Real Talk with Brad Maaske

Agitprop.  The act of agitating and then using media to spread propaganda.  Dictators and socialist regimes have used it for years to form public opinion and destroy resistance to their policies.  The Democrats are now experts at this. Artificially lowering interest rates on credit cards simply limits access to credit. Street journalist are preparing to descend on California to expose the massive...

 Leftists claim that the shooting of unarmed Ashley Babbit as she climbed through a window at the Capitol is equivalent to the shooting of a protestor who is hitting an officer of the law with her SUV.  Will prohibiting corporations from buying homes reduce home prices? Will the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage backed securities reduce interest rates?  We discuss all of this and more on this w...

We are celebrating 2026, the 250th anniversary of the experiment called the United States of America.  Can we keep our freedom?   Will California move back towards the middle or is California a lost cause?  How will AI impact the next 5 years?  How is AI used in Real Estate.  How do you disclose an AI altered picture of your home for sale?  Is simply editing the picture a reason to disclose?  If y...

The year in reflection.  Will California get tired of bad governance?  Houses are not being rebuilt in LA.  Stricter building codes are being adopted despite promises to freeze the codes.  Gas prices could exceed $10 per gallon within 3 years with the closed refineries.  Electric prices will rise by more than 33% over the next 3 years.  These things are all caused by elected and unelected Californ...

How would you describe a state that promotes the sexualization and mutilation of young children?  Is it evil?  Are the proponents of "gender affirming care" just well meaning but misguided?  In this week's podcast we discuss a young woman who was told at age 12 by a California school counselor that her anorexia and feelings of depression were caused by her being born in the wrong body.   Getting h...

After a 20 year study Berkeley scientists have determined that Native Americans were right.  Controlled burns create healthier forests and reduce air pollution.  Who would have guessed that?  In another 30 year study, the United Nations found that over the last 30 years sea level has only gone up 3 inches.  They then lied and said that is exactly what their models predicted.  (They have been predi...

In an imaginary California where there are no building codes, no permit fees and no inspections, would consumers buy a house built to 1992 building standards?  The cost of building the home would be approximately 50% of today's cost to build.  Did the seditious six Senators conspire with a Foreign Pysch Ops contractor to produce the videos encouraging our military to disobey orders from their comm...

What are you thankful for?  The first Thanksgiving was to celebrate every gift God has given us.  The Pilgrims celebrated the right to worship freely.  William Bradford tried socialism the first year of their arrival in America and found that many chose to not work if they had to share their food and belongings equally.  It nearly destroyed the colony.  The result was the beginning of American cap...

If citizens are too busy to show up for public hearings and to give input about the growth and improvements in their neighborhoods the government will follow the paid activist who do show up.  Environmentalist are upset that Fresno and Clovis are planning on how to annex 9,000 acres allowing 45,000 more homes and businesses over the next 50 years.  At a 2% growth rate Fresno/Clovis (They are growi...

Would a 50 year mortgage make housing more affordable?  If the building code allowed it, would home buyers choose a 3 bedroom one bathroom house, with a carport, a wall heater and evaporative cooling.  No fire sprinklers.  Nominal insulation and priced at under $180,000 on a  6,000 square foot lot?  Newsom claims that California is the at the forefront of the damage caused by climate change as evi...

If you don't vote don't complain about bad governance.  Less than 30% of registered Republicans voted on election day in California.  A 75% turnout would have flipped the passage of Proposition 50.  The list of government failures resulting in the loss of over 8,000 homes in the Palisades fire continues to grow.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Sid...

What percentage of registered Republicans will vote in this special election.? If we turned out 90% of registered Republican voters in California we would defeat proposition 50.  My guess is we will be lucky to see a 55% Republican turnout.  Conservatives need to prove me wrong.   We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Crime in San Francisco isn't really crime.  It is just some social issues, drug addiction, mental illness, petty theft and homeless people just being themselves.  Several Supreme Court cases are coming soon.  Who did the "No Kings" protestors attract to the Democrat party?   We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

One of the primary duties of government is to help prevent and fight fires.  The more we know about the Los Angeles fires which caused the loss of more than 12,000 homes the more we realize how inept the entire Los Angeles DEI leadership was and is.  Fresno Land in a story this week also exposed how the US Forest Service refused to allow a controlled burn last year which would have prevented the t...

What does living in a communist nation look like?  Can conservatives in the valley change the outcome of the "special election" in November.  Is there a solution to homelessness?  What legislation has passed in California this year and how will it effect you?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

What does a government shut down mean for Real Estate?  Did the Democrats "step" in it.  Can Doge cuts now be made permanent?  Is it fair to ask a general in the military to be physically fit?  Do we need dudes in dresses in our military?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate

Comey gets charged for the least of his crimes.  Newsom signs bills allowing drilling in Kern County and breaking all local control over apartments being built in California cities.  Interest rates remain in the low 6's.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Jimmy Kimmel was suspended because of a lack of audience and poor judgement.  Good riddance.  The left doubles down on the rising sea level claim after a Dutch study of 150,000 locations around the world over a 125 year period reveals that there is no increase in the gradual rise of the seas.  There are now more than 400 bills on Newsom's desk.  Which ones will he sign?  We discuss all of this and...

These are my thoughts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.  This is not a time to hate.  This is a time to heal. This is a time to be strong.  A time fight back against the evil overtaking our world.  I hope you listen and share your thoughts with me about this.

This week's Real Talk was recorded before the assassination Charlie Kirk.  One of Charlie's last appearances before his death was in Visalia.  The protestors outside called Charlie a pedophile for believing in the sanctity of human life.  Charlie joked that we need better protestors in Visalia.  Charlie was an unwavering champion of human life both born and unborn.    

The Trump administration has cut over $400 million in Federal funding from the Morro Bay Condor Cuisanart wind farm hopefully putting this ill conceived project to death before it starts.  California's "agricultural equity" advisors make plans to give state land to minorities to create more minority farmers in the state.  Newsome and the left claim that Trump's plan is to have ICE and the National...

Trump proposes partial Federal Ownership of companies given Federal grants.  The High Speed Choo Train to nowhere has a new plan and still no money.  Forget Los Angeles to San Francisco.  Let's go from Palmdale to Gilroy!  More high ranking Leftists are being charged with mortgage fraud for claiming two principal residences.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is...

Cleaning up Washington DC.  Both the swamp and the city itself.  Why does the left hate the idea of safe cities?  Will interest rates on mortgage go lower now that the Feds have signaled an upcoming rate cut?  Will Newsom really stop the adoption of new building codes to allow LA to rebuild?  Hint, he hasn't stopped them yet and LA is not rebuilding.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's...

"Experts" at UC Riverside have proven once again that legless spiders are deaf.  You may have been under the misunderstanding that residential real estate prices were stabilizing and inventory was increasing in the San Joaquin Valley because of high home prices and high interest rates.  This is so wrong according to the "Experts".  The change in the market has actually been caused by subsidence fr...

The Trump Administration is trying to stop the leasing of Federal "lands" to build massive wind farms.  This includes the largest wind farm project ever approved in the United States off the California coast near Morro Bay.  The project includes 300 one thousand foot tall "Condor Cuisanart" towers.  The area of the Pacific Ocean leased is the size of the city of Los Angeles. Each tower must be anc...