the inauguration. Are you going? Yes, I'm fortunate to be going as well looking forward to it.

Yeah. And so they will probably be a terrorist attack there. If I had to guess, I mean, the way things are going, I mean, I don't know. But like, I guess what I was, how should I worry that I have to be careful how you word things when you're on the airwaves. My prediction is that there will be some type of attempt to do something to disrupt. Okay. So you're seeing the coordinated effort of, you know, a Tesla truck, which is symbolic of Elon Musk, Trump hotel. Yeah, they don't don't need any, you know,

deep psychology and why that would be attached to Elon and Trump, right? And there's an, you know, a Tesla truck burning in front of the Trump hotel. That is some type of communicado, right? There's some type of something being communicated there. Uh, and things are just going to continue to get crazier and crazier. And I don't think it's, it's, it's isolated crazy people who are upset that Trump got elected. I think it's, it's, um, regime, regime assets who are being paid to go out and do these crazy things or whatever. I don't know. That's my prediction.

But I think we're going to continue to see that up until January 6th and January 20th. Well, and I would not be surprised. I'm confident that they've made considerable security improvements. I was talking with a congressional staffer that I had lunch with last week and he was telling me that even during the recent congressional appointments where they had the

all the new new members coming in that they had such tight security that you can even walk across the street there yeah yeah no uh... well hopefully uh... because my wife and i'm gonna be there and i i don't want to be terrorist attacks so i hope that is the case of security is uh...

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