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Good Wednesday Morning Tea. Kelly's on Vacation, Kelly Golden's on Vacation,
Me Blaze this morning. So the great Ozzie Osbourne passed
away yesterday. Osbourne, one of the founding fathers of Heavy Model's,
dead at the age of seventy six. Ozzie enjoyed a
successful solo career after starting off as lead singer of
Black Sabbath. He died after a series of ailments and
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surgeries that forced him to retire from touring. In a statement,
the Osbourne family said Ozzie died today surrounded by love.
He played his final show earlier this month in Birmingham, England.
Kisses Gene Simmons brought up his family while paying tribute
to Ozzy heartbreaking. While the fans are mourning, you know
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the greatness of Ozzie, He's also a loving family man.
I think sometimes that gets forgotten when somebody so popular,
so famous, so well loved, passes away. You know, people
think about their own feelings about it or not. You
know that, you know this guy was a husband and
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a father and a brother, and you know, and Ozzie
had a great sense of humor and for all his faults,
you know, he was a good family man and you know,
just a good guy all the way around. And I
think a lot of people found it shocking after he
played his final show, it was supposed to be his
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last live show, just a couple of weeks ago. It
was July fifth in Birmingham, England, so literally Ozzie was
able to come full circle before he passed. You know,
he grew up in Birmingham, England, That's where Black Sabbath's from,
and that's where the band formed, and he was able
to reunite the original members and he did a solo
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show and then they did some songs together, reuniting the
original Black Sabbath in Birmingham, England, just a couple of
weeks ago on July fifth, so you know, at least
he got to do that. And from what I hear,
there was a dream of his for a long time,
was to reunite the original Black Sabbath that they fired
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him from back in nineteen eighty. But it didn't sound
like there was any animosity on either side, So rest
in peace. Ozzy Osbourne. Sad to see him go. Kind
of shocking to hear yesterday. I mean, we know that
Ozzie had his problems, but his medical problems. He had
Parkinson's disease, he had back surgery a couple of years ago.
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You know, he almost died when he crashes ATV. When
was that five years ago or so? And so he's
had his you know, health problems to deal with. But
I don't think anybody expected him to pass so quickly,
especially after that that final show seven to two to
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one talks seven two one two five fives the number
of the studio. So President Trump has announced several new
trade deals just in the last day. Trump says the
Philippines will go open market and they will pay a
nineteen percent tariff with zero tariffs going against the United States.
He announced that trade deal with Philippines in a post
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untruth social Trump said his visit with President Ferdinand Marcos
said at the White House was beautiful and they have
agreed to terms. The President also said the two countries
will work together militarily. After that announcement, US Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessen said US and Chinese officials will meet in Stockholm, Sweden,
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next week to discuss an extension to the deadline for
negotiating a trade deal between the United States and China.
And then came the announcement that the United States and
Japan had reached a five hundred and fifty billion dollar
trade deal with Japan, and from my understanding, there's going
to be a fifteen percent tariff on Japanese items. Both
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sides seemed to be happy with the deal, and Japan
has agreed to invest five hundred and fifty billion dollars
here in the United States. So there was a bunch
of naysayers on Trump's economic policies. They seem to be working.
We heard a lot about, you know, ninety deals in
ninety days and all of this, and how he has
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not kept his campaign promise and there's nowhere near ninety
deals in ninety days. We heard about how this is
going to cause inflation. We heard the Democrats, both in
the media and in the government say that Trump was
going to cause inflation and things were going to be bad.
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If you go back six months from now and hear
what they were saying about where we would be right now.
They were all saying that we'd be in economic hardship
and Trump was going to tank the economy and he
was going to drive inflation through the roof. And of
course none of those things has happened, and he seems
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to be successful in eking out these trade deals which
are not so easy to put together. I mean, you
can imagine you're dealing with other nations. You're negotiating with
big boys here, and they're looking out for number one,
something the United States did not do for a long
time that you've heard the President complain about, and that
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some Democrats and liberals still complain about, you know, the
America first and putting America number one, the United States,
you know, looking at our needs first, and they think
that is so selfish of him, you know. And I
even heard a report in the morning. We'll talk more
about this a little bit later on about you know how,
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oh my gosh, the starving children around the world that
are being affected by these decisions to not send money
overseas and free some of this money and everything. Now
they're trying to blame the death of kids on some
of these policies that are realigning how we spend money,
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especially when it comes to USAID and things like that.
But anyway, as far as the economy goes, the President
is working diligently to come up with these trade deals
and make it fair. And if you've ever been involved
in a negotiation, I mean, you know there's some compromise
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involved on both sides. Both sides have to be happier.
You're never going to come to a meeting of the minds,
You're never going to have a successful negotiation. So, you know,
it's great news that Japan has announced and that the
United States has announced this trade deal with Japan five
hundred and fifty billion dollars invested in the United States
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along with a fifteen percent tariff on imported items from Japan.
The you know, the Philippines president was in the Oval
Office yesterday, met with Trump, had a good meeting. They
announced that trade deal, and it looks like China is
well on its way to coming to terms with the
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United States. We'll see next week in Stockholm, Sweden. China
has been a holdout, as would be expected, I would say,
you know, because there's more at stake here than just
the dollars and cents of a trade deal. It also
has to do with diplomacy. It has to do with,
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you know, China on the world stage. And make no
mistake about it, China wants to usurp the United States
as the number one power in the world, and so
they're going to do everything they can to take that
position from us. And the easiest way to do that
is through trade, right, and it's to not only take
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our money through trade, but also the precious metals and
all of these things that so many modern devices rely on,
not only your cell phones, but military aircraft, automobiles, all
of that stuff. So that is going to be the
biggest battle, the one with China and the United States
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is sitting down with China in Stockholm, Sweden next week
to bang out the details of some kind of trade deal.
Hopefully they can come to terms with that. Democrats are
playing games in New Jersey. One of President Trump's top
lawyers is out as interim US Attorney for New Jersey
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and the Department of Justice has fired her replacement. Panel
of federal judges decline to extend Lena Haba's one hundred
and twenty day limit on Tuesday. They instead used a
rarely used power to appoint a new interim US attorney,
selecting Desiree Lee Grace. Hours later, however, the Justice Department
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announced Grace's firing. Trump nominated Habba to serve a full
term last month, but the Senate has yet to take
up a vote. This Department of Justice does not tolerate
rogue judges, especially when they threaten the President's Corps Article
I Powers, Attorney General Pam Bondi said when announcing the firing.
The Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche also attacked the judges
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on social media, saying that they had colluded with New
Jersey's Democratic senators who have opposed Miss Habba. This back
room vote will not override the authority of the Chief executive,
he said. So look at the games that they're playing here.
And I thought it was kind of a master stroke
for in this poor Desire Lee Grace, who I believe
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Alena Habba personally selected to be her assistant and an
eventual replacement in her role when she was nominated for
the US attorney position for New Jersey. You know, I
think this is not it doesn't have much to do.
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I don't think with Desiri Lee Grace. So this is
Democrats playing games and again using the judiciary to do it.
So you know, President Trump names haba US Attorney for
New Jersey. The way the rules are, she has one
hundred and twenty day limit. The Senate fails to take
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up the vote and you know, confirm her nomination and
the one and twenty days runs out, so the court
in New Jersey has to extend that, and they refuse
to extend it and instead pushed a Lena Hobbit to
the side and selected her assistant. Does her allegue Grace,
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and the White House the DOJ says, not so fast.
You know, you can try to play these games judicially,
but we're going to fire Deserry league Grace, and now
what are you going to do? So it's unclear whether
what's going to happen next year, because just the firing
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of her does not necessarily mean that the judges can't
follow through on installing her as the US Attorney for
New Jersey. But the President also has a right to
name his nominations, and he is sticking by Hobba's side.
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So this truly is a game of chess. We hear
all the time, Oh, this is a forty game of
chess and all of this, and you know, most of
the time, I'm like no, it's not. But this is
pretty brilliant and does appear to be a game of
chess between you know, the Trump administration and the federal
judges in New Jersey. So we'll see how that plays out.
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Seven two one talk seven two one, eight two five
five is the number of the studio this morning. What
do you think about this move? What do you think
about their judiciary overstepping their bounds While a lot of
people would say overstepping their bounds and playing games like this,
Kelly's on vacation. Is this me blaze this morning? Good
Wednesday morning to you. I appreciate you listening. So the
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big news this morning, taking a break from politics, is
the passing of Ozzie Osbourne unexpectedly yesterday at the age
of seventy six. We knew he was sick, suffered from
Parkinson's disease. He's also had some other ailments, but it
was kind of a shock for Ozzie to pass away
so quickly. After his final live show, he announced he
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was retiring from live touring because he just couldn't physically
handle it anymore. And you know, he got together with
his bandmates, his original bandmates from Black Sabbath, a couple
of weeks ago on July fifth in their hometown of Birmingham, England,
and put on the Back to the Beginning show where
all kinds of artists came out, played, showed up, paid
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tribute to Ozzie, and then Ozzie did a solo set
and a set with the original Black Sabbath, something he
had wanted to do for a very long time. So
it was cool that he got to do that. Not
many people get to kind of come full circle like
that before they pass away, but fans are morning all
over the world. You remember, like some of the crazy
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things that Ozzie did. Of course, you know, at the
end of the day, you know, he was a guy
with a big heart, a family man, but he was
also how shall I put it wild, and you think
of some of the antics he got into, like when
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he got drunk and took a pee on the Alamo.
Was banned from playing in Texas for ten years over
that incident. The people of Texas were not very happy
with Ozzy after that incident. And of course I think
it was in Iowa where he, you know, famously bit
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the head off of a bat. Now he claims he
did that drunkenly, and that a fan threw it on stage,
and that he thought that it was like a rubber
toy bat and he was messing around and you know,
started ripping it apart with his mouth and soon realized
that it was real and he had to cut the
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show short and go get rabies shots. And there's all
kinds of stories that people that were out on tour
with him could tell about, like what a wild man
he was. But at the end of the day, you know,
if you watch The Osbourne's, a lot of people had
a problem with all the foul language, but other than that,
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it showed Ozzy as a family man and kind of
in a whole different light. And so you think of
where Ozzie started in Birmingham, England, kind of as a
petty criminal with no future. Then is a part of
Black Sabbath gets fired from Black Sabbath is washed up
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and in his hotel room. The story goes, you know,
just hanging out kind of drinking himself into the abyss.
He owed his manager money. His manager happened to be
Sharon Osbourne's father, and he sent Sharon to go collect
the money that Ozzie owed him, and that's how Sharon
met Ozzie and of course they ended up marrying. She
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became his manager, launched a hugely successful solo career, and
then when he started having his health problems and back
problems and all of this, you know, he had to
kind of pull back from touring and launched oz Fest.
They did the you know, the Osbourne's which was a
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hugely popular TV show. So paying tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
this morning after passing yesterday at seventy six years old.
Rest in piece. Ozzy will miss you and music fans
will miss you worldwide. So will President Trump be happy
with Coca Cola's latest decision. Coca Cola has announced they
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will soon offer a version of its soda made with
US cane sugar. The announcement comes after President Trump said
last week that the soft drink company had agreed to
use cane sugar in its soda rather than corn syrup. However,
Coca Cola said the version of the soda announced Tuesday
will be available in addition to its traditional recipe using
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corn syrup. The cane sugar version of the soda will
be available this fall. Health experts have said the health
impacts of cane sugar compared to corn syrup are basically
the same, so it's not any healthier for you. But
I would argue it tastes a lot better if you
can remember the old Coca Cola. I don't know when
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they switched formulas a few decades ago, I guess, but
the Coca cola from when you were a kid tasted
differently than it tastes now. And I would say that,
you know that cane sugar makes a big difference. And
now I used to be a huge Coca Cola fan.
I mean, I still like it, but I found myself
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drinking way too much of it. And I worked in
some radio markets where there were seven elevens and I
would literally before I went on the air, I would
stop on my way to the station and I would
get two super big gulps of Coca Cola and take
them to work with me. I don't remember how big
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the super big gulps were, but it was like seventy
something ounces a piece, and I would take two of
them into the studio with me to get me through
my airshift. And this probably thirty years ago or more,
you know, I came to the conclusion, this is not
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good for me, it's not good for my gut, for
my health, for my stomach, for my teeth, and so
I switched to tea. And you know, Kelly's always making
fun of me because I literally carry a jug of
semi sweet tea around with me everywhere I go, and
it's essentially all I drink is tea. And I say
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semi sweet because I can't handle like in some of
these restaurants and especially fast food places where it's just
like syrup. I know some people like it that way,
but I like just a hint of sweetness. I can't
go all the way and do on sweetened tea. I
mean I could, but I prefer a little bit of
sweetness sit there. But you know, and I used to
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just love Coca cola and I love my sweet tea,
but you know, I had to get off the coke
much like a lot of other people, but a different
that's a different kind of coke. Not so fast, Charlie,
or should I say Charlene. The US Olympic and Paralympic
Committee says it will comply with President Trump's ban on
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transgender women otherwise known as men in women's sports and document.
The organization updated on its website Monday. The group does
not mention the word transgender, but the language used does
imply that transgender women can no longer compete in women's divisions.
It specifically says women will have a fair and safe
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competition environment consistent with Executive Order fourteen to twoh one.
That order is otherwise known as Trump's No men in
Women's Sports Executive Order. And I can't believe that everybody
is acquiesced and calls them transgender women. And if you're transgender,
at any problem with you? You can do whatever you
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want with your body and with your life. But to
force the rest of us into calling you a woman,
I can't go along with that. And now we're supposed
to say transgender women. So what is a transgender woman?
A transgender woman is a freaking man. And until we
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start using language that follows common sense and follows science
and everything else, we wonder why everything's so screwed up,
why the kids are so screwed up, because we can't
even call a spade a spade. Now we have to identify,
you know, men who want to be women as transgender women. Sorry, no,
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you're still a man. And as I said, I don't
have any animosity towards you. You can do whatever you like,
and I will support you in that endeavor. But I
can't support just suspending reality and pretending otherwise of what
is true. So you know. So, finally some common sense
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is taking over. And as far as the US Olympic
and Paralympic committees go and say that they're going to
protect women in women's sports, it's about time, isn't it.
And when you think about it, the people that support
trans women in women's sports, so men in women's sports.
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I would ask them, why have women's sports to begin
with if now you're going to let men in? And
all they have to say is, yes, I'm trans, and
I can't compete in the mail field. You know, I
came in fiftieth, but I can be a champion over
here as a woman. And we've seen it happen, and
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we've seen women be injured by these men, and it
seemed to be taking over everything from swimming to boxing
to all kinds of things. I mean, it's ridiculous. So
finally some common sense is starting to shine through.
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