6-24-25 - 8am - Texas Turning Blue and Nationalizing Grocery Stores

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, Goober's we need to think this through. Dragon leaves
on quote unquote a vacation, then we have this strike
on Iran's nuclear sites, and then Dragon returns. Are we
living in Game of Thrones? I mean, were the dragons
released to do this? I don't think there was any

(00:22):
vacation at all.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, any and the Uh, he's been very quiet since
he got back. I ain't saying a thing.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
How was you know? How was Tokyo? And you just
to stop and think about where's Tokyo?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah? Japan? Yeah, Oh, Japan's nice.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
How is Korea? Uh? And he starts humming a little rocketman.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I've often said that Texas, well not me, is the
crown jewel of the Democrat Party's attempt to become a
permanent majority in this country, and Texas, like Colorado, is

(01:15):
falling into the same trap that Colorado fell into with
the Blueprint, when Striker Gill and Polis put together the
blueprint and said, here's our plan for taking over Colorado,
and they succeeded, And now we've become a craphole state
as bad as are worse thing in California. And everybody

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has this idea that Texas cannot possibly turn blue.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
And I've always said there.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Was a time when I thought Colorado could never possibly
turn blue. Now there are stories beginning to come out
of Texas that I think a precursor to a kind
of blueprint that might be used in Texas. And they

(02:11):
are some Republicans, some Rhino Republicans, are betraying Donald Trump
and using Donald Trump to further that one little step
at a time. So let me explain that you should know,
you should you should understand that even Donald Trump, who

(02:33):
seems to never sleep and is always going the energizer bunny,
he cannot possibly vet every legislative endorsement that he does.
You know, a state party official from you know, let's
say Oklahoma or a Florida might recommend an endorsement of

(02:56):
a particular candidate, and on that recommendation, and the President
may without really doing any sort of vetting, which which
is why the White House Political Offices is so important,
they just might do it. But it's unreasonable to expect
the president, who's responsible for the border inflation, what's going

(03:17):
on in Iran, the still to some degree battling the
lawfair campaign. Well, I was gonna say the law fair
campaign against him personally, those are all really on hold.
But he's still engaged in a law fair campaign against
his second administration, whether it be the deployment of troops,

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or who he can do, who he can export, who
he can deport or not deport. So would you think
that he has the time or the bandwidth to really
understand state politics in Texas? And because Donald Trump has

(04:06):
become the indispensable figure of American conservatism, whether you like
that or not, he is that means his endorsements are sought,
are sought with such desperation, and why sometimes those endorsements
are misguided and the consequences are not just unfortunate because

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of a particular state election for state house or state representative,
but they might actually become existential threats. And the existential
threat here is the future of Texas. This is about
bad counsel, not bad faith, because I don't think there's

(04:50):
any question that Trump is acting in good faith when
he allows his name and credibility to a Republican candidate
that he may or may not know anything about. And
sometimes maybe his staff is not serving him well, the

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political staff by really paying attention to the larger picture
about what's going on in Texas. I know many people
think that and believe, and right now it is a
Republican stronghold. But that doesn't mean that Texas will always
be a tax a Republican stronghold, a red state. The

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reality is a little more byzantine than that. The Texas House,
for example, the Texas House of Representatives, they're polit bureau,
is controlled not by Democrats in name, but by Democrats
in effect. Now, how does that happen? Because you have
a block of liberal and moderate Republicans who routinely betray

(06:00):
the Republicans. They're voters and Trump, who has redefined the
Republican Party, and they are not allies of the Maga movement.
They are the Republican incarnation of the Unit Party, and
their grip on the speaker's gavel in Texas has yielded
horrible disasters results. The current Speaker of the House in

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Texas is the Yahoo by the name of Dustin Boroughs.
He was not the Republican caucus's choice. How does that happen?
If you have the majority in the House, then how
does your person not become the Speaker of the House. Well,
that question alone ought to give you some insight into

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just some of the horrific machinations that are going on
currently inside the Republican Party in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm looking at you too. So Dustin Burrows, the.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Current speaker, was not the choice of the Republican caucus
in the Texas House of Representatives.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
How did he get to be speaker?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
He got installed because there was this alliance of Democrats
and some of their Republican neighblers, many of whom President
Trump is now paradoxically being advised to endorse. Charlie Green,
Cody Harris, Jared Patterson, Ken King, Morgan Meyer, Angie Chuen, Button,

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Ryan Jillian Drew Darby, Stan Lambert, and John Luhan. Those
are just a few that I've gathered as I've dug
through all these stories from the Texas Tribune and Dallas
Morning News and everybody else about. And I worry about this.
I worry about it for the country, but I also
worry about it because you know, I've got friends and
relatives in Texas. Some of my realities are diear Democrats,

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and they're just like, yeah, we know exactly what we're doing.
All of those names that I just read to you
voted for Dustin Boroughs to be Speaker. But they also
all voted to impeach Attorney General Kim Paxton. And they

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all stand against the very maga agenda that Donald Trump
is trying to advance.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
And the last.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Legislative session in Texas proves my point. Democratic priorities rose
to the top and passed. Conservative legislation got buried. Take
Senate Bill two. Senate Bill two in Texas was a

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school choice bill that absolutely embodies the mega principles of
empowering parents limited government. And guess what in a majority
of Republicans in the House of represented in Texas, it
was doa.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
It was dead on arrival.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Only direct intervention from the President himself resurrected it. Greg Abbott,
the governor of Texas, personally brought the President onto a
call with House Republicans. Trump offered his endorsement in exchange
for passage. So the bill passed. But it's not really

(09:28):
a triumph, it's not really a win. It was a
rescue mission. Trump had the strong arm Republicans into supporting
a policy that they should.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Have been in favor of on day one.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It should have passed without any dissent except from the Democrats.
But Trump had to intervene and get Republicans to buy
onto it. And the fact that these were the very
Republicans that his team now wants him to endorse is
absor and it and canon does get worse Stay Representative

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Cody Harris, whom Trump is reportedly poised to endorse, has
filed a sworn complaint wanting to criminally prosecute Republican Party
of Texas chairman Abraham George for trying to push that
the House Republicans honor and follow their party's own rules.

(10:29):
That complaint alleges intimidation for reminding members of the Republican
Party to back the GOP speaker nominee. I think that's malicious.
It's lawfair turned on to Republicans.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
It's law. It's uh what do you call when soldiers
kill their fellow?

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Frging? Fraging is what this is?

Speaker 3 (10:56):
That Trump would endorse the guy behind that while the
target is the very chairman of the Texas Conservatives elected
to carry out their will. Is kplicas if not tragic?
So why is it happening? And it happens because of
two men. Matt Boussou, whose Deputy Assistant to the President
and director of the White House Office of Political Affairs,

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and Stephen Ministery, who's a senior advisor to Governor Abbot.
Brousseau in the White House is reportedly working closely with
Ministery in the Governor's office to manage Trump's Texas endorsement,
all the endorsements that he might give in the Texas
legislature for the any races in Texas. Both of those

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guys are part of the very establishment that's waged war
on grassroots conservatism. Ministeri in particular, though associated once with Trump,
has thrown in with the Public Bureau in Austin, and
his proximity to Governor Abbot and quiet but forceful presence
that the Capitol has not gone unnoticed. I would say

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that he is kind of the Karl Rove of this
administration and now the architect of multiple efforts to keep
the Texas Republican Party under establishment control. Is the same
group that is pushing Trump to endorse certain people. So

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you're hiring arsonists to run the fire department, But there
are other poisonous consequences too. Brasseu's office in DC, multiple
sources report, is actively lobbying to stop the Texas Republican
party from censuring the very rhinos that Trump is being

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misled into endorsing. And why are they doing that Because
a center vote could render those candidates ineligible to appear
on the Republican Party Prime Mary ballad in Texas, and
that in turn would reveal the absurdity of Trump's endorsements.
And then and what would that do. They would embarrass
the Trump White House, They would embarrass the president himself.

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So instead of fixing the endorsements, those two y'all who's
are trying to fix the process, fighting against the censure,
against closed primaries. You know, close primaries are the same
thing we had in Colorado and even against grassroots organizing.
So in this way, they're damaging Trump's reputation and they
also simultaneously damaged the structural integrity of the Texas Republican Party. Wow,

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you've got to remember that Texas could go blue and
this kind of frigging and infighting is exactly the kind
of thing that could cause it to happen. Those same
lawmakers who tried to honor cecal Richards, the former president
of Planned Parafid, they failed only after a revolt from

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the conservative flank of the party. They're the same law.
They're the same lawmakers that voted to preserve DEI mandates
in Texas. They voted to send billions of dollars to
Hollywood movie producers but refuse to provide property tax relief
to Texas homeowners despite Texas having a twenty four billion

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dollar surplus. They actually actively supported more than a dozen
Democrat legislative nation initiatives. So to call them Republicans a
name only, well, it's a very descriptive, precise moniker for them.

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You know, Trump's loyalty is one of his strings, but
when abused, it can become a vulnerability. This story is
nothing more than try to point out to you that
the Unit Party is alive and well it's active in Texas.
Texas about the enter into a strategic blunder that could

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have ripple effects across the entire country. It tells grassroots
conservatives that the president is too busy as don't get
me wrong, rightfully, So he's too busy to understand their
plight because he's dealing with the issues that we elected
him to go handle, inflation, the border, international affairs, NATO.

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You know, he's headed to Amsterdam right now for a
NATO meeting. The point that I want to emphasize is
this is not Trump's fault, the president of the United
States of America. This is why, this is why one

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of the things I plan to do is to write
letter to Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff,
not to the President. This is something that's beneath the president.
But this is something that Susie Wiles. This thing that
the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson,
ought to be paying attention to. And this is something
that John Thune, the President of the US Senate, the

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Senator Thune, ought to be paying attention to. And quite frankly,
this is something that the Republican National Committee ought to
be paying attention to, because this is the kind of
strategic blunder that just emboldens the Democrats, emboldens those Republicans
that don't like Trump, that are willing to do the

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stupid things that, if you don't have the long term view,
could actually help turn Texas blue. And I think worse,
the worst aspect of all of this is that it's
a signal to the Republican establishment that they can hijack
Trump's influence and use it against his own agenda. Now again,

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don't do not read this as blaming Trump because he
can't possibly know every stupid little legislation argument that goes
on in state capitals. But that's why his advisors matter
so much. And that's why I think that we have
discovered in the White House Political Office, the office that

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Carl Rove ran when he was a deputy chief of
staff to George W.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Bush.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
The same office that Carl Rove ran. He eventually became
a special advisor or something. We started out in the
political office. It wouldn't surprise me to see Carl's hands
in some of this too. I don't have any evidence
of that, but I just wouldn't be surprised about. So
the future of the Texas House and perhaps the future

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of the Texas Republican Party, and Texas being a red
state not nearly as solid as you think of it.
So while we may have myopia about and how bad
things are in Colorado or California, don't forget there are
some states out there that are fighting for their lives.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
Heave Michael and Dragon doctor Brown. He was attacked by
the Libyans, not the Iranians. Have a nice day.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
So this is in reference to yesterday when you were
giving off a list of everything that the Iranians have done,
which we had thought they had killed Doc Brown from
Back to the Future, but apparently it's the Libyans.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Oh oh Brown, thank you.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm sting trying to think what doctor Brown did I mentioned.

Speaker 7 (18:40):
Yeah, we appreciate the clarification though, that's that's helped them.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
If you've listened to me for any well, actually for
a long time, because this story is very, very old,
but there's a new update to it, a shocking new
update to it. I've told you the story about the
Orange County Register, or maybe the Orange Grove. One of
the Orange County, California newspapers back in two thousand and

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nine ran a story about nationalizing grocery stores. The story goes,
I don't read the whole thing because I want to
fit this into this segment, but let me just.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Skim through it.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
One of the great scandals of our age, this editor wrote,
is the fact that America spends more on food than
any other nation. Many political leaders are now calling for
urgent reform to bring spending on food under control. While
food spending is rapidly increasing, and many Americans are overweight.
There are some Americans that don't have enough food to eat,

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and despite this high spending, the UN reports that, according
to surveys they send to government officials around the world,
the quality of US food is ranked very low. Officials
in France report that their food is the best in
the world. More insulting is the higher ranking that British
experts give their food. Leaders in Congress nowtpoint to what

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they see as the root of the problem, corporate greed
in the form of grocery stores and restaurants operating on
a for profit basis. Now they promise to replace all
private grocery stores with a national system of government commissaries,
which purportedly will operate far more effectively without the administrative
overhead required to make a profit. As it will take

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some time to organize the national network of commissaries. Initially,
grocery stores will be available only at offices of the
Department of Motor Vehicles and US Postal Service, which will
provide the models for developing a government commissary system. Congress
and the Administration say that they will first achieve even
more efficiencies by prohibiting all advertising of food and food products.

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Consumers will find shopping so much easier if personal preference
is eliminated in favor of whatever foods government makes available. Now,
the better control costs. The government will invest e spend
billions in electronic food purchasing records. Everything you eat will
be reported to the government, which will analyze the data

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to eliminate wasteful or unhealthy eating. All new food must
be approved by a new comparative Calorie and Taste administration, which,
for example, would eliminate would eliminate most of the unnecessary brands, say,
for example, potato chips, and as everyone knows, we have
far too many brands of beer. Food is surely a

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right because it's necessary for survival. Therefore, all groceries available
in government commissaries will be free of charge.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
This will be financed by an increase of fifteen percent
in income taxes, except for those making over eighty thousand
dollars a year, their taxes will be increased by seventy
five percent. Now, because the food supply is not unlimited,
a fixed amount of ration cupon will be distributed to
ensure that every American can obtain an equal amount of food.

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All private restaurants closed and limited cafeterias, but they will
be operated as government commissaries. Now, Congressional liberals point to
things like the school lunch program as a model and
the proven results demonstrated by several generations of well nourished,
trim and fit students. Of course, we veterans also remember

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all the great military child. So far, conservative leaders are
at a loss after hearing these proposals. Some of the
more courageous conservatives are responding with proposals for mandatory food
purchasing all citizens. All citizens, including those who go to
bed hungary every night, will be required to purchase membership

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and new food management organizations FMOS, not an HMO and
FM to further control costs. The purchase of certain cuts
of meat and imported gourmet foods could require a food
management organization in FMO's advance approval. Across the political spectrum,

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there is a developing consensus that the only appropriate response
to the fact that some consumers cannot afford groceries is
to impose a single government controlled food system on all citizens.
Everyone agrees that this is sure to provide the same
consistently high performance as say, public education. Reportedly, the clincher

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for those proposing grocery nationalization was stated recently by the
White House quote, the great thing about these proposals is
that if we can somehow get this to work for groceries,
we can apply the same idea to healthcare. Really seems absurd,
isn't it. Don't you think this is absurd?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
You know, I've talked.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
About how progressivism is exactly that you go back to
Woodrow Wilson or FDR or LBJ and Barack Obama, and
then you get to Joe Biden. And because he was
a domined old fart that had no clue what was
going on, it allowed all the Obama Marxists that were

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running the White House to come in and hook up
with the Alexandria Cassi Cortezes of the world and the
Elizabeth Warrens of the world and just crammed down our
throats all those Marxist policies that we now have to
deal with. Well, progressivism is alive, and well, you know,

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there's a Mayo race going on in New York City, right,
and there's a Yahoo by the name of Zoran Mom Donnie.
He is Muslim. I believe uh he's running, and in fact,
Poles show him ahead, right, now he's ahead of Andrew Cuomo,

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probably one of the most well known recognized names in
the entire state of New York. Mandani yesterday walked through
a grocery store. I suggest that you swallow whatever you're drinking,
you're eating, you sit down. If you're driving, get both

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hands on the steering wheel. This isn't fake. I've confirmed it.
I'm speechless. Grocery prices are out of control. The cost
of eggs and milky skyrocket. Some stores even use dynamic process.
Dynamic pricing you like the airlines do, jacking up the

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cost over the course of a day depending on what
they can get away with detending. You know, there's too
many people buying too much ice let us so the
price of iceberg let us goes up. Well, I can
fix that. I'll create a network of city owned grocery stores,
much like a public option that you have for your

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health insurance, but only for produce, just for groceries. We
will redirect city funds. We will redirect taxpayer money away
from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery stores whose mission
is to lower prices, not price gouging. Because those evil

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corporations are just price gouging you. Now, these stores are
going to operate without a profit motive, and they won't
have to pay property taxes.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
They won't even have to pay rent.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, So you know the bodega owner that's on the
corner of you know, thirty second and.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Broadway, will.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
That landowner just have to suck it up, buttercup because
they don't have to pay rent anymore. So all of
that savings that the grocery store, the bodego owner, the
grocery store that was you know, making a profit and
you know, paying overhead and paying no that all goes
away and you'll have city owned grocery stores and all

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of that profit, all of those savings will be passed
on to you. Wow, what was the date? Two thousand
and nine? Sixteen years later, they're actually advocating Marxism alive

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and well, coming to a grocery store near you.

Speaker 8 (27:54):
Hey, Michael, I find myself kind of hoping the socialist
wins in New York City just so I can watch
from afar as the people of New York City reap
what they sell.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
Does that make me a bad person?

Speaker 8 (28:06):
And before you get too cute with your answer, I
specifically asked, does that one thing make me a bad person.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
No, it just adds to your badness, that's all it does.
The really scary part is I'd like to watch it too.
I'd really like to watch it. The sad part, though,
is I don't think we'd learn anything from it. I
think there are people, there are enough useful idiots in
the country that they would see that and they would

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cherry pick whatever data they need to cherry pick to say, oh,
look how great this is.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Look what they're.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Paying in New York for you know, tomatoes versus what
we're paying for tomatoes or avocados, or you know, plain
white bread. This next story Dragon handed to me yesterday,
and I took it home because I wanted to go
on to the Colorado Repellet Court website and find the

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story or find the case. So I found the case
so I could understand what it was. But in a
true gift to radio talk show hosts, the Colorado Repellate
Court's film Oral Arguments, because that allows us to follow
along with whatever the courts are doing. I'm glad they

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do it now. Most of it's really boring, and we
have all had those moments when we have said something
that the minute we say it wants is to crawl
under a rock and die. So here is a three
judge panel the Colorado Appeals Court live streaming, and one

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of the lawyers representing one of the it against stands up.
I've watched the entire theory thing. So they're going back
and forth about the meaning of a statute. This involves
a criminal case and whether sentences can run concurrently or consecutively,
all of which is immateial except to say, this is
a really finite and esoteric area of the law that

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they are discussing. And you can tell that both of
the lawyers for both sides of this issue have studied
it closely and are very well versed in what's going on.
And the judges, as they typically do, start to ask questions.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Listen closely.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Doesn't pursued it. But this could have been three separate,
but it wasn't three separate. Let's go with what happened
in the case.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
The honey or oh my god, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
that I don't know what to say to that.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
I apologize, Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
The question here is what happened.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
I'm sorry, I've just been totally.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Thrown Yeah, I can imagine if I can imagine, I'm
a little thrown by that.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
Also, if I'm being honest, you're honor. I don't know
what to say.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
It's just okay, Well, go ahead, you've only gone a
minute in seven.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
The question here doesn't pursued it.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
But this could have been three separate. Okay, but it
wasn't three separate. Let's go with what happened in the keys.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
But honey or oh my god, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
that you can't I apologize.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Okay, go ahead. The question here is what happened. I'm sorry,
I've just been totally.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Thrown Yeah, I can imagine, if I can imagine, I'm
a little thrown by that.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Also, if I'm being honest, you're honor. I don't. I
want to say, it's just okay. Well go ahead, you've
only gone a minute and seven teps of stuff.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Now, he in listening to the rest of it, which
I'm not gonna bore you with. He eventually recovers and
makes his argument. But have you ever felt that way?
He now, I've read all sorts of comments everywhere about
this story. Maybe he was trying his maybe his wife's
a lawyer, or maybe he you know, he's got a

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sweetheart of the law firm, and what I mean, any
number of things, but you know, you're just you know, honey,
I just oh my god, I just called the judge honey. Now,
the presiding judge who's sitting in the middle, to the
left of the judge, he called honey. She breaks into

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a smile, almost laughs, realizes, oh, I can't do that,
so she covers her mouth and kind of bends down,
trying to keep herself from laughing, pulling an appellate judge. Honey,
I'll never worry much about what I say on there anymore.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, Yeah,