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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mike, I just I really don't understand this whole talkback thing.
I mean, there's no microphone on the app, and I
don't know how to leave you a message on the
text line either, So what's the point of you asking
us to do this? It really just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I understand your frustration, and I'm just trying to drive
you crazy. So I ordered something from Apple, and I
gotten some gift cards and I had some money in
my Apple account, so I used three forms of payment.
I used the Apple Cash, my Apple card, and then
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I cashed in I think three gift cards. I had
in place the order and it was set for delivery
like next week. Yesterday, I went on just to check
the status of the order, and it says your order
has been canceled. So I got online and asked for support,
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you know, went to the support chat and talked to them,
and they couldn't help me. So yesterday, after the program,
I drove over to an Apple store on Aspen Grove
and sat down and explained to a guy what was
going on, and he had to get somebody else, and
then he looked into it, and then he had to
put me on the phone with somebody, and I literally
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spent an hour just trying to find out why the
order had been canceled. And since I'm being canceled, I
went in my money back, and I went to the
gift cards back, so I could, you know, reorder the item. Well,
I went through all of that and I got the
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money back and I got one gift card back. I
didn't get the three gift cards back. So I went
online last night to that talk back. That's kind of
what they kind of said to me, Well, we understand
your frustration, And I'm like, do you really understand my
frustration because I've now spent and and just full disposure,
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full transparency. The three gift cards total one hundred and
fifty dollars. I've gotten fifty dollars back. I'm still out
one hundred dollars now. I probably spent two hours yesterday
trying to reclaim two hundred dollars of belongs to me.
And it's just it's it's like the iHeart app. It's
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one guy on the chat last night was finally I
can tell you're frustrated. I'm like, really, and then he
made something and then he became very empathetic, very like
you know this is not how we do business. I
understand your frustration. And I happened to have an old
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dot mac email address. That's how long I've been with Apple.
You can't get those anymore. It's one of my prize possessions.
And he says, I can tell you must have been
with You've been a user of Apple products forever, and
I'm like, yeah, this is the very first computer that
came app the Apple two E or whatever it was called.
And it was just this coughkas circle of hell that
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you went through. And I sometimes think that the iHeart
app can be like that, kind of like me and workday?
You know that. Do you ever get those pop up
ads that ask you to rate the app? Like are
you enjoying work day all the time?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Maybe not from work day, but all kinds of other
apps and everything. I just breeze right past and was like,
now you don't you don't want me to Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Got one from I got one from workday to day?
Are you enjoying work day? And I uh, because I'm
on the air out.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Those rating systems are completely pointless anyway, because if you
don't give them five start five out of five stars,
then it's a fail for them. So it's it's it's pointless.
It's pointless.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But if it's a failable do you think iHeart, Well,
first of all, that this is workday. It's not iHeart,
it's just iHeart using work day. Work day is not
going to change anything, correct because iHeart and work day
have to put their systems together, and no way neither
one as going to change their system.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's even worse when you're when you're dealing with like
service members and team members of said product, and and
they asked, how would you rate your last you know,
gym's service with you, you know, three stars, four stars, five stars,
and if you don't give them the complete five stars,
then it's seen as a fail to their bosses. It's
it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That is absurd. Well, they you know, he asked me
to do a survey last night at the end of
the chat, and it popped up on my screen, and
I thought, because only it only had two questions, how
satisfied were you with not with what the outcome was,
How satisfied you were you with the service that you
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pro And I'm like, I'm not going to give him
a five, but I'm not gonna give him a one
or a zero because it's not his fault. It is
the stupid system's fault. So I'm not going to raise him.
So I just closed out the window. When was the
last time you had a good hot dog?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's been a minute, it's been a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's been a minute. Did you have a hot dog today?
I had hot dog last week? Yeah? Oh dang, it
was good.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Colonel Mustards or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, uh, there's a hot dog place over on the
Rappa Hole, some gourmet hot dog place.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Doghouse that Yeah, that may have been the name of it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Anyway, it was really good, big Polish dog with a
bunch of stuff on it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Sounds doghouse.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, it was really good. North Koreans have reportedly, we'll
get to John Fetterman's a minute hot dogs. John Fetterman
saw the same thing. North Koreans have reportedly been banned
from eating hot dogs as part of a crackdown on
Western cultural. Western culture. Infiltrating that Hermit Kingdom dictator Kim
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Jong Um has that serving the sausage was an active treason.
Because it's the rising popularity of a South Korean dish
inspired by the US. They're actually talking about hot pot.
Hot I love hot pot too. Hot pot is a
is an Asian. It's just this big pot of stew
and you cook your own meating and stuff. Well, apparently
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in South Korea North Korea they put hot dogs or spam.
You ever had spam in a hot in a hot pot?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I only had spam once the last year. Very salty,
that's very.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, yeah, let's see. Radio Free Asia reported in November
that authorities had now banned the dish, along with steamed
rice cakes, also a popular street food. A vendor in
the northern province of yang Yang rang Yang told The
Sun sales of Buddhajigi in the market of stock. The
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police and market management has said anyone selling it will
be shut down. Reports also emerged in December of citizens
claiming divorces. Divorces in North Korea faced one to six
months in labor camps for their crimes. Divorces frowned upon them.
Divorced women who claim to have served three months of
labor in South Pyongyang Province told Radio Free Asia that
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women receive harsher sentences than men. There are about eighty
women and forty men in prison in the county labor
training camp, so you can't get divorced. He can't eat
hot dogs, and in Europe you can't offend anybody. It's
good to be an American, which leads me to my
next topic about Trump. I think, first of all, I
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think Democrats were shocked. I don't know why they were shocked.
There was a chiron up on CNN earlier that apparently
Joe Biden said in USA Today yesterday, which means it
was USA yesterday, not USA today, that he still believes
he's going to beat Trump. He's truly delusional, truly delusional.
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And I think now, you know, think about last time,
think about four years ago. We had the Women's March,
we had Russia Gate, the freak out with Russia Gate,
and we found Democrats. You know, you find them wherever
they are, You do whatever you need to do, just
you know, disrupt whatever Republicans bad. You know, the Supreme
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Court justices are going to reap the whirlwind that they
But now there's something different now, Hakeem Jeffries is still
trying to keep the base, the Democrat base together, which
is now really just the progressive Marxist wing of the
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Democrat Party. So that being said, I'm starting to see
indications that maybe this different attitude because of the Trump
win and there and they being the progressing Marxist their
overreach is creating a different attitude assort, at least from
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some Democrats. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think
this is pervasive. I don't think it is systemic. I
don't think it relates to all Democrats. But I think
there's some Democrats that are starting to like, uh, maybe
we went a little too far. The Lake and Riley Act,
which couldn't get anywhere yesterday, got the vote of every
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Republican in the House, and forty eight Democrats, including a
bunch of freshmen Democrats. Wow that they couldn't move that
bill to do anything. And then November five happens, and
then it gets certified and then banged Blake and Riley right,
the Lake and Riley yet gets passed. Uh and and
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then I just happened to turn on the TV yesterday
and there's John Fetterman. Now, I don't know, let's see,
let's start with I want to make sure these are
from yesterday. Uh. Here here's Fetterman on the Trump on
the Trump nominees.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Current to get working and actually produce results for the
American people.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
You've met with a number of nominees already, you've.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Suggested, just did one of your former colleagues here in
just about three hours again?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Is that right? Yeah? Wow, John Duffie, Actually.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Jean duff Senator Warner Uh, the chair of the co
chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, met with Tolci Gabbert.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
He said he had a session with miss Gabbert. He
went on with a lot of questions. He's still got
a lot of questions and that we've got to we
have to do a process, a beginning of a process,
suggesting that there's a long way to go. Is this
Cosey Gabert one of the nominees that you could vote for.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well, you know, I met with her. In fact, I
think I've met with virtually all of them, and the
ones that I haven't there on my schedule AREFK and
Governor nom So I'm happy to meet with all of them.
And that's also part of this. I don't know why
that was controversial. I mean, I got a lot of
blowback just you know, even to meet with them, and.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I got a lot of blowback just for meeting with
now think about one of the jobs. One of the
constitutional duties of the United States Senate is to provide
their advice and consent for cabinet and other presidential nominees.
And he's saying I got blowback because I met with
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a nominee. How dare you, Senator Fetterman to me.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
I see that as just doing my job, and I'm
going to have a conversation with with anyone that would
like to have a conversation with me. And if if
I if if someone believed everything that's been written or
said about me it was true, I mean, you can't
possibly know me or I think I could know her either,
just based.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
On someone read.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
But I want to sit down and have a conversation,
and I'm I'm really glad that I've done that, and
some of these nominees I'm going.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
To vote for already. In fact, you know, I've already
decided that some of these nominees I'm going to vote for.
You see, I think it has I truly Now, first
of all, you know, I never want to have a stroke,
and I don't wish a stroke on anyone. But if
you can have a stroke and come out on the
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other side and be like John Fetterman, whom I know
that look he's look, I know a broken clock is
right twice a day, and that he may be a
broken clock, but when he's right, he's right. And I'm
just a standard that he's willing to come out and
just say these things on Fox News. It's not like
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he's saying it to MSNBC. He's saying it on Fox.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
News, whether it's my our colleague Rubio, Representative Stephanic or
even Sean Duffy. And I expect to vote for him
as well too, and brook Rollins for agriculture. Again, so
there's a lot of them. I can say right now
here on Fox I'm going to vote for them. But
then there's others, you know, but that we're going to
go through the process. But I'm open to hear from everyone,
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and I don't know why that's controversial. And I also
like to remind everyone on the democratic side, that's the way,
that's the way democracy works. Trump won and now they're
going to run the table and so they get to
pick those kinds of people. And if you don't have
to agree with all of it, but I want to
find way to work together on a bunch of them, and.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I want to commend him on that, because that's the
way it should be Article two, Section two, sitting down,
asking questions, understanding the vision, understanding what they want to
do for the American people.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And by the way, that's that's what your name from Alabama, then,
Katie Britt, that's the senator from Alabama.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Republican John giving them that shot, and they have to
answer his questions.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But that's the way that it should be done.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Let me ask you this about the press conference today.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know, I don't hear about that.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Isn't that amazing? Now? I'm not being naive here. I
understand that. You know what, if if he's willing to
come out and say that publicly, I think that's good
evidence of the Trump effect. Here he is about the
Lincoln Riley Act. Think about that attraction from.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Our Senate colleagues interested in coming.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
On board, Federman.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
There are Democrats, obviously, who spoke out against this today.
One of them, Congressman Raskin Ticklers.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Pick a crime, taste into it a template immigration law
covering convicted criminals, and then require detention or deportation of
certain persons merely accused of.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Committing the crime.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
We're arrested for committing the crime.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
No due process required at all. This allows us.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
To wait, they've already committed a crime if they're here illegally.
That's the word illegal alien that's in the federal statue.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Get up and demonize immigrants.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Toy said to that you've signed onto this bill.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, I mean, I have a lot of enormous respect
for my colleague in the House, but I just happen
to disagree on this and for me, just like my
friend and colleague in the Senate, like it's really common sense.
And I'd like to remind everybody that we have hundreds
and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally that have
convicted of crimes and I don't know why who wants
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to defend to allow them to remain in our nation
for that. And now if you're here illegally and you're
committing crimes and those things, I don't know why anybody
thinks that it's controversial that they all need to go.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Do you think that this was one of, if not
the biggest issue for this election.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Well, I think if we can't you know, there's forty
seven of us in the Senate, and if we can't
pull up with with seven votes. If we can't get
at least seven out of forty seven, and if we can't,
then that's the reason why we lost. That's one of them.
That's one of why we lost time in part. But basically,
he's saying, you know, there's fifty three. They need sixty
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to you know, avoid a filibuster to invoke kloture. And
he's saying, look, they've got fifty three, we got forty seven.
If we can't find seven, if we can't find seven
people to pass a bill like this, there's something wrong
with us, and that's why we lost the election.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Kudos to Senator Fetterman. Now, I know, maybe I'll be
back here tomorrow playing a SoundBite of him saying something
really stupid, because, after all, well he is a Democrat.
But good grief, give the guy some credit and God
bless him for surviving that stroke and coming out a
lot better on the other.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Side, Hey, is this where it is? I can't find
the button over here? Now, ah, this is frustrating. This
thing doesn't even exist.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I give up. I'm gonna go watch the game. You
know what scares me about that one? We're relying on
a guy like that, for the safety and security of
the country, for our protection, for our Yeah, you know,
that's about as good a protection as those things they
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have in the men's restroom. Year. This says, you know,
the seat covers. It says, provided for your protection by management.
I always think that's like a contradiction in terms.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's thinner than the actual toilet.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thinner the actual toilet paper. Yes, yes, so that that
scares me. But you know, someday they'll they'll figure it out.
Maybe by tomorrow they'll figure it out. At least they're
trying dragon, right, At least they're trying. Yes, yeah, the
a for effort. I didn't see that one coming. Uh
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fifty four to thirty one, Buber number fifty four to
thirty one, Mike Senator Fetterman knows what side his bread
is buttered on. He's going along to get along, to
stay in his position. If the Democrats had won, he
would be on CNN seeing their praises, says Jim no Feacy. Sherlock,
you think so, yeah, I think he would be too white.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Politician does politician things.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, what well, I know the one last one and
then I want to move on. This one's hilarious talk about.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
It, Like there's a lot of talk about Greenland, for example, now,
and I know a lot of there's a lot of
freak outs, you know, and of course I would never
support taking it by force, but I do think it's
I do think it's the responsible conversation if they were
open to acquiring it, and you know, whether just buying
it out right, I mean, if anyone think that's bonkers,
it's like, well, well remember the Louisiana purchase. I think
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Alaska was pretty pretty a great deal too, fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I think it was. It was recorded, it was it
was referred to.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
As Seward's folly, and now that was Alaska. Now, So
I mean, you know, open and having all kinds of
conversations as well. And now I don't think we it's
not helpful to freak out. But some things might work out,
some may not. But that's part of ongoing dialogue. But
he hasn't even take office in two weeks, and you know,
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we really need to pace ourselves if we're going to
freak out over every last tweet or every last conversation
or press conferences.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But I just like the fac that he laughs about it.
If we're just going to freak out over every tweet,
every press conference, Yeah, we're gonna have to learn to
pace ourselves because it's just gonna keep going.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
And we can freak out about how he uses two
hands drink out a glass of water, or how he
needs to hold onto a handrail going down a slippery slope.
You know, yeah, we can freak out about everything.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I just thought about. Think about the first time that
he goes on air Force one. Big steps, maybe steps,
oh big steps, of course, the big step, no doubt,
And the cameras will be zoomed in so that we
can see now normally their position near the back of
the plane, so you get that side profile of a
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potus going up. But how much do you want to
bet they put somebody in the crowd where they can
get the the side view, so just in case the
shoe slips, they can get that and we'll see it
on loop after loop after loop. It'll never end. The
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whole point. I just want to make you that there
just there is a recognition by some not everybody, that oh,
maybe we ought to think about this, maybe we ought
to you know, kind of consider out how and why
we lost. I think it's a sign that there's at
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least an opening with particularly the newer Democrats after the
twenty twenty four defeat. And even if they like you
know New York Times Maggie Haberman, she insists that Trump
has no historic mandate for his agenda. Well, wait a minute.
The people who actually depend on the views of the
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voters for their jobs, they actually believe otherwise, even among
Democrats in New York. Politico has a story. Here's the headline,
a new dim strategy embraced Trump's winning agenda. The subhead
New York Democrats don't want to fight Trump, but are
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going on offense on the issues that propelled him to
the White House. Deep blue states like New York tried
to sign me do on Trump's first presidency, but Democrats
who hold power here plan to avoid fighting with him
as they kick off their legislation session on Wednesday, there's
more appetite among Governor Hockel and state lawmakers for seizing
on his winning issues rather than confronting him. According to
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interviews with six legislators, political advisers, and Democratic officials, and
a review of Hochel's recent moves to embrace cost of
living concerns. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying
that there's this wholesale change in attitude. I'm simply saying
that they they got their asses beat and they're now
trying to figure out a way. Look the whole idea
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of the first term. This is again why you know,
when God enters prayers, he doesn't necessarily answer the wave
you'll necessarily you want or expect. You think back to
the twenty twenty election. At least in these quarters, I
thought the election of Joe Biden was going to be
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as bad, if not worse than the election of Barack Obama.
And in fact it did turn out to be that way,
and he ended up just absolutely being subsumed by the
progressive Marxist wing of the Democrat Party. And look where
we are today. Look at the economy, Look at the
cost of league What did you say, dragon? There was
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a chir on up about the cost of eggs.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It was an ABC news feed. It was ninety dollars
for a dozen eggs.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Now, wonderful, But at least they're cage free, right, at
least they got that one point five square feet of space.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Right, That little chicken is happy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
That's a happy chicken laying a happy egg, so when
you eat it, you'll be a happy camper. All I'm
saying is that there are there's a change in added tube,
particularly among newly elected Democrats or the younger ones like
John Fetterman. Now the old farts, they're not going to change.
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Oh my god, did you see Nancy Blowsey yesterday at
Carter's when they brought Carter's body into the rotunda. Oh
my god, she's with a walker. And look, former speaker.
Button your blouse up, please, you sag just a little
too much. She's what eighty four or something. Come on,
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put a brawl on and button up. We don't need
to see that. So when Politico recognizes that there's a difference,
there is a difference. Over at punch Bowl News they
write this. Several Democrats told us they're open to teaming
up with Trump, but may clear they're picking and choosing
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their spots. Some potential areas of common ground Democrats listed
include the border and immigration, which we had a footnote
I think will fall apart. Democrats will be and depending
what Trump proposes, but Democrats are going to be pushed
to the wall and they're going to bulk economic issues,
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the Doege Effort, which will aim to root out wasteful
and government spending, and punch Bowl continues. This bipartisan appetite
has already been put to test in the new Congress.
Forty eight House Democrats voted for the Lake and Riley
Act on Tuesday eleven, more than the number who voted
for the measure last Congress. Still the majority one hundred
and fifty nine opposal legislation, and it gives Ice the
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authority to detail criminally accused undocumented immigrants illegal aliens, which
will begin the process of getting a Senate vote later
this week. Jaron Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, said the
uptick in support from his party reflects how Democrats are
digesting the election results, noting the immigration was on the
ballot in November. He told punch Bowl, I don't think
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the American people want extremism, but they do want changes
at the border on some of these issues. We were
to the left of the American people. That I think
is the key statement, and that goes back to You've
got to pay attention not necessarily to what the New
York Times wants, but the voters want. I think that's
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the shock that the Democrats are enduring. The voters. Remember,
it's it's easy to forget in the in this stream
of consciousness about everything going on with the election, that
Trump essentially ran the table on the battleground states. That's huge.
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And I don't care if it is even by one
point two percent he won, because that's what matters. Do
you care if the bronc was win by one point
or seven points? You don't you care if they win
in the battleground states where it is presumed that you
are more likely to lose than you are to win,
and you end up winning, that's a double whammy. They
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didn't expect it, and those constituents they expected to vote
for the Democrats said, you guys have gone off the
deep end. We're going over here. And now the Democrats
in those battleground states are going to be under a
lot of pressure. Not well, pressure from all sides, pressure
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from the likes of the New York Times, pressures from
their federal Democrats that are in safe seats like Colorado.
But they're also going to be facing pressure from the
voters who said we want to change. Don't forget what
was it seventy nine eighty percent of Americans, just generic Americans,
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thought the country was on the wrong track. Well, if
you're a Democrat and you thought the country was on
the wrong track considering all the Democrat policies that were
shove down our throat the last four years, you want
to see change. And so you're gonna be looking at
even if you have a Democrat congressman or senator, you're
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gonna be looking at them expecting, hey, okay, you can
impose him on whatever that might be, But over here
where it affects my pocketbook, I expect to see some change.
And I think that's reality of what we see going
on right now. And I think that's why John Feederman
is more than willing to step out and say the
things that he's saying. He's not always going to be right.
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Federman's not always going to be this blunt about things.
But the fact that he's willing to even say anything
about it is amazing to me, and it ought to
be amazing to you. Just and I'll take a break, Brownie.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
While you were on vacation, I heard you do a
promo cut for this new app.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I got all excited and downloaded. I want the old
app back, damn you. I heard you say you like me.
I didn't say it, and if I did, it was
just why I was mindlessly thinking about it. Both of us.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It was both we. We admitted that we enjoy his voice. Yes,
we don't like him very recognizable.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But let's make it abundanly clear. We don't like you.
We just enjoy your voice. That's all in that life.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
We do like the laugh. Yeah, the laugh is great. Yeah,
the laugh is great. But otherwise you're a despicable human being.
So uh fires one last time before we leave. So
here we are. Los Angeles is engulfed in fires. People
are being forced to uh the Hollywood left us have
to flee their homes, but DEI is at work. The
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LA Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley is uh. Well, she's
the first LGBTQ plus person to lead the department, and
she's also the first woman.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
She's come a lo long ways, but she believes the
more diverse the LA Fire Department is, the better the
department is at serving a city as diverse as LA
makes sense, right, She said this from the very beginning.
The Los Angeles Fire Department is fully committed to creating
positive change. With the new DEI Bureau, the Department will
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develop and drive forward key diversity, equity and inclusion strategies
and initiatives to enhance the lafd's work environment and performance.
We will maximize our efforts to build and promote a
culture where our diversity is truly valued. YadA YadA yah
yah yah yah yahda. Now she's just the fire chief.
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Los Angeles has a mayor. Her name is Karen Bass. Now,
she was warned for some time that there were critical
weather conditions in the days before she did something. She
took off and as far as I know, is still
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gone to Ghana. So the black mayor of La Los Angeles,
Karen Bess, is currently in Africa attending the inauguration of
God as new president. Yes, that's much more important than
La burning. By the way, a Bass cut nearly twenty
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million dollars from the city's budget for fire services for
this fiscal year. And that's not all the cuts she wanted.
That's just all the cuts that she got. Oh, she
wanted much more. And then in terms of just thinking
about how bad these fires are as compared to have
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we ever seen anything like this before? Well we have,
we had a text message from now I'll take me
forever to find it. But we had a text message
from a listener talking about fires that occurred, Oh, I
don't know, a long time ago, that are much worse
and killed like one fire up in Michigan somewhere killed
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like seventeen hundred individuals at the same time, are essentially
about the same time that the big fire in Chicago
was going on. Here he is the Festigal Fire burned
over a millionacres in Wisconsin, killing around seventeen hundred people.
That was the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
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Across Lake Michigan, the Great Michigan Fire burned about two
million acres from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. If our
current situation is due to climate change, there is no
way we can cut, masticate, or burn our way out
of it. So when you hear somebody say have you
ever seen anything like this before, you can say, well, no,
I haven't seen it, but I know about it. Let's
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go back to October eighth, eighteen seventy one, Wisconsin, a millionacres,
seventeen hundred people killed. Now I know for anybody killed
in this fire, it's a tragedy it's catastrophic for them
and their families. But let's have a little perspective. And
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by the way, think about the population of Wisconsin versus
the population of California and the infrastructure on October eight,
eighteen seventy one versus the infrastructure in California in Los
Angeles in twenty twenty five. Fewer deaths, yes, because we're
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better at it. And more property damage because there's more
property Gee, I got you know, dragon, I gotta quit
thinking logically. I gotta quit think. I gotta stop it. It
just hurt your head. It does. It hurts your head
when you think about this. And that's just the one fire.
There was still the Lake Michigan, the Great Michigan Fire
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that burned two million acres. Say how many people that killed?
If go look that one up too. So, yes, there's
nothing new under the sun. And you're just trying to
they're trying to instill hysteria in you, hysteria about the climate.
Mike, I just I really don't understand this whole talkback thing.
I mean, there's no microphone on the app, and I
don't know how to leave you a message on the
text line either, So what's the point of you asking
us to do this? It really just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I understand your frustration, and I'm just trying to drive
you crazy. So I ordered something from Apple, and I
gotten some gift cards and I had some money in
my Apple account, so I used three forms of payment.
I used the Apple Cash, my Apple card, and then
(00:39):
I cashed in I think three gift cards. I had
in place the order and it was set for delivery
like next week. Yesterday, I went on just to check
the status of the order, and it says your order
has been canceled. So I got online and asked for support,
(01:03):
you know, went to the support chat and talked to them,
and they couldn't help me. So yesterday, after the program,
I drove over to an Apple store on Aspen Grove
and sat down and explained to a guy what was
going on, and he had to get somebody else, and
then he looked into it, and then he had to
put me on the phone with somebody, and I literally
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spent an hour just trying to find out why the
order had been canceled. And since I'm being canceled, I
went in my money back, and I went to the
gift cards back, so I could, you know, reorder the item. Well,
I went through all of that and I got the
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money back and I got one gift card back. I
didn't get the three gift cards back. So I went
online last night to that talk back. That's kind of
what they kind of said to me, Well, we understand
your frustration, And I'm like, do you really understand my
frustration because I've now spent and and just full disposure,
(02:10):
full transparency. The three gift cards total one hundred and
fifty dollars. I've gotten fifty dollars back. I'm still out
one hundred dollars now. I probably spent two hours yesterday
trying to reclaim two hundred dollars of belongs to me.
And it's just it's it's like the iHeart app. It's
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one guy on the chat last night was finally I
can tell you're frustrated. I'm like, really, and then he
made something and then he became very empathetic, very like
you know this is not how we do business. I
understand your frustration. And I happened to have an old
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dot mac email address. That's how long I've been with Apple.
You can't get those anymore. It's one of my prize possessions.
And he says, I can tell you must have been
with You've been a user of Apple products forever, and
I'm like, yeah, this is the very first computer that
came app the Apple two E or whatever it was called.
And it was just this coughkas circle of hell that
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you went through. And I sometimes think that the iHeart
app can be like that, kind of like me and workday?
You know that. Do you ever get those pop up
ads that ask you to rate the app? Like are
you enjoying work day all the time?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Maybe not from work day, but all kinds of other
apps and everything. I just breeze right past and was like,
now you don't you don't want me to Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Got one from I got one from workday to day?
Are you enjoying work day? And I uh, because I'm
on the air out.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Those rating systems are completely pointless anyway, because if you
don't give them five start five out of five stars,
then it's a fail for them. So it's it's it's pointless.
It's pointless.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But if it's a failable do you think iHeart, Well,
first of all, that this is workday. It's not iHeart,
it's just iHeart using work day. Work day is not
going to change anything, correct because iHeart and work day
have to put their systems together, and no way neither
one as going to change their system.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's even worse when you're when you're dealing with like
service members and team members of said product, and and
they asked, how would you rate your last you know,
gym's service with you, you know, three stars, four stars, five stars,
and if you don't give them the complete five stars,
then it's seen as a fail to their bosses. It's
it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That is absurd. Well, they you know, he asked me
to do a survey last night at the end of
the chat, and it popped up on my screen, and
I thought, because only it only had two questions, how
satisfied were you with not with what the outcome was,
How satisfied you were you with the service that you
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pro And I'm like, I'm not going to give him
a five, but I'm not gonna give him a one
or a zero because it's not his fault. It is
the stupid system's fault. So I'm not going to raise him.
So I just closed out the window. When was the
last time you had a good hot dog?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's been a minute, it's been a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's been a minute. Did you have a hot dog today?
I had hot dog last week? Yeah? Oh dang, it
was good.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Colonel Mustards or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, uh, there's a hot dog place over on the
Rappa Hole, some gourmet hot dog place.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Doghouse that Yeah, that may have been the name of it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Anyway, it was really good, big Polish dog with a
bunch of stuff on it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Sounds doghouse.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, it was really good. North Koreans have reportedly, we'll
get to John Fetterman's a minute hot dogs. John Fetterman
saw the same thing. North Koreans have reportedly been banned
from eating hot dogs as part of a crackdown on
Western cultural. Western culture. Infiltrating that Hermit Kingdom dictator Kim
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Jong Um has that serving the sausage was an active treason.
Because it's the rising popularity of a South Korean dish
inspired by the US. They're actually talking about hot pot.
Hot I love hot pot too. Hot pot is a
is an Asian. It's just this big pot of stew
and you cook your own meating and stuff. Well, apparently
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in South Korea North Korea they put hot dogs or spam.
You ever had spam in a hot in a hot pot?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I only had spam once the last year. Very salty,
that's very.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, yeah, let's see. Radio Free Asia reported in November
that authorities had now banned the dish, along with steamed
rice cakes, also a popular street food. A vendor in
the northern province of yang Yang rang Yang told The
Sun sales of Buddhajigi in the market of stock. The
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police and market management has said anyone selling it will
be shut down. Reports also emerged in December of citizens
claiming divorces. Divorces in North Korea faced one to six
months in labor camps for their crimes. Divorces frowned upon them.
Divorced women who claim to have served three months of
labor in South Pyongyang Province told Radio Free Asia that
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women receive harsher sentences than men. There are about eighty
women and forty men in prison in the county labor
training camp, so you can't get divorced. He can't eat
hot dogs, and in Europe you can't offend anybody. It's
good to be an American, which leads me to my
next topic about Trump. I think, first of all, I
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think Democrats were shocked. I don't know why they were shocked.
There was a chiron up on CNN earlier that apparently
Joe Biden said in USA Today yesterday, which means it
was USA yesterday, not USA today, that he still believes
he's going to beat Trump. He's truly delusional, truly delusional.
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And I think now, you know, think about last time,
think about four years ago. We had the Women's March,
we had Russia Gate, the freak out with Russia Gate,
and we found Democrats. You know, you find them wherever
they are, You do whatever you need to do, just
you know, disrupt whatever Republicans bad. You know, the Supreme
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Court justices are going to reap the whirlwind that they
But now there's something different now, Hakeem Jeffries is still
trying to keep the base, the Democrat base together, which
is now really just the progressive Marxist wing of the
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Democrat Party. So that being said, I'm starting to see
indications that maybe this different attitude because of the Trump
win and there and they being the progressing Marxist their
overreach is creating a different attitude assort, at least from
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some Democrats. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think
this is pervasive. I don't think it is systemic. I
don't think it relates to all Democrats. But I think
there's some Democrats that are starting to like, uh, maybe
we went a little too far. The Lake and Riley Act,
which couldn't get anywhere yesterday, got the vote of every
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Republican in the House, and forty eight Democrats, including a
bunch of freshmen Democrats. Wow that they couldn't move that
bill to do anything. And then November five happens, and
then it gets certified and then banged Blake and Riley right,
the Lake and Riley yet gets passed. Uh and and
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then I just happened to turn on the TV yesterday
and there's John Fetterman. Now, I don't know, let's see,
let's start with I want to make sure these are
from yesterday. Uh. Here here's Fetterman on the Trump on
the Trump nominees.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Current to get working and actually produce results for the
American people.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
You've met with a number of nominees already, you've.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Suggested, just did one of your former colleagues here in
just about three hours again?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Is that right? Yeah? Wow, John Duffie, Actually.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Jean duff Senator Warner Uh, the chair of the co
chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, met with Tolci Gabbert.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
He said he had a session with miss Gabbert. He
went on with a lot of questions. He's still got
a lot of questions and that we've got to we
have to do a process, a beginning of a process,
suggesting that there's a long way to go. Is this
Cosey Gabert one of the nominees that you could vote for.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well, you know, I met with her. In fact, I
think I've met with virtually all of them, and the
ones that I haven't there on my schedule AREFK and
Governor nom So I'm happy to meet with all of them.
And that's also part of this. I don't know why
that was controversial. I mean, I got a lot of
blowback just you know, even to meet with them, and.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I got a lot of blowback just for meeting with
now think about one of the jobs. One of the
constitutional duties of the United States Senate is to provide
their advice and consent for cabinet and other presidential nominees.
And he's saying I got blowback because I met with
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a nominee. How dare you, Senator Fetterman to me.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
I see that as just doing my job, and I'm
going to have a conversation with with anyone that would
like to have a conversation with me. And if if
I if if someone believed everything that's been written or
said about me it was true, I mean, you can't
possibly know me or I think I could know her either,
just based.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
On someone read.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
But I want to sit down and have a conversation,
and I'm I'm really glad that I've done that, and
some of these nominees I'm going.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
To vote for already. In fact, you know, I've already
decided that some of these nominees I'm going to vote for.
You see, I think it has I truly Now, first
of all, you know, I never want to have a stroke,
and I don't wish a stroke on anyone. But if
you can have a stroke and come out on the
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other side and be like John Fetterman, whom I know
that look he's look, I know a broken clock is
right twice a day, and that he may be a
broken clock, but when he's right, he's right. And I'm
just a standard that he's willing to come out and
just say these things on Fox News. It's not like
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he's saying it to MSNBC. He's saying it on Fox.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
News, whether it's my our colleague Rubio, Representative Stephanic or
even Sean Duffy. And I expect to vote for him
as well too, and brook Rollins for agriculture. Again, so
there's a lot of them. I can say right now
here on Fox I'm going to vote for them. But
then there's others, you know, but that we're going to
go through the process. But I'm open to hear from everyone,
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and I don't know why that's controversial. And I also
like to remind everyone on the democratic side, that's the way,
that's the way democracy works. Trump won and now they're
going to run the table and so they get to
pick those kinds of people. And if you don't have
to agree with all of it, but I want to
find way to work together on a bunch of them, and.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I want to commend him on that, because that's the
way it should be Article two, Section two, sitting down,
asking questions, understanding the vision, understanding what they want to
do for the American people.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And by the way, that's that's what your name from Alabama, then,
Katie Britt, that's the senator from Alabama.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Republican John giving them that shot, and they have to
answer his questions.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But that's the way that it should be done.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Let me ask you this about the press conference today.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know, I don't hear about that.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Isn't that amazing? Now? I'm not being naive here. I
understand that. You know what, if if he's willing to
come out and say that publicly, I think that's good
evidence of the Trump effect. Here he is about the
Lincoln Riley Act. Think about that attraction from.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Our Senate colleagues interested in coming.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
On board, Federman.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
There are Democrats, obviously, who spoke out against this today.
One of them, Congressman Raskin Ticklers.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Pick a crime, taste into it a template immigration law
covering convicted criminals, and then require detention or deportation of
certain persons merely accused of.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Committing the crime.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
We're arrested for committing the crime.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
No due process required at all. This allows us.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
To wait, they've already committed a crime if they're here illegally.
That's the word illegal alien that's in the federal statue.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Get up and demonize immigrants.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Toy said to that you've signed onto this bill.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, I mean, I have a lot of enormous respect
for my colleague in the House, but I just happen
to disagree on this and for me, just like my
friend and colleague in the Senate, like it's really common sense.
And I'd like to remind everybody that we have hundreds
and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally that have
convicted of crimes and I don't know why who wants
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to defend to allow them to remain in our nation
for that. And now if you're here illegally and you're
committing crimes and those things, I don't know why anybody
thinks that it's controversial that they all need to go.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Do you think that this was one of, if not
the biggest issue for this election.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Well, I think if we can't you know, there's forty
seven of us in the Senate, and if we can't
pull up with with seven votes. If we can't get
at least seven out of forty seven, and if we can't,
then that's the reason why we lost. That's one of them.
That's one of why we lost time in part. But basically,
he's saying, you know, there's fifty three. They need sixty
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to you know, avoid a filibuster to invoke kloture. And
he's saying, look, they've got fifty three, we got forty seven.
If we can't find seven, if we can't find seven
people to pass a bill like this, there's something wrong
with us, and that's why we lost the election.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Kudos to Senator Fetterman. Now, I know, maybe I'll be
back here tomorrow playing a SoundBite of him saying something
really stupid, because, after all, well he is a Democrat.
But good grief, give the guy some credit and God
bless him for surviving that stroke and coming out a
lot better on the other.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Side, Hey, is this where it is? I can't find
the button over here? Now, ah, this is frustrating. This
thing doesn't even exist.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I give up. I'm gonna go watch the game. You
know what scares me about that one? We're relying on
a guy like that, for the safety and security of
the country, for our protection, for our Yeah, you know,
that's about as good a protection as those things they
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have in the men's restroom. Year. This says, you know,
the seat covers. It says, provided for your protection by management.
I always think that's like a contradiction in terms.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's thinner than the actual toilet.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thinner the actual toilet paper. Yes, yes, so that that
scares me. But you know, someday they'll they'll figure it out.
Maybe by tomorrow they'll figure it out. At least they're
trying dragon, right, At least they're trying. Yes, yeah, the
a for effort. I didn't see that one coming. Uh
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fifty four to thirty one, Buber number fifty four to
thirty one, Mike Senator Fetterman knows what side his bread
is buttered on. He's going along to get along, to
stay in his position. If the Democrats had won, he
would be on CNN seeing their praises, says Jim no Feacy. Sherlock,
you think so, yeah, I think he would be too white.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Politician does politician things.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, what well, I know the one last one and
then I want to move on. This one's hilarious talk about.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
It, Like there's a lot of talk about Greenland, for example, now,
and I know a lot of there's a lot of
freak outs, you know, and of course I would never
support taking it by force, but I do think it's
I do think it's the responsible conversation if they were
open to acquiring it, and you know, whether just buying
it out right, I mean, if anyone think that's bonkers,
it's like, well, well remember the Louisiana purchase. I think
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Alaska was pretty pretty a great deal too, fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I think it was. It was recorded, it was it
was referred to.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
As Seward's folly, and now that was Alaska. Now, So
I mean, you know, open and having all kinds of
conversations as well. And now I don't think we it's
not helpful to freak out. But some things might work out,
some may not. But that's part of ongoing dialogue. But
he hasn't even take office in two weeks, and you know,
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we really need to pace ourselves if we're going to
freak out over every last tweet or every last conversation
or press conferences.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But I just like the fac that he laughs about it.
If we're just going to freak out over every tweet,
every press conference, Yeah, we're gonna have to learn to
pace ourselves because it's just gonna keep going.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
And we can freak out about how he uses two
hands drink out a glass of water, or how he
needs to hold onto a handrail going down a slippery slope.
You know, yeah, we can freak out about everything.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I just thought about. Think about the first time that
he goes on air Force one. Big steps, maybe steps,
oh big steps, of course, the big step, no doubt,
And the cameras will be zoomed in so that we
can see now normally their position near the back of
the plane, so you get that side profile of a
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potus going up. But how much do you want to
bet they put somebody in the crowd where they can
get the the side view, so just in case the
shoe slips, they can get that and we'll see it
on loop after loop after loop. It'll never end. The
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whole point. I just want to make you that there
just there is a recognition by some not everybody, that oh,
maybe we ought to think about this, maybe we ought
to you know, kind of consider out how and why
we lost. I think it's a sign that there's at
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least an opening with particularly the newer Democrats after the
twenty twenty four defeat. And even if they like you
know New York Times Maggie Haberman, she insists that Trump
has no historic mandate for his agenda. Well, wait a minute.
The people who actually depend on the views of the
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voters for their jobs, they actually believe otherwise, even among
Democrats in New York. Politico has a story. Here's the headline,
a new dim strategy embraced Trump's winning agenda. The subhead
New York Democrats don't want to fight Trump, but are
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going on offense on the issues that propelled him to
the White House. Deep blue states like New York tried
to sign me do on Trump's first presidency, but Democrats
who hold power here plan to avoid fighting with him
as they kick off their legislation session on Wednesday, there's
more appetite among Governor Hockel and state lawmakers for seizing
on his winning issues rather than confronting him. According to
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interviews with six legislators, political advisers, and Democratic officials, and
a review of Hochel's recent moves to embrace cost of
living concerns. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying
that there's this wholesale change in attitude. I'm simply saying
that they they got their asses beat and they're now
trying to figure out a way. Look the whole idea
(22:52):
of the first term. This is again why you know,
when God enters prayers, he doesn't necessarily answer the wave
you'll necessarily you want or expect. You think back to
the twenty twenty election. At least in these quarters, I
thought the election of Joe Biden was going to be
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as bad, if not worse than the election of Barack Obama.
And in fact it did turn out to be that way,
and he ended up just absolutely being subsumed by the
progressive Marxist wing of the Democrat Party. And look where
we are today. Look at the economy, Look at the
cost of league What did you say, dragon? There was
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a chir on up about the cost of eggs.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It was an ABC news feed. It was ninety dollars
for a dozen eggs.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Now, wonderful, But at least they're cage free, right, at
least they got that one point five square feet of space.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Right, That little chicken is happy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
That's a happy chicken laying a happy egg, so when
you eat it, you'll be a happy camper. All I'm
saying is that there are there's a change in added tube,
particularly among newly elected Democrats or the younger ones like
John Fetterman. Now the old farts, they're not going to change.
(24:09):
Oh my god, did you see Nancy Blowsey yesterday at
Carter's when they brought Carter's body into the rotunda. Oh
my god, she's with a walker. And look, former speaker.
Button your blouse up, please, you sag just a little
too much. She's what eighty four or something. Come on,
(24:32):
put a brawl on and button up. We don't need
to see that. So when Politico recognizes that there's a difference,
there is a difference. Over at punch Bowl News they
write this. Several Democrats told us they're open to teaming
up with Trump, but may clear they're picking and choosing
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their spots. Some potential areas of common ground Democrats listed
include the border and immigration, which we had a footnote
I think will fall apart. Democrats will be and depending
what Trump proposes, but Democrats are going to be pushed
to the wall and they're going to bulk economic issues,
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the Doege Effort, which will aim to root out wasteful
and government spending, and punch Bowl continues. This bipartisan appetite
has already been put to test in the new Congress.
Forty eight House Democrats voted for the Lake and Riley
Act on Tuesday eleven, more than the number who voted
for the measure last Congress. Still the majority one hundred
and fifty nine opposal legislation, and it gives Ice the
(25:39):
authority to detail criminally accused undocumented immigrants illegal aliens, which
will begin the process of getting a Senate vote later
this week. Jaron Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, said the
uptick in support from his party reflects how Democrats are
digesting the election results, noting the immigration was on the
ballot in November. He told punch Bowl, I don't think
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the American people want extremism, but they do want changes
at the border on some of these issues. We were
to the left of the American people. That I think
is the key statement, and that goes back to You've
got to pay attention not necessarily to what the New
York Times wants, but the voters want. I think that's
(26:23):
the shock that the Democrats are enduring. The voters. Remember,
it's it's easy to forget in the in this stream
of consciousness about everything going on with the election, that
Trump essentially ran the table on the battleground states. That's huge.
(26:43):
And I don't care if it is even by one
point two percent he won, because that's what matters. Do
you care if the bronc was win by one point
or seven points? You don't you care if they win
in the battleground states where it is presumed that you
are more likely to lose than you are to win,
and you end up winning, that's a double whammy. They
(27:05):
didn't expect it, and those constituents they expected to vote
for the Democrats said, you guys have gone off the
deep end. We're going over here. And now the Democrats
in those battleground states are going to be under a
lot of pressure. Not well, pressure from all sides, pressure
(27:27):
from the likes of the New York Times, pressures from
their federal Democrats that are in safe seats like Colorado.
But they're also going to be facing pressure from the
voters who said we want to change. Don't forget what
was it seventy nine eighty percent of Americans, just generic Americans,
(27:49):
thought the country was on the wrong track. Well, if
you're a Democrat and you thought the country was on
the wrong track considering all the Democrat policies that were
shove down our throat the last four years, you want
to see change. And so you're gonna be looking at
even if you have a Democrat congressman or senator, you're
(28:09):
gonna be looking at them expecting, hey, okay, you can
impose him on whatever that might be, But over here
where it affects my pocketbook, I expect to see some change.
And I think that's reality of what we see going
on right now. And I think that's why John Feederman
is more than willing to step out and say the
things that he's saying. He's not always going to be right.
(28:30):
Federman's not always going to be this blunt about things.
But the fact that he's willing to even say anything
about it is amazing to me, and it ought to
be amazing to you. Just and I'll take a break, Brownie.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
While you were on vacation, I heard you do a
promo cut for this new app.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I got all excited and downloaded. I want the old
app back, damn you. I heard you say you like me.
I didn't say it, and if I did, it was
just why I was mindlessly thinking about it. Both of us.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It was both we. We admitted that we enjoy his voice. Yes,
we don't like him very recognizable.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But let's make it abundanly clear. We don't like you.
We just enjoy your voice. That's all in that life.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
We do like the laugh. Yeah, the laugh is great. Yeah,
the laugh is great. But otherwise you're a despicable human being.
So uh fires one last time before we leave. So
here we are. Los Angeles is engulfed in fires. People
are being forced to uh the Hollywood left us have
to flee their homes, but DEI is at work. The
(29:49):
LA Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley is uh. Well, she's
the first LGBTQ plus person to lead the department, and
she's also the first woman.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
She's come a lo long ways, but she believes the
more diverse the LA Fire Department is, the better the
department is at serving a city as diverse as LA
makes sense, right, She said this from the very beginning.
The Los Angeles Fire Department is fully committed to creating
positive change. With the new DEI Bureau, the Department will
(30:22):
develop and drive forward key diversity, equity and inclusion strategies
and initiatives to enhance the lafd's work environment and performance.
We will maximize our efforts to build and promote a
culture where our diversity is truly valued. YadA YadA yah
yah yah yah yahda. Now she's just the fire chief.
(30:44):
Los Angeles has a mayor. Her name is Karen Bass. Now,
she was warned for some time that there were critical
weather conditions in the days before she did something. She
took off and as far as I know, is still
(31:04):
gone to Ghana. So the black mayor of La Los Angeles,
Karen Bess, is currently in Africa attending the inauguration of
God as new president. Yes, that's much more important than
La burning. By the way, a Bass cut nearly twenty
(31:29):
million dollars from the city's budget for fire services for
this fiscal year. And that's not all the cuts she wanted.
That's just all the cuts that she got. Oh, she
wanted much more. And then in terms of just thinking
about how bad these fires are as compared to have
(31:50):
we ever seen anything like this before? Well we have,
we had a text message from now I'll take me
forever to find it. But we had a text message
from a listener talking about fires that occurred, Oh, I
don't know, a long time ago, that are much worse
and killed like one fire up in Michigan somewhere killed
(32:10):
like seventeen hundred individuals at the same time, are essentially
about the same time that the big fire in Chicago
was going on. Here he is the Festigal Fire burned
over a millionacres in Wisconsin, killing around seventeen hundred people.
That was the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
(32:30):
Across Lake Michigan, the Great Michigan Fire burned about two
million acres from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. If our
current situation is due to climate change, there is no
way we can cut, masticate, or burn our way out
of it. So when you hear somebody say have you
ever seen anything like this before, you can say, well, no,
I haven't seen it, but I know about it. Let's
(32:53):
go back to October eighth, eighteen seventy one, Wisconsin, a millionacres,
seventeen hundred people killed. Now I know for anybody killed
in this fire, it's a tragedy it's catastrophic for them
and their families. But let's have a little perspective. And
(33:13):
by the way, think about the population of Wisconsin versus
the population of California and the infrastructure on October eight,
eighteen seventy one versus the infrastructure in California in Los
Angeles in twenty twenty five. Fewer deaths, yes, because we're
(33:35):
better at it. And more property damage because there's more
property Gee, I got you know, dragon, I gotta quit
thinking logically. I gotta quit think. I gotta stop it. It
just hurt your head. It does. It hurts your head
when you think about this. And that's just the one fire.
There was still the Lake Michigan, the Great Michigan Fire
(33:57):
that burned two million acres. Say how many people that killed?
If go look that one up too. So, yes, there's
nothing new under the sun. And you're just trying to
they're trying to instill hysteria in you, hysteria about the climate.
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