Lots of Flood Damage

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Flood damage and insurance price
• University of Michigan graduation interrupted by protesters

Episode Transcript

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here's Jimmy Barrett. It is Monday, and we are here and we're ready
to go, and we're we've beenwatching all day the recovery efforts going on
in Montgomery County, Kingwood, andHarris County, Channel View in Harris County,
Liberty County, some of the otherareas here in the greater Houston area.

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You know, I got a phonecall when was this? Was it
yesterday? I think it was yesterdayfrom some of my old friends in Richmond,
Virginia because we made the national news. Well you can imagine, we
made the national news with all theflooding going on, just like we did
during Harvey. And you know,all the newschilds loved to show disaster,
so you know you're going to geta lot of news coverage. We have

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something like that going on. ButI told him, hey, everything's fine.
You know, we haven't any lossof life here, thank god,
lots of damage. We had MyntgovernyCounty Judge Mark Kelloh on the show this
morning. And it's a little earlyto try to make an assessment about how
many millions of dollars or hundreds ofmillions of dollars in damage that has happened.

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But you know as well as Ido, that there's a lot of
it, and there's gonna be peoplewho have not purchased flood insurance or got
priced out of flood insurance. Wehave flood insurance not on our home and
spring, but on a home thatwe have down by the golf and that's
over three thousand dollars a year,so I can imagine, you know,

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it's price prohibitive for a lot ofpeople. Flood insurance used to be something
that would cost you, you know, maybe eight hundred or thousand dollars a
year, not three thousand dollars.But in places like Texas and Florida,
insurance rates have gone way way upif you can get insurance. And this,
by the way, that's the otherthing about this that this is not
gonna be helpful going forward for thoseof you that have insurance companies that are

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reversed to risk because there's gonna bemore insurance companies. They're gonna say,
well, you know, look,Texas is just it's too especially Southeast Texas,
it's too volatile. We can't wecan't take the risk. So do
not be surprised. Even if youdon't don't have a claim, make no
claims. I've had zero claims.I've got two houses with multiple multiple insurance

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policies on both I've had zero claimsin the last seven years, zero claims.
But don't be surprised if you hearfrom your insurance company that they don't
want to insure you anymore because they'rethat adverse to the risk. That's either
that or they're going to jack upthe price one or the other something that
we're just we're gonna have to expectthat. That's that's just the way it's
going to be, all right.I got hungry earlier today talking about fast

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food, so I might as wellgo ahead and see if I can work
out my appetite for dinner today.You know, automation, I think is
something that we're gonna see more andmore of in fast food and even not
so fast food. You would youcall Chipoltle fast food. It's kind of
an in between category, right,It's not really it's not really fast food,

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but it you know, it's notreally restaurant either. It's kind of
in between zone between the two.But I saw their CEO. His name
is Jack Hartung. I saw himon Fox and they were asking him on
Fox Business. They were asking him, you know, you know, what's
going on as far as pricing goes. Are they noticing any resistance from customers?

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It sounded like, you know,like a lot of a lot of
restaurants and grocery stores like are kindof taking a look at that. Now
there is they increase prices, theykind of look to see what kind of
reaction they're going to get. Sofar, it sounds like Gipolte has not
seen any business drop up despite theprices going up. Here is Jack Hartung
talking about all this and all bythe way, also bringing up the specter

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of automation. Yeah. You know, we had a great first quarter.
We had a seven percent comp andmore than five percent of that was driven
by transaction growth, which I knowis tough to come by, you know
in this kind of environment. Thething we're most proud of when we look
at our customers by income brackets.Our low income consumers came at the same
rate as our high income consumers,and that tells us that we are really

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providing a great value and we're charginga fair price for it. We know
that consumers, especially on the lowend, are inflation weary these days,
and so we've been very careful aboutnot trying to get over you know,
a little over zealous with price increasein that we're running under a three percent
price increase during the first quarter.We think back, combined with our restaurant
team providing a great experience, keepsour customers coming back. Yeah, the

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minimum wage higher minimum weights just tookeffect earlier this month, so it wasn't
part of our recording sorting period.We did take a modest price increase of
sixty seven percent. We've been watchingthe traffic since we took the price increase.
We're not seeing anything yet. We'renot seeing any change in behavior yet.
It's very early, so we'll keepa close eye on it. Jack,
I understand you're partnering with a companycalled hyphen to create robots that can

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help build meals for you. NowI don't like that, because I like
to sweet talk the person making myburritos so they'll give me more chicken.
I don't know if I can dothat with the robot. But is that
the future and how soon is itcoming? Yeah? Well, so first
of all, you won't see robotsat the front line. So if you
want to commit and sweet talk andtry to get a little extra I ice,

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a little extra ingredients along the way, you'll still have that opportunity.
What we're talking about is really forour digital business. Our digital business is
done on a completely separate line.Today it's about thirty seven thirty eight percent
of our business, and it canbe very very busy during our peak launch
and our peak dinner. And soyou can see on this screen here that
what we're trying to do is we'renot going to replace employees, going to

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make the jobs of our employees mucheasier. It'll be a calmer experience.
And then we know that we cangive our customers an order digitally, an
accurate order because the robots are goingto put exactly the right ingredients in and
we can make sure those orders arealways done on time as well. So
we think it's going to make thecustomer experience and a career experience better and
you'll still be able to sweet talkour crew a law the lot. Yeah,
sounds like he likes the robots thatmaybe they're a little bit more accurate

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than people are, don't make asmany mistakes as people do. They certainly
don't last for a raise. Youcertainly don't have to pay them twenty dollars
an hour, even in California.But the thing that kind of struck me
out from that conversation was how muchhe was talking about as far as increases,
how they just had. They justhad a modest increase of six to

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seven percent. You consider six toseven percent a modest increase, I don't
that's why two percent? Yeah,okay, two percent. You know that,
You know, the confect keeps talkingabout two percent. These folk he
has had, you know, sixto seven percent, and then he just
had another three percent increase. That'sten percent. I mean, even if

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all they had at Chipolti or someof these other restaurants was a three percent
increase quarterly, well that's four timesa year. That's twelve percent per year
that is going up. So atthat rate, you know that twenty dollars,
the twenty dollars item on the menubecomes twenty two dollars before the end

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of the year, and then thenext year, if it goes up another
twelve percent, that comes twenty fourdollars. Will you get the idea,
you know that stuff all lands upat some point in time, it's going
to create I would think some habitchanges. It sounds like what he's saying
there is that he hasn't seen thatyet at his restaurant. He doesn't believe
the price increases they've had have hurttheir business at all at some point in

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time. And I think that's whatall of these operators are trying to figure
out. Where is that point intime where it really has an impact on
who decides need to my restaurant?That that's when they're they're they're going to
know they're gonna have a problem becauseif the inflation is still increasing and you're
still trying to keep up with inflation, and people are starting to push back

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and they're not coming to your restaurantas much, not buying as much as
they did before, you know,where do you balance that all out?
That's a tough one, all right, quick little break back with for in
a moment Jimmy Barrett Show here atam nine fifty KPRC. All Right,

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we're back another weekend of protesting goingon all across the country, more prevalent
in the North than it is inthe South. I mean, the first
thing I notice is the kind ofprotesting that's going on. And there's been
two very different types of protesting,one much more aggressive. The most aggressive

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protesting has been in the East.You know, the Ivy League schools for
example, the elitist schools have hadthe most violent protesting, the most aggressive
protesting, whether they're not just happyhappening in encampment or in hanging out signs
where they're taking over buildings. Atthe University of Michigan, which I grew

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up in Ann Arbor, home ofthe University of Michigan, it's a very
liberal institution, There's no doubt aboutit. It's a liberal town. It's
a liberal college town, typical midsize Midwestern college town, and they have
a lot of students there. Theyhave how many of the graduation I want
to say, their typical graduating classeslike eight nine, maybe up to ten

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thousand kids who will graduate from fromMichigan. It's such a big deal because
obviously you know, you've got alot of you've got a lot of money
invested in it, You've got alot of parent and family pride. When
they hold their graduation ceremony, theyhold it at the University of Michigan.
Otherwise that it was the big housewhere it holds upwards of one hundred and
ten thousand people. Now they won'tfill it up for graduation, but they'll

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put a big crowd in there.And one of the things that happened their
graduation was on Saturday. One ofthe things that happened was they had a
protest going right down the middle ofthe isle, you know, between the
students. They had a anti Israel, pro Palestinian protests going on, and

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they disrupted the graduation services for thoseeight or nine thousand other kids who you
know had been ye know, theygraduated in twenty twenty, they had their
high school disrupted by COVID. Nowthey've got their college graduation disrupted by these
protesters. By the way, mostof them are not very happy about it.
Here is a student, his nameis Benny Shaveski. Here he talks

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about the protest going on on thecampus and how the graduation was ruined by
these protesters. I apologize for myrough voice. It comes from yelling at
these protesters during my graduation ceremony thatwas interrupted, So I apologize for that,
but thank you for having me onthis morning. I wanted to clarify
your prior report. The protesters werenot removed from the disruption from the event.

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Rather and they remained for the entireduration of the event, causing a
massive disruption. It was not abrief disruption. In fact, I was
seated about five rows in front ofthem for the vast majority of the commencement
ceremony. They began disrupting when theSecretary of the Navy decided to speak.
I got up on stage and thena banner overhead flew that said free Palestine,

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divests from Israel. These protesters,about one hundred in number, decided
that they wanted to interrupt the commencementceremony for eight thousand graduates and their families.
I've been a lifelong Michigan fan.I've been a supporter of the university
my entire four years, and reallyit's my dream school. To have this
happened to me in the most importantday of my four years is really troubling

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and I'm just really speechless with whathappened. There's been a large encampment on
our campus for about two weeks.It continues to grow in size, and
the university administration has done nothing toremove it. They've had banners displayed that
say long live Intofada, calling fora violent genocide against my people. They
want to systematically eliminated, and frankly, I'm not willing to stand for that

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on my campus. So I tookit upon myself to remove these genocidal posters
that are displayed against school policy onuniversity buildings. I removed one of these
from a school building and the antiIsrael agitator decided to confront me and try
to figure out why I was doingthis. Don't think it went terribly well
for her, considering how viral thevideo has gone. But I think it

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shows that these people just hate America. They want to destroy our values,
and they don't believe in the freespeech of everybody. Yeah, it's not
about hating Jews as much as itis about hating the Western world and everything
the Western world stands for. Capitalism, any any you know, America,
Israel, any free democracy, theydon't like it because Marxism doesn't survive under

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that particular type of setting. Youhave to remove capitalism, you have to
remove freedom if you want it tosurvive. All right, So who are
the people behind this? A lotof them are already on campus. A
lot of them are graduate students oranother type of instructor, not necessarily a

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professor, although there are plenty ofMarxist professors on these campuses too. Here's
Victor Davis Hansen talking about who's behindthe protesters. Well, the generation of
nineteen sixty eight came. Roger Kimballwrote a book called Tenured Radicals. They
are predominantly leftists from the sixties andthey're in their seventies now. But under

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the DEI Protocol of the last fourto six years, it's been increasingly radicalized.
And then, don't forget we haveabout a quarter million people from the
Middle East that pay full tuition.So the faculty addresses that community, and
the university sees them as exempt becausethey pay full tuition. That's another portion

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of it. But the other problemis that this is an archaic, ossified
institution. It's the only place inAmerica really where you have tenure. People
in the corporate world don't have it. People in the private sector don't have
it. So these people go tograduate school, they're indoctrinated. They go
right into a faculty billet, andthen after five easy years they don't fire

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arn any people. They get alifetime free path. So they know that
anything they say or do, ifthey cancel class, they politicize, they
separate Jews from non Jews. They'renot going to really face much. So
I don't think they're really facult.I would just call him older students.
They have the same mentality, theyhave the same morality, they have the

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same code of behavior as a students. That's certainly the case at Columbia.
That was a grad student, thatfemale spokesperson, what was it part of
her name was Sleutski. You know, she's a grad student. She's also
an instructor. There's a lot ofthere's a lot of grad students who are

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instructors at these colleges and universities.Now here's the question, who is funding
these people? I mean, nowwe know who these people are. You
know, hang on, before Iget to that. Here's another guy who's
been outed as a violent leader ofthe Columbia University anti Israel protest identified as

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son of millionaire ad executives. Uhhuh, yep, he is a violent
anti Israel demonstrator, and not justany pester, but someone unrelated to the
students married and the son of millionaireadvertising executives. It's the elite. The

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liberal elite are behind this. They'recertainly behind the funding of this. And
you're never going to hear this fromthe Department of Justice because they're refusing to
investigate any civil rights abuses being committedby these encampments against Jewish people. They're
also refusing to consider a rico conspiracycharge. And the reason just might be

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that they don't want you to knowor to point out that the money behind
these demonstrations is coming from Democrats supporters, Biden supporters, most notably. I
mean, you're gonna recognize these names. The Tides Foundation, which is seated
by George Sorows in addition to Billand Belinda Gates Foundation. Yeah, Bill

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Gates. Bill Gates, by theway, was asked about it, he
refused to comment, did not returnto request for comment. Soros also declined
to comment. But those are billionaires, you know, liberal billionaires who are
funding this Tides Foundation, you know, the check doesn't come right from George
Soorrows or Bill Gates. You know, it comes from this foundation, and

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sometimes it comes several layers down theline. I mean, they all know
how the money launder when it comesto this stuff, So that makes it
tougher to track. Another notable Democratdonor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest
movement is David Rockefeller Junior. Thatname suys a little familiar, doesn't it.
Rockefeller. He sits on the boardof the Rockefeller Brother's Fund. In

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twenty twenty two, that fund gavethree hundred thousand dollars to the Tides Foundation
for their work. So you've gotmoney going from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to
the Tides Foundation. And they turnaround the Tides Foundation and gave nearly five
hundred thousand dollars of the last fiveyears to Jewish Voice for Peace, which

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is it's not what it sounds like. It's not a pro Israel or pro
Jewish organization. They in fact describethemselves as anti Zionists, so they're anti
Israel as far as that goes.Several other groups include a foundation funded by
Susan and Nick Pritzker if Pritzker soundsfrom there, you may know that the
governor of Illinois is a Pritzker,heir to the Hyatt hotel empire, and

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supporters of Biden and numerous Democrat campaigns, and they donated tens of thousands of
dollars as well. So you've gotDemocrat Party mega donors who are behind the
anti Semitic protesting. So here's myquestion again, they've asked over and over
and over again to Jewish Democrat voters, why do you continue to support Democrats

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when they support the movement against you? When many of them want to see
you eradicated. Not all I'm notclaiming all Democrats want, but Democrat big
money is funding this now. Itmay be funding it for the for a
different purpose. It may be moreabout seating chaos than it is about exterminating
the Jewish people. But this isthe method they've chosen to use to try

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to create the chaos because they haveto create the chaos in order to continue
to run with their globless agenda.All right, that's that you know that
you got the idea behind it,not that you didn't already know. But
there he goes a little further explanationof who's behind it and where the money
comes from. Back with Vall ina moment Jimmy Baird Show. Here an
am nine fifty KPRC. All right, we're back final segment coming up here

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on a nine fifty kighth you're seeingthe Jimmy bird Shall right Vice President?
Who should Trump pick as his VP? Everybody thinks they nobody's shortlist is I'm
not so sure they have actually haveany idea who's on a short list.
I don't know that even Fox hasany real credible idea. You know.

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They they were running through the namesover the weekend of the big weekend show
on Fox and then trying to ascertainwhich one of them makes the most amount
of sense. The only thing thereseems to be some agreement on is that
Christine Nome, who, by theway, to her credit or detriment,
remains defiant as relates to shooting herdog. We talked about this last week.

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You know, we have a differentattitude, and I would think that
Christy Noman would understand that that generally, you know, people in the city
have a little different attitude about youknow, farm animals or animals in general.
Then they probably do if you're workingon a farm. Now listen,
I completely understand you know that wehave a complete difference of opinion based on

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what it is you're used to.Ranchers certainly have a different opinion. If
you've got if you've got a dogthat's killing your neighbor's chickens, that's a
problem. If you have if youhave a dog who is virtually untrainable,
that's a problem. The question iswhat is the solution. You would like

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to think the solution would be tofined a different home for the dog with
somebody who has patients to deal withthe dog. But that is not always
the case, and that it maybewas not a practical solution for Christinome in
her world, the world she grewup in. The way you eradicate or
deal with a with a dog thathas no discernible value because it's not it's

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not really considered a family, amember of the family, it's considered a
a worker to the family, isthat you eliminate the problem, and you
don't do it, you know,by lethal injection, if you will,
the way we euthanize pets in thecity. You just go ahead and put
a bullet and it's head and you'redone. But that has not played well
with the rest of America. Sothere's no real upside anymore to picking Christy

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Nome as your VP. I don'tknow if she was ever, you know,
really on the finalist list, orshe was under careful consideration or not,
but I would have to say it'ssafe to say she no longer is.
But anyway, here they are.They're going through the names of potential
VP candidates and Tammy Bruce will decidewho she thinks maybe has the best chance

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of becoming Trump's VP nominee. SenatorMarco Ruby of Florida, Senator J.
D. Vansi Ohio, Senator TimScott of South Carolina, Representative Lys Sonic
of New York, Myyran Donald ofFlorida, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgham,
and still on that list, SouthDakota Governor Christy Nome, Tammy, which
one of those excites you the most? And why, well, you know,

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there just needs to be a bigred X on the dog killer.
It just needs to be. Imean, what's great about campaigns is that
you learn about people and that it'sa constant scrutiny. They say things that
are important whether they're good or bad. You see how people handle stress,
what their character is or lack thereof. So I think that this again is
what's very important in this regard.But at the same time we look at

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those individuals. What we've heard,of course, is that the talent bench
is deep. That is true thepresident. The benefit for President Trump this
time around is he knows what he'sgetting into. Before he did not.
Neither did the rest of us.He presumed, like when you're running a
business, that everybody's on the samepage and everyone wants success. Not in
Washington. So now he knows,and I think we're looking at the dynamic

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where he expected things from Pence thathe did not get. He needs a
teammate. This is not a frivolousdecision. I'm sure he knows that,
and I think he also knows theseriousness of what it means. He is
thinking head usually for the country.I think I would accept because I've learned
to not second case guest President Trumpwhoever he wants, because he understands what's

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at stake. All of these individualswith again minus one would be fabulous.
Also, Sarah Sanders comes to mind. I mentioned Mike Pompeo on Fox and
Friends this morning. Some people gotupset, But the reality is all hands
on deck for this because we've gota big job and he's got one term
to do it, which means twoand a half or three years again because
they'll fight him. But the personwho's in that spot has got to be

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able to be a ringer for twentyeight and thirty two. That's a good
point. That last point's a verygood point. Whoever, whoever's picked has
to be somebody who is highly electablein the next election cycle because Trump can
only be a one term president becausethis would be his second term. So
it's not like he can win thiselection. If he does and run again

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for re election, he can't.So whoever it is, is somebody that
you're going to want to have asthe standard bearer for the next election,
which you would think would put somebodylike a Ron DeSantis in play. Now,
the problem with that is the sameproblem you have with Ron DeSantis you
have with Marco Rubio. They're bothfrom Florida, and Trump is from Florida

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at this point, that's his officialresidence. That would have to change,
not that Trump couldn't, you know, buy a house in a different state,
which probably would not be in NewYork and run that way. He
probably could, but you would thinkthat would make the you know, he
would make somebody from Florida, wethink more of a long shot at this
point. So maybe take those twooff the list because of that. Now,

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not to say that he wouldn't makethem a cabinet member or some other
high profile position within the administration,but he would think that would take them
maybe make them less desirable as VPcandidates. But in they're white guys.
I mean, I hate to sayit, but they're white guys. I
mean, Trump's a white guy.I mean, you know, Republicans get

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accused all the time. Not thatwe should play this game, this DEI
game, but Republicans get get comparedall the time. You know, the
party of the old white guys.So you'd want to have you would think
a female or a person of colored. Maybe that puts Tim's cotton in play.
But is Tim Scott a good futurepotential candidate for President of the United
States? So you have to askyourself that of the women who are potentially

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on the list, you know,who makes Christy Nomes off the list?
Now? The dog killer, socalled dog dog killer. So she's not
on the list anymore. I mean, what he got left? What do
you work with on this? Andthat's probably all the things are being considered
right now, not just who bringsbecause I don't think, honestly, I
don't think the used to be thevice president was picked because it came from

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They came from a state that youreally needed to win and picking that person
would help you win it. Forexample. You know this is a way
back when you know comparison, butyou know, back in nineteen sixty it
was important to the Democrats to beable to carry Texas, and the best
way to carry Texas was to putLyndon Baines Johnson, who really wanted to

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be the presidential nominee, to puthim on the ticket. And that's what
they did, Kennedy and Johnson,and of course, you know, the
rest is history. It was avery very close election and they probably went
ahead and cheated anyway in order towin it, but they took Texas and
at least in part because of LBJbeing on the ticket. So the question
is, is there somebody from abattleground state that could help, you know,

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Trump carry that battleground state, andwe all know the state, you
know, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. Hard to say anyway, just at
this point, just speculation. Willprobably be thirty to sixty more days before
we even find out who's potentially onthe list. All right, got to
run, y'all, have a greatday. Thank you for listening. I'll
see you tomorrow morning, bright andearly at five AM. And we'll be

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right back here tomorrow afternoon four onan AM nine to fifty KPRC. The Defender sevent