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Oh, I didn't see him up on the thing. I didn't see him up on the screen. My bad. Joining us now, one of my favorite guests, Daniel Turner. He is the founder of the energy advocacy group, Power the Future.

You can follow him on exit, Daniel Turner, P T F for Power the Future. Daniel, Happy New Year. Welcome to the show. Happy New Year to you, and one of my favorite hosts. It's great to be on with you.

Oh, you're so nice. Thank you.

So, we're talking about energy. And, you know, President Trump really unleashed the first time he was in office, and now the second time, his first goal has always been to unleash America's energy potential, right? And we have seen prices of gas come down, except in blue states where they tax the hell out of it, in which case it doesn't come down. And then people in blue states scream that Donald Trump's not doing enough.

So he did that. And I want to ask you: how did he do that? How did he make it come down in less than a year? Drive the price of gas down. He did that through a virtue for which he gets very little credit, and it's called humility.

And I mean that in all seriousness. I think Donald Trump, when it comes to oil and gas, is humble enough to say, Hey, you guys know what you're doing. How about I just let you do it? Right? Donald Trump believes in free markets and free people.

We didn't discover a new oil patch in 2017, his first term, 2025, his second term. We didn't discover a new oil patch. We didn't discover a new technology. What we had was a president who said, You all are oil and gas developers, producers. If I get the government off your back, what will happen?

What will happen is you will produce more for a greater number of people at a lower price point. The opposite of that, that lack of humility, and maybe to call Joe Biden a statist, it's Christmas season. I'm trying to be good, right?

So let's just call him a statist. But people who believe in government and government control, Joe Biden would think, I have an energy plan. I have an energy plan. Energy policy and the big hand of government is going to dictate how it will work. And what was the result, right?

The result was accusations of profiteering and price gouging and $140 a barrel oil.

So the biggest difference between these two philosophies is quite honestly the humility to say, you know what you're doing in this space and government is an impediment. How about we get out of your way and you guys do what you do best? And if we had that sort of humility across all sectors of our economy, imagine how much more America would be thriving. No, it would be incredible. I don't see the pushback this time around on President Trump increasing oil production here in America.

We have enough of our own resources to be able to power America on our own and not be holding to anyone else and not be waiting for shipments of oil to come from, you know. over the UAE and Saudi Arabia Middle East. That was the word I was looking for, Middle East. To get that oil here. Are there plans to drill, baby drill, and get more of our own Oil from where right here in the United States.

Yeah, and it would be remarkable to think if we didn't have that four-year hiatus of the Biden-Harris administration where we would be. We had reached record oil production back in pre-COVID, right? 2019. We crossed that 13.3, 13.4 million barrels a day, and we were headed in a greater direction. And obviously, COVID happened, Biden happened.

We're back to that level. We've slightly surpassed it, so we're back at record level. But it takes a while to bring oil to market, right? The oil that you're putting into the gas you're putting into your car was crude in the ground not very long ago, but that well was drilled five, six years ago, right? It is a very slow process to actually bring oil to market.

And so when you have this hiatus of tinkering, and that's just again, a nice thing we'll say about Biden-Harris, they tinkered. When you have that four-year hiatus, it creates a lot of havoc, and you can't restart that machine very quickly.

So absolutely, Drill Baby Drill is a great tagline, but it is also a belief that we have a lot of oil. We don't need to get it from Venezuela. Excuse me, our allies should not be getting it from Russia or Iran. A lot of bad people produce oil and get rich and do evil things with it.

So let's have America be the world's leading oil country. And that is just good for world peace, world stability as well. Yeah, you know, when I said I don't see pushback, on your page, powerthefuture.com, there's a piece there, and you talk about how the Washington Post in an editorial acknowledged that climate policies ideologically, ideology-driven climate policies are unaffordable. And they call it the green madness. And I've noticed that that's really, all of that has died down.

The outrage from the left seems to be cyclical. Like right now, they're outraged that people are exposing Somali fraud. Like, so right now they're all for fraud.

So they're outraged about that. It's cyclical what they're outraged about. About. Have we finally gotten over the green energy agenda? Is that dead, nail in the coffin, or will it resurrect itself four years down the road?

No, it's never dead. And you're right, the cyclical is the outrage is cyclical. And I think they're always looking for the next thing, right? The left does very well when they can capitalize on a national rage. It propels their activists and their voters.

It brings in money.

So they're always looking for a George Floyd moment. They're always looking for an Occupy Wall Street moment in the height of the Romney election, right, in 2012, Occupy Wall Street. They're always looking for something to capitalize on.

So they've tried the ballroom, right? They tried ICE raids. You know, they're looking for the new thing. Right now, it's the Somali daycare centers. But the climate movement, you know, there are thousands of people in this space with huge offices here in beautiful Manhattan, in Washington, D.C., in San Francisco.

You know, their 401ks are tied up in organizations. That have $300 and $400 million operating budgets. They're not going away. Maybe their heads are down, right? And they're just trying to bide their time.

But if you are in this space, much like the Somali daycare centers, it is not about the climate. It is about power. It is about money. And it is about bilking the taxpayers for as much as possible. They're not going to go away anytime soon.

So, you know, even though their moment isn't here, I never count the climate movement gone and out. It's like they're like all communists, right? They don't ever disappear. They just morph into something else.

Now, I wanted, along those lines, one of the things that President Trump did is he killed a lot of the windmill projects off the east coast of the United States. Did he kill all of them or only some of them? I think he has put a moratorium on building them, and he's used national security protocols because they interfere with radar signals, they interfere with naval operations, and our coasts are supposed to protect us from government. God knows what will come across the oceans.

So he's used that as the reasoning for stopping these wind farms. The first people to celebrate should be the whales. Remember for four years under Biden, we talked about hundreds of whales regularly.

Now, I grew up on the East Coast. I grew up in New York. My family still has a house in Rockaway.

So I grew up in the Atlantic Ocean, as did all my ancestors. We never saw whales wash up on the water. We never saw, I mean, that wasn't a regular thing. And for the four years of Biden and Harris, regularly, dozens and dozens of whales annually, hundreds over the course of their administration, washed up on shore because of these sonar explorations because of the offshore wind farms.

Well, the whale, where were all the save the whale people, right?

Well, exactly. You know, I live at the Jersey Shore.

So, you know, we would see we had one that washed up not far from us at all, this huge whale. And not only that, dolphins were washing up as well on the shore. And I'm always tagging PETA in all. Of these posts, Sonics, about, like, well, here's another one, Peter, where's the, and they're silent. They are silent because they are willing to sacrifice animals on the altar of green energy.

Yes. And these windmills are not only a security risk because of the radar, they interfere with radar apparently or something, but they're polluting in and of themselves. You have to take a boat out to each one, burning fossil fuel, to grease it with. A fossil fuel derivative, right? And then when they get beaten to heck in a hurricane off the coast, these big people have no way to dispose of these huge wind turbines.

Those big, huge blades, there's no way to dispose of them. And they don't work. And that's the biggest problem. You look at countries that have embraced it a lot harder and longer than America, like the European Union, the UK. They're paying four times what we pay for electricity.

And you see their climate activists. In the case of the UK, David Miliband is the equivalent of their John Kerry, right? Their climate change czar, still saying how this is the future, this is the future.

Well, it may be the future, but the present is awful, right? The present is four times the price of electricity, an unreliable grid. Factories are closing. The German economy is in full declination. It's in full contraction because German manufacturing can't thrive with German electricity prices.

So, you scratch your head and say, when the hell does the good part kick in of going green, right? How much more do we have to invest? How much more time? How much more money until we start to see these great returns that were promised? And they never seem to come.

We're always told, oh, but it will. It will one day. One day it's going to be great. It just never arrives.

Well, the payoff is maybe that Greta Tunberg stays out of your country and just stops annoying people.

So, the last thing before we run out of time, let's talk about AI. There's a lot, you know, Bernie Sanders is apoplectic about AI and the cost of electricity and the amount of electricity that is needed to power AI.

So, Bernie Sanders would love to get rid of it altogether. I'm pretty much calculating the return on investment for me. Like, will I be dead by the time this all finally just blows up? That's the way, that's pretty much the way I calculate all of this. And Bernie Sanders will be dead by the time all of this blows up.

So, I'm not quite sure what he's upset about. What is the drain? We're seeing these huge, like, what? We're seeing farms go away in these huge data centers that are being built on them to power all of this. Is this sustained?

It kind of doesn't seem sustainable to me. It's not. I do want to win the AI war. I don't want to cede that technology to Communist China, who's our number one competition. I think AI has a lot of potential and promise, and there's a lot exciting.

There's a lot scary about it, but you know, I was around when the Internet first started, and there was a lot of fear about the Internet as well.

So I understand people's apprehension, and they're a little leery about it. The problem here is that the amount of electricity that it requires is not sustainable. And electricity is a fixed commodity. And like all fixed commodities, if the demand starts to go through the roof, but the supply does not increase, the only thing that happens is prices go up. And that's what we have been seeing.

And that's where, you know, sadly, electricity rates are projected to go even higher next year because it's very easy to cut the ribbon for a data center. You get Mark Zuckerberg, you get all the press, and you say, you know, Meta's making historic investment, blah, blah. It's not very exciting to build a nuclear plant or a coal plant or a natural gas plant. And we are in desperate need for fossil fuel electricity production.

So that's going to be the biggest problem. You've got a lot of blue state governors that want the ribbon cutting of data centers because it shows jobs and growth, et cetera. But they're not increasing electricity production. And that delta is going to be pain on the ratepayers. Yeah, it really is.

And in states like the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey, of which I am an inmate, you know, they closed six, six power generating plants, coal, a combination of coal and nuclear. And not only did they close them, they disabled them to make sure that they could not be brought easily back online. And now they're blaming Trump for the increase in electricity. And listen, we're getting overrun by the people from New York who are fleeing what they voted for.

So they come to New Jersey and they're like, wow, it's so much less expensive here.

So they don't care.

So they're never going to hold these people accountable. Because to them, it's so much less expensive while all the native-born New Jerseyans beat feet and go elsewhere. Daniel Turner, thank you so much. Such an interesting conversation. And check out the webpage, powerthefuture.com.

It is lots of great articles there, a lot of information there. It's a good read, and you can follow him on X at Daniel Turner. PTF, I wish you a wonderful new year and lots of blessings in 2027. Thank you so much, Mary. Great to be with you.

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We would have all the energy we would need and more, but it was bad public policy federally and in the states where they cut back. They closed gas plants, closed energy plants, didn't replace them with anything, and stopped pipelines. Again, their problem. Energy is the driver. When you don't have energy, that's plentiful.

You're in trouble. And finally, when we look at the whole panorama, they are the ones that voted for the biggest tax increase ever in the history of the United States of America, didn't vote for any of the tax cuts that we wanted. That is going to help the economy so much.

So how can they talk about this? Yeah. And that there was Congressman Jeff Van Drew out of New Jersey. And he's right. And in New Jersey, and I think in some other Democrat-run states, energy is a big problem.

Look at California. Look at how they just have rolling brownouts and they just accept it as a part of life. Let us accept it. Imagine that. Imagine like third world countries where they just have rolling brownouts because they don't have the energy available to meet the needs.

And in this country, we use a lot of energy because we're used to our air conditioning. You go to other countries, they live without air conditioning, and they somehow survive. I know Americans could never do that, but they survive without air conditioning. How many of these greenies are willing to give up their AC In order to save the planet, if that's what they think it is, you ask them, they don't want to do it. No, but we'll have windmills, and that'll make enough energy for me to have my air conditioning.

And we're going to have solar farms. And then you see the dead birds all around the solar farms because these things are huge and they fly across them, which is the way they've always flown. But in the meantime, man built this huge solar farm, and all of that heat reflects back up and they fry. They fall out of the air, or the wind turbines. Killing them as they fly through, and they get chopped up by the wind turbines.

And what happens to these wind turbines in the ocean? And they're in an area where they maybe get hurricanes. You know, you don't have that problem in Europe, they don't get hurricanes. We do. They don't.

Every now and then, one wanders across the ocean and makes it far enough to make an impact in England or Denmark or something like that, but it's very, very rare.

So they're fighting for these things that worked elsewhere, but just because they worked in Denmark or Sweden doesn't mean that they're going to work here. And the fact that we think we can power everything with this. is naive and ridiculous. And what they did in New Jersey, we just heard Jeff Van Druh from New Jersey, what the Democrats did in New Jersey is they destroyed, as I said to our guest, six coal and nuclear power plants. And they didn't just take them offline, they destroyed them so that they cannot be brought back online.

It would take a huge investment to bring them back. and they didn't have anything to replace it. They had nothing to replace it.

So now the cost of energy is skyrocketing. Coming up, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West will be joining us. He's always a great guest. That's next on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi, everyone.

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We talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament. And uh they're going to be given uh a very short period of time to disarm. And we'll see how that works out. Steve. Witkoff and Jared Kushner will be in charge of that.

From our side, uh but if they don't disarm as as they agreed to do, They agreed to it and then they'll be held to pay for them. And uh we don't want that. Yes, the president at the White House meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, president of Israel. Oh, he's the, I'm sorry, the president is Herzog, sorry about that. But the two of them meeting at the White House, and there's so much happened in that meeting.

There was so much that we have to cover with that.

So let's do it with Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. He's a Dallas County Republican Party chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director, former Florida Congressman. You can find him on X at Alan West. Super Easy. Welcome, my friend.

How are you? It is good to be with you, and happy new year. Happy New Year to you too.

So hearing the Presidents say there that there will be hell to pay if Hamas doesn't disarm, I guess, what are the options open to the United States if Hamas chooses not to disarm? They say they're going to, but we all know they're not going to.

Well, of course they're not going to. And if you've been reading the recent reports, what they have done, they're reconstituting, they're reorganizing, they're trying to consolidate their power, they're eliminating any of those that they have deemed their opposition, aiding, and working with Israel.

So I think without a doubt, you have to turn to Israel and say, go in and finish the job, you know, because Hamas is a terrorist organization. Their charter calls for the eradication, elimination of the state of Israel and to kill Jews worldwide. And just recently, we saw a report coming out of Italy where there was a Somali-type scam where they were actually some gentlemen were sending money to Hamas from Italy based upon some nonprofit organizations.

So they're still getting funding. And we should not be in any way deceived about that.

So I think that, yes, you're going to have to eliminate Hamas and you have to eliminate Hezbollah, especially now when Iran is in such a pitch that they can be financially cut off from these organizations. Where does this go? Where do you see this going? This is a slow slog. I thought we were supposed to be much farther down the road in the peace process between Hamas and Israel.

And it seems to be bogged down. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere. What's happening?

Well, first of all, I don't think you should legitimize and sit down at a table and talk about peace with a terrorist organization. They're not about having peace. They will try to stonewall and delay you. And again, use this as an opportunity. If you go back and you study Islamic history, the Treaty of Hudabiyah, which is something that Muhammad did where he entered into an agreement with his enemies, he had no desire to honor the treaty, but it was just an opportunity for him to rebuild his strength.

And I think it was four or five years later he violated the treaty and attacked his enemies and destroyed them.

So that's what Hamas sees as a model. And that's what they are using here as a delaying tactic.

So I think you've got to put the pressure back on them and understand that they're not about peace. They exist for one reason, and they cannot be the governing authority in Gaza. You know, it seemed as if uh when they were speaking that Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump truly like each other on a personal level. We don't have time to play the audio, but Netanyahu announced that they're going to break with decades of tradition and they are going to award President Trump the Israel Prize, which normally is only Given to Israeli citizens, but they're going to award it to Donald Trump. He said they decided to break convention to award him this prize in almost 80 years.

It's never been awarded to a non-Israeli. And I will say, when I was in Israel in August, when they saw Americans, I guess we stick out like sore thumbs like they know we're Americans. They were, they kept coming up to us, Trump, yeah, Trump, with thumbs up, and they love him in Israel. They love Donald Trump in Israel. And I see the connection between the two of them as akin to the connection between like Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and John Paul II.

Right? Is this the one chance we have in time to finally get peace in the Middle East because of the connection between Netanyahu and Trump? Yeah, I think that this is without a doubt a great first step. I mean, you had the Abraham Accords in Trump's first term, and we continue to build upon that. But also, you have to understand that part of peace is deterring your enemies and showing them your resolve and showing them your commitment.

And I think that's what Donald Trump has done with his going after those nuclear facilities in Iran. And again, you see where they are supporting Israel so that they could do what is necessary, going after Hezbollah and Hamas. You know, the Israelis know what happened in the eight years of Barack Obama. They know what happened in the four years of Joe Biden and the threats that fell upon them. But they do see a good working relationship for their safety and security with Donald Trump.

And I know there's a lot of anti-Semitism going around the country right now, but it's very simple in that there is one true light in the Middle East, and that is Israel. And I think that also those other Arab nations, they want to see peace as well. Yeah, absolutely. I think that they've realized that Hamas is just insane, like they're crazy, and they won't even let them into their country, right? They don't have a place to live.

We have all these people who are starving, and the most secure border in the world is the one between Egypt and Gaza because they don't want them. None of these Muslim countries want any of the Palestinians in their country, and that says a lot. I quickly want to go over to Ukraine and Russia and what's happening there. President Trump meeting with Vladimir Zelensky as well. And he was on with Brett Baer on special report.

And this is Cut 13, Eric. I just want you to hear the exchange between the President and Brett Baer talking about territory. This is a big sticking point in the negotiations. But that's the hard part, is the territory. That's the hard part.

So, how do you get to yes? All the parties have to understand that. The worst way is to go out from the Donbas. It will be big risks for Ukraine, not acceptable by Ukrainians, but they will just personally. And referendum will not be positive.

So they don't want to give up the Donbass, but they do seem to be willing to give up some other areas that are contested right now. But he said he wants to put it up to a vote to the Ukrainian people to see if they're willing with ceding certain parts, certain territories. It seems as if they're willing to do that. Is this a no-go for Russia, though? Do you think Russia says no, Donbass is right up against us?

We want it.

Well, I think that we have to come to a realization that Russia invaded a sovereign nation, and we cannot reward that type of bad behavior. You know, if you go back to the 1930s, we saw the exact same type of bad behavior. We saw a guy by the name of Adolf Hitler saying that he wanted an area called Sudetenland to protect ethnic Germans, and the world appeased him, and they continued to appease him. And they went into an agreement called the Munich Accords. And later on, Hitler said it was just a piece of paper, even though Neville Chamberlain said that he had a signed document guaranteeing peace in our time.

So I think the most important thing is we have to operate from a moral high ground to tell Russia, you're not going to be rewarded for your belligerent actions. Vladimir Putin is an evil dictator, and he doesn't even care about his own people. He will continue to throw those young Russian men into the cauldron of death just so he can reestablish, I think, the Soviet Union in his mindset.

So, yes, I believe that the Ukrainian people. Need to have a voice because, think about it. If someone came in and told us here in Texas we need to give back land to Mexico, do you think the Texans will be very happy about that? I don't think so. No, obviously not.

And I think that's the sticking point. And I don't know if President Trump can pull this one off if you have one side that just doesn't want peace. You know, they just don't seem to want peace. Like you said, Russians will just keep throwing their people into this. And I think maybe it would take maybe coming from inside Russia in order for them to demand to get this to stop.

Coming up. We're I want to c get a little bit closer to home. All right, so we're going to turn a little bit closer to home. I have some questions for you about some things happening here in this country.

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So, a little closer to home, sir. The statutory limitations for federal crimes related to the January 6th Capitol attack can extend up to five years, depending on the charges. And everyone is screaming and yelling. I see it all over social media. Where is.

Attorney General Pam Bondi. Why is there no investigation? Is there an investigation into what happened? Like, who really had a hand in all of this? What role, what was Nancy Pelosi's role in all of this?

Why were some people let in through the open doors and escorted around and then later charged? There are a lot of questions regarding what really happened on January 6th, and it looks like our Attorney General is just going to let the statute of limitations run out. And there's a lot of frustration. Where is she?

Well, I can understand the frustration. It's not just that with January 6th, it's all of the corruption, everything that we see that emanates from the Marxist, socialist, leftists. I mean, we can just scratch the tip of the iceberg with the Somali issue. But the thing is, if we don't start to hold the left accountable, if we're always concerned about what the Washington Post or the New York Times or Vanity Fair is going to say, people are going to lose faith because you are elected to make sure that you reestablish the rule of law and not just the rule. If the left ever gets back in power in the United States of America, you know exactly what they're going to do.

They're going to crush any opposition. We saw that happen. But we continue to see them violate the rule of law. And I'll be very honest. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should have been impeached for violating the Constitution with the open borders policy.

Alejandro Mayorkis should have been impeached, and he should have been put in jail for lying to Congress about saying the border is secure. All of these things. need to be brought up, and these people need to be held accountable, not running off like Lois Lerner did with a six figure taxpayer funded retirement.

So yes, Pam Bondi and our system of justice in the Trump administration needs to step up and reestablish justice. But they're not, and I think the frustration is that they're not. We see, you know, James, James Comey, look at look at James Comey. James Comey and Letitia James, they somehow managed to blow that. They got indictments from grand juries for both of them and then blew the case by putting up a lawyer who wasn't qualified, shouldn't have been in the courtroom under the law, which shouldn't have been there, and now the whole thing's blown up.

Like it just seems to be dumb mistakes. It seems to be incompetent. And you're right, the frustration is just boiling over on the right because the DOJ kind of is appearing like the Keystone cops. Yeah, that's what they call, I think, is the unforced era in sports, and that should not happen. You should be very meticulous in these things and crossing your T's and dotting your I's.

And, you know, again, when you hear the left always saying, oh, well, you're going to try to weaponize. This is what they did for four years in the Biden administration. This is not about weaponizing. This is about holding people accountable. And as they say, the left says, let's make them eat those words.

No one is above the law.

So we're supposed to believe that, you know, yeah, a mistake was made, but that doesn't excuse the people for the wrongs that they did. And those cases should be tried regardless. And someone else should be put in charge as the lawyer in charge of that, not just have anything, you know, the case or charges dismissed. There's still a wrong that is there. But there's a whole litany of things, Mary, that you're absolutely right that people are expecting.

It's just year one, so maybe you can play the catch-up, but it's got to happen. It's got to start to happen very quickly. We can play the catch-up, but the statute of limitations. Runs out.

So we could say, oh, look, this one did this, this one did that. And they're going to be like, ha ha, walking away with my pension. See ya. Because they're acting too. And I understand Trump can't do everything, but you know what?

Pam Bondi should have been prepared. Just like Donald Trump was so prepared when he came into office. He knew exactly what he was going to do. They flooded the field when they first came in and they did boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. They were it was great.

But it seems to have come to a screeching halt with the DOJ. And I don't know if it's Pam Bondi. I don't know what's going on over there. But that seems to me to be the biggest failing in the Trump administration is the lack of accountability with these people when they have. The when they have the chance to do so, they just don't seem to do it.

Um, before we run out of time, I want to talk about Minnesota just a bit. We know that the fraud that is just emanating from Minnesota, and it's not just them, you're seeing fraud come out of California. The state audit estimates there's up to 70 billion dollars in fraud in California, waste, fraud, and abuse, not just fraud, but waste and you know, money that they just don't know what happened to it. Same thing coming out of Boston, we have it coming out of Maine, so it's all over the country that the American taxpayers we could probably never have to pay property taxes or income taxes ever again with the money that is being stolen from us. But listen to this in Minnesota.

Minnesota, they have driver's licenses for all, and it does not, they have no marking on it, you know, indicating citizenship.

So it looks just like a citizen's ID, which, of course, you need ID to vote, well, to register to vote.

So, oh, look, I have this. But they allow A registered voter who is a citizen who has can present the ID on the day of the election vouch for up to eight other voters who swear that they're yeah, they're residents, they're my neighbors, and then they get to vote. And of course it's verified, but after these people voted, My vote doesn't count. This is insane. Yeah.

And when you think about it, you go back to last year's 2024 election, Kamala Harris, 12 of the states that she did win, they had no voter ID loss whatsoever. And so this is a huge issue. Even here in Texas, we have something called a reasonable impairment declaration, which enables people that, quote unquote, I don't have an opportunity to have an ID to be able to come in and vote. You can't even challenge that. This is how the left operates.

And when you talk about the Somali community up there in Minnesota, that's a clannish criminal organization. And let's never forget that the community that supplied some of the most ISIS fighters during that crisis period during the Obama administration came out of Minnesota, came out of the Somali community.

So we've got some things to clean up, but this is the result of the open borders policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This is what they want. They want to flood the voting zone, and they want to be able to have people go out and vote. And they will use these non-descript means of identification as the workaround to be able to do such.

So it should be one person, one vote, and it should be only Americans. And I've got to tell you another stickling point. I think that all of our ballots in the United States of America should be in English. God bless you, you know, coming from another country. But if you're going to vote in our elections, if you're an American citizen, you should know English.

Agree. And very quickly, I had an Uber ride yesterday. Super guy, super nice guy. It wasn't far. It was a very short little ride.

But I said to him, I asked him a question, and he just looked at me and said, yes. He couldn't speak a lick of English whatsoever. And I thought, God forbid something happened. Like, I'm screwed. This dude doesn't speak English at all.

Look at those 18-wheel truck drivers who got all over the place, can't speak English, can't read our road signs. It's really, really bad. And I know they give the driver's license test in 14,000 different languages, but like to your point, they can't read the road signs. We got to run, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Have a wonderful, wonderful 2026.

I wish you all the best and many blessings. Go above it. And thank you for joining me. Thank you, Mary. I'm Mary Walter.

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So it's the IT department. Where, if you are a regular on the live cast, you know who the I.T. department is. The IT department will be joining me. And you.

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So, yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu joined President Trump, and I was really struck by a presser that they had. They got out the two of them together, and they were speaking to the American. People. And I was really struck by the whole thing. And now, again, I have been, I went to Israel as a guest of the Israeli government on a diplomatic mission in August.

And so I've really become interested in Israel and the people. And they were so welcoming and so nice. And you realize what they live under. There were pictures of the hostages everywhere. And you realize the threats that they live under.

And we learned a lot about October 7th. We were at the Gaza border. We did get to speak to a woman at the site of the Nova Music Festival who they tried to kill at the Nova Music Festival, and she miraculously survived. And we went to one of the kibbutzes that were a stone's throw from this tiny little wire fence that celebrated, that separated the kibbutz from Gaza. And it was amazing that it was just that close and how they were just slaughtered.

And so I learned a lot.

So I'm very interested, and we did get to meet. Prime Minister Netanyahu, we did get to meet President Herzog, we got to see Ambassador Mike Hockaby.

So it was really, it was so educational, but you really got to get a feel for the Israeli people.

So yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was at the White House, and he announced something very special. There is something called the Israel Prize, and it has been given out for almost 80 years now, and it has never been given to a non-Israeli. Until Benjamin Netanyahu decided to change those rules. Listen to this.

Well, President Trump has broken so many conventions. To the surprise of people, and then they figure out, oh, well, maybe, you know, he was right after all.

So we decided to break a convention too, or create a new one. and that is to award Uh the Israel Prize. which in uh almost our eighty years, we've never awarded it to a non-Israeli. And we're going to award it. This year.

to President Trump. This was announced formally over lunch. Uh by Uh our Minister of Education, who's responsible for them Uh Israel Prize. It's going to be awarded to President Donald J. Trump.

for his tremendous contributions to Israel. and the Jewish people. Oh. I I think there's It's such a fitting thing. And it would honor us, obviously, Mr.

President, if you could visit Israel. in that occasion on our Independence Day. But um I have to say that this reflects the Overwhelming. sentiment of Israelis across the uh the spectrum. They appreciate what you've done.

To help Israel. and to help our common battle against the terrorists and those who would destroy our civilization. Again, that's an expression of thanks. Um and appreciation. And he's right.

I was so surprised. Huge banners. You know, thank you, President Trump. They're all over Israel. There were not a lot of tourists when we were there.

People are afraid to go, which I'll tell you, you don't have to be afraid to go. We spent most of our time in Jerusalem. We were in that part of the country. We went up to the West Bank. We were in the West Bank.

We were in Capernaum and Galilee and traveled all the way, but mostly we were stationed in Jerusalem. And I wound up spending two weeks there. And the people are wonderful and lovely, but as soon as they find out you're an American, they're like, We love your president. We love Donald Trump. He's the best friend Israel ever had.

They're really, really, and you will see signs everywhere. There's a, I saw a sign that said, make Gaza Israel again. said a takeoff on Make America Great Again, but they are huge fans of Donald Trump. And what I thought was interesting is there just there seems to be a genuine friendship. The two men seem to genuinely like each other.

And I just wanted to play just a little bit here. Of what Benjamin Netanyahu had to say regarding the relationship with. President Trump. I have to say that In addition to what I said, that we've never had A friend. Even close, a friend.

As President Trump in the White House. I think he's been extraordinary. in his friendship and his support for Israel. His principal positions. his willingness to just cut through.

To get to the essence of things, and I don't say that as a compliment, I just mean it. People have heard me say that behind your back, Mr. President. Many times. But I want to see something else.

I think we have a partnership, if I can quote you. Yeah. Second to nod. I think it's allowed us to do enormous things. You know, people said there was a different conception at one time, which means that.

America can advance its uh interests in the Middle East if it opens a lot of daylight. between it and Israel. Yeah. And President Trump has done the exact opposite. He's achieved remarkable things in the Middle East.

because we work together. We talk about our ideas.

Sometimes we have different ideas, but we work it out. And most of the time we see eye to eye. But it's been a remarkable experience and this was a very, very productive Meeting. And may I say a very good lunch? Thank you.

Thank you for your friendship. Thank you very much, Philip. And thank you for your support. It's meant from the heart. And I really think it was.

It was a very, very touching exchange that I watched yesterday. I'm sure a lot of you watched or saw it. And it was, as I said, like a very touching exchange between the two men. And I just wanted to share that with you. Also.

The Southern Command announcing with the Joint Task Force Southern Spear that they carried out their first first lethal strike since december twenty second, killing two alleged narcoterrorists aboard a vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in international waters. Yeah, got another one. Two male narco-terrorists were killed. No U.S. military forces were harmed.

It was the 30th, the strike was the 30th since September 2nd. Total number of people killed in such operations is at least 106. The campaign began September 2nd with a strike that killed 11 alleged members of Trende Aragua, followed by additional operations that reportedly eliminated dozens more across known trafficking routes. U.S. forces have reportedly hit a bunch of different types of vessels, including submersibles, which I guess are submarines, fishing boats, and high-speed vessels.

Oh, don't let the left hear you hit fishing boats. Uh-oh. But they were carrying drugs on them. Earlier this month, the administration launched its fentanyl-free America plan with the DEA reporting that strikes on suspected Caribbean drug vessels are helping curb the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. And Trump has indicated that they're going to start conducting strikes on land.

Now, Left can't get upset about that. Because Barack Obama conducted a lot of strikes on land. A lot of them. Over five hundred. And he killed innocent civilians, and he also took out purposely an American citizen who had no charges or any crimes, wasn't charged with any kind of crime.

He was the son of Anwar Alawaki, and so boom, he went.

So they really can't complain all that much. All right, coming up, a little bit more news. And then I want to get into something that was posted on X by a basketball player. And it's super, it's a very, very interesting thought. And I think we're going to have a lot of differing opinions on this.

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So here's the thing: Dwight Howard, basketball player, said, I honestly feel. Like the president should make one year of service mandatory for everyone born in America. A lot of other countries do it. And I think it would help with discipline and structure. I'm curious what y'all think.

Would this help America or not?

So And I'd love to get your thoughts on that. 866-408-7669. Now, He clearly has been listening to me because I've been saying this for a long time. I firmly believe, because everybody's got a disability now. Everybody's got ADDADHDOCD anxiety, this blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Life's hard. Put on a helmet. I believe, I truly believe that everyone can contribute in some way. Whether you got ADD, ADHD, time blindness is another one I love. I just can't get up in time.

God, because you didn't have a mother who ripped you out of bed. My mother would come into my bedroom in the morning for school and open the curtains and be like, Good morning. And you had to get out of bed. And she was not having any of it. And if you missed the bus, she was not driving you to school.

You had to hoof it. If you missed the bus, she made us walk to school. to school. She wasn't she wasn't having none of it.

So, anyway, everybody would complain, yes, but I'm just saying old. Yes, but I have this, but I have that. I truly believe that everyone can contribute. Everyone can contribute. And I think contributing makes you feel good.

I really do. You know, you may have, I don't know, whatever your disability is, but you may still be, you can still be answering phones at a desk. For the military, for whatever, for a year. I'm a big fan of some kind of service. This country gives you so much that giving back one year is no big deal.

A lot of kids take a gap year between high school and college, and I actually think that that's good because when you're going to college, a lot of kids have no clue where they want to study or trade school or whatever it happens to be. And he's right, it would help with discipline and structure. Yes. It would. Honestly, I've always said they should bring back the draft, even if they just draft you into answering phones, right?

Or they just draft you into food service or something like that. A lot of kids grow up without fathers. And a lot and some grow up with parents who just don't kick their butts and don't teach them responsibility and consequences and those things that parents used to be responsible for teaching. And um You know, one person posted here, Riley says, I think one year of customer service of any type. Retail.

Serving, bartending, answering phones, etc., would help this country all understand each other and maybe even get along a little better. And I agree with that. I do think that, you know, listen, people are so rude now.

So rude. I think COVID had a lot to do with it. A lot of you went into lockdown and sat around with your box of wine and watching whatever it was you're binge watching on TV. What was it? What was the thing about the tiger.

Remember that thing, that show I never had time to watch because I'm a central personnel, so I didn't get to just sit around and watch the shows that were popular at the time. Didn't get to do that. Bladder did, and you came out of COVID, and you did not learn how to deal with society. Nobody's polite anymore, nobody's nice. People are rude, they just start screaming and yelling and having temper tantrums in the middle of the aisle.

It's it's it's like you're all letting your free flag fly, and you should just keep it home sometimes.

Now he responded to that and said, I think military service would be better. Learn how to defend yourself, shoot and handle guns properly. The bond and respect for each other. Would go up. And someone said America's a free nation for a reason.

No. Um I don't know. I I just think everybody would be um I just think we'd be better off as a country if everybody had to give one year back. That's it. One year.

Addressing envelopes. I don't care. And I do believe, as I said, every human being has worth, every human being has value. And Instead of I guess give them responsibilities. In the end, yeah, you're going to grape and moan that you have to work or you have to do this or you have to do that, but in the end, There is a lot of dignity that is gained in contributing.

Instead of just sitting back and having people wait on you or take care of you or whatever. But There's a lot of dignity in work. And you see it with these these businesses that um Employ kids who are and adults who are mentally handicapped, right? They're different. And I forget what the new politically correct term is, but you know what I'm talking about.

And they love it. They go to work and they think it's fantastic. I love this. 866-408-7669, Tony in Florida. You're kicking it off.

I got a minute and a half for you, Tony. Welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi. Hi, it's a pleasure to be with you and happy new year. My take on your subject.

I'm from a Navy family. I was in the Navy, and all my brothers and sisters were in the Navy. Six of us went in. And what I'd like to point out is that it teaches reliance, self-reliance, and discipline. Even if it's just one year, you learn how to work on a team.

It's pretty much forced on you, and as you get better at it, you actually like it.

Now there'll be those kids that won't don't want to stick around and want to get out after the first year, but there may be 20% that will decide, hey, I like this, and they'll stick around and they'll get better at it and they'll be able to teach others.

So do you think it should be military service, as Dwayne Howard says? He says, I prefer that it would be military service would be better. Or do you think it should be anything like working retail for a year? That in itself is one of Dante's circles of hell, having to work retail, if you've ever worked retail, right? Having to deal with people.

It would give people a better appreciation of how to interact with people because we lost common courtesy somewhere along the line.

Well, I I think you're looking at two sides of the same coin. If you see it on the military side, It teaches you, like like you uh your earlier caller said, as far as learning how to fire a weapon, respect for uh weaponry and learning how to do all that stuff. Also the camaraderie.

Now, if you get into the service side of it, there are some who Don't feel like they have to do it because they're the military, you have to do it. You're subject to the UCMJ. Where if you're in the civilian side, you're just subject to common law. That changes as you get better and better at what you do in the military.

So You're looking at two sides of the same coin. Either one would work. It just would depend on how you're screened. As far as recruiters go, they'll screen everybody and see whether you're actually, whether you're suitable for military service or not. Right.

Tony, thank you so much for your service and your family's service. And I wish you a very blessed 2026. More of your calls coming up on the Brian Kilmead Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

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So if you're just joining me, Dwight Howard, a basketball player. He tweeted this out. He said. I honestly feel like the President should make one year of service mandatory for everyone born in America. A lot of other countries do it, and I think it would help with discipline and structure.

I'm curious what you all think. Would this help America or not?

Okay. And one person said, How about this? How about when you're of customer service of any type, retail, serving, bartending, phones, etc.? It would help this country to all understand each other and maybe even get along a little bit better. Very true.

When someone's pitching a fit in Walmart, beat for whatever reason, because they always I I don't understand it. I I don't I don't get you know, pitching a fit like that and beating people up and stuff in the middle of Walmart, but they do. Maybe if you had worked in Walmart for a year in customer service, you know, having to deal with people, you might be a little more understanding and not let your freak flag fly right there in the middle of, you know. The grocery aisle of Walmart.

So maybe that's good too.

Now, of course, it's never going to happen in this country because too many people scream because they don't want to get off their butts and have to do something, so it'll never happen. You can't make me do that. And I get it, but I like the idea behind it. I really do. When we got rid of the draft, I think it's just people's behavior and lack of courtesy, a lack of any kind of rules, of any kind of niceness, is has just grown and it's exponential since COVID.

You all forgot how to behave. You also forgot how to drive. None of you can drive either. That too.

So, what do you think? 866-408-7669? Or again, reach out to me on X at Mary Walter Radio. Tag me in a post. Let's go to Brooklyn.

Andrea, listening on WABC. Andrea, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Happy New Year. Thank you.

Happy New Year to you also. Please, we need a good new year. Yes, I wanted to just share my experience that I was a member of the VISTA program, Volunteers in Service to America, from late 1979 to early 1981. I did two years, even though I originally signed up. It was just a one-year program.

It was referred to as the Domestic Peace Corps.

Now the program. As far as I know, it is only a local program. Like you can work in your own community. I did that program and they sent me to Alaska and it was, and I was from the East Coast. I was an East Coast, just graduated from college person, and I wanted to join.

I didn't want to do the Peace Corps because I was very idealistic and I was afraid of messing up somebody's culture. But I thought, the United States, that's great, Vista, that's what I did. And I cannot tell you how meaningful experience this program was for me. It was terrific. And P.S., I was a waitress for a little while, many years later, as a moonlighting job.

And I agree with you that it really does teach you a lot. And it's very, very good also. But I just wanted to put that out there. It's too bad that the government doesn't continue with that as a national recruit program where they can send you to anywhere in the United States for a year to work. We worked at the time with existing programs.

We didn't just go out there and land on the ground and have to figure out what to do. They trained us. They, you know, whatever. It was amazing, really amazing experience. And I would recommend it highly.

I would actually donate to some kind of program. That sends some of these little entitled socialists to an actual socialist country. And and make them live there for three months. And see how that works out, you know, or some of them to an actual real third world country who complain about America because I think too many people don't realize how good they have it. And I know I sound like I'm 800 years old right now, don't I?

I sound like I'm going to keep the ball if it comes in my yard, right? You sound idealistic to me.

Well, thank you, Andrea. By the way, that is my confirmation name, is Andrea. Thank you for joining me here on the Brian Kilmead Show, Andrea. Yeah, there's so many things. I think the further you get away from your immigration story, I think the bigger jerk you become.

I really do. Not everybody, but a lot of people have no clue how good they have it. In Florida, Steve, welcome. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Happy New Year, Steve.

Hey, happy New Year. Absolutely not at the federal level. Between the industrial complex, the military-industrial complex, and the fat federal government, there's no way you want to make that a federal program. Maybe at the state level. But definitely not.

Because they never found a war that they didn't like. We're dropping bombs all over the place. It's crazy. This is what we voted for? No, no way.

Okay, okay, so what about the idea of doing it here domestically? Doing it here in the United States. We don't ship you anywhere. You stay here. Or the other idea that someone else brought up: you have to do a year of serving people somehow, doing retail service, or maybe working in like a nursing home for a year with older people and maybe gain some kind of respect for quote-unquote boomers, something along those lines to help other Americans.

Only at the state level. You cannot give the federal government that kind of power anymore. They can't. They cannot control themselves when it comes to any power. The states have to take back more power.

What you're talking about is not in the Constitution. We've got to get back to the Constitution. Of course, the draft wasn't in the Constitution either, but yet we did that.

Well, and that for Vietnam that that was out of line. You know, I I'll tell you something, we need to bring back hell no, we won't go. All right. I don't know. Was it out of line for World War I and World War II and etc.?

You know something? It's like when you look at all the stinking wars and all the rearrangement and how things led up to the wars, it's crazy. It really is crazy.

Okay. All right. Steve, I appreciate your passion. You're very, very passionate about it. I understand that.

I get it. I don't think anyone is talking about drafting people to send them off to war. I don't think this is a draft of any kind. This is just kick young people's butts a little bit into serving America for one year. For everything that you get from this country, I don't think serving for one year in some capacity, and I mean everybody, I don't care if you weigh 400 pounds and you're disabled or whatever.

Well, you know what? We're going to work on that too for the one year. And you do something. I'm not saying everybody's got to run around with a gun on their shoulder. But doing something in some service where you have to interact with people and you have to show up on time and you have to show respect and you have to learn how to function like a human and maybe develop some empathy for other people.

I think all of that's good. Let's go back to WABC, Shawnee, out of New York City. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Welcome. Oh, Sean, yes, thank you.

I listened to you yesterday and I just love everything you say. It's ditto, ditto, and amen. I grew up a way long time ago. I may be 800 years old. I really did walk to school in the snow.

But I have T V till I oh my god. And I didn't have T V till I was eight, and I'm so damn grateful for my childhood, which was innocent and responsible. And as I got older, I had to take a job to make money to to buy Christmas presents.

So I went to work for a department store in Houston. And I learned so much there. I learned things about myself because I learned that in helping others, I was really honing my responsibilities and my sensitivity to others. What did they need, for example, selling somebody a polyester blouse to save the money instead of the silk blouse? And he came back to thank me and gave me a charm for my charm bracelet.

So, I mean, it was a really wonderful experience that I'm grateful for.

So, serving is not, it shouldn't be painful. It should be.

something people look back with pride and joy about. Yeah, if you're the person who gets stuck having to refold all the clothes at Costco that are on the tables, you know, because I was there probably after Thanksgiving, before Christmas, and the men's department, the men were just picking stuff up and throwing it down and picking stuff up and throwing it down. And women do that too. But everything in my brain was just like, didn't your mother teach you how to put things back the way you found it? Like in my brain.

So if you're the person who has to do that, you know, if that's your job working in some kind of customer service and that's what you have to do, you're going to learn appreciation for things like that and for how you leave things and how it affects other people. I think we've gotten super far away from that. I really do. Shawnee, have a wonderful, blessed new year. And thank you so much for joining me here.

We've got one more round of calls. We've got more coming up here. All right, before we run out of time, 866-408-7669 or tag me on X at Mary Walter Radio. You're listening to the Brian Killmead Show. Both sides, all opinions.

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So, Bob reached out to me on X and says, retail, seriously, new. Good show, though. I get it. That would be for everybody. Like, if you tell me I, you know, work in retail, I'd be like, I'm not super good with people.

John says, Good morning, listening to you on WABC, 77NYC Radio. I agree with Service for All. A plan should be passed through Congress, whether military, domestic service, community service. It would be very beneficial for all the reasons you stated and essential for kids. Yeah, I think it would be really good.

And for some adults, too, let me tell you. Let's head to Virginia. Jason, welcome. You're on the Brian Kilmead show. Hello.

Good morning, Mary. I've been enjoying your show. I'm calling from the perspective of a very long time educator in public schools. And I think some of the implications that would have to be addressed to implement your program is the qualifications of the people who are supervising children. If you're trying to essentially cultivate integrity using people that aren't their parents and have the kids have no accountability to anybody so far, how are the people going to be qualified to take on these service workers?

Well, probably just as qualified as the shift shift supervisor at the Gap, right? or at at Starbucks or anything else. Like if they go in there and get it wait, if they go in there and get a g get a job at sixteen, which you can get a job at sixteen depending on your state. All my nieces worked at sixteen. Um their supervisor was a kid who was probab like eighteen, nineteen years old.

I hate this. How are you going to induce the supervisor to take on the service workers?

Well, they would be an employee just like anybody else. They'll get paid. Just like they were they just like they were an employee. Oh, I see. It sounded earlier to me, Error, I interpret it like it was volunteerism.

The nice lady earlier was talking about how she served in Vista. Right, that was a different thing. Right. So maybe I misunderstood that part. That was a totally different program.

You know, this started out with Dwight Howard really talking more about military, like one year of military. You go in, you get your butt kicked in boot camp, which is what a lot of kids need. A lot of kids need that because they don't have any respect or they did not have a strong father figure in their lives, which that's your dad's job. That's what your dad does. And as more and more kids don't have a father figure in their lives, I see the value of military for our young men and women where they learn respect, where they learn this is what you're going to do.

And there is a power higher than you in the world. And no one cares about How many people follow you on Instagram or anything along those lines? These are the values that count. And you instill respect, you instill a respect for authority, you instill getting along and having to work with other people, even if you don't like them.

So I do see the value in that as well.

So it's two different things because someone else had said, well, what about customer service, like retail or something like that? You're going to have an impact on the culture of every organization these service workers join. It may be positive, maybe not. It may be positive, it may be not. Personally, I think he may be right when it comes to some kind of military service for a year, just to maybe break you of some bad habits and get you some good ones.

Like, I don't know, getting out of bed in time to go through life. Maybe that's a good one. But I don't see the, you know, people screaming about, you're bringing back the draft. And people will scream about that.

So maybe it could be a hybrid. And everyone's just spitballing here. We're just having fun with it. Jason, have a wonderful new year. And thank you for joining me here on the Brian Kilmead Show.

Let's go to Clifton, New Jersey, the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey. Tony, listening on WABC out of New York, welcome. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi. Hi, Mary.

Happy Almost New Year. You back in 2026.

So I'm just a god and country kind of girl, and I did military two years at a high school. I volunteered. after a breakup, believe it or not.

So I would suggest I would definitely suggest I'm a God in country. I think any school, any public schools that want funding need to give young people the option of if you want any government funding, you need to offer your grads and prepare them for either some kind of military service, optional, with benefits. I received an education, I received college benefits, so that was great. Or you could work in any kind of nongovernment or maybe another option. But any schools that want to get government funding need to make a path for our young people, they need it.

And this would not just be colleges of which you're speaking, like even high schools, because I think there are a lot of young men in this country that are very lost and don't have that male figure in their lives and they need it. And a lot of the young ladies as well, because daddy kicks both butts, whether it's his son or his daughter, daddy kicks both butts in different ways. I think a lot of them need that.

So I would like to see it available even on a high school level. Even on a high school level. And it gives people direction and it gives them sort of a sort of a discovery time. You know, you don't need to stay in the military. You don't need to stay in whatever sort of maybe even these programs where you could go to sort of a Christian school or you could go to sort of a not a military school, but sort of like a where you learn a trade school.

And these are the kind of things that keep young people focused and keep our young people ready because they were traumatized quite a bit, Mary, during COVID. I agree. I agree. We really broke an entire generation. Tony, I wish you a blessed 2026.

Thank you so much for joining me. And lastly, let's get Alexander in North Carolina in here. I got about a minute and a half. Alexander, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi.

Hi, I'll be on. Good, thanks. What do you think about this? I'm going to respectfully have to disagree. I'm active duty military, and when it comes down to Or service, only about, you know, I think it's 23% of Military aged people are even eligible if it's medical reasons or what have you.

And being active duty, I see so much incompetence day to day with people. And these are people who willingly joined.

So, let me ask you, and thank you. I'm so glad that you joined. Thank you.

We need more young men and women like you.

So, I admire that.

So, thank you for that. But what I think what we're talking about here is, you know, every, and I say this all the time: everybody has value, every human has value, and everybody can do something. And I think there's a lot of dignity in accomplishing something.

So, yeah, you're 400 pounds, you don't qualify for the military.

Okay, but you're still going to go through a lot of what they go through, and you're going to do some of the exercises, and we're going to get some weight off of you. But you're going to learn to get out of bed at a certain time. You're going to learn to make your bed. You're going to learn that there's a power higher than you. And same thing with people who have physical handicaps.

I still think that they have value, and I still think there are things they can do. And maybe it doesn't have to be military service. Maybe it could be a program that companies bring these kids in to work at American Eagle, folding clothes and waiting on people. And learn, or going into senior centers, or doing something where you find that you have value. I think that that can be really useful.

I don't know. Alexander, we got to run. Thank you again so much for your service. Have a blessed 2026. And thank you for joining me.

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Hello. Thanks so much for having me on, Mary. Good morning. Good morning. So, you know, with the midterms coming up, a lot of people feel that Republicans are just going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they often do.

And you feel that affordability is the big issue. Affordability, affordability. And for whatever reason, people think that the economy isn't that great despite gas going low, despite the price of eggs being down. It's like they forgot that eggs were $5 a dozen, right? And now they're like $1.82 or whatever it is where you live.

And that gas in some states was $7 a gallon. In some states, now it's below $2 in some states.

So affordability being the issue, how do Republicans beat what's coming from the left and what's coming from the media about this economy is terrible. This economy is terrible. They're believing it. How do they stop that?

Well, listen, in the last 10 years, it has become increasingly harder. You know, this goes beyond even the Biden administration, right? It's become increasingly harder as a young person to imagine a future, to be able to buy a home, to be able to get out of student loan debt, to be able to find a job that can not just cover the bills but make a path for the future for having a family. And I think there's a big reason, Mary, that America's fertility rate has fallen to historic lows, only 1.62 kids per couple. You know, you need 2.1 kids per couple to replace yourself as a population.

We're at 1.62. And I think it's very difficult for younger generations to imagine a future, especially because of the cost of things like housing. And so, you know, well, eggs might be cheaper than they were before. Gas might be cheaper than it was before. These are all very good things.

When we think about how do we make America a place that's more hospitable for families and a future for young people, I think we need to look at things like addressing the cost of raising kids and housing from a public policy perspective.

So that's one thing that I think if Republicans want to be, you know, win and do well, they should really focus on how do we make America a more friendly place to raise a family.

Now, there's a spiritual sickness that I think our country deals with as well, where we're not valuing human life enough, we're not valuing children enough. But when you couple that with economic woes, it becomes, I think, almost feels insurmountable for many young people, especially couples, to imagine that future.

So I think Republicans really need to zero in on addressing housing costs and making America seem like a more healthy and thriving place for them to be able to have that family future that they may want. And part of this is, too, it's not just. Affordability. It's not just the costs. You have New York.

In New York, the city council just passed something called the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, and it allows certain nonprofits to have the first chance to buy a multifamily property before they're allowed to be sold on the open market.

So if you have a multifamily property that you want to sell, you have to wait six months before. And allow a community group, a nonprofit, buy the property before you're allowed to even put it on the market.

So the government is getting more and more and more involved in real estate transactions and who gets to buy certain things. Whereas you and your partner say, We're going to buy this, we're going to rent out the other units, it'll pay for itself, this is going to be a great investment. Uh-uh, not so fast. New York City now is saying you can't do that. There's a lot working against them.

Yes, I mean, I think that's a great example. There's a lot of red tape when it comes to building homes, when it comes to buying homes. You know, obviously, there's sky-high interest rates. And the fact that we have, you know, broken zoning rules. I mean, I'm out in California, and the zoning is terrible.

It's so hard to build. You can't even put an ADU on your property in a lot of parts of California.

So all of that is a reason why it's more difficult for young people and really anybody, quite frankly, to have home ownership. And I do think that's such an important cornerstone of coming of age and being able to build a family. Again, not that you can't build a family without having a home. You can rent, but then you're in the cycle of constant renting. You're not building potential for generational wealth.

So that does have a real impact on our fertility rate. It has a real impact on what people think about when they go into the voting booth and who they're voting for because they really want to be able to have housing, to be able to, you know, many people still want to have a family. Sadly, Mary, there's this increasing number now of young people who Can't even imagine having a family and they don't even want to have kids anymore. But for those that still do, they are eager for some public policy that supports that family vision. And I think the public policy has to be restrained because it can't just be giving out huge amounts of cash because that's going to have its own economic problems down the line.

But I think things like child tax credits, in addition to helping solve the housing crisis, are another wonderful solution where you actually give people a much bigger write-off on their taxes because they're having children and they're willing to, again, raise the next generation. I do think cash credits for families are one of the few areas where it makes sense to give out a cash subsidy because, again, the most important thing any government should be thinking about is families. And are we going to have a healthy next generation that can continue the American dream and the American project? Yeah, and we talked a lot about this housing thing yesterday on the show and talked about how. Bringing back the idea of teaching our kids about roommates when they first get out of college.

You know, like continuing the roommate thing. Don't get a two-bedroom apartment on your own, get a studio. There are other things we can do. But let's talk about, also, you talk about momflation. What is momflation?

Okay. So it the reality is it is getting more and more Costly to buy anything, whether it's goods or services, whether that's childcare, whether that is the milk at the grocery store. And it's not even so much the cost of one product or service, but it's the overall price level of all of the goods and services in the economy. And you look at the price of groceries, right? Five to ten years ago, and it has skyrocketed.

And so you can go and try to tweak the cost of eggs or tweak the cost of gas, and that's, of course, helpful. But overall, that grocery bill has grown significantly. Overall, any household goods, you know, the thing that cost $30 at Target five years ago is now $34.99. Those prices across the board, and economists are seeing this, have risen. And so what hasn't risen as quickly, Mary, are wages.

What hasn't risen as quickly is people's ability to pay all of those new costs. And so people are realizing their dollar doesn't go as far as it used to. And again, that's addressing, yes, the fertility rate. It's addressing people's even desire to get married. They're less likely now, less people are likely, the marriage rate is down overall.

You know, there's sometimes a little blip that goes up, but overall, young people, Gen Zers, are less interested in marriage than their predecessors.

So all of this, I think, is connected to the economy and in terms of what the government is. Government response can be. I just think focusing on, yes, more affordable housing, removing restrictions so people can build, so people can buy, so people can put up ADUs, so people can have more folks in their homes and be able to rent, like you said, to other people or do multi-family units. All of that is good. But I think also giving families special increased tax credits as well as cash subsidies to deal with the rising costs is another solution.

I'm just going to get you to hang on here. We're going to take a quick break because I do want to comment a little bit about what you were saying with Gen Z and also want to talk to you about something that Governor Hochl has agreed to sign in New York that I think is very scary.

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So, we were talking about the plight of Gen Z and how hard it is for them and how hard it is for them to find a home, etc. And I think part of what I'm gonna say here, part of the reason I think that. Things are different. Is they have fallen away from religion, the vast majority of them. They live together before marriage.

A lot of them never get married. And then some of them do get married because they're pressured into getting married because they've been living together for so long. And a lot of them will have the baby before marriage. And To me, it and and then they seem like they should just be able to have the big house right away. You know, I I think they have a skewed vision, and we talked about this yesterday, a skewed vision of what life was like for boomers and for Gen X before them.

And you know, I'm Gen X. I bought my first house at almost 40. Right? But yet they seem to be able to think that they, you know, well, we've been living together for three years, so now we should be able to have our house and we get to upgrade all of our stuff at a shower and I should have this and I should have that and we should have, you know, Amazon Prime and all of these subscriptions and be able to order all my meals out because I don't have time to cook.

So I think there's a societal skewing of what reality was before them and what it was for generations before them, as well as some certain things that are working against them. But every generation has stuff that works against them. And I think that comes into play. And I also feel that, you know, they're into going to here for the weekend and going to there for a weekend. You can't do that with a kid.

It's not an Instagram life if you have a child. That's a very those are some very good points and there's a lot of truth to that. You know, we have every generation has its challenges. Gen Z and millennials will have ours. I'm a millennial.

It's going to be different than Gen X and boomers. That's all very true. I do think there's a few other pieces to the puzzle there for why Gen Z is not marrying as much, why Gen Z is cohabitating more before marriage, why Gen Z is basically afraid of commitment as well as many millennials. And I think the reason for that has to do in part with to the divorce rate of their predecessors. You look at the divorce rate of boomers as an example, and they have the highest divorce rate of any generation.

So when you're raised in divorcing and divorced homes, it's very difficult to imagine that future and see it as a good one, the future of getting married. And so I think a lot of Gen Zers and many millennials are instead thinking, well, maybe I'm just going to cohabitate or just not marry at all or even commit in cohabitation because it seems safer. Than going through the chaos of a divorce.

So I do think that's a real element at work here. I think you're right, though, about the impact of social media and just really living a more consumeristic, materialistic lifestyle that's based on fun experiences and having stuff. I do think that that keeping up with the Joneses effectively in a new kind of world of consumerism where everything's available when you click a button and a DoorDash shows up or your Uber shows up or your Amazon delivery shows up. It makes this idea of what my future should look like different. And so you have these different standards that maybe previous generations had.

And I do think another element that's real is, you know, Abigail Schreier wrote a great book about bad therapy. This idea that you can go to therapy and you can do worse afterwards. You know, you go to therapy and you talk about your childhood wounds, maybe from that divorce your parents had. And instead of getting healthier and more resilient and stronger afterwards, you're kind of in this downward viral of negative thinking about yourself, your future, and your past, quite frankly. And it can wound your relationships instead of healing.

them and I do think there's some truth to that too I mean I do think some therapy can be amazing if you've got the right therapist but if you are basically the whole world is out to get me right I'm the perpetual victim I can't I can't heal and my parents just hurt me and just loaded me up with a you know a load of baggage that negative mindset going into your life is going to cripple your future right whether or not it's true it's just going to cripple your true future and so I think we need to get more resilient and that includes spiritual revival knowing we are loved by God we have a future and it has a lot to do with forgiving previous generations for their issues every generation will have ours and then the public policy we were discussing earlier you know the government making it easier to have a family and housing I think is another key part to of the solution yeah ultimately I do agree with you as the key to 2026 is stressing affordability and trying to counter the narrative that comes from the media that everything's too expensive you can't afford anything when in reality a lot of people are like wait I don't see that but I think that's a big hurdle for the Republicans and I hope they do it I do Want to get in here very quickly. New York, the Democrat New York governor, Kathy Hochul, announced that she's going to sign an assisted suicide bill for terminally ill individuals. She insisted that there be amendments included to this bill, including a mandatory waiting period of five days between when a prescription is written and when it is filled, an oral request by a patient for assisted suicide that must be recorded by video or audio, mandatory mental health evaluation of the person seeking assisted suicide by a psychologist or psychiatrist, a prohibition against anyone who may benefit financially from being eligible to serve as a witness, limiting assisted suicide in New York to New York residents only, and allowing religiously oriented home hospice providers to opt out of offering assisted suicide. I'm sure you have a lot to say about that, so I'm just going to let you have at it. Thanks, Mary.

I do. I mean, this is absolutely a devastating decision by Governor Kathy Hochul. The fact that she says she will sign New York, they call it Medical Aid and Dying Act, really it is assisting suicide for vulnerable, very vulnerable adults. And what is happening here is you're turning doctors, and we saw this with abortion, you're turning doctors into agents of death. And you're telling people who are sick or have crippling disabilities or they're depressed, right?

You're telling them that their lives are a burden. And so it creates this quiet pressure on the elderly, on those who are very sick, to choose death so that they're not a cost or inconvenience to their families or to medical providers. And so once the state is authorizing suicide, which is what Kathy Hochl is doing, she's authorizing suicide, physician-assisted suicide. Despair is no longer something that we have to fight or treat, right? Help this person get out of despair.

Help them get healthier, pray for the miracle. Instead, despair is something that needs to be facilitated by the system. And this is a policy of death, and it's a policy of abandonment. And the horrible part about this is they're dressing it up as compassion. They're saying this is going to be compassionate.

It's going to help people. No, this is killing people. It's never right to take an innocent life. And people who are suffering need care. You don't eliminate the sufferer.

You work as best you can to alleviate and, when possible, eliminate the suffering, but never the sufferer. Yeah, and she said she did it because she watched her mom die with ALS. And my husband is on a board that aids ALS patients. And I have to tell you, I know a lot of them. And I get it.

I have to tell you, I get it. I get where they get to the point because their brains are still functioning, but their bodies are not. And it's horrific to watch sometimes.

So I kind of understand that.

So I have such mixed emotions about the whole thing, where it may not be for me, but who am I to tell someone who's suffering with like ALS that I'm sorry, you've got to keep going. Until you just die. I don't know. It's really hard. But I think it will be misused, and that's what scares me.

And that's the problem I have with that. We have to end it on that. I'm so sorry. Lila Rose, thank you so much for joining me. I wish you a 2026 with lots of blessings and love and laughter.

And thank you for all the work you do. And thank you for joining me on the Brian Kilmeet Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Welcome back to the Brian Kilme Joe. Mary Walter sitting in.

For Brian Kilmey, just a couple days left. Until the new year, it's very exciting. Joining us now, Dr. Mehmed Oz. He is the Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator.

You can follow him on X at Dr. Oz. That's super easy. Dr. Oz, thank you so much for taking the time to join me on the Brian Killmead Show.

Welcome and happy new year. Happy New Year, Mary. And I'd say dramatic step up to have you hosting instead of Brian. And thank you for taking charge, taking the reins of the show. Wow, thank you.

And not only that, but I am cuter than he is. Everything's better. I hope he's listening. That's it. I'm never going to work on this show again.

I hope you're happy.

So, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that. All 50 states are going to receive awards under this rural health transformation program. It's a $50 billion initiative. And the first thing that comes to mind, like, yay, I think this is great because rural health has really been hit hard, especially when you have like a lot of illegals who hit some of these hospitals along the southern border and a lot of them closing, and even as far inland as Colorado. We need to help these rural areas, these rural hospitals.

But then I hear that, like, well, wait a minute, on the heels of all this Somali fraud, we're talking about $50 billion. How are there certain safeguards that are in place to make sure that this money just doesn't disappear? There are safeguards, Mary, and there's a very big difference between Medicare, which takes care of older Americans, and Medicaid, which takes care of folks who are most vulnerable. They both need support, they both need our love. But within the Medicaid program, there's inherently an issue because we don't actually get to make all the decisions.

A lot of decisions are made by the states. They just sort of give us the bill. And even though the federal taxpayer is on the hook, it's not like we have a tremendous amount of insight into how they spend the money. The Rural Health Transformation Fund is a completely different ballgame. It's true that it's coming out of my agency, CMS, but the President and Congress wanted to make sure that we gave it to the governors and then have very tight controls over how the money was spent so that it would represent the largest investment ever in rural health care at a time when rural health care is really suffering.

It also would allow us to, by increasing by 60% the money that these rural areas are getting, it would allow them to transform, to right-size their systems. And that's the aspiration that we all have. And that's what I'm I'm confident we'll deliver. We just doled the money out yesterday on time, on schedule. All the judging was done, all the applications to tell us exactly how you're going to spend the money without wasting it.

All that now is in the books. This information, most of it's public. I encourage the public to look at it, but there are no Somalians distributing rural health transformation funds. It is directly given to governors. They are directly liable, and we're not going to have the kind of shenanigans that took place in Minnesota when the governor wasn't watching because we're watching.

Yeah, and tell people about this a little bit about the condition of some of our more rural hospitals because most of America, believe it or not, is rural once you get off the two coasts. But there's more than 700 rural hospitals that are at risk of closure. And that's a lot. And I realize that they're smaller and they may not have as a big of a service area, but they're still incredibly important. What happened?

How did we get here?

Well, we got to this problem years of abuse and ignoring the problem. If you're a big hospital system located in an urban area, you're pretty good at lobbying to get money spent the way that you think it should be spent in your town. Even if Medicaid is giving the state money, most of it does tend to go to the bigger institutions that have lobbyists and are well connected. The rural parts of the state are at the very bottom of the food chain. They just never quite get heard.

And so this Transformation Fund's desire is to start to take advantage of tips that have worked in other parts of the country in the health care system. As an example, if you're using technology to improve the quality of your health care, if you're using medical records that are electronic, if you have quality control, tools like telemedicine, that all now becomes accessible to rural parts of the country where your zip code determines your life expectancy. Shockingly, you tend to live a lot shorter in rural America because of these problems with things like delivering healthy babies with a Appropriate supervision, access to cancer care, and the like. By forcing rural America to re-envision what health care looks like there, we can take advantage of 21st century solutions. All the states have this problem.

All of them want these issues addressed. None of them had the freedom given by both financial security but also the way this program is designed to actually make these tough decisions.

Now they have. And when I say freedom, we have the ability to call money back if it's not used the way people have promised to use it, which is actually empowering to governors.

Now they can go to the state health commissioner and say, guys, you're not spending the money in the right way because you're not giving pharmacists the ability to function at the height of their licensure. Or you go to the doctors' groups and say, hey, we have a better way to provide health care that requires telemedicine, but you've got to lighten up a little bit on some of the rules that you guys have, the vice script you have, and how medicine is practiced so we can give high-quality access care to all people in our state. Those decisions historically have been, they pushed to the side.

Now state legislatures are on the hook. If they don't do snap waivers, if they don't allow for the president's fitness test to be given in schools, they will pay the price. That gives the governor a tool to force change. Yeah, I'm glad we're bringing on a side note the president's physical fitness test back because I still have trauma from trying to climb that damn rope and touch the beam at the top of the gym with a one-inch thick mat underneath me should I fall. Honest to goodness, that has come up in every conversation I've had with members of the administration.

All of us survived that. I don't, I mean, I didn't live in like heights, but I think we'll have a safer version of it. But you just described very accurately the death-defying five-year-old moves we all had to make. Yeah, and they had like over they put a mat under you that was like a quarter of an inch thick in case you to break your fall as you're plummeting to the gym floor. It's a body bag.

That's all it was good for. They'd wrapped up the pieces to keep the floor clean. Exactly.

Somehow our parents were like, well, next time you won't fall. When this money goes to these states, you talk about the state legislature. Are we truly going, though, to give the money to? To the hospitals. How is the money going to be allocated?

I really want the physicians and the nurses and the techs to be the ones who decide what they need because they're the ones who deal with it every single day. And having lawyers make that decision to me is just not a good formula. I'm a firm believer in subsidiarity, which is a Catholic term that basically advocates what you're saying. Let the lowest ranking person who's capable of the decision make the choice. You don't want the Pope deciding on some parish issue if the parish priest is just good at just fine at making that choice.

So we want hospitals and health care systems right-sized by the people who work in them. And that starts, by the way, with bringing in more doctors and nurses and pharmacists. We don't have enough in rural parts of the country.

So there's no point me providing more funding for mental health care services if there are literally no psychologists and psychiatrists working anywhere near you. But we could have telemedicine solutions or begin to use AI if these doctors and nurses want it. And by giving them control, and this is the beauty of this plan, we're forcing innovation. By putting this kind of support, structured financial support in the rural health care, when they make smart decisions, they're going to pass those best practices onto the urban areas as well.

So the entire healthcare System is going to get better. And why? Because the President cares about this stuff. Congress was wise in how it crafted the policy. Notice, the law was signed by the President July 4th.

We have already dished out all of the money for the first year. On time, on schedule, high quality. Everyone's up. People can complain about how much money they got, but they can't complain about the process. It was fair.

Yeah. And to having you in charge of it, I I like having more doctors involved. I think we could solve honestly, I think we could solve the health care problem in this country putting by putting Congress taking away their Cadillac Health Plan, put them on the Obamacare exchanges and within A week, you're going to solve the healthcare problem in this country. We put lawyers in charge of it instead of doctors. And to me, that was the biggest mistake we made concerning health care in this country.

It's ridiculous. Dr. Oz, thank you so much for joining me. It was a pleasure. And best of luck.

Again, I love that there's a doctor involved in this and running the show and saying this is what needs to be done. It's a very welcome change. And all the best in the new year. Lots of blessings to you. God bless you.

Take care, Mary. Thank you.

More coming up. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show. The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them only on the Brian Kill Meat Show. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Sponsored by Previgen. Previgen made for your brain. I think it's sad. I think that those Border Patrol agents are going to have a difficult time when they're out in the field and they see what actually happens in real life separate from their training. But I do understand that their primary incentive is financial.

Okay, so that there? That was Mayor Karenbass, Mayor of Los Angeles. She's on CNN. Yeah. on Friday.

And she's talking about Latino border agents, or Hispanic border agents. I don't, I, whatever, but you get the point. And I heard that, and I thought, huh.

Well, that's kind of weird. What she's saying is that the only reason that Hispanics sign up to join the Border Patrol is financial. It's financial. And when they see what's happening to their fellow Hispanics, Latinos, etc., fill in the blake, that they're going to regret it. They're going to come to hate their life and they're going to come to regret what they're doing.

The people who are on the Border Patrol did it the right way. They came into the country legally. If you ever speak to someone who is a recent immigrant, They don't like illegal immigrants because the ones who did it the right way jumped through the hoops, did what they had to do. They respected our laws. They wave the American flag, not the Mexican flag or whichever flag from wherever you're from.

They don't wave the flag of the country that they fled when they came here, they wave the American flag. I don't know if my Uber driver yesterday, which flag he was waving, because I couldn't understand a word the man said. But. This idea on the left, when you think about it, is really racist. Like they really let the mask drop every now and then.

And what Karen Bass basically said is: A, the people who are breaking our laws are Hispanic. There's never any Chinese or Somalians or or people from the Ivory Coast or Germany or Latvia or anywhere else that are crossing our border illegally. No, no, no, it's Hispanics.

Well, that's a pretty racist assumption. And if I made that assumption, you would call me a racist just solely based on the color of my skin, which is, again, Racist.

So they're racists at heart when you come down to it. And to assume That there are no Hispanics in this country who believe in the rule of law. is again Racist So what we learned from this is Karen Bass When you scratch the surface, there's a racist underneath all of that. Think about the ridiculousness of that. I just want to get to some stories here quickly.

Victor Davis Hansen, I know you know him. He said he is stepping away from his show, Victor Davis Hansen, in his own words. He has a podcast, and he said, I'm having a major operation and I've been presented with a serious problem, but I'm going to do all I can to solve it. And that's all I can do. And trust in the power of prayer and faith, and in a wonderful surgeon.

I finally ended up going to the best medical center I know, Stanford Med, and the people there have been absolutely wonderful. I'll work it out one way or another. He joined the Daily Signal in January. He's a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He said on his Friday show that he has not wanted to discuss his health issues and that the nine month odyssey he has been on.

So he didn't want to talk about either one of those things.

So it came as a bit of a surprise on Friday to people who listened to Victor Davis Hansen. The problem I had for a non-smoker and non-drinker. was a very rare type and very hard to diagnose, so it's no one's fault other than my own, perhaps, for not realizing why I was not getting well. He added that he'll, quote, be fine, and he thanked his extraordinarily kind fans for their recent concern. His co host, Jack Fowler, will anchor the problems the program, excuse me, solo while Victor Davis Hansen.

Recovers.

So, prayers up for Victor Davis Hansen today. If you are of the praying type, He probably sounds like he could use them.

Alright, so. The Kennedy Center, you know, there was that guy who canceled his New Year's Christmas Eve. Excuse me, Christmas Eve, they do a jazz concert, and they've done it for the last 20 years. And his name is Chuck Redd. I never heard of him, but he's a vibraphonist.

Okay. I don't know if there's a market for Vibrafonus, but apparently he was going to play Kennedy Center and he canceled. Hours before the event was scheduled to take place. And he said it's because he saw the name of Trump, the Donald Trump and John. John F.

Kennedy or RFK, what is it, John F. Kennedy? me a center for music, right? And um So Rick Rinnell sends him a letter. Saying your dismal ticket sales and lack of donor support combined with your last-minute cancellation has cost us considerably.

This is your official notice that we will seek $1 million in damages from you for this political stunt. I'm like, Yes! Yes When you're a vibraphonist I guess maybe the world is small. I don't understand, but I don't know if he's got a million to pay them back. He said, Your decision to withdraw at the last moment, explicitly in response to the center's recent renaming, which honors President Trump's extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure, is classic intolerance and very costly to a nonprofit arts institution.

Regrettably, your action surrenders to the sad bullying tactics employed by certain elements on the left who have sought to intimidate artists into boycotting performances at our National Cultural Center.

Well. Not to be undeterred. Here comes The uh cooker the cookers They are also a jazz ensemble, and they canceled two New Year's Eve shows because they're going to show us. They gave no reason for the decision, only saying it has come together very quickly. They wrote on their website that jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom, freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.

Some of us have been making this music for many decades, and that history still shapes us. We are not turning away from our audience, and we do not. And we want to make sure that when we do return to the bandstand, the room is able to celebrate the full presence of the music and everyone in it. Uh Here's my thing. The irony and hypocrisy of the left.

These people, the left, these people, are the ones who tore down statues and scratched names out of monuments because they didn't like the person. And they were all for that, and they cheered when they destroyed public property. They cheered. But now when someone puts a name on something and they don't like that name, oh, well, they're going to have nothing to do with that. How dare you do something like that?

That's horrible.

Now they're offended. But it's perfectly okay when they do it. The hypocrisy abounds, abounds.

So far, the Kennedy Center has not offered a public comment in response. The cancellation.

So it's going to be interesting to see what happens here as some of these artists take their, you know, take their marbles and go home.

So, I wonder if there will now be another million-dollar lawsuit in response to this. And think about the people, they're fans for both of these, for the Vibraphonist and this jazz trio. And I'm sure that they're wonderful at what they do, and I'm sure they make great music. But it's an honor to play at the Kennedy Center, and everybody still calls it the Kennedy Center. For Lord's sake, they still call it the Kennedy Center.

I just think that maybe there's going to be a bit of a backlash here, especially from their fans who now can't go see them and had plans, and maybe hotel reservations, etc. Yeah, alright.

Well, that's what happens when you pitch a fifth. I'm Mary Walter. You're listening to the Brian Kilme show.