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Chuck takes a few minutes to talk about the only time the NRA has ever been involved in a mass shooting.

Gregory T. Angelo is the President of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest organization representing gay conservatives. He discusses how not all gay people subscribe to liberal groupthink, how and why the group was founded and named, and where he feels more discriminated against – amongst liberals or conservatives. They discuss how the left gravitates toward identity politics vs. assimilation, and Angelo reveals which U.S. President has been the least friendly to the LGTB community, in terms of policies enacted while in office. Angelo shares his thoughts on radical Islam, American values and much more. Also on the podcast, Chuck and Mark talk about the left complaining about the Senate’s tax bill – while Mark explains some of the practical reasoning behind parts of the bill about which the left chooses to remain ignorant. About the guest: Prior to being President of Log Cabin Republicans, Mr. Angelo served as the Chairman of Log Cabin Republicans of New York State, where he led Log Cabin Republicans as part of New Yorkers United for Marriage, a coalition that collaborated to make marriage equality legal through legislative vote for the first time in a Republican-controlled legislature. Angelo is also the President of the Liberty Education Forum, a non-partisan think tank that advocates a message of gay acceptance among conservatives and people of faith throughout the United States. He was an Alternate Delegate for Newt Gingrich in the 2012 election cycle and has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The O’Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNBC, ABC News, NPR, NBC, C-SPAN, and more. Learn more about Log Cabin Republicans here. Follow Angelo on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @gregorytangelo. Follow Log Cabin Republicans on Twitter @LogCabinGOP.

For our weekly wrap-up, we bring you the wit and wisdom of Chuck Woolery as he distills the latest news in short segments of sarcasm, as heard this week on radio stations across the country. This week: Matt Lauer + Bill O'Reilly, Late Night Senate Passage, ABC Fake News, Death Taxes and Bad White Guys.

Tim Kennedy is an active, Ranger qualified, Green Beret, Special Forces Sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other locations around the globe. He’s also an MMA fighter and part of the cast of the History Channel TV show Hunting Hitler. On the podcast, Kennedy talks about how the perception of America as being completely divided is a myth that is perpetuated by the news, because the conflict more newsworthy than stories of cooperation. He also talks about the realities of being in the military, how genders are not the same and shouldn’t be treated as such on the front lines. Social experiments in the military cost lives. They discuss freedom and the Constitution, along with how Congress has little respect for it. Kennedy also teases the TV show he’s joining for season 3, Hunting Hitler. Also on the podcast, Mark and Chuck talk about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the front that it is for the government to build a massive national database, increasing the cost of borrowing, controlling how we can invest our money – and more. They talk about Robert Mueller and consider what Trump should do about him, and Mark talks about the only other President who went up against the government as much as Trump. About the guest: Kennedy enlisted in 2003 under the 18X (Special Forces candidate) program. He attended basic training, AIT, and Airborne school at Fort Benning GA as an 11B (Infantry), before he continued Special Forces training at Fort Bragg North Carolina. After being awarded his Green Beret in 2005 he was first assigned to 7th Special Forces Group(A), at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. where he served on an Operational Detachment Alpha. During his time in special forces he was deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was an honor graduate from Ranger school, and attended sniper school in addition to many other advanced special operation courses. Tim was deployed again in 2008. During this time, he wrote a three-part series of “Letters from a Foreign Land” that chronicled his time in combat. You can read them below: LETTERS FROM A FOREIGN LAND PART 1 / PART 2 / PART 3 As a sniper he deployed to Afghanistan, South America, the Caribbean, and other locations worldwide. Tim competed in multiple military shooting and sniper competitions, winning and/or placing in all of them. Tim competed on the Ultimate Soldier Challenge as a Green Beret and was featured as a “Ranger” on the Spike TV series Deadliest Warrior. Tim has also competed in the grueling 3-day Modern Army Combatives tournament, and was one of only three men to be undefeated, as well as three-time champion. He is one of the only three service members to be awarded a black belt in Modern Army Combatives. Currently Tim is assigned to Special Operations Detachment (A) as a Senior Special Forces Weapons Sergeant. For more information on Kennedy, visit https://timkennedymma.com/. Check out his store at https://rangerup.com/. Follow Kennedy on social media: Twitter: @TimKennedyMMA Facebook: Tim Kennedy MMA Instagram: @TimKennedyMMA

Amanda Head is host of the talk radio show The Hollywood Conservative, who has found that when talking one-on-one with people, even if they have very opposing viewpoints, the conversation is much less contentious than the mainstream media would have you believe. Amanda talks about making the choice to make a career shift from the music industry to political talk radio. She reveals how, because of her upbringing and principles, she has always been something of an outsider in Hollywood. Currently, she is working with Ted Harvey and the Committee to Defend the President as spokesperson. Also on the podcast, Chuck and Mark talk about the various sex-related scandals going through Hollywood, government and everywhere else – and how it’s going to end up hurting women. Also, they go through many examples of how the left become “experts” on topics once they hit the news, like bump stocks, climate change and much more. They reveal what unbelievable plan of action Joe Biden has suggested if you feel threatened when you’re at home. About the guest: Born and raised in the South, Amanda Head's strong conservative background is highly evident in both her professional and personal life. A Birmingham, Alabama, native, she's lived in Los Angeles since graduating with her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Auburn University. In addition to her business degree, Amanda acquired her minor in Applied Music (voice). Amanda was the first freshman ever to become Miss Auburn University, where she advocated for music as a form of therapy in schools for students with learning disabilities and in hospitals and nursing homes as therapy for the elderly. Upon graduation, she moved to California to pursue music and film. Amanda is a seasoned classical singer and has performed in such venues as the Hollywood Bowl, Ford Amphitheater and in Austin, Texas at SXSW Music Festival. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Amanda performed all over the southeast and New York, in musical theater and opera. Amanda's classical background allowed her to be vocally flexible, and, because of that, she has achieved success in many genres, notably, opera, jazz and pop. Amanda was the lead singer of an electro-pop duo whose first single charted at #36 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40. Her duo toured nationally and found notoriety for their singles “Tear Me Down” and “Strip Me Bare.” From 2006 to 2016, Amanda was bound to various music contracts which prevented her from speaking publicly about her political positions. After a great deal of consideration, in January of 2016, Amanda decided to step away from the entertainment industry. She had grown increasingly concerned with her generation’s lack of incentive to be involved in our country’s future and wanted to make a difference. Amanda’s first step was to start a video blog called The Hollywood Conservative. With her political persuasion in Los Angeles, she felt she had a niche and a unique perspective for reaching audiences nationally who also are dissatisfied with the direction our leaders are taking our country. Amanda attended CPAC in Washington, D.C., where she garnered a great deal of attention in the political media realm and was offered her own radio show on Conservative Commandos Radio in Philadelphia. Her show, The Hollywood Conservative, began airing on March 30, 2016 on WNJC AM1360 in the Philadelphia market. Not long after her show's debut, another network, Red State Talk Radio WFYL AM1180 picked up The Hollywood Conservative. Amanda also serves as a guest and fill-in host on Talkers Top 100 The John Cardillo Show on Miami's AM880 The Biz. She is a regular guest on CBC and BBC. Her guest segment "The Final 30" on Yellowhammer Radio airs weekly on Fridays in the Birmingham market. You can also catch her weekly on Mondays on the cable TV show America Trends...

For our weekly wrap-up, we bring you the wit and wisdom of Chuck Woolery as he distills the latest news in short segments of sarcasm, as heard this week on radio stations across the country. This week: Goodbye, Thanksgiving, D.C. Ethics, John Wayne, Black Friday Guns and Eminem.

Dr. Jeffrey Gladden is a physician who specializes in human performance and longevity. Once specializing primarily as an interventional cardiologist, he started to realize that the current health care system was actually a sick care system. He began studying extensively about how to make people who are healthy even better, and he talks about how he now dedicates his practice, Apex Health and Human Performance, to helping people extend their lifespan and healthspan with preemptive medicine. They discuss some of the elements needed to live longer and better, but they also consider how the government doesn’t really want people to live longer lives. Mark and Dr. Gladden now host a new podcast, Living Beyond 120™, which tackles the health questions that most doctors rarely approach. These may be the keys to living a much longer life than most people have ever imagined. Learn more about the podcast and improving your healthspan at https://livingbeyond120.com/. Also on the podcast, Chuck and Mark talk about the business Crowds on Demand (see https://crowdsondemand.com/) and the way the left uses them to create the illusion of massive numbers. About the guest: Co-host of the Living Beyond 120™ podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Gladden is a board certified interventional cardiologist and founder of Apex Health and Human Performance Optimization. He did his undergraduate work at Wheaton College and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree with Honors from Temple University in 1982. He has specialized in many areas of cardiology, including interventional, diagnostic, preventative and programmatic. Gladden is currently the Director of Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, which he co-founded in 2004. He is CEO Board Chair, Principle and CMO for Product Development at Scientia Cardio Access and a board member at Scientia Vascular. He is currently licensed in three states, his work is published in multiple medical journals, and he is a consultant for multiple cardiovascular projects, programs and medical device development. During his mid-fifties, things took a turn for the worse for Dr. Gladden, personally and professionally. Despite eating what he thought was a healthy diet and exercising regularly, he became very fatigued, to the point that he could hardly get out of bed. Stress and anxiety led to bouts of depression. He was getting burned out on traditional medicine, as it became more and more scripted, focused on compliance, and less about exploring creative and resourceful means of caring for patients. Much of his time and energy was spent fighting insurance companies for coverage for his patients instead of engaging with them for care. He was frustrated and discouraged but still wanted to help patients and build better programs to bring services to those who didn’t live close to a large hospital. He never lost sight of the bigger picture of democratizing access to healthcare and helping people overcome health challenges. Learn more about his practice at http://www.apexhhpo.com/. Follow Dr. Gladden and Living Beyond 120™ on social media: https://www.facebook.com/LivingBeyond120/ Twitter: @LivingBeyond120 @DrGladden120 @MarkYoung120

Chuck spends a few minutes to try and connect the dots in the 3-ring circus that is the Uranium One scandal.

Dr. Bonner R. Cohen is an environmental scholar and former guest who is back to talk about how the “environmental” movement to ban DDT in 226 resulted in regulatory genocide, killing millions of people. DDT was developed as a pesticide, and Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring sparked fears that it could be a threat to wildlife, especially birds. After DDT was banned, malaria and other mosquito-carried disease spread wildly. Dr. Cohen addresses how agricultural food production has gone up, directly in relation to an increase of carbon dioxide. This increase is resulting in a greener Earth, despite what the left would have you believe. If we restrict carbon dioxide production, we restrict the ability for things to grow. They consider how a number of the left’s typical policies can be tied back to the idea of eugenics. The left wants to restrict anyone’s ability to disagree with their faulty science about what is actually good for mankind. Also on the podcast, Chuck and Mark talk about what happened when Mark went to the protest of Steve Bannon near Detroit. For some footage of the event, visit https://bluntforcetruth.com/anti-bannon-protesters-a-crowd-of-not-so-useful-idiots/. They talk about people who boycott certain products or movies because of the politics of the company or creator, such as people threatening to boycott Keurig because they advertise on Sean Hannity’s show. Chuck and Mark discuss Roy Moore and the allegations about sexual misconduct. About the guest: Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and as adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, New York Post, Washington Times, National Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald, and dozens of other newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. He has been interviewed on Fox News, CNN, Fox Business Channel, BBC, BBC Worldwide Television, NBC, NPR, N 24 (German language news channel), Voice of Russia, and scores of radio stations in the U.S. Dr. Cohen has testified before the U.S. Senate committees on Energy & Natural Resources and Environment & Public Works, as well as the U.S. House committees on Natural Resources and Judiciary. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh. Dr. Cohen is the author of two books, The Green Wave: Environmentalism and its Consequences  and Marshall, Mao und Chiang: Die amerikanischen Vermittlungsbemuehungen im chinesischen Buergerkrieg (Marshall, Mao and Chiang: The American Mediations Effort in the Chinese Civil War). Dr. Cohen received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. – summa cum laude – from the University of Munich.

For our weekly wrap-up, we bring you the wit and wisdom of Chuck Woolery as he distills the latest news in short segments of sarcasm, as heard this week on radio stations across the country. This week: Hollywood Sex Crimes, China + Basketball, Cher Jet Tax Break, Harassment Settlements and "Trump Broke Me."

Geoff Diehl is running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts against Elizabeth Warren. He comes to talk about the political issues that not only represent his home state but could affect the rest of the country, as Warren plans to run for President in the future. This includes how Warren’s extremely leftist policies that simply do not represent the majority of Americans. Her public platform vs. her real actions highlight her absolute hypocrisy within the DNC, regarding money in politics, “fair pay” for women and much more. Diehl illuminates multiple examples that show what Warren’s primary motivator really is. To support Diehl in his run against Warren, visit https://diehlforsenate.com/. Follow Diehl and his campaign on Twitter @DiehlForSenate and @_WheresWarren Follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiehlForSenate/ https://www.facebook.com/WhereIsElizabethWarren/ Also on the podcast, Chuck and Mark discuss the recent shooting tragedy in Texas, the attack on Rand Paul and the anti-fascist rallies across the country that didn’t have quite the turnout the organizers expected. They talk about the irrationality of the gun control fantasy that the left seems to hold onto, despite the facts, and how it ties into the ways liberals are trying to transform the country. About the guest: Geoff Diehl is a State Representative from Whitman, Massachusetts whose hard work on behalf of taxpayers has saved residents across the state from having to pay billions of dollars in new taxes. In 2010, Geoff ran for state representative and won. On January 5, 201,1 he was sworn in as a member of the 187th General Court of Massachusetts, serving the people of the 7th Plymouth District (Abington, East Bridgewater and Whitman) as their state representative. During his time in office, Geoff has led the fight for more transparency and accountability at the State House. He has worked to increase jobs and send more local aid to cities and towns. Geoff also has been a champion of Massachusetts taxpayers and has taken bold action to protect them from tax hikes. In 2016, Geoff was Co-Chairman of the Massachusetts effort to elect Donald Trump as President.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, who has focused on Islamic terror since the September 11th attack. He talks about current immigration policy and the diversity lottery, exploring how it doesn’t benefit America but puts us at serious risk. They talk about why the left wants to bring in refugees and immigrants from countries that don’t like American very much, despite how deadly it is for our citizens. Socialism in America isn’t new, and they go through some of our past leaders’ decisions to see how it has been trickling into U.S. policy through history. Greenfield also explains the difference between a Stalinist politician and a Leninist politician in our current political climate. Also on the episode, Chuck and Mark talk about the Democrats going after Facebook and Twitter, Bernie Sanders talking about lifting the cap on Social Security income tax and the new tax plan in Congress. They describe the absurd ad created for the governor’s race in Virginia that took aim against Republican Ed Gillespie, suggesting his supporters are racists targeting minority children. In light of Donna Brazile’s new tell-all book coming out, a year after the election, they run through details she has revealed about the Clinton campaign taking financial control of the DNC to drive Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. Mark explains how Clinton essentially turned the DNC into a money laundering operation. For more information about our guest, follow Daniel on Twitter @Sultanknish and Facebook here. Read his blog at http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ and find more of his work at http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/daniel-greenfield.

For our weekly wrap-up, we bring you the wit and wisdom of Chuck Woolery as he distills the latest news in short segments of sarcasm, as heard this week on radio stations across the country. This week: Bowe Bergdahl, George Takei, Pre-Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday.

Chuck spends a few minutes addressing the reality of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the environment in Hollywood that allows for it to exist.

Today we thank our listeners for helping to make our podcast the force that it is, and Chuck and Mark start out by reading listener tweets sharing what they are thankful for this year. They invite historian James W. Baker on for an historical perspective on America’s Thanksgiving traditions. Baker gives us the facts about the holiday and its beginnings, dispelling some of the myths that have been perpetuated through the decades. Find out what Franksgiving was and learn why the Pilgrims didn’t start Thanksgiving. Jim Baker was born into an old Plymouth, Massachusetts family and grew up with the story of Pilgrims and the traditions of the town. His first summer job after high school was as a guide aboard Mayflower II. He majored in history at Boston University but also took courses in education and a degree in Library Science at URI to make a living from the Liberal Arts. After receiving his MLS degree, he accepted a position as research librarian at Plimoth Plantation. From 1975 to 2001, he worked at the Plantation as Director of Research and watched it grow from a modest regional institution to a museum of international renown. He left Plimoth Plantation and accepted the position of Curator at the Alden House Historic Site in Duxbury in 2002. Now retired, he has published several titles on Plymouth and the Pilgrims, including Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday, University of New Hampshire Press, 2009; A Guide to Historic Plymouth, The History Press, 2008; Alden House History: A Work in Progress, Alden Kindred of America, 2006; Images of America Series: Plymouth, Arcadia Publishing, 2002; and Plimoth Plantation: Fifty Years of Living History, Plimoth Plantation, 1997. He still lives in the seventh-generation family house with his wife Peggy M. Baker, Director Emerita of Pilgrim Hall Museum. For more information about Baker’s work, visit www.jabezcorner.com