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0:00This is Saving America with your host, Dr. David D. Schein, presenting the intersection of business and politics. Enjoy common sense commentary and interviews with some of the world's most interesting people. Now here's your host, Dr. David D. Schein. Welcome to Saving America. This is your host, Dr. David D. Schein. As usually we have hot stories from all over the world. National debt totes $39 trillion. When I wrote my book released in 2018, The Climb of America, one of my two motivations was the National debt. Sadly, the National debt has continued to surge upward. While Trump is talking about cutting government, the numbers are not supporting that claim. While the feds have reduced total employment, the reality is that the so-called one big beautiful bill that Trump

1:02bragged about is just as wasteful as any recent government action. The debt is increasing at a rate of get this, folks. $71,800 per second, according to the US Joint Economic Committee Republicans. As I explained before, if the US was not the US, we would be in the poor house nations group. The US has an amazing fan base around the world. If that fades, the outlook will not be positive. Further, this is a token number. The real national debt is over $100 trillion. Since the debt number does not include promise pensions for government employees and repayment of all of the social security and Medicare funds collected from taxpayers and then blown, not put into savings accounts for future payments. Speaking of the decline in America, terrorists under the guise of protesters invaded church. That's right, folks. These are not peaceful protesters. These are terrorists. Apparently, there were reports that a pastor at city's church in St. Paul, Minnesota, was also an acting director

2:07locally for ICE. But during the Sunday service, they invaded the church, terrorizing those who dared to worship that day. This is full-out criminal conduct. So far, only three so-called leaders have been arrested. They all should have been arrested. A couple interesting sidelines. First, former CNN fake news specialist on Lennon was there at this terrorist attack and a local magistrate is refused to allow an arrest warrant. In fairness, Lennon claims he was only there as reporter, not an invader. Just in, the feds have said that they will indict Lennon for his participation in this attack under the Klux Klan Act of May 1871. Hey, let's see how that plays out. Second reports are that Episcopal Bishop Craig Loyola of St. Paul refused to condemn this anti-American attack on the First Amendment rights of the people to worship in peace. How would this clown feel as his church was invaded during a service? This is unthinkable coming

3:10from a so-called man of God. This may have been a bit of a very human jealousy. Many old line churches have lost parishioners to these newer houses of worship. I'm a strong support of law and order. If the people in Minnesota do not want ice on the doorstep, there is an easy alternative. When the local police arrest them at legal criminal scumball simply turn them over to ice. Don't let the police and local courts set them free on the streets. The latest in the fake news is that a five year old was seized by ice as usual, not the real story. A criminally legal was traveling with the five year old. When stopped, he ran off and left the child to fend for themselves. Ice took custody of child of course. After the illegal was arrested, they united the two. So yes, the child is in ice custody, but with the reported father. I don't think this guy will get father of the year nominations. As we were getting ready to go on this show, sadly another person in Minneapolis

4:13was shot dead by ice. The facts are still coming in, but again, this is a much simpler situation. If there is a law enforcement procedure going on, do not run over there and wave things in the face of the officers. They may have mistaken a camera for a gun. More to come on that I'm sure, but again, not in any way for giving sloppy police work or shooting a civilian, but civilians should not be in the situation they were in. Elections have consequences. Virginia is my adopted home state. I stopped a lot of family in the state. Glenn Yonkin just concluded a very successful term there. In Virginia, governors cannot succeed themselves. I support that limit. I was shocked on a terrific black female and military vet when some serious, Yonkin's lieutenant governor was not elected to replace him. This was a grievous error on the part of the voters of Virginia. I believe what

5:17this jerk's fan burger has already done a few weeks. This will be a horrible term for the people of Virginia. The mantra from the late 2025 elections was that the GOP candidates were killed on the issue of affordability. Well, let's look at that. First, New York City had a terrible former dem governor pretending to be an independent. A GOP candidate with less than 10% support in deep blue New York City and a new face admittedly, an ugly new face of the dirty commie. The crazed electric may have been swayed by promises of freebies and rent control. I predict less housing will be available and the cost will continue to skyrocket for those who actually pay taxes in New York City. In New Jersey, another blue voting state, you had a solid but unexciting GOP candidate against a typical dem. It might have been a flip, but many GOP stayed home. Poor choice, you voters. In Virginia, again, the GOP voters stayed home. It makes no sense to me, but they may have

6:18been swayed by the false rhetoric that Trump did not deliver on economic promises. Here's the deal. The Biden Harris failed administration delivered the worst inflation since Jimmy Cardiff's failed administration of the late 1970s. One item that I tracked went from around $4 to $6. The price is not going back to $4. Get over it. I have found it recently for $5.50. That is the new post-biting stable price has cost increase. It will likely go up more slowly from there. Trump promised a big price rollback. Typical a Trump, this is not going to happen. Hey, don't promise what you cannot deliver and people won't be disappointed. The increase in supply has cut gas and oil prices substantially. That will have an impact on prices, but more moderation of future increases of other products. As promised, inflation has been reasonable and economic gross, and the third quarter was a strong 4.4%. Getting back to Virginia, the new tax changes by Spanberger and Acronis will create

7:22record high taxes for the state. In fact, it states taxes if all the proposed increases are implemented. Could make Virginia higher than California state taxes, something not to be envied. In New Jersey, a state struggling with high energy costs, I predict those costs will continue to skyrocket. The failures of these recently elected dams will hopefully be well documented by October of this year in time for the 2026 elections. You can fool some of the people some of the time. And speaking of failed dams, Gavin Newsom's run for the roses. The Kentucky Derby is the most famous race in horse racing. If pretty boy no sense was the racehorse, he would be the horse who gets lots of bending action, but does not get close to the front of the pack and the actual derby race. For some reason, this abject failure is leading the pack on the dim side of the 2028 presidential run. Beautiful California, a state I used to like to visit as a mess.

8:23Governor since 2019, no sense in its fellow dims have only themselves to blame. Lighted cities, high taxes, the ruinous LA fires, record high food and energy prices, trans procedures on miners and Medicaid for illegals. Incredibly, he may have less to run on than Kamala Harris in 2024. I predict if this wasted space as the dem candidate, he will lose like my governor did in 1972, losing to a flawed Richard Nixon by a massive percentage. And speaking of lousy presidents, Clinton's refused to testify before Congress. Bill the bomb in Hillary, the deranged refused subpoenas to testify before Congress in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. I vividly recall Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro going to jail for months for refusing congressional subpoenas. In my opinion, they were invoking presidential privilege, which was at least plausible. In the case of the Clintons, they do not have even that defense,

9:24as this is unrelated to their political positions. Many say, oh, Trump's people are just trying to hide his own Epstein involvement. I've seen a lot of photos, folks. I have track pieces of serious and sad case. I see Bill in compromising poses with the young girls. The woman who was supposedly photographed with Trump stated unequivocally that he was not a predator. Unless their case is that the photos were created by AI, I think Bill has a problem and Trump does not. Not sure on the angle on Hillary that refusal testify rates his serious issues regarding attempts at a continuing cover up. No one is above the law. All rise. We're going to take a short break, but don't go anywhere when we return with saving America. We're going to be hanging out with a three author panel who've written a great new book called Slacking and Hi-To. How not to do an Ivy League education. The future is threatened by enemies often underlenting, unexpected and unpredictable,

10:34in the midst of an uncertain and evolving world. The need for Marines to defeat these shifting threats is critical. Because the need to ensure stability for our nation has never been greater. When there are battles to win for America's future, there is one constant. Marines. Thanks for coming back. We've got our authors Adam Kissle, Madison Marine Don, and Rachel Alexander Combe, three great authors who put together a thoughtful book called Slacking and Analysis of the Current Status of the Ivy League. Our series interviews for saving

11:37America establishes that the world is full of interesting people. Once you hear from our panel, I'm sure that you will agree they each deserve a moniker of interesting persons. Saving America welcomes Adam Kissle, Madison Marine Don, and Rachel Alexander Combe. Adam Kissle is visiting lecture and formal organizations at Trinity College, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a board member of the National Association of Scholars. He also serves on the America's 250th and Advisory Council on Civic History and America's Future. It's a master's from the University of Chicago, a bachelor's in English and American literature and language from Harvard. He served in the first Trump administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs with the United States Department of Education. Madison Marine Don is the policy analyst in the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. Her work focuses on higher education reform regarding affordability and accountability. She also writes on K-12 education choice initiatives. Don is also a visiting fellow with the

12:39Maryland Family Institute, where she writes and comments on issues related to education choice, parental rights, and local education. Previously, she served in multiple roles for US Congressman Brian Babin, Texas 36, most frequently as legislative correspondent, where she manages portfolio on religious freedom and values. Her work has been featured in Fox News, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, the Daily Signal, and the Educational Freedom Institute, among others. She graduated summa cum laude from Lamar University with double major in economics and finance, has certificate in humanizing education policy from the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Rachel Alexander-Conn teaches at Louisiana State University, Franciscan missionaries of our later university and Secretary of Classical Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, teaches remotely for Belmont Army Colleges Online Masters in Classical Liberal Education. She earned a PhD in Masters in Political Science from Baylor University and her BA from Washington and Lee University.

13:42Our three guests are here today because their co-authors of the new book, Slacking Guide to Ivy League Mis-Education. Well, and it does bleed over. As I mentioned, I did start at Penn, but I attended to other universities. I have two graduate degrees in University of Virginia. The environment that I experienced in Virginia was a more stayed and conservative environment. I got my MBA, and we traditionally associate business schools with not-walkness, with conservatism, and doing the hard stuff, the Econ Finance Accounting. But it's interesting because in interacting, I've now been a full-time faculty member in business for about 17 years at several different colleges, and I find that my colleagues who are teaching in business do not come from the same political center, if you will, that I do. So it's even bleeding into business courses and things like that.

14:51But it's interesting because I finished my doctorate at Virginia in 2005, but apparently things changed after I left Virginia. And again, Virginia is not an Ivy, but it's one of the three or four top-rated public universities, all along with Michigan, and you Berkeley. And it's interesting because the Department of Education and the DOJ and a few other people started stomping on Virginia. Unlike some of the IVs that had a big fight, Virginia's president resigned early. You may have seen that after 10 years of largely moving the school in a non-traditional direction for the University of Virginia. And so it's kind of interesting to see that, but also that shortly after Jim Ryan resigned, they settled the two cases against the University of Virginia for some of this, the DEI, CRT, I'll just use those two acronyms that seemed to have been impacting a lot of higher

15:55ed across the board. University of Virginia is an interesting case. I remember when Jim Ryan himself interviewed the author of the 1619 project, the revisionist project about American history, in the Rotunda, Jefferson's own Rotunda and library at the university, and President Ryan knew what he was doing. He claimed, I think he didn't, but he knew what he was doing when he had her in and personally interviewed her. And I think that's a sign of how far to the left, the University of Virginia had gone. But I think happens in business schools is partly that the successful capitalism-loving business leaders and entrepreneurs stay in their entrepreneurship and their business endeavors. The ones who are Keynesian or Post-Keynesian come back to the business schools to teach. That's not 100%, but I think that's probably the pattern. And then they say, oh, environmental social governance teaching, that sounds good to us. Corporate stakeholder instead of shareholder

16:57relations, that sounds good to us. And the university prohose says, yes, yes, that sounds right to me too. And it gets farther and farther left even in the business schools. Yeah, it's fascinating path. Well, what can people say? I mean, are we seeing this in the sciences also? Because we've been talking generally, we've mentioned a lot of what are obviously social science courses or substitutes for English courses. But what about chemistry, biology, that kind of stuff? In our research, this STEM courses spared much, much better. So for the most part, we saw that the majority of the courses offered to fulfill science or quantitative reasoning requirements were legitimate science and math and economics and engineering courses. But we did see some of this lacking character creeping into the science courses. So at Yale, you can take to fulfill your science requirement a course titled Asian Americans and STEM. And it's not really a science course.

17:59It's a course on the history of Asian Americans and their relationship with STEM fields. Similarly, there's a course at Yale, I think it's still at Yale, that you can take to that's on vaccine attitudes. And there's one on HIV and AIDS, but not the actual science of the disease, but on the history and like cultural and political history of the disease. So we did see a few of those types of courses creeping into the requirements. For the most part, they are rigorous. I think Columbia still has physics for poets as a course. And the only really slacker course at Cornell in the sciences is one where you watch Disney movies about animals and then pretend you're one of the animals and compare yourself to real animals. And that's how you learn some biology. But all the rest of Cornell is pretty solid. Well, it sounds like I did want to digress just a minute to all on the same lines though, is we've been hearing a lot about medical school education heading in the same weird direction,

19:04where I believe that one of the newer medical schools, Texas is one of a few states that's as open to three medical schools over the last 20 years. And of course, there's a huge shortage of medical school slots. And reportedly, the dean of one of these medical schools said, well, we don't need any white students, you know, we're in business to create more minority doctors. And I'm certainly a fan of creating a diverse medical community. But I thought that that type of statement was something that kind of fit with the slacking situation that we're facing in the we've been largely talking about undergraduate education. I'll just say that so I don't know that much about medical education from a course perspective. But if you're not learning what you need to do to be a doctor, you're in trouble. So what concerns me are lower admission standards and then lower standards for getting out. But things have gotten so bad from as you say, a wokeness perspective in the medical schools that a whole new non-profit has grown

20:07up called do no harm, which exists to expose and help reform medical schools and medical education. And they find lots of outrageous, such as what you mentioned in terms of racial admissions, but also equity projects around the topic of say what they call social determinants of health, by which they mean we look at racial disparities and outcomes. And we say it must be because of a racist society. Therefore our doctors need to learn how to be anti-racist, which is almost nothing to do with actually being a good doctor. Yeah, it's a tough path. And of course it influences a lot of what we're talking about here that's influencing the undergraduate thing. We've got a few minutes left. I'd like to give each of you a chance to kind of summarize a little bit or you know, pitch a particular thing that you think parents and students should think about is select colleges and select courses. Yeah, thank you for having us again, David. I think my biggest takeaway from this project would be that parents, students, Americans should pay a lot less

21:14attention to prestige and the history and reputations of universities, not just the IVs, but other highly-ranked universities. The reputation doesn't always line up with what's now being offered. So it's very tempting to go for the most prestigious school you can get into, but that's not really going to help you in the long run if it just leaves you with a lot of debt and not much education. Madison. Thank you, David. And thank you so much for having us on. Yes, I think, you know, as we're nearing 2026 and we're celebrating the 250th anniversary of America now is definitely an important time for families and parents to encourage their families and encourage their own children to take a closer look and to learning more about America's founding and just having an education that is a classical education and it's based on a lot of the things that the founders understood and knew. So this is just a very important time for us to be able to be thinking

22:17about that and I think our book will help a lot of families start to make a lot of those considerations. I would say something like 90 some percent of people who choose to go to college want to get a better job because of their college experience. Well, due to something like the artificial intelligence revolution, if you look a lot like a computer, you're not going to get a job. The computer is going to get that job. If you look like a human being and have those extra skills that you get from a classical education, now you might have the kind of career that you want. Choose your college wisely but choose your courses wisely and this is your chance. Grow as a person and become the kind of adult you need to be. And to wrap things up, how can our audience get more information about the three of you and about your co-authored book? Heritage.org is where you can find some info on me and encounterbooks.com is where you can find slacking but also once you get on the website, you might find a dozen other books from that imprint that also attract you. Sounds like a winner. Thank you all for being with us today. Please proceed. TikTok deal finally closes.

23:20Especially popular with the younger crowd, TikTok owned by CCP Control Bite Dance has been operating on the threat of being shut down due to CCP influence for over a year. Trump moved the congressional deadline back several times. The idea is that a change ownership will protect the users from massive invasions of privacy by the CCP and estimated 150 million Americans use TikTok. The deal orchestrated by the Trump administration means only a percentage of ownership of the US version of TikTok will change. Oracle computer systems, several like and a UAE fund will own 80.1% and bite dance currently the sole owner will have 19.9%. I've never been confident that this app could be safely used. Given the continued involvement of the CCP, I will still pass on participating in TikTok. US military out of the DEI purchasing business. Secretary of War Pete Hexf announced

24:20what he characterized as a DEI program has just been eliminated. This was a special program referred to as AAA. His announcement indicated that few outside of DC know about it. Well, I've known about it for many decades. The idea of the program was to help small and disadvantage read that minority owned businesses participate in defense contracts. As Hexf pointed out, the problem was that many of these AAA businesses became mere conduits to larger firms. They would take a piece of the action but were not doing the work. Supposedly, federal employees were supposed to audit this program to make sure this exact thing did not happen. Anyone want to put a kid in a federally subsidized small-aid daycare center in Minneapolis? Yeah, I support small businesses for sure but the program does not work as this one. Time to close the programs down. Murder rate in the US drops 20%. Guess what? Locking up criminals, requiring cash bail and arresting criminal illegals actually works. The 20% drop is the largest one-year drop

25:26in history. I know the left wants to claim that most illegals are really peace-loving and not criminals. The problem with this argument is that the stats don't lie. Many of the millions who walked over the border illegally in the US could not obtain legal access since they had criminal records. Once they saw the deplorable non-justice system in the US, they started on new crime-ridden rampages. Many were deliberately released from jails and mental hospitals in their home countries. Doubt me? See the list of crimes that these illegals have committed, including the recent rape of an 11-year-old girl at ninth point in front of her 10-year-old sister and a double murder by another illegal. Yes, citizens commit crimes but we don't need to import criminals to make it worse. Health and Human Services announces updated food pyramid. The HHS announced its updated food pyramid about the same time it released its new recommended reduced number of vaccines for children. That controversial announcement may have prevented full attention for the new food

26:30recommendations. I'm going to provide them below and then comment after that. According to HHS, the guidelines emphasize simple flexible guidance rooted in modern nutrition science. Priorities protein at every meal. Consume full fat dairy with no added sugars. Eat vegetables and fruits throughout the day, focusing on whole forms. Incorporate healthy fats from whole foods such as meat, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados. Focus on whole grains while sharply reducing refined carbohydrates. Limit highly processed foods added sugars in artificial additives. Eat the right amount for you based on age, sex, size, and activity level. Choose water and unsweetened beverages to support hydration. Limit alcohol consumption for better overall health. In very general terms, this is the diet I have followed for two and a half decades. I weighed the same amount as I did then. By itself, in the fact that most people gain weight as they age, probably indicates that this pyramid has a strong basis behind it. As someone's concerned about both

27:36BP and cholesterol, I follow the above with an emphasis on low salt and much reduced saturated fat. That means I try to limit my diet to three eggs a week. Extremely neat cuts and low fat dairy, not full fat. I do use whole wheat bread rolls and pasta as well as brown rice. Many Americans have grown up on white flour products may complain about the taste or texture, but a little consistency will acclimate your taste and palate fairly quickly. For many, conversion of brown rice may a bit more demanding. My big concern is someone who eats out frequently is the lack of whole wheat products on many menus. Most Americans have a sweet tooth. I limit my sugar to one dessert a day as much as possible. I have incorporated stevia sugar substitute into my diet. Many complain that it is not taste like sugar, so converting to that is not easy to do, but you can do that. A tip. Stevia is very powerful. Use a little tiny bit. Don't dump a teaspoon into a cup of a drink.

28:39It's not going to work for you. Please raise your right hand. Chaotic situation in the Middle East. Now that the dust has literally settled, there are a lot of questions about Iran and its quest for a nuclear bomb. What we know is that Israel has done a great deal to degrade Iran's overall military infrastructure. We know that USA ran a very successful bombing run over three of Iran's nuclear development facilities. What we do not know is the level of degradation of its ability to make nuclear weapons. Some reports are that it is not degraded at all. Other reports are there. It is damaged and it may or may not be severe. Regarding a truth between the two nations, there's also in doubt because both sides have accused the other side of violating the truth. It's what else is new. The brief quiet could turn into another extended mess between the two countries. There are rumors that Iran would shut down the streets of Hormuz, but that has not happened yet and it may be unlikely to happen. Iran depends on the revenue from that passageway, which allows it to get its oil to China.

29:41Reportedly, this is Iran's single largest customer for the oil. Objection, Your Honor. We need to take a break, but more craziness from the politics and business world when we get back. Brushwood, Media Network. Travel is part of the American way of life. When we're on vacation, we keep an eye out for anything that looks out of place. Miss your bag. When we travel from city to city, we pay attention to our surroundings. Everyone plays a role in keeping our community safe. Whether you're traveling for business to pleasure, be aware of your surroundings. If you see something suspicious, say something to local authorities. Welcome back to Saving America. This is your host, Dr. David D. Shotney. Business students, business persons, or consumers, business law impacts much of what you do. This segment is designed to help you get past the headlines

30:41on key stories. There's been a great deal of debate regarding the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine. Originally, the FDA Food Drug Administration was going to release 500 pages per month from a collection exceeding 300,000 pages, effectively to the laying complete disclosure until around 2097. The agency claimed limited staffing and the extensive volume of documents has reasons for this prolonged timeframe. The proposal followed a Freedom of Information Act, also known as a FOIA request, by the public health and medical professionals for transparency. A group of scientists and public health professionals seeking comprehensive data on the vaccine's approval process. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas issued a ruling in January 2022 that significantly shorted the FDA's proposed timeline. He ordered the agency to release 55,000 pages a month versus 500 pages a month, ensuring that all documents would be made public

31:48by the end of September of 2022. Well, the story continues. Turn to court produced a request for another million pages of documents related to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine trials. Federal Judge Pittman has just mandated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to release the requested additional one million pages of documents. Because of the controversy over the safety and efficacy of the RMNA vaccines for COVID-19, the public medical organization has demanded to see even more of the developmental data. The various positions on this are of interest. The attorney for the plaintiffs argue that the people have a right to know what went into the development and approval of these vaccines. This was a special concern due to the accelerated approval process for those COVID-19 vaccines. In turn, public health officials have cautioned against misinterpreting the data, warning that incomplete findings could be weaponized by vaccine

32:51skeptics. The FDA maintains that it's approval process adhere to the highest standards of scientific rigor and integrity. Of course, Pfizer is one of the top manufacturers of these vaccines. Marijuana is not likely to be legalized in Texas after the latest lawsuit. In many states, marijuana is a major business bringing in millions of dollars in taxes, although reports are that much of the sales are under the table or through unlicensed outlets. As Texas is a hardcore red state or conservative state, the sledding is even more difficult. For some reason, legalizing grass has become political. Dems are for legalization and Republicans are against it. As Texas is a red state, grass is not legal here. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has blocked some liberal cities trying to legalize it. He has called it unconstitutional because grass is not only illegal at the federal level, but also at the state level. The outlook remains clear that legalization is not on the short list of the future of Texas. In fact, the dominant Texas GOP has in its platform

33:56to keep it as a scheduled one drug. Expanding low THC products for medical use only and maybe use by adults has been proposed in Texas. The proposed bill legalized marijuana for adults would include people 21 and older to possess up to two and a half ounces with up to 10 ounces being allowed to be kept at home. In addition, commercial market product would be taxed at 10%. The big pitch is this last point that states can make a lot of money taxing sale of marijuana. Well, gee, if that's the pitch, then why don't we make all drugs legal and then while we're at it, legalized prostitution and trafficking and whatever other social ills that you decide to tax rather than prohibit? How about the other side? Reports indicate that where legalization is taking place, there's been an increase in crime. Further, blocking non-tax sales of the THC product is not very effective. Reports from New York City have been especially compelling about shops that are not

34:57licensed openly selling marijuana products. May I remind you you're still under oath? Are the days of the presidential library number? Welcome to Saving America. This is your host, Dr. David D. Reports are that the most recent three presidents have run into issues regarding presidential libraries. In looking into this, I looked at the history of presidential libraries. They are traced to the ultimate presidential egomaniac, no, not Trump, but FDR. He donated his papers to the then-new National Archives and Records Administration, Nara, for short. In turn, Truman donated his records, then a big change Congress voted in 1955 to establish the Presidential Libraries Act. This is the basics. Presidents are encouraged, but not required to donate the materials to the federal government. Dablishes a presidential library for all future presidents. Requires private funding to build the libraries and provide an endowment for future maintenance.

35:58The National Archives and Records Administration operates the presidential libraries. Number five, all historical materials are made available for research to the general public. I find it on that this is a federal agency, but the presidential libraries have to be privately funded. In any event, Nixon rocked above by trying to avoid giving his records to Nara, but was prevented from doing so by Congress. There are now 14 presidential libraries run by Nara. I have been to the LBJ Library in Austin and the JFK Library in Boston. I like the history that not care about the fact that they were both dams. And after all, if JFK were alive today, he would be a mainstream GOP guy. The latest libraries, however, have generated some controversies. The Obama Library in Chicago has been criticized for its obnoxious design and its location on historic Parkland. I am stunned at its $850 million price tag. It has taken over sections of Jackson Park, which was designed for

37:01the 1893 World's Fair. That does not sound like a good start when it is not even opened yet. Trump's presidential library museum has simply a website so far. It's recently been announced that we'd be built at Miami-Dade College in Miami, Florida. The defamation settlement he received from ABC of $15 million is apparently being tasked to build the library. In addition, most of the proceeds from his lawsuit against Meta for blocking him from Facebook will also go to the library. However, there is a hitch. The college's public and was going to donate that land. A judge is blocked to transfer the land to the library. I'm also not thrilled that the source of the funds is yet of Trump's litigation proceeds is being assigned to the library construction. Again, word is that some locals also hate the location parallel to Obama. Then there's the Biden proposed library. The running joke right now is that fundraising for his library is going so badly it may end up as a book mobile. Like many Americans, I like the central location of the Smithsonian

38:07at the mall in DC. I would suggest that segments of the museum be set up for each president and be done with it. There is already an exhibit of all the first ladies. Actually, if former presidents want to have a non-NARA facility, they can do that, but the feds will not need to be involved in them. My proposal would keep the official materials close to NARA, which is located nearby to the Smithsonian. We could have a room for Obama, a room for Trump, and a closet in a bathroom for Biden. Silence in the court. Is Montgomery win in the New York City primary the result of huge numbers of illegal voting? While many are scratching their heads over the surprise win of a dirty commie, in my opinion, in the New York City dem primarily, I'm simply not surprised. How did that happen? Well, trace it back to the dem's motor voter law from the 1993 Clinton administration, meaning if a person gets a driver's license, they can easily register to vote. But if they're not

39:08checking the citizenship for the driver's license, how can the state verify that the person is legally eligible to vote? Well, they can't or up to now certain states like New York and California just don't care. I believe this is called the law of unintended consequences. Hey, it's all fun in games until somebody gets hurt, right? It's too light for the New York City primary election, but states could implement a retroactive measure to require re-registration to vote by showing citizenship for their next voter registration. I also favor massive penalties, well promoted, of course, for voting if you're a non-citizen. New York also introduced in 2021, an insane law that requires various state agencies to automatically register people to vote. Well, then you have most likely non-citizens voting for the anti-American like mom dummy. I'll allow it. I need to take quick break, but stay tuned when I get back. I'm going to be with Doug Lawrence, who's an expert at mentoring and has a new book on how to deal with green. Did you make the transfer to Hong Kong

40:12for the Emerson Project? I was just about to, but did you see the boss's ewa? It doesn't look great. It looks fine to me. I don't remember who mentioned the Emerson Project last year. The bank in Hong Kong closes in 15 minutes. Make the transfer. Yes, sir. Night on the way. Mr. Jacob, it's just transferred the money for the Emerson Project. What Emerson Project? Don't be that guy. Trust but verify. Welcome back to Saving America, fascinating guest here. Doug Lawrence, author of a new book on how to deal with grief. Our series interviews for Saving America establishes that the world is full of interesting people. Once you hear from our next guest, I'm sure that you will agree that he deserves the moniker of interesting person. Saving America welcomes Doug Lawrence. You're the founder of Talent, C, and is focused on all things mentoring as a solution provider. He is an international certified mentor and holds two mentors certifications,

41:14certificate of practice mentor and the certificate of practice journey mentor from the international mentoring community. Doug is the only one to hold the certificate of practice journey mentor in the world today. He has over 30 years of mentoring and leadership experiences recognized as a thought leader in the mentoring space. Doug's prior books are the gift of mentoring and you are not alone. Today, he is joining us to discuss his new book, Grief, the Silent Pam Demick. Yes, I'm looking forward to our conversation. Now, given your pioneering work and mentoring, what made you decide to focus your new book on the challenge of dealing with grief? That's actually a very good question and the reason for focusing on the grief part is that in my interaction with colleagues and that everybody is experiencing grief in some way, shape or form and what I'm seeing is more and more of that that's taking place and then on top of it all, I of course experienced my own, I had my own

42:21experience with grief with the loss of my wife in 2021, lost her battle to cancer. Why I'm dealing with sort of the healing process and trying to get myself back on track, but at the same time, I'm also working with other people to help them as well to be able to deal with their grief because it's everywhere. We just don't recognize it. The thing is, this is such a personal journey that you present in the book. How do you provide advice to your readers since each of us experienced grief differently? I had a guest on recently who suffered a personal attack and she didn't even think about it for 15 years, and then one day the switch went off, so how do you give generic advice, if you will, on dealing with grief when it's so variable? Well, part of that is listening and hearing, so being able to listen and hear what the person

43:24is actually trying to tell you, because a lot of people with grief, what we have the common approach to everything is, I know all the answers and I'm just going to fix you, and that's not anywhere as close to the truth whatsoever, so what I try to do most definitely is that I try to get a better, deeper understanding of the individual and what it is they're experiencing, but I also, at the same time, I share my own, I storytell. I share my story and Deborah's story that what we've gone through and what we've done, because what I want to be able to do is to help the person understand that you are not alone. Obviously, you've been able to come to this far with your healing journey. Let us work with you or walk beside you to help you get to the next level.

44:25Well, that sounds like a very positive message. In the presentation of book, it references dealing with the stigma of grief. I've not personally thought of it that way. Share your thoughts about that with our audience. Why would there be a stigma associated? I mean, like you just mentioned, you lost your wife. The community, the families, we expect someone to grieve when they lose a loved one. We do, but we seem to time block it. We kind of put blocks of time around it to say, okay, when I reach this particular time, you know, it's kind of the suck it up better, cut you should be better and get back moving ahead with your life. And that's not the case. Grief can go on for years and years. I once talked to a colleague of mine who lost his son, and he was, it's been 12 years since his son had passed away and he's still grieving. So I mean, you know, when you take a look at it, it's something that goes on and on and on,

45:27does it ever end? Maybe. But, you know, certainly my experience from talking to different people is that they're still, you know, they're still struggling. They're still dealing with it. And, you know, the sort of the common thing is is that everybody believes that we all grieve the same. Well, no, we don't. Each one of us has to grieve in our own special way. And it's okay to cry, you know, as a grown man, it's okay to cry. I had an experience just this past week where I was in someplace public and there was something that triggered. I don't remember exactly what it was now, but I remember it being triggered and becoming extremely emotional. And for a lot of males per se, you know, that's not acceptable behavior. You should be stronger than that. So, you know, I encourage people to, you know, when you're going through your grieving process to step out of the closet as I call it and reach out and ask

46:32for help, reach out and ask for somebody to walk beside you because you don't need to do this on your own. Well, part of what you mentioned is that there really are multiple levels of grief. I mean, there's the extreme grief when something happens. And then you're never going to forget the loss of your wife, the loss of a child, but you get to a, do you feel you get to a second level where you're, I can understand a grasp this grief, but I can still move on with my life, is that, is that what would be a fair characterization? I would, I would say yes, as long as we don't allow the different stages to become all consuming because, you know, there's six or seven different stages of grief and you don't have to hit or you don't have to go through each one of those. You don't have to go through them. They're, they're just guidelines to be able to say that these are some of the things that through research and that that we've seen that you may encounter in

47:38in the grieving process, but you're not, you're not driven by or guided by those as being okay. I should be young and step number two. Oh, gee, I'm falling behind. I'm going to have to hurry up and do some more grieving in a different approach. You don't, that's not what that's intended for. This different stages are just guidelines and and that's part of, you know, the whole stigma around it is, I must not be a good person because I should be, you know, according to what, what they say, I should be on stage three, but I'm only on stage two and, you know, it's, it just confuses people and takes them away from the actual grieving process. So you would say it's more of a gradient than to say, okay, we're at step one, step two, step three. That's correct. Yes. Fascinating situation isn't it? And like I said, we all experience grief in different ways.

48:39Doug, I think this is a valuable contribution to what is something that consumes all of us. I was interacting with another podcast host and she's dealing with illness and her family and at the same time, three deaths of parents at the same time. And she's, so she's very overwhelmed and sometimes I think, especially if most of us generally speaking, I think, can deal with grief in one level, but I think sometimes that when you have, when you lose, I'm hearing more and more where, you know, we're living so much longer, but it seems that when you have both of your parents or 85 and 87 and one of them passes away, the other one dies within a couple of months. I've seen this happen several times recently and is it, does it just make it all the more difficult to recover when you've had the multiple shock rather than just dealing with one incident at time?

49:42Well, it does. And the part, the thing that I'm trying to, you know, to share with people is the aspect that it's okay to grieve. In fact, I encourage it because what happens is if you don't deal with it, it just builds up inside you and it just continues to, you know, to grow. And you need, you need to be able to process the loss. And then, you know, not that you are looking at, looking forward and saying, okay, now I've processed that loss I'm ready for the next one. That's that's not what I'm, you know, intending by that is it's just, it can become so traumatic for you to have to deal with something when you haven't dealt with something similar before that. If, if you, if you understand where I'm coming with that is, yeah, it's, you know, like I lost my mom in, in 2007 and my dad was a number of years later, I never finished completely. In fact,

50:46losing my wife Debra sort of triggered what the whole grieving process was all about. But I never really, truly with my mom, I never completely dealt with her, her passing. I was, I still struggle from this day, you know, what we went through and largely because of the relationship that I had with my mother. Well, it's, it's certainly a challenge. Doug Lawrence, it's been great having you back on saving America. How can our audience get more information about you in your books? So the books are available on amazon.com or .ca, whichever you, you're probably better doing the .com pathway to get it there. That's probably the best thing. And, and if you're having a difficult time in getting the books, you can always reach out to me personally. And you can do that through my website at www.talency.ca. So you can, you can do that. And I'm, you can find me on LinkedIn. And

51:50as a last resort, if you want to call at that, you can send me an email direct to Doug.lords at Talentsie. So the word talent with the letter C on the end.ca. And I'll get back to you and try and help you as much as I possibly can. Thank you so much. The Defense Resturator. Tragedy in Texas for the 4th of July. I have so many emotions about the horrible loss of life in the Texas Hill country over the 4th of July. As a father and grandfather, one of the greatest fears in my life is the loss of a child or grandchild. The focus of the tragedy was camp mystic, a large Christian summer camp for girls along the Guadalupe River. Many young girls and some of their counselors die. I extend my utmost sympathy to the families of the victims. I want to send my thanks to the large number of workers and volunteers who jumped into action to save many and discover and return the bodies of the deceased. They are truly doing God's work. At the same time, I'm angry that a tragedy like this happened at all. In 1987, a school bus was swept away by a

52:55flash flood in the same river less than 20 miles away. That caused the loss of 10 lives. In quiet times, it's a pleasant river as I have floated in an old inner tube down the river some years ago. But nobody should have been fooled about the threat that it can present when there is heavy rain. Why were so many cabins, houses, and even children's camps located in the flood zone of the Guadalupe River? I sense a total lack of common sense on the part of those who developed land so close to a dangerous river and to those local officials allowed the development so close to the river. I suspect greed had something to do with it. The taxing authorities have every incentive to allow development even if it presents unsafe consequences for people in the future. I draw a parallel to the remnants of the Hurricane Helene that caused flooding in Asheville, North Carolina in October of 2024. Loss of life in North Carolina was about 100 now less than the confirmed loss of life due to the current Texas tragedy. Total loss of life from Helene was about 300 lives across the southeast. Again,

54:01my question is why were the plots of land developed so close to the water in known flood areas? And for both Texas and North Carolina, if development must be allowed in these dangerous areas, why did they not have the very best emergency warning systems in place? Adding to the sadness, the scum known as Democrats want to politicize the issue, the weather authorities did provide the notice of the heavy rain and then issued a flood warning. There is absolutely no way that Trump is responsible for this tragedy. Federal aid was sent promptly. There were so many responders that the local coordinators had to ask people to stop coming to help. Since weather notices of a possible flash flood were posted, what happened? There appears to have been a failure at the county level to have effective early warning systems in place. Yes, the same county that allowed development too close to the river. Apparently, the issue goes back at least a decade and Texas and the localities were not willing to pay for the sirens and electronic notices that are available in normal civilized

55:03locations. We have record deficits, record public expenditures and infrastructure that's a mess. This was caused by both political parties, not one or the other. I call on both parties to work together for a change on developing effective solutions to make sure this never happens again. If a county or city cannot make an area safe to development, then development needs to be blocked from those areas. We have an example of that from the outer banks of North Carolina. Those areas could not get traditional hurricane insurance, so the feds obligingly provided an insurance plan to replace the houses after big storms. Well, after paying for it a few times, that somebody finally got smart. The fed said, we've covered you for the last time. You can take your insurance money and buy someplace else or if you build again where you were, it's on you. No insurance. Gradually, there were no homes on the edge of the banks. Make sense. Let's do that in these other floodprone areas. You can also build levees like the famous sea wall in Galveston,

56:06Texas and levees along the Mississippi River. Of course, we saw the levees in New Orleans failed dramatically during Katrina. They must be built correctly and maintained. Americans, we have allowed our country to sink into third world status with crime out of control, failing infrastructure and schools ranking in the third world. We must change what we are doing and now sustained. As a person who earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, I was pleased to see that Penn came to its senses. It just announced that it will correct the awards grabbed by fake female swimmer Leah Thomas and restored them to the women who actually earned them. I quickly add that I am not opposed to persons who are transitioning or have transition. As a consultant to industry, I have helped protect employees going through transition. However, if a male has gone through puberty, there will never be a fair athletic competition with a biological female due to the natural differences between men and women.

57:11This session is adjourned. Thanks for joining me for saving America. If you have questions or comments, please find me on various social media sites. I'm Dr. David Dishine and I will see you next week. Thanks for joining us today for saving America with your host, Dr. David Dishine. Saving America is brought to you by Claremont Management Group. For every Saturday and 11 a.m. Eastern time on the Brushwood Media Network. For more information, go to Claremontmanagementgroup.com or call us at 713-880-4700. We'll see you next time on Saving America with Dr. David Dishine.