* Guest: Bryan Rust – Over the past 50 years, Rust Coins has been working to educate customers about precious metals – RustCoinAndGift.com
* Guest: Kelly Finnegan, Senior Chemist Joins us on air.
* Honest Money Report: Gold: $1695.70 Silver: $17.72.
* Biden taunts ‘brave right-wing Americans,’ saying they’ll need more than guns to fight the government – TheBlaze.com
* Ahead of Midterms, Biden Shifts From Compromise to Combat – He is spending less time hailing the virtues of unity and more time calling out Republicans and dangers to democracy – NYT.
* White House Seeks Free Airtime to Launch MIDTERM ASSAULT ON REPUBLICANS – NBC.
* Biden to give prime-time speech about ‘soul of the nation’ as voters prepare to cast midterm ballots – The president will lay out how America’s standing in the world and its democracy are at stake. Biden will highlight what he sees as progress over the past two years to protect our democracy, but note that rights and freedoms remain at risk. “He will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy,”
* Sam: “Sure Glad We Don’t Have A democracy.”
* Housing on brink of collapse?
* Half cows, entire pigs: Families buy in bulk.
* Restaurants’ new normal: Fewer cashiers, chefs and wait staff – Hilary Russ, Reuters.
* California residents are being told not to charge their electric vehicles due to possible blackouts just one week after the state announced it would ban the sale of gas-powered cars in 2035. The state issued a heat advisory Tuesday, warning excessive heat “will stress [the] energy grid.
* DEVELOPING: California power grid officials warn of blackouts.
* “The top three conservation actions are to set thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles, and turn off unnecessary lights.
Hour 2
* Hey Joe – Think Outside the Gun!
* Musk: “We actually need more oil and gas, not Less.” – The “Civilization Will Crumble” Without Oil and Gas – David Kelly.
* Advertising revenue at US radio stations is set to increase 4.8% to reach $12.3B this year, bolstered by political ad spend and ongoing recovery from the economic effects of the pandemic, S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Kagan media research unit predicts.
* Life expectancy for women in the United States dropped to slightly more than 79 in 2021. Life expectancy for men dropped to 73.
* Brittany Aldean, the wife of country music superstar Jason Aldean, is clapping back at the haters in epic fashion after the woke left took one of her comments way out of context.
* Aldean made headlines in August after she shared a video where she was said to compare her “tomboy phase” to that of someone transitioning, US Magazine reported . “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life,” Aldean wrote on Instagram during a beauty tutorial, the outlet noted. I remember watching this particular video at the time and thinking, “I can’t tell you how many of my female friends feel the same way. Last year, a friend of mine had said almost the exact same thing. When she was a teenager, she wanted to be just like one of the boys, and was terrified to think of how many young girls are now able to make destructive, irreversible changes to their bodies during what turns out to be just an adolescent phase.
