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- 0:13Speaker 2: Wednesday morning Humpday, March eleventh. Quick reminder that on Friday
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- 0:40Speaker 2: was insane. It was probably by far, actually the most
- 0:44Speaker 2: embarrassing segment I've ever experienced. Thank you, Neil, and so
- 0:49Speaker 2: we move on with that. Now, a quick word about
- 0:53Speaker 2: what's happening with the voting bill that the President Trump
- 1:00Speaker 2: is pushing like crazy. He said that he will not
- 1:06Speaker 2: sign any legislation into law, none until Congress passes a
- 1:11Speaker 2: strict proof of citizenship voting bill. Also, we have to
- 1:16Speaker 2: end America's americans ability to vote by mail. Voting my
- 1:21Speaker 2: mail is in inherently in by by definition, according to
- 1:25Speaker 2: the President, fraudulent and you know, I mean reality, there
- 1:30Speaker 2: isn't much fraud that has been proven as a lot
- 1:33Speaker 2: of allegations of fraud, and I wonder how much it
- 1:37Speaker 2: has to do with voting by mail and proving that
- 1:40Speaker 2: you're a citizen. Is leans more towards Democrats. So he
- 1:46Speaker 2: told House Republicans during their annual retreat where at his
- 1:51Speaker 2: golf club in Florida. I think the government pace for that,
- 1:54Speaker 2: by the way, for that retreat, don't know or the party.
- 1:59Speaker 2: And he he said to the Republicans that we will
- 2:03Speaker 2: and we, the Republican Party, will not win the elections
- 2:07Speaker 2: the midterms unless voting laws are toughened up to prevent fraud.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Even though mail ballots, which he wants to ban or
- 2:17Speaker 2: popular in many states, federal law already requires voters and
- 2:22Speaker 2: national elections b US citizens not necessarily show proof of
- 2:26Speaker 2: US citizenship. And there is virtually no evidence that non
- 2:30Speaker 2: citizens try to vote. I mean, that's strictly allegations on
- 2:35Speaker 2: that one. And this all has to do with the
- 2:38Speaker 2: Save America Act, with those provisions and a few more,
- 2:44Speaker 2: and the President really wants to bolster this, and that's
- 2:49Speaker 2: quite a threat. I sign nothing. I don't care what
- 2:54Speaker 2: it is. I don't care what bill you approve. I'm
- 2:57Speaker 2: not signing until you pay. This bill. The House, of course,
- 3:02Speaker 2: has already approved it, and he pressed the Senate to
- 3:06Speaker 2: go past his filibuster rules to send it to his desk.
- 3:09Speaker 2: He wants it now. And voting experts, and we've been
- 3:13Speaker 2: talking about this for a long time now, ever since
- 3:16Speaker 2: the President became president. Voting experts have said that this bill,
- 3:21Speaker 2: Save America Act could disenfranchise twenty million American voters who
- 3:26Speaker 2: don't have birth certificates on their hands or other documents
- 3:29Speaker 2: readily available, and if male balloting is banned, that number
- 3:36Speaker 2: is likely to swell. And I'm thinking, when did I
- 3:42Speaker 2: have to prove citizenship? It took me a long time
- 3:44Speaker 2: because I'd lost my birth certificate and I'd lost my
- 3:49Speaker 2: passport and I had to I don't remember where I
- 3:51Speaker 2: had to punch up my birth certificate or my naturalization papers.
- 3:54Speaker 2: That was it making me a US citizen, And it
- 3:58Speaker 2: took a while to hunt it down. And if I
- 4:01Speaker 2: am homeless, if I am poor, if I don't have
- 4:03Speaker 2: the wherewithal, it's not going to be easy. And so
- 4:08Speaker 2: the point of those detractors of President Trump's position are saying,
- 4:13Speaker 2: you know what, You're disenfranchising too many Americans who are
- 4:17Speaker 2: citizens who should be allowed to vote, they just don't
- 4:21Speaker 2: have the ability to do so. They're hard to get
- 4:27Speaker 2: access to polls, so it's much more convenient for them
- 4:30Speaker 2: to vote by mail. They don't have to hustle themselves
- 4:32Speaker 2: over to some polling place. There's a bunch of reasons
- 4:36Speaker 2: why people cannot vote or can or should vote by mail.
- 4:40Speaker 2: At least that's the argument this one. It gets really interesting.
- 4:44Speaker 2: First of all, the President says that the midterms will
- 4:50Speaker 2: not be one a matter of fact, will be loss
- 4:53Speaker 2: unless voting laws are toughened up to prevent fraud. It's
- 4:56Speaker 2: a very simple premise that the President is saying. If
- 5:01Speaker 2: the Democrats win, it is fraud. There is no way
- 5:05Speaker 2: the Democrats can win in a free election. If Republicans win,
- 5:10Speaker 2: it's either a free election or they overcame the fraud
- 5:15Speaker 2: that the Democrats have perpetuated. Okay, so the problem is
- 5:23Speaker 2: is that according to his demands, the voting experts are
- 5:27Speaker 2: saying twenty million Americans are going to be disenfranchised because
- 5:30Speaker 2: they don't have birth certificates. I don't know any of
- 5:32Speaker 2: you guys have birth certificates available to you on you
- 5:35Speaker 2: at home. You do. Well, good for you. I don't.
- 5:39Speaker 1: You don't have your birth certificate?
- 5:40Speaker 2: I don't. It's somewhere. I have my naturalization papers. Yeah,
- 5:46Speaker 2: what do I need my birth certificate for a license
- 5:49Speaker 2: to pro I could show my naturalization papers. I could
- 5:51Speaker 2: show my passport and that works, so not very many. Well,
- 5:57Speaker 2: let me ask, Andy, is your birth certificates sitting around
- 6:00Speaker 2: at home someplace? Yep? Okay, that's starting to really blow
- 6:05Speaker 2: my premise. Here, Will is your birth certificate around? It's somewhere.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I thank you, thank you. You can stop right there. I
- 6:13Speaker 2: feel better. All right, all right, and kno, is your
- 6:16Speaker 2: birth certificate around? You know it? Okay, you know what.
- 6:21Speaker 2: I'm going to stop that argument. Okay, let's let's go
- 6:24Speaker 2: into another direction in that argument. But anyway, what the
- 6:27Speaker 2: president wants to do is say, you've got to prove
- 6:29Speaker 2: your citizenship at the polling place. And by the way,
- 6:34Speaker 2: you have to go to the polling place, no ballot
- 6:39Speaker 2: by mail. Certainly all kinds of other restrictions, including of
- 6:46Speaker 2: course showing your citizenship. And then there's some other issues
- 6:50Speaker 2: as far as the times you can vote to really
- 6:53Speaker 2: minimize when the vote is going to be counted, when
- 6:56Speaker 2: a postmark is in. In any case, the voting rights
- 6:59Speaker 2: group have sounded big, big problems with this, and so
- 7:05Speaker 2: Trump wants Congress, as the GOP led Congress, to build
- 7:10Speaker 2: on his safeguarding American voting eligibility or Save America Act
- 7:14Speaker 2: make it even stronger with a new cut package he
- 7:18Speaker 2: calls the best of Trump. And so what does this
- 7:24Speaker 2: really mean? Well, bottom line is, I think the President
- 7:28Speaker 2: is right unless he makes it very difficult for Democratic
- 7:33Speaker 2: voters to vote because frankly, more poor people are or
- 7:37Speaker 2: more Democrats are poor people, or the other way around.
- 7:40Speaker 2: Because people have money generally vote Republicans because Republicans like
- 7:44Speaker 2: to hang on to their money because they have money,
- 7:46Speaker 2: and Democrats a lot of most port most poor people
- 7:50Speaker 2: tend to be Democratic because of the social programs. It's
- 7:53Speaker 2: not very complicated. And so I think the President is right.
- 7:58Speaker 2: If you don't pass this bill making it much more
- 8:01Speaker 2: difficult for those leaning Democrats to vote, you're gonna lose
- 8:05Speaker 2: the midterms. And also he's obsessed with a voting and
- 8:12Speaker 2: what he calls ramp and fraud, even though there virtually
- 8:15Speaker 2: no proof that it happened. For example, going into Fulton
- 8:19Speaker 2: County Georgia and grabbing a search warrant, grabbing all of
- 8:23Speaker 2: the election records in the county. Even though Fulton County
- 8:28Speaker 2: and Georgia specifically had two recounts and then a hand
- 8:34Speaker 2: recount that wasn't enough, fraud is still there. And then
- 8:39Speaker 2: it just happened in Arizona. Again, if you noticed the
- 8:41Speaker 2: two states that were involved, in the states in which
- 8:43Speaker 2: President Trump lost. Is there any county at all in
- 8:47Speaker 2: this country or state in which he won that he
- 8:50Speaker 2: is arguing fraud or is it just the ones that
- 8:53Speaker 2: the Democrats won In the House of course, Mike Johnson says,
- 9:00Speaker 2: of course, will do whatever you want us to do.
- 9:04Speaker 2: And here's something that I have said, and I think
- 9:07Speaker 2: Mike Johnson is so far up Donald Trump's rear end
- 9:12Speaker 2: that if Donald Trump were to talk to him or
- 9:15Speaker 2: call him and say, I believe that Congress at this
- 9:18Speaker 2: point should dissolve itself for a period of time allowing
- 9:23Speaker 2: me to do what I want to do, Mike Johnson
- 9:26Speaker 2: would vote yes to that. True. I believe that I
- 9:31Speaker 2: believe that the president asking for all of the power
- 9:34Speaker 2: in this country, not that he's not gribbing it anyway.
- 9:37Speaker 2: With the court helping him the Supreme Court, but Mike
- 9:39Speaker 2: Johnson would vote yes. He said said it over and
- 9:42Speaker 2: over again when he became speaker, and when Donald Trump
- 9:45Speaker 2: was elected, he said it outright. My job as Speaker
- 9:49Speaker 2: is to further the president's agenda. And when asked, well,
- 9:53Speaker 2: how about your job a speaker at the House of Representatives,
- 9:57Speaker 2: do you think whatever happened to checks and balances? My
- 10:00Speaker 2: job is to further the president's agenda. That is what
- 10:04Speaker 2: I'm here for. To make sure the president gets what
- 10:08Speaker 2: he wants. That's what the GOP is. It's all happening,
- 10:13Speaker 2: and so it's fascinating stuff as what's going to happen.
- 10:17Speaker 2: And I do agree with the President that unless they
- 10:20Speaker 2: make it very difficult for Democrats to vote, or certain
- 10:25Speaker 2: certain aspects or certain members of the Democratic Party read
- 10:28Speaker 2: poor people read people who don't have transportation go to
- 10:31Speaker 2: the polls, or don't have access to their birth certificates, etc. Also,
- 10:36Speaker 2: he is asking for a federalization. He wants us to
- 10:38Speaker 2: be a federal act. Here's the problem, the state's control.
- 10:42Speaker 2: It's silly. There are states, or about nine of them,
- 10:45Speaker 2: that do require proof of citizenship. There are and various
- 10:50Speaker 2: kinds of proof of citizenship. And why is that? Because
- 10:54Speaker 2: the state's control. That's why you got Alabama, you got Tennessee.
- 10:57Speaker 2: They want proof of citizenship when registering and certainly photo
- 11:02Speaker 2: ID when voting. I mean, why them they doing We
- 11:06Speaker 2: don't because it's a state issue. Read the Constitution, Article
- 11:11Speaker 2: one of the Constitution. The states have the right and
- 11:16Speaker 2: have the duty to run elections, not the federal government,
- 11:22Speaker 2: of which, of course is now you know, Fed should
- 11:26Speaker 2: control everything. Interesting that Republicans hated the federal federal control.
- 11:33Speaker 2: Argued like crazy, the Tenth Amendment states state states rights,
- 11:37Speaker 2: states right, states rights. When the Democrats were in power,
- 11:40Speaker 2: and we're pushing federal programs like crazy, I mean they were,
- 11:45Speaker 2: It's true. I mean, you know the argument against the Democrats,
- 11:48Speaker 2: and Democrats want to keep pushing federal programs, and the
- 11:52Speaker 2: Republicans said, stop it. Already the states control this stuff.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Now the Republicans are in power, we want we want
- 11:59Speaker 2: the federal government to control. We don't want the states,
- 12:02Speaker 2: We want the Feds to make the determination. Oh don't
- 12:04Speaker 2: you love politics? All right? Before I come up with
- 12:07Speaker 2: that where I get to a really interesting, fascinating story
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- 13:06Speaker 2: Now to the story, and this is simply fascinating. March
- 13:12Speaker 2: eighth was the International Women's Day. I don't know if
- 13:16Speaker 2: you knew that, but it was pointed out to me
- 13:18Speaker 2: a few times by Lindsay. And just prior to that,
- 13:22Speaker 2: a study came out out of Paris and it's called
- 13:25Speaker 2: the International Women's Day Study. It was published by a
- 13:29Speaker 2: multinational Paris market research firm and IPSOS surveying twenty three
- 13:36Speaker 2: thousand adults and bottom line, and there were a bunch
- 13:40Speaker 2: of questions asked, I think twelve thirteen questions asked, but
- 13:43Speaker 2: the bottom line, thirty one percent of gen Z men
- 13:47Speaker 2: agree with the statement a wife should always obey her husband.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Oh okay, why not? And who are jen Z? Gen
- 14:01Speaker 2: Z were born between what nineteen ninety five and twenty twelve.
- 14:05Speaker 2: I've always wondered why that they gets this weird numbers.
- 14:07Speaker 2: It's not between two thousand and two and twenty twenty.
- 14:10Speaker 2: I just don't get it. But anyway, so gen Z
- 14:13Speaker 2: men thirty one percent a wife should always obey her husband,
- 14:18Speaker 2: and that is more than twice of baby boomer men's
- 14:23Speaker 2: who responded the same way only thirteen percent. So half
- 14:29Speaker 2: of baby boomers believe that. And across the board, the
- 14:34Speaker 2: gen Z participants responded consistently with the more traditional views
- 14:38Speaker 2: about gender roles. You would think it'd be the other
- 14:41Speaker 2: way around, but no, gen Zers are going back to
- 14:47Speaker 2: traditional views much more so than boomers. I'm a boomer
- 14:51Speaker 2: and I understand this. You know. Well, let me tell
- 14:55Speaker 2: you what my vows were like today, very few people
- 14:59Speaker 2: will do and you will obey your husband, love and
- 15:02Speaker 2: obey your husband. That line was actually in my wedding vows,
- 15:07Speaker 2: but it was me vowing to obey Lindsey. That's the
- 15:13Speaker 2: problem that we had. And by the way, to this day,
- 15:17Speaker 2: I have kept my vows. I don't know if you knew. That.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Very impressive. What about the till death do We Part? One?
- 15:26Speaker 2: That was in there too, Till Death do We Part?
- 15:29Speaker 1: Now?
- 15:30Speaker 2: Was it all three actually simultaneously? I might add, yes.
- 15:36Speaker 2: And this is fascinating stuff because there are so many
- 15:40Speaker 2: who believe that. Also, gen Z men reported the highest
- 15:45Speaker 2: response for traditional physical, mental, emotional expectations. Men should be men,
- 15:51Speaker 2: Men should not be emotive. Men should try to be
- 15:56Speaker 2: physically tough. Men should figure out problems on their own
- 16:00Speaker 2: before asking for help. This is across twenty nine countries.
- 16:05Speaker 2: I mean, this is kind of universal. Interesting stuff. By
- 16:09Speaker 2: the way, in terms of these twenty nine countries, the
- 16:12Speaker 2: United States was in the middle of the pack in
- 16:16Speaker 2: terms of responding that way. And well, you know, it's
- 16:22Speaker 2: a question of viewing traditional what traditional jobs women have, Amy,
- 16:28Speaker 2: I shared this with you, and you remember clearly the
- 16:31Speaker 2: first time I got in an airplane and there were
- 16:35Speaker 2: the pilot and the first officer were women. You talked
- 16:39Speaker 2: about it, Yeah, And I turned the businessman. I mean
- 16:42Speaker 2: I said, we're going to crash. Yeah, I mean women
- 16:45Speaker 2: flying an airplane. For God, say, come on, how often
- 16:49Speaker 2: have I told you nineteen twenty the worst year in
- 16:52Speaker 2: the history of the United States. Women were given the
- 16:54Speaker 2: right to vote, and then it went to hell in
- 16:56Speaker 2: a handbasket. After that, it fell apart. This country fell apart.
- 17:02Speaker 1: I think Tim Comway Junior tells the story. I want
- 17:05Speaker 1: to say that it was a Harvey Korman that got
- 17:08Speaker 1: on a plane and he was on the plane and
- 17:12Speaker 1: a voice came over the speaker and it was a
- 17:14Speaker 1: woman saying, hello, I'm your captain. Now, I'll be your
- 17:17Speaker 1: captain today. B and he and he looked around and
- 17:21Speaker 1: heard that it was a woman's voice, said nope, and
- 17:23Speaker 1: got off the plane.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm out. So that's so funny. Well, yeah,
- 17:28Speaker 2: you know, it's people have I was once many many
- 17:31Speaker 2: years ago on a japan Air Airline flight. It was
- 17:35Speaker 2: a seven forty seven, and there was a pilot walking,
- 17:40Speaker 2: you know, onto the airplane with a phone book under
- 17:42Speaker 2: his arm because they were so short. Okay, we're done
- 17:49Speaker 2: with that. Okay, fair enough, Okay, that was a little tangent.
- 17:57Speaker 2: Now let's talk about what's going on in the mid East,
- 17:59Speaker 2: the war. They're in the United States and Israel for
- 18:03Speaker 2: the most part. There are a few things that should
- 18:05Speaker 2: be just out of bounds. One of them, you can argue,
- 18:09Speaker 2: is the oil facilities, right the storage and the refinery
- 18:14Speaker 2: aspects of the refiner refinery places that are in all
- 18:20Speaker 2: over the Mid East, and they are being attacked. Now,
- 18:22Speaker 2: that's one that's a big problem because that infrastructure really
- 18:25Speaker 2: needs to survive. The other one that's even a little
- 18:28Speaker 2: bit more at life threatening are the desalinization plants that
- 18:32Speaker 2: are around the Mideast, and that is more important than
- 18:36Speaker 2: oil or gas because without water, where do they go.
- 18:41Speaker 2: And this these Mideast countries, UH, the ones that border
- 18:45Speaker 2: the Persian Gulf UH and the Arabian Sea don't have water.
- 18:50Speaker 2: This is desert, this is the Sahara, this is the
- 18:54Speaker 2: middle of no place. It's sand. So what do they do. Well,
- 18:58Speaker 2: they have desalination plants, salinization plants, and they have all
- 19:03Speaker 2: the water they need. Why because well, one thing is
- 19:07Speaker 2: that they're very, very expensive. It's probably the most expensive
- 19:10Speaker 2: way to get water from seawater. But they have all
- 19:13Speaker 2: the money in the world to do it because they
- 19:15Speaker 2: have the oil. Look before oil was discovered in that
- 19:19Speaker 2: part of the world, like in nineteen twenties, nineteen thirty,
- 19:21Speaker 2: So it was a bunch of camels, that was it.
- 19:24Speaker 2: A bunch of people sitting on camels with two humps
- 19:29Speaker 2: or three humps, or humping each other or whatever the
- 19:31Speaker 2: hell camels do, and that was it. They're tribes running around.
- 19:36Speaker 2: The biggest tribe was a guy by the name of Saoud,
- 19:40Speaker 2: which became Saudi Arabia. It's named after a guy who
- 19:44Speaker 2: put together It's true, a bunch of these tribes. One
- 19:47Speaker 2: of the few places in the world's named after someone.
- 19:50Speaker 2: The other one was Rhodesia after cecil Rose, which is
- 19:53Speaker 2: now Zimbabwe. A little factory. I want to throw at you.
- 19:57Speaker 2: In any case, if you go to these entries, man,
- 20:01Speaker 2: you're going to see golf courses, water parks, indoor ski slopes.
- 20:08Speaker 2: I know the amount of water it takes to manufacture
- 20:12Speaker 2: snow in the middle of all that, and that's because
- 20:16Speaker 2: they have these huge decilization plants and they have tons
- 20:19Speaker 2: of water, and when those go out, those go out.
- 20:23Speaker 2: So this has become a target of the Iranians hitting
- 20:28Speaker 2: the Gulf States. And if this thing continues, you're going
- 20:31Speaker 2: to see the infrastructure, the oil refineries, pipelines, storage facilities
- 20:36Speaker 2: being bombed to hell. And they can live for a
- 20:39Speaker 2: period of time without money coming in. They cannot live
- 20:43Speaker 2: without water coming in, not for any length of time.
- 20:46Speaker 2: And so it's that's the big risk. There isn't much
- 20:53Speaker 2: natural water out there. They don't have any springs, they
- 20:55Speaker 2: don't have any reservoirs. I mean there are countries at
- 20:58Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia that have virtually nothing. There's an occasional oasis
- 21:01Speaker 2: out there, but that's it. So it was their ability
- 21:05Speaker 2: these massive, beautiful buildings and financial centers, all built with
- 21:12Speaker 2: huge money, and the water that they get from the ocean.
- 21:19Speaker 2: All right, I think we have a big desalentization plant
- 21:22Speaker 2: down in Carlsbad, don't we. I think that's a huge
- 21:25Speaker 2: one in the silly one in California. I believe that
- 21:28Speaker 2: we have okay coming up survey teachers. They survey teachers
- 21:37Speaker 2: and what did the teacher say? Well, I'll share that
- 21:40Speaker 2: one with you. This is KFI AM six forty you've
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