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his website is danielgreenfield.org and he also wrote domestic enemies the founding fathers fight against the left and domestic enemies we got that for sure here daniel welcome back to the show good morning sir uh good morning it's my pleasure to be back with domestic friends rather than domestic enemies uh yes indeed how has it been uh going for the uh for the group at the freedom center i know david horowitz how long has he been gone now because i last time it was about a couple of years at least i would think, isn't it? Well, we're coming up on the first anniversary of his passing. We're trying to bring forward a lot of his writings, a lot of his speeches, just to remember

him and remember the incredible impact that he made. Indeed. Now, I wanted to talk about one of the articles that you have put out recently on front page Mag, and this has to do with Eric Swalwell. Now, Eric Swalwell, I think, was an open, well, not an open, very well-kept secret. a pretty detestable individual and did not treat women well. Well, didn't trait men well, really, for that matter, when it comes right down to it. But there's a chance that just when you think California could get better,

it may actually get worse with Swalwell quitting the race the other day. Why don't you tell us more about what's going on here? Well, right now, the California race looks like it's concentrating around Tom Steyer, who hates billionaires and is a billionaire, and his only reason for running is that he is a billionaire because he can put $133 million into the campaign. This is the guy who made his money in oil and gas and promises to eliminate oil and gas.

And he's being endorsed by the Bernie Sanders people who claim that they really hate billionaires until they found one that they really liked. He has no energy, no charisma, no apparent agenda, and he's the frontrunner. The alternative is Katie Porter, a woman who committed domestic violence against her husband and terrorized her staffers.

And it's a tad unpleasant, shall we say. All right. Now, is this the race for governor or the race for the Congress for Congress right now we're talking about? The race for governor, the race for Congress is really kind of a mess right now because there's a special election, a regular election. But the Democrats have endorsed Asia Wahab, an Afghan woman, who, you know, try to keep soliciting underage girls legal, which. It's a bit of a problem. Yeah, I would think so, but, you know, Daniel, we're always supposed to say, but that's their culture. That's their culture.

All cultures are worthy of respect. And don't you agree with that? Oh, yeah, every culture is worthy of respect. And Swallow, the white guys now, the candidates to replace Swallow are going to be some version of non-white guys because we can't have white guys, obviously. White people are bad. every other culture is good. So they've got a whole range of various cultures, but the leading candidate is an Afghan woman whose culture requires abusing underage girls.

So this time we'll have a version of Eric Swalwell, but who is more woke, more politically correct, and who can't be criticized because she's an Afghan woman. But we'll also then treat women badly like Eric Swalwell did, who was out for treating women badly, apparently. We're going to have diverse ways of mistreating women, like the councilwoman in Utah, who's a lesbian and who is accused of assaulting for women, but it's okay because she's a Latino woman. Yeah. Well, I found that story quite interesting, too, in Utah.

Just the fact that we're even talking about a lesbian woman in Utah running for office and actually gaining traction in the Democrat. Well, it's the Democratic Party, right? It's just all there is to it. Yeah. All right. why don't we kind of take this conversation about, as you have described, Utah, California, and of course Oregon is going down much the same kind of path, unfortunately.

Why don't you give us your take with that through the lens of your book, Domestic Enemies, the Founding Fathers Fight Against the Left, because this is a long time coming. Domestic Enemies do is a look at the origins of the left and the American history right at the beginning of the battle for the Constitution. the attempt to topple George Washington. And really the takeaway here is the American left was inspired by the French Revolution, which ended up cutting off people's heads and murdering hundreds of thousands of people.

The really takeaway here is that the left has no stopping point. It has no breaks. And that's something we see. We see it in Chicago. We see it in New York City. We see it across California. We see it in Oregon and Washington. They have no stopping point.

People think, you know, they're going to get this. They're going to get that. They're going to stop. They're not going to stop. You know, they legalize marijuana, and then they have to go on and legalize heroin and cocaine. They legalize some illegal aliens. They just have to throw the border open and announce that everybody can come in. And people think there's a way to compromise with them.

There just isn't, unfortunately. Daniel Grainfield, once again, how would you evaluate the Trump administration so far when it comes to this? It looks like when it comes to illegal immigration, there's being a recalibration going on right now. I don't know if it's just a backing away to kind of get more. more emphatic about it later on. But it feels like things are all changed to being sucked into the battle with Iran, or is it something else? How would you evaluate this from the Freedom Center's point of view? Well, there's two parts to it. The part that we saw on the Biden, the mass crossings of the border, that the Trump administration has pretty successfully stopped. They stopped

apart with enforcement, but the bigger thing they did is they sent the message that we're crazy. You come here. We're going to do horrible things to you. It's very much exaggerated. But a lot of the reasons why you had this mass flood of illegal aliens under Biden was the legal aliens were themselves on TikTok, on social media, telling each other, come on in. It's easy now. Biden is letting everybody in. Trump sent the opposite message. The question, though, is the huge number of people we have in the United States, some of whom absolutely need to go. And the Trump administration's strategy made a certain kind of sense originally, it was, we're going to take the worst of the worst. We're going to carry out targeted raids going after criminals. What they didn't count on was how

desperate how ruthless the left was going to be in taking them on and creating these incidents that we've seen in Minneapolis and elsewhere. So the entire strategy of just eliminating this limited number of criminal legal aliens is really not working because the left sabotaged it, the fight it at every step. And the Trump administration at this point, I'm not sure what their backup plan is, but I think the bottom line is you have to pivot away from this idea that you can just do limited number of illegal aliens for criminals in order to the political fight because they're not winning the political fight. So you either have to do serious mass deportations or, you know, it's going nowhere. So it's going to have to be,

well, I'm kind of thinking that at this point, it's probably going to look bad no matter what you do, no matter how you do it. But isn't this a hill worth some political capital to die on at this point? It is. What I'm saying is that they try to do in a way that would win the political argument. We're going to go after the worst of the worst. We're going to go after criminals. They did it. They deported fairly few people, and they still didn't win the political fight. They lost it.

So you might as well actually do the mass deportations because you're going to get stung over it anyway. Yeah, if you're going to get stung with it, at least make it happen. Now, I guess some would then take that same kind of argument. It may not be a great political winner right now. But what about the conflict in Iran? How do you see it? Polling is mixed, you know, on this at this point. And the polling is mixed, but it's also meaningless because it hasn't actually ended.

The Trump's strategy has been, we've seen this in Venezuela, is to go in, hit the regime hard, get them to negotiate. It's worked to a degree in Venezuela. He wants to do Cuba after this. Obviously, the polling is mixed right now because people don't assessor we want more foreign entanglements. They don't want more conflicts abroad. But the Trump administration's ultimate goal, I think, right now. we're seeing high oil prices. Their goal is to renegotiate and actually poor, slower oil prices. I think that was part of the strategy, and we haven't seen it play out yet.

Obviously, there was the question of Iran developing nuclear weapons. They were pretty close to a nuclear breakout, and something had to be done about that. I guess where I was going with this, Daniel, is do you think that President Trump obviously rolled the dice hard on this one? do you think that he was advised well on how Iran would react to it? I'm not supporting the Iran regime whatsoever, but I don't think that this is the standard communist kind of or socialist government type of situation where you can just cut a corrupt deal and that they were going to say, okay, we'll go away, you know, that sort of thing, like what she had with Maduro's people

and what could certainly happen in Cuba if this moves forward. Would you agree or disagreeing on that? Because when you're talking theocracy, these are true believers, aren't they? I think President Trump in the past has made the error of assuming that the other side wants to negotiate. He's a business guy. He's a real estate guy. Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at. It's like, this is different, isn't it?

Yeah. So North Korea, he made the mistake of assuming they would negotiate and they never really negotiated. And Venezuela, he got some concessions out of them, which is a plus, definitely. And I ran the reality is they're never actually going to make any story. serious attempts of negotiation, except as a distraction unless you, unless the regime actually itself comes down. And the timing, and that was not ideal, we were striking just as they suppressed the domestic protest.

If we'd coordinated that better, it might have gone better. But, yeah, I don't think there's going to be any meaningful negotiations with Iran that's going to lead to a better deal. All right. Then what's the purpose of the ceasefire in your view? I mean, should we be doing a ceasefire, in your opinion? I don't know. I don't see anything being achieved by it.

I think the Trump administration still believes they can negotiate to get some kind of deal with Iran, but we've seen in the past that negotiations with terrorists just simply do not work. They don't work with Iran. The moment you start negotiating with Iran, they understand that you want something from them, and then they start hiking the price. What do you think would be a good strategy? Have you given some thought to that? I mean, is containment really?

Maybe the best way moving forward at this point? Because unless you're going to just, you know, nuke the country, which I don't think anyone's really looking to have happen. See what I getting at? I think what we did originally make sense. You take out their nuclear program. You take out as much of their weapons as possible, and you make it clear to them. That next time, if you misbehave, we can come back and do this again. You don't get into an extended conflict with them unless you have an endgame plan

where you're going to actually remove the regime. And I think that's where the Trump administration is being a little too optimistic about their ability to negotiate a deal. Okay. So talking tough, but not really. going for, is that kind of a little much to talk, talking tough and then pulling back. It seems a little bit of back and forth right now. You don't think it's going to be effective. Oh, past administrations have just done empty talk.

They would all say all options are on the table. And the Trump administration showed that options are on the table. And whatever we accomplish or don't accomplish in Iran, we've done two things on the global stage. First, America is now being taken seriously. We've had so many empty threats on their past administrations. We're not a joke anymore. And second, we've shown that Russia and China are not players on the world stage, that they can't do anything to help any of their supposed allies. And it's a warning.

You better deal with us. Don't think that dealing with Russia and China is going to protect you from us. Okay. Except that, you know, here we're at this point where you've got about 20% of the world's oil, the helium, there's feedstocks and fertilizer, all sorts of things, being kind of bottled up. If you were to make a bet on this one, do you think that he's going to find some way to extradical? extricate sooner rather than later, you know, when you only have a couple weeks of fuel left over in for jets as an example in the European Union or something. Are we kind of reaching that critical point, you think, in the stage of the negotiations?

But we're not reaching a critical point. The Europeans are, but frankly, the Europeans have been happy to hang us out to dry. If they don't have enough jet fuel in Spain, well, that is really Spain's problem. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's easy for us to sit back here and say that we have jet fuel, but it is a worldwide economic problem. You agree on that much? This is not, we can't avoid the effects of that. Fair enough? Yeah, we're getting the effects of that. I was just in California, and I saw gas prices at 640. Locally, I'm more Midwest censored. So gas prices have gone up to maybe $3.54, which is obviously hurting us to some degree. It's not hurting us as bad as it's hurting the Europeans. And it puts the United States also in a better

position to potentially export energy. The problem is the Biden administration has shut down, drilling in the United States so much that we only have so much to export. Yeah. He has a needle, quite the needle to thread, don't you think here? Because he can't help but think about the midterms and the political impact that this could possibly have here. I mean, usually a midterm election is rough for the party in power in the first place. And this one is, you know, he must be looking for an off-ramp at some point. But the best office. off ramp, what, containment at this point? How would you see it then in your view from the Freedom Center? You know, I think there's not going to be an actual off ramp. I think the United States at some point is

going to step back or at the same time sending the message to Iran that if you blockade the straight, we are going to hit you yet again. And I think that's probably the best we're going to get out of this, unless, again, the regime itself actually manages to collapse, which at this point I don't think is highly likely. Yeah, it doesn't look like that. I think they looked at what happened over in in Iraq, and they took a lesson from that, right, to have that mosaic, that multi-level command structure there. There is no head of the snake to cut off. Isn't that the case in Iran?

Really no head? There's a head. The thing is that they do have these extensive terrorist militias. They don't control most of the country. You know, we saw that when we lost our power. We had a pilot shut down. They couldn't actually get to anywhere. But they do control cities through sheer terrorism.

They can go out there into the streets and kill people. And as long as they do that, they're effectively with the government, kind of like the gangs in Chicago. Very good. Daniel Greenfield is the CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. And his latest piece out there, Swalwell, may be actually replaced by the first Afghan Muslim congresswoman. I have a note there on front page mag.com. And Daniel, I appreciate that. And thanks so much.

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from the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Doesn't think that at least I was able to intimate from him. It doesn't sound like he thinks that there's going to be a regime collapse in Iran anytime soon. Do you agree with that? Or do you think you can just kill enough? I know that there was talk coming from the Trump administration the other day, in which, well, we'll find, you know, the moderates aren't even all that moderate,

and the radicals, well, we just kill all the radicals, and we'll just keep killing people until we end up finding people who are willing to deal. That was kind of the words to the effect coming out of the administration here. How do you think it's going to play? I'm happy to turn it over to you, and anything else on your mind, too, but that just happens to be who I was talking to just a moment ago. 7705-633. David's in the Bay Area. David, it's on your mind this Friday morning, huh? Welcome to the show.

Oh, well, thanks, Bill, and Daniel. Yeah, I was wondering if your guest was familiar with Trump just perhaps this morning has said he doesn't mind if oil goes up to $200 a barrel. It's sitting at 100 now, and that's already hurting us. Yeah. And so to go to 200, so now regime change, If it was to go to 200, he would need to drag this thing on for a dang long time. And so I'm wondering if he thinks that it's an inside job just to raise the price of oil. Yeah. Well, he can't answer that question. I just, I don't know.

I'm thinking that he is looking at this. This is just my opinion here, David. And it's all just our opinion. That's all we can give right now. I don't know if any of us actually know, you know, anything. Really? You know, at this point in the game, there's the fog of war thing. You know, he's talked about regime change in Iran, even back when he was a private citizen. You know, years ago, he's been talking about this for 20, 30 years, I would think.

And I have a feeling this has just been something that has been a big part of his focus for a long time was to change that around. I know that some are saying that this may have more to do not with oil but with trade routes. Have you heard those, you know, talk about that or analysis about that? Which I think is kind of interesting. Reestablishing a trade route and squeezing China more than anything else. What do you think about that? And that oil is part of that? Oh, is your guest back on?

No, he's not. No, he's gone. He's gone. I just, it's just you and me talking at this point. Sorry. Are you familiar with what the bricks were attempting to do? The Bricks Nations? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah, they wanted to make the trade route. In fact, they wanted to make a high-speed rail that would go from Moscow to China and then down into India and then across into the Middle East. And I think they also were going to try to go Marco Polo's old trade route that was what was it called the Silk Road. Yes. We would go through Packet, then, and whatnot. And part of this is also bypassing the Petro dollar. You know, bypassing the U.S. world financial system, the swift currency exchange system.

That's also part of it. Well, right. Yeah. And the idea that, you know, Donald Trump has basically gone out of his way to ruin the U.S. dollar. And so people in the world are trying to scramble for new investments. And do they want to go to Putin money? Do they want to go to Saudi Arabia money? Do they want to go to India money?

Or Chinese money. You know, the problem is that we're still a dirty shirt. I mean, all the world currencies are dirty shirts, okay? But the United States tends to have the cleanest dirty shirt and the deepest capital markets, much more so than Chairman Z over in China or Putin or anyone else. They're much, much smaller. So I don't know how effective that is, but I do think that part of this war is about maintaining the status quo. of U.S. finance.

Would you agree with me on that? I think there's a part of that to keep that privilege of world reserve currency. Agree or disagree on that? Well, when you say the status quo, does that mean an honorable trade or a dishonorable? Well, there's nothing about international trade right now that I think is honorable in that respect. I think it's just a matter of going for interests more so than... honorable trade. Would that be fair? I mean, it's kind of what I'm thinking here. It's just kind of like what it's real politics, you know? Yeah, that's why I'm raising this issue about whether or not

Donald Trump is doing insight. You know, the BBC just day before yesterday, did a huge piece about the insider trading that's going on regarding this war. Not only the oil prices, but the the costs of goods and services are rising exponentially because of the basic mismanagement of this war. And if you remember the old book Catch 22, it was about a black market that was running the war, and they never wanted the war to stop because emergency spending gave them the right to jack up prices to sky high. Well, hopefully we're not looking at a, we never want this war to end either, David. I appreciate your call. Thanks for checking in from the Bay Area.

Let me go to another call here on Friday. Hi, who's this? Morning. Hello, on the road. Who's this? Bill, it's Dave. Can you hear me? Dave, I can hear you.

Go ahead. Well, look, in terms of regime change right now, I mean, to do it right now, you'd have to be able to arm the opposition. And you can't really do that. you know in iran right now and regime change from the air has i don't think has ever really happened has it no but i think trump's doing the exact i mean given the situation right now doing the exact right thing you thought look the last the last thing they have what he's doing right now with the blockade uh are yeah so he's trying to find the pain point he's trying to find the pain point for the population then all right i appreciate the call day thanks for that let me go to another call

here on KMED. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Phoenix. Hello, Lynn. How are you today? Very well. Love in the Sun. I tend to agree with the last caller because by blocking, blockading the Strait of Hormuz from Iran getting any of their oil out, eventually they're going to run out of room to store it. And I read it was as little as two weeks. Oh, yeah. And that's a big deal because what happens, if you end up having to shut down your oil wells, you usually end up damaging the well permanently. You have to keep it going. That was the point I was going to make. Oh, sorry. That was the exact point I was going to make. So I think this is perhaps what the administration is doing, whether the regime collapses or not. I'm also kind of inclined to say,

hey, if this doesn't work within the next couple weeks, just withdraw and bomb again if they start to rebuild their nuclear capabilities because we're getting really close to the midterms. and Americans don't understand. And if we have a worldwide depression because of this economic oil shock, that's going to be even worse than we already have it with the Republicans. And if these Democrats get in power again, I know what's going to happen to our country, but it could be like a real dictatorship, like truly. They will stop at nothing like your other guest was saying there is no end point with the left. they just keep going and pretty soon it's murder and, you know, show trials and all the rest of it, which we've already seen a forte, a preview of that.

Yeah, with cancel culture, we've already seen a preview of the coming show trials if they were to, you know, get their way. Yeah, and what they did to Trump, and then all of the attorneys who tried to, who defended him, which is your legal right, I mean, they literally tried to destroy everybody. Carter Page, he just got a settlement from the government. that they, you know, he was swept up in their conspiracy to destroy Trump, completely innocent man, so many other people. So anyway, I'm holding my breath for the next couple of weeks. Okay. Praying God gives wisdom to Trump.

If this is a success, he's like the greatest president ever, and if it's a failure, it's the worst disaster ever. Yeah, yeah, either way. It's an either or. The one thing I can say, though, is that the kind of fight that we're in right now politically, Lynn, is why I have been so irritated with any kind of the reach across the aisle, get along to get along, you know, kind of Republican approach here, you know, the very weak need kind of deal. Because this is a real fierce political battle that we're in right now, really is.

Yeah. Problem is the votes that we need that Republicans need to gain from independence, they are clueless about all of this. And I think they are not capable of really grasping the stakes. Yeah, I would agree with you there. Thank you for the call. Very thoughtful call. 770 KMED.

What is on your mind here? This is the Bill Meyer show on KMED. We'll catch up on some of the news first and more of your calls coming up. Great to see you. Come on in. Hi. Thanks for letting me stay in your guest room. Our pleasure.

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Mayor Tonya Graham is going to be insisting that everyone use this and you'll be in front of the curve. All right? We'll have some fun with that. Let me go to Steve and Sunny Valley. Steve, how you doing this morning? Welcome. What's on your mind? I am doing well.

I don't know if follow your Zet on it at all. Okay, okay. One more time I lost your cell phone. Try it again. What did you say? I don't know if you follow Peter Zay on at all? No, I don't. Hello, Steve?

And aside from his TDS, he's pretty accurate. And what he has pointed out is that all of the oil, except the Western Hemisphere Oil, is being affected by war. The Russians can't get their stuff out. out because of the Ukrainians or zone attacking, drone attacking the Black Sea. All of the Middle East oil is stuck because of the Hormuz Strait. The Canadian oil coming out of the sands is okay. That's a super thick, sludgy stuff.

And that's much like Venezuela's oil, too, is very thick and sludgy. And it all has to come to the U.S. for processing. Now, up until recently, it was against the law to export oil out of the United States. And that can be changed again if the price of fuel gets too high in America. But that doesn't really help anybody because they can export petroleum products. So the only people who make money off that are the refinery. So with the war going on, these oil fields all throughout, not just Iranian, but UAE and Saudi and everything else that comes through the Strait of Hormuz, they're running out of storage capacity and the wells will have to be shut off and that damages the wells permanently and it'll take two or three years to come back. And it won't come back to the intensity that it was.

So time is of the essence right now to wrap this up, isn't it? Well, the U.S. will be okay, but the rest of the world... No, the U.S. will not be okay. That's a falsehood because, you know, we may have supply, but at what price? It's a world commodity. So, but it's not if the U.S. cannot export. So suddenly it's not a world commodity anymore. It was against the law to export oil previously, and it only takes a signature from the pen of the president to make it against the law again.

to export oil. So we, on the Western Hemisphere, our oil supply is not threatened, but the rest of the world is. Well, our supply is not threatened. You're right about that. But there is a severe economic price to pay if we do not get this cleaned up. It's like, we're not in that great of shape. The other thing is that it cost about $60 a barrel to get oil out of the tar sands of Canada or the Powder River basin with the fracking. So when it got down to $60 a barrel, they were capping production and laying off anyway.

So this is really helping the oil fields in the Western Hemisphere. And it's the rest of the world. Well, but we see you're ignoring, though, the other effects that come from longer term, $7 or $8 a gallon diesel. You understand that, Steve, right? Oh, I understand that. Okay, good. All right, I just want to make sure we don't ignore this,

because when people talk about it, that's all right if it gets to $200 a barrel, we haven't even really experienced the effects of it yet, really. Well, not really. It won't get to $200 bucks a barrel in the United States, but black market oil getting to Europe and China is going to be extremely expensive. Yeah. You won't need tariffs anymore because their energy costs are going to be so high, their production costs are going to go up higher than they are here.

Which means our ability to import will also be reduced, right? That kind of thing. Yes, but then again, our autonomy goes way up as well. So I guess it's rising tide raises us and nobody else, which is kind of, I can't say, a craftification of the world. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm. getting at, though. I would, I would say, dare say there would be a little bit of resentment on that if that ends up being a, well, an after effect of this event. All right. Thanks for the call, Steve. Let me go to

Karen. Hello, Karen. Hello, good morning. Morning. I just wanted to call and remind everyone in Justin County of the locations we have for the signatures this weekend. Okay. So we have Exit 61 and Merlin Road, there'll be a set-up booth there, Josephine County Fairgrounds, the Farmers Market, also Reinhardt Park this Saturday, also the corner of Lincoln and Bridge, and also, of course, the Republican headquarters will be open on Saturday for collecting signatures, too. So I'm hoping that people will come out and make their voices heard. All right, very good. I appreciate the call, Karen.

Thank you for that. Thank you. And, by the way, I was talking with Colie Roberts Jackson County, Jackson County Republican Party last hour, and I did put up the list of petition locations here in Jackson County that are open today and through this weekend trying to get the no-tax callback petition signed. Okay. Hi, good morning. KMED.

Who's this? Hey, Bill, Lucretia. Hey, Lucretia. What's up? The reason I don't believe all of this is just for us to get, you know, rid of any nuclear weapons they have is because Trump brought in this, and literally shut down all these businesses, was behind getting this fake virus released. It killed a lot of people as far as the vaccines.

But also, if you recall, the DC-DC report said America would collapse financially, wouldn't even have the money to have the international control of things, much less of America. Yeah, why should I believe the DC-DC report? Well, it's the highest British and legal intelligence. And then you have Paul Eric Professor. Okay. How intelligence can British naval intelligence be when they've allowed their country to be destroyed from within?

I just don't know how much I can trust them on that. Well, you know, long before we did all this massive allowing up all these people in, they were saying in 2005 when they came out with a 2006 to 36 that there would be just massive immigrants into America. And so they were definitely right on that. Okay. Definitely right on things going down, but I just look at, like Paul Eric saying they have to depopulate. They want to totally bring us down. We don't want any other countries to be like America.

We've got to have the threat of global warming, water shortages, dammed and the like that. And so you're saying this latest conflict that is part of engineering that. All right. It's an interesting take. Lucretia, I thank you for your call as always. I'll take probably one more because I'm just going to turn into a pumpkin for the weekend. Hi, good morning. Who's this?

Welcome. Hey, Jane, how are you? I wouldn't turn into a pumpkin, you know, I'd get turned into a jackal enter. A jackal lantern. So what's on your mind today, Gene? Huh? Okay, I've got two things on my mind. All right, what's that?

One of them. When Coke came out with that crack about turning the employees more black. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. In other words, there's too many whitties, you know, in the Coke world, right? Well, I figured that they didn't want me because I'm not blessed, so I went to Pepsi. Okay. And as far as I see, I used to drink that, but the cap usually had some money under the cap on RC. Oh, does RC call it, do a little giveaway underneath those?

Yeah, if you were lucky, you got a cap that had some money coming to you. Oh, okay. I didn't know they were still doing that. I remember that was years ago that I saw that. Anything else on your mind before we take off? I'm turning into a pumpkin rapidly. Okay? Okay.

The Virginia politician and his crack about, he knows all about rural areas. Yeah, well, he knows all about rural areas because he watched the Dukes of Hazard. That's what that was about. Yeah. Well, he also would have seen that in those shows, the politician was always crooked. evil plan. Fair enough. Thank you.

Thank you, Gene, from Wilderville, out there hanging out. Hi, KMEDE. I'll take your call. Good morning. Who's this? Hey, this is Lauren Eagle Point. Lauren. I want to let everybody know that I'm going to be at the Eagle Point High School tomorrow from 10 to 1, taking the petition. There's no tax clawback.

Come on in and say, who are you? And I say, I'm Lauren from Eagle Point. Because I meet some of your listeners that are out I would love to do that. So one more time, Eagle Point High School. What time are you going to be there? I'm going to be there from 10 to 1. I think it's going to be in the gym, but I've done this before and it's fun and get to meet people. So check in with it. Get signed up. This clawback situation. Lauren, I'm so glad you're doing that. Thanks for your work, okay? Be well. Have a great day, man. And we'll catch everybody on Monday.

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