John Gerardi Fills In - Democrats Need To Do Some Deep Soul Searching

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, the liberals, they all need to do their soul searching,
they need their therapy sessions, especially some of the Democrat strategists,
the chattering class, the political class on the Democrats side,
a number of them appeared on a recent lefty podcast
to talk about whose fault it was that they lost,

(00:23):
and we're probably Democrats are going to have to do
a lot of soul searching about why it is that
they lost, and we're going to talk about some of
the self serving reasons that they lost. Maybe the problem
was the Kamala Harris just wasn't that great. Maybe the
problem is Joe Biden. We'll figure it all out. This
is John Girardi in for Trevor Carrey today on The
Trevor Carey Show. My thanks to Trevor and Agent Squires

(00:45):
and Ryan and all the guys at Power Talk for
let me sit in the big boy chair today. I
am the host of The John Girardi Show from six
to seven pm Monday through Friday, and of Right to
Life Radio every Saturday morning from nine to ten. And
I'm also the executive director at Right to Life of
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let's talk about the Harris Camp and their soul searching.
So there's this podcast that has some prominence on the left.

(02:14):
It is called Pod Save America, and it was founded
by the most obnoxious people in politics. These former Obama
staffers named Dan Pfeiffer, John Favreau, not that Jon Favreau,
Not the actor producer John Favre. There's a different guy

(02:35):
named John Favreau who was a speech writer for Obama.
And a lot of these guys, these guys specifically, they're
sort of the head of this very particular tribe of
young millennial of millennial men who were interested in politics,

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and they are of my precise age and de Okay,
so I'm thirty seven years old. I was a How
old was I in two thousand and eight when Obama?
I guess I was twenty Maybe I had just turned
twenty one when Barack Obama was elected president in two
thousand and eight, so I was twenty one years old.
I was a college junior when Barack Obama was elected.

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These are guys who are maybe three to four years
older than me and kind of in my age rams.
So these are guys who are now in their mid
to late thirties into their forties. These young well, I
keep flattering myself by saying that we're young. But these
millennial liberals who loved Barack Obama, Oh my gosh, they

(03:43):
loved Barack Obama. They love Barack Obama more than you've
ever loved any politician in their life. Barack Obama's two
thousand and eight campaign was for these guys who were
involved in politics, working in politics. And some of these
young guys who became Obama's speech right is at relatively
young ages and were there for his assent. Oh my gosh.

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They are the most insufferable, overinflated sense of self liberals
you have ever met in your entire lives. The smugness,
the self righteousness, all of those qualities about about Barack
Obama that you hated, these guys absorbed by osmosis seemingly.

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I encountered guys, and a lot of it was guys.
For some reason. I encountered guys like this everywhere when
I was in college. Again, I was in college as
Barack Obama wins his first election. Oh my gosh, they
were everywhere. They were volunteering for local Democrat causes. They
would go on to work in politics. These guys are insufferable.

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And Jon Favreau again, not that John Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer,
and the guys from this podcast called Potse of America.
They lead this army of totally insufferable, self righteous blowhards
who are so secure in their rightness and smartness and
how Barack Obama was smart and right and accurate, just

(05:09):
ignoring all the things that Barack Obama did that were
not very good for the country, but they that was
their camelot. The way that baby boomer liberals think about Kennedy,
that's how they think of Obama. So they get on
their podcast and they get a bunch of key figures

(05:33):
from Kamala Harris's campaign, many of whom are retreads from
the Obama campaigns, or the Biden twenty twenty campaign or
the Hillary twenty sixteen campaign, although it's mostly Obama people
Obama slash Biden people. So Jen O'Malley Dillon, who is

(05:55):
the campaign chair for Kamala Harris, her senior advisor David Plufe,
the deputy campaign manager, Quentin Folkes, and the senior advisor
for strategy messaging, Stephanie Cutter. So they get all four
of them on and they just have this vent Sesshon, Now,
what are the reasons they say she lost. Basically, they're

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trying to give this message that she was in this
insurmountable situation, she started too deep in the hole, she
can never dig herself out of the hole that Joe
Biden had dug for her. And you know, she was
just too loyal to Joe Biden, just too loyal to
Joe Biden. They keep talking about this, that she had

(06:40):
a problem distancing herself from Joe Biden because she was
so loyal to him. Well, I think Joe Biden would
maybe contest the assertion that she was so loyal to him.
All of the reporting was that the two of them
couldn't stand each other. All of the reporting is that.

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But there's no way Trump, I mean, Trump has joked
about this repeatedly, joked about this with the campaign trail.
He said, you think I don't like Kamala Harris, let
me tell you there's no way that I hate her
more than Joe Biden hates her. And you could tell
Biden's just smileing ear to hear, ear to ear when
Donald Trump comes by the White House after he won.

(07:26):
Oh well, well, I'm sure smooth the transgression. Oh yeah,
it's all smiles for this guy that before we had
said was going to be the end of democracy if
he won. But here we are she she was so
loyal to President Biden. But here all of her closest
campaign staffers going on a podcast and say, Joe Biden

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ruined it. Now, this is a convenient story to tell
for these people, specifically the story that she was never
ahead in our internal polls. We you know, we were
just in too deep of a hole to get out
of no matter what we did. That's a very convenient

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story to tell for people who would like to get
hired again. Thank you very much for future political campaigns.
I did everything, like, we did everything we could. We oh,
we just did everything great. It was just Joe Biden
left us with no options. It's a very convenient story
to tell. The fact is, she did a lot of

(08:33):
stuff in this campaign that was really stupid. They talked
about how all this this phony narrative that she wouldn't
do any interviews. She didn't do an interview for like
forty days after she was announced as the candidate, and
then only with Dana Bash from CNN. She didn't do

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a lot of interviews. She avoided going on to Joe.
She eventually just didn't do Joe Rogan's podcast when and
that that was a pretty significant moment her clearly being
asked by Joe Rogan, I'd love to have her on.
I want to have Joe Trump on, and I want
to have her on, I'll do the same kind of interview,

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and Trump's willingness to go on for to go to
Texas where Rogan's studio is sit for the full three hours,
and her unwillingness to do the same thing. She said, no,
it'll only be one hour, and you have to come
to Washington to do it.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I mean that.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
I think that was kind of a significant thing for
people to see that, well, she's she's clearly scared to
sit down for three hours with this guy because everyone knew. Now,
everyone knew that she couldn't really handle it. And this
is the sort of subtext that none of these people
are admitting. There's a couple of things that they're not
willing to admit. The first is there was definitely a

(10:01):
moment where Harris probably could have pulled it out after
she was announced, after Walls was initially announced, after the DNC,
they were riding pretty high. She was winning in most
national polls, things were getting really close in the individual

(10:22):
state by state polls. She did well in the debate
against Trump. I thought I was surprised at how relatively
well she did. I don't think Trump did particularly great.
I mean I even had Republican, very pro trumpy friends
who were like, eh, Trump didn't really look that great.
This is going to be spinned poorly. But she made

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a couple of big time mistakes. She did avoid interviews.
Her campaign staff's trying to say, oh, no, we didn't
avoid interviews, that's ridiculous. Well, no, she just didn't do
very many interviews. And then when she finally did start
doing more interviews, like the Brett Baer interview, it went
really badly. She couldn't formulate an answer to the very

(11:09):
obvious questions she was going to ask about what would
you do differently from Joe Biden. There was a way
to message that that would have been smart. She didn't
have it. She just didn't have it. She picked a
terrible vice president. Tim Walls was a no load. He

(11:31):
was a nothing burger. He was a Northeast wine mom
liberals idea of what a regular guy from the Midwest
is like. He's not a regular guy from the Midwest.
Tim Walls was not elected the governor of Minnesota on
the strength of rural Minnesotans who liked to go ice fishing.
You know. He was elected governor of Minnesota on the
strength of Somalian immigrant voters in Minneapolis. And this is

(12:02):
my political opinion on Minnesota politics coming from my Minnesota
wife and my Minnesota in laws, who, yeah, trust me,
I know of what I speak. And at the end
of the day, why did she make all those decisions?
Because she's not a very good candidate. She wasn't very smart.

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I don't. I think she is overblown as far as
an intellect. She's a bad speaker. They couldn't trust her
to talk for that long because she would wander into
She has this way of talking where she starts a
sentence and she doesn't actually really know where the end
is going to be, and she sort of meanders her

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way through to find it, which is a skill that
lawyers develop like me and radio hosts developed this skill.
But we can do it a little bit better than
she can because a lot of times she starts talking
and she produces these absolute nonsense sound clips. Here's exhibit

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A just from yesterday, she has this sort of sit down,
zoom call thing, Hernson Walls talking to their supporters and
the Democrats. The National Democrats' Twitter account gives out this
message of her talking, listen to this.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power from you. You have the same
power that you did before November fifth.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I mean clearly they don't. They don't have the presidency anymore,
they don't have the Senate.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
And you have the same purpose that you did, and
you have the same ability.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
He did not know she was gonna say ability until
about a nanosecond before she said ability.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Engage and inspire. So don't ever let anybody or any
circumstance take your power from you.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
I just don't let anyone take your power. What in
God's name is she talking about. That's why they wouldn't
let her do interviews. Why does she sound like she's
about to cry when she wasn't about to That's an
affect that she utilized all the time. Frankly, she sounds drunk.

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I'm look, there's this whole conspiracy theory out there that
Kamala Harris is a raging alcoholic. I don't know that
I actually believe it, but sound clips like that sure
don't help.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
This is the Trebor Charry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
So what's up next for a girl Kamala Harris? You know,
she did send us some some very important life advice
that you might hear from your aunt after she's you know,
three sheets to the wind around the Thanksgiving table.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power from you.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
I thank you, Kama. I will I will be sure
to not let anyone take my power from you. Kind
of an ironic thing to say, given all the discussions
we've had about how how the Democrats have had about
how terrible January sixth is and how it disrupted the orderly,
peaceful transfer of power, and here's the Vice president saying,
don't let anyone take your power from you. Well, isn't
that kind of what you're supposed to do now? Anyway?

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
What is up next for Kamala Harris? There are now
a lot of stories out that she's sort of talking
with her advisors and saying, hey, I want to keep
my options open. Like she's not done. She's still a
relatively young woman within the perspective of American politics. She's
only in her fifties. So yeah, congratulations, California. This woman

(16:03):
will be annoying us for the next thirty years. Basically,
there's some thought she might want to run for governor
in twenty twenty six. There's some thought she might want
to run for president again in twenty twenty eight. Maybe

(16:23):
the tide will shift. Maybe jd Vance is not as
strong a candidate as Donald Trump, et cetera, et cetera.
There's some preliminary polling, sort of preliminary Democrat primary twenty
twenty eight polling out there that says she would be
the favorite as of now, but of course it's way
too early there, we have no idea, and probably that's

(16:48):
just nothing more than a name recognition thing. I mean,
at this point, yes, Kamala Harris has way more name
recognition nationally than Josh Harris does. The governor of Pennsylvania,
Josh Shapiro, sorry, Josh Harris's is someone. He's the owner
of the Philadelphia seventy six ers and the Washington Commanders,
and somehow I got him confused with the governor of Pennsylvania. Anyway, Joshapiro,

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Tim Walls, Pete Bootage, all these other people. She's got
more name recognition than all those people, and she's even
doing a little better than Gavin Newsom. But again, they
haven't really stepped into the fight. Here's the thing about
being governor, the idea of her running for governor of California,
and if she decided to run, she'd probably be the favorite.

(17:31):
Being governor is hard. It's like actual work, and I
think that's not a thing she's good at. Being governor
is so much more difficult than being a senator. Fundamentally,

(17:56):
what do you do as a senator? You show up,
You get prepped on legislation, You go to committee hearings
about that legislation, You ask questions during investigations. Your staff
does a lot of the work. Fundamentally, all you got

(18:16):
to do is vote on stuff. That's at the end
of the day, that's all you gotta do. As long
as you vote on stuff and you vote the way
people want, people are going to vote for you. They
don't really care how many bills you introduce. They don't
really care how much investigating you did, as long as
you vote the way they want. Especially being a senator
from California. You don't have to do jack and once

(18:39):
you're in, you're in. You've got that incumbent weight behind you.
There's no stopping you. Kamala Harris hasn't necessarily had to
work hard for a pretty long while now, and I
don't know that she's gonna want to jump into being governor,
which is actually hard. You actually have to enforce the law,
you actually have to respond to emergencies, You actually have
to travel a lot up and down the state. You
can't just kind of hang out and walkington. You're much

(19:04):
more forward facing in some ways than being a senator.
Another sort of interesting thing was how disconnected Harris seems
to be from California these days. Like she has her
election party at her alma mater, Brown University, doesn't have
it in California anywhere. It's almost like she's disconnected from

(19:25):
the state. So I don't know that she necessarily wants
to run for governor. I think also there's the fact
that she's got quite an ego. She really thinks she
should be president. She ran for president in twenty twenty
got absolutely blasted out of the water by Tulcy Gabbard,
of all people. So it says she didn't even make
it to twenty twenty, she had to drop out. But

(19:46):
while we were still in twenty nineteen, she gets her
rear end kicked against Donald Trump. But I think she
still thinks she should be president. I think she maybe
she convinces herself if I, if we had just you know,
if my lousy staff had just done something better, maybe
I should have been president. If I didn't have the

(20:07):
anchor of Joe Biden around my neck, I could have
been president. And maybe she's right. Maybe she's right. Maybe
if she had been able realistically to blast Joe Biden more,
maybe she could have won. So I don't know that
she wants to be the governor of California. I think

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she's probably a little too averse to working hard.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
The assisted Trevor Kerry Show Mondo Sally's Power Dog.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Via NBC News and initially published by the American Farm Bureau.
Now I'm not sure why the American Farm Bureau seems
to be wanting to, I don't know, carry water for
the Biden administration. It's like, oh, inflation's not so bad.
This was a common Biden thing, especially kind of like
in twenty two anyone in sort of the first year

(21:01):
of the Biden administration, where the Biden administrators are like, no, no, no, no,
inflation isn't happening.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Don't believe you're lying.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Wallet. Now here's some infographic, and they would publish some
kind of infographic showing, oh, the cost of a fourth
of July cookout is this a much lower? And the
way they would set up the demographic was the thing
was always like ridiculous, like somehow they were able to
find ground beef that was, you know, a dollar and
a half less expensive per pound than what everyone else

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in America was buying, and they would have a ridiculously
low number of buns or whatever. They would set things
up in this you know, regime prompted, this regime pushed
infographic that basically created this completely unrealistic picture of what
a fourth of July cookout even was in order to

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paint this picture of oh, no, no, no, inflation's not happening,
don't worry about it. By the way, this is John
Girardi filling in for Trevor carry in case you were
wondering who the heck this is talking on your radio,
and the director at Right to Life ES Central California
RTLCC dot org and also the host of the John
Girardi Show six to seven pm right here on Power Talk.
So yes, four straight hours of yours truly? All right,

(22:14):
My wife was the one who sent me this ridiculous
story again pushed by NBC News, initially coming from the
American Farm Bureau, that the cost of a ten person
Thanksgiving meal on average in America should be approximately fifty

(22:35):
eight dollars. Let me repeat that, ten people fifty eight dollars. Now,
my wife is the true genius behind the John Girardi Show.
I joke that she and my mom are the shadow

(22:58):
producers of the John Girardi Show. They send me all
the best ideas. And so my wife is going to
provide all of you guys via text to me a
couple of details about things that were left out of
this American Farm Bureau assessment. Okay, so I've got their
infographic here. The American Farm Bureau is thinking for a

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ten person Thanksgiving dinner, a sixteen pound turkey costs twenty
five dollars and sixty seven cents. First of all, who's
getting a turkey for under two dollars a pound? That
seems a bit rich. That's a little over a dollar
fifty per pound for a turkey. Also, a sixteen pound

(23:45):
turkey is not feeding ten people. How many pounds of
bones are in a sixteen pound turkey? All right, it's
got to be like more than half of it, right,
So you're talking, let's be generous, and let's say that's
nine pounds, nine pounds, eight pounds of turkey spread between
ten people. That ain't gonna cut it. You ain't having
any leftovers, I'll tell you that much. So you need

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more than just one sixteen pound turkey to feed ten people.
You're gonna need like more stuff than that. Next, they've
got cranberries, twelve ounces of cranberries for two dollars and
thirty five cents. That's not gonna be enough. Cranberry sauce
for ten people. Sweet potatoes three pounds of sweet potatoes
two dollars to ninety three cents. Okay, but any of
the other ingredients to help make those sweet potatoes taste good,

(24:34):
we're not really accounting for that. Carrots and celery a
half poundies of carrots and celery. A half pound of
carrots and celery aren't doing jack well. You can't just say,
here's celery. Here's a half pound of celery sticks for
ten people. What are you doing with the celery? And
you mean like we're gonna have cooked carrots? A half
pound of cooked carrots is not feeding ten people. Green
peas one pound of green peas a dollar seventy three.

(24:57):
One pound of green peas is not feeding ten people.
Two nine inch pie shells for three forty Only two
pies for ten people. It's a little stingy. We're having
Thanksgiving dinner with I think how many people are gonna
be at our Thanksgiving dinner? Think it'll be about that'll

(25:17):
be about ten people. I think it's my family of seven,
plus my sister and my brother and my mom. Yes,
we're gonna have ten people. We've got three, we got
three coming up. Just the shells. Only one thing of
pumpkin pie mix for those two shells, costing four dollars
fifty You need more than one one gallon of whole milk? Okay, well,

(25:41):
how are that's just a raw ingredient? How are we
incorporating that into this? Nothing about butter? A half pint
of whipping cream. I'm not sure where that's fitting in
one fourteen ounce box of cube stuffing. Again, not enough
for ten people. A dozen dinner rolls. Maybe enough for
ten people. Only two people get two rolls. Now my

(26:08):
wife chips in with a couple of things, a couple
of thoughts. First off, it doesn't account for butter. You
gotta use butter right here, okay, and butter is skyrocketing
in cost. Peacans, We're gonna make a pecan pie. Have
the lot of people love peacans, they want to make
the pecan pecan. I don't know I'm gonna say pecan.

(26:30):
I've never had a consistent way of saying pecan, and
I recognize it's one of those words in the ingless
language that can be pronounced about twenty different ways, just
depending on what neighborhood of Georgia you're from. All Right, peacans,
Holly was able to get pecans a bag. I'd assume
it was about a pound eighteen ounces something like that
for six dollars and fifty cents at Costco. Anywhere else

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it would have been twelve bucks. Now, eggs, Holly, no
accounting for eggs in here. Holly is making her pie
crust from scratch, because you know, she's awesome, like that.
Now she had to get eggs. It's a buck fifty
worth of eggs per pie. And there's no way, basically

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what Holly is telling me, So let me just give
my my wife sort of credentials here. Holly was like
a Blue ribbon winning Minnesota State Fair baker. Not for
the four h Minnesota State Fair Blue Ribbon baker. No, no,

(27:43):
you can't touch her baking. I don't care. I don't
care which of your abuelas or your ablitas. I don't care.
She can't bake like my wife can bake. Maybe your
abuela can make you know, Tamale's much better than my
wife can. But she can't bake. She can't bake an
apple pie like my My wife had to spend nine

(28:04):
dollars just on apples for one apple pie. That's not
accounted for in this list. So in short, ten people
are not gonna get by with fifty eight bucks worth

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of food. I am sorry, it's just not gonna happen.
And I defy anyone listening here, any single one of you.
Like our family. Okay, we're having Thanksgiving dinner at my
mom's house, and my mom's doing most of the food
she's telling Holly and me. She's telling Holly, all right, Holly,
you do all the desserts. That's that's in our family functions.

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That's often how it goes. Everyone has acknowledged and recognized
Holly as the queen of Baker's. I'm pretty sure we
spent more than fifty eight bucks just on the desserts.
And my mom, who's like, you know, prepping for Thanksgiving
dinner for ten people, even though one of them's a baby,

(29:09):
it's like, all right, well, I gotta have more. I
can't just have a turkey. I've gotta So she's gonna
have We're gonna have turkey, and we're gonna have try tip.
And she's got a whole big potato dish that I
think she's probably gonna make Swiss potatoes, which I love,
my childhood favorite. So she's gotta get potatoes. You gotta
get swisshees's gotta get heavy cream, she's got we got
cranberry sauce. We're gonna have my sister's stuffing, which is great.

(29:32):
We got all this stuff that we got it. I
defy anyone listening here who's doing Thanksgiving dinner to tell
me that you spent under three digits. If you're cooking
for that many people, there is no way on God's
green Earth that you are spending under a hondo to

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make this happen.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
This is the Trevor carry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
We're talking the bizarre effort by the American Farm Bureau
to try to claim that no, no, no, don't believe
your lyon wallet inflation is not so bad. Why Thanksgiving
dinner for ten costs the average American only fifty eight dollars,
and they use this infographic showing what would be an
incredibly scanty dinner for ten. We go to the phones.

(30:22):
Leo from Fresno, you are on Power Talk with John
Jardi fillin in for Trevor. Leo, how much did you
have to spend for your Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
My receipt reads one oh seven fifty three for ten servings.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
One oh seven fifty three for ten servings.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
There we go, Yeah, twenty as an eighteen pound turkey,
and I was able to find them for a dollar
four a pound at Walmart.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, all right, well, maybe I'm over maybe I'm looking
for turkeys that are a little too refined, but yeah, okay,
well it's good to know that you can find some
good cheap turkey. Uh but yeah, I mean, even I'm
getting a turkey, you're you're going for an eighteen pound
or there's no way you're getting by with sixteen pounds
you're And even with a turkey that cheap, there's no

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way you're getting by with under one hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I mean, yeah, I'm looking at this receipt and there's
about ten to twenty bucks missing from it that I
had bought previously.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I was gonna say, like, how many people's Thanksgiving feasts
involve only one trip to the grocery store. I'm I'm
guessing someone might need to make a panicked zip over
to save mart or Vaughan's or somewhere to get something
later tonight. Well, anyway, I appreciated Leo.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
I hope you guys have a very merry thanks a
very merry one hundred and seven dollars Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
You too, Take care all right, God bless.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well there you go. And I'm wondering, you know again,
this is part and parcel of why did Kamala Harris
lose this election? Not to not to crassly bring this
all back to politics, and I think actually started the
next segment. I'm gonna talk a little bit about the
Mayflower Compact, which the settlers who came to Plymouth Colony,

(32:12):
those same settlers who would eventually be something that we
tend to think about these early origins of American history
and how significant it is when we think about these
things around Thanksgiving. Basically, we'll talk about that in the
next segment. But I think so much of what we've

(32:35):
been experiencing the last four years is this kind of
denial of reality, and especially a denial of economic reality.
We were solidly told for the entire first year of
the Biden administration, no, inflation isn't happening. It just isn't.

(32:55):
And then every new report would come in and was like, yeah,
it is, and it's happening. No, no, it's not happening.
And then to sustain their campaign they had to sort
of tell us no, no, no, the economy is doing
a lot better, a lot better than you think it is,
and it's like, well, no, inflation has still happened. Maybe

(33:22):
the rate of inflation has slowed, but it's still inflating.
Stuff is still getting more expensive, not less, and things
that you know, four years ago cost a dollar and
a half per pound cheaper, are now a dollar and
a half more expensive. You know, you're not putting that
genie back into the bottle. And I guess if Kamala

(33:44):
Harris wants to solve the problem that are you know,
all of her advisors are now going on to Democrat
podcasts in venting and having their therapy sessions, which every
losing side does every election cycle. When the Republicans lose
the presidency, they go through this. I remember after twenty
twelve when Romney lost, like, what, how how is it
that we lost? How did we You know? Maybe we

(34:06):
were too we were too harsh on immigration. And then
they proceed to nominate Donald Trump, who has more hardline
on immigration than any of them, and he wins more
Latino votes than any of them. So every party does
this after they lose. But I think it's fundamentally this
rejection of reality. This basically just not wanting to engage

(34:30):
with inconvenient realities. Whether that's hey, our eighty year old
president seems kind of senile that nobody wanted to acknowledge
until he got the breaks absolutely beat off of him
by Trump in the debate, and everyone says, if anyone
dared suggest that Biden was too old, they were ex communicato,

(34:54):
they were out for boten. How dare you? How dare
you even suggests that Joe Biden is anything. He's as
razor sharp as he's ever been, and we all have
to say it until George Clooney writes his op at