LIVE AT FIVE Trump's meltdown as Harris thrives, SF homeless sweeps, Olympics

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hello, and thank you for joining us on the new
Live at five edition of the Nicki Medora Show. I'm
Nicki Medoro. She is Kim McAllister. Now we have to
be abundantly clear. We were not lying. This was quite
the coincidence. But yes, Kim and myself both had COVID

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at the exact same time, and now we were never together,
like never together. I could show you, guys the text
messages I texted Kim saying, look, I was going to
push through. I haven't been feeling well, but I just
tested positive for COVID, so I have to isolate. She
just woke up from a nap because she wasn't feeling
well and her husband was getting her COVID tests and

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she just hasted positive for COVID.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
So anybody wanted to be positive today?

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Yeah, it takes a while to get but remember positive today.

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Thompson touted positive today. Yes, yeah, oh no.

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I didn't know that.

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Everywhere everywhere. Yeah, welcome.

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I'm so glad that I'm feeling better and Kim's feeling
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my cocktail, I don't assume you're drinking right now, Kim McAllister.

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I have my coach and now and I'm out, so
now I have to order more. And now I'm drinking
my sparkling coconut water.

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Okay, good, Well, I'm drinking cocktails. Anybody else having a
cocktail because we have We have so much to talk about.
I've missed you guys so so very much. I am
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It's the Maduora Mule in this black cup. It's an
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drink it slowly throughout the show. I don't think I'm

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Speaker 3 (02:55):
And thank you everyone for being here.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
So it is Thursday, and we've had a lot of
news since we last talked because the Olympics is on
and we will get to our favorite Olympic moments. But
this morning, this morning, we woke up to some I like,
I almost got teary eyed when I heard about it,
because anybody, especially not just any American, any human being,

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but especially journalists finding out that these Americans and also
like it was four people being released, So it's journalists
Evan Gerskovich, Paul Wheelan who's been in there forever, and
then a dissident's Vladimir Kara Mrza in a multinational deal

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two dozen people apparently between the United States, Russia. Germany
had a hand in this as well. We woke up
to this news this morning and I'm just I cannot
imagine how happy their families have been. But you know,
as I was watching President Biden giving his you know,

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he was making the address to the press and everything
about it. Of course there's this reporter question because of
course it's a presidential year, and Donald Trump has to
throw his two cents into every single thing, because god forbid,
he's not in the headlines and there's there's not attention
on him as well. Listen to this exchange between a
reporter talking about what Donald Trump said to President Biden.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
That he could have.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Gotten the hostages out without giving anything in this change.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
What do you say to that? What do you say
to President.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Trump form why didn't.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Boom?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
And it's true, I mean, Donald Trump can say everything
that he wanted to say. The wall was never built
during his presidency. He never fixed health care in this
country during his presidency. Uh, the only thing that he
ever did was give take away Roe v Wade and
like Buddha Jad just said, and give tax.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Breaks to the wealthy.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
So those are the only two promises that Donald Trump
actually kept. But for him to try to piggyback Kim
on the good news of a very complicated prisoner swap
was a bit insane.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm just well, and it was a perfect thing to say.
And I don't know if everyone heard it because it
was kind of a little hard to hear. But what
the reporter asked was Trump said that he could have
made the swap without having given up anything. And what
President Biden said was, why didn't you do it when
he was.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
The pres Exactly? Why didn't you do it?

Speaker 1 (05:27):
If he had done it, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Do it when he was president. He didn't do a
lot of things when he was the president. He failed
out a lot of things. And so that was I
thought the perfect response, exactly, And it was honestly, the
families and everyone, I mean, all of us watching and
waiting for this day to happen. We don't need to
have it complicated by Trump getting in the mix here.
This is a joyous moment for American Americans having our

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people come back.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Exactly, especially after so freaking long. But as I was
teasing in the kind of the thumbnail for the show,
Kim Trump has been melting down. Okay, I'm going to
say this the timeline between Trump's the assassination attempt. I'm
gonna still call that because somebody lost their lives, even
though I do think that the damage done to Trump

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was minor.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Bullets flew, someone lost their lives. It was a tragedy. Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm not gonna make light of what happened to them, okay,
or what happened at that rally, But any sort of.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Bump in sympathy or polling.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
That Donald Trump got from that has been eviscerated by
Biden stepping aside and Kamala Harris coming in, and I
just can't I can't enjoy it anymore in seeing Donald
Trump completely now, I'm gonna I'm gonna have an asterisk
at the end of this, completely melt down and say

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things that.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Are just totally off the wall crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
At the same time, though, my question to you guys,
and let me know in the comments, and I'll get
to your comments. I promise, I promise, I promise. Do
you think that it's going to be sustainable? Like do
you think that people have become smart to Donald Trump's
nonsense and is just so tired of it? Or do
you think once the kind of right were the newness

(07:17):
of Kamala Harris running, then the tides are going to
shift back and Trump might be able to make some
more headway. Because I'm just saying, Donald Trump has said
some crazy ass stuff lately, starting with this, now, this, now,
I'm going to get to the National Association of Black Journalists.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Do not worry.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
But it actually started, and what was very concerning was
this statement that he was making regarding voting.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
And again, Christians, get out and vote, just this time.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
You won't have to do it anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Four more years.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
You know what, It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You
won't have to vote anymore. Of my beautiful Christians. I
love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Get out.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you
don't have to vote again.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
We'll have it fixed. Socod You're not gonna have to vote.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
So a lot of people were saying, what the hell
are you?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Is that concerning to anyone? Like do are we worried
about this at all?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Because especially given you know, the whole Christian Nationalist project
twenty twenty five, every single thing that you know, Donald
Trump is saying, it's just it seems to be falling
in line. He's trying to separate himself from Project twenty
twenty five. It's not working. So then, like people like
Tom Cotton were coming up, says, obviously he was joking.

(08:43):
Did he look like he was Does he look like
he was joking? Was there a sort of joking going
on there?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I think they're trying to say that, Oh, what he
meant was he'll have America so fixed and repaired that
then you won't have to it won't be like a
battle like this. It'll just be an ob his choice. Perhaps,
but that's not what he said.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
No, and I've done with this, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
You don't have to vote again in four years, it'll
all be fixed. You won't have to worry about it again,
which means worry about it this one time, and then
you won't have to vote because I don't know the inferences.
You won't have the choice anymore, like you.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Won't have the opportunity. We're gonna fix it. We're not
gonna let the Democrats ever win another election. We're gonna
revote them.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Isn't the most American thing you can do? As if
having a choice, a voice, and a vote isn't the
most American of things to do. He's telling people they'll
never have to vote again.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well he doubled down. So Tom Cotton and others are like.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh, no, he didn't mean that.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
He's losing it. So Laura Ingram, who I cannot stand.
I swear to God, Swear to God a woman I
cannot stand Laura Ingram, I mean anyways, so she is
trying to help Trump literally remove the foot from his
mouth right like. She's trying her best to be like,

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you know, they're trying to say that you didn't mean
what you mean. Look at this exchange, Donald Trump, Tom
Cotton and the rest of you being like he was kidding,
that's all what he really meant. Listen to what how
Donald Trump tries to explain it. It's the most ass
backward explanation that's not even true because how he tries
to explain it has no sense in reality.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Tacking you for other ridiculous reasons.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
They're saying that you.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Said to a crown two of Christians that they won't
have to vote in the future.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Yeah, let me say, what did that mean by that?
At a tremendous crowd speaking to Christians almost I mean,
this was a crowd.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
That liked me a lot.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
I think I'm in ninety seven percent or something, and
they're treated very badly by this administration. Okay, Catholics are
treated unbelievably. They're like persecuted. And if I might say,
before I go into the other Jewish people, if you're
Jewish and you vote for Biden or the Democrats or
Kamala or whoever is going to run, I guess it's
going to be her. But if you voted for her

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or the Democrats, you should have your head examined. Because
nobody's ever been treated so badly by this This administration
is destroying Israel, et cetera, et cetera. So with respect
to like a statement like I made, that statement is
very simple. I said, vote for me, you're not going
to have to do it ever again. It's true because

(11:33):
we have to get the vote out. Christians are not
known as a big voting group. They don't vote, and
I'm explaining that to them. You never vote this time?

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not true.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Straight, No, you won't.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
Have to vote anymore.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
I won't need you vote.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
You can go back to you don't have to vote
for you because you have four years and off.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Look is that Christians are known, you know who else
doesn't vote. Gun owners don't vote.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
But just to be clear what you're saying, though you're
not saying, it's being interpret it as you are not.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Surprised to hear.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
No, the left as well, they're never going to have
another election, he says, he's saying or something. Can you
even just responded?

Speaker 5 (12:09):
I said, Christians. I started up by saying, just so
you understand, you never vote. Christians do not vote well.
They vote in very small percentages. Why.

Speaker 8 (12:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
Maybe they're disappointed in things that are happening. But for
a long time I say you don't vote. I'm saying,
go out, you must vote. November fifth is going to
be the most important election in the history of our country,
whether you vote earlier or not. We should have, by
the way, one day voting. We should have voter ID,
we should have proof of citizenship, and we should have

(12:41):
paper ballots. Okay, that's why we should. But we don't
have that. But I said to the Christians in the room,
thousands of them, I said, typically Christians do not vote.
Why it is? I don't know. Your rebelly is something's
going on. Don't worry about the future. Vote, or you
have to vote on November fifth. After that, you don't
have to worry about voting anymore. I don't care, because

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we're going to fix us and the country will be fixed,
and we won't even need you vote anymore, because frankly,
we will have such love. If you don't want to
vote anymore, that's okay. And I think everybody understood it.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Nobody understood it.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Nobody understood it, like and it doesn't even make sense. Christians, Catholics,
gun owners, are you kidding me? They vote? That's why
we're in this freaking situation as they vote. And I
don't know where he's coming up. I don't know why
he's trying to pull all that crap out of his butt.
But I'm just saying like he's absolutely losing it, and

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I'm just really enjoying it that in the JD vance
memes about him having sex with socks and couches, I'm
just absolutely loving everything about this.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I would enjoy it more if I didn't see Poles
still so close. And while I understand that Kamala Harris
is rising in the polls, I still look at these
numbers and maybe there's a two point, you know, difference
between them, which still means to me that half the
country or half the voters asked, are looking at Trump

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as a viable option after all the ridiculousness that comes
out of his face.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, you also have to figure I mean, polling takes time.
Kamala Harris did just jump in the race. I mean, yes,
it's been a little bit, but has been that long.
She also has approved herself. She actually hasn't chosen her
vice presidential candidate. I think that this. I think there's
a lot of things that are going well for Kamala Harris.
I think the fact that nobody's challenged her, so she
is the presumptive nominee. She has the delegates, so while

(14:34):
be a contested convention, that's good. The Olympics is going
on like Donald Trump's assassination attempts is like old news.
Her joining the race is big news. She's gonna ride
the coattails of whoever she chooses as her VP pick.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
That's gonna give her at least another week.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I mean, so, I mean I more now in August, August, September, October,
those three months, it's still a lot of time.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
I mean a lot of things. This can change but
Trump is.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Not helping himself, and JD. Vans is doing Jack nothing
to help him.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
As a matter of fact, I think he's kind of
an anchor around the heel of Trump at this point. Yeah,
because he hasn't said anything positive. He hasn't brought a
group of people forward to say, listen, you know, these
are the people that are behind me, and I can
offer them to you. Looking at him, what if you
would have thought maybe he'd bring Ohio voters, you know,

(15:31):
more in line with the Trump campaign. But I don't
think he's He's done nothing but push people away and
offend different groups of people. Yeah, it's not pretty.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
The other obviously hilarious thing, of course, was what he
just did the other day, which was going to this
kind of I don't know if it's a roundtable disguss yet,
I don't know what it was. What it was sold
to him as it was supposed to be an hour
long conversation of fun of the National Association of Black Journalists. Now,
I don't know why Donald Trump decided to do this.

(16:05):
He said it was like I think it was supposed.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
To be an hour.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
They cut it off at a half an hour. It
got testy from the get go. This was like the
first question that was asked by Rachel Scott of ABC News,
who was like, you know, now every Democrat like queen
right now because she was not taking any of his bs.
And while I will say this it was quite a

(16:28):
tough question to lead with, I think it was a
completely valid one as well.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Totally valid. And if you're the if you're the president
or someone used to.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
This, no, no, go ahead, what are you gonna say?

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I was gonna say that there's some that would say
agree with Trump that this was just a you know,
right out of the sheet, this question was really rude.
The fact is they have very little time with him.
She shakes his hand, she says welcome, and then she
launches into it. And my point is, if you're the
president or were the president, and are a candidate, you've

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reached this level of being able to answer questions of
talking to voters right then you should be able to
handle this. We shouldn't have to tap dance around and
bow to you and play with niceties. We should be
able to get to the heart of the matter and
get the information out out to voters. He had a
huge opportunity here to answer a question in front of

(17:27):
a group of people that he's been trying to court,
and what he did was a major fail exactly.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
So here's the questioning, and you guys let us know
in the comments. I mean, his response does seem crazy, right.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
It was appropriate for you to be here today.

Speaker 9 (17:46):
You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals,
from Nicki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that
they were not born in the United States, which is
not true. You have told four congressman woment color who
were American citizen to go back to where they came from.
You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe
black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser,

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saying the questions that they ask are quote stupid and racist.
You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your marologue resort.
So my question, sir, now that you are asking black
supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust
you after you have used language like that.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been
asked a question so in such a horrible manner.

Speaker 8 (18:35):
A first question, you don't even.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Say hello, how are you?

Speaker 8 (18:40):
Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake
news network, a terrible network, and I think it's disgraceful
that I came here in good spirit.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
I love the black population of this country. I've done
so much for the black population of this country.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
I can't believe that she questions his behavior towards other
black people in this country.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
And that's how he responds, like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
I mean, I can understand from a human aspect, he
was being, you know, kind of cornered, and he probably
doesn't like it. Obviously he was looking to the crowd
for probably a friendly face and he wasn't probably getting
very many. But at the same time, this is what
I wish she would have done instead. And obviously I
don't think it was possible. The apparently we're having some
microphone issues. I wish some of these journalists that are

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gonna do these questions, instead of reading what he says,
do an mfing montage of him actually saying it. You
know what I mean, Like, that's you right, that's your mouth,
that's your mouth saying all of those words to that
person right there.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
That's because he can't argue when.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
He sees himself do it, but because she's voicing it, now,
it's not him, it's her being nasty, it's not him
being nasty.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
But other than that, I thought and she was totally
valid for the question.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
So he gets used to giving these interviews to journalists,
journalists in the loosest sense of the term, who have
an agenda and who don't, who aren't going to challenge him, right,
And so you know, when you actually ask him the
real questions, when you want him to be accountable for

(20:22):
his statements, when you want him to be accountable for
the person that he is, he's so surprised that you
would have the audacity to bring it up.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
May you bring up the things that I said in
front of the public and microphones, like.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
And yes, if you're going to say something now, no
matter how awful it is, own it.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Either apologize for it and say you know what, I misspoke,
You're right, I shouldn't have said it, or if you
own it, then say you know I said it and
here's why. Yeah, but don't just turn it around to
go I can't even believe you asked me that. Well, really,
because I can't even believe you said half the stuff
that came out of your mouth exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
And I just feel like we shouldn't have to tiptoe
around somebody that wants to be our president, Like I
don't have to coddle you. You want to be one of
the most powerful people in the world, you shouldn't need coddling.
You shouldn't need to have, you know, translators for every
time something asinine comes out of your mouth. This is

(21:19):
what he meant to say. How about we just take
him at his word. Whatever comes out of his mouth
is what he meant.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
That's how we should because that's adults, right. I say it,
I mean it.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
I have to own it, like that's how things should work,
especially if you're running for president of the United States.
And I just feel like he's losing it again. I
just feel he doesn't like being back on his heels.
Although I urge caution because I feel like this could be,
you know, a replay of twenty sixteen, and I was like, Oh,
Hillary's running away with it. Hillary's running away with it.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
But I don't.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
But the only thing that gives me comfort is we
played that game, we saw that movie, and we don't
want to do that again. And maybe it's different.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I had a relative that would say things and not
realize how offensive they were, like about race and stuff,
and you would your mouth would drop open, and you'd
be like, I can't I can't believe this just happened.
I can't believe. Here I am in my own family
home and these things are being spewed forth. It wasn't

(22:20):
done maliciously. The person just didn't understand right that you
know that we live in different times, or that it
was inappropriate then and it's inappropriate now. It's this old
I had to say it because I love old people,
and I know not all people are the same, but

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it's like this old person in my mind for this
particular relative, and Trump this old person mentality right where
white people can say things like this and they aren't
challenged because oh, it's just the way this generation of
people think.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, that's the previous generation.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's just they talk, that's just what they mean, blah blah.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Running to be the president of the United States, who
represents the black people, of people of all colors and
all sexualities and all everything. Right, So this is a
person who has to be a little bit more literate
when it comes to how not to offend people and
what's appropriate and what isn't, and he doesn't act exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Eric says, I'm still concerned about the electoral College.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
The Republicans have gotten away with jerrymandering a lot this
year and last year, a lot last year. And I
agree with you, although I will also say, you know,
you just have to urge people to get out and vote,
and that's why the voter suppression tactics, the intimidation. You
know this story since since Eric's comment is so timely

(23:49):
about it, did you see this point where in Georgia,
apparently there was a I don't know if they've fixed
it yet, but there was this headline where you could basically,
if you had somebody's address, social Security number, some sort
of identifying figure, you can cancel their voter registration for them.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
It was some sort of mistake on the website.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
And of course this was supposed to be a safeguard,
not it's it's open to abuse.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
And now people from the rolls roll through the neighborhood
and anyone who has a Harris sign on their lawn, yeah,
so it's Smith drive. You know that we don't need
to have her vote sent, ballots sent to us anymore.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Ridiculous exactly, and it is ridiculous and it's scary. Now
one more from this that that again, this is the
other thing that I'm that it keeps being brought up,
especially regarding Kamala Harris, is that she's this DEI kind
of higher right. That it's the diversity, equity and inclusion.
So here again is just another quick clip of Donald

(24:51):
Trump again in front of the National Association of Black Journalists,
being specifically asked about his comments. She was always hold on,
I want to make it larger. Here we go.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
And she was always of Indian heritage, and she was
only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black
until a number of years ago when she happened to
turn black. And now she wants to be known as black.
So I don't know is she Indian or is she black?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
She is always I.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was
Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden
she made a turn and she went she became a black.
I think somebody should look into that too. When you
ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty town, it's
a direct question.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
I mean It blows my mind that he said it
out loud, like she went and like you heard it.
Rachel Scott said there, she went to a historically black college.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
She was part of a black sorority.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Like to say that Kamala Harris is not identified as
black is so.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Did you know she was? Were you aware of this?

Speaker 1 (26:07):
I was more aware that she was black than she
of her Asian descent. Honestly, I'm completely honest. Until she
was I didn't know her. I really honestly didn't know
her ethnicity until really we learned more about her as
she was becoming vice president. And then I did learn
more about her. I didn't actually care, but when she
was much to find out about these things.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
But back when she was elected vice president, it was
all over the news. She has a mother from India
and a father from Jamaica.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Everybody knew that there.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Were specials done on who she is and what her
background is.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Turned black.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
I've known this for a while, Like this all of
a sudden, this is news to you.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
But he said it out loud, Kim, like that's grandpa
at the dinner.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
That's what I'm saying, Yes, this is the old person
in the room. Are you that like me, right now,
somebody needs to put a filter on Grandpa because outrageous
things are coming out. It's so ridiculous that you would
laugh and chuckle and go, okay, let somebody take Grandpa
back to the nursing home, except for it's not Grandpa.

(27:09):
It's the guy running to be the president exactly, so
you know it would be it would be like amusing
and ridiculous except for the fact that this guy could
be in charge of America exactly.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
And the point is is like Republicans are also aren't
helping Trump, you know what I mean. It's like we
have and I think I have one clip I think
in my long list.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Of clips right now, Pete Boudhajidge is just.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
I mean, I don't know if he's going to be
the vice presidential pick. I think this is what I
think because you guys know, I wanted Pee boota judge,
you know, a long time ago. But I don't know
if Kamala Harris bouta judge. Although I would vote in
a heartbeat, like i'd vote for.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Any Democrat, it doesn't actually matter.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
But I think that Pete Boodha judge a secretary of
State to give him the international experience to set him
up for his presidential run would be a chef freaking
kiss for that guy.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
That guy is amazing. He is helping Kamala Harris.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
You know what I mean, Like it's it's so great
to see Democrats rallying and actually making good headlines since
I was so freaking pissed off at them this like
month ago, like my blood was boiling up the Democrats,
and now it's like, this is what we need. We
need to speak positively, We need to keep promoting the
things that we're doing. We need to keep calling Donald
Trump weird or that's like the phrase that we're using

(28:28):
for Republicans right now. Here is Senator uh John Kennedy
talking and it's as if he's trying to.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Help Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
But even the Fox News host is like, you guys,
it's as if they need another tool and their toolkit,
you know what I mean, Like this isn't working for
you guys anymore, and it's not resonating with America anymore.

Speaker 10 (28:50):
Do you worry how that comes across? And maybe you've
draw no distinction between a female canon mail and that's
their game, but that this female voters, well, let me
let me say it again.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Uh, the vice president is a candidate for president of
the United States. I don't care about her gender, Neil.
Maybe you do, but I don't. I don't care about
a race. I care about her. And I'm telling you
what the polling shows. I'm telling you what the polling shows,

(29:24):
and it does. And I'll be glad to sit down
with you and and and.

Speaker 10 (29:28):
Walking through these because they never know when it's constructed
to call people names, you know, senator on the left,
door the right.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
But I'm sorry that, I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings.
But but let me say it again.

Speaker 10 (29:43):
Back to my feelings matter litter little. All I'm telling
you is, if you think you can gain this November
calling people names, I don't know how far that goes
left or right, but we'll see. It's still early to your.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
Your Your feelings seemed to me like they matter to
you a lot, Neil. And I'm trying to be objective
here me let me show you the gang are you.

Speaker 10 (30:04):
Are you really being objective, Senator? I just think you
said a fas on a name, calling it her. If
you call that being objected, I don't know, But Senator.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
I.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Mean when Fox News House start turning on you, you
know that, like there's that there? You need another tactic,
is all I'm and I don't know if they have
another one because Donald Trump is an ass hat?

Speaker 3 (30:26):
So how do you defend the guy? You know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Like, what else do you have other than his playbook,
which is calling people names? What was the other one?
Donald Trump was like practicing nicknames and there was like
a lion Kamala that he tried. But he also did
another one, oh laughing laugh in Kamala, but he spelled
it like l A F f im or something.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
That's the best you got, you know what? That that's great.
If that's the best he can do, bring it on.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
I don't know, I mean, I know, I just I'm
gonna enjoy it while I can. I don't know necessarily
how long it's gonna last.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
I know, months is long.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
She's got tremendous momentum.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
She does.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
She's raised at least two hundred million dollars. She has
at least one hundred and seventy thousand volunteers signed up
to help with her campaign. And that's just in the
first week. Yeah, there's tremendous momentum and excitement and new
life and breath in this Democratic run for the presidency,
and I don't see that stopping anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Well, I have one more and I promised you a
pee boodha Judge. I'm telling you, Kim, I cannot love
this guy anymore. I feel like his one. I can
still remember. I still to this day. I know exactly
where I was. I'm not even kidding. I was driving
on two eighty getting on three to eighty on the
freeway the first time I heard an interview with Pete

(31:57):
Boudah Judge on the radio, and I was like, who
is this guy? I'm not even kidding. He made that
much of an impression on me all the way back then,
and I was like this guy when he was running
for president for the Democratic nominee, I was like, this
guy's amazing. And I was like and I didn't care.
You know, it was just a white dude, but the
way he spoke, and he doesn't get frazzled.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Like I couldn't run for politics.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
My blood would start boil and I'd be start taking
off my coat, my hair would get frizzy. I would
not be able to run for politics. You would know
instantly that you were getting under my skin.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
He boota jedge.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
He knows how to talk to people no matter where
they're from in America, and he is and I don't
know why Conservative TV brings him on because they will
not get him. So here's a great video that I
have of him just kneeling Fox News, and I love
the most.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Whether we're talking about choice and her stance on defending
a woman's right to choose versus Donald Trump, who eliminated
a right to choose in this country, well.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
He sent it back to the States.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
To be fair, let's be very clear, he is proud
of the fact that he demolished the national right to
choose in this country period.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
But there are states that figuring this out.

Speaker 11 (33:09):
I mean, there are some that are I mean, it's
nearly possible a six week ban or less, but there
are others. There are states in this country that allowed
no restrictions up until the due date.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Of aal right to choose in this country law of
the land for fifty years, which the vast majority of
Americans believe was the right thing to do. But Donald
Trump made a promise when he was a candidate, one
of the few promises he actually kept by the way,
you know, he didn't keep his promise of six percent
economic growth. He didn't keep his.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Promise to drain us to deal way well.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
But even before the pandemic, and even before the pandemic,
America went into a manufacturing recession, which really hurt places
like where I come from, in the industrial Midwest. But anyway,
my point is, he broke his promise for that kind
of economic growth. He broke his promise to pass an
infrastructure bill, right, he said he would do that. He
failed to do it. The id and Harris administration got

(34:01):
it done. Heaven broke his promise to that January sixth
mob when he said I will be at your side
when you march down to the Capitol. We actually did
keep two promises. He kept his promise to destroy the
right to choose in this country, and he kept his
promise on tax cuts for the rich. And if you
want to know what a second Trump term would be like,
I would start by looking at those rare promises that

(34:22):
he actually managed to keep.

Speaker 11 (34:23):
He did say that he wanted to get rid of
Robi Wade, but again, send it to the states where.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
They are the states, to a very friends access to abortion,
and also, as you know, the Republican Party continues to
be interested in a national abortion completely. Yeah, he's disabout
a lot of things. I don't believe him.

Speaker 11 (34:39):
You think all the time, you think that his his
he would not pass a national ban is one that.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
It's the one that's going to go down with most
of the promises that he's made and broken.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Let's talk about this though.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
So, I mean, he's he's so good, Kim. He's so good,
and he makes his point. He doesn't have to yell
at you, he doesn't have to get all the plus.
But he's just like, no, he did.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
She did try to talk over him, and he took
it and turned the conversation back to where they were. No, No,
it's a it's a it's brilliant to be able to
do that, because they'll try to derail you with something else.
And he's like, nope, nope, let's talk about actually the
question that you.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Asked exactly exactly he said.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
He made the same points on John Stewart. I think
is it the daily show that he does once a week. Yeah,
he was making the same points and he actually made
some more points which if you have if you can
go back and watch the uh, the Daily Show with
John Stewart and the Pete Buddha Jet edition.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
That was really Oh, it was so good. Go you
guys have to watch it.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
I love it. I can like watch it on repeat.
He was so good.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
My only complaint was that sometimes he takes almost takes
himself a little too seriously, and I wish that he
would kind of be able to laugh at himself just
a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, there was the vetting, and he was kind of
like playing with John Stewart about that a little bit.
At the same time, I think that's kind of also
his appeal, you know what I mean, He's like this
this I don't know, Middle America guy. He's not threatening,
he's very intelligent, he's a veteran.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yes, he's gay, and that's I'm not even saying that
that's a negative.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
I just you know, again, in America, it's not a negative.
America may not be ready, but.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Keep hearing Harris has to pick a straight white dude.
A straight white dude is the only thing that will,
you know, allow her to ascend to the presidency. That
if you try to pick a Jewish guy in Shapiro,
if you try to pick a gay guy like Buddha
Jedge that all of a sudden, then you have this
ticket that's a little too I'll use their word woke
for people. Right, Why can't we look at who is

(36:42):
the best? Why can't we look at who really would
do the best job for America and not care what
color they are or who they sleep with, love or
anything else, because so preoccupied with who people are in
bed with it.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Now, this is why, this is why you want to
know why, Because there is this idea that if you
are anything but a white man, and i'm gonna say
a white man, you're a dei. And that in and
of itself proves why we need to make an effort
to outreach. I'm not saying that Kamala Harris isn't qualified,

(37:22):
but the fact that people undermine and dismiss all of
her qualifications because of the color of her skin and
what's between her legs just exposes the fact that people
think the default with no experience, you could be a
freaking TV star, But because you're a white man and

(37:44):
rich helps, you're all of a sudden default qualified. But
if you're a woman, if you're a different race, if
you're a different sexuality. You must be a diversity higher.
Screw you guys who think that way. Why does white
and male have to be the automatic default and everybody

(38:05):
else is a DEI hire. It's bullshit.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
I'm sorry it is.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Teacher Laurie says there's too much misogyny, anti semitism, and
homophobia still in the US. Hate to say, as a
Jewish woman with a gay brother, Harris needs a white
Christian male as a VP. Andrew Bresheer is good Southern governor,
young and handsome, Kentucky brings nothing to the party. She
has to pick it from a swing state and enough
a state with enough electors that would affect the election.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
I mean, they're saying Kelly of Arizona, right, So I
think that would be a good choice, you know why.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
I also like Kelly.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
He's not Buddhajid or Shapiro. He's the and I hate
to say this vice presidents really and I will kind
of agree with Donald Trump. I don't know if it
was included in the video that I played, but it
was part of the National Association of Black Journalists comment
he's like vice president and don't really bring much besides
the initial their vice president no, but listen, during the

(39:05):
political campaign, it's like there's this big rush of attention, right,
But then as far as the campaign, they back up
the president of the United States. It's their agenda that
they support, right, So I get that I want Pete
Boo to.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Judge again as Secretary of State.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
I don't know which a hero would be good for
because I'm whatever a cabinet position. But what I like
about Kelly is he brings what you were just talking about.
We need a vice presidential candidate to work the electoral
College numbers, to reach out to the people from the states.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
But once it become vice president.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
You know, not saying that Kelly can't do anything and
he's not qualified and all that sort of stuff, but
then you know, we put you in your slots and
then we're bringing you up to you know, if Kelly
wants to run for vice president, and okay, I think
Pete boa jug should run for president. Whatever you want
to do. But I'm just saying, like, we've got a bench,
We've got a young bench, and we've got a bench
also that has a moral and ethical backbone, because anybody

(40:03):
that carries the water for Donald Trump is a no
vote in my opinion, because you sold your soul, you
sold your country for a guy that wouldn't do the same.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Like he is no Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
You could say that Joe Biden is old, but there's
no effing way that Donald Trump would have ever looked
at himself in the mirror and says, have I best
for this country? You know, whatever my political leaning is,
my temperament, my attitudes, my racist tendencies, is this what's
best to be a leader of the United States? No,
it is not.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
I should step aside. Donald Trump would never do that.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
He would never do that at all.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
It's interesting. Ren writes that she was recently in the
middle of the country. She says, they're not going with
Pete or Gavin or two women. These words were said
to us by Democrats in that area, talking about who
their neighbors would vote.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
Fortely.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
I think it's something we can't forget because as Californians,
we have a different outlook.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Oh, of course, we're totally bubbled. We are totally bubbled.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, I mean I like being bubbled because I like
to be progressive. I like to be like, look, Midwesterners
or Middle America, like, come on, because there are people
in your community that wish they lived in a community
that was as progressive as this, right, Like.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
It's it's something to be to aspire to.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
At the same time, I know that living in you know,
the West Coast and the congestion and housing prices and
all that, that's another negative that you have to deal with.
But I would much rather deal with traffic and higher
prices and be accepted for who I am and who
I love and not you know, all those sorts of things,
but not to stifle that and live in the middle
of America. I'm sorry, I just would, And I'm not

(41:40):
knocking Middle America. I'm just saying, like, I get it
that we're in a bubble, but I like my bubble,
and I want other people to join us.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
I do too. Welcome to our bubble, please join, Please come.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Sorry, I'm sorry, it's true. It's absolutely true.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
So uh and now, Chris, I know that you've been
leaving a lot of comments, and you are welcome on
the show. If you're gonna offend other people in the comments,
we'll have to put you in a time out. But
Chris Riots, being a prosecutor does not translate to being
a CEO. I don't want a CEO as president of
the United States. I don't want a CEO as president
of the United States. How about that. That's not what

(42:14):
I want. It's not what I want. Yes, I want
somebody that's going to take into fiscal matters and balancing
the budget and all those sorts of things.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
But I'm sorry. You know what businesses can do.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Businesses can go bankrupt, right, Businesses can lay off all
of their staff.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Businesses can treat every single employee as a budget line.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
I want somebody that understands that there needs to be
a safety net for Americans because not everybody start to
the same starting line in America.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
I want somebody that understands that and is working for
every single American, not just the ones that are wealthy,
not just the ones that are well off, not just
the ones that.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Are able to donate to their coffers.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Because the truth of the matter is the United States
is a gigantic country and the President of the United
States needs to understand that. And if you run this
country like a business, you can go bankrupt morally, ethically,
and in its entirety. Donald Trump almost broke us on
January sixth, are you kidding me? And he wasn't a
good businessman to begin with.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
He was great I saw from him is money first.
Money first, ethics last, from his university to his casinos
to most of the businesses he's been involved with. If
not all right, even in for a charge with fraud
and convicted in New York. So this is a fraudulent

(43:37):
person who puts money first, in ethics last. That's not
the President of the United States. Maybe I'm a pie
in the sky kind of dreamer. The President of the
United States is someone with strong character who loves America. Like,
this is where you're gonna laugh at me. This is
where I'm gonna lose a lot of people like Harrison

(43:57):
Ford and Air Force one. Someone want to get behind him. Believe, yes,
somebody who's gonna hire for America.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Someone is going to.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Be strong, someone who's gonna do the right thing. That's
the guy like you know who I see that. I
see that in a lot of people. But that's Pete
Buddha Jetge, like the guy who has the military background whatever,
Kamala Harris, I believe loves America. I believe these people
would put the country before themselves and that's what I want.

(44:28):
Someone who will protect our rights as Americans, someone who
puts the country first and not money first.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
And you can you can buy, you can buy.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
A total package. Trump is offering to sell the environment
to fossil fuel CEOs for the highest bid. That's not character,
that's not moral character, that's not doing what's right for.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Us, exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
So you know, again, you really just have to realize
that while on one hand, yes, the the resume of
a president or the job description I should ask, actually say,
the job description of a president includes so many things.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
It really does. But the truth of the matter is
Donald Trump wasn't good at his job. Yes, he appealed
to those with money.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yes, he appealed to those of certain you know, and
they had a loud megaphone and they're like, we were
doing so good, you were doing so good. You weren't
doing good. If you were a minority, you weren't doing good.
If you were a woman, you didn't feel welcome in
your own freaking country that you were born in because
you looked different or your skin was a little too dark,
even if you were born in this freaking country. Donald

(45:38):
Trump made it okay for people to question whether or
not you were even an American because you didn't look
like him. That is not a leader, and that was
what comes with the job of president. And so he
disqualified himself even before he was elected in twenty sixteen.
And I can't believe people are still buying his bs
and that he's even even to Kamala Harris, but he

(46:01):
is all right. Last thoughts, what seems to be different
this time is somehow the messages from the Democratic Party
got muddled.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
And now I don't know if it was, you know,
the Democrat so preoccupied with the age of President Biden
or what it was, but those messages like the one
we just heard heard Pete buddhaj Edge go on to
Fox News and you know, and really eloquently discuss those

(46:35):
messages seem to be buried right and now they seem
to be elevated to this point where we're not just
the other option, like vote for anybody but that crazy guy,
crazy grandpa on the corner Rctly, now it seems to
be not only do you not want Trump crazy guy
in the corner, but look at all the things we

(46:57):
can offer you, and here's the message, and that's being
lifted up. And that's exciting to see because it's more
along the lines of vote for us because we're not him,
and it's more about you know, look at us, look
at all the things that we are are representing and
all the ideas that you can agree with us on.

(47:18):
And that's a message that inspires people to come to
the polls and to make a difference and vote well.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
And also I think the thing is and I'm not
knocking Biden, but again, his age really has been showing
his and I'm not gonna use the word stamina, but
and because he does have a stutter, I think that
at his age has made him not be able to
kind of, you know, sing from the mountaintops all the
things the Democrats have been doing and will do. Because

(47:45):
of all of those things, and now we have a
younger voice than Kamala Harris, who're gonna be like Joe
as she calls him, Joe, I got this.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
This is what we've been doing for you, you.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Know what I mean, like a stronger voice to promote
what's been done and what they are going to do.
And that's what was needed. There needed to be this firelit.
And it's not to take away from what the Biden
Harris administration did. But it's we needed that voice. It's
what was missing at that debate. It's what was so disappointing.
It was like the Zingers that we needed. It's what

(48:17):
Biden was able to do back in twenty twenty that
he's just unable to do now and so again, and
I got emotional when we talked about it when he
stepped down. What he did for this country again, what
he did in twenty twenty and what he's done this
year will go down in history as one of the

(48:38):
most selfless things an American president has ever done. And
I don't care if you're a conservative or a Democrat
or whatever. It has to be so difficult and you
have to respect it. And you know, now Verholmold was
a coup of Democrats, shut the f up. It was
only Biden that could have done it. And it was
what Biden decided to do. And and I'm I'm I'm

(49:01):
on honor that he was our president and and I
think that he's he's going to really be remembered as
one of the best presidents because of what he helped
this country achieve and what it saved us from, which
was another Donald Trump hopefully presidency, so Jesus well to
bring it close to the home, and it's still kind
of political. San Francisco has begun doing these homeless sweeps

(49:25):
now to bring you guys up to speed if you
don't remember, and if you guys don't live in California
and you're just joining us. The Supreme Court ruled that
San Francisco and other California cities can kind of remove
these homeless encampments because before San Francisco and other cities
their hands were tied because the rule.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Was you couldn't touch these homeless encampments.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Basically if they didn't have anywhere to go that you
couldn't move them, you couldn't arrest them, you couldn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
And so if you offered them a place and they decided,
they could decline.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Right right, they could decline it. So now it's like, nope,
we're not doing it. So obviously, and you knew this
was going to happen, is that once the homeless encampment
sweeps start, people are gonna be like, you're you're you're
being too aggressive. So here's one of the videos. This
is from the San Francisco Standard who's been it's a
publication that's been actually doing a pretty good job reporting
on the sweeps and the cleanups and everything like that.

(50:17):
Here's one of them that kind of went viral because
it was an interaction between a homeless person and the
public works and police that were out there.

Speaker 7 (50:24):
So here's a video of that.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
He's trying to keep his tent a sleeping bag of
letting him beep.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
So he basically they're saying, Gavenusom says, homeless encampments are
no more, and that's basically what the officer was telling
him is like dude, like there's there's.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
No more, Like you've got to get out. You got
to get out now.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Some people are saying, and the San Francisco Standard was
reporting that the warnings, the warnings of were sweeping the
encampments out wasn't necessary or wasn't given ahead of time.
The others were saying they were throwing away everything. They
weren't letting, you know, the homeless people keep the things
that they actually needed. They were just leaving them with
their clothes on their back and nothing else. What do

(51:31):
you think, because I've been reading a lot of different
kind of reactions to this, and I will say at
least just and this is just anecdotal from the ones
that I've read, people are like, too bad, so sad.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
You guys have had enough warning and people are just
fed up.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
I feel like you need to give people warning. I
feel like you need to say to them, Listen, in
twenty four hours, were coming to clear away this encampment.
If their things is that you want to pack up
and take with you to the shelter, please do so.
I think you need to. It's like an eviction. You
need to let people know what's going to happen. Right.
Here's the here's the problem, as and you and I

(52:13):
have talked about this before, which is you can't allow
these these folks to be on the street because it's
not good for them, it's not good for society, it's
not good for anyone, right, and so you have to
get them help. Here's the problem. Here's this this headline
from ABC seven. Mayor London Breed is directing city staffers

(52:34):
to offer homeless people bus tickets before they're offered housing.

Speaker 8 (52:40):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Now, this is in the medical industry is often called
patient dumping.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Yeah, bussing, buzzing them out like that's your problem.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Off from a bus ticket somebody else's problem down the line.

Speaker 6 (52:53):
Right.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
You could argue that the best place for someone that
needs help is with people that love them. Right, But
you want Uncle Joe back from the streets of San Francisco,
you know, to I don't know, pick a city in
Iowa so that we can help him and get him help,
and we didn't know where he was, and we want

(53:14):
to love him and be there for him.

Speaker 7 (53:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
The truth is that a lot of families have given
up on these people. So when you give them a
bus ticket, you have no idea where they're going to
end up. And the truth is, when you give them
a bus ticket, what you're saying is we don't really
give a rats ask what happens to you. And I
don't think that's right. I think we have to care
what happens to them. We have to go, Okay, we're

(53:38):
not giving you, you know, a bus ticket unless we've
talked to someone on the other end that wants.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Right and we know where you're actually going. There is
a place.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
But what we can offer you is this shelter. What
we can offer you is a mandatory treatment program to
help get you clean. What we can offer you is
a clean bed and some psychiatric meds and some medical care.
Right you know that says we care what happens to you,
not a bus ticket, a bus ticket out of town
that says you're someone else's problem.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Power.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Yeah, well, okay.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
So according to ABC seven and the San Francisco Standard,
they part of the reason for this directive is because
San Francisco's twenty twenty four point in time count found
that it's San Francisco is experiencing an increase in people
who experience homelessness coming to the city from elsewhere compared

(54:28):
to previous counts. So basically what they're finding is before
and this is the thing. And I don't know if
you guys are aware of this. The amount of time
somebody needs to claim to have been living in San
Francisco to be considered a San Francisco resident is extremely short.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
So I want to I don't. I want to say,
it's less than a month.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Wow, Okay, So I always that was always my question.
I want to say, I'll have to research that, but
you can google it while I'm talking. I'm almost positive
it's not like a year. I would say, if you've
been here a year, you moved here. Let's say you
got a job. You moved here from Wisconsin and you
got a job at a tech company and then all

(55:12):
of a sudden, Elon Musk fired your ass and you're
like up up a creek and you have nowhere to go,
and so whatever, and so now you've ended up on
the street, or you're living in your car, you're doing
something like that.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Okay, but you've been here a year, you have you know,
you've you've created some sort of roots. You're fine. But
I think it's much shorter than that. And that raises
the question of and also they could lie. And I'm
not saying all homeless people are liars, but if if
somebody comes up to me and says, are you a
resident of San Francisco?

Speaker 3 (55:38):
And I have nothing but a tent and garbage with me? Okay?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
And I'm not being harmful or being mean here, I mean, okay,
I have a tent and whatever crap I have with me, okay,
And they're like, are you from San Francisco? And I
say yes, but I have no identification on me. I
could just be lying to you, so I could stay
like it's not outside the realm. Of freaking possibility.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Right, is your body laying in San Francisco? Is your
head resting on a you know, hefty bag covered pillow
in San Francisco?

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Does that make you a San Francisco residence though?

Speaker 2 (56:08):
It makes you someone who needs help. And I don't
care where your head is laying, and you need help.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
That is absolutely true, Kim. And this is going to
be the heartless part of me. So I apologize because
you guys know, I'm a bleding liberal. The truth of
the matter is, though, and it's been documented, and as
San Francisco is seeing people in other areas because of
our open hearts.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
And I don't knock it because again I like it.
They do come here.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
It's a fact. It's nicer here, It's nicer in California.
It's and when there's service is here. When you go
to other states that aren't going to provide you services,
where are you going to go? Yeah, I mean there's
truth in all of it, Okay, But I mean, I'm
sure there are San Francisco residents here that are homeless.
I'm sure a significant portion of them are. But to

(56:54):
say all of them are that's bull. I'm sorry, that's bull.
And we can't take care of all of them.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Now, I still agree with you.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Bus tickets, Clare, I don't know where you're going is
weird and I don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
I don't like And where's that money coming from London?

Speaker 5 (57:11):
Like?

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Am I paying for this San Francisco?

Speaker 1 (57:13):
People playing for it?

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Like the bus ticket?

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah, Like who's paying for the best tickets?

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Oh well, Nikki, the I mean, if you're going this way,
the bus ticket is an awful lot cheaper than a
shelter bed.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
But I just like, does it?

Speaker 2 (57:25):
But okay, behooves like it if it was migrants, if
it wasn't morally bankrupt, it would behoove the city to
buy an entire ticket load, like pamphlet full of bus tickets,
plane tickets even, But.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Then they'll just come back. They'll take a trip to
Vegas with your home.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
How do you get money to to buy an expensive
cross country bus ticket?

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Or they check it up here somehow?

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Yeah, well send them back.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
See people have cell phones, cam, I mean, how they
figure out a way, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
You know what I mean? Like people are taking some
time to make your way back to the street in
San Francisco. I don't know you know what I mean.
I'm not advocating that by any advocating any means, but
I'm just saying, like in the scheme of things, if
you're you're worried about the cost, you know, look at
the cost of shelter beds, look at the cost of
security for the r V you know, camping spots.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
But they had to open up.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
The tent city and the sanitation and all the outreach
and everything else.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
And what it's doing to all these and also our
economy because the bad headlines and people not wanting to
go to cities like San Francisco because and I will
say San Francisco if you haven't gone, and i haven't
been there in a while, but I'm telling you it
is so exaggerated. It is so exaggerated. I've always made
this analogy. If you hang out in a bathroom all day,

(58:55):
you're gonna think your world is shit, right, Like leave
the tender and in Leahs, little Tennaoine is bad. There
are pockets of San Francisco that are bad. There are
pockets there's so much more of San Francisco that is gorgeous,
that is so full of culture and vibrancy and life
and oh my god, the events, and they're really trying,
but everybody's like, yeah, but look there's a piece of

(59:18):
crap on the floor right there. It's like, all right,
put your nose in it, and that's your world. Fine,
if that's what you want to do, but that's not
all of San Francisco. And I just I hate the
headlines that have just sucked all of the good news
out of San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
The same thing's happening to Oakland.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
I mean, Oakland has major problems, but that's more of
a city policing issue. San Francisco also has a bit
of that issue, but also the headlines they can't get
away from. Uncle Russ says San Jose just plays whack
a mole with the homeless population. I will say San
Jose's made a lot more progress I would say, just
anecdotally from living in San Jose driving around than San

(59:56):
Francisco or Oakland or other cities have absolutely. I mean
you walk downtown San Jose, it is miles head and
shoulders above San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Like, yes, there's pockets of homeless and comments here and there,
but no, it's no, no, no, no, no, misorganicss will come on,
give me some regonomics cheese with like what trickle down economics?
You know, the riches, the richard is gonna, you know,
give us all of their money because yeah, they believe
in that sort of thing, because that always happens.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
It was was it San Refel? I want to say
San Refel. There was a police officer I think it
was a police officer that was captured on video trying
to offer a ride to a homeless person or a
pair of homeless people into San Francisco. Okay, so surrounding communities,
you know, knowing there's more services for them, just take

(01:00:50):
them into the city and dump them somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's not it's I want
to lead with compassion. I always want lead with compassion.
But I also want to say, like, we can't be
stupid either, like there is a medium. You can't swing
the pendulum too far one way or the other, because
that's how we kind of got into this mess, right, It's.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Like, oh, let's let's just let people.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Because I remember when I was a reporter in Sacramento,
it was when the first tense cities started.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
I mean this was years ago, and I understood it.
It's like, well, shoot, you know, like they don't have
anywhere to go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
It's a tent. They were keeping it clean. But then
all of a sudden, very quickly, remember Occupy Oakland. All
of a sudden, it was one thing, and all of
a sudden it became a bunch of you know, young
people that just wanted to hang out. Because I was
there in the middle of the night interviewing these people
doing drugs and just hanging out. Like it wasn't about
the red it wasn't about the banks, and it wasn't

(01:01:48):
about capitalism and incoming equality. It was like partying and
all that kind of crap. So there is, you know,
both happening at the same exact time. And I'm telling
you we need to kind of keep it in reality.
We need to understand when things are working and not working.
And it's not a failure to say, look, homeless, we
love you. You have to take the shelter and you

(01:02:10):
can't be here, you cannot be here anymore. That's not heartless.
But we also have to make sure that there's a
place for them to go and not just a bus
ticket and goodbye, good luck. You know what, I mean, like,
that's not gonna work, so uh no, I just think, yeah,
let's just kind of lead with compassion, and I think
that's gonna be the best way to do it. All right,

(01:02:30):
Let's get some Let's get a couple of comments from
you guys real quickly, and then we're gonna wrap up
the show. But some of your party, your favorite Olympic moments,
because I don't know. So, I started my new job people,
and with it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
You like it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
I absolutely love it. I've only I've only been there
a couple of days. If if those of the you
that don't know, the reason why we are doing this
weekly live show live at five five o'clock somewhere mocktail
cocktail talk about the news is because I did get
a new job, and so I'm working, you know, during
the day, and so I'm doing this job at night.
I am the health clerk slash office assistant at this

(01:03:11):
middle school in San Jose and it is something so
outside of something I've ever done before that I'm so
excited about it. Like I really love all the ladies
that I'm working with. They're so nice, Kim, you would
love them. I feel like I have slid in they're
all like our age, Like the one woman has kids

(01:03:33):
literally our kids age right so too, and it's just
it's very welcoming. But school hasn't started, so I also
feel like i'm very much I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
Okay, yes, but I'm excited. I've met some of the
kids that have come in.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
I'm I'm really just I'm excited to meet the kids,
help the kids, be another advocate for the kids, because
you guys know that that's just what I love to
do when I volunteered at my kids' school. And yeah,
I'm just I'm really, really, really really excited about it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
It's only been three days.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
I'm not doing it to get rich, but I am
doing it to, you know, for everything that we're doing exactly.
And it's fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Minutes from my house.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
Kim and I don't have to wake up at three
o'clock in the morning and drive the sand San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
I do love talking about the news.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
I love so much the fact that we're going to
continue doing this, this show. I would miss broadcasting and
talk shows and news. I have the news on out
my I have my own office, like I have an office.
It's amazing. I'm going to be called Miss Nikki, Like
that's gonna be amazing, Like, yeah, I miss NICKI right,

(01:04:50):
prints going in the background. But yeah, I'm just really
excited about it. It's it's awesome. I'll let you know
when school starts. Okay, if I'm pulling my hair out,
but I really do think that. Yeah, and Phineas, California
has new teacher certification rules. Only need a bachelor's degree,
just a little bit of inside baseball. I can also
be a substitute teacher. I got my certification to be

(01:05:12):
a thirty day emergency substitute teacher at the almost to
the day that I got the job that I have
right now. So I decided to work within a school
to see how it runs and kind of be there.
And so I'm really really excited about it. I wanted
to start a new job in education, and so I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
You guys keep asking me if they know who I am.

Speaker 7 (01:05:31):
No, they don't know who I am.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
I'm not gonna do you know who I am.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
I'm not Mary Thompson over here.

Speaker 9 (01:05:38):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Well, if they know, I would think you're even more
valuable now because now if there's somebody out sick and
there's no substitute teacher. I don't know that. The principal
won't have to the administrator won't have to go take
the class. They can send you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Yeah, yeah, you know who knows.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
But I'm just really excited and it's just something completely
out of my wheelhouse. I've never done anything like this.
It's a lot of paperwork the health clerk. It's not temperatures,
it's paperwork. And I'm really good at organizing, and so
it's vaccinations and immunizations and getting all the paperwork and
making sure the seventh graders can go to school and
all those sorts of things. So that's what I'm doing
right now. But I'm loving it and thanks. So it's exciting.

(01:06:18):
So I'll keep you guys posted.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Girl, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Okay, you guys click that thumbs up on the super
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Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
We are?

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
You sound a little bit better? You sound perfect.

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So I know that he's gonna be like, no, we're
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, so Kim, we've
had COVID, so yes, I'm assuming you've watched a lot

(01:08:26):
of the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Yes, I've watched some really stupid movies and Also, I'm
keeping track of the Olympics, and there's a lot of
drama at the Olympics, and I've been really enjoying all
of it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Okay, so do you have a favorite like are you
is there a like a favorite event that you're just
I'm always catching the replay or watching it in primetime.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
So I'm trying to watch the skateboarding.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Competition, James, my husband is obsessed with that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Yeah, Mina Stess is from Petaluma.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Oh, she's a local girl.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
We're really excited about it. Everyone in town has signs
all over to congratulate her. So that's really exciting to
have someone local that's doing that. Fanny. I saw her
dad advertised on a local I Love Pedaluma facebook page.
Does anyone have a barn? We need a place to
put our half pipe skateboarding training ramp in. So that's

(01:09:16):
kind of funny. But so that's been exciting. And then
who doesn't love watching Simone Biles?

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
There you go, baby, I mean maybe she may zing
and so I mean she.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
She's the young women are fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
She is the beast.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
And it's not it's and I'm not you know what
I love about Simone Biles. She's like, I'm sorry, I'm
not being like conceited. I am the best. I'm not
you know, Tiger Woods, and I am these Simone Biles
because she's that freaking good and her.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Team is really really good. But did you also hear
about with one of the other former Olympic.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Yes, people have been talking trash.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Huh, Mikayla Skinner. And now if you see a picture
of her, she's blonde. She had come out with this comment.
Here's what she said. I'm gonna share it with you
and then I'm going to play you a little bit
of Simone Bile's response.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
So apparently before I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
I think it was during the Olympics. I don't think
it was before the Olympics. She had come out, she
was being interviewed and this is what Mikaela Skinner had
said that really really rubbed Simone Biles the wrong way.

Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
Here we go.

Speaker 12 (01:10:24):
But besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the
depth just isn't like what it used to be. Just noticed, like,
I mean, obviously a lot of girls don't work as hard.
The girls just don't have the work ethic like and
it's hard to because a safe sport, like coaches can't
get on athletes and they had to be really careful
what they say, which in some ways is really good.

(01:10:46):
But at the same time, to get to where you
need to be in gymnastics, you do have to be
I feel like a little aggressive and a little intense.
We feel like, you know, Russia is not going to
be there, so they don't have to have the stress
of Russia. And then what other teams really are there?
I mean, there's a lot of teams that have gotten
better and have gotten stronger. But I feel like, no
matter what, as long as we do a decent job,

(01:11:06):
will be fine. And just some of the other girls
that fell twice and still ending up in second place
in the all around just kind of crazy to me,
is it? Or Hesley?

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Okay? And so she didn't even the girl's name, right,
she apologized that MICHAELA. Skinner came out and she said
upon reflection, she formally apologized. She said, upon reflection, I
was comparing the Marta era to the current era. I'm
coming to terms that I have not fully dealt with
the emotional and verbal abuse I endured under Marta that
perhaps led to my hurtful comments. I take full responsibility
for what I said, and I deeply apologize, But.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
She's blaming someone else for her being mean. I mean,
I think she sounded and jealous Nellus, she sounded bitter.
She sounded like maybe she was trying to audition for
a spot at the ESPN desk and then or something.
The post team analysis and the truth is you were
a competitor. You had your moment in the spotlight exactly

(01:12:02):
got a silver.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
I think too. I mean, come on, why knock the
American team like you don't need to do that. Well,
here is Simone Biles kind of responding, but.

Speaker 13 (01:12:13):
Really Simone Biles in the USA women's gymnastics team. They
won the gold medal and the team final in Paris.
Biles is now the most decorated American gymnast of all
time with eight medals. There was a cheeky moment we
want to share with you at the post win news
conference when former American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist and
pasked guest on the lead Ali Raisman asked vials.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
About whether or not the team.

Speaker 13 (01:12:39):
Had an informal nickname it had given to itself for
the game.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
What is your team name. What's your team name?

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
I'm going to abbreviate it, disabbreviate it f a.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
Y f around and find out yea so f around
and find out is kind of the nickname that they
gave the team because they're good. I mean, they're all
good and they all support each other. And I think that,

(01:13:17):
you know, Michleas Skinner didn't need to do that. I
think that maybe she was in the middle of an
interview and maybe got caught up in it a bit.
But they're amazing and I don't miss gymnastics. It's so
quick though, like all the celebrities are there, Lady Gaga,
Tom Cruise, Snoop Dogg, Flavor. Flavor is a sponsoring the
women's polo water polo team and apparently, like I think,

(01:13:43):
who was it, a relative of one of the water
polo players had passed away right before. I think it
was a sister or a sibling of one of the players,
and so they wore this another clock. A Flavor Flavor
wore another clock on his on his chest for that player.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
It was really week.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Snoop Dogg doing play by play is absolutely amazing. If
you haven't caught any of it, just go on x
or Instagram or whatever they're he is.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Some of them had posted on social media like I
don't know how.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
He became, like, you know, the symbol of America at
the Olympics, but everyone's loving it because Snoop Dogg is
just too much.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Yeah, mc Jagger is there, Sarah Jessica Parker. There's the
picture of.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Mick Jagger with all of these young people looking at
their phones around him in the stands, and the caption
is like when you're too young to realize you're sitting
right next to Mick Jagger. It's really funny. Okay, I
have to show you this picture. This is yes Olympic
pen where he's puffing out the Olympic rings. How did

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he become the mascot for America? It's it's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
So so apparently now, Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart had
done play by play and I believe it was on
Peacock during I believe it was the last Olympics or
during the trials. They had this offshoot show, okay, and
it was hilarious and and Snoop Dogg's funny, like he
just thinks off the top of his head and he

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just and he does display booky like if you've seen
him do the hurdling, the you know, the track and
field hurdles, and like one of the runners jumps over
the hurdles and I.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Didn't know this either, And that's how great Snoop Dogg is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
He's like he touched the tippy top. He went over
the tippy top. I didn't know you could do it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
It's so funny he is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
He's just what you need and he's so it's so
the epitome of America. I guess you know what I mean, Like,
who's this guy?

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
It's just funny.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Watching the Olympics with a friend instead of backing it
with the you know, the commentator, which doesn't make you
feel like at home at all, but it feels like
you're just watching with someone in the armchair who's yelling
at the TV just like you are, like what the
hell is that guy doing?

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
Exactly? It's so much fun. Now we didn't have time
to talk about and I'm sure it's been done nauseum,
but the opening ceremony so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
Story.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
I'm in a COVID stupor as the opening ceremonies are
happening we're just sitting here. My whole family got it,
right except my son. My son was the only one
that never got COVID. My daughter got it, my husband
got it, and I got it. So we're kind of quarantining, right,
And so we're playing board games.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
It's like it's twenty twenty again, right, and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
We're watching the Olympics. I completely I caught the metal
Marie Antoinette beheading at the in the front of the
castle or whatever one. I thought that was actually pretty cool.
I was not offended. I completely must have zoned out
during the Last Supper slash Dionysus whatever Greek god thing.
I don't know where I was, but James was like,

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you were sitting on the couch. I was like, I
don't remember seeing it, but apparently I guess. So so
this everyone's seen it. Everyone's saying that this was the
Last Supper. They have apology eyes for it. I guess
they kind of took from it or not took about it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Why is anyone apologizing for that. That's that's the god
of wine, isn't that correct?

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Well, yeah, but they're just saying the whole like standing
around thing. I don't even care because in all honesty,
like I don't. I mean, I get it. If you're offended,
I really do like and I if you're.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Offended by it, be offended. I'm not offended by it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
I don't even notice.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Defended by it you're uneducated and don't understand the symbolism. Yeah,
I mean, it's not the last supper. This is not
the last Supper. So for people to be offended, it
means they don't really understand what they're looking.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
At, right, And I mean, I don't see how this dude,
this Greek god Dionysius or whatever, is supposed to be Jesus.
I don't know anyways. So that's not what I wanted
to talk about. I really wanted to talk about this
dude in the far left. This is a story that
I kept getting sent to me. This dude on the

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far left in the black with the black shorts. Uh huh,
you don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
This is there something interesting coming out of the black shorts.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
So everyone is saying, oh, and it looked like it
was his junk, but it wasn't. It was a tear
in his tight So I'm gonna go back. So from this,
it does kind of look like, oh my God or
his wolf. That's what everyone was saying. Oh my god,
the kids are watching. Let me share this photo a
million times so just in case the kids missed it.
See it like jannat Jackson's nipple, over and over again.

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So everyone's like, oh my god, his balls are hanging out. No,
it's a tear. You can see right there. It's a tear.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
You can see his legs up. It's a tear in
his tights. But everyone was thinking that it was hanging out.
I'm sorry if it was the balls hanging out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Is that any more gross than having these people swimming
in that disgusting ass fine water yesterday or the day before.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Oh the same, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
It's safe. Now there is crap in that water that
you're having these pop athletes swimming. That's just disgusting. A
little bit of ball action that wasn't actually ball action
is not that big of a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
In My favorite Olympics story has to be the guy,
the hockey player from Australia who injured his finger like
three four weeks before the Olympics and he had a choice.
They could stitch it up and it would take so
long to heal that he would miss the Olympics, or

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they could amputate his ring finger right below the knuckle
and he'd be fine to play.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Oh I didn't catch this story.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Don't be rash, like think in the long term. And
he's like, no, amputate, I'm going to the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
How many times are you going to be able to
go to the Olympics?

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
Is is this his third Olympics? He's a hockey player.
I think it's is it field hockey? Yeah, he's a
hockey thing Australia. Ring finger.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
I don't know what his wedding finger it was the
I have to look at it right hand.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
This is my favorite, my favorite story that you would lose.
You would have par finger like mostly amputated because it's
below the knuckle right and just in order to go
to the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
I mean, I'm saying, yeah, okay, it's his third time,
but I mean I'm still I would still say cut
it off. I mean, how much do you really need
that ring finger? It's not like a it's not like
the baby tail where you're going to be hobbling weird,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
I mean, I kind of like my fingers.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
Feel like hockey players are so tough, like they lose
their teeth. I mean they have ice puck in their
hit them in the face.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
They're kind of tough, right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
So, because his name is Matt Dawson and he's from Australia,
he's thirty years old, he was struck by a hockey
stick in a practice match two weeks before he was
due to represent the Kuka Barras Club in Paris. It
would be his third Olympic performance. It was a very
significant injury to the finger. When people's he said, when

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people around you see it and they don't say anything,
you know it's really bad. Things got moving pretty quickly
and all I remember, he said, was someone saying we
need to see a plastic surgeon. And the surgeon says
it's still actually very lucky the finger to be hanging on.
So he's given two options. Reconstruct the finger by putting
a wire in it, which meant four to six months

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of rest to fully recover and missing out on the Olympics,
or remove the affected finger.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Take going, take my digit. Coaches came over.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
And he says, I will lose the finger and that
is that. And he does and he gets it amputated
and he's at the Olympics having the time of his life.
Sam's finger.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
Yeah, I love this dude.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Superman himself Stephen Ndorosk Yeah he Oh watch this dude
on the pommel horse.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
History was made of really easy difficulty, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
That one arm thing, Kent because where's the glasses? And
then he takes the glasses off and he's totally Superman.

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
That's funny. It's like he's doing the pommel horse blind.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
I'm like, god, do you I mean, I don't know
how strong of a prescription it is.

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
But it's like, where's my glasses? I'm my glass?

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Like he's like this, I'm no Clark Kent and now
I am the poma horse champion of the world.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
So yeah, he's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
So he was one of my favorite people and then
my other favorite person.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Hold on, I got to bring it up to the
bright time. And I'm sure you've seen this guy because he.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Just a quick note on the finger. It was the
ring finger on his right hand, so.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
It doesn't even matter. That doesn't even matter if he
was married. I'm assuming his wife would care, but here
you go. Okay, so this is my last favorite Olympic story.
And my last favorite guy besides Snoop and Superman and
of course all the gymnasts is Bob the cap Catcher.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
And here we go. We need some sound.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
Here, there we go.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Okay, fucking awesome. I love Bob.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
He's awesome. And then I have to show this one
because you guys are right. I did mean to show it.
Hold On, here it is.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Hold on. I wanted to save it so you guys
can get a good image of it. Did you see
this picture? Hold on, here we go?

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
This was during the surfing competition.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Oh I love this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
Now this They were saying it had to have been
possibly too maybe. I don't know if it was one
camera that was able to do it, but it was
an amazing shot of the surfer. And if you watch
the video, it's such a quick kind of shot that
I'm surprised that they were able to get it, because
when I first saw it, I was like, how did

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they catch it?

Speaker 8 (01:23:54):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
I'm not able to bring it up?

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Here, So the guy, the photographer was on the back
of a boat and he said, oh is that who
it was? Okay, four pictures in succession, and this is
one of them.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
There it is that's the image. So you see him
and he just I mean, it's it's like a split
second where he comes up out of the wave that
he was surfing, and he does that because he's so
freaking awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
But yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
A Brazilian surfer. His name I think is Gabrielle Medina.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
Yeah, Gabrielle Medina.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
And he scores a nearly perfect score on this wave.
I mean, it's like a nine point nine. And he's
so excited that he leaps out of this barrel and
this is what happens. The board is attached to his ankle,
but if you look at his feet, it looks like
he's standing crown. It's wild.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Love it now, Thank you, Eric.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Now I'm gonna have that freaking song in my head
of the greatest American hero.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Believe it or not, I'm walking on it. No, no, anybody, okay,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
My favorite picture from the Olympics, though, despite that being
a really good one, is of the Olympic who I
think he's a French diver. And I don't know if
I should show the picture because oh, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
What you're talking about. You're talking about the bulge, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
I mean we're talking, Oh God City. But then they
compared it to other pictures of him, and it's a
consistent thing. It may not have been like a moment
like he was having a moment.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
No, that was that's a lot of bullwark. I mean,
I'm sorry for a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
You're saying, like, I think that's a normal state for him.
It's not like an altered state.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
You know, he has a lot, he's packing. He's packing.
I mean you need to That's which Spiedo was doing
some work right there.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
That's all I got to say.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
I think maybe that's too skimpy of a swimsuit for him,
you know, I think he needs a little more substance
to the suit.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
I'm just saying it was quite.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
Flattering.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
I would say, if you have to wear a Spiedo,
I would definitely say you would want to fill it out.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Should show it or should I not show it?

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Show it up.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
It's a little it's the Nikki Medoro show at night.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Let's do it. Come on.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
It's a little bit. I'm just saying, like, hello, diver,
what's his name? Does it matter?

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
How dare you objectify?

Speaker 4 (01:26:21):
This?

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Name is Jules Boyer b o U Hite e are.
He's twenty two. He's burning up social media because of
his Speedo bulge. One fan wrote, I just really hope
Speedo is getting paid time and a half.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Yeah, it is so awesome. Oh well, I mean diver
really honestly. Yeah, the Olympics are. I'm really looking forward
to so many more things this weekend. I want to
see the track and field, I want to see the
the uh Shakri Richardson.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
The racing is gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Actually today, Oh shoot, it's today. It starts today, so
August first, I remember, I put it in my mind.
I thought, or is it tomorrow? I think it's going
to be on TV. I gotta double check it. Shaikiri Richardson,
you remember her, She's like really really fast, but she
was disqualified from the last Olympics because they.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
Said that marijuana was an enhancement.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
I'm like, give me a breaking break over here. So
I'm really really excited to see her against the Jamaicans
against I mean, we have so many fast runners, so
I'm really really excited about that. So you guys keep
a watching the Olympic send me in your favorite stories.
But I've been enjoying watching the Olympics, especially since both
of us had COVID.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
It was quite.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
It was quite, you know, it was timely.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
It was very timely for it to be happy. And
when we go down for the count.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Did you end up watching the Netflix special on Simone Biles.
I think it's called Simone Biles Rising or something like.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
I have not.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
It's really good?

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
Is it good?

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
It's interesting?

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
Oh did you I didn't watch it, just speaking of
like those sorts of things I want to watch the
Is it I am Selene Selene Dion singing at the
opening ceremony?

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
Did anybody else get caught like my?

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
I was like, oh my god, I got I got
choked up. And then the cynical part of me was like,
is she really singing? But she looks like she was
really singing, so I'm going to give it to her
that she was really singing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
But I didn't understand Lady Gaga's performance.

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
I didn't either.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
It was kind of long and weird. But apparently it's
a very famous French song and it was her.

Speaker 5 (01:28:21):
It wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Yeah, I wasn't in our language.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
I likes I like, you know what, it's not in
America people. That's the whole thing with the whole opening ceremony.
I'm like, why are we offended? It's not us like Americans.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Stop clutching her damn.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
Pearls over every friggin thing. It's not that big of
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