8-22-25 - 6am - Bolton Raid, California Redistricting and iHeart Earth Squirrel

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning from South Dakota. I wonder how John Bolton
makes his home rated. Everyone, have a great day. I'm
not gonna let you derail the entire segment, but both
Fox News and CNN are running the breaking news story
this morning that former ambassador and national security advisor to

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many presidents, the mustache the stash, John Bolton his beth
as the Maryland home is being rated by the FBI
in search of classified documents. This investigation into Bolton actually
started in the trumpament in Trump one point zero, and

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it started because he had written a book. And the book,
you know, anytime you have clearances, and you have this
is one reason why I'm considering giving up all of
my clearances. You you have to have as part of
your NDA, as part of the of the appearances, anything

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that you write, you have to have cleared by the
appropriate you know, either the CIA or the NSA, or
the DA or the Department of Energy, whomever it might be,
to make certain that any documents that you cite or
use are not you know, you're not violating your classification rules.

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He wrote a book, Trump maintained and Trump one point
zero that the book contained classified information and an FBI
investigation was started. Now that's important to understand because that
investigation was started under FBI directors that were at the
same time going after Donald Trump. So it wasn't as

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if it was an illegitimate investigation. It was being done.
I'm sure they would like to get John Bolton too,
but nonetheless it was being done by and I don't
remember whether it was Christopher Ray or or uh, what's
the other dufus's name? Total total brain fall. Right, it's
too early for a brain fawk far because I'm still

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laughing about what Dragon and I did in our pre
production meeting.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, not to get too derailed here, but the only
thing I'm thinking about is are they is the FBI
going to go through Bolton's wife's lingeride drar Well.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I certainly hope so they did with him. Yeah, I
certainly hope. So anyway, so they start the investigation and
then they derail James call me me see I knew it,
come to me. Then then they derail Biden, derails the investigation,
and then Trump two point zero comes in and they
restart the investigation. The thing I heard that I did

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not know was well, I knew you had a security
of detail because the the Iranians. He's one of the
marked men, along with George W. Bush. Of course they
can't get Colon Powell or Donald Rumsfeld anymore. I think
Condy was on that Rice was on that Rice was
on that list. John Bolten was on the list. There

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are a lot of people on the list that Uranians
wanted to assassinate. Mike Pompeo another one. That taxpayer security
detail had been withdrawn I guess some time ago, and
he's had been having to pay for his own security. Man.
It's just it's it's tough work working for the government.

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It's just tough anyway. So, yes, Bolton has not been arrested.
But you know, I wonder if he's outside of his pajamas.
I wonder if they you know, alerted CNN. I mean,
I apparently it's I'm sure neighbors called, hey, there's a
bunch of cops out here in front of the Mustache's house. Anyway,
let's move on. We'll see what comes of that. One

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of my favorite, well, not well, it's him. I probably
top twenty films is Charlie Wilson's War. Philip Seymour Hoffman
now decease. I believe Philip Seymour Hoffman is in the movie.
It's about our war against the Russians the Soviet Union

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when they were occupying in Afghanistan. It is a really
great movie, and if you haven't seen it, it's a
pretty good It's not in of course, it's a movie,
so it's not entirely historically accurate. But if you know
nothing about Charlie Wilson's war and what Congressman Wilson was
doing to make certain that we defeated and we actually worry,

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we were friends with the Mujahadeen and the Taliban during
the Russian occupation, so and then you know, twenty years
later we flipped sides. It's a fascinating story about the
work that he did internally to arm them to push
the Soviet Union out. During that movie, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Hoffman's there's a scene where Hoffman's character is telling a
story the zen Master and the little Boy. He's talking
to Tom Hanks, who's also in the movie. The punchline
of the story goes something like this, Every sequence of
events ends with the zen Master saying, we shall see.

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We shall see that that applies to a lot of
things you know. I walked in here this morning and
I know it, and of course I'm not surprised, but
I can't help but notice that all the blinds are
still broken, and that the rod for the blind and
the hook for the blind have not moved a nanom millimeter,

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not a milli milli millimeter. That it is just still
laying in the same place. And I'm sure by the
end of the next week I can pick it up
and there will be dust all you can see where
it was laying, because the dust will have settled except
where the rod is laying. So we shall see whether
or not anything ever gets done, and of course we
know that it will not. I was thinking of that

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as I was going through my ex timeline yesterday, because
Gavin Newsom has hired a couple of Zumis, a couple
of Zuomies or gen z Ors. I don't know what
they are, but I think I think they're Zoomies. Two
two nerdy looking, pimple faced. See I wish sometimes I

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wish I was on satellitebs deeps thank you. They're dweebs
that are now doing his social media. So he's doing
things like posting, you know, really long x posts, you know,
and doing him in all caps, you know, talking about
you know, Trump's a king and soon I'll be the king.

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I mean, it's just really it's just really childish stuff.
I'll see. Could it be possible that govern Newsom has
never heard the story or maybe he never talked to
Harry Reid former Senator Harry Reid from Nevada Harry Reid
International Airport in Las Vegas about the downside of when

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Harry Reid decided to do away with the filipbuster on
judicial nominations. Anytime the Democrats respond says we're going to
go nuclear on whatever it might be. They never think
two steps ahead that if they change those rules and
they go nuclear on something, that at some point those

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rules will be in place when Republicans take over and
then well they'll be hell to pay. Example, not about
Harry Reid, but a similar story in two thousand and eight,
the voters in California passed Proposition eleven that created the

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California Redistricting Commission. We've talked a little bit on the
surface about this before, but it's become relative again because
of because of Texas. No, these these politicians are so
effing childish and they think they're being so cool when

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you know they're not. It's like the parent that tries
to be cool to their teenager and the and the
child is just embarrassed. Dad, you're making You're making a
fool of yourself. Now I never did that, and I'm
sure the dragon never did that, because he and I
are just naturally cool. So I'm sure our children looked
at us and we were, you know, attempting to be cool,

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and thought we really are cool. The the redistricting the
California Redistricting Commission is empowered to draw district maps for
California State Lady of Districts. The purpose of the commission,
as any state that has a commission, is they try
to reduce the partisan political influences when legislators themselves are

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in charge of drawing the legislative maps every ten years.
I've told you about my personal experience when I was
on the committee staff for the Democrat committee staff. They
wanted a token Republican and my senator, the chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee, was in charge of drawing the
congressional and legislative maps in Oklahoma way back in the eighties.

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Some time back in the Dark Ages when they pass
voter initiaies like Proposition eleven become part of the California Constitution,
which means that a legislator or the legislator's writ large

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or here particularly the governor of California cannot change that law.
It takes a constitutional amendment to change the law. So
two years later, in twenty ten, remember first done in
two thousand and eight, In twenty ten, California voters pass
Proposition twenty that then took the same Redistricting Commission and

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expanded their jurisdiction to include the drawing of congressional maps
for US House seats using the new less partisan ha
ha less partisan maps created by the commission. The Democrats
in California went from a thirty six to seventeen advantage
in California's House delegation back in the Dark Ages of

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twenty eleven to the current advantage of forty two Democrats
nine Republicans. That's the current mate, that's the advantage. As
recently as two thousand and one, there were twenty four
Republican members of Congress from California. That has dwindled down

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to only nine, only nine. Now let's add on to
that pile on top of that that Democrats have a
super majority in both the Assembly and the state Senate,
so in their House and in their Senate at the
state level, they have a supermajority. So these numbers would

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seem like a simple proposition. But remember it is state legislators,
not members of Congress, who must vote in favor of
placing such a measure on the ballot in California, just
as it is in Colorado. The Colorado Congressional Delegation cannot

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submit something to go unto the ballot. Now citizens can,
Representative legislators can, but members of Congress just because your remember,
Congress doesn't give you an additional authority to do that.
So it is the legislators who must vote in favor
of placing any change to the California, if that matter,
of the Colorado Constitution on the ballot. There are reports

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out of Sacramento starting last week and going into this
week that if you have a price, they have a
price for getting their vote. A Sacramental news station is
confirming that situation. They have. Oh, you want me to
vote in favor of, you know, change any constitution, Well,

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I've got a pet project or I've got a pet
piece of legislation or I've got whatever it is you
want to do some horse trading, because I'm not going
to vote for your constitutional amendment unless I get my
pet project. It's I'm not saying it's good or bad.
I'm just saying that's the way it is now. Every

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legislator in California, it takes an office, takes an oath
of office, and then assume that office knowing that they
are term limited from the very first day. So just
like a good example in Colorado, the best example in
Colorado is every Democrat in state office, Secretary of State

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Jenner Griswold, Attorney General Phil Wiser, and Governor Jared Polis
because they are all term limited. They're all just like
these California Democrats are always looking for what they're looking
for a path to the next office. These are truly

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these are maggots. They're maggots that live off the stench
that comes out of state, local and government politics. There's maggots. Now.
The price that some are demanding based on this reporting
out of Sacramento is a promise of support from the
Democrat Party for a future run in a district redrawn

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to benefit them whenever their opportunity arises, because if they're
running in a new district, they're not term limited. They're
term limited in the district that they're currently in, So
they could go serve in another district somewhere, a brand
new district that hasn't been that did not exist before now.

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Since the proposed ballot measure would reinstate the Redistricting Commission
starting in twenty thirty two, seven years from now, Newsom's
allies are essentially committing to redrawing districts every two years.
So they can say to these legislators, we promise to
do what you want because we need to get your

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vote needed in the state legislator, in the state legislature
to make these constitutional changes. But set that aside for
just a second. In the end, Newsom is likely to
get the votes he needs to get them ballot measure approved,
but getting it approved the legislators and getting it passed
by the electorate the citizens in an off year is

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probably going to be more difficult than Newsom can probably
even imagine. I understand that Gavin Newsom has never never
been involved in a meaningful election contest. He was appointed
to his first office in back in nineteen ninety seven.

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That's how this is. Gavin Newsom is a creature of
California politics, just like many people in Colorado are creatures
of Now I'm going to be a little two faced
and hypocritical here. I highly encourage people to go get

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involved at the lowest level of government you can and
work your way up. That's the best path to hire office.
Gavin Newsom because he's a demokrat. I use him as
an example because while I would like a nice conservative,
you know, a real good fiscal conservative, social conservative, whatever,

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just a good you know, understands free markets, individual liberty,
individual freedom, all of that. To start out on a
library board or maybe even a library board somewhere and
eventually become a city council and become a county commission
and become a state legislator, maybe sometime become governor and
we get to take the state back. Go back to
Newsland for a moment. He was appointed in nineteen ninety

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seven to a board on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
that's their city council by then Mayor Willie Brown. Because
it's all a big cabal. He was elected for the
first time in nineteen ninety eight, all five San Francisco
Board of Supervisor's incumbents one re election running as a

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Democrat Party supported slate. They all ran as a group.
He gets re elected again in two thousand and two.
He got almost eighty percent of the vote. He was
a Willie Brown favorite Democrat from a family with deep
ties in the Bay Area, and that family had deep
ties to the Democrat Party in a city that was
run by the Democrat Party. So it's no great accomplishment

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in his early election efforts. In fact, I would argue
that it had been shocking if he had lost any
of those So from almost the beginning of his third
term on the board, Newsom began running for mayor San
Francisco because Willie Brown was term limited out. It's musical,
it's political musical. Chairs Newson won that primary with only

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forty two percent of the vote.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Eighty six am. Time for you to entertain me, waiter,
and that's exactly what we're doing. Speaking of which, those
of you who.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Are always telling us about how left leaning iHeart, I
just happened to hear the PSA, which took up sixty
seconds of valuable content time during the spot block which
we could have been talking about something else, and now
I'm talking about that. I Heart Earth. Do you hear dragon?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yep? We both both caught our ears. Yeah, I heard lunch.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Right, bringing no waste lunch to lunch, Save the Earth,
Save the planet. And you found what there's actually a.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Website iHeart dot com slash Earth. Together, we have the
power to change the world. Small changes equal one big,
healthier world. Since eighteen eighty, global sea level has risen
about eight inches. Scientists expects global sea level to rise
another one to eight feet by twenty one hundred.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
I wonder if anybody on that that administers that page
has ever listened to me and all of my counter evidence,
peer reviewed evidence to the contrary. I doubt it. Real
Quickly back to Newsom. I don't want to go through

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all of his electoral history. Just understand that he's a
product of a Democrat political incubator.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, no, no, no, sorry, I have to I have to
stop here because I'm reading the site. I just read
that fact that they put on here. It's it's a
little slide panel you click and another another factoid will
will pop up. So it said, since eighteen eighty, global
sea levels have risen about eighty inches. So I want
to see the next slide. So I hit over, and

(19:51):
I'm not going to adjust anything. I'm just going to
read it as it states here. From nineteen ninety to
twenty sixteen, the number of vehicle miles traveled VMT by
passenger passenger cars and light duty trucks increased by approximately

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that's the end of the slide.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh that's the Oh, that's the end of it.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
That's the end of the slide. That's all it says.
From nineteen ninety to twenty sixteen, the number of vehicle
miles traveled VMT by passenger cars and light duty trucks
increased by approximately so and then nothing.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
So the comforting thing is I ain't half asked maintained
the website like we half ass maintain the blinds and
everything else.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
The increased by approximately is kind of highlighted. It's a
different color than the rest of the text. But it's
not a hyperlink. I can't click on it. There's nothing there.
I click over the next slide. Maybe maybe the details
will be there. Nope. According to the EPA, waste spons
water leaks in the US can account for more than
ten thousand gallons of wasted water every year. No what
but no, I'm going wait what We'll go back.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Wait did I hear you say that wastewater leaks?

Speaker 2 (21:12):
According to PA water Sense, water leaks in the US
can account for more than ten thousand gallons of water
wasted every year.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's like a drop in the bucket, ten thousand gallons
a year, a year throughout the entire United States.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Waste it doesn't say. It doesn't even say United States.
It's just as According to EPA water Sense, which is
again not a hyperlink but is highlighted, water leaks, oh
it does in the US can account for more than
ten thousand gallons of water wasted every year.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Read, I'm kind of stupid.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
You want me to read the next one?

Speaker 1 (21:57):
You know, might as well. You've hijacked to it. And
now you got me totally irritated, because it really is
you talk about half ass maintenance problems and half assed
maintenance of a website, plus not just half ass maintenance
of a website, but then total bull crap on the website.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Between thirty to forty percent of food goes uneaten in
the United States. Food waste is the largest component of
US landfills at twenty two percent.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Okay, isn't food waste biodegradable unless, of course, I guess
it's one of McDonald's, you know, beef patty and it'll
lasts for you know, eons. Anything else you want to
try to ear, anything else you want to do to
irritate me this morning, anything else.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Approximately thirteen percent of US carbon emissions are associated with growing, manufacturing,
and transporting and disposing of.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's where it's stop.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
So it stops.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I wish. I mean, maybe it's the formatting that I
am seeing here, but I'm using Google Chrome here, so
it's not like it's it's an unusual browser or formatting that's.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Only using Google Chrome. But you're on our intranet. Yeah,
so it's not like you're in timbuck I, you know,
going through fifteen thousand different servers to finally get to
that node to find out what, Oh good grief.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Energy star led light bulbs will use at least seventy
five percent less energy and last twenty five times longer
than old incandescent bulbs.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
And tell me, tell me and what and so what
that's just what it states here Okay, all right, Can
I go back to newsom.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Now, recycling a ton of paper can save the energy
equivalent of one hundred and sixty six gallons of gasoline?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
How many tons were?

Speaker 2 (24:00):
A ton of paper can save the energy equivalent of
one hundred and sixty six gallons of.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Guessing, I would like to know the amount of fossil
fuels energy have you BTUs? However you want to measure
it that it takes to recycle a ton of paper
or whatever that number was, I'd like to know that
that is the most worthless.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Air Conditioners cost US homeowners more than twenty nine billion
dollars each year. Just cost. That's not an environmental thing.
That's just straight it's cost, straight cost.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
What kind of fact is that thirty nine Helmut thirty.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Air conditioners cost US homeowners more than twenty nine billion
dollars each year.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
So twenty nine billion in a an economy that in
an economy has a gross domestic product in the trillions.
We're worried about thirty nine billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
And that's the end of the factoids here on iHeart
dot com, slash earth.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
And then I wonder why the blinds are broken?

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Approximately thirteen percent of US carbon emissions are associated with growing, manufacturing, transporting,
and disposing of. Your guess is as good as mine.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Maybe it's just filling the blank. Maybe it's just to
you know, whatever, whatever your bugaboo is, whatever it is
that you hate, you.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Know, you know. And from nineteen ninety to twenty sixteen,
the number of vehicle miles traveled by passenger cars and
light duty trucks increased by approximately I don't know, it
doesn't tell me.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Maybe this is a maybe the people that used to
write for the comedy series that you mentioned yesterday, wats
my line? Yeah, they just throw something out and then.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
The everything's made up in the meetings.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Make up everything. Maybe this is a watch my line
landing page and you just go on and you just
make up, and then you can just say I read
it on the iHeart website, iHeart dot com slash Earth.
I wish I had a large, large enough audience, like
I wish I had like a rush Numball sized audience,

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and I could ask everyone to go to that site
right now, because it would crash it, you know, it
would crash it.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I do like that first factory that was like since
eighteen eighty, global sea level has risen about eight inches.
Scientists expect global sea level to rise another one to
eight feet feet. So it's gone eight inches in one
hundred and forty years, but in one hundred and what

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is that seventy five years, they'll expect it to go
eight feet.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
So for all of those the for those of you
who I always talking about iHeart being a liberal company,
as we discussed yesterday, there is your evidence. Now I
want you to stop for a moment and think about
how horribly that is designed and what kind of misinformation

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is on it, and then take the next leap and
think about the little zuomies that are sitting somewhere in
I mean, god knows where they're sitting, because they're not
necessarily in New York, but they're somewhere, probably working remotely
and putting that crap together and spewing it out. And
you wonder why I think that the country to a

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certain extent is doomed because of education, the lack of
critical thinking and throwing out that kind of bull crap. Yeah,
I'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
So, according to Iheart's figures, if the South would have
waited four hundred years for something, would have been underwater
and the whole war could have been avoided.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Interesting Michael uh nine and opening one of the screens,
the display is a hand installing a compact fluorescent light
bulb and a ceiling fixture. Below the Miley statistic is
evidence of a small broken red Marx. The morons who
maintained the side did not know the reformat the font

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size to allow the Miley she to be to be displayed.
I went on so Dragon was on Chrome. I normally
used Safari, but I got my tabs and my notes open,
so I went on to Firefox, and I had the
same problem that Dragon does, not for every one of
the little slides, but on several of them. So it's
just they they just didn't account for. And then somebody

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said they were on their phone when they were looking
at it. I think in one of the touch lines,
I think you said you're on the.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Phone, Yeah, Michael Dragon, I'm on my phone.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah. So obviously they maybe they formatted because most iHeart
content is consumed on phones. You look at my podcast
figures for example, you know ninety eight percent of my
podcast is consumed on on on a phone.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I should have expected that. I mean, if you go
to Michael says, gohere dot com. It is better seen
on your phone versus on a desktop, yeah, or a
laptop yeap.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Anyway, But then there was this text, the stuff two
three eight, the stuff your Wolke company puts out. No
wonder they have so many financial issues. The air conditioning
costs is because we're getting raped on energy when we
should be paying the cheapest rates for energy in the
entire world.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Bingo, That's the one I found the funniest. It's like,
wait a minute. That doesn't say anything about the environment.
It just says how much it costs, right right, Mike.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
It is taking me ninety six twenty five. It is
taking me one ton of brain cells wasted listening to
you too. That's why you listen. That's exactly why you listen.
I do really want to finish this thing about John Bolton,
John Bolton, as you looking at a text message about

(30:15):
John Bolton, I want to finish the story about Gavin
Newsom because this is an example of how Trump is.
He's causing and completing a political realignment, and going through
that is going to be like going through a major storm,

(30:37):
a thunderstorm or a blizzard or