Real Talk with Brad Maaske

Here is the full live show from the Clovis Veterans Memorial District on June 13th.

As the vote counting continues it appears as if Los Angeles will continue to elect corrupt inept leadership in the November election.  We now have our first Trillionaire in the world.  Will Space X make money?  Is peace possible in the middle east?  Interest rates continue to hold back the Real Estate Market.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.

How far we have fallen.  Celebrating "Pride" as a nation.  One of the deadliest sins.  The voting continues in California with anomalies that can't be explained and probably won't be.  A Florida man found out that even getting a building permit before building isn't protection against a local council out of control.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Property ownership is theft according Democrat Socialists who are intent on taking over every public office in America and fundamentally changing our culture.  Why do we elect them?  They promise everything for free.  Free rent.  Free school.  Free medical care.  This has never worked in any government on earth.  Despite the fact that not one of the climate crisis projected over the past twenty years has happened leftist claim that the failure of their predictions is because we have spent trillions to stop the catastrophes.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

With a little over a week to the California Primary the question is will California conservatives vote or let the left continue to decide who leads our state.  San Francisco is about to require that all new water heaters be electric heat pump water heaters which cost between $8,000 and $35,000 to install.  What is the truth about the proposed 140 mph Cal Trans busses?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Newsom claims he has magically balanced California's budget.  High Speed Rail wants your local tax dollars.   Ballots are out.  Will conservatives vote in the primary?  We discuss all of this on this week's Real Talk.

Ballots have arrived in the mail. The California primary is rapidly approaching.  How many California conservatives will actually vote?  Proposition 50 which eliminated 5 Republican districts statewide only passed because California Republicans did not vote.  In Northern California replacing a home water heater will cost between $8,000 and $35,000 beginning in 2027 with the new energy code adopted by Santa Clara County.  What are the advantages to rebuilding your rental property after a fire vs taking the money and leaving it?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

There are many meanings to the phrase May Day.  Our modern day leftist use it to support communism.  In war it was used to signify an emergency.  As California moves further left the emergency is real.  For every proposition on the ballot to protect proposition 13 the legislature creates propositions to defeat it.  A retired couple who bought their home in Montana in 2005 out the hard way what unlimited property taxes can do to home ownership.  Their 2005 property tax bill was $2,700.  Their 2026 property tax bill is $58,000!  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

California is repeatedly suing the Trump administration for trying to increase gas supplies in California.  Several initiatives have qualified for the November ballot in California.  How will Bonta name them?  One requires voter id and proof of citizenship to vote.  It will probably be named The Voter Suppression Act by our Secretary of State.  The Jarvis initiative to protect Proposition 13 will probably be named the Unfair and Unequal Tax Act.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.  

The California Legislature is back in session.  We are all in trouble.  The most important items they are working on?  Protecting LGBT Rights and affirming children's rights to gender care.  Legislation has been introduced to allow minors up to 20 years to sue any therapist who did not affirm their transition.  Additional legislation has been introduced to make it illegal for hospitals to comply with Federal requests for records relating to sex changing surgeries of minors.  Both of these laws are probably unconstitutional.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Is AI evil?  The complexity of California's laws protecting tenants requires a spreadsheet to determine what an owner of a rental can or can't do.  Compare the actions of President Trump to save a downed pilot in Iran to Obama and Clinton in Benghazi where all were left to die.  Will California ever admit that the high speed rail from LA to San Francisco is just a money pit so the left can virtue signal?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

As we celebrate this Easter weekend it seems that the world is in the final stages of the spiritual battle described in the Bible.  The left continues to protest any cause that Trump supports.  Often they don't even know why they are protesting.  State Legislatures continue to write additional laws limiting our constitutional rights.  The United States appears to have allied with the King of the North against the King of the South as described by John in Revelations.   These are truly troubling times we live in.  As we celebrate the great gift we received from God in sacrificing his Son Jesus Christ for our sins, we should all spend time with family and reflect on the word of God.  I hope everyone has a blessed peaceful Easter. 

On the day before Palm Sunday the leftist celebrate with a "No Kings" protest.  If we think our children are uneducated what about these fools?  California blames Trump for our highest in the nation gas prices.  I guess rules, regulations and taxes have nothing to do with the cost of doing business in California.  Pacific Legal Foundation gets a win for Home Buyers against the financial reporting insanity enacted under Biden.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Cougars and Butterflies are getting a $120 million bridge in Southern California and Newsom says he is proud of it and wants more.  Is the California Legislature considering a 5% tax on the sale of all homes and property in California?  When is an increase in spending considered a cut in spending?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

The longer the straight of Hormuz is closed the more people in third world countries will starve.  It is not just the oil.  It is the fertilizer.  Government does not solve problems.  Solving a problem means there is no need for the bureaucracy that was tasked with solving it.  That is why government continues to create regulation that only they can interpret.  The current uncertainty in the Middle East is causing interest rates to rise.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Newsom introduces his new water plan for California in which they promise to study how to deliver more water to the state.  How can we trust our government or so called experts?  Government survives by not solving problems, only studying them.  Solving a problem would take away their jobs.  If you move to another state do you have to pay California income tax on your California rental income?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Despite doubling the spending on Public Transportation over the past 5 years in California fewer people than ever are using the busses and the trains.  Taxes and fees which are supposed to maintain roads, build new roads and maintain bridges and infrastructure are being used for rider less mass transportation.  The average expenditure per rider per year is nearly $25,000.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

California Democrat Congress members are visiting their districts claiming that the high cost of housing, gas and electricity in California are all caused by Trump and Republicans.  Meanwhile the California legislature is trying to devise ways and reasons to break Proposition 13.  In Nashville Tennessee where there are no protections for property owners one owner made the news because his property tax is going up from $160,000 to $600,000 forcing him to sell his business.  A San Francisco professor claims that Proposition 13 costs the state $43 billion a year in uncollected property taxes.  He further notes that the longer you own a home in California the more disparate the property tax becomes, unfairly helping older white people to keep their homes.  In most red states seniors get major property tax breaks.  In California they are trying to figure out how to tax seniors and force them to sell their homes.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

The Trump administration is removing carbon dioxide from the list of pollutants as designated by the Obama EPA.  CO2 is the gas of life.  We exhale it and plants need it to grow.  The leftists are screaming that Trump is a science denier.  California is threatening to sue and to write their own laws making CO2 poison again in California.  Newsom says that California will start laying tracks this year on the High Speed Choo Choo Train to nowhere.  The truth is that they are nowhere near laying any tracks.  They are just planning to buy the steel.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.  

For the past 20 years the left has controlled California.  For the last 16 years the Democrats have had a veto proof majority.  During that time their policies have destroyed the once great state.  Farmers are forced to idle their crops.  California has the highest energy prices in the country.  The least affordable housing.  The highest taxes.  Our schools and roads are near the bottom of every measure of achievement and our Governor is going around the country bragging about his abilities to lead.  There is an election coming.  Will California start to turn the pendulum back or double down on stupid.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

California water policy is forcing Westlands Water District to idle 136,000 acres of farmland and plant 100,000 solar panels.  This will be the largest solar farm in the US.  Can Trump take over Los Angeles building permits through his executive order?  What is a Trump Child Savings account?  Can it be used to buy a house?  Can $1,000 turn into $350,000 over 25 years?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Newsom arrived at Davos with his sugar daddy Alex Soros and brought knee pads.  I wonder if he used them?  Red states are cooperating with ICE and there is no chaos.  Following the law apparently works.  Interest rates stay steady.  Vampire mortgages are coming back from the dead.  Do you have one?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Agitprop.  The act of agitating and then using media to spread propaganda.  Dictators and socialist regimes have used it for years to form public opinion and destroy resistance to their policies.  The Democrats are now experts at this. Artificially lowering interest rates on credit cards simply limits access to credit. Street journalist are preparing to descend on California to expose the massive fraud in our state.  Newsom told Walz to hold his beer.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

 Leftists claim that the shooting of unarmed Ashley Babbit as she climbed through a window at the Capitol is equivalent to the shooting of a protestor who is hitting an officer of the law with her SUV.  Will prohibiting corporations from buying homes reduce home prices? Will the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage backed securities reduce interest rates?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate. Listen to Real Talk every Saturday from noon until 1 on Power Talk 96.7 and 1400 AM

We are celebrating 2026, the 250th anniversary of the experiment called the United States of America.  Can we keep our freedom?   Will California move back towards the middle or is California a lost cause?  How will AI impact the next 5 years?  How is AI used in Real Estate.  How do you disclose an AI altered picture of your home for sale?  Is simply editing the picture a reason to disclose?  If you think fraud is bad in Minnesota, Newsom and California say hold my beer!  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

The year in reflection.  Will California get tired of bad governance?  Houses are not being rebuilt in LA.  Stricter building codes are being adopted despite promises to freeze the codes.  Gas prices could exceed $10 per gallon within 3 years with the closed refineries.  Electric prices will rise by more than 33% over the next 3 years.  These things are all caused by elected and unelected California policy makers.   We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

How would you describe a state that promotes the sexualization and mutilation of young children?  Is it evil?  Are the proponents of "gender affirming care" just well meaning but misguided?  In this week's podcast we discuss a young woman who was told at age 12 by a California school counselor that her anorexia and feelings of depression were caused by her being born in the wrong body.   Getting hormone blockers and taking testosterone would help her to cope with her "mental" issues.  At age 15 they cut off her breasts.  The doctors convinced the parents it was the only way to help her overcome her depression.  At age 22 she is now married and has a child.  She is scarred for life and has permanent medical issues. She just read an article in which the "Doctor" who preformed her surgery admits in a interview he was just "winging it".  All of this was condoned by the State of California.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

After a 20 year study Berkeley scientists have determined that Native Americans were right.  Controlled burns create healthier forests and reduce air pollution.  Who would have guessed that?  In another 30 year study, the United Nations found that over the last 30 years sea level has only gone up 3 inches.  They then lied and said that is exactly what their models predicted.  (They have been predicting at least 1 foot of sea level rise every 10 years through 2050).  The Federal Reserve reduced interest rates and 30 year mortgage interest rates went slightly higher.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

In an imaginary California where there are no building codes, no permit fees and no inspections, would consumers buy a house built to 1992 building standards?  The cost of building the home would be approximately 50% of today's cost to build.  Did the seditious six Senators conspire with a Foreign Pysch Ops contractor to produce the videos encouraging our military to disobey orders from their commanding officers?  Who paid for the videos and the hundreds of billboards with a similar message placed around military bases throughout the US concurrently with the video?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

What are you thankful for?  The first Thanksgiving was to celebrate every gift God has given us.  The Pilgrims celebrated the right to worship freely.  William Bradford tried socialism the first year of their arrival in America and found that many chose to not work if they had to share their food and belongings equally.  It nearly destroyed the colony.  The result was the beginning of American capitalism.  Each pilgrim was no responsible to grow their own food and care for themselves.  The colony flourished.  Apparently our children are no longer taught this in school.  They are taught that socialism is the fairest form of government and that capitalism is evil.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate. 

If citizens are too busy to show up for public hearings and to give input about the growth and improvements in their neighborhoods the government will follow the paid activist who do show up.  Environmentalist are upset that Fresno and Clovis are planning on how to annex 9,000 acres allowing 45,000 more homes and businesses over the next 50 years.  At a 2% growth rate Fresno/Clovis (They are growing at 3%) will add over 600,000 new residents over the next 26 years.  Where do they expect them to live?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.  

Would a 50 year mortgage make housing more affordable?  If the building code allowed it, would home buyers choose a 3 bedroom one bathroom house, with a carport, a wall heater and evaporative cooling.  No fire sprinklers.  Nominal insulation and priced at under $180,000 on a  6,000 square foot lot?  Newsom claims that California is the at the forefront of the damage caused by climate change as evidenced by the worst economic fire in history which hit California in "winter".  An "atmospheric river" is hitting the state this weekend.  More proof according to Newsom of climate change.   We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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

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

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

One of the primary duties of government is to help prevent and fight fires.  The more we know about the Los Angeles fires which caused the loss of more than 12,000 homes the more we realize how inept the entire Los Angeles DEI leadership was and is.  Fresno Land in a story this week also exposed how the US Forest Service refused to allow a controlled burn last year which would have prevented the tragic loss of our ancient redwoods in the Garnet fire.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trump administration has cut over $400 million in Federal funding from the Morro Bay Condor Cuisanart wind farm hopefully putting this ill conceived project to death before it starts.  California's "agricultural equity" advisors make plans to give state land to minorities to create more minority farmers in the state.  Newsome and the left claim that Trump's plan is to have ICE and the National guard surround poling places in the upcoming elections to deter minority voters.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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

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

"Experts" at UC Riverside have proven once again that legless spiders are deaf.  You may have been under the misunderstanding that residential real estate prices were stabilizing and inventory was increasing in the San Joaquin Valley because of high home prices and high interest rates.  This is so wrong according to the "Experts".  The change in the market has actually been caused by subsidence from over pumping our ground water.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

The Trump Administration is trying to stop the leasing of Federal "lands" to build massive wind farms.  This includes the largest wind farm project ever approved in the United States off the California coast near Morro Bay.  The project includes 300 one thousand foot tall "Condor Cuisanart" towers.  The area of the Pacific Ocean leased is the size of the city of Los Angeles. Each tower must be anchored to the sea bottom in the middle of one of richest kelp fields on the California Coast.  Newsom has promised to sue if this project is stopped.  The environmentalist support the project because it creates "green" energy.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Major changes are coming to the EPA restoring many property rights and stopping the Federal Government for intervening in consumer decisions.  These changes will allow much needed changes to the electric grid with reliable energy sources instead of just intermittent green energy.  The left is gnashing their teeth over these proposed changes.  CO2, which is the gas of life, will no longer be considered a life harming pollutant once these rules are fully implemented.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.   Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Newsom is trying to ban the sale of Tesla's in California.  Newly released documents prove the deep state in conjunction with the Democrats and their allies in the media lied in an effort to throttle the first Trump presidency.  Nobody will go to jail for this and the leftist press will continue to hide the truth.  The EPA moves further towards the rejection of the rules declaring CO2 pollution.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate. 

Does lying on a mortgage loan application lead to jail time?  Adam Schiff is about to find out.  If NPR and PBS can't survive without taxpayer money nobody will miss them.  If you are thinking about getting solar for your home now really is the time to investigate the costs and the benefits.  The 30% tax credit will be gone after this year.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.