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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, Happy Thursday. Welcome to
our show today. Glad you could join us here on
AM nine to fifty KPRC. A few things to talk
about on our program today, Well, let's hope so right.
It would be a much of a talk show without
a few things to talk about. I think we'll start
with this one today. Though. There the we had another
another Biden official, another Biden aid, this one a close

(00:52):
aid of Jill Biden. The first lady called in to
testify in front of Congress and James Cummers committee and
did exactly what Biden's doctor did, took the fifth. Now,
if you're wondering what that sounds like when somebody goes
into a committee and is asked to testify and has

(01:13):
asked specific questions and they take the fifth, how does
that happen? What kind of questions was he pleading the
fifth to and by the way, again, pleading the fifth
is basically a refusal to answer the question under the
grounds that you might incriminate yourself. So it's something you
do to prevent doing one of two things, either lying

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under oath, which is a crime, or telling the truth,
which is not a crime but can get you in
trouble in other ways. Neither one of these people, by
the way, has gotten immunity or has been offered immunity
for their testimony. That might be part of the problem.
But this guy, his name is Anthony Bernhall. Here he

(02:00):
is being asked specific questions about the Biden White House
and refusing to answer the questions, did you.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
Ever advise President Joe Biden to pardon his son Hunter Biden?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
On the Adviceive Council, I respectfully declined to answer the question.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Pursue into my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution?

Speaker 6 (02:17):
Was President Joe Biden fit to exercise the duty of
the duties of the President.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
On the Adviceive Council, I respectfully declined to answer the question.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Did President Joe Biden ever instruct you to lie regarding
his health at any time, including, but not limited in
your testimony to Congress.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Today on the adviceive Counsel, I respectfully decline to answer
the question.

Speaker 7 (02:36):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Took the fifth on everything, every single question. So I
guess this is officially just a waste of time, unless,
of course, this is just the first move in order
to try to gain some sort of cooperation. Rich Lowry
is with the National Review. He was on with Megan

(02:57):
Kelly on her podcast. Here's his thoughts about the testimony
that we've heard so far.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, it's pretty extraordinary.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
My assumption was that they just why or dance around
such questions. I never imagined they'd take the fifth, But
here we are. Usually not a great sign about your
health if your doctor feels compelled to take the fifth.
And those those two questions are incredibly telling, right that
he doesn't feel comfortable answering those. And on the autopen controversy,

(03:26):
you know, Biden does this interview with the New York Times.
Kind of extraordinary that he didn't do an interview with
the New York Times his entire presidency. Donald Trump, who
hates New York Times on the phone with Maggie Haberman
and New York Times journalists all the time, but in
the course of that interview. It was damning right. He
didn't approve individually these people, he approved broad categories. So
I think there's there's a legitimate question about whether those

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pardons are indeed legally valid. Well, but the ultimate play, though,
right is transparency and just knowing the truth. That was
a conspirae against the public interest, so that you just
just want to want to get it out. You know,
I don't think demo press are ever going to fess
up to what they did. What's his name, Andy Basheer,

(04:12):
the governor of Kentucky, was on Meet the Press last weekend.
He wasn't part of this conspiracy, wasn't close to the
White House, asked you know, we're Democrats to secret about this,
and didn't acknowledge the truth soon enough, and he just
he wouldn't say it.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Hey, none of them will say it.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
So obviously you got some journalists who dug in, Jake
Tapper and Alex Thompson and Comber's doing good work here.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
I wonder who else you could call? Could you can
a sitting member of Congress take the fifth if they're
called to testify on something like this, because you would
you would guess that Nancy Pelosi, for example, had meetings
with Biden. Chuck Schumer had meetings with Biden where they

(04:58):
clearly do what his mental state was. Could you call
them to testify now? They seem to me like they
would be willing to lie if you did. Is it
considered a professional courtesy to not call them as witnesses?
I mean, there's so many people that you can calls

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witnesses who had meetings with Biden, who saw how Biden
behaved and how he acted. Now, granted, none of them
had sort of the insider edge that the two that
they've called so far have, you know, one being his
doctor and the other one being his wife's confidant and

(05:38):
top aid. And there are other people that they can
call top Biden aids, cabinet members. You would think that
those are all people who could be called. If they
all start taking the fifth it makes for a pretty
damning testimony when you think about it. You're saying nothing,
but by saying nothing, you are saying a lot.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
So I don't know. Here's the thing again that I
always find frustrating about this story or these kinds of stories,
is just trying to get to the bottom of this
and the feeling that politicians in particular have that they
can stall things, and they can hide things, and that
they don't need to be transparent with us, that they

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will do They just do what they want to do,
knowing that nothing is likely to come from it as
far as any real criticism that hurts them, at least
with their own voters. Nothing ever, happens that causes charges
to be filed, and therefore, without any charges, there is
no punishment. And then we're told, well, we just even

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if nobody gets hurt, nobody gets punished, nobody goes to jail,
we still need to know the truth. Well, that's not
the real world. Well maybe it's the real world now,
but that didn't used to be the real world. In
the real world, if you committed a crime that hurt
other people in any way, shape or form, you probably

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did some jail time for it. You were sentenced, you
were required to make some form of restitution for what
you had done. That never seems to be the case
for politicians. What politicians, what many politicians do. If they
did it in the real world where most of us live,
there'd be a crime and a punishment phase to all this.
But it doesn't seem to ever happen to politicians. They

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seem to be just able to skate away without ever
having to worry about paying a price. All right, quick
little break, We are back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Bairt show here on an AM nine p fifty KPRC.

(08:03):
Let's start this segment off of the National Education Association.
The federal government did something yesterday that rarely well, first
of all, it is very rare that any union is
sanctioned by the federal government, but the National Education Association is,
and it has ever since its existence. And we're going

(08:23):
back to the early nineteen hundreds. Now, the NAA is
not what it was in the early nineteen hundreds by
stretch of the imagination. But the federal government yesterday Trump
basically pulled that national charter from the na And there
are plenty of people who think that it's high time
that they did. I mean, there's no way the federal

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government should be sanctioning the National Education Association because the
NAA is an ultra liberal biased organization and they of
all the things that they do and work on, the
education of your child is pretty far down the list.
And the first thing that they're concerned about in educating

(09:05):
your child is not educating your child, but indoctrinating your child.
Everything else in their charter pretty much these days, involves
extreme left positioning on a whole variety of different issues.
Here's one of the co founders of Moms for Liberty
talking about this.

Speaker 8 (09:22):
The National Education Association is the only union in the
United States of America that has a federal charter. They've
had that privilege since nineteen oh six, and we are
very grateful to Congressman Harris for taking this stand today
and filing this legislation. There is no reason that a
teachers' union that is embracing such radical ideologies and pushing

(09:43):
them into our classrooms should have any access to federal
support from the federal government.

Speaker 9 (09:50):
Yeah, and this push comes on the heels for reporting
on this year's National Education Association meeting, where the union
reportedly approved These are the bullet points that they wanted
to achieve. They want to defend democracy against President Trump's
embrace of fascism, oppose ICE, student leader kidnappings, support students

(10:11):
organizing against ICE, and they also say that they're supporting
the No Kings protest. So that's what they're saying publicly,
that's what their priorities are. Publicly. I see nothing in
there about reading in math, And if you want to
do that, that's fine, But shouldn't you then run for
office as opposed to masquerrating education as advocacy.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
You know, I need to remind the American people that
only one third of American fourth graders are reading proficiently
in our country right now. And you can see why
when you look at I mean, this is the teaching profession,
this is their annual conference. They come together, the largest
teachers union. They don't vote on anything that has to
do with education, and they haven't for quite some time.
Moms for They're really launched in twenty twenty one. We've

(10:52):
been following them closely since then, and then years prior
they have voted to defund the police.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
They have vote.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
You know, the only time I've seen them vote on
curriculum or something that had to do with education is
when they voted to decolonize the curriculum. And so this
isn't a one time thing. This isn't just this year
they've decided to become radical. They've been doing this for
a very long time. Parents are saying no more. We
are not going to allow this in the American classrooms anymore.
We want our children to learn to read and to write,

(11:19):
and to do math and learn science and become good
civic citizens of this United States. And that is not
going to happen as long as these radical teachers are
the ones in the classroom. And we can't have the
federal government supporting this type of behavior.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
And this is just another reason why control of education
needs to return to the States. There's nothing you're going
to do to de radicalize California or New York or
some of the other northern states. They're going to continue
down their path. And I guess that's what their people

(11:56):
have decided they want. So if that's what you want,
by guys, go ahead and have it. But here in Texas,
we should control what we are children are learning. We've
already voted for school choice, you know, we should be
We should be able to look at the curriculum that
our schools are using. They should be here's that word again,

(12:16):
transparent about what that curriculum is and what they're what
they're teaching our children. That is something that we demand.
Floridians are going to demand the same thing. People in
Mississippi and Alabama, in Georgia for the most part, are
going to demand the same thing. Like California. You know,
I give up on California. Be as radical as you
want to be California, just don't impact me. And if

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any good conservative that still exists, and there are still
some in a place like California, then come on to Texas.
That's fine as long as as long as you're not
just moving here because it's cheaper, right, Yeah, you need
to embrace the Texas lifestyle if you want to be here.
All right, this, none of this is going to stop.
I said this this morning. I'm gonna say this again.

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I really believe that California and New York are two
places they're going to have to hit rock bottom. They're
gonna have to hit the bottom of the barrel before
things start to turn around and get better. So there's
the part of me that thinks that electing a communist
mayor might be just what the doctor ordered, That might

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be just enough to get people to pay attention and
to and to finally have an uprising over all this stuff.
Right now, what the progressive left is doing, the ao
c's of the world who's from New York, the Bertie
Sanders of the world. They're taking this this candidate of theirs,

(13:47):
and they had a breakfast with other Democrats with him
in d C yesterday. They're trying to normalize him. They're
trying to make himself he's a great guy. They're trying
to make him out as a as a great guy.
He's not a communeanist. Come on, man, he's not a communist.
So here's some of that left love over Mondami, the

(14:10):
New York City socialist slash communist, whatever you want to
call him a mayoral candidate. Here's the left love and
all over him, and some reaction to that. When people
get to know him as a person, when people get
to know us as real people, they what they find
kind of surprises them.

Speaker 10 (14:27):
He's bringing anybody who can see the reality of the
success of his candidacy and his campaign together.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
He's just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
You know that money cannot buy that. This guy is
not a communist, he's not a socialist. He's an advocate
for a small sa capitalism.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
And President Trump had some fun with Zorron's bagels and Bolsheviks.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Look he's a communist.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't think country is ready for a communist, but
we're gonna see.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
And I don't think that Rais he's over yet either.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
You do have a couple of people running against It'll
be an interesting thing.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Things are coming out about him which aren't good.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
And the Democrats didn't really have a big red parade
when they brought him in.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
They kind of snuck him through the back door.

Speaker 10 (15:16):
Well, well they and they changed the location right because
Aishah Hasni was ready to go. We were going to
take her live on newsroom and then they're like, wait,
we got to get She's in a different location, so
she had to go.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
She got there.

Speaker 10 (15:26):
And the other thing that they did is that those
members that you saw came out the front door that
AOC and mom Donnie left out the back door.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Right.

Speaker 10 (15:34):
He doesn't want to take any questions. Debbie no, I
can't remember who was Was it Debbie Dingle or maybe
he was Preyell Paul who said the people just seem
to get to know him better and then they're going
to like him better. Okay, Well, here's the thing. His
meeting with business leaders Wall Street guys did not go
well and that's where he's pledged to stop saying globalize
the Intifada. It wasn't because it was like at the

(15:55):
meeting with the Jewish community, and that meeting didn't go
well for me either, So I'm not buying it. The
more you get to know him, the more you actually
like him. I think that the more you get to
know him, the more you are may be terrified.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, but but again I think I think New York
City needs to be scared straight. New York and California,
you're gonna have to scare him straight. Go ahead, but
put the put this guy in, let him open up
his his city run grocery stores, and let him defund
the police and all the other things that these you know,

(16:28):
far left progressive stand for. And and see how long
it takes for anybody with half a brain to get
the hell out of Dodge. Oh there is also the possibility.
And I saw this young woman and and and and
we'll discuss in more detail here in the second. But
this young woman is a former AOC staunch supporter. She

(16:52):
has changed her tune. Her name is Lucy Biggers. She
says she no longer supports AOC or any other socialist
candidate here they are talking to her about that change.

Speaker 11 (17:04):
I think, like a lot of people, you know, you
grow up, I have two kids, I have a mortgage,
and you start to see all these taxes that'll do it, well,
that'll do it right there, we get stop there, but
you start to see all these taxes taken out of
your paycheck, and you're going, where is this going?

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Right?

Speaker 11 (17:17):
And York already has one hundred and ten billion dollar
budget and half a fourth graders can't even read. So
why are we throwing more money in a system that
doesn't work? And I think young people love feel good politics.
They see poverty, they see any inequality, and they want
to fix it. And unfortunately socialism, we know everywhere that
it's tried, it does not work.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
It ends in.

Speaker 11 (17:35):
Disaster, It hurts working class people. And so I felt
the need to really speak out from sort of a
moderate rational perspective and just say, hey, slow down.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
The road to hell.

Speaker 11 (17:45):
U is paid with good intentions and this is not it.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
So what's the reaction to you? Could you switched? I mean,
I know, well you're going to get that.

Speaker 11 (17:52):
Hey I am a turncoat.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I will own it.

Speaker 11 (17:56):
But I think for me, the positive has so far
outweigh the negative. I get a lot of private messages
saying I've had the same evolution, thank you so much,
I'm afraid to speak out. So that's what really powers me.
I think the people that don't agree maybe they're not
ready to hear it, or they're coming from a different place,
and you can't make everybody happy.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Well, here's my question. Because she's like thirty five years old.
Right when she was in her twenty she was a
big AOC supporter. When I was in my twenties, is
when I made my evolution to a more conservative individual?
Are we just is this part of the side effect
you think of arrested development with young people that are

(18:36):
kind of immature and mom and dad pay for everything,
and mom and dad make sure nothing bad happens to them.
So it's taking them longer and longer to get to
a point where there are married, have kids, have a job,
have bills, and they start thinking about the things that
normal people start thinking about how much something costs, you know,

(18:58):
how much money's being taken it out in taxes, how
their money is being wasted that I think that's something
we used to figure out a lot sooner than kids today.
Figure out maybe that's why we have so many progressives
in their in their twenties. All right, back with more
in a moment, Jimmy Vertt Show here in AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, let's talk in this segment about

(19:37):
a couple of things with our guests from this morning's
morning program on kt R H.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
You have.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
I've been scratching my head for years over MSNBC, especially
the last couple of years. They have not done anything
to move anywhere near the middle. They are as progressive,
far left as you can get, and seemingly very happy
to stay there, even though I don't believe for a
second how's that network making any money. I guess they're

(20:09):
spinning it off. But to me, that makes it even
more difficult to stay alive when you have such a
fringe audience, and they have a very small fringe audience.
We talked to Curtis how earlier this morning with the
Media Research Center about this. Here's my conversation with Curtis. Yeah, well,
that's how the media has been with President Trump, especially
if you're talking about MSNBC. Before we get to the

(20:30):
comments on lawful violence against ice, here's an example This
is from day before yesterday on MSNBC when they were
talking about Alligator Alcatraz.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
That is traditionally called a concentration camp or an internment camp.

Speaker 11 (20:47):
And I wonder about your specificity use in using that language.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well as sure as hell, I'm not going to use
what they're calling it. And they want to ethnically cleanse
this country of certain types of immigrants, because when I
was in that interminent camp in the Everglades, I saw
nothing but Latino men and Haitian men.

Speaker 10 (21:07):
And if that wasn't deranged enough, the media is doling
out tips on how illegals can.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Stand their ground against masked masked i S. Agents.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
When you're masked like that and people don't know who
you are, someone might exercise their lawful right of self
defense to protect themselves, thinking they're being kidnapped.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Yeah, right, thinking they're being kidnapped. Churs Hop joins this
media research center. I'm always surprised. I'm sure I've asked
you this a million times before, Curtis. I'm going to
ask you again just because I throw up my hands
in frustration at all of this stuff. It is your
job as a network to deliver for your shareholders, it

(21:45):
is your job to try to generate advertising revenue. How
in the world does this continue at MSNBC. How are
they still on the air?

Speaker 7 (21:55):
Well, first of all, good morning Jimmy. You know you
do want you know what happened to the who, what, where, when, why?
And how? You know, like basic tenets of like journalism,
how did we get there? But you know, I feel
like they made have some freedom now because comcasts will

(22:15):
you know, they're in the process of spinning them off,
and they're in their own company, so they don't have
a cable and internet provider having to be worried about
blowback back, So they could just say all these things
and they know that the fact checkers are not going
to fact check them, are esteem uh suppose to nonpartisan
fact checkers. M's rather do pants on fire about you know,

(22:38):
Babylon B headlines than actually go into things about this
because there was no evidence provided in those sound bites
to make to.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Back up their claims.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Wrote that. But if they're being spun off as their
own company, they have to make their own way financially,
don't they? How do they do that?

Speaker 7 (22:55):
Right? Well, that is the key there. They actually think
maybe now that we're free. We can actually do this. Now,
you still do have to kind of hay the bills
and more people cutting the cord. You know, that's just
going to exasperate things right now for them. I'm just
really interested to see it's it's bull strategy. Con Let's
see how it plays out for them. Uh, That's how

(23:18):
I feel about a lot of things I see nowadays.
They actually think doubling down on this kind of incendiary
rhetoric is going to do the job. But I don't
think people are going to buy it other than maybe
the boomer fringe audience.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
All right, Curtis hops. So at this point, is it
safe to say that traditional journalism is dead? We're no
longer interested in traditional journalism. It is. You're going to
get an opinion of one way or the other no
matter what you watch, and it's going to be up
to me, up to us to try to figure out,
you know, our belief system compared to what the media

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is telling us.

Speaker 7 (23:54):
Yeah, no, that's exactly what I think.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
I mean.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
I always like to go back to the late two
thousands Glenn back adage of do your own homework just
because you hear something from an opinion host, you might
want to go see if you can go find that
information yourself and back that up. And even at NewsBusters,
we look at a variety of sources every day, even
things that we disagree with. You know, I think that's
really where we have to be now. But I think

(24:19):
thanks to the Internet, that's why I always say it's
a net positive that we have all the choices out
there and information at our fingertips, whereas before, you know,
you'd have to scour up the money to either go
library or buy your own set of encyclopedias.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
The downside to that, Curtis Houck, is that we're dealing
with the twenty four seven news cycle where there's very
little ability to escape from it.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
I mean that is true.

Speaker 7 (24:43):
I mean I think that's why you want to seek
out us. Try to find a few sources that won't
make you angry. I mean, you know what you guys
do here, new traffic and weather every ten minutes, I mean,
just the basic facts on television. My friends at news Nation,
I think do a pretty good job. Yes they have
fredocuolm over there, but you know, it's the one network

(25:04):
I can probably turn on without wanting to yell at
the tv H for my wife's sanitymore so. So, I
think that's something that we need in the news business
have to think about because you know, a lot of
folks have real you know, I mean not that we
don't have real jobs, but Americans that actually are out
there every day and don't have the time like we
do to be spending diving headfirst into this.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
I'd like to I'd like to get your opinion on
on the topic. Here a quick opinion. If you don't
mind Curtis, how can the Curtis Is with Media Research Center?
If you were President Trump, I'm gonna put you in
his position here for a second. And you've got all
this stuff swirling back and forth on the Jeffrey Epstein story,
and I think a lot of folks, including myself, are
trying to figure out the right way to cover this story.

(25:49):
You want, you want transparency, but you think somewhere in
your heart of hearts that there's a reason why we're
not learning everything there is to learn about the Jeffrey
Epstein story. If you're the president, do you at this
point do you just try to make it go away
by ignoring it? How do you handle it?

Speaker 7 (26:05):
How do you mean I mean, that's such a tough
call because now they're suddenly interested in it. Jack Kapper
the other day was like, my goodness, I mean, there
were women whose lives were ruined by this. We should
have maybe done more than this coverage earlier, but when
he was still alive and you know, the twenty ten's
and you're like, yeah, no, really, dude, just like Joe Biden,

(26:27):
we just missed the story the first time around. They're
only doing this not because they care, but they do
this because they see a division, and I honestly want
to just move on from this. The president has been
on a roll the AI news. The Pittsburgh summit with
my home state Senator Dave McCormick was a rousing success
that is not getting any attention this week because they're

(26:49):
now talking about this. So if I were the president,
you try to find a way out of this to
move on, kind of punt it, and you know, I
trust Dan Bongino.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
And cat there you go. I think that's what well said,
Thank you, sir as always. Curtis Alk Media Research Center, Yep,
Well maybe he will punt it. Punt it to who
Pam BONDI keeps it punning it back. Did I see
another story today about there's some story circulating on Facebook

(27:23):
about there's a three minute gap in in some sort
of a d o J tape that they have with
Jeffrey Epstein. I have no idea what that one's all about.
This this story, you know, the problem that the president has,
the problem I think that we all have with this
story is that it has a life of its own.

(27:45):
These things do have a life of its own. And
as long as the media is interested in this story,
they will continue to talk about it. And as long
as they continue to talk about it, you know, different
angles will come up on the discussion and it'll just
keep going and going and going and going. That's how
these things always seem to work, right. So we're not

(28:08):
out of the woods unfortunately on this story just yet.
We're just out of the woods for this story today,
Back with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett Show. You're
an AM nine fifty KPRC, so I know, ah, but

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you care about your Coca Cola. If you're a Coca
A Pepsi fan, generally you're one or the other, right,
But this could be true not just of coke and
of pepsi. But this could begin a trend with other
brands of SODA's. President Trump evidently leaking yesterday or made
a claim yesterday that Coca Cola has agreed to use

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real keen sugar in the coke they produce here in
the United States. I don't know if if you ever
have Mexican coke. Mexican coke is made with real cane sugar.
European Coca Cola is made with real cane sugar. It's
just us here in the United States that get the
high fructose corn syrup. Now, I've heard a lot of

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stories about high fruitose corn syrup and how bad it
supposedly is for you. But I did some reading up
on this and it would appear, at least according to
most doctors, that high fruitose corn syrup is no better
or worse for you than cane sugar. It's your Your
body thinks of it as exactly the same thing. Too

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much of it is not good, no matter whether you're
eating real cane sugar or you're eating a high fruitose
corn syrup. It doesn't really matter to your body. Too
much of that will make you a beese and lead
liver problems and other issues as a result of that,
there's no such thing as making something like a soda healthy.
Soa SODA's not healthy. It's not something we drink because

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we think it's healthy. We just try to if we're
going to drink something like that, you just wanted to
be enjoyable, right, Well, I guess I don't know, because
I've never known a world of Coca Cola that wasn't
made with high fruitose corn syrup, or I wasn't drinking
a diet version or no sugar version of it. So

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I guess I really don't know or remember if I
did ever have coke with real cane sugar. The taste, well,
President Trump says it tastes so much better made with
sugar than it does made with high frucitose corn syrup.
So evidently he has discussed this with Coca Cola and
says that Coca Cola said, Okay, we'll make it with

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with you know, with the cane sugar here in the
United States. Now they asked the media of course asked
Coca about it, and Coca Cola kind of went, well, yeah,
well here's the thing we're going to I'll paraphrase, because

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it's too complicated otherwise they basically hedged around with the
answer on this. So I don't think what Coca Cola
is considering doing is removing the high fructose corn syrup
Coca Cola version. I think what they would consider doing
instead is adding a real cane sugar option, because after all,

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they're producing it for other countries, so they can just
produce it for here as well. It would be more
expensive than the high frucitose corn syrup because real cane
sugar is more expensive, but at least they would give
us the option if you prefer the real cane sugar version,
it would give you the option of buying that, which
I would appreciate. And of course, you know who's who's

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already going uhh, We just agree we think the high
fruitose corn surface is the way to go. Yeah, the
corn growers, because the corn growers, and one of the
reasons why it's cheaper is the corn growers get a
subsidy in order to grow the corn for the high
fructose corn syrup. And again, medically speaking, no real difference,

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it's just a matter of personal taste. Now, Coke has
done this before, They've done a variety of different versions.
They've had the new coke and the old coke, and
the oritual formula coke, and you know, cherry coke and
all these other products. So why not, I mean, that
might keep everybody happy, right, why not have a version
of both? Here's okay, here's here's the real sugar version

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versus the high fructose corn serve version. And by the way,
the real cane sugar that's sold in Mexico. Those coming
glass bottles? Do you think that I really do believe
that the container that the beverages in can have an
impact on taste. I don't mind. So does out of

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the can I do not like them out of plastic bottles,
so I would love a real glass bottle option. So
just sell the Mexican coke care in the United States,
and I think everybody's going to be happy. Oh here's
another thing I wanted to pass along from this morning's
program for our senior citizens, of which I'm dangerously close

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to becoming one. For those of you who get Social
Security checks. I might have done a reminder about this
a few months ago, but I feel like I need
to do one again September thirtieth, which will be here
before you know it. This is you know we're well
into July. Now, in fact, we're halfway through July, so
you got August September. September, thirtieth last day of September.

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Effective on that date, Social Security will no longer be
sending out paper checks. They're going to go one hundred
electronic payments, which means if you have a senior in
your life, or you are a senior who's getting a
paper check, you have to convert over to electronic payments
between now and the end of September, which is going

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to require some people who are not technically savvy to
at least become minimally technically savvy in order to be
able to get their checks. It really is, It really
is not that hard to do. Direct deposit is a
beautiful thing. And I'm old enough to remember when when
our company made the switch over between give you a

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paper check and electronic payments, and how I used to be.
I think it was a control thing with me. I
used to be like, well, i'd much really get the
paper check. I'd like I'd like to have the paper check.
I'd like to I like to take the check to
the bank. What a pain in the butt that was?
What the hell was I thinking. Direct deposit is simple,
it's easy. Online banking is simple and it's easy. I

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love it.

Speaker 9 (34:59):
You know.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
I can sit there with my smartphone and I can
transfer money, and I can pay bills, and I can
keep tabs on my account to make sure that you know,
nobody's tapped into my account. It's a it's a much
simpler way to do things. The other way is just
hard and encumbersome. So for for anybody out there, if
you have ever seen you in your life, this is

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getting paper checks. Reminded of this and just try to
tell here. Mom, I'll show you how to set up here.
We'll put the banking app. We'll get you a smartphone.
We'll put the bank instead of the flip phone. We'll
put the banking app on your phone. Look what all
the things you can do. I mean, my eighty some
odd year old mother in law finally amid the switch over.

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She loves it. Once you make the switch, once you
realize how much easier it is, overall, it's great. All right, listen,
you'all have a great day. Thank you for listening, and
I will see you tomorrow morning Burton early five am
over our news radio seven forty KTRH. We are back
here at four on em nine fifty KTRC

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