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In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Mark Twain, who tells us what the two most important days of your life are.   In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week" segment, we have three contenders:   A Proposal to give convicted felons $3,000 of taxpayer money on the day they are released from prison   A City that has classified Social Media as an "Environmenta...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from author C. S. Lewis regarding the most cowardly thing ordinary people routinely do  In a story you didn't hear about on the news, we'll tell you about a sheriff who accepted $90,000 in bribes in exchange for issuing more than a dozen concealed weapon carry permits and ask why that story never made the national news.  In another story...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Thomas Sowell on how well-intentioned visions of a better world can become nightmares by those impacted by the misguided efforts to achieve that future Utopian state.  In a new segment called "The biggest lie of the week," we'll tell you how the media incorrectly claimed that Texas National Guardsmen prevented Customs & Bo...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Winston Churchill, who sums up what it takes to be successful in politics.  In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week" segment, we'll play a brief clip from the Joe Pags show where he lists some of the ridiculous & wasteful things the government is spending money on.  We'll tell you how many cars were stolen and...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is by Mark Twain regarding what can be learned from the second kick of a mule.  In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we'll tell you about a burglar who decided that calling for an Uber ride was the best way to make his getaway from a crime scene.   We'll tell you about two sets of twins born this past weekend, where each...

In this week's episode, our quote of the week is from Winston Churchill regarding the problem with pure Democracies.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll tell you how the city of Denver is solving its homeless problem by making people in a neighboring town homeless instead.  Our stupidest thing I've heard all week, runner-up, is a story about how someone tried to smug...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from economist Thomas Sowell on how many people today view the success of others as a grievance instead of something to be admired and emulated.  We'll tell you which Japanese electronics giant has been delisted from Japan's Stock exchange and will most likely go out of business. If you are over 30, the chances are excellent that you hav...

In this week's episode, our quote is by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton on the power of the customer.  We'll tell you about an incredible coincidence during the Mega-Millions drawing on December 8.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we have three contenders;  The first is a woman who brings her loaded handgun with her into an MRI machine  The second is the head of a women's o...

In this week's episode, our quote of the week is by President Harry S. Truman on how he felt about politicians getting rich while in office.  In our first related story, we'll tell you how gold bars given to a current US Senator as a bribe were traced back to the businessman who gave them to him.  In our second related story, we'll play a clip from Congressman James Comer detailing wha...

In this week's podcast, we have two related quotes of the week (one by Albert Einstein), both dealing with the necessity of combating evil in this world.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll tell you how the Colorado State legislature has managed to socialize tax refunds.  We'll read a highly provocative & controversial Op-Ed piece by a Spanish writer who claims t...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from the late Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes fame on the paradox of living to an old age.   In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we have two entries: The first is how New York City police described the circumstances of the death of a man found with no head or arms.   The second is about the State of California suspending the concealed weap...

In this week's episode, our quote of the week is from playwright George Bernard Shaw on why some knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.  In our most ironic story of the week, we'll tell you which national labor union is the target of a strike by its rank-and-file employees who are seeking higher wages & better benefits. In a follow-up to our story about how many times homicide sus...

In this week's podcast, our quote is from the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius on why the opinion of 10,000 men can be worthless and how that observation still holds today. We'll tell you how bad retail theft losses have gotten and how much those thefts cost law-abiding consumers each year. We'll tell you how fast the fastest male runner finished the New York City Marathon this past weeke...

This week's podcast will tell you when Daylight Savings Time started in the US and why. This week's quote is from the Mash character Dr. Hawkeye Pierce (played by Alan Alda) on the difference between war and hell.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we have two contenders: The first is a decision by the Oregon State Department of Education to award high school diplomas to all...

In this week's episode, our quote of the week is from Napoleon Bonaparte on whether or not stupidity is a handicap  We'll revisit a topic from 4 months ago and give you an update on how the rise in interest rates is blowing a massive hole in the Federal budget.  We'll tell you how a 25-year-old Israel woman single-handedly killed 5 Hamas terrorists and helped civilians in a Kibbutz def...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Judge Jeanine Pirro on whether or not the genitals you were born with define your gender.  In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week segment," we'll tell you what the government sold for pennies on the dollar less than 60 days ago that they are now spending tens of millions of your tax dollars to replace this month.  We&...

In this week's episode, our quote is regarding whether you can ever expect to hear the truth about them from a narcissist.   In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week" segment, we'll tell you the excuse Congressman Jamal Bowman (D-NY) used for pulling the fire alarm in the Capitol Building this past Saturday just as the vote on the bill to avoid a government shutdown was ab...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from the late H.L. Mencken on what motivation is usually behind those who advocate changes they claim are necessary to "Save humanity."  We will play a clip from the speech President Biden gave to the UN General Assembly last week and ask if you can understand what he was saying. We couldn't, nor could the 36 UN translators whose j...

In this week's episode, our quote of the day describes the difference between conformity and morality and why the two can be diametrically opposed.  We'll tell you who the biggest winners of the auto workers' strike will be if they get all or most of what they demand. Hint: It won't be the UAW members.   With Oktoberfest celebrations already starting in parts of Europe, we'll c...

In this week's episode, our quote is from Aldous Huxley, the British author of the novel "Brave New World" regarding his view of the average person's intelligence.  We'll tell you what's in President Biden's 2024 budget proposal and how much that budget would add to this country's national debt over the next ten years if adopted.  In our "Stupidest thing I&#3...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from George Orwell's book 1984 about how the truth can fade into the mist and be replaced by often repeated and accepted lies.  We'll share with you some startling FBI homicide data broken down by race and tell you what members of which racial group are 5X more likely to become murder victims than members of any other racial demographic....

This week's quote is from philosopher Fredrick Hegel on what we do and don't learn from history.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll tell you which state-run university system offers discounted in-state tuition to illegal aliens.  Since we are in the midst of county fair season, we'll tell you when & how county fairs got their start and why they traditionally...

In this week's podcast, our quote is by entrepreneur Paul Graham, who gives advice on choosing a profession that you are almost guaranteed to be good at and will enjoy doing. Great advice for your kids if you have any that will enter the workforce in the coming years.  In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week" segment, I'll explain why you can't become a foster parent...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is actually two related quotes, one by Ulysses S Grant and the other by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, on the importance of taking pride in the work you do.  In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, I'll tell you about a college professor who is teaching a class based on the premise that being black in America should qualify yo...

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Winston Churchill, who describes the biggest respective problems with Capitalism & Socialism.   In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we have two contenders:  One is a claim by some people that states who will not accept just a college ID as proof of official & legal residency for the purposes of registering to vot...