(07/25) GAS Hour 2 - Newsom Order Homeless Sweeps

KFI’s Michael Monks joins the show to talk about Governor Gavin Newsom singing an executive order that will allow the removal of homeless encampments. Death Valley’s extreme heat melts skin off a mans feet after he lost his sandals in the dunes.

Episode Transcript

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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. The New York Post
has been reporting that former President Obamais upset that Biden threw his support to
his vice president because the former presidentbelieves that she can't win against Donald Trump
in the fall. This is aquote from a source in the New York

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Post said to be a friend ofthe Biden family. Quote, Obama knows
she's just incompetent the borders are whonever visited the border, saying that all
migrants should have health insurance. Shecannot navigate the land mines that are ahead
of her. However, CNN andNBC are reporting that Obama privately has fully
supported her candidacy and that his publicendorsement of her is imminent. Governor Gavin

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Newsom has issued in an executive ordertoday to clear homeless encampments. Michael Monks
from KFI News is on the storyand joins us with how this will all
work. Michael Ay, Good morning. Gary and Shannon's working out details on
what it means locally, but fornow, the issue from Governor Newsom is
that any jurisdiction under the state canstart removing these homeless encampments once they work

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out those particular details. He's alsoencouraging local municipalities and local jurisdictions to take
care of the issue as well.I'm currently at the Metro board meeting where
they're supposed to be talking about expandingtheir safety issues across the system from North
Hollywood, and we will find outa little bit more, maybe from the
folks here, because this board ismade up of all the supervisors, the

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mayor. I tried to get somesound from them before they went in.
Did not work out, but hopefullywe'll get some details on where they stand.
I will say the Board of Supervisorson Tuesday was supposed to talk about
that Supreme Court ruling that allows thisto move forward. They pulled it off
the agenda and moved it to nextweek. So I don't know if somebody
got a heads up that something wascoming down from the state level, or

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if they needed to work out somedetails for themselves, but they're going to
take it up as a board nextTuesday. This is an executive order I
understand that would direct officials to begindismantling some of these encampments throughout the state.
But does it take into account ordoes it delineate between a direction to

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municipal governments, cities and counties,or is it specifically state officials and the
state properties that may have what theyrefer to as involuntarily unhoused peoples. That's
my understanding now is that the executiveorder applies directly to the state's jurisdiction,

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and what the governor is doing isencouraging the local governments and other government agencies
to follow their lead on this.What this looks like, we don't know,
because we know here in La thereare a lot of camps and what
happens when they're cleaned up? Wheredo the folks go? That's been the
question all along. The mayor hasbeen busy here trying to clean up some
of the camps very slowly with theirinside Safe program. A couple doesn't here,

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a couple dozen there, but there'sa lot more than that out there,
So a lot of questions for usto find out and a lot of
questions for local officials. I'm interestedto see what the pushback is from fellow
Democrats on this. I haven't seenany reaction yet, but there certainly will
be. Yeah, this is somethingthat's important here because obviously the homeless crisis

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is significant. It's most visible inCalifornia cities like La and San Francisco.
But we have the Olympics coming up, and so you have this dichotomy of
folks leading with their heart about howto approach homelessness, but also facing their
practicality, like we can't have thison the streets when the world is watching
in four years, and so howthat impacts the way they address this policy

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will be interesting to see, andit's probably coming faster than we expected.
All right, Michael, thank you, good stuff, My pleasure, guys.
Michael Monks there from KFI News,And again this executive orders, the
specifics of it haven't come out yet, but there was an interesting issue that's
going on in San Francisco specifically.Of course, that's become for a lot
of I think for a lot ofpeople outside of California. San Francisco has

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become the poster child of the problemswith California and homelessness because this once great
city has been gutted by bad policiesthat have allowed criminals to kind of take
over the streets. But mayor London. Breed has specifically talked about cleaning up

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homeless encampments, and she said shecelebrated this ruling when it came down from
the Supreme Court, and before thisexecutive order, she came out and said
that there would be a very aggressivesweep slash cleanup of San Francisco that would
start sometime next month. So couldit be that this is for Kamala?

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She comes from California, She wasa DA in San Francisco. Ag Like,
would the plight of California hurt herin the runoff or in the run
up to the election. It couldnot anywhere that Gavin Newsom right, but
just the attachment to California. Yeah, could sure? Maybe this is for

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her? Okay, did you seethat woman that was walking around with a
Samurai sword in San Dimas? DidI see her? No? I didn't
see her. It was odd.It was this picture. It was on
TMZ a few days ago. Thisis woman. She's walking around with a
sword and she's got severe cuts onher legs. Ouch. Yeah, this

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is this is her? Yeah yeah, yeah. So it turns out and
you didn't really know when this brokewhat was going on? Now they say
an arrest has been made in thefatal stabbing of a woman in San Dimas
Why Chen Hung was booked on suspicionof murdering her wife, Chen Chen Fee
on July eighteenth. And the womanwith the samurai sword is the mother of

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the murdered girl or woman. Wow. Yeah, bizarre people live weird lives.
Man, You don't know what goeson in that house next to you.
I thought it was weird when Itook my dog for a walk and
he didn't poop on someone's lawn,like that was weird. Where did he
poop? He didn't poop anywhere onthe walk. Ah that I was worried

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about him, and I thought,that's weird. He's so little, that
is not weird. It's totally notweird at least not compared to other people's
lives. Nice. Well, thesimple life is nice, isn't it.
It's nice if that's the weirdest thing, exactly, thank Garrian Shannon. Yeah,
yeah, it's just try to cleanup his act because once people started
looking at how California is, they'rethey're gonna wonder what the hell he's been

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doing here for the last few years. Hey, Shannon and Gary love your
show. Just wanted to say,Shannon, you are right on about cleaning
up California for Kamala. I wasthinking it right before you said it,
and then you said it, andI went, wow, that is exactly
what happened. Simpotico. That's whatyou are. We talked about the what

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was it bad Lands? Is thatwhat it's called? Race? Yeah,
the race or how it's going thatstarts in Death Valley and ends at Mount
Whitney there in Lone Pine. Ijust can't imagine the chafing. The chafing,
Well, they have different remember Mike, Uh, Michael Clark used to
have different salves that he would rubon himself. He rode his bike here

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to Burbank from Westchester every day.What is it? And he had a
bunch of different creams and ointments andall sorts of things that he would rub
on himself. There's one I can'tremember what it's called, some kind of
Uh. I'm not going to sayit every mind. What were you going
to say? It's a it's ait's a product with glide in the name

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of it. It's not that it'snot what you're thinking. I'm not thinking
anything. It's uh. It's youcan put it in your in your darker
parts, to keep it, tokeep things from chafing. Okay, so
let's get back on. Yeah,your darker part. Forty two year old.

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True, you're making it. Fortytwo year old Belgian tourists was taking
a short walk over the weekend andthe Mesquite Flat sand dunes area in Death
Valley one hundred and twenty three degreesall me. He either broke or lost
his flip flops moron, putting hisfeet into direct contact with the desert ground.
Moron. The result was third degreeburns. This is this is Darwinism.

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A park surface ranger said, theskin was melted off his stop foot,
stop it. This is exactly whyyou're not supposed to take animals out
for a walk until the pavement coolsdown, so you can put those little
shoes on them, the little booties. Yeah, you could put the little
booties on this moron. Also,your dog's legs are so small. I

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don't even think there's booties that small. I'd have to put booties on his
belly. Like he's that close tothe hot pavement, right, I'm afraid
he'd get a sunburn under his guts. Yeah, yeah, um climb the
where did I go? Unable toget out and in his on his own,
and he was in extreme pain.The man and his family recruited other

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park visitors to help. Now,how would that conversations go out there?
I think there's a lot of peopleto experience one hundred and twenty three degree
heat. That would be crazy.I don't want to have that experience.
Well, some people are brave.It turns out that I want to know
what that conversation was like though,where they say, Hey, what's a

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good name for a Belgian guy?Hmmm? Let me I'll google it all
right, Well you do that justto give me the most popular male Belgian
name and the family probably some ofthem also wearing flip flops. Noah,
Arthur, and Liam are the mostpopular names. I like Liam. I
do too. Let's call him Liamand my dad Liam. Here you see

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the one with the skin melting offthe bottom of his feet, he what
happened to his feet? Well he'san idiot. Dad's an idiot. Well
is he not wearing shoes? Well? He was wearing flip flops in the
desert at one hundred and twenty threedegree heat. He was wearing flip flops.
Yeah, but he needs help gettingout. Why did he think flip
flops were good? I would justhave left him there with his melted feet,

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said, Liam, you're on yourown. You're a dumb ass.
They were able to carry him tothe sand Dune's parking lot, where the
rangers were able to look at hisinjuries. Obviously they'd want to fly him
out. That's a pretty significant problem. But they can't fly him out because
a helicopter can't generate lift in temperaturesof one hundred and twenty plus degrees.
So they drove him to a muchcooler spot where it was only one hundred

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and nine and then got him intoa helicopter and took him off. Even
rangers who work in the park tendto wear gloves when they're working because they
know that everything can get hotter thanhell. A new report came out today
said economic activity was considerably stronger thanexpected during the second quarter. Commerce Department

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came out and said the real grossdomestic product, which is a measure of
all the goods and services produced duringthe period the April through June period,
increased at two point eight percent annualizedpaste A pace adjusted for seasonality and inflation.
The Dow Jones economists said they wereonly looking for about two percent two

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point one percent, so they didit much better than expected. Oh,
we had the game on here yesterday, or the match what do you call
a soccer game? Match? Match? Okay, we had the match on.
Team USA fell three to nothing toFrance at Marseille Stadium yesterday. It
was not good. The Americans managedto record three of their nine shot attempts

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on goal. Us sitting at thebottom of the table in Group A with
zero we'll look bad to bounce backwhen they take on New Zealand on Saturday.
Also, more men's and women's soccermatches today, Rugby, archery,
handball, they're all starting, eventhough the opening ceremonies for the Olympics aren't
until tomorrow. Night. Angels beatthe Mariagis two to one. They'll come

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home and host the A's tonight.Giants beat the Dodgers eight to three.
What do you know, but they'llplay again this afternoon and this marks the
return of Clayton Kershaw to the mound. Just after one o'clock today is when
we can expect that. Before weget into our topic. Guess what.
I'm still leaving the country, butI can get KFI from Mexico and I'm

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gonna listen to you both every morning. Can you make my day? I
love you both. Keep at it. And ps, I'm starting to get
my husband hooked on YouTube because you'reso both ridiculously funny. Oh that was
nice, Oh Gary Shen And youknow, I'm getting your second Tired of
Democrats calling and saying what they said, and then publican's calling and they said

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what they said, but nobody issaying what he said. And this is
what I'm going to try to getclear, is who is saying what?
And why do you guys keep answeringthe phone and putting it on the air.
Why I really like your shouw though, you know, wow, there
was a lot of I got amessage from one of our friends, Jen,

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she says, after Biden's train wreckdebate and immediately following that potato headed
kid trying to kill Trump, Iwas as close as I was ever going
to be to vote for him.The only thing he had to do at
that point was just chill for thenext few months, whether it was sincere
or not. If he could havejust been a kinder, gentler, more
pragmatic Trump, he would have absolutelywon me over. I'm sure I'm not

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alone in that, but he justhad to go back to his stock standard
jackass personality. He will never getout of his own way when it comes
to winning over the on the fencevoters, Well said, excellent point.
Well, the world is about tochange. Southwest Airlines says they will be
ending their cattle call open seating andwill actually offer extra leg room seats on

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its airplanes starting some point next year. That's wild. I mean, what
are we going to do without liningup and sneaking glances at everybody's phone to
find out where you are in line. When people were choosing another airline over
Southwest, the airline found in itsown research that the number one reason people

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would choose a different airline was sothat they could have an assigned seat.
Well, and I also wonder whatthat's going to do for the time that
it takes to load a plane.You know, Delta does it. You
know, I forget what the verbiageis, but group five you go to
the back of the plane, andthen they do group four and then group
three and what have you. Sothey kind of load it back to front

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some air exception of first class,with the exception of first class Diamond Jubilee
Pass or whatever that sparkle of mincessdiamonds radar. But uh, you know,
and then some in some airlines.I think we read a few years
ago that one airline was toying withthe idea of loading the window seats first

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right and then in the middle ofthe aisle. I I don't know if
they I just feel like we're allsmart enough people. I hope that we
cannot make this into something that itdoesn't have to be crazy like it's I
feel I know that there are nightmarestories about the cattle call on Southwest.
I think it's probably just based onwhere we are and where we go.

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Southwest is the most common airline forus. I wonder also if it's going
to cut down on fights and consternationon these planes. If you have your
sighting about come on, there's gotto be bigger things in your life.
I hope there's something else going on. I think you're giving the American people

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far too much credit. Maybe Southwestsaid that it expects about a third of
the seats on their Boeing seven thirtysevens will offer extended leg room in line
with that's the in line with thatoffered by industry peers on a narrow body
aircraft. FAA of course needs toapprove cabin layouts. But you're talking about
it's weird to think of it thisway. But I saw a graphic this

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morning on TV that described the legroom offered by different airlines and Spirit in
Frontier and Southwest. They're, youknow, bottom of the barrel when it
comes to the kind of comfort thatyou're going to get on an airplane.
And they're somewhere around like twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine inches for
leg room. I'm not sure whatthey're measuring back of the like the crevice

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of the seat to the back ofthe seat in front of you. Maybe
I don't know exactly how they themath, but said some of the other
airplane our airlines do thirty two thirtyfour inches of legroom. I don't want
to hear crevice of the seat againtoday. That's where your bottom goes.
Thank you, thank you so much. All right, we were very worried

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about what goes on with the bottoms. Well, I do have questions.
Former First Lady Malania Trump has amemoir coming out. I didn't realize that
she didn't have one already. Butit's called, wait for it, Millennia.
They said it's going to be apowerful and inspiring story of a woman
who has carved her own path,overcome adversity, and defined personal excellence.

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It will be her first memoir.Obviously there's been books written about her,
but in this case, this memoirwas announced today by her office. It
didn't give a specific release date.They didn't even say whether or not it
would come out before election Day.Seven wildfires sparked yesterday. The one near
Chico is forcing more people to evacuate. It's already burned nearly sixty five hundred

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acres in less than twenty four hours. It's only three percent contained. Evacuation
orders and warnings are for Butte andTahema counties. They're also talking about one
hundred and seventy different fires that areburning in Alberta, Canada right now.
Oh wow, somewhere hundreds and hundredsof thousands of acres at a time.
So well, did you see thestory about the Facts of Life? Was

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that a show that you were everinto? You take the good, you
take the bad? You take themboth in there. You have the facts
soliety like you Yes with Joe andTouty and Blair, the other ones Natalie
Yes. Mindy Cohne, who playedNatalie, said that they were in the
process of coming up with a reunionshow. Okay, that's uh. That

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ship I think has sailed. Howold are those people now, Mindy Cone
is fifty eight. Yeah, Noone wants to see women. Well,
I don't know. There was thatnew movie that came out with Bette Midler
and the four women and they're allin their golden years. And she said
that if they were in talks,they had hired a rider. The four

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of them got together on a Zoommeeting and they had meetings with Norman Lear,
the creator of the show, aboutit. And then she said one
of the girls went behind our backsto try to make a separate deal for
a spinoff just herself, and devastatedthe rest of us. And she said,
I'm just saying for a forty yearfriendship and sisterhood. There was a
tidal wave of emotion about it.So I remember some sort of fight on

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that show back when it went offthe air the first time. I feel
like it involved Kim Fields, whoplayed two d But I could be getting
that wrong. Not that anyone cares. Not one person cares what happened with
the Facts of Life. Jd Vancegot in trouble. Well. Jd Vance

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is getting in trouble for some commentsthat he made a few years ago.
Zona. Tucker Carlson on Fox Newswas talking about the policymakers in DC Specifically,
the com conversation was about things likemask mandates in schools, and he
was saying, when you have children, when you've interacted with kids regularly,

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I think you realize how many ofthese left policies are really harmful to kids.
And this was the most egregious example, suggesting that people without kids were
the ones who were trying to mandatemasks in schools, even though we all
know that kids, even at thetime, kids were not going to be
affected by COVID as much as theconcern was. So he then launched into

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this the crazy cat lady comments.Effectively, let me turn this up a
little bit so that everybody can hearagain. This was from twenty twenty one.
We're effectively run in this country viathe Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs
by a bunch of childless cat ladieswho are miserable at their own lives and
the choices that they've made, andso they want to make the rest of
the country miserable too. And it'sjust a basic fact. You look,

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Kamala Harris, Pete Boodage, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is
controlled by people without children. Doesn'tmake any sense that we've turned our country
over to people who don't really havea direct stake in it. Those are
three people that don't have kids asopposed to how many other Democrats that do
have kids who are in leadership.And she a Kamala Harris has step kids.

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She was she married into a family. I guess you could say Doug
Emoff already had a couple of kidsand they were teenagers when when they got
married. Pete Bootage was in theprocess of adopting at the time that the
comments were made. AOC's not hadkids or I don't know if she has
a desire to have kids, whatever, But the idea that that's the only
I agree. There is something tobe said about wanting to leave the country

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better, especially if you're talking aboutyour bloodline. But the idea that that's
the only reason you would have astake in the country, is I think
pretty short sighted. Well, andinsinuating that women who don't have kids are
a miserable and be cat ladies orsee he didn't want to have kids is

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unfair and it makes you sound likea moron, because there's many women who
don't have kids that wanted to havekids. I have a lot of friends
that have desperately wanted to have kidsand it hasn't worked out. I have
friends that have paid one hundred thousanddollars to make a baby because they couldn't

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get pregnant. That's very much wantinga child's you know. But not everybody
has that money to spend to makea baby, is there a I think
the age also, I am sonot miserable being a childless woman, a
childless old lady. I am notmiserable even a little bit. And I

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don't. In fact, I lookat the idea of raising a child and
I start to feel miserable. Ithink there's a lot of work. I
think that the comment shows that JadieVance believes the definition of family is with
kids, and that's not yea,that's not my thing. I mean we
can all have different none of ourfamilies look the same, right, And

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that was just kind of a ifhe's talking about it in the general sense
of you know people from without tryingto make rules for the people within you
know, and you not knowing whatthe population is that you're making rules for,
that makes sense. I agree.I'll be the first to say I
never want to tell people what todo with their kids, because it's your

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own it's your own life, it'syour own business, and I don't have
them, so I would never deignto know best in that regard. And
I do believe there's a way tosay that families are the backbones of communities
and strong communities, and when youhave kids, you've got more stock in
the game and making sure your communityis a good one. And I think
you can get that point across withoutbeing mean about it. Jennifer Aniston,

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of course, has come out andsuggested that she, from what I understand,
tried to have kids and never didright or wanted kids and never had
them. So she was upset andsaid something like she's going to pray for
jd Vance's family. Also, isn'tthere a belief that it's a non selfish

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choice. If you don't think thatyou should have kids and you don't have
them, isn't that the right wayto do it, as opposed to I
don't want to, Yeah, becauseI wouldn't want to impose kids on somebody
who doesn't want them, exactly.I think to the point, I think
maybe some of the wrong people arehaving kids. So it's a good thing
I didn't get you a kid foryour birthday. Yeah, you would have

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been like the You would have beenput in that odd position of like,
oh, thangs, I'm so unworthyof kids that I tried to get a
hamster and it killed itself the daybefore I picked it up. It would
be okay. You've been listening toThe Gary and Shannon Show. You can
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