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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Congressman Eric Swawell officially suspending his campaign for governor. He
wrote on X to my family, staff, friends, and supporters.
I am deeply sorry for the mistakes and judgment I've
made in my pass.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I will fight the serious false.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Allegations that have been made, but that's my fight, not
a campaigns Again. It was Friday when CNN and the
San Francisco Chronicle both reported on these allegations.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations.
I thought it was important that you see and hear
from me directly. These allegations of sexual assault are flat false.
They're absolutely false. They did not happen, they have never happened,
and I will fight them with everything that I have.
They also come on the eve of an election where
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I've been the front winner.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Candidate for governor in California.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The truth's going to come out, and I hope everything
you've done so far is clean, because if it's not,
there's going to be a reckoning for that. As far
as public accountability that's.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Going to come.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
What are the chances that three or four women independently
who never met each other would have similar experiences with
one person. So either ari this person committed these horrific acts,
or he is the single unluckiest person in the world
for these people to conspire and make up.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Lies against him.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But it's a very hard case to make the more
allegations that command interesting timeline.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The congressional district primary would be June twond so two
months from now. Swallwell has missed the deadline to run
for re election to his congressional seat. That deadline, I
believe was March sixth, if my reading of their election
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calendar is correct, and I believe it is, so, he
is five six weeks beyond the time at which he
could go back to his congressional seat and run for
and likely win reelection. So because this whole series of
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scandals was released after his deadline to file for congress,
Swallwell suspending his campaign today if he drops out. And
this is just a little quirk. I'm sure you know this,
but I'll explain it just in case. The reason you
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suspend your campaign, which they always do rather than end
your campaign, is because a campaign that is suspended can
simply flip us, which and be active again tomorrow or
the day before the election. His name is going to
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appear on the ballot. One way or another. His name
is going to appear on the ballot. They do a
jungle primary in California, which is where the top two
finishers will be in a runoff, and at present, the
top two finishers do not include Swalwell, but a lot
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could happen. The top two, according to polls today, are
both Republicans. They're both in the mid teens. One of
whom is a Fox News person out any think it?
Steve Hilton's his name. I forget who number two is.
We'll get to that in time. Plenty of time for that.
But back to Swalwell, who was the front runner and
who was most likely to win. You've got Tom Steyer,
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who's an old liberal kind of a governor Moonbeam kind
of liberal. You've got some other folks in the race.
You've got a lot of folks in the race. You'll
remember when a previous sex scandal gubernatorial candidate and Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger ran. They were I think seventy or eighty
including including Arnold aka Gary Coleman. But there are plenty
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of candidates running, and Democrats cannot afford to lose their
biggest state. They cannot afford to lose the bastion of
socialism in this country. So they will coalesce behind their candidate.
They will begin to attack the Republican candidates, and they
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will find their candidate. The reason Swallowell is falling apart
is not organic, It's not natural. What's happening is the
Democrat poubas, the George Soros crowd recognizes that there are
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a lot more scandals, because remember, they know a lot
more than they're letting on. They've known about these scandals
for a while the public didn't, and they know there
are lots more out there. Heyl O Bob Smith's daughter
says he raped her and left her in a state
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where you left her on the side of the road.
There's a police report on that. I've talked to the cop.
Did well, what about otom Dinnerstein? Well, his ex wife
said she was raped by him? Well, what about And
so those stories and the people affected. Every person affected
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has a brother, sister, mother, father, next door, neighbor, boss,
sorority sister. Right if they file police reports and it
may turn out that some did the officer involved. This
is considered a significant event. It's the term within police
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departments that means those are handled differently than your average
person getting charged with ray or sexual assault or whatever else.
So they know that there's a lot of smoke around
this fire, and now you're seeing the embers start to
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be revealed. They cannot afford to lose this race, so
they had to get him out of the race early
enough that they can pick someone else. They're not in
love with Eric Swalwell or Elliot Spitzer or any other candidate.
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They are in love with power. Biden was always a
place keeper for them to exercise power. That's why on
the Sunday a few days before the election, they smothered
him and slid Kamala Harrison there. They didn't let the
Democrat voters choose their nominee at the beginning of the
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year because if they had, they weren't sure who it
would be, and it might be Robert Kennedy and he
was too much of an independent, he was too much
of a wildcard. So they said, I wis not I'm
gonna have primaries. Wait what, we picked Biden And then
when it was clear Biden couldn't do it. They agreed
to the early debate so the grassroots could go, oh yeah,
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we want him out of there, and they slid Kamala
Harrison there. So this isn't anybody coming to It's not
a come to Jesus on Eric Swallwell, this is a hey,
we got to win, and he can't win that they're
tossing him out. President Trump was on Fox News with
Maria Barbiromo when he was asked about the US Navy's
blockade of Iran. Iran was setting up the Strait of
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Horror Moves as a toll booth and collecting money as
ships passed by, and so the President blew up, effectively
figuratively the tool booth and said, now we're going to
shut this thing down. He was asked how that would
affect China.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
As far as China's concerned. China can send their ships
to US. China consends their ships to Venezuela. We told
them buy from Venezuela. We have a lot of overcapacity
with sell them, and we'll probably sell it for even
less money.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I have a very good.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Relationship with Presidency of China and we work together very well.
They're paying us a substantial money, as you know, we've
never got money before. You know, I listened to this
Gordon Chang. He has no idea what he's talking about.
We have been very tough in China, tough but fair
and you know, it's an amazing place. But I have
a very good relationship with China and they've been during
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my you know, I put tremendous tariffs. I put one
hundred percent tariff on all Chinese cars coming in, and
that's destroying Europe. They're destroying Europe because they've taken away
so much business from Mercedes and BMW et cetera. And
we don't have any Chinese cars in our country because
they would have destroyed General Motors Board. They would have
destroyed these companies if they did it. So I put
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one hundred percent terrifon and an all fairness to Biden,
he allowed it to stay on, which is shocking.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
To Me's one of the things. It's about the only
thing he did good.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But he allowed him today. So we don't have the
problem that they have.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So American oil, which is really Gulf Coast oil Texas Texas,
primarily with Texas Louisiana. American oil has spiked. It was
over one hundred dollars a barrel about noon today when
I checked. Energy stocks have spiked, the oil field service
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business has spiked, and there are reports of tankers turning
around and heading to the Gulf of America and the
activity that has increased. I'm hearing from folks as to
We've got show sponsors at our Houston, our flagship who
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service the energy sector in Texas, and they are all
hands on deck. They cannot hire people fast enough to
service the oil companies in the overnight ramping up. And
China had cheap oil through Iran through the strait of hormones,
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and now they're having to compete with Japan and others
for much higher priced oil, our oil. And that is
supply and demand. That the supply increased. I'm sorry the
demand increased. The supply didn't increase overnight. There has been
an increase in supply. There has been an increase in production,
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but not coincidental with the demand. And that of course,
you know, you have your basic x YX supply and demand,
the price goes up. President was also asked about reports
that China was sending weapons to Iran, which would be
a big problem.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
This is what he said, but miss Presudent, just to
be clear, you said the other day that any country
that supports Iran and sends military equipment to Iran will
face a fifty percent tariff if they try to bring products.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Did you complete you refer to China? Did you mean China?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yes, and other people, but yes, China to Okay, if
we find that China, because I hear news reports, so
the news report doesn't mean much to me because they're
still fake. But I hear news reports about China giving
the shoulder missiles, what's called the shoulder missile anti aircraft missile.
I doubt they would do that because I have a
relationship and I think they wouldn't do that. But maybe
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they did a little bit at the beginning, but I
don't think they would. Anyone know.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But if we catch them.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Doing that, they get a fifty percent tariff, which is
a staggering that's a staggering amount.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
This is an interesting time. My concern, I've said this
all along. My concern is that we're going to see
inflation through the summer. At a minimum, we're not going
to see mortgage rates decreased, and I think we needed
the opposite effect to win in November, but there's time
we shall see. Earlier this year, President Trump signed the
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Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which brought whole milk
back to schools. Seems like a good thing. No one
could argue against that right well. While speaking an event
in February, Oregon Representative Maxine Dexter compared white milk in
schools to white supremacy.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Please ask for the science based regimens, not whatever our
a junior is getting kickbacks on, or you know whatever,
whole milk white supremacy dog with swing that's happening right now.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I'm getting a little too political, but wow, this seems
like the perfect topic. White milk is white supremacists, perfect
topic for our friends at National Public Radio. The following
program is only made possible by contributions from listeners like you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Hello, and welcome to soft voices, hard truths. My apologies.
I'm a little charged up today. I'm your host, Wesley Cardigan.
In a nation reckoning with its past, a new question
curdles to the surface. Is white milk racist? For generations,
It's been poured without question, cold pale, unchallenged, But critics
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now argue white milk isn't just a beverage. It's a
narrative one that centers blandness as a virtue because cows
were told are listening. Cows raised exclusively by white male farmers,
often within what one active is described as pastor adjacent
power structures, continue to produce white milk, predictable, monochromatic, some
say the milk of choice for white supremacists, but shift
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the environment and the other responds. Cows raised by people
of color are now reportedly producing chocolate milk straight from
the source, no powders, no syrups, just lived experience free
from the shackles of white supremacy. One farmer described it
as reparations you can pour over cereal and in LGBTQ
plus farming collectives, cows are producing a fruity milk, naturally pink,
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lightly sweet strawberry milk, and, according to one non binary holstein.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Finally seen.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
The dairy industry insists milk is milk, but critics ask
who decided to have and why does two percent feel
like patriarchy. Researchers are now exploring oat milk, which identifies
as dairy adjacent but refuses labels. For now, Americans are
left to confront an uncomfortable truth. The next time you
open your fridge, you may not just be choosing milk.
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You may be choosing racism. I must remind you that
following this program, Cedar Rain will show you the benefits
of building tiny homes out of reclaimed wood. Thank you
for listening to our little program where the only anything
hard is the truth, and the only thing soft it's
the voices. Oh wait, that doesn't seem right. Oh dear well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The Republican establishment has finally seen the writing on the wall.
People of Texas don't want John Cornyn. The Senate Leadership
Fund Pack announced last week that it was committing three
hundred and forty two million dollars to support a slate
of candidates across eight states, and John Cornyan was not
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one of them. After twenty four years in the Senate,
they are cutting bait. Thune, the Senate Majority leaders Other
Pack has not spent any money on corning since they
dropped nearly eleven million dollars last year. Their play was
dump money into this race early and squeeze out in challengers.
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I will argue this till I'm blue in the face,
but there are a lot of people who believe that
if Wesley Hunt doesn't get in that race, it doesn't
go to a runoff. I will tell you, having talked
to plenty of experts and studied the numbers myself, if
Wesley Hunt doesn't get in that race in a primary
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as it was, there's a decent chance corn And wins.
If you're going to beat an incumbent who has the
power of incumbency, and in his case a massive power.
He's very close to the Senate leadership. He's very much
an insider, he's very much a Beltway swamp creature. This
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is a guy who stabbed Trump in the back multiple times.
This is a guy who sees Trumps as a passing fancy.
And once he's out of there, we can get back
to running things and we won't have to hear from
the base. We can demoralize them, and ever so often
we can say the Democrats are bad, and then we
can go back to partying with them. And what happened
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was what happens in situations like this. It's just like
Dewhurst versus Cruise. In twenty twelve. You had Dewhurst, who
was the Lieutenant governor, very wealthy, had never lost an election,
been land commissioner before that, had spent a lot of
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money across the state with Republican women's groups donating to
every one of their events, had built up a very
high popularity, but never really been challenged, and then Cruise
comes out of nowhere. Twenty ten was the first year
of what we came to call the Tea Party, and
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the big win that year was Marco Ruby in Florida.
And then in twenty twelve, an unknown former state solicitor
general lawyer named Ted Cruz challenges Viz for that Senate
seat and manages to take Dewhurst to a runoff and
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was trailing going in, but everybody knew the incumbent tends
to cap out at whatever they get in the first round.
So if they get what did what did cornyin get?
Forty three, forty four, forty two percent, low forties. Anyway,
that's kind of his high water mark. Paxton is the uncorning.
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So you figure in a race like that, a twenty
four year incumbent who's just spent one hundred million dollars,
I mean he has drowned out any opposition with the
cash he spent. He had the major newspapers feverishly writing
what a great senator he was. Well, there was a
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time when that would have mattered. Now, Republican primary voters say,
wait a second, when the Houston Chronicle and the San
Antone paper and the Austin paper and the Dallas paper,
when they're all telling us how Cornyn is great and
we ought to vote for him, when they're the guys
that endorsed Kamala Harris w well, that's how we know
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who not to vote for, the fact that Cornyan is
the best of the worst in their opinion, that's our sign.
That's how we know. So Cornyan was at low forties,
Paston also at low forties, and then Hunt at whatever
it was, ten or so, maybe a little more than ten,
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maybe it's fifteen. But that meant that three out of
five voters had voted against the incumbent, who had been
there for twenty four years, who had spent one hundred
million dollars, who has universal name idea, and yet he
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lost three fitsts of the vote.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
That was.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The sign. And what is more, when you go to
a runoff in a race like this, and this was
the Crew's Dehurst race in twelve, there are a lot
of people who dutifully vote in the Republican primary. They're older,
they're Episcopalian, They're very proper. They don't like you to
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rock the vote. These are Jeb Bush voters in twenty sixteen.
These are you know, Bush family voters. They believe in
a proper Republican party. They like Mike penc He's a
proper His shoes are always shine it looks like he
just got a haircut, nails are nicely polished, as Tie
has always done. This is the proper This is the
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proper Republican Party of the proper Christians who live in
the proper neighborhood and do things properly. They have a
lot of guilt. They have two kids who are off
at college talking about how their parents are evil, and
they're very supportive because it's their kids. And their kids
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are in some sort of communist organization or socialist organization
and they hate American wanted to destroy it, and went
to the best private schools. This is a very very
common deal. That is that those parents or at least
a dad maybe the mom to are loyal traditional Republican
Bush voters. And that's the Republican Bush voters gave you
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the Mett Romney's. They gave you the George H. W. Bush,
they gave you, they give you the Greg Abbott. And
as long as you got all the money and nobody
can raise any money against you, you just you get
more of the same. But there has become since twenty
ten a massive outcropping of voters who say, I'm not
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settling for the fact that you're not a Democrat. I
want you to do the things we've asked you to do.
I don't just want a Republican party that claims to
be conservative ever so often mentions Christian principles and keeps
us at war all the time, which is what the
Republican Party had become under the Bushes. I don't need that.
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I don't need you to play tough guy with your
saber rattling or how we're going to war when you,
George W. Bush, didn't yourself. We all know the story.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
So you know, yeah, the Queen see brings you bias,
brings your bias.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Here's a little wrong through history. It's been thirty years
ago today, hek sorry, twenty nine years ago today. It
was nineteen ninety seven. There was a young phenom not
only racing his way toward a Master's victory, the youngest ever,
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but transforming the game of golf as we know it.
I don't know the numbers, but I'll bet you Steve
Elkington or Jim Nance or two uh boys right there,
I'm gonna that. Let that be noted, or some folks
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with the greater knowledge than me could than I have,
could put it into perspective. But a transformation happened to
golf that almost thirty years later is the reason you
can't get a tea time, And almost thirty years later
is the reason you watched the Masters when for many
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people you would not have. And that was when Tiger
Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters tournament,
finishing eighteen under par. Put that into perspective. Tom Kite
at the top of his game, place second with six
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under par twelve stroke lead at the Masters. I'm not
a golf expert, but I can tell you that doesn't
happen very often. This was that historic moment. You're not
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right and that's not where I wanted to go with this.
Do you just not right? There? It is I wins
for the Ages.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Here's his mom and dad, his father with that bypass
operation six weeks ago, unable to be out on the
course today, but he was there vicariously, step for step
with his son.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
They should be very proud.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Jimmy, their only child. Tiger Woods in a moment like
no one has ever seen at the Masters, shattering record
after record after record.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The green jacket will be on his shoulders in just
a moment. Was he twenty when he were twenty one?
I can't remember. I know he was in his twenties
and he wasn't up to twenty two like you just turned.
I remember at the time thinking I was a year
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and a half into being a lawyer, and I thought
I was somebody. This dude just won the Masters. I'm
over here schlepping public offerings and K one statements thinking
I'm somebody at seventy eight thousand dollars a year, he
just won the Masters? What have I done with my life?
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So Tiger Woods should first and foremost be remembered as
a man who took golf to the masses. As the
greatest of his era. I cannot compare him to prior eras,
but I have spoken to some pretty big luminaries in
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the golf world, and I won't say who said what.
Steve Elkington, who's a good friend of mine, claims that
that that my historical standards, Tiger Woods holds up to anybody.
And the reason for that is this, when when you
compare historical eras, you got to consider you know, Havlicek
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was a great player in his time, Bob Coosey was
a great player in his time. But they didn't play
against the they didn't play in the glory days of
the Lakers Celtics seventy six ers, when you had, in
my opinion, kind of the heyday of sports. I don't know.
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I don't know how Tiger would have compared to Palmer
and Nicholas. It'd be interesting to know. I don't know
to what extent that the course has changed. I don't
know what extent the club's changed. I do think it's
more competitive because there's a lot more money involved, and
when the Saudis and the Middle Easterners got involved, and
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when the TV contracts came along, I think it became
incredibly more competitive. I look at tennis. I'm a McEnroe nut.
I love Connors, I love Sammy Gamalva. I love that era.
I didn't love Yvonne Lindell, but I appreciate him. I
love the Swedes. I love Pat Cash, the Australian. I
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loved the Swedes, Stephan Edburgh and Yonder's a red Ya Reid,
who was the one that won the French at seventeen.
MAT's Vlander. I'll pretend that you told me that. Thank you, Ramone.
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Yes Matt's Vlander. Rod Laver was Australian, but yes, Okay,
Stan Smith, Kenny Rosewall. You know, I don't know. My
point to say this is this will make a lot
of people mad, and I don't care. Tiger's quote unquote
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crime is driving. His crime is not his painkiller addiction.
Obviously he has one, but that's not a crime. That
is something that you could argue he chooses, and sure
he does, but I think the guy is in a
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great deal of chronic pain all the time. You know,
he should have lost his foot in the last accident.
I don't think the golf swing is natural to the
human body. You just look at it. You think about
how the human body is built, and you think about
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striking the ball with the torque of the twist of
your body. Considering I've had the tiniest of back problems,
and they have laid me out. So you think about
if you've ever suffered from back problems, don't just take
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his back problems alone. If you've ever suffered from back problems,
you understand what chronic back pain does to you. It's debilitating.
A non sufferer cannot understand it. Now you add to
that all the other things. You add. The pressure of
being His dad was tough on him, and it's why
he was a great golf player. I think he missed
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a childhood. You know, I don't make excuses for Michael
Jackson's what I think was pedophilia, but I think Michael
Jackson has some of the same. You know, when a
child does not have a normal upbringing, and when a
child is the breadwinner as a young child, and when
a child has adults kissing their ass from a childhood,
from childhood, I think that I think that can create
dysfunction for you. Following traffic laws for instance, I wish
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they'd get him a driver. Obviously he doesn't want that,
and he's got his own reasons and the Lord knows
what those are. But his crimes are related to driving,
not murdering anybody's not raping anybody's he's self medicating or
medicating to some extent, and then he's driving me. Just
stopped driving. We could stop dealing with this, and I
feel bad for them. Help us doing, Thank you, and
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good night,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Congressman Eric Swawell officially suspending his campaign for governor. He
wrote on X to my family, staff, friends, and supporters.
I am deeply sorry for the mistakes and judgment I've
made in my pass.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I will fight the serious false.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Allegations that have been made, but that's my fight, not
a campaigns Again. It was Friday when CNN and the
San Francisco Chronicle both reported on these allegations.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations.
I thought it was important that you see and hear
from me directly. These allegations of sexual assault are flat false.
They're absolutely false. They did not happen, they have never happened,
and I will fight them with everything that I have.
They also come on the eve of an election where
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I've been the front winner.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Candidate for governor in California.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The truth's going to come out, and I hope everything
you've done so far is clean, because if it's not,
there's going to be a reckoning for that. As far
as public accountability that's.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Going to come.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
What are the chances that three or four women independently
who never met each other would have similar experiences with
one person. So either ari this person committed these horrific acts,
or he is the single unluckiest person in the world
for these people to conspire and make up.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Lies against him.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But it's a very hard case to make the more
allegations that command interesting timeline.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The congressional district primary would be June twond so two
months from now. Swallwell has missed the deadline to run
for re election to his congressional seat. That deadline, I
believe was March sixth, if my reading of their election
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calendar is correct, and I believe it is, so, he
is five six weeks beyond the time at which he
could go back to his congressional seat and run for
and likely win reelection. So because this whole series of
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scandals was released after his deadline to file for congress,
Swallwell suspending his campaign today if he drops out. And
this is just a little quirk. I'm sure you know this,
but I'll explain it just in case. The reason you
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suspend your campaign, which they always do rather than end
your campaign, is because a campaign that is suspended can
simply flip us, which and be active again tomorrow or
the day before the election. His name is going to
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appear on the ballot. One way or another. His name
is going to appear on the ballot. They do a
jungle primary in California, which is where the top two
finishers will be in a runoff, and at present, the
top two finishers do not include Swalwell, but a lot
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could happen. The top two, according to polls today, are
both Republicans. They're both in the mid teens. One of
whom is a Fox News person out any think it?
Steve Hilton's his name. I forget who number two is.
We'll get to that in time. Plenty of time for that.
But back to Swalwell, who was the front runner and
who was most likely to win. You've got Tom Steyer,
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who's an old liberal kind of a governor Moonbeam kind
of liberal. You've got some other folks in the race.
You've got a lot of folks in the race. You'll
remember when a previous sex scandal gubernatorial candidate and Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger ran. They were I think seventy or eighty
including including Arnold aka Gary Coleman. But there are plenty
(04:17):
of candidates running, and Democrats cannot afford to lose their
biggest state. They cannot afford to lose the bastion of
socialism in this country. So they will coalesce behind their candidate.
They will begin to attack the Republican candidates, and they
(04:39):
will find their candidate. The reason Swallowell is falling apart
is not organic, It's not natural. What's happening is the
Democrat poubas, the George Soros crowd recognizes that there are
(05:01):
a lot more scandals, because remember, they know a lot
more than they're letting on. They've known about these scandals
for a while the public didn't, and they know there
are lots more out there. Heyl O Bob Smith's daughter
says he raped her and left her in a state
(05:23):
where you left her on the side of the road.
There's a police report on that. I've talked to the cop.
Did well, what about otom Dinnerstein? Well, his ex wife
said she was raped by him? Well, what about And
so those stories and the people affected. Every person affected
(05:44):
has a brother, sister, mother, father, next door, neighbor, boss,
sorority sister. Right if they file police reports and it
may turn out that some did the officer involved. This
is considered a significant event. It's the term within police
(06:04):
departments that means those are handled differently than your average
person getting charged with ray or sexual assault or whatever else.
So they know that there's a lot of smoke around
this fire, and now you're seeing the embers start to
(06:25):
be revealed. They cannot afford to lose this race, so
they had to get him out of the race early
enough that they can pick someone else. They're not in
love with Eric Swalwell or Elliot Spitzer or any other candidate.
(06:48):
They are in love with power. Biden was always a
place keeper for them to exercise power. That's why on
the Sunday a few days before the election, they smothered
him and slid Kamala Harrison there. They didn't let the
Democrat voters choose their nominee at the beginning of the
(07:10):
year because if they had, they weren't sure who it
would be, and it might be Robert Kennedy and he
was too much of an independent, he was too much
of a wildcard. So they said, I wis not I'm
gonna have primaries. Wait what, we picked Biden And then
when it was clear Biden couldn't do it. They agreed
to the early debate so the grassroots could go, oh yeah,
(07:32):
we want him out of there, and they slid Kamala
Harrison there. So this isn't anybody coming to It's not
a come to Jesus on Eric Swallwell, this is a hey,
we got to win, and he can't win that they're
tossing him out. President Trump was on Fox News with
Maria Barbiromo when he was asked about the US Navy's
blockade of Iran. Iran was setting up the Strait of
(07:56):
Horror Moves as a toll booth and collecting money as
ships passed by, and so the President blew up, effectively
figuratively the tool booth and said, now we're going to
shut this thing down. He was asked how that would
affect China.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
As far as China's concerned. China can send their ships
to US. China consends their ships to Venezuela. We told
them buy from Venezuela. We have a lot of overcapacity
with sell them, and we'll probably sell it for even
less money.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I have a very good.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Relationship with Presidency of China and we work together very well.
They're paying us a substantial money, as you know, we've
never got money before. You know, I listened to this
Gordon Chang. He has no idea what he's talking about.
We have been very tough in China, tough but fair
and you know, it's an amazing place. But I have
a very good relationship with China and they've been during
(08:53):
my you know, I put tremendous tariffs. I put one
hundred percent tariff on all Chinese cars coming in, and
that's destroying Europe. They're destroying Europe because they've taken away
so much business from Mercedes and BMW et cetera. And
we don't have any Chinese cars in our country because
they would have destroyed General Motors Board. They would have
destroyed these companies if they did it. So I put
(09:15):
one hundred percent terrifon and an all fairness to Biden,
he allowed it to stay on, which is shocking.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
To Me's one of the things. It's about the only
thing he did good.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But he allowed him today. So we don't have the
problem that they have.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So American oil, which is really Gulf Coast oil Texas Texas,
primarily with Texas Louisiana. American oil has spiked. It was
over one hundred dollars a barrel about noon today when
I checked. Energy stocks have spiked, the oil field service
(09:48):
business has spiked, and there are reports of tankers turning
around and heading to the Gulf of America and the
activity that has increased. I'm hearing from folks as to
We've got show sponsors at our Houston, our flagship who
(10:09):
service the energy sector in Texas, and they are all
hands on deck. They cannot hire people fast enough to
service the oil companies in the overnight ramping up. And
China had cheap oil through Iran through the strait of hormones,
(10:30):
and now they're having to compete with Japan and others
for much higher priced oil, our oil. And that is
supply and demand. That the supply increased. I'm sorry the
demand increased. The supply didn't increase overnight. There has been
an increase in supply. There has been an increase in production,
(10:52):
but not coincidental with the demand. And that of course,
you know, you have your basic x YX supply and demand,
the price goes up. President was also asked about reports
that China was sending weapons to Iran, which would be
a big problem.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
This is what he said, but miss Presudent, just to
be clear, you said the other day that any country
that supports Iran and sends military equipment to Iran will
face a fifty percent tariff if they try to bring products.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Did you complete you refer to China? Did you mean China?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yes, and other people, but yes, China to Okay, if
we find that China, because I hear news reports, so
the news report doesn't mean much to me because they're
still fake. But I hear news reports about China giving
the shoulder missiles, what's called the shoulder missile anti aircraft missile.
I doubt they would do that because I have a
relationship and I think they wouldn't do that. But maybe
(11:47):
they did a little bit at the beginning, but I
don't think they would. Anyone know.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But if we catch them.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Doing that, they get a fifty percent tariff, which is
a staggering that's a staggering amount.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
This is an interesting time. My concern, I've said this
all along. My concern is that we're going to see
inflation through the summer. At a minimum, we're not going
to see mortgage rates decreased, and I think we needed
the opposite effect to win in November, but there's time
we shall see. Earlier this year, President Trump signed the
(12:20):
Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which brought whole milk
back to schools. Seems like a good thing. No one
could argue against that right well. While speaking an event
in February, Oregon Representative Maxine Dexter compared white milk in
schools to white supremacy.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Please ask for the science based regimens, not whatever our
a junior is getting kickbacks on, or you know whatever,
whole milk white supremacy dog with swing that's happening right now.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I'm getting a little too political, but wow, this seems
like the perfect topic. White milk is white supremacists, perfect
topic for our friends at National Public Radio. The following
program is only made possible by contributions from listeners like you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Hello, and welcome to soft voices, hard truths. My apologies.
I'm a little charged up today. I'm your host, Wesley Cardigan.
In a nation reckoning with its past, a new question
curdles to the surface. Is white milk racist? For generations,
It's been poured without question, cold pale, unchallenged, But critics
(13:34):
now argue white milk isn't just a beverage. It's a
narrative one that centers blandness as a virtue because cows
were told are listening. Cows raised exclusively by white male farmers,
often within what one active is described as pastor adjacent
power structures, continue to produce white milk, predictable, monochromatic, some
say the milk of choice for white supremacists, but shift
(13:57):
the environment and the other responds. Cows raised by people
of color are now reportedly producing chocolate milk straight from
the source, no powders, no syrups, just lived experience free
from the shackles of white supremacy. One farmer described it
as reparations you can pour over cereal and in LGBTQ
plus farming collectives, cows are producing a fruity milk, naturally pink,
(14:20):
lightly sweet strawberry milk, and, according to one non binary holstein.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Finally seen.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
The dairy industry insists milk is milk, but critics ask
who decided to have and why does two percent feel
like patriarchy. Researchers are now exploring oat milk, which identifies
as dairy adjacent but refuses labels. For now, Americans are
left to confront an uncomfortable truth. The next time you
open your fridge, you may not just be choosing milk.
(14:47):
You may be choosing racism. I must remind you that
following this program, Cedar Rain will show you the benefits
of building tiny homes out of reclaimed wood. Thank you
for listening to our little program where the only anything
hard is the truth, and the only thing soft it's
the voices. Oh wait, that doesn't seem right. Oh dear well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The Republican establishment has finally seen the writing on the wall.
People of Texas don't want John Cornyn. The Senate Leadership
Fund Pack announced last week that it was committing three
hundred and forty two million dollars to support a slate
of candidates across eight states, and John Cornyan was not
(15:33):
one of them. After twenty four years in the Senate,
they are cutting bait. Thune, the Senate Majority leaders Other
Pack has not spent any money on corning since they
dropped nearly eleven million dollars last year. Their play was
dump money into this race early and squeeze out in challengers.
(16:03):
I will argue this till I'm blue in the face,
but there are a lot of people who believe that
if Wesley Hunt doesn't get in that race, it doesn't
go to a runoff. I will tell you, having talked
to plenty of experts and studied the numbers myself, if
Wesley Hunt doesn't get in that race in a primary
(16:27):
as it was, there's a decent chance corn And wins.
If you're going to beat an incumbent who has the
power of incumbency, and in his case a massive power.
He's very close to the Senate leadership. He's very much
an insider, he's very much a Beltway swamp creature. This
(16:52):
is a guy who stabbed Trump in the back multiple times.
This is a guy who sees Trumps as a passing fancy.
And once he's out of there, we can get back
to running things and we won't have to hear from
the base. We can demoralize them, and ever so often
we can say the Democrats are bad, and then we
can go back to partying with them. And what happened
(17:17):
was what happens in situations like this. It's just like
Dewhurst versus Cruise. In twenty twelve. You had Dewhurst, who
was the Lieutenant governor, very wealthy, had never lost an election,
been land commissioner before that, had spent a lot of
(17:37):
money across the state with Republican women's groups donating to
every one of their events, had built up a very
high popularity, but never really been challenged, and then Cruise
comes out of nowhere. Twenty ten was the first year
of what we came to call the Tea Party, and
(17:57):
the big win that year was Marco Ruby in Florida.
And then in twenty twelve, an unknown former state solicitor
general lawyer named Ted Cruz challenges Viz for that Senate
seat and manages to take Dewhurst to a runoff and
(18:20):
was trailing going in, but everybody knew the incumbent tends
to cap out at whatever they get in the first round.
So if they get what did what did cornyin get?
Forty three, forty four, forty two percent, low forties. Anyway,
that's kind of his high water mark. Paxton is the uncorning.
(18:46):
So you figure in a race like that, a twenty
four year incumbent who's just spent one hundred million dollars,
I mean he has drowned out any opposition with the
cash he spent. He had the major newspapers feverishly writing
what a great senator he was. Well, there was a
(19:09):
time when that would have mattered. Now, Republican primary voters say,
wait a second, when the Houston Chronicle and the San
Antone paper and the Austin paper and the Dallas paper,
when they're all telling us how Cornyn is great and
we ought to vote for him, when they're the guys
that endorsed Kamala Harris w well, that's how we know
(19:31):
who not to vote for, the fact that Cornyan is
the best of the worst in their opinion, that's our sign.
That's how we know. So Cornyan was at low forties,
Paston also at low forties, and then Hunt at whatever
it was, ten or so, maybe a little more than ten,
(19:53):
maybe it's fifteen. But that meant that three out of
five voters had voted against the incumbent, who had been
there for twenty four years, who had spent one hundred
million dollars, who has universal name idea, and yet he
(20:14):
lost three fitsts of the vote.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
That was.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The sign. And what is more, when you go to
a runoff in a race like this, and this was
the Crew's Dehurst race in twelve, there are a lot
of people who dutifully vote in the Republican primary. They're older,
they're Episcopalian, They're very proper. They don't like you to
(20:45):
rock the vote. These are Jeb Bush voters in twenty sixteen.
These are you know, Bush family voters. They believe in
a proper Republican party. They like Mike penc He's a
proper His shoes are always shine it looks like he
just got a haircut, nails are nicely polished, as Tie
has always done. This is the proper This is the
(21:06):
proper Republican Party of the proper Christians who live in
the proper neighborhood and do things properly. They have a
lot of guilt. They have two kids who are off
at college talking about how their parents are evil, and
they're very supportive because it's their kids. And their kids
(21:26):
are in some sort of communist organization or socialist organization
and they hate American wanted to destroy it, and went
to the best private schools. This is a very very
common deal. That is that those parents or at least
a dad maybe the mom to are loyal traditional Republican
Bush voters. And that's the Republican Bush voters gave you
(21:53):
the Mett Romney's. They gave you the George H. W. Bush,
they gave you, they give you the Greg Abbott. And
as long as you got all the money and nobody
can raise any money against you, you just you get
more of the same. But there has become since twenty
ten a massive outcropping of voters who say, I'm not
(22:20):
settling for the fact that you're not a Democrat. I
want you to do the things we've asked you to do.
I don't just want a Republican party that claims to
be conservative ever so often mentions Christian principles and keeps
us at war all the time, which is what the
Republican Party had become under the Bushes. I don't need that.
(22:42):
I don't need you to play tough guy with your
saber rattling or how we're going to war when you,
George W. Bush, didn't yourself. We all know the story.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
So you know, yeah, the Queen see brings you bias,
brings your bias.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Here's a little wrong through history. It's been thirty years
ago today, hek sorry, twenty nine years ago today. It
was nineteen ninety seven. There was a young phenom not
only racing his way toward a Master's victory, the youngest ever,
(23:33):
but transforming the game of golf as we know it.
I don't know the numbers, but I'll bet you Steve
Elkington or Jim Nance or two uh boys right there,
I'm gonna that. Let that be noted, or some folks
(23:57):
with the greater knowledge than me could than I have,
could put it into perspective. But a transformation happened to
golf that almost thirty years later is the reason you
can't get a tea time, And almost thirty years later
is the reason you watched the Masters when for many
(24:19):
people you would not have. And that was when Tiger
Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters tournament,
finishing eighteen under par. Put that into perspective. Tom Kite
at the top of his game, place second with six
(24:40):
under par twelve stroke lead at the Masters. I'm not
a golf expert, but I can tell you that doesn't
happen very often. This was that historic moment. You're not
(25:06):
right and that's not where I wanted to go with this.
Do you just not right? There? It is I wins
for the Ages.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Here's his mom and dad, his father with that bypass
operation six weeks ago, unable to be out on the
course today, but he was there vicariously, step for step
with his son.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
They should be very proud.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Jimmy, their only child. Tiger Woods in a moment like
no one has ever seen at the Masters, shattering record
after record after record.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The green jacket will be on his shoulders in just
a moment. Was he twenty when he were twenty one?
I can't remember. I know he was in his twenties
and he wasn't up to twenty two like you just turned.
I remember at the time thinking I was a year
(26:11):
and a half into being a lawyer, and I thought
I was somebody. This dude just won the Masters. I'm
over here schlepping public offerings and K one statements thinking
I'm somebody at seventy eight thousand dollars a year, he
just won the Masters? What have I done with my life?
(26:33):
So Tiger Woods should first and foremost be remembered as
a man who took golf to the masses. As the
greatest of his era. I cannot compare him to prior eras,
but I have spoken to some pretty big luminaries in
(26:59):
the golf world, and I won't say who said what.
Steve Elkington, who's a good friend of mine, claims that
that that my historical standards, Tiger Woods holds up to anybody.
And the reason for that is this, when when you
compare historical eras, you got to consider you know, Havlicek
(27:24):
was a great player in his time, Bob Coosey was
a great player in his time. But they didn't play
against the they didn't play in the glory days of
the Lakers Celtics seventy six ers, when you had, in
my opinion, kind of the heyday of sports. I don't know.
(27:48):
I don't know how Tiger would have compared to Palmer
and Nicholas. It'd be interesting to know. I don't know
to what extent that the course has changed. I don't
know what extent the club's changed. I do think it's
more competitive because there's a lot more money involved, and
when the Saudis and the Middle Easterners got involved, and
(28:11):
when the TV contracts came along, I think it became
incredibly more competitive. I look at tennis. I'm a McEnroe nut.
I love Connors, I love Sammy Gamalva. I love that era.
I didn't love Yvonne Lindell, but I appreciate him. I
love the Swedes. I love Pat Cash, the Australian. I
(28:35):
loved the Swedes, Stephan Edburgh and Yonder's a red Ya Reid,
who was the one that won the French at seventeen.
MAT's Vlander. I'll pretend that you told me that. Thank you, Ramone.
(28:55):
Yes Matt's Vlander. Rod Laver was Australian, but yes, Okay,
Stan Smith, Kenny Rosewall. You know, I don't know. My
point to say this is this will make a lot
of people mad, and I don't care. Tiger's quote unquote
(29:18):
crime is driving. His crime is not his painkiller addiction.
Obviously he has one, but that's not a crime. That
is something that you could argue he chooses, and sure
he does, but I think the guy is in a
(29:42):
great deal of chronic pain all the time. You know,
he should have lost his foot in the last accident.
I don't think the golf swing is natural to the
human body. You just look at it. You think about
how the human body is built, and you think about
(30:02):
striking the ball with the torque of the twist of
your body. Considering I've had the tiniest of back problems,
and they have laid me out. So you think about
if you've ever suffered from back problems, don't just take
(30:23):
his back problems alone. If you've ever suffered from back problems,
you understand what chronic back pain does to you. It's debilitating.
A non sufferer cannot understand it. Now you add to
that all the other things. You add. The pressure of
being His dad was tough on him, and it's why
he was a great golf player. I think he missed
(30:44):
a childhood. You know, I don't make excuses for Michael
Jackson's what I think was pedophilia, but I think Michael
Jackson has some of the same. You know, when a
child does not have a normal upbringing, and when a
child is the breadwinner as a young child, and when
a child has adults kissing their ass from a childhood,
from childhood, I think that I think that can create
dysfunction for you. Following traffic laws for instance, I wish
(31:09):
they'd get him a driver. Obviously he doesn't want that,
and he's got his own reasons and the Lord knows
what those are. But his crimes are related to driving,
not murdering anybody's not raping anybody's he's self medicating or
medicating to some extent, and then he's driving me. Just
stopped driving. We could stop dealing with this, and I
feel bad for them. Help us doing, Thank you, and
(31:34):
good night,
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