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Tune in to The Main Event this Saturday morning at 9:30 on AM590 with host Ed Hoffman as he discusses national, regional and local current events, as well as trends in the local real estate market. Ed delivers intelligent radio with unique, witty and irreverent flair.
Since the HERO program is the talk of the town on the local real estate scene, Ed begins the show this week by revealing the latest news on the program. This is important information for anyone interested in making energy improvements on their home for no money down. Ed has valuable tips and warnings you need to hear!
Ed’s favorite guest, Scott McAffee from Don’s Bicycles in Redlands and Rialto, joins him again this week. In the first half of the show, they discuss the appropriateness of the President – or rather, the inappropriateness that seems so pervasive today. “When I grew up, I believed America was a force for good in the world,” Ed says. “I always knew this was the greatest country in the world.” Ed mentions that he recently asked a young adult if they believe the same thing; the person replied that he wasn’t sure, nor was he sure if the current President believes that we are. “The young people we’re around today are going to be the leaders 20 years from now,” Ed says. “If they aren’t sure we’re a force for good in this world, they aren’t going to fight for this country…and our grandkids are going to live in a very different world as a result.”
In the second half of the show, Ed and Scott address the international relations embarrassments our government has immersed itself in recently. Regarding Cuba, Ed says, “At some point in the 1960s, President Kennedy said, ‘We’re not dealing with you anymore.’” Contrast that leadership with the approach of the President today, who claims that our severed ties with Cuba for 50 years “wasn’t working anymore.” Now, despite how Cuba continues to treat its people and how the Castro regime runs its government, we have resumed a relationship with this major human rights violator. Ed and Scott segue into discussing other State Department blunders as of late, including audio from a recent disastrous press conference by State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki. They also point out that Yemen was an American ally at one point, and how now that their anti-American rebels have overthrown their government, Jen Psaki thinks it will be effective to politely ask them to “bring back our vehicles.”
If you are following the steady stream of coverage on potential Republican candidates for President in 2016, you’ll love the final few minutes of this week’s show! Ed and Scott point out the strengths and weaknesses of several potential candidates one by one, including Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker (who, as Ed pointed out on his Twitter account @EdHoffman this week, he likes because he doesn’t have a college degree), and Bobby Jindal – a speaker at this year’s Unite IE Conservative Conference, which will be February 21 at the Fox Performing Arts Center!
Catch Ed Hoffman, host of The Main Event, on air this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. with encore presentations at 9 p.m., and Sunday at 4 p.m. Follow him on Twitter @EdHoffman, and like him on Facebook by searching The Main Event AM590.
