Jorts | Israel Withdraws Troops | Arizona Restricts Abortion

Episode Transcript

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There have been responses to movements before. You had a good example when we
were talking about this, what wasyour example, Well, the uh,
well, if you're talking about theway genres can change over time, and
a lot of it is kind ofand what's populace oriented and yeah, you
think of the glam rock the hairmetal of the eighties swiftly followed by the

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grunge movement of the early nineties.I think grunge was absolutely a tried and
true response, much like postmodernism isa literal response to modernism. I think
that the grunge was a literal responseto the glam glam rock hair you know,
heavy hair metal, whatever. Yousay. Well, the reason I

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bring this up is because you're ontosomething and we were kind of talking about
like current music that kind of seemslike it could be a response to some
certain genres. Life in general iskind of cyclical, like maybe not our
own lives. But you know,you're jorts m At one time, georts

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incredibly popular. There wasn't a person, there was a male out there that
didn't have a pair of jorts.Now they're completely out of ogue and insanely
ugly. Yeah. See, butbut if you give it a few more
years. Remember crocs, I'm seeingkids wearing crocs everywhere now it crocs are

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having their moment. This is likefifteen twenty years after the the the initial
craze. I read an article aboutthis. By the way, okay,
talking crocs. The same person whosome some marketing guru saw crocs and thought,
you know what, we can makethese fashionable and cool and he went
out and did it. How thatsame person did the same thing with don't

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say it, Stanley Cupps. They'renot working with Stanley cupp up. The
Yeah, there's some marketing wizard ofoz out there. They're calling them what
what are they calling them? Tumblers? Well, that's the normal thing.
They're talking quencher, Stanley quincher.Oh yeah, you got to quench your
thirst, yeah, the quencher.Yeah you're right. I mean they're just

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cups or they're they're they're they're justlike things that you drink out of.
It became all the rage. Yeah, So I just I I cautioned us
all to think everything is is horriblywrong in a lot of our you know,
sectors of life. If you're notreally keen on where some stuff is

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headed, things typically rebound back becausethere are a lot of people that change
their mind or adjust how they viewcertain things, like Jeorts. I'll be
the first guy to tell you,all right, Matt Georts, they're back.
I mean John Cena made it asurprise disappearance at WrestleMania over the weekend,
and he was wearing the Jorts asas he does. Yeah, but

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he I mean, he's he's stuckwith him if he can't anybody can,
I suppose. And I don't likehim as a Jeorts ambassador, Oh why
not? I just I just don'tlike him personally. Oh yeah, he's
the He's the potato salad of ofpro wrestling. Well, that a thing.
I just I remember hearing that once. Well, now because he's not
there, we're not overexposed to it, so maybe people just are more appreciative

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of the salad. Yeah. Ihave to be honest, I don't know.
He was past my time and Idon't know if I've ever even seen
him wrestle, So you need toget back into the game. Yeah.
At the same time, though,I mean it's pointless now he's hardly ever
around. He's making movies, right, and he's talking to Mandarin though that
that yes, slightly controversial, butyes, all right. We got to

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talk about the news though, andI just say that, you know,
so you know, put a spileon your face. You never know what's
going on. Yesterday, big newsthat Donald Trump went out of his way
to say the states should have theability to make their own rules on abortion,
and that that surprised a lot ofpeople on both sides of the aisle.
He says, no federal ban.If he's a president, he's not

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going to support a federal ban.It was a rough day for the Trump
wants to be a dictator crowd.It's a rough day for the crowd that
thinks that Donald Trump only cares aboutthe power that he can wield as the
president of the United States. Itwas a bad day for people who like
to run on the run elections onthe platform of women's rights and abortion because

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this basically neutralizes that topic on afederal level for the twenty twenty four general
election, which I think is thewhole point why Trump would come out and
say this. Well, today ArizonaSupreme Court said that the state must adhere
to a one and twenty three yearold law which bars all abortions except in

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cases when it's necessary to save thepregnant person's life. I did say one
hundred and twenty three year old law, Matt, can you do me a
favor. Can you find out whenArizona became a state? I it's not,

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Oh, February fourteenth, nineteen twelve, eleven years after this law right
came about. Isn't that weird?It's a little weird. They were making
laws without being a state. Arizonawasn't a state for a long time.
Well. This, uh. TheDonald Trump's statement yesterday, which also was

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kind of surprising to some people,is he outlined that there should be exceptions
in his viewpoint of abortion, andthose were rape and sssen the health of
the mother to save the life ofthe mother. Now that third part is
covered here, but the airs ofthe Supreme Court says that the rape and
the INCEZ part that doesn't give youthe opportunity criminal sanctions may apply as well

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if there is an abortion performed afterfifteen weeks of pregnancy, which is fifteen
weeks. That's a little over athird of the way there, right,
so it's still just pass the firsttrimester. Governor Katie Hobbs, who is
a Democrat in Arizona, and weknow that she was elected under strange circumstances

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as she went against Carrie Lake.She obviously very angry that this decision has
happened. But this law code ofFied in nineteen oh one can be traced
to as early as eighteen sixty four. Eighteen sixty four, that's how many

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years before Arizona chief statehood. Imean that's this forty eight years, forty
eight years. Yeah, twelve plusthirty six, forty eight forty eight years.
Very strange. I'm not saying thattimes have changed, but I'm also
saying that it's a strange law tojust be like, oh, yeah,

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we got to do this. Sowe'll see what the response is on this,
because again this is what Donald Trumpsaid, that the states should have
the ability to do this themselves.And again I applaued that, and I
think most Republicans who actually like,let this sink in and aren't thinking like

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no, no, no, abortionshould be a federal thing. If you
think about it, it makes aton of sense because now the Biden administration
and the Democrats cannot campaign against Trumpby saying women's rights that fight now goes
to your state legislature, your stategovernment, the people that are actually in
your state governing in your state.Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it.

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And not every state has made thesame and that's a fact. So
we'll talk about this, but wealso have to talk about how other states
might be thinking about this, asthey could potentially continue to be empowered by
Donald Trump's states make the rules statementon abortion yesterday. More on that on

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the way, and you can callus if you have thoughts. Four oh
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It's two sixteen. Emory Sunger withyou News Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Emrie Songer on news Radio eleven tenKFAB. In America, we don't really
compete like that, you know whatI mean, don't We don't actively seek
competition. And it's not just insports, it's just in anything like all

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of these clubs and countries and thingsin this obviously soccer is a big,
you know, money making sport inEurope, but it's almost like competition.
Institute's kind of this culture of profitis that capitalism at its finest. Matt

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oh, I, uh sure,are the Europeans better at capitalism than we
are. Hey, now come on, all right, all right, all
right, maybe that was a steptoo far, but I just you know,
it's fascinating a midweek that this is, this match that is on one
of our screens here is going togenerate literal millions of dollars for everyone involved,

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Millions and millions. That thing lastnight? Did you watch that game
last night? I did? Thatsucked. Yeah. It's men's college basketball,
the most overrated sport we have inour country. Like, how like
we we say we enjoy the tournament, but do we enjoy the games?
Well, there's like like even someof like the upsets and stuff, which

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were fun when they happened. Theyweren't necessarily fun to watch. You were
just kind of watching hoping that theunderdog would win. I think. I
don't know, though, that's acomplicated conversation because that game itself snoozefest,
yeah and Perdue just it's a clunker. It was Zach Edy against everyone on
Connecticut. And you know, thething is is I'm sitting there thinking,

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like I as sad as it is, I can't really sit here and think
that Zach Edy's gonna be great onthe next level. I mean, I
just he looks like a backup bigman. He may not even be that.
Let's be honest, he's more ofa European big man. If anything,
I think he doesn't have the touchthat that big man have. To
have these things, he gotta beable to step out side of fifteen feet
and have a shot at me,and able to you know, stretch the

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floor a little bit. Spacing's tooimportant, but that's beside the point.
This thing makes a ton of money. We pour a ton of money and
attention into it, yet we areso disappointed so frequently. I think with
some of these games that are like, how rare is it that we have
actual competitive national championship games on themen's side. Last year's wasn't either.
What of the women have that themen don't. They have the best players

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at the biggest moments, at thebiggest times, but they built players that
actually make us a difference. Likethey stay in school and they stayed on
the same team most of the time. So we knew the girls that were
playing for LSU, we knew thegirls that played for iowall, we knew
a lot of the girls that wereon the South Carolina team. We knew
Cameron Brink, great player. Shewas the leader for Stanford. Like if

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you followed the sport, it waslike the men's college basketball of thirty years
ago, where you could recognize theplayers and the teams. Uh well,
yeah, nowadays you can't Kareem AbdulJabbar, the guy with the goggles from
Indiana State that you know is takingthe nation by storm, and everybody's like,
this is the reason we want tosee them in the big tournament and
they didn't make it. He's inthe transfer portal now, he is.

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He just entered the transfer portal.It'd look pretty look good in some scarlet
and cream. You know. Idon't think that that's what we're talking about
here. I think we're talking howmany goggle gimmicky guys do you need to
play for Hoiberg and Nebraska? Ohhey, come on now, how many
from all of them? How many? There's not too many. You can't
have too many to be fair tohim at the Indiana State coach, I
think is just taking a new job. So yeah, anyway, I say

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all this because the world is astrange place. Well, the NBA could
fix a lot of this by requiringits entries into the draft to have some
college experience. No, no,no, no, That's what got us
into this mess was it wasn't likethis when you could go straight from high

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school to the NBA. It justwasn't. Oh, so you're saying it
would be better if they if theymade that a thing again, the guys
who wanted to go to college andbe great college players, that's fine.
You don't have to be great playersin the league. If guys like Kobe
Bryant and Kevin Garnett say it's betterto go from high school to the NBA,
I think that makes way more sensethan forcing them to spend a year

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in college and then it's just,you know, like a rapid turnover.
But I don't know if we're evergoing to get back there because of this
transfer portal thing. We've just beenlucky the last couple of years that none
of the major college women except forHaley van Lez, actually did any transferring.
And I bet she regrets that now. She absolutely was buried in the
rotation for LSU after being the starfor Loeuville last year. Yeah, we're

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talking about abortion though, and Iknow that that's a hard line switch it
like again, the point of theconversation is we don't always have it all
figured out, and I'll be honestwith you, sometimes I'm confused as to
what we think we have figured out. Well, when Donald Trump said that
the states needed to have their ownrules on abortion, I found it to

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be so fascinating that he would goto that point and say, look,
it's the will of the people.So now we're gonna see state by state
continue to make these rules themselves.And of all the states that are making
these adjustments, a lot of themhave already been made in the South.

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And you know, the South typicallyquite right leaning, quite conservative Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,
and then you throw in West Virginia, Indiana, both Dakotas, and
Idaho all have a ban of abortionin a lot of ways. Arizona now

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having the Supreme Court say this oldlaw needs to be adhered to, which
dates all the way back to eighteensixty four. It also carries a prison
sentence for abortion providers of two tofive years. Now this was decided today.
There's a two week stay on it. But this is that's a really

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strict thing, and it'll be interestingto see how Arizona deals with it.
But that's the beauty of what DonaldTrump is saying here. That is Arizona's
problem to solve, not the federalgovernments, and it shouldn't be taking the
attention away from what the real issuesof this country at a federal level could
be, like protecting our borders,like what kind of foreign eight are we

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giving people? And on that note, what about what's going on in Israel.
There was a little bit of awithdrawal of the troops in Gaza by
Israel. What does that mean?What does it look like. I'll do
the best that I can to illustratethat for you and what it might mean
for the next steps of this conflictin Gaza. You can call us with

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your thoughts or any questions that youmight have at four oh two five five
eight eleven ten four oh two fivefive eight eleven ten. It's news Radio
eleven ten kfab E Marie Songa onnews Radio eleven ten K fab I just
you know, I don't know,you know, I try to. I
try to do my best as aproducer, you know, help helpful research

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on important topics that may come upnext. And yeah, that was from
twenty twenty three, so it's slightlydated, but still it's a history.
It's an illustrated history of gene shorts. It is an illustrated history of jorts.
And I think it's easy to forgetthe impact, first off, that
it's had on our society, onour culture. There's a picture of Andre

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Agassy playing in the US Open,a tennis tournament, wearing jorts in nineteen
eighty eight, and I would saythat flies in the face of quote unquote
pseudo logic that people have these days, pseudoscience. You could even say that
jorts are not good for athletic activity. That they don't they're not good for
when you have to sweat or theyget heavy, all that, you know.

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I those accurate statements. Who youknow. I think that that photograph
of that moment in time would begto differ. I also think that there's
a lot that the jorts had tooffer, and I think you scroll through
that article, don't look at thepicture of Pharrel. That is not what
Georges have to offer. In fact, I can't believe they included that.
Well, you're it's not propaganda.It's just what they said is a history

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of George. Then they show abunch at the bottom that you could buy.
They do. Yeah, they areranging from seventy to three hundred dollars,
and I don't know why anyone wouldbuy them at all. I would
never spend that much. You canget them for like two point fifty at
Goodwill. Well, I guess we'regonna say. I'm gonna make mental notes

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throughout the throughout the summer and seehow many George I can I can see.
But yeesh, whatever floats your goat, Matt never floats your goat.
Hey, you get a big oldarticle in Vogue like that, it makes
you wonder. I don't know ifthat's what it makes me do. I

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will say this, though, thereare things that do make me wonder,
like what is going on in Israel. There was a withdrawal announced a couple
of days ago and is being reportedby the BBC of Israeli troops. They

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were in Gaza, where the fightingis really happening, and is now left
all but just one troop there,one brigade. And there are people who
are paying close attention to this tryingto figure out what this is and people
have asked Israel says, don't readtoo much into it. That's the exact

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quote that a spokesperson for Benjamin attYahu's office, the Israeli Prime Minister,
said. They have said as muchas we are going to fight until there
is total victory. They also saidthey eliminated a senior Hamas operative in an
airstrike. So, okay, isthat true or we led to believe that
this is no big deal. NowWe've been told for weeks feels like months

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now that the next real offensive inGaza is going to take place near Rafa
or in Rafa. Rafa is aplace that a lot of civilians had kind
of fled to when they were toldto evacuate to avoid the fighting. We
know this is all happening in thesame breath that the United States last week

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in the presidential office is kind ofputting the pressure on Israel to be like,
hey, if you don't start takingbetter care of of what you guys
are doing over there and not killingcivilians, because there's some of the media,
we just can't ignore the pressure thatwe're having over here when I have
to get reelected. This is fromthe Biden campaign's perspective, you can't just

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be doing this with us supporting you, and if you continue to do things
the way that you're doing them,we will no longer support you. We
are going to change the rules ofthe way that we are going to support
you, or something to that effect. The point is the pressure is being
felt by a portion of the Americanpopulation that doesn't like that there is still

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fighting going on in Israel, orare pro Palestinian, or are in favor
of, you know, a ceasefirealtogether in more peace. Now. I
don't know what the difference between thatand what's going on in Ukraine and Russia
is, because a lot of thesesame people are saying, you know,
we need to keep supporting Ukraine andhelp prevent Russia from winning that conflict.

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And to me, you know,again, it's not six to one way,
half dozen the other, because Ukraineisn't a NATO ally, Ukraine isn't
the same kind of country, despiteyou know, what they can offer to
the world in terms of agriculture andall that stuff. Same thing with Russia
too, But that is such adifferent scenario than what happened with Hamas and

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Israel back in October. Now,this is six months. We're six months
into this whole thing. And evenif this pullout of these Israeli troops right
now is kind of a sign ofokay, maybe things are slowing down,
maybe there will be a hostage dealor something, it seems still pretty clear

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that even if they do a ceasefire. Benjamin att Ya, Who's made
it very clear that the fighting willcontinue until there is a victory. But
we're monitoring the movements the best thatwe can because this is important. And
if this conflict were to end insome way before we get to you know,

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the heat of the summer or beforewe get to the election, does
that change how some of the nowDemocratic opposition to Biden's handling of the Israel
thing, do they kind of Okay, Well, since that's over, I
can go back to supporting what theDemocrats are going to be doing. Or
is this something they just don't theydon't forget the damage has already been done.

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I'm not sure, and I guesswe're gonna have to find that out
as time goes on. If youhave thoughts on what's happening in Israel or
what that could mean, a slowdownof the fighting or maybe even the ceasefire
what that could mean for politics inthe United States as far as Joe Biden
is concerned, phone number is alwaysopen at four h two five five eight
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