Rod and Greg Show - Spkr of Ut House talks about Ut Supreme Court Striking Down Initiative Ammendment; Kamal Harris' Potty Mouth

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I know that's asking a lot right for the American
people to wake up and realized Kamala Harris is not
fit to be president of the United States. What is
it going to take, Greg.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I think it's I think it's it. I think it
has taken. I really think what we're getting. I heard
the ones the analogy if the media is the sun,
we conservatives and those that make you know the comment
on this, we're the moon that reflects the media's son.
The media is doing its level best to tell us
that she's the greatest thing ever. Yeah, I don't believe
that the American people are buying it. I think they

(00:30):
can keep pushing out every positive narrative they want. They
can keep sending us polls with cross tabs that aren't
I think that are excluding certain demographics or making wrong assumptions.
But I'm telling you, I've seen it in the polymarkets.
They've since they hate. She enjoyed a bump after the debate.
But I don't think people are buying what she's selling. Rod,
I really don't. I you cannot watch this. You can't

(00:52):
watch an interview with a journalist who, before she even
did the interview, admitted she's all in for this candidate.
She doesn't care if she never says another word. She
never wants to see Donald Trump in there. That's the
so called journalist that's interviewing her. And it was still
a bomb. It was still an absolute disgrace of an interview.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It wasn't real, wouldn't you think, though, Greg? I mean
people within the Democratic Party. Let me ask you, this
is their hate for Donald Trump so deep that they
can't see they have a candidate who simply is not
fit for office. Do they not care?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I think that whoever's running it currently, because it certainly
isn't Joe Biden, they're okay with whoever that is continuing
the job. And she's she is just a filler. They
have this deep state. It is odd. There's some statistics
out there that Grunfeld or g he's Glenn Greenfeld. He
used to be considered He used to be considered a
liberal journalist. I think I don't think he's changed, But

(01:49):
there used to be a systemic or an inherent suspicion
of government. It's you know, it's departments, it's law enforcement,
all of that. The Democrats are all in the polls
that show at the left of center trust trust government completely.
It's bizarre. And so whoever the deep state is, whatever
the establishment is that's running this country currently, they are

(02:11):
completely comfortable with that versus someone like Donald Trump that
would absolutely shake up an end that, you know, the
administrative or bureaucratic state that's running.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So yeah, I think, well, should we tell people who
we are? I mean, we got off on this tangent
so quickly.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, you put a nickel and you got a bucksworth
of speech right there.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yes, it show on Utah's Talk radio one oh five
nine K and R as live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We have got a lot to get to today. The
speaker of the Utah House, the esteemed like Schuls, we'll
join us here in a little bit talk about the ruling.
We'll talk more about the Kamala interview a little bit
later on Greg, I'd love to get the listener's opinion

(02:51):
on this, because you say, and I agree with you,
that we have the smartest listeners in the world. What
they think about politicians who cuss? Yeah, very so, it's
the state.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
The headline in the local paper was the sweariest Yeah,
she's is Kamala Harris. Yeah, I like to call it
the swear bears, the square bears. Not on the public record,
but maybe I might be guilty on occasion.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, I.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Drop a square bear.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I've never heard you drop us.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I think my wife and children would concur Yeah, really.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
So.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
But we're going to talk to her because I think
she's she's pointing out that this is finding itself in
the official and the public discourse more often than it
used to be. And and it's an interesting discussion I
think that we're going to have, and it would be
good to hear from our audience. Is just smart, Rod.
They they've lived life, They've got different perspectives. We get
every perspective out there and insight that we that you

(03:45):
wouldn't hear anywhere else but this show. So I want
to hear from that.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
So we've got a lot to get to today. Eight
eight eight five seven o eight zero one zero triple
eight five seven o eight zero one zero on your
cell phone dial pound two fifty and say hey, Rod,
if you want to join Greg and I on the
show this afternoon. Oh by the way, we do need
to mention as well. Abby mentioned it in her newscast
a moment ago. Coming up, I think it is. On Friday,
May twenty third, Billy Joel along with Sting are going

(04:11):
to be in concert of the RIGHTSEECKLD Stadium.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
That is when I'm going to try and get I
don't go to a ton of concerts, but that's when
I'm going to try.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
And guess what we have starting on Monday.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, what do I care?

Speaker 5 (04:20):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm not eligible Friday's tickets, So who cares?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
We care about our listeners, right, we want to reward
our listeners. Yeah, it is true. Now, starting on Monday,
here's what we're going to do. We're going to put
a very short montage of Billy Joel and Sting hits together. Okay,
then you have to call in and identify which songs
they are a good some work. Yeah, so you don't
have to work at this, but we'll do that starting

(04:44):
on Monday. Should be a lot of fun. Yep, yep.
All right, let's talk about Kamala I want. I don't
know how much of the audience has heard this before
her sit down interview with Stephanie Rule at MSNBC yesterday.
She was in Pennsylvania announcing her economic form whatever it is.
You start laughing because the details still haven't come out.

(05:04):
But she said one thing that even the Democrats have
to cringe at what she said here.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
We just need to move past the failed policies that
we have proven don't work.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
We just need to move fast, the failed policies that
don't work. Greg I would failed.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Policy's on the clock. I think she's talking about her.
I mean, yeah, she talks about the cause of groceries.
Everything else, it's it's her fault.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, yeah, she just I mean I couldn't believe it
that again. You just got to hear this one more
time to believe it.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
We just need to move past the failed policies that
we have proven don't work.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, she has proven it.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, they have proven it. We can't do anything about her.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Day one was three and a half years ago. However long,
however many days that was. Yeah, I've got the inflation numbers.
I can go by state by state. Now I did
some research. You know, you've seen what your inflation has
cost you. If you're a Michigan twenty seven thousand, six hundred,
in Nevada thirty three thousand, seven hundred, if you're in
Arizona thirty three thousand, eight hundred, Pennsylvania twenty four thousand,

(06:15):
four hundred. Anyway, it's just those are big numbers. And
then if you listen to her, she'll say, well, the
Trump plan is going to cause his terrorists are going
to cost families two thousand dollars more. For first off,
she's wrong.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Second, she doesn't take into account anything that the damage
that she's done while she's been you know, Vice president.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, let's getting into a few things that Kamala said
last night on that really deep, insightful, thoughtful interview she
did with Stephanie Rule on MSNBC last night. First of all,
apparently Kamma has greg I love this. She's found a
new word.

Speaker 7 (06:52):
And assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars
and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing,
and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal
government can create for local and state governments to actually
engage in planning in a holistic manner that includes prioritizing
affordable housing.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
She's discovered the word holistic and she really liked it.
She used it three times within twenty six seconds.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Now, once you get a word, you get a ten
cent word like that you gotta keep around with it.
And I don't know what she means by holistic. When
all you're talking about is government owned, run and bought
paid for housing. It sounds very what Soviet esque.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
It gets even worse. She's then asked about immigration. That's
what she said.

Speaker 8 (07:39):
There are people there that are stressed, that feel that
they're at capacity. Communities around the country that have legal
immigration many have said we're at capacity, and many feel
like the government has said to them, well, adapt, sit down,
be quiet.

Speaker 9 (07:55):
This is how it is.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
What would Harris administration do for those communities who've taken
in many, many legal immigrants but are at capacity.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Well, first of all, we do have a broken immigration
system and it needs to be fixed. And if we
take a step back, months ago, some of the most
conservative members of the United States Congress came together with
others proposed a border security bill that would have put
fifteen hundred new border agents on the border to help
those hard working border agents who are there right now

(08:26):
working around the clock. Would to put more money into
stemming the flow of fentanyl.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Which is killing.

Speaker 7 (08:33):
Americans around our country and devastating communities.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Would to put.

Speaker 7 (08:37):
More resources into our ability to prosecute transnational criminal organizations,
which in my career I've prosecuted. Donald Trump got word
of the bill, realized it was going to fix a
problem he wanted to run on, and told him to
kill the bill, don't.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Put it up for a vote.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
He killed a bill that would have actually been a
solution because he wants to run on a problem instead
of fixing a problem.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
And every analysis I've seen great on that bill that
she's always bringing up would do nothing to solve the
problem of immigration down on the southern border. It would
do absolutely legalized.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, it would have legalized like a one point eight
million dollar or one point eight million person border crossing
before you would impose the so called shutdowns. So you're
now just letting one point eight million illegals through without pause.
You've formalized it, you've memorialized. That's not better. Every lawsuit
in that bill, I never hear this brought up. Every

(09:30):
lawsuit that anyone would have tried to bring up with
the legality of that or the constitutionality constitutionality of that
the bill had in its details. All those lawsuits would
have to be heard in the jurisdiction of the DC Court.
The most liberal court in the land, and so can
You would absolutely not want to vote for that bill.
It was not some silver bullet, as she describes, It's

(09:51):
not even an attempt to solve the problem. It gave
money to those NGOs to transport more people. It didn't
It didn't finish the wall. It delayed the construction of it. Anyway,
it's a it's a trojan horse, and she knows it,
and everyone around her knows it because they don't want
that border stop. They want it.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's the democratic talking point. She does not know how
to get off those talking points. Even Greg. Here's what's
so fascinating about the interview last night, even the New
York Times. The New York Times is taking her to
pieces today for that interview last night. That line basically
realizes she's revealed nothing. She still hasn't and what are

(10:27):
we now, forty days away from the election.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well yeah, and you know, I'm looking at the fact
checking that's gone on, just even from the transcript of
the interview, because they didn't air at all. It's it's
point after point that she misrepresents. I mean, she says
that there just know this, folks, there were no manufacturing
jobs lost. Under the administration of Donald Trump, they grew.
They grew up to four hundred thousand new jobs, manufacturing

(10:50):
jobs when he was here, and when it came down
because of COVID, it was still net net higher and
by way of manufacturing jobs in America than when he
arrived and was on o'clock. It's a patent lie what
she is saying, that we've lost manufacturing jobs with Trump
during his turn, during his administration. She just continues in
that narrative, never gives any details of what she wants

(11:12):
to do and what she describes that Trump did. You
can actually verify it's not true at all.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's pretty amazing. All right, more to come here on
the Rod and Gregg Show on this wonderful Thursday afternoon
on Utah's Talk Radio one O five nine K and
R ED. All right, welcome back to the Rod and
Greg Show with you on this Thursday. A lot of
exciting things going on. If you haven't heard as of yet.
Billy Joel in Sting Together in Comfort concert coming up
on Friday, May twenty third up at Rice ecl Stadium,

(11:39):
and we'll start giving you giving you a chance to
win some tickets.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's just torture to tell us about this so earliest.
You know what we're sitting here in September. You tell
me about a May concert? I want I thought this
thing was going to be like in a couple months.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
The tickets go on sale here, I think, I think Friday.
I know, I really want to go to that concert.
But why do I got to wait till May? Well,
that's because they're coming in us wins.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
We hope there is a place got a great concert. Yeah,
you don't even know. I think they're planning. I think
it's a little optimistic planning a concert that far ahead.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Will be just fine. Thank you. All right, welcome back
to the show here on Utah's Talk Radio one oh
five to nine anrs.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
SO joining us on the program right now. There is
a State Supreme Court decision regarding a proposed amendment D,
a constitutional amendment looking to address the legislature's ability to
amend or address initials as they always have for the
last one hundred years, the State Supreme Court created a
new interpretation of the initiative law of which the legislature

(12:37):
wanted the people to be able to review and make
a decision themselves. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that that
will not it's on the ballot, but it will modiply
will the people will not be heard, you will not
be able to vote on it, or if you vote
on it, your vote will not be counted. So that's
my framing of the issue as I see it. Joining
us as Speaker Mike Schultz from Utah State House to

(12:59):
share his thoughts on the Supreme Court's action to nullify
Amendment D that'll be on the ballot in November. Speaker Schultz,
Welcome to the program.

Speaker 10 (13:07):
Sir, Hey, Rod, and Greg, thank you thanks for having me.
I appreciate the opportunity to be here with you today
to have this discussion with your listeners.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
So, I guess since I described kind of the dilemma
and what the Supreme Court did, what's next? What do
you do now you've got you've got you've got a
different situation on your hands, and I certainly did when
I served in the legislature. What does the legislature do
in reaction to this decision?

Speaker 10 (13:32):
Yeah? Great, great question. I'll tell you if this is
one of the most troubling things I think facing the
state of Utah moving forward. I always used to say
the number one thing facing the state of Utah is
the federal government and all the rules and regulations coming
at us, especially from this Biden Harris administration, and that
certainly is a problem. Is something that's going to face Utah.

(13:54):
And whether it's you know, let's hope Harris doesn't win
this November, but if she does, that's going to be
a significant problem. If Trump wins, it won't be as
big a problem. But I truly believe that this is
one of the biggest issues facing our state moving forward.
This is a playbook out of the Less playbook and

(14:14):
it's playing out right here in Utah. It's partly how
they flipped California to purple. It's partly how they flipped
Arizona to purple. And they have said this nationally, and
they've said this outside of the state of Utah. This
is how they're going to flip Utah purple. And so
the legislature, and I think the State of Utah is
in the fight of their lives right now to get

(14:37):
this changed so that the legislature can keep making changes
reasonable changes to the initiatives that are passed. And I
just want to be clear, like the legislature believes the
initiatives and referendums are an important part of the process
and an important check and balance in the process, and
so we don't want to do anything to make that harder.

(14:57):
We're not doing anything to make that harder.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
How have.

Speaker 10 (15:01):
The unfortunate part of the initiatives is that special interest
groups spend a lot of money coming too the state
of Utah and other states that to pass things that
they can't get passed in legislatures across the country. And
they put a shiny star out there's something that they
want everybody to vote on that it's hard to say, No,

(15:23):
I'm in this state. I won't say where or whatever,
but I saw an advertisement vote for Amendment A for
affordable childcare. Well, who doesn't want affordable childcare? The problem
is is all the language that's buried that nobody talks about.
That then puts the measures in place that are counter

(15:44):
counter what Utah believes and pushes a left wing agenda.
And that's what we're nervous of here in the state
of Utah. And the Supreme Court took that ability out
of the voter's hands yesterday for the voters to make
the decision on whether or not they want that in
the state of.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Utah because shows from what I understand is that the
ruling from the Supreme Court, and please correct me if
I'm wrong here is narrowly focused on changes to the
form of government or something along those lines. Yeah, do
you worry that that definition could be expanded to other
areas in the future.

Speaker 10 (16:21):
Well, you look at it, and you know, again you ask,
you can ask twenty different attorneys and get fifteen different
answers on them, answer, yeah, this, and and the only
one thing they'll all agree on is they don't know.
And that is one of the things that's made Utah
so successful is the certainty, right, having certainty around the

(16:42):
laws and around the things that they passed. You know,
that takes all that out out of the out of
the door. We just don't know, and that's part of
the problem. You know, you make an argument that every
law that gets passed alters or reforms government, right, and
so the Supreme Court did not define what that means.

(17:02):
And so that that's what's so troublesome to the legislature
and should be to the people moving forward. You know,
you look at you know, we would have recreational marijuana.
Greg I'm sure you've talked about this today, you know,
and it would have been passed under the disguise of
medical marijuana, and you know that's certainly not what the

(17:23):
people voted for. But the legislature worked to pass what
the people voted for, and they took out the recreational parts,
and so we've lost that ability. Pretty much everybody agrees.
Most everybody agrees that this Supreme Court would have stopped
the legislature from making those necessary changes to the medical
marijuana initiative that was passed. And so that's what's troublesome

(17:47):
with the state moving forward. It is writing the left
playbook and how they're going to try to turn Utah purple.
I know it's going to happen, and we're not even
going to know about it.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
So, Speakers, we're speaking with Speaker Shultz the Utah House
of Representatives about amendm D and the state Supreme Court's
decision to nullify that question to the voters. And it
not count whether you vote for it or not. It's
not going to account in this election. So what that means,
Speaker Schultz, is and the reason you moved quickly is
this ruling is only ninety days old or something just

(18:19):
happened recently. You were trying to get this question in
front of the voters in this November election that what
the Supreme Court's done now means that as soon as
you'd be able to even address this issue on its
own would be the twenty sixth November election. Do you
expect there to be some of these Soros left wing
initiatives on that twenty sixth ballot, you know, in the

(18:42):
midst of maybe trying to address this and restore what
the legislative branch has always been able to do with laws,
be it passed by a legislative branch or by initiative.
Do you think there'll be other initiatives we're going to
have to fight or that that someone's going to have
to fight in twenty twenty.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Six Yes, already know there's another other initiatives coming out.
There's initiatives come out to do with the caucus convention system.
We know that's happening right now that they're public about that.
There's initiatives coming that. You know I heard the other day.
I mean what you what Utah did as far as uh,
you know, keeping our energy plants, our coal power plants open,

(19:20):
uh and free from the federal intrusion. This last legislative session,
we led the nation in that. Well, now there's other
states looking to do it, and the environmental groups are
freaking out over this, and so they're looking at running
an initiative here in the Utah to say vote for
clean air and in that process, and you know who
doesn't want cleaner We all want clean air here here
in Utah. But what happens is buried in the language

(19:42):
shuts our energy production down in the state of Utah,
leaving us vulnerable like California, to not have enough energy
and so we end up with brownouts and blackouts like
other states have experience. We don't want that to happen
in Utah. That's what's happening. That's what's coming to Utah.
That will those those time initiatives will be on the
ballot for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
All right, Well, Mike, scary scenario you just painted for us,
but we appreciate your time. We know lawmakers will keep
up the five. So thanks for joining us this afternoon.

Speaker 10 (20:11):
Mike, Thanks for having me, and have a good afternoon
you guys.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
All right, thank you on our newsmaker line Speaker of
the Utah House Mike Scholz, talking about this ruling coming
out of the Supreme Court.

Speaker 10 (20:21):
Greg.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
After the break, I want to come back with a
question for you because I've been thinking about this and
going what does this mean for the future of the
Utah Supreme Court? Yes, thank you? About all right, we'll
talk about that coming up right here on the Rod
and Greg Show and Utah's Talk Radio one oh five
nine K and our ass. It is the Rotten Greg
Show with you on this Thursday afternoon right here on
Utah's Talk Radio one O five nine K and our ass.

(20:45):
We'll be talking more about the Kamala Harris interview last night.
We'll have a guest coming up here in a little
bit who say it was more of a campaign rally
than it was an interview last night. I think he
spot on a little bit later on in the show tonight.
This could be kind of fun with many of our
very bright lit steargs that we have out there. Are
you offended when politicians swear? There's an article in a
British newspaper that claims that Kamala Harris could be the

(21:08):
sweariest president we've ever had. We'll talk about that coming
up here on the Rotting Greg Show. Now, we were
just talking Greg with the Speaker of the Utah House,
Mike Schultz, concerned about the ruling on the Amendment D,
which this makes no sense to me. You can vote
on it, or you can agree or disagree with it,
but whatever you do won't count. That doesn't make all

(21:28):
a lot. Yeah, I got to count.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
The issue at hand about an initiative and how the
people's voice will be heard by way of an initiative vote.
The details of that or how it would be implemented.
The Supreme Court doesn't want that to be a ballot
question or a const soucial moment brought before the people
for a vote. Yeah, okay, And I'm just going to
say here, if I could just try to encapsulate this

(21:52):
issue as simply as I can, it is that as
a speaker should says the legislature, and I did respects
the initiative process. Okay, But there are easter eggs inside
these bills. They always are they and they're there on purpose,
by the way. They're there to do something that's not advertised,
and it's usually draconian. If you look at the sponsors

(22:13):
that are bringing them out, just like he pointed out
with the medical marijuana just like Medicaid expansion, these bills
had easter eggs in them. And if if you don't
allow for the legislature to amend those those parts out,
then two things happen. One, you're gonna get a lot

(22:33):
of bad laws that would never pass a duly elected
legislative body. And two we're gonna get more of them.
Because it's a great system. No one will ever darken
the door of the legislative of the capital. Again, if
you can just carpet bomb this state with enough money
misrepresenting what they're voting for. That initiative is the verbatim
law that has to that has to be put on

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the books as whoever was sponsoring the initiative wrote it.
Without regard to it, whether it coordinates with other clauses
or other sections of code, it just becomes law untouchable.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Now come on, Yeah, Well, here's my question, Greg, do
we have a liberal Supreme Court in this state? It
looks like do we have a bunch of liberals sitting
on the Utah Supreme Court? And my question is how
often when they're nominated, I mean, the governor nominates them right,
and lawmakers to the Senate, just the Senate. How much
scrutiny are they under?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
They well, they have been given more, even lately, they
have been given more a bit. And I asked this question.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
We've liberal Supreme court in this state?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
We do, because well, I'll give you the example how
I believe that's the case. But to the point of
the scrutiny that's given in this UH the Senate confirmation hearing,
I asked one of the senators that question about any
recent UH Supreme Court justice state Supreme Court justices, and
they answer the way they know. Those senators want to
hear the answer, and then they they rule otherwise they

(23:54):
rule otherwise. Here's the thing. Some people are saying, well,
that's just a strict interpretation of the of the constitution.
How they got to this initiative law. But then they
look over here at the trigger law on our Once
Dowd was passed and we could have states, we had
a trigger law ready to go in and say to Utah,
and they somehow construed a right to privacy and for
abortion in our state constitution that was crafted when abortion

(24:17):
was not legal, and so they went outside the lines
and their interpretation to stop the abortion law that Utah
had passed after Dodd and then they have a then
they call it a strict interpretation on this initiative law.
They're all over the place. What I think happens is
with every judge they reverse engineered their opinion and whatever
the logic they used to get to the to explain it.

(24:39):
They already know what they want to do, and then
they just have to find the rationale to explain how
they got there. It's one then the other.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
That's what I'm saying. I think we may have a
liberal Supreme Court in this state and they aren't been
watched close enough by lawmakers. Maybe it's now time to
really call them on their car.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Ask yourself, what governor? Because we haven't had a democratic
governor for how long? So why in the world do
we we have liberal justices?

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, we've had a Republican governor since what state became
a state?

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, Bangerter took over and we have a look.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Back, I look back, all right? More coming up with
Rodd and Greg here on Utah's Talk Radio one O
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this one?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
I called that actually doesn't sound as well that Greg
just rolls off the.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, that's the way it should be. It just rolls
off the time.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
When are we getting hats and hoodies? And when are
we the swag we needed? We needed swag for our listeners.
They demand it, rod they demand everybody wants a hat,
everybody wants to sweat sweatshirt, the weather's changing.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Sure's okay? Shall we shall we share with our great
listeners what you and I think was probably the most
telling comment that Kamala Harris made last night.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yes, I I I withheld from ranting about this specific
question answer because I was convinced we had it on audio,
but we didn't. So we got it during the break.
You've got it, cute up, ready to go? This shows Well.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
We'll play it. Let's play it and we'll talk about
Here's Kamala Harris with on MSNBC last night.

Speaker 8 (26:15):
Madame Vice President, you just laid out your economic vision
for the future now, but still there are lots of
Americans who don't see themselves in your plans. For those
who say these policies aren't for me, what do you
say to them?

Speaker 7 (26:32):
Well, if you are hardworking, if you have the dreams
and the ambitions and the aspirations of what I believe
you do, you're in my plan. You know, I have
to tell you, I really.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Love and am so.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
Energized by what I know to be the spirit and
character of the American people. We have fiction, we have aspirations,
we have dreams, we can see what's possible. We have
an incredible work ethic.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
That wasn't the bite we were looking.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
But she is you know, this is not Yes, yet
another case where she loves wine. She loves wine. She
loves it. Before a nice interview, she thought she had
a very she did have a very you know, softball
journalist so called journalists that wasn't gonna give her a
hard time. But she was caught off card. She didn't
know what to say. Show she's spoken riddles and everybody's
involved in her plan no matter what. But I think

(27:32):
when we come, I don't know. Do we have time?

Speaker 1 (27:34):
We have good time? Well we can explain it. Yeah.
She was asked about everything she wants to do. The
child tax credit, the you know, the capital gains tax.
She's had a giant tax increase for them. She was asked,
how are you going to pay for it? Right, Well,
we just have to raise the capital gains tax, the
corporate taxes. We just have to. Well what if you

(27:55):
an't have control of the Senate, Well, we just have
to There's nothing we do. We just have to raid
that rate.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
And when and when the journalist asks when this, when this,
m SB whatever. M s NBC reporter asks her and says, well,
you have to do that through a bill and it
has to pass. And if you don't have to control
the Senate, I don't, and it doesn't pass, then what
do you do? She looks at her blankly and then
she just says, well, it has to pass by really well,

(28:22):
it's not going to ya West Virginia. Justice is winning
in West Virginia. Tester is losing the Democrat in Montana.
If they lose those two seats and we hold Serve
everywhere else, the Republicans have to control of the Senate.
That that has a high likelihood of happening. She has
no plan B she had. She hasn't even thought of it.

(28:43):
I mean, she has to pass.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
We just have to pass.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
We just have to pass.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
There's nothing you can do. We just have to pass it.
It's apparently understand economics. Well we all know that, right,
and for some reason, apparently does understand the legislative process.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
She us she is. She's by watching that and if
you're just an honest observer, she really thinks you can
get a tax increased through without the Senate. That's what
she thinks.

Speaker 10 (29:09):
She is.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
We're just going to have to do it.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
We're just gonna have to I don't.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Again you can say.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I just don't think this is selling with the American people.
I don't. I think that every cross tab if you
get down. They don't trust her with Nobody trust her
for the economy, Howard, how could she be close in
this race? She's not.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well, remember the failed policies of the past.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Wait a minute, we can we cannot do the failed
policies that past.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
We've shown, don't wol Kamala our number two on his way.
Absolutely so wonderful to be with our wonderful lists as
we are again today here on the Rod and Greg
Show in Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine k
and R s, I'm rod.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
ARKT, I'm citizen Greg Hughes.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Boy, we've got a lot to talk about. Of course,
everybody is talking about the interview that Kamala did, if
you want to call it an interview that Kamala did
with Stephanie Rule on MSNBC, who just a couple of
days ago, I think was over the weekend on Bill
Marshaw basically went after a reporter with the New York Times,
a columnist in the New York Times, saying, we don't

(30:11):
have to ask tough questions because she's not Trump. She
you know Trump. We know where Donald Trump stands. That's
all we need to know. We don't have to ask
her any tough questions. Yet she did a softball interview
last night.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
It was and we knew, we predicted that they would
be just deflecting everything about why Trump is so bad
and why is he so evil? I'll tell you why.
But right before we went to the break, and I
just want to just give me forty eight seconds, this
is the part that to me was most disturbing, when,
in the most softball of ways, she says, Okay, you've
got all these things you want to hand out or
spend her however she framed it. But what if you

(30:47):
can't get that corporate tax that you think you can get,
how do you do it? Then let's listen to this
really quickly.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
Housing before giving that extra money for a first home.
If you can't raise corporate taxes, or if GP takes
control of the Senate, where do you get the money
to do that? Do you still go forward those plans
and borrow?

Speaker 7 (31:08):
Well, but we're gonna have to raise corporate taxes, and
we're gonna have to raise We're going to have to
make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their
fair share.

Speaker 10 (31:21):
That's just it.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
It's about paying their fair share. I am not mad
at anyone for achieving success, but everyone should pay their
fair share.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
And it is not right.

Speaker 7 (31:31):
That the teachers and the firefighters that I meet every
day across our country are paying a higher tax then
the richest people in our country, more than everyone.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
We're just gonna have.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
All we're saying is it's a math equation. Madame and
Vice President. You don't if you don't have the votes
in the Senate to do what you want to do,
what then well we just have to We just have to. Well,
that's not much of a plan.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
That's like, you know, throwing coins in a well and
hoping that your wish comes true.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
We just have to that's all we can do. We
just have to. Well, joining us on our Newsmaker line
to talk more about this is Bob Maystro's Bob is
a messaging and communication strategy. Just joining us on the
Newsmaker line, Bob, how are you welcome to the Rod
and Greg Show. Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 9 (32:17):
Thank you, gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me.

Speaker 10 (32:19):
Bobby.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
Yeah, you know, she's got a speakret plan for the
corporate taxes. Did you guys notice in her plan that
she just introduced this speech in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 10 (32:27):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (32:28):
She wants us to be part of the Global Minimum
Tax Coalition, you know, all the countries that want to
force high taxes across the board. And that's that's part
of her plan.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
She came out for it, mister Maistros. Here's the problem, though,
is she the softball interviewer? She said, what if you
don't have the Senate and you're not on and you're
unable to pass that legislation? And she just looked at
her like she didn't understand the question and said, well,
we just have to anyway, Well, how can this plan,
even if she wants to sign up with this global tax,

(33:01):
how can she do this if she doesn't have the
votes in Congress to get it done.

Speaker 9 (33:06):
Yeah, well those aren't softballs. Those were beach balls, first
of all. Yeah, And second of all, you know there's
a uniparty in Washington. We've all known this for years.
This gentleman you're speaking to was a hardcore Reagan height
was the chief writer at the reign campaign in nineteen
eighty four. And I left the Republican Party because it's

(33:28):
a uniparty. There is no Republican Party anymore. She will
find she will find a way, even if she just
has to borrow money to do it. And she's gonna
pull the Biden playbook. Hey, you know, I'm gonna just
I've got a pen in the phone, and I'm going
to you know, forgive. I'm gonna forgive, and I'm gonna

(33:49):
spend money I don't have, and they're gonna get I'm
gonna get sued all the way up to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court's gonna slap it down. I'm gonna find
another way to do it. There is in the swamp
where there is a will and there's no way. It
still happens.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
That is so true. And that and that played out
with these trying to forgive these student loans. They just
keeps saying they're going to do it. The Supreme Court
says no, and then they just come out of a
different direction and then they get told no again.

Speaker 9 (34:16):
She will, she will find a way to she will
find a way to increase you know, government, get it bigger,
get it better. And and Congress uh the idea that
that I need this voter. That But what what happened
in uh Over over the course of the Biden administration,
They had that super omnious bill that the Senate Republicans

(34:36):
pushed through that that tie the hands of the new Congress,
and they got to push through before the new Congress
got in, and so they were trapped in in trillions
of dollars of spending. And they did the same thing
with the Chip bill. They got un they got the
uniparty to pass that trillion you know, billions of dollars,

(34:57):
hundreds of billions of dollars to a favorite industry that
by the way, there was a lot more of that
in our economics plan yesterday that didn't get asked about.
They will find, they will peel off special interests. And
by the way that even these guys make a show
of voting against it when there's inflation reduction MAC money
going to their districts. These republic and congressmen are right

(35:20):
there bragging about how federal money is getting spent in
their districts. It's a uniparty in Washington, as I said,
where there's a will and there's no way it will
still get spent.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
So I'm looking at the poles. I actually think that
Trump is trending the right way. I think he's appealing
to the people that aren't just a self identified right
of center voters. I think that I think things are
looking good. So I want him to attack this uni party.
I want him to bring this change. What they really
talked about in their interview last night was really they
attacked Trump and with falsehoods. I mean throughout the whole thing.

(35:53):
My question, did any of the falsehoods, and there's plenty
of them, and I have my some that get right
under my skin. Are there any that jumped out to you, Bob,
that that you they were just so egregious that they
were accusing Trump of that is just not even close
to the truth.

Speaker 9 (36:10):
Well, so the one that the one that gets in
my cross is the Trump killed the border bill. It
was not a border security bill, right, yes, a lot
of more security bill. It's the exact opposite. You're letting
thousands of aliens in every single day, and on top

(36:31):
of that, there are exemptions and waiverers, and they can
fly that these guys in too. That's what Trump was
talking about this afternoon. If you heard them, there was
no restriction in that bill. You can put fifteen hundred
agents there. But if they're being flown over their heads,
what difference does it make? Number one? Number two, that

(36:52):
bill was stopped in the Senate? Who stopped it? All
the Republicans vote won our friend Murkowski up in a
life who barely was a Uni Party champion, right, yes,
but sixth Democratic senators voted to stop it.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Well that's actually really how.

Speaker 9 (37:09):
Was that, Donald Trump? Not one Republican voted for it
in the House. Donald with Trump controls all of the
of the two hundred and eighteen Republican votes, I don't
think so. Come on, it wasn't a border Security Bill.
It was the exact opposite, and Donald Trump didn't stop it,
if you want to put it the right way, Six

(37:30):
Democratic senators stopped it.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
Talk about that, yeah, Madam.

Speaker 9 (37:34):
Wi Vice president.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Right, yeah, yeah, Bob, one more question before we let
you go. Greg and I are going to be talking
about this, hopefully with the author of this article on
the show tomorrow. But he called it the Caddy Shack election,
which I absolutely loved because he describes the Caddy Shack
as here is Donald Trump showing up as the Rodney
Dangerfield character in that movie and disrupting the country club.

(37:57):
I think that is so so spot on.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Talk about it on the other side.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah, yeah, let me ask you, Bob, I mean, is
that a fair description of the election, the Caddy Shack election?

Speaker 9 (38:10):
You know though? Yeah, sure, it's I mean, Donald Trump's
Donald Trump is hilarious. He's a showman, he's an entertainer, right, yeah,
But I think it's I think it's it's much more
serious than that, right. I don't think this is a
comedy at all. I think this is this is an
extremely serious election. These folks are going to try to
keep it close enough, close enough that they can pull

(38:34):
some Shenanigans at the end. And if you've read my stuff,
you know I'm a strong believer in that this was
the grand election. But the election was the Grand Heights,
you know, the great election heights of twenty twenty. And
they want to do it again. They're cooking up ways
we haven't even thought of right to do it again.
This is this is the future of our country at stake.

(38:55):
And I've been in you know, you say that every election,
and I've even written, no, you can't say that about
every election. You can say it about this election. You
know that Taddy Stack, you know, he's more than Rodney Dangerfield.
He's you know, he's the terminator. He's to come in
here and and he's not. He's going to be taking
names this time. Right, He got wolved time by his

(39:17):
own people. He elected, he brought put in an office.
He knows where they are now, and he knows who
they are now. And you know, this is this is
dead serious stuff.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
I agree.

Speaker 9 (39:29):
I like it. I think it's a good analogy, but
I don't want to trivialize it.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
If we didn't if we didn't laugh, we would cry.
That's all though. I had to find some humor I'm
with you all the way, Bob, I really am. I
agree with you. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
And and you know that, I'll tell you what the
next thing is going to happen is now Kamala is
going to start saying, well, I did interviews. I did interviews,
and now you know there's a pattern this woman that
there were there. I wrote down ten questions this woman
could have asked her as follow up questions as fact check.
And here's the number one. I want to know. We're
are employment records for McDonald's. What McDonald's did you work at?

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Right?

Speaker 9 (40:05):
Which one? You said? I was saying in you know,
listen Washington, So what months did you work there?

Speaker 4 (40:09):
And when?

Speaker 9 (40:09):
And who's embity coworkers right now? Now that sounds that
sounds trivial, But the point is she's trying to say
she's every woman. She's she's no woman, right, She's she's
nowhere woman. She she came out of nowhere with no credentials,
no skills, no anything. Then the big question everybody has
to ask is not where you better off for the

(40:31):
four years ago? But we have a six trillion dollar government,
seven trillion dollar government. Now we have five thousand plus
nuclear missiles. You want to put that enterprise and those
missiles in this woman's hands.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Bob, Bob Gray chatting, we see, thank you for your time,
all right, take care all right. That's Bob Matros. He
is a columns talking about the interview that Kamala did
last night on MSN. Getting an awful lot of talk
today and we'll talk more about it when we come back.

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Speaker 2 (42:14):
No, no, I'm jealous.

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No, I just I hate It's just you know, you
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Speaker 11 (42:27):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Stupid? Seriously, I don't want to go to everything. Some
of these are really they have to talk to you.
They'd like to talk to me. Hey, I did school
years K through twelve, or actually first grade through twelve.
That's what.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
The time. Yeah, yeah, all right, you're talking about Kamala first.
Scott Jennings, who is a conservative Republican commentator on CNN
Greg and I'm liking this guy more and more. I mean,
he he shoots straight and it takes a lot of
guts to do that.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Well, he's outgunned and outnumbered, and this guy, he's and
that's why I like him too.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Yeah. Well, here's what he said on CNN last night
following the Kumelent interview.

Speaker 12 (43:08):
I think today was a mess for Harris. I mean,
Joe Biden went on the view today and said he
delegated all sorts of authority to her on domestic policy.
We know that the Biden administration is not popular on
domestic and economic policy.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
She gave a speech.

Speaker 12 (43:20):
Today saying we've got to move past the policies that
people think have failed. Well, people think the last four
years are a failure. And from what I can tell
from this interview tonight, which was really a home game,
I mean, going on with this particular interviewer was like
effectively interviewing with her campaign's press secretary. She had nothing,
nothing new to say on the economy beyond this ridiculous pablem.
You want to talk about aspirations and dreams. They're crushed

(43:43):
in this country because of inflation and these kinds of interviews,
and the day that she had today are not going.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
To solve it.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
I think not.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
I mean Scott was right on she did nothing today
or yesterday, Greg And today she shows up with Selensky
at the White Notes. Guess who meets with him on Friday,
Donald Trump. That's going to be interesting.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yeah. I think he owes him a visit because you
know he's been out there banging the boards for the
Harris campaign. He should probably talk with him. And as
other European leaders have done being smart about it.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
You know you have a do you have that audio
bite with Mark Cuman? I huge up. Okay, let's get
that plugged in because I want I want you here,
Mark Cuban. Now, Mark Cuban claims what in this bite
that the real legacy media in this country is not
the alphabet letters, but it is Fox News. And he's
expressing that opinion, saying, so when you talk about legacy media,

(44:36):
the one most people are watching is Fox News.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
And just to frame it, he's on squawk Box, He's
on a CNBC and the interviewer this guy Joe. He's saying, look,
she wasn't popular at all as a vice president. All
of a sudden she becomes a nomineem boom She's the
greatest thing since sliced bread. It looks like the media
is the one that's anointed her that way. And Mark
Cuban's answer is just so detached from reality. Let's have

(45:00):
a listen.

Speaker 13 (45:01):
Would have the left and the people that need a
candidate would have embraced anyone at that point, And you know,
ABC it was one hundred percent positive coverage of her,
ninety two percent negative of Trump. So Elon says, what
changed the media coverage?

Speaker 14 (45:16):
Okay, first, what's the most watched news channel? Who are
the most watched and viewed and listened to podcasts? Who
are the most watched and listened to?

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Fox? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (45:26):
Yeah, right, I mean it's not close, right, The number
one shows are all Fox the number one podcast.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
So right, even in spite of that, she's been able to.

Speaker 14 (45:35):
Not in spite of that, well, in spite of that, yeah,
meaning the mainstream stream media is not who you think
it is. The mainstream media truly leaves right.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Maybe that's why it's only tied then.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Well, so let me just tell you this recent poll
put out of the Party Affiliation of all journalists. Uh,
they've been doing this poll since nineteen seventy one. Two
all three point four percent of all journalists identified themselves
right of center or republican three point four percent. Mark

(46:09):
Cuban is trying to say that because Fox has the
highest ratings of any other network, that's the mainstream media,
because they got big. No, that would tell you that
the rest of them, all other stations are so wrong
and so leftist that no one takes them seriously. And
he doesn't see that. He thinks that the ratings are

(46:30):
You can't even get a mainstream advertiser to advertise on Fox.
Have you ever watch what they advertise on Fox. It's
like crememorative coins.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Yea, you know, they ignore him completely? Yeah, absolutely right.
All right, Well, I will play this when we come back,
because I'll get some other audio on on people to hear.
We'll talk about how the so called mainstream media treated
the Harris interview last night and they're reporting on it today.
That's coming up right here on the Rod and Greg
Show and Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine, K

(46:57):
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Speaker 2 (47:01):
Along here this Thursday on the Rod and Greg Show,
Talk Radio one oh five nine. Can Ter s I'm
citizen Greg Hughes.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
And I'm Rod Arquette. Now, how did the media last
night respond to Kamala Harris and that sit down interview
with Stephanie Rule.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
It was scathing. I'm sure there they were shredding her.
They just had no time for her. Boys, you can't
you can't get away from this media.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
They're watchdogs here here, they are watching over Kamala.

Speaker 11 (47:30):
I'm going to turn out to the raceful the White
House and Kamala Harris laid out what she called her
pragmatic approach for the economy, the top issue for voters.
While Donald Trump attack Harris on the trail and Ukraine's president.

Speaker 15 (47:42):
Well, both campaigns know that the economy is the top
priority for voters, and the candidates have been hammering each
other on the issue. Now Donald Trump has had the advantage,
but polls do show that Kamala Harris is closing the
gap and now she is detailing her plan, hoping to
further aroad Trump's lead.

Speaker 16 (47:57):
It must win Pennsylvania. The Vice president out lining her
plan to create what she calls an opportunity economy, taking
what she calls a pragmatic approach. Harris well aware that
voters favor Donald Trump on the economy, though polls show
she's gaining ground.

Speaker 10 (48:12):
Vice President Harris speaking out in her.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
First high profile one on.

Speaker 11 (48:16):
One interview since becoming the Democratic nominee while former President
Trump took aim at his rivals campaign from the battleground
state of North Carolina.

Speaker 17 (48:24):
We have just learned that tomorrow President Vice President Harris
is going to return to the border, her first trip
there in more than three years, an issue that remains
of vulnerability for her. Another the economy, though polls do
show Harris's cutting into Trump's advantage on that issue. On Wednesday,
looking to put more meat on the bone of her proposals,
Vice President Harris in battleground Pennsylvania, drilling down on her

(48:45):
vision for the economy in her first one on one
national TV interview since becoming the Democratic nominee.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Now Here are the words that I picked up during
that montage. Okay, her approach is pragmatic, he attacks. Did
you hear that?

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yes? I did.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
She is closing the gap on him when it comes
to the economy. Okay, Okay, opportunity, economy is those are
her words. The journalist choose him as well. Let's see
Donald Trump or she's taking aim at Donald Trump. See that. Also,
here's another one cutting into his lead. So see they're

(49:23):
talking about how that interview is helping her cut into
his lead.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Which is shocking really because well it's not shocking to
do it, but honestly, I just have to believe. I
have to that people cannot. I mean, we say, if
you look at the polls, nobody says they trust this media, no,
no one. And so when you hear that, if you've
had any I mean, when they're so detached that they'll

(49:50):
play portions of this interview as if it helps her.
But anybody listening is going to go, what.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah, huh, the word salad is It.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Doesn't make any sense. I don't even know what she's
talking about. She is a master of the only things
she's articulate at are the lies about Donald Trump. He
did not destroy uh manufacturing jobs in America. He created
them in record fashion. He did not raise he did
not just give taxes to his billionaire cronies. He raised,
he lowered taxes for everybody. You can just go down

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the line in terms of what he actually did versus
what they just blatantly say that they accuse him of doing.
And there's never a fact check. There's not wait a minute,
you know this is we we have, it's documented. It's
not even a it's not subject to her opinion. It's
actually fact. But you know, who are we to interrupt
a good narrative and a and a you know, campaign

(50:41):
and elections team called the media.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Is there a democratic talking point that you are just
so sick and tired of hearing? Can you think of one?

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, I have, I have. What's what's yours? They need
to pay their fair share? Yeah, that's that.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
I I am so tired of them saying rich people
in this country, who most of them have worked their
tails off to get what they have. I heard a
number of years ago, I think ten percent of the
wealth in this country is inherited. The nine of it
is created. So you're going to punish somebody because they've
been successful with an idea or a product that they've

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had because they need to pay greg their fair share.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Let me and this is the biggest disgrace of that
pay their fair share. The people she's talking about with
their tax attorneys and their accountants. Yeah, they're not going
to pay a red cent. Okay, they're not going to
pay one. And the way I know that's the case,
is that that Soros or his son Bill Gates, Zuckerberg,
whoever it is, they're all funding. They're giving her money.

(51:49):
You wouldn't hand money to a candidate who wants to
absolutely tax you out of existence, as she says she
wants to do. So the fix is in this.

Speaker 10 (51:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
This is like when they said that they want to
hire eighty six thousand IRS agents to go after the
richest of the rich. Right, well, guess what the number
show they're going after the working class. That's that is
what's actually happening. I mean, they advertised it is we're
going to go after those making four hundred thousand dollars
or more, and it's just the rich people we want
to go after, which it's all going after people making

(52:19):
less than two hundred thousand. And that's who they're attacking
with these a IRS agents. So it's just that pay
the fair share. It isn't even intellectually honest what they're saying.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
No, So yeah, well the other thing, be aware, you
have the union which represents the IRS employees. Yeah, and
the union that represents the postal workers have now indoors
come up.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
I know, if you ever going to mail a letter again,
I'm not I don't trust you tax yees. We're all
we're all in big trouble.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
We sure are all right. More coming up Rod and
Greg with you on this Thursday here on Utah's Talk
Radio want oh five nine kN r s all right,
welcome back to the Rod and Greg show here on
Utah's Talk Rady on want oh five nine, Kay, and
are as do swearing politicians bother you?

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Would you please put that in a more specific context?

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Sirs, I was not looking at you. By the way,
we are going to be talking about that in the
six o'clock Howard. Get your reaction to that. Speak on
the upcoming election, Greg, every vote, I think everybody agrees
this may be one of the closest elections in the
history of the country.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Yes, some people say, unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Well, now you don't believe that. You know, you're fairly
confident that Donald Trump's.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Well, by hook or crook, it might be close. But
if we're just talking straight up votes, yeah, I wouldn't
think it would be as close as it's predicted.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Here's the interesting thing. Why don't more Christians vote in elections?
Have you ever thought about that? They're serving out there.
Case in point, newest polling from renowned polster George Barna
finds that only fifty nine percent of practicing Christians say
they will vote in November, only fifty nine percent. Why

(54:03):
is that?

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I think that there is an effort to chill the
vote of people of faith, and they try to make
it look so bad that it really is. I know
someone who is so involved and listens to the and
is active in issues and has been a really forward
thinking on things. She doesn't want to vote. Why because
she doesn't think it's going to count. She's so cynical

(54:24):
about our campaign and elections, about what's going to happen
that she doesn't She's like, what's the point. And that's
the demo there that the left is getting away with that. Yeah,
when you see that, when you see people of faith
that are not voting in ninety percent ranges like that,
I think they're being discouraged. I think they're being discouraged
away to not vote. And I'm saying that you're playing

(54:45):
right into their handbook if you decide to be cynical,
because they might be right and the fix might be in,
but we're going to go down fighting if it is,
We're not going to let them get away with it.
We're going to try as hard. We can't too big
to rig I say.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Well, these numbers pointed out Greg. If church going Christians
make up eighty million of America's three hundred and thirty
three million people, okay, eighty million, that means only forty
eight million practicing Christians are headed to the polls out
of eighty million in this country.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yeah, that's it. They're given. They're given the they're giving
the leftists and those that that you know who embrace everything,
they don't a great advantage by not getting involved.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yeah, too bad.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Yeah, well no, we just we have to wake them up.
That's we don't accept that number. We were going to
get up. We're going to get an eighty percent turnout. Yeah,
we're going to do it, Rod, Greg shows, can you
get everybody out?

Speaker 1 (55:34):
A few more people have come forth expressing their opinion
for Donald Trump.

Speaker 11 (55:39):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
One of them is Danna Danica Patrick Nice the driver. Yeah,
race car drive. She says, I love America, I want
to make America great again. I'm tired of hiding behind
my support for Donald Trump, and I'm coming out today
and I support him. Good for her, she and she
she is knocked backing down on.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
That Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Lambert who
brought that up supporting Trump. That should that should sew
up Southwest Pennsylvania for for Trump right there his endorsement alone.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Yeah, here's another endorsement. Tommy John.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
I thought there was Tommy John surgery. I don't even know.
I thought that's a surgery you get on your elbow
or something.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
But there was also a picture named Tommy John. That's
what the surgery is named after. You didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
I thought that was a wild coincidence, kind of.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Like Garrerick's disease picture. I think he pitched for the
Yankees pitch. I think he pitched for the Dodgers. They
performed Tommy John surgery where they took something out of
his right arm and put it in his left arm
because he's a left handed pitcher. Right. He claims that
he is not in the Hall of Fame today and
he should be good picture right because he voted for

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Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
You know what, I wouldn't disc I wouldn't discount it. Sadly, sadly,
it might be true. There's a there is a penalty,
there is a price to pay to speak your conscience.
That's why there's a shy Trump vote. That's why when
you see all these poll numbers, there's people that are planned,
fully planned to vote for President Trump that just aren't
answering questions from whoever's calling because they don't want to
tell them there's going to vote. And that's what I'm

(57:10):
and I'm telling you. We just got to get out
even early. We got to get out often. We got
to get out as much as we can. Got to
absolutely get out and vote. And uh and only for
the last day like they did. Remember Maricopa County in
twenty twenty went like half the voting boost went down
and people were waiting in lines forever. They're going to
gum it up on the day off. Get out. You
got to get your vote in early because they're going

(57:30):
to try and stop day of votes, slow it down
at least.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Yeah, the numbers that I'm seeing, greg is Republicans are
getting out and voting early.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
That's I hope we learned our lessons from twenty because
twenty in these critical areas in Maricopa County in Arizona
comes to mind, half of those voting locations shut down
for reasons on unknown I know, I know why, but
they were officially unknown reasons.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Just see the story in the d nudes today.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
I never read the DNIS. I'm a conservative. I all right,
all right?

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Donald Trump is now courting the Latter Day Saints.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
He's always been. He loves us.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
The story apparently he had a meeting with some key
figures in the LDS community, uh, talking about what does
he need to do to win the LDS vote. Now,
isn't it interesting that a similar media outlet owned by
a certain church did a story that Kamala Harris is
trying to get the LDS vote.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
I know, and I was there. So there was a
story that in the Tuesday okay about time, Yeah, not
on TV. And he has he's been pursuing our vote
since sixteen.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Yeah for a while. All right, Let through those swearing politicians.
We're all talking about him with us. Rod Greg back
with you, final hour of the show on this Thursday
here on Utah's Talk Radio one five nine, Kay and
are ass live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Before
we go to our next interview with Jennifer Cram, We're

(58:58):
so much alike.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
I take that as a massive compliment with we were
talking h during the break. Halloween is around, and you
always get a lot of scary movies out. I do
not like scary movies, not me, and you don't like them.
See where're going. We're very swhere in that regard.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Nope, I don't like any any movies with the Devil.
You can just keep it. I'm not going anywhere near,
don't need it. I like suspenseful movies. I like aliens,
like that movie.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Yeah, and I don't like suspenseful movie. I mean, what
was the one? Uh, Bruce Willis not Bruce Willis. Yeah,
Bruce Willis did the.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Sixth sixth cent? That was good.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Those are suspenseful. They are people.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm telling you so. Yeah. I all
the horror movies, you can have them. I don't know
what you want to watch them for. It's just all
I don't know what. What do scary movies do for people?
I don't know. They scare that everyone in daylights out
of me, and I'm not watching them.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
I don't let me ask you this. Do you go
to these horror houses that they have around town during Halloween?

Speaker 2 (59:56):
So I you know know, I know near do I?
The lines are always so my son used to like
to go to the haunted houses and stuff. But yeah,
they can't really like they're a little overly demented nowadays.
I went to this like haunted circus place. It was
in Draper years ago, and it was like disturbing. It
was a bit much. So yeah, yeah, I wasn't scared.
I was just disturbed.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
I'm easily startled.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Yeah. That's the other thing is that they try to
scare you. And I don't like being touched. Don't touch me.
I don't like being if I'm a b YU fan,
I don't like being touched at the Ute game. Do
not you do not touch me. That's why I can't
go to the game anymore, because I can't go that
rivalry game because some drunk Ute fans got to touch me.
And then it's always it always goes south from there. Yeah,
it's good, Heaven's nut. Well, you wouldn't want to because

(01:00:39):
they just they just you've if you've never gone to
YOUTE game with a b YU fan, you would be miserable.
You'd be embarrassed for me.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Well, I just know how you act in here. I
can I can't im.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
I'm a fan. I never talked smack about the other team,
but I do cheer for my own of which would
somehow you fans take offensive. They don't want you to
cheer for your own teams. They think cheering when you're
hurling four letter works. I don't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
It's going to happen. Speaking speaking of four letter.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Works, which I don't say, let's talk.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
About swearing politicians. Apparently there was a newspaper that came
out and had a rather interesting description for Kamala Harris.
And joining us on our newsmaker line right now is
Jennifer Graham. She wrote about that in the Deserrat News. Jennifer,
always great to have you on the show. What exactly
did this newspaper have to say about one Kamala Harris.

Speaker 18 (01:01:29):
You know, it was one of those articles that just
the headline was like, I'm going to love this story.
It basically called Kamala Harris the sweariest President, and you know,
she's not president, so it was not factually correct, but
you know, we knew what they were saying, and so
it was just it was kind of a funny turn

(01:01:50):
of phrase and something that other people have been noticing
recently that our vice president does seem to enjoy some
colorful life, which upon occasion, particularly in settings with younger people.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
So I read this and I'm so that no one
thinks I'm being judgy. I might be a little bit
of a swear bear myself, but maybe not on the
public record. But I was surprised because I would think
that Biden and maybe Trump before him, but not really
any earlier than that. But at least Trump and Biden
and Kamla I would have probably thought we're using swear

(01:02:26):
words about the same amount. Is this article accurate that
she is the biggest swear bear of all?

Speaker 18 (01:02:34):
Well, I like your turn of phrase there, and I
think that's an even better headline. But yeah, I mean
she's distinctive in two ways, one in which and this
is a conversation to have with you guys on the air, right,
I cannot exactly say the words we're talking about, but

(01:02:55):
I'll just say that there's a certain word that might
begin with an F that she uses much more liberally
than some other politicians in the past. And interestingly enough, though,
I mean, she is following a trend. Or you might
say that she might be leading the trend because the
Telegraph article noted that there had been a study done

(01:03:17):
of the use of certain expletives by people in Congress,
and they found that in twenty twenty four, I think
last year that members of Congress had used this particular
word on the social media platform x two hundred and
five times, which may not seem like a lot, but
ten years ago there was zero's use of that word

(01:03:40):
by politicians. So, I mean, it's something that is as
we've all observed right in our daily life. And if
you've ever stend in line at a Walmart for anting
length of time, you've probably heard the work casually around you.
But it is it is something different that our elected
officials are using it with such frequents.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Jen, I think your pointed out at a moment ago,
she's more willing to use that wonderful term in front
of a younger audience. Are they not offended by it?
And is that why she feels she can get away
with it.

Speaker 18 (01:04:11):
Well, it may be the case that she's just using
it in public and not even realizing it because she's
using it in private, right, I mean, I think that's
the case with a lot of profanities, and it's an
argument against it for me because if you use it
in private, you're much more likely to have it just
come out at other perhaps not as opportune times. But

(01:04:32):
Defret News had to study last year on We had
a survey in which we asked people whether they were
comfortable with the use of profanity in public, and there
was a market divide among younger people and older people.
People over the age of sixty five. Sixty eight percent
of them said that it either bothers them a lot

(01:04:53):
or it bothers them some for this word to be
used in public, whereas three quarters of young people said
that it didn't bother.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Them at all.

Speaker 18 (01:05:02):
So we've got a really stark divide in terms of
generations as to whether this is acceptable or not. And Harris,
who's going after the younger vote and seems to be
attracting it, seems to understand this is not going to
be a problem for me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
So where do we go from here? Do you just
think that do you think the bar just lowers, or
do you think that there's any kind of course correction
that goes on in our public discourse when you see
something like this starting to happen. More often.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:05:33):
I keep trying to find what that course correction would
be because I've been yelling about this for years. I
will not say one way or the other if I
ever use this language in private, but it does bother me,
and I definitely don't use it in public, and it
bothers me first and foremost because of the fact that

(01:05:54):
young people pick it up. And I've written several times
in the past about how it disturbs me that on
certain conservative talk shows, not this one, I am sure,
and not that I'm labeling you conservative either. Megan Kelly
is the worst offender Megan Kelly ever ever since she

(01:06:14):
went to Serious XM. She talks like a sailor and
she has she revels in it, and she's talked about
how she loves the freedom of doing that. She wasn't
able to cuss on the air at Fox News, so
she loves.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
It, so you know.

Speaker 18 (01:06:28):
And then last year I wrote a piece at National
Review had an article about Joe Biden, and they used
a word to describe him that is not normally used
in polite conversation, and myself and a lot of other
people were shot that a conservative journal like that with
the heritage of National Review would be using such language.

(01:06:48):
But you know, at that time, my feeling was, well,
this is over. I need to just stop yowling about this,
because clearly I am the one person in America who
still cares about those issues. But there are a few others,
which is why when Kamala does stuff like this that
she's still generating headlines.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Jen final question for you, some politicians, as you mentioned,
may use this so often in their everyday language, is
that they don't even realize they're using it when they're
giving a public speech. Do some though, use it for
shock value, knowing that they'll get a little attention if
they drop the F bomb somewhere.

Speaker 18 (01:07:25):
I mean, it's definitely possible. In most of these incidents,
is with the Vice president, it sounds like it was
just kind of a spontaneous thing. And you know, there's
been a number of incidences when politicians were called off
out for things that they said on a hot mic,
like Biden called Peter Doocy something that I won't repeat here,

(01:07:47):
and George W. Bush did that one time as well.
Ex refer to a member of the press.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, he was whispering to I think it was Cheney
and Bush whispering to each other, but they got caught
on a hot mike.

Speaker 18 (01:08:01):
Yeah, but there has been a number of books come
out in the past couple of years arguing for the
use of profanity and saying that it's empowering the people,
it shows authenticity, and there are all these psychological reasons
for using profanity. I'm not buying it. My personal belief
is that it coarsens the conversation and it's undignified. And

(01:08:25):
maybe I'm the only person who thinks that, but I
will die on this hill.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Jennifer, thank you all right. Now, you and I have
been talking about this all day to day about swearing politicians.
I would like to know what our audience thinks, what
our listeners think about politicians where I don't like my opinion.
I mean, if they drop an H word or you know,
a hell or a damn here and there, okay, I'm
fine with that. But when they're dropping the F bombs, yeah,

(01:08:53):
we'll have a little more class for your audience.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Time or place. And I think that that's important. I
think that the one that was caught on the open mic,
when when Bush was whispering to Cheney, that's not I
don't get offended by that. He's just calling the guy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
A Remember Biden did it when Obama signed healthcare and
you know, cut off.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
I forgot that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
This is a big eff you know, you know, so
you know, but we Kamala Harris uses it. I mean,
we've got.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
She wants to be a hipster, like she does it
with Rolling Stone magazine to try and show how edgy
she is. And that's that's contrived and I think not appropriately.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Now, Jennifer, you know mentioned as we were talking, were
just a moment Ago said, young people find it. You know,
she commonly it is free or using certain words in
front of young people than she is older people. And
I think are younger people put off by bad language?
They just accepted now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
They accepted that. So the podcasts or where you hear it,
tons and and and they speak really and it's actually
it feels like it's less scripted and more blunt when
they swear. I think that's I think that's the way younger,
younger people are digesting it. Is that just it sounds
like some real flippant, you know, blunt language. They're not
the words aren't gonna offend them. Yes, yeah, but look

(01:10:12):
I say to that okay, fine, But when you're speaking
in the role of I mean, there's a man of
responsibility when you're when you're elected and you represent all
people and you've got to act that role. That role
does come with that responsibility.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Yeah, all right, I want to hear what you folks
think we do, Greg, and I would like to get
your opinion on this. Swearing politicians Do they turn you off?
What do you think? Eight five seven eight zero one
zero eight eight eight five seven o eight zero one zero.
Are on your cell phone dial pound two fifty and say, hey, Rod,
Greg with you on this Thursday Utah's Talk Radio one
oh five nine k n RS. We're talking about what

(01:10:49):
Greg likes to call swear bears. These are politicians who
occasionally let loose. Now, some of them may do it
for shock value. Other it may be part of their
everyday language and they don't no they're doing it, I
don't know, but sometimes So the question is does it
turn you off when you have a politician out giving
a stump speech and decides to drop some F bombs

(01:11:10):
or words that you don't appreciate.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
So we've covered this, now it's time for our listeners
to tell us what they think of this topic. Let's
go to David calling from West Jordan. David, thank you
for calling into the Rotting Greg Show. What do you
think about this?

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
Thanks for having me. I've called in a few times
and I've had the pleasure of speaking with you guys.
I'm about forty three years old, and so I've listened
to the George Carlin comedy Skid. We're talking about the
seven dirty words on television.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Okay, yes, oh yes, and he got right.

Speaker 5 (01:11:42):
He got thrown in jail for that. Now, I'm not
making the argument that we should be doing that. The
swear words don't bother me. It's the intent and the
meaning behind why they're using them and the purpose of
why they're using them, like what they're trying to achieve,
And that's where I kind of start having some problems.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
You're exactly right, I think the time. I mean, it's
just it's the nastiest, especially if they're using it in
the most profane or vulgar way. That's that's why. And
when they use it for that reason, you can feel it.
It does.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
I got three small children, and it's like I wouldn't
want them to be around something like that, especially when
we're talking about big things, world events, Ukraine, all this
other stuff that's going on in the world, Like why, no,
it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Necessary, No, it isn't Did you ever get your mouth
washed out?

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
I was really good. I never swew around my mother.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
I never saw around my mother would do that around
my mom.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Either to be able to wash my mouth out, no
one else can to get there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
I don't think I ever heard my father swear no,
are you no? Like say this using F bomb. Now,
occasionally he may take the Lord's name in vain. He
get bad.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
There's a comedy in New York. I thought everybody swore
in New York. I thought that was just I thought
you learned. I thought that's those are the first words
you learned in New York.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
There is a common expression. You and I have experienced this.
He just loved idea. You know that a term is
used around the country where people say the word, oh
my god.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Yeah, that's the way you just said it. Now I'm recoiling.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
A pet offended by it. No, I don't like other
parts of the country said all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Yeah, yeah, no, No, that one's I don't like the
Lord's name of being at all, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Let's go to Robert and Murray. Do what Robert has
to say tonight here on the Rod and Greg Show. Hi, Robert,
how are you.

Speaker 15 (01:13:34):
Good?

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Thank you for taking my call. I'm against this. I
think if politicians use that language there and risk of
losing my vote and it just chose a weak intellect
and poor vocabulary. And if they can't be a higher
intelligence in that nature, I can we can elect somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Good point, and I think a lot of people feel
that way.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Yeah. I think I can tell you as a public
servant if I have not been brought to just swearing
in a public form or anything like that when I
was an elected official, but I can tell you that
if it does happen, that you've usually lost your temper
or lost your self control. And that's not a good
It's not I mean that that is what Robert says
is not worth supporting. So let's go in terms of

(01:14:20):
being candidate, let's go to Andy in Centerville. Andy, thank
you for calling the Roden Gregg Show. What do you
think about swearing elected officials?

Speaker 19 (01:14:32):
Thank you for having me. My comment is that you
are a statesman and an example. We are having conduct
problems and behavior problems and swearing as part of it.
If we do not have statesmen that cannot discipline themselves
and use better words than an example for everyone, there
are far better words than swearing, and we're having a

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conduct problem because of this. I make a short and
sweet It can't be acceptable, especially as a statesman. You
should have a sterling character in your words and in
your behavior. Thank you, thank.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
You, And it brings up very good point. You are
a statesman.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
And I'll tell you where it's really shocked me. And
again there's times and places I'm not saying that I've
never uttered a swear word in my life. I don't
want and to you know, be saying like sounding like
I'm a holy roller here. I'm not perfect, But in
these moments where you are representing people, you have the
mantle of the public trust. The way you act it matters.
I The place that has I've seen it recently that

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is so disturbing to me are these congressional hearings. I've
heard these. I've heard these members of Congress using swear
words at each other other members. There is a that
you gabble that down, that is that is out of order.
You cannot let that happen, and there should be a
chair that should never let that kind of language go on,
and we watch it on c SPAN or it's it's

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just it's over the top unacceptable.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Laurie is in Logan tonight here on The Rotten Gregg Show. Laurie,
how are you thanks for joining us tonight. What are
your thoughts on this? Lurie?

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
My thinking is I was raised that it's son tooth.
If you want to put a point across and have
people understand what you're saying in the first place, you
don't sit there and swear your way through it with
the F word or whatever. You're going to make more
sense to people if you're calmly telling them something and

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you don't need that colorful language to make a point.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
You don't, and I don't. I don't know why people
today feel they have to, but I think they do.
I mean, the F bomb it is everywhere, Greg. I mean,
you know it would years and years ago, you wouldn't
hear it very often, or you may hear it in
a locker room or something, but man, it's it's just everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
So I watched there's a couple of shows I watch
on streaming shows like Peacock, which is the NBC. They've
got a they have a show on there, and I'm
watching it and they're dropping the F bomb on this
on this like it's a show you wouldn't even expect
you would hear that. Yeah, So it's it is. I
think it is. I think it is a permeating in
this society more so than than before.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
Yeah, all right, do politicians who swear when they're talking
to you, maybe on a stump speech, does it turn
you off? Or and what does this say about that politician?
Your calls and comments coming up right here on the
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(01:17:32):
Show coming your way at the top of the hour.
Jesse always has a good time. Every Democrat and progressive
in this country, they're just comies. He never refers to
them as democrats, are progressives, are liberals, they're just commies.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Well, it just cuts to the chase. He just kind
of just gets right to it. It's a bottom line. Yeah,
and it's accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
Yeah. Yeah, And a reminder starting on Monday, will do this,
I think for four or five Mondays in a row,
we're going to give you a chance to win tickets
to see Billy Joel and Sting in concert at Rice
eck Old Stadium coming up May twenty third next spring.
That that's going to be a fun concert.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
So super I'm super excited for that. The closest I've
been to Billy Joel is that I got to watch
that special he did at the Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
We did so many shows. That thing sold out of
hook Up Residency there. Yah, it's amazing what they called it,
consecutive sold out shows. But I watched they had a
special and I watched that that was really good. But
I've seen Sting here in Salt Lake. I was back
in twenty nineteen. It was excellent.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
It was really he was actually here in this building
a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
Really.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Yeah, So I tell me, they said come in early
and you can get a picture with Sting.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
I didn't show, but if it had been Taylor Swift,
you would have been right here. Don't give you you
were the the biggest Swifty in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
How much crap. He gives me Bowler, Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
He finds stories. I have to I have to prevent
a Swifty story every day every show. He finds us
a Taylor Swift story every day. He wants to talk about.
You know, I'm about to swear at you to make
us swear. Well, I'm gonna tell on you. I'm gonna
tell on you the Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
All right, all right, let's go back to the phones.
We're talking about swearing politicians and Mike and Harriman has
been very patient waiting to Mike. I do not I
do not swear, Mike. I just want to let you know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
That, thank you for joining us on the program.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
What say you, Mike?

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
Yeah? Can you hear me? Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:19:25):
I am I think I Several callers had suggested that
someone's use of profanity was a a being on their intellect,
and uh, there's actually plenty of studies that suggest people
who use profanity on a regular are actually more intelligent
than people who never curse. Now, I personally find it

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objectionable in politics to cuss at people, but making the
assertion that because someone swears they're not intellectually capable is
a is a fool's argument in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
So, Mike, I've seen the meme that says that, and
I've lived, I've wanted it to be true. If you've
seen the actual studies that say that that is the case.
I have used that meme with my wife and others
to say that it doesn't mean a lack of intellect.
I'm hoping you're right, Mike, is what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Mike, you may have bailed them out. Man, you may
have bailed them out.

Speaker 20 (01:20:19):
I'm not saying I do or don't, but I'm pretty
sure I could curse like a sailor, not the dimmest old.

Speaker 10 (01:20:25):
In the box.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
All right, Mike, thank you, they got you off there.
Can I say one thing about my wonderful wife. Yes,
you know she grew up on a farm. Well that
she she's she know swear words crazy, There are certain
farm words. Yes, Now there was one her favorite word. Yeah,
you can step on it on farm property. Okay, if

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you know what I'm talking about, right, Yeah, but we're
dy And she recognized that, and I have not heard
her say that word in several years now because she
she didn't realize she was doing it. And now she doesn't.
I don't think I've use it forever. I actually can't
say forever for a long time. She's really tried to change. Wow,

(01:21:08):
I know that. Yeah, I mean the listeners are going.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
You live on a farm. I thought you just there
were like, if you're from New York, the first words
you learn as a child is to swear, and if
you grow up on a farm, you also learned those.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
You learned words. What are commonly work for is farm works?

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Yes, I don't know. I don't think, but you know
you might if you've grown up in an area where
that word is used liberally, you don't really hear it
as much sometimes as you're growing up.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
And then you well, you were talking about going to
Jersey Boys. I went to a musical and is filled
with them, and both you, yes, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Don't have any recollection of their being swearing in that musical,
and I've told them that. And so I made the
mistake of actually saying I recommending that musical. I'm saying
I quite liked it. And then I was told that
I recommend that was just filthy and profane, all these
bad words, and I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:22:03):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
I watched that musical and I don't remember the swearing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
Yeah, well, and it didn't bother me and in other
because it is just part of that culture, would you agree.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
I mean it's New Jersey, yeah, crying out loud. I
don't know what it is, but it was like a
Jedi mind trick. I never heard it, Okay, I didn't.
I didn't, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
I just music was great.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
I love that story, and the story was great. It's
a valley. But's with Frankie Valley the four season?

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Absolutely sorry, all right, more coming up here on the
Rod Arquette and Greg Hughes Show. We call it Rod
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(01:22:49):
Clyde Lewis with ground Zero and then Coast to Coast
takes you and keeps you company all night long. If
you're a list of ground zero, you're been up late
at night or driving around lists to uh Art and
ground zero.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Yeah, I have, but it's an interesting show. You know,
I'm open to all the ideas, really am. I think
that I just don't think it's statistically possible that we're
the only intelligent life form in this infinite universe. And
I think there are worlds without number.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
Well, the Democrats and liberals and progressives in this country
just confirm our beliefs that they're nuts. And they do
it each and every day. Case in point, this latest
grocery stop by Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Yeah. So look, I'm going to tell you this is
where I want their law fair and how crazy they are.
I want them to go for it. I want them.
So we go to Pennsylvania and Donald Trump and is
a supermarket. It's a locally owned is a small supermarket.
And there's a woman in line and she's buying groceries.
And he goes over and he gives her one hundred
dollars bills and says, you know what, I know, groceries

(01:23:49):
are high. These these groceries might be just a little
bit less.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Did he give her like three one hundred dollar bills?

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
I don't know it was one. I thought it was
a hundred dollars bill, but anyway, it was. It was
a It was a great expression of kindness and it
was acknowledgment. And then they interviewed her after and she said,
I had two things to do today. I had to
buy groceries and I was hoping I could see President
Trump because I knew he was coming by. I had
no idea he'd be so gracious. And she was so

(01:24:14):
touched by it. And you know, because it's expensive. So
the Democrats see this, and they see campaign finance fraud. Okay,
they see him trying to buy vote, so they wanted
they caught him on tape, and they are just saying,
they are just saying, we have to charge him. He has.
He's been caught committing a campaign violation and a crime.

(01:24:34):
And to that, I say go for it, because it
would just it would be the epitome of how absurd
they are. I mean this, I mean the idea that
they I mean, Kamala can give and Biden can give.
Try to give free to a college tuition wave everybody's
you know, college tuition on the taxpayer bill. And that's

(01:24:54):
not buying a single vote. He could handle this woman
a little bit of money to help soften the blow
of the grocery bill. And they they want to go
after him for violating a clear violation of election law
and that he should be he should be charged for immediately.

Speaker 10 (01:25:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
I mean, and I just yeah, And it's and it's
so farcical that I just think that, especially in Pennsylvania.
I think that that if they, if people haven't seen
these this law fair and these indictments and all the
things that are doing to this president as the you know,
just the going after your political enemies shamelessly as it is,

(01:25:31):
going after him for what he did in that grocery store,
I think would highlight it. Especially so I wish they would.
I just want them to do it. I do the American.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
People will look at that and say, just another example, right.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
Yeah, yeah, No, I I do. I just oh, I wish.
I wish they would have the guts to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
This is starting, Greg, and we've touched on this very
briefly over the last several days, but this is starting
to get some serious attention. And we're talking about the
potential of ten of thousands of dock workers going on
strike as of what Monday Tuesday, I believe and experts
say they go on strike. And this is the entire

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East coast Okay and the Gulf of Mexico and the
Gulf of Mexico even down into Houston. That if they
go on strike, it could cost this country. I think
I mentioned this yesterday, five trillion dollars a day to
the economy.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Wow, and it's not being covered. I don't see enough
about it. Queen Bee Christis she sent me this information,
She's showing me this, she's saying. I think this is
really really a major story that's really not getting a
ton of attention right before the election. I can't imagine
that the Biden Harris administration isn't going to try and
find a way to solve this because they're on the clock.

(01:26:44):
I mean, their leadership is either needed right now to
avoid this or if it happens, you know, it should
again show that there's no leadership in Washington right now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Well, remember during the pandemic, the disruption of the supply chains,
right they're saying, this could be worse than the pandemic. Yeah,
especially for now, we get a lot of our stuff.
I would imagine out of the West Coast we do, yes,
probably what Long Beach and maybe what Seattle, Portland.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
But as soon as you interrupt any of this, it
just has a ripple effect on all sides, in all fronts.
And that's why I'm just having such a hard time
believing that for their own self preservation, they wouldn't want
to see this kind of economic collapse. And that's what
that would That's that's the way they're describing it in
October of a November election. Come on, I just don't know.

(01:27:32):
I just think something's got to happen.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
There before we go. We have a big day coming
up tomorrow. You and I.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Oh, that's right. I know, I got to really remember this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
You got to remember this.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
I got to be at the Capitol tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
All this month in September they've been celebrating Constitution Month
and the Founders Founder's Day, Right, so tomorrow, I think
it starts at eleven. I think ten Jahn. We'll check.
But they have people from you know, well known people.
I guess we're included in that bunch, you know, standing
in front of cameras and we're reading the US Constitution.
We have a section you and I will be reading

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I think together. I know, well, come on, it'll be good. Yeah,
it'll be good. But we'll be doing that tomorrow. And
I consider that to be quite an honor, and to
read the US Constitution.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
We flattered that we were invited. Now you have the voice.
I mean, you have the voice to do it. I
mean you should do it. But me I get to
tag along. I'm excited. Yeah, it'll be good. So that's
capital tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
Tomorrow morning. Yep. I think they feed us, do they really?
I think so good that they have good food come early.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Nine. That's all you had to say.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Yeah. And by the way, I think this broadcast or
telecast will be distributed to schools throughund the state, So
you know that's the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
I really, I really can't make up where I can't
add lib this. If it's the kids, I can't live
you cannot the constitution. There's nothing a constitution that prohibits
us from voting for Democrats.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Okay, square, all right, that does it for us Tonight,
head up, shoulders back. May God bless you and your
family and this great country of ours. We'll talk to
you tomorrow.