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Speaker 5: Central Valley is, without question, one of the most vital
Speaker 5: agricultural regions in America, producing seventeen billion dollars worth of
Speaker 5: crops twenty five percent of the nation's food supply, and
Speaker 5: to help grow and harvest those crops, many farmers here
Speaker 5: rely on undocumented workers. The Department of Agriculture estimates that
Speaker 5: about half of the hired crop workers do not have
Speaker 5: legal status. That is estimated to be more than three
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty thousand workers in the Central Valley alone.
Speaker 3: Three hundred thousand workers in the Central Valley alone, that
Speaker 3: if you followed what recent poling says, sixty percent of
Speaker 3: America wants would all be booted out of the country.
Speaker 3: And that would be obviously, if he did that all
Speaker 3: at once, would be quite the wrecking of the whole
Speaker 3: agricultural system. Doesn't mean it's not a good idea, though,
Speaker 3: because you got to have a system of some sort
Speaker 3: for having workers. It's the job of Congress to come
Speaker 3: up with and be implied and follow through. I don't
Speaker 3: know if they're going to or not, but Jo and
Speaker 3: I have been talking about illegal immigration in farm workers
Speaker 3: for geez, twenty five years or whatever being on the air,
Speaker 3: and this very part of the a California in the
Speaker 3: country that they're talking about on ABC this week, and
Speaker 3: we used to talk about it all the time when
Speaker 3: we were only on in the Sacramento area. People had
Speaker 3: always talk do you want tomatoes to be five dollars? Well,
Speaker 3: then you know it's gonna pick the lettuce.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: It was always the conversation, and our answer was always
Speaker 3: somebody or nobody or a machine, Well, let's hear from
Speaker 3: a couple of farmers in the Central Valley and their
Speaker 3: theories on why you need to have illegals picking. Here's
Speaker 3: more from ABC this week.
Speaker 6: We can't afford a labor shortage. Back during Obama, we
Speaker 6: had a labor shortage and there were a time where
Speaker 6: we actually lost some crop.
Speaker 5: I think people will look at say, but wait a minute,
Speaker 5: they're Americans who are unemployed.
Speaker 2: Why can't you just hire them?
Speaker 6: They don't want to come out here and work in
Speaker 6: this in this extreme conditions one hundred plus degree temperatures,
Speaker 6: dust hard work. What if you paid them more, it
Speaker 6: doesn't matter. You know, we pay some of the highest
Speaker 6: wages for farm workers in the nation right here in California,
Speaker 6: and they won't come out.
Speaker 3: And just so before we have that conversation, here's a
Speaker 3: different farmer, same question, same topic there.
Speaker 7: I don't care what you pay them. I don't care
Speaker 7: if you pay them twenty six dollars an hour. They
Speaker 7: ain't going to happen. They're not going to get up
Speaker 7: at four or five in the morning, drive to the
Speaker 7: field and pick fruit.
Speaker 3: So and that question was, why why don't you just
Speaker 3: hire Americans? They won't do it. I don't care what
Speaker 3: you pay them. They're not going to get up that
Speaker 3: time of day and come out and do that job.
Speaker 3: So I don't understand why that isn't a hold on pause,
Speaker 3: let's have a conversation about that sort of revelation on
Speaker 3: ABC this week, they just move on to E. They
Speaker 3: you see, Americans won't do this work, so it makes
Speaker 3: sense to have illegal brown people do it. What what
Speaker 3: how do you craft a society like that? How about
Speaker 3: why would people who are unemployed or underemployed take the
Speaker 3: option of not doing a job even if it paid
Speaker 3: really well?
Speaker 2: Right? Right?
Speaker 3: How could they do that? How does that work? How
Speaker 3: does that fin How are they paying the rent? How
Speaker 3: are they eating?
Speaker 4: Can you imagine if you went to family counseling and
Speaker 4: and you said, my children refuse to do their chores,
Speaker 4: and the counselor said, well, let's talk about how you
Speaker 4: can hire someone to do your children's right. No, that's
Speaker 4: not the right question, right, Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: But we've been we've been talking about this very topic
Speaker 3: for decades now. How have we just accepted that people
Speaker 3: born in this country shouldn't have to do work that's
Speaker 3: not I don't know, glamorous or kind of hard, or
Speaker 3: it's outside or whatever. The reason is people don't want
Speaker 3: to do it. I did that kind of work when
Speaker 3: I was in high school.
Speaker 2: Lots of us did. You can't do it in any
Speaker 2: many Americans did? Yeah, but is everybody okay with that?
Speaker 3: Creating a welfare state so lavish that people can choose
Speaker 3: not to do jobs that they don't find like something
Speaker 3: they want to do, even even if it pays twenty nine.
Speaker 4: Dollars an hour and one more amusing irony, This is
Speaker 4: amusing me for many, many years. Is the more quote
Speaker 4: unquote progressive you are, the more in favor of white.
Speaker 2: People, won't do this work. Let's bring in some of
Speaker 2: those brown people.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the further left yard, the more you're
Speaker 4: a hardcore, open up the borders and let them in person,
Speaker 4: which I think is hilarious.
Speaker 3: There's also the unspoken, unstated realization that if millions of
Speaker 3: people come here and do those jobs they're getting by,
Speaker 3: they must be able to live somewhere and have a
Speaker 3: car and eat and you know, do all the things
Speaker 3: you want to do with a job right by definition.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's it boils down to a couple
Speaker 4: of very very simple principles. Number one is the purpose
Speaker 4: of getting the reins of government is to be able
Speaker 4: to distribute money from the treasury. Doesn't matter what the
Speaker 4: system is. They vary in how they do that, but
Speaker 4: that's the point. And in our system, you've got to
Speaker 4: get a little support from a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people.
Speaker 4: Kim Jong un just needs a hell of a lot
Speaker 4: of support from a fairly small group of people. But
Speaker 4: in a democracy, you need a little support from a
Speaker 4: hell of a lot of people. How do you do
Speaker 4: that by handing out money? Government benefits? You know, three
Speaker 4: and a half dozen different social programs that make sure
Speaker 4: nobody's going to starve. And so the second, very broad
Speaker 4: and easy to understand principle is people go for their
Speaker 4: best alternative. They will do their best option. And for
Speaker 4: Americans working in a field in the heat, in the dust,
Speaker 4: bent over is not nearly their best option. For some
Speaker 4: Guatemalan it is.
Speaker 3: I just I don't understand how we got to where
Speaker 3: we're okay with that or think that that's a workable
Speaker 3: plan going forward that doesn't end up with like I've
Speaker 3: been taking in a lot of French Revolution stuff over
Speaker 3: the weekend, you know, that sort of society falling apart.
Speaker 4: I believe the French Revolution is your Roman Empire, although
Speaker 4: you are quite interested in the Roman Empire as well.
Speaker 4: It is so the answer of how we get there
Speaker 4: is because nobody asks the question, the moral question there,
Speaker 4: the one that we keep harping on is it's not
Speaker 4: part of.
Speaker 2: The conversation at all. No, it wasn't.
Speaker 3: ABC this week did a long segment on this topic
Speaker 3: and not a word of Does it seem a little
Speaker 3: weird to have a society where you've declared certain jobs
Speaker 3: off limits for your citizens, Like, no, that's too grungy
Speaker 3: a job even at twenty dollars an hour you just
Speaker 3: don't want to have to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, would you do that with your own kids.
Speaker 3: I'll keep supporting you, you know, until you're thirty or
Speaker 3: a past rather than you go do that job.
Speaker 2: What? Yeah, who would live their lives like that?
Speaker 4: Democracy's end when they realize they can vote themselves money
Speaker 4: from the treasury. Can you imagine running on the platform
Speaker 4: I'm going to get you off of your couch and
Speaker 4: into the field.
Speaker 2: Good luck? What at right? We're a soft, decadent country.
Speaker 2: That's just that's it.
Speaker 3: We really are, which is what France was when they
Speaker 3: fell apart. Not to get back to the revolution. But
Speaker 3: and then here they wrapped up the conversation with this portion.
Speaker 5: Deporting undocumented workers in California is complicated. The state enacted
Speaker 5: a measure in twenty seventeen that prevents state resources from
Speaker 5: being used for federal immigration enforcement. And while that law
Speaker 5: varies by city and county, California is the sanctuary city
Speaker 5: capital of America, with dozens of cities and counties protecting
Speaker 5: undocumented residents from a rest based solely on their immigration status.
Speaker 3: So that's a problem. I mean, it all fits together
Speaker 3: as part of a puzzle. I hate the whole thing.
Speaker 3: But if you're going to accept I'm not. But apparently
Speaker 3: we have accepted that our American born people shouldn't have
Speaker 3: to do those jobs.
Speaker 2: Well, then you're gonna have to have illegals here.
Speaker 3: And then if you're going to have illegals here, you
Speaker 3: can't have them being deported. So you got to be
Speaker 3: a sanctuary county. I mean, it all fits together, or you.
Speaker 4: Just admit all of the above and you design a
Speaker 4: temporary worker program, which is.
Speaker 3: What Congress should do. Also not a part of the
Speaker 3: conversation where they said, well, if you want it to
Speaker 3: be this way, and apparently people do well. Then Congress
Speaker 3: needs to sit down and come up with a very
Speaker 3: complex system for or workers or making these people citizens,
Speaker 3: or whatever it is you're gonna do. But you got
Speaker 3: to come up with a plan. The all the arguments
Speaker 3: I seem to see on the Sunday talk shows, nobody
Speaker 3: was offering anything other than continuing to just randomly let
Speaker 3: people come in buy the millions, come and go, buy
Speaker 3: the millions, not know who they are. Martha Radditt's even
Speaker 3: admitted to whoever was pushing back on this story. There
Speaker 3: are six hundred thousand known criminals, not the crime of
Speaker 3: being illegal, but like other crimes from Mexico or Venezuela,
Speaker 3: six hundred thousand criminals in the United States right now.
Speaker 2: We don't know where they are, what kind of who
Speaker 2: does that? Yeah? Yeah, that's nuts. Yeah it is. It's
Speaker 2: self destructive.
Speaker 4: It's it's horrible because we won't get to the root questions.
Speaker 4: And the final annoying reality I'd like to trot out there.
Speaker 4: Why I don't get many invitations to dinner parties? Oh
Speaker 4: you invited, mister annoying reality? Oh good? Is the left
Speaker 4: raises money from soft heads? In my opinion with their
Speaker 4: no human being is illegal, bill bridges not walls, nonsense,
Speaker 4: And the right raises money on boot them all out,
Speaker 4: seal the borders, and to say we're going to craft
Speaker 4: a guest worker program that's going to let one point
Speaker 4: one million people in temporarily, we'll keep tracking them, blah
Speaker 4: blah blah, we're gonna streamline the course.
Speaker 2: That's just you can't raise money on that. It's too complicated.
Speaker 4: The devil is in the details, and there's always plenty
Speaker 4: to anger, you know, virtually everybody in the discussion.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't mean to be discouraging, but as long as
Speaker 4: small money donations rule politics, it's going to be hard
Speaker 4: to work out stuff like this.
Speaker 3: I'm just appalled by the idea. I've always cringed when
Speaker 3: anybody says those are jobs American won't do.
Speaker 2: That makes me cringe. You cannot be a strong, functioning.
Speaker 3: Successful society if you've decided certain jobs are off limits
Speaker 3: to your citizens.
Speaker 2: That's sickening.
Speaker 4: As a notion, well, that's how empires fall back to Rome.
Speaker 4: Or if you'd prefer, I assume, with your French Revolution passion,
Speaker 4: you'd like to say see guillotines all over America cutting
Speaker 4: off the heads of the disloyal or immigrants.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're crazy world.
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Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. It's an
Speaker 2: absolute classic.
Speaker 4: Frank, Senator Long, you said, it's probably a little long,
Speaker 4: but what the heck, we always have time for it.
Speaker 4: It's from Lord Woodhousily, also known as Alexander Fraser Tyler
Speaker 4: from back in the seventeen hundreds. A democracy cannot exist
Speaker 4: as a permanent form of government. Can only exist until
Speaker 4: the voters discover they can vote themselves largest from the
Speaker 4: public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes
Speaker 4: for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury,
Speaker 4: with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose
Speaker 4: fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Speaker 2: Then he goes into a bit of history.
Speaker 4: These nations have progressed through the sequence from bondage to
Speaker 4: spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage
Speaker 4: to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness,
Speaker 4: from selfishness to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence
Speaker 4: back into bondage.
Speaker 2: So where are we right now? Somewhere between apathy and dependence. Uh, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would say so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've certainly progressed past selfishness to apathy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apathy to dependence. I think you nailed it. Yep.
Speaker 3: Baby boomers were the selfish and we moved into the apathy.
Speaker 3: Now we're headed into the dependence. Yep.
Speaker 2: There you go. That sounds it's pretty accurate. I think
Speaker 2: that's absolutely right.
Speaker 3: And I was thinking about this last night when I
Speaker 3: went to bed for some reason, about how there's a
Speaker 3: shelf life to these things, and there just is, always
Speaker 3: has been, probably always will be. And it's depressing, really
Speaker 3: freaking depressing, unless you consider the following. This is your
Speaker 3: cheery you up note. During every one of those stages,
Speaker 3: smart people, energetic people.
Speaker 2: Well I'm not very energetic, so let's just go as smart.
Speaker 4: Smart and semi energetic people have found ways to craft happy,
Speaker 4: productive lives. It just gets a little tougher. In the
Speaker 4: words of the old bluesman, what is you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I understand if you're going to focus on you and yours,
Speaker 3: but kind of like the whole thing to last for
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 4: I kind of wanted a pony for Christmas, all right,
Speaker 4: Wake up, grow up nail bag. Jeez drops a nope
Speaker 4: mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com when convenient.
Speaker 4: I I had a screed yesterday. I unleashed a screed
Speaker 4: about how the Internet fertilizes stupidity. I never would have
Speaker 4: thought of it again as long as I lived, except
Speaker 4: several emailers have brought it up.
Speaker 2: That is pretty good. I forgot it a horridy myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Rich says Joe's book about in the Internet fertilizing stupidity.
Speaker 4: He says, true, but it's not fertilizing women, hence the
Speaker 4: low birth rates. That could be an angle on my book. Rich,
Speaker 4: I'll give you full credit, thanks, Bud.
Speaker 3: The Internet fertilizes stupidity might be your best quote ever.
Speaker 2: And I forgot I said it anyway.
Speaker 4: Mark and Stanton writes gents regarding the MSNBC reporter and
Speaker 4: the other media chuckleheads describing our Marjorie Taylor Green as
Speaker 4: the most conservative Republican in the House whatever, which is
Speaker 4: an absurd description. I think a better description was inadvertently
Speaker 4: coined earlier in the show by Joe. You might say,
Speaker 4: Marjorie Taylor Green is a grand standing moron quote fertilizing
Speaker 4: stupidity in her caucus. Judging by the Republican Caucus actions lately,
Speaker 4: this is producing a bumper crop of dysfunction and asininity.
Speaker 4: The sun is a mighty powerful eat Mark and Stanton well,
Speaker 4: and one of the reasons I love that is a
Speaker 4: sign off, by the way Mark.
Speaker 3: One of the reasons I hate the so much is
Speaker 3: portraying a variety of things as conservative, is that it
Speaker 3: comes from the liberal media. They want conservative to have
Speaker 3: a stench to it. But there's nothing conservative about Marjorie
Speaker 3: Taylor Green or Matt Gates. That that's not They're not
Speaker 3: extra conservative as they're portrayed in the media.
Speaker 2: That's not what they are.
Speaker 4: I would have to work for a while to come
Speaker 4: up with a term for exactly what they are.
Speaker 2: More like, trumpy is not bad. Well, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think you would turn to political science for
Speaker 3: a label for them, though, correct. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 3: you would turn to Marshall McCloughan. Is that the name
Speaker 3: of the guy who coined the media as the message,
Speaker 3: and just the modern postmodern world whipping up interest and
Speaker 3: fervor and clicks and that sort of thing. We're out
Speaker 3: of time already. I've got a lot of great stuff here, Michael,
Speaker 3: got to believe a lot more of a.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of the recent electoral results in which the Democratic
Speaker 4: Party took a hell of a drubbing, in particular the
Speaker 4: more progressive side of it and anybody who was advocating
Speaker 4: the wildest of the woke policies took it on the chin.
Speaker 2: Thank god.
Speaker 4: It seems like an odd moment for perhaps the most
Speaker 4: progressive of America's governors to decide this is my moment,
Speaker 4: But Gavin Newsom of California did just that with a
Speaker 4: maneuver or two, which we will discuss with our guest,
Speaker 4: Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the California Globe,
Speaker 4: who has been covering the California State Capitol for Ages
Speaker 4: and Ages.
Speaker 2: Katie. Welcome, How are you.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Joe, Good morning Jack.
Speaker 2: I'm well.
Speaker 10: I'm especially well after the election.
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd imagine.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 4: I love the headline your recent piece, Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 4: attempting to play on a stage well above his pay grade.
Speaker 2: Would you agree?
Speaker 4: It seems like an odd moment for the woke Gavin
Speaker 4: to decide this is my time.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he needs to learn to read the room, because
Speaker 10: he's about as popular as Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: I understand the wanting to be the first in as
Speaker 3: the leader of the resistance for the you know, the
Speaker 3: nomination of a Democratic candidate for twenty twenty eight. He
Speaker 3: wants to me the first name out there. But this
Speaker 3: whole fighting on a couple of areas that seem to
Speaker 3: be thoroughly beaten, at least in this most recent election.
Speaker 3: What's he thinking?
Speaker 10: You know, you ask a really good question, because I
Speaker 10: don't have an answer to that. I don't think the
Speaker 10: way he does, thankfully, because he's just a full blown narcissist.
Speaker 10: And I think part of the problem is a he
Speaker 10: has no interest in governing, and he has no clue
Speaker 10: in governing, so his natural inclination is to pivot to
Speaker 10: something that's going to get him some media headlines. And
Speaker 10: so you know, claiming to fight Trump is going to
Speaker 10: certainly provide him some headlines on our lefty media.
Speaker 4: So you've made your career covering California and California politics.
Speaker 4: For folks listening around the country, what has the trend
Speaker 4: been in California? And you can pick whatever item you want,
Speaker 4: but I'm struck by the illustration and your piece in
Speaker 4: the California Globe of the presidential results by county from
Speaker 4: twenty twenty to twenty twenty four for instance.
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, isn't that There's nothing like a good visual.
Speaker 10: So it looks like in this election, Republicans slipped at
Speaker 10: least eight states that we know of right now, and
Speaker 10: that's only with seventy two percent of the votes counted county.
Speaker 10: Some are saying it might yes, it might be as
Speaker 10: many as ten counties flipping to the Red. And so
Speaker 10: that's why that visual is so lovely. My point in
Speaker 10: this is even Californians are set up with these ridiculous, horrible,
Speaker 10: damaging policies that frankly, they're harming people in California, whether
Speaker 10: it's the increase in crime or you know, withholding water
Speaker 10: to our agriculture, or I mean you just the lousy schools.
Speaker 10: Even lefties are tired of this because lefties, well they
Speaker 10: might vote very left in California, they live like Republicans.
Speaker 10: They're tight with a buck, they want their kids to
Speaker 10: go to good schools. They do care about the roads
Speaker 10: in which their rims are getting bent on. There's all
Speaker 10: kinds of things, and of course the crime just is
Speaker 10: in everybody's face.
Speaker 3: It's funny you mentioned that my car's in the shop
Speaker 3: for a week because I cracked my wheel on a
Speaker 3: pothole because of our crappy, crappy roads so.
Speaker 2: Ripped from real life.
Speaker 3: So it is interesting to see that there is a
Speaker 3: limit to how long people will put up with the
Speaker 3: same party despite the results.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and I think what we're talking about are same people,
Speaker 10: maybe people who don't pay a lot of attention to
Speaker 10: politics day in and day out the way we do,
Speaker 10: but they know what's happening right outside their front door.
Speaker 10: And you know, in this case, it's a lot of crime,
Speaker 10: it's really lousy maintenance in their cities and counties, you
Speaker 10: know everything. Just in California. We're starting to look like
Speaker 10: a third world country in many places. And this is
Speaker 10: supposed to be, you know, the Golden State.
Speaker 4: And Gavin's contention is that, and he's utterly a con man.
Speaker 4: His contention is that we have all these challenges and
Speaker 4: we're dealing with them courageously and creatively, as if these
Speaker 4: challenges came out of nowhere. Is if they fell like
Speaker 4: rain and all of a sudden you got to you know,
Speaker 4: a million bums and junkies on the streets, as if
Speaker 4: they're not a result of the very policies that he's
Speaker 4: a spoused. But I mean, he took a hell of
Speaker 4: us spanking recently, and the voter's overwhelmingly approving Proposition thirty six,
Speaker 4: which overturned the disastrous Proposition forty seven. You'd think he'd
Speaker 4: wake up and smell the discontent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has no.
Speaker 10: Ability to do that, and I think that that shows
Speaker 10: his unbridled narcissism. All he can see is got tunnel vision,
Speaker 10: and he's focused on national politics next. That's where his
Speaker 10: career was supposed to take him. So, by golly, you know,
Speaker 10: he's going to show Josh Shapiro out of the way
Speaker 10: as fast.
Speaker 2: As he can, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he wants to jump ahead at Josh Shapiro and
Speaker 3: a number of other people out there.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: Well, does Kamala Harris have any future?
Speaker 2: Or is she just done?
Speaker 10: That's hilarious. I just published an article this morning and
Speaker 10: I titled it, are you kidding? Berkeley poll reports California
Speaker 10: voters want Kamala for governor. No, this is an absolute
Speaker 10: last guest attempt by Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times
Speaker 10: to try to see if her fledgling political career could
Speaker 10: be saved.
Speaker 4: I just that's that's that's that's be like, Yeah, hello,
Speaker 4: I gotta take me real quick.
Speaker 2: Are you skilled in the arts of karate or what
Speaker 2: that shut out of me?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine that.
Speaker 4: So, once again, for people who are listening around the
Speaker 4: country who may not be familiar, can you give us
Speaker 4: the nickel version of Gavin Newsom's energy policies and and
Speaker 4: and just and as Katie talked, perhaps folks, you can
Speaker 4: imagine this being implemented nationwide.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Actually, what Gavin Newsom is doing is imposing unbelievable regulations
Speaker 10: on our oil and gas industry. We're not fracking for
Speaker 10: natural gas in California, even though we sit on top
Speaker 10: of the world's largest gas reserves. So he's trying to
Speaker 10: restrict all this. He's forcing oil and gas companies to
Speaker 10: withhold hold back some of their oil and gas, and
Speaker 10: it's going to lead to even higher gas prices. His
Speaker 10: California Air Sources Board, that's the regulatory agency for our
Speaker 10: global warming policies, just passed amount to at least the
Speaker 10: sixty five cent additional tax on top of our highest
Speaker 10: gas prices in the entire country. So what he's doing
Speaker 10: is creating shortages of everything, including water deliveries. I mean,
Speaker 10: it's hard to make this stuff up. It's almost like
Speaker 10: the un is running Gavin Newsom and California because nobody
Speaker 10: in this state wants to live like this, and yet
Speaker 10: these morons are still.
Speaker 3: Voting for this. So is there any chance that he's
Speaker 3: not actually angling to be the nominee in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 3: that he's trying to get some other really lucrative gig,
Speaker 3: like an al Gore type lifestyle or something. I mean,
Speaker 3: is it just a money grab that I don't quite
Speaker 3: understand yet.
Speaker 10: It's it's about power and money. I wrote right before
Speaker 10: the election and article about how the only thing he
Speaker 10: really has left to focus on is his climate change chops,
Speaker 10: and so he's trying to pivot to become the next
Speaker 10: al Gore on the net.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of money in that. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of freaking money at that. And you don't have the
Speaker 3: scrutiny of politics exactly, and.
Speaker 10: You don't have to you don't have to produce anything.
Speaker 10: There's no results necessary. You will go around and blather
Speaker 10: on about climate change this and that and carbon emissions,
Speaker 10: and for some reason the media buy it, hook line
Speaker 10: and sinker.
Speaker 3: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: Katie Grimes is the editor in chief of the California Globe.
Speaker 4: Katie I picture Gavin announcing officially for president the presidency.
Speaker 4: Within a couple of years, we will organize a march
Speaker 4: of all forty million Californians from California to DC, Kansas.
Speaker 4: You're gonna need to stuck up on avocado.
Speaker 2: Toast, but we will march to DC.
Speaker 3: And declare America. Please don't do this to yourselves, Please don't.
Speaker 4: We've linked Katie's a couple of recent pieces up top
Speaker 4: at the hot links at Armstrong in giddy dot com
Speaker 4: if you want to take a read Katie, great to
Speaker 4: talk to you is always keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 10: Thanks, great to be with you guys.
Speaker 2: Always fun. Thanks. Yeah, just you know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to embarrass Katie or.
Speaker 4: Anything, but she is a fairly mainstream to left leaning
Speaker 4: journalist who just prized old school journalism telling the truth.
Speaker 4: And she has gone from you know, absolutely you know,
Speaker 4: tolerant and sympathetic toward kind of the center left to
Speaker 4: being aghast at what she's.
Speaker 2: Seeing in her home state, as so many are. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think this is my current working theory that he's
Speaker 3: not actually angling to be the twenty eight nominee, that
Speaker 3: he's trying to raise his que fan, his name and
Speaker 3: everything like that just in progressive circles and become something
Speaker 3: that makes him a lot of money for a long
Speaker 3: time al Gore style.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's calculating enough that I still say he is absolutely,
Speaker 4: fully turgid aroused for the idea of the White House.
Speaker 2: I always say that, I think you are enjoying the imagery,
Speaker 2: is what's going on.
Speaker 4: Shakespeare had sexy stuff in his place too, and he's
Speaker 4: worshiped so anyway, But you do make an interesting point.
Speaker 4: He's calculating enough that that's his main goal, but he's
Speaker 4: positioning himself in such a way that other goals are pursued.
Speaker 2: At the same time. Yeah, he's really, in a word, evil,
Speaker 2: an evil human being.
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Speaker 3: it's named the same as their cryptocurrency, they're people invested
Speaker 3: in the cryptocurrency.
Speaker 4: Well, the general friendliness toward cryptocurrency, plus the branding wise
Speaker 4: that helps. God, I got to figure out the timing
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Speaker 3: So to paint the picture for you, it's Trump and Biden,
Speaker 3: all smiles in blue suits and red ties, sitting there
Speaker 3: in front of a roaring fireplace there in the Oval Office.
Speaker 3: And Biden's good at that whole backslapping, we're pals thing
Speaker 3: he's been doing for since before most of us were born.
Speaker 3: And this is the only thing he's good. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: really his only uh. And and Trump, of course is
Speaker 3: joining the fact that he has uh defeated that side
Speaker 3: thoroughly first time they've been together since the debate that
Speaker 3: ended Biden's career. Oh my god, Trump probably never been
Speaker 3: this happy as life. Then, sitting next to this guy
Speaker 3: that he's so thoroughly trounced having, he slaps Biden on
Speaker 3: the back and says, remind Hunter to pay his taxes.
Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 2: Katie, You're gonna have to explain to us what all
Speaker 2: this is we're hearing here. So apparently there's this internet
Speaker 2: trend going on right an internet trend. You say it's
Speaker 2: an internet trend.
Speaker 11: And apparently if you exhale all the way, get all
Speaker 11: the air completely out of your lungs, and then you
Speaker 11: try to scream, you make some form.
Speaker 3: Of annoy is like that. Okay, gotcha, the exhaling scream challenge.
Speaker 3: I'll do that with my kids today for fun.
Speaker 2: Take a video, let us know it goes.
Speaker 3: I'll do it with one of my kids. My high
Speaker 3: school kid is no longer interested in anything whimsical.
Speaker 2: He is just gloom. Teenager? What the official uniform of teenager? Though?
Speaker 11: The whole reason I discuss I wanted to see if
Speaker 11: Michaelangelo could do it.
Speaker 3: Michael, do that for us on Mike. Exhale completely, then
Speaker 3: try to scream. Okay, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2: Oh you took you in healed? You didn't. You didn't
Speaker 2: exhale enough either, it completely exhaled. Okay, no, you healed again?
Speaker 5: He can't in here.
Speaker 2: He blew out. Then you took a breath. Okay, let
Speaker 2: me blow. I'm gonna just do nothing but blow completely.
Speaker 2: Don't take a breath in.
Speaker 3: You took it.
Speaker 2: You're held under never mind never I don't understand. I'm
Speaker 2: growing out that's the way excel.
Speaker 3: What you want.
Speaker 2: Do not take a breath. You are taking the fact
Speaker 2: that you're not following these instructions is I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: blow out, right, Okay, Katie, we gotta go.
Speaker 4: No, We're not gonna go through this again, Michael, Michael,
Speaker 4: you blow out, you go and then you go and
Speaker 4: then you scream.
Speaker 2: You're not supposed to. That's leave out the last try. Okay,
Speaker 2: so just blow and scream, but but don't write.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, okay, all right, everywhere, so earlier, earlier,
Speaker 12: all right, Katie for the podcast, you need to do
Speaker 12: it because I want to hear you try to do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, podcast, Okay.
Speaker 4: You know, the only thing I took away from that
Speaker 4: is how incredibly infectious laughter is listening to those numbskulls
Speaker 4: try to do the numbskullish challenge of the day.
Speaker 2: Right, But they're all laughing, so you just can't help.
Speaker 2: But you know, giggle.
Speaker 3: Here is a professor at the University of Kansas, where
Speaker 3: I spent a year in grad school. Poorly, I don't
Speaker 3: know what class he's teaching here, but somebody got out
Speaker 3: their cell phone. He's doing this in the little lecture
Speaker 3: room in front of a bunch of students.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it, but here you go. That's what
Speaker 2: frustrates me.
Speaker 13: There are going to be some males in our society
Speaker 13: that will refuse to vote for a potential female president
Speaker 13: because they don't think females are smart enough to be president.
Speaker 13: We can line all those guys up and shoot them,
Speaker 13: and they clearly don't understand the way the world works.
Speaker 2: Did I say that? It scratch that from the recording.
Speaker 13: I don't want the deans hearing that I said that.
Speaker 3: We missed the very first part of that where he's
Speaker 3: in a conversation when somebody put starts their cell phone,
Speaker 3: where he's saying, people who think that men are smarter
Speaker 3: than women, So why is he having that conversation anyway?
Speaker 3: Who thinks either way that either gender is as a
Speaker 3: whole smarter than the other.
Speaker 2: That's just a dumb premise to start with.
Speaker 3: And then he goes into there are people that won't
Speaker 3: vote for Kamala Errs because they don't believe women are
Speaker 3: smart enough.
Speaker 2: People who thinks that how many people do you know?
Speaker 2: Thinks that what are you talking about? Katie?
Speaker 4: Feel free to weigh in, but as a guy who
Speaker 4: loves and cherishes women in every part of life. The
Speaker 4: male who has to promier trait himself talking about women
Speaker 4: are so much smarter.
Speaker 2: Bet are so dumb. Women are smarter.
Speaker 3: You are pathetic. You should turn in your genitals, sir,
Speaker 3: And I use that term loosely.
Speaker 2: That's pathetic.
Speaker 11: Two points One. I hate nothing more than a male feminist.
Speaker 11: That's awful. Second, this guy's name is Philip Locock.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, it's not. It is no, yes it is.
Speaker 2: How did that escape?
Speaker 11: And he's a lecturer in the Department of Health, Sport
Speaker 11: and Exercise Science.
Speaker 4: You know, good year Alish just could probably help you
Speaker 4: with your problem there, mistress.
Speaker 3: Support garden. I mean, how low is it support garment
Speaker 3: that gets that thing up where you need it to be.
Speaker 3: You gotta change your name. You know you don't want
Speaker 3: to down around your knees. You want to up here
Speaker 3: waste level. I mean, maybe many generations of Locock settled
Speaker 3: the West and made Kansas the fabulous states that it
Speaker 3: is today.
Speaker 2: You gotta change your name. I'm sorry.
Speaker 14: Maybe I'm all due respect to great grandfather Locock in
Speaker 14: the work he did in Prohibition, and Grandpa Locock and
Speaker 14: it's how he, you know, opened the first bank of
Speaker 14: Solona or whatever.
Speaker 2: You gotta change your name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, maybe I should have more sympathy, but
Speaker 3: he grew up with that name, probably many endless jokes
Speaker 3: like we're doing now, and it drove him to being
Speaker 3: a male feminist where he has to overreact the other
Speaker 3: direction or something.
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