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5-29-25

Monologue:

Giant Killers

Triple Dipper:

1. Gen Z On The Rise
2. The Intolerant Left
3. The Ivy League Wars

Guests

3pm: Jared Hudson

3:30: Buttram & Lee

Resources

1. Gen Z On The Rise

https://1819news.com/news/item/brilyn-hollyhand-democrats-think-young-men-are-aliens-and-theyre-wasting-millions-trying-to-decode-us

https://www.vox.com/politics/414266/republican-conservative-two-gen-z-young-voter-trumpier-progressive

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/

https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-gen-z-voted-may-surprise-you?author=Mairead+Elordi&category=News&elementPosition=13&row=0&rowType=Vertical+List&title=How+Gen+Z+Voted+May+Surprise+You

2. The Intolerant Left

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/23/are-some-racist-slurs-ok-n2657525

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/23/chris-cuomo-obliterated-leftists-who-cant-condemn-the-assassination-of-israeli-embassy-staffers-n2657528
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-charged-allegedly-attacking-72-year-old-trump-supporter-wearing-maga-hat

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-admin-alleges-columbia-violated-civil-rights-law-deliberate-indifference-campus-protests

https://www.dailywire.com/news/med-school-caught-rejecting-white-and-asian-applicants-with-better-scores-than-minorities-it-accepts?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&category=Exclusive&elementPosition=1&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=Med+School+Caught+Rejecting+White+And+Asian+Applicants+With+Better+Scores+Than+Minorities+It+Accepts
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3419843/jewish-museum-murders-result-of-left-normalizing-violence/

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-lgbt-mob-just-attacked-christians-in-seattle-with-no-repercussions?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Matt+Walsh&category=Opinion&elementPosition=4&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=The+LGBT+Mob+Just+Attacked+Christians+In+Seattle+With+No+Repercussions

https://mycharisma.com/propheticrevival/hundreds-of-protestors-against-us-in-seattle-at-maydayusa-event/

https://cbn.com/news/us/fbi-investigating-seattle-after-mayor-blamed-christians-violent-rioters-who-attacked-them


3. The Ivy League Wars

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/27/higher-education-faces-an-existential-crisis-of-its-own-making/

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/28/poison-ivy-why-harvard-will-likely-lose-a-war-of-attrition-with-the-trump-administration/#more-232176

https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-denies-barron-applied-harvard-2077730

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-floats-shifting-billions-from-harvard-to-trade-schools?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&category=News&elementPosition=27&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Trump+Floats+Shifting+Billions+From+Harvard+To+Trade+Schools

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-freezes-all-new-student-visa-interviews-in-major-blow-to-elite-universities?author=Nathan+Gay&category=News&elementPosition=9&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Trump+Admin+Freezes+All+New+Student+Visa+Interviews+In+Major+Blow+To+Elite+Universities

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-gives-deadline-for-federal-agencies-to-cancel-harvard-contracts?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&category=News&elementPosition=15&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Trump+Gives+Deadline+For+Federal+Agencies+To+Cancel+Harvard+Contracts

https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/27/alan-dershowitz-harvard-university-trump/

Rightside Way Monologue

You’ve all heard the famous quotation from Sir Edmund Burke that “the only thing

necessary for evil to triumph if for good men to do nothing.”….Sir Edmund nailed

it…..rhetoric is fine….speech is necessary…..having a voice is imperative….but

sometimes the good people of this nation have to set aside words and take

action….get busy…..actually DO something…..and there is no better time than the

present…..There was a scene in the Mel Gibson movie, The Patriot, that was very

telling….it was great movie, ….a movie, by the way, which was actually loosely

based on the real life character of Francis Marion, a man they nicknamed the

Swamp Fox, during the American Revolution…..In the movie Gibson’s character

had initially been opposed to the war….he was opposed to a fight with the British

at the onset of the Revolutionary War, but later in the movie he was lamenting his

delay to take action…..he was told by the female lead character, “You have done

nothing for which you should be ashamed”….to which Gibson’s character

responded, “I have done nothing. And for that I am ashamed.”

There IS a time and place for good men and women to set aside talk and to “do”

something…..and it can be scary….it can be daunting to put yourself, your honor

and integrity, and your good name, all on the line by showing up and letting

yourself be counted…..but more than ever in such a time as this we need “giant

killers”…..we need people who can stand and make direct eye contact with

giants…..there is a rabid sense of desperation right now coming from the darkest

places…..not so long ago marchers in so-called pride parade in New York City

marched while chanting “we’re here, we’re queer, and we want your

kids!”….that’s evil showing itself…..just last week a friend of mine was in Seattle

for a gathering of Christians in a public park….they were accosted by progressive

LGBTQ activists and the Mayor chose to blame the Christians…..on our southern

border desperate ranchers and small towns were crushed by an overwhelming tide

of illegal immigrants for the last few years…..major cities, especially in California,

are facing an epidemic of drugs, crime and homeless encampments that are literally

squeezing the life out of once vibrant downtown areas…..I could go on, but you

already know…..there is a desperate wind blowing as if the enemies of the good

are scratching and clawing to get more and more from us…..This great nation, to

include the State of Alabama where I sit right now, is facing a series of challenges

unlike any that we have had in contemporary memory….. There will always be

flares of social upheaval……that’s a given…..the process of give and take in social

norms, or questions of fiscal discipline…..wars and rumors of wars….But it is not

often that we see and feel such tangible calls for societal evolution …..this is a

cause greater than all of us…..BUT…and here’s the good news….we ARE gaining

ground…..we are seeing momentum swing in our direction….as my lovely

Charlene is prone to say, there ARE more of us than there are of them…..but the

time to act is still on us….and truthfully, we would be foolish to sit idle and waste

this momentum…..


But I want to point out that this time we are in is not unique in human

history…..we can get through this but we will have to take out some giants first…..

I believe that America is poised to step into a moment that will set the standard for

generations to come……whether to accept or – hopefully – refuse to accept a “new

normal” – one in which actual civil liberties…..assembly, speech, due process, a

right to confront our accusers, the right to ensure our votes count……all of it could

go away. The debate rages and there are ideas, opinions, and plans from all sides of

the spectrum…..In the middle of it all you may be asking yourself…..how can I

make a difference? Can one person really do anything meaningful….what can I, in

my limited sphere of influence, ever hope to accomplish?...What is happening right

now is “Giant” in its scope……so my question is: are you prepared to be a Giant

Killer?.....Good people who speak up and decide to take action…..even by

themselves or in small numbers have often turned the tide of great moments in

societies throughout history


I feel like I have to draw an analogy to two of my favorite stories from the Bible.

Regardless of anyone’s personal views I believe that the storyline originating in

Numbers 13 has direct application to our current crisis. For context, the Israelites

had just come through years of slavery and the great exodus from Egypt. They

stood on the border of the Promised Land and sent twelve men over the border to

check things out. Everything that they had dreamed of in their quest for a new life

was there; it was a land “flowing with milk and honey”. A people that had been

through so much were on the edge of a new life. But there was a problem: there

were “giants in the land” ready to oppose their progress. It was supposed to be easy

they thought, it was supposed to be a new day, and no one said anything about

having to overcome enemies that looked like that!....there are giants! They said


The twelve spies came back and reported to Moses and the people….ten of them

said that it was simply not doable. The giants were insurmountable. But two men,

Joshua and Caleb, stood up and called on the people to stay the course. But fear

took over, the easy route was chosen, they turned away from the fight, the giants

won without having to do a thing, and the people of Israel wandered in the

wilderness for the next forty years. An entire generation passed away before the

Israelites returned to cross the Jordan and enter the Promised Land…… When they

did finally cross over they still had to fight, it was not any easier because they had

waited. They had simply delayed the inevitable and deferred the hard work to their

children and grandchildren…..I hope you caught that part….fear of giants, led to

wandering in the wilderness, so that the next generation could come back and have

to fight the same giants anyway…..


But you’ve all heard the story of another fight…..just a few generations

later…..David….the least among his family of the least among the tribes…..David

took issue with the fear and fecklessness of the Israelite army when they were

being taunted by the giant warrior Goliath. You all know the story of David…..he

slew the giant….but there were a few aspects of that story that might have never

noticed….we’re told in 1 Samuel 17 that on the way down to the fight David

stopped by a dry creek bed and picked up five smooth stones…..he killed Goliath

with one…..but he was mentally prepared to stay in the fight and sling all five

stones if one was not enough. ….But there is another key point in that

storyline….David was mocked and spurned by his own brother for daring to think

he could fight the giant….the King told him he was too small…. naysayers who

could not imagine the idea of confronting a giant…..David responded, “is there not

a cause?”…..Is there not a cause?...what a great question…..a history…..a way of

life worth fighting for?....something bigger than ourselves…..but David chose to

face the giant, alone at first…..but we read in the storyline that his stand galvanized

his whole nation….his single effort to face the giant rallied the people who then

grabbed the momentum he had helped to create…..and they won!


Look, I don’t care from where you draw your inspiration….a famous movie….a

personal story….an experience of others or of your own….or in this case from a

biblical narrative…..the fact remains that we must have the social and political

will to stand or we will most surely fall…..You can stand….and

maybe….maybe… you will not reach the heights you are attempting but if you

remain seated you most surely not reach them


I believe that the State of Alabama, along with our southeastern neighbors in

Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, and most of Georgia, are on the cutting edge of

this fight. We are poised, as what are supposed to be the most conservative states

in the nation, to be a catalyst for substantive change and to serve as a bulwark

against the absolute attempts to wreck our nation. ….Make no mistake there are

giants in the land ……but I was not selected to find the easy way out, and in my

opinion sitting idle is the option of fools and cowards…..it is possible to find

simple solutions to hard problems, This is an audience of giant killers…..Having

come this far we must cross over or it will all have been for naught.


US Senator George Allen was once asked about the tough race he was in for the

Senate….his opponent was fighting with every dirty trick possible….it was

mudslinging, it was gross….but Allen said, “Thunder is impressive, but it’s

lightning that does the work”…..he knew…he knew that words sometimes must be

supplanted by meaningful action….so here’s the deal….something that I say often

on this show…..Find your place….find your voice….find one or two others…..go

speak at a public hearing….organize a social media campaign…start your own

podcast….support a strong candidate for office…..run for office yourself……write

a letter to the editor….this is our country and we are called to steward it well.


It is a broad-based strategy of stewardship and it is not easy by any means. But it is

certainly doable – these giants are not insurmountable…..We are not the kind to

turn back….. The world needs some giant-killers.


And that’s a wrap for the Rightside Way!

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