TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Rick Wiles Interview with Actor, Filmmaker Dean Cain, Pt 1

Episode Date: April 13, 2023

Baseball legend Yogi Berra was not only a favorite of the author because of his great baseball skills and accomplishments but also for his unique sayings, commonly known as Yogi-isms. Some memorable Yogi-isms include: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." "You can observe a lot by just watching.""No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded." However, the most quoted Yogi-ism is "It's like déjà vu all over again," which the author believes applies to the current financial situation. While the author does not believe that the current economic crisis is a repeat of 2008, it does resemble the stagflation that affected the country from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, a period of high inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment that lasted around 15 years. The author wishes that someone had advised them to buy gold in 1971 when they graduated from high school, as it has since increased from $44 to over $2,000 per ounce. The author hopes that viewers in their 20s and 30s will take their words to heart. In other news, TruNews has a new sponsor this month, Genesis Gold Group, a Beverly Hills-based company owned by a Bible-believing Christian businessman. The company's spokesman is Hollywood actor Dean Cain, known for playing Superman in the TV series "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" and hosting "Ripley's Believe It or Not," and serving on the NRA board of directors. Cain is also present with the author. Dean Cain joins us today for part one of two interviews.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 4/13/23Listen to part two of this interview - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/53517310 You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielfIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day. https://www.rickwiles.com/final-day

This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. Baseball legend Yogi Berra was a favorite of mine. In addition to his great baseball skills and accomplishments, Yogi Berra was also known for his unique sayings commonly called yogisms. Some memorable yogisms are, well, when you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi also said, you can observe a lot by just watching. And then he said, no one goes there nowadays. It's too crowded. Another yogi-ism is always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise they won't come to yours. And no one goes there nowadays. It's too crowded. The yogi-ism that is quoted the most often is one of my favorite sayings by Yogi Berra. He said, it's like deja vu all over again.

Well, as I follow recent financial news, it's starting to look like it's deja vu all over again. I don't think it's a repeat of 2008. This time, it looks more like a repeat of the stagflation that gripped our country in the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. My wife Susan and I were married in 1974. We had our first child in 1976, our second child in 79. Times were tough. Inflation was extremely high. Mortgage rates soared to 24 percent. Unemployment was high too. It lasted approximately 15 years. I think we've entered another 15-year stagflation cycle. When I graduated from high school in 1971, gold was selling for $44 an ounce. Today, it is over $2,000 an ounce. I wish a wise man or woman would have taken me aside at my graduation and said to me, hey kids, let me give you some advice. Every month, set aside some of your paycheck to buy some gold and never sell it until your retirement.

I'd be a very wealthy man today. I know that there are viewers who are in their 20s and 30s watching me right now. And I hope you hear my words and I hope you act on them. Now I'm happy to tell you that True News has a new sponsor for this month. The company is Genesis Gold based in Beverly Hills, California. The owner is a Bible-believing Christian businessman and Hollywood actor Dean Cain is a spokesman for Genesis Gold. Many of you know Mr. Cain as the actor who starred as Superman in the TV series Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. He was also the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Mr. Cain is also a member of the NRA Board of Directors. Dean Cain is with us today. Hello, Dean. Glad to have you here. I'm very happy to be here, Rick. Thank you so much. Well, I'm honored that you would spend time with me today. You know, I'm a little bit older than you and I lived through that cycle, but I still have very deep memories about it. It was not the best time to start out in life as a 20-year-old married guy, because the stagflation hit America very hard in the mid-70s. And what I remember is that there were three waves of inflation, and it seemed like it would never end. And just when

the politicians and the news media would announce that they had whipped inflation and prices started to come down a little bit and people were celebrating, it would go back up again. And it did that three times. As I said in the opening,

gold was $44 an ounce. Isn't it? I wish I would have, because I was around during that time. You have me by a couple of years for sure. But I remember the stagflation. I remember the lines outside gas stations. And I remember that happening and thinking to myself, because I didn't understand economics, like what the heck is going on?

And it comes down to leadership is what it is i mean inflation comes because obviously because they print money they just print it's like it's going out of style whenever i hear politicians say you know look i i i donated or i put i i dedicated more money to this than anything you didn't dedicate them that that's our money that's taxpayer money or you just create it out of thin air. But gold, that's the greatest hedge against inflation bar none. And we are in a period of time where our leadership in this country are making decisions that hurt us taxpayers in every way, shape, and form. They hurt us

with our buying power for food, for gas, for energy, for anything. That price just keeps going up. One of the things that I did with Genesis Gold Group, which I thought was so much fun, was you look at the thing about gold. I have this 1924 $20 gold piece. And that thing is, first of all, I like just having it because it was 1924 and i'm a history guy and i just think it's pretty cool and he um i remember uh jonathan who who's the genesis owner and he was like look this this gold piece right here in 1924 or 28 could buy you the nicest tailored suit there is completely hand sewn everything great um or you know twenty dollars could have also

bought that well twenty dollars today buys you two starbucks um and that same gold piece is worth i don't know somewhere around three thousand five hundred bucks um so it still buys you the nicest suit ever it holds on to its value my sister's having this i started a 401k for her back in the day when uh when i start when i was doing superman she worked for me and uh i created an ira for her and it's done pretty well for a while except for the last couple years it's dropped about 20 in value so i've got her going over to go i finally can convince my own family to do it because of the, I see a lot of it. I see a lot more coming.

We've got two more years with this current administration and they're not slowing down. Their foot's on the, well, it's off the gas pedal. It's on a, I don't know what you want to call it. It's on a different pedal right now, doing the exact opposite to our energy, hurting our energy. I mean, Gavin Newsom here in California. For the first time in my life, I'm considering, very seriously considering, leaving California and going to a different state. Hey, Florida's open. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

We have a great governor here. This is a good state. Yeah, come on over. Great governor there. We've got Gavin Newsom here who's traveling to other states like Florida and telling everybody how terrible they are, which is crazy. We went from a ninety five billion dollar surplus last year to a negative twenty five billion dollar deficit this year because they're just spending. And it's just it's ridiculous. Well, you know, Dean, if you look back to that first inflation wave we had in the mid-70s, it came on the heels of Lyndon B. Johnson, the war on poverty.

He spent billions of dollars that the government didn't have and the Vietnam War. Now, that unleashed a wave of inflation that lasted 15 years because all that money was circulating in the markets. Now, here we are in the 2020s, and it's a repeat. We had the COVID relief money, trillions of dollars, trillions, unbelievable, unimaginable amount of money was printed out of thin air and given to people, into companies, and then we have the war in Ukraine. It's the same cycle.

It's free money to the public and free money to the war machine. And now we're going into a wave of inflation. And, you know, the politicians and the economists act like they don't know why it's happening. I mean, Jay Yellen saying it's transitory was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. You can't print trillions of dollars out of thin air without taking and lowering the value of each person's dollar. They say things like, we will not raise federal income taxes on anyone making under $400,000. Inflation is a tax on every single person all day, every day, on every good and service. It's disingenuous at best.

And it's dishonest at worst. And I think that they're doing that on purpose. It comes down to government control. They want people to have to depend on the government. It's the idea of that digital currency. The digital currency thing scares the bejesus out of me that's terrifying yeah the idea oh they literally everything every purchase you make everything you do um that that is terrifying it's just terrifying i'm a big believer in in uh small government

less regulation let people sort things out because that's the way it's always worked throughout history. People have a good way of doing that. The CBDC, central bank digital coin, will be programmable, which means that they can turn on and off your money. They can also geofence your money, meaning, Dean, they could lock you down into your neighborhood and say that your money is only good for one mile radius around your house. It's insanity. It's absolute insanity. And anybody who would have an argument like, look, they wouldn't do something like that.

Look no further than the trucker protests in Canada. They shut down all of their bank accounts because they didn't like the protest. Seize their money. It's absolutely terrifying. So there's no way in the world I'll be supporting that in any way, shape, or form. I'll fight against it. And I talk about now, I don't know much about cryptocurrencies. I see those things and so on and so forth. I understand gold and silver. I understand precious metals. I understand their values going up because they're always going to be needed and they're always going to be necessary. They always have been. So that I understand.

Keep it real simple for me. That just makes sense. It just makes sense. I don't know what's going on in California, but I do know what's happening here in Florida. Everybody I know, every person I personally know is hurting financially. They're making changes. They're cutting back. They're not going places that they used to go. They're not buying the same amount of groceries that they used to buy. Everybody feels pinched, restrained, like, hey, this isn't feeling good. I'll give you an example. My home, one of the problems we do have here in Florida is obviously with storms.

And because of the big hurricane that hit Florida last year, everybody got socked with, well, for me, my homeowner insurance doubled. Of course. And the county did an appraisal on my house that hadn't been appraised for years. And my property tax got doubled. So in one month, my property taxes were doubled and my homeowner's insurance were doubled. And suddenly I'm like, oh, my gosh, where am I coming up with the money for this? And it made me cut out a lot of stuff. I was like, hey hey i don't need

this i i gotta stop buying this this is done i have to pay these taxes and and my homeowner insurance is that kind of stuff happening in california oh like crazy it's happening in california uh well you were talking about you know does california see these property taxes and everything going it's not just mean, so we have fires here. And it's funny in insurance. So, you know, we had a fire run through here, burned part of my backyard and such. Then you couldn't get fire insurance here. So, of course, that went through the roof.

I mean, it more than like quadrupled. First of all, my insurance dropped me. They paid out the claim and then dropped me. They're like, we're not doing this. We're not working in this place anymore, even though I'm in a pretty great area. Property taxes are always going up. You see, our legislature here in California is a Democratic supermajority. So they just want to tax and tax and tax and give away. I don't understand the concept behind it, but it's as though they want hardworking people to suffer. If it's a classist thing and they're trying to redistribute wealth,

well, you know, they're giving away a lot of things here in California. Yeah. And talk about giving away more. Yeah, I do have a name for it. Communism. Yes, sir. Socialism, I mean, socialism socialism what's the end result of socialism communism um and and it's great for the people it's a big triangle communism and there's people at the very top they're doing great um but everybody else is working for them and that's just not right that's un-american it's not what we were set up to do and i have a real real problem

with that i've visited communist countries um and seen all sorts of different things. I remember in one particular country that I shall not name at this moment, I was with a sort of a handler. And we were seeing how everybody sort of lived. And it was really tough. And then I said, what about those really nice houses up there? Oh, those are for the party people. I'm like, the ruling party? Why do they get to live up there? Oh, because they have to do that for, you know, because they're ruling.

And so it's just completely against communism. I thought everybody was the same on communism. No way. It's great for the elites. And we see the elites doing it like crazy here. It's not we were set up to do. It's against, as far as I'm concerned, the idea of our republic. And I'll fight against it every step of the way. Good, because we have communism in the USA now. It is rampant in this country, and few people are willing to just call it for what it is. And, you know, to me, the commies, they recognized a long time ago that America could not be taken over with guns, that they weren't going to be able to storm into this country and violently overthrow the country. So they got rid of their other uniforms and they put on business suits and they infiltrated.

And our country right now, you know, about half of the American people are OK with socialism because they haven't lived under it. So they don't understand. So they are OK with the idea of socialism, but it hasn't actually happened to where they had to live under it. When you're doing so well, like a capitalist system like the United States, it's easy to embrace a concept like socialism. Of course, we have so much. Let's give it to everybody. When it starts to go away and you have to start waiting in line to get your bread or get this or have the government dole out this or that, it changes quite quickly. And unfortunately, I think we're getting indoctrinated in our schools that people aren't celebrating hard work.

They're not celebrating merit. We're getting these participation trophies, things that I've disagreed with from the very, very beginning. You work hard. You do well. You deserve to be living high on the hog. And everybody else should want to emulate you because it's not a finite bit of resources here. Everybody can do well. Everybody can. The rising tide can float everybody.

And we've done that here in the United States. The anti-capitalist people, like I see kids in college going against capitalism. It does my brain in. I just can't understand what they're learning and what they're being taught. Capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the history of mankind. And it makes perfect sense. So I don't know what they're teaching in schools. My son's a college senior right now at High Point University in North Carolina. It's a God family country school. There are American flags everywhere. You know, they teach real world skills and values, things you need to do to be in a corporate meeting, teaching meritocracy,

work hard, you get. You don't work, you don't get. I mean, that's just the way it works. So it's frightening to me what we're learning or what our young people are being taught in our universities today, because I see it a lot of time on television, people shouting down speakers. The idea behind differing points of view is if you disagree with somebody, it's not less dialogue, it's more dialogue. Talk to each other, figure it out, and you'll probably find you have a lot of common ground, and that's okay. We can have disagreements on certain things, but the way they've turned it into sort of this class versus class, race versus race thing recently, and it's only under this administration I find it maddening.

Well, it's classic Marxism to pit people against each other. And through the division and strife, they take control. Dean, in the introduction, I said you're on the National Board of Directors of the NRA. Are you still serving on the board? Sure. Good, good. So let's talk about the movement in this country to ban the ownership of guns. What's your thoughts about it? I think it's insanity.

I think it's crazy. There's a quote by Thomas Jefferson, I choose dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. And I agree with that 100%. It is dangerous having firearms. It makes everybody dangerous. And if every household had them, it would be dangerous because people can be dangerous. It's dangerous for the government to try to come in and take your things. It's dangerous for people to try to beat people you know, to beat people on the street.

If you want to see the most polite people, go to a gun store. You're in a gun store, and everybody there selling the guns and firearms and everything, they're all armed. Half the people around are armed. It's a very polite society.

It's, you know, we are still a society of laws, but we are a polite society. I'm also a police officer. I'm a sworn sheriff's deputy in Frederick County, Virginia, and I'm a reserve police officer in Pocatello, Idaho. Frederick. All right. I know Frederick County, Virginia. Winchester.

Yeah. Winchester. Yeah, I know that. I serve under Sheriff Lenny Milholland, who's phenomenal. And Major Steve. They're just great people, and they have a great relationship with the community. When they walk into a diner or a restaurant, everybody's just like, hey, it's like Norm from Cheers. It's great. They're well-loved and well-liked, and they do great work out there.

I was born and raised in Western Maryland, so I spent a lot of time in Winchester. It wasn't that far away. It's just down the road from us, across the state line. Yeah, a lot of good people. How in the world did you get to be a deputy sheriff in Winchester, Virginia? I work with a group called the Crimes Against Children Foundation. And so we are a group, started with Eric Estrada and Daryl Williams way back in the day. And I joined up because I, we started some about seven years ago, eight years ago,

there was a lot, so much police, anti-police rhetoric. And I know so many people in the military and our armed forces who have turned to law enforcement. I know so many people in law enforcement and I, you know, these are wonderful people. And I thought this is crazy who have turned to law enforcement. I know so many people in law enforcement. And I, you know, these are wonderful people.

And I thought, this is crazy that they're being vilified like this. Why aren't people standing up and protecting our men and women in blue? And I said, you know, I'll use my voice. I'll use my platform. And I knew people were going to say, you know, well, why don't you just join up? So you know what?

I did. I joined up and I've been doing it for about seven, eight years now. And they're wonderful people, and I'm proud to put on the uniform and speak out. If you don't have safety within a society, you don't have a society. And law enforcement provides that safety. Have there been some mistakes and some bad things happen? Yes. When you consider the number of the millions of interactions that law enforcement has with people, there's going to be some mistakes that somebody is having a bad day. Somebody mistakes something, you know, somebody, you know, right now they're shooting police officers

at a crazy rate. And so police officers are jumpy. They see you reach for something. They're jumpy. They're jumpy. They're concerned, you know, and they rightly should be. I couldn't be a police officer. I just would not have the patience. I just couldn't have. I'm sorry. There'd be fewer people in the world. That's all I can say. I couldn't do it. I've got a great respect for them. They do. They did a great job. My sheriff and my chief of police, Roger Shy is our chief of police in Pocatello, Idaho, and he is all about de-escalation, and so is Sheriff Millholland. So we're really good about that. If they look at me and say, hey, aren't you Superman? I would just hope that that would de-escalate things as well i wouldn't want to try to ping uh you know see if i was bulletproof i

don't want to do that but uh it's tough to be a police officer in a lot of places i wouldn't want to be one here in los angeles i wouldn't want to be a police officer in up in in oregon i wouldn't want to be a police officer in dc i wouldn't want to be a police officer. In D.C., I wouldn't want to be a police officer. In New York City, unfortunately for them, the odds are so stacked against them. It's insane. It's incredible. They're not being treated with the respect I believe they deserve. My son, I was raised the same way. You see a police officer, you know that's a safe place to go.

You thank them. You respect them. And it's the exact opposite now with these certain DAs who are allowing, you know, resisting arrest is no longer something they're going to prosecute. Well, how is a police officer going to go in there? He's got to fight. Everybody's going to arrest. Well, I'm a grown man. You know, I'm a man. You smack me in my head. I don't like it. I'm probably going to smack you back and use more force to control the situation. That's a bad cycle. And so telling people they can go ahead and assault police officers and resist arrest is insane.

And you're going to create problems. You're going to end up with more problems. But I think some people want that. I think some of the leaders who are putting these policies in want there to be that that that struggle, that fight. They want to see that fight against the police and then come to to us, the government. And we'll we'll sort things out for you and give you free this and free that. So you depend on us. I mean, it's sort of that cycle. Yeah, I am absolutely convinced I've been doing this job for 25 years. And so I have looked at a lot of stuff over two and a half decades. And I've come to the conclusion that the people who are running things aren't stupid.

Just because their actions or policies look stupid. They're not stupid. These policies are deliberate. And they are deliberately breaking down our society. I can't disagree with you. You know, again, you look at me and I'm someone who lives in Hollywood. I serve on the board of directors for the NRA. I'm a sworn sheriff's deputy and reserve police officer, kind of the exact opposite of what you would consider a kid from Malibu, California to be because I'm raised around people who feel differently, to put it mildly. I can't tell you how often people corner me and go, hey, listen, thank you. Thank you for

what you say, for your common sense, for your desire to have a dialogue with anybody and for your openness to listen to other points of view and state yours and openly take those slings and arrows. And I can't imagine a society where you can't do that. Do you get those comments in Malibu and Hollywood and L.A. or do you get those comments outside of the region? I get them on social media and online. So few people have the temerity to do it in person, have a conversation in person, because I'm a nice guy. I would love

to have a conversation. Let's have a disagreement. Let's talk about it. Let's see where we meet up and where we don't and see why I think the Second Amendment is hugely important and why it was in the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. It's the Second Amendment for a reason. It's there early on because it's hugely important. This country was built on the Winchester rifle. I mean, it's madness to think otherwise. And as a student of history, you look at any historical genocide, and it always starts with taking the ability for citizens to defend themselves. It always begins with gun grabs, always, always.

And then those who think that it can't happen, it won't happen here, are just fooling themselves, absolutely fooling themselves. You should have the ability to defend yourself and your family. You know, because I'm a police officer, I can carry a firearm. But if I wasn't, you know, and so many, and now there's 26 states that have constitutional carry, which I love. And that's something the NRA has worked hard to push. So we're 26 of our 50 allow constitutional carry now. And I think that's important. I think we need to harden all these gun-free zones. I don't think there should be a gun-free zone. There should be school resource officers in all the schools. I saw a statistic, and I don't know how specific this is, about the amount of money that was sent to Ukraine to help them fight the war versus how much it would cost to put two or three school resource officers in schools, every school in the United States. And it was a, I think it was somewhere like, you know, we could do it for the next 16 years for the amount of money we've sent over to Ukraine. Well, somewhere in there is a compromise. Somewhere in there, it makes sense. Now, I wouldn't want to compromise with my son's safety.

He's a college senior now. But when he was in high school, we had a credible threat at his high school. And we still had school that day. Well, I have some firearms. And I know all the security there. They weren't armed. I was armed. And I stayed there the entire day at the school.

I stayed right in the parking lot all day long. And they had my phone number. And I was prepared to go in there and act if I had to. And parents will do that and families will do that. I hope we never have to get to that place. Hopefully our leaders will straighten things out and make our kids and our children safe. It's not the guns, it's the people, it's the mental health. Absolutely. Many families are facing this. You know, even in my own family, my son and daughter, you know, they have children in school and everybody's concerned right now about the safety. They never thought this could happen. And parents are now dealing with this chilling possibility that a shootout could happen in their children's schools.

And this is unthinkable in the United States of America that little children should be worried about somebody coming into their school with a gun because they have a political agenda and a communist manifesto in their hand, and they're angry at the world. So America needs a change, and the change has got to come soon. Dean, we were out of time on this program. It's gone by really fast. My guest has been actor and filmmaker, businessman, Dean Cain. And he's also a spokesman for Genesis Gold Group, a new sponsor for True News this month. We appreciate Dean being here today. And I encourage you to contact Genesis Gold Group. Thank you, Dean. We'll see you again. silver. Find out why Genesis Gold Group is the number one recommended company by

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