Open Phone Line Friday

Episode Transcript

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And you know what that means?What does that mean? That means that
you're getting a spanking. I'm squealed? Is that Is that what you sound
like when you let's make them squeal? You had to play it again?
Yeah, I missed my timing onthe first one. Well that sucks.

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Sucks for you? Any last words? Uh? Yeah, I'd like to
place a call to my HR REPif I could. This seems like a
hostile work environment. I'm not doingit. I'm hiring somebody else to do
it. Gee whiz. Hey,you know what, one of our higher
ups threatened your life the other dayand it worked. We got us.
We got a winner, which isincredible considering what was on the line.

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Right. You know, it's niceto know how expendable you are. Yeah,
well you know sometimes your expendability isthe best availability. I tell you.
Uh you know what they say aboutme, I'm replaceable. There's a
movie called The Replacements. Have youseen that? Huh huh? That's a

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Keanu Reeves playing football with Gene Hackmanas the head coach. Yeah, oh
that's good. A lot of peopledon't think it's good, but I like
watching it anyway. You're not expendable. Matt, You're just uh, I
don't know, what do they say, easy target? Sure people? Well,
no, people care about you.So when we threaten you, it
usually is a good call to action, you know what I mean? Okay?

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And uh, you know your yourtears are are good fodder for the
comedy of the show. I haven'tcried once since I've been here. I
swear I saw you crying the otherday when we were talking about what were
you talking about? Something about linnBerg or whatever was that was that.

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You don't think that was me.That's the airplane guy, right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, Idon't think we cried about that.
You're right, hey, you know, I think that there's a there's all
sorts of stuff in the news.And again, I want you to call
four h two five, five,eight eleven ten at any point in the
show when you have something on yourmind that you want to talk about.
But we have to, uh,we have to talk about some of this

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stuff. First of all, RepresentativeHenry Quaar indicted by the Department of Justice
on conspiracy and bribery charges. Ifyou're unfamiliar with who Henry Kuaar is,
he is a Democrat in the Houseof Representatives representing the state of Texas,
and he basically, I mean theit's conspiracy, right. He's been indicted

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in an investigation which connects six hundredthousand dollars in bribes accepted by the quaar
and his wife, the couple froman Azerbijan based energy company and a bank
in Mexico to advance Azerbaijan's interests inthe US. Now, Matt, I

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have to ask you, could youpoint and find Azerbaijan on a mat for
me? Azerbaijan, I don't.I don't think so it's over. Is
that one of those It's kind oflike it's it's kind of by Russia,
but also it's kind of in theMiddle East as well, Like yeah,
yeah, I think it's probably likeI think it was part of the Soviet

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Union actually, so it would havebeen like in that vicinity. And I
think it like it's one of thoseweird countries that actually is partially in Europe
and partially in Asia. And Ithink they're good at wrestling, like in
the Olympics. I think they havesome good Olympic wrestlers. But I can't
tell you a whole lot more aboutit is there flag, the one that's

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got a sun on it. Dothey have a son on their flag?
It's a blue like peelish looking thingwith like a sun looking thing as by
Jan, Well, he looks intothat. Law enforcement rated Klayar's home and
office in two twenty twenty two asthey looked into a group of businessmen and

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their ties to Azerbaijan, and apparentlythey've found and traced six hundred thousand dollars
of money that were being funneled tohim to make sure that Azerbaijan's interests were
being met in the United States.Got it, Azerbaijan? Is that Azerbaijan,

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Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan, azerby Jan,azerby Jan, Azerbaijan, Azerbijan.
Can you use it in a sentenceplease, azerb by Jan lately as a
matter of fact. Yes, Ohwell that's good. It's healthy for you.

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Now, what do you think?What does it look like? The
flag? It's actually kind of apretty flag. It's got like a almost
like a teal color at the top, red in the middle and then green
at the bottom, three stripes inthe in the very middle, crescent moon,
and then there's a little sun nextto it. Okay, so it
does have a sun. I wasn'tcrazy, I wasn't far off of what

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I thought it was. So what'sthe punishment for thinking about Azerbaijan? And
does Azerbaijan or Azerbaijan do they haveanything to do with Russia? They don't
really write like they're one of thosecountries that they like their independence. But
what does Azerbaijan have anything to dowith us? Like? Why why?

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Why would why would Henry Quaar belike, hey, you know, what's
a good idea of me taking somemoney from this really powerful country that nobody's
heard of. What would you dowith that? Would you say, like,
what what level of country is theright one to risk getting, you
know, messed up with conspiracy?Azerbijn No, that's from Google. Thanks,

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thanks for thanks for that. AsArbaijan. Is Azerbaijan a big enough
power for you to be like,yeah, that's uh, I'll take your
six hundred thousand dollars and like potentiallyget thrown in prison for it. As
I well, the Azerbaijan government comeand help him. You think I have

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no idea? Would you do this? It's over there, it's just to
the north of Iran. And tothe south east of Georgia next to Armenia.
Oh gosh, Now you're talking aboutall sorts of countries. I don't
exactly know where they are. Howclose is to Russia? It is very
close to Russia. Actually, isthat Russia that goes all the way?

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I mean, Russia is so hugeit's almost hard to see where it,
Yeah, doesn't go. I thinkit borders Russia. Okay, So like
we're okay, so there's Ukraine uphere, and then Russia extends down below
it, and then I do believeit does border Azerbye John Azerbie Jean,
Yes, okay. Well, Henrykui Are, the Democratic Texas representative says
he is innocent. He and hiswife are innocent. And the guys are

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doing this all the time. Andthat's my next point when we come back,
is if he's doing this for azerBye John, who else is doing
this for? Anybody that's on theway. And you can always call it
with your thoughts on news Radio eleventon KFAB by calling four oh two five
five eight to eleven ten. Fourh two five five eight to eleven ten.
It is news Radio eleven ten kfaB. We got Garrett on our

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phone line of four oh two,five, five, eight to eleven ten.
Garrett, thanks for being on theshow. What's on your mind?
Hey? I heard you mention theReplacements, great movie. Just thought i'd
talk a little football to you.Well, I know you're an Iowa guys.
You got tied to Caitlin Clark.I know you like her, but

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you're also a big Bear fan.So what number one overall picks having a
better career Kaitlin Clark okalber oh comparingtwo completely different sports. Gee whiz Okay,
So, Garrett, I I havesaid this before. I do watch

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quite a bit of WNBA basketball.It's like it's like quintessential team basketball.
That's gonna be quite an adjustment forher to make that change because there will
be taller, longer, more athleticplayers that will be guarding her, and
they will be they they know thatthey need to guard her the entire length
of the floor. My big thingwith that is, as much as that's

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gonna be difficult, I think they'regonna find ways to try to get her
buckets and she's gonna be able to, you know, score eighteen to twenty
five points somewhere in that window,probably on a nightly basis their first preseason
games tonight, by the way,and then but going to the NFL.
Every once in a while, you'lla guy like CJ. Stroud for the

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Houston Texans last year, who wasa rookie and looked like he was an
All Pro caliber player right away.But most of the time there is kind
of this time frame where things aregoing to be a little more difficult.
You look at Bryce Young last year. He's a good example, but I
go back to Trevor Lawrence, whoI think has all the tools to be
an incredible quarterback, and outside ofhis second year, like the second half

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of his second year he had likean eight week stretch where he was one
of the best quarterbacks in the league, he's kind of been pretty underwhelming and
disappointing, and a lot of thathas to do with the instability of his
coaching staff, his rookie year,and the fact that he just doesn't have
a lot of weapons around him.So the Bears don't have that as an
excuse. Certainly, certainly the coachhas been there. This will be his

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third year. The front office hasbuilt an awesome offense around him. Assuming
they can keep him up right Ithink he's going to be pretty successful right
away. I think based on expectations, I think people are going to be
a little more disappointed if Caitlin Clarkisn't going for thirty points a game right
away, so I would say her. But but I think both of them

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are going to be set up tobe pretty successful right away. I believe
so. Well, that's a greatquestion. Yeah, but that by the
way, Garrett, that WNBA preseasongame between Dallas and Indiana tonight is available
for free on the WNBA app.You don't have to pay to watch it.
You can just watch it, Sothere you go. I just hope

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Cal Williams doesn't tear up my vikingstoo bad. Well, here's here's the
thing. The Bears have been sucha laughing stock for the better part of
the last five years or so.I just it's our turn, Garrett,
and it's best if you just getget out of the way. It's just
just you get out of the wayand be like monsters of the Midway or
back. The Bears are our overlords. Let's just accept them. Yeah,

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but you have eighty five we havenothing. You are right about that.
I'm sorry, Garrett. That's anopen wound. I'm sorry I brought it
up. Hey, thanks for callinginbody, have fun this weekend, have
a good one. What do youthink better rookie season? Caitlin Clark or

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Caleb Williams. That's tough to compare. Those sports are so different, but
they're both about equal. Are theyequally hyped? Is Caitlin Moore hyped?
Probably because of the elevation she's givento that sport? I mean they're they're
both giving, like getting like megavibes of like these are these are not

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just franchise altering but potentially league alteringplayers. That is a tough one.
Maybe framing it as who's more likelyto win Rookie of the Year, let's
start Let's start there. Let's startthere accolade like Rookie of the Year,
which means you have to be goodamongst your peers, not necessarily on a
league level. I would have Ifeel like it's probably Caitlin Clark. I

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agree, I agree, it's it. Quarterback in the NFL is a different
monster man, and there's just noguarantees that you're going to get that.
I mean Peyton Manning. You rememberwhat his record was front his rookie year.
Yeah, they were terrible three andthirteen and he led the league of
interceptions. Right, are we gonnago back and say he didn't have a
good rookie season, Well he didn't, But did that matter? Did it

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end up mattering? Now? Theother thing is Kayleb Williams is there will
be absolutely no excuses. I mean, the offense has a ton of weapons
on it, Like he's gonna haveto get sacked like seventy times this season
for people to be like, youknow what, is really not his fault.
Whereas Kaitlin Clark's gonna go into theleague and she's going to have this
gigantic target on her back, butit's a sport that you can actually like,

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She's still gonna have a chance toget hers, you know what I
mean. Bears are in a prettytough division too. You got the Packers
on their way up, and you'vegot the Lions who were ripe there last
year, super Bowl contenders next yearpossibly still. I mean, they made
the NFC Championship Game. And thenthe Vikings. I mean they're not awful.
They're not great, but they're notawful. They have quarterback questions,
but everything else seems to be prettygood. So I don't know, that's

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a great question. I like tothink like that, you know what I
mean. And by the way,like I said, if you want to
see Kaitlin Clark and how she fitsin, it's the preseason. I'm not
exactly sure. You know, whenyou watch, do you take any stock
in any preseason like spring training orNFL preseason or anything. Not a ton
I do remember, however, beinga Raiders fan, Derek Carr had a
great preseason which vaulted him into havingthat chance at becoming the starter right away

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for the Raider who was the starterbefore him. He was somebody they brought
over, I believe in a tradeor a free agency signing. I can't
think of his name that played forthe Texans for a while. Matt McGloin
was the he was, Yeah,he was the backup to car Was it
Matt shab It was Matt shob Yeah, there you go. He came over.
He but he never really did anythingfor the Raiders because Derek Carr started

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in front of him, and Imean he was kind of washed at that
point. Anyway, I think anyway, if you're wondering Indiana Fever at the
Dallas Wings. That is a preseasongame night. They only have two preseason
games, so it's not like theycan like slowly amp up whatever their ideas
are of how to work Kaitlyn Clarkinto their offense. Certainly they are going
to have her be a major partof what they do. But that's seven

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o'clock tonight, and you can watchit for free on the WNBA app.
So if you find the WNBA appthat will be available to you. You
can just pop it up on yourphone or your computer or whatever, and
you can watch the Fever play oneof their two preseason games against the Dallas
Wings tonight, and that's a seveno'clock star time. I'm gonna be paying
attention to that absolutely for sure,just to see what Caitlyn does. What

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do you got over under? What'sthe what's the spread? What do you
think? How many points? Howmany points for her? Specifically? Yeah,
twenty eight? Maybe you think she'sgoing a little pop off here.
I don't know me either. I'mgonna go a little less than I'm gonna
go like seventeen. I think she'sgonna get like seventeen points and maybe like
eight assist I think she'll play liketwenty eight ish minutes. Like I said,

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they don't have a lot of timehere to figure this out. So
she's going to have to play tonightto try to, you know, build
up this chemistry with the team.Because the season starts on the fourteenth,
they only have two preceding games twotwenty nine. If you got any thoughts
on anything, you can call usfour h two five five eight eleven ten
four h two five five eight eleventen More on the Way on news Radio
eleven ten kfab Well. Topic isthe Trump economy. WHYATT was so good

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and WHYATT was so bad? Okay, in the twenty sixteen the economy wasn't
the issue it had been in thetwenty eight election when at the financial crisis,
Glenn Beck even had to say itwas because of low interest rates,
which he called quantitative musing. Sowhen Trump in office, economy has already

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gone pretty good. But he startedoff with a big tax cut where four
people got a little and richer peoplegot a lot, and those increase inflation.
But said he pressured them to keepinterest rates low, and then when
the pandemic came along, oh thatwas great. You know, this is
what's so good part because you know, oil went to below to negative numbers.

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Tankers had to pay to have takenoff their hands. I was getting
checks in the mail from Donald Trump, you know, thousands of dollars.
It's fantastic. But now coming up, he wants to weaken the things,
will increase inflation. Wants to weakenthe dollar once to put ten percent tyrffs
on all imports, sixty on thosefrom China, one hundred percent on all

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automobiles. Once, to have moretax cuts, which would further these interest
rates and inflation, and also toport everyone doesn't have a green card,
a visa or as a citizen tobe labor shortage. All those devices would
go sky high. So that wouldbe what's so bad? Rian, Have

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you thought about this at all?It sounds like you think about it all
the time. Economics, I thinkis the most important thing. The money
hashch ching ching I tend to agree. I do want to ask, though,
you know, as far as thisgoes, and we know you let
you call in and we appreciate yourperspective, but you're left leaning. I

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mean, you definitely think in moreof a liberal democratic state of mind,
and so many people who are independentseem to think that, you know,
the Donald Trump economy is something thatwe really need right now, especially for
the middle class, the little guyguys who like you said there were good
things about the economy at various pointsthroughout his tenure, even from somebody from

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your perspective. So, how canyou justify voting against Donald Trump if you
think the economy does have that kindof growth potential if he happens to be
the president again. Well, asyou know, I despise the extremes of
both right and left, which cometogether like the ends of a horseshoe around
crazy. So the sort of economicsI promote would be what was endorsed by

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Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, who did believe that, yeah,
the richer people to pay at ahigher rate than the poorer people to pay
for public services and benefits, ratherthan always going for a system of taxation
which would be a flat tax fora sales tax, and to always before

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cutting public services, detections and benefitsand shifting the tax burden off of the
richer people onto the poorer people,which I think is evil, all right,
I mean, I guess that isone perspective on this for sure.
And I have to say I appreciateyou calling in Brian with your opinions,

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in your thoughtfulness, even if itis not something we generally agree with.
So thank you so much for callingit. Thank you. Yeah, I
don't know did you need an economylesson today because you certainly just got one.
Yeah to ching Chi ching Chi,ching chi ching. Gary's on our

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phone line four two eleven ten,Gary, what it's on your mind?
Well, on a happier note,I wanted someone to uh talk with you
about you and caught me in onthe SpongeBob SquarePants the other day. What
about it being a well, I'mbeing a cartoon connoisseur myself, of course.
I grew up with looningtune Bugs,Bunny and Defy. Yeah that's great

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too, modern, Yeah, themodern cartoons. And I agree with you
SpongeBob about season three and then Idon't know what happened to it after that,
but that was the you know,the the best of it. But
uh on the ones now, Uh, you know, Big City Greens I
think is phenomenal. Really I havenot, I haven't watched that one yet.

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Uh, that's go ahead, youwould love it. I mean there's
a certain stuff. You gotta lookint background because I noticed one time after
watching the same episode about a hundredtimes they're stuck on the freeway and untill
he gets out to wash a caranyway, Eliza's plate says, uh eight
six seven by three to zero nineday. And you know it's just stuff

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like that on the way through thatcartoon that you got to really watch at
the lead New Windows. But Kiffanother good one. I really like Kiff
and Loudhouse, but they they kindof touching some stuff that you got to
be a little bit resistant too.But hey, we'll let you go that
you comment, I just hate lovethat man, and I appreciate you calling
in. I absolutely love to Toddcartoons. Ay're always really fun, obviously

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lighter to to talk about. ButI really appreciate you calling in with that
because it always makes me smile andit kind of makes me want to go
on flip one of those. Ithink I want to watch the SpongeBob where
squid Words ends up in the future. That all that one always gives me
a good kick. Absolutely, thatone's great. We talk about this all
day. Yeah, you're right,You're right, Gary, appreciate it.

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You bet. Thank you. Yep. Thanks, Uh, that's funny.
Don's on our phone line four twoeight to eleven ten. Don, thanks
for being on the show today.Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Hey, I just wanted to thislend balance to the caller. Yet previously,
uh, that was left leaning.I I don't. I guess I

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can't relate to the guy because youknow, all you gotta do is look
at past history when Trump was presidentand he had the economy roaring, and
the only thing that put the brakeson that was COVID, and uh,
you know, he said all thesethings he's gonna do is gonna cause problems,
but it didn't last time, andI don't see where it would again.
So I uh, I think peoplewill get their ideology to a certain

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extent that you even when facts arepresented to him, they just it just
doesn't register evidently well done. Butyou have to keep in mind. You
have to keep in mind that DonaldTrump probably gets re elected regardless of what
happens in twenty twenty except for twothings. COVID nineteen and no matter who
the president was, no matter whatparty they were going to be in,
they would have been absolutely vilified becausethey would not have handled it properly,

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and because we didn't know anything,no president would have done that right,
because we just had never done thatbefore. And the second thing was the
George Floyd thing that was happening whilehe was the president. Had nothing to
do with him, but people aregoing to say, well, this unrest
is because Donald Trump's the president,and that also would have happened to anyone
who happened to be the president.And those are the only two things I
think going into that last year ofhis four year term, he was in

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good shape to potentially be the guywho's going to be back in the White
House. But they, the Democrats, lucked into a couple of things they
could weaponize against the Republican Party headinginto that election, and the Republicans honestly
have not recovered since. Oh absolutely. But what kills me though, is
that people you know, they saypeople vote their pocketbooks, but I don't

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see that happening with the Democrats.It's like they're cutting their own throats along
with any but everybody else by takingthis uh uh going you know, being
pro Biden. I don't. Ijust don't give it. I don't don.
It's not Don, it's not forthe politicians. It's not necessarily about
making our country better. It's aboutwinning and having power. And that goes

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for both parties, but the Democratsespecially, they know what they can use
to win and have the power,and they're gonna do whatever it takes,
even if it hurts the little guy. And that's just the unfortunate reality of
American politics right now and probably alwayswas. We just know more because of
social media. But it is interesting. You got a Republican or a Democratic
representative in Henry Quaar that's now beingcharged with conspiracy and bribery. And you

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know how many guys are doing theexact same thing in Congress that he just
got caught with, you know whatI mean? Like, there might not
be a limit to how many peopleare doing that. It's scared to think
it is. Thanks, don appreciatethe call man. Thank you, Yes,
sir, if you want to callus with your thoughts on anything.
Four h two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten, it's
open phone line. Friday got plentymore on deck for you. We're gonna

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have a lot of fun today,So stick around on News Radio eleven to
ten kfab Jeremy, Welcome to theshow. What are you thinking about.
I'm just curious, Emory, andI first love the show, Thanks,
but every time the last election comesup, I hear you point to other
things, like just with the lastcaller that are absolutely balid. But I

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also believe that there's a mountain ofevidence that shows that the Democrats were up
to no good and we absolutely knowthat they're going to do it again.
I mean, with the way thingsare shaping up, with the mail end
balance and all that stuff, Idon't see how we can think that anything
else could happen. But you nevertalked about it, So I'm curious where

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you stand. You're talking about thembasically making up election ballots and all that
stuff to manufacture votes for the generalelection. I'm guessing that's what we're talking
about. Yeah, I mean,well, I never talk about it because
Jeremy what I mean, Like Imentioned that, I ask almost every single
person that is an elected official atthe national level, like Don Bacon or

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Adrian Smith or Deb Fisher who's inWashington, I asked them, how can
we can be sure that our electionsare safe and secure? And most of
them say, you know, ourrules have in place the ability for us
to try to have it secure,but the Democrats don't want to keep them
that way. And the real questionis, Jeremy, if we're worried about
just blaming the election being stolen orthere be cheating going on, then I'm

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afraid that we're not talking enough aboutthe issues that independent voters actually care about
that they're going to make their decisionon. They're not going to vote for
a Republican just because they're afraid Democratsare stealing the election, and most of
them don't even believe any of theevidence that came out from twenty twenty.
My big thing is we need totalk about the stuff they actually care about
that they might actually vote for.That way, the Republicans can start winning

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again and try to win back notjust control of the White House, but
control of both chambers in Congress.If that makes sense, It absolutely does.
And I couldn't agree with you more. But what I see is kind
of a for lack of better wordor praise, i'll say, a snowball
effect with you know, obviously,twenty twenty was not the first time that

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they ever you know, right,And Jeremy, I'm running out of time
here, and I'm picking up whatyou're putting down on that. But I
guess my big thing is we haveto talk issues. We can't just talk
about elections being cheated because both sidesthink it's cheated. The Democrats tried in
sixteen as well. We'll talk moreabout it coming up. News Radio eleven ten kfab