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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Verishow is on the air. I don't know what's
going on in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The state capital Louisiana has had some crazy news stories
of late. There was a man naked in a Lowe's
home store. They just like a series of these stories
that have clustered up. Here's another one. I don't know
what to make of this other than people with poor
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dispute resolution skills. A family wants a Baton Rouge hairdresser
charged criminally after she attempted to cut off their eleven
year old child's braids in retaliation during a dispute over
a late charge with the girl's grandmother. What hairdresser thinks
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it's okay to say I'm gonna cut off the braids.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's how I'll punish you.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Story from w b RZTV out of batten Reache my breathcot.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
When you say it, I'm like, oh my god, I'm
like wait, you know, you just don't know what's gonna
happen next, because I don't know what her attend is
at this point.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
That was Contado's Signaltano's reaction after seeing video of an
altercation involving her pregnant daughter, eleven year old granddaughter, and
the hair stylist, and it all started over a twenty
five dollars late feet.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
My daughter said, well, your gradesperious states that I'm laid
after ten minutes.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
I was here at five ten.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
So the pair refused to pay the extra fee, and
they began arguing.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Back and forth.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You can see her picked the tails up and she
just as to cut my granddaughter's style out, but my
daughter had already paid for that stall. She was in
crying about the twenty five dollars late feet.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
The video shows the mom trying to stop the stylist
from taking back the braids, injuring herself in the process.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And what they told me was that there was no intent,
that she wasn't trying to cut my daughter's hands.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
My issue is.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Once she picked, once she picked the feelers up, she.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Became a threat.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
She said, her granddaughter is traumatized and she once criminal
charges falled against the stylists.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And when you get fresh braids, it's it's even that hurts,
and that she's pulling. It wasn't a light pull, it
was pulling, cause you can see if you watch the
video her body is like literally hanging back.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
She's pulling her and.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
My granddaughter was trying to and I I can't imagine
how it felt. It had to be painful. But when
I arrived, she was crying. She ran to my arms
and you know, my mom, it hurt.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
WRZ hasn't named the stylist because no charges having a
fire and something Singleton is working on, saying her next
stop will be the district Attorney's office.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
At one, you count to the initial appointment.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Two you picked up scissors to.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
A child's head.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Regardless of the intent, you picked scissors up like that
does not make any sense to me. It just does
not make any sense to me. You do not have
the right to cut the fyll off the child's head.
There's a way to.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Handle those things.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
You cannot take your.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Law in to your hands.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There was a story in the news a couple of
weeks back, and I've been meaning to get to it,
and I've thought a lot about it. It's kind of
like the last lecture, except this teacher is continuing to teach.
It's a Stanford professor with terminal cancer, and he teaches
a class about dying from cancer. The nun It's called
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the non small cell adino carcinoma, also known as never
smoker lung cancer. Can you imagine you get lung cancer
and you weren't a smoker. It is the same cancer.
This is the cancer that's killing him. He's going to
die of soon. It's the same cancer that he spent
his entire tenure researching. I've referenced a book called Chasing Daylight.
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The guy was I think he was a CEO of
Deloitte and to sure cooper'son Library and or one of
those consulting firms. And it's a book about how he
gets diagnosed with a terminal cancer and how he plans
out his final days to methodically say goodbye and thank
you to everyone in his life in this series of
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increasingly tightening circles. He starts with people he went to
high school with, Hey, thank you for my friendship. It's
a beautiful, wonderful book. And Chasing Daylight is a golfers
for trying to finish the round of golf before it
gets too dark to be able to play. And it's
a really really beautiful story and well written in a
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true story, it's autobiographical. And then there is a guy
who did the last lecture you remember, and then there
is this story. The story is from kr EMTV.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Doctor Bryant Lynn has been a physician and a professor
at Stanford University for almost two decades. But this time
he's not only the teacher, he's also the subject.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Still getting chemotherapy every three weeks.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
In twenty twenty four, doctor Lynn was battling a bad
call for months. A CT scan revealed non small cell
and dino carcinoma, never smoke or lung cancer.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I ended up having stage four, which is the most
advanced stage.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
The news was a dose of cruel irony. Doctor Lynn
co founded the Center for Asian Health Research and Education.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
One of our priority areas is lung cancer and people
who have never smoked, because it disproportionately affects Asians and
particularly Asian women.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Within weeks, doctor Lynn was in a chemotherapy infusion chair,
receiving the same treatment he counseled his patients and students
on for years. It was here that he saw an opportunity.
The class is called From Diagnosis to Dialogue, a doctor's
real time battle with cancer deal with like a lot
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of the ethical considerations. Isabella Hefferman was one of the
lucky ones to get a seat.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
I was just really in awe and how well he's
able to discuss this, and just the bravery.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
The ten week course covers the entire spectrum of cancer
as seen through the eyes of someone who is living it,
and some patients.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Don't want to engage.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They don't necessarily want to know all these details.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Each week a new topic and guest lecturer.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death
in the United States. This is going to impact somebody,
you know, maybe yourself.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Doctor Lynn plans to teach his class for as long
as he can. The syllabus like his cancer journey may change,
but his mission remains the same.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I looked at him, and they looked at me, you know,
and I just looked at her, and I have to
just get your stuff and get out.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
To Michael Berry's shoe Harvey's.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
Over and got a newspaper and I wrote it up
and I slapped him on the nose that said bad.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
An illegal alien held in the Twin Towers Jail in
the Sanctuary City of Los Angeles was transferred to ice
custody because the jail is now being forced to cooperate
with DHS as part of a new federal opposite operation
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designed to quote neutralize California sanctuary state law. It's all
part of we talked about this, it's all part of
Operation Guardian Angel that was launched by you Attorney Bill
of Sale, who's doing a great job last week, where
they basically issue federal felony criminal warrants for illegals, which
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cannot be ignored by sanctuary policies. So what you have
to do is charge them with a federal crime. So
what they're doing in order to do that, you'll hear
people say, well, it's not a felony to come into
the country illegally.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The act of entering illegally is a misdemeanor, not a felony. However,
when you are deported and you reenter, that does become
a felony. The re entry is a whole different crime.
So what they're doing is now they're matching the deportation
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lists with the held in jail list, and so these
people that they're holding in jail to hide them so
the Feds can't get them, they're popping up on both lists.
Boom warrant issued, go in, get them, get them out
of here. Pretty genius if you think about it.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
An incredibly rare interaction. As the jail in Los Angeles
transfers an illegal alien to ICE custody, the sanctuary jurisdiction
forced to hand this Mexican national over thanks to a
first of its kind federal operation.
Speaker 12 (09:23):
With this operation, we're going to be neutralizing California sanctuary
state policies.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
Bill of Sale is the US attorney in LA and
the architect of operation Guardian angel.
Speaker 12 (09:32):
California is the testing ground on this. We are one
of the largest sanctuary jurisdictions.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All right, thanks for shirkling on. So how does it
work is?
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Sale has created a federal task force made up of ICE, HSI, FBI, DEA,
and ATF all working together out of this office in
downtown law is.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Crimin High Street past the domestic violence.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
They scan these criminal databases daily to find illegal aliens
in local jails who have been previously deported from the
United States.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What are your arrest?
Speaker 11 (10:05):
If they've returned to the US, They've committed a federal
felony known as illegal re entry, and as Sale's office
will immediately seek a criminal arrest warrant against them, which
unlike an ICE detainer.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Sanctuary jails can't ignore.
Speaker 12 (10:20):
We're going to flood the system with warrants for criminal
illegal immigrants that are in county jails. They can ignore
a detainer, but they cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
The Federal Task Force brought us with them as they
went to Twin Towers Jail in downtown LA to take
custody of a previously deported alien they found in their
database and filed a warrant on he was facing local
charges for robbery, but the sanctuary jail immediately handed him
over to Ice. With California's sanctuary policies unable to protect
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him from the criminal warrant, they.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Have no choice.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
They will comply, and if they don't comply, if they
interfere in our ability to arrest a federal FECs, that
they can expect to face consequences.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
And the Task Force tells us once they're up and
running at full steam, they project they're going to be
able to arrest between forty and fifty aliens from local
sanctuary jails here in SoCal every single week now. If
this is successful here in Los Angeles, the Task Force
says this could be used as a model to neutralize
other sanctuary jurisdictions all across the country.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
This is all so very predictable. Last year, California became
the first state in the nation to offer free healthcare
to illegal aliens. Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants to be president,
expanded what they call the Medical Program Meta and then
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State of California. A year later, it turns out that
it costs billions more than he claimed it would, so
now he's trying to walk the program back, and he
blames it all on Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You see this happen. Beto O'Rourke did this.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You'll see this happen where guys when they're running for
an office or holding an office in a place like California,
then they get ready to run for president. They have
to win votes in purple states, when all they've had
to do was appease California progressives. Their policies don't work
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in purple states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, so then
they have to start undoing the bad things they did.
I think back to Michael Ducalcus Michael Ducaucus in nineteen
eighty eight as governor of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
He did very liberal things.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But that meant that when it came time to run nationally,
he looked like a nut. And do you remember the
furlough Remember the name of the guy he furloughed. I'll
let you say it out loud before I do.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
I was completely devastated to see this news, to see
the state choosing to balance our budget on the backs
of working people, hardworking immigrant communities.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
Under Newsom's plan, low income adults without legal status will
no longer be eligible to apply for medical taking effect
next year. Josh Dalek, the policy director for the California
Immigrant Policy Center, says it feels as if the governor
is abandoning a proud legacy of bringing California to a
state of almost universal health care.
Speaker 14 (13:37):
It will end up resulting in folks being unable to
access healthcare that they vitally need, which means that they'll
be living sicker, potentially missing work.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
He says it could also lead to systemic problems affecting
all Californians in terms of potentially over burdening emergency room
systems and potentially leaving hospitals uncompensated for the care. Amanda
McAllister Walner with Health Access California is also worried for
the people who already have coverage and are nineteen years
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and older. The governor has proposed they pay a one
hundred dollars monthly premium.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
People making under fifteen thousand dollars a year under twenty
thousand dollars a year, where paying one hundred dollars a
month just isn't possible.
Speaker 13 (14:31):
Republican Senator Brian Jones says he warned the governor over
a year and a half ago that the program was
not sustainable.
Speaker 15 (14:39):
What's happening now is the governor for the last six
years has been making all of these promises of what
he's going to do with medical without really analyzing and
paying attention to the outcomes.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
In total, Newsance Office estimates the changes will save the
state five point four billion dollars, but Senator Jones says
it's too little and too late to avoid the damage.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
If you take a look at the cuts that we're
going to need to make. This here, that's legal residents
and citizens that are paying their taxes that are.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Now going to have some kind of service. Pat But everybody.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Knows who this guy is.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Come on, man, the Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
If you've never seen the video for this, I'm going
to assume you have.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You know, because those of us from the Golden Try,
you know, it's legendary because he insisted that it be
filmed in the town where he lives, Beaumont, Texas, not
in Nashville. Neither he nor Tracy Birds moved to Nashville.
They stayed in Beaumont. And it gives it us a
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realistic sense because it's a real place where it's being held.
So I read this article and I wanted to share
it with you since so many people, so many of us,
are in the oil and gas.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Not me, but you, it said. The S and P.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Five hundred Put Fears is from the Wall Street Journal
to Markets Newsletter's one of the newsletters I get every morning.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The S and P.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Five hundred put fears about the trade war behind it
last week recouping all of its twenty twenty five losses.
Make sure we understand where we are. What was lost
has been regained in stock prices now. Without going too
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far into the weeds, I am not a person that
believes that a rising stock market is necessarily a great thing,
because a stock market is buyers and sellers. So if
you are a young person coming out of school trying
to begin building a portfolio. You can't buy the dip
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when it's at the high it was before Trump became president.
So it's a complicated equation, but it tends to be
shorthand inefficiently or inaccurately for how well the country's doing.
But I'll take it because the perception is for the teacher,
police officer, firefighter, small businessman, plant worker. When they get
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up and look online at their four oh one k
and its back where it was, they feel good. So
Trump must be doing something right, all right. But oil
has been left in the dust and probably won't catch up.
The price of a barrel of crude has fallen twelve
percent to sixty five dollars and fifty cents since President
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Trump's Liberation Day. We wanted to end inflation, right. Energy
investors have gone from worrying that a trade war could
trigger a global recession and hurt oil demand to fretting
about supply.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
There's too much of it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The oil market already had too many arrols on its
hands this year. Remember what happens. Remember what happens If
demand remains the same and supply drops, price drops, then
Opex surprised the market in April by announcing it would
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reverse its production curves faster than expected, releasing even more oil.
Opex in the hop is in the catbird seed here,
because they can affect dramatically the price of oil based
on how much they release at any given time. If
they withhold, it drives the price up. If they dump,
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it drives the price down. OPEC watchers were perplexed by
the timing and had competing theories about what was going on.
The Saudi lead cartel may be abandoning its two year
effort to prop up the oil price to focus on
winning market share, or it is punishing members that constantly
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breach their production quotas, like Kazakhstan. In other words, if
Kazakhstan's going to keep flooding the market beyond where they're
supposed to be, then the Saudis are going to drive
the price down by releasing a bunch of oil. Another theory,
riad is trying to curry favor with President Trump, who
promised voters sub two dollars a gallon gasoline on the
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campaign trail. Whatever the reason, it is a negative for
oil prices. If Trump can go over and get over
a trillion dollars worth of investment, if they're buying him
a four hundred million dollar plane, if they're playing Ymca
by the village people upon his arrival. Yeah, I think
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he can get them to adjust their output to drive
the price down so he can say to us, rightfully,
I gave you a gallon of gas for less than
two dollars. And by the way, I will remind you
in twenty twelve, when Michelle Bachman was running for president,
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when we had the whole group of them and Michelle Bakman,
I think she's from Minnesota. She's one that had fostered
like almost thirty kids. Not a lot is remembered about
her campaign, but what I remember is she said we
could drive oil prices under two dollars a gallon at
the pump for Americans and they laughed at her. Well,
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it ended up happening. Unpredictable diplomacy is another wild card
for investors. The oil price fell two point four percent
last Thursday after President Trump said he is close to
a deal with Iran over its nuclear enrichment program. If
they taunt with the Iran eventually leads to sanctions being lifted,
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even more oil could hit the market because now the
Iranis are going.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
To release theirs.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
The flips, according to Bernstein analyst Neil Beverage, would be
if Trump doesn't get what he wants from Tehran and
slaps additional sanctions on its oil exports. This would drain
some excess supply, helping balance some market and boost energy prices.
Without the Irani oil on the market, then you're going
to have more oil released, except the White House probably
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doesn't want a rally. Goldman Sachs analysts Don Struven analyzed
the president's energy related social media posts since he joined
Twitter in.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He found that Trump is less likely to post about
oil sanctions once prices go above sixty dollars a barrow, because,
as you already know, if prices are going higher, sanctions
would keep oil off the market, which.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Would drive the prices even higher.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
President Trump was the executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice and
The Apprentice. He understands messaging, he understands consumption paths, He
understands the everyman better than any politician I've seen at
that level, and he knows that the price at the
pump is going to affect people's mindset as to whether
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the cost of living has gone too high. The posts
also suggest that his preferred oil prices, based on benchmark
US WTI prices, is between forty dollars and fifty dollars
a barrel. Energy makes up nine or energy makes up
eight percent of the US inflation basket. A lower oil
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price could offset some of the inflation that tariffs are
expected to cause, easing strain on American consumers. A rebound
in the oil price looks unlikely if the White House
sees low energy costs as a safety valve for chaotic
trade policies. It's going to be interesting because I wish
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I could show you the chart in the blast today,
but it shows the S and P five hundred on
upward trajectory and rent food futures most active down dramatically,
but it's good for us at the poem.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
This is Tracy Bird, and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and Famous, or as I call it,
the Michael Barrett Joe.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And we do this little game when we're producing The
Hill as Parity for the show, where we pull out flashbacks.
We just go back and start looking at news stories
and it's amazing. How often you see news stories and
you think yourself, well, why wasn't that talked about more?
Or that guy's lying, or that was true, and nobody
seemed to pay attention. Hunter Biden was bribed by a
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criminal Romanian oligarch in order to influence US policy through
Joe Biden.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Hunter Biden, back in the news with the DOJA, argues
a criminal oligarch paid off the first son to try
and influence US policy while.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
President Biden was serving as VP.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
Some new documents out there and shed Pergram seen them.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
He is lob in Capitol Hill to take us through
this story. What now in the chapter of Hunter Biden, Chad.
Speaker 16 (24:09):
Bill, good morning, It's possible this could be the closest
anyone has come to showing a transfer of money from
overseas in exchange for potential influence over US policy.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
With Hunter Biden.
Speaker 16 (24:19):
Now, we've heard about Hunter Biden's ties to the Ukrainian
energy firm Bearisma House. Investigators have probed that for months,
But how about potential links to Romania. Now, prosecutors and
Hunter Biden's tax case say he worked for Gabriel Popa Vichu.
He is a Romanian business magnet. Now, the allegation is
that Hunter Biden and his business colleagues took three million
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dollars in payments. Papavichu faces a criminal investigation in Romania
over a land deal. Special counsel David Weiss makes that
very case in his filing in California. Wise alleges they
structured the deal for Hunter so it quote concealed the
true nature of the work he was performing. Now, prosecutors
say there were concerns about ramifications for President Biden. Papavichu
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is expected to testify at Hunter Biden's tax evasion trial
in Los Angeles that starts September fifth. He's charged with
failing to pay one point four million dollars in taxes
over a four year period. The House's impeachment inquiry remains open.
Republicans claim Hunter Biden sold his father as the brand
and used the President for access.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We have played Bernie Sanders a couple of times of late,
to the surprise of some of our listeners, because it
seemed like we were saying something nice about Bernie.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Here's the thing. There is the truth, and there is
everything else.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
If somebody that I don't like or that I think
is a nut or whatever else says something that I
believe to be true, and they say it with an
experience or a perspective that moves the ball forward on
a particular subject.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm going to play that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I'm not just going to play the crazy Bernie Sanders clips.
If he says the Democrat Party is rigging elections, Yeah,
we're going.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
To play that. You can consider the source. But who
knows better than he does. He's inside.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So he was on Andrew Schultz's podcast and he openly
admitted the Democrat Party is the threat to democracy.
Speaker 17 (26:23):
Oh, I think a lot of voters had is like
they didn't even know if it was her.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
We didn't even know if Biden was president. We didn't
even know if these were her talking points.
Speaker 17 (26:30):
And we felt that over the last four elections, Democrats,
we felt that we didn't have a say on who
could be president.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
We talk a lot about the.
Speaker 17 (26:40):
Republicans being autocrats and oligarchs and taking over democracy.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
But from the Democrat.
Speaker 17 (26:45):
Perspective, and as I'm a lifelong Democrat, I felt like
the Democratic Party completely removed the democratic process from its
constituents and they I think they need to have some
accountability of that.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
The argument.
Speaker 17 (26:57):
I wanted you to like the sixteen I was like,
this is going to happen, and this guy's going to
do it, and it.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Felt like they it felt like they stole it from it.
And I'll be honest, it broke my heart when.
Speaker 18 (27:06):
You when you supported him. Look, but you have in
the world that I live in, you got a choice.
And I mean a lot of people cleaving my wife
agree with you. But you know you're down to a choice.
That's going to be Hillary Clinton or is it going
to be Donald Trump? Not a great choice, but.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
It ended up being him anyway, So why don't we
burn it down?
Speaker 18 (27:28):
Well, because it's easy to say, burning it down means
that children are not going to have you know, FOUTI
that's the schools will deteriorate, people will not have healthcare.
I got it, And you know I'm an elected official. I
got to represent the people.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
Then I can't turn my back on But then could
we not also say, if ostensibly there hasn't been a
fair primary for the Democrats since two thousand and eight,
are they not also a threat to democracy?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
We often hear.
Speaker 18 (27:49):
Fair enough that is that is Yeah, I'm not going
to argue with that point.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
You know that Democrats are I've fallen on hard times
when even John Stewart, who tends to provide a funnier
version of their talking points, but a version they're talking once, nonetheless,
when he is now making fun of them on the
Daily Show.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Yes, Democrats have less seats, but have you heard who's
in those seats.
Speaker 19 (28:17):
We have our first trans member of Congress. We have
an engineer from an immigrant community in the San Fernando Valley.
We have the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress. We
have the youngest member ever elected to the House from
New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
That's not a thing.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
How did you go from the reasonably impressive first Iranian
Democrat to hold the seat to the I think somewhat
reaching for youngest person ever from New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
And then, by the way, to the audience.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
If you think that that framing is not that interesting, Wait,
don't you hear that this record breaking young phenom from
New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
It's thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
A listener sent me this clip from South Park and
they are so far ahead of the game so many times.
Speaker 11 (29:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This is Eric claiming to be transgender so he can
use the girl's restroom.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
And this is from quite some time ago.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
I want to know just.
Speaker 20 (29:22):
What makes you think it's okay to go inside the
girl's bathroom because I'm transgigent.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I looked it up.
Speaker 21 (29:27):
That means I can need to go.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
You are not transgender? Eric, you don't even know what
that means.
Speaker 21 (29:32):
Yeah, I mean ida, I have a toy tree confugion
because it's heads me as a boy, but I'm really.
Speaker 20 (29:35):
A all right, well, if you identify yourself as a girl,
you must find yourself attracted to boys. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (29:41):
That's actually not true.
Speaker 21 (29:43):
I can be transginger without it having anything to do
with the ginger I'm attracted to check to stay by dies.
Speaker 20 (29:47):
All right, Listen, Eric, Erica, listen, Eric, you must know
why we can't have you in the girl's bathroom.
Speaker 21 (29:53):
Cal I know is I'm tan ginger and you can't
maybe go to the bathroom with the cis ginger with.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The what you know what?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I don't know if Jim can find uh. But there's
a money python skit. And mind you, this is in
the seventies that they pull this off.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's so it was such a.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Radical notion then and then it's sort of like the
left side around and said, well, let's make that crazy
thing happen.
Speaker 20 (30:17):
I do see Rich, any anti purists for black hours must.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Have tracked such a divergence of interest within this Palada.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Agreed.
Speaker 22 (30:25):
I was just yeah, I think dude, this point of
view is very fattied. Rich provided the movement never forgets
that he is the unalienable right of every man or
woman or woman for rid himself or herself herself. Agreed,
thank you, brother or sister or sister.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
It was off.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I think you finished. Oh right.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
Furthermore, it is the first right of every man or woman.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Why don't you.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Shut up about women's stand You're putting us off.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Women have a perfect right to play a part in
our movement. Reg Why are you always on about women's stand?
I want to be one what. I want to be
a woman from now on. I want you all to
call me Loretta.
Speaker 18 (31:07):
What.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
It's my writer as a man.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
But why do you want to be the Ritta stand?
I want to have babies? Do you want to have babies?
Speaker 10 (31:18):
Is every man's right to have babies if he wants them?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You can't have babies.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Don't you oppress me.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I'm not a pressing you stand.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
I've got a womb.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
Where's the feenix gonna just take You're gonna keep it
in a box.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Yeah, I've got an idea.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I suppose you agree.
Speaker 20 (31:34):
That he can't actually have babies, not having a womb,
which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans, but that
he can have the right to have babies.
Speaker 22 (31:41):
Good idea, Judith, which will fight the oppressors for your
right to have babies?
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Brother sister, what's the point?
Speaker 22 (31:49):
What what's the point and finding for his right to
have babies when he can't have babies.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
It is symbolic.
Speaker 22 (31:56):
I want struggle against oppression, sympoint of his struggling.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
In reality, he and you
Speaker 22 (32:02):
Elvis has left for me, Thank you and good nightsh
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Verishow is on the air. I don't know what's
going on in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The state capital Louisiana has had some crazy news stories
of late. There was a man naked in a Lowe's
home store. They just like a series of these stories
that have clustered up. Here's another one. I don't know
what to make of this other than people with poor
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dispute resolution skills. A family wants a Baton Rouge hairdresser
charged criminally after she attempted to cut off their eleven
year old child's braids in retaliation during a dispute over
a late charge with the girl's grandmother. What hairdresser thinks
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it's okay to say I'm gonna cut off the braids.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's how I'll punish you.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Story from w b RZTV out of batten Reache my breathcot.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
When you say it, I'm like, oh my god, I'm
like wait, you know, you just don't know what's gonna
happen next, because I don't know what her attend is
at this point.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
That was Contado's Signaltano's reaction after seeing video of an
altercation involving her pregnant daughter, eleven year old granddaughter, and
the hair stylist, and it all started over a twenty
five dollars late feet.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
My daughter said, well, your gradesperious states that I'm laid
after ten minutes.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
I was here at five ten.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
So the pair refused to pay the extra fee, and
they began arguing.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Back and forth.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You can see her picked the tails up and she
just as to cut my granddaughter's style out, but my
daughter had already paid for that stall. She was in
crying about the twenty five dollars late feet.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
The video shows the mom trying to stop the stylist
from taking back the braids, injuring herself in the process.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And what they told me was that there was no intent,
that she wasn't trying to cut my daughter's hands.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
My issue is.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Once she picked, once she picked the feelers up, she.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Became a threat.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
She said, her granddaughter is traumatized and she once criminal
charges falled against the stylists.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And when you get fresh braids, it's it's even that hurts,
and that she's pulling. It wasn't a light pull, it
was pulling, cause you can see if you watch the
video her body is like literally hanging back.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
She's pulling her and.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
My granddaughter was trying to and I I can't imagine
how it felt. It had to be painful. But when
I arrived, she was crying. She ran to my arms
and you know, my mom, it hurt.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
WRZ hasn't named the stylist because no charges having a
fire and something Singleton is working on, saying her next
stop will be the district Attorney's office.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
At one, you count to the initial appointment.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Two you picked up scissors to.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
A child's head.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Regardless of the intent, you picked scissors up like that
does not make any sense to me. It just does
not make any sense to me. You do not have
the right to cut the fyll off the child's head.
There's a way to.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Handle those things.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
You cannot take your.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Law in to your hands.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There was a story in the news a couple of
weeks back, and I've been meaning to get to it,
and I've thought a lot about it. It's kind of
like the last lecture, except this teacher is continuing to teach.
It's a Stanford professor with terminal cancer, and he teaches
a class about dying from cancer. The nun It's called
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the non small cell adino carcinoma, also known as never
smoker lung cancer. Can you imagine you get lung cancer
and you weren't a smoker. It is the same cancer.
This is the cancer that's killing him. He's going to
die of soon. It's the same cancer that he spent
his entire tenure researching. I've referenced a book called Chasing Daylight.
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The guy was I think he was a CEO of
Deloitte and to sure cooper'son Library and or one of
those consulting firms. And it's a book about how he
gets diagnosed with a terminal cancer and how he plans
out his final days to methodically say goodbye and thank
you to everyone in his life in this series of
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increasingly tightening circles. He starts with people he went to
high school with, Hey, thank you for my friendship. It's
a beautiful, wonderful book. And Chasing Daylight is a golfers
for trying to finish the round of golf before it
gets too dark to be able to play. And it's
a really really beautiful story and well written in a
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true story, it's autobiographical. And then there is a guy
who did the last lecture you remember, and then there
is this story. The story is from kr EMTV.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Doctor Bryant Lynn has been a physician and a professor
at Stanford University for almost two decades. But this time
he's not only the teacher, he's also the subject.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Still getting chemotherapy every three weeks.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
In twenty twenty four, doctor Lynn was battling a bad
call for months. A CT scan revealed non small cell
and dino carcinoma, never smoke or lung cancer.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I ended up having stage four, which is the most
advanced stage.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
The news was a dose of cruel irony. Doctor Lynn
co founded the Center for Asian Health Research and Education.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
One of our priority areas is lung cancer and people
who have never smoked, because it disproportionately affects Asians and
particularly Asian women.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Within weeks, doctor Lynn was in a chemotherapy infusion chair,
receiving the same treatment he counseled his patients and students
on for years. It was here that he saw an opportunity.
The class is called From Diagnosis to Dialogue, a doctor's
real time battle with cancer deal with like a lot
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of the ethical considerations. Isabella Hefferman was one of the
lucky ones to get a seat.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
I was just really in awe and how well he's
able to discuss this, and just the bravery.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
The ten week course covers the entire spectrum of cancer
as seen through the eyes of someone who is living it,
and some patients.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Don't want to engage.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They don't necessarily want to know all these details.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Each week a new topic and guest lecturer.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death
in the United States. This is going to impact somebody,
you know, maybe yourself.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Doctor Lynn plans to teach his class for as long
as he can. The syllabus like his cancer journey may change,
but his mission remains the same.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I looked at him, and they looked at me, you know,
and I just looked at her, and I have to
just get your stuff and get out.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
To Michael Berry's shoe Harvey's.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
Over and got a newspaper and I wrote it up
and I slapped him on the nose that said bad.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
An illegal alien held in the Twin Towers Jail in
the Sanctuary City of Los Angeles was transferred to ice
custody because the jail is now being forced to cooperate
with DHS as part of a new federal opposite operation
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designed to quote neutralize California sanctuary state law. It's all
part of we talked about this, it's all part of
Operation Guardian Angel that was launched by you Attorney Bill
of Sale, who's doing a great job last week, where
they basically issue federal felony criminal warrants for illegals, which
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cannot be ignored by sanctuary policies. So what you have
to do is charge them with a federal crime. So
what they're doing in order to do that, you'll hear
people say, well, it's not a felony to come into
the country illegally.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The act of entering illegally is a misdemeanor, not a felony. However,
when you are deported and you reenter, that does become
a felony. The re entry is a whole different crime.
So what they're doing is now they're matching the deportation
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lists with the held in jail list, and so these
people that they're holding in jail to hide them so
the Feds can't get them, they're popping up on both lists.
Boom warrant issued, go in, get them, get them out
of here. Pretty genius if you think about it.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
An incredibly rare interaction. As the jail in Los Angeles
transfers an illegal alien to ICE custody, the sanctuary jurisdiction
forced to hand this Mexican national over thanks to a
first of its kind federal operation.
Speaker 12 (09:23):
With this operation, we're going to be neutralizing California sanctuary
state policies.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
Bill of Sale is the US attorney in LA and
the architect of operation Guardian angel.
Speaker 12 (09:32):
California is the testing ground on this. We are one
of the largest sanctuary jurisdictions.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All right, thanks for shirkling on. So how does it
work is?
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Sale has created a federal task force made up of ICE, HSI, FBI, DEA,
and ATF all working together out of this office in
downtown law is.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Crimin High Street past the domestic violence.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
They scan these criminal databases daily to find illegal aliens
in local jails who have been previously deported from the
United States.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What are your arrest?
Speaker 11 (10:05):
If they've returned to the US, They've committed a federal
felony known as illegal re entry, and as Sale's office
will immediately seek a criminal arrest warrant against them, which
unlike an ICE detainer.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Sanctuary jails can't ignore.
Speaker 12 (10:20):
We're going to flood the system with warrants for criminal
illegal immigrants that are in county jails. They can ignore
a detainer, but they cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
The Federal Task Force brought us with them as they
went to Twin Towers Jail in downtown LA to take
custody of a previously deported alien they found in their
database and filed a warrant on he was facing local
charges for robbery, but the sanctuary jail immediately handed him
over to Ice. With California's sanctuary policies unable to protect
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him from the criminal warrant, they.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Have no choice.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
They will comply, and if they don't comply, if they
interfere in our ability to arrest a federal FECs, that
they can expect to face consequences.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
And the Task Force tells us once they're up and
running at full steam, they project they're going to be
able to arrest between forty and fifty aliens from local
sanctuary jails here in SoCal every single week now. If
this is successful here in Los Angeles, the Task Force
says this could be used as a model to neutralize
other sanctuary jurisdictions all across the country.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
This is all so very predictable. Last year, California became
the first state in the nation to offer free healthcare
to illegal aliens. Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants to be president,
expanded what they call the Medical Program Meta and then
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State of California. A year later, it turns out that
it costs billions more than he claimed it would, so
now he's trying to walk the program back, and he
blames it all on Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You see this happen. Beto O'Rourke did this.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You'll see this happen where guys when they're running for
an office or holding an office in a place like California,
then they get ready to run for president. They have
to win votes in purple states, when all they've had
to do was appease California progressives. Their policies don't work
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in purple states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, so then
they have to start undoing the bad things they did.
I think back to Michael Ducalcus Michael Ducaucus in nineteen
eighty eight as governor of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
He did very liberal things.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But that meant that when it came time to run nationally,
he looked like a nut. And do you remember the
furlough Remember the name of the guy he furloughed. I'll
let you say it out loud before I do.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
I was completely devastated to see this news, to see
the state choosing to balance our budget on the backs
of working people, hardworking immigrant communities.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
Under Newsom's plan, low income adults without legal status will
no longer be eligible to apply for medical taking effect
next year. Josh Dalek, the policy director for the California
Immigrant Policy Center, says it feels as if the governor
is abandoning a proud legacy of bringing California to a
state of almost universal health care.
Speaker 14 (13:37):
It will end up resulting in folks being unable to
access healthcare that they vitally need, which means that they'll
be living sicker, potentially missing work.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
He says it could also lead to systemic problems affecting
all Californians in terms of potentially over burdening emergency room
systems and potentially leaving hospitals uncompensated for the care. Amanda
McAllister Walner with Health Access California is also worried for
the people who already have coverage and are nineteen years
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and older. The governor has proposed they pay a one
hundred dollars monthly premium.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
People making under fifteen thousand dollars a year under twenty
thousand dollars a year, where paying one hundred dollars a
month just isn't possible.
Speaker 13 (14:31):
Republican Senator Brian Jones says he warned the governor over
a year and a half ago that the program was
not sustainable.
Speaker 15 (14:39):
What's happening now is the governor for the last six
years has been making all of these promises of what
he's going to do with medical without really analyzing and
paying attention to the outcomes.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
In total, Newsance Office estimates the changes will save the
state five point four billion dollars, but Senator Jones says
it's too little and too late to avoid the damage.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
If you take a look at the cuts that we're
going to need to make. This here, that's legal residents
and citizens that are paying their taxes that are.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Now going to have some kind of service. Pat But everybody.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Knows who this guy is.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Come on, man, the Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
If you've never seen the video for this, I'm going
to assume you have.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You know, because those of us from the Golden Try,
you know, it's legendary because he insisted that it be
filmed in the town where he lives, Beaumont, Texas, not
in Nashville. Neither he nor Tracy Birds moved to Nashville.
They stayed in Beaumont. And it gives it us a
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realistic sense because it's a real place where it's being held.
So I read this article and I wanted to share
it with you since so many people, so many of us,
are in the oil and gas.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Not me, but you, it said. The S and P.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Five hundred Put Fears is from the Wall Street Journal
to Markets Newsletter's one of the newsletters I get every morning.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The S and P.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Five hundred put fears about the trade war behind it
last week recouping all of its twenty twenty five losses.
Make sure we understand where we are. What was lost
has been regained in stock prices now. Without going too
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far into the weeds, I am not a person that
believes that a rising stock market is necessarily a great thing,
because a stock market is buyers and sellers. So if
you are a young person coming out of school trying
to begin building a portfolio. You can't buy the dip
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when it's at the high it was before Trump became president.
So it's a complicated equation, but it tends to be
shorthand inefficiently or inaccurately for how well the country's doing.
But I'll take it because the perception is for the teacher,
police officer, firefighter, small businessman, plant worker. When they get
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up and look online at their four oh one k
and its back where it was, they feel good. So
Trump must be doing something right, all right. But oil
has been left in the dust and probably won't catch up.
The price of a barrel of crude has fallen twelve
percent to sixty five dollars and fifty cents since President
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Trump's Liberation Day. We wanted to end inflation, right. Energy
investors have gone from worrying that a trade war could
trigger a global recession and hurt oil demand to fretting
about supply.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
There's too much of it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The oil market already had too many arrols on its
hands this year. Remember what happens. Remember what happens If
demand remains the same and supply drops, price drops, then
Opex surprised the market in April by announcing it would
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reverse its production curves faster than expected, releasing even more oil.
Opex in the hop is in the catbird seed here,
because they can affect dramatically the price of oil based
on how much they release at any given time. If
they withhold, it drives the price up. If they dump,
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it drives the price down. OPEC watchers were perplexed by
the timing and had competing theories about what was going on.
The Saudi lead cartel may be abandoning its two year
effort to prop up the oil price to focus on
winning market share, or it is punishing members that constantly
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breach their production quotas, like Kazakhstan. In other words, if
Kazakhstan's going to keep flooding the market beyond where they're
supposed to be, then the Saudis are going to drive
the price down by releasing a bunch of oil. Another theory,
riad is trying to curry favor with President Trump, who
promised voters sub two dollars a gallon gasoline on the
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campaign trail. Whatever the reason, it is a negative for
oil prices. If Trump can go over and get over
a trillion dollars worth of investment, if they're buying him
a four hundred million dollar plane, if they're playing Ymca
by the village people upon his arrival. Yeah, I think
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he can get them to adjust their output to drive
the price down so he can say to us, rightfully,
I gave you a gallon of gas for less than
two dollars. And by the way, I will remind you
in twenty twelve, when Michelle Bachman was running for president,
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when we had the whole group of them and Michelle Bakman,
I think she's from Minnesota. She's one that had fostered
like almost thirty kids. Not a lot is remembered about
her campaign, but what I remember is she said we
could drive oil prices under two dollars a gallon at
the pump for Americans and they laughed at her. Well,
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it ended up happening. Unpredictable diplomacy is another wild card
for investors. The oil price fell two point four percent
last Thursday after President Trump said he is close to
a deal with Iran over its nuclear enrichment program. If
they taunt with the Iran eventually leads to sanctions being lifted,
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even more oil could hit the market because now the
Iranis are going.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
To release theirs.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
The flips, according to Bernstein analyst Neil Beverage, would be
if Trump doesn't get what he wants from Tehran and
slaps additional sanctions on its oil exports. This would drain
some excess supply, helping balance some market and boost energy prices.
Without the Irani oil on the market, then you're going
to have more oil released, except the White House probably
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doesn't want a rally. Goldman Sachs analysts Don Struven analyzed
the president's energy related social media posts since he joined
Twitter in.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He found that Trump is less likely to post about
oil sanctions once prices go above sixty dollars a barrow, because,
as you already know, if prices are going higher, sanctions
would keep oil off the market, which.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Would drive the prices even higher.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
President Trump was the executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice and
The Apprentice. He understands messaging, he understands consumption paths, He
understands the everyman better than any politician I've seen at
that level, and he knows that the price at the
pump is going to affect people's mindset as to whether
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the cost of living has gone too high. The posts
also suggest that his preferred oil prices, based on benchmark
US WTI prices, is between forty dollars and fifty dollars
a barrel. Energy makes up nine or energy makes up
eight percent of the US inflation basket. A lower oil
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price could offset some of the inflation that tariffs are
expected to cause, easing strain on American consumers. A rebound
in the oil price looks unlikely if the White House
sees low energy costs as a safety valve for chaotic
trade policies. It's going to be interesting because I wish
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I could show you the chart in the blast today,
but it shows the S and P five hundred on
upward trajectory and rent food futures most active down dramatically,
but it's good for us at the poem.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
This is Tracy Bird, and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and Famous, or as I call it,
the Michael Barrett Joe.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And we do this little game when we're producing The
Hill as Parity for the show, where we pull out flashbacks.
We just go back and start looking at news stories
and it's amazing. How often you see news stories and
you think yourself, well, why wasn't that talked about more?
Or that guy's lying, or that was true, and nobody
seemed to pay attention. Hunter Biden was bribed by a
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criminal Romanian oligarch in order to influence US policy through
Joe Biden.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Hunter Biden, back in the news with the DOJA, argues
a criminal oligarch paid off the first son to try
and influence US policy while.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
President Biden was serving as VP.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
Some new documents out there and shed Pergram seen them.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
He is lob in Capitol Hill to take us through
this story. What now in the chapter of Hunter Biden, Chad.
Speaker 16 (24:09):
Bill, good morning, It's possible this could be the closest
anyone has come to showing a transfer of money from
overseas in exchange for potential influence over US policy.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
With Hunter Biden.
Speaker 16 (24:19):
Now, we've heard about Hunter Biden's ties to the Ukrainian
energy firm Bearisma House. Investigators have probed that for months,
But how about potential links to Romania. Now, prosecutors and
Hunter Biden's tax case say he worked for Gabriel Popa Vichu.
He is a Romanian business magnet. Now, the allegation is
that Hunter Biden and his business colleagues took three million
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dollars in payments. Papavichu faces a criminal investigation in Romania
over a land deal. Special counsel David Weiss makes that
very case in his filing in California. Wise alleges they
structured the deal for Hunter so it quote concealed the
true nature of the work he was performing. Now, prosecutors
say there were concerns about ramifications for President Biden. Papavichu
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is expected to testify at Hunter Biden's tax evasion trial
in Los Angeles that starts September fifth. He's charged with
failing to pay one point four million dollars in taxes
over a four year period. The House's impeachment inquiry remains open.
Republicans claim Hunter Biden sold his father as the brand
and used the President for access.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We have played Bernie Sanders a couple of times of late,
to the surprise of some of our listeners, because it
seemed like we were saying something nice about Bernie.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Here's the thing. There is the truth, and there is
everything else.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
If somebody that I don't like or that I think
is a nut or whatever else says something that I
believe to be true, and they say it with an
experience or a perspective that moves the ball forward on
a particular subject.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm going to play that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I'm not just going to play the crazy Bernie Sanders clips.
If he says the Democrat Party is rigging elections, Yeah,
we're going.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
To play that. You can consider the source. But who
knows better than he does. He's inside.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So he was on Andrew Schultz's podcast and he openly
admitted the Democrat Party is the threat to democracy.
Speaker 17 (26:23):
Oh, I think a lot of voters had is like
they didn't even know if it was her.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
We didn't even know if Biden was president. We didn't
even know if these were her talking points.
Speaker 17 (26:30):
And we felt that over the last four elections, Democrats,
we felt that we didn't have a say on who
could be president.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
We talk a lot about the.
Speaker 17 (26:40):
Republicans being autocrats and oligarchs and taking over democracy.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
But from the Democrat.
Speaker 17 (26:45):
Perspective, and as I'm a lifelong Democrat, I felt like
the Democratic Party completely removed the democratic process from its
constituents and they I think they need to have some
accountability of that.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
The argument.
Speaker 17 (26:57):
I wanted you to like the sixteen I was like,
this is going to happen, and this guy's going to
do it, and it.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Felt like they it felt like they stole it from it.
And I'll be honest, it broke my heart when.
Speaker 18 (27:06):
You when you supported him. Look, but you have in
the world that I live in, you got a choice.
And I mean a lot of people cleaving my wife
agree with you. But you know you're down to a choice.
That's going to be Hillary Clinton or is it going
to be Donald Trump? Not a great choice, but.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
It ended up being him anyway, So why don't we
burn it down?
Speaker 18 (27:28):
Well, because it's easy to say, burning it down means
that children are not going to have you know, FOUTI
that's the schools will deteriorate, people will not have healthcare.
I got it, And you know I'm an elected official. I
got to represent the people.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
Then I can't turn my back on But then could
we not also say, if ostensibly there hasn't been a
fair primary for the Democrats since two thousand and eight,
are they not also a threat to democracy?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
We often hear.
Speaker 18 (27:49):
Fair enough that is that is Yeah, I'm not going
to argue with that point.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
You know that Democrats are I've fallen on hard times
when even John Stewart, who tends to provide a funnier
version of their talking points, but a version they're talking once, nonetheless,
when he is now making fun of them on the
Daily Show.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Yes, Democrats have less seats, but have you heard who's
in those seats.
Speaker 19 (28:17):
We have our first trans member of Congress. We have
an engineer from an immigrant community in the San Fernando Valley.
We have the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress. We
have the youngest member ever elected to the House from
New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
That's not a thing.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
How did you go from the reasonably impressive first Iranian
Democrat to hold the seat to the I think somewhat
reaching for youngest person ever from New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
And then, by the way, to the audience.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
If you think that that framing is not that interesting, Wait,
don't you hear that this record breaking young phenom from
New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
It's thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
A listener sent me this clip from South Park and
they are so far ahead of the game so many times.
Speaker 11 (29:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This is Eric claiming to be transgender so he can
use the girl's restroom.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
And this is from quite some time ago.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
I want to know just.
Speaker 20 (29:22):
What makes you think it's okay to go inside the
girl's bathroom because I'm transgigent.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I looked it up.
Speaker 21 (29:27):
That means I can need to go.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
You are not transgender? Eric, you don't even know what
that means.
Speaker 21 (29:32):
Yeah, I mean ida, I have a toy tree confugion
because it's heads me as a boy, but I'm really.
Speaker 20 (29:35):
A all right, well, if you identify yourself as a girl,
you must find yourself attracted to boys. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (29:41):
That's actually not true.
Speaker 21 (29:43):
I can be transginger without it having anything to do
with the ginger I'm attracted to check to stay by dies.
Speaker 20 (29:47):
All right, Listen, Eric, Erica, listen, Eric, you must know
why we can't have you in the girl's bathroom.
Speaker 21 (29:53):
Cal I know is I'm tan ginger and you can't
maybe go to the bathroom with the cis ginger with.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The what you know what?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I don't know if Jim can find uh. But there's
a money python skit. And mind you, this is in
the seventies that they pull this off.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's so it was such a.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Radical notion then and then it's sort of like the
left side around and said, well, let's make that crazy
thing happen.
Speaker 20 (30:17):
I do see Rich, any anti purists for black hours must.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Have tracked such a divergence of interest within this Palada.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Agreed.
Speaker 22 (30:25):
I was just yeah, I think dude, this point of
view is very fattied. Rich provided the movement never forgets
that he is the unalienable right of every man or
woman or woman for rid himself or herself herself. Agreed,
thank you, brother or sister or sister.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
It was off.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I think you finished. Oh right.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
Furthermore, it is the first right of every man or woman.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Why don't you.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Shut up about women's stand You're putting us off.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Women have a perfect right to play a part in
our movement. Reg Why are you always on about women's stand?
I want to be one what. I want to be
a woman from now on. I want you all to
call me Loretta.
Speaker 18 (31:07):
What.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
It's my writer as a man.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
But why do you want to be the Ritta stand?
I want to have babies? Do you want to have babies?
Speaker 10 (31:18):
Is every man's right to have babies if he wants them?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You can't have babies.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Don't you oppress me.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I'm not a pressing you stand.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
I've got a womb.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
Where's the feenix gonna just take You're gonna keep it
in a box.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Yeah, I've got an idea.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I suppose you agree.
Speaker 20 (31:34):
That he can't actually have babies, not having a womb,
which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans, but that
he can have the right to have babies.
Speaker 22 (31:41):
Good idea, Judith, which will fight the oppressors for your
right to have babies?
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Brother sister, what's the point?
Speaker 22 (31:49):
What what's the point and finding for his right to
have babies when he can't have babies.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
It is symbolic.
Speaker 22 (31:56):
I want struggle against oppression, sympoint of his struggling.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
In reality, he and you
Speaker 22 (32:02):
Elvis has left for me, Thank you and good nightsh
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