Who Replaces Biden?

Episode Transcript

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Wanted to start this hour with someof the latest in political news, especially
with the presidential stuff. First things. First, wanted to talk about Judge
one Merschon who was officially delayed thesentencing for the hush money trial, the
Stormy Daniels trial, the falsifying businessrecords trial, thirty four counts guilty convicted

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Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, and he
was originally supposed to be sentenced onJuly the eleventh. We were going to
wait for that, but after whatthe Supreme Court did yesterday, the Trump
campaign, his attorneys on his campaign, the Trump team, the attorney team,
the defense attorneys, and anyone connectedto the case basically said, hey,

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look, with this new information,how about we push this back a
little bit. And Judge one Mershonsaid, sure, Alvin Bragg had nothing
to say, no opposition there.Judge one Mershon delayed this and now Donald
Trump not scheduled to be sentenced untilSeptember eighteenth, which is my birthday,
by the way, and I actuallythat would be the day I land in
Madrid, Spain for our vacation inSeptember, So if that even happens,

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I'm not gonna get a chance totalk about it as it's happening, So
apologies for future memory not being here. But I look at this as an
American citizen, and I'll be like, why did we waste six weeks on
this if we knew that the SupremeCourt was going to determine this and this
was gonna affect this particular case.The argument I'm sure you're gonna hear from
the people on the left is like, oh, no, he was a

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convicted fellat. It should be injail, we should sentence him. Now
they're gonna say the official acts partof it, and they're gonna be like,
it wasn't an official act. Himgetting with Stormy was not official.
Falsifying business records is not official,which theoretically, I suppose you can have

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that conversation. That's something that wouldpotentially fall outside of the duties of what
a president would do, and allthe stuff that he is accused of happening
outside of him, outside the fouryears that he was actually the president of
the United States. So I don'tknow how that falls into the same boat
of the presidential immunity stuff. Andagain, I guess we're just gonna have
to sit and wait and find out. Maybe this is the game plan moving

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forward at all. Is Hey,we can call him a convicted felon,
but it's not gonna do anything good. And we might as well just not
have people burn the court to theground. Let's go ahead and just ike
snay on the trial a aisle tray, Eh. You know what I mean.
A knee jerk reaction to this isI knew they were wasting six weeks
of Donald Trump's time so we couldn'tgo out and campaign. I knew they

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were doing everything they could to tryto smear his reputation to anybody who still
didn't have a strong opinion about him. But I tell you, as a
citizen of these United States, man, this is fishy. The whole thing
is fishy. Did they did?Did? Did Mershaan and brag? Watch
what happened last Thursday and decide,you know what, we don't want to
be involved in this circus anymore.Just go ahead, and you know,

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let's let's just delay it long enoughto where we have enough evidence or find
a way to like call him histrial or basically just cancel it out,
not sentence him at all. FormerPresident, he's got immunity. H forget
it, Okay, good enough byme. If that's if that's how it
works, you're gonna get a lotof backlash from the left that the the
overt overtly inclusive and diverse people whoalways say love is love, Yet hate

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and hate and hate. It's justthat that, to me is the most
confusing thing in the whole world.When we talk about this, I have
no like. I don't even knowwhat we're talking about anymore. With with
our it's hard to identify what we'reallowed to hate and not hate. They
the people who are putting the hateon conservatives or anybody who says they support

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Donald Trump, especially through all this, including people going after the Supreme Court
now on their social media accounts.It's just a lot of hate. Hate,
hate, hey, hey, hate. Yet these are the first people
that say we should love and nothate, and be very inclusive and not
judge books by their cover and realizeeverybody has a seat at this table except
for the ones we don't want tohave a seat at this table. And
if you like people who we don'twant it this stable, then you're a

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bad person and we hate you.Okay, you guys sound an awful lot
of fun and can't wait to hangout with you next time. It leads
me to my next point as towho are a few other names that maybe
I haven't been talking about. I'llbe honest, I've been pretty zoned in
on Gavin Newsom as the de factofallback candidate for the presidency. He's incredibly

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charismatic. He has a way withthe way he presents himself that he seems
kind of like a swindler. Buthe's also the kind of guy that you
walk into a used car store andhe's the owner, and he starts giving
you attention. He talks to youabout some of these cars, makes you
feel good about yourself, and nextthing you know that you're trying to you're
fighting with your wife over whether ornot you want to buy a two thousand

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and six trans am. He's kindof one of those guys. Those are
the kind of guys that actually doreally well in political debates and in the
political realm in the general election,or people aren't paying attention to issues nia
we are independient voters are just lookingto be excited about something that worked for
Trump and then he was the president. People on the right and the conservatives
were like, this was great,this was great, and people on the

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left were like, he's a terribleperson and we hate him. We need
to be in power. And enoughsocial media pressure basically got the middle to
say, oh no, no,no, we don't like him. Now.
No, they're not thinking about theissues. They're thinking about the social
rhetoric. And Gavin Newsom's going tobe able to show up and kind of
be the Trump like alternative on theleft. He's not like Trump in the
way that he speaks. He doesn'texcite quite like Trump does. But if

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you watch him speak, whether it'sin a debate or just in an interview,
he's fun to listen to. I'dwatch a TV show with him on
it. I wish I could watchhim talk about stuff that's not political.
Because California is a mess man,and we know that. I don't know
how much the governor has to reporton that because it's such a large state.
They have so many people that areoverseeing all these larger districts. But

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there's so much going on in hisstate that he can't give us clean answers
on as to how he wants tofix it. Yet we're expected to believe
that over the generalities of the country, he's going to be the right guy.
I don't know about that, butman, is he fun to listen
to. He is. So whileyou sit here, as you sit here
as a middle person, I'm justgoing to put your middle moderate. I

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haven't decided had on a new namein there besides Joe Biden immediately or back
in is I could vote Democrat nowimmediately, because again, they're not voting
issues. They're voting based on socialrhetoric, and they're voting based on who
charms them. And there's just somuch dirt on Donald Trump that they're afraid
to support him regardless of what theissues are. You have to remember there

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are people like that. Well,there are other people that are probably kind
of poking at the Democrat National Committeesay hey, I am available, by
the way, if you need somebodyto be the president. Obviously a couple
of them, Kamala Harris that wetalked about, Gretchen Whitmer that we've talked
about, have some other people thatthrew out some names. Pennsylvania Governor Joshapiro.
I was doing my Des Moines showand this came up, and Jos

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Shapiro is another younger guy, buthe actually does have a good job approval
rate within the state of Pennsylvania,which, much like Whitmer and Michigan,
a swingey state, a state thatisn't drastically going one way or the other
way right now. Anybody that isattached to a political party that does have
this level of approval rate is goingto be popular to people because it's gonna

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we know, if we get JoshShapiro, we're gonna win Pennsylvania kind of
thing. Right That's like the twentydelegates that are available to us or the
electoral votes. That is a hugeget for us if we can just put
him in the seat. Only twentythree percent of people in Pennsylvania in polling
at the end of twenty twenty threesaid they disapprove of the job he's doing.
That means something a couple other governorsto watch. Kentucky Governor Andy Basheer.

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Andy Basheer is a Democrat. Wethink of Kentucky as a red state.
Well, Basher is a guy thathas kind of changed the game or
the way that people are viewing Democratsin a generally read kind of southern state
and he's not going to tell youthat he's interested, but man, if
they tabbed him, here's a guythat is winning in a red state as
a staunch Democrat, that has tomean something. If they wanted to go

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a little bit more outside the box, I suppose they could go for a
Trump like figure from the left,which JB. Pritzker would be a guy
to pay attention to. Governor ofIllinois, he dominated, but Illinois a
much bluer state. But he isa giant billionaire type guy and has been
super outspoken on social media against DonaldTrump anything Trump related, and again seems

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to be positioning himself to at somepoint, whether it's now or later,
be a presidential type figure. Idon't know if he's ready for that sort
of thing compared to some of theseother red state people who happen to win
elections that happen to be Democrats.But something to keep in mind. I've
seen multiple lists also with Pete Budajig'sname attached to it as a guy who's

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in the administration and could be elevatedin some way to kind of keep up
the current agenda. If it's notKamala, Pete doesn't have the same profile
Kamala does, so he doesn't havethe same disapproval ratings, but it'd be
very simple to run a campaign againsthim because the last three and a half
years that he's had as the TransportationSecretary have been an utter nightmare with several

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things that have gone wrong that hehasn't been able to come up with clear
answers or solutions for. So Idon't know if any of these people are
the ideal candidate outside of a newsome, because they don't have the profile and
they don't have the recognition, andyou're going to be running an accelerated campaign
potentially if you can get the currentadministration a step aside. But at the
same time, I think there's anincredible amount of importance on trying to keep

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an open mind if you're a Republicanas to who might be that target,
because as much as we talk aboutidentity politics, it's basically kind of what
you're doing, except for president andnot vice president. It's really interesting,
but it's something to keep in mind. If they decide to pull the plug
on Old Joe and he is complicitstepping aside, and speaking of stepping aside,
why would he well, Karine JohnPierre gave us a couple of ideas

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as to why that might be thecase, and I'll try to explain what
she was saying because she insists he'sstaying in the race. We'll do that
next on news Radio eleven ten KFABand Maurice Song on news Radio eleven ten
KFAB potential replacements of Joe Biden ifhe steps aside. I talk about Newsom

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a lot because I've been on thatbandwagon for over a year. But a
lot of different names have kind ofpopped up as potential nominees if they found
a way in a loophole to workaround it. I did hear that some
people you know are suggesting that BarackObama could somehow be involved as either a
VP or a president. But ifyou look at the constitution between the twelfth

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Amendment, which says that if you'reineligible to be president, you can't like
run the election for vice he's noteligible because of the twenty fifth Amendment,
which says that you have to havetwo or you can only run for pres
and be the president for two fouryear terms. And I'm sure that'll wake
up our constitutionalists that want to callin and email me. But basically,

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anybody who says that Barack Obama ispositioning for himself to be in some way
involved, that's not necessarily the case. While Michelle absolutely could be, I
am not. It's kind of surprisingI'm not seeing her on anybody's list.
I am looking at every possible angle, people that are lefties that are posting,
people on the right that are posting, and it's mostly just the every
person on social media or on messageboards that are floating her name out,

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or people like us right just youknow, people in the cheap seats,
but people who follow politics right politics, they don't have her on the list
at all. I don't know.Again, there are some people that say,
hey, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. She could be yanked in last
minute, and her name recognition givesthem a better chance of her getting elected
than anybody else. I don't disagreewith that. That's why I'm kind of

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surprised that that's not being floated arounda little bit. I'm just not sure
she wants to do it. I'mnot sure she wants to waste four years
of her life doing something like that. And again, I'm a little less
conspiracy theory than many other people are, so I don't want to, you
know, sound like I'm flippant aboutit, but I just I don't seem
it doesn't seem to me like there'sa whole lot of you know, cookie

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crumbs leading that direction. And again, I totally reserved the right to say,
hey, look, I was wrongif that does happen, But I
have looked at so many lists justwaiting to see what who is saying Michelle
Obama, and I'm not seeing itanywhere other than us speculating because of her
name recognition. Did get an emailfrom Rob says, I hope that AOC
goes for the nomination. She'll bethirty five before inauguration day. Yeah,

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she would be eligible. Theoretically,she'd be the youngest president of all time
for the same reason the Democrats preventedBernie Sanders from being the nomination the nominee
because they knew a Democratic socialist wouldget absolutely blown out of the water against
a capitalist in this country in ageneral election. There is just no way

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that somebody as far left as AOCwould ever be considered for the presidency.
I mean, Beato O'Rourke was basicallyyoung Bernie. As far as many people
were concerned he was winning in apretty red state. I mean, obviously
he was covering a blue territory.But everybody said, he's on the up
and up, this is the guy. And he didn't even make a little

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splash. He didn't even make alittle dribble, let alone a wave,
like there was nothing that had nolike people just didn't have his back the
same way when he was going forit. You think AOC is gonna be
different. I mean, she's perfectfor the people she's representing in New York.
There's no way that people in MiddleAmerica, Democrats in Middle of America
say, yeah, that's the personI want representing me. I think it's

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probably close to the same as somebodylike Marjorie Taylor Green for the Republicans was
running. Everybody be like, absolutelynot, please let her represent her people
in Georgia. We can do betterfor leader of the Free World. And
I think AOC kind of falls intothat. But again, she's famous.
She's famous in a way that Ithink makes her at least somewhat attractive for
people to toss her name around.I just don't think she's anywhere close to

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being considered considered when you look atthe other names that I said to her
already governors of states or have alreadyhad plenty of federal leadership under their belts.
I can talk to you four htwo five to five, eight eleven
ten. I'm screening my own callsto just be patient. I'll get to
as many people as I can aswe roll along. On news Radio eleven
ten, Kfab Emery's songer on newsRadio eleven ten Kfab talking about the Democratic

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Party and kind of the turmoil thatthey find themselves in not quite a week
after really one of the real poordebate performances of all time on a national
level, and what they're kind oftrying to do is a response to that.
In damage control and beyond. Wegot Brian on the phone line four
h two five to five, eighteleven ten. Hello, Brian, what's

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on your mind? Yeah, theyjust the and painted themselves straight into a
corner with this, because you knowfull well that if Kamala had not been
so bad, Biden would already beout of office and she'd be in office.
And instead of finding somebody that fitthat description that was actually competent,
like Pulsi, Gabbard then went withKamala because she was going to go along

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party lines and do whatever the whateverthey told her to do, right,
So I guess somebody who was potentiallycompetent it could have been a huge help.
I mean, like even mayor Peteas Like, if you wanted to
be like, who would be thesecond best possible candidate for a regular establishment
Democrat, He's probably the person.But they went with identity politics. Do

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you think that helped him get elected. I think it did help him get
elected, as long as it wasa free and fair election ball And I'm
not going to parse that out rightnow, no, I mean neither.
So, I mean, it's justone of those things where like they just
paint them themselves into a corner,so they end up picking somebody that's just
so bad that they can't do anythingwith. So they're stuck with Biden.

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And Biden's gonna run unless he likekeels over. Sure. Yeah, And
that's the thing. It is,like, if he's the puppet we all
have thought he was, you thinkhe'd get out of the way, But
it sounds like that it just isn'tkind of in the plans. They're gonna
have to have somebody to really talkhim into it. I have to ask
it, Brian, since you're upon this, who do you think is
the next person? And do youthink they are able to talk Kamala out

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of not being the next person,because I think she's got to get out
of the way too, that's thething. There's no way for them to
get out of that. But she'sthe vice president and if he's gonna,
if Biden's gonna step down, shehas to step in. Well, and
that's right. And even if theytried to replace her against her will,
then they've done the DEI thing likethey're painting themselves in the corner the other

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way, because how do you replacean African American woman? You would have
to replace her with another African Americanwoman, right, which again Michelle Obama
is the only the option there.But like she's I mean, the cry
from the Democrats will be, well, you're replacing an African American woman because
she you don't think she can dothe job. How dare you you?
Racists? Kind of thing. So, I don't know, it's interesting,

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Brian, who do you think they'regonna pick. I think they're gonna have
to stick with Biden, all right. Well, I don't know if that's
a winning proposition, but you mightbe right. Thanks for the call,
man, really appreciate it. That'sit's interesting to me because we are in
such a weird time frame. KareemJohn Pierre had her first press secretary thing

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press conference. I suppose she's thepress secretary, but the press conference since
the debate. She said it wasa bad night, but she attributed the
performance from the president as a cold. There was a person a reporter point
blank said, does President Biden ateighty one years old have Alzheimer's any form
of dementia or degenerative illness that causedthese sort of lapses? And it's a

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yes or no question, And thenKJP said, are you ready for it?
It's a note and I hope you'reasking the other guy the same exact
question. Is there anybody saying thatDonald Trump is showing signs of dementia or
Alzheimer's. It's a sensitive issue forme because my grandmother had it, and
I don't want to like make ita funny thing. I don't want to

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poke fun at it. We allknow somebody who's dealt with this as they've
gotten into an old age, andjust because people in general are living healthier
and longer. That doesn't necessarily meanthat you can't develop this stuff at an
earlier age than you know, inthe seventies or in the eighties. Eighty
one is a good run. Ifyou watch Biden in him debate in twenty
twenty, just looks like a differentguy. He still kind of has a

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little bit of that same late Obamaadministration glow to him. And I don't
know if the presidency itself is agedhim or he's just an old guy.
He's the oldest president we've ever had. I wonder what that looks like,
you know what I mean of whathis timeline and his personal health look like
if he's not in president, ifhe's not in the presidency. There are
many reports of, you know,some vibrant younger presidents that aged horrifically in

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their time in office, whether itwas four years or eight years. I
mean, Barack Obama was a youngguy when he was elected, and he
had gray hair and everything when heleft. But that didn't necessarily mean that
it was all job related. Itvery well could have been age related anyway.
It's hard to know those things,but I think at eighty one years
old, we can make some prettygood indications that some of the lapses,

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some of the talking points, theway that he looks, the way that
he moves around. I hate tobe that guy, but there's no way
you can just tell me that.Cognitively, this guy is as sharp as
attack. I see some elderly people. I mean, give Nancy Pelosi all
the crap that you want based onwhat her politics are, but into her
eighties she was still kind of thesame person. You look at other people

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like Chuck Grassley, Iowa Senator.He's been there forever. He's still kind
of the same guy. He doesn'tmove as quickly as he used to,
but he's still kind of the sameguy. There's no reason to think that
he's dropped off at all. Hestill knows what's going on. He can
still talk to people. He showsup and does the full Grassley and I
would go into all ninety nine everyyear, and you know what, people
still see him as a very competentperson. This isn't age related as much

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as it is noticeable behaviors. AndI hate how in Kareem. I'm not
mad at Kareein. I'm really not, because Karine is just doing what she's
supposed to do. What I mean, it's an impossible job. It's coach
speak except as politics. Right,You're you're telling us nothing by telling us
nothing. Right, You're kind ofyou're saying stuff, but it's really not.

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You're not really telling us anything ofimportance. She talked a few weeks
ago about how these videos of thepresident walking around like a zombie at the
G seven were being shared in badfaith, that there were deep fakes,
there were edits being made going allout to defend the president, and then
of course we see it with ourown eyes. If you forget the conversation
about him being drugged and how theywere going to make him be upright in

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and active for ninety minutes, hewas not. It was a mess.
It was bad, and everyone knewit, including every Democrat. Anybody who
voted that he won that debate isjust in deny with themselves. But we
were told by this same person threeweeks ago, two weeks ago, whatever
it was, that with these videosare not really what the truth is.
And now that we've seen it withour own eyes, now she's got to

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come up with different things. Ohwell, it was a cold, Oh
well it was He's fine, likehe just is a little slower because he's
older, and you know, he'sembracing his age. He's got great experience,
and we got to look at hisrecord, and we are looking at
his record. Why isn't he lookingat his record? They're saying, he
tells the truth? Does he?Though? He was fact checked almost as

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much as President Trump was fact checkedby people who were on both sides of
the aisle, saying, well,this wasn't accurate. Well that was made
up. He did that too,So I don't know what is that supposed
to mean. No, he tellsthe truth. We have evidence that he
doesn't tell the truth. We haveevidence that this guy doesn't even know where
certain things or people are, ormisremembers things all the time, like his
son died in Iraq. Right,that's not what happened. You talk about

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the Amtrak guy, which is myfavorite story. He met a guy on
an Amtrak was talking about his Amtrakstory. Guy hadn't worked for Amtrak since
nineteen ninety three. This apparent trainride that he was referencing happened in twenty
eighteen. So I don't know,man, I just wish we were being
treated like we weren't so stupid,and that to me upsets me more than
anything. I'm gonna wrap up theshow. I got a lot of thoughts,

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a little bit more patriotism, exceptin a completely different realm. That's
up next on news radio eleven tenkfab