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Monday 30 Straight Talk With Gary Randall

March 30, 2026·28 min·2 clips

Gary Randall reveals the irony of No King's protesters singing about freedom while threatening violence against dissenters.

The program opens with encouragement. A Max Lucado podcast spot sets a biblical tone before Gary Randall thanks listeners and marks Monday, March 30, 2026. Reagan supplies the first thread. Randall remembers John Hinckley Jr. shooting the president outside a Washington DC hotel, then notes Reagan's recovery with obvious relief. After that, the hour gets sharper. He turns to protests in Oregon, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, reading them as disorder rather than healthy civic pushback. Governor Tina Kotak is quoted, and Randall spends time on the Oregon Convention Center scene, including the inflatable protest costume and the claim that no one is above the law. He does not buy the premise. In his telling, the left keeps trying to dismantle the country while calling itself the defender of democracy. The Los Angeles segment lands harder. Protesters are described as masked, violent, tied to foreign flags, and trying to break into a facility housing federal immigration agents. Randall says reporters captured the scene, names Julia Rosas and Jorge Ventura as independent reporters who recorded it, and calls the pictures sad. San Francisco lets him widen the charge. He asks what someone would do if they wanted to hurt the United States, then points back to crowds claiming to oppose tyranny while trying to oust a duly elected president. The close returns to ministry business. Randall thanks supporters, says the program depends on monthly financial help, and promises to return tomorrow. The final ad brings back the hope motif, with Max Lucado's Encouraging Word closing on a living Savior who is near, for you, and in you.

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A sermonlike run through Reagan memory, protest politics, and Christian conservative grievance.

Gary Randall opens with the Max Lucado sponsor read, then turns to a March 30 remembrance of Ronald Reagan being shot and seriously wounded in 1981.

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Reagan and West Coast protests through a Christian conservative lens.

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