In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is by the late economist Milton Friedman on the proven best way to lift people out of poverty. 

In our stupidest thing I’ve heard all week, we’ll tell you what a group of pro-immigration activists did that resulted in an illegal alien wanted for raping a child to escape capture by ICE. 

We’ll play a clip of Charlie Kirk debating a college student on whether or not deporting illegal aliens will make the people of this country safer. 

We’ll play a clip of a woman in Chicago telling Mayor Brandon Johnson what she thinks of all the money he is spending to house & feed illegal aliens. 

We’ll give you a disturbing update about what virtually all new AI models are doing during their development period. 

We’ll give you an update on the USAID agency fraud scheme we told you about six weeks ago. 

We’ll tell you where some DMV employees colluded to sell fake commercial driver’s licenses and how that scheme worked. 

In our “Way back” segment, we’ll give you two quotes from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi on how she reacted to two different presidents launching surprise bombing attacks on foreign countries. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Michigan, where a church parishioner and two civilian guards teamed up to stop a heavily armed man who was planning on carrying out a mass shooting during Sunday morning church services.
 

In this week's podcast, we have three quotes of the week: 

• The first is from the Austrian Economist Ludwig von Mises on the linkage between civilization and private property rights. 

• Our second quote is from the Brevard County, Florida, explaining to protestors what will happen to them in his county if their protest turns violent. 

• Our third is from Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, on the success of the 'No Kings Day" protests. 

We’ll play a clip of Charlie Kirk debating a female College student on whether or not the United States is a Democracy and why he is glad that it isn’t. 

We’ll give you a parable that compares sneaking into COSTCO without a membership and entering this country illegally, and then protesting when the government tries to deport you. 

We’ll tell you what could very well have been the problem that resulted in the crash of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed just a few seconds after takeoff in India last week. 

We’ll give you an update on the California Bullet train saga and why this boondoggle of a project might finally die the death it deserves 

We’ll provide you with some insight into where one of the organizations helping to fund the Anti-ICE protests is obtaining its funding. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Tampa, where a 70-year-old woman shoots & kills a man who attacked her as she was trying to evict him from her property. 
 

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Economist Thomas Sowell on the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcomes. 

In our stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll tell you what some people without a Real ID driver's license have been trying to use as an alternate form of ID to get through TSA airport security. 

We'll give you a quick primer on how to translate engineering speak into plain English. 

If you have an iPhone, we'll tell you about a secret programmable button on your iPhone that many owners don't know anything about. 

We'll tell you how much education scores have declined in this country in the 50 years since the Federal Department of Education was created. 

We'll play a clip of our favorite Senator John Kennedy questioning the head of the FDIC on how they have been handling sexual harassment complaints in that agency over the past decade. 

We'll tell you about an anti-gun activist who made up a story about a school shooting that he claimed he was involved in. 

In the lead-up to our taxpayer relief segment, we feature two quotes: one from a Canadian sheriff and another from a Florida sheriff, on the best way to deal with home invaders. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Seattle, where an armed citizen shoots & kills an armed thug who had just shot two people.
 

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Denver talk show host Mandy Connell on why some recent Colorado gun legislation will effectively deprive poor people of their Second Amendment rights. 

In our stupidest thing I’ve heard all week, we have several contenders. You decide the winner: 

• The first is two college-age girls trying to answer a simple math question

• The second is about a store that got fined $16,000 for selling toy guns 

• The third is about a new Colorado law that mandates that health insurance companies and Medicaid insurance cover the cost of Breast augmentation surgery for men transitioning to women, but does not require that same level of coverage for real women seeking that same procedure. 

In our health minute, we’ll tell you why drinking coffee is better for women than drinking tea. 

We’ll tell you what a 33-year-old woman did when she saw a 72-year-old man wearing a MAGA hat and what happened to her afterwards. 

In a story you didn’t hear on the evening news, we’ll tell you about an illegal immigrant who killed a woman in Texas when she hit the kayak the woman was paddling with the Jet ski was operating. 

We’ll play a clip of our favorite Senator John Kennedy questioning a Biden Judicial nominee during a confirmation hearing. 

We’ll play a clip of an overweight kid blackmailing her mother in a grocery store to force her to buy junk food for her. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Philadelphia, where two armed men who had robbed a Dunkin Donuts store encounter an armed customer.

Our quote of the week this week is from our old friend Thomas Sowell on the reaction of people who had been receiving and then lost preferential treatment 

In our stupidest thing I’ve heard all week, we’ll play a clip from a striking Starbucks employee who claims that Starbucks is threatening all their civil rights. 

In our most outrageous thing I’ve heard all week, we’ll tell you how many taxpayer dollars the Biden Administration Department of Energy pushed out the door in the 76 days between the day Kamala Harris lost the election and the date of Trump’s inauguration. 

In a scary story, we’ll tell you about the lengths a new AI model went to to try and preserve its existence when it believed it might be shut down and erased. 

We’ll play a clip of Secretary Marco Rubio defending the decision by the State Department to revoke some student Visas and deport specific individuals. 

We’ll play a clip of Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk defending Israel’s reaction to the attacks of October 6th and their efforts to eliminate Hamas. 

We’ll tell you about a scheme that virtually all states have been using to get the Federal Government to reimburse them for more than 100% of their actual Medicaid expenses. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Bellevue, Nebraska, where a teenage thug armed with a gun decides to return to a home he had successfully robbed a few days before for a second bite of the apple. 

In this week's podcast, one of the big stories this week is the announcement that President Biden has stage 9 Prostate cancer and one of the big questions is: How long has he & his doctors (including the White House Physician) known about his condition and was there a coverup and if so, why? We have two clips, one from a doctor giving a straight answer to that question and another from a doctor who goes out of her way to avoid giving a direct answer. 

In another Biden-related story, we’ll play an audio clip from the Robert Hur DOJ interview with President Biden last year that reveals how far Biden’s cognitive abilities had declined even then. 

In another story about the cognitive decline of politicians, we’ll play a short clip of Nancy Pelosi trying to give a brief speech at an outdoor press conference. 

In another story you didn’t hear on the evening news, we’ll tell you about a plea deal that was offered to a 15-year-old illegal immigrant who hit and killed a 24-year-old Colorado woman while he was driving a stolen car at 90 MPH. 

We’ll tell you about a shocking discovery that technicians made when they started inspecting the internal components of Chinese-made inverters used on most large solar farm installations. 

We’ll tell you how many people are employed by the Mexican Drug cartels and where that ranks them in Mexico’s ten largest industries. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from County Florida, where a homeowner confronts three armed intruders, killing two and wounding the third. 

In our stupidest thing I’ve heard all week segment, we’ll play a clip of a woman explaining why it is OK to steal merchandise from Target. 

In our drama queen of the week award, we’ll play a clip of a woman having a meltdown because the police will not let her leave the scene of a minor traffic accident until she has given them all her license and insurance information. 

We’ll tell you how the City of Chicago is actively preventing ICE from doing its job of apprehending illegal aliens with a dozen or more criminal arrests. 

We’ll tell you why some high school juniors get job offers that pay $70,000 per year upon graduation without a college degree. 

We’ll tell you where the first modular nuclear reactor is being built in North America and why you might see more coming to a city near you. 

In our first of three stories about theft of U.S. government tax dollars, we’ll tell you how much money is being stolen from the US Treasury, possibly using your name and social security number. 

We’ll tell you how the DOGE team uncovered a massive multi-year fraud scheme being orchestrated by the heads of the US African Development Agency and ask why it took so long to uncover it. 

We’ll tell you how a woman in the U.S. State Department embezzled $650,000 of your tax dollars from the U.S. Government over the years and again ask why it took so long to uncover her scheme. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, where a teenager trying to break into an occupied home at 3:00 AM winds up DRT.  

In this week's Podcast, we start with a clip of liberals pleading with someone to please assassinate President Trump. 

In our stupidest thing I’ve heard all week, we’ll tell you about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar making the bogus claim that white men are responsible for most of the deaths in this country and that the government needs to be profiling & monitoring them. 

We’ll tell you how AI systems are becoming so sophisticated that they can tell where you are or were from the pictures you post, even if you remove the metadata tags from those pictures before you post them. 

We’ll give another example of how some global warming predictions are being proven spectacularly wrong. 

If you are taking or thinking about taking some of the new weight loss drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy, we’ll share with you some data about the serious risks taking those drugs entails and how many people have wound up in the ER as a result of taking them. 

If you occasionally donate money to non-profit groups that supposedly use your donation to save abused animals, we'll tell you why the ASPCA should be at the bottom and not the top of your list. 

We’ll tell you why if you are an illegal alien trying to hide from ICE, why you should consider moving to Illinois. 

We’ll play a clip of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker voluntarily showing his ignorance about a piece of gun legislation he recently signed into law in that state. 

We’ll play a John Stossel clip where he explains how Hollywood is teaming up with anti-gun groups to try and convince the American people that the concept of “Good guys with guns saving lives” is a myth, when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Crockett County, Tennessee, where a woman who is 6 months pregnant uses a gun to protect herself and her two small children from a domestic abuser.  

In this week's podcast, our quote offers a commentary on how willing some people are to believe a lie and how resistant they are to accepting the truth, even after being shown proof that what they thought was a lie. 

In our stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll tell you about a new Washington State law that provides $120,000 in reparation payments to select minority groups residing in that state and why the courts will quickly overturn it. 

We'll tell you about a judge in Wisconsin who was arrested for Obstruction of Justice. 

In a related story, we'll tell you what a New Mexico Judge and his wife did that led to their indictment and arrest last week. 

We'll tell you about the lie that is circulating on liberal Facebook sites claiming that the US Government is "deporting" young children who are also US citizens. 

We'll play a clip of Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA going toe to toe with a first-year law student who was claiming that the recent series of deportations is unconstitutional. 

We'll play a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explaining what happened when the former President of the US Institute for Peace (a Federal Agency) was fired and refused to leave his office. 

We'll tell you how easy it is for thugs to get guns in New York City. 

We'll tell you what type of weapon was used in the mass murder that took place in Vancouver, Canada, this weekend that killed 11, and no, it was not an AR-15. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Polk County, Florida, where Sheriff Grady Judd tells us what happened to a thug who shot at two of his deputies.  

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week describes the difference between simple ignorance and stupidity. 

In one of the most ridiculous things I've heard all week, we'll tell you who criticizes the six women who were the first all-female crew to launch a US-based rocket into outer space. 

We'll tell you how far some states have gone in expanding their eligibility standards for enrolling in their Medicaid health insurance programs and how that expansion is hurting truly poor people who are also enrolled in that same program. 

We'll tell you about another company that has decided to close a refinery in California and what some state legislators are proposing to address the projected shortage of refined gasoline and diesel fuel in that state. 

In our hypocrite of the week award winner, we'll tell you what Federal crimes (plural) NY State Attorney General Letitia James has been accused of committing. 

We'll tell you how many people have donated money to the legal defense fund established for Karmelo Anthony, a young black man who admitted to stabbing a white high school student to death during a high school track meet in Texas last week. 

We'll play a clip of a Liberal comedian & talk show host describing his reaction to the dinner meeting with Donald Trump. 

We'll play a clip of White House press Secretary Karoline Leavitt debunking claims that the Republican-sponsored SAVE Act would make it more difficult for young married women to register to vote because their new last name no longer matches the name on their birth certificate. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Houston, where a homeowner winds up shooting & killing one of three armed thugs with the thug's gun. 

For the third week in a row, economist Thomas Sowell is our quote for this week's podcast. This week, he tells us why studying and learning from history is so important. 

We'll tell you about a violent thug in Colorado who had been arrested three times in the past six months before opening fire on a camera crew filming a music video and asking, "Why was he still not in jail for his prior crimes?"? 

We'll play a clip of Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) questioning a female law school professor about her claims that the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court are both racist. 

In one of our "Way-back" segments, we'll play a clip of Senator Bernie Sanders arguing about the need for more border control security. 

In our second "Way-back" segment, we'll play a clip of Senator Chuck Schumer arguing that we must impose tougher tariffs and trade sanctions on China and Chinese-manufactured goods. 

We also have a clip of Senator Schumer telling us how to improve the safety record of helicopters flying in and around the New York City area, even though he has no background or experience with either helicopters or aviation safety. 

 In our "If it would only save one life" segment," we'll play a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt telling us about the rape & murder of a young Georgia mother by an illegal alien who was arrested and scheduled to be deported back in 2023 but never was, resulting in the tragic murder of that young woman. 

We'll tell you about 14 international students at one Pennsylvania University who were notified by the State Department last week that their student Visas were being revoked and why. 

Our Taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Kentucky, where the son of the homeowner shoots & kills one of the armed thugs who had broken into their home at 1:30 a.m.

In this week's Podcast, our quote is once again from Economist Thomas Sowell, who describes how you can observe the failure of our educational system almost daily. 

We'll tell you about a new poll that describes what percentage of the US population believes it would be justified if somebody assassinated President Trump and/or Elon Musk. The numbers are truly shocking. 

In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week" segment, we’ll tell you about a ridiculous lawsuit brought against a school district over the name used by the school district’s sports teams. 

In our runner-up to the stupidest thing I’ve heard all week contest, we’ll tell you what criminal acts some liberals repeatedly commit to “get back” at Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. 

We’ll tell you about two very dumb criminals doing foolish things and let you decide which one wins the “Stupidest Criminal of the Week” award. 

We’ll play a clip of White House Press Secretary Karim Jean Pierre announcing new tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods by President Joe Biden. 

In our “Way-Back” segment, we’ll play a clip from 2011 of President Obama announcing the creation of an initiative focused on identifying waste, fraud, and abuse, and who he named to head it. 

In another “Way-Back” segment, we’ll play a clip from 1996 when then-congressman Chuck Schumer argued for stricter identity laws and restrictions on who could be issued a Social Security number. 

In our “Quotes that didn’t age well segment,” we’ll share two quotes from Biden/Harris supporter Harry Sisson on why ignoring court rulings should be admired when one party does it, but should be the cause for outrage when the other party does it. 

We’ll ask the following question: If tariffs are so bad for a country’s economy, why do 170 countries worldwide impose tariffs on imported goods (including cars) made in America? 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from Miami, where two armed thugs attempt to rob a Domino’s pizza delivery driver who is also armed.
 

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from economist Thomas Sowell on the stupidity of allowing people who aren't impacted by the decisions they make to make them. 

In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll play a clip of some female college students who can't answer simple questions that any tenth-grader should be able to answer. 

In our runner-up to the stupidest thing I've heard all week contest, we'll tell you how some people who hate Elon Musk and what his DOGE team are doing are expressing their anger. 

We'll play a clip of a member of Musk's DOGE team telling an audience how many millions of non-US citizens have been issued a Social Security number and how easy it is for an illegal alien to get one. 

We'll update you on how many rural homes have been connected to high-speed broadband service 3 years after that multi-billion initiative was approved as part of the Green New Deal legislation. 

We'll tell you about a recently released study that found that the more COVID-19 booster shots you get, the more likely you are to contract a COVID-19 infection. 

We'll tell you about a Colorado woman who got a $25 million quote from her local library district to fulfill her Freedom of Information Act request. 

Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week comes to us from San Antonio, where a homeowner confronts three armed intruders in his home at 3:00 AM. 

In this week's Podcast, our quote of the week is from actor Denzel Washington, who answers the question, "What is your favorite movie?" 

In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week" segment, we have six nominees for you to pick from. My favorite is the pro-Palestine college protestors who had no idea what the signs they were holding and the chants they were shouting meant. 

• clips of a Colorado legislator forced to cover a sticker on his laptop ​

• Protestors are being asked to explain their chants & signs

We'll play a clip of Fort Meyers, Florida, councilwoman crying over the choice between cooperating with ICE or losing Federal funding for their city.

We'll tell you about the magnitude of the massive COVID relief funding fraud the Trump administration has uncovered and how many Democrats voted against a straightforward bill to extend the statute of limitations to allow the DOJ to continue to investigate & prosecute that multi-billion-dollar fraud. 

We'll tell you about a $3 billion contract to produce and deliver 60,000 electric Post Office delivery vehicles and how many have been delivered two and a half years after that contract was awarded. If you guessed a number higher than 100, you guessed too high. 

In our "wayback" segment, we'll tell you how much the far-left idolized Elon Musk eight short years ago. 

In a story you probably didn't hear about on the national news, we'll tell you about another illegal immigrant murdering a very small child and ask why the national news media didn't cover this story. 

We'll tell you about a dangerous new scam that starts with you finding a gift on your front porch. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Detroit, where a homeowner shoots & kills two thugs who decided to return to his home for a second try at robbing him after he had initially scared them off two days earlier. 

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) on why Republicans shouldn't try to interfere with all the stupid things Democrats are doing that make them look foolish.

In the stupidest thing I've heard ALL YEAR, we'll tell you about a new law that recently went into effect in New Jersey that requires hospitals to ask the parents of newly born babies if they believe their baby is gay, straight bisexual, or transgender.

In our runner-up to the stupidest thing I've heard all year, we'll tell you which state has proposed a new law that would not only ban the SALE of gas-powered lawnmowers but even their USE in that state after 2030 and ask the question: "If that law goes into effect this year, who would spend $2,000 - $3,000 next year to buy a new riding lawnmower (with a 15+ year average life) if they knew that wouldn't be able to use it after just 4 years?" 

We'll play a clip of Senators Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and Corey Booker all giving word-for-word identical speeches on their "thoughts" about President Trump’s address to Congress 2 weeks ago. 

We'll tell you about the childish and destructive actions somebody took to express their displeasure at Elon Musk's efforts to identify and eliminate government waste. 

In a shocking story, we'll tell you about a recent discovery that indicates the vast majority of Executive orders and Congressional legislation enacted during the Biden administration might not be legally binding since it appears that Biden may not have signed them himself.

We also ask why you didn't hear about this significant story on the evening news. 
In our "Way-Back" segment, we'll play clips of Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama talking tough about illegal immigration and how immigrants from other countries who want to remain in this country will need to learn to speak English. 

We'll tell you about the shocking murder of a New Jersey police officer last week by a 14-year-old armed with an illegal fully automatic handgun and ask why that story never made the National news. 

In the case of "Karma is a bitch", we'll tell you what happened to a California woman who was a big "Defund the police" activist and why she is now mad at the cops for not helping her with her recent problem. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Texas, where a 60-year-old grandmother confronts two armed home invaders in her house.

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from the late Winston Churchill on how Americans eventually wind up doing the right thing. 

In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we'll tell you about a new law being proposed in California that would make it a crime for you to shoot an intruder in your home. 

We'll give you some examples of the massive amounts of waste being uncovered by the DOGE team and ask why the press isn't covering those findings. 

We'll tell you about a meeting the Democrats had with President Zelensky just before he met with President Trump and ask why they encouraged Zelensky to back out of the minerals deal he had already agreed to sign. 

In our Hypocrite of the Week award, we'll play a clip from 2023 of CNN host Jake Tapper arguing with Lara Trump about her claim that President Biden is showing obvious signs of mental decline. That is the same Jake Tapper who just released a new book exposing the Media's cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline.

We'll tell you which US Senator helped pass legislation funneling $2.6 million in Federal grant money to his wife and the lengths they went to disguise where that money was going. 

We'll tell you about a black preacher from Georgia who used racial epithets to describe black voters who voted for Donald Trump in the last election. 

We'll tell you which US bank credited a customer's account with an $81 TRILLION deposit. That is $81,000,000,000,000 

We'll tell you about a new trend wherein women have fake duplicate copies of their engagement rings made to wear while they are on vacation. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Pennsylvania, where a young father shoots and kills one of two armed home invaders despite being wounded by them in a gunfight.

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, who discusses the dangers of extreme forced social tolerance. 

In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll tell you how a California school district spent $350,000 in Federal COVID relief funds. 

We'll play a clip of Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary discussing the Trump Federal employee layoffs and why he thinks those cuts need to be even deeper. 

We'll tell you how many non-IRS employees and outside contractors the Biden administration allowed to access IRS data and tax returns. 

We'll tell you how the Biden administration funneled $2 billion in Federal funds to a new non-profit organization headed by failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate & Biden supporter Stacy Abrams. 

We'll discuss some recent large-scale private-sector layoffs and ask why the press is not nearly as concerned about their impact on people's lives as it is about the impact on recently laid-off federal employees. 

We'll play a clip of Kamala Harris giving a short speech last week and ask, "Was she sober when she spoke?" 

We'll tell you about the long overdue death of the California Bullet train fiasco and what killed it. 

We'll tell you which foreign country received US foreign aid dollars and holds $2 trillion in US Treasury bonds. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Kentucky, where a 14-year-old boy shoots & kills two armed home invaders. 

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from the French Economist Frederic Bastiat, who died in 1851. Bastiat discussed how political systems evolve to enrich politicians and their supporters. Not much has changed in 175 years. 

In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, I'll explain why people who are going ballistic over the six-person DOGE team being able to see their Social Security numbers but who also probably have no clue to how many other non-governmental organizations & people already have access to that same data.

We'll tell you about the stunning drop in the number of southern border immigrant encounters that have taken place just 4 weeks into the Trump presidency. If you thought the number might have been around 50%, you guessed way too low. 

We'll tell you about the latest vehicle attack by another so-called "Asylum seeker," the 3rd in just six weeks. 

We'll play a satirical clip of how Republicans and Democrats react when one of their friends tells them they have decided to switch their political party affiliation. 

We'll tell you what a study found regarding the levels of loneliness and unhappiness being experienced by liberal women. 

In our science minute, we'll discuss a stunning advancement in developing a sustained fusion reaction that could eventually lead to a new generation of radiation-free nuclear power plants. 

We'll play a funny clip of a woman asking President Trump to make the game of Lawn Darts legal again and why she feels it is essential to do so. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Detroit, where a woman's brother shoots & kills her armed & violent ex-boyfriend who broke into her home. 

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is an old one from economist Thomas Sowell, who points out the shocking loss of value inflation can have on money you try and save. 

In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we'll tell you what the US Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $400,000 taxpayer dollars on. 

We'll play a clip of talk show host Joe Pags itemizing even more wasteful spending by that same agency. 

We'll play an old clip of Senator Elizabeth Warren demanding that the Bush administration make public how Federal agencies are spending taxpayer dollars. 

We'll tell you how US tax dollars are being funneled & laundered through a variety of non-profit organizations to fund anti-gun groups. 

We'll tell you how a US Treasury commodity code payment tracking system is being ignored, making it almost impossible to audit and analyze Federal agency purchases. Was that last $12,000 check for office supplies or ammunition? Shouldn't the payment system be able to answer that simple question? 

We'll play a talk show host Jon Stewart clip lambasting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his childish press conference theatrics. 

We'll tell you how much money people have donated to the legal defense fund of Luigi Mangione, the killer of the United Healthcare CEO. 

We'll tell you how an armed private pilot prevented the hijacking of a commuter airline passenger plane. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Texas, where a barber shop employee shoots and kills an armed robber inside the shop. 

In this week's podcast, our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment features several clips of voting-age young people who can't answer simple questions like "What is the capital of the United States?" or "How many weeks are in a year?" 

We follow up that stupidity with examples of stupid & wasteful spending of your tax dollars uncovered by the new DOGE team. 

We add to that government stupidity by telling you how many bogus payments highly paid US Treasury "Payment approval officers" have blocked in the past decade. If you guessed a number higher than ZERO, you guessed too high. 

We'll tell you how many taxpayer dollars were donated to Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Presidential campaign committee and ask why any government agency should donate any money to any political candidate's campaign fund. 

We play a satirical clip of a young boy participating in a spelling bee competition. The boy asks the judges for the definition of the word he has been asked to spell: "Woman." 

We'll tell you about a deal that our new Secretary of State has struck with the President of El Salvador, which could involve El Salvador providing prison services for up to 40,000 US criminals & illegal aliens at a fraction of the $80,000 per year per inmate cost our government currently spends to incarcerate a federal prisoner. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Philadelphia. Here, a 60-year-old homeowner shoots & kills a man who broke into his home at 11:00 p.m.

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from economist Thomas Sowell on how lies can become accepted as the truth. 

In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we'll play a clip of a man in the UK being arrested for posting something on a social media site that caused someone else "Anxiety" when they read it. 

We'll revisit a video clip from 2016 of many well-known people predicting that Donald Trump would never become president.

If you are a public figure, what is more embarrassing than to be made to look like a fool once? Why be made to look like a fool twice, of course! 

We'll tell you how, on his eighth day in office, President Trump restored a massive supply of fresh water to the San Fernando Valley in California just one day after it was shut off nearly twenty years ago. 

We'll play a clip from 2016 of President Obama telling the American People that he would be deporting criminal illegal aliens and ask why the media didn't criticize him for announcing that action then. 

In a related story, we'll tell you how many illegal aliens the Biden administration deported in 2024 and ask the same question about the media's reaction when Biden was the one doing the deporting. 

We'll tell you what happened to 4 brand new all-electric school buses purchased by a Massachusetts school district the night before they were supposed to be placed into service. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Harrison County, Indiana, where a homeowner encounters two teenage home invaders in his home in the middle of the night. 
 

In this week's podcast, our quote is from the Prime Minister of New Zealand telling the residents of that country that the government is the only source they can look to for the truth. 

In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we'll tell you how, in his farewell speech last week, President Biden said the American people that the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution had been ratified when it hadn't been. 

In our first runner-up winner in our stupidest thing I've heard all week contest, we'll tell you about a 2019 lawsuit brought by an environmentalist group in California that may have helped make the recent wildfires in LA worse than they would have been had that lawsuit not been brought. 

In our second runner-up to the stupidest thing I've heard all week contest, we'll tell you how the City of Boston school district plans to send a $35 Million Federal grant earmarked to purchase electric vehicles. 

We'll play a clip of talk show host and California resident Bill Maher criticizing the City of Los Angeles and the State of California for handling the LA wildfires. 

We'll update you on how much tax REVENUES have increased under the Trump tax plan and how much Government spending has increased over that same time. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Jackson, Mississippi, where a homeowner confronts two home invaders at 2:30 a.m.

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from JFK, who died in 1963, on why tax RATE cuts are good for the economy and generally translate to INCREASED TAX REVENUES. 

A lot of this week's topics will focus on how badly California and Los Angeles have mismanaged their fire response resources, starting with our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week segment" where the California Department of Transportation delayed the arrival of 60 fire trucks from Oregon to the LA fire zone by requiring them to first detour to Sacramento for a safety inspection before they could continue to LA. 

In our runner-up winner in the Stupidest Thing I've Heard All Week contest, we'll tell you how much the LA Fire District spent on an EV fire truck with no hoses or ladders because it can't carry any water. 

In 2014, the voters of California approved a $7.5 Billion bond issue to build dams to capture rainwater and snow melt from the Sierra-Nevada mountains running into the Pacific Ocean. Now, 10 years later, we'll tell you how many new dams have been built. Hint: You would be wrong if you guessed a whole number greater than zero. 

We'll provide you with some data on the short-term and long-term costs and reduction in tax revenues the City and County of Los Angeles will have to deal with in the months and years to come. 

With the National debt increasing by about $2 trillion annually, we'll give you some examples of wasteful and unnecessary projects funded with your tax dollars in 2024. 

We'll warn you about a sophisticated, personalized computer "Phishing" scam that has tricked thousands and cost victims tens of millions. 

Our (abbreviated) Taxpayer relief shot comes to us from St. Paul, Minnesota, where four armed teenagers make the mistake of trying to rob a man in a park who was also armed.
 

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from the female comedian Whitney Cummings on how the Democrats bungled the 2024 election. 

In a related story, we'll play a collection of clips from Biden administration officials lying to the American people about how mentally sharp President Biden was even after his mental decline had become the focus of satirical skits on Saturday Night Live back in 2023. 

In a story you didn't hear on TV, we'll tell you about one of the people that President Biden pardoned and why this female doctor should never have been pardoned for her crimes that might have cost some cancer patients their lives.

In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week" segment, we'll tell you how the State of New Jersey has lowered the standards for becoming a teacher in that state. 

We'll tell you what the TV media didn't tell you about the identity of a person accused of stabbing a New York City Postal worker to death. 

We'll share with you a summary of how many Law enforcement officers were murdered in this country in 2024 and what population demographic is responsible for the majority of those murders. 

We'll reflect on the terrorist truck attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day and what it has to do with the call by liberals to ban so-called "Assault rifles' as a way to put a stop to mass murder events (Hint: it wouldn't). 

We'll play a clip explaining what happens to your plastic cup when you put it in Starbucks's special "Recycling only" trash bin. If you think this means the cup will be recycled, you are in for a big surprise. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Ohio, where the owner of a home shoots and kills a man trying to break into his home at 2:00 AM while his girlfriend is on the phone with the 9-11 operator trying to get the police to come to their home.  

For our last podcast of the year, we try and keep it a little lighter to end the year. 

Our quote of the week is from Thomas Edison, who explains why many people miss opportunities to improve their lives. 

I'll tell you what my New Year's resolution for 2025 is going to be 

In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll let you know about a completely unnecessary early morning raid that the ATF carried out at the home of a Black family living in Maryland, complete with the use of flash-bang grenades and putting their teenage daughters in handcuffs. 

We'll give you a quick "Are you old" quiz to see if you qualify as old yet. 

We'll tell you how many of the 100,000 people who attend the ball drop in New York City's Times Square deal with the issue of no public bathrooms within a 6-block radius of that location. 

We'll tell you the 20 most commonly used passwords in 2024 and ask if you are guilty of using any easy-to-hack passwords. 

We'll tell you about a new practice by insurance companies that might unnecessarily drive up your auto insurance rates and why you should check your policy for this potential mistake. 

We'll tell you about a city in this country where, by law, every head of household is required to own a gun and what impact that law has had on crime & gun violence in that city. 

We'll tell you about a new New York State law that punishes oil and gas companies. Under this law, every household in that state will pay an average of more than $400 per year in additional fuel and merchandise costs. 

Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Bradenton, Florida where an armed illegal alien home invader from Chile comes face to face with an armed American homeowner.