Fresno Isn’t Getting Any California Money

Episode Transcript

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I should have gotten to this onMonday, sort of slipped my mind.
It sort of happened over the courseof Friday, and it sort of got
buried in the news sort of atthe bottom of this story by GV wire.
It was the story reporting on JerryDyer, Mayor of the Fresno and
he gave his State of the Cityaddress last week. State of the City,

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so kind of like you know,State of the Union president gives,
the governor gives a State of theState address. Jerry Dyer every year gives
a State of the City address,and he was at the Fresno Chamber of
Commerce. The President Chamber of Commercehosted the event at the Convention Center.

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And the big thing that was thebig headline grab was dire really criticizing PG
and E and criticizing them for higherrates and higher profits. And then PG
and E's goes back with him.But ba ba ba bup. But buried
at the bottom of this story.Gv wire was covering it and they had

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this section called other speech Highlights.Way down at the bottom is the thing
that I sort of thought should havebeen at the top, the state's two
hundred and fifty million dollar pledge fordowntown Fresno infrastructure may be delayed by an

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additional budget year done. Dun letme give you all the context for this.
About a year and a half ago, Jerry Dyer comes out, big

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old happy face to announce that he'sreached this agreement with Governor Newsom. The
Governor Newsom is going to allocate,over the course of several years, two
hundred and fifty million dollars of statefunding to the City of Fresno to help
with various forms of city infrastructure projects, particularly for downtown Fresno. This will

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be a way for downtown Fresno toactually have the kinds of new construction,
new innovation, et cetera that itreally needs a lot of infrastructure work,
water drainage stuff, sewage stuff thatyou would need if you want to have,
for example, more people living indowntown Fresno, build more apartments,

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build more build more multi unit dwellings. You need some of this infrastructure stuff
to happen in order to do that. So Dyer is enthused. This is
a huge boon for the city toget all this state funding. And we
got the first I think I thinkwe got the first batch of fifty million

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and then the schedule for it waswe were going to get twenty we were
going to get one hundred million thenext year, and one hundred million the
next year. Well, we learnedthat that schedule was getting delayed by one

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year. Last year we learned thatwhole schedule is delayed by a year.
Why. Well, because the stateis in a massive budget crunch, and
probably a lot of these negotiations werehappening in the sunshiny halcyon days of twenty
one twenty two, when the state'scoffers were full of federal and other COVID

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money. But since, you know, we we've gone from having a budget
surplus again in those halcyon COVID daysto now for twenty twenty four and last
year for twenty twenty three, havingmassive budget deficits. And again, let's

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just understand our basic language of deficit. The amount of revenue the state is
receiving from taxes, et cetera isless than what we intend to spend,
and the amount of revenue we getfrom taxes. This is a California particularized

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phenomenon. Here, California is reallyreally dependent on tax revenues from a relatively
very small population of high income earnerswho pay California state income tax. Okay,

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there's about one hundred thousand people inCalifornia who if they move moved to
Nevada, it would break the entireCalifornia tax revenue budget setup. Okay,
we are heavily, heavily dependent onwhat is in the big scheme of things.

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A very small number of people payinga very large amount in California state
income taxes and their tax revenue,the tax revenue we get from their taxes,
holds up this whole structure of aforty billion dollar per year whatever it
is, California budget. So wehad these very sunshiny views of things back

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in twenty twenty two when we were, you know, right off of this
massive budget surplus. And again itwas this was the effects of a lot
of federal COVID money flowing into California, Fournia's coffers. So you know,
it's this wonderful Latin phrase grattis assaritour, grattis nagatur. Something that's freely

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asserted can be freely denied. Weget this promise from Gavin Newsome to Jerry
Dyer, but as often happens withGavin Newsom promises they're not exactly ironclad.
They are subject to further review,and of course what happened, Well,

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he makes this nice, wonderful pledge. He gives us the first fifty million,
and then oh, sorry, guyshave to delay this schedule of one
hundred million for this year and onehundred million for the next year. Sorry,
we got to delay it by ayear. Oh okay, And everyone
puts a brave face on it.Dire puts a brave face on it.
City council members put a brave faceon it. And I on this here

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show about I don't know ten monthsago when we were discussing the same thing,
I don't know that this money's evergonna come because outside of that one
kind of black swan event of COVIDand the huge amounts of federal funding that

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proceeded from it, I don't seeany likelihood of It doesn't seem likely to
me that this fundamental problem the stateis facing is going to get resolved in

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these non COVID years. With nonCOVID, you know, without the extra
federal COVID revenue streams coming into thestate's coffers. What are we seeing well
for the last two years, whatwe've seen are big time budget deficits in
the realm of tens of billions ofdollars. The amount of revenue we're getting

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from taxpayers is falling way short ofwhat our projected budgets are supposed to be.
It's happened two years in a row. Now. Governor Newsom's proposed his
sort of revised budget. He proposesa budget initially in I think January February,

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and then now here we are inMay. He gives a revised budget
for the state legislature to examine,and it's based on receipts of income tax.
You know, people file their taxesup through April fifteenth. Now Here
we are in May. We've gottenall this money from income tax, and

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now we revise things based on whatwe've gotten. It's not looking good.
Okay, We're still running a massivedeficit. And this is the harsh political
reality that no one wants to hear. Downtown Fresno revitalization and infrastructure spending is

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probably not going to be the mostimportant thing in Gavin Newsom's list of priorities
on a statewide scale. If anythinghas to be cut, that's gonna get
cut. And that's what Dyer iswarning everyone about in the State of the
City address, which again gets buriedat the bottom of this story. In

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other speech highlights, it may bedelayed by an additional budget year. And
then where does that leave us.I mean, there's a lot of the
city's putting a lot of its eggs. It's a lot of its long term
planning and infrastructure eggs into the basketof well, we might get this.
We're gonna get this two hundred andfifty. We're gonna get this two hundred
million extra dollars from the state ofCalifornia for downtown infrastructure revitalization. All right,

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so we can plan on development herein Downtown Fresnel will to revitalized here,
and a lot of it seems tobe around this idea. We'll have
the high speed rail station and thenwe'll build up like Chinatown will. We'll
build up more infrastructure, will buildup more more nice condos and apartments,
and professional people can live there.We'll attract business there, and downtown Fresno

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is gonna just be rocking and rolling. It's gonna be the new hot place
in the city. Restaurants will wantto set up there and shops and stores
and oh my gosh, this isso right. Yes, yes, yes,
downtown Fresno revitalization, the same songand dance that people have been doing
for downtown Fresno for the last thirtyyears. And I just don't think it's

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gonna happen. I think I thinkthe high speed rail putting it in downtown
Fresno was another poor decision in thelong laundry list of bad decisions surrounding high
speed rail, especially now that wehave this truncated vision of what the high

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speed rail is going to be.The high speed rail is not going to
be a San Francisco to La youknow, unbelievable vein of connection connecting Fresno
to the rest of the state.No, it's gonna be Mer said to
Bakersfield, just to see if itworks. And nobody's gonna ride on it.

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If it's just Mer said to Bakersfield. If it's just mersaid to Bakersfield,
and the high speed rail is justgonna run along the ninety nine,
people are just gonna drive in theircars on the ninety nine rather than buy
an expensive train ticket, drive,have someone drive them or drop them off
to in downtown Fresno or somehow parkyour car there, get on the train.

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You have to get there, probablyforty five minutes in advance. Get
on the train, take the train, get out of the train, and
then I guess get an uber inBakersfield or something rather than hop in my
car, and I'll be in Bakersfieldin two hours, and I've saved basically,
you know, the amount of timeyou've saved is basically nothing through one
mode of transportation or the other.If the amount of time you're saving between

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one mode of transportation or the otheris negligible, then you'd rather have your
own car in Baker's Field anyway.So a lot of this whole strategic vision
that we're just we're going to revitalizedowntown Fresno with things like you know,
high speed rail that builds up downtownFresno. I just feel like this was

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so much putting our eggs and ourinvestment and our care and attention, so
much putting all of this energy intothe wrong place. And sad to say,
I mean I wish, which youknow, I would love for downtown

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President to be revitalized, but thisis not how it's gonna happen. And
I think the sooner we have thisreality check that hey, this two hundred
million dollars from the state might nevercome. It might just keep getting kicked
down the road. This can mightjust keep getting kicked down the road.

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And guess what. Governor Newsom isout in twenty twenty six, So as
of January twenty twenty seven, someoneelse will be governor, and maybe a
pharaoh who knows not Joseph will besaying, ah, you know that two
hundred million dollars we were going togive you. No, we're not doing
that anymore. When Rob Bonta orJaber Bessera is the governor of California,

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I don't know that that money iscoming when we return. Another little detail
buried in the bottom of the story, how Fresno might not be an ideal
location for chip manufacturing. Next onThe John Girardi Show, It's amazing the

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things that grabbed all the headlines fromMayor Dyer's State of the City address and
the things that didn't. And I'mscrolling through in the gv wires story about
it, it has at the verybottom other speech highlights, all of which
I think is more interesting than theactual main stuff, which was ah,
Jerry Dyer's mad at p Genie.Okay, Yeah, So one of the

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things it notes is Jerry Dyer wantsFresno to be a player in the semiconductor
industry. But Fresno may not bean ideal location for chip manufacturing because of
the lack of water. Because ofthe lack of water, Fresno may not

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be a nice deal location for chipmanufacturing. Nonetheless, Dyer wants Fresno to
be a player in the semiconductor industry. So Fresno politicians love these optimistic songs

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about what Fresno could be, whatdowntown Fresno could be, what Fresno could
be as an economic player on thestage of the state of California. Why
do you think we so warmly enfoldeda company like bit Wise into our bosom
because they were playing this tune.They were tickling our vanity to say,

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Fresno can be this great, amazingcity that's that's working in the tech sector.
Look at these great young companies likebit Wise encouraging development of my you
know, young Fresno area minority youthinto the tech sector and helping you know,
foment startup businesses, tech startups.Everyone loves a tech startup, even

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though most of them don't work.Oh yeah, and they have their big
fancy office in downtown Fresno that theFresno b rents space from. And somehow
the Presno Bee never caught wind thatbit wise was doing anything cock eyed even
though they were in the same officeanyway. Oh yes, downtown Fresno revitalization
Fresno a major player on the techsector with high speed rail, will fundamentally

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transform the economy of the San JoaquinValley in spite of the fact that the
fundamental building block of our economy inthe San Jauquin Valley is agriculture. You
can't have agriculture without water, butapparently you can't have chip manufacturing without water
either. So so again it's it'swe're back to this same song and dance.

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We need water, We need waterfor egg agg is the foundational driver
of the economy here in the SanJoaquin Valley. The State of California does
not care. They actively oppose everypossible effort from a regulatory perspective to deliver
more water to the San Juaquin Valleythrough environmental regulation, lawsuits, anything possible

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to stop more water from coming toFresno they will stop. Why Because they
fundamentally don't care about the agg sector. Fundamentally, they look at the agriculture
industry in Central California, and bythey, I mean Democrat politicians in Sacramento,
Democrat environmental regulators in Sacramento, theAttorney General fundamentally, Attorney General's past

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and present. Fundamentally, they lookat the agg industry in Central California and
see it as an environmental blight onthe land, the product of terrible environmental
decisions to dam rivers, divert waterways, deliver water to places it never should
have been brought to. They don'tlike the egg industry. And when you

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present them with the problem of yourenvironmental regulations are going to lead to this
whole industry dying, their response isa shrug. They just don't care,
fundamentally, And that's why I'm alwayssuspicious of these clarion calls for fundamentally transforming

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the economy of the San Joaquin Valley, fundamentally transforming Fresno's economy, whether it's
through high speed rail, whether it'sthrough our fitful attempts to develop some kind
of a tech sector in the cityof Fresno. It's because they hate AG,
that's why it is. It's becausethey hate AC. But here's the

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problem, because they hate water somuch. Apparently that's also going to hinder
the development even of a tech sector. So here's dire. I mean,
I guess trying to play with thelimited hand he's been dealt. All right,

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Well, we're never going to getmore water. Seemingly, even in
the Trump administration, when federal regulatorswere allowing more water, the state still
blocked it through lawsuits. So we'renever getting more water. We get these
commitments from Gavin Newsom at least maybefor downtown infrastructure funding, but it doesn't

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show up because ultimately Fresnent is neverreally going to be much of a priority
for the state. Our tech sectorand even the idea of starting up some
kind of tech sector for chip manufacturing, semiconductors, et cetera, that's not
gonna work because we don't have water. The same thing that's stymying our egg

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industry from growing. And I'm notsaying that the egg industry is perfect.
I'm not saying the egg industry hasevery single thing perfect that you know.
I'm not saying there aren't legitimate critiquesof the agriculture sector, but the idea
that liberals fundamentally don't care if itall goes away. They just don't care.

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And that's why I guess I'm justalways suspicious of this desire for Fresno
to sort of imitate San Francisco.Why does San Francisco, Why does San
Jose have this amazing tech sector,Why does Silicon Valley have this amazing tech
sector. For one thing, they'vegot UC Berkeley and Stanford right there.

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Those are resources that we don't havein Fresno. For another, they had
a number of companies that happened tobe established right there, So that's not
a repeatable formula in all contexts.Necessarily, I just wish we could emphasize,

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well, and maybe that's easy forme to say, I wish we
could emphasize the things that actually dothe things we're good at agriculture. Emphasize
those things rather than trying to sortof buddy up with the state for these
massive projects to fundamentally transform the economyof the Central Valley when it's never gonna

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happen. I don't want Fresno tobe an extension of Silicon Valley I don't
want Fresno to become a bedroom communityof San Jose, which is really the
fundamental That was really the fundamental purposeof high speed rail. People living in
San people who want to work inSan Francisco or San Jose, but they

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want to live farther and farther southaway from there because home values are too
expensive close to the cities, sothey want to live farther and farther and
farther away. They want to havea mansion, they want to have their
little MC mansion in Madeira, andthey want to hop on a high speed
rail train, take the train upto San Jose or San Francisco for their
job, maybe twice a week.That's that was the real attraction of high

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speed rail. That's the only realselling point of it, and that's why
it gets sold as well. Fundamentallytransform the economy of the San Joaquin Valley.
That's the only way it would transformour economy. That's the only way
it would provide us greater connection tothe Bay Area is allow Bay area types
to live down here, make usagain a bedroom community of San Jose.

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And I don't think that's that's notreally highlighting what's great about this region.
What's great about this region is agricultureand the incredible, the incredible accomplishments of
the agriculture sector in Central California.That's what we should be emphasizing and building

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up and celebrating and improving. What'swrong with it, That's what we should
be doing. But in Mayer Dyer'sdefense, what can he do. State
wants to strangle this industry and hehas basically no recourse. The federal government's
not gonna help him right now underPresident Biden. Congress is powerless to help
them. State legislature is never gonnahelp, State regulators will never help,

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and the governor will never help withthat portion of what's going on. When
we return, President Biden wants tobe sure that we're all watching the WNBA.
Next on The John Girardi Show.All right, I've got kind of
two stories for this segment. Figureout which one I want to do first.

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Here, I've got President Biden's allmad that he wants to insist that
people watch women's sports all year round. One hand, I want to do
that story. On the other hand, I want to talk about Anthony Blincoln,
the Secretary of State, playing aleft handed guitar. What do you
think I should do? Audience?All right, seeing a show of hands.

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All right, I think I'm gonnatalk about Anthony Blincoln. Here we
go, We'll do the WNBA andhow we all need to watch women's sports
next. All right, So AnthonyBlincoln goes on a surprise visit to Ukraine.
Anthony Blincoln is the Secretary of State, goes to Ukraine, goes to
visit with Zelensky. Understandable, wejust voted to give them a whole bunch

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of military money. He's over there. And then we get this video released
yesterday of Anthony Blinken, apparently ina bar or something in Ukraine, playing

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with a rock band and playing thesong Rocking to the Free World, which
I think is a Neil Young's song. Now, this immatureish side of Anthony
Blincoln that he really loves playing guitarand he likes, you know, jamming
with his band and stuff. Thishas been noted since he was appointed as

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Secretary of State. And I've alwaysthought it was kind of this childish thing
my own dad, who, bythe looks of it, was about as
good a guitarist as Anthony Blincoln.My dad used to play guitar for like
medical lectures where he would take somecorny song from the nineteen sixties and then

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write like, you know, parodylyrics for it. Well, Rush Limbaugh
used to have that guy, PaulShanklin, who would write like political parody
lyrics for you know, popular songs. My dad would sort of do something
similar, only for like medical lectureswhere you know, like the hip you
see it's on the eve of destructionlike that, like something about hip hip

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problems where he's giving a lecture tolike pediatricians about how to identify different problems
with like children's hips, because mydad was an orthopedic surgeon, so he
would give lectures to pediatricians about differentkind of the orthopedic issues that they might
identify anyway. But the thing thedifference is with my dad, my dad
was a not a very good guitarplayer or singer, but knew he was

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not very good and was never likeout there playing guitar to like impress people
with how cool and hip. Hewas. Here's like the Secretary of State
like sort of pretending like he's socool and on this trip to Ukraine that
we are funding. By the way, we have funded this. He apparently

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has time in his busy schedule asSecretary of State to go to a bar
and play this song in a barand have someone video record it. Now
it's not just and by the way, lest you think, well, you
know, he knows how to playguitar, he's at a bar. People,
Oh hey, Anthony Blincoln the secretaryof the American Secretary of State.

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Yet, because I'm sure random Ukrainiansin a bar would be able to recognize
the American Secretary of State, Ihighly doubt if Anthony Blincoln walked into a
bar in Clovis, California, therewould be more than one or two people
who might recognize him. I don'tknow that I would recognize him. He
doesn't not the most you know,not the most distinctive looking guy in the
world. So clearly it was setup for him to have this as like

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kind of a photo op. AndI know this most of all from one
factor. If you look at thisvideo, Blincoln is playing, but Blincoln
is left handed, and he isplaying a left handed guitar. Now,

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there are such things as left handedguitars. Really, though a lot of
left handed guitarists they'll either learn toplay guitar backwards for them, I guess,
so basically they'll play with So fora normal guitar, your right hand
is strumming the strings and your lefthand is on the frets, you know,

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pressing down the strings on the frets. That's how a normal like I
play guitar. A right handed personlike me, that's how I play guitar.
And so it's set up with thelow strings. If you're looking at
a g if you're looking at someoneholding a guitar, there are at the
top and their higher strings are atthe bottom. People set up left handed
guitars for the reverse, where yourright hand is pressing down on the strings

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and your left hand is strumming andyour low strings. Basically the ordering of
your strings gets flipped. Well,most left handed guitarists are a lot of
them anyway, They learn how toplay guitar basically backwards, so they'll play
it just like a right handed person. They're left hand pressing down on the
strings, right hand strumming the strings. Or they'll sort of learn to play

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with the strings more or less upsidedown so that they can just grab any
guitar wherever they are and still play. So instead of your low strings at
the top. They'll learn how toplay with their high strings at the top.
Okay, so a lot of lefthanded guitarists that's how they learn how
to play. But no, Blincolnis playing an honest to god left handed

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guitar, a guitar that's set upwith the pit guard on the opposite side,
the strings in the opposite ordering.It's a left handed guitar. Meaning
he didn't show up at this bar. And then people say, hey,
Anthony, what don't you go onstage and jam with the band? Oh?
Okay, oh, ye'll give methe band and he plays a couple
of chords. No, he clearlyhad a staffer in Washington. They set

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up a meeting. They said,when I'm in Ukraine, we're gonna have
a photo op of me at abar jamming with a band and playing this
Neil Young song. So I needyou to pack me my left handed guitar
and pack it. Will bring itwith us all the way to Ukraine,
halfway around the world, at thetaxpayer's expense, so that I can go

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on stage and I, Anthony Blincoln, can have my moment of rock and
roll glory. Not enough that I'mSecretary of State, apparently not enough of
a career accomplishment. I also haveto be cool. I can't just be
you know, a nerdy white guywith a very impressive job. No,
I'm also cool. I got toremind those got to remind my kids that
I'm cool. So pack this guitar, this left handed guitar, and bring

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it all the way halfway across theworld so that I can go to this
bar in the evening, and sothat I can play this song, this
carefully choreographed moment, and it remindsme of this phrase that Democrats constantly use
when they win an election. Theadults are back in charge. That was

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the big phrase when Obama won.The adults are back in charge, unlike
the you know children running the Bushadministration. No, no, no,
the adults are back in charge.The adults are in the room. And
that was of course the Biden attitudewhen the Biden folks came back in.
All the adults are in charge.Yeah, the adults who have screwed up

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every foreign policy disaster over the lasttwenty years. I'm not saying foreign policy
uner George W. Bush was anygreat shakes either, but the foreign policy
under the Obama administration was not thatgreat, and our foreign policy under Biden
isn't going so hot either. Andthat's the difficulty Biden's having, I think

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throughout this campaign is as much ashe wants to act like Trump, is
this grave danger to the international order. I think anyone who's looking at things
would say, but you are.Your administration's been a disaster. The real
moment when Biden got out of hishoneymoon phase with the voters, which a

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lot of times when a president,as soon as the president wins his election,
he gets into a kind of honeymoonphase of high approval ratings that all
dipped in the summer of twenty twentyone with the Afghanistan withdrawal, and what
a disaster that was with between Afghanistan. I don't think anything about the Ukraine

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Russia war has helped Biden's standing.It's led to some bitter disagreements about how
much we should be funding the Ukrainiancause. And then the Israel the explosion
of what's happened between Israel and Hamas, which I think reasonable observers could say

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Biden has some their his foreign policymistakes had some were partially to blame for
Hamas's attack on Israel. Hamas isan Iranian proxy. Biden's policies getting trying
to reinstate the Iran nuclear deal,getting rid of Trump's various sanctions on Iran
opened up a stream of billions andbillions of dollars of oil funding to the

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Iranians, which they proceeded to useto help their surrogates in the Gaza Strip
and in Yemen. So there yougo. The adults are back in charge.
The adults are in charge making surefor a purportedly really serious trip to

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an American ally who is fighting awar for its survival, funded at your
expense. We gotta make sure thatthe Secretary of State has his moment to
bring out his left handed guitar andplay a Neil Young's song while everyone claps.

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When we return, you all betterbe sure you watch the WNBA,
the President said. So. Nexton the John Girardi Show, all right,
President Biden has this big old tweetwhere he's talking about we gotta be
sure to support. Well, maybeit's President Biden, or more likely it's
some intern at the White House guesssaying President Biden is not really President Biden

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is very rarely at the steering wheelof anything, hopefully not at the steering
wheel of an actual, honest togod car. But I think he's you
know, highly unlikely to be directingwhat goes into official Joe Biden presidential Twitter
account tweets. He gives this bigold tweet saying that you know, we
need basically acting as if it's likeour public civic duty as Americans to support

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women's sports not just during the championshipsbut all year round. Now, a
lot of this has gotten prompted bywhat was really a remarkably successful year for
women's college basketball. Specifically, women'scollege basketball had some of the best ratings

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it has ever had. It hadmoments where the women's tournament actually was out
drawing the men's tournament for television viewers, and a lot of this was driven
by Caitlin Clark, the player fromthe University of Iowa, who was this
remarkable shooter and it was really drawinginterest, and hey, if the market

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is any you know, with alot of this stuff, the constant complaints
by liberally, oh, why aren'twomen in professional sports being compensated the way
men are, Well, they're notdrawing as many eyeballs, not as much
television ad revenue. That's why they'renot compensated as well. You know what
kinds of women in sports are compensatedjust about as well as the men.

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Female tennis players, because pretty muchjust as many people watch women's tennis as
men's tennis, and so they makeabout the same amount of money. So
here's President Biden lecturing us, Oh, are oblog no sure poorer women's sports.
Meanwhile, at the same time,he has issued all these new Title

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nine regulations to basically say the Titlenine, Yes, we have to have
equality between you know, women's facilitieswithin colleges and men's facilities in college women's
sports scholarships and men's sports scholarships.But sex, You know, having equality
on the basis of sex doesn't necessarilymean your actual biological sex. It just

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means how you want to present yourself. So all women's sports need to be
totally open to biological men identifying astransgenders. So who's really supporting women's sports
and all of this? Look,I'm happy to let the market decide for
women's sports. Look, more morepeople were watching women's college basketball than men's

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college basketball the last cycle or two. Okay, that's fine, renegotiate your
deal, get more money. Ifyou've got more eyeballs, you get more
at and revenue, you get moremoney. Go for it. If these
new players coming into the WNBA areexciting, maybe more people will watch.
We'll see. I don't think itneeds to be my civic responsibility to make
sure mega corporations like the WNBA,which is just a part of the NBA,

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make more money. But also Idon't think dudes should be playing,
So who's really supporting women's sports more. That'll do it for John Dirolady show.
See you next time on Power Talk.