Mike talks to The Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent about  his relationship with God, politics and hunting. Mike also shares another edition of Al Sharpton vs The Teleprompter and a very special rejected promotional item. Plus, the word of the week and your weekly history lesson.

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Ted Nugent Talks God, Politics, and Takes Mike Back to 1976 1/31/15

-Is your home owners association insane like mine?
-Should the day after the super bowl be a national holiday?
-Dramatic reading
-Super Bowl recap
-Lady GaGa killed it
-Maxine Waters
-Trump and Putin
-Arnold and Donald fight
-Is Trump working for Wall Street?
-Guest Dr. Wendy Patrick
-Trump and journalists
-Kindergartner was given a note telling parents that they have to pick healthier options
-Womans march strike

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Lady GaGa was the best halftime show I have seen in years

It's April Fool's Day, which is notorious for pranks and people thinking they're pranksters, however the Russians seem to be taking it to a disturbing level.

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4/1/17: Disturbing Russian Embassy Voicemail Message

On today's "Pure Opelka," Mike shared the story of progressive Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren's and the embarrassing report showing the women who work for Warren were paid almost 30% less than the men. On average, women staffers were paid $30,000 less than their male counterparts.

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4/4/17 - Equal Pay Warrior, Sen. Elizabeth Warren Caught Paying Her Female Staff Less Than Men

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05/30/17 - I Ain't Sayin' She A Gold Digger

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06/05/17 Hour 3

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Dennis Rodman Future Nobel Peace Prize Winner?

Trump VA Bill, College Prof Hates America, Emily Zanotti and Rainbow Pits, Capt Jack Wagon and Helping Homeless Vets
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Trump Signs VA Bill, College Prof Hates USA and a way to Help Homeless Vets

Diversity Police and Free For All Friday Fun
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7/14/17 - Hour 3

Guest host Yaron Brook discusses times when hate is a rational and appropriate response to people who do terrible things after a caller made an outrageous claim. Brook said America is in decline, and President Trump&rsquo;s speech imploring Americans to love their country by loving everyone in it did not sit well with him in the face of NeoNazis and Antifa violence.

When Hate Helps

Guest host Yaron Brook explores the founding of America and how far off track we have gone from the original intent of the founders. He doesn&rsquo;t see anyone on the left or the right defending reason or individualism anymore.&nbsp;

America was founded on individualism

The main stream media has a decidedly left leaning bias, but Fox can&rsquo;t claim to be fair and balanced any more. Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, explores the implications of President Donald Trump touting Fox during his Phoenix rally. He then reminds us of what the main stream media ignored during Barack Obama&rsquo;s presidency.

Tales About Two Presidents

&nbsp;Yaron Brook agrees with the first half of a piece in the September edition of &ldquo;The Atlantic&rdquo; titled &ldquo;How America Lost Its Mind.&rdquo; Respect for reality and rational thinking started to decline in the 1960s. But Yaron and the author draw very different conclusions about how that manifested in America.

How America Really Lost Its Mind

Alex Epstein, president of the Center for Industrial Progress, discusses &ldquo;An Inconvenient Sequel&rdquo; with Yaron Brook. He comments on what is true, what Al Gore failed to report on, and how industry has actually saved human life from climate rather than end it or make it worse.

Life is more important than climate

Guest Host Yaron Brook fills for Opelka&nbsp; Pure Opelka, weekdays Noon to 3pm and 10pm to 1amET &amp; Saturday's 6am - 9am ET on The Blaze Radio. Twitter- @PureOpelka &amp; @Stuntbrain Facebook- Mike Opelka HOUR 1 - &nbsp;Tales About Two Presidents The main stream media has a decidedly left leaning bias, but Fox can&rsquo;t claim to be fair and balanced any more. Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, explores the implications of President Donald Trump touting Fox during his Phoenix rally. He then reminds us of what the main stream media ignored during Barack Obama&rsquo;s presidency. HOUR 2 -&nbsp;How America Really Lost Its Mind Yaron Brook agrees with the first half of a piece in the September edition of &ldquo;The Atlantic&rdquo; titled &ldquo;How America Lost Its Mind.&rdquo; Respect for reality and rational thinking started to decline in the 1960s. But Yaron and the author draw very different conclusions about how that manifested in America. Yaron Brook discusses Galt&rsquo;s speech from &ldquo;Atlas Shrugged,&rdquo; contrasted with works like &ldquo;The Social Construction of Reality,&rdquo; and suggests that the person with the most votes and the biggest guns decides what reality is in this day and age. HOUR 3 -&nbsp;Life is more important than climate &nbsp;Alex Epstein, president of the Center for Industrial Progress, discusses &ldquo;An Inconvenient Sequel&rdquo; with Yaron Brook. He comments on what is true, what Al Gore failed to report on, and how industry has actually saved human life from climate rather than end it or make it worse.
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America Has Lost It's Mind, Life is more important than climate with Alex Epstein   8/23/17

Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, addresses the one thing that does not seem to be improving in this world of freer markets and technology: white middle aged American life expectancy. He talks about what is to blame for this alarming statistic, and how to overcome it. Hint: government is not the solution.

Middle aged white people are dying earlier

Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert declared this the most exciting period in food history. You can buy disaster preparedness kits on Amazon, and you can use your Amazon Prime account to get discounts at Whole Foods. The latter&rsquo;s prices are expected to drop on August 28 now that Amazon has acquired them. Walmart is also featuring organic food at a sane price. He filled Mike Opelka in on today&rsquo;s show.

Hurricane and Whole Foods preparedness

When Mike Opelka was on vacation in Cape May, he found a wine bottle bobbing in the early morning waves with a note and Powerball tickets inside. There was an email address on the note, so Mike contacted retired attorney David and spoke to him on the show. He&rsquo;s been sending out bottles with lotto tickets since before the time of email. Mike said he &ldquo;won a wonderful experience&rdquo; even if the ticket was a dud.

Message in a Bottle

Pure Opelka, weekdays Noon to 3pm and 10pm to 1amET &amp; Saturday's 6am - 9am ET on The Blaze Radio. Twitter- @PureOpelka &amp; @Stuntbrain Facebook- Mike Opelka HOUR 1 -&nbsp;For whom would children vote?&nbsp;California Senator Kamala Harris tweeted that children should have say in government, which is pretty much what you&rsquo;d expect a Democrat to tweet. Mike suspects, with all the free stuff Democrats offer, we all know who&rsquo;d get a child&rsquo;s vote.&nbsp;Love is Oxygen for the Soul...Billy Hallowell of Faithwire joins Mike for a Faith Lift. They discuss Jarrid Wilson&rsquo;s new book, photos of people&rsquo;s beautifully marked up and annotated Bibles, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation&rsquo;s war against Senator Marco Rubio for tweeting Bible verses. They&rsquo;re also going after a small school in Oklahoma for having a cross on top of a campus chapel.&nbsp; HOUR 2 -&nbsp;Hurricane and Whole Foods preparedness...Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert declared this the most exciting period in food history. You can buy disaster preparedness kits on Amazon, and you can use your Amazon Prime account to get discounts at Whole Foods. The latter&rsquo;s prices are expected to drop on August 28 now that Amazon has acquired them. Walmart is also featuring organic food at a sane price. He filled Mike Opelka in on today&rsquo;s show. Exclusive statue vandalism report or&hellip;Mike Broomhead of KFYI in Phoenix got security cam footage after a local news crew obtained an &ldquo;exclusive&rdquo; story of a vandalized Confederate statue in Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza.&nbsp;Was it an exclusive or a set up?&nbsp;The security cam tells a completely different story than Bryan West of 12News. Mike Opelka analyzes the evidence. HOUR 3 - CARL RUIZ DROPS FOOD KNOWLEDGE -&nbsp;Message in a Bottle..When Mike Opelka was on vacation in Cape May, he found a wine bottle bobbing in the early morning waves with a note and Powerball tickets inside. There was an email address on the note, so Mike contacted retired attorney David and spoke to him on the show. He&rsquo;s been sending out bottles with lotto tickets since before the time of email. Mike said he &ldquo;won a wonderful experience&rdquo; even if the ticket was a dud.

Hurricane Harvey, Monument Assaults and a Message in a Bottle - 8/25/17

ABC news is in Galveston covering hurricane Harvey. While waking up one morning they noticed something was missing from their truck. The storm seemed to have detached the satellite from the news truck and they have no idea where it went.

ABC news truck vandalized by hurricane Harvey

There is a possibility of robots taking over our world. We have them build cars in the 80's and now we have them cleaning our homes. There us a group that is talking about owners of robots to pay taxes for them. More unnecessary taxes on silly things.

You might be paying taxes for your vacuum

A couple in Houston has been together for five years, and looking to get married. After several obstacles getting in their way, from construction of the reception area, to now hurricane Harvey. Their guest list throughout the week have been getting smaller, and now the priest cannot make the wedding. Maybe a skype call in?

Skype calling to get married?

&nbsp;A young man walked 12 miles in the dark to see if his dad was still alive in the midst of Hurricane Harvey. A reporter from CNN loaned him a satellite phone and allowed them to connect, giving a family hope. Mike Opelka contrasted deeply human experiences like this with the nonsense that upsets &ldquo;offendinistas.&rdquo;

What’s Really Important

&nbsp;The candidate for Texas&rsquo; 36th&nbsp;congressional district talked to Mike Opelka about how Hurricane Harvey flooding has affected Texas and her personally. She shares a variety of ways people all over the country can help those in need.&nbsp;

Dayna Steele on helping Houston

Australia&rsquo;s Dr. Ruby Red Scarlet (who insists that&rsquo;s her real name) says that Father&rsquo;s Day should be changed to Special Person&rsquo;s Day to be more inclusive. Mike Opelka says this is political correctness &ldquo;gone absolutely hog freaking wild.&rdquo;
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Say No to Special Person’s Day

Faithwire&rsquo;s Billy Hallowell joins Mike Opelka to discuss the erroneous reports that megachurch pastor Joel Osteen was turning Houstonians away from his church, refusing to allow it to be used as a shelter. The truth is that the entire first floor of the structure is under water, and the church is coming up with ways to help the community in the days and weeks to come.

What Joel Osteen is doing for Houston

&nbsp;Mike Opelka reports on Iceland&rsquo;s horse registry committee, consisting of 2 people. They are banning any &ldquo;foreign&rdquo; horse names from being registered in their tiny nation, asking names to be of Icelandic heritage only. Is this racist, exclusionary, or ridiculous?
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Iceland is horsing around

Pure Opelka, weekdays Noon to 3pm and 10pm to 1amET &amp; Saturday's 6am - 9am ET on The Blaze Radio. Twitter- @PureOpelka &amp; @Stuntbrain Facebook- Mike Opelka HOUR 1 - What Joel Osteen is doing for Houston,&nbsp;Faithwire&rsquo;s Billy Hallowell joins Mike Opelka to discuss the erroneous reports that megachurch pastor Joel Osteen was turning Houstonians away from his church, refusing to allow it to be used as a shelter. The truth is that the entire first floor of the structure is under water, and the church is coming up with ways to help the community in the days and weeks to come. Mike Opelka talks with Genevieve Piturro of the Pajama Project, who for 16 years has been collecting and distributing pajamas and a book to children without. They have focused on the foster child population, but in the midst of the Hurricane Harvey tragedy, she is collecting for kids displaced by the storm &ndash; in shelters without the comfort and softness&nbsp;of home. HOUR 2 - HARVEY Updates, how to help. Plus, North Korea fires another missle, and some other strange stories... Mike Opelka is perplexed by the performance art of Milo Moire, who allows strangers across Europe to touch her intimate areas in an attempt to demonstrate consent and combat rape &ndash; or so she says. Mike suspects that like many performance artists, she just wants attention. HOUR 3 -&nbsp;Say No to Special Person&rsquo;s Day,&nbsp;Australia&rsquo;s Dr. Ruby Red Scarlet (who insists that&rsquo;s her real name) says that Father&rsquo;s Day should be changed to Special Person&rsquo;s Day to be more inclusive. Mike Opelka says this is political correctness &ldquo;gone absolutely hog freaking wild.&rdquo; Mike Opelka reports on Iceland&rsquo;s horse registry committee, consisting of 2 people. They are banning any &ldquo;foreign&rdquo; horse names from being registered in their tiny nation, asking names to be of Icelandic heritage only. Is this racist, exclusionary, or ridiculous?

Hurricane Harvey Brings Out The Best in Many, How You Can Help, Joel Osteen on Blast? - 8/29/17

So many people are without power and even shelter in Eastern Texas right now. Mike Opelka discusses his pal, survival expert Creek Stewart, and his tips for when there is a need to survive without modern technology, not if. Stewart also provides a subscription box service called Apocabox with survival supplies for nigh-apocalyptic scenarios.&nbsp;
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How long could you survive?

&nbsp;Dr. Jorge Rodriguez tells Mike Opelka about the health and life extension benefits of coffee, discovered in a 10 year Spanish study of 20,000 participants. He also goes over a new injection for inflammation that might be a game changer in cardiovascular disease.&nbsp;
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Delicious and new disease fighters

Mike Opelka encourages everyone who hates their job or just wants a change in life to ask themselves what they can do to help Texas recover. So many homes, cars, and businesses will need to be built.&nbsp;What opportunity awaits you?&nbsp;How can you help?

Capitalism to Houston’s Rescue

Why is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie all over the news today criticizing Texas Senator Ted Cruz? Mike Opelka suspects that Christie is positioning himself for a continued career in politics, depending on what happens to Bob Menendez&hellip;.

Christie criticizing Cruz on Camera

Iowa Democrat Heather Ryan was not invited to a Polk County Democrat Party event because she isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;family friendly.&rdquo; Mike Opelka asked why other Democrats are not outraged, like Navy vet Ryan was, white a woman is basically told to &ldquo;sit down and shut up?&rdquo;

Democrats ban female candidate from event

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HOUR 1 - Harvey Update, PJ's for Kids Update, Give Some Socks, Kathy Griffin takes back apology, Fat Guys in the Woods&nbsp;So many people are without power and even shelter in Eastern Texas right now. Mike Opelka discusses his pal, survival expert Creek Stewart, and his tips for when there is a need to survive without modern technology, not if. Stewart also provides a subscription box service called Apocabox with survival supplies for nigh-apocalyptic scenarios.&nbsp; HOUR 2 -&nbsp;Dr. Jorge Rodriguez tells Mike Opelka about the health and life extension benefits of coffee, discovered in a 10 year Spanish study of 20,000 participants. He also goes over a new injection for inflammation that might be a game changer in cardiovascular disease. Capitalism to the Rescue&nbsp;Mike Opelka encourages everyone who hates their job or just wants a change in life to ask themselves what they can do to help Texas recover. So many homes, cars, and businesses will need to be built.&nbsp;What opportunity awaits you?&nbsp;How can you help? HOUR 3 - Ted Cruz vs Chris Christie&nbsp;Why is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie all over the news today criticizing Texas Senator Ted Cruz? Mike Opelka suspects that Christie is positioning himself for a continued career in politics, depending on what happens to Bob Menendez&hellip;.Celebs and Harvey&nbsp;Iowa Democrat Heather Ryan was not invited to a Polk County Democrat Party event because she isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;family friendly.&rdquo; Mike Opelka asked why other Democrats are not outraged, like Navy vet Ryan was, white a woman is basically told to &ldquo;sit down and shut up?&rdquo;Mike Opelka encourages everyone who hates their job or just wants a change in life to ask themselves what they can do to help Texas recover. So many homes, cars, and businesses will need to be built.&nbsp;What opportunity awaits you?&nbsp;How can you help?
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How Long Could You Survive? Kathy Griffin Takes Back Apology, Chris Christie vs Ted Cruz - 8/30/17

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