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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everyone's favorite chiropradactor in liquid form. Yeah, that out of
context sounds bad. All right, Cheers, cheers to you anybody
out there that's drinking something. Whether it's a alcoholic or not,
it doesn't matter to us. We're just happy to be alive,
happy to be with you today. Did you know today

(00:20):
is Religious Based Violence Victim's Day? So that's RBVV the
RBVV day. Yeah, yeah, here, let's just real quick. The
United Nations put this out. August twenty second is International
Day commemorating the victims of acts of violence based on
religion or belief. It's one heck of a mouthful there,

(00:40):
but certainly probably rings pretty close to home for the
people who were victims in the Middle East over being
Jewish or living in Israel, and for the sake of fairness,
the people who believe that they're being persecuted because they're
Islamic in the Israel area. Certainly for that. But if

(01:01):
you are commemorating or remembering somebody on this day, well,
our condolences and our thoughts with you. Did I handle
that right? Was that? The right way to say that
is you don't swish somebody a happy Religious based violence
victims Day.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh yeah, and I was trying to I was even
wondering if my thoughts about because my whole thing is
that's a horrible thing. But then I also think, is
there a way we can shorten it? I'm just thinking
from a branding a marketing standpoint. There's a lot of
syllables there, Yeah, how do we get less syllables? There's
a lot of syllables?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Too many? I want to name my dogs. I have
a two syllable rule. There's no point in giving your
dog a name that's longer than two syllables, right, not
to quell your own creativity or whatever you want to
put on his faux birth certificate, But I really, when
you call for your dog more often than you just
call him by one syllable, don't you sometimes two?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think two's the less three or more like just
you'll never call them that, and even if you do,
they will only they will come the same way to
the first two syllables. So that's why Palmer PJ. Can
you guess what I call them? There? Their one syllable
names Palmer PJ, pal Nope, palm palm okay and peage

(02:14):
peage okay, Yeah, yeah, I can just say peage and
he picks right up right palm. She runs saying palm
toward a dog in a public place. It gets gets
a little weird. When I had Pyro, God rest his soul,
he was Pie and so people, not knowing that he
had more to his letter, people are like, why did
you name your dog pie? Does he like pie? No,

(02:38):
it's pie for Pyro? Or may he rest in peace?
Love that dog? All right? Politics last night, Gus Walls.
You see the video. If you see the video of
Gus Walls, seventeen year old Gus Walls, Tim Wall's son, Oh,
I can't wait. I can't wait to hear the opinions
on this. He has an emotional react to his father,

(03:01):
kind of calling him out, shouting him out while he's
doing his vice presidential acceptance speech essentially for the nomination
at least. And I watched this and it makes you
feel man like. I don't have kids, but that makes
you feel Gus Wall's seventeen years old has a nonverbal
learning disability. He has ADHD, which for some people that

(03:27):
is a major deal to battle with. Some people who
get diagnosed or told they have ADHD, it's something they
can manage without any medication or anything. That's not always
the case. And then some anxiety, like an anxiety disorder.
So he's got some things. And you can kind of tell,
you know, not that I'm like an expert at seeing this,
but you can kind of see like a person on

(03:47):
the spectrum, you know what I'm saying, of like needing
additional help when they're a youth, and to see this
seventeen year old, I could you could kind of tell.
But just the way he kind of was socially interacting
with those around him and even when he started to
get emotional in that moment. So I'm not going to
break this down. I don't think there's anything strategic in

(04:08):
that moment. I think the cameras were doing their job,
just finding him when he was shouted out, and then
for him to have like the tears in his eyes,
stand up and say that's my dad kind of thing.
I don't think you can fake that. I know there's
going to be people that tell me that this was
all staged or a ruse or anything. I'm not buying
that for a second, So save your breath for me.
They will use it. They will use it as the

(04:30):
ability to humanize the politicians in this party, and that's
where the Republicans are going to have a major uphill
battle here to win in November. And again I'm not
saying it's not going to happen. I'm just saying there
are way more people that are undecided or available voters
if you want to call them that, that are going
to be pulled by personality over policy. Donald Trump's personality

(04:56):
helped win him that twenty sixteen election. For better or worse.
You could say that people were just interested at to
what would happen if a guy like that was president
of the United States. He was polarizing in a way
nobody had seen from a politician before, and he won
the election. Right, Well, now they're kind of utilizing what
you know about him. He's not as exciting. He's predictable
to a lot of people. Yeah, we know who Donald

(05:16):
Trump is. There's no excitement in having him be president again.
But you have this Harris Wallace thing. Two people that
are fairly for most people who don't pay attention to
the news cycle very fresh. How do you take people
who are politicians who are above us on the social
hierarchy in American politics and just in our society anyway,
and how do we make them seem more like us?

(05:38):
That's one thing that somebody like Donald Trump, it's just
it's hard to make him seem like one of us,
right because we've known him our entire lives or his
entire life, depending on your age. As the rich guy.
He's just like the rich guy in America. He was
the rich token guy in multiple movies in the nineties
and eighties, right Like, he was a guy that people
would bring in and talk to him because he was

(05:59):
just this very exciting, it's very media savvy entrepreneur type
who had a ton of money, a bunch of buildings
in this entire empire. By the time he was in
his mid thirties, he's incredibly famous. And then eventually he
worked his way into politics and after you know, being
a TV star and all this stuff, the guy had
his own empire. Well before that, we already kind of
knew what he was. We just didn't see a personality

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like that venture into the realm of legitimate politics. Well,
now that he's been there for a while, that kind
of feel has worn off. Looking at last night and
that moment, specifically with Tim Wall's seventeen year old son Gus.
If you have a child at all, you probably like
that's a heartstring pulling moment. If you can just remove
yourself from the politics. You can also if you have

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a child or a relative, or you're close to young
people that have those nonverbal learning disabilities that in a
lot of ways, anytime they're able to express themselves in
any way can be pretty moving. I've seen that in
a lot of ways of someone who really tries hard
not to show emotion or really communicate at all. It's

(07:05):
really not something they're comfortable with because of what's going
on in their brains. When they show any sign of
like breaking through that barrier. This is the horse conversation
that we had. Remember we were talking about horses last week,
and we had multiple people call in and talk about,
I have this child or I've had a child like
this who has these autistic things about their personality, or

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they're on the spectrum, or they have a nonverbal learning
disability or something like that, and there's something about these
giant horses that pull them out of it. You can
see them just blossom in a way that they just
you don't anywhere else. It's a powerful thing. You saw
something like that last night with Gus Walls. And again,
I'm not gonna say anything about whether or not I'm

(07:53):
not hearing any arguments about that not being legitimate. I'm
not hearing any arguments about this being stage or anything.
I'm not going there, And that's not what we're talking
about today. What I'm saying is, as far as strategy goes,
this is yet another piece of the puzzle of the
Democrats setting themselves up to use the personality that they have.
All the different personalities, celebrities, influential folk that you can see,

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whether it's Hollywood Mckeena Thompson is Saturday Night Live. You
had Oprah Winfrey, you have other known politicians, the Clintons,
the Obamas, Pelosi, you had basketball coaches like Steve Kerr
popping in there. Right. They have a lot of different
sectors covered in the way that they're making themselves look
like the cool kids. They're much better at doing that,

(08:40):
making themselves relatable to the voting public, especially the younger
voting public, especially the voting public that doesn't pay attention
to the daily news cycle. There's many more of them
than you think there are. And the Republicans just don't
have that kind of pull on that They're trying to
win via policy is a lot harder. It's an uphill

(09:01):
battle trying to explain policy to someone who's not interested
in a twenty four hour news cycle and it doesn't
pay attention to politics outside of a couple of events
a year maybe and election day. It's hard to win
on policy doing that. It is going to be much
more of an uphill battle than it ever was with
Joe Biden. And last night was another example of why
we'll talk a little bit more about this lunatic that's

(09:23):
trying to who is threatened to kill Trump. There are
many people who you know, Trump is in Arizona and
they're searching for a man who's been making threats. Apparently
this guy's a lunatic on a multiple levels. I'll tell
you a little bit about that, his backstory and all
that jazz coming up on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh Marie's song you Won't Go to College on news
radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
The man hunt going on right now in Arizona is
for a man by the name of Ronald Lee Servud.
I think is how you say that and basically he's
a sixty six year old he has outstanding Warrington, Wisconsin
for a dui failure to appear for a dui, and
then in Arizona, he's got a couple of different things
that he's out. You know, he has got announcing he

(10:12):
warrant for a hit and run and felony failure to
register as a sex offender. So now it's these threats
against Trump by this crazy sixty six year old man,
and I guess we're going to have to figure out
if they can find him. I'm sure he's in good position,
good hands. I don't know where this guy is, and

(10:34):
based on his checkered pass, he might be in a
lot of talk. But after what happened in Pennsylvania, there's
absolutely no way they're going to take any chances on
the safety of Donald Trump or really any politician ever.
You wouldn't think two twenty eight is the time we're
going to continue to roll on. Here a couple more
political gauntlet things I wanted to mention, and we'll get

(10:55):
to those, including the rules of voting in a couple
of states, as well as I wanted to chat just
a little bit about what to expect from Kamala Harris's
acceptance speech of the nomination tonight at the Democratic National Convention.
We'll do that coming up on news radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab. What say
you about voter rules?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Should we have one size fits all for all fifty
states and however many territories or is it okay that
all these different places have different voting rules that people
from outside those states probably don't get or understand. I
like that we have. I like it.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I like it. The variety is the spice of life.
I like it. I feel like, you know what, this
is what I feel like. Who cares what I feel like?
But I feel like it's even more American that we
state states get to make their own rules. Yeah, we
got states to kind of do their own thing in
their own way. I think that's cool. Yeah, I don't disagree.
I think most of what we've had over the last

(11:58):
two hundred and two hundred and forty eight years, Oh,
are we that close to the two fifty?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah? Two forty eight two fifty? Ain't she nifty? Is
that going to be the tagline? I just thought of it.
I don't like it. I don't like it. Yeah, it
felt weird. Yeah, we'll try it. We'll workshop that got
a couple of years, what do you think, like two
hundred and forty eight years. The whole point of the
states was kind of the states could do their own thing,
right like that. The government was designed where the states

(12:27):
could do what was best for the states and our
federal government for better or worse, depending on which side
of the aisle you're on. Mostly mm, we've gotten more
to like, hey, we should centralize things. You know why
we did that because things got smaller, and by smaller
I mean technology. Back in the day, there were many people,
a large majority of people who were not involved in

(12:48):
the military or the government at all, that wouldn't leave
their state for their entire lives. They were born in
seventeen eighty somewhere in Virginia, had a farm, had some land,
and that was just where their family's going to live forever.
Sometimes they'd go into town, but for the most part
they were just in the same geographical space you had.
It took a long time by horse and by buggy

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or a covered wagon, depending on where you were going
to go from one place to the other. There were
a lot more difficulties in doing so. When you got
the railroads that you know popped up in the eighteen fifties. No, no,
you know the eighteen fifties, but you know the eighteen
hundreds it was moving along trans continental one was post
Civil War. You move not only from that, but you

(13:35):
talk about air travel vehicles, then the media, radio and
television allowing people to get news way faster than they
ever had before. And then now social media. It just
feels like Washington, d C. For a lot of these
people right next door. You can see, you can understand
and know every single thing that's happening on a minute
to minute basis without moving a muscle. You could just

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have your cell phone on your hand and just like
be following the right people and you'll see everything that's happening.
And with that has made it more of an emphasis
as time has gone on on the president and less
so on who your representative in Congresses or who your
senators are. Heck, we've changed the rules about how the
senators are supposed to be elected. Right That in and

(14:18):
of itself is a little bit of a weird deal,
and I'm not taking calls on it. We've done that,
been there done that. Sorry, if you wanted to break
down parts of the way that our rules are in
our governmental filings like the Constitution, Here's where I'm going
with this. The Ohio Secretary of State's office has referred
officially one hundred and thirty eight non US citizens who

(14:40):
are found on registered voter rolls. Think about that. They've
done a big audit on Ohio voter rolls, which basically
are like where are the how many people from each
place are registered to vote or have voted in recent times,
or are registered to vote for the upcoming election, and

(15:01):
what's their background? Where are they? They're doing an audit
for the whole state, like where are the most voters?
Like all of that, but as part of it is
how many people that aren't necessarily United States citizens are
also registered to vote? The answer after the audit one
hundred and thirty eight in Ohio one thirty eight. Yeah,
so one hundred and thirty eight that you know, how
many millions of people live in Ohio? Right, one thirty

(15:21):
eight seems like a small number, but even one of those,
how is that allowed? It shouldn't be allowed voting specifically
in this country, no matter what your state is requires
you to be a United States citizen. Now the proof
has been what like whether or not you have to
show proof, or whether or not like certain proofs are legitimate.

(15:42):
That's where the state's you know, very different about the
way that they either require or don't require that sort
of thing. According to Frank LaRose, Secretary of State of
the State of Ohio, are you ready for this statement,
I'm duty bound to make sure people who haven't yet
earned citizenship in this country do not vote in our elections.
We've so far identified five hundred and ninety seven individuals

(16:06):
who've registered to vote in Ohio despite not being s
citizens of the United States, as our state constitution requires.
The averdence includes to one hundred and thirty eight individuals
who appear to have cast a ballot in an Ohio
election during the time state and federal records show that
they lacked citizenship status show the law requires me to
refer these individuals to the attorney General, and that's what

(16:28):
we're doing today. The five and ninety seven number they
threw up there by the way out of this audit
one hundred and forty eight from twenty twenty two one
to seventeen from twenty twenty one three fifty four from
twenty nineteen. They've also purged through one hundred and fifty

(16:49):
five thousand registrations from voters that were confirmed to be
either inactive or abandoned in the last four consecutive years.
One hundred and fifty five thousand people who are registered
voters who have not done a thing for four years.
What do these members tell you? What have we learned here?
We learned that there's a lot of people who registered
voters one hundred and fifty five thousand or so aren't
active and actually voting despite being a registered voter. We

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can have our own opinions about those people whether or not. Hey,
if you're completely out of the loop and you have
no opinion on what's going on in an election, should
you vote or is it your responsibility to know as
much as you can and then go vote. Do we
have the right to persecute people socially who decide that
they do not want to vote? Where are we at
on that as a society? And then of course the
non citizen situations. This is just Ohio, okay, Like, who's

(17:32):
to say every swing state? Because Ohio is not a
swing state. We expect it to be read. Be looking
at Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada.
What's that supposed to be? What does that tell you? Right? Well? Now,
the Supreme Court today also declined to revive parts of
a Republican backed Arizona law that could have affected thousands

(17:53):
of voters from casting a ballot or voting by mail,
because that was part of the law that we're required
voters to document their citizenship to vote in this election.
It also allowed the state to enforce other proof of
citizenship requirements that would make it harder for voters to
register later for state and local elections as well, proof

(18:14):
of citizenship will be required for new voters using a
state voter registration form. Now, this is Arizona, which is
a battleground state, and the Supreme Court of the United
States today basically declined to revive parts of that which
didn't have a whole lot of explanation because this is
one of those emergency appeals kind of thing that is

(18:34):
election related. There's more than just the one of them,
and they don't have the days necessary to sit here,
break it down and then give us a full opinion. Now,
three conservatives, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch, said
that they would have allowed more of the state's proof
of citizenship requirements to take effect in that regard. However,

(18:56):
for others, the liberal justices Sonya Sodomayer, Alana Kagan, and
Katanji Brown Jackson, along with Amy Cony Barrett, who's a conservative,
said they all would have kept all the contested provisions
of the law on hold, which is what they ended
up doing. So what does that look like? How many
people now do we have to question about the ballots

(19:17):
in Arizona because we don't have the strict nature of
the proof of citizenship involved with this election. Especially on
the same day the state of Ohio said, Hey, by
the way, almost six hundred non citizen cases over the
last four years we found who've actually either registered to
vote or actually participated in an election in Ohio and

(19:38):
we just didn't catch them until now. All those votes
they counted, Dude, in whatever election they counted, you're supposed
to tell me in some of these states that could
be very close, we can't ask questions about the legitimacy
of where these votes came from. When one state here
is telling us we just did an audit of some
of the state's ballots and we found one thirty eight

(19:59):
non US city since on registered voter rolls this year.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
A completely unscientific statement here, but I would think that
this probably is just something that happens. Oh, it does,
no doubt, And then you'd hope, knowing human behavior, that
it probably happens on both sides of the aisle. You
would like to think so, but based on again unscientific

(20:25):
and I'm not trying to generalize, but let's just call
spade a spade here. Most people who are inhabiting the
United States of America that do not have legitimate United
States citizenship for one reason or another are typically people
from outside the country that came here one way or
the other and are generally liberal leaning. Not to say

(20:45):
there aren't people who are maybe undocumented or haven't gone
through the proper methods to attain citizenship that are finding
a way to still register to vote because they want
to take part in the process, who might be Republican
or conservative in nature. But I think I think the
reason it's such a big deal, especially an election like this,
is because of what we know in the last four

(21:07):
to eight years. Is that number generally is going to
have a heavy majority of people who are left leaning
or vote Democrat. And again, I don't want to give
any fodder to the whole well they stole the election
kind of thing. I don't want us to have to
have that conversation. But you know, the conversation's lid. The
lid to that conversation is partially opened if we know

(21:29):
this stuff is happening already and we can't prove without
the shadow of a doubt, especially in the swing states
like Arizona, that the people who are voting had to
prove that they are citizens of the United States, and
we may find out a year or two later in
an audit like what Ohio just did, that there are
people that are not US citizens taking part in these elections.

(21:50):
The lid of that conversation I don't want us to
have to have. It's open a little bit because of this.
It just is we'll have to see how the results
shake out, and I don't like that we have to
have that conversation potentially, but the lid is not fully
sealed there because certain states have questionable methods of the
way that they require proof of citizenship ahead of voting

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two fifty. We'll have more on news radio eleven ten
KFAB and.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Maurice Sung on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Remember, we know a lot of the stuff that's going
to be happening with these acceptance speeches or speeches in general,
because officials are like, yeah, this is going to be
the theme of this. Remember you know the unity that
Donald Trump was going to talk about, Well, the first
fifteen to twenty minutes of his speech was unity, and
then the speech went on for like another seventy two
minutes after that, and people just kind of forgot how

(22:40):
powerful the first fifteen or so minutes were. Well. According
to the Harris Walls campaign, they have said to Axios
that there will be three major points in the Kamala
Harris acceptance speech. To I, you want to guess the
first one. There are three themes, three themes, three main
point points. What's name those points? Matt Case here on

(23:03):
the clock, name those points. Name a point that you
think would be one of the three major points in
Kamala Harris's acceptance speech tonight. Unity. Eh, maybe maybe there's
a synonym to it. He sort of I think think herself.
I basically gave it to you. Her story, Okay, her background,
her growing up raised by a working mother in a

(23:26):
middle class neighborhood. Whether or not she can like totally
relate to that is up for grabs. What do you think?
Another one is two more? What do you think a
Democrat who's accepting the presidential nomination for their party? What
they what are they going to like to say.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Oh, they have to save the country from a dictator,
Project twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's going to be a major contrast. She's going to
share her vision how it contrasts with what the Republicans want,
which is what she's going to say is Project twenty
twenty five. Even though we know the Trump campaign has
distanced themselves from the Heritage Foundations, probably j twenty twenty five.
There number three Red, white, and blue baby patriotism. They say,
she's going to emphasize her belief in the promise of

(24:09):
America with a deep sense of patriotism and a desire
to be president for all Americans, red or blue. We'll
see how effective that is, especially with many skeptical Republicans
probably tuning in to Hate watch tonight. We have another
hour coming up arg Mayby, We're supposed to talk pirates next?
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