Discussion on Prop 50 and California politics - how Governor Newsom has handled the state and who really control gas prices. Breaking news followed: at least 4 dead after a UPS cargo plane crashed during takeoff in Louisville. The show compared how social media and TV covered the story. As election results rolled in, Zohran Mamdani was elected NTC Mayor and Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia Governor's race.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Camp I Am sixty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Camp I Am. It is the cow.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Self in the head with the headphones. It's been that
kind of night, all right. Election results are coming in,
and you know, a lot of people are framing this
as a rebuttal and a pushback on Donald Trump, and
it's not. All These election results are coming out of
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states that voted heavily for Kamala Harris, New Jersey, New
York didn't Virginia know, No, Virginia didn't. Virginia did not
go for I.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Don't know what the ultimate tally was, but they didn't
go heavily for our Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
They didn't vote for Kamala's over donc.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Said, I don't know what the ultimate vote was. Let
me check, let me see.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I bet it's over three hundred thousand votes. I would
I would bet my life that it's over two hundred
thousand votes. I think that's a lot. She got fifty
to Trump's forty six. Oh well, what were the totals?
So I BET's over three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He's got a death grip on that three hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Six, two hundred and sixty thousand votes, she had more
than him.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, so.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'll give you I'm going to give you that, by
the way, two hundred and sixty three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's not a bad it's not zero, yeah, exactly. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So Virginia, New Jersey, New York, California, these are all
states that went for Kamala Harris. These are not big,
you know, Republican states that are voting against Donald Trump.
They're just not They're just a bunch of people who
have been voting for Democrats their whole lives, continuing to
vote for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So if you're a conservative, you're a Republican, don't get
down on these votes. Is nothing new. Now, these are
not states. These are not swing states. These are not
states that Donald Trump won. These are states that the
Democrats have won for a long time and they continue
to win. So it's not a big deal. I mean,
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nothing to see here, Okay, Well, I mean, is that
not true?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I think that that's probably a hundred percent true.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, I was looking at other places where there might
be elections that are consequential and you know, kind of Bellwethers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, in Virginia, the Democrat won beating the previous Republican, right,
but they also the Democrats had almost what two hundred
and sixty thousand more votes for that idiot Kamala Harris. Yeah,
but Younkin, who is a Republican, won pretty decisively when
he won in Virginia. Right, But that goes back and forth.
I mean that was you know, Virginia go with their
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you know, their local elections. They go back and forth.
But i it's nothing new. It's there's no you know,
don't let them freak you out that there is a
trend in this country that is, you know, is going
way to the left.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's not happening.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's just not happening, especially in swing states and the South.
If you want to really, if you're a Republican, you
really want to enjoy yourself, move to the South and
and leave all the craziness behind.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's my solution.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, I mean those states have their own problems, you know,
I mean every states, so it's a different kind of
craziness exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's it's see we which state you're talking about it?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Right, But we have talked about this with Michael Monks.
If if Newsom became president, I would be laughing at
the rest of this country. I would say, great, now
you get to you get four or eight years of
the absolute s fest that we've had to deal with
him for four or was it eight years he's been governor,
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and look what he's done. I mean, he's the state's
a mess.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But the homeless is worse now than when he started.
The crime is probably worse now than when he started.
Gas prices are higher now than when he started. The
taxes are higher now than when he started. Uh, you know,
we shut the schools down for a year and a half,
where other states shut him down for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's the first thing. I mean, I think some of
those things that you mentioned, like gas prices, et said, right,
I don't know that he could the governor has any
control over that. But I do take your point about COVID,
and you know, COVID and COVID policies informed a lot
of the election results with the in the general. I mean,
I think it carried Trump and a lot of Republicans
to victory.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You don't think that the governor has anything to do
with gas prices.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I don't think he has control over gas prices particularly
why what what is?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
No, I'm asking let's flush out the issue. A lot
of the refined ories are breaking down and leaving because
they don't consider California a viable place to do business.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Right, that's the California legislay, all the restrictions, that's the legislature.
And so I'm saying a governor doesn't the governor doesn't
have it. He may be part of that machine. I'll accept, Yeah,
that the democratic machine controls California.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't wouldn't dispute that at all. In fact, I
think it's a flaw.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But what I would say is that the governor doesn't
control gasoline prices in the same way the president doesn't
control gasoline prices.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean, I always love that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know, when the price of the pump is down,
the president, whoever the president is, takes credit for it.
When it goes up, it's like, oh that, you know,
the president doesn't have anything to do with it. And
the truth is the president really doesn't have anything.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, all right, let's I'll give you that that the government,
that the governor in the state of California cannot single
handedly reduce the price of gasoline, then why is it
so high in California.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, that's because of taxes and environmental blends that are
required in California.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And what parties push that.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, I've just told you that the democratic machine he
is part of is the reason you have to change
in the legislature. Absolutely, but you can't. Yeah, no, I
and I've also.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Just they and now they with redistricting, it's gonna make
it even tougher.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Sure, this is a super majority in California, and the
same is true in places like Texas and other the
Republican states that are as bad.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
On the other side, I mean it sucks.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I think it's the gerrymandering at redistricting is total crap
for Democrats or Republicans. It's not representative. It is a
It makes congressional representation a joke. You have states where
like Wisconsin, where you have it it's so heavily jerrymandered,
there's just no way that you can have a democratic legislature.
The same is true now in Texas and across many
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red states that have gone purple in terms of population,
and so in California, same thing. The communities that are
Republicans don't get appropriate representation.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, and now they're going to lose even more.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You know, these guys live up in eastern California, which
is all Republican, and Northern California, northeastern California.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
They're not gonna have to say in anything. You know,
they're not right.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The representatives that they're going to send to Washington will
not be representing their lifestyles.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The House is flawed in this way, and the the
idea of a of a jerrymandery, a redistricting that doesn't
even follow the census. This is kind of a new
thing that was hatched by Trump and it's it's it's
inventive and it's aggressive, but it just takes a problem
that we already have and it creates it as an
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even greater issue here sort of in the middle of
a decade.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I think if Newsome wins, I hope the rest
of this country has to live in the absolute toilet.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That we have had for the last eight years.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Again, the president is just one cog in that machine
in Washington. Now you've got now you've got a president
and a party in control. I don't know that. You know,
you know, you'll have you'll have that. If I don't
think this is going to win the presidency anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
If he does, I say to the rest of the nation,
welcome to s Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But again, the s you're talking about is a democratically
a super majority in Sacramento, which I don't think you
have in Washington.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Right, But that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
But he's going to bring his policies, you know that,
the crazy thinking that he that is that has gotten
him to the point where he gets elected president. He'll
bring that craziness with him to the White House. Yeah,
I don't know guarantee.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean, there are all kinds of areas of crazy.
I agree there it seems like the crazy is pretty
much meet it out on both sides.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I understand that. But I have had to live under
his craziness for eight years, right, I know. And and
so that's the only crazy decid No, And.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And you know how I feel about like the homeless
industrial complex. We keep voting for these bond measures, we
keep pouring money into it, and it doesn't change anything.
And I think that's even beyond the governor. I mean,
I think that is the problem with the supermajority, and
and and and we know what's happened, But how do
you unemployment benefits?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But how do you change the supermajority?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I mean this is an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But how would you change the supermajority?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right? How would you change it? Oh? I don't know
how you change it in California, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You'd have to by maybe not redistricting and drawing the
lines where we even lose more of the other party.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But on the national level, if you don't redistrict, you
completely turn Washington over to one party. And Democrats feel, okay,
so we sacrifice our own house for the rest of
the nation. Well, you're sacrificing your sacrificing your own house
anyway if you leave it over to the Republicans because
of the war on California. You know what's happening in
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Washington around California. And so I don't know. I think
there's a As I've told you, I think it's it's
really flawed. Redistrict across the board is awful. So I
couldn't agree with you more. I think it's an issue.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It is amazing how much money it costs to live
in California. And if he is not to blame, then
who is to blame.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
He's part of that blame, which is the super majority
in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Have you had your by the way, I know, we
got to take a break. Have you had your home
insurance go up like I did?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and that, and I felt lucky
I could get it. You're talking about fire insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, yeah, Ours was twenty four hundred dollars a year
and it went up to fifty six hundred dollars. Well,
we felt like my daughter's car insurance is eight thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We felt lucky we could get insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I can't afford to live in this state anymore. I mean,
it really is getting tight. And I'm making pretty decent money.
Imagine if you're you know, you just squeaking by trying
to make it in the state with the gas prices,
the insurance. How does some guy get by where he
has one child and his daughter's car insurance is eight
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Sure, I don't know how he does it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, if you have five kids, you know then and
that doesn't include education, it's impossible to live in this
sefan state. It's impossible everything. They've taken everything from everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's an insanely expensive place to live.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's the worst, it's absolutely and there's nobody dressing those problems,
nobody except me. All Right, it's Conway Thompson. I am
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let's go. We had a plane accident in Louisville, louis Hall, Kentucky.
I'm in a huge, horrible and I just saw the footage. Man,
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it's all over the internet. Everything's on video nowadays. You know,
you can't do anything without somebody catching it on video.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
My friend is an aviation's guy, sort of an expert
in aviation, said he it looks like the engines falling
off the jet.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's a thirty four year old plane their hall taken
from Kentucky to Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't know when planes fall apart, but that seems
like a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I mean, I thought that planes with good and maintenance
could last a real long time. That's what they tell you.
You know that there's a gives to everything. I don't know, man,
what is that?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They call it? An MD eleven. Is that what it is?
The engine in the back.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like a DC ten with that big engine in the back.
And McDonald douglas made them, which is why they call
it MD, I think. And it's horrible. It's still on fire.
They still haven't put that fire up. Wow, it's been
what it happened at five twenty pm local time and
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they're on Eastern so at one two twenty pm. And
you know what's weird is my I was watching TV.
You know, I'm watching news to get ready for today's
program or watching the Dodger game again, and my wife
came in and said, there's a massive plane accident in Kentucky,
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and so I turned on CNN and fifteen minutes later
they said there's an accident. And so nowadays with social media,
you get it fifteen twenty thirty minutes before everybody else.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Sure, there's just so many other ways to get it
besides the TV news.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, and that's going to hurt TV news though.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's already hurting TV news. Yeah, I mean already so
many so much of the audience is already checked out.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I remember that the I guess it was the abortion
clinic or the fertility clinic. Something in Palm Springs. Remember
when the guy blew that thing up, that crazy get sure? Yeah, yeah,
fertility clinic is what it is. And I watched the FBI.
They gave a press conference on it, and they said, well,
we don't know who he is, we don't know what
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his beef was, we don't know what kind of equipment
he used, or where we lived, but we're we got
all our best guys and gals on it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We'll get you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We'll get you all the details at five o'clock. And
that was at one o'clock. So another four hours later.
So I said to my wife, I go, we don't
know anything about this guy yet, and she goes, oh,
I know where he lives, I know who his name is,
I know why he did it, and I know who
his friends are. All of it was on social media, wild,
all of it wild before the FBI even talked about it.
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And she was right with everything. Jeez, everything was online.
And the people online, you know, with the next door
app or community app or whatever those things are, they
have all the information before everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Well they positively. I d people much more quickly now
because of smart media, right, so you can just get
any kind of surveillance photop.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, there was a shooting in Burbank on Saturday night
or Sunday night maybe in last night days get confused,
and there was a shooting in Burbank, which is unusual.
So my wife was on it and she was there
probably four minutes after the shots were fired because somebody
was streaming it live and it was over somebody playing music.
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A neighbor was playing loud music and I guess he's
been asked three or four times to turn it down
and he didn't want to. And the guy said, okay,
well I'll shoot you if you don't turn it down,
and he goes, ah, I don't believe you, and he
shot him.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That's all I know. Wow, that's a pretty grim ending.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, So I don't know if that's the real story
or not, but that's all I heard. But he was
on I watched it live on social media, you know,
And then I turned on the channel two four seven,
five eleven news. They don't even report it, not even reported,
and I saw the whole thing live. So I don't
know how long TV news can stick around.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
With the Internet, well, people just.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Do get news from so many different places and then
what happens with TV news ends up being an aggregator
of social media, so you know they're reading social media
posts on TV News. It's like, hey, let's just eliminate
the middleman and I'll just.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
When I first started here, we reported there was a
shooting in Hollywood, and then Chris Little, the news director,
came in and said, where'd you hear that from? I said,
I'm looking at it right now on social media. He goes,
we don't use we don't use social media and Twitter
as a source. And I said, I know what. I'm
looking at it. It's right there. I'm looking at it.
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I'm looking at it happened. He say, well, we don't
use Twitter as a source. I go, well, you better
start because everybody else is that. That was like the
first running I had with him. I go, I would
use Twitter as a source because I'm looking at the
at the shooting right now and it's live.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, I'm seeing the actual shooting.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, well, I don't use Twitter as a source. You
should do that. Want to get more flexible on that,
you should do Definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, we're live.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It's kind of when Thompson.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
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Speaker 2 (17:00):
Thompson, big dog.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, your boy, just one governor, I mean mayor of
New York City.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh yeah, I'm Donnie.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I'm Donnie.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, about ten points ahead of Yeah, he but of
the CNN AP they're all giving it to him. Yeah,
he's won the election. He's not exactly my boy, but
I do. I think it's a fascinating to see New
York pivot toward this guy who is, uh, we'll see,
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I mean, I don't know, we'll see what happened running
in kind of a weak field. I mean, you've got Cuomo,
who's like warmed over leftovers. He would literally, you know,
left office with h.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
They got Adams is selling his soul to foreigners, right,
and then you got who's just running around subways and
he's just hackling.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And he's happy to be relevant.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But it does it's a that this guy is gonna win.
He won, yeah, man, he's going to be governor of
the City of New York. Yeah, and he's promising a
lot you know, uh, freezing rent, you know, government run
grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, I mean he's uh.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I think it's gonna be interesting because some of the
stuff that he wants to do, he wants to subsidize.
He's going to need to subsidize it with tax increases.
And he can't do that without Shack, without the Albany,
you know, without the Capitol, without you know, you'll need
buy in from the legislature to get that done.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
But they say a lot of billionaires are going to
leave New York City. I don't believe that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think if you're a New Yorker, you can't go
anywhere else. You know, you need that energy that New
York has. I mean, I never believe that when people
say they're going to leave.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I also think that those things are often said for
a reason, right, to sort of make it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Clear, Hey, right, Yeah, the guy who was running Jay Jones,
he's running for I think the attorney general in Virginia,
isn't that. He's the guy that sent text saying that
he hope his opponent, his opponent's wife, Jennifer Jennifer or
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Gilbert's wife Jennifer would have to hold her dying children
to understand the parents whose children are killed by gun violence.
And he also said if he had if he had
two bullets, and he had to choose between killing his opponent,
Adolf Hitler or Paul Pott.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
He would kill.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
He would shoot Gilbert twice, and yet he won as
a Democrat. He said he would he In a conversation
about his opponent's children, he said that. The conversation continued
via phone, during which Jones reportedly or repeatedly invoked the
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death of Gilbert's children, suggesting that a tragedy might make
the speaker more amenable to gun control policies. And he
won today as a as a Democrat. I guess that's
not disqualifying any.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I mean, what's disqualifying? Not qualifying? Now?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Political rhetoric is so coarse, it's so it's so low rent,
there is nothing sacred. It is absolutely insane, the way
all political discourses changed.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, but I don't remember children getting involved. I mean,
I don't remember him. I remember the last time a
politician threatened the children.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Of the of his opponent. He didn't threaten him, but.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, okay, he suggested that he would like to see
them die.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
He said, he I think, I mean, based on what
you've just read, I'll read it. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
In The conversation continued via phone, during which Jones reportedly
repeatedly invoked the death of Gilbert's children, suggesting that such
a tragedy might make the speaker more mineral to gun
control policies, and then additional texts when when the guy
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who he was texting expressed alarm, Jones doubled down on
the sentiment, writing, I hope Gilbert's wife Jennifer would have
to hold her dying children in her arms to understand
the pain of parents whose children were killed by gun violence.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, certainly not a good thing to say.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's it's it's I don't know how you limbo under that.
I hope that's the lowest that ever goes. Well, what
am I saying? I hope that the lowest ever goes.
They killed Charlie Kirk. You know who's they? The people
who are threatening other people in this world? Yeah, I
agree the violent party of violence.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Is well, is there a party of violence? I think
you're telling me. I think they're radicalized people. So you
think the Democrats are a party of violence? You tell
me No, I'm telling you right now, I think that's that.
I think that's crazy. I think both I just read
you text. I think they're crazies on both sides.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I really do. I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I mean, I think that that's I think that there's
no I really think that that you know that there
is extremism and radicalism. I can think that we can
both agree that there are crazies on both sides.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I think there are crazies on both sides. But it
does seem that a lot of the recent violence is
coming from one of the two parties.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You thought that the well, I don't want to get
into this with you because I just seem like, you know,
you talk about the planned kidnapping of a governor of
a state of Michigan. They went to the x State
House with arms. You talk about the the I think
there's any number of crazies on both sides, like Trump
getting shot.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, exactly, Trump getting shot. I agree.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I mean, I don't think I think there's any room
for political violence at all on either side. But I
don't think that there it's being espoused in any kind
of mainstream way, right, I just find party or another.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay, But I don't I find the this These comments
about the opponent's children, the mother having to hold dead
children astonishingly low and that's not disqualifying it wasn't disqualified
for me, he's going to win.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know where we are in this country.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I mean, the discourse that comes out of the White
House is a new low as well.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You know, okay, well it's not holding your dying children,
you know, I mean we were now involving the opponent's children.
I think I get a new low.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I get that this that this this comment got to you.
The it does get to me. Yeah, No, I know,
and I and I and I understand why. I mean,
I think that in the context, I'm not trying to
justify it at all. But what started it was this
gun violence which he was speaking about, I guess. I mean,
I'm learning more about it from your reading of the
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quote than what I knew before. I knew that he'd
made controversial remarks, But he was talking about in the
context of gun violence, that the nature of gun violence
is so profoundly awful that the only way to in
any way communicate the import is if somebody actually experiences it.
I guess that's what he's getting at. But I'm not
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justifying that or saying that he said it well or
said it he shouldn't have said it at all.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But that's the context in which it existed. It's amazing
that a guy running brought that up. All we got
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I love this man. I would say, out of all
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the friends that I've met after my post childhood friends,
I would say, probably closest to you.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's really sweet, and I feel you are so much
in my head all the time.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You are the brother that i'd never had.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I feel the same way. And I listened to your
show often, and I got to give you props. There
are some people in radio on this station and do
a podcast that will change their opinions on important topics
during commercial breaks that drive me crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And you never do that. Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I mean like they'll see something or someone will say
something during the commercial and then they'll change.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I'm going to tell you a story about somebody who
doesn't work here anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Okay, that's a good idea, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And I was listening to him one day and he
said that women should have the right to abort their
fetus up until they give.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Birth, which you know, that's an extreme which.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Fifteen twenty years ago was really really extreme.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, that's well, no, it's still extreme.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Right because you could have been convicted of murder for that. Sure,
Like you, if you're eight months pregnant and you take
a knife and you try and you ab your you know,
your feetus to death, you could be thrown in jail
for murder for that. So that was a very extreme position.
Then the commercial break happened. Then he came back and
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he said, you know, I was raised around a lot
of Catholics who think that conception is where life begins.
And he said, I'm open to that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wow, that's quite a pivot.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He was the ying and the yang. He was the
ding and the dong of abortion. I don't think anyone's
ever said that before he was. His opinions were the
ding and the dog of abortion. You don't hear it
a lot, but I've one of the reasons why I
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don't like to do politics, because it drives me so
crazy that that I I don't want to be one
of those guys that ever says I'm not calling this
guy because he's a Democrat or I'm not calling this
guy because he's too far right or too far left.
By there, it does seem like this country is is
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becoming so.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Polaroi polarized that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Even more so than it was back during like Trump's
first term. It seems like everybody now, like a friend
of mine, I'm not gonna say who this is, and
it didn't affect our friendship, but I'm sure that that
it affected some of his others. But you know, recently,
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Vice President in Vance said and made a public appearance
with the CEO of United Airlines, and the CEO of
United Airlines said, you've got to open up this government.
And while he was standing next to Vice President in Vance,
and one of my very good friends who have known
for a long time put a post online and said, well,
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I'm never flying United again. I mean, over one comment
like that, you eliminate an air line for the rest
of your life. I think that's odd. Yeah, but you're right,
there are more and more litmus tests like that.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I mean there's a lot of people who you know,
you love electric cars, so you're not a good example
of this. I mean, you had an electric car before Tesla.
You had a Tesla and then you have another electric car.
You're an electric car guy. But there are people that
got into electric cars because of Tesla and then they
sold it after Elon Musk went crazy. Why would you
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sell a car you love just because the guy who
is the CEO doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Agree with you? Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, Like I don't know that. Well, I drive a Ford.
I don't know what the CEO of Fords policy.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Well that's what you'd like to have from CEOs, is
like not to know what their politics are. I mean,
I get the fact that he was he became this
guy who sort of became a lightning rod because he
and his Doze bros.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Went into the government and you know.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Body The Mark Thompson Show on YouTube. I wish you
safe travels. You're leaving tomorrow at midnight. I will be
in touch with you along the way. Well from Colombia.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I'm excited about going. I wish it were seriously safe.
Trap time. Thank you, you're the best part. All right,
all right?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Camp I Am. It is the cow.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Self in the head with the headphones. It's been that
kind of night, all right. Election results are coming in,
and you know, a lot of people are framing this
as a rebuttal and a pushback on Donald Trump, and
it's not. All These election results are coming out of
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states that voted heavily for Kamala Harris, New Jersey, New
York didn't Virginia know, No, Virginia didn't. Virginia did not
go for I.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Don't know what the ultimate tally was, but they didn't
go heavily for our Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
They didn't vote for Kamala's over donc.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Said, I don't know what the ultimate vote was. Let
me check, let me see.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I bet it's over three hundred thousand votes. I would
I would bet my life that it's over two hundred
thousand votes. I think that's a lot. She got fifty
to Trump's forty six. Oh well, what were the totals?
So I BET's over three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He's got a death grip on that three hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Six, two hundred and sixty thousand votes, she had more
than him.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, so.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'll give you I'm going to give you that, by
the way, two hundred and sixty three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's not a bad it's not zero, yeah, exactly. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So Virginia, New Jersey, New York, California, these are all
states that went for Kamala Harris. These are not big,
you know, Republican states that are voting against Donald Trump.
They're just not They're just a bunch of people who
have been voting for Democrats their whole lives, continuing to
vote for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So if you're a conservative, you're a Republican, don't get
down on these votes. Is nothing new. Now, these are
not states. These are not swing states. These are not
states that Donald Trump won. These are states that the
Democrats have won for a long time and they continue
to win. So it's not a big deal. I mean,
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nothing to see here, Okay, Well, I mean, is that
not true?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I think that that's probably a hundred percent true.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, I was looking at other places where there might
be elections that are consequential and you know, kind of Bellwethers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, in Virginia, the Democrat won beating the previous Republican, right,
but they also the Democrats had almost what two hundred
and sixty thousand more votes for that idiot Kamala Harris. Yeah,
but Younkin, who is a Republican, won pretty decisively when
he won in Virginia. Right, But that goes back and forth.
I mean that was you know, Virginia go with their
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you know, their local elections. They go back and forth.
But i it's nothing new. It's there's no you know,
don't let them freak you out that there is a
trend in this country that is, you know, is going
way to the left.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's not happening.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's just not happening, especially in swing states and the South.
If you want to really, if you're a Republican, you
really want to enjoy yourself, move to the South and
and leave all the craziness behind.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's my solution.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, I mean those states have their own problems, you know,
I mean every states, so it's a different kind of
craziness exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's it's see we which state you're talking about it?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Right, But we have talked about this with Michael Monks.
If if Newsom became president, I would be laughing at
the rest of this country. I would say, great, now
you get to you get four or eight years of
the absolute s fest that we've had to deal with
him for four or was it eight years he's been governor,
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and look what he's done. I mean, he's the state's
a mess.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But the homeless is worse now than when he started.
The crime is probably worse now than when he started.
Gas prices are higher now than when he started. The
taxes are higher now than when he started. Uh, you know,
we shut the schools down for a year and a half,
where other states shut him down for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's the first thing. I mean, I think some of
those things that you mentioned, like gas prices, et said, right,
I don't know that he could the governor has any
control over that. But I do take your point about COVID,
and you know, COVID and COVID policies informed a lot
of the election results with the in the general. I mean,
I think it carried Trump and a lot of Republicans
to victory.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You don't think that the governor has anything to do
with gas prices.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I don't think he has control over gas prices particularly
why what what is?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
No, I'm asking let's flush out the issue. A lot
of the refined ories are breaking down and leaving because
they don't consider California a viable place to do business.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Right, that's the California legislay, all the restrictions, that's the legislature.
And so I'm saying a governor doesn't the governor doesn't
have it. He may be part of that machine. I'll accept, Yeah,
that the democratic machine controls California.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't wouldn't dispute that at all. In fact, I
think it's a flaw.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But what I would say is that the governor doesn't
control gasoline prices in the same way the president doesn't
control gasoline prices.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean, I always love that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know, when the price of the pump is down,
the president, whoever the president is, takes credit for it.
When it goes up, it's like, oh that, you know,
the president doesn't have anything to do with it. And
the truth is the president really doesn't have anything.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, all right, let's I'll give you that that the government,
that the governor in the state of California cannot single
handedly reduce the price of gasoline, then why is it
so high in California.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, that's because of taxes and environmental blends that are
required in California.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And what parties push that.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, I've just told you that the democratic machine he
is part of is the reason you have to change
in the legislature. Absolutely, but you can't. Yeah, no, I
and I've also.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Just they and now they with redistricting, it's gonna make
it even tougher.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Sure, this is a super majority in California, and the
same is true in places like Texas and other the
Republican states that are as bad.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
On the other side, I mean it sucks.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I think it's the gerrymandering at redistricting is total crap
for Democrats or Republicans. It's not representative. It is a
It makes congressional representation a joke. You have states where
like Wisconsin, where you have it it's so heavily jerrymandered,
there's just no way that you can have a democratic legislature.
The same is true now in Texas and across many
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red states that have gone purple in terms of population,
and so in California, same thing. The communities that are
Republicans don't get appropriate representation.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, and now they're going to lose even more.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You know, these guys live up in eastern California, which
is all Republican, and Northern California, northeastern California.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
They're not gonna have to say in anything. You know,
they're not right.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The representatives that they're going to send to Washington will
not be representing their lifestyles.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The House is flawed in this way, and the the
idea of a of a jerrymandery, a redistricting that doesn't
even follow the census. This is kind of a new
thing that was hatched by Trump and it's it's it's
inventive and it's aggressive, but it just takes a problem
that we already have and it creates it as an
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even greater issue here sort of in the middle of
a decade.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I think if Newsome wins, I hope the rest
of this country has to live in the absolute toilet.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That we have had for the last eight years.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Again, the president is just one cog in that machine
in Washington. Now you've got now you've got a president
and a party in control. I don't know that. You know,
you know, you'll have you'll have that. If I don't
think this is going to win the presidency anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
If he does, I say to the rest of the nation,
welcome to s Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But again, the s you're talking about is a democratically
a super majority in Sacramento, which I don't think you
have in Washington.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Right, But that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
But he's going to bring his policies, you know that,
the crazy thinking that he that is that has gotten
him to the point where he gets elected president. He'll
bring that craziness with him to the White House. Yeah,
I don't know guarantee.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean, there are all kinds of areas of crazy.
I agree there it seems like the crazy is pretty
much meet it out on both sides.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I understand that. But I have had to live under
his craziness for eight years, right, I know. And and
so that's the only crazy decid No, And.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And you know how I feel about like the homeless
industrial complex. We keep voting for these bond measures, we
keep pouring money into it, and it doesn't change anything.
And I think that's even beyond the governor. I mean,
I think that is the problem with the supermajority, and
and and and we know what's happened, But how do
you unemployment benefits?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But how do you change the supermajority?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I mean this is an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But how would you change the supermajority?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right? How would you change it? Oh? I don't know
how you change it in California, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You'd have to by maybe not redistricting and drawing the
lines where we even lose more of the other party.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But on the national level, if you don't redistrict, you
completely turn Washington over to one party. And Democrats feel, okay,
so we sacrifice our own house for the rest of
the nation. Well, you're sacrificing your sacrificing your own house
anyway if you leave it over to the Republicans because
of the war on California. You know what's happening in
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Washington around California. And so I don't know. I think
there's a As I've told you, I think it's it's
really flawed. Redistrict across the board is awful. So I
couldn't agree with you more. I think it's an issue.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It is amazing how much money it costs to live
in California. And if he is not to blame, then
who is to blame.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
He's part of that blame, which is the super majority
in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Have you had your by the way, I know, we
got to take a break. Have you had your home
insurance go up like I did?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and that, and I felt lucky
I could get it. You're talking about fire insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, yeah, Ours was twenty four hundred dollars a year
and it went up to fifty six hundred dollars. Well,
we felt like my daughter's car insurance is eight thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We felt lucky we could get insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I can't afford to live in this state anymore. I mean,
it really is getting tight. And I'm making pretty decent money.
Imagine if you're you know, you just squeaking by trying
to make it in the state with the gas prices,
the insurance. How does some guy get by where he
has one child and his daughter's car insurance is eight
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Sure, I don't know how he does it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, if you have five kids, you know then and
that doesn't include education, it's impossible to live in this
sefan state. It's impossible everything. They've taken everything from everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's an insanely expensive place to live.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's the worst, it's absolutely and there's nobody dressing those problems,
nobody except me. All Right, it's Conway Thompson. I am
forty Conway. Show Mark Thompson is here. Come on, Conway,
let's go. We had a plane accident in Louisville, louis Hall, Kentucky.
I'm in a huge, horrible and I just saw the footage. Man,
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it's all over the internet. Everything's on video nowadays. You know,
you can't do anything without somebody catching it on video.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
My friend is an aviation's guy, sort of an expert
in aviation, said he it looks like the engines falling
off the jet.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's a thirty four year old plane their hall taken
from Kentucky to Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't know when planes fall apart, but that seems
like a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I mean, I thought that planes with good and maintenance
could last a real long time. That's what they tell you.
You know that there's a gives to everything. I don't know, man,
what is that?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They call it? An MD eleven. Is that what it is?
The engine in the back.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like a DC ten with that big engine in the back.
And McDonald douglas made them, which is why they call
it MD, I think. And it's horrible. It's still on fire.
They still haven't put that fire up. Wow, it's been
what it happened at five twenty pm local time and
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they're on Eastern so at one two twenty pm. And
you know what's weird is my I was watching TV.
You know, I'm watching news to get ready for today's
program or watching the Dodger game again, and my wife
came in and said, there's a massive plane accident in Kentucky,
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and so I turned on CNN and fifteen minutes later
they said there's an accident. And so nowadays with social media,
you get it fifteen twenty thirty minutes before everybody else.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Sure, there's just so many other ways to get it
besides the TV news.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, and that's going to hurt TV news though.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's already hurting TV news. Yeah, I mean already so
many so much of the audience is already checked out.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I remember that the I guess it was the abortion
clinic or the fertility clinic. Something in Palm Springs. Remember
when the guy blew that thing up, that crazy get sure? Yeah, yeah,
fertility clinic is what it is. And I watched the FBI.
They gave a press conference on it, and they said, well,
we don't know who he is, we don't know what
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his beef was, we don't know what kind of equipment
he used, or where we lived, but we're we got
all our best guys and gals on it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We'll get you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We'll get you all the details at five o'clock. And
that was at one o'clock. So another four hours later.
So I said to my wife, I go, we don't
know anything about this guy yet, and she goes, oh,
I know where he lives, I know who his name is,
I know why he did it, and I know who
his friends are. All of it was on social media, wild,
all of it wild before the FBI even talked about it.
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And she was right with everything. Jeez, everything was online.
And the people online, you know, with the next door
app or community app or whatever those things are, they
have all the information before everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Well they positively. I d people much more quickly now
because of smart media, right, so you can just get
any kind of surveillance photop.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, there was a shooting in Burbank on Saturday night
or Sunday night maybe in last night days get confused,
and there was a shooting in Burbank, which is unusual.
So my wife was on it and she was there
probably four minutes after the shots were fired because somebody
was streaming it live and it was over somebody playing music.
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A neighbor was playing loud music and I guess he's
been asked three or four times to turn it down
and he didn't want to. And the guy said, okay,
well I'll shoot you if you don't turn it down,
and he goes, ah, I don't believe you, and he
shot him.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That's all I know. Wow, that's a pretty grim ending.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, So I don't know if that's the real story
or not, but that's all I heard. But he was
on I watched it live on social media, you know,
And then I turned on the channel two four seven,
five eleven news. They don't even report it, not even reported,
and I saw the whole thing live. So I don't
know how long TV news can stick around.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
With the Internet, well, people just.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Do get news from so many different places and then
what happens with TV news ends up being an aggregator
of social media, so you know they're reading social media
posts on TV News. It's like, hey, let's just eliminate
the middleman and I'll just.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
When I first started here, we reported there was a
shooting in Hollywood, and then Chris Little, the news director,
came in and said, where'd you hear that from? I said,
I'm looking at it right now on social media. He goes,
we don't use we don't use social media and Twitter
as a source. And I said, I know what. I'm
looking at it. It's right there. I'm looking at it.
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I'm looking at it happened. He say, well, we don't
use Twitter as a source. I go, well, you better
start because everybody else is that. That was like the
first running I had with him. I go, I would
use Twitter as a source because I'm looking at the
at the shooting right now and it's live.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, I'm seeing the actual shooting.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, well, I don't use Twitter as a source. You
should do that. Want to get more flexible on that,
you should do Definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, we're live.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It's kind of when Thompson.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Junior on demand from KF I am sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Thompson, big dog.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, your boy, just one governor, I mean mayor of
New York City.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh yeah, I'm Donnie.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I'm Donnie.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, about ten points ahead of Yeah, he but of
the CNN AP they're all giving it to him. Yeah,
he's won the election. He's not exactly my boy, but
I do. I think it's a fascinating to see New
York pivot toward this guy who is, uh, we'll see,
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I mean, I don't know, we'll see what happened running
in kind of a weak field. I mean, you've got Cuomo,
who's like warmed over leftovers. He would literally, you know,
left office with h.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
They got Adams is selling his soul to foreigners, right,
and then you got who's just running around subways and
he's just hackling.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And he's happy to be relevant.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But it does it's a that this guy is gonna win.
He won, yeah, man, he's going to be governor of
the City of New York. Yeah, and he's promising a
lot you know, uh, freezing rent, you know, government run
grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, I mean he's uh.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I think it's gonna be interesting because some of the
stuff that he wants to do, he wants to subsidize.
He's going to need to subsidize it with tax increases.
And he can't do that without Shack, without the Albany,
you know, without the Capitol, without you know, you'll need
buy in from the legislature to get that done.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
But they say a lot of billionaires are going to
leave New York City. I don't believe that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think if you're a New Yorker, you can't go
anywhere else. You know, you need that energy that New
York has. I mean, I never believe that when people
say they're going to leave.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I also think that those things are often said for
a reason, right, to sort of make it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Clear, Hey, right, Yeah, the guy who was running Jay Jones,
he's running for I think the attorney general in Virginia,
isn't that. He's the guy that sent text saying that
he hope his opponent, his opponent's wife, Jennifer Jennifer or
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Gilbert's wife Jennifer would have to hold her dying children
to understand the parents whose children are killed by gun violence.
And he also said if he had if he had
two bullets, and he had to choose between killing his opponent,
Adolf Hitler or Paul Pott.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
He would kill.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
He would shoot Gilbert twice, and yet he won as
a Democrat. He said he would he In a conversation
about his opponent's children, he said that. The conversation continued
via phone, during which Jones reportedly or repeatedly invoked the
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death of Gilbert's children, suggesting that a tragedy might make
the speaker more amenable to gun control policies. And he
won today as a as a Democrat. I guess that's
not disqualifying any.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I mean, what's disqualifying? Not qualifying? Now?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Political rhetoric is so coarse, it's so it's so low rent,
there is nothing sacred. It is absolutely insane, the way
all political discourses changed.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, but I don't remember children getting involved. I mean,
I don't remember him. I remember the last time a
politician threatened the children.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Of the of his opponent. He didn't threaten him, but.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, okay, he suggested that he would like to see
them die.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
He said, he I think, I mean, based on what
you've just read, I'll read it. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
In The conversation continued via phone, during which Jones reportedly
repeatedly invoked the death of Gilbert's children, suggesting that such
a tragedy might make the speaker more mineral to gun
control policies, and then additional texts when when the guy
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who he was texting expressed alarm, Jones doubled down on
the sentiment, writing, I hope Gilbert's wife Jennifer would have
to hold her dying children in her arms to understand
the pain of parents whose children were killed by gun violence.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, certainly not a good thing to say.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's it's it's I don't know how you limbo under that.
I hope that's the lowest that ever goes. Well, what
am I saying? I hope that the lowest ever goes.
They killed Charlie Kirk. You know who's they? The people
who are threatening other people in this world? Yeah, I
agree the violent party of violence.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Is well, is there a party of violence? I think
you're telling me. I think they're radicalized people. So you
think the Democrats are a party of violence? You tell
me No, I'm telling you right now, I think that's that.
I think that's crazy. I think both I just read
you text. I think they're crazies on both sides.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I really do. I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I mean, I think that that's I think that there's
no I really think that that you know that there
is extremism and radicalism. I can think that we can
both agree that there are crazies on both sides.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I think there are crazies on both sides. But it
does seem that a lot of the recent violence is
coming from one of the two parties.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You thought that the well, I don't want to get
into this with you because I just seem like, you know,
you talk about the planned kidnapping of a governor of
a state of Michigan. They went to the x State
House with arms. You talk about the the I think
there's any number of crazies on both sides, like Trump
getting shot.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, exactly, Trump getting shot. I agree.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I mean, I don't think I think there's any room
for political violence at all on either side. But I
don't think that there it's being espoused in any kind
of mainstream way, right, I just find party or another.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay, But I don't I find the this These comments
about the opponent's children, the mother having to hold dead
children astonishingly low and that's not disqualifying it wasn't disqualified
for me, he's going to win.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know where we are in this country.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I mean, the discourse that comes out of the White
House is a new low as well.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You know, okay, well it's not holding your dying children,
you know, I mean we were now involving the opponent's children.
I think I get a new low.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I get that this that this this comment got to you.
The it does get to me. Yeah, No, I know,
and I and I and I understand why. I mean,
I think that in the context, I'm not trying to
justify it at all. But what started it was this
gun violence which he was speaking about, I guess. I mean,
I'm learning more about it from your reading of the
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quote than what I knew before. I knew that he'd
made controversial remarks, But he was talking about in the
context of gun violence, that the nature of gun violence
is so profoundly awful that the only way to in
any way communicate the import is if somebody actually experiences it.
I guess that's what he's getting at. But I'm not
(24:19):
justifying that or saying that he said it well or
said it he shouldn't have said it at all.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But that's the context in which it existed. It's amazing
that a guy running brought that up. All we got
to take great All right, Conway Thompson Relive on KFI
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and Thompson. I might have some arguments over politics, but
I love this man. I would say, out of all
(24:45):
the friends that I've met after my post childhood friends,
I would say, probably closest to you.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's really sweet, and I feel you are so much
in my head all the time.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You are the brother that i'd never had.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I feel the same way. And I listened to your
show often, and I got to give you props. There
are some people in radio on this station and do
a podcast that will change their opinions on important topics
during commercial breaks that drive me crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And you never do that. Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I mean like they'll see something or someone will say
something during the commercial and then they'll change.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I'm going to tell you a story about somebody who
doesn't work here anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Okay, that's a good idea, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And I was listening to him one day and he
said that women should have the right to abort their
fetus up until they give.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Birth, which you know, that's an extreme which.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Fifteen twenty years ago was really really extreme.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, that's well, no, it's still extreme.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Right because you could have been convicted of murder for that. Sure,
Like you, if you're eight months pregnant and you take
a knife and you try and you ab your you know,
your feetus to death, you could be thrown in jail
for murder for that. So that was a very extreme position.
Then the commercial break happened. Then he came back and
(26:12):
he said, you know, I was raised around a lot
of Catholics who think that conception is where life begins.
And he said, I'm open to that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wow, that's quite a pivot.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He was the ying and the yang. He was the
ding and the dong of abortion. I don't think anyone's
ever said that before he was. His opinions were the
ding and the dog of abortion. You don't hear it
a lot, but I've one of the reasons why I
(26:46):
don't like to do politics, because it drives me so
crazy that that I I don't want to be one
of those guys that ever says I'm not calling this
guy because he's a Democrat or I'm not calling this
guy because he's too far right or too far left.
By there, it does seem like this country is is
(27:07):
becoming so.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Polaroi polarized that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Even more so than it was back during like Trump's
first term. It seems like everybody now, like a friend
of mine, I'm not gonna say who this is, and
it didn't affect our friendship, but I'm sure that that
it affected some of his others. But you know, recently,
(27:33):
Vice President in Vance said and made a public appearance
with the CEO of United Airlines, and the CEO of
United Airlines said, you've got to open up this government.
And while he was standing next to Vice President in Vance,
and one of my very good friends who have known
for a long time put a post online and said, well,
(27:54):
I'm never flying United again. I mean, over one comment
like that, you eliminate an air line for the rest
of your life. I think that's odd. Yeah, but you're right,
there are more and more litmus tests like that.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I mean there's a lot of people who you know,
you love electric cars, so you're not a good example
of this. I mean, you had an electric car before Tesla.
You had a Tesla and then you have another electric car.
You're an electric car guy. But there are people that
got into electric cars because of Tesla and then they
sold it after Elon Musk went crazy. Why would you
(28:27):
sell a car you love just because the guy who
is the CEO doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Agree with you? Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, Like I don't know that. Well, I drive a Ford.
I don't know what the CEO of Fords policy.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Well that's what you'd like to have from CEOs, is
like not to know what their politics are. I mean,
I get the fact that he was he became this
guy who sort of became a lightning rod because he
and his Doze bros.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Went into the government and you know.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Body The Mark Thompson Show on YouTube. I wish you
safe travels. You're leaving tomorrow at midnight. I will be
in touch with you along the way. Well from Colombia.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I'm excited about going. I wish it were seriously safe.
Trap time. Thank you, you're the best part. All right,
all right?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
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