California is a Lost Cause

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• California is a lost cause
• European obesity conference

Episode Transcript

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This is the Jimmy Barrett Show,brought to you by viewind dot Com.
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey,welcome everybody's Tuesday. Nice Tuesday too.
This is great for a change,to see a little sunshine right out
around here. Let's start by talkingabout California, which is where we don't
live, and we don't live therefor a very good reason. Right In

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fact, a lot of California's continueto move to Texas for a very good
reason. The thing that is sadI guess about so many people from California
or other Blue states coming to Texas, in Florida and places like that,
is that there's nobody. Pretty soon, there'll be nobody left there to fight
the good fight. It is asign that we have kind of officially given

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up on places like California. Thereis no fix for California at this point.
There there are not enough good conservativeleft in a state like California to
fight the process. There are nomore Ronald Reagan's in California. There just
isn't, you know. So Ithink we have to assume that it's a
lost cause. One thing we canhope is that we don't waste too much

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federal money on places like California.But they got a forty five billion dollar
deficit right now, so somebody's gonnawaste some money trying to get that ship
righted. And it's not going toget righted. Here's the latest news,
and Gavin Newsom has been doing hislevel best to avoid talking about it.
And that is how much money hasbeen spent and wasted on the homeless in

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California. Twenty four billion dollars.What have they accomplished with twenty four billion
dollars to fight homelessness in California?Not a damn thing. Now. Gavin
Newsom at the end of the daysort of blames local government. Well,
you know, we as a state, we provided these resources, and you

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know we don't always know what they'reusing the money for. Well why not
number one? Why not? Innumber two? Aren't there some strings attached
to this money? What is itwith Democrats just giving money? Oh,
this is money for COVID. Youbut y'all spend it on whatever you want
to spend it on. That's nothow it works. Of course, government

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will waste that money. If they'renot being held accountable, they don't have
to provide information on how the moneygot spent. What kind of craziness is
this? So after spending twenty fourbillion dollars in running a forty five billion
dollar deficit, California doesn't know whatto do next because they have just as
big a homeless problem, if notbigger, because to keep handing out all

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this free stuff to homeless people placeslike San Francisco. Hey, come to
San Francisco. Nobody's gonna hassle you. You can live on the streets the
way you want to. They'll giveyou drugs, they'll give you Hey,
they'll give you alcohol. Now wetalked about that. I think we talked
about that yesterday, didn't we.San Francisco is giving homeless alcoholics alcohol.

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Reason being is that they're seeing toomany of these alcoholics show up in emergency
rooms. You know, when theywhen they can't get their hands on enough
alcohol and they start going through theDTS, they show up in emergency rooms,
and it's it's it's it's it's cripplingtheir emergency services in San Francisco.
Well, first of all, I'venever I find it really hard to believe

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that there are that many homeless peoplewho can't get their hands on alcohol or
drugs or other things. That there'splenty of that stuff going around. But
the fact that San Francisco has decidedthe solution to the problem is to homeless
people with free alcohol to kind ofopen up the city bar, if you
will, and to pour them drinksis really quite amazing to me. And

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of course I'm not the only onethat's pretty amazed by. Here's a Dana
lash On thoughts yesterday talking about thisnot just vodka. I mean, it's
like a full on bar. Idon't know if it's like top shelf or
not, but apparently they have wineto choose from, they have a certain
amount of bruise. You also getsome vodka. I don't know what other
spirits are being offered, and it'slimited to like two or whatever a day.
And I mean this is all taxpayerfunded. Now. Case in point,

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remember Jesse Gavin Newsom has been braggingthat California is the model for the
nation for Democrats on his watch.They went from one hundred billion dollar surplus
because they were taking in over fiftybillion or fifty million something in taxes for
one year. Now they're running somethinglike a forty six billion dollar deficit,
half of which, according to thislegislative analyst audit is was spent on these

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homeless programs that they didn't even bothertracking. This Jesse is the only one
that they actually tracked, probably becauseit has to do with their favorite meal
Democrats at California Liquor. So thisis insane. That's the model for the
nation. So everybody needs to payattention to that because that's your option.
Yeah, model of the nation.Well, if your model is how to

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waste a bunch of taxpayer money andgo broke yourself, it's a pretty damn
good model. I will have toadmit that, because that's all they're really
accomplishing with this. They have justas many homeless people on the streets as
they did before they talk about affordablehousing. I'm not saying every person who's
homeless wants to be homeless, butI would have to say the majority do.

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They're out there for a reason.They may have mental health issues,
they may have drug and alcohol problems. They generally prefer life on the street.
Some of them are, you know, schizophrenic, some of them have
mental problems for whatever reason. Iwould say the majority of people who are
homeless and on the streets are homelesson purpose their career, their career homeless

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people, you can give them asmuch money as you want. There they
are living the lifestyle to which theychoose to achieve. That's what they want.
I'm not saying that's true of everybody. I'm not saying there are people
down on their luck. I'm notsaying there are people that can be helped.
But how are you helping people bygiving alcoholics alcohol? How are you
helping people by giving drug addicts drugs? Why if you're going to spend tax

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dollars, why not send them tothe Betty Ford or the equivalent thereof to
help dry them out. We've givenup on that idea, huh. There,
people can no longer be redeemed fromalcoholism or drug abuse. We've just
given up. Instead, we're justgoing to spend money providing these things to

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them, so we can make itas easy on them as possible and they
not have to spend money on theresources necessary in our emergency rooms to care
for these people. Wow, twentyfour billion dollars to say we give up.
That's a lot of money. Andthe deficit is getting so bad that
they're talking about and I wouldn't besurprised if they do, because they think

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it's Their excuse would be it's betterfor the environment. Is they're talking about
raising the gas tax fifty cents agallon in California. The average price of
gasoline in California right now is fivedollars and twenty nine cents a gallon,
soon to go up to the betterpart of six bucks a gallon if they
raise the gas tags. But theythink that's fine. It raises more money

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for them, and maybe it getsyou to drive a little bit less or
convert to an electric vehicle, whichis what they want anyway. Yeah,
well, just we're going to taxyou out of your bad habits. That's
what we're gonna do. All right, quick will break back with Morner moment.
Jimmy Baird Show. Here I namednine fifty kprc. Hey, welcome

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back, Jimmy Barrett Show. HereA name nine fifty kight Percy. Actually
you didn't go anywhere, did you? I just I went to the boys
room. I took a little breakduring the commercial break. I'm glad to
be here with you today. Let'stalk about let's say we handled in segment
one, we handled the alcoholics andthe homeless. Let's take care of the
fat people. Let's talk about thefat people for a couple of minutes.

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Raise your hand if you are technicallyconsidered obese. Oh wait wait, wait,
time out, time out. Letme finish this thought on alcoholism first,
because I actually got offended yesterday toa certain extent, just by the
obtrusiveness of this. I went tosee a urologist for the first time,

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and as a new patient, youknow, you got to fill out you
know, page a bond page,a bond page of paperwork, you know,
listing all your medications. They wantyour social Security number. No,
you don't need my social Security number. You can't have that. Sorry.
What else did they want? Theywanted, you know, a family history

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of diseases. You don't understand.I'm I'm you're a urologist. I'm not
here for I'm not here for youto treat my heart. I'm not here
for you to to assess me asa stroke risk. I'm not here for
that. I'm you're a urologist.I'm here for you know, a urology
issue is why I'm here. Youdon't need all this stuff, you don't

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need all this information. But youknow, I got to the point where
I was pretty much, you know, just resigned to filling out the paperwork
as I always do, until Igot to a page of an alcohol It
was labeled Alcohol Abuse Assessment. Whatso well got my attention. I looked

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at it, and they want toknow how much I drank and what I
drank, and how many days ofthe week I drank, or how many
weeks, how many weeks in themonth I drank, I mean, on
and on and on. And thenwhat they were going to do at the
end of it was you add upyour score. You get certain amount of
points depending upon what your habits are, and it's going to tell me if
I'm an alcoholic or if I havean alcohol abuse problem. Excuse me,

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you're arologist. I'm not here totalk about alcohol with you. If I
were, if I were going to, if I were going to you know,
somebody, because I have cirrhosis ofthe liver. Okay, maybe now
that's pertinent information. Maybe I shouldanswer those questions. But do they ever

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do doctor's offices ever think about thisstuff anymore before they ask questions that they
have no business asking you. Imean, I refuse to fill it out.
I refused to fill it out.And what funny was is when the
nurse came in and I handed itto her, she saw the you know,
I said, I'm not filling outthe alcohol abuse page. She says,

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that's obtrusive, isn't it? Andoffensive? Yes it is, so
you realize it is. Why areyou guys doing this? And maybe I
don't know, maybe it's the overallhealth care provider that they work for.
I have no idea, but it'samazing to me. Luckily, Luckily the
doctor was a great guy, andyou know, so he's worth seeing.
But but I don't understand sometimes whatgoes into the thinking of some of the

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things that these doctor's offices ask youto fill out. None of your damn
business. Most of the stuff,if it's not pertinent to why I'm there
to see you, you don't needto know. Okay, here's the other
thing. Oh, the fat thing. The fat thing saw an op ed
in the teleg that is a Britishpublication. So the first piece of good

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news is this is something that evidentlythey're considering in Great Britain, not something
that they're considering hero though it wouldnot surprise me. There is a conference
on obesity going on in Europe,a European Obesity Conference, where they're discussing
why so many people in Europe arefat. They have the same problem that
we have in the United States.The percentage of the population that is obese

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is rather large, and they're sayingthat the government needs to get involved in
this. And the reason they're statingthat the government needs to get involved is
because, well, you know,obese people, they have a tendency to
call in sick to work much moreoften than people who are not obese.
Therefore, it's lowering productivity and it'shaving an impact. It's having an impact

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on the entire nation's economy. Sonow we're blaming fat people for not being
productive. How about we blame lazypeople for not being productive. How about
we blame the people who don't thinkit's worth their time to go to work.
How about we blame the government whospend so much time subsidizing people who
don't work to make it comfortable,comfortable for them to not work. Why

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are we got to blame everything onfat people. Yes, I realized that
we have an obesity issue, andwe know where that comes from. It
comes from our poor eating habits.And poor eating habits have been fueled by
a family structure now where you havea lot of one parent households where that

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parent is working, and therefore they'rerelying on other people to feed their kids,
and a lot of fast food isbeing consumed, a lot of processed
food is being consumed. And unlesswe want to, you know, change
America's eating habits and and force companiesto produce healthier food, we're going to
have this issue. Although I willsay, you know, as a kid,

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I ate my fair share of hamburgerand French fries, and I never
had an obesity issue as a kidbecause we were outside playing all the time.
Do you ever see any kids outsideplaying anymore. We also we'd work
in the summer, bowing lawns ordoing something to make extra money. So
I was getting I was getting plentyof exercise, which I don't think a
lot of kids get anymore. Soit's a combination of the food we eat

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in a lack of mobility and movement, the lack of exercise, if you
will. Their idea in this outbedin this British publication to fix the problem.
They obviously had never heard of MichelleObama, right. Their idea was
to fund a healthy school lunch programin all the schools. So you teach

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kids about nutrition and then you forcethem to eat, you know, you
give them a free healthy lunch providedby the government. Well, we tried
that here, remember with Michelle Obama, And here's what they found that in
case you don't recall, they foundthat kids really didn't like eating fruits and

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vegetables very much, and many ofthem or most of them did not.
They were left on the plate.They would eat the things that they liked
and they leave the other stuff onthe plate. So we had a lot
of food that was getting wasted.And then you would find and that's for
the group that was dependent upon thefree lunch program in order to be able
to eat. Although I think that'sa misnumber too. You know, people

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get enough from welfare and food staffsand those types of programs to feed their
children. That's what it's there for. But we don't make our requirement on
what they spend that money on asfar as things at the store. Very
few times we actually require them toget things that are actually for their kids.
So you know, the school says, well, we can't educate hungry,

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jokedren. We have to feed them. And then if we have to
feed them, we have to feedthem nutrius food, even if they won't
eat it. So that sets upa lot of waste. And then there's
the kids who actually have a parentwho will you know, we'll fix them
a lunch or something, brown bagit. I used to brown bag it
all the time, you know.I'd buy school lunch if it is something
I like to eat, and therest of the time, i'd brown bag
it if it was something I didn'twant. So indeed, I just brown

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bag it. It was simple enough, easy enough to do. So that's
the lesson. I'm afraid they're goingto have to learn from all this.
They'll make the same mistake because thesegovernments think that they actually have the answers.
You don't have an answer for theobesity problem any more than California has

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an answer for the homeless problem.And the fact that we've become so dependent.
I'm relying on government in order tobe able to solve our problems.
Shows you just how bad things canget. I'm trying to think, I'm
trying to be fair. Is theremaybe I'm missing something? Is there any

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program you can think of run bythe government, created and run by the
government that is either efficient, orhas paid for itself, or has really
truly solved the problem, whatever theproblem may be, There's got to be
something somewhere in history. But asfar as recent history goes, I cannot

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think of a single government program thathas really solved a problem it was created
to solve. If anything, sometimesthey create even more problems. It's unfortunate,
but that's certainly the way I feelabout it. How about you anyway?
Hopefully again that's going on in Europe, although these programs have a tendency

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to kind of follow the way acrossthe United States. We tried to tackle
THEBC problem here before. It hasto come from within, it really does.
People have to say, yeah,I'm overweight and I'm not healthy and
I'm not happy, and I needto do something about it. But that
will require them to do is tohave a little sacrifice and pain in their

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life. And I think I thinkeating is like alcohol. You know,
it's become a way to treat thesymptom more than it is the actual disease.
It is. The disease itself isunhappiness in many different ways. People
are stressed and they're unhappy, andfood is one of the ways we try

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to soothe ourselves, just like alcoholis another way we try to soothe ourselves.
Maybe if we were happier, maybeif we had less government intrusion in
our lives and we were allowed tolive a normal, happy life, maybe
we wouldn't feel like we need tomedicate ourselves with food and alcohol. All
right, quick little break back withbon in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show.
Here in name of nine fifty KTRC. All right, been with turn here

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on the Jimmy Bart Show. Ihaven't spent a lot of time today talking
about Trump and the Trump trial andall that stuff. And then you know
it's it's I grow I grow waryof it. I'm guessing you probably grow
a little bit wary of it too. But but there's a few things.
They're always worth sharing when they aresomewhat shocking, somewhat shocking in nature.

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And I have a couple of cutshere that I think illustrate. That first
one is from this morning. I'mFox and Friends Senator John Kennedy, who
I think you all know is myfavorite United States sentator in the whole wide
world. Senator John Kennedy got askedhe was in studio. I don't know
what he was doing in New York. Does that seem to like a fish
out of water story to you?Having Senator John Kennedy be in New York,

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That's gonna be weird, right,That's gonna be really strange for him
to be in New York. Thatcan't possibly feel normal for him. He
is so much different than New YorkCity anyway, Sarah John Kennedy on the
set of Fox and Friends got askedabout Michael Cohen and about the Trump trial,
and he had these pearls of wisdomto share. I don't know mister

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Cohen, I followed him. Isuspect he doesn't get invited to too many
parties. He reminds me a lotof Michael Avenatti, sort of a grifter
type. I'm not saying mister Cohenhas never done the right thing, but

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if he did, it was becausehe was probably constantly supervised and cornered like
a rat. Mister Bragg, Idon't know him either. My observation is
that if you want to hide somethingfrom him, you put it in a
law book. He is. He'sbringing a felony, criminal trial, but

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he hasn't proved a felony. MostAmericans look at this and go no other
human being on the face of God'sgreen earth would be charged with this other
than Donald Trump? So why ishe being charged? Political reasons? And
this is not supposed to happen inAmerica. Established as a horrible precedent.

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This is the sort of thing I'vesaid this before that happens in countries whose
powerball jackpot is two hundred and eightyseven chickens and a goat. We don't
do that in America. And thishas established a horrible precedent. Lord,
I wish he was a Texan whosepower ball is two hundred and eighty seven

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chickens and a goat. Uh?Could we not trade him? Could we
like not send John Cornyn to Louisianaand brings undert to John Kennedy here?
That would be so much better,so so so much better. But you
underst have what he's saying, right, of course you do. You understand
exactly what you're saying. That's notthe most shocking thing, though, that

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that's just Senator John Kennedy being SenatorJohn Kennedy. You just, you know,
full of common sense and in pearlsof wisdom, you know, Senator
Cornfuchius, you know, laying layingdown, laying down pearls of wisdom for
us all, you know, statingthe obvious in such an entertaining ways that
even I would think even the lefthas to laugh at some of that stuff,

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he says. Now, this oneis a little bit more shocking.
This cut comes from CNN. Thisone comes from Faride Zacchatia on CNN,
who is about as anti Trump asyou can get, but who also evidently
realizes that he is witnessing a trialthat is occurring for no other reason than

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for political purposes. And more importantly, he realizes the strategy is not working,
it's not having the desired impact.He's realizing that that Trump is ahead
in some cases by pretty healthy marginsin every battleground state right now, with
the exception of Wisconsin. I don'tknow what the problem is in Wisconsin.

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Too much alcohol or not enough That'sall I can figure. I don't know
why. I don't know how Bidenhas a two point lead over Trump in
Wisconsin. But okay, but butTrump has a pretty sizable lead in most
places. He's leading in Pennsylvania,Michigan, Minnesota, all those other battleground
states, and Fornise Zakaria can seethe hand running on the wall. He's

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not an idiot, but normally hewould never say anything. I'm the only
thing that surprises me about this isnot what he's saying, but that he's
saying it out loud, because thatrequires two things, an admission of what's
going wrong number one, and numbertwo, the willingness to state these things
even though your co workers will hateyou for doing it. Here he is,

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I have to admit none of thisis playing out as I thought it
would. Trump is now leading inalmost all the swing states. But behind
those numbers lie even more troubling details. As someone worried about the prospects of
a second Trump term, I thinkit's best to be honest about reality.

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I understand that Poe's are not alwaysaccurate, but in general they have tended
to underestimate Donald trump support, notoverestimated the trials against him, keep him
in the spotlight, infuriate his basewho sees him as a martyr, and
even may serve to make him theobject of some sympathy among people in general
who believe that his prosecutors are politicallymotivated. This happens to be true in

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my opinion. I doubt the NewYork indictment would have been brought against a
defendant whose name was not Donald Trump, true enough, but the fact that
he was willing to say that outloud is still quite surprising. Don't you
think, Yeah, that's on CNN, that's on CNN. Who's all in

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on Biden? Well maybe not.They're all in unwinning. They're not all
in necessarily on somebody who doesn't havea prayer of winning. Which is why,
you know, as we progress moretowards the summer months white it will
be very interesting to see if somethingdoesn't happen, if either before the convention

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or at the convention where Biden isno longer the candidate, where the handwritings
on the wall and they know theyhave to they have to do something desperate,
and of course you know, there'sa lot of speculation that that's going
to happen, and who will bethe person that steps in. But we'll
see, we'll see. Now here'sthe last cut. Now this used to

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be shocking. I'll play it foryou and you tell me if you think
it's shocking. Now Here is KamalaHarris saying something you would not expect the
vice president of the United States tosay. Sometimes people will open the door
for you and leave it open.Sometimes I won't, and then you need
to kick that door down. Excusemy language, Excuse your language. You

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know there's a time when I wouldhave been, you know, a little
bit in shock over a comment likethat. What now I don't know.
Maybe maybe it's because of Trump.I mean, you know, Trump,
he drops those kinds of bombs everynow and again. Maybe I've just grown
used to it. I no longerI no longer find it shocking to hear

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a presidential or vice presidential candidate usethat kind of language. Maybe it's just
I mean the coarsening of society,I guess in general. Right, at
first, you're shocked at that,and then as time goes on and it
becomes more and more common, andyou hear those words all the time spoken
by just about everybody. It's it'sno longer shocking. It's just part of

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the part of the language we decidedwe're gonna go ahead and use right now
anyway, listen, gotta leave itat that for now. Enjoyed being with
you again today. Get out thereand enjoy a little sunshine, right we
don't. We haven't had a lotof these days lately. Get out there
and enjoy the sun. I'll seeyou tomorrow morning, bright and early,
at five am. But chera onnews radio seven forty k t r H.
We are back here at four ona nine fifty ktr C