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Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is the Jesse Kelly Show. You are listening to
the Jesse Kelly Show. My name is James T. Harris,
Iami talk show hosts out of Phoenix, Arizona. My pleasure
to be sitting in for Jesse Kelly today. You know,
not to talk about myself, but back in two thousand

(00:32):
and eight, I was brand spanking new the radio, and
I believe I shared the story on the Jesse Kelly
Show before. But I was at that town hall meeting
where John McCain and Sarah Palin was in Waukee Shaw, Wisconsin. Now,
I was one of the few Americans of African descent
in the room, and because I was very good friends

(00:52):
with all of the Republican candidates at the time. You know,
Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Congressman Cincon Brendan, these are all
I was hanging out with them. It was like that
even though I was a weekend talk show holds they
had to most listen to a weekend talk show in Wisconsin,
and it was very conservative. And I knew the chairman

(01:15):
of the Waukee Shaw County GOP, which at the time
was one of the strongest of gops in the country.
So when I went in with my smoking hot wife.
You know, they put us like up close. I had
three or four rows back. So when Senator McCain was
walking around bloviating about global warming, I raised my hand

(01:35):
and I dared him. I begged them to take it
to Barack Obama the Third Debate. You know what, this
is almost the anniversary of that event. Wait a minute,
that would be like sixteen years ago, almost to the day.
And that's when my life changed because even though it
was a little old Waukee Shaw, Wisconsin, I didn't know
that the national media, that the international media was there.

(01:58):
I ended up writing the square of the of the
Drudg Report back when the drug report was conservative. I
had everybody knocking at my door, you know, the New
York Times, the Washington Post, see in Fox News because
a black man dared to to to ask the bag

(02:18):
John McCain to take it to a black man, Barack
who's ain't Obama in the Third Debate. I didn't see
Racey you at the USA today asking me who where,
how do you vote? Why are you asking me? I
am a weekend talk show host and in wisconstaquency. That

(02:39):
just gives you the idea of how many black folks
back then were willing to say, I'm not voting for
Barack Obama. And I was one of I think the
nast six people. Only two of us said, uh, yeah,
I'm voting for McCain. You even had Colon Powell. You know,
I wanted to go with Gram, but I'm thinking about

(03:01):
the Civil rights era. We have come so far. I
have to go with, you know, the black guy, General
Colin Powell. May he rest in peace. I was one
of two, and I had no idea that was gonna
put me in the spotlight. Oh oh, you know you

(03:22):
had the magazines, Essence Magazine. They were all just interjoying
me and they were setting me up. I had no
idea they were setting me up. And then I went
on ceeing in with Don Lemon. Don Limmon started reading
off the death threats. Yeah, I got for real death threats.
Why because I would not support Barack Obama based on

(03:45):
the fact that the man was a communist. I'm not
voting for this, you know what. I'm a Green Bay
Packer fan. That'd be like you're saying, you know, James,
you know the Minnesota Vikings. They have the first black
head coach, Are you gonna vote for No? Why cause
there are the fakings. For God's sake, I'm green and gold.

(04:05):
I'm not purple. Very simple right ideology policies, no no, no,
no no. Back in two thousand and eight, it was
race and if you wanted to if you were a
white person, you wanted to end racism, you voted for
Barack Obama, Hope and change. I didn't buy into that,

(04:32):
not at all. So that became an issue. And when
I went on Don Lemon and there after they're playing
the death threats, he actually said to me, John McCain
over Barack Obama, come on, brother, come on, brother, come
on brother. What oh man? You know my family was watching,

(04:54):
you know CNN, this is be Back when I was naive,
I didn't know what c and M was doue to you.
My daughter I was crying, why are they trying to
kill my daddy? Well, what the hell? And then he
kept reading and stuff off and then I was so upset.
After the interview, I remember I was in the parking
lot of the of the of the news station and
one of my best friends called me. He was on

(05:15):
the other side of the aisle. Politically, he said, yeah,
that was kind of rough. You gotta get yourself together. Though,
you gotta get yourself together. He was the first one
to tell me they're trying to destroy you. I'm like,
why are they trying to destroy me? Who am I? Well?
I didn't realize it at the time, but I was
a black person that was going against the narrative. I
was a runaway slave from the Democrat plantation. They couldn't

(05:37):
allow me to have a voice. And then because of
the high ratings on that show, you had Don Lemon
invite me back on. But this time I was prepared.
Don limit started talking about, well, what republic that's done

(06:01):
for you lately? I'm like, Don, what have the Democrats
done for black folks lately? High unemployment rate, low graduation rate.
Look at the abortionor rate. It's an astronomical They're killing
our babies. What if the Democrats done? Don? Then they
went to commercial, but they weren't finished. They had to

(06:22):
bring you back on. This time. It was our anchor
car named Kira Phillips. She brought me on. We're supposed
to talk about, you know, what was happening with unions
out in Pennsylvania. But it was a trap. They had
some dude named Shelley Winter's on and Shelley Winters was
a black Republican. But see he was voting for Barack
Obama and he called me a sellout. And that's when

(06:44):
I lost it. I just popped. If you want to
see it, you can still see James T. Harris on CNN.
It'll pop up. That was the first walk off of
a live interview. I flicked the earpiece at the camera
and said, no more, see it in. I told him
I'm a man. You don't bleed all over me because

(07:04):
of my political choice. I could vote for who I
want to vote for, and I don't want to vote
for Barack Obama because he's a socialist. And even though
I don't consider John McCain to be a conservative, he's
better than a socialist. Stomped off. Mind. We have come
a long way. Oh that wasn't don't know, feel bad

(07:27):
for me. That's all right because somebody I think it
was a makeup artist over if Fox News saw that,
and then she ran it up to you know, some
of the executives and the next thing you know, I
was doing commentary on Fox News all throughout the two
thousand and eight elections. Oh yeah, but boy, I had

(07:47):
some stripes, man. I took a beating, death threats, had
the you know, the the police in our community. I'm
friends with them. They used to run patrols around my house.
You had to people who were on vacation who were
like in law enforcement around the country when they heard
about what was happening, and that's was so crazy about me.
This spread across the country. At the time, I was

(08:11):
a weeked Talk to Your host. I was also a
professional speaker. I had a gig out in North Carolina.
I went to go through the gig in North Carolina,
and do you know they ever canceled me. They canceled
me because I was supporting John McKinnon. They didn't want
that kind of controversy. I'm black. I was supposed to
be supporting Barack Obama, and there was a white organization

(08:31):
that brought me out there movie what someone on the
board had heard me speak before I knew it. At
the time, I was not a political speaker. So they
convinced them to let me on and I did the
gig and it was a standing ovation. It was crazy.
But then folks saw me on TV and that very
evening started hitting me up on email. With some of
the most vicious comments. I got on the plane and

(08:52):
the black flight attendants came up to me and said,
I hate you. I'm like, ooh what, I hate you
because of what I said on TV, because of my
support from McCain. I said, get in line, sister. I
get to the front of the plane and the pilots
came out and shook my hand. Thank you for what

(09:13):
you said. It was surreal, little me, James D At
one point in time, if you googled my name under
the most hated black man in America, I popped up.

(09:34):
You know, I was pleasing to the I don't get
me wrong. I'm a beautiful man. There's just no doubt
about it. But I was hated. Hated Why because I
did not support Baracussin Obama, who was on the verge
of making his history as the first black president. How

(09:57):
could I be on the wrong side of history. That
was a very intense couple of weeks. I ended up
losing about, you know, fifteen pounds because of stress. It's
a great weight loss program. You know who got me
off the hook, Joe the Plumber. Joe the Plumber got

(10:19):
me off the hook. I saw Joe deportmer. May he
rest in peace. And I said, Joe Deplumber, thank you
for getting me off. So can I explain the whole situation?
We just laughed together because he called el to my
how times have changed. The Chocolate Jesus, or as we
call him here in the Southwest, Coco Jesus, came out

(10:41):
last Friday and berated black people for not supporting Kamala Harris,
what do you think happened? I'll tell you what happened
coming up next. James T. Harris sitting in for The
Jesse Kelly Show, The Jesse Kelly Show. It's still will
to be Dammit the turns downs. James c Erras sitting

(11:05):
in for The Jesse Kelly Show. Talk show hosts out
of Phoenix, Arizona. I could be heard on five fifty
cass KFYI and seven ninety K and st out of Tucson,
and that's Phoenix and tuson my friends to conserve the circus.
I just shared a story. And I know that I've
shared the story on the Jesse Kelly Show before, back
in two thousand and eight when I was first exposed

(11:25):
to the very hostile media. But I wanted you to
know that I was a pioneer, a pioneer who took
the arrows. No, I wasn't the very first one. I
mean you had Thomas Sowell out there and Walter Williams
out there were taking the arrows for years Conservatives. But
I came to the party all naive, not expecting, you know,

(11:48):
we're gonna have a dialogue, We're gonna have a debate. No,
they were not interested in my ideas. They just wanted
to diminish me, to damage me, to personally attack me,
to chew me up as an example, two other black folks.
So you you got to get behind the candidate of choice.
And the reason why I shared that story was to

(12:10):
illustrate how far we have come. There has been a
massive seed change. For years, people have been predicted that
it was going to be you know, Republican at first
is going to be you know, George Bush, she's gonna
you know, I see a Fisher in the black vote. Nope.

(12:30):
Then in twenty sixteen, oh man, it could be, it
could be Trump. I mean, the interest was there, it
was bubbling up. That was the beginning, you know, with
this generational change. But what's going on today is just incredible.
You again are on the verge of history, the first
female president who happens to be a woman of color.

(12:54):
Black folks say she's black, but she's not black. Her
mom was Indian, her father was Indian. Icesh where you
get black from? But I'm not going down that road
right now. They want to say that she's black, okay,
and you can't let go of this historical opportunity. Well
it's slipping away. And black men are the ones who

(13:16):
are really pulling away from from Kamala Harris, the Harris
Walls campaign. They don't they don't see it, they don't
feel it. And I could play you video on top
of video on top of video, I would have to
edit a lot. But you have folks in the black
community that are just not happy to get if you're
on social media, it's amazing, it's overwhelming. It's delightful to

(13:42):
see all of these these members of the community not
going for you know, the lies, not going for the
disinformation that Harris Walls are putting out. And it got
so bad that you had Obama. You have Barak who's
saying Obama the Chocolate Jesus or as we call him

(14:03):
here in the Southwest Coco, Hey, sue, step in and
be right. I'm black for not voting for Kamala.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
We had not yet seen the same kinds of energy
and turnout in all quarts of our neighborhoods.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
And to get musics, we saw I was wrong.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Now I also want to say that that seems to
be more pronounced with the brothers. So if you don't mind,
just for a second, I'm going to speak to y'all
who and say that when you have a choice, that
is this clean went On one hand, you have somebody who.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Grew up like you, knows you.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Went to college with, you, understands the struggles and pain
and joy that.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Comes from those experiences. You said to work harder, do
more and overcome.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Mm hmm. And the sheeves the second highest office in
mont right right right, we we shall over gone. Come
stop it. She's overcome. She's down with the struggle. When
you got someone who understands you, man, come on, man,

(15:50):
kama Ayrs grew up in Canada, Okay, she went to
historical Black College. Okay, what come on? Come on? Come on,
y'all can't go over well, you see, instead of folks
listening to Cocohaesus and then adjusting their behavior. You see,
the chocolate Jesus was talking to people, and they did

(16:11):
not repent, They did not change their mind. As a
matter of fact, they took offence. It's amazing. Nina Turner
over there on CNN summed it up beautifully.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
And being lectured too. Why are black men being belittled
in ways that no other voting group.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Now a lot of love for.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Former President Obama, but for him to single out black
men is wrong. And some of the black men that
I have talked to have their reasons why they want
to vote a different way, and even if some of
us may not like.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
That, we have to respect it.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
So unless President Barack Obama is going to go out
and lecture every other group of men from other identity groups,
my message for Democrats is don't bring it here too
black men, who by and large don't vote much differently
from black women. And as a politician, we should be trying.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
To get all voters to vote.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
And hopefully there are a few good men out there
who do care about the stripping away.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Oh yeah, bro, there's a few good men. But why
can't we get him all the vote?

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
My goodness, I'm almost emotional. Look at all of the
Americans of African descendant. Was like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
not now, not again. I'm telling you there's a change
out there. James T. Harris sitting in for the Jesse
Kelly Show. Is he smarter than everyone who knows? Does

(17:45):
he think so? Yeah? The Jesse Kelly Show. We will come,
We will Lord have mercy. Okay, okay, me to make

(18:06):
this start. James T. Harris sitting in for Chesse Kelly
making stop. Thank you, thank you, Chris. Those were the
congression of women folks you know, would have center next
to a bunch of congressmen. You're forcing them into the
you know, to the we shall overcome civil rights anth
This is terrible, But here's the reality. I mean, we're

(18:31):
on the verge of seeing the highest black account of
black support for a Republicans night since nineteen sixty. That's
going all the way back to Nixon.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
By the way, it's a big secret in my family.
It was a bone of contention between my mom and
my dad. We never really talked about it openly, but
I think my mom voted for Richard Nixon. I remember
as a kid saying something like, Mom, did you vote
for Nixon? I remember that A cool setting over the house.
My father was like, my father was a union man.

(19:07):
He said, I bought a Democrat. I'm a die Democrat.
But I think Mom broke ranks. See see how far
were you? No wonder I was able to do what
I did. It started with my mom voting for Nixon
and having to put up with the silent treatment from
my dad. And they probably told the other folks in
the church too, and Mom, you know, God bless her,

(19:32):
but you know Mom snapped back. You know, she had
to told her life. Mom watches the view. My mom
ninety five years old. She can watch what she wanted
to watch, but she watched the view, not me. But
now we're seeing a seed change. We're seeing a different
generation of Americas of African descent. And you know what
Hispanic folks true too. You can't tell them to the vote,

(19:53):
to get in line to vote. You can't tell them
to get back on the reservation. You can't tell them
to get back on the plantation. Not gonna do what.
And the blacklash against Obama has been fantastic. People remember
those four years under Trump. People remember what it was like,

(20:17):
you know that have to have money in their pocket,
cheap gasoline, affordable food. People. Remember, of course they had
to bring in the whole COVID pandemic to shut it down.
That's how desperate they were. We we didn't know. We
were looking at it now we could put it into context.
That was a deep state. They still tripping it. Well,
we forced the economy down. Installed Biden tried to force

(20:42):
everybody to take you know, the you know the shot
the COVID mandate, making people stand in line six feet apart,
wearing masks, keeping them shut up in their homes, forcing
children to wear masks. I can't tell you how many,
how many, how many stores that got kicked out of,
almost got kicked out off off airplanes. I think I

(21:04):
broke the whole mask mandate on the private plane. No,
I'm not wearing that. It's plight at Tennessee. That's okay, cool.
Look what they did to this man raided mar Lago.
How many indictments, ninety something, two assassination attempts. It took
all of that to break to have black folks break

(21:28):
away from the Democrat. You got people watching that saying,
you know, something is up here. What and something is
very wrong. They're saying, you got Obama going to talk
to black folks about you know, you need to support
the sister. There's a problem because the young black men
don't want to support a woman's shut up. The black
folks are the only demographic in America that was voting

(21:50):
eighty five ninety ninety five percent for one party.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
There's that.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
White folks don't do that, Mexican folks don't do that,
Asian folks don't do that. All the Black folks And
now all of a sudden, you got some bad you know,
ten fifteen, maybe twenty percent, hopefully God willing moving away
and you're losing your mind. You have to Oh, you
had to bring him back. It's absurd and people are

(22:19):
starting to see the absurdity. It's not just that though
you've got Kamala, Harrison is absolutely bleeding men men are
not supporting this woman. Why cause she's a woman. No,

(22:39):
it's because of their stupid policies. Nobody wants to be
a soy boy, did you see these as white men
for Kamala? Good God Almighty, I don't want to be
like that. They're trying to say that Tim Walls and
the second gentleman, Kamala Harrison is husband and all these

(23:01):
are the new sex symbols. Shut up, stop it. Men
are not sexy. Those men are dumpy and dopey. And
now we're hearing about all of the you know, the
charges against the second husband slapping women around? What got
the nanny pregnant and then slapped her around? Alleged leader

(23:22):
calls her miscarriage? What that ain't? No man? Oh did
you hear about the stuff that's happening with Tim Walls?
Oh my gosh. The foreign media has picked it up,
and of course America they'll be the last one to
the table, if at all. But you've got the accusation
out there that Tim Walls was having relations with the

(23:42):
miner what huh? Yeah? And you get you got the
you got individuals out there with the receipts. It hasn't
broken through yet, probably won't. It's not gonna get the
same treatment that President Trump received, you know, with the
whole eging. What's her face, Carol?

Speaker 4 (24:03):
You know women's bodily autonomy.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
I don't know what this is. Who's talking about women's
bodily of was that you, Chris? That wasn't Chris the
computer just started talking about women's bodily autonomy. That was
that planned. I think that was Nina Turner hoping that
men would care for women's bodily autonomy. I guess they're

(24:29):
hoping that men will support Kamala Harris because of the
abortion issue. No, I'm sorry, even that's fraught with hypocrisy.
Oh can you name one law that's against men's bodies?
That's what some uh what was the name of the
woman who were with to call her daddy or call
me daddy? Whatever podcast where Kamala Harris on it? I said, Yeah,

(24:51):
the draft? What about the draft? Y'all trip, dude, what
about the draft? It's amazing. You've got You've got men
who are who are looking at tim Walls that are

(25:16):
looking at Kamala Harris, looking at her policies doing the
football seither football, you know. On Sundays, I think the
Trump campaign has a masterstroke. Commercial after commercial talking about
how Kamala Harris wants to give sex transition surgeries to prisoners.

(25:36):
Kamala Harris wants to give sex transition surgeries to illegal aliens.
And many of it is in her own words, so
they can't say he's lying. Men don't want that. What
they're asking is a bridge too far for many men.

(26:01):
And so you're looking around and you're seeing that. You know,
the men who have testosterone, they don't want to be
with Kamala Harrison. They don't want to be with Tim Walls.
They don't want to be identified with this. And you
look at the men who are supporting Kambla Harris, You're like, oh, oh,
I don't know how. Hey man, it's America. You be you,
but I don't know. I'm not trying to go in

(26:22):
that direction. So you have Kamala Hairs. Now she has
a serious issue with men. She's having a serious issue
across the board. You know what, We are almost two
hours into the Jesse Kelly Show and I haven't mentioned
the pole. Do you notice that? God don't go with poles. Poles?

(26:42):
Are you know? Stop it? Polls are a way to
manipulate you. But having said that, what is it. Trump's
leading in all the battleground states. He's up by one,
he's up by two. It's a horse race. No, it's not. Look,

(27:06):
you guys need to get out and vote. Of course
you have to. You have to. We got to beat
the cheat. Beat the cheat. That's what it's about. It's
not about beating Kamala Harris. It's about beating the cheat.
And right now we're in a great position to do
just that. James T. Harris sitting in for The Jesse

(27:27):
Kelly Show. Miss something. There's a podcast. Get it on
demand wherever podcasts are found. The Jesse Kelly Show. You
are listening to The Jesse Kelly Show. My name's jac Harris.
I am a talk show host out of Phoenix, Arizona.
American woman, American woman. Get away from me, especially if

(27:51):
we're talking about those liberal carings, especially on the college campuses.
Get away from me, American woman. All this feminism, that's
part of the problem feminism. Feminism is on its way out.
The feminists don't really know it yet, but the younger generation,
they're not having it. I was talking to my daughter,

(28:11):
she's in her twenties, very beautiful young woman, graduated, she's
ou Oklahoma, and she says something very startling to me.
In her for her senior year. She says she's disappointed
with her her college career those four years. I'm like,

(28:31):
why why? Daughter? She said, I didn't get my MSR
degree or mrs Degree. I'm like, wait, wait, what is
that you can get a degree in what you wanted
to get a degree? And why why didn't you sign up?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Wait a minute, you're talking about you're not married? Wait
what so who? Woh woah, woah woah. I'm paying all
this money for tuition and you looking for a husband.
We didn't have to go about it this way. There
are much more costs, you know, friendly ways of trying
to find you a husband. We can go to the
church and make some arrangements Mrs degree. She says, she

(29:10):
don't want to go to work. She want to stay
at home and raise some babies. She want to get
married and have babies, raise babies, that's what she said.
I'm like, what in the world, Well, we don't have
to spend all this money to go to university for
you to do that. She's not alone. There's a lot
of girls out there that don't want anything to do

(29:32):
with this, with the feminist mystique. They're actually mad at
their elder sisters for thrusting this garbage on them. Ain't
that something I think it is that gives me hope
for the future. Remember that I could bring home the
bacon and fire it up in the pan and never

(29:53):
let you forget you a mad well. You got a
generation that says, I don't want to bring home the bacon.
You bring home the bacon. I bring the baby. I hope,
Lord Jesus bless my daughter, let that happen, because I
want me some more grand babies. I'm at that stage
right now. Right It's being reflected in our politics as well.

(30:20):
You had Scott Jennings over on CNN. He is the
one long conservative who reeks havoc on that set. They
don't know what to do with this man. This man
is spending straight out facts. I just enjoy watching him
make these liberal heads explode. And he did last week too.
I think this is Friday. He was on there talking
about about the mail vote, how Kamala Harris has lost

(30:42):
the mail vote, and for a good reason.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
The front page of the New York Times this morning,
front page story Democrats struggling with African American voters, particularly
African American man. This gender gap issue is real. It's
a real problem, and you see the Democrats reacting to it,
and I think what they are now, finally in October,
the election coming to realize is that a lot of
men think democrats care more about dudes who want to

(31:07):
become women than dudes who just want to be costplay
or cringey videos. Is going to change it.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
The bet is made, it's made. It's too late, it's
too late. Why do we have so many men getting
out of the military because of DEI diversity, equity inclusion.
Look at all these people, these men's is dressed up
like women. Look at the surgeon general. Look look at this.
Don't nobody want that, Nobody wants to join the army

(31:35):
to be you know, had that thrust upon them. You know,
I'm sorry progressives of progressivesm is not working. It's being
rejected by the next generation again that is a good thing.
Wait what, folks, Oh, they want to see what my No,

(31:56):
I want my I want my daughter to marry a
god fearing man, a conservative, because you can't be god
fearing and be liberal these days. That doesn't work. Those
two don't go together. I'm just saying, well, you know,
she's on my Instagram page if you follow me on Instagram.
James underscore Tea Harris. I'm looking for a husband. I'm

(32:17):
not looking looking looking just but I'm just putting out there.
Not all of these women out here are you know,
there are traditional, traditional women who are looking.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
I bet if I put together a service, I could
probably make a lot of money. Because I am on
the forefront of this change that's happening in our culture.
People want to go back. They don't want to go
back just four years to the good days where you know,
where we had Trump in office and things were popping.
They want to go back to where men are men
and women are women. Yo, I told about daughter. You

(32:56):
go out on a date, your first date. Don't come
up here where old jeans and all this kind of stuff.
You put on a nice dress and nothing all suggestive
of stuff, either something nice and pretty, something that leads
a lot to the imagination. Oh I have, Yes, I have.
Yet we sit down and talk about this. Don't you
bring no soy boy up in here. Don't do it

(33:18):
because I'm gonna have to talk about him and I
have in the past. I'm a uh, yeah, I have
the expectations. Yeah. No, my boys are married to my
oldest ones are they're they're married in the middle of
one those a wild child. He's the one that brought
us some grand babies, so right now, he's the favorite.

(33:39):
I want them all to be favorite, though. You know,
I was thinking about my father just the other day.
My father has gone on. He's with Jesus. He's been
going for about thirty fourteen years. When I was a kid,
six or seven years old, I used to see my
father kneeling at the edge of his bed. Every single night.
He was kneeling by the bed, he was praying. One day,

(34:02):
I got up the nerve to ask him what he
is praying for. He said, I'm praying for you, boy.
I'm praying for you and your sister what you're praying
for us for. I'm praying that you grow up and
you become self sufficient. I'm praying that you grow up
and you have kids on your own and you raised them. Right,
That's what I'm praying for. I didn't even understand that

(34:22):
till years later to last started that having kids, having
kids will force you to your knees. Chris, you're gonna
find out about that your child is too. You've already
been forcing your knees, guys, baby crying throughout the night.
But you gonna see, Chris, was that you had the
little girl? Yeah, yeah, you gonna see you're gonna be praying.

(34:46):
You gonna be praying in grade school. That's how crazy
things are these days. But you know what, we can,
we can still have some hope here because I'm seeing
a shift, a generation shift that is going on. We've
got Speaker Johnson taken on Kirsten Welker on the UH,

(35:10):
the Trump's medical records that's coming up next. James here
is sitting in for Jessic Kelly
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