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Getting it Right - Rick Wagner — 368 episodes
Forecasting the Fallout: Why the News Repeats Itself and What Happens When Expectations Outpace Opportunity
The Republic We Inherited: What Are We Doing With It?
The War That Comes in Pieces
When Institutions Stop Doing Their Job
Iran, Gas Prices, and America’s Forgotten Ambition
The Terrain of Conflict: Iran and the Maritime Choke Points
The Long War Mindset: From Crusades to Modern Conflict
AI, Bias & the Family Feud Problem — How We Should Use Tech for Research
Institutional Drift: From Iran to Minnesota
Belonging Over Belief: Why People Join Radical Causes Without Caring About Outcomes
Soft Power, Hard Landings: Budgets, Borders, and the Cost of Pretending
The Educational No Longer Prepares You To Do Anything
Why Is Our System More Focused On Rehabilitating Predators Than Protecting Citizens?
More Money For Education? Why?
One Of The Biggest Dangers in Society Is Forgetting How We Got Here
Mayoral Shake-Ups: Breaking Down the Winners, Losers, and What Comes Next
Last Weeks Election Results Are Making A Very Strong Statement - Let's Discuss
What's Happening In The Bahamas And How Might This Unfold?
Another Voyage Down The River of Weird
Endless Noise: Why Does 24/7 News Tell You So Little?
The Middle East Has Never Been A Peaceful Place
We Get Policy Talked To Death - Let's Break Some Of These Events Down
What A Controversial Week In The World!
The Government Does Most Things Poorly
Brain Break! Let's Talk About Something Different This Week!
If America Was A Business- We'd Be Out Of Business!
Do Good Ideas Exist In Chicago?
Why Are People Against A Crack Down On Crime In DC?
ICE And The Western Slope - Hitting Close To Home
Our Judicial System Is Not On The Right Track
Molding Cultural Tension - The Drum Beat Has Already Begun
Did Trump's Team Get In Over Their Heads With The Epstein Files?
If We Don't Seek Out The Truth, We Rely On The Media - And That's Not Wise
Don't Let Politicians Convince You They Know More About Life Than You Do
It's Time To Reread Orwell's 1984. It's Feeling Eerily Familiar To Reality
Will Iran See A Regime Change?
Let's Talk Israel And Iran - We Should Discuss Some Historical Context
The Left Is Afraid Of Both Trump And Musk! How Will This Shake Out?
We Are No Longer In An Era Where Headlines Contain Real Information
Is There Anything Trump Can Do That A Federal Judge Somewhere Won't Object?
Trump Is Doing An Admirable Job To Say The Least
Just Because You Make A Certain Amount Of Money - Doesn't Make It Okay For The Government To Take It
Trump's Bringing Back Productivity and Direction
Speak Your Mind In Another Country And You're Likely To Disappear For A While!
Don't Get The Rubes Upset!
Are You Keeping Up With The Colorado Gun Laws?
Are Your Nervous About The Stock Market And Your Investments?
Let's Keep The Western Slope From Turning Into Boulder!
More Massive Progress Made By DOGE - The Left Will Use Any Means To Stop Trump and Musk
Identifying As A Turtle And Still Carrying Political Power Is A Terrifying Thought!
People Truly Believe Trump And Musk Are Out To Kill Them
It's A Great Time To Be A Republican, Conservative Or Libertarian
New Bills On The Way - They Are Squeezing Your Natural Rights And Misinterpreting The Constitution
You Can Call It "Misinformation" But In Reality It's A Flat Out Lie
DOGE Is Crushing DC's Dreams!
"The More Numerous The Laws, The More Corrupt The Government" -Tacitus - Would You Agree?
"To Know Your Past Is To Know Your Future." -Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Let's Discuss Eastern Europe and Russia
Democrats Are Like Rust - They Never Rest!
Colorado Is Headed Toward Californication With It's Policies
What's Worse? Stupid or Evil? January 20th Cannot Come Soon Enough
Are You Curious About What's Happening In The Middle East? You Need to Understand The Historical Context. Let's Discuss!
Have Your Heard About Peanut The Squirrel? That Is What You Call Government Overreach!
Our Government Is Either Incompetent, Dishonest or Just Plain Unable to Cope - What's Worse?
Hunter Biden Was Pardoned! Let's Discuss This Pardoning Power - Are There Any Rules To This?
Republicans Can Never Seem To Get Along!
Trump's Playing 3 Dimensional Chess With His Cabinet Picks
RFK Is Going To Hit HHS Like A Stick Of Dynamite!
The Next Two Months Will Be Very Interesting!
It's Not A Great Sign When A Majority Of New Jobs Being Created Are Government Jobs.
Countdown To The Election. Get Out There And Vote!
Everyone Is On The Edge Of Their Seat Right Now.
What Benefits Do You Get By Being A US Citizen These Days?
Confused By What's Going On In The Middle East? Let's Discuss!
The Tripwires That Are The World Stage Right Now
We Are In A State of Rapid, Reignited Inflation. What Role Will The Unions Play In This?
The Framers Really Did Their Research When It Came To The Constitution - We Should Pay Attention
Heaven Knows - Anything Goes!
Without Borders Are We Even A Nation?
Let's Talk RFK Jr. and The DNC. Kamala Sounded Better But Still Managed To Say Nothing!
Kamala Has Gone From Being An Embarrassment To A Modern Day Margaret Thatcher
Of Course We'll Talk About Aristotle on The Radio!
Is It Illegal If No One Enforces The Law?
Distracted By The Election Drama? Let's Take A Look At Asia!
Joe's Gotta Go!
I've Seen More Emotion From An Animatronic Than From Joe Lately!
First Spy Balloons, Then Landing On The Dark Side of The Moon, Now Cuba!
Are China's Motives Something To Be Concerned About?
Drug Use and Dealing is on the Rise. Could Closing Our Wide Open Border Slow That Down?
We Are Decapitating Ourselves!
America Is On The Line Every Time We Vote
Welcome To The "Increasingly Unhinged Campaign Revenge Retribution"
A Journey Back In Time For Memorial Day
The Most Ridiculous News Headlines Are Becoming A Reality. You Can't Make This Stuff Up!
The People That Say "Follow The Science" Almost Never Do!
"I've Got The Emails" - Scariest Words A Liberal Can Hear!
The Left and Their Tyranny of Low Expectations
An Attack On Talk Radio - Nothing New But They're Back At It!
You Paid For Those Student Loans! They Didn't Just Go Away. Universities Got Their Money.
Our Lives Move From One Screen To The Next. For Kids It's Even Worse!
Keep Your Freedoms Alive Out There!
It's Almost Election Time. Get Ready For Republicans To Fight Themselves!
Listen Up! New Concerning Second Amendment Bills Are Coming Our Way. Let's Do Something About It!
Let's Recap The State of The Union Address. Pharmacology Has Come A Long Way!
Are You Ready To Hear The Budget On Our Current Homeless Pandemic?
What Are Our Countries Chances Of Coming Back From This?
The Constitution Does Not Give You Rights. It's Made to Protect Your Rights!
Episode 200! Magic 8 Ball Says: "Future Cloudy, Try Again Later"
Ever Gotten Into An Argument With AI?
Greg Abbott is Challenging the Supreme Court and Joe Biden. How Will Biden Respond?
It's Impossible To Keep Track Of Everything Going On In The Middle East Right Now!
Your Ability To Conduct Business The Way You Could The Year Before Is Compromised By Government
Joe is Barely Hanging on Here. What Kind of Campaign are We Going to See this Year?
You Can’t Really Understand Where We Are Unless You Know How We Got Here
Cut The Dems A Break, They Went To Harvard! They Don’t Know What A Republic Is.
How Will Hunter Skate Around This Time? Maybe Hillary Can Give Him Some Pointers?
Who Are We Allowing To Shape The Next Generation? Why Have We Not Put Our Foot Down With These Educational Institutes?
What Has The Biden Administration Cost The Average American?
Violence Is Escalating And It Doesn’t Seem To Just Be Guns Anymore
Where Is Hamas Getting Its Funding? That Seems To Be A Good Place To Start.
Even Our Poorest Members Of Society Still Have It Better Than Much Of The World
What’s Going On In Denver? Are There Solutions For The Unhoused?
School Board Elections Are Coming Soon! Let’s Get To Know Candidate Cyndee Skala.
Want To Make A Difference In This Country? School Board Elections Are Coming Soon! Let’s Hear From Barbara Evanson.
How Can America Appropriately Support Israel Without Starting WWIII?
Our Financial Future Never Seems To Be Planned Past The Next Election These Days!
Want To Know Why Men Are Interested In The Roman Empire?
Are You Really ”Unsafe” Or Is Someone Just Challenging Your Ideas?
Our Future Relations With Taiwan - Let’s Hear Their Point of View
Bonus Podcast – Are the North Koreans the New Cubans
Do You Believe In The Generational Cycle?
Don’t Just Be A Rider On The Storm. Get Involved.
Trump’s Being Sacrificed On The Alter Of Political Power
Where Do You Think Kids Learn Their Moral Compass From Now?
We Think They Are Wrong, They Think We Are Evil
When Did A Blatant Disregard For America Become The Norm?
Don’t Lose Your Principle And Your Peace Trying To Fit In
An Ever Evolving Republic
What Happens To A Society Where People Must Go Along With Things They Know Not To Be True?
Hunter’s Business Is His Father.
Is Gavin Newsom The New JB? But Who Will Play Kamala??
We’ve Reached The Point Where Tolerance Is Not Enough
”God Save The Queen, Man!” And The Rest Of Biden’s Gun Control Speech
School Board Elections Are Coming Up In The Next Cycle. Let’s Vote Like Our Future Depends On It.
The Rule Of Law. It Means Something Different To These Guys. Not What You And I Mean.
Is There A Limit To The Belief In ”Your Truth”? Do Physics Apply?
How Many Times Can You Be Wrong About The Weather Before You’re Wrong About The Climate?
Colorado Has The Highest Car Jacking Rate In The Country! Why?
Where You See The Cracks In Civilization
Maybe We All Just Have Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
Coloradans: Did You Know About These New Gun Control Bills Just Signed?
It’s Terrible What The Left Is Doing On Purpose, But I’m Really Bothered By What They’ll Do On Accident
A Local Story, But A Universal Tale
The Troops On That Side Are Very Small, But Very Loud.
Take Trump’s Name Out Of It And You Can See How Truly Insane This Indictment Is.
Are You A Parent In The Grand Junction Area? A New Charter School Is On The Horizon!
Here’s The Tea With Special Guest, Diane Schwenke. What’s On The Ballot In Grand Junction This Year?
Join Us With Special Guest, Author Mark Moyar. But First We’ll Calculate When We’ll Actually Get To Retire!
Can You Be Polyamorous And An Asexual At the Same Time? Woke-ism Is Confusing!
Homelessness Is On The Rise In Colorado! Kelly Caufield With Common Sense Institute Joins Us With The Numbers
Welcome To California! I Mean Colorado: A Government That Can Take Away Your Plastic Bag, Can Do A Lot!
Blabbering And Blubbering About Balloons. We’re Still Playing The Guessing Game!
Bizarre and Insulting Behaviors From The Chinese
This Is How We Take Back Our Political Offices! Time To Play The Game They Have Created.
Inflations Dropping! Can’t You Feel It In Your Energy And Grocery Bill? Yeah Right!
”No, I Did Not Bring My Own Sack. I’m Not A Peasant.”
The Bar Set So Low A Snake Wearing A Top Hat Could Still Get Under It
The Inflation Creation Act - Watch Out For The IRS This Year
On The First Day Of Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me: Trump’s Tax Returns!
Libertarian Elon Can Do No Right
Military Officers Start Monitoring Facebook Posts. Progressive America At It’s Finest!
How Did 1/2 Of The Population Start Dominating The Rest Of Us?
Worried About The Climate? Just Have Some Word Salad!
Change My Mind. Republicans are Interested in Voters. Democrats are Interested in Ballots.
Election Post-Mortem and Navigational Assistance
VOTE VOTE VOTE: Especially in Local Elections
Tik Tok Challenges And The Empty Vessel That Is Joe Biden
Part 3 - Elections Are Coming! Get to Know Joe O’Dea
Part 2 - Bobbie Daniel Talks County Priorities
Part 1 - Reverse Isolation - You’re Not Alone In Your Beliefs
Part 3 - Sailing Up Out Of The Icy Mists To Disrupt The Political Establishment
Part 2 - Biden VS. Buchanan - Neck and Neck For America’s Worst President
Part 1 - The Central Government Becoming More Opaque All The Time
Part 3 - The Second Amendment - It’s Been There A Long Time
Part 2 - Special Guest George Brauchler
Part 1 - Just Trying To Beat The Bots
Part 3 - It Really Does Get Nuttier!
Part 2 - Epic Tacoma Officers Body Cam Footage
Part 1 - Where’s Jackie? Joe Has A Sixth Sense
Part 3 - The Outside World Is Watching
Part 2 - Where Will Our Woke Military Take Us?
Part 1 - When Will My State Allow Human Composting?
Let The People Vote
Welcome to Martha’s Vineyard. Mrs. Obama Will Take Your Coat
Gaslighting
Colorado Campaign Fundraising. What a Game!
History is Much Like Chemistry
RIP Queen of England
The Silver Lining to this Progressive Cloud
Ever Wonder What It’s Like to Be in the Same Room As Michael Bennet?
Happy Labor Day - Is Your Thermostat Bossing You Around?
The Brett Bair of It All
The Dirty Aquarium of Washington
Sleepy Joe and The Democrat Underground
All Men Want to be Rich, Rich Men Want to be Kings
You are Smarter than They Want You to Think.
Touching Bottom, But Only if We Refuse to go Further Down.
Our 100th Episode! Search Warrants and Political Misjudgments
Big Joey- Not Ones Smart Thing Yet!
Peculiar Magistrates and The Banana Republic
Mighty Mouse and His Toxic Masculinty
What Kind of Evidence is Going to Come Out About Jan 6?
Wondering Where I Get My Content? Let’s Talk News Sources.
The Liberal World Order, Where People Who Don’t Know What They’re Doing, Order Us To Do Things That Can’t Be Done
Big Joey and Little Joe Spending $124 Billion on IRS Enforcement, for Your Convenience
Big Joey and Little Joe Sitting in a Tree, Solving Inflation for You and Me.
Who Gave The Administration The Right To Redefine ”Recession”?
Guest Staring Candidate Bobbie Daniel For County Commissioner
Who Believes This Stuff? Vote Local Folks. It Matters!
Political Writers Want Progressives to do to Conservatives What They Acuse Them of Doing, Sort of a Double Negative Equity.
Political Pest Control- Start Locally Before They Get Away
Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down!
Progress Vs. Progressivism
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Plus a Little About the Assault Musket of 1776
A Little Bit From Libs of TikTok
The Fever Swamps of Revolutionary Thinking
Roe V. Wade Overturned
The Unelectable Joe and the Main Stream Media
Oliver Cromwell and Manning the Barricades of Citizenship
Failing Forward. Ignoring The Past To Ruin The Future
5% to .5%. The 2020 Election In A Nutshell.
The Hollow Cities of Progressivism
Special Agent of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Sleepy Joe Explains It All
Progressive Interference and the Pierre Delecto Menace
Guns, Butter And The Rise Of Pierre Delecto’s
Living In A Political Twilight Zone Is Bad For Your Brain
Letting Nancy Pelosi Choose Your Firearms
Get Ready For The Summer Of Brownouts
The Sussman Verdict, A Justice System Teeters On The Brink
Ukraine- Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems- Destructive Stalemate
RememberingThose Who Gave Their Lives
Front Range Politicians don’t get Western Colorado
A Great Evil in Our Nation
The Trial of Michael Sussman
The Pillars of a Constitutional Republic
What Fresh Hell is This?
Sometimes a plain spoken hard punchin’ difficult man is just what you need
We like SUCCESSFUL Military Leaders
Ukraine: A Look at Military History
A New, More Condescending Press Secretary
Give Me Liberty
Caution, Optimism and Shock: A Week in US Politics
The LEFT doesn’t want to hear from you. All the more reason to SPEAK UP.
This week in Congress: Issues with Homeland ”Security”
A Group of Not Very Intelligent Lunatics: Colorado Government
Law Enforcement FOR you not AGAINST you
Interview with Todd Rowell Sheriff of Mesa County, Colorado
Money Money Money
Things Have to Get Bad Before they Get Better
How the DEMS keep taking Colorado
Republicans: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
First, they come for your money
You are under the thumb of your local government, whether you like it or not.
Colorado Governor Signs Confusing Health Equity Bill
The Song of Angry Citizens
The Shrinking of the Marines
The Wisdom of the Regular Guy
Progressives’ People Problem: They’re Catching On
RINO Roundup Time
Shameless Self Promotion & The Search for Real Information
Win the Election, Save the Country
The Charts of Simpletons
The Unicycle of Inflation
Republicans and their amazing ability to throw game-losing interception
Better the Enemy We know...
Colorado Senate Bill 138: Stop PAYING for DISINFORMATION
Hunting RINOS and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Incomprehensible Incompetence: The Biden ’ministration ’splains it all
How Much is that War in the Window: The Media and Ukraine
Lessons Not Yet Learned: No Power No Peace
Communications and Battle
The Climate Change Funded War
Progressive Legislatures Try to Limit Fundraising from Conservative Candidates
Bifocal Conservatism
How to Break an Economy for Dummies
Rejoice you do not live in California or New York!
Critical Race Theory and Inflation are LINKED
Jokes are Now Presidents and Members of Congress
Interview with House District 55 Candidate Patricia Weber
Welcome to the Real World, Joe.
The ROBOT Liberals are SCARY
Joe Biden is an Animated Sock Puppet with no Legitimate Information on Jobs
What is the Mission of Civil Government
No one cares about your FREEDOM and your LIBERTY as much as you do.
The Insulting Act of using race as means of choosing a Supreme Court Justice
Gallows Humor: Sometimes we have to laugh at Biden’s incompetence
The politics of being ernest and watchful and moderately annoyed
Ukraine on the Brain
Biden’s woka dopa strategy
The RADICAL LEFT: Too Fast Too Furious
I’m Joe Biden and I Forgot the Message
The Animated Mannequin and his UnAmerican Voting Act
If you’re going to attack us, be prepared for our defense
Joe Manchin and Build Back Better Bingo
Our Freedom is Constantly Under Attack
The Church of Hard Truths Part II: Midterm Elections for 2022
The Church of Hard Truths: Elections 2022
Freedom Isn’t Free
The Root of Our Political System: Freedom in America
America’s Freedom vs Protection Pt II: income inequality
American Ideas: Freedom vs Protection Pt I
Democrats don‘t want Biden to run in 2024
2024 Democrats Know they Can‘t Win
Inflation: Joe Biden‘s Merry Band of Disruptive Morons
Despotic Tendencies in the White House
What is Dan Crenshaw DOING?
RIP Chris Cuomo and Jussie Smollett
Biden: The Declining Doofus
The Role of the Sheriff: Your LOCAL law enforcement
Do you know what‘s happening in YOUR community?
Are Community Newspapers Progressive Propaganda Outlets?
How do we overcome corrupt leftist media outlets?
Russians are Practicing to Shoot Down our Satellites
The Rittenhouse Trial, Part II
Thoughts on Kyle Rittenhouse
Political Viking: The Disruptors Cometh
It‘s the Economy, Stupid
The Dying Citizen
Derangement, Wokeness, and a Barrage of Attacks from the LEFT
Biden‘s Infratstructure Bill: The H Bomb of Bad Ideas
Can‘t we all just get along? (The answer is apparently no.)
Operation Green Dagger: The British WON?
Terry Mcauliffe and the Great Virginia Governor‘s Race
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
Your Chance to Keep the Loons out of Office
Interview with Andrea Haitz, candidate for School District 51 Board
VOTE: Especially in local elections!
Interview with Angela Lima, District 51 School Board Member Candidate
It‘s the American Way!
Trickle down Doofusism-Biden‘s approach to the supply chain and inflation
Citizenship, show up or go bust
I Blame Richard Nixon
ju·ris·dic·tion
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the School Board Meeting
I‘m Just a Bill...
A Nickel Isn‘t Worth a Dime Anymore
WOKE on Broadway
Biden Fires Border Patrol Horses While China Makes Moves on Taiwan
This may be the ”Brave New World” we were warned about
The Angry Doofus as the Crucible
Vigilance is the price we pay
Citizen or Resident?
Day 242 of Citizens in the Hands of an Angry Doofus
California Election: In the land of milk and used syringes
The Constitution Needs a Trigger Warning?
Nobody Knows the Trouble we Haven‘t Seen Yet
Citizens in the Hands of an Angry Doofus - Part Deux
Bad Economics and Worse Politicians
Commentary on recent events - 8/28 Part III
Interview with a Recently Returned Marine from Kabul - 8/28 Part II
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Doofus - 8/28 Part I
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