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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Thursday morning, twenty fourth day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks
for joining me. I finally watched the New Superman movie.
A couple of thoughts. First, of all, movies not bad.
The people saying it's bad, it's a stinker. It's not bad.
It's really not. It's not great either. Let's be honest.
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There's people that want it to be the most amazing
thing ever. It's fun, it's good. It's as good as
you know, I would say most of the mid level,
maybe even upper mid level Marvel movies. It's not elite.
It's not among the best superhero movies ever made by
any means. But it's not bad. It's just it's a
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Superman movie. It's made by the guy who made Guardians
of the Galaxy. It's kind of what you expect, right.
There's a lot of comedy. There is, you know, a
blend of superheroes in the movie, not necessarily all ones
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that the average person in public would have heard of.
I knew them, but not everybody knows them. They were there,
and he did a fine job of working them all
into the story. A different version of the Green Lantern
than most people are familiar with, but he was great,
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one of the standouts in the movie. It was fine.
The people who were freaking out about it and telling
us that this was some woke messaging that was interlaced
with it. Nothing jumped out at me. There were a
couple moments. There were a couple of things in there
that you kind of go eh, all right. They used
the word alien a lot. I didn't take that to
be some kind of symbolism for anything there was. If
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that was the messaging they missed, it was a big
swing and a miss. If they were trying to push
some kind of illegal alien message that was supposed to
change our views on people who snuck into the country.
I mean, it was nothing more than what we've seen
before with conversations about Lex Luthor calling Superman an alien.
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That's all. That's all it was. I would say that
there have actually been other representations where they went closer
to trying to make it into something a story about
illegal aliens. It just wasn't there. I don't know what
people were watching. I don't know if they just heard
that you know there was a chance of it, but
sure they've dropped the truth justice in the American way
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that was gone a long time ago. That wasn't dropped
for this movie. I don't know that any of that
slogan was anywhere in the movie, So I think that's
also a bit of overhyp But for people to say
it was great, come on, it wasn't. It was. It
was fun, it was okay, it wasn't great. It wasn't outstanding.
It wasn't anything close to what we've seen in these
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upper level movies. It wasn't. It was fine, though. It's
a good time, good time at the movies. We got
the new Fantastic Four movie getting ready to come out,
so this is a good time for you know, superhero movies.
I like the idea that we're gonna get a Fantastic
Four kind of set in the time for the Fantastic Four.
I guess it's a different universe, but we know this
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is all coming together for whatever the next Marvel phase
is with everything. But I like the Fantastic Four that
we're you know, trying to beat the Russians to space
and all that. I like that. I like that, So yeah,
it'll be another option for you coming up this weekend.
So you got that new movie. But Superman was fine.
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It wasn't great, it wasn't terrible. It was above average.
It was good. It was a good time. I laughed
a few times. I loved Crypto. You know, anytime you
can get the I can get a dog in a
movie and the dog doesn't die. I just sorry if
that counts as a spoiler, But I don't think it's
a spoiler. He's a super dog. I don't think there's
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any spoiler to that. If you're expecting to watch the
movie and see Crypto die and you were hoping for it,
I've just spoiled it for you. But anytime you get
a movie that's got a dog in it and the
dog doesn't die, I'm usually pretty happy with that. You know,
the movie is not that great. I just I don't
need to see any more movies where the dog dies
unless I'm just it's that day that comes about every
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ten years where I go, man, I need a good cry.
And if that's the case, you know, put in my
dog's skip or whatever. Just put it in. I can't
I never, I can't do that one. I'm a Jack
Russell guy, I can't. That's one that I can't watch,
not at all. It's fine. There's really no like big, nasty,
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mean message in it. If there was, I didn't catch it.
If you felt differently, I'd love to hear from you.
I just I don't know that there's really that message
there that we've been told. This boogeyman that we've told
is there. So all right, let's go to the story.
Hunter Biden, I guess did an interview on a podcast,
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and I don't know. I mean, I guess I can
understand why if you're hosting a show and you think, hey,
I want to get Hunter Biden on. I suppose this
is it worked. He gave them plenty of content, plenty
of things for them to put on the show, and
plenty of stuff for people like me and news outlets
to talk about. But one of the things that I
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think got missed in what he was talking about was
remember it. Do you remember when the infamous debate came up?
We had the debate that ultimately tanked Biden's campaign. We
all knew he wasn't ready for a debate. Everybody knew it.
His people had to know he wasn't ready for it.
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I believe they were given an option to do the
debate at like seven o'clock. Eight o'clock, I know was
an option, but I think they even gave them the
option of doing it at seven, and the Biden camp said, no, No,
nine o'clock is fine, we'll do it at nine. I
don't know if they were worried about optics, about if
we do it it's seven, it's going to like we
(06:24):
asked for it to be at seven, and which, honestly,
the media would have carried the water for him anyway.
But there was already this conversation and talk about how
Biden couldn't stay up late. He didn't do anything after
four o'clock every day. That basically eleven to four I
think was the window of time when he could really
be counted on to do anything, or ten to four
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with a nap somewhere in there, which I'm not knocking
him for the nap. Let's be honest, you get up.
I'm already at a point where I could stand to
have like a ten minute nap every day anyway, just
a short, little power nap. Anything longer than that I'm cranky,
So ten maybe twenty minutes, that's my Max. I can't
knock him for wanting to take a nap. I think
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they should all take a nap, especially when there's at
any given moment, you could be up at three in
the morning ordering you know, bunker Busters to go somewhere.
That's always a possibility that's there, and worse, so many
worse things that they could be up having to do
at any given moment. So I'm not knocking the nap.
I'm knocking the fact that it seems that apparently he
was doing, you know, maybe like four or five hours
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of available time every day as president, and then vacationing
three or four days every weekend, always at the beach,
riding a bike, falling down, whatever he was doing, looking
real pale. Again, not knocking him for it. I have
my pale moments, probably have many many pale moments once
(07:52):
I get into my eighties. I just assume. So anyway,
so there was already that talk can't do it early
than that, we have to do this thing at nine o'clock.
It's get in prime time, all right. Trump was ready.
We knew Trump was going to be fired up and ready.
This debate he'd been waiting on since losing in twenty twenty.
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He was ready. He came in ready to swing, and
then the debate started and we saw what happened. It
was a complete disaster. But before the debate happened, there
was conversation about from the Trump campaign. They were asking,
can we do a drug test? Both of us do
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a drug test? Because I think there was at least
a hint a suggestion that there was a concern that
Biden's cognition, problems, his energy level, all of those things
would somehow be defeated by putting him on some kind
of drug. I don't know what the drug was going
to be. I don't know if he was going to
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come out all narked up. I don't know what they
were thinking. Was he going to come out coked up
and you know, just all over the place. I don't know.
I don't know what the thought was. Or maybe it
was just a word game. Maybe this was just kind
of planning that seed of like, maybe he'll be on drugs.
Maybe that's how if he's got any energy, because we
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know he doesn't have energy. Is he going to be overcaffeinated?
Is he going to slam like ten red bulls and
come out here and trutt a debate probably could have
stood to have a couple of red bulls. But and
the Biden administration thought that was ridiculous. They thought it
was absolutely ridiculous that anybody would even ask whether or
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not there should be some kind of a drug screening.
And the quote from a Biden spokesperson, Donald Trump is
so scared of being held accountable for his toxic agenda
of attacking reproductive freedom and cutting social security that he
and his allies are resorting to desperate, obviously false slies. Okay.
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So then they were pressed again, well what do you
think about it? And they said, that was my answer.
It said, the accusation from Trump on drugs is a desperate,
obviously false lie. Okay, So back to the and skip ahead,
skip ahead now to like a year later, and let's
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talk about the Hunter Biden interview. And in this interview,
the discussion came up about the debate, and Hunter Biden said, basically,
in this interview, he said, I know exactly what happened
in that debate. He flew around the world, basically the
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mileage that he could have flown around the world three times.
He's eighty one years old, he's tired, as pooh pooh,
that's what he said. He didn't say poop for them.
He says they give him ambient to help him sleep.
He gets up on the stage and he looks like
he's a deer in the headlights. And it feeds into
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every blinking story that anybody wants to tell. Uh, ambient, Okay,
they were giving him ambient. Now that is something that
people take. You know, maybe if you've got insomnia, right,
so wouldn't have been something that could have been deemed
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as a performance enhancer. But if he had taken some
kind of a drug test, I guess the question might
have come up, Well, why was he taking an ambient?
Why were they giving him? Who was forced feeding him ambient?
They make he makes it sound like they're just choking.
You know, take this, old man, you're not sleeping enough.
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Take this. What were they giving him ambient for? And
wouldn't this have showed up on this drug test? And
for people to say, oh, there's no reason for it's
ridiculous to say that he would be taking drugs. I
got another question. It's not just the obvious, now lie
about the drug test. I got another question for you,
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And I think it's a fair question to ask, who's
giving him ambient? Whose decision was that? It doesn't say
that he was asking for it, didn't say that he
felt he needed ambient. That's not what was said. What
he said is they give him ambient to help him
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to be able to sleep. If he's only working five
hours a day and sleeping the rest of the time
and unavailable, who's giving him ambient? Is this tie into
those questions that we had just a month ago about
the auto pen and who was signing what and this
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possibility of elder abuse. See, if you got somebody in
your life who's eighty plus years old and you're trying
to do things on their behalf and you don't want
them really involved, maybe you would give him some kind
of a heavy sedative and force it on him. Here,
take this, go to bed, old man. We'll take care
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of all the paperwork. You just go to bed, take
your pill, and go to sleep. Is that what was
going on was why was he being given ambient? Maybe
we'd like to know this, as the American people, who
already feel like we got very short changed on this president,
I think we deserve to know who decided to give
him ambient? Was it his call sounded like In the interview,
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Hunter Biden didn't seem to like it. I wouldn't have
somebody's force feeding pills to my dad to make him
sleep so he'll stay out of their way and let
him run the country. Sounds like a problem. Sounds like
a problem for the entire country, not just for his son,
not just for his immediate family. Sounds to me like
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it could. I'm not making the accusation. I'm just asking
the question that it could fall into the category of
elder abuse. I mean, think about it. If someone we're
doing this to, it's just a famous actor. We've had
cases with famous actors or celebrities where their families have
apparently taken advantage of them. We've heard all these stories
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about a number of celebrities that this has happened to.
And that's just the celebrities. We hear about them because
they're famous. It happens apparently all the time. It happens
a lot to just average people, but we don't hear
about that. What we hear about is what it happens
to famous people. Given somebody a pill to keep them
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out of the way, I mean, that would be elder abuse,
especially if you're using it to take advantage of the
power that he has and that you now have because
you have the ability to sign papers in his name.
Take your pill and go take a nap, Joe, take
your pill and go watch Mattlock go fit the sleepy
(15:14):
Joe name that Trump gave you.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Go.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Just take your ambient, get out of the way. There
was all this talk about them referring to him as
their zombie president and they were able to just do
whatever they wanted to do. All those accusations seems like
it could fall under that right. But at the very least,
I want to know who's giving him ambient. Whose decision
was that did he want ambien? Did he have insomnia problems?
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Because if he was sleeping nineteen hours a day, I
mean that's getting close to Koala numbers. You probably don't
need ambient. If anything, maybe you just need a cup
of coffee in a cold shower and get back to work.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thursday morning, twenty fourth day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks
for joining me. I finally watched the New Superman movie.
A couple of thoughts. First, of all, movies not bad.
The people saying it's bad, it's a stinker. It's not bad.
It's really not. It's not great either. Let's be honest.
(00:33):
There's people that want it to be the most amazing
thing ever. It's fun, it's good. It's as good as
you know, I would say most of the mid level,
maybe even upper mid level Marvel movies. It's not elite.
It's not among the best superhero movies ever made by
any means. But it's not bad. It's just it's a
(00:57):
Superman movie. It's made by the guy who made Guardians
of the Galaxy. It's kind of what you expect, right.
There's a lot of comedy. There is, you know, a
blend of superheroes in the movie, not necessarily all ones
(01:18):
that the average person in public would have heard of.
I knew them, but not everybody knows them. They were there,
and he did a fine job of working them all
into the story. A different version of the Green Lantern
than most people are familiar with, but he was great,
(01:38):
one of the standouts in the movie. It was fine.
The people who were freaking out about it and telling
us that this was some woke messaging that was interlaced
with it. Nothing jumped out at me. There were a
couple moments. There were a couple of things in there
that you kind of go eh, all right. They used
the word alien a lot. I didn't take that to
be some kind of symbolism for anything there was. If
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that was the messaging they missed, it was a big
swing and a miss. If they were trying to push
some kind of illegal alien message that was supposed to
change our views on people who snuck into the country.
I mean, it was nothing more than what we've seen
before with conversations about Lex Luthor calling Superman an alien.
(02:23):
That's all. That's all it was. I would say that
there have actually been other representations where they went closer
to trying to make it into something a story about
illegal aliens. It just wasn't there. I don't know what
people were watching. I don't know if they just heard
that you know there was a chance of it, but
sure they've dropped the truth justice in the American way
(02:45):
that was gone a long time ago. That wasn't dropped
for this movie. I don't know that any of that
slogan was anywhere in the movie, So I think that's
also a bit of overhyp But for people to say
it was great, come on, it wasn't. It was. It
was fun, it was okay, it wasn't great. It wasn't outstanding.
It wasn't anything close to what we've seen in these
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upper level movies. It wasn't. It was fine, though. It's
a good time, good time at the movies. We got
the new Fantastic Four movie getting ready to come out,
so this is a good time for you know, superhero movies.
I like the idea that we're gonna get a Fantastic
Four kind of set in the time for the Fantastic Four.
I guess it's a different universe, but we know this
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is all coming together for whatever the next Marvel phase
is with everything. But I like the Fantastic Four that
we're you know, trying to beat the Russians to space
and all that. I like that. I like that, So yeah,
it'll be another option for you coming up this weekend.
So you got that new movie. But Superman was fine.
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It wasn't great, it wasn't terrible. It was above average.
It was good. It was a good time. I laughed
a few times. I loved Crypto. You know, anytime you
can get the I can get a dog in a
movie and the dog doesn't die. I just sorry if
that counts as a spoiler, But I don't think it's
a spoiler. He's a super dog. I don't think there's
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any spoiler to that. If you're expecting to watch the
movie and see Crypto die and you were hoping for it,
I've just spoiled it for you. But anytime you get
a movie that's got a dog in it and the
dog doesn't die, I'm usually pretty happy with that. You know,
the movie is not that great. I just I don't
need to see any more movies where the dog dies
unless I'm just it's that day that comes about every
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ten years where I go, man, I need a good cry.
And if that's the case, you know, put in my
dog's skip or whatever. Just put it in. I can't
I never, I can't do that one. I'm a Jack
Russell guy, I can't. That's one that I can't watch,
not at all. It's fine. There's really no like big, nasty,
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mean message in it. If there was, I didn't catch it.
If you felt differently, I'd love to hear from you.
I just I don't know that there's really that message
there that we've been told. This boogeyman that we've told
is there. So all right, let's go to the story.
Hunter Biden, I guess did an interview on a podcast,
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and I don't know. I mean, I guess I can
understand why if you're hosting a show and you think, hey,
I want to get Hunter Biden on. I suppose this
is it worked. He gave them plenty of content, plenty
of things for them to put on the show, and
plenty of stuff for people like me and news outlets
to talk about. But one of the things that I
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think got missed in what he was talking about was
remember it. Do you remember when the infamous debate came up?
We had the debate that ultimately tanked Biden's campaign. We
all knew he wasn't ready for a debate. Everybody knew it.
His people had to know he wasn't ready for it.
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I believe they were given an option to do the
debate at like seven o'clock. Eight o'clock, I know was
an option, but I think they even gave them the
option of doing it at seven, and the Biden camp said, no, No,
nine o'clock is fine, we'll do it at nine. I
don't know if they were worried about optics, about if
we do it it's seven, it's going to like we
(06:24):
asked for it to be at seven, and which, honestly,
the media would have carried the water for him anyway.
But there was already this conversation and talk about how
Biden couldn't stay up late. He didn't do anything after
four o'clock every day. That basically eleven to four I
think was the window of time when he could really
be counted on to do anything, or ten to four
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with a nap somewhere in there, which I'm not knocking
him for the nap. Let's be honest, you get up.
I'm already at a point where I could stand to
have like a ten minute nap every day anyway, just
a short, little power nap. Anything longer than that I'm cranky,
So ten maybe twenty minutes, that's my Max. I can't
knock him for wanting to take a nap. I think
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they should all take a nap, especially when there's at
any given moment, you could be up at three in
the morning ordering you know, bunker Busters to go somewhere.
That's always a possibility that's there, and worse, so many
worse things that they could be up having to do
at any given moment. So I'm not knocking the nap.
I'm knocking the fact that it seems that apparently he
was doing, you know, maybe like four or five hours
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of available time every day as president, and then vacationing
three or four days every weekend, always at the beach,
riding a bike, falling down, whatever he was doing, looking
real pale. Again, not knocking him for it. I have
my pale moments, probably have many many pale moments once
(07:52):
I get into my eighties. I just assume. So anyway,
so there was already that talk can't do it early
than that, we have to do this thing at nine o'clock.
It's get in prime time, all right. Trump was ready.
We knew Trump was going to be fired up and ready.
This debate he'd been waiting on since losing in twenty twenty.
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He was ready. He came in ready to swing, and
then the debate started and we saw what happened. It
was a complete disaster. But before the debate happened, there
was conversation about from the Trump campaign. They were asking,
can we do a drug test? Both of us do
(08:34):
a drug test? Because I think there was at least
a hint a suggestion that there was a concern that
Biden's cognition, problems, his energy level, all of those things
would somehow be defeated by putting him on some kind
of drug. I don't know what the drug was going
to be. I don't know if he was going to
(08:55):
come out all narked up. I don't know what they
were thinking. Was he going to come out coked up
and you know, just all over the place. I don't know.
I don't know what the thought was. Or maybe it
was just a word game. Maybe this was just kind
of planning that seed of like, maybe he'll be on drugs.
Maybe that's how if he's got any energy, because we
(09:16):
know he doesn't have energy. Is he going to be overcaffeinated?
Is he going to slam like ten red bulls and
come out here and trutt a debate probably could have
stood to have a couple of red bulls. But and
the Biden administration thought that was ridiculous. They thought it
was absolutely ridiculous that anybody would even ask whether or
(09:38):
not there should be some kind of a drug screening.
And the quote from a Biden spokesperson, Donald Trump is
so scared of being held accountable for his toxic agenda
of attacking reproductive freedom and cutting social security that he
and his allies are resorting to desperate, obviously false slies. Okay.
(10:03):
So then they were pressed again, well what do you
think about it? And they said, that was my answer.
It said, the accusation from Trump on drugs is a desperate,
obviously false lie. Okay, So back to the and skip ahead,
skip ahead now to like a year later, and let's
(10:26):
talk about the Hunter Biden interview. And in this interview,
the discussion came up about the debate, and Hunter Biden said, basically,
in this interview, he said, I know exactly what happened
in that debate. He flew around the world, basically the
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mileage that he could have flown around the world three times.
He's eighty one years old, he's tired, as pooh pooh,
that's what he said. He didn't say poop for them.
He says they give him ambient to help him sleep.
He gets up on the stage and he looks like
he's a deer in the headlights. And it feeds into
(11:09):
every blinking story that anybody wants to tell. Uh, ambient, Okay,
they were giving him ambient. Now that is something that
people take. You know, maybe if you've got insomnia, right,
so wouldn't have been something that could have been deemed
(11:32):
as a performance enhancer. But if he had taken some
kind of a drug test, I guess the question might
have come up, Well, why was he taking an ambient?
Why were they giving him? Who was forced feeding him ambient?
They make he makes it sound like they're just choking.
You know, take this, old man, you're not sleeping enough.
(11:53):
Take this. What were they giving him ambient for? And
wouldn't this have showed up on this drug test? And
for people to say, oh, there's no reason for it's
ridiculous to say that he would be taking drugs. I
got another question. It's not just the obvious, now lie
about the drug test. I got another question for you,
(12:16):
And I think it's a fair question to ask, who's
giving him ambient? Whose decision was that? It doesn't say
that he was asking for it, didn't say that he
felt he needed ambient. That's not what was said. What
he said is they give him ambient to help him
(12:37):
to be able to sleep. If he's only working five
hours a day and sleeping the rest of the time
and unavailable, who's giving him ambient? Is this tie into
those questions that we had just a month ago about
the auto pen and who was signing what and this
(12:57):
possibility of elder abuse. See, if you got somebody in
your life who's eighty plus years old and you're trying
to do things on their behalf and you don't want
them really involved, maybe you would give him some kind
of a heavy sedative and force it on him. Here,
take this, go to bed, old man. We'll take care
(13:19):
of all the paperwork. You just go to bed, take
your pill, and go to sleep. Is that what was
going on was why was he being given ambient? Maybe
we'd like to know this, as the American people, who
already feel like we got very short changed on this president,
I think we deserve to know who decided to give
him ambient? Was it his call sounded like In the interview,
(13:42):
Hunter Biden didn't seem to like it. I wouldn't have
somebody's force feeding pills to my dad to make him
sleep so he'll stay out of their way and let
him run the country. Sounds like a problem. Sounds like
a problem for the entire country, not just for his son,
not just for his immediate family. Sounds to me like
(14:04):
it could. I'm not making the accusation. I'm just asking
the question that it could fall into the category of
elder abuse. I mean, think about it. If someone we're
doing this to, it's just a famous actor. We've had
cases with famous actors or celebrities where their families have
apparently taken advantage of them. We've heard all these stories
(14:28):
about a number of celebrities that this has happened to.
And that's just the celebrities. We hear about them because
they're famous. It happens apparently all the time. It happens
a lot to just average people, but we don't hear
about that. What we hear about is what it happens
to famous people. Given somebody a pill to keep them
(14:52):
out of the way, I mean, that would be elder abuse,
especially if you're using it to take advantage of the
power that he has and that you now have because
you have the ability to sign papers in his name.
Take your pill and go take a nap, Joe, take
your pill and go watch Mattlock go fit the sleepy
(15:14):
Joe name that Trump gave you.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Go.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Just take your ambient, get out of the way. There
was all this talk about them referring to him as
their zombie president and they were able to just do
whatever they wanted to do. All those accusations seems like
it could fall under that right. But at the very least,
I want to know who's giving him ambient. Whose decision
was that did he want ambien? Did he have insomnia problems?
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Because if he was sleeping nineteen hours a day, I
mean that's getting close to Koala numbers. You probably don't
need ambient. If anything, maybe you just need a cup
of coffee in a cold shower and get back to work.
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has surged three hundred and sixty nine percent, with irresponsible
betting up three hundred and seventy two percent. What a shocker.
Who could have possibly seen this problem coming? As they
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to come with it. While thirty eight states are ranking
in tax revenue and social costs like increased alcohol use
and helpline calls are starting to pile up, especially with
people betting beyond their means. Again, who could have seen
that coming. Sorry, I'm not a big fan of the
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a lot of a there's opportunities for people to tax
it and make money and whatever they're trying to do,
but it's ruining the sports man. It's ruining it all right.
Just taking a look at fast food restaurants and some
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which ones were the least healthy and the big winner
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twenty one hundred and sixty calories in that meal. Yeah,
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It's got seventeen thousand solar cells spread across a wingspan
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and Ohio tops the list, followed by New York, Illinois, California,
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by Alaska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Idaho. I don't think
there's any big surprises in any of those lists, honestly,
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