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Speaker 2: So that's my shameless plug for myself. It wasn't that
Speaker 2: long ago. July first, a surprising statement from the Attorney
Speaker 2: General Pam Bondi as a Trump administration promised to release
Speaker 2: more files from their sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: The FBI, she said, was reviewing tens of thousands of
Speaker 2: videos of the wealthy financier with children or child porn.
Speaker 2: Now this weekend, President Trump's justice depriminent FBI have concluded
Speaker 2: that there is no evidence that convicted sex offender and
Speaker 2: disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures or kept the
Speaker 2: client list or was murdered that according to a memo
Speaker 2: detailing those findings, So we have tens of thousands of videos.
Speaker 2: The file is sitting on her desk. People last, are
Speaker 2: you going to release the files? And she said yeah,
Speaker 2: And now the DOJ is like files. Nah, you guys
Speaker 2: must be mistaken, and mag is going nuts right now.
Speaker 3: The Trump administration pushing back against calls to fire Attorney
Speaker 3: General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 4: Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been
Speaker 4: talked about for years.
Speaker 3: A Justice Department report this week revealed the accused sex
Speaker 3: trafficker did not keep a secret so called client list,
Speaker 3: seemingly contradicting Bondi's statement earlier this year that she had
Speaker 3: Epstein's list in her office.
Speaker 5: It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
Speaker 3: Bondi now clarifying that statement, saying she was taken out
Speaker 3: of context.
Speaker 5: My response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed,
Speaker 5: meaning the file along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 2: I always love it when the politicians are backed into
Speaker 2: a corner and they speak down to you, like I said,
Speaker 2: I said, it was on my desk, meaning the files,
Speaker 2: not the client list.
Speaker 4: How could you all be so dumb?
Speaker 3: The Justice Department report also confirming Epstein died by suicide investigator,
Speaker 3: saying the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide. Is further
Speaker 3: supported by video footage from where Epstein was housed, but
Speaker 3: some critics raising questions about that footage, pointing to a
Speaker 3: jump in the timestamp from eleven fifty eight to fifty
Speaker 3: nine to midnight. Bondi, when asked about the missing minute, said,
Speaker 3: the videotape glitch happens every night and is not a
Speaker 3: sign of tampering. Still, some Trump loyalists not happy with
Speaker 3: these explanations.
Speaker 2: Now, that's interesting that he knew exactly what the minute
Speaker 2: was when he should off himself.
Speaker 4: Weird.
Speaker 6: The only other explanation I can think of, again, maybe
Speaker 6: I love this is from Tucker Carlson. Now this is great.
Speaker 6: Tucker Carlson's like, nah no.
Speaker 2: He said, I'm gonna give you a little context here
Speaker 2: before I get the money line. Tucker Carlson says, there's
Speaker 2: only two possible explanations for why Pam Bondi is covering
Speaker 2: up the Epstein list. So Tucker Carlson is still maintaining
Speaker 2: that there is an Epstein list when the DJ says
Speaker 2: there's no list. When you've got Cash Pttel and Dan Bongino,
Speaker 2: two guys who when they were on the outside criticizing
Speaker 2: the Biden administration.
Speaker 4: Were damn sure that there was a list that was
Speaker 4: gonna bring down the world.
Speaker 2: We were gonna see cuffs being slapped on every major figure,
Speaker 2: Bill Gates, the Royal family. Cuffs, We're gonna go on
Speaker 2: everybody except Donald Trump. He obviously was very innocent. Now, granted,
Speaker 2: he's been in a number of videos and and and
Speaker 2: he may have been seen in those videos doing some
Speaker 2: untoward things, but that was.
Speaker 1: Just guys hanging out, just guys.
Speaker 2: Doing guy things an Epstein Island. But he was in
Speaker 2: no way a client. But you know who definitely was
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton. And we need to see that list so
Speaker 2: that we can stick it to Bill Clinton and probably
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden. In fact, his laptop was probably on the island.
Speaker 2: His laptop is probably housing that list. I mean, they
Speaker 2: were damn sure. And then all of a sudden, Cash
Speaker 2: Mattel was named head of the FBI, largely because of
Speaker 2: his criticism of the Biden administration. And then Dan Bongino,
Speaker 2: who was the former Secret Service agent turned talk show host,
Speaker 2: became the deputy director of the FBI.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I guess being the I don't know.
Speaker 2: If it was his talk show experience or his Secret
Speaker 2: Service experience that somehow made him qualified for the job.
Speaker 4: But there it is. He's there, and.
Speaker 2: Now both of them are like list. I don't remember
Speaker 2: saying anything about a list.
Speaker 4: That's weird.
Speaker 2: So Tucker Carlson on the outside looking in, Tucker Carlson
Speaker 2: said this, you know, for what? Sorry, let me do
Speaker 2: this more. Tucker carlsony, you know, for whatever reason his sis.
Speaker 2: I don't think that guy actually, I don't think he
Speaker 2: likes creepy sex stuff. That's just my view speaking of
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. That's pretty on point. Thank you, I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: he said. More convincing, I'm not gonna do the voice anymore.
Speaker 4: It's my nose.
Speaker 2: More convincing is that this is all information that the
Speaker 2: Biden administration had, And if there was evidence that Trump
Speaker 2: had been involved in illegal sexual activity, you think the
Speaker 2: people who made up Russia Gate would have leaked it.
Speaker 2: Come on, now, all right, So that's I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: him a half point. If Trump were on the list,
Speaker 2: wouldn't the Biden administration have tried to.
Speaker 4: Make hay out of that?
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that have been pretty damning in a presidential election? Now,
Speaker 2: who knows how that would have been spun. You could
Speaker 2: probably say, yeah, Biden didn't want to release the list
Speaker 2: because maybe Biden had people on that list that he
Speaker 2: didn't want out.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's maybe Hunters on the list. I don't know.
Speaker 2: But if there's a list and Trump was on that list,
Speaker 2: why didn't Biden release it? And Tucker Carlson says, well,
Speaker 2: he would have. Now I can think of a number
Speaker 2: of reasons that he wouldn't have, but I'll give him
Speaker 2: credit for at least thinking, Look, Biden administration had access
Speaker 2: to this list, So if Trump's on it, why not
Speaker 2: release it?
Speaker 4: Okay, good question. But then Carlson says, so Trump's not
Speaker 4: on that list. We all know that.
Speaker 2: So why in the world would the Trump administration then
Speaker 2: cover up the list? And there's only one possible alternative explanation.
Speaker 4: Here's Tucker Carlson, op, go ahead.
Speaker 6: Play the only other explanation I can think of, again,
Speaker 6: maybe you've got another.
Speaker 4: Is the only other one he can think of.
Speaker 6: Is that Intel services are at the very center of
Speaker 6: the story.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk also Intel services are at the very center
Speaker 2: of this story. Intel services are Now what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Does that mean that Tucker Carlson believes that the FBI
Speaker 2: and the CIA are in the middle of the list somehow,
Speaker 2: that they were operating Epstein Island. He goes on the
Speaker 2: rest of the quote. Is the only other explanation I
Speaker 2: can think of, Again, maybe you've got another is that
Speaker 2: Intel services are at the very center of this story
Speaker 2: US and Israeli and they're being protected. I think that
Speaker 2: seems like the most obvious, says Tucker Carlson. Or is
Speaker 2: it possible that maybe for the same other reasons that
Speaker 2: Biden might not want.
Speaker 4: To release the list.
Speaker 2: Maybe Hunter Biden's on the list. I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 2: Eric Trump is on the list. Maybe there are reasons
Speaker 2: that Trump administration doesn't want that list to come out.
Speaker 2: Maybe other people who are associated are on that list.
Speaker 2: Maybe high dollar donors are on that list. Maybe the
Speaker 2: same high dollar donors that were benefiting the Biden administration
Speaker 2: are benefiting the Trump administration.
Speaker 4: These are I'm just spitballing here, But.
Speaker 2: I can think of a multitude of reasons that either
Speaker 2: administration wouldn't want to release an Epstein client list.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So, when when Tucker Carlson is sure that there is
Speaker 2: a list and he can't possibly reckon why Trump wouldn't
Speaker 2: release the list. It's only because there's some sort of
Speaker 2: a deep state, a deep state US intel at the
Speaker 2: very center of it, which somehow has now influenced Trump.
Speaker 2: Or is it the deep Israeli state, as Tucker Carlson
Speaker 2: points out, Or is it possible throw this out there?
Speaker 2: Is it possible there is no client list? Is it
Speaker 2: possible all of this MAGA conspiracy theory about a class
Speaker 2: that was going to bring down Hunter Biden, Bill Clinton,
Speaker 2: Bill Dates, the Royal family, everyone else, but leave Donald
Speaker 2: Trump lily white? Is it possible that there never was
Speaker 2: a list, that it really was just a conspiracy theory
Speaker 2: made of whole cloth revolving around this creepy guy who
Speaker 2: did have flight logs to his creepy island. Is it
Speaker 2: possible there was no client list at all? Mag is
Speaker 2: so sure there's a client list, and now they're divided.
Speaker 2: We don't know what to believe. Do we believe Trump,
Speaker 2: do we believe the DOJ or do we believe what
Speaker 2: we've believed for a while now, Elon Musk has decided
Speaker 2: to believe that there is more afoot. So Elon Musk
Speaker 2: was not happy that he was not invited to the
Speaker 2: most recent cabinet meeting, and so Trump was speaking of
Speaker 2: the cabinet meeting month. Musk then went on to X
Speaker 2: and started ranting with Rogers Stone, one of the President's advisors,
Speaker 2: about Jeffrey Epstein. So Stone writes on X, why would
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein associate Steve Bannon try to help Robert Muller
Speaker 2: send me to prison by perjuring himself at my trial? Random,
Speaker 2: I'll get up, Musk replies, Bannon is in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2: Although Steve Bannon is also saying he needs that the
Speaker 2: client list should be released. But one ex user says
Speaker 2: the Epstein list will never be released. We've been had.
Speaker 2: Musk says, yes, the government is deeply broken. Maggo didn't
Speaker 2: know what to think. Maggots just confuses.
Speaker 4: I'll get up.
Speaker 2: Is there a list that condemns all of those pedophiled
Speaker 2: the QAnon centered Democrats or not? I mean, it's an
Speaker 2: existential threat, an existential threat. It has been the biggest
Speaker 2: boondoggle in California, and we are fighting tooth and nail
Speaker 2: to keep spending billions more on it. I can't wait
Speaker 2: for nobody to ever ride the bullet train to nowhere.
Speaker 4: That's next.
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Speaker 2: Chris Maryland for Moe Kelly KFI AM six forty listen
Speaker 2: anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. I've told the
Speaker 2: story before that when I first came to California in
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, I found out about this bullet train and
Speaker 2: how the.
Speaker 4: Voters had approved.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like eight billion dollars or something at
Speaker 2: the time for the bullet Train, and we were gonna
Speaker 2: get started, and we were gonna have this beautiful bullet train,
Speaker 2: and we were gonna be on par with Europe and Japan,
Speaker 2: and we were gonna have this high speed rail that
Speaker 2: was going to go from eventually go from San Diego
Speaker 2: to Sacramento, but initially it's gonna go La to San Francisco, right,
Speaker 2: and it was supposed to connect the Bay Area to
Speaker 2: southern California. And this is going to be it's gonna
Speaker 2: be super duper, and it was going to be it
Speaker 2: was gonna be fast transportation, and it was going to
Speaker 2: be less expensive, and it was gonna be more environmentally
Speaker 2: friendly than flying. Of course, we've got a lot of
Speaker 2: flights that fly between lax and San Francisco all the time.
Speaker 2: So this bullet train was going to be a big deal,
Speaker 2: and we were kind of told, well, wouldn't this be
Speaker 2: a crown.
Speaker 4: Jewel of the West coast?
Speaker 2: Right, So initially when this passed, the idea was that
Speaker 2: it would cost thirty three billion dollars total and it
Speaker 2: would be operating by twenty twenty. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're familiar with calendars, but we are well past twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: I also don't know if you're familiar with numbers, but
Speaker 2: we are well past thirty three billion dollars so right now.
Speaker 4: And this is fun.
Speaker 2: I make mention of this because when I moved here
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve, we were hearing, well, it looks like
Speaker 2: it's going to cost over fifty billion dollars now. And
Speaker 2: I made the prediction at that time. I was doing
Speaker 2: ready in San Diego and I said, mark my words,
Speaker 2: this is going to be over one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2: I said, you watch what's going on here. This is
Speaker 2: government inefficiency. It's going to be over one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you that at the time I
Speaker 2: made that prediction, I was a little bit nervous. I
Speaker 2: thought I just said it was going to be three
Speaker 2: times the original cost. I don't know, I might look
Speaker 2: like a real boob. But by the time this is
Speaker 2: done in twenty twenty, it'll be eight years later. Maybe
Speaker 2: nobody will remember I said it. Now it looks like
Speaker 2: I was way underestimating the overages, because currently they say
Speaker 2: it could cost as much as one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: eight billion dollars.
Speaker 4: And when will it be done. We don't really know.
Speaker 4: We just don't know.
Speaker 2: In fact, the initial segment, which is the Central Valley
Speaker 2: segment it's going to run from Bakersfield and Or said,
Speaker 2: is now going to be thirty five billion dollars. The
Speaker 2: segment that no one will use, that runs through farmland,
Speaker 2: that is the easiest to build, is now projected to
Speaker 2: cost more than the initial projections for the whole project.
Speaker 2: So the Trump administration took a look at what's going
Speaker 2: on in California and they went, wait a minute, We've
Speaker 2: got four billion dollars in grants that are earmarked for
Speaker 2: California for this bullet train, and they said, we're going
Speaker 2: to pull those grants back. California is not happy about
Speaker 2: this and so California officials said that the project is
Speaker 2: in compliance with the federal grant requirements and that the
Speaker 2: bullet train will indeed meet the twenty thirty three deadline
Speaker 2: to start limited passenger operations within Central Valley. We have
Speaker 2: gotten to the point where we are now arguing that no, no, no,
Speaker 2: we are going to be able to do the first
Speaker 2: and easiest section, the most the simplest thing to a
Speaker 2: accomplish that will get done just thirteen years after it
Speaker 2: was projected, and at only a budget that is more
Speaker 2: than the whole project was supposed to cost to begin with.
Speaker 2: So you can't take our grants back four billion dollars
Speaker 2: in grants. I should also point out that we are
Speaker 2: well short of being able to pay for the thirty
Speaker 2: five billion dollars to start with. We don't have the
Speaker 2: money to complete the project in the Central Valley. We're
Speaker 2: short by eight seven billion dollars for the Central Valley section.
Speaker 2: Who is going to ride a bullet train for Bakersfield
Speaker 2: and Merced? How much how much traffic goes on between
Speaker 2: those two places, how much business traffic is happening that
Speaker 2: we go, wow, we have to have that bullet train
Speaker 2: there I don't know, those are the two destinations. You're
Speaker 2: not wrong, No, that's exactly That's where they started because
Speaker 2: they went, this is going to be the easiest to finish.
Speaker 2: If we can just finish this sect, this section, then
Speaker 2: we can build momentum, no pun intent, and we can
Speaker 2: show people that it's it's viable and it's being done.
Speaker 4: It's then yeah, yeah, I wasna say it's easier because
Speaker 4: no one goes there it's farm land. Yeah, it's exactly right.
Speaker 2: And they it'll be limited passenger service between these two
Speaker 2: really as California goes remote areas once they try to
Speaker 2: bring that into the metro areas. They talked about how
Speaker 2: they're going to connect this to trains with the BARK
Speaker 2: system in San Francisco, and the amount of money is
Speaker 2: going to cost to try to bring.
Speaker 4: This through San Francisco is astronomical.
Speaker 2: So when they're now saying it's going to be one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty eight billion dollars to complete, figure two
Speaker 2: hundred billion, and the idea that you and I will
Speaker 2: ever ride a bullet train from Los Angeles to San
Speaker 2: Francisco probably not realistic.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm I'm in my late forties. Right now.
Speaker 2: I probably have maybe another thirty years in me. I
Speaker 2: don't see it being done in the next thirty years,
Speaker 2: and certainly not for the one hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 2: billion dollars that they're projecting. It's just not going to happen.
Speaker 2: So we just keep throwing good money after bad on. Honestly,
Speaker 2: what is a giant boondoggle? I mean, we ought to
Speaker 2: just set up a museum of failed initiatives and have
Speaker 2: this be the highlight of it, and then just stop
Speaker 2: throwing good money after bad on it. Just be done
Speaker 2: with it, all right, flashes of flooding. It is a
Speaker 2: terrifying situation going on in Texas. But good news we
Speaker 2: found out from the governor of Texas. Everyone there cares
Speaker 2: about football. That's what he said at the press conference
Speaker 2: about the flooding. You'll find out why next Chris MERRILLFI
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Speaker 2: Merriland from O Kelly and i KFI AM six forty
Speaker 2: more stimulating talk listen to anytime on demand of the
Speaker 2: iHeart Radio app. Uh Well, what's the latest total in Texas?
Speaker 2: We got the one nine. I think I saw one
Speaker 2: nineteen earlier. Oh my gosh, one hundred nineteen people died
Speaker 2: in the flooding. I can't think of think of a
Speaker 2: more horrible way for a massed number of people to go,
Speaker 2: Just terrible.
Speaker 7: The death toll rising in Texas. As officials announced more
Speaker 7: than eighty five bodies have been recovered in Kerr County alone,
Speaker 7: more than one hundred dead statewide.
Speaker 8: To put this into perspective, just in the Kerr and
Speaker 8: Kendle counties alone, there are far more fatalities than there
Speaker 8: were in Hurricane Harding.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: A lot of those are kids, you know, those girls
Speaker 2: of that camp Mystic, that Christian camp that was built
Speaker 2: on the river of a.
Speaker 7: Getting difficult terrain and armed with a walking stick, hiking
Speaker 7: boots and a lot of faith. Robert Brake Junior has
Speaker 7: been desperately searching for his missing parents since front. Oh
Speaker 7: my gosh, your cabin washed away in the floods.
Speaker 4: And the Grimes funeral Home which just setup and they're
Speaker 4: says a war.
Speaker 9: We checked it with them hourly, walking up to them
Speaker 9: giving my parents information the pictures you were hoping not
Speaker 9: to see anything and hear anything, and when you did,
Speaker 9: you had an out of home.
Speaker 7: But this morning, yeah, realized they weren't coming back home.
Speaker 4: Oh man? Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that something like for every corner you turn and
Speaker 2: you don't find the bodies of your deceased parents or
Speaker 2: in some cases someone's child, hope remains alive.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 10: Oh but if my parents being gone in the world
Speaker 10: got to be a better place, got to be a
Speaker 10: better place. One day, people kind each other, kind with
Speaker 10: kindness and love, and people prayed a little harder and
Speaker 10: bonaplus their faith.
Speaker 4: I won't accept that loss.
Speaker 7: At a press conference earlier today, officials pressed about the
Speaker 7: timing of notifications during the flash flooding.
Speaker 11: Right now, all.
Speaker 2: Right, this has been a big question about notifications during
Speaker 2: the flash flooding, right like, what was the National Weather
Speaker 2: Service doing?
Speaker 4: Why weren't people alerted? Why wasn't there a better warning system?
Speaker 11: Right now, this team up here is focused on green
Speaker 11: people's focus. All those questions will be answered, but the
Speaker 11: already right now, you're just bringing people home, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So officials don't really want to answer it. They
Speaker 2: don't want to answer those questions. I kind of understand
Speaker 2: why they don't want to like save all of your
Speaker 2: who's to blame stuff for later we're still trying to
Speaker 2: find bodies of children.
Speaker 7: During his cabinet meeting, President Trump confirming he plans to
Speaker 7: visit Texas on Friday.
Speaker 2: We don't want to get in anyone's way, because you
Speaker 2: know that's what happens when president goes and everyone's around
Speaker 2: focused on I don't want anyone to focus on us.
Speaker 2: I wholeheartedly agree with his decision one hundred percent. Now
Speaker 2: people will criticize him for not being there, just like
Speaker 2: they criticize every president who stays out of the way
Speaker 2: for a week after a natural disaster.
Speaker 4: Oh, why didn't Bush go to Katrina right away? Right?
Speaker 2: Why didn't Obama show up at the blizzard? Or why
Speaker 2: didn't Biden? You know, you name it? One hundred percent
Speaker 2: back to the President on this one, stay out of
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 12: Yeah, more no, no, because he was literally criticizing Biden
Speaker 12: for not being in California for the fires.
Speaker 2: But my thing is, if I'm standing up for Biden
Speaker 2: for not being in the way on the fires, do
Speaker 2: not have to stand up for the for Trump.
Speaker 12: I'm saying, but but Biden would not have criticized Trump
Speaker 12: or any other president.
Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
Speaker 12: Trump is the only president to criticize other presidents or
Speaker 12: governmental leaders for not doing something that he doesn't do.
Speaker 2: That's why you're pointing out the past. Yeah, I just
Speaker 2: don't give him the past. That's okay, So because he
Speaker 2: didn't extend that courtesy to others. Yes, yeah, see, I
Speaker 2: just want to be consistent in my criticism. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you're fine, You're fine. I'm I'm great with you pointing
Speaker 2: out the hypocrisy. Yeah, that's yeah, one hundred percent agree with.
Speaker 4: You on that.
Speaker 7: And we're learning more about the victims. Eight year old
Speaker 7: Mary Grace Baker died in the floods. Thirteen year old
Speaker 7: Blair Harber and eleven year old Brook Harbor staying with
Speaker 7: their grandparents when the flash flooding hit. Their bodies found
Speaker 7: together fifteen miles down the river the next day.
Speaker 2: Fifteen miles even if they were struggling for the first
Speaker 2: mile or who imagine the horror that they experienced while
Speaker 2: they were struggling to breathe, trying to keep their heads
Speaker 2: above water, maybe getting hit by branches. They're in the dark,
Speaker 2: the debris pummeling them, not knowing where they're going not
Speaker 2: even knowing which direction to try to swim to get
Speaker 2: to a bank, and eventually they just can't keep up.
Speaker 7: And the man you heard from earlier who was missing
Speaker 7: his parents says he will continue searching, but also to
Speaker 7: help others find their loved ones.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you appreciate that report.
Speaker 2: Now, Governor Abbott was speaking out now when we talk
Speaker 2: about the politics, and I'm glad that. I'm glad you
Speaker 2: talked about this, Twalla, because there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people who are saying, you know, what's going on here.
Speaker 2: In fact, we had local officials were blaming the National
Speaker 2: Weather Service. Then you had you had the geop officials
Speaker 2: in Texas blaming the National Weather Service. Then you had
Speaker 2: Democrats who were blaming the Trump administry for cutting funding
Speaker 2: to the National Weather Service. But you got to keep
Speaker 2: in mind, is this The National Weather Service was prepared,
Speaker 2: they were staffed, they were putting out alerts, they were
Speaker 2: putting out the warnings to the best of their ability
Speaker 2: that night. And now what we have here is a
Speaker 2: lot of people going who do I blame, in other words,
Speaker 2: dodging accountability. And what I'm finding is that in today's society,
Speaker 2: we are we're so worried about blame that we ignore accountability.
Speaker 4: There used to be a time in this country.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sound like an old fuddy duddy now, but
Speaker 2: there was a time when you had leadership that said
Speaker 2: the buck stops here, and they would say there were
Speaker 2: failures and we are going to take a good hard
Speaker 2: look at this and we're going to improve upon this.
Speaker 4: Instead.
Speaker 2: Now what you have is, well, there were failures, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't me. And then you have supporters that say
Speaker 2: that's right, you can't blame my person.
Speaker 4: Look at them, they're fighting the critics.
Speaker 2: And we applaud the leadership for not taking accountability because
Speaker 2: that shows that they've got moxie. They're willing to stand.
Speaker 4: Up and fight. Fight what.
Speaker 2: Fight against accountability, fight against a basic tenet of leadership.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly what we see. And the governor spoke.
Speaker 7: The governor addressed concerns over who is.
Speaker 8: To blame Texas every score inch of our state.
Speaker 4: This is Governor Abbott talking about who's.
Speaker 8: To blame Texas every score ench of our state? Cares
Speaker 8: about football?
Speaker 2: What dead kids? Floating bodies fifteen miles down the river?
Speaker 2: And talk about Friday night lights you.
Speaker 8: Could be in Hunt, Texas, Huntsville, Texas, Houston, Texas, anty
Speaker 8: size community that care about football, high school, Friday night lights,
Speaker 8: college football, are pro and know this. Every football team
Speaker 8: makes mistakes. The losing teams are the ones that try
Speaker 8: to point out who's to blame. The championship teams are
Speaker 8: the ones to say, don't worry about it, man, we
Speaker 8: got this. We're going to make sure that we go
Speaker 8: score again, that we're going to win this game. The
Speaker 8: way winners talk is not to pull out fingers.
Speaker 4: They talk about solutions.
Speaker 7: Govina Abbitt also said helping the affected areas recover will
Speaker 7: be on the agenda when lawmakers convene for a special
Speaker 7: session in two weeks.
Speaker 2: I feel like he was almost close to having a
Speaker 2: good answer, but he couldn't help but to say, anyone
Speaker 2: who is looking to find accountability is a loser.
Speaker 4: I'm a winner. I'm gonna find solutions. You all are losers.
Speaker 2: You all trying to find out where the failures were
Speaker 2: your losers. So aren't we just playing politics when we
Speaker 2: do that? Yeah, here's what championship teams do. If there's
Speaker 2: a problem, if you have a player that keeps dropping
Speaker 2: the football, you stop handing him the football. You don't
Speaker 2: go out and yell at the cheerleaders for not cheering right.
Speaker 2: You don't go yell at the referees for calling the fumble.
Speaker 2: You go figure out how to hang on to the
Speaker 2: dang football.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna shift away from this because I start to
Speaker 2: get frustrated when we talk about kids dying and nobody
Speaker 2: wants to take accountability.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the.
Speaker 2: Kids, the kids these days, they're not even children anymore.
Speaker 2: Now they're adults and they're in the workforce. And gen
Speaker 2: Z has cracked the code. They figured out what none
Speaker 2: of us ever knew before, and they're gonna tell us
Speaker 2: how to have a better understanding of our work life balance.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be blown away by this brand new concept
Speaker 2: that no one's ever thought of before that gen Z
Speaker 2: came up with.
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Speaker 2: Can't wait until tomorrow, Mark, It's gonna be a day
Speaker 2: older by that.
Speaker 4: Pete's sake.
Speaker 2: I gotta have my fountain of youth now, Chris merrill
Speaker 2: in from O'Kelly KFI AM six forty. Listen anytime on
Speaker 2: demand of the iHeartRadio app. Can I just say thank
Speaker 2: goodness we have gen Z around, because, let's face it,
Speaker 2: until gen Z came most of us didn't know our
Speaker 2: heads from the hole the ground. They discovered things about
Speaker 2: the world that we didn't understand, we had no clue about.
Speaker 2: For instance, prior to gen Z, when you went to work,
Speaker 2: you busted your tail all the time, and you never
Speaker 2: thought about slacking off, and never did you work with
Speaker 2: anyone that about mailing it in. Never did that happen
Speaker 2: until gen Z came about and they introduced us to
Speaker 2: something called quiet quitting.
Speaker 4: You see, gen Z knew that quiet quitting meant that.
Speaker 2: You were doing the bare minimums at work just to
Speaker 2: keep your job and fly under the radar. No one
Speaker 2: had ever done that before. But then gen Z figured
Speaker 2: it out and they gave it a name, quiet quitting. Sure,
Speaker 2: I understand that there may have been a very popular
Speaker 2: movie that came out when the vast, vast majority of
Speaker 2: gen Z was not even potty trained, called Office Space,
Speaker 2: which was all about not really doing much at work
Speaker 2: for the entire day and getting by and the bare minimums.
Speaker 2: But we didn't even know that that was a thing.
Speaker 2: Until gen Z told us quiet quitting. And now gen
Speaker 2: Z has done it again. Thank goodness for the new
Speaker 2: generation and TikTok, because they have now introduced us to
Speaker 2: something a concept no one had ever imagined before. Here's
Speaker 2: your story. While retirement typically occurs after completing a career
Speaker 2: and saving and investing for it, a new trend is
Speaker 2: emerging among gen Z career professionals called micro retirement. Micro
Speaker 2: retirements involved taking a one or two week break from
Speaker 2: work every twelve to eighteen months. Why didn't we think
Speaker 2: of this? Why didn't any of us ever contemplate in
Speaker 2: the past that we needed a break from work?
Speaker 4: My god, we.
Speaker 12: Are not as smart as our children. Oh so that's
Speaker 12: what I think. Sometimes it has to be, because there's
Speaker 12: no way this generation has outsmarted us yet has not
Speaker 12: lived nearly a quarter of our lifetime.
Speaker 2: But obviously they did. This is just how much smarter
Speaker 2: they are. I mean some people. My understanding is some
Speaker 2: people now these are forward thinkers. Now, these are basically futurists.
Speaker 2: Had worked with their companies in the past to ensure
Speaker 2: that they got one to two week breaks built into
Speaker 2: their yearly schedule. Some places would even offer three or
Speaker 2: even four weeks of break in their schedule. Now, in
Speaker 2: the past, I had heard about a concept that some
Speaker 2: called a vacation, but this was a very rare, anomalous event.
Speaker 2: Fortunately gen Z comes around and they have invented micro retirements.
Speaker 4: My mind is blown.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm more upset at gen Z
Speaker 2: for thinking that they reinvented the wheel, or if I'm
Speaker 2: more upset at the older generations that are writing the
Speaker 2: stories about how novel gen Z is. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's incredibly frustrating when I see an article from fast
Speaker 2: Company that describes a vacation and presents it as though
Speaker 2: it's an absolute new life hack that was developed by
Speaker 2: the incoming generation.
Speaker 12: But I think that Fast Company, I think that they
Speaker 12: are also a gen Z slash millennial run site.
Speaker 2: Oh you think so, yeah, kind of like the Economists
Speaker 2: for younger generations or Forbes for younger generations or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Even though this generation knows everything about looking stuff up
Speaker 12: on the Internet, they don't know how to look up
Speaker 12: the fact that this is not a novel concept not new.
Speaker 12: We've been taking vacations for centuries.
Speaker 2: There are a few things that are a little bit different,
Speaker 2: but Again, they're not new ideas. They say that the
Speaker 2: micro retirement could involve quitting a job, then finding a
Speaker 2: new job when you're ready to work again. Again, not
Speaker 2: a new concept. Although most of us try to have
Speaker 2: a new job lined up because we're not dumb. So
Speaker 2: we create an emergency fund and then if we need
Speaker 2: to quit a job, we do. I know people that
Speaker 2: have said enough, I'm out, I'll find something later. I
Speaker 2: just can't take this anymore. They've got an emergency fund
Speaker 2: built up, they're ready.
Speaker 4: To do it.
Speaker 2: Or you find a new job and then you give
Speaker 2: yourself a couple of weeks in between gigs. We've all
Speaker 2: been there before. This is not a new concept. They
Speaker 2: also and this is the one that just drives me nuts.
Speaker 2: Setting up a plan with your employer that allows you
Speaker 2: to take unpaid frequent work breaks. It's just an unpaid vacation. Man,
Speaker 2: that's unpaid time off. Again, not a new concept. Or
Speaker 2: if you're a business owner taking breaks from your business, well,
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. If you're a business owner taking breaks,
Speaker 2: that's called a vacation. My wife runs her own business.
Speaker 2: I had a vacation a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 2: she didn't work for a week during my.
Speaker 4: Couple of weeks off. That's just vacation. That's how it works.
Speaker 2: When you're a small business owner and you're not working,
Speaker 2: you take a vacation and you're not gonna get paid again.
Speaker 2: Not a new concept, but thank god, we've got gen
Speaker 2: Z to introduce us to this. Not a new concept,
Speaker 2: but we give it a new name, so it must
Speaker 2: be new. I blame TikTok for this crap, is what
Speaker 2: I do. Like all of a sudden, they're like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I thought about this thing. I'm gonna describe it to you.
Speaker 2: I just saw this brand new thing online. It's never
Speaker 2: existed before, trending now. Yeah right, Oh it makes me crazy.
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