072324 Lee Habeeb

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Neighbors. Glad to have you here. If you're not my neighbor, won't
you be my neighbor? Like misterRogers used to say, good to have
you. If you want to jumpinto the program anytime, you can do
so. Eight six six, tripleeight fifty four forty nine. What do
you think was the threat they madeto Joe Biden? They get him to
drop out on a dime on Sunday, and they've been putting the pressure on
him, and then suddenly after thesurro gets hit the morning shows, he

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said, okay, I'll tap outit. There's something that I got to
him. And where's Joe Biden been? We'n talk more about that. Why
why no zoom call yesterday? Whyno photographers? Why nothing? You just
kind of disappear. He's even clearedhis entire schedule for the week, even
though the doctor has said you're nowsafe to move about the cabin, but
he's chosen not to. He's holdup there in Delaware still. So we'll

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discuss all of that in due coursein the program, and also dive more
into the Kimberly cheetle debacle that becamea It was most koumbah Yah armed kumba
ya moment. I've seen around acampfire in Washington, d C. In
a long time, Republicans and Democratscalling for the resignation of Kimberly Cheetah,
the head of the Secret Service.So all of us on the table.
But I want to switch gears alittle bit, not too much, but

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go to Lee Habib. He's thecreator and host of Our American Stories,
a daily syndicated radio show podcast Heartin two hundred and fifty markets. I
know we played here on six hundredk cool as well, Lee Habib on
the hotline, Lee, welcome backto the show, sir, how are
you hey? Thanks for having me. Well, I want to get to
the story of jd Vance sort oforiginally brought you on. But man,

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you're kind of a student of history. We're drinking history from a fire hose.
The last couple of days, thelast couple of weeks. Are we
not? My friend? Well,you know it's a little bit of nineteen
sixty eight, right, LBJ tookhimself out long before? Right, this
is a little later. Did hetake himself out? Was he pushed out?
Did they have a better idea?Who knows? There are always little
pockets of history that repeat itself.I also think this is sixty eight in

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terms of the battle inside the DemocratParty. You know, we had traditional
Democrats beyond the John F. KennedyDemocrats, the anti communist Democrats. He
started the Vietnam War. Let's faceit, Kennedy started the Vietnam War.
And then you had the radical progressorsin sixty eight taking over the campuses,
burning the flag. We had WeatherUnderground that's Antifa. We had the Black

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Panthers Party, that's Black Lives Matter. So in this way, it really
looks and feels like sixty eight allover again. And where's the convention Chicago
once again? And who's going totry and turn that place upside down?
The people that feel unrepresented, andthat's the progressive wing of the party.
And remember there was a deal madewhen Biden got that nomination in the beginning

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in two thousand. He basically said, look, I will consolidate the Democrat
Party. I can win. Bernieyou can't win, Elizabeth Warren, you
can't win, but I'll win foryou, and then I'll carry the wing
of the progressive wing of the party. This is a train wreck happening inside
the Democrat Party. And what's reallyremarkable is, like Reagan, that our

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part he has not rallied around Trump. Trump has helped create a new Republican
Party, a party for the forgottenmen and women, for the working class,
for the middle class. This AmericaFirst thing is a big deal.
And it's not Reagan, because Reaganhad different issues to deal with at the
time. But the party has ralliedaround Trump in the same way that the

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party finally after a big fight betweenthose West Coast Conservatives and those East Coast
Republicans. Remember establisher of Republicans versusRonald Reagan, the gold Water crowd from
the West Coast. So the fightswithin our parties have been happening all the
way back from the beginning with theFederalists and the anti federalists and between our

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parties and within our parties. Leehabib, the host and the creator of Our
American Stories, you can hear thathere on six hundred KCl. It's on
two hundred and fifty Different Markets podcastas well, Our American Stories all right.
By the way, speaking of thek the Democrat Party, I just
saw some of the tweets by AlexandriaCassio Cortes out there, and she's not

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on board with the whole thing.She says she's gonna expose at all.
She says, Listen, I've hadconversations. They're not just trying to get
Joe at the ticket, they're tryingto chase Kama out as well. And
she's almost willing to name names.So it's gonna be interesting to see even
how Alexandria Cassio Cortes doesn't play toget along when everybody else seems to be

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joining behind Kamala Harris. It's fascinatingtimes, it is. And let's say
it, we had a fight onthe rights for the last fifteen years,
right, ever since the Tea Partymovement, frankly so, the Republican Party
has been engaged in a real fight. Is it America first? Is it
the Tea Party? Is it oldschool Republican values? Or is it the
establishment of the Republican Party And thesame things happening inside the Democrat Party And

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finally we're getting to see it.You know, the good thing about having
a fight out in the open isthat you're not trying to hide things.
You're trying to just see who prevails. Right, the Democrats having this fight
in private for a very long time. It's about to spill out into the
rest of the country. We're allgoing to get to see it. By
the way, this is good forthe Democrat Party. And I would vastly

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prefer to see a Democrat Party likethe Clinton Democrats or the Kennedy Democrats.
Then this rabble, this rabble thatrepresents a very small sliver of this country,
but that I believe took over oneof our great parties. I think
the progressors took over the Democrat Party, and the Democrat Party has now come
to regret this. Yeah again,the voice of Lee Habib, a creator

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and host of our American Stories.All right, let's switch a gear slightly
go back to the Republican side.Donald Trump last week announced that jd Vance,
Senator from Ohio, the junior Senator, was going to be his running
mate, his pick for VP.And I want to get your take on
this, because he's a fascinating character. I was not that familiar with Lee.

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With JD Vance, I haven't evenwatched Hillbilly Elergy. It's on my
list to watch this weekend. Butgive me your thoughts on this. A
jd Vance pick by Donald j.Trump. Well, I think it's first
important to read. Have everybody read, or you should do your listeners as
service and read through the very shortRepublican platform. It's not filled with gunk.
It's simple, it's it's it's ait's a policy statement about what what

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actually JD. Vance lived through.You see. JD. Van comes from
a part of the country, therust belt, Middletown, Ohio to be
to be very precise, they goteviscerated when we were outsourcing our jobs thanks
to NAFTA and thanks to price stumpingfrom Asian countries. In other words,
and and so Vance is an actualby product of the Trump movement, of

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the make America Great Again movement,of the America First movement. And this
is what's so intriguing about this guy. I urge all of your listeners to
not only watch the movie, butmore importantly read Hillbilly Log the book,
because it's a beautiful book, ifyou don't mind. I wanted to share
just a couple of things from thebook because you'll get a feel for why
this guy by this guy is thevice president. He wrote this, and

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this is what I love about ourparty. Now, the party is not
just about the GDP Our Party isno longer just about global corporate America.
It's about ordinary working Americans and howwe make life better for them and not
just for the profits of American companies. We have to do both. American
companies thrived, but American workers aredestroyed. This is how the progressives win,

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This is how they take over thecountry. He starts in his prologue.
I didn't write this book because I'veaccomplished something extraordinary. He ended up
going to Yale Law School and workingfor Peter Thiel. I wrote this book
because I've achieved something quite ordinary,which doesn't happen to most kids who grew
up like me. And where Igrew up. You see, I grew
up poor in the rust belt,in an Ohio steel town that has been

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hammering jobs and hope for as longas I can remember. And then he
goes on, he goes Whatever talentsI have, I almost slanted all of
them until a handful of loving peoplerescued me. That is the real story
my life. I want people toknow what it feels like to nearly give
up on yourselves and why you mightdo that. And there are people in

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our country right now giving up onthemselves. His mother was a heroin addict.
He grew up in an area wherethe jobs leave, men feel useless.
Men well, they feel purposeless.And what happens opioid addiction. Men
between thirty five and fifty four dyingat record rates, dying at record rates

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in an age cohort where they shouldbe experiencing their greatest income gains and their
greatest security. So, thank goodness, our party dedicated, by the way,
to the forgotten men and women ofthe country. That's who the Republican
platform is dedicated to. Now thatsounds leftists, that sounds democrat, but
it shouldn't be. We have tobe concerned about working families, not just

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entrepreneurs. Moreover, Trump and JD. Evans really care about small businesses,
not the big ones, not thebig ones, because all the job growth
in this country comes from small business, and the regulatory state, with all
of their compliance costs, actually raisesthe costs for small business. So does
high interest rates. And of coursethe big businesses they got bigger during COVID.

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It's the small businesses that shuttered duringCOVID because they didn't have the capital.
They couldn't withstand what happened to them. And in the end, what
do you get. You get biggerand bigger companies, by the way,
bigger and bigger banks, thank you, DoD Frank and fifty percent of community
at small banks since two thousand andnine are now out of business. Where

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was the Republican Party when that washappening. We can't just complain about what
the Democrats do, but we haveto give solutions to working class Americans or
one day they'll be voting for theprogressive wing of the Democrat Party. And
that's how we get to socialism fromthe failure of capitalism and the failure of
the Republican Party to articulate the needsof ordinary working class Americans. The voice

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of Lee habib our American Stories.This is broadcast that he created. You
hear on six hundred kcol podcast aswell. I mean, it's fascinating to
think that this great story of jd. Vance. Of course it's told in
the movie adaptation of his book,directed by Ron Howard, but the media
probably going to downplay this a greatstory. I know you've written a piece

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of Newsweek about it. They're goingto be creating a story about Kamala Harris
You're going to make it sound likeshe's kind of a mix between Mother Teresa
Jesus Christ, Mother Mary Oprah Winfrey. They're going to really create this narrative
of who Kamala Harris is and reallyjust kind of try to downplay jd Vance
and where he came from and whathe fights for. How do you reconcile
the difference between the way both oftheir stories will be told? Well,

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you know, the media always doeswhat the media does, right, but
at least we have platforms now,we have actual stories. Netflix is ruining
the day they ever made this movie? Right? Or Ron Howard? Right?
What happened to I mean Ron Howard'ssaying to himself what happened to jd
Vance? But I have something tosay to Ron Howard? What happened to
you? Jd Vance hasn't changed?What are you going to do? Renounce

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the movie you made about his life? You know? Jd Vance goes on
to work for Peter Field. Hegoes to work for a billionaire and he
has his own private investment fund thathe's running, but he can't live with
it. He comes back to Ohioto try and do small venture capital to
help some of the small businesses growin neighborhoods like the one he grew up
in, and then of course heruns for Senate. So in the end,

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what's going to happen is these twowill meet on a stage in a
debate. And when they meet onthe stage and the debate, the spinning
ends and the storytelling begins. Vancegets to tell his story. Kamala gets
to tell her story and and herparty story and what she did under Joe
Biden. Was she renouncing Was shesaying anything else but the inflation was transitory?
Was she renouncing what prosecutors are doingacross this country freeing folks? No,

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she was part of it. Whenshe was running, she was basically
sending bail money out to these tothese big city prosecutors who aren't weren't doing
anything and weren't putting people in jail. Kamala has a record now. She
was vice president and in her name, she had to live with the policies
of her boss. And so she'sgoing to have to now run from those

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policies or stick to them. We'llsee what happens. It's going to be
a very interesting debate. My goodness. JD. Vance as an Adept.
Debater as I've ever seen, becausehe doesn't get into the nuts and balls.
He tells stories, and what storiesthis man has to tell? And
the guy's got a heart. He'slived it. You can't make it up.

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He's lived it. The audience isgoing to separate out who the real
phony is. You know, KamalaHarris grows up middle class. She's used
her ethnicity in her race all theway and now she's got to get beyond
that. Because Americans are beyond that. They want to know if she's qualified.
They're going to find out. JdVance is Lee Habib. It's always

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pleasure, my friend. Thanks forhopping on the program. His latest column
on JD Vance and the Trump Agendais at newsweek dot com. I'll tweet
that out here in just a coupleof seconds. I'll put it up on
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Right, it's just tough to whodo I do? I call the
cell phone? People don't have landlines. It's polling has been difficult, and
I think you hear both sides sometimessay don't believe the poles. Don't believe
the poles. So more and morethere's people out there that say, don't
believe the poles. But look andsee where people put their money and how
they put their money where their mouththeir mouth is. And according to the

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