Bill Frady critiques land acknowledgments, discusses politics, and takes caller feedback

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Bill Frady: I have very drastically curtailed most of my social media presence. Um, but I still like YouTube, and I was watching a video on YouTube of a guy who went to a church, visited the church, and he recorded this because before the service began, the pastor introduced herself, shared her preferred pronouns, and then informed all of them there that they were gathered on stolen land. The land she explained once belonged to Native American tribes that lived in the area long before Denver existed. Then I thought about Billie Eilish. I guess she won an award and she was sitting there, and instead of sitting there and going, "I can't believe that you guys like this stuff that I do. Thank you so very much. I feel very humbled to to be considered for this in the first place and so grateful to have won." Instead of that, she goes, "There can be no illegal people on stolen land." I have a very simple question. If the land is stolen, why are you guys still sitting on it? You know, if the church in Denver owns a valuable piece of property in an upscale Denver neighborhood, and it belongs to indigenous people, why are they still staying there? I mean, here in the Upstate, the Upstate used to be that, you know, this was Cherokee territory. They liked to fish on the Reedy River and the Saluda River. I haven't had too many people sitting around going, "You know we're on stolen land." Most people—everybody that tells me this, they they simply do not understand the whole idea behind uh behind uh, you know, military realities. Imagine explaining to the police that you know a car in your garage was stolen, but you're going to keep it because you like it. Where's that going to go? Where is that going to go? How many people are going to get by with that? But this is the logic behind the modern ritual of the virtue signaling of land acknowledgments. And, listen, you'll have—you've got universities and churches and government agencies and non-profit organizations, sporting events, they begin opening meetings with statements recognizing that they occupy land once inhabited by indigenous peoples. Well, this land was once inhabited by Tyrannosaurus Rexes. Why are we not feeling a little—any pangs about that one? Let's go to the phones. Yes, sir. Talking to Mark. Yes, sir. Mark: Oh Bill, two—I got two things for you about Mr. Dewey's pawn shop. He made—he made a statement and then you made one. Bill Frady: Okay. Mark: The first—the first one is about the jewelry counter. They are great people in there. I've I've bought numerous uh pieces of jewelry there, but one year I bought something for my wife, a little some earrings. Went back the following year and and and uh dealt with a young lady there. I don't believe it was your niece, but uh she was very helpful, very nice. She helped me pick out another set of earrings. So I get home and I give them to my wife. She opens the box up, doesn't say anything, a little bit surprised, and then she walks out of the room without saying anything, comes back in the room only to show me that the earrings that I bought her that year was the same ones I bought her the year before. Bill Frady: Well, they must have looked good the first time. Mark: I think Dewey's could could—I think Dewey's because I told that lady in the jewelry department, I depend on those ladies in my life to keep me straight. Bill Frady: Yeah. Yeah. Mark: Um, and then the second thing was, Dewey said that you asked Dewey why you didn't get to go to uh uh Beretta. And I think Dewey's statement was something about your attitude? Bill Frady: Well, I mean, he's nice and I'm not. I got to be nice like him. I'll be going there and taking notes. I'll take some notes late next time when I see him like, "Dewey's nice like this." Mark: Yeah, well, exactly because I've I've I've been on the range with you numerous times and and I can and I see what Dewey has been saying. But but I also see that you're you're working on it, and and I think as ...

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