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Speaker 2: Oh, I got a lot of good.

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Speaker 3: Stuff on the show today, including in a half an

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Speaker 3: hour we're going to talk with Daniel Guss. Daniel Guss,

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Speaker 3: you can go to his news site, Daniel Guss at

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Speaker 3: substack dot com. The La Times has been hit with

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Speaker 3: and they moved out of there last year and they

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Speaker 3: left behind a terrible mess and didn't pay the rent

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Speaker 3: gross disrepairs. That's with Daniel guests after one p thirty. Now,

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Speaker 3: I've got good news here because I always actually I'm

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Speaker 3: a pretty optimistic person naturally, because I think even when

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Speaker 2: Can get better.

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Speaker 3: And I don't have I don't have patience for people

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Speaker 3: who moan about their situation in life.

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Speaker 2: I really don't. You do something.

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Speaker 3: If you do something, you can make it better every day,

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Speaker 3: every hour. But you have to take action. That's why

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Speaker 3: I have like zero tolerance for people who are laying

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Speaker 3: help that's being offered by the rest of us. You know,

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Speaker 3: at some point it's like, you know, just get out

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Speaker 3: take action to prevent yourself from getting in some kind

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Speaker 3: And a lot of people in California have gotten very

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Speaker 3: pessimistic and just want to lay there and let California

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Speaker 3: Oh you know, we're always going to have this kind

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Speaker 3: of political climate. Oh, people are always going to vote

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Speaker 3: this way. It's like, well, no, that's not true. A

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Speaker 3: lot of bad things might have to happen before people

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Speaker 3: start voting differently. But we've had a lot of bad

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Speaker 2: That leads me to.

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Speaker 3: This story. There is a pulling outfit called Madison McQueen.

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Speaker 3: They do California pulling, among other things, and they popped

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Speaker 3: up a few months ago after the fires. They did

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Speaker 3: a survey and found out that if there was an election,

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Speaker 3: I believe in January or early February, Brickruso would win

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Speaker 3: forty six to thirty seven. And it was a huge

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Speaker 3: come down for Karen Bass and I have been thinking

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Speaker 3: that all the bad things that have happened in California,

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Speaker 3: now have finally awoken out of there I don't know,

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Speaker 3: have to live this way. We don't have to let

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Speaker 3: these psycho progressives rule everything just because they shout loud

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Speaker 3: and they get hysterical and they try to cancel you

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Speaker 3: just because they have mental disorders. I think some months

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Speaker 3: ago I told you about the cluster B mental disorder.

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Speaker 3: Go look it up. I don't have time to explain

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Speaker 3: it now, but look up cluster B. And if that

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Speaker 3: doesn't describe most of the people you see in public

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Speaker 3: You'll see it's a cluster b It's like a hysterical disorder.

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Speaker 3: with organizations that they have cluster b disorder. You may

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Speaker 3: gets tired of that. They're tired of the cluster bee

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Speaker 3: California's in disrepair, and they think, one by one they're

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Speaker 3: And you start looking at how did I vote? A

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Speaker 3: I'm embarrassed by that. I'll never tell anybody. Okay, here's

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Speaker 3: the Madison mc queen poll. They found that forty eight

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Speaker 2: You know how significant that is.

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Speaker 3: Republican Party voter in voter registration in California is only

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Speaker 3: twenty five percent, almost twice as many are now say

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Speaker 2: But you've moved a lot of people over.

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Speaker 3: It's like right candidate who promotes the right set of

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Speaker 3: issues can be done. And here is a list of

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Speaker 3: prices are too high in California eighty three percent. Now,

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Speaker 3: it has been that way for many, many years, and

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Speaker 3: the rest of the country has been in the twos

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Speaker 3: too high in California. That's entirely the result of progressive

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Speaker 3: Democratic Party policies. You strip away all the taxes and

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Speaker 3: dollars less period, end of story. Here's another one, seventy

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Speaker 3: that made theft illegal again, public drug use illegal again,

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Speaker 3: fentinal dealing a crime. Seventy three percent. Now, remember last

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Speaker 3: year that Newsom and the Democratic Legislature played all kinds

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Speaker 3: More people support it now than actually voted for it

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Speaker 3: at the time. Here's another one. Seventy two percent feel

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Speaker 3: homelessness is still a big problem, even after years of

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Speaker 3: Democrat control in Sacramento, not to mention LA. Finally, people

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Speaker 2: Wow, seventy two percent.

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Speaker 3: Tell me you can't put together a successful campaign when

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Speaker 3: you if you push gas, funding Prop thirty six and

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Speaker 3: executing a plan against homelessness. By the way, we just

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Speaker 3: the Democrats in the legislature refuse to fund drug treatment.

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Speaker 3: most Democrats do not want rampant homelessness and crime and

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Speaker 3: They've driven the costs much higher with their climate rules

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Speaker 3: way too. Well, really, what it is is a big,

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Speaker 3: gigantic scam is what it is. They take the money

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Speaker 3: we've been paying for gas gas taxes, where did it go?

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Speaker 3: Had no effect on the climate, none at all. They've

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Speaker 3: Sixty two percent want a full independent investigation of the

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Speaker 3: of Californians think that males who are transgender should compete

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Speaker 3: in female sports, only twenty four percent. You could see

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Speaker 3: there is a group of extreme progressives that have had

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Speaker 3: media to amplify that message. Most of the public in California,

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Speaker 3: We'll talk more coming up.

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Speaker 3: So this is really good news. Oh, by the way,

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Speaker 3: Daniel guests coming on at one thirty. He has got

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Speaker 3: That is six major categories there where huge majorities are

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Speaker 3: saying the ruling party is screwing up. And that's the

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Speaker 3: first time I've seen this. And you may be saying, oh, okay, Well,

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Speaker 3: They asked, who did you vote for in the presidential election? Well,

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Speaker 3: fifty nine percent said Kamala Harris, thirty eight percent said Trump.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty close.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty close to the final outcome, all right, fifty

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Speaker 3: twenty nine percent said republican, twenty percent said independent. Again

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Speaker 3: pretty close. So it wasn't overweighted with Republicans and independents,

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Speaker 3: the seventies and eighties when it came people, when it

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Speaker 2: So that's exciting. We uh.

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Speaker 3: The funny story came out today in the New York

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Speaker 2: What a bad tenant.

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Speaker 3: They didn't pay rent, They left the printing plant covered

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Speaker 1: Oh? Good? John? I mean, it is a gift that

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Speaker 1: this happens on Saint Patrick's Day, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: And Patrickson I meant Saint Patrick's tent Sewn's nightmare. Oh my,

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Speaker 1: oh my god. Man, have you seen the photos of this,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the last time I was there, I

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Speaker 3: It really does look it does look like criminal gangs

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Speaker 1: Right or restore right, restore it to good condition, and

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Speaker 2: And how come they weren't paying the rent?

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's so much in Los Angeles every day

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna think that the richest guy in LA despite

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Speaker 3: More than twenty million dollars in holdover rent and millions

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Speaker 1: Right, they're over in what does it smell? Segunda right now?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's just a coat of arms. It's like

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Speaker 3: That's what the La Times nameplate is. It signifies nothing.

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Speaker 3: A glorious past maybe, but nothing because they had squandered.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't feel bad for a guy who's worth

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling that they're let me well, feeling

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Speaker 3: Their staff is made up of what you probably run

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Speaker 1: It's dead, right, And why should some of us who

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Speaker 1: Why should we know the sexual preference or orientation of

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Speaker 1: is aside from everything else, John, it's a really bad

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Speaker 2: It's you know what it's.

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Speaker 3: It's it's left over from a fatish era that is

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Speaker 2: That's the same thing, right, the comb over.

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Speaker 1: It's this type of circumstances, that type of environment at

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Speaker 1: more reactionary than proactive in my opinion. And I'm biased

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Speaker 1: as hell about it, but I but I call them

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Speaker 1: as I see him as you do.

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Speaker 2: Well, Daniel, thank you very much for.

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Speaker 1: Coming on anytime. John'll tuk you soon.

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Speaker 3: I think it's going out of business. I think it

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Speaker 3: has been for a long time. We coming up after

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Speaker 3: two o'clock. Yeah, Carl Demio, he blew the whistle on

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Speaker 3: this week's ago the cost of illegal alien healthcare in California.

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Speaker 3: It's now three and a half billion dollars above their estimate.

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Speaker 3: And now Gavin Newsom and the state has to borrow

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Speaker 3: the three billion dollars they have to borrow three billion

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Speaker 3: dollars because we don't have Apparently we're not paying enough

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Speaker 3: in taxes to cover a legal alien credle to grave Healthcare.

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Speaker 3: Who would have thought that's coming up?

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Speaker 2: After two?

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Speaker 4: You're listening to Cobel's on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 3: John Cobelt cho k f I AM six forty Live

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Speaker 3: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. All right, well, we were

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Speaker 3: just had Daniel Gusson and we were talking about the

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Speaker 3: La Times and they're getting sued for twenty four million

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Speaker 3: dollars because they left their printing press plant such a disaster,

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Speaker 3: so much damage was done to the building that the

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Speaker 3: landlord is suing Patrick Schun Suncheon for twenty four million.

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Speaker 3: And we're talking about just how the paper is just

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Speaker 3: non existent compared to what it used to be. It's

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Speaker 3: and the reporters are very young, and you go to

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Speaker 3: their bios you see what they write about, and it's

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Speaker 3: all about their personal pronouns and their sexual preferences. And

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Speaker 3: I told him, I got this is part of what's

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Speaker 3: now a bygone era, the bygone era of progressive insanity.

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Speaker 3: But there are some remnants, and in New Jersey they're

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Speaker 3: dealing with it. Imagine you're a mom in you're a

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Speaker 3: mom and dad in New Jersey. Actually, you're having a

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Speaker 3: new baby, all right. You go to the New Jersey hospital,

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Speaker 3: you give birth to a new baby, and you get

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Speaker 3: a questionnaire from the hospital in spirra of health. Is

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Speaker 3: the name of the organization that requires new parents? Well,

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Speaker 3: I'll give you the title of it, Sexual Orientation and

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Speaker 3: Gender Identity Questionnaire. This is what you get for a

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Speaker 3: baby who's a few hours old. This is the first

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Speaker 3: piece of paperwork that the parent has to fill out

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Speaker 3: on the infant's behalf. So imagine you have a little

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Speaker 3: eight pound baby lying there, barely open, its eyes, squealing,

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Speaker 3: covered in placenta and blood, waving its arms and legs.

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Speaker 3: They're handed a questionnaire. How do I identify your baby?

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Speaker 3: These are the real options. I'm not making this up. Male, female, transgender, gender,

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Speaker 3: queer or additional gender category.

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Speaker 2: Okay, how would you know that? At that time? It's

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Speaker 2: a law, but that makes zero sense. You would not

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Speaker 2: know those. You can't answer that. The baby doesn't even

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Speaker 2: know it exists. You would only know a male or

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Speaker 2: a female by looking at the private parts. Wait, there's

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Speaker 2: a second question.

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Speaker 3: It further asked parents to select the word that best

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Speaker 3: describes their infant Lesbian, are gay, straight, or heterosexual? Self described,

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Speaker 3: questioning or unsure.

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Speaker 2: This is a newborn baby.

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Speaker 3: We're talking a newborn baby. Just slit out the shoot.

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Speaker 3: Just this is still you don't like the term split

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Speaker 3: out the shoot. I know I saw you flinch there

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Speaker 3: of that either. It's a healthcare system that operates four hospitals,

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Speaker 3: two cancer centers, and eight health centers. They created the

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Speaker 3: form last year to comply with a new Jersey law

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Speaker 3: that required healthcare providers to collect race, ethnicity, sexual orientation,

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Speaker 3: and gender identity, and this hospital group extended it to newborns.

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Speaker 3: One mother said, if I was told to fill this out,

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Speaker 3: I'd rip it up right in front of them. We've

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Speaker 3: entered the twilight zone. Here's another mom. I get to

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Speaker 3: think my baby as gay on day one is insane.

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Speaker 3: I had no idea about this form.

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Speaker 2: I'm shocked.

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Speaker 3: You imagined, she says. I know you're as a mom myself.

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Speaker 3: I know you're exhausted after giving birth. You've got a

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Speaker 3: crying newborn and you're trying to figure out how to

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Speaker 3: feed it. To be handed that sort of form in

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Speaker 3: the midst of all this that has no medical value.

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Speaker 2: It makes no Yeah, I wouldn't be signing it either,

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Speaker 2: And she.

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Speaker 3: Put it on Facebook and nobody believed it. They all

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Speaker 3: thought it was some kind of joke.

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Speaker 2: But uh, somebody screwed up here, because that's that that

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Speaker 2: is so stupid. Two State Senators Joseph Cryon and Angela

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Speaker 2: McKnight Democrats, introduced the bill June twenty third, twenty and

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Speaker 2: twenty two, and they have now refused to comment. There's

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Speaker 2: no possible way.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're talking newborns, So somebody screwed up you

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Speaker 3: guys that you needed to include newborns.

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Speaker 2: So you got to stand over the newborn and go

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Speaker 2: gay straight cry once, what's for gay?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Twice?

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Speaker 2: Straight straight, and then transgender three times. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: don't know actual law in the stand in New Jersey.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we've got news coming up next live in

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Speaker 3: the Camp twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening

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Speaker 3: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear

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