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Gavin Newsom is still under the impression that California is the place to be! The dirty little secret is, it isn't, and everyone except him is starting to realize that.
The 2025 special session of the Texas legislature is underway in Austin, Texas, right now. There are a number of top GOP priorities they could be focused on, but instead they're trying to ban THC again.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
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Something that I just realized is the guy who voices that,
who says, oh, our generation, he does a really great job.
He sounds really cool. He's probably like forty. We're definitely
not in the same generation. So I don't know how
to feel about that. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Next
Gen Report. It's a pleasure to be back with you
on this wonderful morning. Sorry I had to sit my drink. Alrighty,
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what do we got going on today? First of all,
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It's humor to lighten up the day, because that's also important.
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Something that I found Groc is very adept at is
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All Right, what do we have to get into today?
I think some pretty big news. We've got a lot
we'll get into. Epstein later Gabbard Intel officials hid anti
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Trump coup by the Obama administration. So we all remember
the Russia hoax, right, everybody's still kind of up to
date on that Russia helped Donald Trump win the twenty
sixteen election, and so his presidency was illegitimate. That was
the line for like the first three years of the
first Trump term. Well, now, Tulci Gabbard, I believe we
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talked about this on Sunday. I don't remember for sure.
Now Tulci Gabbard has come out and say, Yeah, the
Biden administration completely made this up willingly. They knew what
they were doing, and they lied about this. That's pretty crazy.
Newsmax did the report about it. I really can't fathom
how special councils run by former FBI Director Robert Muell
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Mueller murl Mueller and former US Attorney John Durham didn't
highlight the evidence of an alleged years long coup against
President Donald Trump in his first term. Director of National
Intelligence Toulci Gabbard told Fox News Sunday morning. On Friday,
Gabbert's team made public more than one hundred pages of
material that she said revealed Obama administration had quietly concluded
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Russia didn't impact the twenty sixteen elections vote totals via
cyber attacks. So basically the story here is the Biden
administration or not the Biden The Obama administration said, yeah,
Russia was not involved in this election. Donald Trump just won.
And then what it seems to be that the allegation
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is is that Joe Biden allegedly kind of hinted at
his people that he wanted them to quote unquote check again,
wink and nod. Gabrett has cited those documents as evidence
of a treasonous conspiracy by the Obama administration to amplify
manufactured intelligence that claims Russia had helped Trump win the election,
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and called for former officials to be prosecuted. Per The
New York Post, that's a pretty big, you know, kind
of going on. I think if the former president basically
knowingly had his team make up a bunch of stuff
indicating that the incoming future current president was a compromised
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Russian asset Trump has said that it's treason is. I
don't know if it's treason is. You'll have to get
a lawyer and attorney to look into that. But here's
Trump in the Oval office saying that he thinks Obama
is guilty of try reason for this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
If you look at that those papers, they have a
stone colt and it was President Obama. It wasn't lots
of people all over the place. It was them too.
But the leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack
Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? And except for
the fact that he gets shielded by the press for
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his entire life, that's the one they look He's guilty.
It's not a question, you know. I like to say,
let's give it time. It's there. He's guilty. They this
was treason. This was every word you can think of.
They tried to steal the election, they tried to obfuscate
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the election. They did things that nobody's ever even imagined.
Even in other countries. You've seen some pretty rough countries.
This man has seen some pretty rough countries, but you've
never seen anything like that. And we have all of
the documents, and from what Tolci told me, she's got
thousands of additional documents coming. So President Obama it was
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his concept, his idea, but he also got it from
crooked Hillary Clinton. Crooked is a three dollars bill.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So yeah, there he is in the White House basically
saying Joe Biden is guilty now or not? Joe Widen,
God Barack Obama. I get those so confused because their
administration was so similar. This is an ongoing problem I have.
But anyway, this is very concerning right regardless of political partisanship,
It is important that the American people be able to
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trust critical institutions, like you know, the President of the
United States, and things like this only go towards serving
the undermining of that trust. And again, people do need
to be able to trust their government to a certain extent.
I think it's a real shame that we can't trust
our government, and we really can't. You can't. If you
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trust the government, you're at best glible. You simply cannot
trust them. And my heart does break a little bit
for that, because our founding fathers did set up a
great system, a great institution that is the United States,
but it's been so corrupted that now we can allegedly
have one president make up lies suggesting that the other
president is a traitor to the country just for I
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don't even know his own sick, twisted political gain. And
he didn't even gain anything out of that, which is
even crazier. It's it's a real problem that the United
States has, and future generations will be dealing with this
for a long time. It's going to take years, decades,
maybe longer, to rebuild this trust in the United States government,
in our federal institutions. We need to fix that. We
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can't have a country together if we don't fix it.
All right, We've got a great show coming up. Stay tuned.
We will be right back after these ends. All right,
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let's talk a little bit about Camifornia. I'm gonna be honest.
I truly hate the state of California. Don't ask me why.
I've never been there. I dislike everything about it. It
seems to be to me the perfect example of what
the left wants all of the United States to be.
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They want it to be either New York or California.
It's kind of that coastal elites idea. You know, it's
all just terrible. It's all just terrible, and so I
hate it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I do.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Plus, there's like some natural beef between California and Texas
that's been going on for a while. I don't know
where the root of that is, but I just like California.
I think most of you would tend to agree with me.
And it is a shame again because it's a beautiful
state that has been ruined by the left. But it
has been ruined by the left. It cannot be fixed.
It should be dropped into the Pacific Ocean. But we're
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gonna talk about it because Gavin Newsom thinks he's all that,
and so we're gonna knock him down a peg. His
office put out this press release actually at the beginning
of the month, so I'm kind of late to the
party here, but we've had an announcement from in and
out Burger of all people, that makes it worth bringing
up again. So here we go. Let's dig into this.
June fourth, twenty twenty five, California leads the nation again
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with most Fortune five hundred companies. Wow, what a big deal.
All these Fortune five hundred companies that aren't making any
money in California happen to have their headquarters there. I
think what this is is California is still riding the
high of the fact that it did use to be
a great state, and so now the fact that it's
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so terrible just hasn't quite caught up with then. But
it is catching up fast, and we'll get into that
in just a second. For the second year in a row,
California ranks highest on Fortune five hundred's list as the
state with most corporations generating the largest revenues. As host
to fifty eight Fortune five hundred companies, California leads the nation,
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all right, so they must have a pretty strong lead
to go and be bragging about this, right wrong. They
are barely barely holding on to the lead. They're followed
by Texas with fifty four. So California has fifty eight,
we have fifty four. Guess which state Fortune five hundred
companies are leaving. Texas will pass California soon. Inside the
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next two years, we will overtake them. I'm calling it now.
I'll put money on it. They are falling apart as
a state, and there's a lot of reasons why people
don't want to live there, that's true. People don't want
to work there if they can avoid it. I mean,
how many stories have we heard about people moving out
of California, leaving California. It's not affordable. There's too much
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government crackdown. I mean, the hassles you have to go
through just to exercise your Second Amendment right to own
and carry a firearm. I'm very happy to live in
the state of Texas where I can have a firearm
just by virtue of being an adult. I am permitted
by the Constitution of the United States of America and
the laws of God's perfect state of Texas to keep
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in bear arms. That's a beautiful thing. In California, you
have to like demonstrate that you are in clear and
present danger just to get a license to carry. In Texas,
you can carry without one. Beautiful state. Beautiful state. I
love it here. Ben Shapiro's kind of the perfect example
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of this. I don't like to look to him as
an example for too much, but he is a good
example in this. He grew up in California. He built
a company in Californa. Because he was a widely known
conservative figure, he was getting a lot of death threats,
so he wanted to get a pen gun to keep
on himself and just to be able to protect himself
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and his family. By the way, if you have a family,
if you're a husband or a father, I believe, if
you're able to, you have a moral duty to carry
a firearm protect yourself and your family by every means available.
If that means is not available to you, obviously you
look for the next best thing. But if you can
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own and carry a firearm, you should. But Ben Shapiro
was not able to get a firearm to protect himself
and his family, despite like FBI verifying that like, yes,
you do have legitimate death threats against you. And he
took those things to the state of California and said, look,
here's the FBI saying I'm in danger. I should be
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allowed to have a firearm. And they say, well, because
the FBI is working on it, we don't think you're
in that much danger. And then COVID happened, and then
the taxes that were being shoved down his throat and
down his company's throat, and he just said, Okay, I'm
moving to Florida and I'm moving my company to Tennessee.
And that's what happened, and that's what more companies are doing.
Daily Wire is neither the first nor the last company
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to leave California. Ben Shapiro is neither the first nor
the last business owner to leave California. The latest is
In and Out Burger, the heiress to the In and
Out Burger chain, which started and was founded in California,
is moving with her family to Tennessee as a business.
As business is getting more difficult in deep blue states,
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indeed deep blue states, specifically California, which is the deepest
blue state. I think maybe New York is in the
running there, but here she is the heiress to In
and Out making that announcement. I believe she's talking with
Alibeth Stuckley or Stucky. I don't know how to bron Stuckley.
I think here she is making that announcement.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Take a look, and we're building an office in Franklin,
So I'm actually moving out there. And how do you
feel about that? You're like a California girl through right.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I mean, I really loved living in northern California, and
I'm so thankful that I grew up up there because
I think it changed a lot of who I am today.
You know, I think I would be different if I
was raised in southern California.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But real quick, I just want to point out the
fact that she acknowledged that where you are raised does
very much influence you in very, very meaningful ways. That's
something that I think it's important for us to acknowledge
and be aware of. That is very important. Just some
food for thought there, think about that specifically. All right,
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let's continue.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Like you said, there's a lot of great things about California,
but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business
it's not easy here. Now. The bulk of our our
stores are still going to be here in California, but
it will be wonderful having an office out there, growing
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out there totally and being able to have the family
and other people's families out there. And so in that
it's two part. We'll have everybody under one roof here
in Balton Park and we'll close our mines. Okay, Yeah,
that's a big transition, and that's happening in the next
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few years. Right.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We've kind of, you know, given it a longer runway
so that it's smoother for everybody, so they can plan
and all of that. And we gave them a lot
of notice, you know, because we love them and want
to make it as easy as possible. But by twenty thirty,
we'll close their fine office.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, so they're just completely leaving the state of California.
Obviously they're actual, like she said, their franchise is their
actual fast food restaurants will still be there of course,
and are just going to close those down. But I'd
imagine sooner rather than later that part of the question
will come up again. California, like she pointed out, is
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not a good state to do business in, especially if
you're a fast food business. Sixteen fifty per hour is
the minimum wage in the state of California, and people
are still pushing to raise that. I can tell you
from experience I worked in fast food. The margins are slim.
There's not a lot of room to make that happen.
The margins are very very slim in that industry. Plus,
I mean just the taxes you pay on that. I
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actually had Grok look into this. According to Grog, take
this with a grain of salt, because it is ai
the average California and pays roughly twenty five point nine
to three percent of their income in total state and
federal taxes. That is insane. That's a fourth of your
income to the government. And what do you get out
of that homelessness, crime, people crapping in the streets constantly.
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California is not a good place to live, It's not
a good place to do business. Yes, and yet Galvin
Newsom still has his head so far up his own
butt that he truly does think it is. That's baffling
to me. He's so disconnected and he wants to be president,
and he does want to be president, by the way,
take that to the bank. He will run in twenty
twenty eight. I guarantee it. It is very important that
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we not let anyone in this country forget how much
that man ruined the state of California, which was a
good place to do business. It was a beautiful piece
of country, and he has turned it into an absolute
third world nightmare. And he will do it to the
rest of the United States if he gets a chance.
Do not let him get that chance. Never forget how
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much he destroyed that state. All right, we've got a
lot more coming up. Stay tuned. We're gonna be right back.
We're going to talk about the Texas legislature a little bit.
They're going crazy, of course, so stay tuned. All right, So,
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the special Session of the Texas legislature is underway. We
went into this on the Sunday Show. The legislature normally
meets in the spring every other year, but the governor can,
of course call a special session, and this summer he did. Basically,
we had a lot left to do because the Republican
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controlled quote unquote Republican control House was basically slow walking
every single GOP priority, and so we didn't really get
anything done. And what we're seeing now is basically a
continuation of that. We're getting like one step forward in
three or four steps back from the state legislature. It
really is embarrassing. We have got some serious work to
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do in the primaries, and that's up and down the board.
I would argue that maybe it's time for Greg Abbott
to go. You can disagree with me on that. We
can have some discussions. I don't know for sure. It's
definitely time for Dan Patrick to get out of there.
He gota go, he gotta go, And then a number
of senators and representatives they also need to go. But
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let's talk a little bit about the good first. First
of all, redistricting is obviously a top concern. This is
a good thing. This is and I'll explain to you
why lawmakers in the Texas House This is via the
Texas Scorecard in the Texas House and Senate are preparing
to redraw the state's congressional district boundaries during a special
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legislative session that started on Monday, despite Democrats accusing Republicans
of trying to rig the maps with the mid census redistricting.
Redistricting is required every ten years to reflect population changes
recorded by de sennial census, but it may be done
at other times. Governor Greg Abbott added congressional redistricting to
the special session agenda after receiving a letter from the
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US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division urging Texas to
rectify outdated race based considerations used to create certain racially
gerrymandered districts or face legal actions. So here's what's happened.
The of course, back way during the Civil rights era,
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one of the ways that districts were drawn in order
to sort of enfranchise people of color a little bit
during ye old racisms was okay, well, people of color
tend to generally have some of the same concerns and
vote along the same lines, and so we'll draw them
all into the same district. Right, that kind of makes sense. Nowadays,
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that's not the case anymore, all right, it's just not
Hispanic people and black people tend to be moving a
little bit towards the Republican Party now in ways that
they weren't. And of course they're not a monolith, right,
Hispanic people and black people aren't going to vote the
exact same way just because they're both not white. It's
ridiculous to insinuate the opposite. And so one of the
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things that happened recently is some of those old kind
of majority minority districts where they had cobbled together a
bunch of different minority groups into one congressional district Galveston
County when they were doing some of their redistricting, recently
went and undid some of those. They just got rid
of those districts. They lumped the people of color in
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with the white people and say, hey, you're just we're
not going to racially jerrymander our districts anymore because it's
not necessary, and too it's kind of racist to do that, right,
saying all of your people of color have to be
segregated into their own district. That's a little racist, right,
and is that just me. I feel like it can't
possibly be just me that thinks that's a little bit racist,
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And so County said, we're not going to do that anymore.
Some I don't remember who it was that sued them
over it. I think at the time it was the
Biden Department of Justice, and maybe the ACLU was involved.
I don't know exactly the details of the case. But
long story short, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said, Okay, yes,
this is correct. You don't have to have these districts.
In fact, you shouldn't have these racially gerrymandered districts. And
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so Texas is saying, okay, we're going to remove those.
We're going to just lump everybody in with everybody else.
We're not going to racially segregate our districts anymore. This
will have the added effect of probably giving the GOP
five more seats in Texas in the Federal House of Representatives,
just because Texas happens to be a more conservative seat. So,
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when you're not jerry mandering the system to stick all
the people of color together in basically fake districts and
manufacture Democrat seats that only exist because you've convinced a
certain amount of minority groups to vote Democrat, they lose
seats and they're very upset about this, which again I
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cannot stress this enough. The argument against Texas is redistricting
right now is essentially, we want to racially segregate our
districts in our state, which is subjectively racist, and yet
the Democrats are all over this. So that's getting dealt with.
It is a top priority. I have a hard time
believing it won't get done, and I think it'll be
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a really good thing when it does. One because I
want the GOP to have more control over Congress, because
I think they're more trustworthy than the Democrats. And two
because I don't think we should be racially segregating our
congressional districts. You can fight me for saying that. I
don't care. That's how I feel. Here's some stuff that
is not too great that is still being done by
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the Texas House. We're once again on the band THCHC wagon.
I don't know why nobody in the state wants this.
Most Republicans don't, no Democrats do, and no middle of
the aisle kind of folks do. Nobody wants this except lobbyists.
And Dan Patrick. But Dan Patrick is all over it.
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It's blowing my mind, and he's all the way pumped
on this as well. Here he is saying, Senate Bill five,
banning THHC passes out of the Texas Senate Committee on
State Affairs unanimously ten and zero after powerful testimony from
law enforcement. Now, I remind you the only reason this
is on the agenda is because Abbott had vetoed the
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original THHC ban and said, no, we want to put
regulation on the agenda, not banning. We don't want to
ban THHC. You're an adult. You can do what you want.
We don't ban alcohol, we don't ban cigarettes. There's no
reason to ban THHC. But we do regulate alcohol and cigarettes,
and I think for good reason, and those same standards
should probably apply to a certain extent to THCHC. I
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think that's fair. Here's Greg Abbott making this argument to
Fox four. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Where do you stand when it comes to THC in Texas?
So let me be clear what I stand in favor
of doing all we can to protect the lives of
our children while also protecting the liberty of adults. And
so the structure of what I'm looking for is this,
and that is, we must continue to criminalize marijuana in
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the stead of Texas. No change in the marijuana laws.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
All right, let me stop you right there. I disagree
fully with Greg Abbott. There's no reason we should keep
doing that anyway. Continue.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
We need to ban THC as well as hemp products
for children under the age of twenty one. We don't
want them to be exposed to that. We also need
to ban synthetics that are laced onto hemp products that
are extraordinarily dangerous. That said, after we accomplish those two things,
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for adults, we need to have a highly regulated hemp
industry to ensure that farmers are able to grow it
and that hemp products that do not have an intoxicating
level of THAC on it can be sold in the
marketplace for adults to be able to use.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
So okay, So again I disagree with him on having
high levels of regulation. I think the only regulations we
should be putting on this are the same regulations we
put on alcohol and tobacco. Obviously, you can't sell it
to minors, you shouldn't distribute it to miners. You have
to make sure it's safe to actually consume within reason,
and then let the adults do what they want. I'm
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a libertarian in this sense. I lean towards maybe marijuana
should be legal. In fact, I'll say it right now,
marijuana should be legal. I have yet to hear a
single strong argument from anyone as to why marijuana is
worse than alcohol or tobacco. No one has made that
case to me clearly and strongly. And THC, even more so,
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should be legal because this at least has demonstratable medical benefits.
But no, we're banning it outright, or at least that's
what Dan Patrick really wants to do for whatever reason,
and he's very excited about this. I made the comment
on x I've never seen someone who wants to get
primaried this badly. Again, no one supports this. This is
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not an issue that people are fired up about. According
to the Texas Tribune, at least fifty three percent of
Texas voters oppose a total outright ban. I would be
willing to bet that that number is actually higher. And again,
we've just been through this. We passed a total ban
of THHC and hemp products in the state of Texas
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and nobody wanted it. The House voted for it, the
Senate voted for it. All of the voters who voted
for the House and Senate spoke out and said, hey,
this is not what we sent you to Austin to do.
We begged and pleaded to Greg Abbott for him to
veto it, and he did, and he sent you back
to work and said, give me something better. And you've
produced the exact same piece of crap in no less
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than two days. Are you serious? Every single person on
board with this should be primaried, every single one. If
your name is on that bill, if you vote in
favor of it, you should be primaried because this is
not what we sent you to Austin to do. You're
wasting your time and you're wasting hours. And what's even
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worse is you're threatening the freedoms and liberties of Texans.
You're an adult. You should be able to consume what
you want within reason.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I think maybe keeping crack cocaine illegal is still probably
a good idea, But things with a medical benefit that's
no dangerous than alcohol or tobacco, there's no reason to
ban this. Why are we still pretending there are We're
going to get into this in a little bit more.
I have some testimony from the actual Senate that we're
going to play in the next segment, so stay tuned.
We will be right back. I have a very simple
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philosophy when it comes to government. Government should be as
consistent as possible and as small as possible. I think
if you follow those two rules, people will generally be
allowed to live very good, fulfilling, free lives. And that's
what we all want. We want free fulfilling lives. We
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want to have liberty, we want to have freedom. We
want to be able to relax and unwind and kind
of be recreational how we want. We don't want the
government bringing down our next about those things. But if
they are, and there are some instances where maybe it's necessary,
but at least have some consistency. Right. This to me
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is the big gaping hole in the band THC in
marijuana argument. As I previously stated, I have never in
my entire life heard somebody clearly make the case with
any sort of convincingness that marijuana or THC is in
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any way significantly worse than alcohol. And I'll be honest,
I enjoy a drink right and I don't think there's
anything wrong with that. I enjoy having a glass of
whiskey now and then having a couple of beers on
the weekend. I think that's a good thing. I think
it's a good way to one wind. I think it's
great now. Some people don't like drinking, some people prefer
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things like marijuana. Obviously, I don't think you should get
yourself excessively high, just like I don't think you should
get yourself excessively drunk. But you know, if some people
like smoking a cigarette, I don't think that's healthy and
good for you. But I like cigars. I think there's
a strong case to be made that maybe marijuana is
healthier for you than a cigarette. And so to me,
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it's all about the consistency. I want government to be consistent.
If you're allowed to drink alcohol and smoke, you should
be allowed to have marijuana. If you're allowed to join
the military, you should be able to drink and smoke.
If you can buy a long rifle at eighteen, you
should be able to buy a handgun at eighteen. Those
are my beliefs in these things. So when you have
those state legislature coming in and saying no, marijuana is
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so super dangerous and THHC is so super dangerous and
we have to ban it. But no, don't touch the
alcohol and tobacco. That tells me you're not being very sincere. Thankfully,
somebody actually took the time to go down to Austin
and call them on all this BS. This guy was
Lucas Guilty. He calls himself a HEMP advocate on X.
(31:53):
He works with a group called Hometown Hero and they
just make a bunch of kind of THHC kind of
treats and gummies and I believe they sell some oils
and whatnot. I'm looking at their website. It looks just
like a bunch of other stuff. Gave syrups that looks good,
and yeah, just some normal THHC gummies, you know, stuff
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you see every day. He went down and he actually
called the state legislature on their BS. He's saying, you
guys are saying this is way dangerous than anything else.
You guys are trying to do the whole like eighties
and nineties scare that we saw from like the Reagan
administration about this stuff, and we're just not buying it
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because there isn't a strong case to be made that
alcohol is worse, and he makes that case right here.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Ice cenators. Thank you for your time. My name is
Lucas Gilkey. I'm the CEO of Hometown Hero. I served
in the US Coast Guard at a counter narcotics unit
out of San Diego, and I am currently involved in
a lawsuit with the State of Texas regarding hamp Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
So, just for starters, so we all know that he
knows what he's talking about. He worked with the Coast
Guard inner narcotics. He's he's not an idiot here. He
knows what he's on about. Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
There are a few issues with this bill. One is
the hypocrisy of allowing medical studies to be done on
products that were consistently or at least we're hearing today,
are claimed to be very harmful. I don't understand why
that's in here if these products are considered to be harmful. Also,
this industry creates six two hundred and sixty four million
dollars in state tax revenue and supports fifty three thousand
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jobs within the state of Texas. That is extremely important
to consider the financial information that we've been given or
we have seen from the state so far has been
highly inaccurate. No one has died from HEMP. I think
that needs to be very clear as we're discussing this.
There there is more than ten thousand alcohol desks per
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year in Texas from excessive alcohol consumption, per the CDC numbers.
Why are we not focused on alcohol? The amount of
money that's being provided by the alcohol lobbyist in industry
in this state is highly concerning. Also, synthetic cannabinoids have
been illegal for over a decade in Texas. The products
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that we are discussing today are not synthetic. The products
that you're seeing people in downtown Austin strung out on
and being essentially harmed and just passed out. We see
this all the time in Austin. I live here. These
are products that are synthetic. These are products that are
illegal that are being used. This is not what we
are discussing today. The products being sold in the hemp
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stores are not synthetic. If they were, people would be
in jail. These products have been illegal. Synthetic products synthetic
cannabinoids within Texas have been illegal for over a decade
in Texas. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, so what are we even doing you then, and
he makes the point, why are we talking about banning
THHC and HEMP when we're not talking about banning alcohol,
which I mean he points out specifically the CDC records
on bas I believe it was alcohol poisoning, like you
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just drink yourself to get there's so much alcohol in
your system that your body just shuts down. But you
can think of how many more alcohol related incidents, driving
up while intoxicated, driving under the influence, How many more
people die in Texas every year because of that, And
that is a legitimate concern, and people doing the same
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thing under THHC influence is also a legitimate concern. People
getting too high and driving is a concern. It is,
but we already have a system in place for that.
We have laws for driving under the influence. You could
take every single law that applies to alcohol, make it
apply equally to THC and kill all the same birds
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with that stone, and you'd still save plenty of jobs.
You'd still save a whole Texas industry that does contribute
to our tax income for the state, does can tribute
to jobs in the economy. This is a net benefit
for a lot of people. And how many more stories
can you find about people using THC products for medical
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purposes and they help. The stories are everywhere, it's hard
not to find them. So why are we here, Why
are we having this conversation? There's no good reason for this,
no matter how much they try to pretend that there is.
All right, some other big news about Epstein, specifically, ag
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Pambondi has requested a bunch of documents to be unsealed.
That kind of process is still working its way through
the system. Basically a lot of grand jury testimony, or
all of the grand jury testimony that led to Jeffrey
Epstein's original indictment, that's all been sealed since the indictment.
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Pambondi is now asking that to be unsealed, which is good.
Continue to speak out on this issue because clearly it's
working again. I've said it once, I've said it a
thousand times. The Trump administration, for all their faults, and
there are many, they are listening. They do hear you
when you complain, So complain do it on Twitter. Follow
me at Underscore youthin Buchanan. Write posts to me on
(37:13):
Twitter after you follow me about how much you want
the Epstein files, do that, it'll help everybody. So this
is good news that ag Pambondi is requesting Epstein transcripts
and testimonials and what not to be unsealed. That's good.
That'll take some time for that process to work its
way out. This is how they should have been approaching
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this the entire time. Rather than putting out a memo
saying we don't have anything, they should have just announced
that we're asking for more of these documents to be unsealed.
Everybody would have been happy about that, everybody. That would
have been positive headlines all the way around. Some other
good news, Gishlang Maxwell appears to be ready to testify.
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That'll be also really good news. She's apparently ready to
roll on some people. She might kill herself. That's what
happened to Jeffrey the moment he got in custody and
they thought, oh, he might testify, all of a sudden
he killed himself. It was weird if you believe the
government narrative. But if Gishline Maxwell is willing to go
to the DOJ and say, hey, this is who I
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was providing underage girls for, that's great news too, because
we keep hearing, oh, there's no client list, which I'm
sure is true. I'm sure they didn't go and write
down the names of every person they were sex trafficking
minors do. But I know Gishline Maxwell knows who they
were sex trafficking miners do, and if she's willing to
speak out on that, that's good news as well. So again,
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speaking out works. Tell the Trump administration what you want,
do it on Twitter. It clearly it's having an effect.
All right, that's all I've got today. We'll be back
on Sunday with more of the Next Gen Report. AM
nine point fifty KPRC tune in at seven pm or
listen on the iHeartRadio app and of course at Underscore
Ethan Buchanan on X. Thank you very much for your time.
I will be back on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Mm hmm
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events that men are to our generation. This is the
Next Gen Report. Put Ethan U can in.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Something that I just realized is the guy who voices that,
who says, oh, our generation, he does a really great job.
He sounds really cool. He's probably like forty. We're definitely
not in the same generation. So I don't know how
to feel about that. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Next
Gen Report. It's a pleasure to be back with you
on this wonderful morning. Sorry I had to sit my drink. Alrighty,
(00:45):
what do we got going on today? First of all,
follow me on X. I say this every single episode.
I'm gonna keep saying it every single episode. I post
a lot of really great stuff. There's a lot of
stuff I work really really hard on on my X feed.
I try kind to use that as a kind of
a source for all the information that you kind of
(01:06):
need to have or things that you just kind of
want to think on. You know, sometimes it's not in
your face information, it's food for thought, or sometimes it's joke.
It's humor to lighten up the day, because that's also important.
I've been known to get into a few theological fights there,
have a few scuffles with my Catholic brothers and sisters there.
But then I also just joke around and mess around.
(01:26):
And then of course I worked really hard on things
like refuting the claim that numbers five in the Bible
is a biblical endorsement of abortion, which is ridiculous. I
spent a lot of time kind of researching and thinking
about that, and I actually had a whole conversation about
Groc about this, bouncing ideas back and forth with Grock.
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Something that I found Groc is very adept at is
actually having theological conversations, which is kind of cool. And
so I posted this big, basically thought experiment about numbers
five an abortion in Lottie Dottie dont on X works
really hard on it. It got one like that's cool.
Then I posted a joke about the US invading Poland
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because we found oil there that for whatever reason got
over fourteen thousand likes in counting. I don't know why
that's what explodes, but it is so hey, go follow
me on X there's a lot of good stuff there.
All Right, what do we have to get into today?
I think some pretty big news. We've got a lot
we'll get into. Epstein later Gabbard Intel officials hid anti
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Trump coup by the Obama administration. So we all remember
the Russia hoax, right, everybody's still kind of up to
date on that Russia helped Donald Trump win the twenty
sixteen election, and so his presidency was illegitimate. That was
the line for like the first three years of the
first Trump term. Well, now, Tulci Gabbard, I believe we
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talked about this on Sunday. I don't remember for sure.
Now Tulci Gabbard has come out and say, Yeah, the
Biden administration completely made this up willingly. They knew what
they were doing, and they lied about this. That's pretty crazy.
Newsmax did the report about it. I really can't fathom
how special councils run by former FBI Director Robert Muell
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Mueller murl Mueller and former US Attorney John Durham didn't
highlight the evidence of an alleged years long coup against
President Donald Trump in his first term. Director of National
Intelligence Toulci Gabbard told Fox News Sunday morning. On Friday,
Gabbert's team made public more than one hundred pages of
material that she said revealed Obama administration had quietly concluded
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Russia didn't impact the twenty sixteen elections vote totals via
cyber attacks. So basically the story here is the Biden
administration or not the Biden The Obama administration said, yeah,
Russia was not involved in this election. Donald Trump just won.
And then what it seems to be that the allegation
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is is that Joe Biden allegedly kind of hinted at
his people that he wanted them to quote unquote check again,
wink and nod. Gabrett has cited those documents as evidence
of a treasonous conspiracy by the Obama administration to amplify
manufactured intelligence that claims Russia had helped Trump win the election,
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and called for former officials to be prosecuted. Per The
New York Post, that's a pretty big, you know, kind
of going on. I think if the former president basically
knowingly had his team make up a bunch of stuff
indicating that the incoming future current president was a compromised
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Russian asset Trump has said that it's treason is. I
don't know if it's treason is. You'll have to get
a lawyer and attorney to look into that. But here's
Trump in the Oval office saying that he thinks Obama
is guilty of try reason for this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
If you look at that those papers, they have a
stone colt and it was President Obama. It wasn't lots
of people all over the place. It was them too.
But the leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack
Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? And except for
the fact that he gets shielded by the press for
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his entire life, that's the one they look He's guilty.
It's not a question, you know. I like to say,
let's give it time. It's there. He's guilty. They this
was treason. This was every word you can think of.
They tried to steal the election, they tried to obfuscate
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the election. They did things that nobody's ever even imagined.
Even in other countries. You've seen some pretty rough countries.
This man has seen some pretty rough countries, but you've
never seen anything like that. And we have all of
the documents, and from what Tolci told me, she's got
thousands of additional documents coming. So President Obama it was
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his concept, his idea, but he also got it from
crooked Hillary Clinton. Crooked is a three dollars bill.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So yeah, there he is in the White House basically
saying Joe Biden is guilty now or not? Joe Widen,
God Barack Obama. I get those so confused because their
administration was so similar. This is an ongoing problem I have.
But anyway, this is very concerning right regardless of political partisanship,
It is important that the American people be able to
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trust critical institutions, like you know, the President of the
United States, and things like this only go towards serving
the undermining of that trust. And again, people do need
to be able to trust their government to a certain extent.
I think it's a real shame that we can't trust
our government, and we really can't. You can't. If you
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trust the government, you're at best glible. You simply cannot
trust them. And my heart does break a little bit
for that, because our founding fathers did set up a
great system, a great institution that is the United States,
but it's been so corrupted that now we can allegedly
have one president make up lies suggesting that the other
president is a traitor to the country just for I
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don't even know his own sick, twisted political gain. And
he didn't even gain anything out of that, which is
even crazier. It's it's a real problem that the United
States has, and future generations will be dealing with this
for a long time. It's going to take years, decades,
maybe longer, to rebuild this trust in the United States government,
in our federal institutions. We need to fix that. We
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can't have a country together if we don't fix it.
All right, We've got a great show coming up. Stay tuned.
We will be right back after these ends. All right,
(08:19):
let's talk a little bit about Camifornia. I'm gonna be honest.
I truly hate the state of California. Don't ask me why.
I've never been there. I dislike everything about it. It
seems to be to me the perfect example of what
the left wants all of the United States to be.
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They want it to be either New York or California.
It's kind of that coastal elites idea. You know, it's
all just terrible. It's all just terrible, and so I
hate it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I do.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Plus, there's like some natural beef between California and Texas
that's been going on for a while. I don't know
where the root of that is, but I just like California.
I think most of you would tend to agree with me.
And it is a shame again because it's a beautiful
state that has been ruined by the left. But it
has been ruined by the left. It cannot be fixed.
It should be dropped into the Pacific Ocean. But we're
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gonna talk about it because Gavin Newsom thinks he's all that,
and so we're gonna knock him down a peg. His
office put out this press release actually at the beginning
of the month, so I'm kind of late to the
party here, but we've had an announcement from in and
out Burger of all people, that makes it worth bringing
up again. So here we go. Let's dig into this.
June fourth, twenty twenty five, California leads the nation again
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with most Fortune five hundred companies. Wow, what a big deal.
All these Fortune five hundred companies that aren't making any
money in California happen to have their headquarters there. I
think what this is is California is still riding the
high of the fact that it did use to be
a great state, and so now the fact that it's
(10:01):
so terrible just hasn't quite caught up with then. But
it is catching up fast, and we'll get into that
in just a second. For the second year in a row,
California ranks highest on Fortune five hundred's list as the
state with most corporations generating the largest revenues. As host
to fifty eight Fortune five hundred companies, California leads the nation,
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all right, so they must have a pretty strong lead
to go and be bragging about this, right wrong. They
are barely barely holding on to the lead. They're followed
by Texas with fifty four. So California has fifty eight,
we have fifty four. Guess which state Fortune five hundred
companies are leaving. Texas will pass California soon. Inside the
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next two years, we will overtake them. I'm calling it now.
I'll put money on it. They are falling apart as
a state, and there's a lot of reasons why people
don't want to live there, that's true. People don't want
to work there if they can avoid it. I mean,
how many stories have we heard about people moving out
of California, leaving California. It's not affordable. There's too much
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government crackdown. I mean, the hassles you have to go
through just to exercise your Second Amendment right to own
and carry a firearm. I'm very happy to live in
the state of Texas where I can have a firearm
just by virtue of being an adult. I am permitted
by the Constitution of the United States of America and
the laws of God's perfect state of Texas to keep
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in bear arms. That's a beautiful thing. In California, you
have to like demonstrate that you are in clear and
present danger just to get a license to carry. In Texas,
you can carry without one. Beautiful state. Beautiful state. I
love it here. Ben Shapiro's kind of the perfect example
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of this. I don't like to look to him as
an example for too much, but he is a good
example in this. He grew up in California. He built
a company in Californa. Because he was a widely known
conservative figure, he was getting a lot of death threats,
so he wanted to get a pen gun to keep
on himself and just to be able to protect himself
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and his family. By the way, if you have a family,
if you're a husband or a father, I believe, if
you're able to, you have a moral duty to carry
a firearm protect yourself and your family by every means available.
If that means is not available to you, obviously you
look for the next best thing. But if you can
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own and carry a firearm, you should. But Ben Shapiro
was not able to get a firearm to protect himself
and his family, despite like FBI verifying that like, yes,
you do have legitimate death threats against you. And he
took those things to the state of California and said, look,
here's the FBI saying I'm in danger. I should be
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allowed to have a firearm. And they say, well, because
the FBI is working on it, we don't think you're
in that much danger. And then COVID happened, and then
the taxes that were being shoved down his throat and
down his company's throat, and he just said, Okay, I'm
moving to Florida and I'm moving my company to Tennessee.
And that's what happened, and that's what more companies are doing.
Daily Wire is neither the first nor the last company
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to leave California. Ben Shapiro is neither the first nor
the last business owner to leave California. The latest is
In and Out Burger, the heiress to the In and
Out Burger chain, which started and was founded in California,
is moving with her family to Tennessee as a business.
As business is getting more difficult in deep blue states,
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indeed deep blue states, specifically California, which is the deepest
blue state. I think maybe New York is in the
running there, but here she is the heiress to In
and Out making that announcement. I believe she's talking with
Alibeth Stuckley or Stucky. I don't know how to bron Stuckley.
I think here she is making that announcement.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Take a look, and we're building an office in Franklin,
So I'm actually moving out there. And how do you
feel about that? You're like a California girl through right.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I mean, I really loved living in northern California, and
I'm so thankful that I grew up up there because
I think it changed a lot of who I am today.
You know, I think I would be different if I
was raised in southern California.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But real quick, I just want to point out the
fact that she acknowledged that where you are raised does
very much influence you in very, very meaningful ways. That's
something that I think it's important for us to acknowledge
and be aware of. That is very important. Just some
food for thought there, think about that specifically. All right,
(14:47):
let's continue.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Like you said, there's a lot of great things about California,
but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business
it's not easy here. Now. The bulk of our our
stores are still going to be here in California, but
it will be wonderful having an office out there, growing
(15:10):
out there totally and being able to have the family
and other people's families out there. And so in that
it's two part. We'll have everybody under one roof here
in Balton Park and we'll close our mines. Okay, Yeah,
that's a big transition, and that's happening in the next
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few years. Right.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We've kind of, you know, given it a longer runway
so that it's smoother for everybody, so they can plan
and all of that. And we gave them a lot
of notice, you know, because we love them and want
to make it as easy as possible. But by twenty thirty,
we'll close their fine office.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, so they're just completely leaving the state of California.
Obviously they're actual, like she said, their franchise is their
actual fast food restaurants will still be there of course,
and are just going to close those down. But I'd
imagine sooner rather than later that part of the question
will come up again. California, like she pointed out, is
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not a good state to do business in, especially if
you're a fast food business. Sixteen fifty per hour is
the minimum wage in the state of California, and people
are still pushing to raise that. I can tell you
from experience I worked in fast food. The margins are slim.
There's not a lot of room to make that happen.
The margins are very very slim in that industry. Plus,
I mean just the taxes you pay on that. I
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actually had Grok look into this. According to Grog, take
this with a grain of salt, because it is ai
the average California and pays roughly twenty five point nine
to three percent of their income in total state and
federal taxes. That is insane. That's a fourth of your
income to the government. And what do you get out
of that homelessness, crime, people crapping in the streets constantly.
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California is not a good place to live, It's not
a good place to do business. Yes, and yet Galvin
Newsom still has his head so far up his own
butt that he truly does think it is. That's baffling
to me. He's so disconnected and he wants to be president,
and he does want to be president, by the way,
take that to the bank. He will run in twenty
twenty eight. I guarantee it. It is very important that
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we not let anyone in this country forget how much
that man ruined the state of California, which was a
good place to do business. It was a beautiful piece
of country, and he has turned it into an absolute
third world nightmare. And he will do it to the
rest of the United States if he gets a chance.
Do not let him get that chance. Never forget how
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much he destroyed that state. All right, we've got a
lot more coming up. Stay tuned. We're gonna be right back.
We're going to talk about the Texas legislature a little bit.
They're going crazy, of course, so stay tuned. All right, So,
(18:17):
the special Session of the Texas legislature is underway. We
went into this on the Sunday Show. The legislature normally
meets in the spring every other year, but the governor can,
of course call a special session, and this summer he did. Basically,
we had a lot left to do because the Republican
(18:39):
controlled quote unquote Republican control House was basically slow walking
every single GOP priority, and so we didn't really get
anything done. And what we're seeing now is basically a
continuation of that. We're getting like one step forward in
three or four steps back from the state legislature. It
really is embarrassing. We have got some serious work to
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do in the primaries, and that's up and down the board.
I would argue that maybe it's time for Greg Abbott
to go. You can disagree with me on that. We
can have some discussions. I don't know for sure. It's
definitely time for Dan Patrick to get out of there.
He gota go, he gotta go, And then a number
of senators and representatives they also need to go. But
(19:25):
let's talk a little bit about the good first. First
of all, redistricting is obviously a top concern. This is
a good thing. This is and I'll explain to you
why lawmakers in the Texas House This is via the
Texas Scorecard in the Texas House and Senate are preparing
to redraw the state's congressional district boundaries during a special
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legislative session that started on Monday, despite Democrats accusing Republicans
of trying to rig the maps with the mid census redistricting.
Redistricting is required every ten years to reflect population changes
recorded by de sennial census, but it may be done
at other times. Governor Greg Abbott added congressional redistricting to
the special session agenda after receiving a letter from the
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US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division urging Texas to
rectify outdated race based considerations used to create certain racially
gerrymandered districts or face legal actions. So here's what's happened.
The of course, back way during the Civil rights era,
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one of the ways that districts were drawn in order
to sort of enfranchise people of color a little bit
during ye old racisms was okay, well, people of color
tend to generally have some of the same concerns and
vote along the same lines, and so we'll draw them
all into the same district. Right, that kind of makes sense. Nowadays,
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that's not the case anymore, all right, it's just not
Hispanic people and black people tend to be moving a
little bit towards the Republican Party now in ways that
they weren't. And of course they're not a monolith, right,
Hispanic people and black people aren't going to vote the
exact same way just because they're both not white. It's
ridiculous to insinuate the opposite. And so one of the
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things that happened recently is some of those old kind
of majority minority districts where they had cobbled together a
bunch of different minority groups into one congressional district Galveston
County when they were doing some of their redistricting, recently
went and undid some of those. They just got rid
of those districts. They lumped the people of color in
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with the white people and say, hey, you're just we're
not going to racially jerrymander our districts anymore because it's
not necessary, and too it's kind of racist to do that, right,
saying all of your people of color have to be
segregated into their own district. That's a little racist, right,
and is that just me. I feel like it can't
possibly be just me that thinks that's a little bit racist,
(21:59):
And so County said, we're not going to do that anymore.
Some I don't remember who it was that sued them
over it. I think at the time it was the
Biden Department of Justice, and maybe the ACLU was involved.
I don't know exactly the details of the case. But
long story short, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said, Okay, yes,
this is correct. You don't have to have these districts.
In fact, you shouldn't have these racially gerrymandered districts. And
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so Texas is saying, okay, we're going to remove those.
We're going to just lump everybody in with everybody else.
We're not going to racially segregate our districts anymore. This
will have the added effect of probably giving the GOP
five more seats in Texas in the Federal House of Representatives,
just because Texas happens to be a more conservative seat. So,
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when you're not jerry mandering the system to stick all
the people of color together in basically fake districts and
manufacture Democrat seats that only exist because you've convinced a
certain amount of minority groups to vote Democrat, they lose
seats and they're very upset about this, which again I
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cannot stress this enough. The argument against Texas is redistricting
right now is essentially, we want to racially segregate our
districts in our state, which is subjectively racist, and yet
the Democrats are all over this. So that's getting dealt with.
It is a top priority. I have a hard time
believing it won't get done, and I think it'll be
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a really good thing when it does. One because I
want the GOP to have more control over Congress, because
I think they're more trustworthy than the Democrats. And two
because I don't think we should be racially segregating our
congressional districts. You can fight me for saying that. I
don't care. That's how I feel. Here's some stuff that
is not too great that is still being done by
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the Texas House. We're once again on the band THCHC wagon.
I don't know why nobody in the state wants this.
Most Republicans don't, no Democrats do, and no middle of
the aisle kind of folks do. Nobody wants this except lobbyists.
And Dan Patrick. But Dan Patrick is all over it.
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It's blowing my mind, and he's all the way pumped
on this as well. Here he is saying, Senate Bill five,
banning THHC passes out of the Texas Senate Committee on
State Affairs unanimously ten and zero after powerful testimony from
law enforcement. Now, I remind you the only reason this
is on the agenda is because Abbott had vetoed the
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original THHC ban and said, no, we want to put
regulation on the agenda, not banning. We don't want to
ban THHC. You're an adult. You can do what you want.
We don't ban alcohol, we don't ban cigarettes. There's no
reason to ban THHC. But we do regulate alcohol and cigarettes,
and I think for good reason, and those same standards
should probably apply to a certain extent to THCHC. I
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think that's fair. Here's Greg Abbott making this argument to
Fox four. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Where do you stand when it comes to THC in Texas?
So let me be clear what I stand in favor
of doing all we can to protect the lives of
our children while also protecting the liberty of adults. And
so the structure of what I'm looking for is this,
and that is, we must continue to criminalize marijuana in
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the stead of Texas. No change in the marijuana laws.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
All right, let me stop you right there. I disagree
fully with Greg Abbott. There's no reason we should keep
doing that anyway. Continue.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
We need to ban THC as well as hemp products
for children under the age of twenty one. We don't
want them to be exposed to that. We also need
to ban synthetics that are laced onto hemp products that
are extraordinarily dangerous. That said, after we accomplish those two things,
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for adults, we need to have a highly regulated hemp
industry to ensure that farmers are able to grow it
and that hemp products that do not have an intoxicating
level of THAC on it can be sold in the
marketplace for adults to be able to use.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
So okay, So again I disagree with him on having
high levels of regulation. I think the only regulations we
should be putting on this are the same regulations we
put on alcohol and tobacco. Obviously, you can't sell it
to minors, you shouldn't distribute it to miners. You have
to make sure it's safe to actually consume within reason,
and then let the adults do what they want. I'm
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a libertarian in this sense. I lean towards maybe marijuana
should be legal. In fact, I'll say it right now,
marijuana should be legal. I have yet to hear a
single strong argument from anyone as to why marijuana is
worse than alcohol or tobacco. No one has made that
case to me clearly and strongly. And THC, even more so,
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should be legal because this at least has demonstratable medical benefits.
But no, we're banning it outright, or at least that's
what Dan Patrick really wants to do for whatever reason,
and he's very excited about this. I made the comment
on x I've never seen someone who wants to get
primaried this badly. Again, no one supports this. This is
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not an issue that people are fired up about. According
to the Texas Tribune, at least fifty three percent of
Texas voters oppose a total outright ban. I would be
willing to bet that that number is actually higher. And again,
we've just been through this. We passed a total ban
of THHC and hemp products in the state of Texas
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and nobody wanted it. The House voted for it, the
Senate voted for it. All of the voters who voted
for the House and Senate spoke out and said, hey,
this is not what we sent you to Austin to do.
We begged and pleaded to Greg Abbott for him to
veto it, and he did, and he sent you back
to work and said, give me something better. And you've
produced the exact same piece of crap in no less
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than two days. Are you serious? Every single person on
board with this should be primaried, every single one. If
your name is on that bill, if you vote in
favor of it, you should be primaried because this is
not what we sent you to Austin to do. You're
wasting your time and you're wasting hours. And what's even
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worse is you're threatening the freedoms and liberties of Texans.
You're an adult. You should be able to consume what
you want within reason.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I think maybe keeping crack cocaine illegal is still probably
a good idea, But things with a medical benefit that's
no dangerous than alcohol or tobacco, there's no reason to
ban this. Why are we still pretending there are We're
going to get into this in a little bit more.
I have some testimony from the actual Senate that we're
going to play in the next segment, so stay tuned.
We will be right back. I have a very simple
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philosophy when it comes to government. Government should be as
consistent as possible and as small as possible. I think
if you follow those two rules, people will generally be
allowed to live very good, fulfilling, free lives. And that's
what we all want. We want free fulfilling lives. We
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want to have liberty, we want to have freedom. We
want to be able to relax and unwind and kind
of be recreational how we want. We don't want the
government bringing down our next about those things. But if
they are, and there are some instances where maybe it's necessary,
but at least have some consistency. Right. This to me
(30:05):
is the big gaping hole in the band THC in
marijuana argument. As I previously stated, I have never in
my entire life heard somebody clearly make the case with
any sort of convincingness that marijuana or THC is in
(30:26):
any way significantly worse than alcohol. And I'll be honest,
I enjoy a drink right and I don't think there's
anything wrong with that. I enjoy having a glass of
whiskey now and then having a couple of beers on
the weekend. I think that's a good thing. I think
it's a good way to one wind. I think it's
great now. Some people don't like drinking, some people prefer
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things like marijuana. Obviously, I don't think you should get
yourself excessively high, just like I don't think you should
get yourself excessively drunk. But you know, if some people
like smoking a cigarette, I don't think that's healthy and
good for you. But I like cigars. I think there's
a strong case to be made that maybe marijuana is
healthier for you than a cigarette. And so to me,
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it's all about the consistency. I want government to be consistent.
If you're allowed to drink alcohol and smoke, you should
be allowed to have marijuana. If you're allowed to join
the military, you should be able to drink and smoke.
If you can buy a long rifle at eighteen, you
should be able to buy a handgun at eighteen. Those
are my beliefs in these things. So when you have
those state legislature coming in and saying no, marijuana is
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so super dangerous and THHC is so super dangerous and
we have to ban it. But no, don't touch the
alcohol and tobacco. That tells me you're not being very sincere. Thankfully,
somebody actually took the time to go down to Austin
and call them on all this BS. This guy was
Lucas Guilty. He calls himself a HEMP advocate on X.
(31:53):
He works with a group called Hometown Hero and they
just make a bunch of kind of THHC kind of
treats and gummies and I believe they sell some oils
and whatnot. I'm looking at their website. It looks just
like a bunch of other stuff. Gave syrups that looks good,
and yeah, just some normal THHC gummies, you know, stuff
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you see every day. He went down and he actually
called the state legislature on their BS. He's saying, you
guys are saying this is way dangerous than anything else.
You guys are trying to do the whole like eighties
and nineties scare that we saw from like the Reagan
administration about this stuff, and we're just not buying it
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because there isn't a strong case to be made that
alcohol is worse, and he makes that case right here.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Ice cenators. Thank you for your time. My name is
Lucas Gilkey. I'm the CEO of Hometown Hero. I served
in the US Coast Guard at a counter narcotics unit
out of San Diego, and I am currently involved in
a lawsuit with the State of Texas regarding hamp Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
So, just for starters, so we all know that he
knows what he's talking about. He worked with the Coast
Guard inner narcotics. He's he's not an idiot here. He
knows what he's on about. Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
There are a few issues with this bill. One is
the hypocrisy of allowing medical studies to be done on
products that were consistently or at least we're hearing today,
are claimed to be very harmful. I don't understand why
that's in here if these products are considered to be harmful. Also,
this industry creates six two hundred and sixty four million
dollars in state tax revenue and supports fifty three thousand
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jobs within the state of Texas. That is extremely important
to consider the financial information that we've been given or
we have seen from the state so far has been
highly inaccurate. No one has died from HEMP. I think
that needs to be very clear as we're discussing this.
There there is more than ten thousand alcohol desks per
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year in Texas from excessive alcohol consumption, per the CDC numbers.
Why are we not focused on alcohol? The amount of
money that's being provided by the alcohol lobbyist in industry
in this state is highly concerning. Also, synthetic cannabinoids have
been illegal for over a decade in Texas. The products
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that we are discussing today are not synthetic. The products
that you're seeing people in downtown Austin strung out on
and being essentially harmed and just passed out. We see
this all the time in Austin. I live here. These
are products that are synthetic. These are products that are
illegal that are being used. This is not what we
are discussing today. The products being sold in the hemp
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stores are not synthetic. If they were, people would be
in jail. These products have been illegal. Synthetic products synthetic
cannabinoids within Texas have been illegal for over a decade
in Texas. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, so what are we even doing you then, and
he makes the point, why are we talking about banning
THHC and HEMP when we're not talking about banning alcohol,
which I mean he points out specifically the CDC records
on bas I believe it was alcohol poisoning, like you
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just drink yourself to get there's so much alcohol in
your system that your body just shuts down. But you
can think of how many more alcohol related incidents, driving
up while intoxicated, driving under the influence, How many more
people die in Texas every year because of that, And
that is a legitimate concern, and people doing the same
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thing under THHC influence is also a legitimate concern. People
getting too high and driving is a concern. It is,
but we already have a system in place for that.
We have laws for driving under the influence. You could
take every single law that applies to alcohol, make it
apply equally to THC and kill all the same birds
(35:47):
with that stone, and you'd still save plenty of jobs.
You'd still save a whole Texas industry that does contribute
to our tax income for the state, does can tribute
to jobs in the economy. This is a net benefit
for a lot of people. And how many more stories
can you find about people using THC products for medical
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purposes and they help. The stories are everywhere, it's hard
not to find them. So why are we here, Why
are we having this conversation? There's no good reason for this,
no matter how much they try to pretend that there is.
All right, some other big news about Epstein, specifically, ag
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Pambondi has requested a bunch of documents to be unsealed.
That kind of process is still working its way through
the system. Basically a lot of grand jury testimony, or
all of the grand jury testimony that led to Jeffrey
Epstein's original indictment, that's all been sealed since the indictment.
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Pambondi is now asking that to be unsealed, which is good.
Continue to speak out on this issue because clearly it's
working again. I've said it once, I've said it a
thousand times. The Trump administration, for all their faults, and
there are many, they are listening. They do hear you
when you complain, So complain do it on Twitter. Follow
me at Underscore youthin Buchanan. Write posts to me on
(37:13):
Twitter after you follow me about how much you want
the Epstein files, do that, it'll help everybody. So this
is good news that ag Pambondi is requesting Epstein transcripts
and testimonials and what not to be unsealed. That's good.
That'll take some time for that process to work its
way out. This is how they should have been approaching
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this the entire time. Rather than putting out a memo
saying we don't have anything, they should have just announced
that we're asking for more of these documents to be unsealed.
Everybody would have been happy about that, everybody. That would
have been positive headlines all the way around. Some other
good news, Gishlang Maxwell appears to be ready to testify.
(37:59):
That'll be also really good news. She's apparently ready to
roll on some people. She might kill herself. That's what
happened to Jeffrey the moment he got in custody and
they thought, oh, he might testify, all of a sudden
he killed himself. It was weird if you believe the
government narrative. But if Gishline Maxwell is willing to go
to the DOJ and say, hey, this is who I
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was providing underage girls for, that's great news too, because
we keep hearing, oh, there's no client list, which I'm
sure is true. I'm sure they didn't go and write
down the names of every person they were sex trafficking
minors do. But I know Gishline Maxwell knows who they
were sex trafficking miners do, and if she's willing to
speak out on that, that's good news as well. So again,
(38:41):
speaking out works. Tell the Trump administration what you want,
do it on Twitter. It clearly it's having an effect.
All right, that's all I've got today. We'll be back
on Sunday with more of the Next Gen Report. AM
nine point fifty KPRC tune in at seven pm or
listen on the iHeartRadio app and of course at Underscore
Ethan Buchanan on X. Thank you very much for your time.
I will be back on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Mm hmm
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